Chapter 2: The Unreliable Summoner

In other words, it was close to 19 o'clock when I returned home from the pedestrian street that day. It's hot, usual, the day without many waves is coming to an end so soon, the black curtain hasn't fallen yet, and the sky is still full of light, less dazzling edges, more gray and hazy colors.

At this moment, Yi Xiaodian stood in front of the refrigerator fresh-keeping layer that opened the door on one side, and fell into the third contemplation since waking up today......

"Ah...... Supermarket...... Come... on..."

After this 3 seconds of silence, sighing full of hunger and stomach acid, he gently closed the door of the refrigerator, rummaged through the petite cupboard next to the refrigerator, said that rummaging is actually the kung fu of opening and closing the opening and closing, and finally the bag of instant noodles full of the most sincere and kind intentions in the world today was finally carefully held out. If it weren't for the rescue of this pack of instant noodles, maybe today would be a complete boredom and failure, and even the supermarket to buy food would have been forgotten completely, and even the life of a single otaku would have lost its color!

The white-framed alarm clock on the desk flickered for the rest of the day, and the black curtain outside the window covered every corner as far as the eye could see, reaching the end of the distant horizon. The owner of the room reclined lazily on the couch, his eyes fixed on the ceiling above, and there was no additional intention to express his will to life except for the ups and downs of his body's faint breathing.

In the isolated and static time and space, there will always be a black order, which is regular, absolute, static, eternal, and full of certainty.

"Hmm...... It's the feeling of boredom, why I feel so bad.

Is it the reason for that pack of instant noodles just now?

It doesn't seem to be.

Could it be that you are too tired from shopping and have overdrawn the rest of your energy today?

It doesn't seem to be.

Is it a month when you don't know why the day is coming?

Is that really the case?

Sure enough! ”

Just after the brief self-barrage-like exchange in his mind, Yi Xiaodian got up and prepared to go to wash and sleep, when a card slipped out of his trouser pocket and floated down the sofa to his feet.

"Huh?"

The crumpled white card was given by the strange hat man on the street today, but he didn't throw it into the garbage can, but brought it back, this kind of street advertising things, most of them usually end up in the hands of passers-by after a short stay, and return to the various garbage cans in the streets and alleys, this peculiar way of wasting resources is always staged in the commercial world.

"The curious NO.1 event of the bedtime countdown appears!"

"Anyway, this Deep Blue Moon Street is very concerning, it's the first time I've heard of such a strange name, and sure enough, it's still a search to satisfy my curious little heart~"

The map search did not find a match for the name, and even if you took it apart and searched, there was no result that seemed to match.

"Sure enough, the staff who planned the street would not take out a street with a name like Deep Blue Moon Street. Sure enough, it's playing with me, think about that kind of inexplicable pick-up, maybe it's street performance art or some kind of street entertainment funny video. With that, holding the mouse, the hand happened to knock over the tea cup in his hand, and the tea and juice scattered along the direction of the cup's overturn. In a hurry, Xiao Dian held the rim of the cup with both hands the moment the cup fell off the edge of the table, and of course, the consequence of such a violent action ended in the wetness of the right half of his body.

An accident within an accident, the curious NO.2 event of today's bedtime countdown appeared!

Just below the tea dump, just lying the crumpled white card, a string of English letters appeared under the wet back address bar, picked it up and looked at it carefully, it was actually a web address, and it was the Chinese pinyin of Deep Blue Moon Street.

"Oh yo yo, it's amazing, big surprise!

Eh, no, this is not a place to be surprised, this is a spit point! Why did this card show up the URL as soon as it was wet with tea?,It won't be deliberately written with the kind of "magic ink pen" that appears in the stationery store at the school gate.,It's not deliberately written.。

Anyway, most people don't get this kind of card wet, and then know the hidden contents, ah, hey! ”

The spit is over, and after all, since we have this URL, let's log in and check it out.

As soon as you log in to the website, you will be greeted by a simple dark blue layout style interface, and the whole picture is dotted with small points of light like a starry sky, which occupy every corner of the page softly and naturally. There is only one button in the center of the page, which is a crescent-shaped white flat pattern, and there is no multi-balance text or pattern identification.

