The Midnight Owl

When they returned to the hotel, Xu Wang and the others were extremely sleepy, but they didn't delay at all, so they packed up and checked out.While waiting for the online car-hailing service at the entrance of the hotel, it was still dark.

Breaking through this level was completely out of their plan. They didn't expect to break through in a daze, and handed in the paper without even losing the badge.Thinking of the past five hours, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally, and they didn't want to throw dice anymore for a year.

What they called was a large seven-seater SUV, and five people sat in it, spacious and comfortable.As soon as the car started, Chi Yingxue and Kuang Jinxin fell asleep, that was called a fragrance, that was called a carefree.

Qian Ai's eyelids are filled with lead, but he still remembers Yue Shuai's matter in his heart, and he can't sleep, so he gets angry when he sees the people next to him, pinches this face, pokes that cheek, and is reluctant to do anything cruel. It's like tickling someone.

Wu Sheng and Xu Wang sat in the front row.

Outside the window, the street scene flew by, and the street lamps formed a strip of light on the glass.

Wu Sheng watched quietly, as if letting go and thinking.

There is a very narrow aisle between Xu Wang's single seat and his single seat, which reminds him of how they were in high school. The two desks are adjacent to each other, but they are not next to each other. , you can poke the pen into the opponent's arm.

"Hey," Xu Wang threw a peppermint candy into his mouth, and said casually in the refreshing breath, "If you can really leave early, what are your plans?"

Wu Sheng turned his head and said, "I haven't thought too much about it yet. Let's see how much money is left. If you have enough, go it alone. If you don't have enough, make money first."

"Oh." Xu Wang nodded, ignoring the faint disappointment in his heart, and looked out of the window again.

That's the end of the topic.

Wu Sheng was a little caught off guard. He was just ready to chat when the other party unilaterally stopped.

"And you," he forcefully pulled the subject back, "what are your plans?"

"Let's find another job." Xu Wang didn't turn his head, "I don't have your skills, so I will only work for others in this life."

"Still selling the house?"

"Real estate consultant, thank you."

"Have you considered selling something else?"

Xu Wang became more and more confused, but he still couldn't hold back and turned his head: "Others?"

Wu Sheng turned his body sideways, and suggested sincerely: "Such as software programs?"

Xu Wangduoling, immediately understood what Wu Sheng meant, and immediately refused: "I won't give you a part-time job."

Wu Sheng was pierced by his posture of wanting to retreat eight hundred miles, but he was not discouraged: "I am a very kind boss."

Xu Wang narrowed his eyes: "When I praise myself, it usually contains a lot of water."

Wu Sheng was amused. He always wanted to pay back when he was so bullied by Xu Wang in the past, but now he is not angry at all. He is even very willing to listen. .”

Xu Wangbai said, "I will be the boss of your company? Then you go drink the northwest wind?"

"I'll be the proprietress." Wu Sheng was very negotiable.

Xu Wang was at a loss for words, and stared at him for a few seconds, his face became hot.

Taking advantage of no one's attention around, Wu Sheng leaned over and kissed her.Xu Wang's lips were very cool, with a hint of mint flavor. Wu Sheng originally wanted to touch the water, but he couldn't hold back when he kissed him. He stayed there for a long time, tracing the shape of the other's lips over and over again, and finally bit him lightly. , only reluctant to leave.

Xu Wang was dumbfounded the whole time, and thanks to the darkness inside and outside the car, no one saw the fire on his face.

Wu Sheng held Xu Wang's hand, panting low, revealing that he was suppressing and restraining, but his hand was very warm: "I hope you include me in your plan."

Xu Wang raised his head, Wu Sheng's eyes were the only light in the darkness of day and night.

"Yes." Xu Wang admitted. In fact, he knew it in his heart a long time ago. It was because of the clarity that he was afraid. He was afraid that Wu Sheng, like Owl, was just a sudden accident, came unexpectedly, and left without a trace. "And you?"

Is there me in your plan?

Wu Sheng looked at him quietly: "No."

Xu Wang stared, this atmosphere, this look, you gave me this line? !

Wu Sheng was overjoyed, as if he had succeeded: "You are."

You are not in my plan, because you are my plan.

