Chapter 390 Joke

"Time is running out, let's just let him enter the town directly through the 'Red House'"

"What's the point? The murderer inside is still unknown, and the three students who came out reported that their progress is worrying. I think what we should do now is wait and see, and wait for the remaining students still in the town to find the key information before sending them out. The key ace goes in."

"Wait until the new 'Red House' is built? By then almost everyone in it will be on the verge of death! If we delay sending the 'S' class in now, we will be one step closer to failure of the mission."

"When the identity and strength of the enemy are unknown, what kind of 'S' class is an 'S' class without blood? Do you know why Secretary Schneider did not put the 'S' class in the first rescue team? It is because of this reason I don't even support sending 'S'-class people inside. We have already allowed eighteen students of 'A'-class blood to enter. If they can't solve it, then the failure of this mission will be excusable. .”

"Pay attention to your speech. What do you mean by extenuating circumstances? There are more than 4,000 lives in this small town, including our own people in the executive department! We have not yet reached the point where we can sigh and say we did our best after letting go. The situation!"

"Everyone, please control your emotions. We must save people. In this video conference, we are mainly discussing the issue of 'time'. We do not have much time left, and it is also a fact that we lack substantial progress, but The more times this happens, the less likely we are to be in a state of disarray.”

In the tent, the instructor stood in front of several large screens and looked at the senior executives of the executive department who were located in various places. Everyone was expressing their opinions. Some were blushing, some were dismissive, and most of them were pondering over solutions. .

Now as time goes by, the situation in the small town of Carmel is getting worse. A cadre said it right before. This is a big matter involving more than 4,000 lives, and they must come up with a conclusion tonight. Some people had even proposed the EMP hedging experiment that the Equipment Department had imagined before. It can be seen that now this group of people has begun to become restless because of the pot of warm water in the small town of Carmel.

However, even in this case, the real person involved, the main executive officer of the mission, was not present at the meeting.

Half an hour ago, Lin Nian told the instructor that he wanted to go out for some air and collect his thoughts. He was originally the protagonist who was bombarded by these comments in the video conference, but now this position naturally fell to the deputy executive officer. Those eighteen 'A'-level students are all led by instructors, and he is considered the second most vocal person in this base.

As for what Lin Nian is doing now. He is doing the same thing as he said before. He is breathing air, blowing the wind to be precise, sitting alone on the grass beside the intersection, away from the brightly lit military The base, and the red house hidden in the faint darkness, sat alone under the starry sky with his knees spread and playing with the grass roots in his hands. He occasionally raised his head and looked at the crossroads a hundred meters away that extended infinitely into the darkness.

The darkness in the sky has faded a lot. Most of the time tonight was wasted on video conferences at the military base. Even if he is the executive officer, there are still people above who want to give orders. This matter is too involved and it is impossible for him to let him do it. He makes up his own mind and makes random decisions, but no matter what, he will draw a conclusion from that tent at dawn, and he only needs to implement that conclusion.

After such a long night, he had to find something to do for himself. Lin Nian didn't like the atmosphere in the base, especially he didn't like to be with the people from the equipment department. Facts have proved that someone will recognize him within a few minutes and then I came over and asked him if he would mind drawing a few milliliters of his blood and taking it back for collection.

On the lawn, Lin Nian grabbed two handfuls of grass roots and twisted them together, and then pulled each other hard. With a crisp 'snap' sound, the more fragile side was broken off, and survived intact as before, and then He found another grass root and repeated the previous action.

Sometimes he will always find a player who is extraordinarily strong and can tear off several grass roots in a row without breaking. Usually these grass roots are characterized by being green and very young. After all, youth is capital, flowing in the roots. The juice is bursting with power, and it can fight forward without hesitation, tearing off and breaking everything in front of it.

If nothing unexpected happens, this will serve as his sideshow tonight.

Snap, another crisp sound, and the grass root in Lin Nian's hand shattered.

He raised his head and saw the blond girl standing on the road looking down at him by the lawn. She was still wearing a white hospital gown that looked too thin. The night wind blowing at the intersection revealed her bare lower body. Her white skin and body lines reflected the sky behind her. In the sky was a half-white moon that was slightly yellowish, hanging by her ears, like some kind of silver jewelry that kept swaying as she stepped up and down. With.

