Embers Ad Infinitum

In the strong wind, the sudden knocking sound echoed in the "Wild Pigeon" bar, making the card players, mahjong players, bargainers, and those waiting to dance involuntarily quiet down.

At this time, Shang Jianyao smiled and commented:

"How polite."

Long Yuehong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then realized what Shang Jianyao meant:

The door of the "Wild Pigeon" bar is not closed at all. What blocks the door are two freely movable wooden baffles, which can be opened with a push. There is no need to knock at all.

"It's a bit strange..." Jiang Baimian agreed.

Pannaniya, the leader of the "Mountain Fox" bandit group at the door, was also a little uneasy, but there was a more ferocious and frightening presence in the bar, so he finally signaled to one of his men and pushed open the door that only existed in the middle of the door frame. Wooden backsplash.

On the street outside, the light of the street lamp illuminated part of the area, and a black shadow flashed through it, entering the area ruled by night.

Pannaniya breathed a sigh of relief and laughed:

"Which kid is causing trouble?"

Amid laughter, he led thirteen of his men out of the "Wild Pigeon" bar. The two wooden baffles rebounded, shook a few times, and gradually stopped.

Seeing that nothing happened, the card player started to push out the chips in front of him again, the mahjong player blindly touched the cards in his hand, the bargainer gradually reached an agreement with the goal, and the dancer who was waiting asked the bar owner Cai Yi if there would be a strong wind tonight. , the rain and snow came, and the dance floor was not open.

Jiang Baimian also withdrew his gaze and turned his gaze to the billiard table next to him.

Shang Jianyao had already laid out the billiard balls and pulled out a wooden pole.

He wiped the club head, leaned down, and assumed an unusually professional posture.

In one word, handsome!

"Oh, you're pretty good at it." Jiang Baimian commented with a smile.

The next second, Shang Jianyao took the shot and hit the white cue ball.

With a banging sound, the white ball flew up and hit the pile of red balls hard.

The red balls scattered, jumping and rolling, and one of them fell into the net bag.

Jiang Baimian finished reading with a slightly dull expression and couldn't help but ask:

"You haven't played before?"

"I've only seen them play." Shang Jianyao answered truthfully.

In "Pangu Biology", not every floor of the "Activity Center" has a pool table.

There is one on the 350th floor where the university is located, but there are so many people waiting, so if you don’t have the skills, you really can’t get one.

"What about you?" Jiang Baimian turned to look at Long Yuehong.

Long Yuehong shook his head:

"I've only seen other people play."

"Ha, let me teach you. With your eyesight, wrist strength, and body control, this is very easy to master." Jiang Baimian suddenly became interested.

She then looked to Bai Chen aside:

"Xiaobai, can you play?"

She remembered that when Bai Chen was in Weed City, he was no stranger to bars, dance halls, and nightclubs. Apparently, he would hang out in these places from time to time, looking for opportunities.

Some of these places will have special billiard rooms.

"Yes." Bai Chen answered concisely and concisely.

"Then let's play a game and show them." Jiang Baimian took out a cue and threw it to Bai Chen.

The two ladies played pool. Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong watched and listened to their explanation of the techniques and rules.

In this game, Jiang Baimian relied on his aggressive attack and accurate grasp of the route and strength to defeat Bai Chen with a not too big advantage.

"You are really a little grinder." Jiang Baimian praised with a smile.

What she meant was that Bai Chen was very good at defense and always put the ball in positions that made her uncomfortable and awkward.

This also means that this game has been "spent" for a long time. The bar owner Cai Yidu has finished other things and prepared the first food:

Canned lunch meat.

Cai Yi took out the lunch meat inside and fried it in the air fryer for eight minutes, making both sides a little crispy and the fat was released.

This made the smell of lunch meat more obvious, and even the four people in the "Old Tune Team" who were tired of eating canned food sniffed and developed an appetite.

They took their chopsticks and each took a piece. After taking a bite, they felt that it was much more delicious than the normal way of eating:

It not only has the aroma of fried food, but also avoids the original greasy taste.

"Not bad." Jiang Baimian finished a piece and praised sincerely.

Shang Jianyao, who was eating the second piece, nodded in agreement:

"Our... approach... development... is too little..."

In this way, they sometimes ate the food that was delivered to them, and sometimes played billiards for fun and education.

After finishing dinner, because the wind outside was still very strong, Jiang Baimian decided not to give Shang Jianyao a chance to dance. He took the can with the residual value of the portable computer and led the three members of the "Old Tune Team", Left the "Wild Pigeon" bar.

Shang Jianyao turned back step by step and reluctantly walked out the door.

"The wind isn't very strong..." He walked to the street and commented.

"Ah, what did you say?" Jiang Baimian raised his hand and touched his ear.

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen also didn't hear Shang Jianyao's words clearly because the wind was really too strong.

People are almost flying, not to mention the sound?

They put their hands in their pockets, shrank their bodies slightly, and walked towards the "Youmeng" hotel.

The light of the street lamps and the black night appear alternately. The stall owners on both sides have gone back to their homes, and the street is quiet.

It was so quiet that Long Yuehong felt uncomfortable in his heart.

