Chapter 2 - Day 1

2:00 pm

Huo Jiu'an could not survive the night, his heart was broken at nine o'clock, and he was not rescued.

Huo Changzhi and Huo Jiu'an do not have many feelings and are more like strangers, so he just felt a little regretful. He contacted his father, who was on his way from Australia.

He entrusted Huo Jiu'an's funeral affairs to his assistant to arrange. Thinking of the promise to his deceased brother, Huo Changzhi went to the Haichang Building where Huo Jiu'an's told was. He passed by Huo jiu'an's technology company and went to his office to get the drawings.

How could Huo Jiu'an be regarded as a middle-level person in the company, the body has not cold enough, the fast-paced technology company had already packaged all his things and was ready to return it to his family. The trophy of the design award he won last year was also tied to the packing box, and it was no longer the same as it was when it was placed in the closet.

Only the safe he set in the wall, no one knows the password, so he can't open it.

Huo Changzhi's identity is different from Huo Jiu'an's. He was warmly welcomed by the boss of the company. He didn't have time to talk to them. He opened the safe with only a thick document bag inside. The boss of the company originally wanted to stop him, but the opponent party was Huo Changzhi. He didn't dare to speak, so he watched Huo Changzhi take it and left.

Huo Changzhi went downstairs, hired a taxi, and went straight to the Haichang Building.

The Haichang Building is located near Jordan Road. It is in a good location. An apartment building that has been repaired for more than ten years is divided into two blocks, A and B, densely lined with small windows. At first glance, they are all small apartment suites.

In the cubicle downstairs in Block B, there was a gray-haired security officer sitting in reading glasses and reading Playboy magazine. He saw Huo Changzhi walk in, lifted his eyes from the magazine, and glanced at him again. He lowered his head and said: "Turn left and you will find the elevator."

Huo Changzhi entered the cramped small elevator and pressed the elevator up to the sixteenth floor. Room 1603 was in the deepest part of the corridor. Huo Changzhi frowned while looking at the dim corridor before walked forward.

He took a bunch of keys from Huo jiu'an's bag. Huo Changzhi didn't know which one it was. He took them all, stopped at the door of room 1603, tried two or three keys before he finally opened them.

The room was very dim, with the curtains ajar. The house was bigger than he thought, about a hundred square meters in size. The design was simple. Only the ring light in the living room was turned on, and it hit the furniture in a dark circle.

There are no sharp corners in the house. It is all soft arcs. The floor is covered with thick wool carpets. It should be warm in theory, but because of the dim indoor light, it looks nondescript.

Huo Changzhi took off his shoes and walked in. He was standing by the sofa looking at the furnishings of the room, a hand suddenly pressed his back.

Huo Changzhi quickly turned around and squeezed the opponent's hand and pushed them to the sofa. The opponent let out a low exclamation, he was pressed on the soft seat, struggling slightly.

"Huo Jiu'an, you let me go!" The voice of the other party was very cold. Huo Changzhi looked down. It was a young man who was pressed by him. His bangs covered his eyes. Only the sharp chin and lips could be seen. This should be Xu Chu.

Huo Changzhi released his hand and stood up. Xu Chu immediately withdrew his wrist. Huo Changzhi noticed a two-finger-wide black plastic ring on his wrist, which was flashing green.

"Sorry, I'm Huo Changzhi, Huo Jiu'an's brother," Huo Changzhi introduced himself, according to Huo Jiu'an's instructions, he told Xu Chu, "He has an urgent matter to work overseas, he asked me to see you."

Xu Chu was taken aback when he heard the words. Can't see the extra expression, after a while, Xu Chu let out a chuckle and said: "Overseas?"

"He went to a place with poor communication in Africa." Huo Changzhi talked about the pre-conceived remarks and observed Xu Chu.

Xu Chu sat there for a while, seeing Huo Jiu'an motionless, got up to see the guest: "After watching, you can go."

Xu Chu did not wear socks and stepped barefoot on the carpet, there was also a plastic ring shining green on the ankle of his left wrist.

