The night was like a tide.

The rain is still falling, pouring on the roof and pouring mud on the ground.Hou Xueyi was lying on the outermost part of the kang, next to the window.

The moonlight is like frost, penetrating from the bottom of the curtain.

Hou Xueyi tossed and turned, listening to the sound of water outside the window.

He suddenly realized at a certain moment: No, I should sleep.

As we all know, the fastest to die in the "game" are those players who encounter the "special" first.Right now, except for the NPC Mr. Gu, the other three people on the kang are lying peacefully, snoring like thunder.

So he, Hou Xueyi, should also be asleep.

Hou Xueyi took a deep breath, secretly hating himself for not thinking of this earlier.He should have remembered earlier, but the voice outside the window kept ringing, disturbing his mind.

Dark night, rain, plus a little vague movement, are most likely to arouse people's imagination.

Fortunately, there was loud snoring in the house, and the bright smell of the world temporarily covered up the evil spirits.

Hou Xueyi chose to lean against the window.He knew very well that he might not be able to fall asleep for a while.If the mentality is not correct, sooner or later this game will be over.

He was originally a small person, but he stumbled and staggered along the way.Hou Xueyi felt more and more clearly that the players were stratified.

Either be like myself, trembling with fear every day, startled, and completely neurasthenic.

——Thinking of this, Hou Xueyi's eyelids trembled, and his thoughts drifted to Ke Tan, the fat man who was snoring next to him.

He murmured in his heart: Ke Tan really fell asleep?

Maybe, seeing how loudly he snores.

But maybe it's just pretending?After all, it seems that Ke Tan and himself should be the same kind of person.

The same cowardice, the same struggle to survive.

In contrast, the other players have gone to the other extreme: they are calm and restrained, and the word "fear" seems to have disappeared from them.When Hou Xueyi heard that Han Chuan followed the NPC up the mountain alone, he thought that this man was crazy.A group of people disappeared on the mountain, and there was a problem, how dare he go? !

But Han Chuan dared to go.

And come back safely.

Only then did Hou Xueyi figure out that Han Chuan probably knew that there would be no danger on the mountain.

But how did he know?

For Hou Xueyi, this "exploration" process itself is a natural barrier.

He can't.

It is impossible to be like an ordinary person, go to an ordinary village, and talk to the villagers with a smile.

Probably because he lay down for a long time, closed his eyes for a long time, and the bedding was warm, so Hou Xueyi struggled to brew a little sleepiness.

When he realized it, he was ecstatic, but he carefully suppressed it, not to let the joy break the rest of the next night's sleep.

He didn't even think about how well he could sleep.As long as you can stay safe and sound until dawn.

However, God failed to fulfill people's wishes.

At the moment when he was most sleepy, Hou Xueyi heard a soft meow that almost rang in his ears.

"Meow--"

The voice was very thin and high-pitched, lingering in Hou Xueyi's ears.

Goose bumps on his body immediately rose.During the evening meeting, Shi Hongji's words echoed and repeated in Hou Xueyi's ears.Right now Shi Hongji is also sleeping, but there are two people between him and Hou Xueyi.Hou Xueyi couldn't distinguish his snoring.

"Meow……"

It rang again.

Like on patrol.

If Hou Xueyi opened his eyes at this moment, he would see a black shadow on the window next to him.

The shadow was about the size of a person, but it happened to be like a cat, squatting on the window sill, staring at the teachers and students of Xicheng University lying on the West Room Kang through the curtains.

A pair of cat eyes with a faint color, beside the mottled wrinkles.

The cat seemed to be tired of meowing, and jumped off the window sill and landed on the ground.

The movement was very light, separated by a wall, Hou Xueyi was still trembling with fear and didn't feel anything.

But the "cat" moved away and ran forward twice, exposing his body to the rain.

The "cat" shook its body, but unfortunately it didn't have much hair on it.Coupled with the continuous rain, this water-swinging action is almost useless.

The "cat" stepped on the muddy ground with all four limbs, probably because the muddy and slippery ground under his body made the "cat" insecure, and the "cat" made a warning "purr" sound from its throat.

"Cat" took two steps forward, then suddenly turned around and looked at the left wall.

There was a little girl standing there.

She stepped on the straw pile, only the upper body was exposed outside the wall.

"Cat" squatted on the ground, raised its forelimbs, stuck out its blue-yellow tongue with thick coating, and licked the mud on its forelimbs nonchalantly.

One person and one cat stare at each other.

After a while, Cheng Juan lost interest.She got down from the straw pile and made the same choice as "Cat".

She went to the window and looked at the two female players lying inside.

Fang Min and Gong Liangyu didn't say anything else, at least they slept well.

In other words, at this point, players with poor sleep quality have already collapsed in their own way, so they are eliminated.

"Game" is a narrower and narrower road.But because time is disconnected, everyone can only walk at the forefront of their own timeline, so there are always other people around the players.

But these are for later.For Cheng Juan, the immediate problem lies in another aspect.

I "go home" by myself.

She lacked interest and walked outside.

