The Midnight Owl

“Finally saw me?” Qian Ai gritted her eyes at the two old classmates, her voice rising subtly. “Aren’t you traveling with your brother?”

Xu Wang took a look at Jin Xin: “My brother!”

Unwilling to show weakness, Wu Sheng raised his eyebrows and fought back: “Aren’t you eating all over China?”

Qian Ai took out a steamed meat bun from her arms, and it was a big bite. She chewed and was very upset: “This year, even old classmates can’t believe it!”

Kuang Jinxin was confused, looking at Qian Ai, then Wu Sheng and Xu Wang, and he was difficult to reason in the aroma of meat and steamed buns: “Is this … a new team?”

After a brief exchange, everyone sorted out each other’s “sadness”.

Needless to say, Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, and Kuang Jinxin went directly to the side after the 1/23 submission; in contrast, Qian Ai was even worse. He was the only one in his team who wanted to come here, so he had to take off Team, but after coming here, there is no way to form a team, so I come in and shake once a day, and then go out at five in the morning. In this way, it has been three days.

As the saying goes, the owl is called a line to cherish this relationship.

To say not to be shocked is a fake, but after the shock, there are also a few surprises-it is better to be cooked than to be cooked, and the water is not out of the field.

This time, there are only three people in the candidate list. The prefix is ​​still 1/23, not Qian Ai. None of the remaining two are familiar with Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, and Jin Xin. Those names I saw last night are not. No, not even Sun Jiang.

Qian Aibi stayed three more days and found out more rules: “The increase in personnel should only be within the same coordinate range. For example, if you are in Beijing, you can only invite those who are in Beijing. Here, the only one who can be invited is here, otherwise a team of people will be in different places, how to pass the paper together. “

This sounds a bit reasonable, so there was Sun Jiang but no money in the staffing list last night, but the opposite is true tonight.

Qian Ai joined the team smoothly, but the mood is complicated: “Is this broken place a scourge for us.”

Xu Wang felt the same.

The old classmates who are scattered around the world for their livelihoods are destined to reunite, but they are in the magical disaster of the future. This scene is really sad for the hearers. Seeing the tears, if the high school class teacher came over, they could hug them.

Wu Sheng was not as sentimental as the two of them. After finishing Qian Ai himself, he looked around for possible crises or hints. However, the search was fruitless, but there was another trace of doubt that came to mind-when they were separated from Sun Jiang in the snow field, Sun Jiang disappeared immediately, but when they saw Qian Ai, Qian Ai had not yet teamed up with them. Is this inconsistent?

Kuang Jinxin’s sudden voice interrupted Wu Sheng’s thoughts: “I remember! I said this name is so familiar!” He turned away the joy of memory fog, and excitedly asked Wu Sheng and Xu Wang to prove, ” Angkor, Brother Xu, he was the Qian Ai you said when you guessed the idiom in the snow field, right? Qian Ai, who eats and winds up the clouds! “

Qian Ai’s eyes narrowed as she listened, and when she finally met the two classmates, she had formed two sharp slits: “Old students, give me an explanation.”

Wu Sheng calmly spread his hands: “We just state things … Um …”

Xu Wang covered the mouth that ruined the feelings in the team, and smiled at Qian Aibao to unite and love: “This is a bit long …”

The friendship boat was being repaired, and the “four-in-one” “ding” made the atmosphere suddenly tense.

Everyone looks at their arms one after another: —

Xu Wang, Wu Sheng and Kuang Jinxin’s first reaction was to look at Qian Ai, who was dumbfounded: “Don’t look at me, I’ve never succeeded in team formation. Every time I came in, I stood here stupidly, today This is the first time I have received this message. “

Obviously, only when the team is full, the owl will give a new prompt.

And now, 2/23, officially started.

There was no change in the surrounding environment, but everyone felt a sudden tension.

G4 is not far from the oblique front, a handsome guy is on duty, and there is no passenger in front of the counter. The four came to the counter and didn’t wait to speak. The guy had printed out four boarding passes neatly and threw them on the counter without lifting his head: “After security, 17 boarding, it will be too late.”

His voice was very low, with some strange magnetism.

Xu Wang also wanted to talk to him a little more, but the guy suddenly showed a sign of “Suspend Processing” and got up and left without looking back.

He was fast, disappearing behind the luggage conveyor like a ghost. Xu Wang looked at the empty counter and gave birth to goose bumps: “Is he … a real person?”

“I don’t know, anyway, if you chat with him, he can answer anything you ask,” Qian Ai is coming, he almost talked to the ground crew in three days, “but you only need to say that this is fake, yes In an unreal world, they either do n’t understand or look at you like they are looking at a neuropathy. “

“NPC,” Jin Xin suddenly muttered all the way quietly. “Like the NPC in the game.”

“Not quite right,” Qian Ai said, “NPC said at most two or three lines of words, and I said, but I almost inquired about the eighteen generations of their ancestors. Where to chat, I can answer you all! “

“Artificial intelligence,” Wu Sheng interjected, but his eyes were fixed on the passers-by, focusing as if examining lines of code. “The current technological level has reached barrier-free human-computer communication, not to mention here.”