The young online car-hailing driver in the front row swallowed hard. For the five-star praise, he pretended that he didn't hear anything, didn't understand anything, absolutely pure, and absolutely professional.

Chi Yingxue in the back row closed her eyes again, frowned and moved her body, covered the hood of her hoodie, covered her head and ears, and also covered the sour smell of love, and then regained her stability.

Kuang Jinxin pursed his lips in amusement, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and fell asleep again.

Qian Ai squinted, sighing almost inaudibly, why can other people's life usher in a beautiful spring and full of flowers, while my own place will always be full of wind and white grass?

——Wu Junshi thinks that "no one pays attention to all around", the full water is really a vast ocean.

At the beginning of dawn, the number of cars on the road gradually increased, and no one noticed. Another SUV followed closely behind.

In the car, Kong Lize sat in the co-pilot, exited and looked at the mobile phone map for a long time, turned around and said to Wang flatly: "No mistake, they are going to the airport."

Wang Banran rubbed his chin in doubt: "Do they know the coordinates of the next level?"

Judging from the performance of the opponent in flying chess, it is obvious that this is the first time to break through this level, and even 10/23 is the first time to arrive, so you already know the coordinates of 11/23?

"I bought it, or someone else told me," Gu Nian said calmly, "It's not difficult to know the coordinates, but it's strange why they are in such a hurry to go there."

"The strangest thing is, why do we follow them?" Chen Guan frowned heavily, as if anyone with bangs could be pushed back.Losing to the same team, twice, and still rushing to follow them after the game, this is not enough to feed yourself, can't you make yourself happy!

"That embossed board, and that cat, don't you think it's strange?" Wang gave him a sharp look, "They must know something we don't!"

"xi... There are a lot of weird things there, maybe it's a routine setting, but we haven't encountered it before." Chen Guan almost said the word "owl", but fortunately he reacted quickly and put it away. Flying chess has given him a headache all night Cracking, he doesn't want to make things worse.

Jiang Dachuan usually just listens to this kind of smart chat.Let the wind down once in a while.Now, for example, glancing at the driver now and then to make sure he really doesn't care about what they're talking about.

Owl's secrets cannot be told to non-passers, but they have gradually figured out the secrets since they broke through the pass. As long as you don't intend to tell the truth subjectively, and your conversation is so nonsensical that outsiders can't understand it at all, Then the cracking headache warning will not appear.

The owl seems to have mastered their brains, at least there is some kind of connection and induction, so once the whistleblower's heart is moved, the warning will follow like a shadow, so just think about it.

"Whether it's a regular setting or not, you'll know if you follow along." Wang Duanran's gaze was firm, which made him appear calm in a rare way, although this temperament could not last for too long.

All the clues that might be related to the owl, as long as he didn't come across them, if he did, he must never miss them.

He didn't want to stay in this damn place for a day.

……

When we arrived at the airport, it was dawn, but it was a faint light of gray haze.Thick dark clouds covered the sun without a trace, the sky was dark, the wind was chilly, and it seemed like rain was coming.

In the early morning, the airport was already crowded with people. After checking in, the five of Xu Wang lined up to enter the security check channel.

As soon as they got back to the hotel, they booked the earliest air tickets available to Zhengzhou, Henan. 5/23 was in Xuchang, Henan, but in order to facilitate the joint, the two teams set the meeting point in Zhengzhou.

Of course, these Wang Juanran squads are not clear.

The only information they have is that on 11/23, they are in Guizhou, but Xu Wang and the airline they checked in with do not have a flight from here to Guizhou.

After half an hour.

Wang resolutely hung up the phone: "We've found out, they're going to Zhengzhou."

Gu Nian frowned: "The only checkpoints in Henan are Xuchang and Anyang."

Kong Lize scratched his head: "Do they want to go to the Endless Sea?"

Chen Guan's black line: "Take a taxi to the next city and enter. Do you need to fly to Henan?"

"There must be something." Wang resolutely put the phone in his pocket, praying that there would be tickets for the flight.

Xu Wang's team didn't know that they had already put on a little tail.The boarding time was still early. After they passed the security check, they found a boarding gate with no one in the waiting hall. There was an empty seat to rest casually.

