Chapter 5 Chapter Four Waiting for the Rabbit

As soon as Wen Baoyu was mentioned looking at it from an unusual angle, Wen Baoyu was very interested and immediately joined in the comments: "It is also possible that her body turned into countless particles and left, and reassembled in a certain place." Bai Su smiled and said, "Thinking like this will not help the matter at all." Wen Baoyu said: "Therefore, in addition to thinking, there must be action──something must have happened to Yi Lin, and she will disappear. This is the scene of the disappearance──" Before he finished speaking, I already knew what he wanted to do, so I hurriedly said: "No, if we lose you too, it will be difficult for us to explain to Ling Tang."

Wen Baoyu said: "If I don't go out, who will go out? I'm afraid nothing will happen. If something happens, that's fine." I want to say "Of course nothing will happen"——Wen Baoyu came up with an ancient method called "waiting for the rabbit". He hoped that what happened to Yi Lin would happen again.I don't think this method is effective, and I certainly won't put it into practice. But Wen Baoyu insisted: "Under the situation where there is no other way, a stupid way is still a way. I will try it. Anyway, there is nothing to lose."

I quite agree with Wen Baoyu's spirit of dealing with things, so I didn't say anything more. Wen Baoyu explained his method to Yi Lin's parents, and Yi Lin's parents stared wide-eyed: "Apart from this, is there anything else to do?" Wen Baoyu said: "Yes, that's the only way." Yi's mother pointed to my Bai Su: "Didn't it mean that the two of them have great powers, so they can't be troubled by anything?" I couldn't help feeling angry, and asked back, "Who said that?" Wen Baoyu hurriedly said: "This is how I introduced you, but if they can't help it, others can't do it either. Things have to be done step by step──"

Wen Baoyu hadn't finished speaking, Yi Lin's parents looked so frustrated, they walked by, leaned on each other, sat down, bowed their heads and said nothing. Wen Baoyu looked embarrassed: "Then I... will go into the room." Father Yi waved his hand, didn't even bother to say anything, Bai Su softly said: "We will try our best to find Yi Lin back." Mother Yi's mental state seemed to be a little abnormal, she murmured: "Do your best... try your best, everyone says to do their best, but where is Arlene?" I would have said something to show that we were under no obligation to get her daughter back.As a mother, she doesn't know her daughter well enough. Yi Lin never told her about her strange feelings, but now she is doing well and blaming everything on others.

However, before I opened my mouth, Bai Su pulled me, and when we left the door, she said: "They lost their daughter, they are already anxious enough, why don't you count them." I sighed: "They also have shortcomings. It seems that they don't care about their daughter very much!" Bai Su shook her head: "Parents also have their own difficulties---now is not the time to discuss this issue, where is this Yi Lin?" Bai Su's question, if you make a hypothesis, there can be hundreds of kinds, but none of the hypotheses have any practical effect. So I didn't make a sound. After returning home, Leng Ruobing was waiting for us at home unexpectedly. As soon as she saw us, she asked, "I heard something happened to Yi Lin?"

Bai Su told her the situation, with a serious expression on his cold face, he took a breath: "It seems that my judgment was wrong." I looked at her in surprise, and she said: "A person suffering from paranoia will not disappear into the air, so, something incredible must have happened to her, and my judgment was wrong." Bai Su said: "Maybe it's because of something wrong with our proposal—we suggested that she talk to the mysterious caller, maybe because of the result of the conversation, she was called away." Bai Su's words sound shocking—if Yi Lin dies suddenly, Bai Su's words are easier to accept, because it can explain why Yi Lin's soul was called away.However, now Yi Lin has disappeared without a trace. Isn't the power of this call too unbelievable?

Leng Ruobing's face changed: "Then... what kind of power is that?" Bai Su shook his head. My assumption about Bai Su, although I can't explain why at all, is basically acceptable.Because, Yi Lin will not disappear for no reason, her disappearance must be caused by some kind of force. Therefore, I have a general answer to the cold question: "The universe is full of forces that people on the earth cannot understand, and one of them suddenly has an effect on the earth, forming a miracle── This kind of situation happens often, and it doesn't happen because the earth doesn't understand."

