The Midnight Owl

The closed corridor was almost shaken to the ground by this voice, and the unlocking king's ears were still buzzing. He saw an old lady walking down the stairs, wearing red sleeves on her arms while rushing to the "scene". hoop.

The remaining skepticism also suppressed this unquestionable righteousness. After Aunt Li repeatedly explained that Xu Wang was indeed a promising young man living here, the lockpicker took out a tin rod and stuck it into the keyhole, clicked, The lock opened so fast that Xu Wang wondered if he didn't lock the door at all.

Enter the house quickly, close the door quickly, put on the T-shirt quickly, open the door calmly, and pay.

Finally, I sat down on the sofa in the living room, and the sun was already high.

Xu Wang first called the company to ask for leave, and then took his mobile phone keys, wallet, and medical insurance card to the hospital for medical treatment. Until the doctor asked him how he was injured, he was still in the dark.

He forgot how to answer the doctor. Anyway, it must not be the version that provokes the doctor's IQ like "a promising young man was slapped on the shoulder by a bear and said hi in the third ring road of the capital".

It was noon when I came back from the hospital.Sitting on the sofa in the rented house again, Xu Wangcai was finally able to turn his head around a bit and reason about everything that happened.

He came home from get off work, went to bed at midnight, and had a dream at night, dreaming of Lin Haixueyuan, dreaming of his first love in high school—one-sided, completed his ten-year-late confession, achieved the achievement of forced kissing, and then was raped by a The black bear fell down and got a bear's paw on his shoulder. When he woke up from the dream, he was at a crossroads.

If there is no injury on the shoulder, "sleepwalking" can barely be used to explain where he was when he woke up.But if everything that happened was real, where did Wu Sheng go?Where did the bear go?Also, although it was the first time he was patted by a bear, he still had some common sense. A bear's paw was only a flesh injury, not even a broken bone?

Xu Wang nestled on the sofa in the living room all afternoon, thinking about the unimaginable encounters of last night without stopping, but until night fell, the living room with no lights turned on fell into silent darkness, and he still couldn't figure out why.

Forget it, I don't want to.

Xu Wang shook his head and stood up abruptly, but the movement was too violent, which affected the wound on his shoulder.He hurriedly didn't dare to move anymore, and after waiting for a while, he carefully went to the bathroom, washed his face and brushed his teeth, and let his whole body wash away the dust and haze in the cold water, feeling refreshed.

In broad daylight, the world is bright, harmonious society, and build a well-off society together. If sleepwalking, he will cure the disease. If there are bad people, he will call the police. Whoever is rich, strong, democratic, patriotic, and dedicated is afraid of others!

Xu Wang, who had made up his mind, stopped fussing, took off his shoes and went to bed, and fell asleep with his head covered. Tomorrow will be a brand new day...

20:00

21:00

22:00

23:00

23:30…

Well, he can't sleep.

The shoulder still hurts, the strange thing is still unsolvable, how much he would feel if he could fall asleep!

Turn on the flashlight of the mobile phone, look around the bedroom, there is nothing unusual; take a look at yourself, down jacket, warm pants, sneakers, no problem; touch the trouser pocket, the keys and wallet are all there, perfect.

Whether it was sleepwalking or not, he didn't want to have to borrow Aunt Li's phone upstairs to find the unlock king after being frozen like a dog again.

[Cuckoo——]

It sounded like it was ringing in my ears again!

Xu Wang's body froze, and the vague fragments of memory came back - last night, just before he fell into the snowy field and met Wu Sheng, he also heard this voice!

At that time, he thought it was an auditory hallucination in a dream, but now he is awake, more energetic than when he was at work, and he is unprecedentedly clear.It was the cry of some kind of bird. Xu Wang couldn't describe it. He just felt that the sound fit well with the night. Riding the night wind and sending it into the eardrums of those who harbored fear, the lethality was simply increased.

There are not only screams in the returned memory fragments.

Xu Wang got up all at once, regardless of whether he touched the wound or not, grinning his teeth in pain, he wanted to get out of bed and run out immediately.

Running to the living room in one breath, Xu Wang heard a second sound.

[Cuckoo——]

Then, there were rustling noises in the bedroom.

Standing two meters away from the bedroom door, Xu Wang stretched his neck to look in, and saw that the head of the bed was still leaning against the wall, but the bed had already become a rectangular quicksand pit shrouded in halo. The figures of the mattress and sheets are just quicksand that keeps sinking into the pit.

Fortunately, the bird call reminded him of all the blurred parts of last night, otherwise he would have entered that ghost place again now. Although it is a good thing to meet Wu Sheng, it is all fake after all. Wu Sheng was 800 years earlier I went abroad with my parents and settled down a few years ago, but the pain of being hit by a bear's paw is definitely real...

Hey?

Hey? ?

Xu Wang was rejoicing for his escape, when he suddenly felt a force pulling him into the bedroom!In the blink of an eye, he was dragged to the bedroom door!

Xu Wang used all his strength to hold on to the door frame and refused to let go, but the strength became stronger and stronger, and finally he was pulled horizontally into the air, like a human-shaped flag in a strong wind!

Seeing that if the stalemate continued, he would be torn in two, Xu Wang no longer resisted, and let go in despair.

When he was sucked into the quicksand pit, Xu Wang thought about two things: First, this thing is so fucking magical, he must call the police, even if he is regarded as a psychopath!Two, if Wu Sheng is still there, find a place without bears and kiss again.

