Lin Huai has always had an advantage, that is, at the same time, he only cares about the direction that he can control, and he cares to the extreme.
Regarding the content of Soi Ying's words, he thought about it for a while, and felt that at least before entering the high-level field, he would not need it. And the big conspiracy behind the system is not his turn to start now.
But... Sombra's "Arrival Foundation" deserves his attention.
After making up his mind, Lin Huai withdrew from the system space.
Lin Huai entered the dungeon at eight o'clock in the morning on December 15th. When he came out, the alarm clock in the living room pointed to "10".
Chu Tianshu still quit a little earlier than him. He sat on the sofa and whistled to Lin Huai.
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "I want a hug."
Lin Huai: "Looking at you, I'm not used to it."
Chu Tianshu: "?"
Lin Huai: "I always feel that the one lying here should be a dog."
Chu Tianshu: "..."
Chu Tianshu spent an afternoon to let Lin Huai experience whether he is a dog or not.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, the two were sitting on the bed, and Lin Huai was leaning on Chu Tianshu to play with his mobile phone.
"Arrival Foundation?"
"Well," Lin Huai said, "Have you heard of this foundation?"
"I told you before that I have received an invitation letter from this foundation." Chu Tianshu took out the computer and pressed on it, "Look."
Lin Huai stretched out his head to take a look, and commented: "This template..."
"Looks like an invitation to a game, doesn't it?"
Lin Huai nodded. Chu Tianshu then commented: "The plagiarist is biss."
Lin Huai: "...is this the point?"
He lowered his eyes and continued to read the contents of the email, and asked, "Have you been here before?"
"Joined and visited once." Chu Tianshu replied openly.
"And then?" Lin Huai said, "How was the experience?"
Chu Tianshu paused: "It's not very good."
Lin Huai: "For example?"
Chu Tianshu: "I was kicked out."
Lin Huai: "... what did you do?"
Chu Tianshu scratched his head and said, "Well... Then we have to start with the process of coming to the Foundation..."
"... At the very beginning, I thought it was an interest club for supernatural lovers. As you know, this kind of niche club likes to have a sense of ritual and a complicated access system, so I got a membership card. I went there."
"The event location of the Advent Foundation will change every time. The last time I attended the meeting was a villa in the suburbs. Before entering the party, you need to hand in all electronic products, and then the organizer will give each person a different mask."
"mask?"
"Yes, a mask based on playing cards." Chu Tian stretched his index finger and thumb, "Spades, clubs, hearts, diamonds, thirteen each."
"Color joker, black and white joker, one piece, a total of fifty-four." He counted, "But when I attended the meeting, there were only 13 people in total. Everyone must wear a mask to enter the venue. There seems to be an intention to hide everyone's identity."
"So what's the content of the event?"
"It seems to have everything, watching movies, sharing reading experience, everyone tells a thing that happened in their own life, related to supernatural events, and the last and most important link..."
"What link?"
Lin Huai asked, but this time, Chu Tianshu didn't answer as fast as before.
"... share your dreams," Chu Tianshu said, "share the painful things that happened in your life, and then comfort each other."
Lin Huai:? ?
Chu Tianshu: "Sounds weird, right?"
Lin Huai: "Comfort each other???"
He looked at Chu Tianshu with an expression of "what are you doing behind my back", Chu Tianshu was stared at by him for a while, and then he realized that he couldn't laugh or cry: "What are you thinking?"
Lin Huai: "Hmph."
Chu Tianshu: "Verbal comfort."
Lin Huai: "Oh, then how did you get kicked out?"
Chu Tianshu paused and said, "I told them that the most painful thing in my life is..."
Lin Huai held his hand tightly.
"Don't cry." He warned.
Chu Tianshu said: "... I stole a piece of sodium from the school laboratory when I was in high school, and I accidentally dropped it in the toilet..."
Lin Huai: ...
He crawled outside, Chu Tianshu held his waist and dragged him back into his arms: "Don't go!"
Lin Huai: "Tsk, I despise you."
Chu Tianshu blinked and blinked: "Hey, don't leave me, okay?"
Lin Huai said sincerely: "Sodium, it explodes when it meets water."
Lin Huai leaned back into his arms and continued: "This Advent Foundation sounds like a mutual help group composed of sad people... Strange..."
—Why did Sombra tell him to pay attention to this thing
"If you want to take a look," Chu Tianshu said suddenly, "you can try asking Chen Shu."
"Chen Shu?"
"He should also have an invitation letter from the Advent Foundation."
"But that's Chen Shu's invitation." Lin Huai said.
"To enter the Advent Foundation, you only need an invitation letter. There is no title on all the invitation letters." Chu Tianshu slid the mouse, "Theoretically, as long as you have an invitation letter, you can enter its party... I think Look, the next meeting happens to be at six o'clock tomorrow night."
