It's late at night.
Bai Wu and others live on the third floor.
Although there have been no guests, Mrs. Wang, who plays the role of a mother, still cleans the room carefully every day.
The only difference between them and real rich people is that they don't have servants.
They have to do many things themselves.
Fortunately, this villa is modern enough, and each guest's room has an independent bathroom, toiletries, daily necessities, TV, air conditioning, and magazines.
It looks very similar to a business hotel, but the decoration style and the amount of furniture make it feel completely different.
It can be said that we can truly make guests feel at home.
Bai Wu lived in the largest house, Yin Shuang lived in the second largest house, and Lin Wu Rou's house was very small, but it was larger than the entire apartment he was assigned on the second floor, so he didn't suspect anything.
It's similar on the other side. Wujiu's house is the largest, Qin Lin's house is the second largest, and Bai Xiaoyu's house is the smallest.
The allocation for two families of three is completed.
As for what will happen at night, Bai Wu is still unclear.
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Eleven o'clock.
Suddenly, there was the sound of dogs barking outside the house, six dogs, six extremely similar frequencies.
Bai Wu calmly made himself a cup of coffee and recalled the details of the day. At the same time as the dog barked, he remembered something.
In Bai Xiaoyu's perception, there was a dog in the yard.
It was just strange that he didn't see these dogs during the day, and even when guests came, the dogs didn't bark.
But at this moment, at night, when there was no movement outside, the dog started barking.
Their cries came one after another, as if filled with some fear.
The barking was already considered noise in the quiet night, six dogs barking together. Although the villa had good sound insulation, the windows of every room were open.
At this time, everyone was lying in bed, and out of laziness, no one wanted to close the window.
Even if it is closed, no one would think it can block out the noise.
The six dogs barked for a full ten minutes, and their barking even carried a certain anger in the middle. Until later, when it suddenly became sharp and then lowered, the dogs all dispersed.
Their voices became much quieter, but they still kept calling.
The first one who couldn't stand it was Lin Wu Rou. Although he was good at scolding people, he was not as mean as a dog.
Lin Wu Rou got up and put on the silk pajamas that had been prepared in the bedroom. The close-fitting texture made her feel very comfortable, but he did not like the tigers and lions printed on the pajamas.
But all the pajamas in the closet are of this style.
Lin Wu Rou had no choice but to compromise.
The moment the window was closed, the soft breeze and the scent of delicate flowers and plants seemed to be cut off in an instant.
Lin Wu Rou suddenly had an illusion, and the whole house shook.
The barking of the dog stopped abruptly. He listened carefully and there seemed to be no sound from the outside world.
The effect of closing the window was beyond Lin Wurou's expectations.
He returned to bed and should have fallen asleep well, but perhaps because it was too quiet, he couldn't fall asleep
He only heard the ringing in his head.
When people are in extremely quiet conditions, they will hear a continuous tinnitus.
"I can't fall asleep anyway. I should go to Bai Wu and chat."
Lin Wu Rou suddenly stood up, but suddenly remembered that as a strong man, wearing such cute cartoon pajamas would cause Bai Wu to laugh at him, so he decided to change into his original clothes.
Bang...Dang!
It was as if something suddenly knocked on the bathroom door. When Lin Wurou was about to change clothes, a strange noise suddenly came from the bathroom.
Due to the extreme silence after the window was closed, the clanging sound was extremely deafening, but it dissipated quickly.
Lin Wu Rou frowned, stopped what she was doing, and prepared to go to the bathroom.
His footsteps were light, but because they were quiet, they made a very obvious sound.
The surroundings were so quiet that Lin Wu Rou tried to sense something, but all he got in response was still absolute silence.
It was obviously a very new room, but the moment the bathroom door was pushed open, Lin Wu Rou heard some kind of rusty metal friction sound, but it was only very brief, so short that only one frame of the picture passed in her sight.
The bathroom is very spacious, with an exquisite bathtub and shower facilities on the inside of the glass wall, and a dressing table on the outside.
Although the clothes in the house are very childish, the design of this house is suitable for both children and adults.
Lin Wu Rou looked carefully and found nothing in the bathroom.
"That's weird, did I hear it wrong?"
Every item in the bathroom is placed exactly as it was in its original location.
Lin Wu Rou looked for five full minutes but couldn't find the source of the sound.