It seems that there is no other option except to click with the mouse, after clicking the crescent moon icon for 0.5 seconds, as the crescent fades away, the background pattern of the starry sky also begins to rise like a curtain, and then a login interface with two lines of input box appears, which is no different from the website login interface that can be seen everywhere, but it is a little simpler. There are no other buttons that can be interacted with, except for the two clickable buttons of login and registration.

"Hmm. It's kind of interesting. Although I don't know what type of website it is, let's just sign up for one and check it out. ”

What follows is that there is no input box for account number and password, only an input box for the invitation code and a button that says get the invitation code.

Now, that's all there is to it! Inexplicably excited by himself, Yi Xiaodian used an exaggerated gesture, and the index finger of his right hand in the depths gently clicked the left button of the mouse downward, and the next content did not make this website clearer, but made people feel more confused.

"The invitation code on this website is only accepted offline....... Please.... Please move to Room 1101, 11th Floor, Fluorescent Plaza Building, No. 23 Dengta Road, Guangming Avenue to receive your invitation code, thank you. Reception hours are from 10 am to 0 am......."

"It's inexplicable!

Just register a broken website and ask for an invitation code.,Forget about the invitation code.,What the hell is this offline get?!

Wait, Guangming Avenue Lighthouse Road.... Number 23.... Fluorescent Plaza Building, isn't this the building diagonally opposite my house? ”

Is there such a coincidence in the world? Perhaps, but it's too exciting. It was just across the street from my apartment.

Wait, it seems that there is a reception time, 10 am to 0 am, so late, there will still be a reception, is it a bar? Will the bar be in that kind of place? It's not impossible, but it says zero o'clock, so the bar won't be open until that time.

Going to... Look at it, it's so close anyway.

Wait, what the hell is this, I don't know, isn't there any danger in passing away so rashly?

That building is a commercial regular office building, there shouldn't be any problems, just take a look at the door? In case there's anything strange, I'll just walk again.......

It's 22:08, it's not too late.

What to do, are you going......"

"Now that we're talking about it, let's go!"

Although this place is not far from home, but because his daily activity trajectory is a little fixed range, the scene here is also fresh and exciting for him. It's not surprising that most of the people I have passed here before have been during the day, and there is no difference between this and ordinary commercial plazas, and it is the first time I have seen such a lively scene full of fireworks at night.

"Yo, this place is really a good place to wander around at night, barbecue beer hot pants and long legs, it's really the true meaning of summer." ~ In my opinion, I'm a house, from time to time to stretch my feet, and it's also necessary to stretch my legs! ”

Walk past the crowds and street food stalls, through the mixed particles of tobacco, perfume and food condiments, and through the dim light of the cold teal energy-saving lamps, you enter the south side door of the fluorescent building. Oh, by the way, I forgot to explain, this building is partly a commercial office building and partly an apartment due to some special reasons of the times, so the reason why we can enter this place at this point is also because it is partly an apartment.

As soon as I entered this apartment building, when I stepped into this stairwell with a small area and a high height, I instantly felt that I was out of the fireworks breath of the world just now, as if I had entered a secret realm, and the outside and inside of the door were like two worlds. Obviously, through the glass doors and windows of the foyer, you can clearly see the bustle and hustle and bustle of the fireworks in the world, but why is there such an inexplicable sense of silence, maybe it is because of the dim lights.

There was only one person in the elevator room, and after a short waiting time of boredom, he looked at the half-height mirror glass facing the elevator door, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Ah....... Speaking of which, I haven't looked in the mirror for a while" He looked at himself in the mirror and had some dark circles under his eyes, and his small body more or less revealed a little bit of fatigue and old feeling that should be at this age, maybe this is the trace of growing up on him.

"Ding~11th floor arrived~" The elevator speaker came from the recorded synthetic voice, broadcasting the current floor, and this old-fashioned electronic voice broadcast can still be heard here, which is also very rare.

The atmosphere on the floor is as good as ever in this apartment building, as mentioned before, the dim cool lighting and the tone of silence. 1101 right, this room number is not so difficult to find, according to the guidance of the room indication sign on the floor, it should be the end of the left direction of the elevator room, in other words, this place, is really full of some life atmosphere, the outer wall of the corridor is pasted with some different styles of unrelated posters, or something similar to some kind of propaganda slogan symbols. The main space is also occupied by cardboard boxes, statues, toys, and household appliances of various sizes on both sides of the corridor, and the space for pedestrians to pass through can accommodate two well-proportioned adults walking side by side, and the space here grows in harmony with a puzzling mixture and harmony.

