At night, the sun's rays fade below the western horizon, leaving only a thin glow of moonlight and starlight. The cloudless night when the moon and stars are scarce is fine, if there are dark clouds in the sky, it is not uncommon to reach out and not see your fingers in the wilderness.

From time immemorial, since the beginning of human history, night has not been the home of mankind.

Human eyes have extremely strong color resolution and are among the best in the animal kingdom. However, this needs to be reflected in the daytime, once it is dark, human vision will be greatly reduced, snakes with heat sensing ability, nocturnal cats with strong pupil adjustment ability, especially big cats such as tigers, can easily tear apart lone humans.

The danger of night has become so ingrained in our genes that it is almost human nature to be afraid of the dark.

Just a few hundred years ago, human beings still followed the traditional habit of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

It was not until the last hundred years that mankind finally began to penetrate into the world of night with the invention of new lighting tools, electric lights, and especially the rise of new places of residence, cities.

Kyoto, the capital of the Celestial Empire, is an international metropolis with a population of tens of millions, and it is still as bright as day at night. Many young men and women still walk the streets and alleys at night, talking and laughing loudly. This is already a commonplace sight in the Celestial Empire, which has good law and order.

On the streets of Kyoto, a figure with a suitcase in tow is hurrying down the sidewalk.

The girl was dressed with short ear-length hair, a pair of big eyes, a refreshing and clean student attire, and a small amount of gray stains on her snow-white sneakers.

The daughter's mobile phone in her hand was on for navigation, and she looked down at the map on her phone from time to time during the walk.

"East of Qianhai, Di'anmen...... It should be nearby, what's going on with my brother, he's not at school, so I searched around and didn't find anyone. If I hadn't asked someone, I wouldn't have known that this guy had dropped out of school. What the hell! You are the one who said that you want to learn acting, and you are the one who quit school without saying a word. Can't you say a word if you drop out of school? ”

The girl kicked on the railing on the side of the road, but instead of being discouraged, she jumped in pain.

"What, this railing isn't a pipe that's solid? Construction team, even if you don't do tofu slag engineering, you don't need to work hard in this kind of place! Oops, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts......"

The girl found a roadside bus stop and sat down on a bench waiting for the bus. Rubbing his sore ankles with his hands, he didn't forget to say to himself viciously:

"Stinky brother, when you come back, I won't kick you to death! Keep you from contacting me! Let you drop out of school secretly! Let you go to the magic capital! ”

A yellow and green taxi stopped in front of the bus stop, and the driver in the car honked his horn, rolled down the window, and shouted in a loud voice in an authentic Beijing film:

"Hey! Girl, wait for the car? It's late and the bus doesn't open! Can you leave my rental? ”

The girl who was cursing someone viciously just now raised her head and replaced it with a bright smile:

"Thank you, uncle, no need, my house is on the street on the right, just go away and take a break!"

"So? Okay, let's go back early when it's late at night! I've heard that this neighborhood has been haunted lately! ”

Before he could finish speaking, the taxi driver quickly kicked the accelerator and drove away.

The girl stood up weakly:

"Alas, the driver's uncle is right, let's leave quickly!"

The girl dragged her suitcase into the pedestrian street, and she soon saw a quaint wooden signboard, under the signboard, a suspected coffee shop with a closed door and a "temporarily closed" sign hanging inside the glass window, and a picture displayed on the girl's mobile phone was exactly the same.

After confirming that it was correct, the girl let out a long sigh:

"That's it, it's done!"

Tap on your phone's screen, open your phone's address book, and dial a new number that hasn't been noted yet.

"My brother said that he had a friend who stayed in Kyoto to watch the door, so he didn't arrive yet, right?"

The outgoing call was answered after a beep, and the girl said to the other end of the line:

"Hello? Are you a friend of Li Xiang? I'm his sister, and my brother should have told you...... Feed? Feed? ”

The phone was answered, but no one spoke.

The girl took the phone from her ear and brought it to her eyes,

"It's through, what's going on? Feed? Hello may I ask anyone? ”

A cold hand patted the girl's shoulder.

"Wow! What is it?! ”

The girl who turned around in a hurry saw a beautiful young woman with a collar around her neck.

The woman was holding a mobile phone in her hand, and the three-word note displayed on it was very familiar to the girl, and it was her name-

Li Sisi

………………

There was a small shop, and Shen Yunshu locked the door again. Li Sisi put away the suitcase lever, found a sofa and sat down.

"So, the friend my brother said was staying to see the store, and that was you?"

Shen Yunshu nodded, but the actions she made when she was locking the door outside the store happened to not be seen by Li Sisi, who was facing the inside of the store.

After not responding to his question for a long time, Li Sisi turned his head and looked at Shen Yunshu suspiciously.

Shen Yunshu, who locked the door of the store, turned around, looked at Li Sisi's puzzled eyes, blinked, and also showed a puzzled expression.

Li Sisi felt that she might have met a strange person.

She began to wonder if something had happened to her brother.

However, after thinking about it, the young woman in front of me was holding the key to the store at the address mentioned by her brother, and she knew her name, so it should be this person.

After hesitating for a moment, she asked cautiously:

"Uh...... That one...... Let me introduce myself, I am Li Xiang's younger sister, my name is Li Sisi. You are ......"

The woman's eyes lit up, she took out her mobile phone, opened a mobile phone app with a white background, and began to write and draw.

After a while, the young woman raised her phone and lit up the screen to Li Sisi:

"Hello sister, my name is Shen Yunshu, the clerk of this store. Li wants to call me and ask me to open the door for you. I was outside when I received your brother's call, and I just arrived, so I'm sorry to keep you waiting. ”

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Why use a mobile phone?

Li Sisi was confused.

Li Sisi was still dizzy here, and Shen Yunshu, who had been unable to speak for more than ten years, had already understood, and she clapped her hands and gave a crisp high-five.

Li Sisi was startled by the sudden high-water clash in the quiet store, and subconsciously looked at the direction of the source of the sound - Shen Yunshu's hands, driven by human instinct.

Shen Yunshu pointed to his mouth, and then waved his hand at Li Sisi.

With such a simple and clear gesture, Li Sisi quickly understood. Then she took out her mobile phone under Shen Yunshu's puzzled gaze and skillfully dialed a number:

With a busy tone of "Di-", the phone was connected:

On the other end of the phone, a young male voice was overshadowed by a loud shout before he could say the first half of the word "hey":

"Brother, your friend is a mute, you said it earlier!!!"