He turned his head and faced the mirror. After making sure that no object made the sound, Lin Wu Rou's expression gradually became calm and he suspected that he had heard it wrong.
The figure in the mirror looked at his back calmly.
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The bed in Yin Shuang's room is relatively soft.
Although Yin Shuang hadn't lay down yet, she could feel that it was much more comfortable than her apartment on the second floor.
She doesn't like wearing pajamas and is used to sleeping naked, but this is at someone else's house, so Yin Shuang will still restrain herself.
She hadn't been sleeping, just sitting on the bed.
When the dog barked, Yin Shuang felt a little cold. The wind outside the window was cool and the bed was also cold. She was in a period of discomfort.
So he closed the window.
The moment she closed the window, Yin Shuang found that the barking sounds of the dogs suddenly disappeared.
She didn't quite believe in the absolute sound insulation effect, but was more inclined to believe that the dog suddenly stopped barking.
Yawning, Yin Shuang was savoring today's delicious food. At the same time, she was thinking that she should be alert, which made her a little confused.
It felt like she was living between sugar and poison, but she didn't think too much about it because she was really tired.
Just as she was about to fall asleep, Yin Shuang suddenly stopped.
Because her neck suddenly felt itchy. Yin Shuang touched it and found a thin long hair on her neck. This kind of thing happens occasionally, but it's not worth worrying about.
An extremely quiet environment is a very good sleeping environment for a person with a calm mind.
Yin Shuang lifted half of the quilt and stepped onto the bed with her long, white and smooth legs.
The environment was very comfortable, whether it was the temperature, the quietness, the softness of the bed, or the warmth of the quilt, which made Yin Shuang fall asleep quickly.
Forty seconds later, Yin Shuang woke up, startled.
She suddenly escaped from the warm bed, her eyes wide open. Even in the ward outside the tower, she had never looked at something like this.
She suddenly remembered that she had not gone to bed until just before closing the window.
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There is also a bookcase in Bai Wu's room.
But the books inside are all about business, success, marketing, trade knowledge, and all kinds of meaningless things.
Unlike the other two tenants, Bai Wu knew one-third of the script, so he could feel that although this room was a guest room, it was intentional to let the guests adapt to the host's room.
The head of the household.
The reason why Bai Wu chose Yin Shuang as his wife was not because he had any thoughts about Yin Shuang. In his eyes, Yin Shuang was too self-restricting, especially when he mentioned that she was an avenger.
This made Bai Wu even less interested in this kind of bitter and vengeful background, and the same was true for Yan Jiu.
"Business… "
Bai Wu thought about the conversation during the day.
"It's strange to say that we are all trapped in the manor. Why do we have to ask guests whether they prefer doing business or housework?"
Bai Wu remembered that someone had asked Bai Xiaoyu this question.
Bai Xiaoyu chose housework at that time because he didn't know anything about business.
Bai Wu suddenly realized that this questionnaire itself had certain problems.
"I can understand housework. Lao Wang's wife, who is 30 years older than him, does all kinds of housework. But business... How do they do business? Who do they do business with?"
Bai Wu flipped through the books about business. Apart from marketing knowledge and success stories, most of them were about trade.
Looking at the bookshelf, it seems that knowledge related to trade accounts for 70 percent.
Bai Wu vaguely felt that there was something wrong here.
But at this time, a dog barking was heard outside the window.
The mist was rising, and I made myself a cup of coffee. I wanted to guess why the dogs were barking, but they kept barking, and I didn't have the fourth-level dog language.
The white fog closed the windows.
The moment the window closed, a strange atmosphere made him feel quite uncomfortable.
Everything in the house was normal, Bai Wu had confirmed this with the Eye of Prell. There was no surveillance and no spirit-hosting items.
"How can it be so quiet?"
So Bai Wu did one more thing, opening the window. At this time, the TV suddenly lit up.
"According to our report, at 4 p.m. in the third district of Food City, plumbers found a large number of rats running out of the sewer pipes. There may be a large number of rats wreaking havoc in the city recently. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is preparing to deal with the plague."
The TV showed a lot of rats pouring out of the sewers, which were almost bigger than some fat orange cats. Some of them had some human organs in their mouths.
Food City, Third Street.
Bai Wu frowned subconsciously, because he had heard of this address before. But he soon thought of something.
"I was trying to open the window and the TV suddenly turned on by itself."