The last time he fell into that strange place while he was asleep, Xu Wang was in a fog from beginning to end. It wasn't until he saw Wu Sheng that he was refreshed and his mind gradually cleared up.So how did he come here before that, and how long he groped around in this snowy field, his memory is completely blurred.

But this time he was awake, and clearly experienced the weightlessness of falling from a high altitude, like sitting in a jumping machine, as if endlessly falling at an extremely fast speed, making people suffocate as if the whole body was shattered.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was an extremely cold touch on the cheeks. It was ice at first, and then gradually became moist.

Xu Wang was stunned for a long time before he realized that he had landed on the ground, and fell face down into the snow.

He heaved a sigh of relief, his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were finally back in place. It didn't matter whether his posture when he crossed the finish line was good or not. At least, he was still alive, and once again felt the reassuring gravity of the earth.

Both Xue and cheek are thick enough, and when he gets up, he is a decent young man.Xu Wang looked around, and looked into the distance, the snow field, the forest sea, the vast sky, the vast and distant mountains, it was unmistakable, it was the place yesterday.

Is this a "dream"?

Even if Xu Wang was willing to go his own way and firmly believe that, his ten red fingers would not agree - he had pulled the door frame too hard just now, and his fingertips were still throbbing and hurting.

Standing still in the ice and snow is the coldest. After a while, Xu Wang's feet began to feel numb.He hurriedly walked up, unable to discern the direction or where he was going, he just walked forward in a daze, trying to maintain the heat of his body.

After an unknown amount of time, a short and crisp "ding—" sounded without warning.

Xu Wang was so frightened that his heart tightened.

At first glance, the sound is very similar to the bell on the window of the back kitchen of some restaurants. As soon as the food comes out, the back kitchen will "ding" to remind the staff.But soon, he realized that something was wrong. Unlike those weird sounds that seemed to come from deep in his eardrum, the "ding" just now seemed to come from his... left arm?

Xu Wang stopped immediately, and started his hands without saying a word, but he didn't know that it took a long time to roll up the sleeves of the airtight down jacket, and patted it through the clothes, and there seemed to be nothing wrong.But he was still worried, so he simply took off half of his coat, leaving only the warm sweater on his arm, and finally rolled it up to his elbow, exposing his entire forearm.

The next moment, Xu Wang's eyes widened suddenly, and he froze in the howling wind.

I saw a diamond-shaped pattern appearing on the forearm at some point, like a light-colored tattoo. In the middle of the pattern is the face of an owl, and below it is a word "Owl", which looks like a logo of a mobile app.

As a real estate consultant who has been working in the off-plan sales office for many years, a delicate young man who is almost insulated from the wind and sun and only needs to show the owner a look at the sand table and circle the map for the boss, Xu Wang swore his arm was still white before being dragged into the quicksand It looks like a lotus root festival, and what's more subtle is that there is still a small "1" hanging on the upper right side of the owl's face.

No youth in the age of smartphones can resist ordering.

Absolutely not.

Fearful and impatiently itchy fingertips finally touched the owl's face, and the diamond-shaped pattern disappeared instantly, replaced by four options - <roster>, <pencil box>, <cheat sheet>, <transcript (1 )>.

The forearm is the horizontal phone screen, the icon is the APP, and the options are the system menu—this mode is so friendly to the people, Xu Wang is almost seamlessly connected, so it is natural to click on the source of new news, <transcript>.

The interface switches, and a top message scrolls from left to right: <Su Mingzhan, Tao Anan, Wei Tianhang, Yue Shuai, hand in the paper on 3/23. >

Obviously, the "ding" just now was the notification tone for this news.

But what is 3/23?What does hand in paper mean?

Below the non-stop scrolling news are two lists: [Total score list], [Paper submission speed list].

Xu Wang wanted to continue, but suddenly felt the wind in the back of his head!

He was by no means the kind of person who fell twice into the same pit, and immediately fell forward and fell into the snow, motionless like a dead body!

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds...

"The bear is here and pretending to be dead, I don't need to come here." A voice suppressed laughter came from above, "All of us came here for the first time last night, and there will be varying degrees of panic. Your kiss really belongs to these The panic reaction is the most unthinkable, but you don't have to feel ashamed to see me."

It's Wu Sheng.

He can distinguish that guy's voice with his ears without using his eyes.

Everything is true.The weird world, Wu Sheng ten years later, and his confession and forced kiss when his head was squeezed by the door.Now Xu Wang's only wish is for the sky to collapse and the ground to sink in and get in through the cracked ground.

Of course, such despondent thoughts lasted only for a moment.

In Xu Wang's dictionary, there is no dead end, only a desperate counterattack, even if you miss the opportunity, you have to dance to your own beat, and then bring everyone into his rhythm to swing with him——

"Wu Sheng?!" Accompanied by this sincere cry, Xu Wang jumped up and excitedly held his old friend's hands, his face full of surprise after a long absence, "It's really you?!"

Wu Sheng's smile froze in his eyes, and then slowly became indescribable: "Are you sure this should be today's line and not yesterday?"

Xu Wangcai didn't pick up, maintained his emotional coherence, and continued his "journey of actor": "Aren't you abroad?"

"Return to China to start a business."

"in Beijing?"

"in Beijing."

Xu Wang was stunned for a few seconds, the joy in his eyes just because of the good news of "Wu Sheng's return to China" was gradually replaced by great doubts, there was no joke in his voice, only a trace of panic left: "Then here... …where is it?"