The Midnight Owl

The night was dark, and the moon was hiding in the dark clouds, even the light refused to penetrate.

Fifteen people appeared out of nowhere on an isolated side road in Anyang City. Some of them were carrying backpacks, some were light, and their clothes were different, just like a casual tourist tour group.

But without exception, all stood in the same place and gasped, some bodies were still stiff, and some slowed down, but the pain in the eyes was still clear.

The truth of a thing is sometimes not the result, but the process.

The pain of death is more horrible than death itself.

Han Buting was the first to straighten his body, with a look of yin and prey. For a moment, Xu Wang thought the other party was really going to beat someone. But in the end, Han Buting just glanced deeply at the five of them, as if they were to be carved in the depths of their memories, draw a circle with a red pen and then forbid a slash, and then turned around in silence, leading the team to disappear into the night.

Xu Wang watched the strong backs of the five pretends going further and further away, somehow, it hurts.

The last trace of burning suffocation was also scattered in the cold wind. Wu Sheng's first thing was to take out his mobile phone. As a result, it clearly showed that Beijing time, 03:18.

Before the appearance of evil spirits, he had seen the phone once, and it was clearly past five o'clock at that time ...

On the side of the road, Jin Xin, who had just come over, had a quick eye, stopped a taxi, and greeted the Wei Menghan team over there: "You go first."

Wei Menghan shook his head: "Let's go and blow."

Kuang Jinxin said very seriously: "Don't blow it, even those who vomit and burn, let's go back to rest early."

Wei Menghan: "..."

The other party was very sincere in persuading, that is, seeking truth from facts.

"Don't care about us," Ji Yunlei changed his captain's euphemism, and said with carelessness, "This night's tossing, we will have some fun and come back."

"What fun?" Qian Ai interjected, his tone of curiosity rising subtly, and his brain filled in countless mosaics within a second.

Ji Yunlei thought about it casually and said, "Hot pot or barbecue."

Qian Ai: "..."

For the first time in his life, Qian Ai was shaken by his career in eating and broadcasting.

Because this evening, he saw the faith on a plain face.

The taxi could not seat five people, and first took Qian Ai, Kuang Jinxin and Qi Shan.

Wei Menghan led the team and said goodbye to Xu Wang and Wu Sheng: "Be prepared psychologically, see you tomorrow, and we will drag you into the secret road."

Wu Sheng likes this kind of war book: "I wish you every success."

Xu Wang ’s heart was not on the mission line at all, and he was still thinking about the fun of Ji Yunlei: “Just after vomiting, do n’t eat too greasy, drink some casserole porridge.

Wei Menghan shook his head: "The casserole porridge is only delicious in Guangdong and Fujian."

Xu Wang: "... bye."

Ten minutes later, Wu Sheng and Xu Wang finally stopped the second taxi.

The two of them sat together in the back row, and no one spoke for two or three minutes after the car drove up.

Wu Sheng is sorting out the task line.

From beginning to end, the links, clues, NPC lines and all the details that I experienced tonight are repeated. The focus is on the key points, and the question marks are marked with question marks.

After finishing everything, he turned his head and found that Xu Wang was still staring out of the car window, fascinated.

His eyes are straight, his expression is serious, he is not in a state of emptiness, and he is thinking about things clearly.

Systematic scrutiny of tactics or customs clearance tasks has never been the main item of his own captain. Generally, he starts to think seriously, whoever is going to suffer.

"What a bad idea." Wu Sheng asked, his tone full of disgust, but the corner of his mouth was hooked.

Xu Wang turned around and looked at him, as if finally struck a conclusion: "Qi Shan knew Li Zijin."

"Qi Shan? Li Zi is near?" Wu Sheng had no idea at all, how did these two people hook.

"Don't you find that Qi Shan always looks at plums?"

"..." He really hasn't. He is watching the mission line all the time. He wants to see how NPCs chase love. It is better to get some practical methods. As a result, a little love is not seen. .

