Chapter 101

Good news, after waiting for less than ten minutes, Landor came back. He

was holding his umbrella, leading his dog, and carrying a bag of loofah and potatoes newly bought from the nearby vegetable market.

The bad news was that he remained silent in the face of Xu Ming's questioning.

"...Really can't you tell me?"

In the restaurant where only the two of them were, Xu Ming looked at his expression and exhaled softly: "As for our past, I actually had some vague feelings before. But since you don't want to say it, there is no need for me to ask."

"But now...the situation is really different."

Xu Ming said, and simply took out a black leather notebook and handed it to Landor.

It was the notebook from his aunt that was stuck under the bed. The one with the lock on it.

"When you were away, I asked people to try everywhere. This lock is a derivative of the root and cannot be opened by conventional methods." Xu Ming sighed and leaned back in his chair. "I have a lot of questions in my mind now. The whereabouts of my aunt, the closed door, the so-called world behind the door... Now there is one more, which is the complete truth of my amnesia that year."

"This book may contain the clues I need. But the prerequisite is to open the lock first. You have also seen the password hint, which is the time when I got the first root..."

Xu Ming said, and suddenly leaned forward, with almost half of his body pressed on the table.

"But we both know my situation. I don’t even know what the first root is... So Lando, you are my biggest hope now."

- To be precise, it should be one of the biggest hopes. After all, she still has the mushroom in her hand...

But at this moment, let's not emphasize the last two words.

Xu Ming pursed her lips and looked over with burning eyes. In response to her, Lando's eyes widened slightly, and a blush gradually appeared on his face.

Along with the blush, he could not hide his helplessness.

"Sorry." He paused for a while before speaking again, and he apologized as soon as he opened his mouth - but compared to before, his emotions this time were obviously stronger, and even the hoarseness in his voice was more obvious, "I really want to help. But I really can't do this."

"What can't you do?" Xu Ming followed closely, "Can't you say it, or don't you know?"

"..." What she saw was only Lando's increasingly helpless eyes.

"No way, you can't even reveal this..." Xu Ming was really at her wit's end this time, "Even if you can't tell me directly... what about hints? What about subtle hints? Morse code? Acrostic poems? Turtle soup? None of them?"

"..." This time, Lando didn't just apologize.

He raised his eyes to look at Xu Ming, and said hesitantly: "What soup?"

"Turtle soup. It's just... forget it." Xu Ming closed her eyes, exhaled in disappointment, looked at Lando again, and asked again, "What is it that is restraining you?"

Of course, she didn't get any answer.

Lando still just sat there quietly, looking at her silently and apologetically. Except for the red rope bell worn directly around his neck, he looked almost the same as the Lando she had seen in the memory fragment.

But... it seems that there is still something different.

After staring at Landor in front of her for a while, Xu Ming suddenly had such a feeling in her chest.

It was not a very strong feeling, but vague. If she really had to say what was different, she couldn't seem to say it, but she could just feel something vaguely.

It's like two dogs placed in front of you, one energetic and the other old. Even if they look exactly the same, you can often tell at a glance who is carefree and who is tired and miserable.

...Yes, tired and miserable.

Finally finding a word that can slightly correspond, Xu Ming's heart sank even deeper. After a while, he heard her whisper: "Is it related to the thing behind the door?

"Does the thing that binds you have anything to do with the thing behind the door? "

…"

Looking at Lando's suddenly restrained expression, Xu Ming knew that she had guessed right.

But she did not stop there, but asked again: "Does it have something to do with the 'transaction'?"

- This time, Lando's expression was more obvious. His eyes flashed, and his ears began to turn red again.

Xu Ming exhaled softly, his eyes turned slightly, his mind floated, and finally with an inexplicably faster heartbeat, he asked the third question:

"Does it have anything to do with me? "

…………"

The one who answered her was Landor's gaze again, his eyes were flustered but surprised. Apart from that, he didn't give any more replies - neither shaking his head nor nodding.

But Xu Ming felt that the answer seemed to be very obvious.

She closed her eyes, but couldn't help raising her hand to press her forehead. Landor stared at her blankly on the other side, wanting to say something but stopping himself. After a long time, he said softly:

"You don't have to care about this..."

He looked like he wanted to say something else, but because of the constraint, he couldn't say more. After holding it in for a while, he finally uttered another sentence: "Don't think too much. "

How could I not think more..." Xu Ming sighed again.

How could he not care?

Lando opened his mouth, but it seemed that the words he wanted to say were sealed again. Xu Ming lay on the table and looked up at him. After a pause, he pulled the corners of his mouth awkwardly.

"To be honest, there are still many things I want to confirm." She whispered, "but wouldn't it be impolite to ask more?"

"..." Lando looked at her with embarrassment, and this time he nodded very directly.

"Then... let me ask one last question, okay?" Xu Ming pursed the corners of his lips, and stretched out a finger with gritted teeth. Seeing that Lando's expression began to stiffen again, he hurriedly added, "And I promise not to ask about you... and me... I mean, things related to the two of us. "

This seems to be a safe range for Lando. So after a brief thought, he nodded decisively to Xu Ming again. Seeing this, Xu Ming also breathed a sigh of relief, and then spoke without hesitation -

"Can you help me contact that ophthalmology hospital again?" Xu Ming said neatly, "It would be best to contact the cat in their hospital directly."

"..."

I don't know if it was Xu Ming's illusion, Lando's expression relaxed a little, and seemed to freeze again.

——And it was even stiffer than before.

Xu Ming: “…”

?

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Although he didn’t seem happy, Landor finally nodded and left with his phone.

