The Midnight Owl

6/23的古堡酒店宴会厅,可能是前六关里，最紧迫的所在。从1/23到5/23,都是一进入便开始闯关,虽然要面对NPC,还要提防偷袭的对手，但勇往直前就行了,只有6/23这里，需要各队自行“抉择”。

The five-person team that retreated from the checkpoint after 6/23, but those who entered here must have already laid off staff and are ready to recruit new ones. The four-person team that came up from before 6/23 must add new members to match here.

And all of this is counted in the checkpoint time.

The later the lineup is completed, the later it is to enter the real breakthrough, and the more unfavorable it will be.

So despite this hurdle, the banquet hall was made rich and gorgeous, with bright lights, endless champagne and fine wines, and endless delicious food and delicacies, but no one cared about these things.

Chi Yingxue was an exception.

He likes the cake here best.Creamy, chocolate, mango, orange...except raspberry flavor, he loves the rest.

The sweet and sour taste of raspberries actually overwhelms the sweetness. He has been fooled once, and he will never touch it again.

At this time, he was sitting in a quiet corner, having just finished his midnight tea.

On the dining table in front of him, there were seven or eight small plates, most of which were empty, only two plates were left with small cakes, one was tender and tender, the other was white and exuding an attractive sweetness.

He really couldn't eat anymore, so he looked at the remaining two and felt very distressed.

Looking at the audience, except for the NPCs, the rest of the "colleagues" are anxious. It is already 00:30. Since they are here, they all want to move on. No one can calmly watch the passage of time.

Chi Yingxue raised the "leisure average" of her peers on her own.

Others came here to break through in a team, but he came here to eat the cake buffet.

Satisfied and relieved, Chi Yingxue had nothing else to do and was bored, he took out his mobile phone and played stand-alone games for a while, and finally felt bored, something happened, so he clicked on WeChat.

He originally only had one friend on WeChat, Chi Zhuolin, but he added four more a while ago, as well as a group called "Unlucky Kids".

Seeing the name, he frowned subconsciously—every time he clicked on WeChat, he felt so sincerely disgusted—after the frown was over, he reluctantly clicked in.

Of course Owli can't connect to the Internet, but looking at the chat history, it's still okay.

[1 month 9 day]

Want Want: Welcome newcomers to join the group!Chirp!

Little fan of tea sage Lu Yu: Chi Chi Chi Chi!

Brother Sheng: Welcome.

Love money: [Online connection, cherish this relationship.gif]

The particularly good-looking Chi Yingxue: ...

Aiqian: I said captain, it is too simple and rude for you to change the nickname of this group, can you use some snacks!

Wangwang: This is his original WeChat name, okay? ! !

Very good-looking Chi Yingxue: Is there a problem with my name?

Love Money: ...No, seek truth from facts, be objective and accurate, give you a thumbs up [like.gif]

Tea sage Lu Yu's little fanboy: Brother Qian, you have a lot of animations.

Love Money: As an anchor, I have always been at the forefront of online chatting.

Sheng Sheng: [like.gif]

Love Money: Squad Leader, why did you suddenly change your name [Ominous Premonition.gif]

Sheng Sheng: It’s just a whim.

Aiqian: Don't you think that Xiaokuang and Xiaoxue's WeChat names are more like couple accounts than yours and captain's, you are not reconciled!Hahahahaha

love money:? ?

Love Money: Monitor?

Love money: I was just kidding [wiping sweat] If you don’t reply to me, I’ll knock on the door next door [crying]

Wangwang: He went to make a new tactical plan.

Aiqian: Huh, it’s okay, it’s okay, I just said that a military division can’t have the same knowledge as me.

Want Want: The main force of the new plan: Qian Ai.Support: Qian Ai.Supporting: Qian Ai.Empress: Qian Ai.

love money:……

[1 month 15 day]

……

[1 month 21 day]

……

[1 month 29 day]

Wangwang: @很好看的Chi Yingxue We are only short of the last 5/23, where have you been?

The particularly beautiful Chi Yingxue: 6/23

Little fan of tea sage Lu Yu: So fast!

Love Money: Xiaokuang, can you not be so obvious about your flattery, he only needs to collect 2, we have to search for 4 [knock blackboard.gif]

The particularly beautiful Chi Yingxue: I came here three days ago.

Love Money: [I am young and naive and ignorant, don't be as knowledgeable as me.gif]

Tea sage Lu Yu's little fan: [covering mouth]

Wangwang: Xiaoxue, wait for us obediently.

Sheng Sheng: Don't flirt.

The particularly good-looking Chi Yingxue: ...

Love money: Xiaoxue seems to be scared away.

Little fan of tea sage Lu Yu: No, he just typed slowly.

The particularly good-looking Chi Yingxue: I'm in demand, you better hurry up.