The mountain village is lonely.When passing by the east room, Cheng Juan turned her head and took a look inside.

Aunt Fang was snoring.After working hard all day, her snoring is as loud as Qi Jianming and Shi Hongji.

Lan Po lay quietly on the side, still the old man like a rotten mushroom.

Cheng Juan turned her head.She pushed open the door and went outside.

At the same time, on the kang in the east room, Lan Po's body trembled.

She trembled slightly, and a cloudy tear fell from the corner of her eye.

With a name in her mouth that she dared not pronounce, she thought painfully in her heart: "Juan'er..."

Cheng Juan walked out of the house.

She has a clear goal and wants to go up the mountain.

It just seems that the sky is too dark and the rain is too annoying, so that the girl who grew up in Shanhuai Village lost her way.

She circled around, the expression on her face getting darker and darker.

When walking to a certain place, Cheng Juan suddenly turned her head and looked at the wall next to her.

There stood five girls, ranging in age from oldest to youngest.The older one is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and is supposed to be a "big girl", so she should be married, and she will get married in two years.There is not much attention in the mountains, and you can wait until you are old to get the certificate.Or not, it doesn't matter.In short, for the people in Shanhuai Village and all the surrounding villages, as long as there is a banquet, they can marry the woman who told the emperor and the queen.

It's a pity that this "big girl" is dirty and has a silly smile on her face.The rain fell and drenched her.The hair became strands and stuck to the face.

Cheng Juan looked at her quietly.

Compared with Aunt Fang's house, the wall of this house is a bit horrible. I don't know if it is dilapidated or it was only half repaired at the beginning.

In short, the wall is only one meter high.Not to mention the "big girl" inside, even the string of small carrot heads around her can easily climb over.

But all the little radish heads have the same silly and silly smiles as the "big girls".They seemed to have seen Cheng Juan, so they called her: "Juan'er!"

The eldest girl said, "Juan'er, where did you go to play?"

Cheng Juan tilted her head.

The eldest girl said: "You take me to play together, play together!"

She seemed to be in agitated mood, and now she simply grabbed the wall and wanted to get out from the wall.

Driven by her, the little carrot heads next to her clapped their hands together, talking vaguely.

And behind this row of girls is a dilapidated earthen house.An old man, a retarded woman, and a retarded boy were sleeping in the room.

There is only one quilt at home, and the money-losing sisters who were born before have nothing to cover.They were skinny, with sunken cheeks.There is only one pair of eyes, which are usually cloudy and hazy, but when they see Cheng Juan at this moment, there is a little light shining.

Cheng Juan walked away.

The big girl was so clumsy that when she climbed over the wall, she fell face down.She was stunned, and after a while, she burst into tears.The sisters next to her surrounded her, some comforted her inarticulately, and some didn't understand what was going on. Seeing the excitement around her, they started clapping and laughing.

These movements did not reach Cheng Juan's ears.

All the way up the mountain, she crossed the top of the mountain smoothly, and went down, getting closer and closer to Shangwu Village.

Along the way, Cheng Juan met many people: Cheng Bin who was in charge of taking the children in the village to and from school, and Cheng Gaoxin who went up the mountain with the village chief to find someone...

Cheng Juan took them back to Shanhuai Village.Everyone went home.

After finishing these, it was already four in the morning.Cheng Juan returned to Aunt Fang's house, closed the door, and entered the east room.

She took off her mud-stained shoes, got on the kang, and got into the quilt with a chill all over her body.

Lan Po is old and has been in poor health.She originally went to the toilet, but hesitated, wondering if she should wake up her daughter-in-law.At this moment, I heard the door closing outside.

Lan Po had no choice but to close her eyes, pretending that she was still asleep.

But after so much patience, after five o'clock, Lan Po couldn't bear it anymore.It just so happened that Cheng Juan had come back...

She was going to call Aunt Fang.

When Ke Lanpo opened her eyes, she saw Cheng Juan looking at her.

She was lying on her side, with Aunt Fang snoring behind her, her face facing Po Lan.

The plateau red on the cheeks is still the same as before, and even the deer-like eyes are exactly the same.

Dark and unblinking, he looked at his grandma in the dead of night.

When Lan Po opened her eyes, Cheng Juan smiled at her and called her, "Po, do you want to go to the bathroom?"

Lan Po's body was stiff.

After a while, there was a smell of urine on the kang.

……

……

On the second day of the game, Qi Jianming was the first to get up at 06:30 in the morning.

He bit his toothbrush and went out, and when he passed the window, his footsteps stopped.

Qi Jianming lowered his head and looked at the handprints and footprints in the dust below.

These traces spread all the way outward, eventually reaching the center of the backyard, and then turning back.

With a cold face, Qi Jianming turned his head and looked at the house of the village chief and his wife.The sound of the TV was already playing inside, and when Qi Jianming walked over, the village chief was smoking.

Qi Jianming glanced over the village chief's hands and feet, and finally settled on the village chief's shoes.

Very clean.

No mud.

A bit too clean.

The village chief took a puff of smoke, exhaled the mist, and smiled: "Jianming, are you up so early?"

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