Xu Ming’s thinking was also very simple. Through the clues and various signs obtained before, it can be basically determined that she is also related to the eye hospital that has cats, or at least has a deep relationship with their cats. And Landor can’t provide more information for the time being...

In this case, let’s go and ask the kitten. This is completely reasonable.

Unfortunately, the final result was not satisfactory. Landor soon came back with his mobile phone and said that he couldn’t contact that side. Xu Ming still didn’t give up, asked him for the number, and tried to dial it again himself -

the person on the other end of the phone said it was an invalid number. He said it in Chinese and English.

"Didn't you say before that because of Xu Ling's matter, all ghost stories will be closed for a while?"

Landor observed her expression and tried to analyze: "Maybe it's because of this that we can't get in touch."

"... Maybe." Xu Ming looked at him and shrugged helplessly, "But in this way, the other way is also cut off..."

Xu Ming thought about it himself. There are currently three ways for her to find the unlocking code. One is Landor, one is Cat, and one is the brain mushroom integrated into the rule book. In other words, she has to slowly look for it by her ability to recall memory.

Now Landor can't tell, Cat can't find it, so the only one she can rely on is the last brain mushroom.

However, this thing has a cooling effect, and you need to rest for two days after using it once... Xu Ming couldn't help rubbing his forehead again, and felt like a traveler who was in a hurry to get on the road, but had to take a green train.

But now, there is no way to deal with it no matter how urgent it is. Xu Ming could only suppress his emotions and force his attention to other things.

Fortunately, in the next two days, other things went quite smoothly.

Anxin Gardening and Dali Weeding still keep in close contact with her. From the information provided by the other party, the activity level of the ghost story seems to be decreasing. Even more fortunately, when the ghost story was closed, neither side had any field staff working in the ghost story, so they just escaped.

Xu Ming did not waste the opportunity to communicate with the two organizations. Under the name of "Gu Ming", she secretly asked a lot of questions about "keys" and "doors". Unfortunately, neither side was able to provide her with more specific information. However, Anxin Gardening took the initiative to share with her the relevant information about the single basket bridge unit building, which was not much different from what Xu Ming had already mastered.

... But I don't know if she thinks too much. I always feel that since the matter of the unit building was resolved, the two contacts have become more cautious and polite when mentioning the ghost talk demolition office. Sometimes they are so polite that Xu Ming doesn't know how to respond.

The situation in the small house is good so far - Panpan and her daughter finally decided to stay here temporarily, and now they share a bedroom with Gu Yunshu and Lu Yueling. Lu Yueling still sleeps on the bed, Gu Yunshu still sleeps in the closet, Panpan moved a sofa bed into the bedroom for her mother to sleep, and she chose a few favorite corners, changing places to rest every night, and seemed to be enjoying herself. The

whale man missed the first wave of room allocation and land grabbing after the move, and lost the right to live under the bed and drawer. After carrying the small bed up and down for a while, he was finally accepted by the duo of bull-headed and horse-faced people and lived in the glass house with them.

Except that sometimes they would be in an awkward situation of being half-melted because the temperature of the glass room was too high, there were no other problems.

As for the thirty A Jiao, they were still sent to Guo Shuyi's ghost story to rest. I don't know if it is because this ghost story itself is more special. Although other ghost stories are closed now, Guo Shuyi's ghost story can still be opened as usual. The entrance and exit placed in Xu Ming's rule book never disappeared. Guo Shuyi could drill out from time to time to take a look. He got to know the new Panpan and enthusiastically shared his hand-woven bracelets and exercise books with her.

...It was also thanks to Panpan that she could accept these kindnesses. Xu Ming secretly reflected that if it were him, he would probably run away with his mother on the first night.

The research on the mysterious notebook by the Bull-Headed Horse is still going on. It is said that there has been a slight progress, and more pictures can be displayed on the screen. Qiu Yufei caught a bad cold because she used the water in the strange story, so she couldn't come to see Xu Ming. Apart from that, everything is normal.

Fang Xueqing seemed to take the opportunity of taking her out for dinner after leaving the strange story to add her WeChat, and added Xu Ming through Qiu Yufei. After Xu Ming added her to the address book, he took a look at her circle of friends. He saw that the first one was a screenshot of a novel.

He clicked it casually and saw the name of the heroine first. Xu Ming stared at the three familiar words "Yang Duoduo" for a long time, and finally clicked the close button silently, and sent the screenshot back to its original position with awe.

I can only say, you are worthy of me, Yang Duoduo.

Apart from that, there are no other changes in life. Xu Ming hardly went out these two days, except for one time when she went out for a meal.

- With her biological brother.

Not the one who was cautious and struggling for survival in the strange story; but her brother in reality. Xu Ming did not understand the difference between the two at first, until she left the apartment building, she completely understood -

her biological brother, did exist. But since her parents passed away and completed the division of inheritance, they basically had no contact. It just so happened that Xu Ling had been pretending to be her sister, trying to lure her over. Someone in the unit building - perhaps the building manager, or perhaps Ms. Tian, ​​pretended to be her brother, and used the power spread by Xu Ling to output in the opposite direction over and over again, trying to block her from "going home"...

I have to say, this trick is quite effective.

And the reason for getting in touch with her biological brother again is also very simple. It was nothing more than that after Xu Ming escaped from the ghost talk, out of some humanitarian concerns, she found the contact information of her real brother from her mobile phone and sent a casual greeting. The main purpose was to confirm whether the servant was still there.

The person replied quite quickly, and it seemed that he was alive. Xu Ming originally wanted to let it go, but the other party seemed to have made up his mind because of this. After a long time, he sent her another message.

"If you have time, would you like to go out for dinner? We haven't seen each other for a long time. If we have time, I hope we can have a good chat."