The Midnight Owl

The tall, handsome and thin white disappeared instantly in the rainstorm without leaving any traces, as if he had never appeared on this plane before.

"They... won't die, right?" Kuang Jinxin's voice was hoarse from crying, and he was still worried about his opponent.

Xu Wang couldn't answer because he didn't know the answer.

"No," Qian Ai was still lying on the ground, "the aftertaste of numbness" made him unable to get up for a while, so he had to continue to slow down. Fortunately, his language function recovered, "This place is like this. Once you evaluate that you have suffered too much damage, you will Sending you home early, I was swooped by a bear once, and was swept into the sky by a fish whirlwind once, and I was bounced back to reality."

"Isn't Yunado your own stationery or that of your teammates?" Xu Wang couldn't figure it out, "Why did you get sent home by Yunado?"

Qian Ai looked away: "I refuse to recall."

On the wing, the passengers sitting next to the bomb did not respond to the sudden disappearance of long legs, but their faces turned pale in front of the bomb, and the voice of complaint was full of tears: "Didn't the captain say that the bomb would be disarmed immediately? It's been over an hour..."

Wu Sheng didn't bother to talk to him, and directly pressed the three numbers that the big long legs didn't input - 9,1, 4, [-].

There is still 01:40:00 before the explosion...

01:39:59…

01:39:59.

The countdown stopped.

Wu Sheng couldn't believe it went so smoothly, but he couldn't control the ecstasy rising in his heart.

"How is it? Have you stopped—" Qian Ai at the tail stood up with the support of Xu Wang and Kuang Jinxin, staggering, not forgetting to care about the situation here.

Wu Sheng heaved a sigh of relief, and just about to respond, suddenly something flashed in his peripheral vision!

He instinctively looked back at the bomb again, the countdown that had been frozen, for some reason, started moving again!

and--

01:39:49…

01:39:44…

01:39:39…

The frequency is still changing every second, but the time value is five seconds and five seconds back.

Countdown, five times faster.

"Damn! This is trying to kill us!" Xu Wang, who was called by Wu Sheng, couldn't accept this reality, and now he wanted to kick the bomb to pieces!

"No," Wu Sheng shook his head as if suddenly remembering something, "No, it's not the two of them."

"It's not them, it's me!" Xu Wang wanted to go crazy.

Wu Sheng approached suddenly, nose to nose and eye to eye, word by word, slowly but clearly: "They don't have blood gourds."

Xu Wang's throat was inexplicably dry, and he repeated softly: "Blood gourd?"

Wu Sheng nodded: "Yes, in that pamphlet, a glazed gourd with bleeding drops will be produced after the sacrifice. According to the legend, the blood in the gourd is the proof of the completion of the sacrifice and the promotion to immortality. I am so convinced that I don’t hesitate to sacrifice the entire plane, it’s impossible not to get an identical gourd hanging around their necks, but when the old money put a circle around their necks, there was no red thread gourd at all.”

"Could it be that they are hiding?"

"If they can think this far, they can't keep knocking on the door until we come out with evidence before thinking of running."

"The times are developing and society is progressing. Maybe they have more advanced statistical tools for sacrifice now?"

"If you apply the thinking mode of reality everywhere, then the matter will be unsolvable. Think about it carefully, why is it such a coincidence that you triggered the luggage drop when you asked in the luggage compartment, and why only the two of them came to help You pick up luggage, and if it's a reality, how unlikely is it that the only two 'helpful' people are criminals?"

Xu Wangding looked at Wu Sheng, his irritability gradually cooled down, and his rationality slowly returned.

"So every piece of information related to the main line given here is not useless. The pamphlet specifically said that the man was wearing a blood gourd, so it must mean something."

Wu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, and patted his head approvingly: "You've finally got the hang of it."

Xu Wang really wanted to pounce on this guy's claws, but because of the "gaffe" just now, he always felt that he lacked confidence, so he let him go.

Xu Wang really admires Wu Sheng who can maintain at least basically rational and calm no matter what the situation, although he has never said this to the other party.I remember that in the previous exams, as long as he encountered a question that he couldn't do, he would start to worry, and wanted to flip the table every minute, so he didn't have to answer the whole paper later, and he would be restless and messed up after answering.

