Out of the glass-walled building, standing on the side of the busy road, Thomas folded up the newspaper in his hand and stuffed it into the garbage can, took out a cigarette from his pocket, took out the last cigarette from the crumpled cigarette case and lit it, took a deep breath, rubbed the cigarette case and threw it into the trash can, he was venting his dissatisfaction, looked back at the towering glass edifice and sighed, and stretched out his middle finger to the building.

Thinking back to the fat lady just now, with blond hair and glasses, she kept the same face from the beginning of entering the door to the end, as if I was here to collect debts. Looking at Thomas's resume, occasionally looking up at Thomas, each time Thomas gives you a sincere smile until finally, she puts down her resume and puts her hands crossed on the table.

looked at him and said coldly: "Mr. Thomas, I am very happy and honored to receive your resume, we also need to report your situation to my boss, if you need to interview again, I will call you, please be sure to keep your mobile phone unblocked, thank you very much." ”

He kept telling the HR about his situation and experience in the hope of winning the sympathy of the other party, and he even expressed his sincerity and willingness to the company with a lower salary than the current salary and going to work at any time, but it didn't work at all, the fat lady said very mechanically, "Very good, I will, thank you very much." Thomas also got up and shook hands with the fat lady to say goodbye, for he who had no special skills, this result was also expected, after all, he had five experiences, and it seemed that his father was not always right, and this step was a mud pit, and it was still a flat mud pit.

I looked at my watch, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and I went home first, and then I went to meet my old friend Nils, hoping that he would give me some good news.

A man with short yellow hair has vigilant eyes under it, these two eyes are always watching what is happening around him, the slightest sound will alert him, although he is also observing the situation around him, strong body, wearing a gray jacket, a pair of soft-soled hiking shoes on his feet, walking on Stirling Street no one notices this ordinary person, this is also the effect that Nils wants to achieve. Turning the corner to the time bar on the boat, pushing open the door of the bar, the bell of the visitor, there was a clanging sound, the bartender was a fat man with a bald head and a beard, while wiping the cup with a clean cloth, he watched Nils come in, and greeted: "Dude, I haven't seen you for a while, what have you been busy with lately?" ”

"Ha, it's really enough for me lately, you know I've always been an idle person, and I have to support my family and children." Nils walked over to the bar and spoke to the bartender, glancing at the people at the table.

Thomas, in a small corner, stood up and waved, Nils raised his hand, turned back and said, "Bring me two large beers, count me in." With that, he walked over to Thomas.

The two sat down after a brief handshake, and Thomas said, "Hey, buddy, thanks for taking the time to come over, I hope it didn't scare you last night." ”

"No, Thomas, it does scare me, come on, man, tell me about last night, what happened?"

Thomas calmed down, sorted out his thoughts and said, "Yesterday, I ...... At night...... I drank a little more, but I don't remember anything," Thomas lowered his voice, as if to emphasize something, and Nils listened patiently without commenting, "I said, I have proof. At this time, Thomas looked up at the wine glass and came with two glasses of wine, without speaking, waiting for the bar to be put down, Thomas looked to the left and right vigilantly, took out a paper bag from under the table, and pushed the clothes that had been shot yesterday in front of Nils.

"This is the clothes I wore yesterday, and the bullet holes on it speak for themselves."

Nils took the T-shirt and carefully observed the bullet holes in the clothes, there were traces of blackened fibers on the edge of the holes, the arc of the fibers after the fiber was burned was curled towards the inside of the clothes, the dark blood stains on the clothes had scabbed, and the blood stains on the clothes came from the two holes, Nils looked at Thomas, put the clothes in the paper bag, and handed them to him from under the table.

"Are you sure it's yours? And not the victim's? ”

"You have to trust me, man, I'm a bit lazy, but I still have some self-control, and besides, if something like this happens, the less people know about it, the better, instead of going around and talking to people." Thomas listened to Nils's suspicions, he was a little excited, he didn't want to be wronged.

Nils touched his mouth and chin, he was watching to see if their conversation and behavior had attracted the attention of others, but fortunately there were very few people at this point in time, and no one paid attention to them.

"I know, I trust you, man," Nils hastened to soothe Thomas's agitation, "just let me make a joke?" ”

"It's not a joke." Thomas collapsed on the table and chair like a deflated ball.

