Humans are really tough creatures.
On the second day, everyone got used to the life in the rest area of the candidates.
Although it's not a town, it's much better than the hunter's hut.
If you have food to eat and sleep, you will not die when you go out, and there will be no two chickens chasing you to remind you to rewind.
Opposite the resting place is a room, three stories high, with heavy plastic curtains. The plastic is yellowed and opaque long ago, with only a faint ring of incandescent light.
There is a wooden sign outside the house that reads "Cangbuy".
"What is Cangmai?" The twin girls asked in unison.
Lao Yu was very patient with the child and explained, "It's just a grocery store that sells everything. Haven't you seen it before?"
Not only the little girl, but several people shook their heads and said, "We don't call it that over there."
"Really?" Lao Yu muttered.
He took a lot of thought, and when he went shopping with everyone, he dragged the shopkeeper and forcibly chatted a few words, and found that the other party was actually a fellow.
The owner of Cangmai, surnamed Zhao, is a very unenthusiastic fellow.
"Brother, I'll just call you elder brother." Lao Yu said without looking outside.
The owner, Zhao, is at most forty, definitely younger than Lao Yu, with a strong body and a straight back. But he shamelessly recognized the "brother", smoking a cigarette, and half-deadly said, "Whatever."
Lao Yu said, "Brother has been away from home for many years, right? The accent is gone. Even if my accent is light, you are lighter than me. If I hadn't seen the word Cangmai, I wouldn't have dared to recognize it."
Zhao's mouth gushed with smoke: "Almost."
"Have you been opening a shop here?"
Zhao: "That's right."
Lao Yu gave an "oh" and asked tentatively, "I see you standing here, brother, have you been a soldier before? Why did you come here to open a shop?"
Zhao finally glanced at him from the smoke and said a long sentence: "I've never been a soldier. But looking at your standing posture, you've really been a soldier before, right? How can you be so fat?"
Lao Yu: "… "
Zhao took a few gulps in succession, smothered the cigarette in his mouth until only his buttocks were left, and rolled the ash and said, "Don't get too close, the old man's suit won't work here. I'm still tearful today, and I'll die tomorrow when it's over. "
Lao Yu: "… "
"Hurry up if you want to buy something, or leave if you don't." Zhao said, popping out a new cigarette and lighting it.
…
The first floor of the warehouse was filled with smoke, and Zhou Jin's lungs were coughing out, and he didn't give up the opportunity to shop.
Because the store has a lot more stuff than they thought.
It is more like a general supermarket with a shabby appearance. Clothes, trousers, quilts, pillows, pots, pans, pans, cups, spoons, chopsticks, and internal and external medicine for bruises. Some supermarkets have it, but supermarkets may not have it. The floor was filled to the brim.
There are several shopping carts on each floor, and a layer of dust has fallen.
Everyone has one hand, and as soon as they wipe it, they start to scavenge the goods like a devil entering the village.
"Wait, these things don't have a price tag!" Yu Wen suddenly exclaimed.
Zhou Jin took a few bottles of cough syrup and wrapped a pile of anti-inflammatory and painkillers, saying, "I found it early, ahem... It's like a tourist attraction, and the price must be doubled."
"While everyone is afraid of death, it's normal to slaughter customers like crazy." Everyone agreed.
Everyone knows this truth, but no one takes it less.
When money can change your life, you don't feel bad.
Yu Wen still felt something was wrong. He pushed the car around looking for his brother, and found You Huo in the corner of the third floor.
To his surprise, You Huo was also sweeping the goods.
"Brother, you actually pushed a car?" Yu Wen followed.
You Huo Wenyan glanced at him, and his expression was like saying, "What kind of fart are you doing?"
Yu Wensan waved his hands and said, "It's alright, I'll take a look..."
Since even his brother is shopping, there should be no problem.
Yu Wen immediately felt relieved and flipped through Youhuo's shopping cart.
He thought he would see a bunch of emergency equipment, such as some flashlights, batteries, ropes, knives...
result…
The boss took a change of clothes, a black backpack.
Gone.
"Uh... Brother, do you have anything else?" Yu Wen asked.
You Huo lined up in the hanger, took a black down jacket and threw it into the shopping cart: "That's about it."
Yu Wen suddenly felt that he was like a concert scalper with a bunch of light sticks, torches, and batteries.
…
When they returned to the first floor, everyone had almost picked them up, and even people and cars surrounded the checkout counter.
Do not like to crowd, stay away from the crowd, waiting bored by the wall.
The old lady at the beginning asked the shopkeeper, "That's all, you count the money."
Zhao took a few cigarettes in his mouth, glanced at the various shopping carts through the mist, and hummed with an unexplained meaning: "It's the first time at a glance."
Everyone doesn't know why.
Zhao: "Ordinary people come here and dare to pick this number at most."
He held up two fingers.
"What do you mean, brother? Different?" Lao Yu asked.
Zhao: "Well, this is the most generous I have ever seen."
How fucking expensive is this
Everyone silently glanced at the shopping carts that were piled up in the mountains, and Zhou Jin finally couldn't help asking: "…Can I use WeChat Alipay? It's OK to swipe a card. I don't bring much cash."
Yu Wen echoed: "I haven't withdrawn cash for a year."
Zhao: "Wechat Alipay can't even swipe the card."
Zhou Jin and Yu Wenxian were disappointed.
Zhao added, "Not even cash."
Yu Wen: "Huh? What's the use?"
Zhao took out a card from under the glass of the counter, which looked exactly like the small hotel room card they held.