Regarding this question, he humbly asked Wu Sheng for advice on how to solve it. Wu Sheng shared his experience generously: the first step is to skip this question and continue to answer other questions; the second step is to answer all the questions before turning around Answer these skipped.

Xu Wang always feels that talking about this experience is tantamount to not talking about it.

Even if you skip it, you will still miss it in your heart, but it will still affect your state in the end, and if you go back and answer these questions that you can’t do, can you suddenly get enlightened? ——He asked the squad leader like this at the time.

If I remember correctly, that year in their second year of high school, the squad leader blew his bangs, and gave him an unforgettable answer in a handsome and fascinated way—why would it affect his mentality?There is no question in this world that I can't solve. It's just a matter of order.

"He's dead, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" the passengers at the tail of the plane pulled back Xu Wang's thoughts.

Wu Sheng had already stood up before him, left a sentence "watch out for the bomb", and then flew to the tail of the plane.

Xu Wang stood by on the spot, and could only stretch his neck to look at the tail of the plane like all good passengers.

I saw that Feng Liuyi and An Qijiu who were sitting on the ground had both fallen to the ground, and the stewardesses were giving compressions to them.

Three minutes later, Wu Sheng returned with a gloomy expression: "I can't be saved."

Xu Wang was horrified, but felt a sense of absurdity. The illusory world and real emotions were intertwined into a confusing experience.

"Take the poison," Wu Sheng said, "They took the medicine too fast, and Lao Qian and Xiao Kuang didn't even react."

Xu Wang drooped his head.

Originally, he had hoped to pry the clues of the bleeding gourd from the mouths of these two people, but now, he had to start from scratch again.

01:20:04 from the explosion.

Wu Sheng suddenly asked: "People in the economy class, how much do you still have to talk about?"

Xu Wang didn't understand what he meant, but he replied truthfully: "We talked about five or five, and there are only forty or so left."

"It's too late." Wu Sheng glanced at the time, "Go at five times the speed, and the countdown will end in 16 minutes, so I can only gamble."

Xu Wang asked, "What are you betting on?"

"Everyone in the first-class cabin has a story line. I also talked with them in the business class, and I didn't find anything suspicious, and there are many people in the economy class, so I want to suppress the high probability event, that is, the murderer is in the economy class." Wu Sheng said, "But the time we have left is only enough to do one thing. Either you tell me the information of the person you have talked to as quickly as possible, and we will dig out the clues to find clues, or we will split into two groups and go directly to the rest of the conversation." The ones you haven’t talked to. So you also have to gamble, is the murderer one of the people you’ve talked to, or someone you haven’t talked to?”

If he answered instinctively, Xu Wang would definitely say that the murderer was among the people he had never talked to.However, in view of the painful lesson of "still not aware of any clues about Jiang Saner who I talked to", Xu Wang rarely had a trace of "reflection". People."

Wu Sheng frowned slightly: "You have chatted with more than [-] people, and there are still more than [-] people left. Are you sure you want to bet on the minority?"

Xu Wang shrugged and confessed honestly: "I'm not sure, but you let me choose, I can only trust my intuition."

Wu Sheng looked at him for two seconds, then raised the corner of his mouth: "You trust your intuition, I trust you."

Xu Wang was unprepared, his heart was so sweet that he almost couldn't hold back his expression. He was engaged in a tug-of-war with the eyebrows that were about to bend down, when he suddenly heard a childish voice calling: "Uncle——"

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng turned their heads together, only to see a five or six-year-old boy standing in the aisle, tilting his head and blinking his big eyes at them, his face was pink and rosy, extremely cute.

"Little one and four?" Wu Sheng naturally recognized this kid, but the little guy had been on Xu Er's list of suspects for a long time, and was even compared with Washington, Edison, Luo Binwang, and Cao Chong.

"Uncle," Shen Yisi was looking for Wu Sheng, and when he saw his response, he immediately laughed like a milk flower, "My grandma said she was cold, so she asked me to come over and ask for a blanket."

"Grandma?" Wu Sheng was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you fly by yourself?"

