The Midnight Owl

On the night, the four ran out of the park in one breath. Outside the park is Andri North Street, the buildings on both sides or the community, they are as quiet as sleeping, only the dim light of the street lamp reflects the leaves on the ground.

“What should I do now?” Kuang Jinxin wiped his sweat breathlessly, and because he was wearing a thick warm coat, he “run” at night for a long time, and his face was flushed.

Wu Sheng looked at the time on the phone and looked up: “It’s three hours before dawn. Find a place to sit down and we need to sort this out from beginning to end.”

“What else to sort out,” Xu Wang has completely cut back to reality from the magical unreality, and now stepping on the ground, the sky above him, I wish I could wipe out all the ghosts and ghosts with a stick, “Alarm!”

“It’s useless.” It was Sun Jiang who was talking, and he touched his pocket while talking, but at last he didn’t feel anything. He had to look up at his teammates, “Are there any smoke?”

The answer was two shaking his head, one “no”.

Sun Jiang’s already depressed face added a little more irritability.

Xu Wang still cares about his previous words: “Brother Sun, what did you mean by saying that the police are useless?”

Sun Jiang couldn’t help but yawned when he was tired, and then pointed at himself and Kuang Jinxin: “We both called the police yesterday, but as soon as the phone was connected, we started to have a headache. I thought the head was going to blow up. It hurts so much, do n’t talk, you ca n’t even hold your mother ’s cell phone! “

“Both of you?” Xu Wang felt like he was listening to a ghost story, and looked at Jin Xin suspiciously, but got the other person’s pitiful nod.

“How about you?” Xu Wang asked Wu Sheng without hesitation, “You hurt too?”

Wu Sheng shook his head decisively.

Xu Wang thought that he had caught a breakthrough, and just wanted to continue to question, he heard Wu Sheng said naturally: “I didn’t call the police.”

Xu Wang: “Why?”

Wu Sheng: “Both of them rolled over with pain. They proved that the alarm was a dead end. Why should I repeat the same mistake?”

Xu Wang: “…”

Sun Jiang: “…”

Kuang Jinxin: “…”

If yesterday everyone still had the luck of “maybe just a nightmare, just wake up”, then today’s Erin Xueyuan let them clearly understand that this is not the end. Since it is a protracted battle, it would be a fool to sit back and wait.

But where to “talk” is a question.

“McDonald’s? KTV? Bar?” Xu Wang provided a place suitable for the “early morning discussion” as much as possible.

Was rejected by Wu Sheng at one time: “No way, we need a place that is quiet enough and private enough, quiet and easy to organize ideas, privacy can reduce the risk of leakage.”

Xu Wang’s eyes widened as if he heard the fantasy of night: “Brother, we are the victims, we have to provide the murderer with a duty of confidentiality ?!”

“I can’t explain clearly in three words,” Wu Sheng looked around, as if searching for something, and asked casually, “Who do you live with?”

Without thinking, Xu Wang said, “I live by myself.”

Wu Sheng withdrew his eyes and nodded comfortably: “Go to your house.”

Xu Wang: “…”

This is a pit, this is definitely a pit, he must climb out!

Kuang Jinxin: “I live nearby, but I live with someone …”

Sun Jiang: “My home is also nearby, and my wife and children are asleep.”

Wu Sheng: “I live in the company, not far from here, but if the discussion is dawning and is seen by the employees at work, I can’t give a reasonable explanation, which will cause unnecessary gossip and conjecture, which is not conducive to maintaining my cold image. . “

Do you have any misunderstandings about your image! ! !

Xu Wang: “Come, follow me, the road is dark and slippery, pay attention to your feet …”

Half an hour later, the group arrived at Xu Wang’s house. Xu Wangzuo rented one room and one hall in an old community. Don’t look at the old community, the location is not good, the decoration is still refurbished, the rent is not cheap at all, but for Xu Wang, who is full of the whole family and is not hungry, it is not too stressful to afford.

“Wow, Brother Xu,” Kang Jinxin came in first, and politely ran into the bedroom, just standing in the living room and looking up and down, left and right, it was enough surprise, “Your home is so clean.”

Xu Wang was euphoric, and when he was about to succeed, he heard Wu Sheng, who came in later, sigh: “Oh my god, it’s back to 222.”

“222?” Kuang Jinxin had a rare aura, “You and Brother Xu’s high school dormitory?”

“No,” Wu Sheng corrected seriously. “You are Brother Xu himself. The three of us just borrowed because we threw our clothes around, ran out of things, evaded duty, and always forgot to take the garbage downstairs. Sense of faith in homes. “

Xu Wang threw the slippers he just found to Wu Sheng’s feet, and accompanied the shoes with a big white eye: “You don’t need to be so vengeful, do you put all the things I said in the small black book?”

Wu Sheng didn’t say a word, only to have fun, while changing slippers while having fun, refreshingly refreshed, and delighted.

Xu Wang was too lazy to care about him again, and turned to pour four glasses of water. By the time the water came back, the other three had already sat on the sofa. He put the water on the coffee table and grabbed a chair from the bedroom.

The cup is filled with boiling water, the heat is curling, warm and soothing.

After four days of hardship, the four can finally sit down and talk.

Wu Sheng spoke first. Fighting back to fighting mouth, when he really talked about the business, he fully focused: “We now know that there are four points. One, the selected person will enter there at twelve o’clock at night, regardless of whether it is voluntary; two, there is Substantial harm will bring back to reality; three, when you want to call the police, you will have a headache; fourth, the location there and the location in reality are one-to-one correspondence, the distance is equal, the coordinate system is the same, for example, we enter at home There, two kilometers further there, then when we return to reality, our position will also be two kilometers away from home … “

Xu Wang suddenly realized that he could explain why he popped out at the crossroads downstairs yesterday, and today he has reached the farther Youth Lake Park because they ran a sleigh ride there today.

