"But the question is, who among us can do this?" Crow continued: "Even if everyone around is asleep, he can still persevere and open the music box."
The four people looked at each other. In fact, if you don't test this kind of thing, no one will know where your limit is. After figuring this out, the crow suggested: "Why not, let's test it first. , when I closed the music box... who was the first of us to fall asleep."
Several people agreed one after another, so everyone sat around the sofa seat next to the music box, the crow reached out and closed the box, the melodious violin music stopped abruptly, and everyone could clearly feel the sweet smell in the air immediately, Very sweet, like floral and honey, sweet and sleepy.
"It tastes disgustingly sweet." The wolf spoke, trying to draw everyone's attention. He put it this way: "We'd better talk more, so we can concentrate."
"It's too bad, what should I do if I don't want to talk to you at all?" The owl despised the wolf expressionlessly.
"Actually, I think you should be the one who is the least likely to fall among us—" the wolf replied to the owl, looking him up and down: "Because you can't smell at all!"
"You're not me, how do you know I can't smell? Of course, I know your sense of smell must be very sensitive, just like a dog!"
"Are you mocking me for being a dog?"
"How could it be?! I just praised your sense of smell and said that you are a dog—that's obviously your own unilateral admission!"
The wolf and the owl each said a word, and they started bickering as they came and went. The crow and the black cat remained silent as always. In this apparently harmonious atmosphere, time passed minute by minute, about ten minutes or so Look, the first person to fall appeared.
The black cat had been sitting next to the crow, and felt that the person next to him suddenly paused. When leaning on his shoulder, the black cat looked down at the crow.
Crow is a young man with a very gentle temperament. You can see from his eyebrows that he is both gentle and tough. He leans against the black cat with his eyes closed. His black hair is very soft and falls on the black cat's shoulders. Breathing a bit short of breath, he couldn't help but reached out and touched the crow's cheek, but soon realized that his movements were unnatural, so he turned his head and said to the owl and the others, "He fell asleep."
The owl reached out to open the music box, and within half a minute of the music playing, the crow opened his eyes again. He was at a loss for a moment, but soon regained consciousness and said, "I fell asleep?"
"Yes." Owl worried: "Your mental state is not very good."
"Probably..." The crow sighed, and continued: "This is really not good. I didn't even realize that I fell asleep. I always felt that I was awake all the time, just like a dream."
"Then what should we do now?" Owl said uneasy.
"I'm the first one to go down, so I can rule it out without being the guy who switches the music on for everyone, so now we can test the second one down... By the way, if I fall asleep, You try to wake me up—for example, by shaking me vigorously. It is said that sleeping humans will wake up conditioned when they fall backwards... Of course, if these methods still fail to wake me up, then put the music box Open."
The owl became more worried, and said, "But it's very dangerous! What if you can't wake up when you open the music box?"
Crow finally smiled: "Then let me die here."
"This joke is not funny at all!"
"It's worth a try." Crow said, he looked very tired: "I have no other choice, I can't continue to waste time here. To be honest, I've had enough of this train!"
There was no choice, even though the owl seemed very reluctant, but finally agreed, they turned off the music box again, this time after a short while, the crow fell asleep again, the owl motioned to the black cat sitting next to the crow: "Wake him up."
The black cat carried the crow and dragged him to the edge of the sofa seat, making him face up and fall backwards. This method was really effective. The crow was awakened the moment he fell down, and was picked up by the black cat in his arms, but the crow’s His face was a little pale.
"How long have I been asleep?" asked the crow.
"Less than a minute." The black cat answered him.
"It feels like a century has passed." Crow smiled wryly, he sat up straight, and said to everyone: "It seems to be effective, even if one of us falls asleep, the people next to him can wake him up. "
However, while the crow was speaking, he suddenly closed his eyes, and once again fell down on the sofa seat in a daze. Seeing this, the owl had no choice but to sigh regretfully: "I saw that even if I wake up, it won't last long."
As soon as the owl finished speaking, what he didn't expect was that the wolf sitting next to him suddenly leaned forward and fell asleep on the table.
