The Midnight Owl

It was obviously just a passing greeting, how did it develop into a table for supper?

Oh no, it's still two small square tables put together, and you can eat like a family despite all difficulties.

It's not good for a lonely team to eat late at night-this is the reason of Captain Mighty Man.When Xu Wang and the others came to their senses, half of the table had already been covered with all kinds of suppers, and the remaining half was waiting to go to other stalls to collect dark circles under the eyes and return to fill them up.

We "appraised" from the street to the end of the street to ensure that what is on the table now is the essence - this is the "purchasing quality" that Dan Fengyan gave himself after the return of dark circles. Sometimes, his emphasis and posture, as if he is not in a food stall, but a Michelin restaurant.

Huainan beef soup, pan-fried edamame, crab shell yellow pancakes, etc., representing Anhui, formed half of the supper party for eight people; national seed players such as spicy crayfish, barbecue skewers, fried chicken chops, and spicy soup, etc., completed the other Half the supper table.

Captain Xu, the "player", didn't really want to eat this meal at first, mainly because he was guilty, and he was afraid that if he had a good meal, he would talk too much and show his feet.

Later, as soon as the crayfish was served and the spicy taste wafted away, everyone fell in love with it.

Unexpectedly, I just gnawed a few of them, and when I tried to grab them again, my army division knocked off my hand.

Xu Wang was puzzled and glared at Wu Sheng—any behavior that interrupts the wonderful foodie moment must be zero tolerance!

Wu Sheng was unmoved: "Just have fun."

Following his gaze, Xu Wang finally realized that his neck was still wounded.

However, the wound drawn by Hei Loli's wind blade was so shallow that it was just a bloodstain, with a little blood oozing out, and even a band-aid was not used. I'm on a hunger strike.

"To be prepared, it's better to eat something light." As if he understood the "spitting" in Xu Wang's eyes, Wu Sheng added another sentence.

Xu looked at the black line: "Look at this table, is there anything light?"

Wu Sheng glanced at the table, finally picked up the plastic-covered menu at the corner of the table, looked at it for two seconds, and called out to the stall owner who was cooking at the stall: "Boss, add a cold okra—"

Xu Wang: "..."

Is there any fellowship with socialists? ! !

"Captain, you don't know your blessings when you are in the midst of blessings," Qian Ai, who was watching the whole process, put down the crayfish claws and sighed pitifully, "I want to find someone to care about me and give me some cold okra, but there is none..."

Xu Wang looked at the crayfish shells piled up in front of him, feeling indescribable: "Your words are not convincing at all..."

Qian Ai shut up aggrieved.

In fact, he has no love for crayfish, not to mention a deep love, but who made Wu Sheng use a "dragon swims in shallow water and encounters shrimps" tonight, the cheerful crayfish in the water is clearly a naked seduction!

Serve with okra.

One chopstick and one chopstick, picking okra desolately, putting one in the mouth from time to time, let the taste buds feel what is called cold wind, and play abstinently.

Captain Xu's foodie night, THEEND.

"Are you really eating from the street to the end of the street before breaking through the barrier?" Xu Wang couldn't eat to his heart's content, so he had to "chat and get distracted".

The mighty man, the phoenix eye, the black eye, and the paper man all nodded at the same time. The four pairs of eyes were half ignorant and half innocent.

"Is there any question?" Wei Menghan asked back on behalf of the whole team.

Xu Wang: "...No, no problem."

If you don't look at these four "wind and clouds", there is no problem at all.

The person opposite Xu Wang was the Mighty Man, and it was the most convenient to chat with him, so seeing that he was about to "bury his head in hard work" again, he quickly stopped: "The Mighty Man..."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he was taken aback, and hurriedly wanted to change his words.

As a result, the mighty man looked up and was also surprised: "You know my name?"

Xu Wang: "..."

Nicknames can also be seated? !

The mighty man looked at his expression, thought again, he had never reported his name, and suddenly realized that he must have misheard, and immediately skipped this easy-to-fall topic, and changed his direction: "You just saw the name on the list Are you alone?"