Yeah, not to mention here.

A magical space where anything can happen, a strange place where people can be forcibly dragged in, not to mention artificial intelligence, even if these people are willing to cooperate with the group performances, no one dares to decisively deny it.

“Ding–“

The dense prompt sound is like an urgent urge.

When it comes, it breaks.

No longer hesitating, the group immediately went to the security channel.

There is really nothing to check, and the four people entered the waiting hall smoothly. Xu Wang found that Kang Jinxin was not very emotional all the way. Of course, no one could enter this ghostly place, but Jin Xin has always been optimistic and lively. This state is really abnormal. When I asked, I realized that when the entrance opened, he was waiting cleverly with a mountaineering bag. As a result, he turned down into the terminal, and the person was there, but the bag was gone.

Although there are no valuables in the bag, it is also a “home essential” carefully selected by the classmates. According to him, no matter how dangerous the environment is, you need to eat or drink, keep warm or stay cool, sleep or trek overnight, dance or sing, he packs There are all “equipment”. This loss is really frustrating.

Xu Wang patted his brother on the shoulder and thought he was very qualified to comfort him: “Relax, I can’t lose it. According to my experience, your bag must be lying on the floor of the hotel now.”

“But I didn’t put any dangerous items in my bag.” Kuang Jinxin’s eyebrows were drawn, and he was wronged when he looked at them.

“That’s your bag is too big!” Xu Wang knocked his head, “OK, cheer up, you can’t even complain about the bag and can’t come back, hurry and look forward, don’t know what is on the plane yet Demons and ghosts are waiting for us. “

“I suddenly thought of a question,” Wu Sheng, who was at the forefront, looked back without warning. “If we were bounced back to reality on the plane, would it be an objective jump?”

Xu Wang, who was close behind, almost hit him, and finally he just stood firm. Hearing this cruel idea, he was suddenly in love: “Can you say auspicious?”

Wu Sheng tilted his head for a while and then turned his head: “It should not be possible. Since he can eject you at the moment you are swooped by the bear, indicating that the ‘protection mechanism’ exists by default, then you should not think of ‘plane ejection ‘This kind of bug. OK, I’m fine. “

Xu Wang: “…”

Kuang Jinxin: “Angkor, you are all right …”

Qian Ai: “But we are panicking !!!”

The road in the waiting hall seems to have no end. The boarding gate 17 is more like a legendary existence, because the four people have been walking forward, counting 1234 all the way, and have seen 20, 30, only 17 No. It was not until more than twenty minutes later that he was willing to show his true face.

By time, they probably walked 1.5-2 kilometers.

This time does not provide area maps and coordinates, but 1.5-2 kilometers is the distance between the hotel and Zhenbeitai.

Checking in and boarding the plane, the stewardess stood at the entrance of the cabin, smiling softly and beautifully.

The four were seated in first class (Wu Sheng), business class (King Jinxin), economy class wing (Qian Ai), and economy class stern (Xu Wang) according to the ticket position.

As the four settled, the plane began to taxi slowly. After a while, Xu Wang felt a slight weightlessness and tinnitus-the plane took off.

What if I get ejected on the plane?

Xu Wang hated Wu Sheng’s question because it had now taken root in his subconscious mind, and even the wound that had been half-healed with his shoulders re-pained.

“Don’t be nervous, the discomfort is only in the take-off and climbing phases, and the plane will be stable in a moment.” A kind and generous voice came from my ear.

Xu Wang turned his head and was next to him. A middle-aged man wearing glasses was elegant and elegant, looking like a scholar or teacher.

“Is it the first time to fly?” When the man looked at Xu Wang without a word, the man asked again, but it sounded like he didn’t really want to inquire, more like saying something to ease the embarrassment of silence.

His voice is different from the previous ground handling, natural friendly, and no different from ordinary people. But Xu Wang was still uneasy. The residual shadow made it hard for him to trust again. In a confused mood, he asked abruptly, “What is your name?”

A bit of consternation flashed in the man’s eyes, like saying “There is still such a chat”?

Xu Wang looked at the meticulous micro-expression. At a certain moment, he really had to believe that he was a “person” until he heard his answer: “My name is Yin Yiling, what about you?”

What an unreliable father and mother can give this name to their children.

Xu Wang didn’t give up, and asked the young **** her right: “What’s your name?”

The girl smiled: “Mu Jiuba.”

Xu Wang crossed her and asked the passenger across the aisle: “What’s your name?”

The three passengers who were in the last row looked over together, and they all reported themselves generously-

“Ping Niuwu.”

“Huang Jiu Liu.”

“And ninety-seven.”

Xu Wang looked at their smiling faces, but he couldn’t laugh.

[Four hours left ~~]

A voice of gloating and scourge suddenly popped in my ears, weirdness in the joy, and coldness hidden under the naughty.

Xu Wang is too familiar with this voice.

It sent him home.

It congratulates them for handing in the papers.

Four hours left? What do you mean?

As soon as the doubt arose, a window passenger near the front wing screamed in shock: “There is a bomb–“

… Can it be more blunt! ! !