The Midnight Owl

Mao Qiping under the boat was patiently waiting for customers to place orders in the floating ball, while the four people on the boat gathered on the deck a little further away to study their own purchasing power.

These days, a mobile phone can travel around the world, and few people carry too much cash with them. Xu Wang has a total of 600 yuan on him. Thanks to the blessing of the second airport yesterday, he found that cash can circulate in "Owl", so he deliberately re-established it. Take it out of your public account and put it on your body for emergencies.

It's impossible to think that "consumption" will come so fast.

"I still have one hundred and fifty yuan." Qian Ai handed over all his belongings - one hundred yuan, one fifty - to the captain, and the 50 yuan piece was changed at the airport yesterday.

"I only brought one hundred." Kuang Jinxin also handed over his private property to the organization.

"Okay," Xu Wang collected the money together, "Go to the account first, and calculate what the public account owes you."

Captain Xu, holding 850 yuan, naturally looked at Junshi Wu, the only one who was silent.

Wu Sheng shook his head neatly: "I didn't bring any money."

Xu Wang was speechless: "Yesterday has passed, and you didn't bring money when you came in?!"

Wu Sheng was very dazed when questioned: "I'll take you with me."

A breeze came out of the thick fog, blowing on people's faces very comfortably.

Qian Ai looked at the captain who suddenly started to concentrate on counting the money with his head down, and then at the military adviser who was still full of innocence, he always felt something strange.He understood Wu Sheng's implication, since you, the captain, hold the public purse, so what money should I bring.But how to switch to "yannei", once shortened to five words, it sounds a little... affectionate?

It was right to choose Xu Wang as the captain. Qian Ai suddenly became afraid. If Wu Sheng was really chosen, the communication would either be completely incomprehensible with the "logic" and "structure" of the water, or he would give you a "earthy love story" out of the blue. ", as a player the pressure is too great.

Xu Wang put the recounted money into his pocket, and laid out three lists: "A total of eight hundred and five, let's study what information to buy."

"The content of a third level is only [-]." Qian Ai has no confidence in the purchasing power of his team. "And this daily level experience, current price? Is this selling seafood?!"

"The third question must be asked." Xu Wang patted Qian Ai to appease his partner's excitement, and then asked the other two partners, "What about the rest?"

"Boundless Sea," Kuang Jinxin said, "You must make clear what is in front of you."

Xu Wang thought about it, reached out and tapped a few questions on the Endless Sea list: "Then... 2, 4, 7?"

"And this." Wu Sheng pushed the list of rules forward, and tapped on the second rule with his fingertips.

The opinions of all partners are summarized together——

【Rule class】

2. Related to injury and death. (100 yuan)

【level class】

3. The content of the third level and the strategy for clearing it. (400 yuan)

【Endless Sea】

2. What are the four lighthouses? (100 yuan)

4. The optimal strategy for the four routes. (200 yuan/piece, package price 700 yuan)

7. The best strategy for the four lighthouses. (200 yuan/piece, package price 700 yuan)

Just as Xu Wang was about to start mental calculations, Wu Sheng had already given an accurate package price: "One thousand, and it's still in the case of only choosing one route and lighthouse strategy."

"Not enough money..." Kuang Jinxin muttered in distress.

"Well," Wu Sheng nodded, "At least one item needs to be cut off."

"Then we can only cut this." Qian Ai pointed to the item "What are the four lighthouses" in the endless sea, "Anyway, I still have to ask about the strategy. Maybe the strategy can be used to reverse the final reward?"

"Cut what to chop!" Xu Wang rolled his eyes at the group of "unprogressive" teammates, gathered up three pages of paper, walked to the railing, pointed his head down and shouted, "Mao Qiping——"

The fog had completely covered the sea below the boat, but fortunately, an enthusiastic response came from the vast whiteness: "Here he is—"

Following the answer, the telescopic pole slowly protruded from the fog to the outside of the railing.

徐望很配合地把三页纸重新挂上去：“我们选好了，要规则类2、5，关卡类3、4，无尽海类2、4、7。”

The three partners were stunned, they didn't seem to have chosen so many, did they?

"Okay——" Mao Qiping's voice rose immediately, revealing the joy of "about to count the money".

In doubt, the telescopic rod has been taken back by the owner.

one second.

two seconds.

three seconds.

Mao Qiping in the mist finally confirmed that he only received the paper, or the three printed by himself.

“要规则类2、5，关卡类3、4，无尽海类2、4、7——”短暂安静里，徐望又大声说了一遍。

Finally Mao Qiping suppressed his maddened voice from below: "I know, but you have to pay!"

"We don't have enough money," Xu Wang said.

Mao Qiping collapsed: "Then you asked so many questions—"

"Meeting is fate, you can give me a friendship price." Xu Wang was not in a hurry.

There was no movement in the mist for a long time, probably because he was calculating the amount. After a while, Mao Qiping said again: "It's [-] in total, I'll give you a [-]% discount, [-], and I'll wipe it off for you, too. One thousand and four, is that interesting enough?"

Xu Wang: "[-]% off, [-], there is no need to wipe away the change."

Mao Qiping: "...bye!!!"

