I have a cub that escapes the boss

The temperature rises all the way.

It is ten o'clock in the morning.The air conditioner was turned on in the taxi, and Zhang Qiu heard the voice of the woman next to him talking to someone else, complaining in the same way as before, but the tone seemed to be stretched out, saying: "It's so hot today..."

heat.

When the word came out, Zhang Qiu could almost see the steaming mist on the woman's hair.In this weather, her hair was still loose, so the heat rose up on her body, her cheeks were flushed, and the sweat seemed to flow into her eyes.

hot.

Zhang Qiu turned his head restrainedly and looked out the window at the road.Obviously the sun has not risen much, but the asphalt road seems to be melting.

The driver spoke up and said, "Is it forty degrees today?"

The woman continued: "It's almost October, it's going to be hot..." The voice sank, as if soaked in magma.

The air conditioner didn't seem to appease the woman at all.

She also asked Zhang Qiu, "Pretty girl, do you have any extra hair rings?"

Zhang Qiu frowned a little, showing a little confused look.

The woman was taken aback, and changed her words, "Hello, do you have any extra hair ties?"

She seemed embarrassed, and fiddled with her hair, and said with a bit of general taste in her words: "It wasn't so hot when I went out in summer, and it was okay this morning. I didn't expect it to be so hot now."

Zhang Qiu said, "No."

The woman stared at her blankly for a moment, then sighed and looked away.

Fortunately, the car was cold after all, and the heat from the outside slowly dissipated.The woman's face returned to normal little by little, not as red as before.She was chatting with the driver, speaking very fast, as if snapping a shot. If she didn't know, she would have thought she was being pointed at by a gun.

Zhang Qiu didn't care much to listen.She was thinking about what she was going to buy later, and at the same time she was touching the phone vaguely.

Between the phone case and the phone, there are two challenge cards with illustrations and an item card attached.

The item card is "Ordinary Flashlight", and there are 23 minutes left to use it.

She hasn't used props since she collected three illustrated books in "Roads in Disrepair".Up to now, she has added one to her illustration book, which is the head chef in "Late Night Canteen".

Zhang Qiu believes that illustrated books are more expensive than refined ones.So after she had four illustrated books with different uses, she stopped collecting and focused on allowing the illustrated books to replenish energy and improve their strength through the new ghosts they encountered during the challenge.

The car drove slowly on the road.Because of the hot weather, people's hearts are also dry.This road is not very long, only about ten minutes by car, but Zhang Qiu has already seen two car accidents.

When I got out of the car, the carpool woman sat on the right side, so I paid first and left.Zhang Qiu didn't take this carpooling experience to heart at first.

All the way into the shopping mall from the side of the road, Zhang Qiu's face, palms, and vest... all sweated a lot.There happened to be a restroom at the entrance of the supermarket. Zhang Qiu thought for a moment, then turned in and washed his face with cold water.

It's a pity that I don't know if it is affected by the sweltering heat outside, even the "cold water" flowing out of the water pipes is warm.

Zhang Qiu was a little depressed.Fortunately, after washing her face, she felt much refreshed. She turned on the tap and took out a tissue to wipe her hands.

There are not many people in the bathroom, she didn't intend to pry into other people's privacy.But at this time, Zhang Qiu finally heard a female voice coming from the toilet cubicle next to him.

A little familiar, said: "I seem to have bumped into a player just now, and it belongs to another game."

Zhang Qiu was taken aback.

She quickly realized: This is the woman in the car before!

It was still speaking at the same fast speed as before, even a little overwhelmed.

She thought about what the other person said several times, and her heart beat a little faster.

When other people come over, they also have to wash their hands.Zhang Qiu gave up his seat, after some consideration, he chose to wait in the room next to the toilet where the female voice came from.

After the people inside came out, Zhang Qiu walked in, only one wall separated from the woman who just spoke.

There are brown baffles on all sides, and this environment makes Zhang Qiu uncomfortable.She participated in the challenge of "Visiting Public Toilets at Night" before, and although she passed the challenge smoothly, the experience at that time still left a little shadow on Zhang Qiu.

But she touched her phone case, knowing what to do, and listened to the person next to her continue talking.

"Didn't I draw an investigative item before? I thought it was really useless at the time, and I could roughly see a few ghosts around, but they were all shadows." Her voice softened, as if she realized that this was a public place , it’s not easy for the ordinary NPC outside the toilet to hear what I said specifically, “It’s a bit of a bluff, and I can’t see it very clearly... Just now I took a taxi with someone who might be a player, it’s just luck , I always felt that something was shaking beside him."

Zhang Qiu frowned.

"I asked him about borrowing hair rings. I looked at her seriously at the time, and there were five, six... more or less shadows beside him."

Speaking of this, someone knocked on the door outside and urged: "Hurry up, why are you always on the phone?"

"Ah," the woman apologized, "I'm sorry, I have a little stomachache." Her voice was flustered.

Shortly thereafter, there was the sound of flushing water, followed by footsteps.

Zhang Qiu waited for another 3 minutes before coming out of the cubicle.

In one of her illustrations, a high school girl emerges from the challenge card and walks forward with Zhang Qiu.

No one else could see her, only Zhang Qiu could see her.Zhang Qiu went into the supermarket and pushed the cart with a bluetooth headset on his ear.The lights weren't actually on, but they weren't noticeable.

She walked quickly.

High school girl says, "Don't you have anything to ask?"

Zhang Qiu looked at the production date in front of the bread cabinet, "As expected."

When she saw that their chat room number was A034 and the customer service staff was 034, she also had a similar guess as Ji Hanchuan and Meng Manwen.

Could someone else be playing another Game of the Abyss board game as well?

