Time 12:10, Scarlet number 9.
"Lin Lin, I'll go out," Kuang Jinxin explained to the little girl next to him again, but with one more sentence than the previous time, "Don't go to the utility room, there is danger there."
According to the original development, Lin Lin should have suggested that he go to the utility room, but when he said this, the little girl didn't say anything, she just replied in a daze: "Oh, good."
Kuang Jinxin took Chi Yingxue to the stairwell. Along the way, Chi Yingxue was still brooding about revenge, and Jin Xin really had nothing to do with him.
Chi Yingxue listened awkwardly: "Why do you speak for a snake?"
Kuang Jinxin glanced at him: "There are people who want to fight a snake to the death with a shovel."
Chi Yingxue: "…"
Kuang Jinxin: "Besides, it's a silver ring snake. It's very poisonous, and we can't deal with it."
Chi Yingxue: "You just took a cardboard box and buckled it."
Kuang Jinxin: "It's going to bite you, how could I have thought so much."
Chi Yingxue: "Little Four Gold."
Kuang Jinxin: "Huh?"
Chi Yingxue: "Give me your mobile phone number, WeChat ID, and ID number."
As soon as the two walked into the stairwell, they chatted here in a hurry.
Kuang Jinxin thought he was listening, and asked again, "What?"
The stairwell is very quiet, and there is an echo when speaking normally.
"Give me your mobile phone number, WeChat ID, ID number." Chi Yingxue said every word, her voice was light and cool, like a summer ice cream, "Let's make friends."
Kuang Jinxin looked at him defensively: "Do you need an ID number to make friends?"
"General friends don't need it, you use it." Chi Yingxue blinked and said it for granted.
Kuang Jinxin found that not only could he not keep up with the other party's thoughts, but sometimes even the other party's meaning was vague. This person, who is trapped in the cycle of time like him, is neither in a hurry nor panic, and his focus is always on some very subtle things. But not deliberately against you, or playing with you, but... self.
He finally came up with the right word, yes, "self". Ordinary people talk and do things, and they will consider the environment, events, and the relationship between people. Only by combining these can they make appropriate behaviors. But this person doesn't, he just follows his mood, and his willfulness is so helpless and enviable.
"Brother," Kuang Jinxin knew that the other party liked him to shout like this, and usually starts with this, and the success rate of the communication is very optimistic, "Can we ask the fire department to come over and deal with the snake first, then think about how to end the time backwards, and wait for everything to return. On the right track, add WeChat?"
Chi Yingxue: "And the phone number and ID number."
Kuang Jinxin: "Well, I'll give it to you."
Chi Yingxue doesn't like to wait, but occasionally, an exception can be made.
When Kuang Jinxin called the fire alarm, a business card was stuffed in his hand. The call was connected, and he also saw the words on the business card—XX Brand Design Studio, Art Director, Chi Yingxue.
In the five minutes of being late this time, I not only looked for a shovel, but also a business card.
It's time to go back in time, and he insists on giving himself a name. Jin Xin doesn't know how to say goodbye to him, but after thinking about it, he thinks it's quite cute.
After calling the fire alarm, he finally felt a little more at ease, and his thoughts went back in time: "Why is it just the two of us?"
Chi Yingxue raised her eyebrows and became curious.
Is there any connection between him and Xiao Sijin when they were selected... Chi Yingxue quite likes this speculation.
"What does the countdown number mean? When it reaches '0', time will never go backwards?" Kuang Jinxin didn't really want him to give an answer, but hoped that the two could discuss and brainstorm together.
Chi Yingxue finally said: "Not necessarily, it may be '0', we are both dead, really dead."
"Before '0', if you live past 4:44 in the afternoon, can you end all this?" Kuang Jinxin always felt that the words on the cheat sheet were the most crucial clues in this matter.
Chi Yingxue was about to speak again, but the footsteps of several people came from upstairs, which was a little messy.
He remembered the previous "accident", and immediately pulled Kuang Jinxin over and protected him behind him.
Several security guards came down with a man, the man looked fierce, and his eyes fell on Chi Yingxue.
Chi Yingxue is not interested at all in this person who has already fought. His strength is scumbag, and his appearance is even worse. What he is interested in is the flyer in the hand of the security guard next to him - the dog's head, which is quite charming.
The murderer came as scheduled, Chi Yingxue made a precise move, and in the screams of the security guard, she drew back her legs, and naturally took away the flyer from the security guard's hand.
He was looking at "Dog's Head" and looked at it seriously.
Kuang Jinxin stuck his head out from behind him, but was looking at the text. The next moment, he couldn't help grasping Chi Yingxue's clothes.
Chi Yingxue frowned, then saw the contents of the flyer, and immediately asked the security guard, "Where did the flyer come from?"
