The Midnight Owl

Chi Zhuolin stood behind a dead tree, hidden in the withered grass, he said he was going back to school, but ended up getting lost in this abandoned garden, like a toy with a dead battery.

Xu Wang kept telling himself that this was a fake, just a chaotic partner, an absurd subconscious projection, but the weird sense of horror that spread from the bottom of his heart to his limbs still eroded him.

Feeling Xu Wang's trembling, Wu Sheng gently hugged his shoulder.

"Why..." He couldn't understand why such an elder brother who doted on his younger brother existed like this in Chi Yingxue's heart.

Wu Sheng thought for a moment, and said: "Everyone has shortcomings, but a machine may be able to achieve perfection..."

"You mean, in Xiaoxue's heart, Chi Zhuolin... is perfect?"

Xu Wang looked at the motionless Chi Zhuolin, his sunny eyebrows, and his dashing equestrian attire. Even at such a weird moment, if he didn't look at the screen on his chest, he was still a well-educated young man with outstanding temperament. .

No, Xu Wang shook his head, no.

"Wu Sheng," he almost whispered, "if I had such a perfect person in my heart, I would imagine him as the incarnation of all the good things in the world, but definitely not... like this."

"I haven't finished talking just now." Wu Sheng interrupted softly, "The machine can indeed be perfect, but there is a fatal flaw..."

He turned his head slightly.

Xu Wang followed his gaze, and his eyes fell on the screen on Chi Zhuolin's chest.

Not enough power.

Four warning red letters, strong and dazzling.

For a child, what kind of brother is the most perfect?Xu Wang thought, in addition to good enough studies, good sports, and all-round development of morality, intelligence and physical fitness, is there anything else?

have it.

Who doesn't want an older brother to back him up and protect him from the wind and rain.

So brother should be able to play with him and guard him all the time.

Always, that's good.

The night wind blew across the abandoned garden and the withered grass, rustling without a sound of insects.

Xu Wang smelled it, and at some point, there was water vapor in the wind.

The tip of his nose suddenly felt cold.

Lifting his head, another drop of coolness fell on his eyelids.

It's raining.

Wu Sheng also sensed the change in the weather. Just as he was about to raise his head, a bunch of ferocious dogs barked suddenly from a distance!

The scream was crazy and ferocious, almost startling the plants and trees into a commotion, as if the next second it would bite and tear the thing it was facing into pieces, tearing it apart and swallowing it!

The two looked at each other, and Wu Sheng couldn't help but pick up Xu Wang again, with the wind blowing under his feet, he followed the sound!

Xu Wang's after-effects from being carried the last time hadn't passed yet, but this time he came again, hanging on Wu Sheng's shoulders, making him want to vomit.He doesn't get airsick, carsick, or seasick, who the hell would have thought that he would get shoulder-sick one day!

But there is no place to complain about this suffering. In order to pursue maximum efficiency, we can only cooperate with others to fly on grass!

The only thing that can make Captain Xu feel comforted is that the speed is really fast. When he closes his eyes and opens his eyes, when he arrives at the place, the bark of a dog that was too far away a second ago now rushes straight into his ears, making his head ache. .

The body was then lowered.

This is a hidden courtyard, the yard is not big, two or three rooms, two moon gates in the north and south, the south leads to the abandoned garden they just came over, and the north leads to where, I don't know.

There are large tanks filled with water in each of the four corners of the courtyard, and the center of the courtyard is empty. At this moment, a fierce battle is taking place.

A man in black clothes, black trousers and a black mask was biting a wolf dog on his arm, if it wasn't for the dog barking just now, people would really think it was a wolf; Giant crab, the crab shell is green and shiny, the crab legs are spread out, and the width is two meters wide!

That person was without a doubt the man in black who followed and spied on them before, and was lost in the depths of the abandoned garden. He did not expect to meet again in this way!

