The Midnight Owl

Xu Wang didn't want to get entangled with him on this dangerous topic, so he simply took the attitude of "landlord" and pushed him back to the living room neatly.

Under the same roof, one sits on the sofa and the other sits on a chair, looking at each other across the coffee table, the air is suddenly quiet.

Xu Wang's expression was normal, but his heart was pounding against a big wall.He knew that such a fatal situation would happen when the two of them were alone!

"you……"

It was Wu Sheng who spoke first, this was something Xu Wang never expected, he thought he was the only one to search for topics.

"How is your body?"

"..."

What an amazing greeting!

"One hits you both, that's enough."

"I'm asking about the wound on the shoulder."

"..."

The successive arrival of Kuang Jinxin and Sun Jiang finally brought the large-scale awkward chat to an end.It is estimated that they sneaked in to catch up on sleep during the day, and the two looked refreshed.

At midnight, the hooting sounded as expected.

"Cuckoo-"

There was no change in the living room, the three of them looked at Xu Wang, who sighed, got up and took his friends to the bedroom.

A bed of quicksand.

Wu Sheng nodded: "This door...is very unique."

Different from the previous two times of dragging and dragging, this time, the four of them jumped in on their own initiative, rushing to the battlefield with a bit of awe.

Xu Wang was the last one to rush in, and put the fruit knife on the desk into his pocket before leaving.

Familiar with the weightlessness and the rapid fall, the four of them fell into the snow in the blink of an eye.

The moment they landed, the arms of the four people rang almost at the same time, and each of them made more than one sound. The dense and undulating "ding—" intertwined into a rush and noise.

With previous experience, everyone rolled up their sleeves before entering the owl this time, so after hearing the beep, the four partners sitting on the ground raised their arms in unison to check.

Xu Wang received four new messages.Two items are from <Stationary Box>, and there are two more item icons in the empty grid, which are <[Defense] Draw the Ground as a Prison>, <[Wu] Cao Chong Said Xiang> and one is from <Small Copy Paper>, the prompt coordinates are updated as (109.7395,38.3437, 1); there is also a scrolling notification from <transcript>, which is the same as the information they have seen for others to hand in papers——<Kuang Jinxin, Sun Jiang, Wu Sheng, Xu Wang, hand in papers on 23/[-]. >

Judging from the information in the <transcript>, these things should have been sent at the moment they cleared the customs. It is very likely that they were bounced back to reality immediately after handing in the papers, and they were saved until today to receive them.

"'Owl' knows our names." Wu Sheng, who also saw the <transcript>, stated calmly, but it sounded heavy.

"It can suck us in, and lead us to complete missions like monkeys, and I won't be surprised if it shows any supernatural powers." Xu Wang laughed at himself, but actually comforted Wu Sheng and himself, "Now I'm falling I am more concerned about this," he said, showing the <Stationery Box> on his arm to his teammates, pointing to the two new grids on it, "This 'drawing the ground as a prison' is probably used to trap wild animals, and this 'Cao Chong Calls Elephant' is a What the hell?"

Surprise flashed in Wu Sheng's eyes, he didn't answer, but directly showed his arm.

It was only then that Xu Wang saw that his <Stationery Box> had updated <[Defense] Golden Cicada Escapes its Shell> and <[Wu] Wind and Clouds>.

Xu Wang went to look at the other two teammates. The updated coordinates in the <cheat sheet> were exactly the same as the updated submission information in the <transcript>, except that in the <stationery box>, Kuang Jinxin’s was <[Defense] The Three Caves of the Rabbit>, <[Wu] tears like rain>, Sun Jiang's is <[Fighting] Five Miles of Fog>, <[Wu] Thunderbolt from the blue>.

Except for "skateboard shoes", everyone had the same items before, which caused people to have a thinking inertia. Not only Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, Sun Jiang and Kuang Jinxin also naturally thought that the newly added items should be the same as each other.

But what confuses them even more is the item's characteristics.

Those with [Defense] on the front are easy to understand. It is easy to understand by analogy to the "Jingle Bells" and "Fish Taro" which are also [Defense].But this is the first time that the item starting with [Wu] is subtle and weird no matter how you look at it.

"The wind blows away," Wu Sheng pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Understood, summon the strong wind as a weapon."

