Chapter VII: The Mortal Disease (VII) 3

This time when he went out, Ye Zifeng did not open the empty Rolls-Royce of Xiyuan Temple, and his consciousness prevented him from being discovered, although he knew that the "demon" was monitoring him by his side, but Ye Zifeng still felt that with the experience of the last time, the other party already knew the Rolls-Royce he drove, and once he took advantage of his departure, it would be worth the loss to do something on the Rolls-Royce. The second is to feel a little guilty about Xiyuan Temple, people promised to borrow a car for you to drive, go out of the door to draw a few cuts for others, and there are a few more bullet marks on the trunk lid, even if Xiyuan Temple did not say anything to blame after knowing it, just said to Ye Zifeng, "It's good to come back safely", but the more this is the case, the more Ye Zifeng dare not borrow a car, and always feel that Xiyuan Temple is empty, and the Metrology Bureau is a little unhappy in his heart.

The travel conditions were restricted, Ye Zifeng didn't complain about anything, anyway, he had time. However, the taxi business has not spread to residential areas, and even if it is a taxi, it is impossible to drive into residential areas, which is an explicit rule, not an unspoken rule of the industry.

Among the things on his back, he said that the sun in the sky was too dazzling, and that the air here was not circulated and dirty, but today was an exception, as soon as he heard that he was going to see Archer, Alice was immediately full of energy, and the previous tsundere disappeared without a trace, and the clothes were very fanatical and nodded to Ye Zifeng, and then went into the room to make up and dress up carefully. Alice, who has always been without makeup, actually wore light makeup at this time, her lips were painted crystal clear with lipstick, like ripe cherries, a thin layer of foundation was placed on her cheeks, and her eyebrows were specially hooked. After putting on makeup, the whole person looks completely different. If Alice was a sunny and energetic athletic girl before, then Alice is a quiet and connotative lady, quietly following Ye Zifeng's side with a smile on her face. However, Ye Zifeng looked at the smile and was a little panicked. Alice didn't naturally show this soft-looking smile, in fact, from the beginning, Alice has been practicing the expression that should be shown when she sees Archer, and this smile is squeezed out. It looks like no problem from afar, and it matches Alice's image very well, but when you look closer, the corners of Alice's mouth keep trembling, and the smile is as stiff as it is.

Ye Zifeng carried his shoulder bag and strode forward, while Alice, who was wearing a delicate princess dress, followed closely beside him. The images of the two seem to be completely incompatible, and compared to Alice, Ye Zifeng is like a street beggar who jumped out of the slum. It's a bit of an exaggeration, but the comparison is really that exaggerated. Alice on her feet with a pair of high-heeled Roman shoes. The knee-length skirt was marked with circles of lace. Ye Zifeng felt hot when he looked at it.

"Hey, are you like that? Won't it be hot? ”。 Ye Zifeng looked at Alice beside him speechlessly, looking at Alice's dress from top to bottom more than once, and the light from the resin of the ornaments inlaid on the small handbag on his chest made Ye Zifeng a little afraid to use it.

"Don't you know that it's rude to look at a lady like that?". Alice glanced at Ye Zifeng, although she said so, she still had a stiff smile on her face, and it seemed that this smile made Alice very uncomfortable.

The corners of Ye Zifeng's mouth picked, and he silently stepped aside from the idle side. But Alice quickly caught up.

"You're a lady, too? Are you kidding? Ye Zifeng sighed, "Which lady would carry a long-range sniper rifle weighing more than ten kilograms and aim at your head from two kilometers away?" Obviously, it's just two forms of existence, okay? ”

Ye Zifeng muttered angrily.

"Come on. You can also make up for it. ”

Alice really raised her head and made up a picture in her mind: a girl in a pale pink princess dress—of course, Alice herself—stood on the roof of a thirty-story building, her skirt fluttering in the wind, while the silly girl held a large sniper rifle in her hand, staring intently at the eyebrows of the person in the sniper scope—this person should be Ye Zifeng—and pulled the trigger after calculating the moderate wind direction.

"So handsome" Alice had a look on her face, her eyes drifting away. Apparently still trapped in his own imagination.

"Forget it, you better don't think about it." Ye Zifeng felt that the momentum was a little wrong, and immediately interrupted Alice's imagination.

Ye Zifeng himself was also a little excited, but unlike Alice, Ye Zifeng saw Archer for the second time. He also wanted to know what happened to the man who had shot himself off the bus two years ago, what his profession was as a magician last time, and the real purpose of Archer's visit to Hanging City. Although Ye Zifeng didn't mean to blame Archer, but the fact is the truth after all, even if Ye Zifeng wouldn't ask Archer to stand on the roof of the bus and shoot him himself, but it shouldn't be too much to apologize to his face. said that he could understand Ye Zifeng and indeed understand, but for the subsequent admittion, Ye Zifeng didn't want to see only a sentence of "I'm sorry" on the paper.

