Sunday, July 28, 2019.

It's the height of summer, and it's one of the hardest times of the year for the city's residents.

Days of high temperatures have turned the city into a sweltering furnace with temperatures above the 40-degree mark. It was noon, and the high temperature of 40 degrees and the scorching sun overhead made it almost impossible to see any pedestrians walking outside in many streets and alleys of Yandu.

Summer in Yandu is like this, it is not particularly friendly to most people, such as the hot and humid weather like a steamer, or the scorching sun that is hot enough to make the road fry eggs, and the flood season rainstorm that can paralyze the drainage system of Yandu every year, and turn an inland city into a Venetian water city...... These have become the practice of Yandu every summer.

The meteorological department has issued a red high temperature warning for several consecutive days, urging citizens to reduce the time they go out, try to stop outdoor work during high temperature hours, and stay indoors or in a cool place to avoid heat stroke. After all, in this kind of extremely hot weather, even if you only stay outside for about half an hour, it may lead to heat stroke, if there is no urgency, basically no one will choose this time to go out to find guilt.

So although you can see all kinds of vehicles rushing on the road, there are very few pedestrians on the sidewalk, and the baby-faced young man wearing a yellow T-shirt and black trousers who is carrying the shade and quickly crossing the street is one of the few pedestrians on the street.

In such a sunny day, not only walking on the street in the heat, but also being bombarded with the incessant chirping of cicadas and the screeching noise of cars on the road, these chaotic factors combine to make it an environment that can easily make people feel upset and irritable, and no one wants to stay here for a long time, even the baby-faced youth who is temporarily in the shade of the trees.

Wu Ming, twenty-four years old. Living in an old community in the old city of Yandu, where there are many middle-aged and elderly residents in their fifties and sixties, he is single. She is a dance teacher at a student extracurricular specialty training institution in Yandu. No smoking, and even a taste of alcohol. No bad habits. If it is an advantage to drink a glass of hot milk to do twenty minutes of soft exercises before going to bed, and then sleep soundly until dawn, then Wu Ming is also an advantage. There is basically no interpersonal relationship to speak of, there is no relationship that can be said to be good relatives and friends, and the relationship with the neighbors is only maintained at the level of nodding and saying hello when they meet. It is no exaggeration to say that even if Wu Ming dies suddenly at home one day, he will only be found when the corpse is rotting and smelling and alarming the neighbors.

Except for the occasional secondary disease, he is an ordinary office worker who lives a quiet life.

Wu Ming, who stopped in the shade of the tree and exuded the heat air, wiped the sweat off his face with a tissue that he turned out of his pocket, and skillfully took out his mobile phone and put it in his ear and said to himself: "Ahhh......h It was I, the organization, who had strengthened the obstruction of my daily life, who destroyed the cooling device there, and did not hesitate to use [hints] on ordinary people to erase the traces of my existence, causing the teaching operation to fail. Well, while it's not clear exactly what those guys are trying to do, I'm going to reduce contact for security purposes in the near future, reducing the likelihood that you and this encrypted information path will be exposed to them...... Well, good luck. el psy congroo”

Wu Ming, who had never dialed the number at all, and had not even unlocked the lock screen of his mobile phone from beginning to end, put away his mobile phone lightly after finishing talking to himself like a routine, wiped the sweat that had just come out of his forehead, looked at the main road in front of him where there was almost no shade to hide, and fell into thought.

On such a hot day, Wu Ming didn't hide at home like everyone else, holding an iced watermelon, wearing an air conditioner, and enjoying the summer time, but ran around outside and talked to himself with his mobile phone like a psychopath, and there was a reason - in addition to the fact that he was sick again, the more reason was that his original travel plan was disrupted by a sudden accident today.

According to the original plan, Wu Ming was going to teach the children in the amateur dance class today, but when he took a car for more than an hour to the school, he was told by the school that the class would be suspended today, and the reason for the suspension was that the temperature was too high in the past two days, and the air conditioner was broken at this juncture, in order to prevent teachers and students (mainly students) from suffering from heat stroke, so the school decided to temporarily suspend classes before the air conditioning in the classroom was repaired.

