The Midnight Owl

"Embossed panels."

Wu Sheng and Gu Nian, two partners who were separated by dozens of meters, did not communicate or coordinate beforehand, but they uttered these three words almost at the same time.

"The one that Wang Wang broke?" Xu Wang kept thinking about it.

"It must be," Qian Ai thought more and more, "Except for this, we haven't encountered any other abnormalities!"

"So, that embossed board...is the owl's switch?" Kuang Jinxin was frightened by his own guess, and looked at Wu Sheng without knowing it.

Chi Yingxue also glanced over, but not at Wu Sheng, but at the mobile phone he was holding to check the time: "Did they come in?"

Wu Sheng understood what he meant in seconds, because this was also what he was going to verify.

The voice invitation was sent to "Dashuai Yue" again.

The five partners listened to the prompt tone of the voice invitation and kept listening, but no one answered until the invitation ended automatically.

The answer is already obvious—the Yue Family Army entered the owl as usual, cutting off all external connections.

Is only 10/23 affected?

Is it really because Wang Wang destroyed the purple embossed board?

Is this closure temporary or permanent?

Until early in the morning, when the delayed flight finally took off, Xu Wang's team didn't know the answer.

So, they decided not to fly—just as the flight began to check in, they decisively left the airport.

Of course, this little tail is still hanging behind him.

"Couldn't they have found out that they were being followed, and sneaked us to play on purpose..." Kong Lize stayed up all night, his eyes were like rabbits, and it was the first time he realized that stalking and stalking are more difficult than breaking through. As expected, bad guys are not easy to do.

Jiang Dachuan leaned against the window of the SUV, his head was bumped by the vehicle, and he knocked on the glass, trying to stay awake: "The booked ticket is not going to fly again, just to sneak us? The cost is too high."

Kong Lize: "I bought all the badge manuals, do you think they are short of the airfare?"

Gu Nian closed the novel and raised her head: "Da Chuan is talking about the cost of time."

"At this time, you can still read the book?" Chen Guan squinted at the novel in Gu Nian's hand, and the few words on the cover gave him a headache.

Gu Nian sighed: "Sometimes I read because my mind calms down, and sometimes I read because I can't calm down."

Chen Guan: "...can we speak Chinese?"

Gu Nian smiled, and stopped showing the art of language with him, and went straight to the point: "They probably want to wait and see whether this 'can't get in' is temporary or permanent."

Chen Guan's black line: "If it's permanent, how can this class have a head?"

"If you think like you, scientists don't need to do experiments, and scholars don't need to do research, anyway, it's all unknown." Wang gave him a blank look. This partner has a good physique, fights cleanly and without nonsense, or just He doesn't even hire such a barbaric character, such a stone-headed mind, and even change of money.

"Are you scolding me again in your heart?" Chen Guan narrowed his eyes, full of wild intuition.

"No, you still can't reach my heart," Wang resolutely corrected, "I'm just whispering about you in my stomach."

"..." The hand is short and the mouth is soft, so Chen Guan can't beat him with his hands, he can't scold him with his mouth, he can only use his feet to give him a blow.

"Damn!" Wang Duanran gasped as if in pain, hugged his calf tremblingly, with a look of shock of "how dare you".

Chen Guan looked at him with no emotion in his heart: "Boss, I just stepped on your sneakers."

Xu Wang and the others didn't go back to the city center, they found a hotel next to the airport to stay.Originally, he wanted to contact Yue Shuai after he settled down, but the other party's voice invitation was sent first.

As soon as the connection was made, Captain Yue yelled in shock: "You send me a voice after zero o'clock?!"

It took Xu Wang a long time to calm down the wave of "shock", and then he started to talk about the embossed panels, and at the same time learned about Yue Shuai's situation.

Just as they guessed, Yue Shuai entered the Owl at zero o'clock as usual, but because he was in Zhengzhou without any checkpoints, he entered the Endless Sea.They didn't go to find the treasure, nor did they go to the flying island. They drifted on the sea overnight, and everything was normal.

"I just don't know what's going on at the other checkpoints." After exchanging information with each other, Xu Wang said casually.

"Wait for me for 5 minutes." Yue Shuai interrupted the voice without warning.

After 5 minutes, the voice was connected again.

岳帅：“1/23、4/23、7/23、8/23都正常，没关闭。”

Xu Wang was stunned for a moment, and immediately asked, "Are the other levels closed?"

"No," Captain Yue said honestly, "I don't know anyone else."

Xu Wang: "..."

Yue Shuai: "Don't be disappointed, my social circle will continue to expand in the future..."