This is exactly what Xu Wang wanted to talk about, so he immediately regained his energy: "I see, I thought that the single pass speed records were also the regulars on the leaderboard, but it seems to be just Fan Peiyang's team."

Mighty Man just picked up a topic at random, but he didn't expect the other party to be really interested, so he didn't hide it, and gave some information without affecting his team: "When the speed of a single stage is refreshed, only when you are in the People in the same checkpoint, the paper submission speed list is only opened, counting this time, we have only met three times, the first two times were Fan Peiyang team, one 2/23, one 4/23."

Xu Wang was surprised. He had always taken it for granted that everyone could see the speed list of handing in papers. If, as Mighty Man said, it was only opened in the record-breaking level, then even if someone broke the record in other levels, they would not be able to see it. The way to know the first time.

像现在，4/23的记录是他们，2/23是另外一支队伍，都已经不再是范佩阳。但2/23的记录什么时候刷新的？范佩阳队又是哪天破的7/23记录？对于他们和威猛汉队来说，都是一片空白。

"The records of the first seven levels, as long as they are willing to work hard and have some luck, every team has a chance, and it is normal to change," Wei Menghan added, "But the level records after 7/23 , can't be shaken."

Xu Wang was stunned: "You guys met with three open rankings, and the record after 7/23 hasn't changed at all?"

"Well," Mighty Han pondered for a while, and still revealed a little gossip, "I heard that a team met the Fan Peiyang team on 9/23 last week. But it didn't work."

The implication is that you will know how difficult the following levels are.

"Do you know the record-keeping team after 7/23?" Wu Sheng added to the topic.

The mighty man shook his head and sighed: "Maybe I gave up a long time ago."

Wu Sheng always felt that the explanation didn't make sense: "A team that can set such a fast record will give up so easily?"

"Until now, there is no record of 13/23." Mighty Man looked at him, "Do you know what this means?"

Of course Wu Sheng is clear: "It means that even those teams that break the record will have to go back and forth repeatedly between levels 1-13."

Wei Menghan nodded: "It's like academic performance. If you work hard, you will improve, but if the difficulty of the topic exceeds a certain range, no matter how hard you try, you will not pass. Over time, even if you get 59 points every time, you will give up in discouragement. .”

Few people use "study results" as an example, Wu Sheng suddenly remembered that Dan Fengyan once called him "Teacher Wei".

"If it was your team that got 59 points every time," Wu Sheng asked, "would you give up?"

Mighty Man thought about it seriously: "It's hard to say..."

Seeing hope countless times, and shattering it countless times, is more destructive to people's will than never seeing hope.

"We won't." Xu Wang, who had been listening quietly all this time, suddenly spoke.

The mighty man froze for a moment.

"Uh, it should be said that he won't," Xu Wang pointed at Wu Sheng, "Our teammate likes to challenge the impossible the most. If it is really like what you said, he will be so excited that he can score 59 points countless times. Let's swipe the level eight times."

"It's not that..." Junshi Wu was modest, but the corners of his mouth slightly raised, betraying his endless learning heart.

Mighty Man has been on the podium for nearly ten years, and he can see through Wu Sheng's soul full of curiosity at a glance.

This is his favorite kind of student!

Xu Wang: "..."

My military division seems to be missed by others, what should I do?Does he want to flip the table?

The friends did not notice the "undercurrent" here, because they each found a "confidant"——

Dark circles: "Yes, XX Bank, their wealth management products are rich in types and reasonable in design, and they are backed by banks. Long-term wealth management is the most assured. If you want to protect your capital and wealth management, large deposit certificates are also a good choice..."

Qian Ai: "Can you buy it with mobile banking?"

Dark circles: "Most of them are fine, but some need to go to the counter."

Qian Ai: "You don't even tell me your name, how can they give you a commission?"

Black eye: "Just have a consultant number, fill in my consultant number when you buy."

Qian Ai: "Hey, your job is pretty good too..."

