Forces of Temptation

No one knows how those "people" came up.

After the bus drove on the expressway around the city, it did not stop on the way, and it always maintained a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

But the number of people in the car has indeed increased.

Maybe only Li Yinhang found out about this matter, maybe everyone in the car found out.

It's just that no one dared to tell the truth.

She bent her whole body down, her nose was filled with the hot, stuffy breath in the closed space.

The air conditioner in the bus hit 16 degrees, and the air conditioner vent was just above her head.

The wind is strong and the sound can be heard.

While her fingers were tightly pinched, the cold wind and hot sweat crawled slowly along her hair and flowed into her neck.

... There are indeed many people in the car.

This feeling is lingering, but it is hard to tell where there are more people.

Maybe it's watching her from somewhere behind her.

Maybe it was the man sitting two seats in front of her with a tiny patch of stubble showing.

He was probably silently turning his head 180 degrees, staring in his direction.

……

Brain supplementation is a human talent.

Since a week ago, this talent of people has been greatly exercised.

At first, it was just one or two unusual disappearances.

For example, when friends who went out to play together, the person who left came back with a bag of milk tea, there was no one in front of the cinema.

For another example, a middle-aged chemistry teacher with a big belly gave a drowsy class in a high school liberal arts class at the bottom of the overall ranking. The Chinese exercise book is written hard.

When the squad leader was startled by a crisp sound of falling, and raised his head again, there was only a dropped whiteboard pen twirling on the ground.

He stood up angrily, and accused: "The teacher has been pissed off by you."

It only took one day to night for the deterioration of the situation.

The housewife who was watching dramas with her husband on the sofa found that the water in the kitchen kept ringing.

She felt sorry for the water bill, and walked towards the kitchen nagging, only to find a stack of foam-filled bowls in the sink.

The daughter is gone.

Along with her old flip-flops.

She walked back to the living room.

The living room was very quiet.

The ball game was playing on the TV, a new pack of cigarettes had just been unpacked, and the ashtray had been taken out from under the coffee table.

Under the warm ginger yellow light, the three-person family portrait hanging in the living room cast only the bewildered reflection of the housewife.

The missing incident quickly escalated into a "disappearing accident".

The notices are repeatedly played on the TV with a still color screen, reminding citizens to stop unnecessary going out activities in the near future.

Because the data proves that staying in a fixed place cannot avoid the possibility of sudden disappearance; but those who go out and run around are not faster.

The whole world seems to have a strange bug that cannot be repaired.

This is not a random guess.

As early as five months ago, at 2:5 p.m. on February [-]th, millions of people saw a huge dialog box at the position of the sun under the background color of the clouds that were burnt red by the fire cloud .

[sun.exe is not responding.If you continue to wait, the program may respond]

【Do you want to end this process? 】

【End process cancel】

The dialog quickly disappeared.

Duration 1 minute, milliseconds are not bad.

During that time, this huge dialog box really set off a storm on the Internet.

One of the most popular sayings is that there is a bug on the earth, and aliens are maintaining the system on the earth.

But the claim was quickly met with derision.

The reason is that, as an alien, the maintenance system still uses Windows 16.

Dialog boxes appear in various languages ​​over cities in the world.

On the huge rose plantation in Bulgaria.

The beautiful starry sky like the ocean in the small town of Tekapo, New Zealand.

Australia is next to the porthole of the plane carrying the children to the summer camp.

At the end of the turmoil, a certain foreign art group stood up and claimed that this was their performance art, which projected people's deep-seated panic about reality on the sun.

Although they did not come up with enough equipment to achieve this great artistic feat, at that time, everyone was tired of discussing this topic.

This reason is enough for everyone to turn to the next social hot topic with peace of mind.

Later, some masters compared tens of thousands of photos one by one.

Because of the time difference, the time when the dialog box appeared in some places happened to be in the middle of the night.

However, the position where the dialog box appeared was still closely attached to the orbit of the sun at that time.

But most ordinary people have long lost interest in this, and a word of admiration is over.

Anyway, there is no missing piece of meat, and life goes on as usual.

Who would have thought that five months later, the world would look like this.

This always makes people wonder why the familiar Windows 16 pop-up window appeared.

Is this really a human joke?

Is a certain force demonstrating?

Or, just want to give them a dangerous reminder that can be understood by human common sense?

Li Yinhang really couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

Life matters.

It's better not to disappear than to disappear.

As a humble customer service officer at a bank, she lived in a dormitory provided by her unit with a new colleague who had been employed for less than a few days, and chose to shrink back on the spot.