"Wait," Xu Wang patted Wu Sheng's arm vigorously, and when the latter turned his head, his eyelashes almost flew away, "Mao, blanket."

The word "good end" caused Xu Wang to speak in fragments.

Wu Sheng felt blessed in an instant, and Wu Nong's soft words like pear blossom needles in the rainstorm sounded in his ears again.

"I'm not flying by myself." Shen Yisi didn't know why, but still smiled sweetly, "I'm with my grandmother, but our seats are not next to each other, I'm on top, she's on the bottom, she said the bottom is spacious , it's just a little cold."

Xu Wang: "..."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Air, condensation.

Granny, children, the two deadliest elements in horror movies, occupy all TAT

"uncle?"

"Uh, so," Xu Wang recovered his voice. Although his voice was still tight, he still tried his best to be kind, "Little friend, go to the tail of the plane to find the flight attendant sister, she has a blanket there."

Shen Yisi was obedient, and nodded vigorously: "Thank you, uncle!" Then he shook and walked towards the tail of the plane.

The light pulled his small body out of the long back, and Xu Wang always felt that something was about to emerge from the shadow at any moment.

His gaze followed Shen Yisi to the tail of the plane, just as a stewardess came out of the tea room, Shen Yisi seemed to yell, but he didn't seem to yell, anyway the stewardess didn't hear it, walked around Shen Yisi and continued on.

Shen Yisi stood there blankly, just looking at his back, he could feel his helplessness.

The corpses of Feng Liuyi and An Qijiu have been moved to a corner by Qian Ai and covered with clothes. The tail of the plane is now Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin. Qian Ai looked around, but actually looked around.

So soon, Kuang Jinxin found Shen Yisi, took two steps forward, and bent down to talk to the child with a smile on his face.

Qian Ai didn't move, but he also noticed this side, and pricked up his ears to listen to the movement.

From the distance between Wu Sheng and Xu Wang, I couldn't hear their conversation, but I could see it clearly. After Shen Yisi made a few gestures, Kuang Jinxin nodded, turned around and went to the tea room. Qian Ai, who was not far away, also obviously heard it The conversation was different from Kuang Jinxin who didn't know about it. He answered the phone call from his grandmother, so now he was tensed and pressed against the wall of the phone, with a face full of "I really don't want to watch horror movies, why are you forcing me?" despair.

Xu Wang and Wu Sheng sighed at the same time, and expressed their true understanding to Qian Ai from the air.

In the blink of an eye, Kuang Jinxin came out with the blanket and handed it to the little guy.

Shen Yisi should have thanked him, so Kuang Jinxin smiled and patted his head.

The child returned home happily holding the blanket, and Kuang Jinxin looked at him with a kind of satisfaction of "respecting the old and loving the young".

He looked at the child, and his three teammates looked at him, with a delicate mood.

——Things like luck may be linked to age, character, appearance, height, personality, and hobbies. Some students have relatively high comprehensive scores and cannot envy them.

01:10:09 from the explosion.

"We can ask everyone to take off their clothes and see who has a gourd around their neck, isn't it the murderer?"

"The moment you issued the call 'please take off your clothes', he could take off the gourd calmly, waiting for you to find out?"

"...I'm fine."

Xu Wang shut up, and then spent half a minute recalling, and another two and a half minutes, recounting all the economy class passengers 23-55 he had talked with at the fastest speed of his life.

During this period, Wu Sheng didn't say a word, and Xu Wang was so silent that he almost despaired, until the last classmate he had talked with, Hua Wuwu surfaced——

"What did you say?"

Xu Wang was caught off guard by Wu Sheng's wrist, startled: "What?"

Wu Sheng asked again in a hurry: "What did Hua Wuwu tell you?"

Xu Wang really didn't want to repeat it: "He said that he also wanted to play Fast and Furious at an altitude of [-] feet, but unfortunately, a pear blossom was empty and rained, and there were no crabapples to be found..." Rolling his eyes, he watched speechlessly. Teammate, "Are you only concerned about these things that are not suitable for children!"

Wu Sheng ignored his teasing, and finally found the point he wanted: "Also? What do you mean?"

Xu Wang took it for granted, "That's because I saw someone else do it."