The man in black shook his arm vigorously, but the wolf dog bit him hard. After shaking for a long time, the dog's fangs got deeper and deeper. The black sleeve on his arm was already torn, and the place where the dog bit him was already full of flesh and blood. Vague!

The spider crab on the leg is not too much, a pair of crab claws, even the pincers are torn, and the leg of the man in black is dripping with blood!

"What are you still doing in a daze, save me—" the man in black shouted at the two people who were stunned at the door of the moon.

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng were a little hesitant. In this unpredictable world, it is impossible to judge what should be done and what should not be done, who is a good person and who is a villain!

Seeing that they were not moving, the man became anxious, and shouted like he was going all out: "Don't you want to find Chi Yingxue, I'll take you there!"

The raindrops in the yard became dense in an instant, and the moment he called out Chi Yingxue's name, the rainwater fell into the bars, forming dense sprays!

Wu Sheng made a decisive decision and directly clicked <[Defense] Skynet Recovery>!

Xu Wang didn't move, but kept his eyes on the battlefield, always ready to patch up the battle plan!

A large net fell from the sky and landed on top of the man in black at first, but the net seemed to be unable to feel the man in black, but passed through from above his head and continued to fall until it finally covered only the vicious dog and the man still biting him. On the crab holding his leg!

The sky net is restored, sparse but not leaky, release what should be released, what should be networked!

Wu Sheng strode forward, gathered the edge of the net, and pulled hard to the side!

The wolfdog and the crab were ripped off the man in black by the tough big net!

The wolfdog's sharp teeth almost took off a piece of flesh from the man in black's arm, and the crab claws cut another deep bone wound on the man's leg at the last moment he had to let go!

The man in black didn't make a sound, as if the injuries weren't on him.

Taking advantage of the inertia of tearing apart the two beasts, Wu Sheng slammed the net bag to the ground, and tied the net port to a dead end at an extremely fast speed!

The wolfdog let out a low growl, jumped up when it touched the ground, and bit the net bag fiercely with its sharp claws and fangs. Its eyes were green with ferocity like a hungry wolf.

The crab in the net struggled with its clumsy body, slowly stood firm, and landed on its six feet again. The two tongs in front slowly stretched towards the net and closed with force.

"Crack!"

The mesh snapped.

Wu Sheng didn't expect it, the crab claws have serrations instead of blades, even if they wanted to cut it, they couldn't be so clean!This sound didn't sound like crab claws, but like scissors!

Scissors?

Wu Sheng stabilized his mind and looked at the pair of big crab claws. At this moment, the crab had already swaggered out of the cut net. The one held up in front of him was as green and shiny as the body. Where were the crab claws? But a pair of pruning shears!

Even Wu Sheng, seeing this scene, also had goose bumps all over his body.

Xu Wang also saw it. On the periphery of the battlefield, he not only saw the crab claws turned into pruning shears, but also saw the dog tag hanging on the neck of the vicious dog. It was not a dog tag at all, but a car key!

The dense raindrops had already soaked the clothes of the two people, but they didn't notice it.

The big crab suddenly came running towards Wu Sheng, its speed was comparable to that of a centipede!

Wu Sheng hid back, but unexpectedly, the vicious dog also crawled out of the hole in the net bag, jumped up, and threw itself on his face!

Wu Sheng dodged to the side, dodged the vicious dog, jumped away from the crab, but was still hooked by the claws of the crab, and the tip of the claws pulled hard, with a sound of "stab", the pocket was torn directly, and Chi Zhuolin let him take the clothes with him. The letter was pierced directly and hung on the tip of the tongs!

Wu Sheng stretched out his hand to grab it, but the crab ran away sideways!

With his speed, he could go after him, but Xu Wang next to him blocked the attacking vicious dog for him, and he was almost overwhelmed!

"Leave me alone, chase the letter!" Xu Wang shouted.

"It doesn't matter," Wu Sheng grabbed the skin on the back of the vicious dog's neck, ripped it off Xu Wang's body, and swung it far away, "It's just a number, write another one."

