Chapter 2 Corner Coffee Shop
Even in the daytime, the office is lit up with white lights.
One partition after another divides most of the office into small boxes, and in the middle of each box, there is a desktop computer and a telephone that are not connected to the Internet. All the people were busy, walking around, some typing, some talking, some exchanging documents. Lu Xin's workstation is in the middle, and the award banner for the best employees is hung on the partition.
The busy work of the morning has been taken care of, Lu Xin straightened up and pinched his temples.
After staying in this environment for a long time, I always feel depressed and depressed, not to mention that there are always so many complicated things to deal with.
"Is Brother Xiao Lu busy now?"
A voice sounded beside Lu Xin, Lu Xin looked up, and found that it was the new young Lu Cheng in the office, he was dressed decently, had short spiritual hair, and had a very sunny temperament, but at this time he was suffering from a bitter face, and said: "The director arranged for me to sort out this batch of documents, but I have sorted it out, I can't figure it out, the time is almost up, can you ...... Brother Lu Can you teach me? ”
"Yes!"
Lu Xin agreed with a smile: "I'm okay now!" ”
"Thank you, Brother Lu, you're so nice!"
The sunshine guy looked grateful, and hurriedly came to Lu Xin's computer desk, one to teach and the other to learn.
In the surrounding partitions, there were many dissatisfied glances, and some extremely low whispers.
"I'm tired enough from my work, and I have to teach others!"
"Everyone is the same job, and I'm not afraid of teaching others and being kicked out myself!"
“……”
Lu Xin helped Lu Cheng finish the documents under the dissatisfied eyes of many people, and waved his hand in the other party's thanks.
Although everyone is very nervous in this oppressive office atmosphere, Lu Xin has always had his own principles for doing things, and if he can help others, he will help him, the Red Moon incident has changed the world, but the character of being a man still needs to be there.
"Lu Xin, come here, the director will call you!"
Someone called from afar.
"It's coming!"
Lu Xin put down his coffee, got up and walked towards the director's office, where he saw the director who was so fat that his cheeks were about to hang down on both sides, and on the sofa opposite, there was a short-haired woman wearing sunglasses and a decent suit.
"Xiao Lu, here's a document, you can help me send it to the corner café on Qingjiang Road now!"
The director didn't say much nonsense, and pointed to the file bag on the table.
To send documents, it should be someone from the administrative team or the miscellaneous group, and it is not their turn to do it themselves.
But Lu Xin still didn't refuse, nodded and said, "Okay!" ”
Then he picked up the papers, nodded to the director and the short-haired woman on the couch, and walked out.
As soon as he left the room, the director immediately changed his smiling face, and said to the short-haired woman diligently: "Team Leader Chen, what you said has been done, don't worry, I don't ask much, I don't think much about it, it's just the project you just told me......
"Rest assured, this project won't give it to you!"
The short-haired woman stood up, gently pulled down her sunglasses, and said in a gentle voice.
The director was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had misheard, and then at this moment, he saw the woman's pupils.
Her pupils seemed to spin, faintly red, and seemed to turn into two red moons.
"Don't remember that I've been here, and don't remember what he did!"
The short-haired woman whispered, softly, then she put on her sunglasses and turned to go out.
The director was confused for a moment, and after a few seconds, he came to his senses, as if nothing had happened, and continued to be busy.
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Lu Xin was in the carriage of the high-speed rail around the city, holding the handrail, drowsy, originally the place where he got on the train was close to the departure station, and there was still a seat, but he saw a pregnant woman get on the train, so he gave up his seat to her, and stood on the train for half an hour.
The lights in the carriage flickered slightly, and my sister climbed along the roof of the carriage with a patchwork bear in her arms.
In front of Lu Xin, she hung upside down, swinging and swaying.
Lu Xin stared intently, pretending to be concentrating on the beautiful legs of a delicate girl in hip shorts next to him.
My sister was having more fun by herself, the shaking became stronger and stronger, and there was a slight twisting sound in the carriage.
Thankfully, the train was moving fast and swaying, and the distortion was muffled.
"Brother, brother, look, that fat man is so stupid......"
My sister was playing like crazy, and suddenly pointed to a fat man who was standing and sleeping not far away, still drooling, and smiled at Lu Xin.
"Don't talk to me......"
Lu Xin still forced himself to concentrate on looking at the beauty's legs, and an imperceptible voice squeezed out between his teeth.
"I can't look at you from the outside, let alone talk to you, I'll be treated as a psychopath......"
"Hey, it's boring!"