After finishing speaking, he realized the key point and was suddenly stunned.

Wu Sheng knew that he had already thought of it: "Yes, that's it. Who did he see having sex with whom?"

All the way down, the triggered events basically revolve around the "subject" being asked, such as "what is my profession", "what do I like", "my boyfriend cheated on me", etc., but It is rare to hear anyone say "what about others".

For Wu Sheng, Xu Eruo said it.At first, Wu Sheng thought he was a detective, until he drew a red line for the other party, and finally got three suspects.

In Xu Wang's case, only Hua Wuwu made such irrelevant remarks.Now that I think about it, it's not that simple.

Who exactly did Hua Wuwu see?

"Who and who? I don't know them, so I can't call them by name." Hua Wuwu squinted at Xu Wang who rushed over, "Why, now that I think about it, I asked me, I just couldn't answer when I was chatting with you Reasonable."

Wu Sheng stood in front of Xu Wang and looked down at Hua Wuwu: "I'll take care of you, come on, let's chat casually."

Hua Wuwu looked up at him, swallowed unconsciously, and suddenly felt that the handsome guy from before was still kind and gentle.

"It's the one that died." No longer making excuses, it took five or five to give the answer.

Wu Sheng was surprised, and at the same time his heart sank: "The two of them?"

"No, it's one of them, and the other one..." Hua Wuwu stood up as he said, walked around the economy class, finally locked on a certain place, quietly approached Wu Sheng, and said in a low voice, "Here, it's seat 91 Well, he and one of the dead ones, they galloped in the toilet for a long time."

The heart that almost sank to the bottom of the valley rekindled hope!

On the 91st, Wu Sheng silently recited hundreds of surnames in his heart, and there was—Yuan, Yuan Jiuyi!

"The two of them are in the toilet... Did you see that?" Xu Wang looked at seat 91. The well-dressed passengers were resting with their eyes closed. They were all well-educated business people.

"The two men went into the toilet together and came out after more than ten minutes of fiddling. Tell me, what else is possible besides riding a horse? Squatting on the toilet and chatting about life?" You are too young" expression, "The world is different, men and women are equal these days, men and women are equal."

Don't ask any more.

Hua Wuwu thought that it didn't matter what Yuan Jiuyi and Feng Liuyi or An Qijiu were doing in the toilet, as long as he and Wu Sheng knew that everything about Yuan Jiu was actually related to one of those two people.

In fact, he may have asked Feng Liuyi and An Qijiu to "plan evil deeds" in the bathroom, but Hua Wuwu saw it just one of them.

00:29:59 from the explosion.

Qian Ai, Wu Sheng, Xu Wang, and Kuang Jinxin gathered at the tail of the plane, and two rows in front was Yuan Jiuyi's back.

"Ready?" Wu Sheng asked.

Qian Ai nodded and took a deep breath.

Wu Sheng and Xu Wang said in unison: "Go."

Qian Ai didn't come up, but his voice was like an arrow piercing through the clouds, reaching Yuan Jiuyi: "Keep talking—"

Passengers nearby were frightened by the voice and turned their heads.

Qian Ai's voice faded away, but the expected three-dimensional Chinese characters did not appear.

"Huh?" Qian Ai didn't give up, and yelled again, "Koukou 88 one two three four five six seven!"

still none.

Damn, Qian Ai is speechless, maybe the stationery has expired at this juncture.

"Qian Ai," Wu Sheng lowered his voice suddenly, and in a voice that only the two of them could hear, he gave the new strategy concisely, "One leaf blocks the eyes."

If the function of this stationery is also based on the literal meaning, then it can achieve the effect Wu Sheng wants.

This move was not included in the original plan, and "One Leaf Blind Eye" was Qian Ai's only stationery left, but he did not hesitate at all, and used <[Anti] One Leaf Blind Eye> on Yuan Jiuyi without any hesitation!

A sharp wind suddenly rose, and a long and narrow green leaf was wrapped in it, flying towards Yuan Jiuyi like a willow dart!

At the same time, Wu Sheng jumped out, as fast as lightning!

