implication [end times]

【Hengheng's first letter to Ran Yu】

To Ran Yu:

Hello, I am 14 years old, you can call me Hum.I was also listening to the radio station you mentioned, but I did not expect to receive a letter, which felt very novel.

I'm sorry it took so long to reply to your letter. I seldom go home recently. I have been living in school and training every day.There are many classmates in school, but I have no friends either.Probably because I'm such an annoying person.

I have nothing to like, but a lot to dislike.

For example, I hate those teachers and classmates in school who play with the wind, hate the forever cold home, hate the hypocritical father and dead mother.

You shared your daily life, and I would love to talk about some of it, but it was so boring.I was studying, taking classes, and dealing with a bunch of superficial and arrogant people every day.Those people are the most disgusting things I have ever seen, more disgusting than snakes in the gutter, but I can't lose my temper because my father will severely reprimand me.

By the way, forgot to answer your question.There are no monsters or biters in the city, but there are many scarier things.There are indeed a lot of banana-flavored toffee. I sent you a pack with this letter. I don’t know if this is your favorite flavor.

I wish you all the best.

PS I'm really sorry that I found myself complaining about negative things at the end of writing.But I really don't know what else to write.If you don't think I'm boring and don't hate me, please keep writing to me.

On Monday morning, in the small conference room of the tenth team, Captain Ding Taitai waved his hand: "No more! We have a meeting!"

"I have told you about the specific situation before. A female teacher came to report a case before, saying that one of her students was abused and seriously injured, but the bastards in the third team did not answer, saying that there was insufficient evidence, so they blocked the person back. It was not reported. Later, the teacher reported it to the inspectorate, and now the case has returned to the Security Bureau.”

"This time, our Third Ring Corps has sent people to investigate. It is said that the inspector team has also investigated before, but they have not been able to find the joint." Captain Ding moved the small blackboard, picked up the chalk, and carefully drew the picture, "The most ideal one at present. The way is to get the invitation letter and sneak in to investigate, unfortunately..."

There was a knock on the door of the conference room, and Ran Yu poked his head out from behind the door: "Sorry for being late."

Captain Ding waved his hand, motioning for him to get out quickly.

Ran Yu quietly moved the chair and sat down, and saw Zhan Yiye next to him raised his hand and asked, "Captain, why did you draw chicken feet on the blackboard?"

Ding Taitai looked back at the blackboard and asked in disbelief, "Isn't this a ginkgo leaf?"

He Rongsheng was caught in the middle, looking at Zhan Yiye and then Ding Taitai, hesitantly said: "It is said that there is a kind of ginkgo leaf that really looks a bit like chicken feet..."

Ding Taitai picked up the chalk and pointed to the center of the chicken feet on the blackboard: "I have written in the middle, please understand! Imagine what it looks like."

Ran Yu looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly said "oh".

Zhan Yiye: "Touching your conscience, you suddenly realize what's going on..."

Ran Yu took out something from his pants pocket and put it on the table: "Is that so?"

Lying on the table is a delicately crafted ginkgo leaf specimen, with Ran Yu's name written in the middle with a silver pencil.

Ding Taitai's eyes widened, and he carefully picked up the leaf and observed it carefully.The handwriting in the middle of the blade was the same as the real thing he saw during the meeting of the Third Ring Corps.

"How did you get it?"

"I was walking on the street last night, and someone suddenly stopped me and asked me to participate in an event." Ran Yu said.

Yesterday was Sunday, Ran Yu's day off this week.

The Security Bureau provides dormitories for new employees in their first year, a single room of about 23 square meters, with shared bathrooms, and the location is not far from No. [-] Ginkgo Road.The difference between commercial tenants and residents is not obvious. At night, even if the curtains are drawn, the messy neon lights make it difficult to sleep.There is also a song and dance hall downstairs in the dormitory. In the middle of the night, the voices of ghosts and wolves and the sound of drums penetrate the not-so-thick walls, making people feel uneasy.

Ran Yu, who has lived in a single family outside the city for 20 years, is used to the quietness. Recently, he has not been able to sleep well, and the bruises under his eyes are getting thicker and darker.

