Chapter 4 4. Love under the fireflies

Xue Chuncha's huge luggage bag contained camping supplies, and they quickly set up a tent on a relatively flat place beside Wenxian Lake.It had been a whole day since they came out of the train station, the sky was so blue that it was black, and the sky was full of stars.A rechargeable horse lantern was used in the tent, and a bonfire was lit outside the tent. Xue Chuncha and Jiang Tianran sat beside the bonfire and grilled meat skewers, which were brought from the office.In fact, they are already full, eating compressed biscuits and orange juice drinks, and the kebabs are completely just for fun.

Huo Xing and Su Shi sat on the far side, they could almost touch the water with their feet stretched out.At night, there is no wind at Wenxian Lake, the air is very fresh, and the water surface is slightly chilly. The stars in the sky are reflected on the water surface, twinkling like a bright Milky Way. "Very childish, isn't it?" Huo Xing glanced at Xue Chuncha and Jiang Tianran, "It's almost unimaginable that I was in a completely different place in the morning, doing completely different things, and I don't know why I came here to look for the water monster."

Su Shi's long eyelashes trembled slightly, "Why are you looking for a water monster?" He looked at the stars on the water, and his eyes seemed to be full of stars, bright and mysterious. "Because...uh...those two people said they wanted to look for them." Huo Xing pointed to Xue Chuncha and Jiang Tianran, "Those two people...bored and naive, they came here to play when they heard that there was a water monster here. Before they got on the train, they didn't know what they were going to do here!" Although she was a newcomer to Department X, she had the obligation to keep it secret.Su Shi bit her lip again, "You're so stupid." She was taken aback for a moment, she had only heard bad words about her like "a mother-in-law", "what's so fierce" and "want to fight?" I have never heard anyone say "you are so stupid" to her in such a gentle tone.

Looking at the doll-like faces of the people around her, she was very gentle in her heart, and sighed softly, "What about you? Why did you jump to the Fairy Lake? If we came later, you would have drowned, aren't you stupid? " "I...can't swim." Su Shi said another shocking sentence, which startled her, and he bit his lip heavily, "But I'm not trying to commit suicide." Huo Xing looked at him and spat out With a breath, he suddenly smiled and rubbed his head.This idiot, who can't swim, sticks his mouth with transparent tape, jumps into the immeasurably deep Lake to find out the secret of his girlfriend's disappearance, how can there be such a straightforward and innocent person in the world? "Rika... is that your girlfriend?"

Su Shi didn't answer, and after a long time, he said, "She has an appointment with someone else, and she is going to America." She was surprised again, "She doesn't want you anymore? How is it possible? You are so beautiful...uh..." When she accidentally spoke the truth, Su Shi's eyes quickly burst into anger, and he raised his hand to slap her in the face. With a "snap", Huo Xing grabbed Su Shi's hand and bent it without thinking. Su Shi's white hand was tightly held by her, and it almost fell out of its socket.He didn't say a word, and stared at her viciously. Huo Xing's bend was an instinctive reaction, and he was immediately stunned. The two of them looked at each other, and fell silent for a while.

Xue Chuncha took a bamboo stick and roasted it on the fire. The skewers were almost dried by him. Seeing that the two people over there suddenly started to fight, "Oh, we're fighting." Jiang Tianran frowned. , "Xiao Xing will not lose." "You won't lose in a fight, and you don't know if you'll lose a fragile girl's heart." Xue Chuncha sat on the rock and looked at the two with a smile, "Naturally, do you think that mysterious boy How about it?" "Basically, I don't think it is possible to grow very large jellyfish in Wenxian Lake. Freshwater jellyfish are generally very small." Jiang Tianran said seriously, circled his fingers the size of a coin, "The biggest one is probably about this big It is impossible for there to be a jellyfish that can eat people." Xue Chuncha smiled, "You doubt Su Shi?" Jiang Tianran shook his head, "No one can predict that someone will come to rescue him after he jumped off the fairy lake, let alone we didn't see Su Shi. It would be too risky for him to ask Xianhu if it was a fraud." Xue Chuncha threw the burnt meat skewers into the bonfire, "Then let's doubt it halfway. But Baby Xingxing doesn't doubt him at all... He squinted at Jiang Tianran, looked left and right, looked up and down, "Natural, I think you should reflect on why the newcomers don't believe you, but believe in a strange boy picked up from Wenxian Lake without any doubts." ?”

