Forces of Temptation

The limit of time left for Nan Zhou to think cannot exceed five seconds.

More than five seconds is enough to arouse everyone's suspicion.

Nanzhou organizes the currently known information and can draw the following judgment:

This is an intercity bus from City C.

The destination of the vehicle is unknown.

Where it passed, unknown.

The driving GPS is turned off, so there is no way to predict the driving route.

…he has four seconds left.

There is a small map of City C on the advertising light box in front of the first row of seats.

The map covered by several missing persons notices revealed a corner, which happened to be the location of Longtan District, with the school logo of No. 2 Middle School on it.

This is also the source of inspiration for one of Nanzhou Lies.

The location of the residential area will not be indicated.

In other words, if you ask him where he got on the bus and the details of where he got on the bus, he can't completely make it up.

The corner of Nan Zhou's eyes quickly turned to the driver's seat in front of him.

…three seconds.

The license plate clearly states that the driver of this car should be a woman named Shen Qiuyan.

But next to the shelf where the water cups are placed, there is a brand new plastic-sealed work card, and the lanyard and the water cup handle are intertwined.

From the information at hand, it can be seen that the surname of the person driving today is She or Yu, and it is a man.

Why change drivers?

Is it a common shift between drivers?

…two seconds.

Not true.

None of the four people who have spoken so far said they got on the bus from a normal bus stop.

They all start from their respective residential areas, and even the details go to "Phase I" and "Phase II", "Foreign Area" and "Ordinary Residential Area".

So, this is a bus on a non-daily route.

…A new driver suddenly replaced, a bus that runs abnormally.

Also, all the passengers in the car seem to be going to a specific location.

Therefore, the bus is most likely requisitioned for rescue missions.

The "volunteers" mentioned in Li Yinhang's words can confirm each other with his guess.

…only one second left.

So why are there so few people in the car?

It is still daytime, so it stands to reason that now is the best time to carry out the rescue.

In other words, even if the car is not overcrowded during the day, it should not be the current density of people.

What does this mean?

It means that these people are most likely not the first wave of rescued people.

…So it was obvious where Nanzhou should get on the bus.

—Time is up.

Nan Zhou withdrew his gaze and looked at everyone.

He said calmly: "I was the first to get on the bus."

Zhao Guanglu was the first to object: "No, I didn't see you when I got in the car."

The moment before the atmosphere in the car solidified, Nan Zhou accepted his question and gave his answer: "I came up secretly."

Everyone: "...?"

"I was taken to a refuge where my mother was absent."

"But I don't know where she is, and I asked the volunteers, but there was no result."

"I was very worried about her, so I hid this car parked at the door since last night and hid under the seat, trying to find her."

"Maybe get off the bus halfway, maybe sneak into other shelters to see."

"I was very sleepy, and then fell asleep. The car took a long time to wake up."

"I had a headache, and after I came out quietly, I slept against the glass for a while..."

His speech is a little slow, but well organized, giving the impression that he is not fully awake yet.

While speaking, Nan Zhou also raised his sleeves to make sure that everyone could see the thin dust on it that he had just gone down to find the bracelet.

Everyone said "oh" in their hearts.

The gap under the bus seat is indeed enough to hide a man of his size.

If you don't look carefully, you may not find something hiding under the seat.

Someone asked: "At this time, you don't stay in the 'cocoon room' obediently, and you dare to run out?"

…Nan Zhou silently wrote down that the shelter was called "Cocoon Room".

At the same time, he gently cleaned the dust from his sleeves, and replied slowly: "Well, not everyone has relatives, and not everyone will understand this feeling of worry. "

"..." The questioner was choked and almost rolled his eyes.

I have to say that Nanzhou's reason is sufficient, and there is nothing to refute it.

But the problem is that Nan Zhou's temperament is very strange.

But the little teardrop that fell just below the left eye gave him the style and coolness he should have, but it made him have a strange ghost.

Even though the sun beside him was so strong that it was almost whitish, he still had a sense of incompatibility with the sun.

This temperament makes everyone feel uncomfortable.

Someone continued to ask him: "The mushroom is so close to you, why are you not afraid?"

"Because I thought it was a dream at first." Nan Zhou said, "I woke up later and found that it was not too scary."

Everyone: "…"

The mushroom itself is not scary.

And the fungus head is too far away from the first row.

He does have reason not to be afraid.

Then it's the last question.

"What is there to prove what you say?"

In addition, the question is buy one get one free: "In summer, how do you dress like this?"

Nan Zhou did not speak any more, but loosened the tie on the cuff of the windbreaker, ready to show his evidence.

A squirrel-colored critter poked its head out of his cuff.

It is a honey glider.

Nan Zhou introduced: "Get to know it, it's called the South Pole Star."

With a lot of energy on his butt, he wanted to put the apple into his sleeve and keep it for himself.

Nan Zhou pressed the apple stem with his hand to stop it from moving, slightly unhappy: "mine."