What's more, Zhang Qiu would think, are there really only 13 of them entering this game?Or are there more people, spread across the city, divided into one chat room after another, each unaware of the existence of other chat rooms?

The high school girl frowned slightly, as if she wanted to say something.

But she hadn't had time to say it.

Zhang Qiu was slapped.

Zhang Qiu looked quite calm, and turned to look at the other party.Sure enough, it was the woman just now.

The other party was wearing a forest-style skirt, and his hair was already tied up, leaving only a little fluffy hair on his forehead.

She looked a little nervous and serious, and asked Zhang Qiu, "Can we have a cup of coffee together?"

Zhang Qiu was taken aback.

This opening is simply——

It doesn't seem to happen between "players" and "players", it's more like an ordinary chat.

Zhang Qiu looked at the other party calmly.

When she doesn't answer, the woman looks even more nervous.Zhang Qiu noticed that the other party also had a bluetooth headset hanging on his ear.

The high school girl leaned forward and listened carefully to the voice in the earphones. It was: "Jiaqi, what you said, hey, you said 'Are you a player too, can we talk', it is better than now."

The woman is embarrassed and repeats what the person in the headset taught her.

The high school girl looked at Zhang Qiu and nodded slightly to her.

It seems to be ok.

In a certain apartment building in Zhujiang District, Jiang Lin knocked on the door of the painter's studio and asked, "How is your computer packed? The moving company has an appointment in the afternoon." Although it was a bit hasty, it was a helpless move.According to the result of rolling the dice simulated by the artist, the probability of ending the hot weather the day after tomorrow is extremely low.Looking at it this way, it might as well be moving on the first day of the heat, when things are not at their worst.

The painter asked: "There is no news yet?"

Jiang Lin said, "Not yet."

He held two cups of coffee, one for himself and one for the painter.

Then he looked at the computer in front of the artist and asked, "Are you calculating the depth of the card pool?"

"The term 'depth' is a bit strange." The artist said, "But, yes. I have asked about all the illustrations on our side, and only Mary on Ji Hanchuan's side has an impression of a red-clothed female ghost living in a jade bracelet. It's very deep, and other ghosts don't remember other illustration books very much. You also said that although you remember commanding the illustration books to attack your players, you don't have a deep impression of them." As he spoke, he began to feel sorry for Jiang Lin, so he put The man pulled down and sat on his lap.

Neither of them felt awkward in this posture.The painter put his hand on Jiang Lin's shoulder, squeezed it lightly, and said, "Maybe it's a kind of one-size-fits-all memory blurring. Otherwise, we can't fight if we know each other's details. Mary is a special picture book. In that bracelet The female ghost should also be listed as an S-level danger... But based on this calculation, there is a high probability that Zhang Qiu's illustration book will not be able to recognize the two Ji Hanchuan."

Jiang Lin said, "That's good."

The artist said "Oh" and added: "Infiltrate the enemy."

They knew the last sentence well: it was for 034 who might be here.

Inside the mall, coffee shop.

The woman ordered a double latte.She looked at her mobile phone frequently, and when Zhang Qiu saw her, she simply asked, "Are you waiting for someone to come?"

There were several huge shopping bags piled up between the two of them.Faced with the woman's invitation just now, Zhang Qiu said bluntly that he had to complete the purchase first.After hearing this, the woman said that she wanted to buy something too.Zhang Qiu believed this.

So the two spent half an hour buying all the food and daily necessities on Zhang Qiu's shopping list.The woman almost bought after Zhang Qiu.

At this moment, the woman was taken aback, and raised her hand to brush her hair, which was another movement to cover up her nervousness.

She seemed very suspicious. Although she was talking to Zhang Qiu, she couldn't help but look around, and her eyes often stayed somewhere.

Zhang Qiu simply followed her gaze.The high school girl whispered to Zhang Qiu, saying, "There is a 'kid' playing a ball over there." After a pause, "The ball is his head."

Zhang Qiu: "..."

Zhang Qiu looked away.

The woman took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I have a companion."

Zhang Qiu decided to take the initiative of the topic and asked directly: "How many squares have you reached on the chessboard? Did any events trigger?"

She could see that the one in front of her was probably an NPC, not a player like herself.

It's just that in this world, NPCs will also be pulled in by the "Abyss Game" board game.

With a clear question, the woman hesitated.The high school girl told Zhang Qiu that the voice in the earphone was again making suggestions, and said: "...Jiaqi, I'll be there soon, don't be afraid. If she asks questions, you can tell her, but you have to ask her too. How are they doing?"

So the woman squeezed the coffee stick, stirred it rigidly, and told Zhang Qiu: "I am in the No.15 cell. Jin Qi, who is with me, will come over later, and she is in the No. 20 cell. "

She looked very distressed, and immediately asked Zhang Qiu after saying the message, "How about you?"

Zhang Qiu didn't answer her.

Instead, he saw some clues and asked, "How many people are left alive in your round?"

Zhang Qiu's tone was very calm, even considered calm.But what she said was like a gun, hitting the woman in front of her.

She began to breathe rapidly, Zhang Qiu watched coldly, wondering if the NPC in front of her was about to have an asthma attack.But after a while, the other party's mood stabilized a bit, but there was a crying sound in his voice, and he said, "There is no one else. It's just me and Jin Qi. Everyone else is dead."

Zhang Qiuruo was thoughtful.

She gave a faint "huh", and then heard the woman ask eagerly: "What about you? How many squares have you walked, and how many people are alive? Can you—"

Zhang Qiu blinked and asked, "Can I do something?"

The woman said, "Can you bring us to your game?"

Zhang Qiu was taken aback.

This question somewhat touches the blind spot in her understanding of the "Abyss Game" board game.

She rarely knew how to respond.