In this imagination, the two came to this light rail platform called "Tianshui Agricultural Station" together. The tall tortoiseshell-shaped building made Ye Zifeng mistakenly think that he had walked to the train station at first sight, but from the eight suspended monorails deep at both ends of the "Tianshui Agricultural Station" and a twelve-car monorail that had just entered the station, Ye Zifeng recognized that this was indeed a light rail platform, and it was not a terminus.

The two entered the "Tianshui Agricultural Station" from the escalator, there were not many people in the wide waiting hall, it seemed a little empty, and the largest number of people gathered was the automatic ticket machine, but there was still a strange thing, there were more than a dozen automatic ticket machines in the flat row, but people were gathered in front of the one in the most corner, and they didn't know what they were waiting for. When the two of them moved over, they found that the other ticket machines had not stopped working, and the one in the corner was clearly a little different. At the top of the line, he was squatting in the circle drawn in front of the ticket machine, and every stroke was standard. From a look inside, Ye Zifeng found that this ticket machine requires ticket buyers to do thirty standard squats. After that, you will spit out a free ticket for the whole journey.

Ye Zifeng suddenly remembered a news he had seen that there was such a similar machine in the subway station in Moscow, the capital of Russia. Presumably this should be a copy. However, Ye Zifeng only glanced at it, and didn't have much interest, and when he turned around to go to the machine on the side to buy a ticket, Ye Zifeng saw Alice's eyes looking at the machine, obviously flashing with anticipation.

"Hey, hey. We're in a hurry. Ye Zifeng looked at Alice a little speechlessly, and then looked at the long queue, although it was not the Spring Festival, there were still dozens of people lined up there, and there were people walking over one after another, most of them couldn't buy tickets for a while, the time agreed on the note by Archer was ten o'clock in the morning, and it was already half past nine.

However, Aili responded to Ye Zifeng's gaze very firmly, and she didn't say anything, but ran directly to the end of the queue.

"Hey!" Ye Zifeng shouted. However, Alice did not look back, and in desperation, Ye Zifeng could only follow Alice's footsteps and line up together.

"I don't know, you're still interested in this." Ye Zifeng sighed and said, after looking at his watch, he thought about Alice's display time, "We're too late." ”

"It's too late anyway." Alice turned her face away, "Also, I just think it's fresh." ”

"When do you think it's fresh, you can't make it," Ye Zifeng smiled bitterly and shook his head. "Forget it, I'll play with you. But Mr. Archer's side. You have to explain the explanation. ”

"No problem, wrap it up on me!" Alice patted her chest confidently. Ye Zifeng took another breath.

The long dragon squirmed slowly, like an earthworm turning over the earth, and it would take about ten seconds for each person to do ten squats, and it would take nearly thirty-five seconds to do thirty slowdowns, including fatigue. There are twenty-four people in front of Ye Zifeng and Alice, which means that Ye Zifeng and Alice will all get free tickets, it will take nine hundred and ten seconds, about sixteen minutes, and now there are still thirty minutes before meeting Archer. Deduct the ten minutes it takes on the road. After getting off the bus, the two had to run wildly to feel the scene of meeting within the agreed time, and the two pointed out that Archer's reservation was actually the most booked sky restaurant in a top hotel, and even a high-speed elevator would take five minutes to reach the top floor, provided that no one stopped the elevator halfway. To sum up, Ye Zifeng is definitely going to be late and line up with Alice here.

Looking at the passengers in front of him who got tickets and left after squatting up last night, Ye Zifeng didn't know what it was like in his heart. Some guests went directly through the ticket gate after buying tickets at other automatic ticket vending machines, which was simply devastating to Ye Zifeng's soul.

Time passed by second and minute by minute, and finally it was Alice's turn, and the guests in front of her walked to the circle and stood still, and then began to squat. Alice suddenly turned her head and looked at Ye Zifeng.

"Huh?" Ye Zifeng looked down at the tangled expression on Alice's face, and his heart tightened. It seems to be a bad thing.

Sure enough, Alice lowered her head with an embarrassed face and whispered to Ye Zifeng.

"Also, let's buy a ticket, I think, I'm a little tired." Alice's voice could only be heard by Ye Zifeng, and the head of the ground was already blushing compared to her face.

"Do you feel embarrassed to sit and squat in front of so many people?" Ye Zifeng said what Alice was thinking in a flat voice. Alice was stunned for a moment, then nodded as if deflated.

"I'll just say, you're not suitable for this" Ye Zifeng was a little helpless, but Ye Zifeng thought about taking Alice to buy a ticket for a moment, but after thinking about it, this is also a kind of exercise for Alice, snipers will not be exposed to the gaze so that Alice does not dare to show herself except for those close to her, this is a great opportunity. The corners of Ye Zifeng's mouth showed a treacherous smile.