Bai Wu did not disrupt his steps because of the sudden news he saw, but prepared to open the window again.
The moment the window was opened, the TV screen suddenly began to flash with snowy images, and an obvious crackling sound of electricity could be heard.
The sound of wind and the barking of dogs outside the house could be heard again.
Bai Wu was a little confused. Is it true that the windows have a good sound insulation effect
That’s not right… If the soundproofing is so good, why is there no sound even outside the door
He closed the window again, and the TV signal became much more stable.
"Why is television broadcasting news from 700 years ago..."
The second piece of news soon arrived.
"Regarding the difficulty in buying tickets, the person in charge of the Ark Project has announced that the problem will be solved as soon as possible to ensure that the general public is eligible to board the departing ship. However, despite this, many people still gathered in the financial street to protest by striking and marching."
Boat ticket
Bai Wu remembered the ticket to the tower...
What is the Ark Project? The Tower
Based on Bai Wu's current understanding of the tower, he does not think that the tower was built by humans.
"What's the point of broadcasting these news here? Are you the manor itself? Or some evil person? What message do you want me to see?"
This sentence seemed to have some kind of magic. Since the white fog had not yet completely settled in, it seemed that some words could still be said.
The TV screen instantly turned into a black background with green 0s and 1s floating in between.
Bai Wu originally thought that this was a very long string of binary numbers, but he soon discovered something was wrong.
The numbers are brighter in some places and darker in others.
Under the color difference of light and dark, the outline of a smiling face is formed.
But before Bai Wu could see the details of the smiling face... the TV station jumped again.
"What would happen if I locked you up at this moment?"
The events that happened at this time were already very strange, but Bai Wu did not feel any fear. He did not turn off the TV, because he had a feeling that these news were not broadcasting meaninglessly...
Maybe if you don’t see it today, you won’t be able to see it tomorrow.
Especially the next piece of news - he was quite interested. The TV showed a reporter interviewing a senior detective.
"Do you think the masked man's behavior constitutes a crime?"
"Yes, as of now, I need to capture the evil and study its origin, but the masked man obviously thinks his existence is above our laws, and he took the evil to a place we don't know..."
"But the evil has indeed threatened the safety of the citizens, hasn't it? According to many citizens, if the masked man hadn't appeared at that time, their lives would have been in danger."
"Impossible, our city is safe!" The inspector was obviously angry in his last sentence.
At this point, the TV changed to another program.
Every time he changed the channel, Bai Wu would briefly see a certain picture due to signal problems.
This time he memorized the scene.
It was a smiling face, and it seemed to be a girl's smiling face.
This program seems to be a talk show interview.
"There's no need to panic. Evil fall? Doomsday? Ark? Tower? They're all fake! There have been many rumors of the end of the world in human history, but which one has come true? Aren't our resources enough for us to live? Obviously, this planet has not yet reached the point of complete depletion... Is our technology not enough for us to survive? While you are still watching the show, it means that you are in a warm bed, enjoying the happiness that those anxious people can't feel, right?"
"If you don't believe me, just turn on Food City Defenders. As long as Food City Defenders is still playing cartoons instead of the 8 o'clock news at 8 o'clock, it means that the world is not ending at all."
A time countdown appeared in the upper right corner of the TV every hour, even though Bai Wu's current time was not even 8 o'clock in the evening.
The TV also cooperated and switched to Food City Guardians. A delicately drawn anime character was speaking Japanese:
"My name is Aliang, I'm 33 years old. I live in the villa area of Food City Commercial Street, and I'm unmarried. I work in my friend Axian's coffee shop. I have to work overtime until 8pm every day before I can go home. I don't smoke, and I only drink a little. I go to bed at 11pm and sleep for 8 hours a day. Before going to bed, I always drink a glass of warm milk, then do 20 minutes of stretching exercises, and fall asleep as soon as I get into bed. I sleep through the night and never leave fatigue and stress until the next day. Doctors say I'm normal."
Even at this time, the Food City Guards were still playing a cartoon, but soon, words appeared in the middle of the cartoon—
An urgent message! An unprecedented group of evil people is about to attack our city! Please flee quickly!
Turn off the TV.
Bai Wu was still thinking about the connection between the news on TV, and even he didn't notice that the TV was not turned off. Deep in the darkness... it was still playing something.