Xu Wang squinted for a while, regained some energy, and when he got up, he found that Qian Ai, Kuang Jinxin, and Wu Sheng were all resting their eyes with their eyes closed, and Chi Yingxue was the only one who didn't know what to do.

He leaned over curiously, and found that his teammate was holding up his palm and looking over and over again.

Xu Wang smiled: "What are you doing? Show yourself palmistry?"

Chi Yingxue turned her head and asked, "That cat is the soul painter you mentioned?"

Xu Wang told Chi Yingxue about what happened ten years ago, but it was the first time that he released Xiaosanhua in front of him: "Yes, that's it, it can come and go freely in places we can't get in, and everything inside I can draw it for you."

Chi Yingxue frowned slightly, and her eyes fell back on her hands.

Xu Wang watched him spread his fingers, tilted his head and looked at it for a while, and muttered wonderingly: "Can such a small paw hold a paintbrush?"

Xu Wang: "..."

This teammate's focus is always biased.

Unexpectedly, Chi Yingxue turned her head suddenly, and her eyes became sharp in an instant.

Xu Wang was shocked: "Huh?"

Chi Yingxue ignored him, her eyes narrowed dangerously, her eyes searched back and forth, and finally shrugged: "It may be an illusion."

Xu Wang raised his forehead, and for the first time felt that chatting with his teammates was like walking on eggshells.

In an ice cream shop not far away, Wang Duanran and Jiang Dachuan got out from under the huddled table and sat upright again, but the former's eyes still wandered in a certain direction outside the shop: "Didn't notice it?"

Turning his back to Gu Nian who was sitting outside the store, he said, "Not yet."

Wang resolutely leaned in, using Gu Nian's body as a visual cover: "What is present?"

Gu Nian sighed: "We will be on the same flight later, how long do you think we can hide?"

When he said this, Gu Nian did not expect that the answer would be - a whole day.

Starting at eight o'clock in the morning, sleet, wind and small hail swept across the entire airport.As if trying to catch the tail of winter, this time, it's night.

The flight was delayed and delayed, and the entire waiting hall was full of people.

Xu Wang called Yue Shuai at noon and said it would be later, and at eight o'clock in the evening, he called again and said it might be tomorrow.

"It's too difficult to see you." Captain Yue, who received the second call, felt that he was Xu Xian at the moment, suffering the West Lake to dry up, waiting for the Leifeng Pagoda to fall.

"I'm also in a hurry." Xu Wang told the truth, the information was like a carrot hanging in front of his eyes, and he was about to die of hunger.

"If I had known earlier, it would be better to let you rest for one more day," Yue Shuai said, "Maybe we can pass another test."

"Oh," Xu Wang almost forgot, "We're done."

Yue Shuai: "...What?!"

Xu Wang: "As long as two teams make up this level, it will be opened automatically, and you have to break through if you don't want to break through."

Yue Shuai: "So you handed in the paper again?"

Xu Wang: "Yes."

Yue Shuai: "..."

Xu Wang: "Team Yue?"

Yue Shuai: "Ah Wang, tell me the truth, do you have a strategy?"

Xu Wang: "If I say no, it's all based on strength. Is the boat of friendship easy to capsize?"

Yue Shuai: "...it's turned over!!!"

Xu Wang: "Do you want to know the content of the tenth level? How to hand in the paper?"

Yue Shuai: "Wait a minute, I'll turn the boat over again."

Twenty minutes later, Xu Wang pursed his lips happily and hung up the phone.Captain Yue, who was far away in Zhengzhou, was like a gust of mint wind, blowing away the anxiety of waiting for the plane.

At twelve o'clock at night, the plane hadn't taken off yet.

Xu Wang's team sat on their seats, waiting for the ceiling or the ground to create a purple vortex.

Wang Chuanran's team was also waiting, and the hooting of owls in the middle of the night had become their exam bell.

The clock at the airport, the second hand, minute hand, hour hand, overlap.

Beijing time 00:00

In the silence, there are neither owls nor purple swirls.

Beijing time 00:02

The airport is still the airport, stranded passengers are still stranded passengers, Xu Wang and the others are still sitting on chairs, and so is Wang Duanran's team a few boarding gates away.

Outside the window, the rain and snow finally stopped, and the bottom and bottom melted into a piece of whiteness that seemed to be nothing.