Chapter 30 Chapter 28 Unfathomable Missing

Although exhausted to the bone, Nalan still suffered from insomnia.The recent running around and the constant influx of "information" that she didn't want to know for the rest of her life completely disrupted her usual stable sleep.For the first two nights, she just didn't sleep well, but today, she simply collapsed completely. After struggling for an unknown amount of time, Na Lan finally decided to surrender on behalf of the biological clock.She got up gently, and was about to go to the bathroom to wash her face, when she suddenly heard the sound of the door downstairs, although it was soft, it was really ear-piercing.

Could it be that Qinhuai is also hard to fall asleep? Nalan just wanted to go downstairs to the kitchen to get some water to drink, so she went downstairs barefoot.What will happen to two insomniacs?Talking by candlelight?Don't forget, this is the era of flash love.Nalan hesitated, walked back a few steps, and finally walked on. Downstairs was empty. Hearing the sound of the door just now, maybe Qin Huai really came outside the door, sighing to the night sky in the garden.She walked to the gate and found it closed, but at the same time found that the security system by the door had been disarmed.She clearly remembered that after the two returned home tonight, Qin Huai set up the security system, and the little red light bulb flickered intermittently.But at this moment, the small green light bulb was on, indicating that there was no security——Qin Huai seemed to have disarmed the security system again, and probably really went out.Probably only left for a short time.

The strange thing is, looking carefully at the main entrance, it was locked from the inside, obviously no one went out from here. Nalan remembered that every night when swimming back to the island in the middle of the lake, the two of them used the side door and passed the garage. Unscrew the side door leading to the garage, turn on the light, the car is there, but something seems to be missing in the garage. Looking around the garage, she gradually remembered that there had been two sets of diving equipment hanging on the wall, but now, only one set remained.A thought flashed through her, and she turned around and walked into the small bathroom by the side door, where her and Qin Huai's diving suits were hung earlier.At this time, only his diving suit was left, Qin Huai's suit, and a set of diving equipment in the garage disappeared together.

It seems that there is only one possibility, Qin Huai went diving. Diving in the middle of the night?What kind of hobby is this? Nalan looked at the time displayed on the LCD fluorescent display on the dial of the security system at the door, it was 12:41.She hesitated for a moment, then glanced at the lonely wetsuit hanging above the bath. Qin Huai, how many secrets do you have? She took off her wetsuit, went to the garage, took off the remaining set of diving equipment, and quickly walked out of the side door. In the darkness, there is no sign of Qin Huai, so I don't know where he went into the water.Na Lan didn't think much, and rushed to the usual road.The wetsuit and equipment together weighed tens of kilograms, and she didn't believe that she could still trot all the way.After running for a while, a familiar figure appeared in front of him.

After walking for a while, Qin Huai turned on a road that Na Lan had never walked before, and walked into a forest.There are also a few houses in the woods, none of the lights are on, only the shadows of the moon shine through the branches and leaves on the shoulders of two nocturnal travelers. When he arrived at the lake, Qin Huai began to change clothes.Nalan froze for a moment, trying to recall the two diving lessons she took at least two years ago, how to wear a mask, how to take over, how to use the gas cylinder, and adjust the valve.She hoped that Qin Huai would not sink a hundred meters, and that she would definitely look at the water and sigh for the first time.

She awkwardly armed herself not far away, but Qin Huai was familiar with it, and calmly changed into the water.The moment Qin Huai was submerged in the water, Nalan walked quickly to the edge of the water with her flippers in hand, followed into the water, almost forgetting to wear flippers. The water was also pitch black. There was a small diving light on the top of the mask, Nalan hesitated for a moment, thinking that Qin Huai was in front, the light probably wouldn't have such a strong penetrating power after it was lit, and it would arouse his vigilance. As expected, the diving light can only serve as a visual aid, just enough for Na Lan to see a dark swimming figure not far in front of him clearly.The black shadow dived very fast, and Nalan was annoyed to herself—she was a novice in diving, and she knew that the more novice she was, the more prone to various diving decompression symptoms if she dived too fast.Qin Huai is obviously an old diver, able to control the speed of the dive with ease, fast and safe.

Safety first, Nalan dived slowly, the shadow in front of her became more and more blurred, and in the end, she disappeared completely. Nalan Mang sank aimlessly for a while, then glanced at the depth gauge with the diving light, it was 31 meters.This Zhaoyang Lake is really deep enough.She knows that novice divers should not go too deep. Deeper than 40 meters is technical diving. When surfacing, you need to use decompression techniques, otherwise you will suffer from decompression sickness. Unfortunately, she only understands the theory, but has no practical experience.She bit the bullet and continued to dive, but Qin Huai was still nowhere to be seen.Looking back carefully, she found that the section of road she followed just now seemed to be close to the edge of the island, indicating that Qinhuai's destination should not be far from the island in the middle of the lake.

