Chapter 7: Rumors

Today's high dive can be regarded as having escaped.

Although he was the leader of the project team, it was a serious dereliction of duty to be absent from important project presentation meetings. But because the rest of the group did a great job of the demo, and the other group's project seemed to be going wrong, the boss didn't have time to trouble him for a while.

Therefore, Gao Qian came home from work unharmed, and was sitting at the dining table in his apartment at the moment, munching on grilled sausages while holding his mobile phone to swipe the circle of friends.

Speaking of his mobile phone, although he experienced so much last night, because his mobile phone and wallet were in his trouser pocket, he kept it, which was the only thing that made him feel a little comforted in the whole incident.

The news in the circle of friends has not been interrupted since this morning, and its bizarre degree has been rising in geometric progression.

The news is mainly focused on speculation about the identity of the mysterious knight who appeared on the elevated shelf.

Gao Qian later learned that all photos and videos of the Red Knights had unexpectedly disappeared, except for the group of people who had witnessed and watched the footage at the time. The phone is damaged, the hard drive is burned, and the surveillance camera is out of order. And people who have not seen the mystery with their own eyes are often more enthusiastic than those who have seen it with their own eyes, and the whole thing has been hyped to an unprecedented heat.

In fact, if it was just the red-armored knight, it would not make the well-informed netizens excited, and the bizarre trace erasure incident was the real explosion point of the netizens.

At first, the rumors were just a relatively conservative attitude of hunting, mixing the red-armored knight with the old-fashioned urban legends to fry leftovers, such as the elevated dragon pillar apparition, the upgraded version of the blood-coated biker knight, etc.

In the afternoon, rumors of the coming of the end of the world went straight to the sky, and the red-armored knight was also conclusively proved to be the red horse knight "war" among the four horsemen of the Doomsday Judgment.

Then there are all kinds of "reliable" information that a certain border missile silo is in a state of first-class combat readiness; the launch button of a certain country's ultimate weapon has been strengthened and closely guarded; and various laser satellites are adjusting their orbits in space like headless flies, preparing to fulfill their mission......

Fortunately, in the evening, religious figures came out to clarify, and various scriptures were quoted to show that the red-armored knight had nothing to do with the Last Judgment.

However, conspiracy theories jumped out again and began to gain the upper hand......

Gao Qian read these news with a sneer.

Although he did not know the true origin of the red knight, he knew that the rumor of the coming end would benefit some people, while many ordinary people would suffer.

At the same time, High Diving also knows better than anyone that there will be no fair doomsday judgment at all.

In the eyes of those with absolute power, humans are nothing more than ants. Like the frightened passengers in the subway and the helpless crowd on the elevated road, they are existences that can be tortured and trampled on at will.

Imagine having to work hard to distinguish between good and evil for ants, and I'm afraid you'd be more than happy to flush the anthill with a hose and solve the problem once and for all.

In the face of absolute power, there is no such thing as fairness.

The corners of Gao Qian's mouth became colder, and his gaze fell on the sofa by the wall.

Underneath the red sectional sofa, a corner of a tattered rucksack is revealed. The backpack was filled with strange equipment, left to him by a scavenger who claimed to specialize in cleaning up "dirty" things that didn't belong to the human realm, and claimed to belong to the same bloodline as the high diver.

Whitewing...... Clean...... Gao Qian chewed on the word in his mouth and fell into deep thought.

I don't know how long it took,

"Tick"

The sound of water droplets falling into the pond sounded, interrupting the high diver's thoughts.

He stared at the top of the mobile phone screen flashing a message prompt, frowning slightly, it was Gui Xiaoqian.

"Hi, High Diver, what are you doing?" followed by a bright smiling face.

Gao Qian imagined what Gui Xiaoqian's little face looked like with such a bright smile, and found that usually at that time, he would not be very happy.

He paused for a few seconds and typed decisively, "Ready to rest." โ€

"Old man Gao, you are so boring, it's not even nine o'clock. "Playful grimace emoji.

The high dive had no intention of replying to this message. He got up and put his plate in the sink, then thought it was time to tidy up the room. In the past, Lin Qian often came to him, and every time she would help him tidy up the room by the way. Now that they have broken up, if they don't want to live in a kennel in the future, they will have to be self-reliant.

In the process of tidying up the room, the mobile phone on the table is still making a "tick" sound, and Gao Qian doesn't want to pay attention to it. First, the trivial task of tidying up the room made him feel bad, and second, he didn't want to have too much to do with this girl named Gui Xiaoqian. Although Xiaoqian is very beautiful and has a lively and cheerful personality, she is the kind of likable type, but when she thinks that nothing good will happen every time she meets her, Gao Qian completely loses interest in in-depth relationships with her.

After stuffing all the dirty laundry into the washing machine and setting up the laundry program, Gao Qian returned to the dining table and found that the phone screen was already full of Xiaoqian's messages.

"Old man Gao, did you see today's headlines?"

"You have become a celebrity, everyone said that the young man who confronted the Red Armor Knight, who was nearly two meters tall, burly and powerful, threw a car at the Red Armor Knight as soon as he raised his hand, and finally the Red Armor Knight had to flee. o(โ‰งโ–ฝโ‰ฆ)ใƒ„โ”โ”โ”“โ€

High Diver: ......

Gao Qian walked to the bathroom with his mobile phone, casually scrolling down the message log.

"Netizens actually doxxed the taxi driver who took you, but the driver claimed that he didn't remember any young men on board, and netizens speculated that the driver's memory was also affected by some mysterious force. โ€

Gao Qian chuckled when he saw this, and a faint sense of gratitude welled up in his heart. He remembered that the taxi driver had told him that he was a good man and that good people would be rewarded. It seems that the driver intends to protect him in this way.

Gao Qian put his phone on the edge of the washbasin and began to squeeze the toothpaste on the toothbrush, and after putting the toothbrush in his mouth, he picked up the phone and looked through it. This time the message was a few minutes apart.

"Are you there?"

"High diving, I feel a little wrong, I want to go home. โ€

"High Diver, do you think there are really monsters in this world? I always think I just saw something......"

"High Potential Rescue"

The action of brushing his teeth abruptly stopped, and he stared at the message log, the last half-written message from five minutes ago.

He hurriedly spit out the foam in his mouth and quickly dialed Gui Xiaoqian's mobile phone back.

The phone rang for a few seconds before it was picked up, but there was no sound on the other end of the phone.

Gao Qian heard the sound of hurried footsteps, gasps, collisions, and then a girl's terrible scream, and couldn't tell if it was Xiao Qian's voice.

"Gui Xiaoqian, are you okay?" Gao Qian asked urgently, clutching his phone tightly.

There was another loud thud of a heavy object falling to the ground, and it sounded like furniture toppling to the ground.

Then Gui Xiaoqian's voice sounded, the voice was far away from the microphone, and it was not clear: "Gao Dien! I'm in the dark night bar! Come and save me!ah~~"

The shrill screams came to an abrupt end as the communication signal was interrupted.

Gao Qian hurriedly dialed again, but it was a mechanical female voice that came:

"Sorry, the user you dialed is turned off. โ€

Damn, Gao Qian turned around suddenly, grabbed a jacket from the couch, and rushed out the door.