"Xiaoxing is a hot-blooded person." Jiang Tianran's meat skewers were grilled very well, and he ate them with a gentle posture, "I think she has a natural desire to protect, and everything weaker than her has the urge to protect .” "How do I feel that it was love at first sight? The dry wood meets the fire, the angel sees the devil, the male cat stops the female cat..." Xue Chuncha gestured with his teeth and claws, "Mysterious love is about to happen in the deep night..." "Pure tea, this is not funny." Jiang Tianran said seriously, "Don't laugh at other people's love."

Xue Chuncha calmed down and looked up at the sky, "You really have no sense of humor." On the other side, Huo Xing and Su Shi met each other's eyes, Su Shi broke away with all his strength and turned his head away.Huo Xing sighed, "I really can't pretend to be a delicate and beautiful woman, she will reveal her secrets as soon as she starts, she really has no talent for chasing beauties, Jesus fucking, just drop a stone from the sky and kill me now..." She was Su Shi listened to the messy thoughts on the side for a while, and suddenly said, "You think I'm pretty?"

Huo Xing froze, the pretty doll with a bad temper in front of her seemed to hate others saying he was beautiful, but she still nodded.There was anger in Su Shi's eyes again, but this time he managed not to get angry, "I have no friends." He clung to the weeds on the ground, "Since I was young, boys never played with me, and I never played with me." Girls play." "Why?" Huo Xing looked at him in amazement, she felt that there was such a beautiful boy, boys should treat him as a princess and girls should treat him as a prince, how could they have no friends?Su Shi bit his lip, and this time his lip was really bleeding, "Because they said I was a transgressive."

"What about the girl?" Huo Xing tapped his head, "Could it be that the girls also call you a shemale?" Su Shi shook her head, she suddenly understood that if he was with girls all day long, he would be regarded as a girl even more.She put her hands behind her back and looked up at the starry sky. "When I was a child, I was often treated as a boy. Boys or girls would only come to me when they were bullied and wanted to find a helper to fight. I am very happy every time. At that time, I thought I was the king, but after I won, they all left, and no one played with me." She closed her eyes, "But I think the king is always lonely, so every day Every time I’m still very happy to help people fight.”