Black eye: "That's right, our team, I'm the only one who didn't resign."

Qian Ai: "Forget it, let's be honest with you, I also persist in working while breaking through barriers!"

Black eye: "Are you also a financial advisor?!"

Qian Ai: "Gourmet anchor."

Dark circles: "You are so cool!"

Qian Ai: "It's not easy. Speaking of which, how do you maintain a balance between work and breaking through the barriers? Now I can only play around..."

Dark circles: "You have to have a long-term plan for this, let me tell you..."

The paper man rested his chin, looked at the two people who were chatting enthusiastically, and smiled faintly. Otherwise, he would have thought that he was sitting in a coffee shop watching the street view if he didn't look at the surrounding environment.

As soon as I turned my head, I saw the classmates across the table staring at me.

The corner of the paper man's lips curled into a warm smile.

Kuang Jinxin had been curious for a long time, and when he saw the other party looking over, he asked bluntly, "Are you a dancer?"

The paper man smiled: "It's too far away, I just practiced dancing."

practiced.

past tense.

If it was Xu Wang, he would definitely have heard the meaning behind the words.

But Kuang Jinxin didn't have such exquisite thoughts. Seeing that the other party gave an affirmative answer, he immediately became happy: "I think it's like, you have a good temperament for dancing. You are the second most beautiful person I have ever seen!"

Since childhood, the paper man has heard many compliments, sincere and false, but today this one is absolutely unique.

The second best looking.

How can you boast so much?

He couldn't help it, he was happy, and he was very curious: "Who is the most attractive?"

"Chi..." Kuang Jinxin almost blurted out, and then he reacted immediately and knocked himself on the head, "Oh yes, you can't say your name, it's dangerous."

With a serious look, it's as if if you call a name, the other party will be cursed.

The paper man's brows and eyes are completely bent, and the fatigue of the night will be dispelled by this "naturally cute colleague".

"It's a passer-by I met on 3/23," Kuang Jinxin expressed rigorously, and immediately relaxed, sighing, a little regretful, "The person is really good-looking, but his personality is not good."

"Bad temper? Bad personality?" The paper man was curious.

"It's not so specific, it's just...strange," Kuang Jinxin flipped through the clips about Chi Yingxue in his memory, and finally stopped at the moment when he hugged himself and fell off the Ferris wheel, "It's like there is something in his heart. It’s a small black room, no one knows what’s locked inside.”

The paper man was thoughtful, and after a while, he said: "Everyone has a small dark room in their hearts."

Kuang Jinxin shook his head without any hesitation, and pointed at Qian Ai who was obliquely opposite, who was fascinated by the conversation with the dark circles: "He has a sunshine room in his heart."

The classmate Qian who was pointed out was unconscious, from body to soul, indulging in the "money rolling" outlined by dark circles.

The paper man can't really see the conservatory, but he can imagine the spiritual space: "If you can see through it at a glance, it's still full of flowers and plants, which is good."

Kuang Jinxin corrected the other party's misunderstanding: "It's mainly the eight major cuisines and RMB."

The paper man just took a sip of his drink and almost choked, so he simply stopped drinking, suppressed a smile, and asked directly: "Where are the other teammates?"

Kuang Jinxin: "A military division is a meditation study room."

Paper Man: "..."

Take this attribute apart, you can understand every word, why is it so mysterious when combined...

"The captain is an amusement park!" Kuang Jinxin thought hard and found the most suitable answer for his own leader.

Looking at the light in Kuang Jinxin's eyes, the paper man finally confirmed that his sixth sense was right.

A team that can make their teammates look so proud.

Impossibly weak.

"Humph."

Dan Fengyan was ignored, so he ignored others and continued to bake the eggplant with tin foil and eat French-style baked snails.

When the wine runs out, people leave and the night market closes.

The eight people who met by chance, saved a friendship for a meal, and went on their own way again.

