Epoch of Twilight

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As soon as the bus door opened, Luo Yuan squeezed out of the station with the flow of people. His snow-white shirt was already drenched with sweat, and it was covered with various abstract paw print stains. To Luo Yuan, taking the bus every day is like a nightmare, and it has to be repeated day by day, repeatedly testing his endurance and nerves!

"It's getting hotter and hotter today." Luo Yuan tugged at his soaked shirt. The hot weather and the difficult customers he met today made him feel a little irritable. Luo Yuan, holding his briefcase, stepped up and walked towards the nearby Jingyue Community.

Jingyue Community is close to the suburbs of Donghu City, at least a dozen stops away from the city center, but the rent is not cheap at all. He is now sharing a two-bedroom apartment with a couple, with simple decoration, complete kitchen and bathroom appliances, and the rent is 3,000 per month. He only needs to pay one thousand two thousand for the rent, which is quite affordable in this first-tier city in China. Although it is occasionally inconvenient, the renter is a good person, and the relationship is quite harmonious.

A pleasant smell of green grass came from a distance, and several workers were pushing the lawn mower to clean the lawn in the community.

"What's the matter? Didn't it just be cleaned once in more than ten days?" Luo Yuan was a little puzzled. He looked at the uncleaned grass, only to realize that the grass grew really fast, almost half a foot in length. Looking at the nearby trees, it seems that they are also taller, and they look luxuriant and airtight.

Speaking of which, this year is really abnormal, it is almost December, and the weather is still like summer. Like previous years, the maple trees in the community were already bald and leafless, but this year they grew and became more lush. There are so many things being mentioned in the news now, such as countercurrents of ocean currents, sunspot activities, and even more outrageous supernova explosions in nearby star fields. A random search on the Internet can find a lot of reasons. There are pictures and truths, and it seems that each of them is logical. It makes people feel dizzy and dizzy, and finally believes it!

"Let's leave these things to experts to discuss. Why do ordinary people think about these things?" Luo Yuan shook his head.

A few minutes later, Luo Yuan opened the anti-theft door, and the smell of food could already be heard from the kitchen. He changed his slippers, and Zhao Yali came out of the kitchen. Seeing that it wasn't her boyfriend, she froze for a moment, and smiled, "Ah, it's Xiaoyuan." I'm back, I cooked too much food today, let's eat together today!" While talking, he walked into the kitchen again, obviously still busy.

In fact, Zhao Yali is not very old, twenty-seven years old, only four years older than him, with fair and delicate skin, slim and graceful figure, a melon-seeded face, willow-leaf eyebrows, a little charming smile, a standard Jiangnan woman.

"Okay, this way I can save a meal." Luo Yuan smiled and didn't refuse, being too polite seemed hypocritical.

"By the way, Brother Qiang, why haven't you come back yet? Usually he leaves work quite early! I wanted to play a game while waiting for lunch!" Luo Yuan looked at the shoes and found that there was still a pair of slippers left , can't help asking.

Zhao Yali's boyfriend, Chen Weiqiang, works in the Forestry Bureau. His work is relatively leisurely. He goes to get off work at 9 o'clock every day and leaves work on time at 4:30 o'clock. Something abnormal!

"Just know the game!" Zhao Yali was wearing an apron, and said angrily: "Yesterday you actually played while I was asleep until one o'clock, and you didn't persuade him."

"I'll persuade him next time." Luo Yuan changed into his slippers, walked into the door, and said with a smile, "But he's more addicted to games than I am, so I can't guarantee that."

"As long as you don't play, he can force you!" Zhao Yali dissatisfied.

Zhao Yali also understands that Xiao Yuan cannot be blamed. She naturally knows what kind of virtue his boyfriend is. At best, he is the Gu family, but at worst, he is a housekeeper. It's game time, but if you don't play until eleven or twelve o'clock every day, you basically can't sleep, don't listen to persuasion, and get angry if you talk too much.

"Okay, I'll go to bed before Eleven." Luo Yuan also felt that he played too late recently, and often felt sleepy at noon.

