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Lou Yue stood in front of the dormitory door and took out the key, but he didn't open the door for a long time.

The lights in the corridor were dim, and Lou Yue leaned against the wall by the door.The ceiling light was blocked by the load-bearing beams in the corridor, casting a shadow on Lou Yue's neck.For a moment, Lou Yue felt that there was black sea water overflowing his throat, making it difficult to breathe.

Time cannot be delayed, Lou Yue finally gave himself more than ten seconds to cover up the exhaustion caused by despair, trying to show a relaxed expression.

He checked the time and opened the door.At this moment, the lights in the corridor went out, and the house was pitch black, and the power outage was delayed by a few minutes.Lou Yue breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Under the bright light, he was worried that he would look strange.

The dormitory is a small suite, a bedroom with two single beds, a living room with a sofa and a desk, and a small kitchen and bathroom.Lou Yue opened the door and groped in the dark to find the candle and lighter on the shoe cabinet, but he didn't find it, but the back of his hand was touched.Lou Yue immediately held the cold hand with his backhand and said, "Sorry, I'm late."

Ran Yu pulled out his hand silently, there was a light click, and a cluster of dancing flames appeared. Ran Yu moved the candle closer, and the flame jumped to the wick.

The candlelight reflected Ran Yu's face very gently, with black hair and black eyes, and his cheeks had the texture of an oil painting.It's just that the expression of the people in the painting is a bit weird.

Ran Yu didn't speak, and Lou Yue didn't know what to say for a while, the shoe cabinet was blocked, and he couldn't change his shoes.So he took out a banana-flavored toffee from his pocket and said, "It's the last one. The candy factory opened in the third ring road, and now it's all gone."

Ran Yu didn't speak or move, and looked straight at him.

Lou Yue was a little puzzled, he observed for a while, but Ran Yu Mingming's eyes were clear and his face was fresh, he didn't seem to be unconscious or controlled.

Lou Yue stuffed the candy into Ran Yu's hand, and waved the other hand in front of his eyes: "Where is sleepwalking?"

Then Ran Yu shook his head, made way with the candy in his hand, turned around and walked to the living room, sat on the sofa, and put the candle on the desk beside him.

After Lou Yue changed his shoes, he said as he walked, "I asked Xiang Anxiang to bring all your things here. You can see if there is anything missing. If necessary, I will go back and pick it up when I have time."

"There is nothing missing, everything is here."

Ran Yu's things were packed by Lou Yue before Xiang Fuyun brought them here.Ran Yu's things are fragmented and numerous, but fortunately they are organized neatly by category.Seasoning packs, disposable tableware, and cloth bags given away when buying meals outside, accumulated compressed biscuits and cans, a full range of toolboxes brought in from outside the city (there are three kinds of wrenches alone), various homemade portable concealed weapons... In the process of tidying up, Lou Yue suspected that Ran Yu was a hamster becoming a spirit several times.Ran Yu didn't live there for a long time, so he was really efficient in saving things.

The candlelight flickered, and a groove was gradually burned on the top of the new candle. There were more and more candle tears. When the groove couldn't hold it, it would slide down and solidify slowly on the table.Ran Yu stared at the candle for a while, then stretched out his fingers to poke the tears of the candle a few times, maybe he felt bored, so he withdrew his hand and looked down at a picture book he took out from nowhere by the candlelight.But he didn't read it seriously, he flipped through a few pages and showed one of them to Lou Yue: "What is this?"

Lou Yue felt that he knew why Ran Yu's attitude was cold and strange today.

He looked at this familiar picture book, rolled his Adam's apple, and said, "A campus story."

The author of the picture book is Xiang An Xiang, who has eaten a bear's heart and a leopard's guts.

If it wasn't for a surprise inspection a few months ago, Lou Yue would not have known that the content of this mighty and majestic deputy team fishing during working hours was so rebellious.At that time, they hadn't discovered the existence of sea ghosts. Ran Yu had just moved into Lou Yue's house. On the second day, Lou Yue passed by and accidentally glanced at the deputy team's workstation, and saw that the other party was drawing something.Lou Yue knew that the deputy team had learned painting when he was a child.Under normal circumstances, Lou Yue would not care about fishing when his subordinates were not busy, but with just one glance, Lou Yue recognized that Xiang An's painting was Ran Yu.

Then Lou Yue seized a picture book under Xiang An's terrified eyes, and fined him to clean the toilet for two weeks.