Xu Wang didn't know where his confidence was so firm, but he had to admit that, compared to his own "Cao Chong called the elephant", his weapons had a clear direction at least literally.

Looking at it this way, Sun Jiang's position is clearer. "A thunderbolt from the blue sky", doesn't that mean whoever hits whomever!

"Brother Xu," Kuang Jinxin weakly interrupted Xu Wang's wild thoughts, "If you don't like to be called an elephant, let's change."

Whether the items in the stationery box can be interchanged is still unknown, but Xu Wang stared at Kuang Jinxin's "tears like rain" seriously for a long time, then shook his head and gave a firm response: "It is destined to be It belongs to you, keep it well."

Kuang Jinxin looked at the four words that had nothing to do with military equipment, and now he wanted to cry.

"Since it is the props needed for the second level, why do we get different ones?" Sun Jiang couldn't figure it out, or he was unwilling to accept this reality. If it works under certain circumstances, if we fail to break through the level, won’t we have no props if we come in the second time?”

"Maybe it's not that complicated. It's just a reward for handing in the paper last time." Xu Wang stood up and patted the snow. He was mentally nervous, but his body couldn't bear the exhaustion. He yawned several times in a row, "Who knows, let's take a step Let's take a step."

Sun Jiang had already stood up, looked around and waited, seeing that Wu Sheng was still not getting up, he was in a panic: "I said, are you going to sleep and then get up?"

"That's not enough," Wu Sheng finally stood up, but his speaking speed was still unhurried, "But I always feel that it's useless for us to be in a hurry tonight, unless one of you can conjure a plane."

Sun Jiang frowned: "What do you mean?"

Xu Wang and Kuang Jinxin also looked at him suspiciously.

Wu Sheng stretched out his arm, and pointed out the new coordinates on the <cheat sheet>: "This one is not in Beijing."

Sun Jiang originally wanted to fight him, but when he heard this, he was amused, and he sneered in an obvious disbelief: "Tell me, where is this place?"

Wu Sheng didn't take it seriously, and retreated to the owl's head with a few clicks, retracted his arms, and said two words firmly: "Northern Shaanxi."

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

When a group of people walked on foot in the snow field for nearly two hours, and turned around all the places they hadn’t been to the previous two days, but did not trigger any events, checkpoints, or encounter any bobcat beasts, Sun Jiang, who didn't believe it at all, and Kuang Jinxin, who was half-believing, were completely convinced.

Xu Wang had expected this result long ago and was not surprised at all.

The four sat down in a cave not far from the icefall. Although the rocky ground was cold, it was better than snow.Xu Wang took out his phone to check, it was only 02:30 in the morning.

"Are we really going to sit here until five o'clock?" Xu Wang was ejected early twice when he came in, was injured once, and handed in papers once.

"You can also dance and sing to kill time," Wu Sheng drew on the ground with a stone he didn't know where to pick up, and casually offered a completely unintentional suggestion, "Anyway, there are only four of us here, no matter how ugly you sing You can't hook up ghosts and ghosts either."

Xu Wang gritted his teeth and wanted to go back, when he saw Kuang Jinxin leaning against Wu Sheng, looking at the "work" on the ground very seriously, and asked: "Angkor, what did you paint?"

Wu Sheng was engrossed, without raising his head: "Latitude and longitude coordinate map."

The more Kuang Jinxin looked at it, the more he felt familiar with the outline of the figure covered by the horizontal and vertical latitude and longitude lines. Isn't this the rooster of the motherland!His eyes widened in disbelief: "Angkor, have you really memorized the latitude and longitude of the whole country and the corresponding locations?!"

Wu Sheng didn't stop: "It doesn't count, it's still a few provinces away."

"That's amazing enough!" Kuang Jinxin's eyes lit up, "Just now when you saw the coordinates, you said it was Northern Shaanxi. Can locate!"

Wu Sheng finally put down the stone, slowly raised his head, his smile was full of "humility": "Actually, it's not as complicated as you think, it's nothing more than two pictures, one longitude and latitude, one map, you put them in your mind Overlap, using the region segmentation method..."

"Wu Sheng——" Xu Wang rolled his eyes and interrupted him, and the drawn-out ending sound was full of warnings "please don't pretend anymore".