"Hey, haggling, bargaining, bargaining, plus, don't get excited."

"You cut me in the middle with one knife, what else are you talking about!"

"It's not that I want to cut it in half. We only have [-] on us. If you don't believe me, come up and search, but if you find [-], I will give you ten times it!"

"That doesn't work either. As much information as I have, I'm going through the wind and waves, and I earn hard money. It's impossible to sell half and give half away."

The tone is not relaxed at all, but the tone is more gentle than before, which means talking from the bottom of your heart.

Xu Wang was silent for a while, as if he had made up his mind: "Well, I don't want anything related to the report card and the fourth level. I will deduct one hundred from one thousand fourteen, another six hundred, and there will be seven hundred left. Seven hundred yuan. I bought 23247, it's our business that we are poor, we can't let you suffer!"

Mao Qiping always felt that something was wrong, and he figured it out: "You deducted the original price without the discount from the [-]% discount I paid?!"

The three "auditing" partners were silent, but they had calculated the account in their minds. The 1600 yuan to 1400 yuan actually means that every item in it has been discounted. The report card and the fourth pass should be changed from 1400 yuan to 700 yuan. If it was picked out from inside, the discounted price of 700 yuan should be deducted, but Xu Wang directly deducted [-] yuan, and dozens of yuan were erased inside and out.

Captain, you can do it.

Captain Xu, who has been recognized by the team members, is covering his chest with his eyes wide open at the moment, regardless of whether he can see it from the bottom, anyway, he is heartbroken from his actions to his voice: "I just let the two be so sincere, you and I care about it." That eighty-haired one?!"

In things like bargaining, be soft when it should be soft, and be tough when it should be hard. A two-pronged approach is the kingly way.

"Okay, okay," Mao Qiping finally let go, "I didn't meet anyone else today, but I met you."

Xu Wang showed a comfortable smile: "This is it, thousands of miles are bound together, we all have to cherish this fate."

The telescopic rod came up again: "Take the money, ask and settle, everyone can rest assured."

"Oh yes, we were discussing just now," Xu Wang held the telescopic rod, "What do you mean by the 'current price' of your daily experience sharing?"

"It just depends on my mood," Mao Qiping was obviously in a bad mood, "Don't you all only have 700 yuan, what's the use of asking so much?"

"I just picked up another 100 yuan in the cockpit. Let's change your question."

"As long as you find [-], I will give you ten times... Is it my hallucination!!!"

"Then you didn't come up to search."

"..."

"I promise, this is really all of our belongings," Xu Wang said as he folded the money into long strips and tied them to the telescopic rods one by one, "Don't ask and make a knot, you give us a friendly price, and we will believe you This friend, 800 yuan is here, keep it!"

After tying the last 50 yuan, Xu Wang gently shook the telescopic rod.

The telescopic rod was slowly retracted, and there was a long silence, so long that one had to wonder if he had taken the money and ran away. Mao Qiping's voice penetrated the fog and came slowly——

"Here, injury is real, death..."

deal, done.

I bought information for 800 yuan for 1000 yuan, and a piece of "current price" information as a bonus. In the end, there was still 50 yuan left in the budget.

Wu Sheng, Kuang Jinxin, and Qian Ai looked at each other with emotion.

When you come up, you say you want to buy a lot, first earn a discounted price, and then cut it down to collapse the other party's psychological price, and then withdraw two questions to make a concession, which seems to be a bargain, and finally post a hundred plus questions, which is not at all. Give the other party to think and breathe, and capture the other party's heart with the sincerity and atmosphere of paying the full price in one fell swoop.

Their captain is a dragon and a phoenix among men.

"Is death real too?" Before Xu Wang had time to appreciate the joy of bargaining, he was disturbed by Mao Qiping's information.

"It should be said that the feeling of the moment of death is real, so real that you don't want to experience it a second time."

"But death still doesn't exist, but whenever there is a danger of death, the 'owl' will bounce people back to reality, right?"

"Yes," Mao Qiping acquiesced in the naming of "Owl", which is obviously the mainstream, "Not only death, but also serious injury, as long as it is judged to be in danger of serious injury or even death, 'Owl' will send people to the hospital. Back to reality, I call this 'activation protection mechanism'."

Wu Sheng interjected: "What kind of injury can be kept, what kind of injury will trigger the protection mechanism, is there a clear limit?"

Mao Qiping said: "No, but according to the information I have collected, it seems that skin trauma and ordinary fractures will be preserved, and no serious injuries have been seen, so my understanding should be that injuries that do not affect the action will be recognized. "

"They're all fractured, and it doesn't affect their actions?" Qian Ai suspected that "Owl" had a deviation from human society in its cognition of injury appraisal.

"It's okay," Mao Qiping said, "A fracture is nothing more than a crutch with a plaster cast. I've seen teammates help push wheelchairs, and they run like lightning!"

"..." Qian Ai didn't care about the injury, and wanted to interview the teammate who pushed the wheelchair.

"What about suicide?" Wu Sheng asked suddenly, "Will suicide also be bounced back to reality?"

Mao Qiping was silent for a while, then replied: "Yes."