Chu Tianshu hovered his mouse over the address and time of the invitation.
"... Then why didn't you give me your invitation letter?" Lin Huai said.
Chu Tianshu: "Because of course I want to go with you."
…
"Will Chichi come?" On the other end of the phone, Chen Shu said inarticulately, "Oh, I have received an invitation letter from it."
Lin Huai: "Then have you ever gone in?"
"I've been there." Chen Shu continued with a distorted accent, "Once."
"Only once?"
"They don't have the patience to listen to me." Chen Shu said with difficulty, "They don't understand what I'm saying."
Lin Huai: ...
Chen Shu: "Oh, I don't want to communicate with them either."
Lin Huai: ...
If there were really any conspiracies in the Advent Foundation, then Chen Shu really avoided this series of conspiracies with an unparalleled evasion method.
"... But I didn't think it was very interesting at first." Chen Shu continued to speak slowly, "The people there are all weird."
Lin Huai grasped this sentence: "What's so weird?"
Chen Shu paused for a while, and said: "The people there seem to be too focused on ghosts... supernatural events, I don't know what to say..."
Holding the microphone, Lin Huai pretended to be casual and said, "As a haunted house designer, don't you also care about supernatural events?"
Chen Shu: "That's different! I'm all about designing haunted houses and bringing the best experience to tourists!"
He seemed to be thinking hard on the other end of the phone for a while, and said, "It's really hard to describe...but they..."
"How are they?"
"They seem to be very disappointed with the existing world." Chen Shu said slowly, "They want their life to be... more exciting."
Lin Huai: ...
Chen Shu: "Why did you ask me for an invitation letter?"
"It's because..." Lin Huai glanced at Chu Tianshu next to him, and whispered, "You know, I'm dating that person..."
Chen Shu: ...
"I know." Chen Shu said coldly, "Hehe."
Lin Huai: ...
For some unknown reason, he felt inexplicably guilty: "Are you angry?"
Chen Shu: "I haven't."
Lin Huai: "Really?"
Chen Shu: "Thinking that his boyfriend is working for me, my state of mind is quite peaceful."
Lin Huai: ...
Chen Shu: "And then? I remember that he also seems to have... an invitation letter...?"
Chu Tianshu leaned over to listen to him and Chen Shu's speech. Lin Huai held the phone, stared at him for a while, and said with his mouth: "Stay away from me."
Chu Tianshu said with his lips: "Why?"
Lin Huai said with her mouth: "Then don't regret it."
"Speaking of this matter..." Lin Huai's voice choked up a bit, "I'm also embarrassed to say..."
Chen Shu:! ! !
"What's wrong with you!!" he said anxiously.
Lin Huai continued to choke with sobs: "Before I met him, I had never been in a relationship. As soon as he chased me, I agreed. Then he saw Cheng Yubao last time at a party..."
Chen Shu: "!"
Lin Huai: "He mistakenly thought I was cheating, and we had a fight. Then I found out that he seemed to be outside...someone is there..."
Lin Huai described his heartbreaking process of catching rape in extremely sad words: "...Actually, I feel that something is wrong with him recently. He often chats secretly with people, and even attends parties... I guess, he must be with that person at the Foundation I know..."
Chen Shu: "...you are his boyfriend for eight years!"
Lin Huai: "I didn't expect that the eight years of being together could not match a naive or flirtatious face. I thought we were together for three years, and after three years, three years later, we haven't waited for us to reach the third. For three years, he already had a new... "
Chen Shu was furious: "This kind of thing is too unbearable! Lin Huai! You are being abused by him because of your good temper!"
Lin Huai: "Hey, I'm obviously the one who came first..."
Chen Shu comforted Lin Huai, and generously gave Lin Huai his invitation letter. After saying this, he asked again: "Don't worry, if he dares to apologize to you, you can tell me anytime."
Lin Huai: "Yeah."
Chen Shu: "Do I need any props to catch the adulterer? I recently made a ghost hand, which is very realistic. You wear it and see him chatting with the adulterer, so you just use the ghost hand to pat..."
Lin Huai: "Yeah."
Chen Shu: "I promise he won't lift it in his next life."
Lin Huai: "This...is too cruel."
Chen Shu: "Is it cruel for cheating people?"
Lin Huai: "It's too cruel to have ○○ but not mention it, why don't you just cut it off."
After the two chatted enthusiastically, Chu Tianshu leaned on the pillow next to him and looked at Lin Huai with vacant eyes.
Lin Huai hung up the phone and asked him, "How is it?"
Chu Tianshu: "... Where did you come up with such a genius idea?"
Lin Huai: "TV drama."