“What’s the use of knowing this? I want to know what the **** is that? Who is playing us!” Sun Jiang interrupted Wu Sheng and asked him the question he desperately needed to answer.

Isn’t this what Xu Wang, Kuang Jinxin, and even Wu Sheng wanted to figure out.

But “thinking” and “can” are two different things.

“I don’t know. With our accumulated experience and clues at this stage, there is no way to answer these questions. But if you ignore it and let it go, then you never want to solve the answer.” Wu Sheng’s tone remained unchanged, and his expression was calm. Naturally it’s like asking, do you want to drink porridge today?

Sun Jiang slumped into the sofa and looked up at the ceiling. His eyes that had not slept for two nights were covered with bloodshot eyes, exhausted.

Xu Wang knew that he could not clearly ask the answer, but if he did not vent like this, he suffocated.

In fact, everyone is the same, including Wu Sheng, who is looking okay now, is not really not depressed. If he is not depressed, why not take the momentum of the last super-difficult question with the mock test paper.

He is fighting, Xu Wang can see.

To put it bluntly, this kind of indiscriminate disaster, everyone is angry.

“What is certain is these four points, and there are four points to be determined,” Wu Sheng continued to pull the silk and peel the cocoon without thinking that he was not distracted by Sun Jiang’s interference. “One, is there really a mental control over people, such as Prevent the alarm; Second, whether there is a certain protection mechanism there, when people involved in it encounter a huge danger, they will directly bounce people back to reality like Xu Wang was when the bear was rushed, and minimize the damage; Third, When I re-entered today, Sun Jiang and Kuang Jinxin ’s stationery boxes were empty. The “fish roll” and “bell jingle bells” that had not been used at all disappeared. Was it a punishment for the two of them to try to call the police, or was there another reason? Fourth, are there other people who are involved in the same way as us. “

“That … turn over,” Kuang Jinxin hesitated, “You heard someone say congratulations and successfully handed over before popping out?”

Xu Wang nodded quickly: “I not only heard it today, but also saw a message from another team in the transcript yesterday.” When the new message popped up yesterday, Xu Wang was still confused. When I thought about it today, it was related. Too.

“Yes, I saw that too!” Kuang Jinxin’s face appeared happy, but instinctively converged. At first glance, he was an honest child, not accustomed to publicity, but his brain was absolutely clear, “I remember the team in the transcript is 3 / 23, it seems to be called Yue Shuai … what else is Anan … “

Xu Wang looked at Wu Sheng: “As for the fourth question to be determined, I think it can be included in the determination, yes.”

Wu Sheng picked up the glass and blew twice, took a sip, and shook his head slightly: “Not enough. They may or may not be, they may be forced as we are, they may be voluntary, they may share there with us, When we meet at any time, there may be parallel independent spaces there, and we will never meet us. “Putting down the tea cup, he sighed quietly,” I can’t classify if I can’t be sure of this. “

Xu Wang looked at him for a long while and confessed: “After so many years, I will serve your rigor.”

Wu Sheng frowned, unbelievably sincere: “Only rigorous?”

Xu Wang resisted the urge to punch the past and asked the last question: “The team that handed in yesterday was 3/23, and today we passed the handover is 1/23. What do you think?”

“It’s the same as you think.” Wu Sheng shrugged and seemed to have accepted the reality. “This means that there are 22 levels waiting for us.”

Sun Jiang swiftly sat upright, which would hold back without roaring, but his expression of disbelief and despair clearly conveyed his mood.

The discussion continued until 5:30 in the morning, Xu Wang also learned later that after he was ejected in advance on the first night, the remaining three used Wu Sheng ’s and and Xiong Zhouxuan After arriving at the coordinate point, I had to flee down the mountain because I didn’t trigger the icefall. After waiting for the foot of the mountain, I was bounced back to reality. The time was exactly five in the morning.

Calculating in this way, the time for their front and back feet to return to reality is an hour away. Xu Wang has long since disappeared, so Wu Sheng was full of sadness in Beijing to find people the next day.

And that night, Wu Sheng, who ran with Jin Xin for a day, simply parked at the last stop of the tracing, the West Fifth Ring Road, and Sun Jiang found someone to leave the house and hid in a room that had never been KTV. As a result, at twelve o’clock, weird entrances still appeared, one in the back seat of the car, and one on the wall of the KTV booth, as if there were no taboos at random, but like a shadow. Two minutes later, the three people struggling to resist were dragged in like Xu Wang that night.

The encounter of the teammates made Xu Wang chill out, completely dispelling the idea of ​​”running.”

At the end of the discussion, Kuang Jinxin said: “It’s always awkward to ‘here’ and ‘here’, or let’s name it there.”

Sun Jiang was speechless: “Where do you play the house, give the broken ground a name ?!”

Wu Sheng and Xu Wang had no opinion. To be precise, the name was already clearly in front of them—

Xu Wang: “Isn’t there such a big word written under the owl’s head, the eight achievements are its name, so we will call it in the future …”

Wu Sheng: “Owl.”

Xu Wang: “Can, no, can, no, grab, answer.”

Wu Sheng: “Come again. Isn’t that a big word written under the owl’s head, the eight achievements are its name, so we will call it …”

Xu Wang: “Owl!”