Wu Sheng resentfully gave him a "know it" look, and when he faced Kuang Jinxin, he became more down-to-earth: "Memory is something that comes naturally."

Kuang Jinxin: "..."

Xu Wang: "..."

There is no need to be so realistic! ! !

Classmate Kuang, who was hit hard, shrank to a corner, which was pitiful.Xu Wang wanted to go up and say a few heart-warming words, but when he got up, his hand accidentally brushed his pocket. He froze suddenly, then returned his hand to the pocket and patted it twice, but still didn't feel anything, and finally reached into his mouth I felt in the bag, and sure enough, it was empty.

The fruit knife is gone.

He clearly remembered it clearly, and put it in this pocket when he came in...

"What's the matter?" Wu Sheng was attracted by the sound of him patting his pocket, and found something strange.

There is nothing to hide about this matter, Xu Wang said truthfully: "I brought a fruit knife in to defend myself, but it is gone now."

Sun Jiang and Kuang Jinxin looked over nervously when they heard the words. In this kind of place where anything can happen, losing a knife is a big or small matter.

Wu Sheng frowned, still calm: "Did it still exist when I came in, and I just found out that it was gone, or did it disappear the moment I came in?"

"Is there a difference?" Sun Jiang didn't follow this train of thought, "It's all gone anyway."

Xu Wang didn't understand.Although he has only spent one day and three nights with Wu Sheng ten years later, he already has a deep feeling for this person's "programmer thinking".Everything 1 is 1,0, 0 is 0.5, the logic must be clear, the conditions must be clear, there is no intermediate term of [-].

"I haven't touched my pocket since I came in, so I can't be sure if it just disappeared, or it disappeared the moment I came in."

"Then there is no way," Wu Sheng was annoyed, obviously worried about not finding the answer, "The conditions are not enough, and it is impossible to judge whether the 'offensive' items will be automatically blocked here, or if you left it here carelessly. place."

Xu Wang didn't have to find the truth, after all, compared to a small fruit knife, the update of <Small Copy Paper> is more interesting: "If that coordinate point is really northern Shaanxi..."

"No if," Wu Sheng interrupted him without hesitation, emphasizing his tone, "Yes."

If it wasn't for the fear of a disorganized lineup, Xu Wang really wanted to kick him: "Okay—that's it. Then how do we get there?"

"Since we can't get through here, of course we can only leave from reality." Wu Sheng didn't even think about it, and answered it as a matter of course.

"Then how should I ask for leave with the leader?" Xu Wang tried to keep smiling, simulating a possible workplace conversation, gnashing his teeth word by word, "Leader, can you give me a few days off? What's the matter? I want to go to the old revolutionary base for a while." trip."

Wu Sheng: "OK, there are good reasons."

Xu Wang: "Come here."

Wu Sheng: "I refuse."

Xu Wang: "I promise not to hit you."

Wu Sheng: "But you will kiss me."

Xu Wang: "..."

A slip of a step becomes an eternal hatred!

"Ding--"

The warning sound without warning is especially harsh in the cave.

Xu Wang immediately looked down.

This time the new information comes from <roster>.

His roster interface originally looked like this——

1/23 Xu Wang[Retired]

1/23 Kuang Jinxin [kick]

1/23 Sun Jiang [kick]

1/23 Wu Sheng [kick]

But now there are only three people left in the list, and there are five words scrolling from left to right on the list - <Sun Jiang has quit>.

Wu Sheng and Kuang Jinxin, who also lowered their heads to check the information, also saw it clearly on their own arms.

Before the three of them could speak, Sun Jiang smiled, apologetically and bitterly: "I won't leave Beijing. Even if my unit can ask for leave, my family can't justify it. Don't tell me you will get a headache when you tell the truth, even if it can Say, no one will believe it, I can't let my wife and children worry about me every day..."

As he said that, he changed the subject and said in a brisk tone: "But if I don't go, even if you get to the place, you probably won't be able to trigger the new checkpoint. Instead of waiting to be kicked, it's better for me to take the initiative to make room..."

The tone of pretending to be indifferent seems to be sloppy, but the words are full of sincerity.

"Since you are allowed to leave the team, you will definitely be able to add people. Don't worry, I have a hunch that the person you meet again will definitely be more reliable than this old guy like me."