Aiqian: Ah, it's really slow.

Little fan of tea sage Lu Yu: [Red fluttering laughing]

The particularly good-looking Chi Yingxue: ...

Sheng Sheng: @很好看的Chi Yingxue tomorrow.

Wangwang: We will definitely be there.

"Ding--"

The sudden notification sound interrupted Chi Yingxue's review, and she raised her hand to see that it was an invitation to recruit.

Just as Chi Yingxue was about to refuse, she suddenly felt that the light was getting darker. She raised her head, and a colleague who had formed a team before was standing in front of him.

"I saw you on the overall score list a while ago." The colleague didn't greet me, but complimented directly, "It's amazing."

Chi Yingxue said nothing, just looked at him quietly, waiting for something to do.

The man didn't get a response, so he rubbed his nose resentfully, but soon, he put on a warm smile again: "I sent you an invitation to recruit, I've been watching you for two days, and you haven't been on the team yet, right?"

Seeing that Chi Yingxue's expression still didn't fluctuate, the man cut straight to the point: "It's better to be familiar with it than to be a stranger. We have formed a team before and know each other a little bit. I know you are unstable, but I also know that you are powerful. Let's go first Hand in hand to pass this pass, as long as you don't take the challenge negatively and don't drag your teammates down, we can tolerate the rest, if you perform exceptionally well, we can consider joining you for a long time..."

"It's late." Chi Yingxue interrupted him lightly.

The man's eloquence was eloquent, but he stopped abruptly: "Huh?"

Chi Yingxue put the phone back in her pocket, glanced at him: "I have a team."

The man looked around and showed his disbelief: "Where is it?"

"You don't need to know that." Chi Yingxue shrugged, "You just need to know a little bit," he raised his brows slightly, and the light in his eyes was full of pride for the first time, "I'm very sought-after."

……

Half an hour ago, at 23:59 Beijing time, near a construction site in Xiangcheng County, Xuchang City, Henan Province.

The construction site at night is pitch black, surrounded by blue metal plates, very silent.The metal plate bordered the sidewalk, and on the sidewalk were four "sneaky" figures.

The wind at the end of January, like a knife, cut people's cheeks with pain.

The four students either pulled up their collars or tightened their necks, but stayed still with their shoulders on their shoulders.

If you get close, you can still hear their conversation——

Xu Wang: "Brother Sheng and Xiaoxue are boasting so much, you will definitely get the badge + pass the test tonight, and work hard, don't let your brother Sheng get slapped in the face."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Qian Ai: "Military division, he treats you like this. I really don't understand why you like him."

Wu Sheng: "You didn't see when he was nice to me."

Kuang Jinxin: "For example?"

Wu Sheng: "For example, in the hotel just now—"

Qian Ai: "Hey, I'm just hearing it, please don't cover his mouth——"

"Cuckoo-"

In the wind of the cold night, the owls came on time.

The manhole cover at the foot turned into a purple whirlpool, and the four friends restrained their jokes, glanced at each other, and jumped into it solemnly.

20 days ago, they fell into the sand on 8/23, and then retreated to 5/23. The five-member team was forced to become a four-member team.After researching, the friends can just use this to collect badges for levels 1-5, so Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, Qian Ai, and Kuang Jinxin who lack 1, 2, 3, and 5 badges, and only 2, 5 badges are missing. With two badges, Chi Yingxue made an appointment for next month, and then they split up and embarked on their own journeys.

Now that one month is not over, Xu Wang and the others have collected all the 1-4 badges, but Chi Yingxue is faster than them, and they are already waiting on 6/23.

This is their second visit to 5/23, Infernal Affairs in the Haunted House, that is, to enter the old house as a ghost, and complete the task without being seen through by various monsters, ghosts, and evil spirits as human beings.The task content of each pass may change.

The last time I quit from 8/23, although I made up my mind not to hand in the papers at the beginning, so as to continue to retreat to 2/23, I still tried my best to understand the content of this level.

So this time, they came prepared.

The whirlwind ended, and the field of vision was clear again. The four friends were in a barren mountain, and in front of them was an abandoned old house.The house was huge, but it was dilapidated, the door panel was hanging at an angle, and the plaque was lying on the ground, broken in two.Most of the walls on both sides collapsed, and the wild grass inside the wall and the grass outside the wall grew into a cluster, and there was no difference.

The wind was blowing, making people's skin crawl.

There seems to be ghost fire in the wilderness in the distance, and there seems to be ghost whispers in the ears nearby...

"Brother, why do I think those few look familiar?"

Uh, so down-to-earth, it doesn't seem to be a ghost.

The four partners turned their heads following the sound, and saw four dark figures a few meters away.After identifying it for a long time by the moonlight, the friends widened their eyes in surprise.

Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, Kuang Jinxin, Qian Ai: "Little camouflage?!"

Strong man in camouflage + teammate 123: "..."

Shouldn't someone be given a nickname beforehand? ! !

The real world is cold and cold, and the camouflage team also put on down jackets. Naturally, it is still a camouflage pattern. In this gloomy wilderness of weeds, the protective color is brought to the extreme.

"It's been almost a month since we met last time?" The camouflage captain raised his eyebrows, "You just broke through a level? The speed is not enough."

They played against each other on 4/23. After the camouflage team lost that time, they should return to 1/23. Xu Wang made a calculation: "You have only passed four levels."

Camouflage captain: "...Four levels are still few? Eight levels will be able to be on the overall score list!"

Just as Xu Wang was about to open his mouth, his shoulder was suddenly patted.

"Keep a low profile." Wu Sheng leaned into his ear, persuading him.

Xu Wang was so blown that his ears became hot, and he swallowed his bragging words unconditionally - since he was on the list once, he was a little drifting, but fortunately, there was always a military adviser to remind him.

He also asked Wu Sheng, how do you maintain a normal mind?

The answer given by the other party is that the grades have been good, so I get used to it.

He held back and didn't kick him.Well, it's true love.

No longer talking to the camouflage team, Xu Wang turned around and looked at his little friend seriously: "Prepare for styling, it's time to test your acting skills."

Pretending to be a ghost, acting skills are software, styling is hardware, and if the hardware passes the test, half of the identity is fulfilled.

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin nodded together, and then immediately raised their arms to prepare some stationery, adding some material to their "fierce ghost" status.

Wu Sheng didn't move, but looked over Xu Wang's shoulder to look at the camouflage team behind him, and said in a low voice, "It's not the first time they have come."

Xu Wang looked back and saw that the camouflage team had already put on the "model". One stepped on the cloud, one disappeared immediately, it should be an invisible stationery, and the other wore colored contact lenses, and the whole eyes were red. At first glance, it was indeed quite scary .

Noticing the gaze here, the captain of the camouflage pondered for two seconds, and said maliciously: "You are not prepared, are you? Then it's over, and you will be torn to pieces when you enter."

In the schadenfreude, he didn't really disclose half a word of the content of the level. Obviously, no one would provide information to competitors for the sake of quick talk without knowing whether the opponent has come to this level.

Xu Wang sighed: "We know that this level is the scene of a large-scale supernatural drama."

The camouflage captain frowned: "Then why are you staring at us if you don't dress up yourself?"

Xu Wang said: "This is the first time I've seen such a simple ghost, so I couldn't help it, so I took a second look."

Camouflage captain: "Hehe, then show me how delicate you can be?"

"click-click-"

A plant broke through the ground at Wu Sheng's feet, pushed open the stones on the ground, and grew wildly. In an instant, it was as tall as Wu Sheng. , issued a strange and broken call sign.

Wu Sheng stretched out his hand, and the plant was suddenly uprooted, wrapping around his arms and upper body as if alive, and it was quite sharp.

"<[Wu] Catcher Vine>," Wu Sheng first introduced his "appearance", and then introduced his identity, "Mountain ghost."

As soon as the words were finished, a severed hand suddenly appeared on top of Kuang Jinxin's head, and it was brushing his hair up and down.

"Whose hand is <[Wu] through your black hair>," Kuang Jinxin proudly reported, "Severed hand ghost!"

Xu Wang clicked off his stationery, and soon, the cold wind blew up, and behind him loomed a dark figure in the shape of a man, with no face, no facial features, just a black outline, only when he smiled, he could see a white light, like a grin Mouth.

"The ghost behind <Wu>," Xu Wang was satisfied with his identity, "I'm the ghost behind you."

Camouflage Team 123: "..."

Camouflage Captain: "Can you take some responsibility for naming..."

The word "Ren" disappeared in the gloomy night wind.

Next to the mountain ghost, the severed hand ghost, and the ghost with me behind you, the tall and strong man who was originally standing was left with only one head floating in the air.

"Headless ghost!" Qian Ai said forcefully.But after finishing speaking, I always felt that something was wrong. I seemed to have nothing but a head left. In this situation, I should call it a ghost with a head...

The bleak wilderness, the horror old house, the shape of a head, the impact is quite huge, especially the head is still smiling at you.

Camouflage Team 123 swallowed at the same time, their hair numb.

The voice of the camouflage captain was also a little weak: "What, stationery?"

This is so fucking ghostly!

"Oh," Qian Ai didn't hide it, "<[anti] invisibility cloak>."

The same is invisible, but the camouflage team No. 2 who is completely invisible can't understand: "Where's the other end? Why is the head still there?!"

"This is an invisibility cloak without an invisibility cap." Qian Aili was confident.