"You are so stupid." Su Shi's voice seemed a little gentler than before, Huo Xing laughed and stroked his hair, "After thinking about it, I was really stupid. If I met you when I was young, who would dare not be with you?" Play, I will beat him to the ground." Su Shi's eyes moved slightly, and the stars reflected in his eyes rippled and turned into blurred lights. Such a beautiful look, "I didn't continue my studies until the third year of high school, and I couldn't stay in school anymore, but Rika... wrote me a letter later." "So you're together?" Su Shi shook his head again, his face blushing, "We...we just write letters, we keep writing letters." "Writing letters?" Huo Xing raised his eyebrows high, "Is there anyone writing letters these days? You just write letters and have never been together?" Su Shi nodded, "We've been writing letters for more than three years. She wrote me the last letter three months ago. She said she was going to America with her friends." Huo Xing was really dumbfounded, so innocent Falling in love, she really never thought about it, "So you came after me?" Su Shi bit her lip again, "No, if she is willing to go, I will bless her very much. But she disappeared after that. , I wrote a lot of letters, but I didn’t get any reply.” Huo Xing didn’t know what to say to him, “You’re so stupid.” She smiled wryly, “She didn’t reply to you, so you came after her, and when you saw Wenxian The shadow in the lake, and you jump in?" Su Shi's body was tense, and after a long time, he suddenly said angrily, "You don't understand at all, I... I have never had friends..." Huo Xing said loudly, "That's because you dare not make friends with others." My friend, and Rijia is just a girl who dares to express her affection for you. Is it necessary to jump into the fairy lake for her? You will drown! If you drown, won’t your parents be sad? Rijia won’t be sad ?" Su Shi was stunned for a moment, "I..." Huo Xing grabbed his hand, "I think you are beautiful, but I don't think you look like a girl at all. Would you like to make friends with me?" "I'm not unwilling to make friends with anyone." The blood on the corner of Su Shi's lips was already streaming down, "But I really hate that kind of look at me." Huo Xing put his hand into his pocket, and there was tissue.Su Shi's gaze was very sharp, and he said, "That kind of gaze—like looking at something very strange or a toy." Her hands froze in her pockets immediately, and after a while, she pointed to her eyes, " Like me now?" Su Shi nodded. I rely on!What an honest boy!Huo Xing sighed, "People who think you are beautiful look at you strangely, are they really so annoying?" Su Shi nodded, stood up, and walked towards Xue Chuncha and Jiang Tianran.Huo Xing was sitting, she looked back at him, Su Shi didn't look at her at all, and walked straight to the campfire. you are silly. She remembered what Su Shi said just now, picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it into Wenxian Lake, and heard the ethereal "plop", yes, you are so stupid, my mother's pure first love, just in five minutes It's over within. And the reason was that he hated the way he admired him. As for me... Do I really think he is very beautiful, I like such beautiful eyes, I want to have a good talk with him, I want to see him smile, is this kind of thought hateful?Heinous?Huo Xing picked up another stone and threw it into the water. Of course, it is impossible for someone who just met him to understand his heart, but I really want to understand him, and I really want to understand him, but... Can't liking start from the superficial first? , can't he start from the surface, and can only rely on some sixth sense or telepathy to understand his heart deeply at once? My wife is not a god!My wife can't write letters either. With another "plop", she threw another stone into the water. The ripples in the fairy lake are rippling round and round, the stars on the water surface are flickering and misty, the light and shadow are beautiful, but also very cold. Just as she was throwing stones into the water one by one, there was a sudden crash on the surface of the water, something jumped up, Huo Xing was taken aback, and screamed "Ah". A white shadow flashed over, grabbed her hand and pulled her back a step, "It's okay, it's a fish." Huo Xing turned his head, the person who ran fifteen or sixteen meters in an instant and pulled her back a step was Jiang Tianran, with a peaceful and gentle smile on his face in front of him, she almost forgot that this was a person who asked her to run for eight with fifty catties of lead on her back. The 100-meter demon let out an "ah" after being stunned for a while. Looking back, Su Shi was standing alone three steps away from Xue Chuncha, and Xue Chuncha was still sitting by the campfire, playing with his meat skewers as if nothing had happened.Su Shi didn't have the slightest expression of worry for her, nor did Xue Chuncha, but she felt that the expressions on the faces of these two people were different. Su Shi's eyes were very cold, more concerned about what jumped up in the fairy lake.Xue Chuncha was very relaxed, but that expression didn't make her feel a bit chilly, and the concern in Su Shi's eyes for the things in Wenxian Lake made her feel like a pinprick. She treated Su Shi much better than Jiang Tianran and Xue Chuncha. But why...he didn't treat her better than Jiang Tianran and Xue Chuncha? Rubbing his hair, Huo Xing shook his head. In