The green leaves covered Yuan Jiuyi's eyes, and Yuan Jiuyi could raise his hand to grab the leaves vigorously, but the leaves seemed to grow on his eyes, and he couldn't grab them at all!

And at this moment, Wu Sheng had already come to his side, and saw the red silk thread hidden in his neckline at a glance.While Yuan Jiuyi was "fighting" with the leaves, Wu Sheng hooked his fingers lightly, then pulled hard, and successfully tore off his red thread!

Wu Sheng looked at the red silk thread in his hand, and as expected, it was tied with a glazed gourd.

Like the man in the pamphlet, Yuan Jiuyi's glazed gourd was about to be filled with blood, only missing the tip of the gourd.

Wu Sheng quickly returned to the tail of the plane to meet up with his teammates. Yuan Jiuyi finally tore off the green leaves and turned to look at the tail of the plane. His eyes were dark and prey. He no longer looked like a human, but like a ghost in a state of madness.

"Give me the gourd." He said hoarsely, his voice seemed to have been cut by a stewing knife.

Wu Sheng looked at him from a distance: "If you want a gourd, you can exchange it with the password."

Yuan Jiuyi was silent.

The entire cabin seemed to fall into dead silence following his silence.

00:16:39 from the explosion.

According to five times the speed, there are only a little more than 3 minutes left!

Finally, Yuan Jiuyi spoke again, more gloomy and colder: "I'll say it one last time, give me the gourd."

Wu Sheng pursed his lips, his face remained motionless, but his heart was anxious.Time is running out, it is impossible for them to be in such a stalemate with Yuan Jiuyi.

"Okay, here you are." Xu Wang suddenly said, and quickly snatched the red silk thread from Wu Sheng's hand.

However, just as he picked up the gourd, he suddenly slipped his hand for no reason, and the red silk thread at one end slid down from his fingertips without pinching it tightly. It was in a free fall, and it was about to fall to the ground and be smashed to pieces!

"Ahhh—" Yuan Jiuyi roared angrily, rushing towards the tail of the plane like crazy!

Xu Wang suddenly squatted down, caught the gourd with one hand at the last moment when it hit the ground, then raised it up and smiled softly at Yuan Jiuyi: "If you go any further, I will really fall."

Yuan Jiuyi was two meters away and stopped with all his strength.

Xu Wang stood up, restrained his smile, and fixedly looked into his eyes: "You are not qualified to negotiate terms with us." His voice was very deep, completely imitating Yuan Jiuyi, as dumb as the ultimate villain, "Either, you give the password Tell us, we will return the gourd to you, anyway, you are only a drop of blood away, if this sacrifice is not successful, you can plan for the next time; or, if you insist on not telling me, then I promise, I will let you go before the bomb explodes. The gourds of the gourds were wiped out."

"Alas," Xu Wang suddenly changed his voice, regretting in earnest, "The gourd is gone, and I don't know which ghosts will be dedicated to the life of this plane."

"0893." Yuan Jiu couldn't hold on anymore, staring at the gourd in Xu Wang's hand, his eyes were bloodshot, "The sacrifices I have already completed, plus this plane, exactly nine hundred and ninety-nine lives, ninety-nine returns One, the True Monarch crosses me, attains the Tao and ascends to the Immortal."

Xu Wang shook his head, he didn't want to talk to the lunatic anymore, although he knew it was fake, but it was hard to calm down when he heard the three lives of 890.

In a blink of an eye, Wu Sheng had already rushed out. He knocked Yuan Jiuyi away and ran to the wing in one breath!

00:00:59 from the explosion.

Wu Sheng quickly took a deep breath, trying to maintain the stability of his fingertips, and pressed the numbers one by one.

0.

8.

9.

3.

00:00:09 from the explosion.

Wu Sheng waited for nearly 1 minute, but the seconds did not change.

The countdown really stopped.

"Give me back the gourd!" Yuan Jiuyi couldn't wait to ask for the promise.

Xu Wang stretched out his arm towards him, and slowly spread out his palm.

Yuan Jiu looked happy, and immediately came forward to fetch it.

Just when he was about to pinch the gourd, Xu Wang's palm turned over suddenly.

The gourd fell to the ground, shattered into pieces of blood and dotted with colored glaze.