The coordinates of the next level have not yet been given, Xu Wang and the others found a nearby hotel that looked pretty good—a month of Endless Sea, in addition to stationery, they also gained quite a lot of team funds, and the accommodation conditions of the four partners were also good. Steady improvement.

The two standard rooms are still fixed configurations, and the conditions are improved, so they can't be extravagant and wasteful.

Wu Sheng came out of the bathroom after taking a shower, the sky outside the window was already dawning, the captain of his team who had showered first, was not asleep, lying on the bed, holding up the key chain to look.

Wu Sheng sat next to his bed, brushing his hair while waiting for his captain to initiate a conversation.

Sure enough, Xu Wang, a carp, sat up straight and looked at him seriously, his eyes full of academic discussions: "Did you say that the operating logic of an owl is very similar to a program?"

"Yes," Wu Sheng said, "but this is just a metaphor. If the owl is really a program, the complexity of its algorithm is beyond the reach of human intelligence, let alone it can interfere with the real world."

Facing the keychain, Xu Wang fell into thought again.

The first time I entered an owl with a keychain, I had to drop the keychain to the ground before it turned barking.But when you enter again for the second time, the keychain will directly enter the stationery box and become an icon. From then on, the mode of "it will automatically disappear and become an icon + return to reality and automatically return to the keychain" will be fixed.

He always thought that this was the most suitable mode of existence that Wang Wang had found himself.

But what if not?

What if the owl makes targeted adjustments based on barking?

As Wu Sheng said, when Owl absorbs external information, it is likely to produce new things through its own algorithm.

If this is the case, then "teaching NPCs to be human" is not a whimsical idea...

Wu Sheng looked at Xu Wang who was thinking, and felt a sense of crisis that he, a military adviser, would soon lose his job.

"Where's your little card?" Xu Wang suddenly raised his head and reached out to his military adviser, "Show me."

Wu Sheng was very happy. Finally someone was interested in his "education career". He quickly put down the towel, took out a stack of small cards, and solemnly handed one over like a business card.

Xu Wang took the card and met Wu Junshi's "wisdom crystallization" for the first time: "Why are you here...is it your job or your mission to be here..."

After watching the first two, Captain Xu became desperate.

Lifting his head, he asked Wu Sheng: "Why are you on earth?"

Wu Sheng, on a rare occasion, was stopped by the question.

Xu Wang sighed, and said earnestly: "Ask a question is the same as chatting. You have to choose a topic that everyone is interested in, so as to make people feel friendly and inspire exploration step by step. You just ask me the kind of question that involves the universe and the ultimate meaning of life. , I don't even like to talk to you."

One word awakened Junshi Wu.

He stood up abruptly, ran to the desk in his bathrobe, tore off a piece of hotel note paper, and began to write vigorously, his pen was full of thoughts and his eyes sparkled.

Xu Wang picked up the towel he threw on the bed so that the moisture wouldn't get on the sheets. In a daze, he seemed to be back in the high school dormitory again, fearing being dominated by a bully: "You don't have to work so hard..."

The sun rises and sets, and the moon rises again.

Since entering "Owl", time seems to have passed very fast.

At midnight, the four partners entered the Moonlight Forest again.

This time they entered directly from the hotel on purpose, two or three kilometers away from the coordinate point, so no matter whether it was the maze or the other colleagues, there was no sign of them. Except for the forest, there was only the moonlight shining through the gaps in the branches and leaves.

"Ding--"

The new coordinates, as expected, appeared in the <cheat sheet>.

"Henan...Anyang?" Wu Sheng recognized the coordinate point, but fell into great doubts.

When the three partners heard "Henan", they didn't react, but when they heard "Anyang", they were all stunned.

Qian Ai: "Didn't Yue Shuai say that 5/23 is in Xiangcheng, Henan?"

Kuang Jinxin testified: "Anyang, Henan should be the coordinates of 6/23."

When Yue Shuai said, they were still looking for the location of two places on the offline map of their mobile phones. Although they were both in Henan, one was in the center of Henan, and the other was in the north of Henan, almost adjacent to Hebei. Henan Province is not too close.

