The Midnight Owl

Fear.Trance.

Xu Wang froze in the chair, not knowing if something was wrong with him or with the clerk.

"Minister...I'm going out first..." The clerk tried to maintain a smile, but the footsteps of leaving revealed her panic.

The door is closed.

Xu Wang sat quietly, listening to the lingering sound of the door closing dissipating in the air.He didn't know what to do, what to think, it seemed that he could expel those insanity-like hallucinations from his mind just by being motionless and slowing down.

There was noise outside the door, like someone was arguing, the sound was so loud that the door panels couldn't block it.

"I told you, Minister Xu is not here!" It was the voice of the female clerk just now.

"Not here? Okay, I'll wait here and see how long he can hide!" An angry and hoarse man said.

Xu Wang frowned, did he offend someone?But even if there is a grievance, it is a bit too ugly to bring it to the company and let a little girl help to block it.

"If you do this again, I will call the security guard!" The female clerk was still doing her duty to stop her.

Xu Wang got up and opened the door without hesitation. The two people outside the door were stunned, and there were dozens of onlookers who "seemed to be taking a morning break at their work stations, but actually glanced here".

Xu Wang was also taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that there was such a large office area outside the door, and such a bright view for the onlookers.

"Don't embarrass the little girl," he said in a loud voice with a volume that could be heard in the entire square, "tell me if you have anything to say."

The faultfinder was a young man in a baseball cap, with his hands in his hoods and the brim of his hat pulled down so that his face could not be seen clearly.

"It's okay, be a man, then I'll tell you."

The corner of the baseball cap hooked his lips, and he stepped forward, took out the hand in his pocket at lightning speed, and stabbed Xu Wang in the stomach.

Xu Wang didn't even see what he was holding, only heard a tiny "plop".

Xu Wang lowered his head, pulled out the thing with his baseball cap, and then patched it up twice.

This time he saw clearly that it was a fruit knife.

The pain that I realized later, swept over like a tsunami, screaming everywhere...

"Tuk Tuk."

Xu Wang shook his head until there was a second knock on the door.

"Come in." He opened his mouth and found his voice hoarse.

The young female clerk pushed the door open and put the fragrance coffee on his table with a smile: "Mr. Xu, your coffee."

Xu Wang didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Didn't you just give me a cup, why, you forgot?"

The female clerk was stunned and looked at him blankly.

Xu Wang suddenly trembled, looked up at the wall, the hour and minute hands of the clock above coincided, 12:00 noon.

He quickly raised his arms and rolled up his sleeves, almost flustered, until he saw the owl's head.

<cheat sheet>: Survive 4:44pm.

He still didn't understand why there was such a thing on his arm, but at this moment, this weird thing made him inexplicably at ease.

He's not crazy, he's actually checked the time, drank coffee, heard arguments, and got stabbed three times.

The chair slowly turned back.

Outside the window, the blood-red Arabic numerals turned into "12".

The clerk left.

Xu Wang looked at the second hand on the clock, one lap, two laps...

"I told you, Minister Xu is not here!"

"Not here? Okay, I'll wait here and see how long he can hide!"

12: 04.

Xu Wangteng stood up and opened the door: "I'm here. Let's talk."

"It's okay, be a man, then I'll tell you something." The corner of the baseball cap curled up, and strode forward, and the hand in the pocket came out.

Even if Xu Wang dies, he won't be stabbed for the fourth time!

With a dodge, he dodged at just the right time, stabbed the baseball cap in the air, and fell into the office under the effect of inertia.

Xu Wang closed the door from the outside, and yelled at Fang Geli while tugging on it, "What are you looking for, call the police—"

As soon as the words fell, Xu Wang suddenly became dizzy.

I heard that shouting for too long can easily lead to hypoxia, but he just called the police... Before losing consciousness, Xu Wang was still calmly analyzing scientifically.

"Tuk Tuk."