Luo Yuan walked into his bedroom, took a change of clothes, went into the bathroom and began to take a shower, then played another game of Dota, looked at the sky again, and found that it was already dark, he clicked on the next game, and just started playing, Zhao Yali walked in.

"Xiao Yuan, we're done eating, don't we wait for him?" She said quietly, with a hint of worry on her face.

"Sister Yali, why didn't you call him?" Luo Yuan asked.

"Called, but no one answered!" Zhao Yali brushed her hair, thought for a while and said, "I heard from him this morning that he wanted to pay the leader to Gaotang Town to check the forestry situation there. Maybe he was busy with something. Don't care about him, let's eat first!"

Seeing this, Luo Yuan didn't ask any more questions.

The two walked to the dining table and took a seat. Zhao Yali's cooking skills are good, with five dishes and one soup, several home-cooked dishes are delicious: "This old duck pot is my favorite. I loved it when I was in college. I still miss it often. Let me taste it first!"

Luo Yuan took a piece and put it in his mouth.

"What's the matter, is there too much salt?" Zhao Yali asked nervously.

"Sister Yali, you can be the head chef with your skills, but it's too insignificant to only cook for Brother Qiang." Luo Yuan praised.

Zhao Yali giggled, and cursed: "Stop flattering, it's just a few home-cooked dishes, since it's delicious, eat more."

After some banter, the previous dull atmosphere was swept away. The two talked and laughed while eating, and the atmosphere became more and more harmonious. But as the dinner gradually ended, Zhao Yali's face became worried again.

She took out her mobile phone and dialed again, her face suddenly became a little ugly.

"What's wrong?" Luo Yuan asked.

"The phone is off!" Zhao Yali said in a low voice.

"Maybe it's because the battery is out. Besides, brother Qiang went down to check, and there will inevitably be entertainment at the place. Brother Qiang's drinking capacity may have already collapsed." Luo Yuan comforted with a smile.

"That's true. He has never been able to drink well, and he can get drunk with a bottle of beer!" Zhao Yali's tone became light when she thought of this possibility.

At this time, Luo Yuan heard a beep, and a mechanical voice sounded in his mind:

Luo Yuan's face changed slightly, he read the system silently, and almost at the same time a green frame appeared in the void:

Character: Luo Yuan

Occupation: Foreign trade salesman of Chimei Trading Co., Ltd.

Level: 3

Experience: 900/1200

Attributes

Strength: 10 (of 10)

Agility: 11 (out of 10)

Physique: 11 (out of 10)

Intelligence: 13 (out of 10)

Perception: 10 (10)

Will: 11 (out of 10)

Skills: Science 16, Mathematics 14, Chinese 19, English 16, Finance 17, Computer 9, Dance 1, Drawing 3, Game 6, Negotiation 9, Communication 7, Cooking 3, Driving 1, Hand-to-hand combat 4

Special Skill: Identification

Unassigned attribute points: 0

Unassigned Skill Points: 4

Unfinished task: F-level task, become the regional deputy manager of the foreign trade department of Chi Mei Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. within one year (cancelled)

Optional task: F+ level task, investigate the cause of Chen Weiqiang's disappearance, with a time limit of five days. (accept/cancel)

He was taken aback, Chen Weiqiang is missing? how come?

Luo Yuan usually gets along well with Chen Weiqiang, but when he heard the news of his disappearance, Luo Yuan felt a little depressed.

He glanced at Zhao Yali who was smirking at the corner of her mouth, and felt even more uncomfortable!

"We must rescue him!" Luo Yuan said in his heart!

He stared at the task on the attribute board, F+ short-term task, this was the first time he encountered it. The short-term tasks that Luo Yuan usually does are only F-level, such as rescuing children who fell into the water, and participating in the sprint in the school sports meeting. Most of them are easy to complete. Only those who get a scholarship and take the English CET-6 test have F-level tasks. Every time they have to spend a lot of effort to complete.