Huo Changzhi didn't know what to say for a while, the relationship between Huo Jiu'an and Xu Chu didn't seem as simple as he thought.

"You--" Huo Changzhi wanted to say a few words out of his promise to Huo Jiu'an, but was interrupted by Xu Chu.

"Why are you still not leaving?" Xu Chu suddenly turned around and stumblingly pushed Huo Changzhi out of the door. Huo Changzhi was pushed unreasonably by him. When he approached the door, suddenly, Xu Chu stepped forward. Suddenly, an alarm sounded in the room. The alarm sounded fast as if to warn the people in the house: Don't cross the border.

The ring on Xu Chu's wrist also glowed orange, but he couldn't see it himself.

He took a step back and the alarm went off.

Huo Jiu'an's gentle voice came from the speaker: "Xiao Chu, don't run around."

"Let's go." Xu Chu slowly walked back to the sofa. He was wearing roomy home clothes, Huo Changzhi can only see the top of his black head, his hair was long, covering half of his white neck.

Huo Changzhi frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

"Didn't your brother who urgently went to Africa tell you?" Xu Chu said without emotion, "It's just what you see."

"I'll call the police for you." Huo Changzhi took out his cell phone and found that there was no signal.

Xu Chu seemed to know what he was doing and sneered: "Huo Jiu'an, what are you playing again this time, role-playing? Why didn't I know that you still have an older brother."

"..." Huo Changzhi was a little helpless, "Wait for me, I will call the police where there is a signal."

Immediately after turning around to leave, when he approached the door, the alarm sounded again. This time the alarm sounded a lot. The spiral sound hit the tympanic membranes of the two of them. Huo Changzhi retreated, but the alarm continued. He leaned back next to Xu Chu, he asked him loudly, "What's the matter?"

Xu Chu covered his ears and shook his head uncomfortably.

After a minute, the siren stopped.

"Xiao Chu, why do you want to take others home? Wait for me to come back. "

Huo Jiu'an's voice came out again.

Huo Changzhi glanced at Xu Chu, he felt that he had underestimated the degree of his brother's abnormality.

"What will happen if I go out?" he asked Xu Chu.

Xu Chu twitched the corner of his mouth slightly: "High-voltage electric shocks will not cause death but may cause incontinence. You can give it a try. "

"Well, now I can't get out either." "Huo Changzhi regretted doing this errand for Huo Jiu'an. He thought it would take two hours at most, and he didn't even notify his assistant.

It will take at least one or two days for the assistant to discover that he is missing, to report to the police and to the police to find him.

Xu Chu didn't answer his words. He sat on the sofa, curled up and leaned on the back of the soft leather chair. He placed his hand on the glass-surfaced coffee table and tapped with his fingertips to make a crisp sound.

The two of them were silent. After a while, Xu Chu said: "Huo Jiu'an is really anxious to go and haven't told you anything."

Huo Changzhi suddenly remembered the drawings in his bag and took them out. He told Xu Chu: "He left me a drawing, perhaps a design drawing of the building security system."

3:30 pm

Huo Changzhi spread out the drawings on the dining table. They were two A0 drawings and a few A3s. After a glance, he was in trouble. Huo Changzhi studied finance and only knew how to read the most basic circuit diagrams, like such complicated drawings, he was completely blind.

Xu Chu listend to Huo Changzi's sudden silence and asked him, "You can't understand it, right?"

"......" Huo Changzhi was a little embarrassed, "I am not from an engineering background."

Xu stood up slowly and move to Huo Changzhi's side: "I understand, you tell me."

Huo Changzhi looked at the complicated lines and didn't know where to start.

"No, I still have to confirm that you are not Huo Jiu'an," Xu Chu changed his mind and took a step back. "In case you are Huo Jiu'an, pretend to be someone else to lie to me, isn't it ridiculous that I read the picture so seriously?"

Huo Changzhi's company still has a lot of things waiting for him to make decisions. He is locked in the room right now and there is a blind man beside him who keeps saying that he is Huo Jiu'an, which is ridiculous. Huo Changzhi impatiently grabbed Xu Chu's hand to touched his face: "Then you can confirm."