Looking at me coldly: "There are quite a few that have achieved results after your exploration." I felt very tired and shook my head: "Too little. I am an earthling. Knowledge, ability, and even imagination cannot break away from the norms of earthlings. Everyone says that my imagination is rich and unconstrained, but this heavenly horse, Walking around, still in the small circle of the earth, not even touching the edge of the universe." My complaints are from the bottom of my heart, of course Bai Su understands, so she also remains silent. Leng Ruobing let out a long sigh, stood up and said goodbye, Bai Su was sent to the door, I heard Bai Su say: "In terms of school, it may be helpful to know more about Yi Lin's situation."

Leng Ruobing said: "I have already understood that Yi Lin has good grades, but she doesn't like to be close to people, so she doesn't have close classmates. On the contrary, there are some good people who think she is arrogant and can't get along with her, and she receives unknown voices." I told my classmates about the harassment, but I became the target of ridicule...The human heart is really scary, there are such villainous behaviors among young people." Speaking of Leng Ruobing, she was quite indignant, and Bai Su said again: "She has disappeared, the things she left in the dormitory must be kept safe first, so as not to be lost, there may be important clues in it."

Leng Ruobing paused: "Yes, I'll do it right away. With the police around, probably no one will mess around." At that time, I only felt that Bai Su was careful, but I didn't think about Bai Su's arrangement. At night, there would be a result. In the evening, Wen Baoyu and I had a phone call first, and I asked a silly question: "Where are you?" Wen Baoyu smiled and said, "In Yi Lin's room—in a girl's room, I feel very uncomfortable." I frightened him: "If you are alone, it's all right!" Wen Baoyu was really startled: "You...what do you mean by saying that?"

