The Midnight Owl

"Say it again? How can you identify a demon?" Yue Shuai, who heard the truth, almost couldn't hold his chopsticks. He was either frightened, or felt...too absurd.

"Yes, place, and deed." Xu Wang understood his feelings.

"To be precise, it is to exclude and screen from the habit of using characters." Wu Sheng gave a very rigorous macro definition.

Regardless of the macro and micro, Yue Shuai couldn't accept it: "This level is too inhumane. You die all the way, and you still have to take the Chinese test at the end? Except for the peak knowledge in the third year of high school, who remembers, places, and gains!"

Su Mingzhan, Tao Anan, and Wei Tianhang on the left raised their hands naturally: "We remember."

Yue Shuai: "..."

"How to find the devil is just one of them." Xu Wang picked up a chopstick fish, picked the thorn proficiently, and put it in his mouth. The fish soaked in the grilled fish soup was delicious and delicious. It's a question of language."

Yue Shuai no longer had the mind to eat, and focused all his attention on the checkpoint: "One? Isn't the task just to find the devil? Listen to what you mean, and the second?"

"The second is that after finding the devil, you still have to get rid of him." Chi Yingxue rarely interjected, mainly because she had run out of juice and the freshly squeezed one hadn't arrived yet, so she was in a hurry.

With the last trace of luck, Yue Shuai asked Xu Wang: "Is this a fixed link?"

Xu Wang nodded: "It should be."

Yue Shuai despaired: "..."

Ji Yiming on the right became interested when he heard it now, and he was gearing up: "Hitting demons? This is cool!"

Xu Wang looked at Su, Tao, and Wei, whom he still remembered accurately, and then looked at Ji, whose eyes lit up when he heard about a fight.

Only Captain Yue, who didn't know what he was in charge of, was left, holding his chin, with a look of lovelessness on his face.

Now that they are so familiar, Xu Wang has something to say, leaning close to Yue Shuai, and asked in a low voice: "Is your team choosing the captain to see who is celebrating?"

Captain Yue digested for a long time before comprehending the spirit, and immediately became angry: "I am called lucky face!"

Xu Wang: "..."

Well, it was selected according to the mascot standard.

This "Rolling Friendship Dinner" lasted until eight o'clock in the evening, and then the two teams went back to rest, and at midnight, they reunited at the coordinate point.

The weightless purple vortex brought them back to the open-air coffee shop.

Still only the two of them.

This level is like a watershed, it is not only the separation of whether to be on the overall score list, but also the separation of lively and deserted.

As soon as they entered, Xu Wang and the others received the "three-piece stationery set" as a reward for clearing the level, and the coordinates of the next level.

When checking the rewards, Yue Shuai's team stood far away, just like avoiding suspicion when queuing up to withdraw money at an ATM, and did not go too far.

When the friends raised their heads again, the five of Yue Shuai were ready to go.

"Bless us." Yue Shuai smiled at Xu Wang, his teeth gleaming white under the bright sunlight.

Xu Wang word by word, slowly but solemnly: "Always be careful."

The tour group came over again.

From the team leader to the donkey friends, all of them have been replaced, and they are all new and unfamiliar faces.

"One-day tour around the city, including food and play, come?" The new leader holding a small flag, leaning on the low fence, warmly invited, from tone to demeanor, it was exactly the same as yesterday's leader.

Xu Wang suddenly had a terrifying illusion.

It seemed that this was the team leader from yesterday, only with a different face.

Yue Shuai's team stepped out of the fence, joined the tour group, and followed the new leader, drifting away.

Looking at their backs, the trembling in Xu Wang's heart just now was diluted again.

The Bad Owl Victims Sorority, as of now, is affiliated with two teams.

On the way to break through, they are no longer alone.

……

5:00 am

The first thing Xu Wang's team did when they returned to reality was to ask the only officially designated contact person—Junshi Wu—to send a condolence message to Captain Yue.

Wu Junshi's words are very concise.

Brother Sheng: Have you passed?

After a while, he came back there.

Marshal Yue: Passed [Doubtful Life.jpg]

Seeing the good news, Xu Wang asked Wu Sheng to send a video call invitation.