Originally, all the teachers and students of the school should have been notified of this matter, but only Wu Ming was omitted by the school. As a result, he not only ran blindly all morning, but now he also fell into the dilemma of having to walk for half an hour under the scorching sun to get home if he wanted to go home.

Walking in the sun for half an hour in such extremely hot weather will definitely cause heat stroke. But Wu Ming, who has lived in this urban area since he was a child, also knows very well that there is no McDonald's near this main road where he can leisurely blow the air conditioner and drink, and the nearest Shaxian snack to him will have to walk a quarter of an hour in the sun - and the owner of the store is still very picky, and the store has not turned on the air conditioner a few times throughout the year.

Wu Ming didn't think about taking a taxi home, but it's a pity that the roads home now have either been closed due to the construction of the subway, or the already narrow road is still full of cars on both sides, and the cars outside can't get around at all. Otherwise, Wu Ming would not have walked for more than half an hour every day to take the bus to such a long distance.

After thinking about it, he finally decided to buy two cans of cold drinks and then go to the nearby Huxin Park to find a bench with shade to rest, and wait until he got through the hottest hour or two, and then went to eat something and go home to rest - anyway, today's lesson plan has been disrupted by the unexpected situation, so Wu Ming is ready to take a long-lost mental vacation and go to a nearby park to spend a day of leisure and idleness.

If this is the world to add a little spice to Wu Ming's boring life, then Wu Ming has to admit that this adjustment still has some effect, although he feels that his life is still very boring, but at least now he finally has so much time to be able to immerse himself in his delusions and entertain himself.

Wu Ming thought about whether he had something to gain or not, and walked into Huxin Park with the cold drink he had just bought from the grocery store on the street, picked a bench that looked relatively clean in the shade of the trees, wiped it with the last two pieces of paper left on his body, and then sat down with a big grin. Unscrewed the ice water he had just bought, poured most of the bottle in one go, and suddenly felt that the heat was completely gone, his body was completely relaxed, and Wu Ming, who was leaning on the back of the chair, enjoyed the rare coolness brought by the ice water and the breeze, and the sparkling waves reflected on the lake in front of him made him squint his eyes.

The familiar scenery in front of him made Wu Ming can't help but be a little distracted, although he has not been to this lake park for almost six years, but it doesn't seem to have changed much, compared with the surrounding residential areas that have been demolished beyond recognition due to urban planning, time seems to have left no traces here, whether it is the layout pattern around the park, or the rippling lake in front of him.

Everything in the park in the middle of the lake still remains as Wu Ming remembers.

The familiar scenery in front of him that is not much different from his memory, for a moment, even made Wu Ming have a subtle illusion: he felt as if he was still living six years ago, for Wu Ming, the changes brought about by the passage of time have been frozen since six years ago, with that day as the dividing line, he felt that he was living as a robot without ideology, most of the time Wu Ming's brain was in a semi-empty state, and he mechanically went to the training institution every day to teach the children, Just to maintain the normal functioning of the body to eat and sleep, after class does not participate in any entertainment activities, go home on time, every day lives this life of living because of being alive like the walking dead.

It is only when he is alone like this that his consciousness occasionally comes to life, but for the next day's cycle, his consciousness dies again and continues to cope with the same life as a machine.

Wu Ming has been living like this for six years, and he knows very well that if nothing happens, his life as mechanical as copying and pasting will continue to circulate in the future.

"Hey! What are you looking at, so fascinating? ”

The sound that sounded from behind him startled Wu Ming, who was relaxed and slumped in the chair, and he turned his head unexpectedly following the sound, only to find that the person who almost scared him out of the chair just now was a short-haired girl with slender body and slender legs, and the girl was looking at herself with a smile, as if she didn't realize that there was anything wrong with the frightened move.

It was a very beautiful girl, with bright green eyes as if with infinite vitality, short shoulder-length black hair, fair and delicate skin, thin lips, and a high nose. Judging from her appearance, she has a bit of a mixed Asian and European feeling, which also makes Wu Ming can't help but look at her twice, in the pure and bright smile of the short-haired girl, as if with a wonderful magic that soothes people's hearts, Wu Ming, who was taken aback, also felt that his accelerated heartbeat became smooth.

