Lu Xin, his mother and sister walked along the beautiful cement path in the town.
They passed through rows of crowded rooms and walked to the back of the town that his mother had pointed to.
Behind them, more and more people followed him, and it had become a large crowd, quietly following him.
Whenever Lu Xin turned around, the crowd stopped suddenly, and their eyes in the dark looked at him with a faint glow.
There were also some rustling sounds in the room next to the path.
In the black windows, one could feel a line of eyes following them vigilantly all the way.
Sometimes his sister would turn around and bar her teeth fiercely at the black windows, but his mother walked forward slowly as if nothing had happened. She seemed to enjoy being stared at, which made her feel like she was walking on a catwalk.
Although, the residents of this town seemed to be staring at only Lu Xin.
"Fortunately, I have my mother and sister with me..."
Lu Xin couldn't help thinking in his heart.
In such a quiet and strange town, if you come in alone, you will feel extremely terrified.
It's like facing a group of abnormal people, and you become an outlier.
But with family members accompanying you, the feeling is completely different.
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They came to the back of the town quietly under the gaze of these eyes.
Mom roughly remembered that there was a light here just now, but it was turned off after Lu Xin entered the town.
It seems that the houses here are similar to other places, and they are also quiet and dark. These are several rooms connected together. Compared with other rooms built closely together, those rooms are a little prominent because they are on the edge.
"I only remember this location roughly, and I really don't remember which one it is!"
Mom said with some self-blame, and at the same time took out the scissors from her bag and gently cut them behind Lu Xin.
"Click..."
The sound of the scissors is very crisp.
Lu Xin thought that his mother must have cut something, but it was hard to see clearly in this small town under the red moon.
Believing that his mother had her reasons for doing anything, Lu Xin no longer cared about it.
He carefully looked at the rooms, wondering if Qin Ran was in one of them?
After a while, he sniffed and suddenly said, "Do you smell any fragrance?"
Both his mother and sister looked at him curiously.
Lu Xin said, "It's the smell of meat."
When he said this, he also thought of the first time he met Qin Ran in Satellite City No. 2. He ate steamed buns and dumplings, as well as a small pickled vegetable, and ate them very carefully and greedily, as if he would never be full.
There was no strange smell in this town, only the smell of flowers blowing from the flower fields.
Only when he walked to the side of this row of rooms did Lu Xin smell the obvious smell of meat.
So he was sure of something in his heart.
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"What should we do now?"
Mom smiled and looked at Lu Xin, not knowing whether she was testing him or just teasing him to see him worried.
"Just open the door to see if they are in these rooms."
Lu Xin took a look at these rows of rooms. Compared with opening the doors of the entire town, it was much easier to open only these few doors.
The smile on Mom's face became more intense.
Lu Xin added: "But I feel that if we open the door here and find them right away, it's fine. But if we don't find them, something bad will happen immediately. In this case, the people hiding in this room can take advantage of the chaos to escape."
Mom nodded slightly, looked not far away, and said: "Not only that..."
Lu Xin looked over and saw that there were already a lot of small town residents who followed him. They gathered into a black mass, holding all kinds of tools in their hands, gathered in the shadows, looking at him anxiously and eagerly. Although they haven't rushed to him yet, no one knows when they will be unable to hold back.
"Brother, I found a secret..."
The sister's voice rang in Lu Xin's ears a little mysteriously.
Lu Xin raised his head slightly and looked at her.
The look in his sister's eyes was excited and mysterious, and her eyes were slightly bright: "There is something very interesting in this place..."
She gestured with her little hands, and emphasized the word "very": "Very, fun!"
Lu Xin and his mother looked at his sister as if she were a fool:
"You found it a long time ago..."
"..."
It's not good to push the door directly, and it seems that waiting all the time won't work either...
Lu Xin fell into deep thought.
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"Uncle..."
Just at this time, a crisp voice interrupted Lu Xin's thinking.
Suddenly, a little boy of eight or nine years old came out from the crowd not far away. He ran stumblingly and slowly ran to Lu Xin, trying to stretch out his little hand: "Uncle, eat jujube..."
Lu Xin saw that he was holding a few red sour jujubes in his little hand.
This little boy looked very cute, but his face was dark and looked like he had never washed it.
He also had a faint smile on his face, but it was a little more lively than the others.
Lu Xin looked at this kind little boy and smiled slowly.
Then he squatted down, looked at the little boy seriously, and said in a low voice: "You are very rude, who are you calling uncle?"
The little boy's expression froze slightly.
Not only did Lu Xin squat in front of him and smile, but his mother and sister behind him also looked at him and smiled.
Then his voice subconsciously became timid: "Brother...brother?"
The smile on Lu Xin's face became more sincere, and he took the sour dates from his hand and touched his head.
"Very well-behaved..."
The little boy shuddered, ran back to the crowd, and disappeared.
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"They are indeed here, and I have also thought of what to do."
Lu Xin stood up and looked at his mother and sister with a smile.
As he spoke, he walked around the houses and looked behind them. There was a hillside with pine and cypress trees planted there. Lu Xin said, "Those pine and cypress trees are very easy to burn, so go pick up a batch and put them next to these rooms and light them. In this way, we don't have to push open the door, and the people inside will come out by themselves..."
When the younger sister heard this, her eyes lit up and she clapped her hands, "Brother is great..."
A gentle smile appeared on her mother's face.
Lu Xin handed the sour jujube to his sister, and then decided to go to the hillside to pick up some dead branches of pine and cypress.
"You're not really going to do this, are you?"
At this time, a somewhat helpless voice sounded.
Then, in a house next to them, the door opened and a man in camouflage clothes walked out.
The man looked to be in his thirties, with a holster hanging around his waist and a red beret on his head. His skin was a little rough and dark, the kind of skin color that is unique to people who have been running in the wilderness for a long time. There was a scar next to his left eye, and his body looked very strong. His right hand was empty, and in his left hand he held a half-eaten roasted corn. He leaned on the door frame and smiled at Lu Xin.
Qin Ran.
Lu Xin stared at his face carefully, and it was really Qin Ran.
He was exactly the same as the Qin Ran he had seen at Sifang Transport Company, and his expression was the same.
And he was very sure that this Qin Ran was the Qin Ran who had ambushed him and Chen Jing and snatched the painting.
Found it.
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Lu Xin slowly put down the bag in his hand, and his expression became serious.
He looked at his mother and saw that she was smiling. Her appearance seemed to become a little blurry, as if countless shadows overlapped, and then around here, at every intersection, every blind spot, her elegant figure appeared.
He looked at his sister, who was running over excitedly, stretched out her little hand, and held his palm.
She was still chewing sour dates, making a crunching sound.
Her little body was slightly arched, under the black hair hanging in front of her, her eyes were already shining with excitement.
Lu Xin was relieved, looking at Qin Ran, a smile appeared on his face: "I have been looking for you for a few days."