【Summer Five】Iron City Wall

The card reader port flashes yellow light regularly, and the computer screen scrolls lines of codes, changing extremely fast, and the process of overwriting-correcting-overwriting is constantly repeated.Both pairs of eyes stared at the screen without blinking, and even the sound of breathing was very light.

The laboratory lights were not turned on, and only the computer screen emitted a faint blue light in the dark.The flickering light cast a half circle on the wall, reflecting the young man's thin and straight back.

"Beep!" The card reader beeped, and the light gradually changed from yellow to green.Just when the suppressed breathing was about to get heavier, the screen suddenly froze for a second, and then a boxy red box popped up unexpectedly: interface error.

The yellow light never turned green, it struggled a few times, and finally stopped at a thick red.

"It still doesn't work...!" Wutiao sighed heavily, and was bored on the computer, "How many times has this happened, what went wrong?"

Xia You covered her eyes with her left hand, walked to the side and turned on the light.The sudden pouring light stings his retinas. He covered his eyes and waited for his vision to adapt, and said, "How can it be so easy? No matter how bad Walden Pond is, it is also the central system of the iron city wall. If you break it in a few clicks, I will have to worry about the whole world." The survival of humanity is at stake."

"Isn't it the supercomputer in the crater? What's it called... Noah? Since it was invented by humans in the pre-epoch, there must be loopholes. As long as it still follows the logic of intelligence, Walden Pond is just a supercomputer. Just a patched fishing net."

Wutiao said arrogant words, but buried his face on the old computer, and rubbed it in frustration: "Jie, let's change it again. You are right, it takes a few more failures to find the crux of the problem—although I disagree with your assessment of Walden Pond."

Xia You had never seen him make such a concession: "Okay, let's stop here today, go back and rest."

The wall clock pointed to 11:30, and Lao Chen's deafening snoring came from downstairs, like a three-headed dog sneezing at the gate of hell.Wutiao got up, went out slowly and went upstairs, Xia You lagged behind to pack up his things, and turned off the electricity and closed the door by the way.

When the curtains were drawn, the attic immediately became dark.The two lay on the bed, didn't fall asleep for a while, didn't chat, and stared at the ceiling silently.Xia You didn't dare to sleep, even though his whole body was soaked in drowsiness, dripping like a soaked chicken; but he still had to get up at twelve o'clock, he was about to fall asleep, and I'm afraid no one would wake him up.

So one of them worked hard and one took a nap, and at twelve o'clock, Wu Tiao heard the sound of Xia You getting up.

He should have gone to bed earlier, but he was so busy today that he missed his biological clock.At first he thought that Xia You just got up to go to the bathroom, but after 5 minutes, he heard the characteristic creaking sound of the door closing from the first floor.

Xia You went out.

The room was still dark, but Gojo suddenly woke up.Where does this guy go without sleeping in the middle of the night?

He was undeniably curious, so he also dressed and chased out the door with sunglasses on.The magnification eyepiece caught Xia You's back as he turned into the long alley, and the five moved away step by step, keeping in a relatively safe anti-reconnaissance area, with extremely light steps, more silent than a falling feather.

They left the residential area and got closer and closer to the furnace factory.A thought came to Wutiao's mind, but he couldn't find the motive, so he could only continue to follow.The cold and tall outline of the factory came into view, and there were two guards standing outside the iron gate.This prehistoric beast roared underground, and the heat wave radiated for several kilometers. As soon as it reached the periphery, it was so hot that it began to sweat.

Xia You showed a small card similar to an ID card, the guard nodded and let him in.

The iron gate slowly closed, and the black-haired youth completely disappeared into the giant beast's mouth.Being too far away, Wu Tiao couldn't see Xia You's expression clearly, but only knew that his back, which had always been straight, seemed to bend slightly, as if he was trying to suppress some kind of emotion.

Wujo knew that he could only follow here today.He returned the same way lightly, and returned to his residence within 10 minutes.The evening wind made his cheeks ache, and the fungus called dissatisfaction in his heart gradually fermented, resisting the inner membrane all over the end of perception, and it was vaguely astringent.

So familiar, I must have been there many times.Gojo stuck out his tongue and thought.If you have money to make but you still hide it from yourself-what is this?Could it be that he was hiding some secret in that factory?

The young master who was "deceived" by Xia You for the first time was very upset.He racked his brains but couldn't figure out Xia You's motives. Instead, he gradually became sleepy and fell asleep as he wished.

The next day coincided with Jonny's visit.Xia You didn't know what to do downstairs, so Wu Tiao hurriedly stopped him and stood outside the fence to chat.

"Can you pull me into the NO.13 melting pot too?" He cut to the point, seeming to be a bit of a prankster: "Jie must have gotten online through you, so I'll join in the fun and tell him not to I……"

Johnny didn't expect to encounter a thunderbolt early in the morning, so he didn't have time to think about how he found Wutiao, so he quickly said: "Don't go, the place is dirty and messy, and the work is hard, you won't like it." .”

The street lights creaked and flickered, and Wujo laughed even more flamboyantly: "So what? I don't know what Jie told you, but he didn't tell me from the beginning to the end—you know, the past four years He never hid a thing from me, but why did he do it at this time? Wouldn't it be a disappointment if I didn't play with him?"

He was like an unreasonable young child, with subtle disappointment and dissatisfaction in his tone, but he only took it as a joke.

Johnny was a little unbelievable: "You want to go to the furnace factory just to 'revenge' Jay? Isn't it—isn't it to help him?"

"Otherwise?" Wutiao was a little dazed, "Jie just doesn't want me to know, so I'd like to hang out in front of him a few times to see what he's up to. Besides, going to a factory is not a big deal. Can I help you?"