After walking for a while, Jiang Baimian's eyes, which had been observing the surrounding situation, suddenly solidified.

She saw a sign diagonally ahead of her. On the sign, many small light bulbs formed five words:

“Wild Pigeon Bar”

"This..." Jiang Baimian stopped.

"This is fate." Shang Jianyao said "narration" in a magnetic baritone while the wind became lighter.

"I'll kill you!" Jiang Baimian replied with a serious expression, "It seems that we are in big trouble."

She, Jiang Baimian, has never lost her way since she had a transplant and had an auxiliary chip!

And the most important thing is that they didn't notice anything unusual beforehand.

Long Yuehong's spirit was tense and she was on high alert.

Shang Jianyao explained to Jiang Baimian seriously:

"This is called 'Ghost Beating the Wall'."

Hiss... Long Yuehong suddenly felt a chill on his back.

"Maybe we never left, we were just wandering around outside." Bai Chen expressed his guess.

Her expression was also a bit solemn.

Jiang Baimian said "hmm":

"Don't be nervous. Soldiers will block it, water will block it and soil will cover it. Let's go in first to see if there are any changes. We will see if the problem lies inside, outside, or within ourselves."

As soon as she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao walked to the door of the "Wild Pigeon" bar and slammed the two wooden baffles.

"boom"! "Bang!" "Bang!"

At this moment, Jiang Baimian's first reaction was not that this guy was really big-hearted, but that he had an idea as if he was scaring himself:

"The knocking sound we heard in the bar before was not caused by the current Shang Jianyao, right?"

This idea was so ridiculous that it involved humans and there was no time to learn more about it, so it was quickly rejected by Jiang Baimian.

She did not say anything about similar speculations, because she knew that it would definitely scare Xiaohong and make him tense up too much.

This is not a good state of affairs.

Soon, the wooden baffle was opened, and the bar owner Cai Yi appeared in front of the four members of the "Old Tune Group".

Huh... Jiang Baimian secretly breathed a sigh of relief and confessed for a second to his random thoughts just now.

——She remembered that after the knocking sound, the person who opened the door was a member of the "Mountain Fox" bandit group.

It seems to be just a simple "ghost beating the wall", bah, why should I say "ghost beating the wall"? "Ghost hits the wall"...an illusion in the distance direction? Jiang Baimian had a vague guess.

"Why are you guys back again? Did you leave something behind?" Cai Yi asked in confusion.

The wind outside got stronger again, and it was so loud that it became difficult to hear.

"Go in first." Jiang Baimian pointed inside.

Before Cai Yi could respond, Shang Jianyao turned his body sideways and "slipped" from the other party into the bar.

There's a big gap... Long Yuehong couldn't help but cursed, and his spirit was no longer so tense.

He passed Cai Yi normally and walked into "Wild Pigeon".

The third one is Bai Chen, and Jiang Baimian is responsible for breaking up the rear.

After everyone was in place, Jiang Baimian looked at the wooden baffle that gradually stopped swinging, and asked Cai Yi:

"How long have we been gone?"

She had an estimate of the approximate time and wanted to check it with Cai Yi.

This is both a test and a verification.

"Just three or four minutes." Cai Yi turned back and looked at the wall clock near the bar.

"That's no problem." Jiang Baimian initially confirmed that his judgment on time was not confused.

As soon as she finished speaking, a black shadow suddenly flew in from above the wooden baffle and fell heavily to the ground.

boom!

Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong looked over at the same time and found that it was a bloody corpse.

His eyes were wide open and filled with extreme fear. His clothes were in tatters, one of his arms was missing, and there were obvious bite marks on his neck.

It was like encountering a hungry man-eating beast.

…………

Nan Ke Guan.

Zhou Yue, wearing black hair, a white robe, and a hemp rope, was sitting cross-legged on a futon, facing the dragon symbol in the shrine, and reading old world scriptures compiled by the sect—all of which were related to hallucinations. content.

Around her, several "Dream Inducers" and "Dream Enchanters" were either reading the Bible or concentrating on praying, but no one made a sound.

After a while, a "dream inducer" stood up, walked up to Zhou Yue, and asked her for some interpretations of the classics.

Zhou Yue answered calmly.

Suddenly, inside the shrine, the surface of the broken mirrors that formed the dragon symbol quickly flashed a dim light.

Zhou Yue's heart moved, and she subconsciously raised her head and looked over.

Her eyes then solidified.

Most of the figures around her, including the "dream inducer" who asked her for advice, gradually disappeared, and only five people really existed.

…………

In the "Youmeng" hotel, the proprietress Aino, who was wearing a gorgeous long dress, was huddled at the front desk, using three electronic devices at the same time.

Directly in front of her is the original computer, which is playing old world dramas. She is holding a palm-sized machine with lines of text on it. To her right is the latest portable computer that Shang Jianyao and the others paid for. Some patterns, text and data are running at this time.

While intoxicated, Aino suddenly raised his head, straightened his body, and looked at the door.

The eerie wind whistled in.

Suddenly, the lights in the hotel dimmed strangely, and black shadows loomed outside the window.

PS: Ask for double monthly tickets at the end of the month~