"Forget it," Xu Wang found that he picked the wrong discussion object. The research direction of his own military division has never been in such a subtle field of mind, "When I didn't ask."

Wu Sheng looked at Xu Wang's obvious "disgust", and he was kind of sulking that "when the book is used, he hates the wrong profession".

Regarding Qi Shan and Li Zi being close, along the way, Xu Wang didn't think about the new story again, but unexpectedly returned to the hotel, Qi Shan sat on the first floor waiting for them.

Xu Wang was surprised and had some hunch, but his face did not show: "Why didn't you go back?"

Qi Shanding ’s hotel is not here. According to the original route, it should be that Kuang Jinxin and Qian Ai got off here first, and he would sit for a while.

"I want to say sorry to you." Qi Shan didn't go around.

Wu Sheng frowned, but said nothing.

Xu Wang smiled, faintly, with a certain understanding: "Go up and say."

The three returned to the standard room between Xu Wang and Wu Sheng. After entering the room, Wu Sheng sat in the corner, posing clearly and not participating in communication.

Although Qi Shan said to wait for the two of them, Xu Wang is the captain.

All he has to do is keep.

Xu Wang pulled a stool for Qi Shan and handed him a bottle of pure water prepared by the hotel before sitting down.

The new teammate did not go around the corner, and Xu Wang went straight to him: "Want to leave the team?"

Qi Shan held the water, did not unscrew it, paused for two seconds, and nodded.

Xu Wang asked: "Because plum is close?"

Qi Shan froze for a moment, and touched his nose a little embarrassedly: "Is that obvious?"

"Well," Xu Wang told the truth, "I'm worried that you will be thrown over all night."

Qi Shanle had no idea how to speak, so he confessed so smoothly: "He is my love bean."

The word "...", Captain Xu, who has never chased the star, needs to react for a while.

"I have fanned several professional e-sports players," Qi Shanping generously shared his chasing the star road, "Climb from one wall to another, and he broke here ..."

"Three years ago, he was only sixteen at that time, operating Jusao and becoming famous in one battle!"

"His talent is absolutely overwhelming, speed, consciousness, reaction, top-notch, is almost patient, but this can be tempered ..."

"Last year and the year before were his most glorious time. I chased every game, I watched the warm-up games, and I went to the scene to call ..."

Qi Shan's speech is getting faster and faster, and the light in his eyes is becoming more and more fanatical, just like an e-sports love fan Li Zi is almost over-aged.

When increasing the staff, Xu Wang only saw Qi Shanguang's handsome appearance.

Now he only recognized the soul of this classmate.

"That ..." Xu Wang wanted to say that you should restrain yourself first. We have to continue to talk about the problem of leaving the team. As a result, the other party calmed down first.

"At the beginning of this year, he retired." The enthusiasm in Qi Shan's eyes has not retired yet.

Qi Shan smiled bitterly, as if distressed Li Zijin: "I never figured out why at the time, he didn't do anything, at most it was that the last two games did not play well ..."

Xu Wang knew that he had found the reason now.

Just because I found it, I'm not willing to replace Lizi.

After resigning himself, Wu Sheng's company has not dared to take on new projects in a month. This is the erosion of the "owl" on real life. However, behind this erosion, there is also mental pressure. Mao Qiping on the endless sea has completely adapted to the life where the two worlds are intertwined, but when it comes to reality, his eyes are still full of exhaustion.

What's more, Li Zi, who is only 19 years old, is near.

The brief silence made the atmosphere a little heavy, and Xu Wang pulled back to the original topic: "Have you said to their team?"

Qi Shan shook his head: "I have to leave the team first before I can chase the new team, otherwise I'll be split."

Xu Wang teased: "You left us and joined them immediately. This is called seamless connection, and it is also a cheating."

Qi Shan was stunned for two seconds, and was happy, acknowledging: "There is nothing wrong with this."