Xu Wang sat in the chair dumbly, looking at the knocked door, feeling hopeless.

The clock on the wall was still 12:00.

The bloody number outside the window changed to "11".

You can't come back from the dead, but he seems to be able to.

The problem is that he was obviously not stabbed to death just now, so why did he come back while he was holding on to the door?

Every time you come back, the number will decrease accordingly. If it reaches "0"... Xu Wang doesn't dare to think about it.

Anyway, at least he knows what the phrase "survive 4:44 in the afternoon" means, because twice in a row, he can't even survive the fucking 12:04!

If the brain is regarded as a hard disk with a capacity of 1TB, Xu Wang now only stores 1MB of information, from the first sound of "duk tuk" to the end of this moment, the rest is blank.

But this 1MB is so exciting, it actually made him feel that the ultimate questions such as "who am I" and "where is my past" can be discussed later, and it is good to focus on "living" for now, and let's talk about the past after surviving and future.

"Come in."

"Minister Xu, your coffee."

"Have I offended anyone?"

"Ok?"

"A young boy, who usually likes to wear a baseball cap, is about 1.8 meters tall..." Xu Wang tried his best to describe.Since the secretary dared to stop him, he should know something inside.

The female clerk's face flushed and turned pale, not shy, but ashamed: "Minister, I'm sorry."

"Don't apologize, just answer my question." It was already 12:02, and Xu Wang couldn't hide his anxiety.

Anyone who is forced onto the track and starts a race against death out of nowhere will be anxious.

"It's nothing to do with you, it's him... He must think that I broke up with him because of you..." The female clerk lowered her head, her voice getting weaker and weaker.

"Is he your boyfriend?" Xu Wang always thought he was his enemy.

"Ex-boyfriend." The female clerk didn't forget to correct her at this time.

Xu Wang raised his forehead, the lack of memory made him always doubtful: "Then is there any relationship between us?"

"Ah?" The female clerk was stunned, "How is it possible?"

"..." What kind of reaction is this?

Although Xu Wang also wanted each other to be innocent, the "shocked" look on the female clerk's face was still very hurtful.

He looks talented, middle-level in the company, unmarried and childless, how could it be impossible?

Uh, wait, marriage and love seem to be blank in my memory...

"boom--"

The door was kicked open, and the baseball cap saw the two of them in the room, his eyes were green with anger: "I fought with you—"

12:04

The female clerk didn't go out, and the baseball cap changed the lines.

Xu Wang couldn't help thinking about these things, but his body was very honest, and he jumped back to avoid the extended arm of the baseball cap.The other party was separated by the table, so furious, he jumped up and climbed over the table vigorously!

Xu Wang's breath stopped, and he walked around the desk and ran out the door.

The baseball cap came after him, and a leap knocked him down from behind.

Xu Wang accepted his fate and gritted his teeth, but before the pain came, a gust of wind suddenly passed over his head.

Xu Wang only felt light on his body, and heard a "boom", and the baseball cap that was pressing on him was kicked away.

"Hold him down for me!" Sweeping legs had a magnetic and pleasant voice.

The baseball cap was pinned to the ground by a group of security guards.

Xu Wang got up in embarrassment, and saw a face that was one in a million.

One in a million handsome, one in a million wise.

He doesn't know him, and he's handsome to look at, what about wisdom?Xu Wang couldn't tell, but he knew it.

"Are you okay?" the savior asked.

"fine."

After Xu Wang finished answering, he felt dry and hesitated whether to add "thank you" or directly ask "who are you", but the savior leaned over and spoke again.

This time, his voice was so low that only the two of them could hear clearly——

"Can you see the bloody numbers outside the window?"

……

noon.

He regained consciousness amidst the continuous "da da da" sound, only to find that he was typing on the keyboard.

A string of meaningless gibberish on the screen is proof that he just lost his mind.

