Ma Yan is a person who doesn't have much experience and doesn't have much experience in interpersonal interactions. This can be seen from the simplicity of Zheng Ming's simplicity of being easily succeeded by Zheng Ming and calling him a brother and brother after he only had contact with Zheng Ming for a few hours.

Thinking about it, he has just been liberated from the family's greenhouse at this age, and the first time he went to school in other places, it is the time when the most simple and innocent is like a blank paper, and he is an otaku who likes to stay in front of the computer, so the simple Zheng Ming like a blank sheet of paper can also be understood.

Maybe he's been exposed to it from the Internet and seen a lot. But there are some things, some experiences that cannot be learned by just watching from the sidelines. Only by going deep into the bone marrow can people really remember the lesson and imprint it on their bodies as if they were instinctive. Otherwise, even if you look at it in your eyes and listen to it in your ears every day, when you really encounter it, people will still make mistakes that even you will feel stupid. Sometimes people are such forgetful creatures.

So when he saw Ma Yan talking eloquently as if he thought he had seen through the world, he was both emotional and funny in his heart.

I think that at the beginning, when I had just experienced the time when I was stabbed and reborn, I was also so ignorant of the sky and the earth, and I thought I had insight into the world. Fortunately, this unprovoked arrogance is soon shattered by the existential crisis and the cruel reality that unfolds in front of him one after another. Immediately after suffering a lot of dark losses, this calmed down his impetuous heart.

Therefore, in the face of Ma Yan, who was not too suspicious and easily approached him under his influence, Zheng Ming's attitude was that of the elders looking at the juniors.

"Heh, it looks like I'm getting old too."

"Huh? What the? ”

Zheng Ming's low self-deprecation did not escape Ma Yan's ears, he immediately turned his head and looked at Zheng Ming's face suspiciously, and then pursed his lips disdainfully.

"Someone believes you when you say you're my classmate. What vicissitudes of life? ”

Zheng Ming heard the sourness in Ma Yan's words, of course he knew what was going on. Ma Yan's appearance is not outstanding, although it can't be said to be ugly, but it can't match good-looking, it just so happens that Zheng Ming is his appearance in his previous life at this time. His peaceful temperament, clean and handsome appearance is very enjoyable here, and Ma Yan's sourness comes from this.

Shaking his head, Zheng Ming did not explain that the other party had misinterpreted his meaning, but stood with his hands in his hands and looked down.

The bustling crowd was like two streams of water that intersected side by side, and the youthful men and women were talking and laughing, and the laughter and laughter never came, but just looking at their appearance, it could surround Zheng Ming's mind.

He was also one of these people at that time, playing with his roommates along the way, doing all kinds of stupid things, laughing with exaggerated language expressions, maybe only at this time, he would forget the depression and irritability in his heart at that time, experience the vitality of youth, and enjoy the happiness of no one knowing him.

Youth is like a flowing galaxy with brilliant fireflies, brilliant but also extremely short-lived.

For a while, his thoughts flew around, and Zheng Ming looked at the flow of people below, and he was a little stupid.

Ma Yan, who was only on Zheng Ming's shoulder, looked up at Zheng Ming's side face and lost his mind. The temperament that is incompatible with the appearance of youth, instead of giving people a strange sense of disobedience, has an indescribable magic. In those deep and pitch-black eyes, which were like ancient wells, there seemed to be two pitch-black flames composed of liquids, which were flickering and extinguishing, exuding a strange beauty.

"You really don't have the ability? It doesn't look like you're a normal person. Ma Yan muttered to himself in despair.

Zheng Ming on the side restrained his emotions, turned his head and smiled softly at Ma Yan, with an indescribable color flickering in his eyes.

"Like I said at the meal, at least 'now' I don't have any power. And I've always thought of me as an ordinary 'human being', past and present, and in the future. ”

Ma Yan didn't hear Zheng Ming's specific intention of deliberately accentuating his tone between the lines, he was just awakened by Zheng Ming's answer, and he shrank his shoulders and lowered his head as if he was frightened.

He felt very ashamed, because of his distraction just now, and his fluctuating mood.

"It would be nice if I could be like him." He couldn't help but think. This time, there is no careful thinking about hooking up with the opposite sex with handsome appearance, but a simple and pure longing.

There are always some people who hold qualities and beauty that make people yearn for them. And this is especially true when they meet each other face to face and get close to each other, as if those people exude an overwhelming charm all the time.

Zheng Ming glanced at Ma Yan, who even turned red at the roots of his ears, took a few steps back one after another, and pulled some distance away, instead of stopping him, he turned around and overlooked the ramp leading to the T-shaped building again.

"This is the place where Lu Ye died, right? What are you bringing me here for? ”

The skylight leading to this high platform had already been blocked by the school, but Ma Yan still found another passage and brought Zheng Ming here.