"You want to stay at this level, right." Xu Wang twisted his water and took two sips. This season, the normal temperature water is also a little cold.

Qi Shan was surprised by his keenness. He thought that the new captain could just say a little bit.

"Here is the first level of the five-man team," Xu Wang took the water bottle in his hand and looked at him. "If you are me, you will also choose to wait here."

Unless the Han Buting team goes all the way forward, every time you retreat to this level and come back again, you will have to increase staff.

"I really want to stay here," Qi Shan frankly said that he was selfish. "But if you still trust me, I will finish the other half of the love line tomorrow."

"I believe you will start well and end," Xu Wang said. "But I'm afraid that by the next level, there will be no one to order and a team that needs to be added. We have to tie them together."

Qi Shan understood what he meant, and besides the accident, smiled: "You are so confident that you can hand in the paper tomorrow?"

Xu Wang glanced at Wu Sheng and nodded seriously: "Our team lacks everything, so there is no lack of confidence."

One wants to stay on 6/23, the other wants to find new teammates as soon as possible to cultivate feelings, hit it off, and get together.

Before leaving, Qi Shan took out a sketch from his pocket and gave it to Xu Wang. It seems to have been completed in a hurry, using A4 paper and water-based pen, but after a few clicks, Xu Wang clearly recognized which is himself, which is Wu Sheng, and also Jin Xin and Qian Ai.

A sketch of a team of four people did not flash.

"I just painted on the first floor while I was waiting for you, and I borrowed the pen and paper from the front desk. If it feels bad, it is a tool problem." Qi Shan joke the pot jokingly.

Xu Wang took the sketch and suddenly felt like a break up gift, with a subtle sense of ceremony.

Looking at the sketch, he asked what he always wanted to ask: "What about your previous team?"

"It's gone," Qi Shan said lightly. "Some people want to go home, some people go to the endless sea to make money."

Xu Wang did not continue to ask.

Qi Shan didn't care, but he could empathize. If Wu Sheng, Kuang Jinxin, Qian Ai and he said one day, Captain, we're not doing it, we're going to disperse ... Think about it.

Hesitating for a moment, Qi Shan also asked the last question: "When stationery is available in the first half of today, why don't you ask me what stationery I have?"

Ask stationery, take tactics, this is a routine operation.

Xu Wang was stunned, and suddenly had a mixed mood: "We are waiting for you to say."

Four eyes are opposite.

Laughed dumbly.

The encounter between people depends on fate, but trust depends on running in and time.

Sending Qi Shan away, Xu Wang threw himself directly into the bed. He was tired, tired, and his head hurt. He was about to destroy the quilt into cotton balls.

As dull as Wu Sheng, he can accurately give a eight-character comment: "Be smart in front of people, and be steadfast in the back."

"He all said that, what can I do," Xu Wang turned his head from the quilt and looked aggrieved, "Can I stop others from chasing their ideals ..."

"It's not a day to stop a lifetime." Wu Sheng couldn't see his entanglement, there was an urge to catch Qi Shan back.

"If you meet Newton, you change your heart faster than him."

"First, I can't meet Newton. Second, even if I meet, I won't leave the team."

A joke-like analogy, Wu Sheng's answer was word for word, very serious.

Xu Wangding looked at him, and inexplicably gave a trace of expectation, and whispered, "Why?"

Wu Sheng didn't have to think about it: "With Newton's team, I can't be an IQ."

Before going to bed, Captain Xu's face was as dark as the bottom of the pot.

Wu Junshi thought, sure enough, this increase in staffing failed and the damage to his captain was huge.

Qian Ai and Kuang Jinxin have dreamed in this sleep after the break, a villain dreaming of eating the world, a villain drinking tea in the world, in short, in the dream, the illusion Continued again.

Waking up, both of them were sweating coldly, and then they were told that their new teammates had changed their minds.

Gold and money kicked off on the second day of 6/23, just like "one surprise after another".

Until another zero came, they were still in a trance.