Xu Wang: "No, it's already very broad, really."

Wu Sheng's plan is to wait for three days. Once the three days arrive, if there is still no movement, no matter whether the closure is temporary or permanent, he has to leave for Zhengzhou. After all, that's where the business is going. At least it won't be as cloudy as it is now.

However, that night, the owl hooted as expected.

Xu Wang's team entered 10/23.

Wang Duanran's team entered the endless sea - they have already lost the qualification to enter 10/23.

The level is still the same level, the endless sea is still the endless sea, nothing has changed.

Just like a game, the server suddenly announced that it will be repaired for one day, and the next day, it will be reopened, and everything will be as usual.

Coming out of the owl again, Xu Wang and the five stopped any useless discussions and hesitation—discussions without results, which can only be guesses forever—directly bought tickets and flew to Zhengzhou.

Wang Chuanran's team persevered and followed behind.

So in the crowded economy class, the two teams met—to be precise, it was Chi Yingxue who caught Wang Duanran.

Xiaoye Wang originally wanted to buy first class or business class, but there was no seat, so he had to buy economy class.To be on the safe side, I picked the two rows of seats that were the most unpopular.

Originally, he made the right choice. He was separated from Xu Wang and the others by a certain distance, and each of them wore a peaked cap, so the boarding was messy, and they managed to get a seat after taking their seats. Can see who is the ghost.

However, Chi Yingxue is that ghost.

At that time, the plane had already climbed the slope and entered a stable flight stage. Chi Yingxue got up to go to the bathroom.When passing by the row where Wang Duanran was sitting, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and locked his eyes on it.

For no reason, he felt that figure was very familiar, even though the other person was lying low, with arms folded, and the peaked cap even covered his face.But a man who used to play with him, let alone sitting there alone, even if he was turned into ashes there, he could be blown away in the vast sea of ​​people in one breath.

"Hello." Chi Yingxue never had the word polite in his dictionary, so he reached out to pick up the peaked cap, and knocked on his forehead twice, "Don't pretend to be asleep."

There were three seats in a row, and Wang Duanran was sitting in the middle. He never expected Chi Yingxue to actually stretch his arms in, so his first reaction when he opened his eyes was not to look for Chi Yingxue, but to turn his head, glaring at the side without giving up his life. Protect the boss' employees!

Kong Lize, wearing a peaked cap, pretended to be asleep, continued to pretend to be asleep, and pretended to be asleep with his life.

In the same row, Jiang Dachuan, who was sitting in the innermost window by the window, raised his head slightly to make the peaked cap on his face more stable.

Chi Yingxue only had Wang Duanran in his eyes, and immediately narrowed his eyes lightly when he saw people walking, "Why are you following us?"

"Who, who is following you, let's go to the Endless Sea!" Wang Fengran didn't care how many loopholes there were in this statement, he dealt with it first.

Chi Yingxue frowned in doubt: "You?" Looking around, his eyes appeared blank, "The other four are also on the plane?"

Jiang Dachuan by the window: "..."

In the same row, Gu Nian and Chen Guan, separated by an aisle: "..."

Kong Lize opened his eyes silently, looked at the slender arm lying in front of him through the gap of the peaked cap, and considered whether to take a bite to justify his sense of existence.

……

At an altitude of [-] feet, Xu Wang switched to Wang Chuanran's side, and the two captains opened the skylight to speak frankly.

Inside the checkpoint, everyone is an opponent, but when they leave the checkpoint, they are all poor people who were unfortunately selected by the owl, and they all want to end all this early.When two people have a common pursuit, the front can be unified.

In particular, this benefit is not exclusive - when Yue Shuai bought information, he once pointed out that although 100 million is not a small amount, if he can really leave the owl, there will definitely be many people who buy it. It will be discounted due to the increase of competitors.His original intention was to bargain, but unexpectedly, the seller used his ID card and household registration book as a guarantee. This method of leaving early was parallel and independent for each team, and there was no competition.That is, if team A leaves with this method, team B can also use it, and the probability of team B's success will not be disturbed just because team A succeeds.

Based on the above, it is not a bad thing to bring in a team in the front line, and it can also share the cost.

Especially for a generous classmate like Wang Duanran——

"100 million, right? I'll sell all of it, but I only own 1/3 of the shares. If I buy information, we'll share it with the three teams."

Xu Wang suddenly felt that even if he didn't have the fate of bouncing, Chi Yingxue could still spot Wang Duanran in the vast economy class at a glance—they both exuded the same radiance, called Haoguang.