"If so, this can't happen, unless I'm crazy." Nils clearly didn't do anything to appease Thomas.

"Hey, man, this strange thing, you also saw it, I am a victim at all, you and I know how to control ourselves, this is our experience, we have seen enough dead people, but I am not so bloodthirsty, and I know how to keep a low profile and hide myself, I can't blatantly shoot someone to kill someone now, and then, without condemnation, take off each other's clothes and chat with you."

Nils listened to Thomas's explanation very reasonably, they knew each other, friends of life and death, but how to explain everything that happened in front of him made him confused.

"Suppose, I'm talking about suppose you get shot."

"No, it's not a hypothesis, I've been shot, you look at the location of the bullet hole in the clothes, you know it's fatal."

"Okay, you were shot, according to this position, you will definitely die, you just said, we have all experienced it, there is no precedent to say, you were shot in these positions, and the next day you had a leisurely afternoon tea, right?"

"Yes, there was no such thing as before, and there are no traces on it." As he spoke, Thomas lifted his clothes for Nils to see, his body was intact, and he quickly put down his clothes, the people in the bar had already noticed their behavior.

"That's weird, you have superpowers, the ability to heal automatically, sort of, like ClaireBennet from Heroes."

"Come on, man, don't be kidding, I've thought about it too, but it doesn't make sense, look at this," Thomas pointed to a bloody streak on the side of his mouth, "I shaved this morning, if I have this ability, why hasn't this healed?" ”

Nils sighed and leaned back with his hands on the back of his head, this question obviously made the two of them scratch their heads, the problem has entered a dead end, and it can't be explained, is it a UFO?

"Thomas, indeed, as you said, did you miss anything else, like, what did you see in that moment?"

"I don't understand what you mean, can you make more sense of it?" Thomas said with a frown.

"I mean, for example, if there were other forces that helped you, do you still have an impression?" Nils also didn't know how to prepare to express it more accurately.

"No, my last memory is that it hurts, watching myself bleed, pressing the bleeding point with my hand, and finally I collapsed, and then, I got up, there was no one around, nothing."

"Don't you say that he who was wounded because he saw a robbery was wounded, what about the man who wounded you? Or what about the man who was robbed? Have you looked for them? Nils asked.

"No, I don't even know who it is, it's also a little dark at night, I drank a little wine, I was dizzy, I didn't see clearly, and they were still wearing hooded outfits, I only knew it was two black boys."

"You didn't think about calling the police and letting the police look into all this."

"No, I can't explain it to the police at all, they're just going to think I'm hallucinating from a drug overdose, and then they're just going to turn everything about me upside down, and the end result is nothing."

Nils sighed, it seemed that this road was not going to work, Thomas said that it made sense, and no one wanted to cause more trouble for themselves.

"Okay, anyway, it's like this, don't think about it, it should happen after all, pay attention in the future, if it's a ghost done by people, then sooner or later the fox's tail will be revealed." Nils concluded.

"That's all it can be,...... Thomas is also helpless.

"Don't think about it, tell me how you've been doing, it looks like you're in a bit of a bad state." Nils changed the subject.

"Well, I'm still like that, it's pretty bad, and there's not much progress, so I applied for the job today." Pouted, indicating that it was not satisfactory.

"I understand, Thomas, it's a little difficult at the beginning, just get through it, I've also experienced it, life has to look forward after all, you can't always stay in the past."

"yes, I didn't really think much about what it would be like now, don't just talk about me, talk about you, man."

"Well, you know it's still in the security company, or that, you have to be careful anyway, the world is not peaceful now, and next week may be a little busy, the company has taken on a job to escort a batch of goods to the MartyDOM (MartyDOM Digital Optical Module, DOM=DigitalOpticalModule) group."

"Oh, that's a big and famous company, they have their own security system, why do you have to hire perimeter security?"

"Hehe, it is estimated that we will develop a precision instrument that can change the world, who knows, anyway, we are also the periphery, arrive safely, collect money and leave, don't make trouble."

"Mary and Joa, how's it going?"

"It's all good, Joya is 5 years old and lately got obsessed with drawing, animal portraits, you know. Hehe," Nils said of his wife and children, his face beaming with happiness.

It was already past five o'clock when the two chatted about it, and Nils looked at his watch, got up and said, "Okay, it's not too early, I should go back, or Mary will be nervous." ”

"Well, take me to say hello to Mary, oh, and little Joya."