My sister deliberately teased Lu Xin, and when she saw that he was not fooled, she felt a little bored.
"Then be careful yourself, there is something wrong with the place you go this time!"
As she spoke, before Lu Xin could continue to ask, she "giggled" and ran forward along the carriage, passing by the fat man who was standing and sleeping, she suddenly pinched the fat man's face with her hand, and then crawled into the distance and disappeared.
The fat man woke up and shouted, "Who is touching me?" ”
The people around looked at the fat man who was completely empty within a meter of him, and his eyes were strange.
Lu Xin also joined the crowd of onlookers and threw a psychopathic look at the fat man.
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When he got out of the car, Lu Xin found that this place was already close to the outer wall.
The foundation here has become a little dilapidated, you can see that there are more than ten meters high city wall, cast a deep shadow on the building, although after thirty years, those wandering madmen outside the city, most of them have been cleaned up, but the people who live in the city still dare not be careless, the focus of municipal work every year, is to continue to reinforce, repair these tall city walls.
When he arrived at the corner coffee shop, he found it very dark.
The surrounding old buildings and bungalows seem to be empty, and there is not half a shadow in sight.
There is a lot of garbage in front of the door, as if it was blown by the wind, and I don't know how many people have not cleaned it.
When I get closer to here, I don't know why, I feel a feeling of depression.
Lu Xin subconsciously didn't like it here, but he had already promised the director, so he still walked in with the document bag.
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"Observer No. 13 has entered the target area!"
On top of a tall building not far from here, there are more than a dozen observers, all kinds of instruments have been placed, and around the tall building, there are some heavily armed soldiers hiding in the dark, nervously disturbing everything around.
The short-haired woman was also among the office workers, and she was holding a document with black lead letters on it:
"Target Codename: Corner Cafe!"
"Purpose of the operation: To test the potential and specific ability of the Thirteenth subject to become a spiritual master!"
"Potential Risk: The café has been identified as a Class 1 Spiritual Contamination Zone.
The specific performance is as follows:
People who are close to the café can't help but be drawn to it.
People who enter a café die within three to five days, often by suicide.
According to the analysis, the café should have been polluted to the point of severe depression! ”
“……”
She put down the documents in her hand and asked the people around her, "Are you ready for support?" ”
The staff nodded and gestured to the next room.
Through the glass partition of the two rooms, a delicate girl in a dress, like a puppet, can be seen sitting there.
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When Lu Xin entered the café, he felt a warm and lively feeling.
Outside, the streets and houses seemed empty and deserted.
But in this café, it was full of people, and there was even a feeling of overcrowding.
Everyone has a smile on their faces, some people bow their heads and talk intimately, some people sit alone by the window, drinking coffee while reading a book, some people squint their eyes and concentrate on enjoying a delicious sandwich, a soothing and ancient music floats in the store, and the sun spills in through the window, making people feel like they have returned to the world before the Red Moon Cataclysm......
Lu Xin made his way through the crowd to the front of the bar and nodded to the waiter in a delicate apron behind the bar.
"Someone asked me to send this document over!"
The director didn't say who to send it to, so it should be delivered to the bar, and it should be fine.
"Thank you!"
The waiter didn't care about anything at all, just smiled and thanked him, then poured a cup of coffee and pushed it in front of Lu Xin.
"This ......"
Lu Xin wanted to say that he didn't plan to stay for coffee.
However, this coffee smells quite good, which is completely different from the cheap coffee I drink in the company.
"It's hard work to run this trip, this is what I invited you!"
The waiter smiled, with a very comforting kindness on his face.
Lu Xin's heart slowed down slightly, but he couldn't say anything to refuse for a while.
Then, at this moment, his eyes froze slightly.
Behind the waiter's delicate apron, a thick and ugly tentacle suddenly stretched out, and slowly stretched out in front of Lu Xin, the top of the tentacle, the skin and flesh slowly cracked, and suddenly there was a black soft body the size of a coin, sliding into the coffee, Lu Xin looked down, the soft body looked like an egg, and like an eye, and the black pupil looked at himself in the cup.
The coffee instantly became more fragrant, and every wisp of it had an amazing alluring power.
The waiter also smiled more kindly, and gently pushed the coffee in front of Lu Xin, motioning for him to enjoy it.
"No thanks!"
Lu Xin politely refused, as if he hadn't found anything, turned around and walked out.
When he got to the door, he looked back.
I saw that the people in the whole store had stopped their movements, and looked at him in unison, wooden, and sluggish.
He hurriedly turned around, his body stiffened, and he walked faster and faster.