On the first rest day since joining the company, Ran Yu was called to the unit to work overtime during the day, and he regained his freedom in the evening.

Fortunately, the first month's salary was paid in advance. Ran Yu bought some rice noodles and diesel oil with his little savings, found a nearby post office, and mailed them to Ran Qiu.He also wrote a letter, telling his younger brother to study hard, not to go out casually, pay attention to safety, and never open the door to strangers.

Then Ran Yu started to write the second letter, telling Hem that he had passed the city entrance examination, now he was working at the Third Ring Security Bureau, and had his own communicator.The signal in the city is very good, and they can use the communicator to communicate in the future, which is much faster than writing letters.He wrote his number at the end of the letter, sealed the envelope, and put both letters in the mailbox.

It will be very slow to send things outside the city, maybe one to two months. Ran Yu understands the dangers on the road and the rules for arranging the route.But the delivery to the city should be fast, he thought.

In fact, Ran Yu really wanted to go directly to the address he had written many times, No. 6 Fengxinzi Road.But he couldn't go.He had inquired that this road was within the first ring road, and there were two layers of checkpoints to go there.Ran Yu couldn't get in without a valid reason.

When he heard the news, Ran Yu was half disappointed and half relieved.In fact, he was a little inexplicably timid about meeting Hem, like a long-awaited gift finally came before him. Before opening the package, he was nervous and uneasy every second.

Just as Ran Yu was about to leave the post office, he heard a brief noise coming from a pastry shop not far away.

A man suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "It was clear last time, why didn't you let me in this time?"

The person guarding the pastry shop was a thin boy of fifteen or sixteen years old. He bowed his head and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry Mr. Li, the invitation letter for each event is different."

That Mr. Li seemed very impatient, he raised his hand and wanted to push the boy away.But before his hand touched anyone, his tie was suddenly caught and pulled back. Unprepared, he lowered his waist out of thin air, and then heard a crisp sound from his lumbar spine.

Mr. Li suddenly wailed. He clutched his twisted waist and pointed at the assailant tremblingly: "Do you know who I am? You don't want to die!"

Ran Yu loosened the tie in his hand, pointed behind the young man: "You will hurt the child."

It turned out that there were many empty porcelain plates on the low glass cabinet that held the cakes. The boy was standing by the low cabinet just now, and two children aged seven or eight were lying on the glass of the low cabinet, looking at the cakes inside with fascination.If the juvenile is pushed down, the porcelain plate is likely to hurt the child.

The young man apologized to Mr. Li and said, "Don't be angry, go and see your waist first, I'll let the guy take you there, and I'll pay for the medical expenses."

As soon as the words fell, three burly men walked out from behind the curtain of the small shop, each with fierce expressions.

Mr. Li came by himself, and when he saw this posture, he became dumbfounded, and was "invited" to a nearby clinic to have his waist checked.

Only then did Ran Yu realize that he was meddling in his own business.He turned around and was about to leave, but the young man chased him out and asked, "Sir, do you want to come to the store?"

"no need."

The boy gently pulled the corner of his clothes, and his voice was as soft as a piece of cotton wool: "Our store just has an event today, and all your wishes can be fulfilled."

Ran Yu thought for a while and said, "It's hard to be unsatisfied."

"Looking at the things you sent away just now, do you have relatives outside the city?" The young man smiled like a playful little fox, "If it is a wish in this regard, it is not difficult."

The boy's eyes are big, round and clear, and he looks a bit like Ran Qiu when he smiles.Ran Yu thought that they were about the same age, so it was not easy to come out to make a living by deceiving people at such a young age.

During the week since joining the company, colleagues have repeatedly told Ran Yu to be careful of liars.In Zhan Yiye's words, "Ran Yu has a face that is easy to be deceived. Liars must love to hook him up."

Before Ran Yu could speak, the boy grabbed his wrist and walked into the store: "Let's go, my name is Asong, I'll take you to register first."

