If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

dark night.

White bricks intersect with red walls. A golden and green sycamore tree is planted on the right side of the alley. There are some idle tables, chairs and benches under the sycamore tree. However, because it is already evening, people gather here to play cards during the day. The people in the crowd had already dispersed, and the orange-yellow street lights tilted the tables, chairs, and miscellaneous items onto the ground, adding to the coldness of the night.

Lin Young breathed out softly, and a faint white mist appeared under the warm yellow street lamp.

The temperature has just begun to fall, and the temperature has suddenly dropped following yesterday's continuous rain. "There is rain before and after autumn, and there is wind before and after white dew." The old people say that if it is sunny at the beginning of autumn, then the last autumn will be ushered in until the middle of the year. , if it rains, it will be autumn. There will be more rain throughout the Beginning of Autumn, and the temperature will plummet.

The current outdoor real-time temperature is 13 degrees Celsius. The sudden drop in temperature caused by the rain has caused many old men in BJ to put on thick coats in advance, put their hands in their sleeves, and only slightly squinted cloudy eyes can be seen looking at their necks. The autumn leaves on the trees have gradually turned yellow.

But tonight, Lin Nian's clothes were not thick, but rather thin. A pure black polyester T-shirt with a dark green print, and his pants were changed from versatile jeans to mixed fiber casual pants, which are loose, quick-drying and breathable, even if You can stay comfortable and dry during strenuous exercise. The shoes have not changed much. They are still sports shoes, but they have changed from the usual white to black. The material is still "silicon nitride" that can provide super elasticity and energy rebound. The surface has a fire-retardant coating to prevent fire and combustion during severe friction.

He did not carry any electronic devices, including mobile phones, and the black watch on his wrist was replaced by an Omega mechanical watch. He was wearing a very simple suit and did not look outstanding, but Lin Nian was dressed like this. Whenever you meet people who know him well on the street, they will turn around and leave without hesitation. Only those among them will understand the reason.

Lin Nian walked slowly to the right side of the sycamore tree at the entrance of the alley from the deserted, quiet, and illuminated street lights. He pulled up a low bench and sat down, leaning on his thighs with his hands and bending forward slightly. On his wrist, the tiny parts in the mechanical watch were constantly rubbing against each other during the operation of the movement, making a rustling sound that was particularly clear in the quiet old alley. The second hand on the dial moved one step at a time, causing the minute and hour hands to start shaking, until at the last moment, the three hands took one step at the same time.

The moment before the hands moved, the pair of dim pupils under the dim shade of the trees lowered their heads and looked at the mechanical watch on their wrists.

There is no imaginary "click" sound, but only a dull "pop" sound.

All street lights on the entire street went out instantly.

The warm yellow light was swept away by the darkness. Although the dim light was extinguished in an instant, the remnants of the retina seemed to darken little by little, as if ink dripped to the center of the rice paper, moving slowly but unusually quickly to the surroundings. Devour.

In the darkness, a scorching red light lifted from the mechanical watch, and the afterglow illuminated Lin Nian's indifferent face.

September 9, 2011, 2:00.

When it is ugly, everything is silent, the moon is dark and the wind is high.

Not only the street lights, but also the power supply of the entire block was shut down. Some people tried to call the power bureau to check the fault, but they found that they were reminded by artificial voice that they were not in the service area, which meant that the signal base stations in this large area were also completely shut down. . But this did not cause panic, because the night was too late, countless people had fallen asleep, and most people did not even notice this abnormal phenomenon at all.

Everything is the same as what was discussed earlier. The whole plan is like the movement of a Swiss watch, precise and complex.

Walking in the old alley with scorching red eyes, only a tiny bit of faint light from the sky is needed, and the golden eyes are enough to see through everything in the darkness.

Lin Nian was no stranger to this place. Entering from the old alley was the large courtyard. He lowered his head and crossed the threshold of the red door, avoiding the garbage piles. He passed through the twists and turns of the alley and finally picked food along the ginkgo tree. Walking straight through the red wall, you can repeat the path you took last time just by relying on your memory.

The maple leaves sticking out of the red wall fell towards his shoulders in the night wind. They were only a centimeter away from touching his clothes, but the next moment the figure had disappeared from the spot and appeared several meters away.

Lin Nian stepped on the fallen leaves and fruits of the ginkgo tree but strangely made no sound. He counted silently in his mind with every step he took, until he stopped after counting to the agreed number. On his right side is not the gate of the courtyard, but the long red wall. This is indeed his destination.