"You all have this, right? Swipe this." Zhao flicked the card face, as if the enthusiasm that he had not shown before had all accumulated at this moment. He smiled and said, "Isn't the back of the room card an admission ticket? Is there a cumulative score on it? I have to buy everything with points."
"It's not expensive. Daily necessities, including clothing, are 0.5 points each, food and medicine are 1 point each. As for knives, which can be used as weapons, each type is 2 points. It's very easy to remember. Do you want to calculate the price first? "
Everyone was stunned on the spot, their faces turned pale.
Just their full shopping cart is enough to buy the score negative.
Zhou Jin looked at the carload of medicines, and immediately took a breath, coughing to the core.
No wonder…
No wonder those shopping carts are all dusty, no wonder the most generous people only take two.
The scores in his hands were earned with fear and fear, and no one dared to say what the next test would be.
If I buy one or two more items here, I will check it out, it will be just 1 point away from passing, I am afraid that I will have to cut my belly.
Zhao is not surprised by this scene.
After stimulating everyone, he returned to a lukewarm mourning manner, and said, "Come on, settle the bill."
Just after speaking, the people around the counter took two steps back.
"Don't buy it?" You Huo, who was waiting by the wall, suddenly said.
Everyone, including the shopkeeper, turned their attention to him.
He straightened up, pushed the car to the counter, took out the key card from his jeans pocket and handed it to Zhao: "Checkout."
Zhao: "…"
He opened his mouth to look at the wandering shopping cart, the cigarette butt fell on the shoe.
Youhuo waited for a while with the card between his fingers, a little impatient.
Zhao snapped back to his senses, hurriedly bounced one foot, rolled the butt of the cigarette, and said, "I'll do the math—"
The inner and outer clothing plus jeans, black bag, down jacket, a total of 3 points.
Youhuo nodded when he heard the result.
He seemed to feel that the budget was still rich, so he glanced at the cabinet behind the boss and said, "Get another pack of cigarettes and a lighter."
Zhao: "…"
Yu Wen couldn't help it: "Brother, you don't smoke, why did you buy this?"
You Huo put the clothes into the black bag, and said without looking up, "Just in case."
Two minutes later, when You Huo returned to his residence with a backpack on one shoulder, the cumulative total score on his admission ticket had become 15. At the speed of jumping from the building, it became the lowest score of the group.
Yu Wen looked at the other party's unchanging cold face, and felt that his brother was really just.
…
The 7 days of the candidates resting place are over in a blink of an eye.
At 3:12 pm on the last day, all the staff checked out automatically, and Boss Chu personally threw them out the door.
"Here, go straight ahead, there is a crossroad 200 meters away, let's go." Chu Yue waved at them and said, "Don't delay, the right to choose is not easy to use if it is too late, I hope this time is not a goodbye. ."
After she finished speaking, she closed the door of the hotel.
The light box that said "Accommodation, Heating, Catering" flashed twice and then went out.
Those houses are still standing in the snow and fog, but there is no light, like dilapidated houses that have been abandoned for many years.
"Is this really a haunted house?" Yu Wen shuddered.
You Huo remembered what he asked the invigilator before.
He asked if this was a supernatural event, and the invigilator replied that it was not. The other party wanted to add something at the time, but before he could speak, he received a violation warning.
so…
What exactly is this
Wandering pondered in his heart, when the next exam starts, he must find an opportunity to lie to the invigilator to tell the truth.
I hope the invigilators drawn this time are honest and deceptive.
…
200 meters is not long.
Everyone quickly walked to where Chu Yue said.
It was indeed an intersection, and there was a lonely security booth in the middle of the intersection, and a figure was paralyzed outside the booth.
The man saw them and struggled to his feet.
It was only when everyone approached that it became clear that it was the tattooed man who was unwilling to live in the resting place.
But he had changed a lot by this time, covered in blood, his left arm drooped lifelessly, and one leg was lame.
"How did you become like this?"
Although everyone doesn't like him very much, no one wants him to become disabled or die. After all, he was originally just a stranger, and there is no injustice or hatred.
The tattooed man said in a hoarse voice, "It's good not to be crazy."
"How long have you been here?" Everyone looked at the security booth.
The tattooed man said, "Two days."
"Why don't you go back to the students' rest area?"
The tattooed man looked a little embarrassed and a little angry: "When I went back, my grandson, and... I turned around and couldn't find my way. I couldn't find those houses when I went back the same way, only here."
"Then why didn't you keep going?" Yu Wen asked.
The tattooed man glanced around, pointed to several intersections and said, "Look at the road signs yourself."
After his reminder, everyone noticed that the intersection leads to four directions, and each intersection has a sign erected.
Under normal circumstances, those signs will say xx road or xx street.
But not here.
There are four street signs in the south, south and northwest, with four words written respectively:
language
foreign language
math
history
Inside the security booth, a small horn suddenly rang, and the familiar voice from the radio appeared here again.
[The examination system for this round is 3+1+1, congratulations on successfully completing one of them, and the other four are pending. 】
[The candidates have the right to choose and can arrange the test sequence independently. 】
【Please make your choice within 30 seconds. 】
【Those who are late will be deprived of the opportunity to take the exam. 】
Everyone: "… "
At such a crossroads, they would rather stand in place until they die.
Dogleg Yu Wen grabbed You Huo and said, "Brother, I will choose whichever you choose!"
The others also looked at him.
Who would have guessed that You Huo glanced around and said expressionlessly, "Is there a choice? My four directions here are displayed in foreign languages."
Yu Wen: "What???"
What's more annoying is that in the sight of Youyou, there is a figure at every intersection.
The man was tall, standing with an umbrella in the snow, as if waiting for him.
You Huo sneered, his face turned green.