It is said that many scammer groups need headcounts to calculate the assessment indicators. Ran Yu let Ah Song pull him around, thinking that if he didn't cheat too much, he would do the kid a favor.Even if he meets those thugs just now, he can beat them well, it's not a problem.

Another little girl was already guarding the door of the pastry shop. Asong pulled Ran Yu, opened the curtain of the back kitchen, passed several pastry chefs who were making dough, passed several rows of ovens and sideboards, and turned left. Pull open another small pine-green door, and then make a detour through a wooden door to a grocery store.

Ran Yu looked around silently. They came here through the interior door, and the scene outside the open back door of the store looked familiar.

Ran Yu quickly realized that this was the place he had been squatting for a few days ago, No. 23 Ginkgo Road.

Ran Yu and others came to this grocery store on the first day, and they searched back and forth for a long time and found nothing wrong.

Asong seemed to have noticed something, and asked, "Do you know this place?"

"I seem to have heard of some."

"That would be great. Welcome to the Gingko Road Mutual Aid Association." Asong took Ran Yu to the cashier, greeted the cashier, and asked for a small cloth bag.Then he wandered around in this small grocery store, got into a small door from behind the warehouse, and took out a ginkgo leaf and a pen from the cloth bag.Behind this door is an empty room of about fifteen square meters, with only a set of tables and chairs in the center of the room.

Asong asked Ran Yu's name, and wrote it seriously on the leaf.

After finishing writing, he raised his head, his clear eyes bent: "It's the first time I've met someone who told me his real name directly."

Ran Yu was stunned for a moment, but quickly grasped the point: "How do you know this is your real name?"

"Oh," Ah Song stuck out his tongue, "I didn't expect you to be very sharp. In fact, I secretly asked a friend to ask the person at the post office just now. Don't be angry. The purpose of membership is to verify identity information. Let's go, today's The event is about to begin.”

However, Ran Yu followed Ah Song all the way just now, and didn't see him communicate with anyone.Moreover, according to the regulations, the post office cannot disclose the customer's private information.

Things suddenly became a little weird.

"Can you come again next time?" Ran Yu asked, "I have something to do tonight."

"Are you sure?" Asong shook the ginkgo leaf in his hand, the handwriting of the silver line pen flashed under the incandescent light, "This invitation is only valid for tonight, and it is one-way, next time you You may not be able to get in. Even if you walk out of this door now and come in again, it won’t work.”

"Why choose me?"

Ah Song tilted his head, shook his head after thinking for a while, and said, "Because you are willing to help others. The purpose of our association is 'to help each other and go to Datong together'."

He straightened his arms, holding the round stems of ginkgo leaves in his hands, shaking them up and down like a small fan, and asked, "Would you like to participate?"

Ran Yu's eyes stayed on the leaf with his name written on it for a moment, and said, "Okay."

A Song happily jumped on the spot, handed the leaf to Ran Yu, and then walked to a certain part of the white wall and tapped it lightly a few times.His percussion seems to be loose, but also seems to be very regular.

Seeing Ran Yu staring at the wall, Ah Song said with a smile: "It's not knocking randomly. If you knock wrong, you will die. There are many traps here, so don't imitate it."

Not long after, a crack opened in the wall, revealing a staircase leading to the ground.

The underground stairs are quite spacious, and there are small round lights on the top and sides of the head, but they only dispel the darkness, far from being bright.They hadn't walked a few steps in before the wall behind them closed.

"I guess you must be a public official," said Asong. "Before you stayed outside the city, you passed the exam to come here."

"Can public officials be brought here?" Ran Yu said, "It doesn't look like a very formal place."

"It doesn't matter even if you are from the Security Bureau." A Song said with a smile, "So, are you?"

Ran Yu paused and said, "No."

Asong's dark eyes stared at Ran Yu for a while, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "Mr. Ran, has anyone told you that you are not suitable for lying."

The pale and weak light from the wall lamp shone on Asong's face, and his long eyelashes covered a shadow, making his eyes appear bigger and rounder, like the compound eyes of some kind of insect.

"However, you look cute when you lie."