Chapter 74: Being a Favorite in a Pseudo-Rich Family (24)
The wooden floorboards seemed to be loose.
Shi Zhile opened it, and the small square door hidden under the wooden floor soon appeared in front of Qiao Xi, but it still needed a key to open it.
Qiao Xi observed.
This square cast aluminum door can accommodate one person when opened, and the steps leading down lead to pitch darkness.
Shi Zhile walked over first and stretched out his hand in front of Qiao Xi.
"Just follow me, don't scream out in fear."
Qiao Xi curled her lips, but did not expose his little thoughts, and put her hand in Shi Zhile's hand.
The young man's broad and warm palm quickly wrapped around her hand.
Shi Zhile pretended to be calm and pulled her down the stairs. Qiao Xi followed behind him, pretending not to notice that his ears had become hot and red again.
"Where are you taking me?"
"Should it be Paradise? Hmm... That's what my eldest brother used to call it. He built this place, and my second brother likes it too."
Shi Zhile didn't understand why it was called Paradise.
It's dark and eerie down there.
But it does have a lot of fun, and later on he was able to accept that this place was called paradise.
Qiao Xi has very good night vision.
You can clearly see the underground environment. Rather than saying it is a basement, it is more like a small underground maze.
The corridor leads straight ahead.
There are three forks in the road. Shi Zhile turned on the lights below after walking down the stairs. The decoration here looks like the bad graffiti of a child with low taste.
With Qiao Xi's aesthetic sense, she really can't appreciate it.
It's like going to a haunted house on Halloween, with all kinds of monsters and ghosts that you would never see normally coming out.
Shi Zhile held her hand.
I took her to the first fork in the road. There was another corridor here, and there was another fork in the road not far away.
It's full of twists and turns, and it really looks like a maze.
However, Shi Zhile seemed to be very familiar with this place. After passing several forks in the road, he came to a room.
Qiao Xi silently memorized the route they took.
"This is my room."
As Shi Zhile said this, he took out the key and opened the door. There was a hint of pride in his eyes, like a child showing off his trophies.
The room opened.
The bottles and jars displayed on the shelves are filled with coelenterates, and the walls are also hung with brightly colored specimens of unknown insects.
There are also some well-preserved soft tissues.
Shi Zhile pressed the light switch.
The purple light is followed by blue and green lights, which are reflected in the containers containing the coelenterates, and these lights also fully display their almost transparent beauty.
Shi Zhile watched this scene.
His eyes were dazed for a moment, but he subconsciously looked at the girl beside him.
He remembered the afternoon when the girl had just arrived and he helped Qiao Xi move her luggage.
The sunshine after the rain fell on the girl, and the unreal and hazy beauty made her look like a pure angel without any spotless dirt.
Qiao Xi was sleeping in his arms at that time.
Delicate eyebrows, a straight little nose, cherry lips with a light pink hue, and skin that is so white that it is almost transparent under the sun.
Without a doubt.
This girl, who is as sweet and innocent as a doll, is the most precious thing he wants to collect.
It's different from those inferior toys before.
Shi Zhile wanted to lock her in a glass cabinet.
Becoming the most pleasing object to the eye, she will surely possess incomparable charm and beauty.
Shi Zhile looked at the girl's profile.
His heartbeat accelerated unconsciously, as if the blood in his body was about to boil. He clenched his hands at his sides into fists, and felt a little dry in his mouth.
"Do you like these?"
Qiao Xi didn't notice anything unusual about him, but instead walked around the room.
The girl walked lightly, occasionally stopping in front of the insect specimens.
Those bright and innocent eyes were full of curiosity about new things. Occasionally, they would go near the bottles and jars and get close to see the creatures floating in the glass bottles.
There was no fear on her face.
Even when faced with densely packed, overly brightly colored, and strange insect specimens.
There are also neatly arranged bottles and jars containing various coelenterates, or some well-preserved soft tissues.
There was only pure curiosity in Qiao Xi's eyes.
"I like it...I guess."
Shi Zhile was a little afraid to look into her eyes. He said this as if to cover up his mistake, and raised his hand to scratch his head unnaturally.
The girl was not as frightened as one might think.
It was also unlike the toys that were brought in before, which lost their composure and screamed after entering here.
Some are calmer.
But when the game officially begins, they will basically be the same as other toys.
However, those who are calmer can persist for a longer time and bring more fun to the game.
Shi Zhile found that Qiao Xi seemed quite interested.
He offered to take her for a stroll in the park, and Qiao Xi naturally would not refuse his kindness. She happily agreed and followed Shi Zhile.
To say this is a basement is an understatement.
There were many twists and turns, and no one knew where they led. Shi Zhile was familiar with the terrain, and he never let go after holding Qiao Xi's hand.
There are also many identical doors here.
However, some doors open into walls, which seem to be purely decorative and serve no purpose.
But for those who want to escape from here.
These identical doors look very depressing, not to mention that after turning on the lights, the whiter it gets the deeper you go.
When I first came here.
Everything around him was completely black, including the walls and the door. But as he went deeper, the black turned into gray.
Later the black turns into white.
Their tones are very simple, pure black, pure gray or pure white.
There are also doors that are all exactly the same. If you stay here for a long time, it is easy to have psychological problems.
No wonder the girls who ran away became mentally ill.
When passing through the gray area, Shi Zhile also took Qiao Xi past the room belonging to Shi Yan.
Qiao Xi was a little curious about what was inside.
However, Shi Zhile did not tell her his plan.
Qiao Xi could only give up, but when she thought about it, she might also be brought in by Shi Yan, and it wouldn't be too late to see what happened then.
This seems to symbolize another side of the three brothers' hearts.
Only they can open their rooms.
Shi Zhile's room is at the outermost edge.
That is the pure black area, and Shi Yan's room is in the middle, the pure gray area.
When you get to the deepest part.
The surroundings have turned pure white. It is said that their eldest brother Shi Xiao's room is here.
But listening to Shi Zhile's description.
If it was a toy that Shi Xiao took over, he would usually not take it to his own room. Instead, he would take it to another empty room. This big brother would usually deal with it quickly.
The toys were sent out of Shi's house not long after.
Shi Zhile actually had no idea why Shi Xiao was so persistent in selecting toys and bringing them to the Shi family, and even letting them live there.
He was only nineteen, and his elder brother was ten years younger than him.
In Shi Zhile's memories after he grew up, the elder brother he met was always the young and promising heir praised by others. It was also he who supported the Shi family and his depth was unfathomable.
He would not try to guess what his elder brother was thinking.
Every summer and winter vacation, I have to choose suitable toys and come to Shi's house to stay. This game that continues to this day may never end.
Shi Zhile told Qiao Xi the rules of the game.
The girl will know sooner or later, and will have to make a choice soon as to who to play the game with for the remaining month.
The content of the game is naturally determined by the person she chooses.
That is to say.
Playthings have no right to choose at all.
From the beginning, all they had to do was obey, except for choosing their game partner. However, after hearing what Shi Zhile said, Qiao Xi fell silent.
Shi Zhile thought the girl was scared.
He simply reached out and casually ruffled the girl's hair.
"Don't overthink it. Just don't choose them. I don't understand the rules of this game either. This is our first time, so we'll just have to make do."
That's true.
He didn't participate in these things in the past, he would just collect things he liked.
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