The album is called "A Yue and A Yu", and the story and characters are written on the first few pages of the album. A Yu and A Yue went to the same community school when they were young. A Yue was two years older than A Yu, and they grew up together. Big, secret love but did not say it.Later, because of some misunderstandings, they separated for ten years.Time flies by, fate makes people play tricks, when they take off their school uniforms and lose their childishness, when they meet again, one is the leader of the inspection team, and the other is a newcomer who just joined the team.On the first day of the report, A Yu was extremely disturbed. He found that A Yue was no longer a warm and warm big brother, but a ruthless dog leader. He pretended not to know him, and even put on shoes for him.A Yue was indeed very indifferent to A Yu, but he couldn't stand others showing favor to A Yue. The contradictory possessiveness and anger made him finally lose his mind, and he used various means to trick A Yu into his home, and started a cohabitation life .

The page that Ran Yu turned to show Lou Yue is the culmination of the beautiful and pure love style of the whole album.On the left is the memory of the characters. Two teenagers in school uniforms are walking on the basketball court of the community school. A Yue put his arms around A Yu's shoulders, and lowered his head and whispered unhappily: "Is it me or the handsome old Wang from the class next door? Why did you Staring at him or not at me?" A Yu sighed helplessly: "Because I want to block his ball!" The background is a bright sun and blue sky with hundreds of flowers blooming.In the next frame, the two of them went to fly a kite together. A Yue accidentally dropped the kite into the water. A Yu laughed at him. Scare him: "Don't laugh!" In the lower left corner, the neglected kite is immersed in the water, and the pattern is like a disgusted expression.

On the right is the status quo. On the upper grid, the background is cloudy. The boss A Yue, who is wearing a dark green uniform, stops A Yu who is about to get off work, and asks casually: "Xiao Wang invited you to dinner today?" A Yu said: "No, I'm just discussing the delicious restaurants nearby... Are you free tonight?" In the next frame, the two looked at each other in the same frame, and the background was covered with large pink flowers.

When Lou Yue saw the large pink flowers, his heart almost stopped suddenly.He quickly took the book away and said, "Don't read when you light a candle, it hurts your eyes."

Ran Yu felt that this kind of strange thing was quite good.When he arrived here not long ago, he accidentally found this picture book in the crack of the sofa and read it carefully. At that time, Ran Qiu cursed a lot in his mind. Later, Ran Qiu was probably tired of cursing and didn't want to waste his energy on it. On "The Tired and Crooked Thing Between Stupid Humans".Ran Yu ignored him, and went back and forth several times on his own, feeling that Ran Qiu's sense of existence was getting lower and lower, obviously—in Ran Qiu's words—"I don't want to dirty my eyes and my heart." .Then, he heard the sound of the door lock being turned open, and at the same time, the power went out.

Ran Yu, who had no book in his hand, gave Lou Yue a gloomy look, and Lou Yue's heart was trembling.

So Lou Yue looked down at the book, ran his fingers across the pages, and found that in the second picture on the left page, the place where the kite was drawn was folded twice. Make a mark when the page breaks, so that you can continue reading.

Ran Yu said, "I'm going to rest first, remember to blow out the candles before you go to bed."

Lou Yue looked at Ran Yu's calm profile in the candlelight, and said, "Okay."

Ran Yu went back to the bedroom to make his own bed, Lou Yue looked at the creases on the painting again, got up and went to the desk.

The candle has burned a lot, and the candle tears dripped along the candle and spread outward, and the solidified shape resembled a heart.The edge of the heart is irregular, with traces of fingernails.

Lou Yue thought to himself, it's over, that book polluted Ran Yu's spirit after all.But then, Lou Yue found that everything he noticed after he opened the door was somewhat familiar after careful consideration.

Although it has only been a few minutes since he entered the door, and his mood has experienced ups and downs again, Ran Yu's smooth and natural, but somewhat contradictory behaviors and words seem to have laid the groundwork early.Lou Yue recalled that when he first entered the door, he was blocked by Ran Yu at the door.He said, what about sleepwalking?Then Ran Yu moved away.

...as if setting the tone for everything that follows, suggesting the prerequisites.

Sleepwalking, desks, candles, hearts, kites submerged in water.

Between lightning and flint, these trivial elements are connected in series to spell out a shocking news.

Lou Yue's expression froze like this heart-shaped candle tear.His heart was beating like a drum, he clenched his knees with both hands, took a deep breath silently, and then said to Ran Yu who was still making the bed in a normal and natural voice: "I suddenly remembered that I forgot something in the conference room, I have to go out Let's go, why don't you go to bed first."

