Between the clouds, as deep as the sea

City C in August is sunny.

The vehicles under the overpass were crowded and watertight, and the half-green and half-green street trees smacked in the exhaust of the cars.As an inland provincial capital city with slow subway development, City C is congested in the morning rush hour every day, with ghosts crying and wolves howling.

Didi's horn sounded like a death call, and from time to time a head would come out of the car window and spit out a few discordant "greetings".Among a long list of BMW X5, Audi A8, Maserati, Volkswagen, Alto, and Wuling Zhiguang, a semi-old bus looks extraordinarily stable. Against the background of all the cars in need, it is marked with "male class" Don’t worry about gynecology, the pink advertisement of xx hospital on the second floor” insists on not moving a step, and is slowly squeezed further and further back.

It's just that the people in the car can't be so calm.People who can't afford a private car are either hard-working student party members or low-level working dogs.This is a group of people whose being late means the end, so from the moment they got stuck on the road, there was a lot of complaints and wailing in the car.

And the one who howled the loudest from the moment he got in the car was already lying on top of the driver, almost kneeling.

"Master, brother, big brother... just open the door, the company I'm interviewing with is on the side of the road, or I'll add ten yuan more!"

The driver glanced at him from the corner of his eyes: he was dressed in black, the cuffs were wrinkled and had not been ironed at first glance, rice grains stuck to the collar of the white shirt, his hair was greasy, whether he had used jelly water or hadn’t washed it for a few days, and his eye bags were dull , Yintang turned black, with a bad face.

"I still have an interview like this, I'm afraid I'll die if I'm "on one side"."

The driver groaned, while taking his hands from the steering wheel and leaning on the back of his head, he continued to keep his eyes open, calm and composed.

Seeing that he was being ignored again, Ling Han probably didn't pay enough bribes, so he gritted his teeth and fumbled in the pockets of his suit for a while, and finally took out a few large bills among a pile of toilet paper, mobile phones, and keys.He respectfully held a piece of 50 yuan in front of the driver, showing a dog-legged smile.

"Look, there are so many, can it be done, hehehe."

The driver didn't even bother to give him out of the corner of his eye this time, and said:

"Until the station opens, I will be laid off. You know how difficult it is to find a job now. If I am laid off, will you support me?!"

Ling Han wanted to cry but had no tears, he thought to himself that you are a working bourgeoisie, why can't you sympathize with me, a proletarian who has been unemployed for a year after graduation, huh...

Suddenly, the eyes of the driver who had been acting like a sloth just now lit up.

"Hey, it works!"

Before he finished speaking, there was wind under his feet, and he kicked the gas pedal. The bus jumped on the road happily like a wild horse, even overtaking several luxury cars.

Although the car was going fast, the driver's skills were still very good. Those who had seats and those who were holding on to the armrests only felt a little inertia at the beginning.

Only someone with a bad face became the only victim.At that time, he was only flattering the driver, and didn't hold anything with his hands. Ling Han ran from the front of the car to the middle of the car when he was driving, and then grabbed a steel pipe.

The moment I got out of the car, the heat wave in August almost overturned me.Looking at the time 9:30 displayed on the stop sign, Ling Han roared inwardly.

"Damn it, it's two miles away in one stop!"

The interview time was 9:40, Ling Han ran wildly all the way, a certain otaku burst out with the greatest potential and ran to the door of the company, only to see people in formal suits coming out in twos and threes.

"Could it be that it's still too late...?"

Five thunderbolts exploded in his head, and Ling Han tremblingly grabbed a suspected interviewer passing by, and asked cautiously:

"Handsome guy, is the interview over? It's too soon..."

The handsome guy in a suit and leather shoes looked at this sweaty dog ​​with a crooked tie with disgust on his face, and said:

"It's been rescheduled, don't you know?"

It's as if the rain is over and the sky is clear, and the long drought meets the nectar, and thousands of little stars rise in someone's heart...Look, look, look, and say it won't be so unlucky...