Unexpectedly, I was rejected as soon as I sent it, and then the other party came back with a voice call invitation.

Wu Sheng turned on the screen to Xu Wang.

Xu Wang pressed the switch on, and immediately turned on the speaker, so that the friends would not be frozen in the cold wind and could not hear any information.

"Congratulations on handing in the paper." Xu Wang congratulated first.

Over there, Captain Yue sighed heavily: "This is really the most difficult hurdle I've ever passed... Fucking sad, heartbroken, sick, crazy." The last four words almost popped out between teeth.

Xu Wang originally wanted to ask about the specific situation, but when he heard the voice, he changed the topic directly: "9/23 is in Guangdong, I have the coordinates here, do you want to go together?"

"No," Yue Shuai said without hesitation, "You guys go there first."

Xu Wang laughed: "What's the matter? Let's go and walk for you first?"

"This is really not true, our team just wants to delay for two days." Yue Shuai said sincerely, "Why don't you rush in after you pass, and we will go there later, and help you get on the way once, which can be regarded as repaying the debt, okay? ?”

Xu Wang just made fun of it, but he didn't expect the other party to take it seriously: "I'm joking with you."

But between the lines, he tasted a captain whose outlook on life has been subverted, and a partner who can support each other in the future.

"Are you all right?" As someone who has been here, no, someone who has not yet come out of the shadows, Xu Wang wanted to hug these partners very much.

"It's pretty good," Yue Shuai's voice was obviously trying to pull himself together, "It's just that in a short period of time, I can't believe in this world anymore."

Xu Wang: "..."

Yue Shuai: "Okay, let's stop chatting. If we chat for too long, the phone will explode. Contact me anytime if you need anything."

The voice call ends.

Xu Wang: "..."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Chi Yingxue: "..."

Kuang Jinxin: "..."

Qian Ai: "Military division, you should also quickly put away your phone, every second it is on, it will be more dangerous."

……

The shadow of 8/23 is deep and long. When durian crisps, family portraits of roast meat, and claypot rice are placed in front of you... what is the shadow?Can I eat it?

Old money eats China, in the most authentic Cantonese-style teahouse, it will be broadcast again.

When I came to Guangdong on 9/23, it was not only my mood that got warmer, but also the temperature.

Although the weather in Jiangsu is not as cold as that in the north, this month, it has also gone below zero, and Guangdong is still above zero. This is really friendly to the friends who "go out at midnight".

As always, the friends are ready to eat and drink enough, and first wait and see in the safe area of ​​the checkpoint for two or three days, not only to recuperate, but also to accumulate some peripheral information.

This is the first time they have come to this level, and everything in the level is unknown to them.

Midnight arrived as expected.

The hooting of an owl came from a desolate place, and under the night, a vortex of purple light opened a passage to another world.

To be cautious, this time the five partners did not step on the coordinate point, but hid behind the building 200 meters away. They didn't know if there were other teams hiding around, so they just stepped into the vortex and entered 9/23.

What greeted them was a closed space that looked like a space capsule.

Pure white floor, pure white walls, pure white ceiling, the material is like some kind of plastic product, there are no seams, everything is formed in one piece.There is a circular pattern on the wall in front, like the door of a spaceship.

There are no other teams.

Are those teams elsewhere, or are they the only ones breaking through just like 8/23?Just as the five partners became suspicious, some kind of low-frequency vibration suddenly came from the left and right walls.

Amid the sound of vibration, five dormant cabin-like things were slowly pushed out from the wall.It was as if there were five invisible drawers there, just waiting for them to come and pop out automatically.

Two on the left and three on the right, all in the middle of the wall, neatly arranged.

The five partners looked at each other in blank dismay, and the next moment, they cautiously stepped forward to check.

The height of the outer edge of the "sleep cabin" only reached their chests, and they lowered their heads to have a clear view of the inside.

The cabin is the size of a person, about two meters long, [-] centimeters wide, and [-] centimeters deep. It is made of the same pure white material as the surrounding walls, making the cabin look clean and tidy. A helmet lies quietly in it. , and nothing else.