"Don't be discouraged. There's nothing you can win all the time." The blonde girl shrugged repeatedly and threw away the grass roots she pulled casually in her hands. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to lose once."

"I haven't started yet. How can I lose?" Lin Nian clapped his hands and stopped playing.

"You're just afraid of losing. If you lose, your senior sister will be gone. Most of the seniors and seniors will be gone too. There may be a lot of pretty blond sisters among them with bigger breasts than your senior sister! It's just that you haven't met them. The body may not be recovered even if the fragrance is gone." The blond girl pretended to cry, and then peeked at Lin Nian's reaction from the movement of wiping her tears.

But unfortunately, Lin Nian didn't react much. He just stared blankly at the intersection leading to the town and asked, "What do you think will happen if I walk in directly?"

"Ah, I don't know. An 'A' level can last for two or three minutes. Your 'S' level is twice as awesome as an 'A' level. How can you last ten minutes?"

"ten minutes?"

"About this time, you should have a hunch that this thing was forcibly created by someone with great power. Even if you go in, you will be tricked! Think about what to do!" The blond! The girl spun and fell freely, falling towards Lin Nian's position on the lawn, and then she lay down on the lawn with a bang, and her head hurt from the fall.

At some point, Lin Nian had moved half a meter to the side, but his movements remained unchanged.

"I taught you that this is not how 'Fu Sheng' is used!" The blonde girl rubbed the back of her head and twisted sadly on the lawn, as if she wanted to find a comfortable lying position, resting her head on her right hand and looking at the sky.

The lawn fell silent.

As long as she didn't speak, Lin Nian wouldn't talk to her. They had always been like this.

"Ah, little bastard, let me ask you something."

"Although you may be from the Tsarist Russia period based on your age, you look like you are at most 14 years old now. You can't call me a little bastard." Lin Nian said without turning his head.

"That bastard, let me ask you something." The blonde girl picked up a grass root at some point and chewed it in her mouth, staring at the starless night sky, "Do you think your senior sister is trustworthy?"

"What does it mean to be reliable?"

"I mean, you can tell this is a trap, right?" The blonde girl raised her hand and drew a circle towards the town. Crazy criticism of beauties, Lin Nian’s trap is done!”

"Blonde is crazy about beauties?"

"You know who I'm talking about." The blonde girl pursed her lips, "Mandy, this girl has always been quite crazy, but you can't tell it. She always has some daring ideas, touches people she shouldn't touch, and can't stand up. It's time to stand aside. But the consequence of being so crazy is that she will take on things that she can't solve and bear the risks she brings to herself. Although these risks will kill her, this is called 'consequences', cause and effect. !”

"But she's lucky." Halfway through the words, the blonde girl shook her head and chewed grass roots and continued, "This kind of crazy beautiful girl is always lucky to meet someone who can tell her the truth. , causing trouble to the sky, there are people flying up to pick her up. I know what you are thinking, and you also know this, so I think this girl is really lucky."

"So what do you want to do when you come out and lament Mandy's life?" Lin Nian asked, "You don't look like this kind of person. When I was playing with Su Xiaoqiang, you didn't jump out and say a few words. On the contrary, he stayed where he was supposed to stay very honestly.”

The blond girl pouted while holding a grass root in her mouth and looked at Lin Nian with a teasing look. "You can play with it! The word "date" is almost on your lips, why do you swallow it?"

Lin Nian clicked his tongue and turned his head away from her in displeasure. Although it was still some time before dawn, he was quite bored, but no matter how bored he was, he didn't want to talk about life with this guy late at night.

"Oh, by the way, you said, those who have gone in there say that people who lose themselves in there will change their temperament and reveal their truest self. What will you look like if you go in?" The blonde girl saw Lin Nian was bored and did not take the initiative to find a topic, so he asked curiously on his own.

"I don't know. It's probably what it should be."

"I think it's quite interesting. I want to see it." The blond girl clicked her tongue and said, "They said that your senior sister is very domineering inside. I want to see you go in and suppress her with your backhand! Let her crawl on your body. Sing conquest under your jeans!”