The handsome guy left the smirking Ling Han where he was, and added a sentence before leaving:

"But the interviewer said that those who didn't hand in the materials just now will be kicked out of the interview list."

Slap!A glass heart finally shattered to the ground after the ups and downs.

A mouthful of old blood clogged Ling Han's chest.

Handsome guy, you made it up really well...

It was already eight o'clock in the evening when Ling Han walked to the bottom of the tube building of his house, and the heat still persisted, and the waves of heat made people feel irritable.He was dismissed from the interview in the morning, went to several companies in the afternoon and still ended up without a problem, Ling Han felt that his life was bleak.

He took off his suit, swung it on his shoulders, raised his leg and stomped hard at the entrance of the corridor.

There is no way, Ling Han has been out of work for a year, and cannot afford to rent an apartment, but the old house is cheap, but it is dark and remote, and the voice-activated lights are also old, and they don't stomp their feet desperately, and they can't light up at all.

But this time, the lamp seemed to be completely deaf, no matter how Ling Han stamped it, there was no response.

"Ok, ok, if you don't light up, I will be self-reliant!"

Ling Han thought about looking for his phone to turn on the flashlight, only to realize that his phone had been killed on the bus a long time ago.

Misfortunes never come singly.This is true.

Ling Han had no choice but to slander and climb up to the sixth floor, feeling deeply in his heart, fortunately carrots are cheap and usually eat a lot, otherwise he would suffer from night blindness due to lack of vitamins, this time he was really caught blind.

Thinking about it, he felt that life was not so bad.Although their parents were at odds since they were young, they at least insisted on divorcing until he graduated from high school, and left a sum of money for him before they both left for high school, so that he could finish college and rent a single room in a tube building to wait for work...

Ling Han had such a heartless personality since he was a child, the kind who would shine brightly if he was given some sunshine, even if his parents were arguing every day when he went home, he still grew up in the abusive atmosphere where his parents didn't love him or his mother. A positive young man with aspirations!

Ling Han, an ambitious young man, was humming a song leisurely, and was so unlucky during the day that he flew out of the sky early.The door was opened, but the light was not turned on, and the suit in his hand was thrown on the broken sofa. He jumped and spread it on the sofa, and then rubbed the clothes under his head, his greasy hair arched, and the clothes became more wrinkled.

After lying down for less than half a minute, Ling Han felt uncomfortable all over his body. He always felt that something was missing. After thinking about it over and over again, he remembered that when he went home to lay his body every day, didn't he have to swipe his phone to complete it.

"Sure enough, the mobile phone is the true love of a single dog..."

Ling Han remembered that he still had a broken mobile phone from high school, he could still make phone calls and send WeChat messages, at least he would not lose contact.

So he rummaged through the box, and at least found this old antique at the bottom of the drawer stuffed with socks and underwear.His fingers unconsciously touched the edge of the fuselage, a white light lit up, and a boot screen appeared on the screen.

"Erdi, the god, what the hell, there is still electricity!? Domestic products are awesome!"

This awesome domestic mobile phone quickly passed the boot screen, but on the main page, there was only one icon standing there alone.

"It's unscientific," Ling Han said in his heart, "Even if my mother deleted my WeChat, Weibo, Bilibili, and Momo at the time, she would at least keep the app that simulated the three-year college entrance examination and five-year simulation."

The only surviving sky-blue icon is surrounded by a few white clouds, and a white crane spreads its wings in the lower right corner, about to fly.The line of small characters under the icon reads: Legend of the Clouds.

Seeing these four words, Ling Han was even more confused

"Legend of the Clouds" is a turn-based mobile game that was once all the rage. The story of the game unfolds in an ancient overhead country called the Kingdom of the Clouds.Monsters, ghosts and human beings live and fight together here, and gamers play the role of the highest priest in the kingdom of clouds, shouldering the mission of purifying the dead and balancing yin and yang.When the demons come out, you can also subdue the monsters and fight side by side as "shikigami".