Ran Yu let out an "oh", took off his shoes and got into bed, as if he was really tired and wanted to rest.

Lou Yue blew out the candles before going out, and when he walked to the door in the dark, he heard Ran Yu's muffled voice from under the quilt: "Come back early."

Even though he knew that the other party couldn't see it, Lou Yue still smiled and said softly, "Okay."

The second half of the meeting was originally a report on the research results of sea ghosts. After the impact of the first half, all the participants hung their heads, and even felt a little bit broken.

Director Wei was the first to speak: "Everyone, don't be discouraged. This is just a speculation. Even if it is true, it is not uncommon. Didn't we have the same solution to the Third Ring riot last time? It's just that we are all kept secret this time." Inside, it’s all for the stability of the main city. During the break just now, I heard some conspiracy theories in the chats of some of my colleagues. Professor Shi, who voluntarily came to the front line to conduct investigations, is about to share some new ideas with you.”

Yan Ai poured a glass of water and handed it to Shi Xun who was preparing to give a report across the table.

Shi Xun hurriedly nodded his thanks, his attitude was the kind of humility when facing a great leader and academic idol.The name tag in front of her has been replaced with the word "Shi Xun". The brand is handwritten, and the familiar name is written in unfamiliar and unattractive handwriting. Yan Ai's eyes were a little sore.Yan Ai moved his eyes away.In her impression, the word "Shi Xun" should be written neatly and gracefully.

In the current Second Ring Defense Working Group, Shi Xun's identity has been made public.She has top-notch professional knowledge, excellent work literacy, and she is not afraid of hardship or tiredness in her work. As long as conditions permit, she will insist on following the special operations team to investigate the frontline.When the condition is not allowed, it usually means that she has an illness, headache, dizziness, twitching of limbs, and in severe cases, she will go into a coma directly.The best medical teams of the Central Hospital and the Research Institute in the main city are also helpless.

Even in normal times, Shi Xun often forgets about things other than work. She always seems to be in a superposition state of simple group and Shi Xun. It's like a treasure.Professor Yuan Qiong's condition is even more serious. Although he has merged with the other two people for a longer period of time, he has lived in peace for two or three years, but since the invasion of sea ghosts, his health has deteriorated, and he is now in the intensive care unit of the Central Hospital for a while.

"What we know now is that a single sea ghost is not difficult to deal with, but the sea ghost tide is terrible. Their actions are extremely organized, just like the army, and they are prohibited by order. But the question is, how do they collect them?" In other words, if we can decipher the orders they receive, can we issue false orders based on that and expel them?" Shi Xun was full of vitality when he talked about the research, not at all like this morning Just experienced a coma, "According to the current research progress, the connection between sea ghosts can be regarded as a kind of wireless bioelectricity, which can be roughly compared to our communication equipment that relies on electromagnetic wave signals to operate, except that they do not need external equipment. It is the sender and the receiver of the signal itself.”

"I followed the armored vehicles of the special operations team out of the city to the sea ghosts to investigate with an analyzer. I collected a lot of data and initially analyzed some patterns. There are several outstanding linguists in my team. After discussion, We believe that the method of deciphering and simulating the language of sea ghosts is feasible. The main difficulty now is that, first, the outside of the city is too dangerous, the number of investigations is too small, and the number of samples is not enough to support subsequent analysis. Second, the sea ghost society Many properties of groups are still doubtful. Even if we can decipher their communication details, it is still difficult for us to determine whether other forms of control generated by linkage can exceed the authority of language. A typical example is some accidentally linked Human beings have been deprived of control over their bodies, whether these sea ghosts outside the city play their own initiative after hearing instructions like humans, or are they like terminal machines whose operating authority has been uniformly taken away, it is still a mystery."

The people in the conference room were frowning and taking notes, and the quiet and serious atmosphere was suddenly broken by a piercing ringing of the phone.

The landline in the meeting room rang. Commander Albert was the closest and raised his hand to answer it. Lou Yue's voice came from the other end of the phone.Albert was surprised. Calculating the time, Captain Lou should have just arrived in the dormitory not long ago.

"The heart-shaped pond in the southwest corner of the city defense military area, the place marked with point I in the Leitu system distribution map before," Lou Yue seemed to be running, panting with the whistling night wind, "block that area, immediately!"

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