F+ grade, it proves its difficulty and danger in itself!

However, it is strange, why the task of becoming the regional deputy manager of the foreign trade department of Chi Mei Foreign Trade Co., Ltd. within one year was cancelled?

Is there something wrong with the company and it is going to close down? Chi Mei Trading's annual trade volume of more than one billion yuan is neither big nor small, and its performance has always been good. It won't close down so soon, will it?

Speaking of which, this system appeared in my sophomore year. At that time, not long after Luo Yuan's parents died in a car accident, his girlfriend who had been in love for more than a year broke up with him again, and he was extremely depressed. Every night he went out late and returned early to surf the Internet all night. When he came back staggeringly one morning, an object fell from the sky inexplicably, smashing his head and bleeding.

After he came out of the hospital, he changed from a third-rate student in a third-rate university who was absent from classes as a routine, to suddenly becoming a hardworking man, which shocked everyone who knew him. He won a third-class scholarship in just the second half of the semester. The next thing is to get out of control, take the English test CET-4, CET-6, the qualification certificate of export salesman, the qualification certificate of international trade document clerk, and the next step is to upgrade to a higher education.

All the way down the road, he was invincible. After graduation, he left a heavy resume. His original destiny trajectory was smashed and fragmented by the impact of the system.

It's just a pity that every level up is very difficult, the task is hard to come by, and there is only one attribute point reward for each level up, otherwise he would have become a superman. After all, the system's point-adding rules are different from those of ordinary games. Every time you add a point, it will increase the current attribute by 50%! Two points of the three attribute points he got were added to wisdom, and the remaining point was added to a little agility. Now if his 100-meter speed is trained a little, he can almost catch up with the world champion.

"What are you thinking? Talking to me is so boring!" Zhao Yali knocked on the table, dissatisfied.

Luo Yuan came back to his senses, seeing that he had been in a daze for a long time, he quickly covered it up and said, "How dare I, today I have a difficult client, which made me exhausted and I was in a daze."

Zhao Yali said with concern: "Don't always remember your work, it's time to find a girlfriend, do you like one, would you like me to introduce you to one?"

"Take your time, let's go with fate." Luo Yuan was thinking about something in his heart, and casually explained it.

Chatted a few more words. Zhao Yali stood up: "Let's finish eating, I'm clearing the table!"

"Let me clean up here, I can't let you cook and wash dishes at the same time!"

"I'm worried that you will break the bowl, so you should go back to your room to play games." Zhao Yali said with a smile, while tidying up the bowls and chopsticks quickly.

After a few polite words, Luo Yuan went back to the bedroom and lay on his back on the bed, thinking about the tasks released in the system. Tomorrow is Friday. If he asks for a day off, he will have three days to complete this F+ task. After judging that Chi Mei Trading will go bankrupt within half a year, he didn't pay much attention to this job.

Early the next morning, Luo Yuan finished his usual morning exercises, walked into the door, and saw Zhao Yali coming out of the bathroom with a heavy heart. After seeing Luo Yuan, she forced a smile and said hello.

Luo Yuan understood that Zhao Yali must be worried about her boyfriend not coming home all night, but she couldn't comfort her.

He checked the time, asked the regional manager of the company's marketing department for personal leave, and went out.

The Jingyue Community where the Forestry Bureau and Luo Yuan are located is not far away, but after a few stops, Luo Yuan didn't plan to take a car, so he jogged all the way there. Since getting the system, because physical attributes can be quantified, Luo Yuan's interest in physical exercise has greatly increased. After a few years, although only physical strength and will attributes have increased a little, the exercise effect is not great, but the habit of morning exercise every morning has been formed. .

Ten minutes later, Luo Yuan came to the Forestry Bureau, registered with the guard, explained his purpose, and walked into the gate of the Forestry Bureau.

It was time to go to work, and the door was full of civil servants from the Forestry Bureau who came to work. Luo Yuan called a young clerk with acne all over his face to stop.