I said, "Yi Lin is gone. After thinking about it, I can't figure out how she left the room. Then it's possible that she is still in the room, but we can't see her." I say this not just to scare Wen Baoyu, but it is also one of the "very reasonable" assumptions. Wen Baoyu took a deep breath: "I've thought about this too... Is she... invisible?" I said: "I don't have a definite idea, but I don't rule out the possibility that she didn't leave the room and we couldn't see her." Wen Baoyu snorted: "What else is possible?" I said: "Yes! If she has a way to leave the secret room, she will naturally have a way to come in. You have to be careful that she appears at any time──If she comes back suddenly and sees a young man in her room, I'm afraid it will happen." Shout out in fright, you have to be prepared." Wen Baoyu got angry, laughed a few times, and said: "I found a... box in the corner of the closet." When he mentioned "a box", his tone hesitated. I asked casually, "What box?" Wen Baoyu said: "I don't know, it's about the size of a shoe box. It's heavy, at least five kilograms. It's a metal box with a keyhole in the shape of a plum blossom petal. It has no handles and is placed deep in the closet. It is hidden, and there may be some unknown things in it." I said, "Yi Lin's parents don't know what it is?" Wen Baoyu said: "I didn't ask them... I think they are not very accepting of weird things." I said: "That's right, try to open it and take a look." Wen Baoyu said: "I'm planning to do that." Wen Baoyu once learned a lot of lockpicking skills from my place. I think that even if there is a lock for a box that a girl uses to store some personal belongings, it must not be difficult for him. He was obviously sure: "As soon as I open it, if I find anything, I will report to you." Wen Baoyu's call came at about nine o'clock, and at eleven o'clock, the doorbell rang, Bai Su opened the door, and Leng Ruobing and police officer Zhu came in. As soon as I saw the two of them coming, I knew that I must have discovered something, and my spirits were lifted. As soon as the two came in, Leng Ruobing spoke first: "Yi Lin felt that she had a voice. It has been more than a month. She told her classmates, but she was always laughed at. This also made her less social with others." Officer Zhu said: "Her personal belongings were jointly inspected by the school, and nothing major was found. It was just that something was found in a locker to which she belonged. I don't know what it is, and the purpose is unknown." As Police Officer Zhu said, he took out a cloth bag, which seemed to be a handicraft in South Asia and was about the size of a fist. He opened the bag and took out something. He handed that thing into my hand, and I couldn't help being startled, for a moment, I couldn't tell what it was. The thing was quite heavy and not big in size, but it felt a bit heavy to the hand as soon as it was picked up. It seemed to be made of metal. If I really want to describe the shape of that thing, it is like a kind of hard pastry in the south of China called "Yin Gao", which is about one centimeter thick and four centimeters in diameter, in the shape of a plum blossom with five petals. On one side, there are many spiral patterns of different shades. On the back, there is a handle about five centimeters long, made of dark blue, which looks like Yinfeiyin. I really don't know what it is. Officer Zhu: "This is... a paperweight?" I frowned, and handed the thing to Bai Su, who weighed it in his hand and said, "Strange, it must be the first time I've seen this thing, why does it seem like I've seen it before?" I said by the way, "Maybe you've heard someone talk about it before." Bai Su said "ah": "Yes, Wen Baoyu told us on the phone that he found a box in Yi Lin's room──" I immediately picked it up: "He said that there is a plum-shaped keyhole in the box." Needless to say, Bai Su and I thought the same thing, that thing is the key to that box. I told Police Officer Zhu and Leng Ruobing about the situation, and they looked a little disappointed. Officer Zhu said "ah", "It turned out to be a key. Doctor Leng and I thought it was something!" I was a little amused: "What do you think that is?" Officer Zhu spread his hands: "I don't know. We guess that it might be a 'treasure' from Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, or it might be an object left by aliens on the earth. It can be anything." I said: "Knowing that it could be the key to open a box, it could be anything - once the box is opened, who knows what's in the box?" Leng Ruobing murmured: "Maybe it's another 'Pandora's Box'." Officer Zhu was very excited: "This thing looks weird, I believe it must be related to weird things." As he spoke, he rubbed his hands together, as if something earth-shattering would happen immediately. I picked up the phone and dialed the number—of course I wanted to call Wen Baoyu and tell him what we found here. However, the phone rang and rang, but no one answered.Bai Su picked up another phone and called Yi Lin's parents, but someone answered quickly. Bai Su asked, "Wen Baoyu left?" Everyone could clearly hear Yi's mother's voice: "No, he has been in the room. Not long ago, he heard a bang bang. I don't know what he was knocking on." Bai Su took a deep breath, looked towards me, and I hurriedly said, "We'll go right away!" I was swept out of the house like a gust of wind, Bai Su moved extremely fast, following me closely, Police Officer Zhu and Leng Ruobing couldn't keep up. So, when Mother Yi opened the door and Bai Su and I rushed in, Officer Zhu and Leng Ruobing were still in the other elevator. After the door of Yi Lin's room was knocked open, it hadn't been repaired yet. I pushed it, but it didn't open—there was a chair inside. I yelled loudly: "Little Treasure!" Father Yi said from behind me: "I have called for countless times, but there is no response at all, don't... don't let him disappear too!" I was a little annoyed: "Boss is alone, there is no one who says he will disappear, Xiaobao, don't play tricks!" I screamed and kicked the door hard. It is not easy to push the door open with a chair against the handle.I kicked it three or four times before I heard a sound. The chair against the door was kicked away, and the door was also kicked open. I walked in with big strides, Bai Su followed behind, Yi Lin's parents were at the door, their expressions were horrified and they dared not come in. In less than half a minute, Bai Su and I were sure that Wen Baoyu was not in the room.Moreover, the situation was the same as when Yi Lin disappeared—the