"Oh! Congratulations!" The owl looked at the wolf and said, "He is the second."
So the only sober people are the black cat and the owl.
The black cat picked up the crow, subconsciously hugged it in its arms, stroked the crow's hair, and said to the owl, "I don't think I can last long, I'm dizzy now."
The owl had to lick his lips: "It seems that I am the only one who persists to the end."
After the owl finished speaking, it stretched out its hand to open the music box, and the wonderful music resounded throughout the carriage. Afterwards, the wolf and the crow woke up, their faces turning pale.
"I think it's better not to continue this test." Owl said, noticing the pale face of the crow, he couldn't help sighing: "Although you can wake up after falling asleep, it seems to have a certain impact on you. This smell must be toxic to a certain extent, if we continue to stay here, even if we keep the music box on and don’t sleep, we will definitely die.”
"Then let's start!" The crow took a deep breath and tried his best to relax his body. He looked at the owl: "Then make sure you stay by the box all the time, and we will find the key."
"What I don't understand is, what's the difference between looking for keys with the music on and without the music?" The wolf seemed to be worried about the fact that he fell down the second, and stared at the owl very entangled.
"That's what the notice on the door says, you can only find the key if you turn off the music, who knows?" The owl forced a smile, looking a little smug.
"It means we have to entrust our lives to you, right?" The wolf was dissatisfied.
"Stop arguing!" The crow frowned, and said, "I should be the one who is most nervous! I will be the first to pass out, and as long as you don't fall down, the owl won't play the music, which means I The time to sleep will be longer, and I will be the first to die!"
The situation is unfavorable, and everyone's mood is a little low, but no one wants to stay in this damned car, so they have to take action. So the owl stood guard next to the music box, and the rest of the people spread out, waiting for the owl to turn off the music, and then began to search for the key.
After the owl closed the lid of the music box, he began to focus on observing his companions. He had to keep an eye on the situation of the crow and others so that he could make a judgment in the fastest time.
The No. 7 car with the music turned off is actually no different, except for the increasingly obvious and sweet scent in the air, which almost fills the entire No. 7 car. No matter where you go, you can smell it. Even the flight attendant lounge and toilets were searched. This time several people persisted for a long time, but the crow was the first to fall down. He suddenly lay down on a certain sofa seat, but this time No one woke him up. The black cat and the wolf continued to search for the key. The scent was still strong, but several people became restless. The connecting door of the No. 7 car clearly stated that the key could only be found by turning off the music, but the music had already It was closed, and they searched as fast as they could, but they still found nothing.
So the second wolf also fainted, and he sat on the ground directly against the wall, and the black cat was behind him.
Seeing that everyone had fallen asleep, the owl had to sigh. Just when he was about to reach out to open the music box, the owl suddenly heard a small and weak voice.
Yes, because several people around were asleep, the entire No. 7 car was suddenly unbelievably quiet, and even the sound of the train shaking was almost gone, so this faint sound became clear at this moment, and the place where the sound originated , right next to the owl's hand, is the music box.
It was a sound like a clock ticking.
There's something in the box!
The owl immediately picked up the music box, and he heard the sound coming from inside the music box, that is to say, inside the music box! But not now, too late!
The owl opened the music box and started the music again. He had to wake up several people so that he could tell his companions about his new discovery.
But the owl didn't have time to move. When he was about to open the box, he suddenly found a black shadow covering himself. Someone walked over and walked up to the owl. This person walked almost silently, without any sound. No, or the owl's attention was focused on the box, and it didn't pay attention at all.
When the owl realized that someone was standing next to him, he subconsciously raised his head to look, but just as he looked up a little, he saw a silver knife flash in front of him!
His vision suddenly fell into eternal darkness!
The pain of the owl was dull, but he also realized that his eyes had been cut out, and that person moved very fast, and the knife went down and stabbed him in the throat, cutting off his vocal cords, which would make him unable to speak. Severing a nerve in his spine would paralyze him completely.
The owl didn't move.
The man reached out and took the music box from the owl's hand, turned on the melodious music again, and then stuffed the box back into the owl's palm.