"What are you doing!" Xu Chu withdrew his hand.

"Aren't blind people like this?" Huo Changzhi saw that Xu Chu hadn't cooperated yet, lowered his voice, and his anger surged up, as he would usually scold his subordinates.

Xu Chu was so fiercely stunned by him that he said, "I have only been blind for less than a year, and I have never touched Huo Jiu'an's face."

"Then how are you going to confirm?" Huo Changzhi still said in a bad tone. "You can't see."

Xu Chu thought for a while, and reached out to touch Huo Changzhi's head: "Let me see your height first."

Huo Changzhi was touched by him. Xu Chu's hands were cold and soft, he touched him from the top of his head like a snake: "It seems to be higher than Huo Jiu'an."

His thumb pressed Huo Changzhi's eyes, nose bridge, lips, and then to the chin: "Probably a little bit different."

"Can you touch it quietly?" Huo Changzhi restrained himself and calmly suggested Xu Chu.

Xu Chu's hand slid down his neck again to his chest, poked the pectoral muscles under his shirt a few times, and then slid down to his waist.

"Are you done?" Huo Changzhi was so body-searched for the first time in his life. He was extremely uncomfortable and called to stop.

"No, I have to make sure that you are not wearing insoles to fake your height." Xu Chu knelt down, and looked down from Huo Changzhi's thigh with his hands all the way down from Huo Changzhi's point of view. It was awkward and life-threatening.

Finally, Xu Chu withdrew his hand in satisfaction: "Okay, Huo Changzhi, it's really you."

Huo Changzhi's goosebumps hadn't gone down yet, so he was too lazy to talk to him. He turned on the light and sat down to read the drawing: "What do I have to say to you?"

"You can start from the upper left of the master plan." Xu Chu said, fearing that Huo Changzhi would not understand him, he added, "The master plan is the largest one like the floor plan of the building.”

The overall design drawing is simpler than the overall wiring diagram. It is mainly about the subdivisions of various instruments and some important power supply wiring. The deep line on the right of the figure represents the entrance of the gate, and there is a cube at the door. Such things, fill the cube with purple lines.

Huo Changzhi described the shape of the square to Xu Chu. Xu Chu propped his chin and knocked on the table: "Follow the solid line connected to the bottom of the cube and then go down."

"How do you know there is a line under the cube? "Huo Changzhi asked him.

Xu Chu pursed his lips: "Huo-ge, do you want so much nonsense?"

"..." Huo Changzhi took a few deep breaths and advised himself not to care about a handicapped person.

Huo Changzhi spent more than two hours describing each node of the master plan for Xu Chu in detail. After hearing it, Xu Chu fell into contemplation.

The wall clock on the wall struck suddenly eighteen times.

"Is there anything to eat?" Huo Changzhi was bored so he stood up and took the initiative to take on the catering work.

Xu Chu still slumped in his chair, thinking about things.

Huo Changzhi saw that he was unconscious and went to the kitchen to search for food. The kitchen door was locked, and he went to the bag and turned the key to open it.

Huo Jiu'an left a lot of food for Xu Chu. There were a week's worth of vegetables and meat in the refrigerator, as well as a few boxes of nutritious drinks. He added up the total, rolled up his sleeves, took out the eggs and vegetables, and prepared a bowl of noodles.

But after putting the ingredients on the chopping board, Huo Changzhi didn't know what to do.

"What are you doing?" Xu Chu stopped in a daze at some point, walked over, leaned on the door, and asked Huo Changzhi.

"I want to make a bowl of noodles." Huo Changzhi said.

"Can you do it?" Xu Chu asked him.

"I can't."

Xu Chu walked towards him and almost tripped over the trash can. Huo Changzhi took Xu Chu with a knife in his hand, and almost scratched Xu Chu. Finally let Xu Chu stand beside him. Xu Chu touched the things on the chopping board and instructed him: "Wash the vegetables first and put them in the basin."

Huo Changzhi obediently washed the vegetables under the water.