The helmet can't fill the cabin, and it still looks empty.

"Ding--"

<Cheat Sheet>: All team members put on their helmets, lie down in the dark room, and the level will open.

Is this the beginning?

The reminder that was caught off guard caught my friends by surprise.

"Captain?" Kuang Jinxin cast a questioning look.

Xu Wang said, "Don't worry, just observe and observe."

Before he finished speaking, Chi Yingxue had already taken out a helmet.

"Hey, don't rush to wear it!" Qian Ai panicked.

Chi Yingxue was holding the helmet with one hand, like a basketball, circling on the fingertips: "Just look."

Qian Ai clutched his chest: "It's over, my heart has already started to swell." He looked at Wu Sheng and Xu Wang, "I have a premonition that this level must be tough."

Just a helmet, it really doesn't look like much, even if it's futuristic.Xu Wang's observations were fruitless, so he turned to look at Wu Sheng, and found that the other party's eyes were slightly squinted, and he was touching his lips, thoughtful.

This typical wise man's aura gave Xu Wangshu light: "Have you found anything?"

Wu Sheng nodded subconsciously, and pondered: "Why is such a bright cabin called a dark room?

Xu looked at the black line: "Can your focus be a little earthy..."

"When we lie down, it will be dark as soon as it is closed." Chi Yingxue shrugged and interjected, not knowing what to worry about. "But it's better to think clearly before starting," he added, with a voice Faintly, but with a firm attitude, "I will never lie down for this kind of thing a second time."

In the end, the friends still did not open the level.

Firstly, they are exhausted and need to adjust; secondly, they really have no idea about this level of ignorance, and they still need to prepare if they want to make up their minds to lie down.

But this night, the overall score list was opened.

They didn't make the list.

No.1的成绩是12/23，No.5的成绩是9/23。

They have not yet passed the ninth level, and the score is 8/23.

This incident caused a moderate impact on the small team. I thought that my results would be safe and stable on the list, and I was ready to receive rewards, but suddenly I was thrown a bucket of cold water.

I re-entered the owl the next day, and it was still the same. There were no other teams, only one airtight space capsule, and five helmet darkrooms.Different from the last level, if you sit in the coffee shop for a day, you can summarize more survival formulas. No matter how many times you come in, the amount of information in this level will be blank as long as you don’t open the level.

As soon as the team discusses, don't be so exhausted, whether it is deep or shallow, lie in and watch!

"Hey, I'm here first." As the captain, Xu Wang certainly took the lead.

He adjusted his breath slightly, climbed into one of the pop-up darkrooms—although it still looked like a big drawer to him when viewed sideways—and put his helmet on, carefully laying down.

At most, it is the adventure of holographic games. Xu Wang relaxes himself in his heart and tries not to think about the weird feeling of his brain being connected to some kind of port. He has the right to experience future technology in advance.

More than ten seconds have passed since lying flat.

Nothing happened.

Xu Wang opened his eyes, and the four heads on the edge of the dark room looked at him.

"It seems that I can't do it alone." Xu Wang sighed at the four heads, "Stop admiring me, hurry up."

The four partners no longer waited and watched, each found a dark room and lay down one after another.

Chi Yingxue was the one who moved the slowest. He put on his helmet, sat there in a daze for a moment, then frowned, closed his eyes, and lay dead.

As he lay flat, the five darkrooms slowly returned to the walls.

It was dark all around.

The unprecedented darkness engulfed everyone's five senses.

Xu Wang continued to adjust his breathing in the dark, preparing for the next battlefield. In the next second, there was a sharp pain in his head!

It's not physical pain, it's mental.

As if an electric current passed through the brain, the entire thinking world suddenly flooded with overloaded energy, and all the memories were disrupted, just like an uninvited visitor entered the memory supermarket, taking out the memories neatly arranged by time and category in an irregular manner. Come down, put in a basket, and smash the basket again!

Recent, long-term, happy and sad memories are stacked one on top of the other, like smashed fruit, the juice splashes, filled with dazzling and coquettish brilliance, no matter how clear it is, it is impossible to tell the truth from reality.