"Didn't you ask him why he did that? I'll take you to see for yourself. Actually, I don't know him very well, and he hasn't been in the anomaly club for a long time, and I'm not interested in psychological counselors. But once he was brought here to talk to him. ”

After a while, Ma Yan, who had collected his mood, explained to Zheng Ming aloud. However, his red ears did not fade away, and his voice trembled slightly nervously.

Zheng Ming didn't know if Ma Yan's nervousness was due to himself or because of the man named Lu Ye, so he turned around and cast a puzzled look at Ma Yan and motioned for him to continue.

"If you say it directly, I don't understand, so you better be patient first."

Regarding Ma Yan's words, Zheng Ming didn't say much. He still had plenty of time, and there was no urgent matter chasing him at the moment, so he patiently followed Ma Yan's instructions and began to look down carefully.

The surging flow of people only exists during the time when classes are in and out of class, and it is very short. Soon the crowd dissipated, leaving the streets empty, with only the occasional student walking by to add to the popularity of the wide asphalt road.

Time passed, Zheng Ming just stood or sat under the observer behind the railing of the high platform, as the flow of people formed and dissipated again and again, Zheng Ming, who looked down at all this, frowned more and more.

"Looks like you've found out, too."

Ma Yan finally took the initiative to talk again, and at this time he also returned to his original state, and his mentality was much calmer.

"Some of them were acting weird. It's like...... It's like ......"

Zheng Ming pointed to the crowd below, his brows furrowed, but he couldn't find the right words to describe the strange feeling at this time.

"Like the Walking Dead?"

Zheng Ming nodded and shook his head again.

They do seem a little sluggish, and their patterns of action are somewhat similar, but they are not as insensitive and dying as the walking dead. Zheng Ming nodded because he did feel like a walking dead, and shook his head because the description was slightly biased and not appropriate.

"Like a scarecrow that looks like a man once in a while?"

Ma Yan spoke again, this time Zheng Ming was silent for a long time, sighed lightly, and still shook his head.

These days, he is busy sorting out the clues of coming into this world, and he does not pay much attention to passers-by and pedestrians. After an afternoon of observation, Zheng Ming seemed to finally understand where the strong sense of disobedience that bothered him during this time came from.

Not the nuances of the timing of the death of those characters.

Not those nuanced differences that are everywhere.

It's the people here. The living people here! Passers-by walking beside him, strangers!

They themselves carry a sense of disobedience that Zheng Ming can't let go, which is clearly different from the residents of the previous life in Zheng Ming's cognition.

Ma Yan on the side saw Zheng Ming's eyes staring down tightly, with a thoughtful look, and said, "You said you were an ordinary person before? Speaking of this, he smiled and stretched out his finger to point at the crowd below: "They are what ordinary people should be." ”

Zheng Ming's heart was shocked when he saw this. These pedestrians who brought Zheng Ming a strong sense of disobedience seemed to be the norm here in Ma Yan's opinion!

"Sure enough, this is not the world of my previous life." He became more and more sure of this, but soon he thought of something like Ma Yan and asked, "That's not right." The people I've met before are pretty normal. Song Zihua, Guo Jin, Yang Xinhui, and you are not as ...... as them."

Seeing Zheng Ming report the names that had appeared in the anomaly club one by one, Ma Yan glanced at Zheng Ming with strange eyes, and said in a complicated tone: "These people are all abnormal!" Didn't you notice it when you were a child? Haven't you been in contact with ordinary people all this time? ”

Hearing Ma Yan's exclamation, Zheng Ming fell silent. Indeed, since he woke up, the strangers he talked to and contacted behaved very normally. And he himself is not in the mood to take the initiative to observe and deal with passers-by who are passing by

Ma Yan smiled in disbelief when he saw Zheng Ming touching his lower head and looked down in disbelief, and found a reason that he thought was reasonable: "Maybe you didn't care too much about it before." Lu Ye and I are the same, until we notice something wrong, we also take it all for granted. ”

Ma Yan thought of what Lu Ye said to him at that time, cleared his throat and imitated the other party's tone, and said to Zheng Ming: "Do you think this world is normal?" Whether it is a literary work or a historical biography, it all shows that human beings are complex and changeable, and they are multifaceted. And if you look at our surroundings, what is this place like? What do you think will happen when the binary of good and evil becomes clear, when reality and the Internet are separated, showing a real polarization? I can't imagine! It must have been a terrifying thing to think about. ”

Zheng Ming frowned and looked at Ma Yan, whose tone suddenly changed, and Ma Yan also explained to Zheng Ming: "This is not what I said, it was Lu Ye who said it to me at that time." He was not in good spirits at the time. Since talking to Lingtong, that is, Wang Yuan, his condition has deteriorated, and he is sad and depressed every day. We asked him, and he wouldn't tell us exactly what the two of them had talked about. I just can't stop feeling that everything is predetermined. ”