A colleague walked into the bathroom because he couldn't stand the three-day unwashed hair and never came back.

Li Yinhang didn't dare to look at it, fearing that he would follow in the footsteps.

So, the leaking water from the not closed shower head fell on the tiles, ticking for two days.

At times like this, she is always very grateful for her laziness, and likes to put snacks within reach of her lying on the bed with a swipe.

She survived on snacks, sand sculpture videos and chargers, trying to ignore the sound of water almost dripping on her nerves.

Tick, tick.

Until the rescue team knocked on the door outside.

Due to the large number of missing people, the organization department changed its response strategy in time, convened volunteers to form a rescue team on a voluntary basis, searched door-to-door, and sent children, the elderly, and disabled people who had not yet disappeared or had no ability to take care of themselves to nearby temporary establishments. Centralized closure in the "safety cocoon room", or deliver food to those trapped at home, and assist those who do not want to leave to achieve self-isolation.

Volunteers are all uncles and aunts wearing red armbands.

Because the data show that children under the age of 18 and elderly people over the age of 60 have not yet had any missing cases.

Li Yinhang thought, extending the head is also a knife, retracting the head is also a knife.

If you shrink here again, the food will be eaten sooner or later.

She didn't want to live alone in an empty apartment with dripping water.

Even if she disappeared, she hoped to disappear among the crowd.

So she got on this temporary two-door bus.

Before she got into the car, the uncle squatting like a driver casually said, "Number three."

When Li Yinhang got into the car, he saw the other two figures at the rear.

A person sleeps lying on the double row of chairs in the penultimate row.

The other also covered his face with his clothes, leaning back on the seat in the penultimate row and sleeping soundly.

So she suppressed the desire to say hello, came to the penultimate row, and sat down by the window.

A signal jammer is installed on the car.

This is also one of the methods used by the authorities to control unprovoked disappearance accidents recently, achieving high-intensity magnetic field interference in a small enclosed space.

But the function and coverage of the signal jammer are too limited.

To achieve comprehensive and effective magnetic field isolation, we still have to go to the "cocoon room" made of special materials.

Therefore, the psychological comfort effect of this shielding instrument may be far greater than the actual effect.

Li Yinhang, who couldn't play with his mobile phone, had no choice but to let go of his brain and try his best to block out the sound of dripping water that had been ringing in his head for several days.

Tick, tick.

The bus took only three adults in this apartment complex.

The car stopped and went, some people came up and some people left.

There were several young children who were taken to a children's shelter.

There were two volunteers, one old and one young, who voluntarily signed up and were sent to the site.

There are husbands who get in the car and temporarily regret it, and want to wait for their wives to come back.

At first, when Li Yinhang saw the people getting on the bus, he would look up curiously and try to catch up with a few words.

But she soon grew weary.

The bus has never been able to fill even a third of the people.

We are all strangers, so we are naturally cautious, so we sit here and there, and after we sit down, we don't have any intention of sitting around and chatting.

Li Yinhang quietly cosplays the bastard at the bottom of the river without saying a word.

They passed a bridge across the river.

A car leaned near the bridge pillar, and was burned to the point where only the steel skeleton was left. The burnt smell of the airbag's sheepskin permeated along the windows. The wind made a sharp metal friction sound.

Squeak - squeak -

Li Yinhang didn't want to think about the cause of the car accident.

She turned her gaze to the inside of the bus, trying to count how many people were on the bus now.

But the next second, the bus rushed into the tunnel.

The overwhelming darkness came oncoming.

When the white sky light came back on, Li Yinhang felt that there was a strange dislocation on his retina.

... There seems to be something more in the car than before.

But the sense of reality replaced this fleeting visual afterimage at an extremely fast speed.

She didn't even have time to compare what went wrong.

But her sixth sense told her that there must be something more.

Just now, there were not so many people in the car.

There is no such deadly silence.

All kinds of conjectures flitted through her mind.

The fear that was added one after another made Li Yinhang less and less afraid to raise his head.

She snapped her fingers nervously, not daring to be the first to make a sound.

Unexpectedly, because of too much force, her knuckles made a crisp sound.

——Crack.

This sound created a strange echo in the too silent compartment.

Li Yinhang even tensed the muscles in his throat for a moment.

Fortunately, she is not living alone.

Behind Li Yinhang, a man trembled with the utmost control: "Master driver, can I stop? I'm a little uncomfortable..."

The driver didn't respond.

... I don't know whether to say it was unexpected or expected.