"If you want to fry eggs, you have to raise the frying pan, you find a pan," Xu Chu described, "it is the kind with a flat bottom——"

"I know what is pan." After Huo Changzhi finished speaking, he turned out a small pan from the upper cupboard and handed it to Xu Chu, "Is it this?"

Xu Chu touched the edge of the small round pan and sighed: "Yes, yes, yes. I don't want to make something that is so difficult, it's better to eat instant noodles."

Huo Changzhi searched the kitchen couldn't find the instant noodles.

"Huo Jiu'an seems to have said that those things are unhealthy," Xu Chu frowned, "then don't fry the eggs, put a pot of water to boil, and they can all be boiled together."

Hearing nothing from Huo Changzhi, Xu Chu calmly asked him, "So do you have any other better suggestions?"

Huo Changzhi had to follow the plan.

He made a pot of noodles that was not mushy at all, with two green vegetables and eggs floating in the clear soup on top, without a star of oily light, and a little bit of salt was sprinkled on it.

Xu Chu slowly ate the noodles. Huo Changzhi took a bite and stopped moving. He promised that he had never eaten something so unpalatable since he was born.

"Mr. Huo, you have to work for several days," Xu Chu persuaded him, "What should I do if you starve to death?"

When Xu Chu was eating, he put the bangs behind his ears, revealing a pair of big and pretty eyes. The tails of his eyes are a little upturned, and the pupils are amber, with a large diameter. If Xu Chu could see, it must be a pair of eyes that can look into people's hearts.

"Why did my brother keep you here?" Huo Changzhi asked Xu Chu.

Xu Chu bit his chopsticks, raised his face, and asked, "Is Huo Jiu'an really went to Africa?"

Huo Changzhi couldn't answer.

"You have something to hide from me, why should I tell you the truth?" Xu Chu lowered his head and slashed his noodles again, put down his chopsticks and stood up.

"How long will it take to get out?" Huo Changzhi stopped him. His father should have arrived at Xiangdao. He could almost imagine that his subordinates suddenly couldn't find him, they were all in a frenzy like a headless fly.

Xu Chu turned around and opened his hands: "Then it depends on how complicated your brother's work is. It can be a day or two, or longer..."

A muffled thunder suddenly sounded outside.

As if a thick wet towel was introduced into their ears, Huo Changzhi looked around, then stood up and went to another room to check, only to find this 100-square-meter house had all the windows sealed up.

Perhaps it was because Xu Chu couldn't see it, Huo Jiu'an didn't even do the most basic cover-ups, the cold and hard walls flooded Huo Changzhi's vision.

"Huo Jiu'an..."

If Huo Jiu'an didn't die accidentally, how long would Xu Chu be kept here by him like this?

Huo Changzhi glanced at Xu Chu subconsciously. Xu Chu's expression was calm, like a okay person. Everything that happened this afternoon made him feel that he had missed something important.

Such a sense of powerlessness made Huo Changzhi anxious.

7:00 pm

Xu Chu’s ability to understand and memory is amazing. After the meal, he let Huo Changzhi accompany him and sorted out the master plan. Xu Chu could count out some details that Huo Changzhi hadn't noticed even with his eyes closed.

After checking the last module, Xu Chu stretched out his hand and said, "Okay, I'm sleepy."

Huo Changzhi looked at the clock, it was only nine o'clock, but he was useless, he had to listen to Xu Chu.

"You wear Huo Jiu'an's clothes." Xu Chu touched the wall, walked into the bedroom, and opened the first wardrobe.

Huo Changzhi raised the question that came up just after inspecting the room: "There is only one bedroom?"

Xu Chu turned his head to him, and said softly, ambiguously, "Didn't Huo Jiu'an tell you about me sleeping with him?"

Huo Changzhi was dumbfounded by Xu Chu's tone.

"Then I will sleep in the living room." Huo Changzhi thought.

"I am not a lone man or a widow," Xu Chu casually grabbed a nightgown and kneaded it in his hand to identify it. No matter where Huo Changzhi was, he handed it forward, "You wash first."