Ma Yan paused for a moment, as if he recalled Lu Ye's situation at that time, and couldn't help but shudder: "Maybe he was already crazy at that time." Then he told us to try and change the situation, and we thought he was going to relax and change his mood. I didn't expect ...... After that, he made that move that can be called an online feast. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Yan smiled bitterly, and said with a smile: "It's a pity that what he did was as sad and lamentable. The unprecedented grand 'performance' only lasted for a while, and then everyone still did what they had to do, without the slightest so-called change. If you insist on saying it, you may be giving the school a problem and asking someone to lock the windows. ”

Zheng Ming didn't get the information he wanted from Ma Yan, so although he noticed that Ma Yan's mood was very low at this time, he continued to ask, "How do you see the difference between ordinary people and abnormal people?" And what could make Lu Ye so desperate that he resisted in such a way? What exactly is he going to change? ”

Ma Yan did not answer Zheng Ming's question immediately, but after taking a deep look at Zheng Ming, he lowered his head and flipped through his mobile phone.

Just when Zheng Ming thought that Ma Yan didn't want to take care of himself because he was not in a high mood, Ma Yan kicked his mobile phone back in his pocket, looked up and greeted Zheng Ming: "Let's go." Don't you want to know? I'll show you there. After saying that, he took the lead and walked in the direction of going back.

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Dormitory Building No. 16.

Zheng Ming stands in front of a building that is indistinguishable from the surrounding buildings, with a striking circular pattern printed on it, with the number "16" framed by bold black lines.

Zheng Ming, who was brought here by Ma Yan, looked at Ma Yan, who was standing in front of the building, and also looked up at Ma Yan, who seemed to be trapped in the circle and looked a little crowded, with doubts and puzzles on his face.

"This is the dormitory building on campus, what are you bringing me here for?"

Ma Yan didn't answer, but sighed lightly with a complicated face, and took the lead in walking in after making a gesture to Zheng Ming to follow.

The management of the dormitory is not very strict, especially since this is a men's dormitory, and Zheng Ming's appearance is also very young, so Zheng Ming followed Ma Yan into the No. 16 dormitory building unimpeded and stepped up the stairs leading to the upper floor.

In the end, under the leadership of Ma Yan, the two stood at the door of a room.

No. 213.

This is the house number of this room, which hangs in the center of the door, just at the eye level of Zheng Ming.

Ma Yan didn't say much, took out the key in his pocket, and opened the door of the slightly rudimentary room made of stainless steel.

There were people in the room.

When he was standing at the door, Zheng Ming vaguely heard a voice coming from the door.

After opening the door, the figures inside suddenly met Zheng Ming's eyes one by one.

It is a four-person dormitory.

The beds you sleep on are all on the top bunk, and the space below is similar to a computer desk.

There were three people in the room. One was lying on the top bunk bed, which was by the window on the right. One sits in a leather gaming chair under the bed opposite. The other person was in front of the table and chair on the right side of the door, and as soon as the door opened, the flat head like a square brick first caught Zheng Ming's eyes.

After entering the door, Ma Yan did not say hello, but greeted Zheng Ming to himself and walked towards the desk in the door.

There are three monitors in the same place as the activity room of the Anomaly Society, which seems a little cramped and cramped, needless to say, it should be the seat that belongs to Ma Yan.

As the two entered, the conversation in the room paused for a moment, then resounded.

Seeing the three people who ignored Ma Yan and chatted with themselves, Zheng Ming glanced at Ma Yan.

Is this guy being sidelined? Walking into the dormitory with a stranger, the rest of the roommates were indifferent and ignored directly.

Just when Zheng Ming was thinking about the other party's intention of bringing him over, Ma Yan suddenly walked towards the flat-headed man sitting opposite.

Without the slightest sign or explanation, Ma Yan raised his fist and punched the flat-headed man.

"Bang, bang."

Two muffled sounds of fists to flesh came, which startled Zheng Ming.

What is this fat man suddenly crazy? Is it to find yourself to come over and make a strong noise, and take the opportunity to vent your daily dissatisfaction?

However, these years were quickly dissipated by the strange phenomenon in the room, Zheng Ming looked at Ma Yan, who turned around and walked to the desk and sat down with an expressionless face, and the flat-headed man who still sat in front of the table and chair with his back to everyone even if he was beaten, his face was full of doubt.

Especially the ignorance of the other two, as well as the non-stop conversation, all these strange phenomena made Zheng Ming's heart rise a trace of meaning.

How could such a huge muffled noise be indifferent? How can you not even look at it? Even if the other two didn't react, what about the person who was attacked?

Thinking of this, Zheng Ming looked carefully at the flat-headed man. However, the other party acted as if nothing had happened, still maintaining his previous appearance with his back to everyone, chatting with the other two without a match.

It's like...... It's as if Ma Yan's attack never existed before!

"See? That's the norm. It's not uncommon, except that most of us are blind to it, and we weren't aware of it before. ”

Ma Yan was calm, as if a storm was brewing, and the flat voice sounded at the right time.

Zheng Ming, who was full of shock, hurriedly looked at him, but found that the eyes that seemed to be sleeping all the time opened a conspicuous gap, and there seemed to be a light flashing in the black and white eyes.