"Chen Weiqiang, I seem to have heard of it, but he is not from our department, and I can't remember clearly, why don't you ask someone else." The young clerk had a natural arrogance on his face, and his eyes rolled around him , said calmly.

Luo Yuan thanked with a smile, and asked a few more people in succession, either saying he didn't know him, or he didn't know where he was?

At this moment, a passing middle-aged man interjected, "Are you looking for Chen Weiqiang? What do you want to do with him?"

He held a briefcase in his hand, had a beer belly, and frowned slightly with seriousness. Luo Yuan took a look and knew that this should be the leader, he said with a smile: "You are my brother-in-law's leader, my sister saw that he didn't come home yesterday, and the phone was turned off, so she asked me to come over and ask? "

The identity of renting friends is obviously too far away. If you have no relatives and no reason, whoever discloses the news to you, after thinking about it, he uses the title brother-in-law.

"Oh! He and Director He went to the Forestry Station of Gaotang Town. They should be back today. You should go back first." The beer belly didn't doubt it, and walked away with official steps after speaking.

It would be great if the task of F+ was so simple, and I don't have to trouble myself like this! He thought silently in his heart and sighed.

Seeing that he couldn't ask any more questions, Luo Yuan walked out of the Forestry Bureau!

He didn't bother to waste time, so he hailed a taxi and planned to take a taxi directly to Gaotang Town Forestry Station.

The driver is a talkative person, and he has been foaming since he got in the car. Luo Yuan responded with each sentence at the beginning, but finally kept silent. The driver talked for a while, but found that there was no response, and he was embarrassed to continue. It's quiet in the car.

The traffic jam in Donghu City is serious, especially during the morning commuting time, where there are three stops and one stop. It is not until the suburbs pass that the road is smooth.

The trees on both sides of the road grow tall and lush, like two rows of open umbrellas, forming a lush boulevard, which makes people's spirits shake when they see it. In terms of dead bodies, walking here is definitely a pleasure.

The most common carcasses of these animals are snakes, rats, and occasionally weasels and dogs.

"Are there a lot of snakes around here? Why are they everywhere?" Luo Yuan frowned and asked. He was most afraid of snakes since he was a child. Even if he looked at them from a distance, his hair would stand on end.

"It's only recently. There are not many here. The more you go to the countryside, the more roads there are. Some people in our village can earn five or six hundred a day by catching snakes and frogs. A few days ago, someone caught a wild boar. It weighs four to five hundred catties, and I don't know where it came from! Now the mountain is almost turning into a virgin forest." The driver obviously had been holding back for a long time, and he talked endlessly as soon as he found an opportunity.

Donghu City is located in a plain, and most of the peaks here are less than two or three hundred meters above sea level. They are not so much mountains as hills. In addition, man-made development and utilization, not to mention large animals like wild boars, usually even rabbits and pheasants Hard to see.

Luo Yuan lived in the city, so he hadn't felt anything for a long time. Now, after listening to the driver, he realized that the outside world has changed drastically in the past few months: "According to you, isn't the countryside very dangerous?"

"What's so dangerous about it? Occasionally you can get some game, but the mountain is a little dangerous. Several people have disappeared, and even the bodies can't be found. Many people dare not go up the mountain! Cut down the trees." The driver joked disapprovingly, "I used to talk about planting trees, but now I've started cutting down trees."

"Missing, missing again!" He suddenly thought of the F+ mission: "Could it be that Chen Weiqiang also disappeared after going to the mountains."

Afterwards, Luo Yuan was no longer interested in chatting, he was thinking too simply, the F+ level task, how can it be so easy to complete, if he really wants to enter the mountain, with his bare hands and unprepared, his life may be in danger .

But it's useless to think too much now, I can only take one step at a time, and go to the forestry station to ask first.

Ten minutes later, the taxi stopped in front of a two-story building.

"Okay, this is the forestry station! It's seventy-eight yuan in total, do you want to wait for you!" the driver said.

"No!"

After paying the change, Luo Yuan got out of the car and walked towards the gate.