Phi-Fic Chapter 84 Angel Investors
Chapter 84 Angel Investors
Yan Xun wanted to go and see the cement houses on Metasequoia Road.
He spoke so bluntly to Yan Yu, observing her reaction.
Yan Yu pondered for a moment after hearing this, then said, "Okay."
"Okay?" This time, Yan Xun was incredulous. He remembered that after encountering the cement houses, they drove for a while before arriving at Wusheng Village. How could Yan Yu make it sound so easy now?
“If you want to go, I’ll take you to see it,” Yan Yu said, standing up. “Wait for me a moment.”
Yan Xun got out of bed, watched Yan Yu leave, and then watched him return.
"I borrowed the car from the boss," Yan Yu said.
If the boss can go out to buy goods, then he must have a vehicle.
I just don't know where it usually parks.
Yan Xun looked at the van, but finally sat in the passenger seat. He looked at Yan Yu next to him suspiciously, "Do you have a driver's license?"
Yan Yu paused for a moment, then said, "Yes."
A suspicious pause, Yan Xun thought.
He fastened his seatbelt, and Yan Yu drove off beside him.
There was no one on the road to Wusheng Village at this moment, as if the two of them were the only people left in this closed village. They walked out along the only road leading to Wusheng Village.
Yan Yu drove surprisingly smoothly, while Yan Xun sat in the passenger seat of the van, looking at the cement road ahead.
The car stereo started playing a folk song that Yan Xun had never heard before, a song with a vague, indistinct quality.
He leaned against the car window, listening intently. "What are the lyrics saying?"
He asked Yan Yu, who was driving.
"I said I'm out working hard away from home, and I hope the Goddess of Mercy will bless me," Yan Yu said, without looking at Yan Xun as he drove.
There is only one road leading out of Wusheng Village, a flat but narrow cement road.
The road is lined with metasequoia forests.
They sat in the somewhat dilapidated and drafty van, listening to the creaking folk songs, as they drove towards the cement house.
“If you keep walking along this road, you’ll leave Wusheng Village,” Yan Xun said.
Haven't you ever thought about leaving?
Yan Yu simply drove the car, saying, "I can't leave."
The two didn't speak again until they saw the familiar cement house, at which point Yan Yu pulled the car over to the side of the road.
Yan Xun opened the car door and got out. He first glanced at the concrete house before pushing open the half-closed door—
The house was originally painted white, but due to its age, the white walls are not only moldy and mottled, but also covered with many cobwebs.
The cement house contained a bed, cabinets, and some household items, with a thermos in the corner, but all of them were covered in a thick layer of dust.
"How long has it been since anyone lived here?" Yan Xun turned around and asked Yan Yu, who was standing behind him and hadn't come in yet.
"I don't know," Yan Yu said.
"It may have been a few years."
He spoke calmly, as if he weren't the one who had spoken to them on the phone earlier, telling them how to find a way into the village.
As if understanding Yan Xun's question, Yan Yu said, "It's been too long since anyone has returned to Wusheng Village. We've forgotten that the old man is no longer here."
This explains why they received a call from Yan Yu just as they were waiting for the cement house to arrive.
Yan Xun stood in front of the now-empty concrete house, closed the door one last time, and said to Yan Yu, "Let's go back."
"tired."
Yan Yu followed him, and the two returned to the van. Yan Xun opened the window to let in some fresh air...
"Drive a little further forward," Yan Xun said.
Yan Yu did not answer immediately. He simply sat in the driver's seat and said to Yan Xun, "It's getting late, we should go back."
Yan Xun turned to look at him.
Yan Yu smiled and said, "Shall we go back?"
Yan Xun knew that he couldn't go any further—it seemed that the maximum area he could leave Wusheng Village was up to this cement house.
Having figured out the maximum area Yan Yu could leave, Yan Xun felt he had achieved his goal and silently agreed to Yan Yu's suggestion to return to the village.
……
After returning to Wusheng Village, Yan Yu went to return the car first.
The boss yawned and looked at the two of them, "Just park on the road."
He looked at Yan Xun and asked, "What's wrong now, Miss? Why do you still look so unhappy?"
Didn't your cousin take you out for a drive?
“I’m the young master, not the young lady,” Yan Xun protested. He took two bottles of water from the freezer and handed one to Yan Yu, saying, “This is for you.”
"You're using your cousin's money to hire him?" the boss said from behind. "You're quite something."
Yan Yu lowered his eyes and accepted the water he was offered.
"I have something to do," he said to Yan Xun. "You go back first."
Yan Xun waved his hand, "Go ahead and get busy."
Yan Yu then left. After he left, Yan Xun started wandering around the supermarket again, spending quite a while in the daily necessities section, seemingly looking to buy shampoo.
"Have you finished buying?" the shopkeeper asked impatiently.
Yan Xun walked to the counter with the shampoo in hand. "You're so impatient even though I'm trying to take care of your business. Same old story."
"If you stay any longer, Yan Yu will have to work for me to pay off his debts." The boss glanced at him, waved his hand, and said, "Remember that, now you can go."
……
Sun Yue noticed Gu Jia's silence. He hadn't said a word since they returned from the supermarket. Although he was often like this, she could still sense her fake cousin's unease.
"Are you scared?" she asked.
“No,” Gu Jia said.
"We will see Yan Xun in the pond tomorrow."
Sun Yue understood Gu Jia's meaning. According to the plot, they would indeed see the long-lost Yan Xun in the pond tomorrow, and then these college students would panic... because everyone could see that Yan Xun did not drown accidentally.
When players encounter such deadly plot points in movies, they must find a way to avoid them without disrupting the storyline.
To put it simply, you can't let the movie plot go out of character and deviate from the main storyline, but you also can't just let it die.
Sun Yue couldn't think of a way to avoid Yan Xun for a moment.
Gu Jia still had a paper doll as a substitute, and he tentatively inquired about it with Yan Xun in a message.
Unexpectedly, the other party replied to the message.
[Yan Xun: Farewell, brother. If you give me one more paper doll as a substitute, I'll have to sell myself to pay off your debts.]
[Yan Xun: I have my own way.]
Gu Jia really couldn't think of any way Yan Xun could come up with.
“Once tonight is over, the temporary peace in this instance will be gone,” Sun Yue said.
In the movie, Yan Xun's death is the catalyst that shatters the superficial peace of Wusheng Village.
Then, one after another, these college students disappeared, with Sun Zhao being the last one to go missing.
"Thinking too much is useless," Sun Yue said.
She stood up. "In this kind of instance, as long as you can leave alive, that's fine."
After Sun Yue left, Gu Jia sat in the room for a while longer, but finally couldn't resist sending Yan Xun another message—
[Gu Jia: I don't need you to sell yourself to pay back the money. I hid the paper doll behind the shampoo bottles in the daily necessities section of Xiaoxiao Supermarket. Go get it.]
[Yan Xun: ...? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ]
[Yan Xun: Aren't you afraid of getting robbed? ??? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ]
Gu Jia thought for a moment and then replied to the message.
[Gu Jia: No one would steal it.]
……
Yan Xun held shampoo in one hand and had the paper doll that Gu Jia had hidden in his pocket.
[Heh, Yan Xun, your life's finally getting better.] The system started to say sarcastically, [You've really been kept by a rich guy.]
"Can your thoughts be a little healthier and more harmonious?" Yan Xun asked.
"He is my angel investor."
"Don't portray the relationship between angel investors and entrepreneurs as something out of a 'ditch literature' (a popular Chinese literary genre)."