The little animal puffed out its cheeks, stared at Nanzhou, and felt wronged.

Nanzhou remained unmoved.

It maintained such a pitiful posture, grabbed a piece of apple in one gulp, and quickly slipped back along the open cuff of Nanzhou with the apple in its mouth.

Nanzhou: “…”

It has been proved that human judgment is affected by some non-objective factors.

For example, now, everyone's vigilance against Nanzhou has been greatly reduced.

Not only because of the reason "ghosts bring pets?", but the fluctuation of his expression at the moment when the apple was stolen, made him look a lot fresher.

Nan Zhou held the apple in his hand and nodded: "Yes."

The man asked sharply: "The teacher allows you to have such hair?"

Nan Zhou nodded again reservedly: "Yes, art teacher. What else is there?"

Everyone: ... grass.

Suddenly, everyone had a completely reasonable understanding of this person's strange temperament.

—It turned out to be an artist, I see.

Nan Zhou calmly looked at the people who had started the next round of self-introduction, and looked at every nervous or forcedly calm face.

But when her eyes turned to the Ukrainian half-blood youth, Nan Zhou's eyes paused slightly.

Jiang Fang leaned on the bus seat, not looking at herself.

But Nan Zhou knew that he was looking at himself.

…Look at the reflection of yourself on the side window glass.

Smiling but not smiling, so gentle that it is difficult to judge his true emotions.

Nan Zhou was calm, seemingly unaware, and naturally turned his attention to other people.

Nanzhou's presentation and explanation took more time, so the speed of everyone's introduction was a little slow.

There are 61 seats in 15 rows.

Counting from back to front, the situation is as follows:

The man sitting on the left in the penultimate row is the architect Zhao Guanglu.

The penultimate row on the right is an unknown person who died by trying to jump out of the window in violation of the rules. The only information that can be confirmed at present is "he is an ordinary person".

The fourth row from the bottom on the left is the unlucky bank clerk Li Yinhang.

In the fifth-to-last row, Jiang Fang was sitting right in front of Li Yinhang.

The door of the two-door bus opens near the fifth-to-last row.

Further forward, there was a man named Liu Rongrui in the sixth row from the bottom.

He is the one who was left speechless by Nan Zhou just now.

He said he had run out of food, so he mustered up the courage to go out of the house, and after walking for a long time, he couldn't find a supermarket that was still open.

Finally, he heard that there was food to eat, so he followed two volunteers, one old and one young, into the car.

Speaking of this, his face was full of remorse that "I knew I would have starved to death and would not have boarded this pirate ship".

Seventh to last row, vacant.

The eighth-to-last row, that is, the eighth row of positive numbers, is a bit special. There are two people, a man and a woman.

The girl sitting on the left is called Sun Ruowei, and the young man sitting on the right is called Lin Xiangjun.

Both of them came from Longquan Community, and they had a couple of sentences after getting on the bus. It can be said that they are the most able to testify for each other among all the people in the car.

But on the contrary, they may also be ghost companions who lie together.

Positive seventh row, vacant.

The sixth row is on the left, and Qin Yadong, male, got on the bus from Xingfu Street.

He waved at the side of the road and got on the bus.

In the fifth row, sitting directly in front of Qin Yadong is a fat man who weighs nearly two hundred pounds.

According to him, he got on the bus at Xingfuyuan on Worker Street.

Qin Yadong can testify for him, because he adjusted the back of the chair from the moment he got up, and when he lay back, it directly pressed against his thigh.

But the fat man didn't appreciate it very much, saying that he fell asleep when he got up, and didn't notice anyone behind him.

The fourth row of positive numbers, on the right, sat a neurotic young man.

He looked at everyone vigilantly and gnawed on his fingernails anxiously, saying that he was a student of C University, his name was Wu Yukai.

When someone questioned "Did we pass by C University just now?", he angrily shouted back: "Nonsense!"

The reaction is so intense, I don't know if it is because of a guilty conscience, or simply because I don't like being questioned in this situation.

The third row from the positive number is Xie Yangyang, a foreign company employee who screamed first and is now shivering.

The first row of positive numbers is Nanzhou, also known as Luoyan.

Just as Xie Yangyang stammered and made a self-statement, the interior of the carriage was suddenly swept, wrapped, and squeezed by the boundless darkness.

The moment the bus passed through the tunnel without warning, a fact was silently announced to everyone.

First round, empty ticket.

Five more rounds…

Only five rounds left.

After seeing the light again, everyone turned their attention to the huge mushroom in the back row.

The soft and slender mycelium has wrapped the entire seat where he was, and the colorful umbrella cover swayed regularly as the vehicle swayed.

…as if alive.

The atmosphere in the car was visibly anxious and tense.

The author has something to say:

—on what everyone is thinking

Li Yinhang: My unlucky name.

Jiang Fang: My lovely daughter-in-law.

Nanzhou: My poor apple.