The vicious dog fell into the withered grass, and ran away in a hurry with a "wow".

The man in black not far away retreated quietly under the cover of the sound of rain.

The rain washed away the blood from his wound, but after washing it clean, new blood oozes out again.Under the dilution of the rain, the bright red new blood seemed to have turned pale pink.

After retreating to the moon gate in the north, he turned around decisively and ran away!

As soon as he ran out of the moon gate, a voice sounded in the ears of the man in black——

【Owl: Someone used <[Phantom] Tie Xiaoren> on you~~】

With the protracted ending of "Yo~", the heart of the man in black felt like a needle prick!

His breathing was stagnant, his feet stopped, and he instinctively covered his chest.

This is different from the pain of skin trauma, it is neurological and almost unbearable.

"Try running one step further!" Behind Xu Wang, holding a small scarecrow in one hand and a small steel needle in the other, he held his head high and his chest high, with a chic posture.

He anticipated the need for a tactical patch!If he hadn't been distracted by the pruning shears and car keys, he wouldn't have let the man in black run out of the moon gate!

Wu Sheng gave him an approving glance.

Xu Wang was triumphant, "Zi'er—" he gave another injection to the little scarecrow's elbow, it wasn't deep, but it still hurt a bit.

The man in black hissed and gasped, angrily: "I'm not fucking moving, and you're still stabbing me!"

"Cough, strengthen the warning again." Captain Xu had a good reason.

The man in black had a mouthful of old blood in his throat. Seeing that Xu Wang didn't intend to "strengthen" any more, he still didn't dare to take it lightly.

"Don't look for them, they're all gone." Xu Wang knew that he was looking for the two monsters.

Only then did the man in black breathe a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was more afraid of monsters than Xu Wang and Wu Sheng.

"Why are they attacking you?" Xu Wang asked.

"This is not the place for me to come. They are loyal and loyal, so of course they will bite me when they see me." The man in black chuckled slightly, with a bit of disdain.

"They...are they..." Xu Wang wanted to ask what they were, but it was too absurd, and he couldn't ask.

The man in black answered without a doubt: "The driver and the gardener."

"Why isn't this the place you should be?" Wu Sheng said suddenly.

The man in black raised his eyebrows, with a half-smile: "You have too many questions."

Wu Sheng wiped the rain off his face, and took two steps forward.

The man in black was startled, and retreated vigilantly: "What are you doing?"

Wu Sheng shrugged: "Help you take off your mask."

"No need." The man in black refused decisively.

Xu Wang raised the small steel needle as if to pierce it.

The man in black: "...I will do it myself."

Four words, gnash your teeth.

After all, he really picked it off, without any sloppy movements.

"Satisfied?" No more concealment, the man in black raised his face and looked at the two provocatively.

It was the face of a strange young man, with a healthy wheat-colored skin, exuding vigor and vitality, and his facial features were not as handsome as Chi Zhuolin's, but he was still a little handsome, with a hint of rebellion between his brows Taming, with firm eyes, exudes a vigorous and wild power just like his whole person.

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng looked at him for several seconds, but they still couldn't match this face with anyone in their memory.

"Have you seen enough?" Obviously this one is impatient.

Xu Wang walked to Wu Sheng's side and negotiated calmly: "We saved you, now it's your turn to fulfill your promise."

Aren't you looking for Chi Yingxue, I'll take you there! ——Of course young people remember their promises.But at this moment, at that moment, he looked Xu Wang and Wu Sheng up and down: "You have to tell me who you are and why you have to find that guy."

"We didn't doubt you, but you were on guard against us first?" Xu Wang was speechless.

"Don't trust anyone," the young man smiled, his voice slow and gentle, "In this world, you can't even trust yourself."

Xu Wang narrowed his eyes slightly, just at that moment, a certain familiar feeling flashed by, but it was too fast, too fast to grasp.

Concentrating his mind, he refused to give an inch: "You want to know our identity, that's fine, but you have to trade your identity."