After the dead silence was broken, the man just now became more courageous, and he was about to go to the cab to check the situation.

He had just passed Li Yinhang's seat when a hand protruded from the side, blocking the man's way.

The tense Li Yinhang was startled.

... She didn't know when there was a person sitting directly in front of her.

The man glanced down and found that the person blocking him had dyed silver hair.

The black hair tie is tied with a beautiful scorpion braid halfway on the collarbone, which contrasts sharply with the black choker with a silver chain hanging on the slender neck.

Faced with such a beautiful half arm, the man suddenly became more courageous.

He comforted: "Beauty, don't worry, I'll check the situation."

Then, Li Yinhang heard that person's clear and clear male voice: "Don't move yet."

... He calmly acquiesced in the title "beauty".

Before the man recovered from his sluggishness, a large number of colorful balloons suddenly poured out from the cab where people should be sitting.

Big purple and big blue, big red and big green.

The color saturation hurts the eyes.

A girl in the front row screamed and put her foot on the edge of the seat to avoid the scattered and rolling balloons that looked like human heads.

Then, out of hundreds of colorful balloons, a simple-minded mushroom with a pair of round, short hands emerged.

A red mushroom with white spots on the canopy.

It looks indistinguishable from the mushrooms hidden in bricks in Super Mario that grow bigger when eaten.

Mushroom shook the umbrella cover exaggeratedly, and straightened the edge of the umbrella like a hat.

Because of its short hands and feet, it looks like a naive pet.

But no one who saw such a scene that subverted the world view could laugh.

Mushroom jumped forward awkwardly twice, opened its short hands,

"Welcome everyone, to the world of "Gravity"! It's a great honor for Bica to be your guide! Welcome to the trial level——"

Li Yinhang couldn't move anymore.

The scene in front of her is beyond the outline for her mere 24 years of life.

For a moment, she didn't think about why the name "Gravity" was so familiar, but subconsciously observed other people's reactions.

Especially the silver-haired young man who stopped the man approaching the driver just in time.

...He was not looking at the most eye-catching mushroom.

His eyes quickly swept across the entire carriage, counting the number of people as quickly as possible.

Li Yinhang was busy taking pictures of cats and tigers, and followed him to count them.

Not counting mushrooms, there are eleven in total.

But Li Yinhang dared not easily use the word "human" to describe the creatures in the car.

Before Li Yinhang's wild thoughts could get any deeper, he saw half a figure standing up slowly in the first row of seats.

...There is actually another one?

Seeing that person, the first word that popped out of Li Yinhang's mind was "out of place".

The young man was wearing an inappropriate half-length black lapel windbreaker, a two-piece suit. He couldn't tell whether he was tall and straight, but he could only tell from the curve of his neck that he had a good temperament.

His skin is very white, as white as the sky that pierced through the tunnel just now, and his mid-length hair is slightly curled up to his shoulders, giving people a dignified and beautiful sense of austerity.

The point is, he is the closest to the mushroom in the whole car, sitting almost on the same level with it.

But he didn't show any fear, and he even held an apple firmly in his hand.

...and he seemed to be seriously studying the mushroom.

Li Yinhang observed carefully for a while, and found something was wrong again.

He looked at Mushroom with scattered and sleepy eyes.

... This person seems to be innocent, not awake.

Before Li Yinhang could make any useless judgments, the sudden cracking sound behind her scared her back.

The man in the penultimate row picked up the red emergency escape hammer mounted by the window at some point, and smashed the window severely.

The moment the glass shattered, a wind with a speed of 80 kilometers per hour poured in, causing Li Yinhang to squint his eyes.

Before Li Yinhang had time to calculate the hope of jumping out of the car and surviving in this situation, the man impatiently stretched out his hand to hold the window frame.

Faced with such a strange situation, it is indeed human nature to flee.

However, after half of his head poked out the window, he didn't make any further moves.

No one knew what kind of inhuman pain he suffered at that moment.

Everyone saw him sitting back to his original place, his face livid, his hands scratching his face which had started to squirm, as if it was filled with a nest of insects waiting to fly.

Bang!

After the muffled sound of matter exploding, under the watchful eyes of everyone, a brightly colored mushroom unfolded on his neck in a very layered manner.

The snow-white slurry dripped down his shoulders, like the secretions of mushrooms.

Mushroom's sharp girl's voice was almost scraped against everyone's scalps.

"Please listen to the precautions for the trial level—"

"First, once the dungeon is opened, don't try to force it out—"