Yes, I can feel that this space is alive and growing.

"1101, this is it, it's like traveling through a long time and space to come here, maybe it's the psychological reasons caused by the surrounding furnishings. Well, I'm a little excited, but anyway, let's knock on the door and take a look. Yi Xiao clicked on the door of the room a few times, but there was no sound from inside.

"Knock, knock....... Knock, knock......."

"Ding Dong ~ Ding Dong ~~~~~ Ding Dong ~ Ding Dong ~~~~~" He found the doorbell button next to the cat's eye in the room, and pressed it homeopathically, if it weren't for the fact that there was no response after knocking a few times, according to the usual habits, maybe he wouldn't have stretched out his fingers to ring the doorbell, after all, it was to let the wrist go over the height of the shoulder.

"Click... Click....... Click... Click....... Click... Click.. Da... Da "......Sure enough, the doorbell has the best effect, and then the sound of a heel faintly appeared, and then approached step by step, and finally stopped in front of the door, with a few flashes of light in the cat's eye, the doorknob turned.

I don't know if he will remember the moment the door of the room was opened one night many years later, that is, from that moment on, the trajectory of a person's life was rewritten in such a way, I don't know if at that time, he would have a trace of hesitation and remorse, to pray that this door would never be opened. If I had to explain this place, this might be where the dream began.

The door opened a crack, and the gap in the door revealed a timid gaze, and after a brief pause for 1 or 2 seconds, the person inside spoke: "Excuse me, this gentleman outside the door, why are you here here?" "It's a girl's voice, a little timid, the voice is small, but somehow it has a slightly sweet feeling.

"Ah, hello, visiting at night, interrupted. That's the case, I saw the website of Deep Blue Moon Street on the Internet before, and I was a little curious, and I came here according to the instructions on the website to get the registration invitation code for the website members, please ask this is this...... Uh, is there any place in the life division of Deep Blue Moon Street? In any case, the first step in building the possibility of a follow-up dialogue is to make it clear what you mean.

"Oh, it's you, sir! That's right, that's exactly it, so please wait a minute. ”

The girl closed the door, and with a crisp click, the door finally opened.

The girl who caught her eye was dressed in a black and white maid costume, and her waist-length brown hair was wearing the kind of rabbit ear hair ornament. The black stockings were set against the shiny low-heeled leather shoes.

"Oh my God, show me this here at night, it's a little exciting, isn't it?!" The barrage in Xiaodian's brain has overwhelmingly occupied the entire consciousness. I didn't expect the door to open the door with a beautiful face.,A maid girl with a sweet voice.,Anyway, I was suspicious of this mysterious web page and the organization behind it.,It turned out to be a secret organization for this flavor of cosplay?

Following the maid lady in front of her, she entered the front hall of the house, and the space in the house was much larger than expected, not only because of the large physical space, but also because the furnishings and the arrangement of items inside were also very different from the corridor outside the house. It's not so much simplicity as emptiness.

"This visiting gentleman, please sit here for a while, and I'll go and ask the minister to come over." The maid lady said this, and walked to a door beside her.

The table and chairs that Yi Xiaodian sat on happened to be in the best position in the floor plan of the whole room, a brown lacquered solid wood European square table, two matching solid wood chairs of the same type in front of the back, an old-fashioned classic black telephone on the table, a thick booklet, and a precious fountain pen that looked a little old. The few simple furnishings around the room are distributed in several corners of the whole room, and the red, white, blue and black stone statues are just like the four directions facing each other. If you look closely, this layout really looks like a magic circle or something.

"Facing a cup of tea on a plate steaming white, in other words, serving tea to people at night, doesn't that mean that I am going to sleep?" Yi Xiaodian picked up the tea, looked at the cup, and said in his mind.

"I'm sorry to keep you waiting." The door next to it opened, and a man's voice was heard.

"We're meeting again, gentleman." The man said.

"Oh, it's you!" The source of the voice that Yi Xiaodian pursued saw that the person who spoke was the man in a strange hat he met on the street corner today.

The man was still dressed in the same clothes and appearance as during the day, and even his hat and cane were neatly dressed, and he also wore a hat and held a cane in the house...... Thinking about the girl who was dressed as a maid just now, suddenly it was not strange.