After a sense of weightlessness, five friends appeared in 1310.

The Han Buting team and the mighty Han team did not show up, it is estimated that it is still spending those two minutes, trying to stagger with them.

The room was intact, there were no secret crossings, no demons and ghosts, and the paintings were hung on the walls end to end.

The five people are also in a complete lineup, but they look at each other again, embarrassed in their eyes.

The five-in-one "ding--" came as scheduled.

Xu Wang looked at his arm, as expected.

: You have 5 minutes of exemption time, select [Retire] or [Kick], and the countdown starts.

When the five-member team succeeded yesterday, the owl also gave a similar reminder, but it may be the first time to form a five-person team. The prompt is more detailed than this, and all five-person levels are clear. 5 minutes of exemption time, after this time to kick or leave the team, it is regarded as a failure to complete the paper.

At that time, they had just assembled Qi Shan, and naturally did not pay much attention.

Who knows the world is unpredictable, it will be used today.

Xu Wang didn't speak, only pointing at Qi Shan's arm.

Qi Shan was clear, gave them an apologetic look, and then clicked to leave the team.

The world was dark at once.

The five people disappeared together, and soon appeared in the banquet hall again.

The guests were strategizing, and laughter and laughter remained.

The other barrier-breakers scattered in the banquet hall only came in from reality, some glanced at them, and some did not raise their heads.

When they were separated from each other, the reminder of sounded, and they were only noisy in the noise.

The four little friends received the same sentence: the number of the team is insufficient (4/5), is there any increase in staff?

Xu Wang raised his head subconsciously to see Qi Shan who had already walked over there, and the other party looked down at the prompt on his arm.

Qi Shan's reminder should have been the sentence received from the former Sun Jiang-the lonely ship can never reach the shore.

Clearly mourning sentence, Qi Shan's eyes, but there is light, there is direction.

Life is like this. With direction, everything is bright.

Xu Wang withdrew his gaze, and with all his friends, click to confirm the increase of staff, and the candidate list was opened at once-

6/23 Chi Yingxue [Invitation]

6/23 Qi Shan [Invitation]

6/23 Wang Chuming [Invitation]

... shorter than yesterday.

Yesterday, there were more monks and less porridge. Today, even the bowl is empty.

Choose one of the three, and the other two cannot be selected. Xu Wang looked at Wang Chuming and felt a sense of sacredness.

"Wang Chuming?" Wu Sheng couldn't tell what he felt, so he talked with the data and the facts. "He was selected yesterday with Chen Xu."

Xu Wang: "..."

It reminded Wu Sheng that it seemed really true.

Entering the team and retreating again is worth considering. Retired within five minutes? Is it the same as Qi Shan, walked once and saved a file? You can't meet the lighthouse on the ideal road one by two ...

The so-called helplessness means that even if you know that it may be a pit, you have to choose.

After all, this is just possible, and the one next to it is an obvious sinkhole.

After simple communication, the four friends sent an invitation to Wang Chuming.

Ten seconds.

Twenty seconds.

Half a minute.

One minute……

The increase invites Shi Shenhai.

Just wondering, a young man in a military green coat came towards them, with a strong stride, walking with wind, when no one arrived, the aura came first.

Four little friends looked up together.

The man smiled brilliantly, his teeth white enough to reflect: "Wang Chuming."

Xu Wang understands why he did not accept the invitation: "Let's go for a field visit first?"

"The main thing is for you to investigate me," Wang Chuming said heartily. "If you think it is appropriate, you can regroup, move in and out, and delay each other's time."

Xu Wang heard something in his words and simply pointed out: "We are a group of ordinary people. We want to get through the customs. There is no requirement. If you have, you can speak in advance."

Wang Chuming looked at them for a while and understood why he couldn't talk anymore. He thought that the other party could see his identity at a glance, but obviously, the other party was not the old fritter in the owl.

"I am a mercenary." Wang Chuming was straightforward.