"You're all boring." Lin Nian sighed.

"I can already guess the next plot! You transmit your consciousness through a special red room, enter it with part of your bloodline, and then show your power and conquer the entire Carmel University. Every girl has a crush on you. Your senior sister I was very angry and unwilling to give up, but in the process of chasing you, my mind was filled with your shadow, and in the end I couldn't help but fall in love with you! At this time, the murderer was waiting for an opportunity to kidnap your senior sister. You jumped out and hacked the murderer to death! The realm was successfully lifted ! In the end, as soon as your senior sister woke up, she rushed out of the tent and came to you crying. She threw herself into your arms and cried violently to express her love. Then you had to struggle with whether you should remain loyal to the little goddess waiting for you on the other side of the ocean. , it’s better to show your love to the senior sister in front of you who is as weak and pitiful as a golden retriever!"

"Why don't you go write a script? I'll give you the pen and write it, okay?" Lin Nian no longer wanted to say anything about the blonde girl, "You are the blond beauty, right?"

"Really?" The blond girl blinked and turned to look at Lin Nian, "Then you mean that I can find someone to tell me the truth? No matter how much trouble I make, he is willing to go to heaven to take care of me. Yue, go to the five oceans to catch turtles for me?"

Lin Nian glanced sideways at her but didn't answer.

"The weather is nice today. I will tell you a joke after a long time." The blond girl suddenly sat up and sat cross-legged next to Lin Nian. She held her white feet with a few grass blades stuck to them with both hands and lifted them up. Looking up at the sky, he said, "There was a boy and girl who seemed to be friends and couldn't sleep at night. The girl asked the boy: I can't sleep. I'm so bored. What should I do? The boy said to her: Since you can't sleep, just count the stars outside the window, and you will fall asleep after counting." The girl said: OK, and then fell into silence. After a while, the boy next to her asked her again: I didn't hear the sound. Why not count? The girl said: There are no stars tonight."

Lin Nian on the side raised his head, and the blond girl next to him continued, "The boy sighed and said: If there are no stars, you might as well count the moon. At least we are counting the same moon."

Silence fell on the lawn. After a few seconds, Lin Nian spoke: "What kind of joke is this?"

"Isn't this unfinished story?" The blond girl raised her eyebrows, "The final laugh of this story lies in the last sentence of the narration."

"Then finish it."

"Have I piqued your curiosity?"

“I just don’t like the feeling that the story is half told.”

"Oh." The blond girl nodded, scratched her neck and looked at the dark autumn sky and said, "The point of this joke is that these two boys and girls are actually idiots, because they would rather lie on the two beds and watch the scenery outside the window. The moon is unwilling to turn around and look at the stars in each other’s eyes.”

"What a cold joke." After being quiet for a long time, Lin Nian concluded calmly.

"I think so. Anyway, I didn't say it was a good joke before I told it." The blonde girl burst out laughing and nodded, "You looked up just now. Were you counting the moons too?"

"I counted, just one."

"That's good, at least now you and the crazy blonde girl in town are counting on the same moon." The blonde girl said with a low smile.

Lin Nian suddenly looked back at her, but beside him, the blond girl had disappeared. From beginning to end, he was the only one sitting on the empty and deserted lawn. The cold wind blew, and the broken green grass roots rolled on the cement road at the intersection.

He sat for a while, then stood up, patted his butt, and turned to look at the town at the end of the crossroads.

They only chatted for a short while, but in reality it seemed like a long time had passed, and the east was white.

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The curtain of the military tent was lifted, and the instructor bent down and walked out. Before he could raise his body, he bumped into a woman who was trying to rush in.

"Back off, Commissioner, entry is prohibited without permission!" The instructor was staggered, frowned, forced his way out of the tent and lowered the curtain.

Although the video conference has ended, he has already blocked access to this tent, and everyone except the deputy executive officer and above is immediately prohibited from entering.

The hurried female commissioner also took a few steps back. The wrinkles in her clothes were knocked out and she had no time to straighten them. She stuttered and said, "No. Sir, I have something urgent to report!"

