Forces of Temptation

Chapter 15: Xiao Ming's daily life (2)

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Shen Jie was quite satisfied with the result.

"Cube Ark" is a complete rookie team.

Newcomers have weaknesses, and they are likely to have weak observation skills and panic problems, but there is no need to worry about them daring to hide.

No matter what they find, they will definitely say it.

Moreover, "sleep" is the longest task in the time span, and it is a hassle to think about it.

Now that someone has come out to take this trouble, of course that's the best.

Jiang Fang put away the cards one by one, watched everyone disperse, and went to the room to find clues and check the situation.

Nan Zhou looked at his hand and asked, "How did you do it?"

Jiang Fang said with a low smile, "Secret."

After the lottery was drawn, there was only half an hour left until zero, and there was not much time for them to explore.

However, there is not much space to explore in this apartment.

There is a large pot of monstera on the balcony.

The living room and the dining room are connected, and there is a beautiful floral tablecloth on the table, there is still water in the vase, and a small handful of roses are kept.

Nan Zhou looked down while holding the edge of the living room window with the screen window half open.

There is no ground down, and only the moon up.

Between heaven and earth, only the moon and this family are still shining brightly.

No neighbors, no upstairs or downstairs.

This house is like a 100-square-meter island floating in the moonlight.

The decoration in the master bedroom is quite warm, with a large bed, bedside table, floor lamp, wardrobe, a projector at the head of the bed, and a separate toilet.

The second bedroom has been converted into a study and game room, with a well-equipped all-in-one computer, a small sofa, a single box spring bed, and a shelf of books. It seems that you can easily spend a whole day here.

The second bedroom is a place for "playing games". As for the children's room, it is most likely the main venue for this game.

The children's room is more than 20 square meters, and there is a single bed with a blue car as the base.

The mattress is quite soft and comfortable.

When the lights in the children's room are turned off, a starry night light will start to operate, casting deep and shallow reflections of the galaxy on the wall.

There are "Xiao Ming"'s schoolbag and several books on the small lifting desk for children.

Because the task has not yet started, the schoolbag cannot be opened, and the homework piled in the corner of the desk seems to be glued together with 502, and it is hard to part with the desktop.

After briefly checking the children's room and another bathroom next to the children's room, Jiang Fang came to the kitchen.

The refrigerator at home can be opened, and there is enough rice, flour, grain and oil in the kitchen cabinet for seven days.

After he counted the knives, when he turned around, he found that Nan Zhou was standing at the door of the kitchen, staring at him with good eyes.

Jiang Fang said, "I'll take a look at your mission location."

Nan Zhou was still thinking about that question: "... how did you do it?"

Jiang Fang smiled calmly, and passed him by the wrong way, leaving a word: "Guess."

Everything in the house is normal and clean.

It's as if the family is just going on a trip.

After a simple search, everyone reunited in the living room.

At this time, everyone invariably held the same question:

The game tasks all say "Xiao Ming", but where are the parents of "Xiao Ming"

However, the game is about to start, and there isn't much time for them to focus on it.

That night, Jiang Fang, of course, had to go to sleep in the children's room as instructed.

Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang chose the second bedroom, and the "Tailwind" candidate chose the living room.

"The master bedroom is the largest, so Lawyer Yu will live there." Thin Monkey glanced at his legs deliberately, and said strangely, "Respect the disabled."

Yu Tuisi was not angry either, and bowed his waist politely: "Thank you very much then."

At this point, there are still 15 minutes before the arrival of zero.

Yu Tuisi was pushed into the master bedroom by Chen Sufeng.

The "Tailwind" group was in a corner of the living room, and started the internal exchange of information in a whisper.

Nan Zhou, Jiang Fang, and Li Yinhang gathered in the children's room.

Li Yinhang worriedly handed his mobile phone to Jiang Fang: "Here, put it here. My mobile phone has a lock screen camera function, maybe it can record something."

Jiang Fang took it in a gentlemanly manner and put it on the bedside: "Thank you."

The first time he participated in the mission, Li Yinhang couldn't say anything. He wanted to remind Jiang Fang to pay attention to safety, but when he got to his mouth, he realized that it was quite a waste, so he had to swallow it obediently.

