Stepping into the night, the four of them ran out of the park in one breath. Outside the park is Andry North Street, and the buildings on both sides, whether in the community, are as quiet as they are asleep, only the faint light of the street lamps reflects the fallen leaves on the ground.
"What should I do now?" Kuang Jinxin panted and wiped off the sweat. He was wearing a thick coat to keep out the cold and had "runned at night" for a long time, and his face was flushed now.
Wu Sheng looked at the time on the phone and raised his eyes: "There are still three hours of dawn. Find a place to sit down, we need to sort this out from beginning to end."
"What else to sort out?" Xu Wang has completely cut back from the magical sense of unreality to reality. Now he is on the ground, his head is on the sky, and he can't help sweeping away all the ghosts and ghosts with a stick, "Call the police!"
"It's useless." It was Sun Jiang who was talking. He touched his pocket while talking. In the end, he didn't touch anything. He had to look up at his teammates. "Any cigarettes?"
The answer was two shaking heads and one "no".
Sun Jiang's already depressed face became a little more irritable.
However, Xu Wang was still concerned about what he said earlier: "Brother Sun, what did you mean when you said it was useless to call the police?"
Sun Jiang couldn't restrain himself from exhaustion and yawned, then pointed to himself and Kuang Jinxin: "We both called the police yesterday, but as soon as the call was connected, we both started to have headaches. I thought my head was going to explode, I haven't in my life. It hurts so bad, don't talk anymore, you can't even hold a fucking cell phone!"
"Are you both like this?" Xu Wang felt that he was listening to a ghost story, and looked at Jin Xin suspiciously, but what he got was a pitiful nod from the other side.
"What about you?" Xu Wang asked Wu Sheng reluctantly, "Are you in pain too?"
Wu Sheng decisively shook his head.
Xu Wang thought he had caught a breakthrough, and just as he was about to continue his questioning, he heard Wu Sheng say naturally, "I didn't call the police."
Xu Wang: "Why?"
Wu Sheng: "Both of them are rolling on the floor in pain. They proved by themselves that calling the police is a dead end. Why should I repeat the same mistakes?"
Xu Wang: "..."
Sun Jiang: "..."
Kuang Jinxin: "..."
If yesterday everyone still had the luck of "maybe it's just a nightmare, it's good to wake up", then today's Errenxueyuan made them clearly understand that this is not over. Since it is a protracted war, if you sit still, you will be a fool.
But where to "talk", that is the question.
"McDonald's? KTV? Bar?" Xu Wang tried his best to provide a place suitable for the "big discussion in the early morning".
Was rejected by Wu Sheng at one time: "None of them, we need a place that is both quiet enough and private enough, quiet enough to organize our thoughts, and privacy can reduce the risk of leaks."
Xu Wang's eyes widened as if he heard the Arabian Nights: "Brother, we are the victims, and we have to provide the murderer with confidentiality obligations?!"
"I can't explain it in a few words," Wu Sheng looked around, as if searching for something, and asked casually, "Who do you live with?"
Xu Wang said without thinking, "I live by myself."
Wu Sheng retracted his gaze and nodded in relief: "Go to your house."
Xu Wang: "..."
This is a pit, this is definitely a pit, he has to climb out!
Kuang Jinxin: "I live nearby, but I live with someone..."
Sun Jiang: "My home is also nearby, my wife and children are asleep."
Wu Sheng: "I live in the company, not far from here, but if the discussion reaches dawn and is seen by the employees at work, I can't give a reasonable explanation, which will lead to unnecessary gossip and conjecture, which is not conducive to maintaining my cold image. ."
Have you misunderstood your image? ! !
Xu Wang: "Come, follow me, the road is slippery in the dark, pay attention to your feet..."
Half an hour later, the group arrived at Xu Wang's house. Xu Wang rented a one-bedroom, one-bedroom in an old community. Don't look at the old community, the location is unbearable, the decoration is still refurbished, and the rent is not cheap at all, but for Xu Wang, who can feed the whole family alone and is not hungry, it is not too stressful to bear.
"Wow, Brother Xu," Kuang Jinxin was the first to come in. He didn't rudely enter the bedroom. He just stood in the living room and looked up and down, left and right, and was surprised enough, "Your house is so clean."
Xu Wang was overjoyed to be praised, and just as he was about to pick up the fight, he heard a sigh from Wu Sheng, who came in later: "My God, it's back to 222 again."
"222?" Kuang Jinxin had a rare inspiration, "You and Brother Xu were in the high school dormitory?"
"No," Wu Sheng corrected seriously, "it's yours, Brother Xu, and the other three of us are just borrowing it because we littered our clothes, left things in a mess, avoided duty, and always forgot to take our rubbish downstairs, no' A sense of belief in giving up home.”
Xu Wang threw the slipper he just found at Wu Sheng's feet with a slap, and accompanied the shoe with a big white eye: "Do you need to hold grudges like this, did you record everything I said in the little black book?"
Wu Sheng didn't say a word, just had fun. He was happy while changing his slippers.
Xu Wang was too lazy to pay attention to him, he turned around and poured four glasses of water. When he came back with the water, the other three were already sitting on the sofa. He put the water on the coffee table and fetched a chair from the bedroom.
The cup is filled with boiling water, and the steam is warm and soothing.
After two days of hardships, the four of them can finally sit down and talk.
Wu Sheng was the first to speak. The bickering was quarrelling, and when it came to business, he concentrated completely: "There are four points that we know now. One, the chosen will enter there at twelve o'clock in the night, whether willing or not; The substantive damage will be brought back to reality; three, once you want to call the police, you will have a splitting headache; four, there is a one-to-one correspondence between the location and the location in reality, the distance is equal, and the coordinate system is the same, for example, we enter at home There, two kilometers further there, then when we come back to reality, we'll be two kilometers from home..."