In fact, now it seems that this game is really boring. It is nothing more than fighting monsters, practicing shikigami, and triggering a small scene after every two levels.But for Ling Han, who was in the second year of middle school at the time, being able to play the role of a great priest who is both good-looking and powerful, resisting demons and subduing demons, and then gradually revealing the plot, interpreting a heart-pounding heart-breaking legend, is really true. It is very attractive.

There is another important reason. At that time, the game not only aimed its audience at middle school otaku, but also attracted a large number of female players with its good-looking shikigami and big-name voice actors.In order to get closer to all the cute girls in the class, Ling Han trained hard to upgrade in the first two years of high school, and spent more than half of his living expenses on buying summoning talisman papers. Shikigami is under his command and has cleared all the plots.

For this reason, Ling Han's status in the eyes of the school girls is getting better and better, but his grades are getting worse and worse. Finally, after the first monthly exam in the third year of high school, he successfully attracted the attention of his parents who are busy with family wars, and his mobile phone was confiscated from then on. , someone drowned in the sea of ​​questions.

So, there is an app that shouldn't exist on this mobile phone. This is the root of his depravity. This is unscientific!

Ling Han, who was full of surprise, accidentally clicked on the icon, and the system popped up a dialog box: login name, password.

Ling Han typed in "Si Lingjun" and pressed a series of numbers.

Pink petals fell all over the screen, a pair of white cranes flew up through the clouds, and then the clouds dispersed. According to the opening setting of the game, the high-end courtyard of the priest should appear at this time. Fluttering, noble and glamorous.

However, the expected screen did not appear.Among the dilapidated rocks on the screen, a man in black with a hood was sitting kneeling.

"Big dog!"

Ling Han recognized it immediately, this man was the strongest shikigami he subdued in the game, Wolf King Huan.The wolf king that was just summoned looked like a wolf cub, three parts like a wolf, seven parts like a dog, so Ling Han used the custom naming function to change the wolf king Huan into a big dog.

At that time, a series of grievances and grievances entangled the game plot to the end. The great priest was backlashed by the dark force, and the player himself became the ultimate boss. They were all treated as dog food and fed to the wolf king, only to awaken the strongest power of the strongest shikigami.

At that time, the wolf king swung the two-meter-long Yanyang saw, and the huge flames were overwhelming, and the gods and Buddhas were unstoppable.When the great priest fell, his blood-stained eyes gradually became clear again. He moved his lips, as if he was smiling and said, "Thank you, my Huan."

As soon as the ending came out, all the sisters were moved to the ground, and the ending of the priest and shikigami falling in love and killing each other performed "a kind of deep and gorgeous pain like fireworks" to the extreme, but Ling Han wanted to say, isn't this just a pain? "The flood rushed into the Dragon King Temple", did my family stab my family's brains to death...

He poked the man in black with his finger, "Big dog, after a few years away, do you miss me, the adult who was stabbed to death by you..."

The man in black raised his head, the brim of his hat was very low, covering his eyes, only a few strands of silver hair slipped from the edge of the hood, his thin lips parted slightly, as if sighing:

"You finally came."

Ah, is this line wrong?

"Big dog, big dog, did you come up with a new line?" Ling Han poked the screen excitedly, but the wolf king lowered his head and there was no response. After a few seconds, the screen in his hand went blank, and the remaining battery was dead.

"Uh, it seems that I have completely cut off all ties with this game."

After charging his mobile phone, Ling Han decided to go to bed early and get up early, so as to fight for tomorrow's interview to get him out of the unemployed life.

The antique-grade air conditioner made a rumbling noise in the bedroom, but Ling Han was so tired that he fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.

In my sleep, it seemed that there was a boundless heavy snow, and the cold spread from all directions.Ling Han curled up and hugged himself tightly.