Huo Changzhi looked down at Xu Chu, Xu Chu waited for him with his hands in the air. He no longer insisted, and took the clothes to wash first.

There are brand new towels and toiletries prepared by Huo Jiu’an in the bathroom drawer. Huo Changzhi bathed quickly and put on Huo Jiu’an’s nightgown. The robe was not big enough. He wiped his hair and went out to let Xu Chu wash.

As soon as Xu Chu closed the door, Huo Changzhi observed the bedroom.

The lighting in the bedroom serves Huo Jiu'an, who can see. Anyone here can feel that the designer is trying his best to create a newly married atmosphere, but he thinks that the reflection of the room is empty and glazed in Xu Chu. The scene in his eyes is strange.

The background wall opposite the big bed was dark red, and the place where the TV was supposed to be placed was empty.

There is a large picture frame on the bed with a mahogany edge and a white canvas inside.

Huo Changzhi frowned. Huo Jiu'an's "I'm sorry" should be given to him first.

10:00 pm

After thinking about it, Xu Chu came out. His nightgown was also dark red, which made his complexion transparent. His hair was wet and dangling around his neck. Water drops dripped from the tail of his hair and fell into the deep nest of his collarbone. Because of his unsure movement, he fell off his collarbone and slid across a small piece of skin visible on his chest, dyeing the dark red nightgown deeper.

Xu Chu's hand left the supporting wall and was more than two meters away from the bed. He opened his hands and touched Huo Changzhi, who was standing aside staring at him, his hands shrank from being scalded.

"What are you doing while standing stupid?" Xu Chu asked him, turning his face to the side.

Huo Changzhi looked at his dripping hair in disapproval, resisting the urge to dry him, and answered the question: "Have you seen what this room looks like?"

Xu Chu shook his head, changed directions and walked to sit by the bed.

The water dripped on the pillow again.

Huo Changzhi finally couldn't hold back, so he went to the bathroom and took a towel for Xu Chu and asked him to wipe it himself.

"Huo-ge, why are you exactly the same as Huo Jiu'an," Xu Chu said to Huo Changzhi with a smile.

Huo Changzhi turned Xu Chu's pillow over without comment and sat on the other side by himself.

Xu Chu dried his hair, threw the towel on the ground, and buried himself in the bed, wrapped in a quilt.

Seeing that he was really going to sleep, Huo Changzhi turned off the light and lay down.

There was another two people's distance between the two.

At such times as usual, Huo Changzhi was still reading documents or holding regular meeting with his subordinates. He looked at the dark roof without much sleep.

Xu Chu didn't feel sleepy, so he turned to his side and chatted with him, "After reading the design drawing, I understand a little bit, why the program will find you in the room instead of Huo Jiu'an."

Xu Chu has a habit, probably because he has not yet adapted to the identity of a blind person, even if he can't see, he still likes to watch others talk. In such a dark night, he can try his best to pretend that the darkness in front of him is just because the room is too closed and there is no light source.

Huo Changzhi uttered a questioning tone, and Xu Chu continued: "The cube at the door you mentioned is a pressure sensor, and there is a detection device on the top of the hallway. As soon as you stand in the door, the program will know that you are not Huo Jiu'an. Although I don’t know what happened to Huo Jiu’an, he’s cheating you, Huo-ge.”

Of course Huo Changzhi knew that Huo Jiu’an had calculated it. Now that he wants to come, Huo Jiu’an has not given him any information. If he have a conscience, just ask him to bring the design drawings.

Suddenly, Huo Changzhi felt the person around him move, and a hand was placed on his shoulder. Xu Chu's cold voice revealed some sympathetic comfort: "Huo Jiu'an is always like this."

"I'm not familiar with him." Huo Changzhi confessed.

"Will he come?" Xu Chu asked Huo Changzhi tentatively.

Huo Changzhi said after a while, "No."

Xu Chu stopped talking. The two breathed calmly, each thinking about things, and they didn't know who fell asleep first.

11:00 pm

No dream for the night.