"Exactly down there." After a brief back and forth, the man in the hat walked unhurriedly to the chair opposite the Yixiao table and sat down.

"Ah, that, I logged on to the website on that card you gave me before, it's called Deep Blue Moon Street or something......"

"Eh, you seem to have discovered the little secret that has been hidden, it seems that we really have a fate."

"Speaking of this website, it's actually written in that invisible ink, if you don't accidentally knock over the water glass, then you really can't find it, and eventually this card will be thrown away as a piece of waste paper.

Why do you have to go to great lengths to do this, if it is to do business promotion, shouldn't it be written directly and clearly?

By the way, in the blink of an eye today, you disappeared, how did you do it?

What are you doing here?

Anyway, you and the young lady just now are dressed up very brightly, are you a cosplay club.......? Yi Xiao asked a lot of questions in one breath, as if to hide a trace of panic in his heart.

"I can understand that you will suddenly have so many questions to know in such a situation, and your mind must have been a mess for a long time." As if sensing Yi Xiaodian's uneasiness, the hat man wanted to calm the fluctuating emotions.

"Your heart...... Troubled? October Futian stared at Yi Xiaodian's face, crossed his hands, and seemed to be very concerned.

"Ah, troubles? I don't have any worries, you see, there is food and drink, life is not rich, but there is everything, and I don't need to worry about any big things, but there are no big things that I need to worry about, but what...... It's just ......."

"Just......?" October Futian continued to repeat what he had just said.

"Occasionally, there may be a feeling of loss and emptiness, the appearance of almost something in life...... Eh, what am I telling you all this, haha, like an old man. ”

October Futian stared into his eyes, didn't say anything, and after 2 or 3 seconds of staring, he smiled and said: Do you know that there is a kind of person who is a real natural explorer, an adventurer, and this kind of person has an infinite deep curiosity and desire for knowledge about the world. They are eternal protesters of ordinary life, and the word exploration is engraved in the DNA like a fatalistic instinct. The end of life may be the end of their exploration, no, if there will be another world at the end of life, then the end of life will be the beginning of another exploration for them, never stopping.

Yi Xiaodian: "It's really interesting for you to talk...... By the way, what kind of secret club organization do you have here? ”

October Futian: "Life Division." ”

Yi Xiaodian: "I mean what it does, it sounds like some kind of organization like psychological counseling or career planning." ”

October Futian: "Your description is a bit close to that, but it's only a subset of it, and it's so much more than that, so I wonder how I can explain it to you...... Ah, you can take it literally......"

Yi Xiaodian: "It's really a vague explanation." Well, having said so much that doesn't solve my doubts. Give me the code to sign up for the site, and I'll see for myself what it is. ”

October Futian: "Understood, your request has been received, please wait." ”

October Futian took out an envelope with a delicate texture from the box and handed it to Yi Xiaodian, there was no fancy pattern on the outside, but it gave people an elegant and solemn feeling, it was obviously an envelope.

"Ah, is this the invitation code in this?" Dawn asked.

October Futian: "Yes, you can open it and use it when you go back tonight." ”

October Futian took out an envelope with a delicate texture from the box and handed it to Yi Xiaodian, there was no fancy pattern on the outside, but it gave people an elegant and solemn feeling, it was obviously an envelope.

"Ah, is this the invitation code in this?" Dawn asked.

"Yes, you can turn it on and use it when you go back tonight."

"Oh yes, here's a new virtual visual image transmission device, which can be used as an aid, and the experience will be better." October Futian then added.

"Oh? A pair of eyes, this kind of electronic products are still quite common in the market, is there anything special? There was some curiosity in Yi Xiaodian's eyes.

"This is a special product provided by the supplier we work with, and it can't be bought on the market~" October Futian replied with a smile.

"Eh~ new product, then I'm his first batch of test users, right~ How much is this?" Dawn carefully played with the novelty in his hand.

"You can take it back and try it first, and if you like it, it's not too late to buy it." October Futian replied.

Yi Xiaodian said a little eagerly: "It's really arousing my curiosity more and more, revealing it." Contents~ I mean, what can I see from this?"

October Futian didn't say anything, looking at Yi Xiaodian with a ghostly smile: "Ah~What is it~"