Xu Wang suddenly realized, which could explain why he was at the intersection downstairs when he popped out yesterday, and today he has reached the Qingnian Lake Park, which is farther away, because they ran a sleigh there today.
"What's the use of knowing this? I want to know what the hell is that place? Who is playing with us!" Sun Jiang interrupted Wu Sheng and asked a question he desperately wanted to answer.
This is not what Xu Wang, Kuang Jinxin and even Wu Sheng wanted to figure out.
But "thinking" and "being able" are two different things.
"I don't know. With the experience and clues we have accumulated at this stage, there is absolutely no way to answer these questions. But if you let it go and let nature take its course, you will never try to solve the answer." Wu Sheng's tone remained unchanged, his expression was calm Naturally, it's like asking, do you want to have porridge today
Sun Jiang leaned into the sofa in despair and looked up at the ceiling. His eyes were bloodshot and exhausted after two nights of sleeplessness.
Xu Wang knew that he also knew that he couldn't ask the answer, but if he didn't vent like this, he felt uncomfortable.
In fact, everyone is the same, including Wu Sheng, who seems to be fine now. It's not that he's not really depressed. If he's not depressed, why would he take out the momentum of fighting to the death with the last super-difficult question in the mock exam paper.
He was fighting, Xu Wang could see it.
To put it bluntly, this kind of unwarranted disaster will make anyone angry.
"What can be determined are these four points, and there are still four points to be determined," Wu Sheng continued to strip the cocoons, his thoughts were not disturbed by Sun Jiang's interference, "One, whether there can really control people's minds, such as Prevent the police from calling the police; second, is there some kind of protection mechanism there, when the person involved encounters great danger, just like when Xu Wang was pounced by the bear, it will directly bounce the person back to reality and minimize the damage; third, When they entered again today, the stationery boxes of Sun Jiang and Kuang Jinxin were empty, and the 'Fish Tornado' and 'Jingle Bells' that had not been used at all disappeared. Was it a punishment for their attempts to call the police, or was there another reason? Fourth, is there anyone else who has been involved in there like us?"
"That... hand in," said Kuang Jinxin hesitantly, "Did you hear someone say congratulations for passing the test and handing in the papers before it pops up?"
Xu Wang nodded quickly: "Not only did I hear it today, but yesterday I also saw a message from another team in the report card." When the new message popped up yesterday, Xu Wang was still confused. After thinking about it today, he connected it. .
"That's right, I saw that too!" Kuang Jinxin's face showed joy, but instinctively restrained, at first glance, he was an honest child, not used to publicity, but his mind was absolutely clear, "I remember that the team in the report card was 3 /23 Submitted, seems to be called Yue Shuai... What else is there from Anan... "
Xu Wang looked at Wu Sheng: "About the fourth question to be determined, I think it can be classified as confirmed, yes."
Wu Sheng picked up the water glass and blew it twice, took a sip, and shook his head slightly: "It's not enough. They may or may not be human, they may be forced like us, or they may be voluntary, and they may share the place with us, We can meet at any time, and the parallel independent space there may never meet with us." Putting down the teacup, he sighed softly, "If you can't be sure about this, you can't classify it."
Xu Wang looked at him for a while, then conceded defeat: "After so many years, I will obey your strictness."
Wu Sheng frowned, unbelievably sincere: "Only rigorous?"
Xu Wang resisted the urge to punch the past, and asked the last question: "The team that submitted the papers yesterday was 3/23, and today we passed the customs and submitted the papers on 1/23, what do you think?"
"It's the same as what you think." Wu Sheng shrugged, as if he had already accepted the reality, "This means that there are still 22 levels waiting for us."
Sun Jiang abruptly sat up straight, and he held back his roar, but his stunned and desperate expression clearly conveyed his mood.
The discussion continued until 5:30 in the morning, and Xu Wang also learned later that after he was ejected early on the first night, the remaining three used Wu Sheng's and to deal with Xiong Xuan After reaching the coordinate point, because the ice waterfall was not triggered, I had to flee down the mountain. Before reaching the foot of the mountain, I was bounced back to reality, which happened to be five o'clock in the morning.
Calculated like this, there was an hour difference between the time between their front and back feet when they returned to reality, and Xu Wang had long since disappeared, which is why Wu Sheng was full of sadness in Beijing searching for people the next day.
But that night, Wu Sheng, who had been running for a day with Kuang Jinxin, simply parked the car at the last stop of the search, West Fifth Ring Road, while Sun Jiang found an excuse to leave the house and hid in a room he had never been to before. KTV. As a result, at twelve o'clock, strange entrances still appeared. One was in the back seat of the car, and the other was on the wall of the KTV private room. Two minutes later, the three people who were struggling to resist were dragged in like Xu Wang that night.
The experience of his teammates made Xu Wang feel chills and completely dispelled the idea of "running".
At the end of the discussion, Kuang Jinxin said: "It's always awkward there, let's give it a name."
Sun Jiang was speechless: "Are you playing a house, and you named that broken land?!"
Wu Sheng and Xu Wang have no objection. To be precise, the name has been clearly placed in front of them—
Xu Wang: "Isn't there such a big character written under the owl's head? That eight percent is its name, so we will call it from now on..."
Wu Sheng: "Owl."
Xu Wang: "Yes, no, yes, no, grab, answer."
Wu Sheng: "Come again. Isn't there such a big character written under the owl's head, and the eight achievements are its name, so we will call it from now on..."
Xu Wang: "Owl!"