The security guard had just re-subdued the murderer, and he was apprehensive about this building employee who "sets the world with one foot", and immediately answered truthfully: "There are three lunatics all over the building, if it weren't for too many things today and not enough manpower, I would have brought them down earlier. caught!"
"There are too many things?" The sixth sense that was suddenly touched made Kuang Jinxin ask aloud.
"That's right," the security guard complained, obviously being tossed a lot. "There's a guy on the top of the building who's going to jump off a building, and there's a guy downstairs who is looking for a rival with a knife. Not only did he catch another sneaky guy," he glanced at Looking at the fierce-looking man, he was full of depression and turned his anger on this man, "staring at your mother, don't think you can just keep your mouth shut. What are you trying to do when you sneak in secretly? You can't hold back when you look at it..."
The security guard pinched the person and went downstairs cursing.
Kuang Jinxin asked, "Brother, do you think these things have anything to do with going back in time?"
"Not sure," Chi Yingxue thought for a while, "Go to the tenth floor first."
Kuang Jinxin: "Yes."
Leaving the rest aside, someone knows about the bloody numbers and owl heads, which must be found out.
The security guards who had just descended the first floor and the murderer seemed to be fighting again. Listening to the sound, it was not violent. After all, there were many security guards and it was not difficult to control the situation. But the two of them didn't want to "cross the battlefield" so as not to cause more trouble, so they turned back to the corridor and took the elevator instead.
Unexpectedly, the elevator just came down to the 13th floor and suddenly stopped. Either someone pressed the elevator outside, or it came to a sudden stop without warning, and it might not even be on the right 13th floor.
The lights in the elevator flickered and went out. There is also the key board darkened together, and only the emergency contact button is left, and the red light is slightly lit.
"... Power outage?" Kuang Jinxin nervously took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, only to find Chi Yingxue standing in a daze, looking like he was lost.
Kuang Jinxin felt nervous. For some reason, it made him more nervous than being trapped in an elevator. He almost didn't even think about it, so he hugged him and patted him on the back like a child: "It's alright, it'll be fine in a while."
Chi Yingxue came back to her senses, inexplicably. He was just accidentally hit by a power outage, and he was sure that he had no mood swings. I don't know how Kuang Jinxin saw that he needed "comfort".
but…
It's quite comfortable to be patted like this.
Chi Yingxue raised her hand to surround the person, rubbed the person's hair lightly, and suddenly hoped that time would not move forward, and would not go backwards, so she stopped here, just like the elevator, it has been stopped.
Unfortunately, as soon as I closed my eyes, before I had time to continue enjoying it, a huge "bang" came from overhead, and the elevator car shook violently.
It looked like something heavy fell into the elevator shaft and hit the top of the car. The two of them raised their heads subconsciously, but the car was completely closed, so that they could see the outside.
The lingering sound soon dissipated, but the hearts of the two were lifted up in the quieter and quieter air.
"Little Sijin, look here." Chi Yingxue raised her arm.
Kuang Jinxin immediately hit the light.
Chi Yingxue rummaged through the stationery box, and finally clicked on a .
After about seven or eight seconds, the car board above his head gradually became transparent under Chi Yingxue's gaze.
The more transparent, the tighter Kuang Jinxin's breathing became. In the end, his throat was so tight that he could no longer breathe.
A girl with a bloody face was lying on the top of the car, her body twisted into a weird angle, her eyes were reluctantly open, and blood slowly poured out from her mouth and from the broken limbs, staining the nameplate on her chest red. .
Lin Lin.
Kuang Jinxin's eyes blushed involuntarily, unbelievable that the girl who smiled sweetly to him not long ago was gone.
Chi Yingxue squinted slightly, and caught the light above the elevator shaft through the gap in the corpse.
There is light, there is only one possibility - the elevator door is open.
17th floor? 18th floor? Chi Yingxue judged the position of the open elevator door based on the position where the light came in. The girl probably fell from that floor...
Do not.
Chi Yingxue's eyes suddenly sharpened - a person was looking down from the light.
It was too far and the light was not enough. He couldn't see the man's appearance, but he felt that the other party was not panicking. If it is an accident, or to find out, people will instinctively make a lot of small movements, but when the person comes out, he will stare at it, and his head will not even shake.
The other party is watching, the person he pushed is dead.
Blood completely dyed the top of the car into a "blood cover", and suddenly there was a sound of smashing the door outside: "Is anyone inside—"
Kuang Jinxin didn't dare to respond, and Chi Yingxue was silent.
"The elevator is broken. I came from the building property to repair it. Now I have to pry the door. If there is someone inside, hide behind a little bit, don't worry, it will be soon—"
As Chi Yingxue's gaze shifted, the elevator door slowly became transparent.