He never traded at a loss.The other party wants to find out about them, and they want to find out about each other.

"My identity?" The young man laughed when he heard the joke, "Then you will be disappointed. I have no household registration, ID card, or temporary residence permit, so I'm just a black household here."

Wu Sheng pursed his lips and remained silent.

Xu Wang was even more confused when he heard that, so he simply asked the most direct question first: "Name, there must be a name."

"Oh, yes," the young man pinched and shook the drenched black clothes stuck to his chest, "I am the King of Hades."

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng were stunned, facing that strange face, forgot to speak for a moment.

The rain has slowed down, but the courtyard has been filled with mist, just like a dream in a garden in a play, in the mist, both virtual and real, illusion and reality.

……

Kuang Jinxin chased the child to the end of the veranda. The figure flashed and disappeared. What appeared in front of him was a wall with a small door on the wall. The door was extremely short, reaching only to his waist.

The appearance of this wall and this door is very abrupt, as if someone forced a wall into the corridor through it, cutting off the corridor and blocking the way of people passing by.

Kuang Jinxin smelled the orange soda again.

This taste seems to be absent, like a kind of traction in the dark, leading him to the depths of the unknown.

Holding his breath, Kuang Jinxin stretched out his hand to push the small door.

The door opened with a "squeak", but no light leaked from inside.

He bent down and turned on his phone to shine a light inside. The light glided over some spines from time to time, but it was too far away to see clearly.

After thinking about it, he went in anyway.

The space inside is much more spacious than it looks from the outside. Kuang Jinxin straightened up, looked around with the flashlight of his mobile phone, and finally saw clearly that this is a study.

The area of ​​about [-] square meters is surrounded by bookshelves, mostly thick hardcover books with gilding fonts, and the bookshelves are filled to the brim.

Except for books and bookshelves, there is nothing else, not even decorations, and the walls and floors are dusty.

Kuang Jinxin approached a bookshelf and picked up a book at random. As soon as he picked it up, he froze. The book was extremely light, like an empty shell.

He hurriedly pulled out the tree, and sure enough, it was just a fake book for decoration.

Many coffee shops and restaurants are decorated with such fake books, including some private residences. It is normal to use words to decorate the facade, but here, in such a secret secretarial room that is so simple that it cannot be used for entertaining people, why bother? Put these fake books?

If these fake books are not for show, what are they for?

During their journey, have they encountered anything related to books?

Kuang Jinxin thought hard and hated himself for not being born with the mind of a military advisor...

Wait!

Book?

Password letter!

female parent!

Kuang Jinxin was frightened by his own whimsy. Reason told him that it would not be such a coincidence, but his intuition told him that in this world, don't believe what you should believe, and don't doubt what you should doubt.

No longer thinking in vain, Kuang Jinxin directly pulled out the fake books on the shelf one by one, and checked them one by one!

Every time he finished checking a book, he put it on the ground on one side, checked the books on a shelf, and then groped through the empty shelf.

Just check all the way, pile up all the way, and soon, the ground is full of fake books, and there is almost no place to go.

The power of the mobile phone is also consumed by the long-lasting flashlight. Most of it.

There was the last one left on the bookshelf, so Kuang Jinxin stepped on the fake book and continued to flip through it.

Finally, when he touched a dark red book, he paused.

That book has weight.

Kuang Jinxin couldn't wait to pull out the book, the phone's cold light illuminated the words on the cover - "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes".

He knew it, he knew it!

Kuang Jinxin was ecstatic and wanted to announce to the world that his reasoning was right!

But after thinking about it, no, it hasn't been verified yet, only if he really matches the password, it means that he guessed right.

Password, password... What are those four sets of numbers?

Holding the "suspected female parent" classmate Kuang, I belatedly fell into the desert of memory.

The code letter was on his military adviser, but he only read the letter a few times.

120...36...8...

Kuang Jinxin racked his brains until his hair was going bald, but there were still only a few vague numbers.

Even for a second, can you use Brother Sheng's memory for a while?