At this moment, she found that she had touched the bottom of the lake. To be exact, Nalan touched a reef at the bottom of the lake.The reef, together with a similar reef around it, is closely connected to a larger reef-in fact, it is the island body of the island in the middle of the lake.Almost at the same time, she vaguely saw that vague and familiar figure.Why did he dive here? what else?Boyan's treasure. She immediately scoffed at this idea, the treasure that Feng Zhonglong was looking for back then was completely a mysterious legend, the novelist said. When a thought came to him, Qin Huai disappeared again, and the fuzzy black image melted into the chaotic water.

Fortunately, Na Lan vaguely remembered the direction where Qin Huai disappeared, and swam there.The diving lights hit the stone wall in front, and a two-person high stone crack caught her attention.She stuck to the stone wall of the island body, and the width of the stone gap was just enough for one person to penetrate. So, Nalan penetrated. The cracks in the rock gradually widened and turned into caves, but there were jagged and abrupt reefs everywhere. Fortunately, there were diving lights to illuminate the road, otherwise Nalan would inevitably run into walls everywhere.The cave is filled with water - no surprise, it's still 30 meters underwater.Nalan slowly floated up in the cave, knowing that if she was too anxious at this time, she would become a victim of decompression sickness.Fortunately, the stone cave is not vertically upward, and it is wide and narrow at times, which makes the process of ascending full of twists and turns.

After an unknown period of time, Nalan surfaced, except for the diving lights, the surrounding area was still pitch black.It seemed to rise to the level of the lake, she thought.This shows that there is a hollow in the body of the island.She looked for a path to climb up, but all she could see when she looked up was a gray-black stone wall, which was half a meter above her head—the cave was at the top, and there was no way. But where did Qin Huai go? Nalan took a closer look at the stone wall above his head, and saw something strange. Compared with the nearby rocks, the stone wall in the middle of the head was smooth and had an artificial smell. Moreover, there was a bulge in the middle, like a handle, to grasp the raised stone bar, maybe pull, push, or turn that stone wall.