Lin Nian took out a metal strip that looked like a pencil from his trouser pocket. He fiddled with the metal strip to find the head and tail. Following the instructions of the person who gave him the thing, he pressed the button hidden on the head for three seconds. Then he threw it into the yard inside the red wall. After waiting for five seconds, Lin Nian felt a directionless and invisible "net" passing over him, and his red golden eyes suddenly burned.

Yan Ling Time Zero.

The huge domain expanded rapidly. With the expansion of the domain, Lin Nian took three steps forward and jumped to an extreme height of more than three meters. He stepped on the cornice of the red wall and jumped forward again, stepping softly on the ground. Go up to the dark eaves of the houses in the courtyard.

Like an ancient snitch, Lin Nian ran quickly on the roof of the huge courtyard. Standing on a high place, he could clearly see the layout of the entire building complex behind the red wall. It was like a small Forbidden City, with countless connected courtyards. The roads are pieced together to form an entire community of courtyard houses. It is difficult for others to imagine what kind of groups live in such a community of courtyard houses.

He stopped at the highest point of the courtyard complex, stepped on the eaves with one foot, and looked around. In the dark moonless night, under the operation of "time zero", everything was covered in the thick black curtain, and he seemed to be escaping. The ghost that entered the dark side of the world disappeared without anyone noticing, turning into black smoke and disappearing.

Before coming, the layout of this place had been deeply memorized in Lin Nian's mind. On the roof, he ignored the complex terrain of the courtyard and hurried much faster. The characteristics of the field meant that his high-speed movement would not cause any damage. The violent wind current wiped out even the sound of footsteps. Even the top snitch in ancient times bowed in admiration at this scene. The Kowloon Cup, which even the Saint Thieves might not be able to steal, was just a matter of picking it up in his hands.

While rushing on the road, the state of solidified violent blood was blessing Lin Nian's body anytime and anywhere. The peripheral vision of his scorching red golden eyes was full of cold eyes like undercurrents of ice, like the storm of a blade passing by, it was cold to the bone. With his will to kill, anything that stands in front of him will be cut into pieces and erased.

Following the route memorized in his mind, Lin Nian quietly jumped over most of the courtyard complex, and finally stopped at the cornice of a roof in a half-crouched posture. The black clothes from head to toe effectively hid him in the courtyard. In the dark.

In the darkness, he slowly stood up straight, and his scorching red eyes glanced at the small inner courtyard of the quadrangle at his feet.

There is no stunning layout and furnishings. The only thing worth taking a second look is probably a beautiful osmanthus tree planted in the center of the inner courtyard, with simple stone chairs and benches placed under the tree.

It matched the layout she mentioned. If there was no second place like this in the entire courtyard complex, then he must have found the right place.

Lin Nian checked the mechanical watch on his wrist. He did not forgive the acceleration of this dead thing in the field, so the watch was still moving at the normal time flow rate. From the time he released the field to now, the normal time has not moved. About 3 seconds.

Until now, he has penetrated into the deepest part of this "Dragon and Phoenix Garden" and has not encountered the dragnet he imagined. The orthodox defense seems to be just that, or perhaps this place is not an important place at all, so the defense is not as tight as imagined. ?

Although Li Huoyue mentioned that he is likely to run into some very difficult enemies during this operation, monsters that would make the super hybrid "Moon" feel afraid, but so far he has not found any The gaze that catches his own traces.

So far, everything has been going smoothly according to the plan. Although Lin Nian knew that it was unlucky to say this in his mind, it was difficult for him to imagine that any accident would happen while he maintained time zero.

No, in fact, accidents may still happen, that is, he made a big mistake tonight and saved the wrong person, and his trip was in vain.

Because before coming here, Lin Nian had no idea who his target was this time.

Li Huoyue, who gave him this task, kept it secret until the end, only telling him that when he saw the person he wanted to save, he knew that was the person he was looking for.

Lin Nian expressed his dissatisfaction with this, but the other party insisted on it. In the end, he did not know what the other party was insisting on, so he finally chose to compromise.

Lin Nian jumped off the roof and landed firmly in the inner courtyard. This courtyard has a traditional "kou" character as you enter the courtyard. The door is located in the southeast corner. It has a traditional main room, side room, side room, reverse side room, and screen wall at the entrance. It's not big, so you can see a lot of things.