This is an extremely spacious and luxurious office. The boss' desk is made of solid wood, the sofa is made of leather, the marble floor is shiny, and there are strange decorations on the walls.

His eyes returned to the computer screen full of codes, and he made a very objective judgment in his heart—the IT industry, the office decoration is like this, it's sick.

But this is his office.

really weird.

His brain seemed to have been formatted, and it was currently blank. There was nothing on the desk that could prove his identity, but he only panicked for the first moment, and then went to touch the pocket of his trousers.

Sure enough, the wallet was there, and there were ID cards, driver's licenses, and several identical business cards in it.

General Manager of XX Technology Company.

Wu Sheng.

He's comfortable with who he is, and thinks that's how it should be.

But he couldn't be calm about the amnesia, it was a serious problem that would affect normal life, and he had to figure it out.

The quickest way to find out about your current situation is to ask people around you.

Just as Wu Sheng wanted to get up, he went outside the office to search for someone who could help, when he slammed into the chair again with a "ding".

Accurately locking the source of the sound, he rolled up his shirt sleeves and raised his eyebrows in disbelief.

An APP icon appeared on his arm, which was quite new.

Click in and see the new information first——

<cheat sheet>: Survive 4:44pm.

On the watch, the three hands of hours, minutes and seconds coincide, 12:00.

Wu Sheng tilted his head slightly, his eyebrows furrowed in thought.

Survive 4:44pm...

warn?omen?Or some kind of player game?

No, that's not right, the technology has not yet reached the point where such a thing can be silently implanted in his arm.And his amnesia, which is also very strange, is it related to the thing on the arm?

"Boom."

There was a muffled knocking sound from the floor-to-ceiling windows behind.

When Wu Sheng turned around, it was Spider-Man who was standing in the gondola, wiping the glass of the outer curtain wall. The wind was a bit strong, and the gondola kept shaking, touching the glass from time to time.

Behind Spider-Man, a huge blood-red "13" hangs in the air.

Wu Sheng stared at the "13" fixedly, but his heart settled down—this world is not normal, so if there are various abnormalities in his body, it is normal.

"Boom."

The gondola hit the glass again and seemed to shake even more.The workers in the hanging basket had to interrupt their work and took out the walkie-talkie. It should be to ask the operator to put the hanging basket back to the ground.

The gondola soon began to descend.

Wu Sheng felt a little worried for no reason, and instinctively stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the gondola descend.

Finally, the hanging basket fell steadily to the ground.

Wu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly his mind was in a trance, and he couldn't even stand still.

"Da da da da..."

The field of vision became clear again, and Wu Sheng stared at a series of familiar garbled characters on the screen, and was stunned.

His first action was to raise his arm to look at the watch, his second action was to click on the owl icon, and his third action was to turn his head and look out the window.

Only time resets.

The message in the owl icon is still there, but the little "1" indicating unread is gone.

The scarlet number also changed, 13 became 12.

"Why..." Wu Sheng looked at the words in the <Small Transcript> and muttered to himself, puzzled in his eyes.

Survive 4:44pm.

He didn't know who sent this sentence, but logically, if everything was calm, who would specifically give such a sentence?Since the emphasis is on "surviving", correspondingly, there is a high possibility of "not surviving", that is to say, between now and 4:44, there is very likely to be some kind of danger of "not surviving".

But he didn't encounter any danger just now, and the time was reset.

Time reset is a necessity?No, in that case the gods wouldn't live past 4:44 p.m.

What if the time reset is conditional?Something happened that he didn't know, so the time was reset... Wu Sheng was excited by his guess, like a person groping in the dark seeing a glimmer of light.

Assuming that this "reset condition" really exists, as long as he finds and prevents the generation of this condition, he can let the time go forward until 4:44 in the afternoon!

What would happen after 4:44 was beyond his imagination, but right now, "surviving 4:44 p.m." was like a fascinating puzzle, which exuded a fatal attraction for him.

"Boom."