She stretched out her arms, grasped the bump tightly with both hands, pushed, but there was no movement; pulled, there was no movement; turned, and opened in response to the sound. It turned out that this is a Taoist door, a cover made of a round stone slab.Nalan gritted his teeth and pushed the heavy stone slab aside, and climbed into the hole. It was still dark inside, but there was clearly an upward sloping path.Nalan didn't want to fall with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and took off her flippers, secretly hated that she left in a hurry, without wearing diving shoes suitable for walking on the reef, and didn't even wear a pair of diving socks, and now only the soles of her feet are blue and swollen.Fortunately, her strong curiosity made her forget the groaning of her feet, pushing her step by step to go deeper into the cave. Shimmer appears! She turned off the diving light immediately, but what she couldn't turn off was the throbbing of her heart.She was almost sure that the faint light was another secret of Qin Huai. Sometimes she felt that Qin Huai's secret should be kept forever, not to see the light of day, not to let her know.The last time she bumped into that secret intentionally or unintentionally, she was almost strangled to death with her hands, and she heard another miserable story.What about this time?If it was really Qin Huai in front of him, what would happen if he found out? It is wise: whoever is ahead, before he notices, return quietly, wait until another time, and then dive down to spy and see what is at the end of this hole. But sometimes, the key is not "what" but "what to do". What is Qin Huai doing? Qinhuai is a mystery.Qinhuai has many mysteries.The most hopeless thing was that the enigmatic Qin Huai sneaked into Nalan's heart so coldly and silently. She knew something about it herself, but she couldn't resist it.So Na Lan finally decided to go to the light, to the unknown. Gradually approaching, Nalan began to tremble.Along the way, she made a lot of plans, anticipating what a thrilling scene she would see, but she never imagined that no matter what kind of psychological preparations she had made, she was far from being able to adapt to what she saw: a single lamp would draw Qin Huai The shadows pushed on the rock face are like ghosts and ghosts, making people unpredictable; but the objects placed on the four walls and some protruding stones are real and straightforward. Kuang Yihui. Kwong Yihui's photos, Kwong Yihui's clothes, Kwong Yihui's dressing table, Kwong Yihui's books, Kwong Yihui's everything. There is even a set of Kuang Yihui's diving suit. Nalan still doesn't remember where she saw that in such a closed space, there are so many commemorations of a person.There are hundreds of photo frames here, such as photos of Kwong Yihui's youthful but bright girl, photos of swimsuits and summer clothes with Qin Huai embracing by the water, beautiful wedding photos clustered in the soft light of the studio... Qin Huai stood blankly in the remembrance of Kuang Yihui, in the yearning for Kuang Yihui, forgetting himself. Why are you here?Why can't it be in a small villa where the sun can shine in and the breeze on the lake can blow in? There is a big photo in the center, which is blocked by Qin Huai. Na Lan turned sideways and saw clearly the two people in the photo, Qin Huai and Kuang Yihui, who seemed to be taking a selfie with a small digital camera in their hands. The two were wearing diving suits and diving glasses frames. Overhead, the background appears to be in a cave. This is the hole! Na Lan suddenly understands why Qin Huai's family doesn't have any memory of Kuang Yihui, why he doesn't care about outsiders' misunderstandings about him, because this love, this miss, belongs to him and is extremely personal.Qin Huai's home, fans, Fang Wendong, Haimantian, writing assistants, come and go, only this cave connected to the bottom of the lake, which outsiders have no way of knowing or entering, belongs to him, him and her.Perhaps it is their common discovery, pretending to be their lingering love and vows, to sleep together in life and to sleep together in death. Nalan also understood why Ning Yuxin said that Qin Huai's romantic reputation was all his acting in front of others, why Ning Yuxin fell in love with Qin Huai, and why he missed Qin Huai's life when he saw Qin Huai. Just before his life was ruined, before he developed into voyeurism, the prodigal son turned around. Na Lan deeply regrets what she discovered tonight, she would rather continue to treat Qin Huai as an inhuman Tang Juan in a ignorant way than to experience this sad scene. She backed out quietly.Her body was still trembling slightly due to the violent mental shock, but she believed that she could go in and out silently, because Qin Huai was as quiet as the rocks around her. Get out, get away, get away from him, as far away as possible.At this time, Nalan thinks of Ning Yuxin again, and she hates seeing each other late, or like an old friend who hasn't seen each other for a long time, she can't finish her heart songs.I don't know if Ning Yuxin saw Qin Huai's secret, even if she didn't, she was smart enough to see through Qin Huai's gorgeous and filthy coat, wrapping such a heartbroken soul. She came out of the hole in a daze, but she didn't forget to cover the stone cover.The edge of the stone cover has ridges and grooves alternately, and it fits with the surrounding rocks. She guesses that this requires a certain level of masonry to do it, and may even require professional machinery.Can Qin Huai do it by himself? Qinhuai commemorates Kuang Yihui's holy place, and the stone board tells the world: idlers should not enter. Nalan returned the same way, dived again from the dark and narrow water hole, dived to the bottom of the lake, and slowly came up again.Her heart was filled with all kinds of senses, like sleepwalking. In addition, when she came here, she had been following Qin Huai's figure and didn't bother to record the direction carefully. At this moment, she seemed to be floating in another completely different water world. Everything around her was so beautiful. strangeness. She got lost underwater. She wasn't too worried, and told herself to float up patiently. When she reached the surface of the water, she could clearly identify the direction of the island in the middle of the lake, and then swim across. She still had some strength. But she underestimated the cost of getting lost.For some reason, she felt that she was not the only life in the dark water.She passed by countless fish of various sizes, but it was definitely not these fish that made her heart beat faster—they were peaceful creatures that cared about themselves, not that mysterious power—Nalan could feel A force that peered into herself in the dark, she did not see their eyes, but they were everywhere. It was the blood flow disorder in the brain caused by the middle of the night, lack of sleep, and the decompression of the ascent. Perhaps these factors caused her confusion and inexplicable panic. Nalan closed her eyes slightly, and even stopped breathing through her mouthpiece. Feeling that her mind had stabilized, she began to slowly swing her fins and continue to float up. Only then did she discover the source of her fear. There seemed to be a pair of hands that would never give up, tightly grasping her ankle and calf.She tried to break free, but her feet seemed to be bound even tighter, dragging her towards the bottom of the lake.She turned on the overhead diving light and looked down. There was no one.Perhaps that was what disturbed her most.No one but herself, against that invisible force. Nalan suppressed the rising panic, and looked down again carefully.What attacked her was not invisible, but a piece of water grass.Apparently, the bottom of the lake is on a slightly higher terrain, with lush and long grass, and some small fish and shrimps swam by, looking coldly at this behemoth in trouble. She tried again, and what entangled her feet was a kind of vine-like aquatic plant, with several long stems interlaced, cut constantly, and the arrangement was still chaotic, just like her mood. But at this time, her only mood is to survive.All she needs is a knife or anything sharp to cut through the weeds.She fumbled in the leg-side pocket of her wetsuit, which was empty.She had no choice but to continue to twitch her feet, but it was still the same result, the tighter and tighter the entanglement. Trying to force herself to calm down, she hugged the gas cylinder, glanced at the dial with the diving light, and suddenly became dizzy.Presumably the gas cylinder was only half full at the beginning, and it has been used to almost nothing by now. Could this be his end?Seeing another proof that Qin Huai missed his life again?Or a living example of curiosity killed the cat?She refused to accept it and continued to struggle. Still getting tighter and tighter. She closed her eyes, wet them with tears, and simply stopped struggling, allowing her soul to come out of her shell and float in the water. how?I float? She opened her eyes, lowered her head, and saw the familiar figure. Qin Huai held a small diving knife in his hand, and obviously used it to cut off the entangled aquatic plants.He gestured for Nalan to stabilize, slowly float up, and pointed to himself, motioning for Nalan to follow him. Na Lan looked like a young man who was caught stealing something on the spot, with blood rushing to her face, fortunately the water was cool and she was covered by a diving goggle, but she didn't know how to speak to Qin Huai. Qin Huai led her ashore from where she entered the water, and after taking off the diving goggles and snorkel, Nalan's first words were: "I'm sorry, I..." "No, I'm sorry. I should have told you all about it."