door was closed from the inside, all the windows were closed, and it was another case of disappearance. This time, the missing person was Wen Baoyu. At this time, Leng Ruobing and Police Officer Zhu also arrived, and Bai Su and I must have looked very ugly, so they knew what happened when they saw it.Officer Zhu lost his voice and said, "Another person is missing? This room...can swallow people...?" I made up my mind: "Look for that box──" Bai Su had already started looking for it, but he didn't find the box Wen Baoyu mentioned. Officer Zhu seemed extremely flustered. He turned around and said incessantly, "What should I do? How can I report this to my superiors when something like this happened?" I said in a deep voice: "Of course Director Huang reported it. There is no problem at all. No matter how strange things are, he has also experienced them." Officer Zhu's expression was uncertain. I really hate this kind of fuss. It's a typical example of not doing enough to accomplish anything, but more than failing to do so, so I don't pay attention to him anymore. At this time, Bai Su and I stood side by side in front of a desk, which was Yi Lin's desk. There were many sundries on the desk, but now it was very clean, and most of the sundries had been removed. I stared at the desktop, thinking in my heart: Wen Baoyu talked with me on the phone, and I asked him to try to open the box. He must have put the box on the desk and tried to open it. There is a small multi-purpose tool on the desk. It is an item that Wen Baoyu carries with him. Of course, it is for him to open the box. He also cleans up the sundries on the desk. Did he open the box? What happened to make him disappear with the box? My thoughts were extremely confused, and Bai Su pointed to a disposable camera on the desk. I picked up the camera and looked at it. There were twenty-four films, and nineteen were taken. Bai Su said in a deep voice, "This camera is already on the table. It should belong to Yi Lin." Yi's father who was at the door hurriedly said: "Yes, I bought it for her. She was going on a trip in the past two months and brought it with her, but she didn't take it for washing until the filming was finished." I threw the camera to Police Officer Zhu: "Rush out in the fastest way, and bring it to me immediately!" Officer Zhu's voice trembled a little: "Where can I get it for you?" I said loudly: "Here!" Bai Su immediately said: "You──" I said: "When something like this happened, think about it, I'm still willing to leave here." I can't understand what I mean, Yi Lin disappeared here, and Wen Baoyu disappeared here.It can be seen from this that there must be something extremely miraculous and unimaginable in this room, and of course I will wait here until it happens for the third time. Bai Su nodded: "Okay, let's go together." Leng Ruobing's face was pale: "It's totally unpredictable...what will happen...is it too..." She hesitated and didn't continue. Of course I knew that nothing would happen, but this method must be adopted now. I said: "If you want to know where they went, you can only know if you have experienced it yourself." Leng Ruobing smiled wryly, said nothing more, and left silently. At this time, it was Yi Lin's parents who were most disturbed. The two leaned together, their expressions pale, and they couldn't stop asking, "What happened in this house?" I honestly replied: "It can be anything, don't look at a modern building, it's not some mysterious castle. But as far as I know, the strange things that happen in modern buildings are no less than those in old big houses. The part that is not covered by the knowledge. You two should be calm, okay?" The two sat down slumped, their bodies still trembling slightly.Bai Su teased them, and asked about the box Wen Baoyu mentioned, they shook their heads together: "I haven't seen it before." Bai Su showed them the thing he found in the locker in the school dormitory, and they also said they had never seen it before. When asked about Yi Lin's daily life, the parents were stunned for a while—they knew very little about their only daughter, and they didn't even know what her daughter's true love was! Bai Su sighed: "Your daughter has a carefree life and a good environment, but she hardly communicates with you. In her mind, you are simply strangers!" Yi Lin's parents showed a blank expression, lowered their heads sadly, and had nothing to say. Bai Su gave me a wink, and we retreated to Yi Lin's room and closed the door. I said in a deep voice: "If we disappear together in this room, after we disappear, I don't know if we can be together!" Bai Su looked confused: "It's absolutely hard to imagine that the body will disappear—matter is immortal, where will the body of fifty or sixty kilograms go?" I said: "If the fruit disperses into particles invisible to the naked eye, it will naturally disappear completely." Bai Su frowned and said nothing, I said to myself: "If that's the case, is the person dead or alive?" Bai Su suddenly turned around, as if looking around for something, I watched her, she said: "What you just said made me think a little bit." My thoughts were in a mess, and I remembered what I said just now.Bai Su said again: "You said that you can't see it with the naked eye." Yes, I said that.I said that if a person's body is decomposed into particles invisible to the naked eye, that means the person disappears. What inspiration did Bai Su get in this sentence? Bai Su paused: "What I think of is that the disappearance of a person or a thing can be understood from two aspects." For a moment, I didn't understand what she meant. Bai Su continued: "On the one hand, if that person or that thing disappeared, it would naturally disappear!" It sounds like I said it as if I didn't say it at all, but I know that Bai Su must have something to say, so I listened patiently. Bai Su took a breath: "On the other hand, that thing or that person is still there at all, but we can't see him, which also constitutes disappearance for us." I was stunned for a moment: "You mean, Yi Lin, Wen Baoyu, and the box are still in this room, but we can't see them, so we just treat them as gone?" Bai Su nodded: "I mean this possibility──Since we can't conceive the reason why they disappeared in the secret room, we can allow the assumption that we can't see them." I quickly took a few steps closer──Bai Su can naturally have such a hypothesis, but such a hypothesis brings up many problems, such as why they don't make a sound?Why not make us aware of their existence?And most importantly, why can't we see them?