"Of course, I suggest that you should also consider finding a female companion and getting married as soon as possible or something, maybe it will be good for you, so that it is more stable."

"Okay, finding a female partner or something, it's not in my plan yet, I just want to find a job first." Thomas nodded thoughtfully.

"That's right, I'll help you keep an eye on it, and advise you to stay away from those drugs and drunkards." Nils stood and said to Thomas.

Thomas made a surrender with both hands and said, "I will, I'm quit, and besides, I'm not on drugs." ”

"Then it's time for you to control your wine." Nils said as he left.

"Okay, okay, I'm trying." Thomas said impatiently. "Goodbye, man." Nils turned to leave.

"See you back, Thomas, and good luck." He didn't look back and waved as he walked.

Thomas raised his hand to Nils's figure to say goodbye, Thomas was still a little more comfortable, after all, he found a confidant to say the words that had been depressed all night, although it didn't solve the problem, at least he was in a much better mood.

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Lucifer came to the top floor of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, and he could feel the hot winds of hell even more, the red fire clouds in the sky, lightning falling from the clouds from time to time, and the fire tornadoes in the distance raging the mountains and earth of hell.

In the middle of the top floor, there is a round stone, hollow in the middle, with words carved into the stone, and the base is a furnace with empty corners on all sides.

Lucifer stretched out his hand to the round stone, and with a slight upward movement of his palm, the four furnaces at the base suddenly burst out with black flames, the flames became more and more vigorous, the flames were attracted by the stone in the middle, and the four flames turned into a line that slowly touched the stone, and the black flames slowly covered the entire round stone along the lines on the stone, and the words on the stone were slowly lit up from the bottom, emitting red light from the bottom to the top, until the last word at the top was lit, and the inner eaves of the stone began to produce black clouds, Slowly rotate and converge in the middle along the inner eaves of the stone, and finally the entire hollow stone is filled with black mist, and begins to rotate with the center point in the middle, which is like a passage to another world.

Lucifer put down his hand, the hall of the apocalypse was opened, raised his feet and walked towards the clouds, through the clouds, came to a high mountain near the sea, the sky in the distance presented a gray sky, like the early morning when the sun did not rise, everything was gray, there was no day and night, no sun, moon and stars, Lucifer spread his wings and flew down the mountain road, turned the back of the mountain and saw the entrance to the hall of the apocalypse, a stone pillar was erected on the sea, and above the stone pillar was a tall temple-like building, Between the stone pillar and the mountain is a flat stone bridge, a few hundred meters below the sea.

Lucifer fell at the head of the bridge, stepped up to the stone bridge, walked to the middle, a circular circle of light appeared on the ground not far in front of him, the circle rose green pillar of light, and there was a person in the pillar of light retreating, it was a guard in the hall of the Apocalypse, wearing a helmet, and could only see two eyes glowing green, wearing a cuirass on the upper body, and a robe below, all the way to the end, but there were no legs, it was floating on the ground, holding a black halberd, pointing at Lucifer.

"Intruder, stop your steps and get out of here immediately, whether you are from heaven, earth, or hell, this is not a place you can set foot in, or you will be severely punished."

"I am the Lord of Hell, Lucifer, and I want to see the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Lucifer was undaunted and pointed to the Apocalypse Guard.

The Apocalypse Guards did not answer, nor did they act, still standing in front of Lucifer, not moving, only the green eyes flickering and shining.

"The knight will summon you, come with me." The guard turned and walked forward, green eyes streaking in the air.

Lucifer was very dissatisfied when he heard that he had been summoned, and was so rude to the King of Hell.

Stepping on the stone bridge can only walk, can not spread wings, and the gravity of this mountain stream is hundreds of times that of the earth, anyone who falls will sink into the dark abyss sea, Lucifer will drop some stones on the stone bridge every time he steps on the stone bridge, these stones that are shaken down are not falling at a uniform speed, but like bullets into the sea, Lucifer doesn't care about all this at all, he follows the guards to the apocalypse hall.

Enter this temple, enter the room, which is made of stone, with six large stone pillars in the center supporting the triangular top of the room, and inside there is a huge clock made of cast iron, and the second hand makes a huge "click, click" sound when it moves.