Xu Wang was even more embarrassed: "Mercenary?"

Does this introduce your actual identity, or are there any special settings in the owl?

"It's just taking people's money and helping people get through the barriers." Wang Chuming said in more detail. "From this barrier, the more people I have, the more people will be."

Xu Wang looked back at his three little friends-is there such an operation?

The eyes of the three little friends are also filled with emotion-it is really a business opportunity running around, see if you can find it.

Compared with Mao Qiping's single project list, Wang Chuming's quotation is simple and clear. After all, the work content is relatively single: "You can settle it by one time, one thousand at a time, and successfully add 5,000 bonus to the submission, or you can buy it for a monthly fee of 50,000 yuan a month. The bonus for successful submission is no longer counted separately. Both the entry and the endless sea can be used. The cash reward in the owl obtained in the process will all belong to you. "

Xu Wang: "..."

Wu Sheng: "..."

Qian Ai: "..."

Kuang Jinxin: "..."

"I don't have a big lion's mouth," Wang Chuming was crying and laughing because of the silence of the four people. "A cash treasure chest, ranging from tens of thousands to few to thousands. I'll pay for this part of the job in minutes."

Qian Ai: "..."

There are also a few hundred pieces!

"It's not about money," Xu Wang paused, saying, "We still want to find a teammate."

Wang Chuming shook his head: "I was afraid that you might come and go, only to find that mercenaries are easier to use," he paused. "Many teams in the back, or even the money team directly."

Xu Wang agrees: "People are separated from each other's belly. Many times it is not as efficient as a simple employment relationship ..."

Wang Chuming raised his eyebrows.

Xu Wang was half joking and half serious: "But if you don't suffer a big loss, you always have a illusion."

Wang Chuming nodded and understood.

He has been in the owl for more than a year, and has seen many such teams. At the beginning, he was always full of blood, but the only one who can get to the end is the long-distance race. There are always people left behind or give up altogether.

The invitation sent out has exceeded the time limit, because Wang Chuming did not receive it, and it was automatically terminated.

Wang Chuming went to chat with other teams in need of additional staff, leaving four little friends standing in the same place.

Xu Wang looked at his teammates: "I regret it."

Kuang Jin stunned: "Ah?"

Xu Wang said: "Five thousand is five thousand, at least push this time over."

Qian Ai's black line: "Then you can stay and flash for another day, OK, five thousand, your consumption concept is too random!"

Xu Wang: "..."

He can be criticized, but this critical angle ...

"Ding--"

: Chi Yingxue asked to join the team, do you agree?

The four partners looked at their arms and were staggered.

Xu Wang, Wu Sheng, and Qian Ai also thought that they had hallucinations, but Jin Xin felt that, unexpectedly, this was very much like what Chi Yingxue did-I couldn't understand it, I couldn't guess it, I felt it was all secret.

"Sorry, I have recommended myself," the voice behind him seemed familiar, but there was no stranger. "Can you talk?"

The four turned around, Chi Yingxue smiled politely, dressed as low-key as yesterday, and at first glance looked like a good man.

His eyebrows are cold, and the endless sea and the two times of 3/23, even with a smile, are as cold as the moonlight.

But now, he smiled warmly, like the moon shadow in the water, stained with the warmth of fireworks.

"How do you want to talk?" Xu Wang asked.

Chi Yingxue lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, and looked up: "We have dealt with each other, right?"

"No," Qian Ai couldn't bear it anymore. "It's boring if you pretend to be so stupid. What do you know about yourself?"

Chi Yingxue sighed: "It seems that there is no need to ask, but it is the disaster that the King Yan caused me."

"Yang?" Kang Jinxin next to his captain, carefully looked at Chi Yingxue, and confirmed that there was no slight change in appearance and last time, but why did the whole person's feelings change? Who is the king?

Chi Yingxue took a deep breath and burst into a helpless smile: "I am a double personality, and the king is my deputy personality."