this world, if you treat anyone well, whoever treats you well, they just ignore you. What can you do? "Xiao Xing?" Jiang Tianran said again, "That's a fish." Did the ginger demon think she was scared stupid?Isn't that a fish?This is not what my wife is depressed about!She smiled casually at Jiang Tianran, "Thank you." Jiang Tianran let go of his hand and said with a smile, "Come and sit together." So Huo Xing had a reason to sit back by the campfire and continue to sit beside Su Shi. "Let's discuss the basic situation." Xue Chuncha clapped his palms and threw away the burnt meat skewers, "Three months ago, Su Shi's girlfriend, Rijia who lived here, began to lose contact, and then here The masses often called the police saying that there was a water monster in Wenxian Lake. Not long after that, the people began to call the police saying that someone was missing, and finally developed into two families living by Wenxian Lake. A total of eight people were missing, and no one was there. I know where he went." He smiled and glanced at Su Shi, "Today we went to Wenxian Lake in Puyuan County to catch water monsters, but we found Su Shi sinking at the bottom of the water. It is said that we found a black one in the water. Jellyfish-like monsters, am I right?" Su Shi was silent, then nodded. "Supplement!" Huo Xing raised his hand, "I saw a black shadow floating over the water, but I don't know what it is." Xue Chuncha spread his hands, "The question is, it is very likely that there is really a water monster in the fairy lake. If the water monster can eat people, and if the situation is serious, then we have to call the police again and ask the police to use a big boat to cast a net and catch the water monster below. Grab it. It will take a lot of manpower, money and time." He ate a piece of chocolate leisurely, "And to prove that water monsters can eat people, everyone around here is eaten by water monsters, then At least one or two bodies must be found." Corpse!Huo Xing shrank his neck, but Jiang Tianran shook his head, "If the water monster is a jellyfish-like thing, then it can't leave Wenxian Lake, and naturally it can't eat all the two families on the shore. I think this matter It must not be as simple as the water monster eating people, maybe the two families just moved away because of fear." Xue Chuncha propped his chin, half-smile, "I didn't say the water monster cannibalize, it was Su Shi who said that Rijia might Eaten by a water monster." Su Shi frowned tightly, and began to bite his lips again, Xue Chuncha looked at his lips sympathetically, the lips were almost bitten off by him, "I couldn't find her, so I..." Huo Xing looked at him trembling She wanted to hold his hand, but he would definitely throw it away, so she could only think about it in her heart, and continued to speak for him, "So you just imagined that she was eaten by a water monster." Su Shi nodded, but didn't look at her, still looking at the weeds on the ground. The bonfire is beating, the starry sky is bright and clear, the land beside Wenxian Lake is very humid, and the grass grows very long.Xue Chuncha looked at his habitual hand grabbing the weeds, "Another way of thinking, maybe the two families moved away for other reasons, and it's just a coincidence that there is a shadow in the fairy lake?" Huo Xing He also looked at Su Shi's hand that was scarred by weeds, "Where can they move? According to news reports, these two families have no relatives, and no one knows where they went." "In the woods around here?" Xue Chuncha looked around, "The mountain next door? If there are no water monsters in the world, if these people were silenced or driven away, then there must be some purpose, such a barren mountain, What benefits can I get?" Huo Xing blurted out, "Oil?" Then he covered his face and waved his hand, "Uh... everyone pretends that you didn't hear, the next one." Jiang Tianran didn't laugh at her, "If the Ask if there is anything particularly valuable beside the fairy lake, such as hidden treasures and mineral deposits, which may also cause incidents." Su Shi's eyes lit up slightly, "If they weren't asking about the fairy lake, they would be in the fairy lake. where?" "Ah...well...hahaha..." Xue Chuncha put her hands on the back of her head, lay down, looked at the starry sky, "It's very dark, I think it's late, let's talk about it at dawn, anyway Liang has nowhere to find someone, let's sleep." Huo Xing and Su Shi looked at each other, Jiang Tianran had already opened the tent and started laying out simple bedding, Su Shi stood up and sat silently on a rock not far away. He looked at Wenxian Lake again, his eyes full of concern. He always felt that Rijia might be in the water, waiting for him to rescue him. Huo Xing stood far behind him, knelt down and pulled out the leaves of the weeds on the ground one by one, she didn't want to sleep. What should a boy who hates himself do not make him hate himself? The old lady is actually not bad, not as superficial as he imagined, right?Although he is rude and savage, he has no temperament, but sometimes he can be gentle and considerate. Why... don't you even give people a chance to get to know you? Who is Rijia?In the end what can make you unforgettable?Isn't it just a girl who has written letters for more than three years and has never held hands... I am not self-righteous. Although I have known you for a short time, I am absolutely confident that I will make you happier than Li Jia.