"What's the emergency?" The instructor looked up and looked around the military base while asking, and found that many people began to run in one direction. Among this group of people, you could even see the crazy people from the equipment department. Everyone Grabbing a chicken leg and a Coke, I didn't forget to follow the flow of people in one direction, as if I had learned that there was something happening somewhere.

It was already dawn. The instructor raised his head and glanced in that direction. After seeing the telephone poles and vague outlines in the bright sky, he almost instantly determined that it was the location of the small town of Carmel, and his expression immediately changed. , everyone is flowing over there. I'm sure some terrible accident has happened. Could it be that the field has begun to expand? That's not right. When this happened, the dogs in the equipment department would definitely run in the opposite direction. By the time he realized what had happened, those beasts would have already set up their telescopes in a safe area and prayed for him.

"No. It's 'S' level. He's..." The female commissioner forced herself to calm down and reported the situation to the instructor in detail. But before she could finish her words, she looked up and found that There was no one in front of him, and the instructor's back in the distance had almost disappeared.

When the instructor arrived at the intersection, there were already many people standing there. Most of the people in the military base had gathered together. There was no noise, only unified silence. Everyone looked at the man in black at the intersection under the gray sky. A boy in a trench coat holding a black scabbard stood in front of the bloody red line.

"Lin Nian!" The instructor walked to the roadside and almost shouted the boy's name.

Standing in front of the red line, Lin Nian subconsciously turned back to look at the instructor who was stepping onto the cement road. The other person's face was full of shock and anger. He just glanced at it and turned back.

The instructor who stepped on the cement road was about to rush over and bring Lin Nian back, but he found that he had rushed forward a few steps and did not approach Lin Nian. Instead, he turned around and rushed back from the road to the lawn, almost standing with the instructor. Members of the equipment department on the lawn were bumped into each other. This strange situation made him stagnant. It took his brain a few seconds to react before he barely realized what had happened.

"It's been like this several times. It's not like no one has tried to make the 'S' class calm down before you." The member of the equipment department looked at the instructor who almost jumped on the chicken wings in his hand, shrugged and handed out the chicken wings. , "Want to have breakfast?"

The instructor reached out and pushed away the chicken wings, turned around and walked towards the roadside, but this time his right foot stopped when he was about to step on the road, and slowly placed it on the lawn under the road, looking straight at the distance. Lin Nian shouted, "I know what you want to do, but I hope you don't do it. The meeting has already concluded. The support team will arrive at noon today. The building materials and equipment needed for the new red house will also be built." It will be resolved within half a day. At that time, more than three users of 'Word Spirit·Snake' will serve as a transfer station to try to completely upload your consciousness into the town. There is no need for you to risk this. There is no need at all. , and the success rate is extremely low.”

Lin Nian stretched out his hand and put it into the air behind the red line on the ground. In the eyes of others, nothing happened, but in his perception, it was as if he had plunged his hand into a piece of bitingly cold water, and his entire palm was numb. It's like being buried in the snow for a long time in winter, without even the feeling of warmth brought by blood.

The blonde girl was right. In this environment, even an 'S' class would have a hard time surviving ten minutes. Once this effect is reflected in the brain, the entire consciousness will gradually freeze like a naked person walking in winter. It turned into a popsicle and was buried in the snow and fell into eternal sleep.

"Lin Nian! I hope you know what you are doing!" The instructor saw Lin Nian reaching into the field and his nerves jumped and he yelled.

Lin Nian never spoke to him. After his first attempt, he raised his leg and crossed the red line in front of everyone. A gust of cold wind blew across the intersection and the lawn behind. Everyone seemed to be at this moment. I felt the great power that came over the boy.

But he resisted, lifting the weight with ease, and there was not even a trace of lag in his movements. After entering the intersection, he turned his head and glanced at the slightly desperate instructor on the roadside, nodded slightly and said something.

The instructor was stunned because he had heard this sentence before. Lin Nian had also said it to him on the helicopter, but he did not take it seriously.

When he came back to his senses, Lin Nian left without looking back. Under the light of the moon and the sun, he walked alone on the deserted road towards the white town on the horizon.