Wu Sheng frowned, as if he had discovered a bug during debugging: "If this is the case, those who don't want to stay here, come in and throw themselves into the sea once a day, and they will go home in a blink of an eye."

"What you can think of, someone has already thought of it." Covered by the mist, Mao Qiping's face could not be seen, but the bitterness in his words could be heard clearly, "Death also requires courage. Like here, you will not die if you fall into the sea." Immediately bounce back to reality, but lose temperature little by little in the sea water, sink, suffocate, and will be sent back to reality when you have tasted the feeling of dying from the beginning to the end. This kind of experience, once is enough , few people are willing to try a second time.”

Mao Qiping's description is full of desperation, as if he had died like this once before, and he didn't want to relive it again.

Xu Wang remembered the time when he was attacked by a bear.

That was the first day he entered "Owl", and he didn't even know the north, south, east, and west. From the beginning to the end, he thought it was a dream, so he was not very scared when he was attacked by a bear. It may be because it happened so fast that Thinking about it now, I still don't have much lingering fear.But he remembered the pain at that moment, and he will never forget the pain in this life. Just thinking about it, the wound on his shoulder began to ache.

"There are always people whose 'going home obsession' exceeds 'death fear'," Wu Sheng understands Mao Qiping's emotional statement, but he prefers to proceed from rationality, "The effect of pain is diminishing marginally. A person will be afraid once he dies. Die ten times is not the same, even if the damage received is objectively equal, the subjective pain will gradually decrease."

"Common name, numb." Xu Wang hurriedly explained to the people below, lest he be stunned by his teammates.

"Of course there are people like this. I met one when I passed the second level. When I came up, I detonated the bomb, which caused us to bounce out together. He said he just wanted to try suicide. You can bid farewell to this ghost place..."

"What happened later?" Xu Wang always felt that there was more to come.

"Later, I met their team again in this endless sea, but there was no him in the team. I thought the team broke up and reorganized, but the other three said that when they committed suicide for the tenth time, only the three of them returned to reality."

"Did that person stay in Owl?"

"No, it disappeared. This person has never appeared again, whether it is here or in reality."

"..."

"Why didn't the other three disappear?" Wu Sheng asked, "Strictly speaking, they also committed suicide ten times."

"No," Mao Qiping said. "When that person committed suicide for the first time, he teamed up with other people. After he was kicked, he teamed up with the three of them. So counting, the other three committed suicide only nine times."

Kuang Jinxin was sweating for those three people: "They will definitely not dare to try for the tenth time..."

"I couldn't figure it out before. It was all death. How could this ghostly place tell the difference between an accident or a suicide? After staying for a long time, I understood," Mao Qiping sighed lightly, with a hint of teasing, "'Owl 'Ah, staring in our heads."

A wisp of sea breeze blows away a small cloud of fog between the boat and the boat without warning. It seems that the wind is directed at this fog, so that people on and off the boat can look at each other for a moment.

Xu Wang and Mao Qiping, whose eyes collided, were stunned at the same time, the latter's eyes were still full of sadness and pain that had not been restrained in time.

The "profiteers" under the boat were not as open-minded and indifferent as he showed. The so-called peace with the situation is more like resignation to fate.

"What about the third level?" Xu Wang asked naturally, pretending not to see the other party's strangeness, "We know all about the injuries and deaths. I can't wait for the content of the third level!"

Mao Qiping was startled, and immediately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey: "Zombies, the third level is to beat zombies."

This time it was Xu Wang's turn to be stunned.

Qian Ai, who was at the side, stretched his arms and jumped on the spot while he could still see the boat going down: "This kind of zombie in Qing court clothes?"

Mao Qiping was speechless, he raised his hand up and down to make two "black claws dig out the heart", and at the same time bit his upper and lower teeth "click" twice: "This zombie from Plants vs. Zombies!"

"Oh," Qian Ai was very disappointed, and felt that all the 80s Hong Kong zombie movies he had watched were useless, "You just say zombies and it's over."

"Okay, then zombies," said the customer, who is always the biggest, "you will get vaccines and random weapons after entering, and the vaccines will be delivered to the central hospital smoothly, which is the customs clearance."

"The environment after entering is a city?" Qian Ai asked.

Mao Qiping said: "Half the city, half the ruins."

Kuang Jinxin was startled by Qian Ai's calm and well-organized question. Is this still the insecure Brother Qian?

Zombie, just thinking about that scene makes his scalp tingle: "Brother Qian, aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?" Qian Ai said, "This thing doesn't look like a ghost. From its appearance to its skills, it's ever-changing. It can be as scary as it is. To deal with zombies, just be careful not to be bitten, and the rest is just like fighting."

"And their movements are very slow." Wu Sheng was calmer than Qian Ai. "If we run and make a bloody path, as long as we have enough energy, they will never try to catch up with us."

"That's right!" Qian Ai nodded vigorously with a look of "I was going to say this".

The mist rose again, and Mao Qiping's face gradually blurred.

But the voice was clear: "Uh, you may have misunderstood the zombies in the third level, their speed is not slow..."

Wu Sheng frowned: "Can they run?"

"Everyone is the Bolt of the zombie world." Mao Qiping said.