"Look at the report card." Xu Wang looked at his arm and made a new discovery.

The three partners do the same.

<Transcript> is actually a section that is not often opened, because if the two lists are not opened, the content in this section is only the results of your own team, but everyone knows which level they have passed , no one will come in to see it on purpose.

Even yesterday, they just focused on it and watched the [Paper Submission Speed ​​List] for 2 minutes.

But now, the four partners can see clearly that their current score is - 5/23.

Achievements, representing the levels that have been completed.

Xu Wang: "..."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Qian Ai: "Shouldn't we finish 5/23 and collectively lose our memory..."

Kuang Jinxin: "Is it possible that it is a reward for breaking the record in the speed of submitting papers? Just skip the next level and go to Xiaxiaguan?"

Xu Wang: "If you say that..."

Wu Sheng: "There's nothing wrong with logic at all."

Qian Ai: "Can you also refer to my conjecture..."

Xu Wang: "Europe and Africa have been different since ancient times."

Qian Ai: "..."

"Hey?" Kuang Ouqi little prince Jin Xin, after quitting the report card, originally just glanced at the pencil case, but made a new discovery, "Captain, I have an extra hidden item slot!"

The three of them immediately got together.

Sure enough, in Kuang Jinxin's stationery box, the normal stationery column slides to the left, and there is another hidden page. There are a total of thirteen blank boxes in it, twelve of which are empty, except for the fourth box, which has a question mark .

The three partners quickly checked their arms, but they almost scratched their arms, and they didn't slide out to hide the page.

The friends looked at each other and agreed.

There are question marks, of course you should!

Classmate Kuang dropped his fingertips, the question mark disappeared, and a prompt popped up——

<Stationery Box>: Please choose a record-breaking reward for handing in papers.Big Cash/Moonlight Maze Badge?

Xu Wang: "Reward for the speed of handing in papers? Didn't you open the treasure chest yesterday?"

Wu Sheng: "But Xiao Kuang didn't get the money."

Xu Wang: "Sure enough, there is a problem."

Qian Ai: "I just want to know how big this big amount is..."

They only had 2 minutes to open the box and look at the list yesterday. It is very likely that the hidden column had already appeared at that time, but the notification sounds were all mixed together, or there was no notification sound at all, so they failed to find it for a while.

"Captain," Kuang Jinxin seldom struggles with the choice, mainly because he doesn't understand the options now, "What is the use of this badge?"

"I don't know," Xu Wang said truthfully, "but according to the law of 'nothing is given for nothing', it must have value..."

"The reward is your own." Captain Xu patted classmate Kuang on the shoulder, "you can choose whatever you want."

Jin Xin seriously considered this situation, and Wu Sheng was finally able to give his captain an opinion: "I have created my own laws, can you respect the laws a little bit, and be careful when naming them..."

Xu Wang was speechless: "The details you care about are really..."

Wu Sheng: "One White Law."

Xu Wang: "Damn, it sounds so handsome."

——Sometimes, pretending to be aggressive is also a kind of talent.

Two minutes later, Kuang Jinxin resolutely chose the badge under the distressed eyes of his classmate Aiqian covering his chest.

The unknown is always the most attractive.

[Owl: Congratulations on finding a 4/23 Moonlight Labyrinth badge! 】

There were not one but four cheerful notification tones.

The little friends were astonished and looked at their arms in unison.

Needless to say, Kuang Jinxin, the [Moonlight Labyrinth Emblem] has officially settled in the fourth slot of the hidden inventory.

But the stationery boxes of Wu Sheng, Xu Wang, and Qian Ai are exactly the same, with an extra page of hidden items and a grid of [Moonlight Labyrinth Badge].

Kuang Jinxin was so happy that he wanted to spin around.

The maze is for everyone to go through together, and of course everyone must get the badge together!

Of course, the three partners are also excited. Although they still don't know what the badge can be used for, they have a deep understanding of the role of classmate Kuang——

"King."

"Okrypton."

"Three belts..."