Sensing that Nan Zhou was standing at the door and seemed to have something to say to Jiang Fang, she stood up consciously: "I'll find a bed and quilt to lay on the floor, you guys can talk."

She understands that she should not easily join a conversation she does not understand.

It saves others from wasting time in order to take care of their IQ.

After Li Yinhang left, Nan Zhou came to the bedside.

His curiosity was about to explode: "…you told me how to do it."

Jiang Fang lowered his head and smiled half softly and half sly.

… caught a curious cat.

When he looked up again, his eyes were full of sincerity.

He took the deck of cards from his pocket and counted the top 8 cards.

Still the ace of hearts to the 8 of hearts.

Jiang Fang folded the cards with both hands, unfolded the 8 cards for Nan Zhou to see, and folded them again.

He began to cut the cards as before.

But this time, he sliced surprisingly fast.

And only with one hand.

It took Nan Zhou some time to see clearly that he used a single index finger to divide the cards into two stacks, staggered the lower stack from the upper layer, and quickly used his skill to stagger and merge the two stacks of cards.

After cutting at high speed for about 10 seconds, Jiang Fang stopped abruptly, a card flew out, and when it landed, it kept its face up.

2 of Hearts.

Jiang Fang looked directly at Nan Zhou, leaned over and picked up the card, and in front of him, he made a mark on the pattern on the back of the card with his fingertips.

After putting the 2 of hearts back into the deck, he continued to shuffle quickly.

But this time, he began to explain.

When Jiang Fang lowered his voice and spoke, his voice was as gentle and pleasant as new wine:

"The 8 of hearts stands for 'sleep late' and is the last thing most normal people want to draw."

"Nap is relatively better. Sleeping at night, under the action of the biological clock, it is difficult to keep a clear head and make reasonable defenses in time, and there will be various unimaginable threats, such as dreams."

"You should remember that the last time I shuffled the cards was much slower than this time."

"Everyone may not be able to remember the positions of all the cards, but it will not be very difficult to concentrate all your energy and memorize the position of one card and then not touch it."

"So, everyone just avoided the card I wanted."

Jiang Fang stopped, and at the same time looked away from Nan Zhou's face, and drew any cards from his palm—

Unbiased, which happens to stand for "--gt;gt;

sleep" the 8 of hearts.

Nan Zhou: "Why did you choose the 8 of Hearts?"

Jiang Fang blinked his eyes lightly and told the truth: "Because this task is difficult, I don't worry about handing it over to others."

Nan Zhou gave an "oh" and was not surprised by the answer: "Then why did you imply that I would draw 2 of hearts? Why did I get the joker card?"

Jiang Fang's answer was on his lips.

…Because the "cooking" represented by 2 of hearts is the most controllable variable in all tasks.

To put it simply, he didn't want Nanzhou to take risks.

But Jiang Fang is really not good at it, and he doesn't like things like "confessing your sincerity".

He changed the subject: "What's the last card you want to draw?"

Nan Zhou did not hesitate: "Heart 2, cook."

Jiang Fang almost lost his grip on the cards in his hand: "..."

Jiang Fang: "…Why?"

Nan Zhou: "Because my cooking is unpalatable."

Jiang Fang: "..."

He put his hands on his knees and laughed, not sure if he was laughing at others or at himself.

… did the right thing again.

Jiang Fang skipped the first question raised by Nan Zhou.

He held the completely shuffled cards in the palm of his right hand with one hand, pushed away the first card with slight scratches on the back with his thumb, pressed the corner of the second card with his tail finger, and flicked lightly—

The card flipped in place, jumping from tail to head.

It is the smiling red joker, the king of ghost cards.

Jiang Fang shook his hand quickly.

At the same time that joker's card landed, the edge of the cuff of his thin snow-white sweater slid out another 2 of hearts, which also had scratches on the back.

The 2 of Hearts perfectly replaces the joker's position and fits perfectly.

Jiang Fang gave the answer to the second question: "Because I took out nine cards from the beginning."

Nan Zhou was taken aback and said softly, "Ah—"

Jiang Fang picked up the dropped cards, sorted out the whole deck, and handed them all over to Nan Zhou: "Let's play it for you. Study it well."

Nan Zhou took the card, said "uh", and turned to leave.