Passing through this room, there is another stone bridge, which connects another stone pillar from the sea, and there is an identical room on the stone pillar.

Passing through this room, there is another stone bridge that connects a stone pillar on the sea, but there is no room on it, but a large stone door. Walking up to this stone gate, this stone door was twisted like a mirror image. Passing through this stone gate, I saw a different scene.

The stone gate connected to the flat stone road, which led to the lobby not far away, not at all, not in the sea, but in the sky, surrounded by huge floating stones, and there was only one road leading to the hall of the apocalypse, walking along the circular stone path, which made Lucifer feel very bored.

Lucifer came to the hall of the apocalypse, and when he entered the hall of the apocalypse, it was gloomy and dark, empty and silent, and the pavement was a cold wind. The knights sat directly in front of Lucifer, four chairs and four knights.

"Lucifer, you know, this is a neutral area, what is the purpose of your trip? We don't want to be bothered by anyone. "The voice is powerful and powerful.

"Knights, I'm here today, I need to consult you about something."

"Lucifer, do you know what it means for you to come to see us?" A deep, hoarse voice asked.

Lucifer stood in the gloomy hall, opposite four chairs sat "War", "Plague", "Hunger" and "Death".

"War" red face, wearing a crown, wearing armor, animal skins tied around his waist, red cloak, a blood-red sword inserted on the platform in front of him, "Plague" wearing a yellow robe, a green gem hanging on his chest, exuding a steaming green light, a bow and arrow on the stand on the platform in front of him and each bow and arrow steaming out of green gas, "hungry" eyes, emaciated cheeks, wearing a white robe, skinny hands crossed on the abdomen, there is a stand on the platform in front of him, There were golden scales on it, the black cloak of 'death' was darker than the night, and a black scythe was stuck in the table in front of it.

It was the "plague" that asked the question, and Lucifer said calmly: "It was I who asked you something about me that puzzled me, and I hope to get answers from you." ”

"What do you want to know?" Hungry and trembling.

"I want to know, the matter of 'fate' and 'time', who can tamper with the decision of fate."

"We don't have the answer you want here, you won't get anything from us, go back." The words of war made Lucifer's anger rise, and his red eyes shone fiercely.

"Recently I heard about something that makes you lose face, if it is not convenient for you to deal with it, I can do it for you, and I don't charge commissions." Lucifer sarcastically mocked the Four Horsemen.

"We will take care of our own affairs, without your help, we are neutral and will not take sides." The plague replied.

"Since you are public and you are acting according to the arrangement of fate, what will you do if someone gets rid of their own time?"

"Hmph", Death sneered, "Lucifer, I know your intentions, do you think what you see is real?" Death seemed to be prepared, and there seemed to be confidence in his tone.

Lucifer didn't understand the Death Knight's answer, but he vaguely felt that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse knew the answer, and they were just trying to avoid the topic.

It's as if all of this is under their control, is that really the case or is it a trick? "You say you want a videotape of the municipal and shop on the entire street of Westman Avenue from 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 4?" Maureen repeated the lady's words.

"Of course, baby, this shouldn't bother you."

"Of course, you ......"

"Oh, come on, Maureen, my Councillor, let's take it easy, please call me Philina, don't make us strangers, we're old friends, aren't we?" Felina interrupted Morin.

"Yes, Miss Ferina, it's such a trivial matter that you need to do it yourself? Looks like a big deal. The sensitivity of a politician tells him that this is not easy.

Felina leaned forward, leaned forward with one arm, and said coldly: "Morin, you know what to ask and what not to ask, this is the rule. ”

"Yes, I understand." Ferina's sudden change of face made the originally slightly relaxed atmosphere suddenly nervous, and Morin's head began to sweat again.

"Morin, this is also for your own good, after all, we want to protect our customers, including you, and you don't want your information to be naked in front of others, right?" On the surface, Felina is trying to appease Morin, but in fact she is beating Morin not to kill herself for curiosity.

"Yes, Miss Ferina, the ......" Morin said without saying a word, and Felina raised her eyebrows, waiting for Morin to continue, "Everything I have now is the result of your company's full support, and I ...... now." ”

Felina raised her hand and interrupted Morin to continue, "Morin, this matter is nothing, what we value more is yours, we must maintain a win-win situation between us, and now we have to see if you have more advantages to reflect yours, so as to ensure that we can make a better investment in the future." ”