"What do you think we've been standing in line here for so long?" Ye Zifeng said softly, "It's too late to regret now, we have to realize that it will be more ugly when we walk away." ”

"But," Alice looked up, with tears in her eyes. Ye Zifeng's heart softened, but he immediately strengthened his confidence.

"No, it's one of your weaknesses, you have to overcome it, didn't Mr. teach you, snipers are not killers in the shadows. It's an artist in plain sight. ”

Ye Zifeng said most of this was made up blindly, and he didn't know if Archer said it or not, but Ye Zifeng remembered the last time he saw Archer in Brilliant International, wearing a black tuxedo dress, a top hat and a magician with a civilization stick in his hand. It was a real artist, killing people thousands of miles away.

"Even if you say so," Alice hesitated. But there was no time for Alice to hesitate, the previous guest had already completed thirty crouches, took the ticket from the ticket machine and left the circle. Ye Zifeng took advantage of Alice's unpreparedness and gently pushed Alice, and after stumbling, Alice stood in the circle.

"Woo" Alice looked at Ye Zifeng dissatisfied, but Ye Zifeng turned her head and pretended not to see Alice's eyes again. Alice can't compete with Ye Zifeng's cheekiness, which can be weird to squat, once, twice. Three times it seems that Alice has done standard squatting training to exercise her leg muscles when she is in training, Alice's squat is done with the standard, and the machine recognizes it very quickly, but after thirty squats, Alice carefully stepped forward and pulled out a ticket. Full of resentment, he turned his head and glanced at Ye Zifeng, and stepped aside to wait for Ye Zifeng. Ye Zifeng didn't care, after stepping into the circle, he put his hands on the back of his head. One by one, they squatted. But a squat is just a piece of cake for the two of them, and it is obviously faster to do it twice as fast as others. Two full tickets were successfully acquired. Ye Zifeng sighed and moved to the ticket gate with Alice. With two clicks, a coin-shaped ticket swiped past the ticket gate, the automatic valve opened, and the two entered the station at the same time.

"Whew~" Ye Zifeng breathed a sigh of relief and patted his chest. Alice shrank to Ye Zifeng's side, the stiff smile on her face disappeared, and was replaced by a somewhat melancholy expression.

"You, what's wrong?" Ye Zifeng looked down at Alice and asked with some confusion.

"Nothing. I just feel a little scared. Alice said softly, her head squeezed into Ye Zifeng's arms, and Ye Zifeng was able to gently wrap her arms around Alice.

"Why are you afraid? What's going on here? Ye Zifeng began to be a little concerned, and looked around, but he didn't find anything special.

"Nothing, just some bad memories of the station." Alice shook her head, and after breaking free from Ye Zifeng's arms, she turned to look at Ye Zifeng, "Let's go, the master can't wait." ”

"Oh." Ye Zifeng didn't think about Alice's memories, everyone has their own privacy, and casually asked, Ye Zifeng felt very rude.

He took out the note that Archer had left in Naruyamaso from his pocket and looked at its contents.

"It seems that you can just take a route, let me see, 'Lushan Line', ah, here." Ye Zifeng walked towards an escalator with a sign on the side, and the three-dimensional projection screen on it showed the platform where the escalator led to the "Lushan Line".

"We only need to sit for eight stops, and we still have to walk a little more to get to the business district." Ye Zifeng was a little melancholy, "It seems that it is certain to be late, and it is estimated that Mr. Archer didn't expect that we would come back so late when he kept the note." ”

"No, I don't think so." Alice said suddenly, "No matter what the master does, there is a reason, and he will not make mistakes, and there must be a reason why he deliberately made us late." ”

"But how can there be a reason to deliberately make someone late, this is too unbelievable, right?" Ye Zifeng and Alice sat side by side on the bench on the platform and waited for the arrival of the train, "You are too worried, Mr. Archer is not that kind of person. ”

"I don't know where you got this idea from, but I think I should remind you that although my master is usually very friendly, he will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, so although you are a little mentally prepared, our tardiness was designed by Archer in advance."

As soon as Alice said this, Ye Zifeng really felt that something was wrong, even if the two of them directly bought tickets to board the train, there were still twenty minutes after getting off the train, and he had to run three blocks plus move vertically for nearly two hundred and thirty meters, unless he was a superman, he would definitely not be able to get there.

"There's some truth to that." Ye Zifeng nodded, and then looked at his watch, "It seems that I would rather believe it than not, but I am mentally prepared that I will not do it, we will go to one on time to show him." ”

"What do you want to do? There are less than ten minutes left after getting off the bus, and there are less than five minutes left to go out and take the elevator fixed, are you sure to run three hundred meters and three blocks? ”。

"No, but you probably don't know." Ye Zifeng showed a mysterious smile.

"What?" Alice was stunned, not knowing what Ye Zifeng was laughing at. Was it scared stupid?

"Actually, I'm also a person who will do whatever it takes to achieve my goals." Ye Zifeng looked at Alice, and a streamer slipped through his eyes.

(To be continued)(To be continued......