After taking two steps, he stood still.

Nan Zhou turned around and said to Jiang Fang coldly and bluntly, "Don't be in a bad mood. I know you want to be nice to me."

Jiang Fang curled up with his fingertips on the side of the bed, and even the position of his heart was lightly beaten, trembling and numb.

A smile appeared on his face again, put his hand on his chest, and bowed gently to Nan Zhou: "Thank you. I'm comforted."

Nan Zhou nodded: "Be careful. Don't die."

Jiang Fang smiled and said, "See you at eight tomorrow."

Nan Zhou closed the door of the children's room for him, and put the cards in his pocket at the same time.

His thumb stroked the card involuntarily.

On the deck of cards, Jiang Fang's palm temperature remained.

in the master bedroom.

Yu Tusi took out the gold wire glasses from his pocket, hung his wrists down, and wiped them with a soft glasses cloth.

Chen Sufeng half-knelt in front of him, pressed his knees, held his calf with one hand, raised it in an arc, and massaged gently.

"Miss Li, her eyes have been looking in the direction of Nanzhou." Yu Tuisi analyzed to himself, "She is relatively the highest in their team, but she is not the backbone."

"So, if Mr. Nan and Mr. Jiang have any opinions, you can listen to them carefully, and Miss Li won't waste too much time."

Chen Sufeng: "Hmm."

"Shunfeng seems to want command. Don't argue with them easily, otherwise it will only affect our mission." Yu Tuisi said, "Do what you need to do, don't do unnecessary things."

Chen Sufeng's voice was muffled: "I see."

After being silent for a while, he couldn't help but raise his head, and said quite unconvinced: "You... don't always treat me like a child. I can still see a lot of things."

Yu Tuisi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Yes, I'm talking too much."

He put his hand on Chen Sufeng's head, and the tip of his finger slipped slightly, landing on Chen Sufeng's ear that was very similar to that man.

His fingers circled around the outline of Chen Sufeng's ear: "...If the system can bring your brother back, I can save my mind."

Chen Sufeng's ears were a little itchy when he played with him. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a slight screeching sound from the filament above his head, and then went out.

The light from the living room that leaked from under the door also disappeared.

Chen Sufeng held Yu Tuisi's calf and didn't react: "Tripped?"

"It's mission time."

Yu Tuisi let out a low "shh" and leaned his arm skillfully on Chen Sufeng's shoulder: "Take me to the bed."

At 0:00, the game officially begins.

In the living room, the three groups were lying down, but they didn't dare to fall asleep.

The giant monstera is like a person squatting in the dark.

Three or four drying racks with no clothes hanging on them were hung on the up-and-down drying poles. They were blown by the night wind outside the half-opened screen windows, making a tinkling sound like a wind chime.

Any small noises or movements at this time seemed terrifying and abnormal.

They didn't even dare to turn over, for fear that the sound of springs in the sofa would invite secret peeps.

In the second bedroom, Li Yinhang's spirit was also tense.

Lying on the soft floor, she was thinking wildly, thinking if she wanted to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, should she solve it on the spot or risk her death.

But soon, her careful thinking was interrupted by a strange noise.

... Nan Zhou on the bed didn't hold the cards he was playing, and his face dropped.

Jiang Fang was lying on his back on the car-shaped children's bed, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and closed his eyes.

He didn't seem to care what kind of environment he was in. After disbanding Scorpion Braid, he quickly fell asleep.

The small night light cast a cosmic light spot on the wall, and it also moved and turned on Jiang Fang's nose and lips, like a gentle stroking and touching.

Answer, answer, answer.

The little duck cartoon clock by the bed, all the way to two o'clock.

When the hour hand pointed steadily to "12", Jiang Fangping's cell phone, which was on the side of the pillow, with recording and recording turned on, suddenly lit up.

The standby screen is a photo of Li Yinhang and his roommate.

At the top of the mobile phone screen, the system prompt is repeatedly swiping out—

"Recognizing faces."

"Not recognized successfully. Double-tap the screen to try again."

"Recognizing faces."

"Not recognized successfully, double-tap the screen to try again."

The screen turned on and off, off and on, reflecting half of Jiang Fang's face in a staggered light and dark.

And he lay in the dark, sleepless. :,