Maybe it's because of the hot weather recently, the short-haired girl is also very refreshing, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt on the upper body, a big bow with a blue thin ribbon at the neckline of the shirt, and a light blue short pleated skirt on the lower body, and what impressed him the most was the girl's big shining eyes, such clear eyes Wu Ming hadn't seen it in his peers for a long time.

Eyes as clear as a child's.

Perhaps it was for this reason that Wu Ming couldn't help but be attracted by these eyes, and after looking at each other for a few seconds, he realized that his behavior of looking directly at the other party seemed to be a little impolite, and he looked away and subconsciously lowered his voice and replied: "Eh, it's nothing, you just think I'm in a daze at the lake to pass the time." ”

The short-haired girl sighed, not paying much attention to Wu Ming's obviously very perfunctory answer. Only then did he suddenly remember the purpose of his running over to talk, and he didn't know where to find a crumpled note, handed it to Wu Ming and asked, "That, do you know that the address of the Lucky Ancient God Office above is near here?" ”

"Lucky Old God Office?" Wu Ming took the crumpled note in the short-haired girl's hand and looked at it, and found that the address written on it was not far away: "The address is nearby, yes, but because of the demolition, it is quite troublesome for you to go from here." You follow this road through the road in front of you, then turn left and cross two intersections, then turn right into a path along the lake, then follow the path around the lake for about half a circle and then ......"

Wu Ming tried his best to make the route as simple and clear as possible, but judging from the short-haired girl's sluggish and sloppy eyes as time passed, his efforts obviously failed.

Looking at the short-haired girl's blank expression, Wu Ming was sure that he hadn't listened to what he had just said, and he might not even remember it-this expression he could see on the faces of those children at least a dozen times in his last class, and he could already be regarded as a veteran of a hundred battles for this level of observation, and he thought for a moment in silence, feeling that it was better to stay here in a daze than to do a good job and help others Wu Ming had already made a decision in his heart, Although reason was still advising him not to meddle in his affairs, he still took the initiative to propose to the short-haired girl in front of him.

"Or ...... Shall I take you there? ”

"Really?" The short-haired girl, who had already been unconscious, suddenly came back to her senses, and the expression of excitement and surprise on her face was almost like an African who had finally drawn an SSR after a lot of hardship: "Then let's hurry up!" I had to scrap the boss's strength to get rid of those superpowers who like to throw big fireballs, and I had to find refuge in the office before they caught up with them! ”

Wu Ming was a little confused by the short-haired girl's words: "Huh? ”

"You promised to take me over, but you can't go back!" Seeing that Wu Ming didn't talk to the short-haired girl, she suddenly became anxious, for fear that the former would regret running away in the next second, while grabbing his wrist and walking forward, she patted her chest and assured him that nothing would happen: "Don't worry!" I'm also a superpower, and I'm amazing! If anything happens, I'll protect you! ”

Although Wu Ming didn't understand what the short-haired girl was saying at all, as a qualified secondary second disease, even if he couldn't understand what the short-haired girl said, he could accurately capture the elements of the second secondary disease in the other party's words, and after a calm analysis and .jpg, he deduced the possibility that best matched the current situation - this girl must be a secondary second disease like himself!

So Wu Ming, who was originally a little excited, suddenly became energetic: he decided to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to play with this short-haired girl.

Thinking of this, a smile gradually appeared on Wu Ming's expressionless face, his eyes, which were originally like stagnant water, began to bloom again, and his voice became low and thick because of his pretense: "I already fully understand what is going on." But first we have to find out what they are hunting you for, are you designated for purification or are you listed as a recovery sequence by them? ”

The short-haired girl tilted her head and looked at Wu Ming with a confused expression: "They seem to want to catch me and go back......"

"Recycle the sequence? That's easy to do. Formally introduce myself, my name is Wu Ming, the leader of [Valhalla], specially to help [anomalies] like you, by the way, to the mysterious organization that is chasing you......" Wu Ming said here and deliberately paused, in the eyes of the short-haired girl, the temperament of the baby-faced boy in front of him at this time was like a different person, and he spread his hands with a confident and calm smile on his face and continued: "Add to the blockage. ”