The final plan was to share the cost equally among the three teams, but because it was finalized on the plane, there was no time to tell Yue Shuai.So Captain Yue, who ran to the airport to pick up people, only left five seats, but he didn't expect to pick up ten people.

He had never dealt with Wang Duanran's team, and had never met him in the checkpoint, but after listening to Xu Wang's brief introduction, he was here to buy information together, and immediately stepped forward, holding each other's hands tightly, with a warm and friendly face.

Xu Wang looked at the shadow of Wang Duanran reflected in his eyes, and always felt that the shadow was slowly becoming 33.

Wang Duanran, who always likes to judge people by their nostrils first, has never experienced the enthusiasm of a tropical island, and soon lost to Yue Shuai. On the way back to the hotel, he talked about everything he should and should not have. The key point is that the two of them didn't sit in the same car and chat in WeChat.

Xu Wang finally knew how Yue Shuai was able to inquire into four checkpoints in 5 minutes, and how did he come to have such a complicated network of relationships within the owl.

It was afternoon when he arrived in Zhengzhou, and Yue Shuai met the seller at [-] o'clock that night.

Yue Shuai went to the appointment alone, lest the other party see that they had three teams, and then a lion would open his mouth.

The rest of the friends were waiting in the hotel. Not long after, Yue Shuai came back.Because the other party's intelligence is just one sentence - go to Beijing, find someone, and he will tell you how to leave early.

Dare to love this is a middleman!

But there is no need to pay any more money. Just take the address slip he wrote and go to Beijing to find that person, and the other party will tell you directly.

Once the fifteen partners discuss it, the process is correct.Now that the man has left the owl, it is impossible to go to the Endless Sea. If you want to do business in the owl, you must find an intermediary who is still in the owl. If you directly tell the intermediary the specific method, the intermediary can get rid of him , I did it alone.

The next day, the third team took the note and flew to Beijing again. After getting off the plane, they went straight to the address on the note.

The closer you get to the answer, the more nervous you are, the more nervous you are, the more prepared you are, and the result is that when you get to someone's door, you realize, uh, the battle is a bit big.

Fifteen young men, who had been traveling around for days, stood in front of a huge wrought iron gate. No matter how beautiful and magnificent the gate was, it seemed that it could be smashed into pieces in a second.

The person who answered the door was a guy in his early twenties, who was almost frightened by the situation. If Xu Wang and the others hadn't handed over the note in time, the other party would have called the police.

This is a single-family villa hidden in the suburbs of Beijing. Xu Wang and the others almost lost their way by following the navigation.But the interior of the villa is very beautifully decorated. It is not the kind of grandeur that only knows how to pile up money, but it is very tasteful and self-cultivated.

The young man took them to a door on the second floor, knocked on the door, turned around and went downstairs before the door opened.

Xu Wang looked at his back, and realized that he had overlooked a question - the things inside the owl cannot be told to outsiders, so can people who have left the owl talk to outsiders?Or should I only talk to people who have also experienced the owl, or are still in the owl like them?

While thinking, the door was opened.

On the entire second floor, there are only fifteen of them, and one person inside the door, but now both sides are very quiet, so quiet that even the second hand of the clock on the first floor can be heard.

The door opened silently, and inside the door was a man in his 40s, with elegant temperament and decent clothes, but his tall figure and broad shoulders made him destined to have nothing to do with gentleness. On the contrary, even if he smiled like this now, he would Give people pressure.

Xu Wang thought, if this person was ten years younger, it would be possible to lead a team through all 23 levels directly.

Ten years younger...

Xu Wang was stunned suddenly, and then looked carefully at the man's facial features.

"He didn't tell me that he sold the information to the three teams." The man smiled and shook his head, half-seriously, half-jokingly, "Come in."

Obviously, the other party didn't mind, and had no plans to settle accounts with the middleman.

More than a dozen people entered the house one after another.This is an elegant and quiet study room, with a huge space and bright sunlight, so many people come in at once, but it still doesn't look cramped.

Wu Sheng took two steps and found that Xu Wang hadn't followed, so he turned his head immediately and saw his captain standing at the door.

"What's wrong?" There was worry in his eyes unconsciously.

"I've seen him before," Xu Wang said.

Wu Sheng didn't react for a while: "Huh? Who have you met?"

This back-and-forth conversation drew the attention of all the friends, as well as that man.

Xu Wang's gaze also happened to fall on the man's face.

"I met you ten years ago." He said to the other party, his tone was more determined than when he spoke to Wu Sheng just now.