He opened his eyes wide, as if he genuinely didn't understand Johnny's question.This undoubtedly angered the latter - Jonny still can't guess why Xia You didn't let himself tell Wutiao?Seeing this person not only ungrateful but also innocent, he suddenly felt a little angry.

Perhaps it was due to the weakness of looking up to others, or maybe it was just because Xia You was a friend he took seriously, Jonny adjusted his breathing very slowly, and said softly: "I suggest you, just a suggestion, be sensible, think more for others think."

This is an accusation.Wu Tiao, who was ridiculed for no reason, was puzzled and frowned, "What do you mean? Jie probably colluded with you to lie to me. I haven't said anything yet. Why are you so mad here?"

"Besides," he said, "I hate the group of you guys who boast of righteousness and self-satisfaction with the so-called 'punishing evil and promoting good'. Righteousness? The weak are just deceiving themselves. Why use moral principles to bind others? "

Without Xia You, Wutiao lost the veil that bound the halo; the light was more intense, but glaring and cold, making the whole body chill.

"I don't know what you're thinking, what's going on here to you; but I don't care, because you're not worth my trouble."

Few people speak to Wutiao like this.Most people will naturally feel inferior in front of him, and lose confidence in the secretiveness; but Jonny looked at him squarely, raised his voice, restrained and couldn't hide his anger and said: "You can look down on me, but you can't live up to me." Jay—although you may not be able to hear a word, I still want to say it."

"Do you think that the little money you earn can really afford the equipment that Ann brought? Jie is full and wants to allocate the last rest time to the hardest and most tiring work in the factory, and he is afraid of affecting you. Keeping you distracted and doing everything he can to pretend he's okay. If you really want to know what he did, go to your medicine cabinet. See how much generative spray and bandages are missing there - see what you What kind of priceless treasure is thrown away like trash."

After speaking, his chest heaved violently, and his usually neat brown hair was messed up.As if he didn’t want to take another look at Wutiao, Jonny turned around quickly, and finally squeezed out a sentence: “As for the factory, you can go if you want. From twelve o’clock in the middle of the night to six o’clock in the morning, as you wish, Jie has never been absent .”

He went, turned the corner, and disappeared into the shadows.

Wutiao stood in place, always a little baffled.He was clearly just here to ask Jonny to put him on the factory list, just a symbolic whole of Jay—if Jay needed help, he would naturally say that there was no reason for him not to help; But there was also a sense of absurdity.

Did Jie go to the factory because he lacked money?Afraid of affecting himself, he kept him in the dark?

And the medicine box...

Wutiao pushed the door open and entered the house. Xia You also greeted him and asked Jonny what he wanted from them.Wujo didn't remember what he answered, so he went straight to the attic and found the medicine box at the foot of the table.

With just one glance, he sensed something was wrong.The medicine box had obviously been tampered with, more than once.Although the person tried his best to adjust the placement to be consistent with the previous time, but human eyes will always leave deviations.From what he could see, the area of ​​dust on the ground indicated that the box had been touched at least five or six times, and the traces were quite new.

Wutiao sat on the ground and gently opened the medicine box.With a half-joking mentality, he thought that Jonny probably just said something unscrupulous because he didn't like it, but he felt a little chill in his heart unconsciously.

Genesis spray and bandages are there, and they look the same.Wujo picked up the spray and shook it, and found that it was less than half of what he saw last time.It feels like it has only been used once or twice, but the pattern orientation of the nozzle does not match the body of the bottle, and there are one or two drops of medicine splashed on the inside of the pressure pump—someone opened the nozzle and poured medicine into it.

That insignificant coolness gradually swelled up, climbing up the capillaries and circling up, turning into a hand with well-defined joints, the palm was icy cold, gently holding the beating heart.

Wujo took a deep breath unconsciously, and disassembled the nozzle somewhat awkwardly.His eyes followed the traces of the medicinal material all the way down, and locked on some abnormal dark red spots on the inner wall.The color was quite dark, and the color was black, as if it had been soaked for too long, and it was almost dry.It is neither bright nor eye-catching, nor can it be judged by its appearance alone——

But this didn't prevent him from flashing a light in his mind, remembering the screwdriver with suspicious dark red stains he had seen in the laboratory.Without any evidence, he just connected the clues of Xia You's various behaviors in the past few days, and directly hit the truth through the bits and pieces of blood.

The hand holding the heart tightened suddenly, and the five fingers strangled into the flesh and blood.The severe pain didn't come as expected—the hand seemed afraid of hurting him, and it exploded into ice and snow in an instant, freezing the limbs and bones into waves of cold.

He numbly closed the medicine box and put it back in place without any deviation.After opening the door and going downstairs, Xia You, who was busy in front of the forging table, raised his head, seeing that it was him, he smiled lightly and quickly: "Wu, what's the matter?"

The light fell on Xia You's face, which was divided into two by the straight and tough outline, half of which was in the light, and the end was as light and windy as the moon and clear as pine and bamboo.

"It's okay." The two words were lowered by half, and the hoarseness was ugly.

Xia You was a little flustered by Wutiao, and said again: "What did Johnny say just now?" He frowned slightly, as if he was wondering which string his friend made a mistake again.

But the Five Articles didn't give him a chance to figure it out.

"It's really nothing, I'm just in a daze." The silver-haired boy smiled naturally, without the slightest stagnation and bluntness before. "I have to go out in the afternoon, and maybe Johnny will come to look for it again."

Xia You nodded: "Okay, my side will be finished soon, you go."