On an early summer morning, a cool breeze blows and brings a burst of coolness. With the improvement of the scientific and technological level of human society, the crime rate is also increasing at a rapid rate, and the number of unnatural deaths and disappearances is increasing year by year.

Miracle City is a bustling metropolis, and at the moment, there are few pedestrians on a street far from the city center, and there is silence all around.

Mu Fei just jumped out of the taxi and started to run, because a buddy fell out of love and drank two more drinks with him the night before, he got up late today. was running, suddenly a figure rushed out of the alley next to him and hit him directly, Mu Fei, who was knocked over and fell to the ground, just wanted to scold, but the man jumped up as if he was being chased by a beast, and ran in a hurry without looking back.

It's rude. Mu Fei looked at the man's back and scolded in his heart. He just wanted to get up, but he felt a hard object pressed under the palm of his hand, which felt cold to the touch and did not look like a stone on the road, so he couldn't help but pick it up.

It was a short knife with an extremely strange shape, the blade was only about a palm long, twisted like a snake, and the rust on it did not look sharp at all. Did the man drop it just now? Mu Fei touched the edge of the knife while thinking about it, but felt a tingling pain in his fingertips, and before he could retract his hand, a drop of blood seeped out of his fingertips and dripped onto the seemingly blunt blade of the dagger.

The rusty blade suddenly flashed with white light, and Mu Fei couldn't help but close his eyes. After the white light passed, he slowly opened his eyes, and looked down to see that the rusty dagger he was holding in his hand had disappeared without a trace.

Mu Fei glared at his palm, and after a few confirmations, he reaffirmed that there was nothing in his hand, only the tingling pain in his fingertips reminded him that all this was not a dream.

Could it be that the wine didn't wake up and caused hallucinations? It's impossible, with your own amount of alcohol, a few glasses of wine shouldn't make such a big difference.

Wait, what is this? Mu Fei caught a glimpse of what seemed to be something at his cuffs, so he pulled down his sleeves.

"What the hell?!" Mu Fei's eyes widened and he exclaimed, he found that a strange pattern appeared on the wrist under the palm, about five centimeters long and two centimeters wide, shaped like a black cross, but the part that made up the cross was not a straight line but a twisted line like a snake, which made the whole pattern look very weird.

What's going on? Mu Fei rubbed it vigorously, and his skin was red and he didn't rub the pattern off. He didn't rebel in adolescence and inexplicably got an extra tattoo, how could he be embarrassed?

Sitting on the ground and stunned for a long time, Mu Fei felt that all this happened was too mysterious, and there was no sense of reality at all. The sudden ringing of his cell phone pulled him back to reality.

"I said wood, why haven't you arrived yet? What time is it? Don't you want to be interviewed by our company anymore? As soon as he connected the mobile phone, Lin Wenyou's eager voice came from inside.

"Damn! I'll be there soon! Remembering that he was still in a hurry to go to the interview, Mu Fei jumped up from the ground, patted his buttocks, and ran forward quickly. Damn, I almost forgot that there was still business!

By the time he ran to the place, Lin Wenyou was already standing outside the building waiting for him.

"Eight-twenty-five, you're really on time." Lin Wenyou opened his mouth and counted.

"You're embarrassed to say that I wouldn't have woken up late if I hadn't drunk with you last night." Mu Fei glared at this 10,000-year-old friend with dissatisfaction.

"Okay, okay, it's all my fault, isn't it a bad mood to fall out of love. If you don't hurry in, the interview will start in five minutes. Lin Wenyou said as he pushed him towards the building.

"I said wood, you go in like this?" After walking a few steps, Lin Wenyou stopped and asked with an expression of disbelief.

"What's wrong? Isn't that good? "The two of them bought this suit together.

"The clothes are very good, but your shoes are ......," Lin Wenyou pointed to his feet.

Mu Fei looked down in the direction the other party was pointing, and suddenly felt an urge to die. He actually ran out wearing slippers!

"What now?" He wanted to hit the wall right now. Mu Fei looked at Lin Wenyou with tears in his eyes.

"I've never seen you so stupid." Lin Wenyou said with an expression of hatred that iron is not steel, "I don't have time for you to go back and change your shoes now, let's wear my generals first." As he spoke, he changed shoes with Mu Fei.

There is a gap in the height of the two of them, Lin Wenyou is 1.85 meters tall, while Mu Fei is only 1.76 meters, which belongs to the thinner type, and the shoes worn by the two are two sizes apart, so they have to find a tissue paper to stuff at the heel to barely wear it.

Staggered to the interview place, and found that there were already several people waiting outside the door, so Mu Fei walked over and found a chair and sat down and waited at the door with the others.

As soon as he sat down, he felt a gaze, and when he looked up, he saw a woman sitting across from him with heavy makeup looking at him, and when he was discovered, the woman did not immediately take her eyes away, but instead glanced at him, her eyes full of contempt and disdain.

Uh, he's being despised? Okay, it's really his fault that he didn't have time to comb his hair because he was in such a hurry in the morning, but the makeup on the other side is so thick, can your mother still recognize you?

Silently spitting out a groan in his heart, Mu Fei no longer paid attention to the boring woman opposite, retracted his gaze and sat upright and waited quietly.

After waiting for a while, the woman with heavy makeup on the opposite side was called in first. After he entered, about ten minutes later, the female secretary came out again and said, "Mu Fei, next." ”

Hearing his name, Mu Fei stood up.