Outside the door, a master in a gray coat was using a tool to open the elevator door, and his face full of vicissitudes was full of worry and anxiety.
Kuang Jinxin's dangling heart finally let go.
The door opened quickly, and the master saw someone inside, with a stunned expression on his face: "There's someone, then why didn't I speak for a long time." Complaining returned to complaining, he still pulled the two out.
Just as Kuang Jinxin was about to say Master Xie, Chi Yingxue suddenly pulled him behind and asked lightly, "Master, why don't you wear work clothes?"
Gray Jacket was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and suddenly took out a switchblade from his pocket, and when he pressed it, the blade popped out and stabbed Chi Yingxue from bottom to top.
Chi Yingxue flashed dangerously, pushed Kuang Jinxin away, and grabbed the opponent's arm with his backhand.
Unexpectedly, the other party turned around and managed to break free.
Chi Yingxue frowned, this person is not easy to deal with.
Kuang Jinxin got up from the ground and already figured it out in his heart. Chi Yingxue's words were not even "suspect". If the other party really didn't want to cause trouble, at least he had to deal with it a few words, but this person came up with a knife, clearly rushing He came to kill them, no matter if they saw through his disguise or not!
"What are you doing—" A security guard ran over, sweating profusely, "and let people stop—"
Kuang Jinxin immediately greeted him: "He wants to kill us! Also, someone is in the elevator shaft..."
Before he finished speaking, Kuang Jinxin lost consciousness amid the sound of electric shocks.
Chi Yingxue found that the security guard had taken out a switch knife, but it was too late, and his distraction gave the gray coat a chance to stab the knife into his chest, and he was in a trance in severe pain.
…
Time 12:00, number 8 outside the window.
This time, Chi Yingxue took only fifty seconds to catch Kuang Jinxin, and without saying a word, dragged him to the 10th floor.
Kuang Jinxin also had the same idea - if he didn't ask someone inside to ask anything, he would drive this series of "accidents" crazy.
"Don't leave the beauty room, don't leave, and don't leave if anyone looks for it!" Before leaving, he almost instructed Lin Lin thousands of times.
Lin Lin was confused and watched him leave.
The two ran to the stairwell in one breath—they couldn’t trust the elevator in a short time—they didn’t stop, and continued to run downstairs, but as they were running, they heard someone running downstairs, and he was faster than him. The two were still in a hurry, their footsteps were still very heavy, and the "kick and pull" sounded inexplicably tense.
Chi Yingxue and Kuang Jinxin speeded up, and at the same time lightly stepped, they finally ran to the 10th floor and quickly left the elevator.
I thought this would be completely staggered from the "unknown person" behind them, but as soon as they entered the corridor with their front feet, the person followed behind.
The two of them turned back immediately, all guarded, and the man saw them too, and hurriedly braked under his feet.
"Did you see the flyer coming?!" The man opened his mouth first, his voice trembling slightly, not malicious, but excited.
Chi Yingxue and Kuang Jinxin looked at each other, raised their arms, and showed the icon. The difference is that one is raised obliquely, freehand and unrestrained, and the other is held obediently, like answering questions in class.
Qian Ai was really surprised this time. He didn't expect Wu Sheng's move to be really effective, and it worked quickly. He immediately raised his arm and showed his owl: "Classmate, we are classmates!"
Kuang Jinxin: "… Huh?"
Qian Ai stepped forward and warmly shortened the distance between each other: "Wu Sheng said, we are now in the same exam room, taking the same exam."
Kuang Jinxin felt kindness and enthusiasm in this person, so he relaxed his guard unconsciously: "Who is Wu Sheng?"
"People just like us, uh..." Qian Ai hesitated for a while, still a little guilty, and honestly made up a condition, "It's not IQ, just like us."
"And Xu Wang," he continued, "also participated in this exam."
Kuang Jinxin was a little confused: "You always talk about exams, what exactly are you taking?"
"Just take this test," Qian Ai opened the cheat sheet and flashed the sentence, "This is our test question."
Kuang Jinxin suddenly realized that it was only now that he understood.
"How many people in total?" Chi Yingxue asked suddenly.
"Five," Qian Ai told the truth, "you add me, and the two of them. So far, there are only five of us, and there are others."
"Five..." Chi Yingxue pointed to his arm, "Are they all owl patterns?"
Qian Ai nodded: "Yes."
Chi Yingxue's eyebrows wrinkled, and she wondered seriously: "Then why is there a dog's head drawn on the flyer?"
"..." With such a soul-crushing question, Qian Ai felt that neither himself nor the painter Wu himself could answer, so Xu Wang came to him.