Chapter 104 one zero three

Vincent and the Five Dragons Tower (2) "Someone," said Joe. "It's always like this kind of place, the robbers come and go." Vincent blew out the oil lamp, and he asked Joe to tell about his adventures these days.Joe said there was nothing to remember but wanderings.Because Vincent wanted to hear it, Joe made up a story about growing poppies on the Highlands, which Jo thought was flat.While he was narrating, he heard that group of people had gathered around and began to knock on the window.He believed he saw the blade gleaming in the moonlight.But Vincent urged him to go on, not to stop.

"I'd like to smoke opium, but people won't let me. I'm a stranger there," said Jo aggrievedly. "You're an outsider, you're from the West. That's what's interesting. Look at Lisa, that's what's called madness. She's giving it her all." Joe was speechless, for two dark shadows had crept into the house.Jo anxiously counted how much money was left in her wallet.He saw the two dark figures also sit down at the table.In this way, the four of them occupied one side of the table, and Vincent was still talking about Lisa and his wife's long-term pursuit as if nothing had happened.But Joe couldn't hear it, because the man on the right was stomping on his foot so hard that he couldn't help saying "Ouch!"He thought, his bones are about to be broken, should he give money to this person?He wasn't sure if the guy wanted his money or his life, maybe both.At this time, the man on the left was lighting a cigarette with a lighter, and the moment the flame rose, Joe saw the face of a desperado.

Vincent was also smoking and speaking slowly.It seems that he has long put life and death aside. "There are gangs of robbers in the plateau area. It's commonplace. There are many people living in the Five Dragon Pagoda. They are actually residents of the vicinity. They don't want to work hard, or maybe they feel lonely, so they come to do this. But Lisa is not They murdered Lisa, who wanted to take risks and go crazy. She has been like this since she was young, and her nature is hard to change. I regret not going with her. This old man doesn't want your life, if you want to go, you can go."

Joe tried to get up, and tried to get out of the shed, but they didn't come to stop him.He saw the yellow dog waiting for him on the other side of the construction site, and several ghostly workers were lifting stones.Joe didn't go far, he stopped, and wanted to go back again.Beneath the lamp on the construction site, a face appeared, that of Sima Meilian, the native woman he met on the first stop of his travels.Joe wanted to meet her in the past, but the yellow dog clung to his trouser legs, and then Joe realized something.He stopped struggling and stood there staring blankly at the woman.

There was a dark shadow behind the woman, and the woman's beautiful face was half covered by the black shadow, so that Jo could only see one of her eyes.That slender eye was still burning with the lust he had seen before.She raised a hand, as if beckoning Joe to come.Then shadows slowly closed over her, and Jo lost sight of her.Jo wanted to call her name, but didn't know how to pronounce it.Looking again, the black shadow has been absorbed by the surrounding darkness, and the lonely lamp on the construction site is shining quietly.Joe recalled the river sadly. Inside the shed, Vincent was beating the skeletons on the table with a wooden stick. These were the skeletons of wolves or dogs he had picked up in the Five Dragon Pagoda.He didn't know why he said it was Lisa's skeleton, maybe it was to give himself some kind of sustenance.He traveled thousands of miles to follow Lisa's footsteps, and the more he traveled, the more uncertain he felt.The Long March turned out to be nothing more than a long march, Vincent now deeply understands this.The missing Lisa has never been seen again.Once, in a temple, Vincent saw a woman who looked like Lisa. When he walked up to him, he found that it was a woman of a different race.Although he couldn't find Lisa, Vincent never felt his heart was so close to her as now.Yes, he felt he had become Lisa.Longing swelled in his heart, he trekked from place to place, his soul melting into the alien, oriental landscape before him.

Lisa disappeared from him in the crowd.When they came out of the biggest department store in the city together, Lisa asked him to wait for her because she saw a girl from her hometown.She slipped through the crowd and disappeared in a moment.Vincent waited and waited for her not to come.Finally, Joyner, the black girl, came and told him that she had seen Lisa at the station and that she was in a hurry to catch the train.The night before, Lisa had told him that she was going to do a field trip to find out the composition of the Long March team.Vincent asked her if she was going to travel to the Eastern countries, but she did not answer vaguely.

Vincent did not start the journey until the next day.He understood that Lisa was using her actions to point him in a direction—going to a place he had never been before, without any perceptual knowledge.So his original intention was not to pursue Lisa, that was almost impossible because there were no clues at all.His original intention was to leave everything behind and live another life that Lisa suggested to him.Of course, he does not intend to abandon his clothing company, he just wants to "lost" himself through this journey, become another person, and then come back.Lisa probably did the same, he thought.When he passed the tall building in the car, the oriental woman was standing at the door of the building, and the infinitely empty expression on her face made him deeply shocked again.

The transportation he chose for his first leg was a plane, not a train.He wanted to recall Lisa's early years in the sky, and he thought he had overlooked many key facts that had been revealed to him many times in the early years.When he reached high altitude, he realized that his attempt had failed.It turns out that it is impossible for people to return to the past through memories.Not only can he not think of all the details of his past life, he can't even bring back the image of Lisa's early years, as if she was a young lady when he knew her.He became very melancholy and stopped trying to remember.Later, the more places he traveled, the more blurred Lisa's face became in his mind. Not to mention her in early life, even her recent image was gradually forgotten by him.He was both anxious and annoyed by this.