Chapter 8 seven

Joe and his books (6) "Yeah, you know everything. I'm going to have a look now, because if she can't find me, she will throw all my documents downstairs, and I will send workers to rescue my documents." When Vincent left quietly, Joe wondered if the person in the room just now was a real person.Seeking proof of this, he opened the book again and read a page.The story fell into chaos. At this time, it was no longer the charcoal burner who fell on the steps, but five court ladies.The maids were in a mess, climbing up the steps again and again, and were wiped down by the two vicious guards again and again.Joe's eyes were attracted by the scenery inside the palace gate, which turned out to be a barren garden full of dead bamboo. "The ladies of the court will never give up," Jo read the sentence.He remembered that his boss Vincent had said something similar just now.Turning back to the cat on the first page, he found that the cat had lost its charm, and its yellow eyes had lost their luster.Further down, I wrote about the fountain in the garden spraying water. It is not an artificial fountain, but groundwater is automatically sprayed up from some cracks, and some water columns are more than ten meters high.The maids rushed up again, and the guards closed the palace door forcefully.It was windy, and the long hair of the maids was fascinated by the wind.Joe's mind was filled with an incident that happened one day in April in the side street in front of his house.That day when he came home from get off work, he saw neighbors standing in twos and threes by the side of the road with uncomfortable expressions on their faces.Following their gazes, Joe saw a man and a woman in ragged clothes slowly approaching, one behind the other without looking sideways.It was the neighbors who made Joe feel uncomfortable. The eyes of these people seemed to penetrate Joe's back and enter his body.The two men passed by, but a moment later they were back, and Joe could feel the tension in the air, and he heard the crackling of fists.The breath of early spring rises from the damp ground. "What's the matter?" Joe couldn't help asking the old woman beside him. "It's an earthquake. Don't you feel it yet? Everyone came out." "But those two people..." "They're from out of town, shh, stop talking." There was no earthquake that day, but why did these people Are they all ashen?The quiet side street where Joe lives is full of secrets, and even Maria is puzzled by the atmosphere inside.Maria's favorite mantra is: "If you don't do it, you don't stop." This sentence means to create madness in madness.So in the house, everything she touched was electrified in some way, and sometimes sparked.What would a small street that was up and down in an earthquake look like?

"Joe! Joe..." someone called him. He opened the door and saw Lisa. Lisa was disheveled. Although she had lost her former beauty, she showed a lovely and pitiful charm. "Did Vincent come for you? Joe? I can't catch him. You'll know the way I look. He's going to die . " "No, Lisa, no. You just have to be patient, he loves you." "I don't talk about this, who wants him to love me? I mean him, what is he afraid of when he hides like this? And the wild on the grass...he actually rolled on the grass in a dress. His The soul is broken into pieces, I want to help him recover, it's too late now."

Lisa jumped and sat on Joe's desk, shaking her legs, looking a little lewd.But the expression on her face was extremely serious, which is rare.She listened intently for a while, then said to Joe, "You have a magnetic field in your office. Vincent knew about it, and he mentioned it to me a few times. So I went to find Maria. Maria is not a simple woman. As soon as I entered your house, I felt like I was walking on thin ice. Maria, Maria, what an outstanding woman!" Her hoarse mezzo-soprano seemed to be singing. Joe was especially embarrassed by the fact that the woman would not get off her desk.Although there was not much difference in age between him and her, she was his boss's wife, and Joe was at a loss for her frivolous appearance, and secretly hoped that someone would come in from outside.But it didn't.Lisa sat firmly on the high place, and she had forgotten about Joe's existence. Her eyes swept around the clusters of houses outside the window, maybe she was searching for her husband.Joe sneaked to the door, opened it a little, and turned sideways into the corridor.The secretary looked at him sympathetically and said, "That's a murderous woman."

Joe returned to the office after walking downstairs, but Lisa was gone.By which door did she go out?Looks like it went down by elevator.Jo had pulled out the book that Jo had placed under a stack of contracts, and between pages 50 and 51 there was a special bookmark, the crushed carcass of a praying mantis.When Joe put the big praying mantis in front of him for a closer look, the yellow, jade-like eyes shone with a familiar light.He even felt the prickly leg move between his fingers.Looking at the words on page 50 again, it seems that some holes have been bitten by something. Could it be this praying mantis?But it has been dead for a long time.Then it was Lisa who picked out the words on the book with her pointy nails, and she must have done it with concentration and greed.What kind of woman did this Vincent marry?Joe put down the book, still holding the mantis in the book.At this moment, the structure of the huge story in his head seemed a little fuzzy, a little dark, as if it was going to be thrown into chaos.And the fringe area stretches to the sky over the North Pole. In that kind of place, there are clusters of frozen white clouds.Did he just read a story about country F?Or a Nepalese story?Joe didn't have the habit of reading the introduction. He always started from the first page and worked his way into the web.Often, the setting in which the story takes place unfolds itself.Maybe that's just Joe's imagination.Every time he read in the middle, he suspected that those sentences jumped from his mind to the book.Otherwise, why did the hunters in short shirts at the beginning of the story all wear robes when he imagined the background of the story as Mongolia?