The female secretary looked him up and down with a smile, and said with an expression on her face that did not change, "Please follow me." ”

Hearing this, Mu Fei hurriedly followed, and walked into the room with the secretary.

The moment he walked in, the woman with heavy makeup happened to come out of it, Mu Fei turned sideways to the side, and at this time, I don't know whether the other party was intentional or unintentional, the woman kicked on his heel, originally this level would not have any effect on him, but today because he wore a pair of shoes that did not fit well, he didn't grasp the balance for a while, Mu Fei stumbled and hit the female secretary who was leading the way.

The female secretary was slammed into such a blow, and suddenly lost her balance and fell forward, and the materials she was holding flew out of her hand.

At this time, Mu Fei felt as if everything around him had been pressed on the button of delay, and all the movements became extremely slow, he reached out without thinking about it, grabbed the female secretary's waist, and at the same time caught the information flying out with the other hand. While he was doing all this, the slow motion around him was restored to its original state.

What just happened? Mu Fei frowned strangely.

At this time, he felt something strange and couldn't help but raise his head, only to find that everyone in the room was staring at him, as if he had seen something strange.

Mu Fei realized that he was still holding the waist of the female secretary, and hurriedly helped her up and handed over the information in his hand, and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry." ”

The female secretary took the information in a daze, as if she hadn't understood what had happened.

Mu Fei just wanted to lift his foot but found that there was one less shoe under his feet, and then he saw that the shoe was lying on the desk in the center of the room, and behind the desk was sitting the examiner of this interview.

The interviewer looked to be in his thirties at most, and his handsome face was now a little funny because of surprise, and it seemed that he had just discovered that he had an extra shoe in front of him.

Mu Fei's depressed mood at the moment was extremely extreme, and he just wanted to find a crack in the ground and get into it directly.

"Ahem, Mr. Mu." The examiner was the first to come back to his senses, looked down at the profile on the document and said, "Your shoes." As he spoke, he picked up the leather shoe and handed it to Mu Fei.

Mu Fei slowly jumped over the wall with a tangled face, said "thank you" embarrassedly and reached out to pick it up, but the moment his hand touched the shoe, his wrist suddenly felt a burning heat, he subconsciously withdrew his hand, and the shoe slipped from the hands of the two and fell to the ground.

Mu Fei frowned slightly and held his wrist, and found that the strange pattern was slightly red, and the burning sensation was generated by it. The forehead of the interviewer in front of him seemed to be surrounded by a trace of black smoke, which made a sense of ominous rise in his heart, and at the same time, he also felt his blood flow in his body at an accelerated pace.

Strange, what the hell is going on?

Mu Fei was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and bent down to put on his shoes with a feverish face under the other party's somewhat puzzled gaze. The burning sensation in his wrist and the black mist on the interviewer's forehead disappeared in an instant, and the strange feeling in his body also calmed down at the same time, as if what had just happened was just his delusion.

After such an episode, the next interview is much simpler. Because after that, his brain was completely stuck in the strange phenomena before, and he couldn't remember what the other party asked and what he answered.

The result is predictable, and it ended in failure.

After graduating from university, Mu Fei lived alone in Miracle City. Originally, he worked in a private company, and the salary was not high, but it was better to be more leisurely, which allowed him to have time to do something he liked.

However, the manager of their department is harsh and particularly obscene, Mu Fei really can't get used to it, and that guy transferred a month ago. When a new young girl was bumped into by him when he was cheap, he didn't say a word and gave the soul a punch. But the end result of upholding justice was that he was unemployed.

At that time, although some people applauded, there was not even a single one who was really willing to stand up and speak for him, and he did not feel particularly sad, because he knew that this was also human nature, and people were generally unwilling to cause trouble.

Although his meager savings are enough for him to last for a while, if he sits and eats like this, he will end up on the streets sooner or later. In order not to turn into a beggar, finding a job has become his most important agenda.

In the next few days, Mu Fei spent his time constantly submitting resumes, applying for jobs and failing.

Frustrated by his constant failures, he drank alone in a small restaurant near his home that night, and when he came out, he saw two familiar figures.

Mu Fei looked at a pair of men and women in the distance with some strange feelings. The woman was indeed a woman with heavy makeup that she met during the interview that day. But the man was not very sure, and he felt a lot like an interviewer.

What are the two of them doing here at this time? If that guy was really an interviewer, could the two of them hook up during the interview? I really didn't expect this man to look well-dressed, and his taste is a little lower. Of course, Mu Fei also gossiped casually in his heart, after all, it had nothing to do with him what others did, and after thinking about it casually, he was ready to turn around and go back.

But when he turned around, he suddenly saw something strange.

Mu Fei thought that he had seen it wrong, so he looked at it carefully, making sure that it was not his own delusion. On the man's head, two horns that seemed to be made of black smoke condensed appeared faintly, looking extremely strange and ominous. At the same time, there was a burning sensation in his wrist again, and unlike the previous one, the burning was very faint.

Now Mu Fei was almost certain that the man was the interviewer that day. The two times I saw this man, the pattern on his wrist reacted, and it was no coincidence.

Mu Fei was thinking in his heart, when he saw the two people talking a few words and then walking in the opposite direction to him.

What to do? Would you like to come along? Mu Fei struggled in his heart, he felt that all this was unusual and likely to be dangerous, but it was obviously related to the pattern on his wrist. His instinct to avoid danger never overcame his curiosity, and he quietly followed.