No ambushes, no enemies.

Looking around, the corridor surrounding the entire inner courtyard was pitch black. There were no lights or sounds in the guest bedrooms and the kitchen on the left and right. "Time Zero" was still in effect, so everything he saw looked like the pause button had been pressed. Osmanthus fragrans The remaining leaves of the tree also stopped in mid-air.

Lin Nian walked quickly through the inner courtyard to the door of the central hall. To the left was the study and guest bedroom, and to the right was the tea room and master bedroom. He walked straight to the right and walked to the master bedroom door. He pushed it gently and the door was unlocked and opened silently.

The master bedroom has the simplest layout, with a very simple table and chair display, a round dressing mirror in the corner, no calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and the bed is placed in the corner.

But the bed was empty.

No, to be precise, it should be empty now. The quilt was half lifted, and the wrinkles on the quilt meant that someone had slept here not long before Lin Nian.

Lin Nian's face was expressionless. The accident did happen, but he never thought it would happen in this form.

People are gone.

Did the news leak out, or was it just an accident? If it was an accident, then where was the person he was looking for?

He thought silently for a moment and took the initiative to deactivate "Time Zero".

During the release of "Time Zero", all sounds will be prolonged, which also causes some small sounds to be subconsciously ignored by Lin Nian. However, after the domain is released, the flow rate of all sounds tends to normal, and his solid-state blood burst The powerful hearing brought by it was enough to capture the extremely small movements in this small courtyard.

For example, the sound of human breathing.

Lin Nian closed his eyes, then turned his head slightly, opened his eyes and looked in one direction. His eyes seemed to penetrate the blocking wall in front of him, and fell on the "person" he had locked onto. There was no Kamaitachi, but his hearing was already several times better than Caesar's. Even if he suspended his heartbeat by feigning death, he could not escape his awareness.

He calmed down his hands and feet, lowered his golden eyes, exited the master bedroom the same way he came, walked through the central hall step by step along the corridor, and came to the source of the sound, in front of the study door on the left.

A steady breathing sound and a heartbeat were undoubtedly coming from inside the door. Judging from the heartbeat speed and breathing frequency, this person should be asleep, but why didn't he sleep in the master bedroom instead? Go to bed in the study?

Lin Nian Nian gently opened the door of the study room and saw the man sleeping soundly on the papers in front of the bookshelf. Sure enough, the first time he saw this man, Lin Nian understood why Li Huanyue was so sure that he would be with Lin Nian. When you see this person after entering the courtyard, you will know that this is his goal.

Zhao Yanman.

Li Hueyue's mother?

On the document, next to Zhao Zianman's lying hand, a photo frame was pressed on the table by her who was sleeping soundly. With the ability of night vision, Lin Nian could see clearly that there was a wedding photo in it.

Under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree under the nice weather, the groom is very handsome and the bride is very beautiful. The dragon and phoenix gown represent that this is a traditional Chinese wedding, with phoenix crown and harem, ten miles of red makeup, and three worshippers to get married.

Lin Nian knew the bride in the photo, but he was a stranger to the groom.

While Lin Nian's thoughts were swirling, Zhao Yanman's breathing rate suddenly changed on the table, and the fingers holding the photo frame also trembled slightly.

One hand was already placed on the back of her head and shoulders.

The person behind her said calmly, "Don't move or scream, if you don't want to die."

Death threats are the most effective method of controlling hostages.

But the next moment, Lin Nian, who had indifferent eyes, was slightly startled.

Zhao Zianman, who was on the document, opened his eyes, and a line of tears fell from his pale golden pupils.

It wasn't because of the threat, because Lin Nian couldn't see any panic there, but instead saw a mist-like confusion.

It seemed like she was having a nightmare.

It must have been a very long dream, so long that I couldn't tell whether it was a dream or something that happened in the past.

In the dream, there seems to be a man and woman who are devoted to love. For the sake of love, they have been threatened and saddened, saying that they want to go to a distant place together, and never come back in their lifetime.

But now she woke up from her dream. In a daze, she noticed the person behind her and called out a man's name in a voice that was almost whispering.

"Whoever this person you're talking about is not me."

Lin Nian said slowly, "Zhao Zianman, right? I'm Li Hueyue's friend, and I'm here to take you out of here."

ps: Lin Lai Buddha is online.