The gondola started hitting the glass again.

Wu Sheng no longer cared about it, he knew it would land steadily.

Get up, go out, there is a long corridor outside the office, there are transparent office areas on both sides of the corridor, and it is lunch break at the moment.Most of the employees are not there, and they may have gone to have lunch. A small number of employees either lie on their workstations or recline on the reclining chairs to catch up on sleep.

Wu Sheng glanced at his watch, 12:02.

Two male employees walked towards each other, holding the lunch they bought in one hand, and swiping their mobile phones with the other, "hehehe" engrossed.

"What's so interesting about brushing up, so happy?" Wu Sheng greeted him, teasing.

He is not a person who likes to joke, at least not yet, but now everyone he meets may carry key information, and he doesn't want to miss it.

"Wu, Mr. Wu!" The two male employees stood at attention immediately.

"Huh?" He simply raised his voice to signal the other party, but he was still waiting for an answer.

The male employee probably felt that he was stupid, so he directly held up the phone and showed it to the boss.

It was a WeChat group called "XX Building", and the screen was scrolling in it——

[Fuck, Shura field! 】

【Who is green who hahahaha】

[Don't just broadcast live texts, no pictures, no truth! 】

[You can go directly to the third floor to see it. 】

【[photo]】

[Haven't knocked on the door yet, now there are only the heroine and the second male, and the first male hides and doesn't show up. 】

[Cowardly enough. 】

[I leaned on leaning to open the door hey! 】

[fight up ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha]

XX Building, isn't this the company address on your business card?

The group of this building?

third floor?Shura field?

Wu Sheng had just captured a few key words, before he had time to think deeply, the feeling of déjà vu came over him for the second time.

"Da da da da..."

Stopping his fingers, Wu Sheng glanced at the "11" outside the window, and got up quickly without delay.

Instead of imagining whether that information has anything to do with his current situation, it is better to investigate on the ground.

The corridor was very quiet, and the two male employees hadn't come back yet.

Wu Sheng found the elevator room all the way, and found that he was on the 7th floor, the elevator was going down, and he had reached the 15th floor, so he quickly pressed the down button.

The elevator stopped on the 7th floor, Wu Sheng entered and pressed "3" decisively.

There is no disturbance in the middle, and the elevator goes directly to the 3rd floor.

As soon as the door opened, Wu Sheng walked out quickly. As soon as he got out of the elevator and turned around, he saw the logo of "XX Financial Company".This building seems to follow the rule of "one company per floor". There is only his technology company on the 7th floor and this one on the 3rd floor.

From a distance, the man's hoarse shouts could be heard.

The receptionist poked his head into Fangge to watch the excitement, and didn't notice Wu Sheng coming in. When he found out, this person had strode into Fangge's office area.

As soon as Wu Sheng came in, the man in the baseball cap kicked open the door that gathered all the gossip eyes in the office area.

The man rushed in aggressively, Wu Sheng's heart tightened, and he ran over for no reason.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the office, a man just escaped. It was a man with a pretty good appearance. His eyebrows were eyebrows, and his eyes were eyes.

But Wu Sheng just started admiring it, and before he could see enough, the man was thrown from behind by the baseball cap.

Cold light flashed.

The baseball cap held a knife in his hand.

Without even thinking about it, Wu Sheng kicked him away.

"Hold him down for me!"

The security guard arrived late, just in time for the last link - holding people down.

"Are you okay?" Wu Sheng asked, his eyes began to look up and down, whether there was anything wrong with the automatic search.

"It's okay." The man's voice was a little hoarse, but still calm.

Wu Sheng's "searching gaze" stopped on the exposed arm of the other party.

Same owl head.

He was overjoyed, but he couldn't tell if it was because he finally found a clue, or because the clue was in this person.

"Can you see the bloody numbers outside the window?" When Wu Sheng asked this sentence, he lowered his voice and did not suppress his chaotic heartbeat.