“…… Think about it,"

When pushing open the back door of the convenience store, Ai Weili said loudly: "It seems unreasonable to throw down the store and run away halfway, so let's wait until I finish my shift before leaving." ”

She could hear it herself, her voice trembling slightly.

Although the car keys and mobile phone were on him, all the money, documents, mobile phone chargers, and a change of clothes were all in the upstairs apartment - the one who suddenly turned off the lights when he saw them coming.

When she left in the afternoon, none of the lights in the apartment were on. In a room without curtains, the lighting is very good, and there is no need to turn on the lights.

When the voice fell in the hallway, Vero was the first to react.

When she tugged on Ai Weili's clothes a few times and motioned her to hurry back to the store with her, Ai Weili's eyes still seemed to be stuck in the darkness behind the door, and she couldn't pull it out. No matter how she looked at it, in the empty darkness behind the door, it was indeed like the sweet voice said, "no one".

Therefore, when they stared at the door of the building, step by step backwards and left, no one persuaded them to go back, no one opened the door and walked out to follow them.

With less than five minutes to go until seven o'clock, Ai Weili had no choice but to keep going, and wait until she could leave and Vero could go home.

The two women sat down face to face at the empty table, and returned to either side of the old telephone; For a while, no one knew what to say.

Outside the glass window next to them, there was a substance-like darkness, as if someone had poured a large chunk of black metal along the convenience store and blocked it inside.

The silent air gradually settled, pressing down on their skin, making their breathing lighter and lighter. The convenience store, which is blocked by pitch black, is as if it has been cut from the world and sunk to the bottom of the sea; In this small piece of shop, which is crushed alone under the deep sea, even the air pressure makes it difficult to breathe.

"Ah, it's seven o'clock," Ai Weili whispered as he looked at the time for the third time.

Vero subconsciously turned his head out of the window, and the clear and complete reflection of Vero on the glass window also turned his head towards her; The eyes of one person and one reflection met.

For some reason, it was still solid pitch black outside, with no sign of dissipation. This time, Ai Weili didn't even have to venture back to the apartment to see the situation.

Now what?

She couldn't really leave without anything, could she?

"The custom in the town is to go out after seven o'clock?" Ai Weili asked as if praying for comfort, "It's not punctual or seven o'clock, more or less, a little earlier, a little later."

"Yes, yes," I didn't expect Vero to seem to grasp a life-saving straw, "It's not driving a tram, how can it be so accurate."

"It really reassures me that you hold on to every word I say like this," Ai Weili couldn't help but say. "As a local, you should know better......"

"Is it time to complain about me? It's the first time I've been—" Vero stopped himself and said, "It's also the first time I've sat in a convenience store after seven o'clock in the evening and chatted with someone I just met." ”

She couldn't say it directly, so she simply flipped her palms over and compared to her side. The old telephone sat with bated breath on the same place on the table; On the glass, Verro's reflected hand swiped against her fingertips.

Ai Weili really hates the shadow on the glass.

Out of the corner of her eye, she always felt that the shadows were moving when they weren't moving, or moving a little slower than theirs, as if there were two actors who looked exactly like them, pretending to be their shadows, sitting at a table with a telephone and a coke, mimicking their every move, but not in perfect sync.

However, every time she looked over, there was only her own gaze, which met at the same time, and she couldn't see anything wrong with the reflection.

"At twelve o'clock, someone will come to take over the shift," Ai Weili quickly turned his eyes away, no longer looking at his other self on the glass. "So, at most, at most, in five hours"

"Or before then, other guests will come," Vero said, but there was no hope on his face.

I don't know why, her face is much more ugly now than when she saw the gray naked man just now.

She can't think of the same thing as herself, right? Ai Weili thought a little uneasily.

It's already past seven o'clock now, but the strangeness surrounding the convenience store doesn't seem to dissipate at all, which is not at all in line with the dark rules that everyone in the town knows. But the town is still living as usual, living a step-by-step life - the only difference is probably the external factor of Ai Weili.

She had broken the principles of the town, and now she was trapped in the store by something strange, and it was very likely that Vero had just happened to be unlucky and had been affected by her.

Would you like to talk to Vero? But anyone who is burdened by others will not be happy...... If Vero gets angry at her, then it will be really uncomfortable and embarrassing.

"Alas," Vero sighed, picked up the Coke on the table, opened the cap with a "snort", and muttered, "How can this be?"

The hissing sound of carbon dioxide escaping from the can, made Ai Weili suddenly raise her head—in front of her vision, there was the Coke bottle that had been lifted into the air and was reaching her lips; In the afterglow, it is also the same Coke bottle. Inside and outside the glass, two white "CocaCola" are slightly poured to both sides in a figure-eight shape.

She didn't know what she was thinking at that moment, and when the Coke in Vero's hand was about to touch her lips, Ai Weili's arm suddenly shot out like lightning as if she had self-awareness, and knocked the Coke out of her hand, and the brown liquid made a long arc in the air - "Don't drink!" ”

The cola slammed to the ground; Vero sat stunned, his free hand still in his mouth, his shoulder splashed with a few drops of Coke.

"Yes, I'm sorry," Ai Weili hurriedly said, "Did I hit you?" ”

"What are you doing? Can't I drink and pay? Vero said, shaking his hand.

"No," Ai Weili quickly glanced at the Coke bottle on the ground that was constantly spreading brown and black liquid, and said, "It's not because of the money, where did this Coke come from?" ”

"You didn't take it—" Vero stopped before he could finish his words.

"Didn't you finish the can I brought you? The garbage on the table was cleaned up. Ai Weili lowered his voice and said, "After that, you also know that we went out together, came in together, when did I go to get Coke?" When did you go get a Coke? Obviously there is no one, right? ”

She really didn't want to touch the bottle of Coke, but she had to kick it slightly with her toe to get the label in full view.

"Don't look at the bottle, tell me from memory...... In what direction does Coca-Cola's line of English tilt? ”

Vero rolled his eyes away and thought for a moment, "Right." ”

When the two of them focused their eyes on the Coke bottle, the line seemed to tilt their heads to the left to look at their row of eyes.

"When we sat down, the table was still empty, and there was nothing but the telephone."

Ai Weili said, and a little understood why the "tall and fat man" had to go back to the store to invite her to drink Coke. The first time you come to the store to buy Coke, you must be the real person, right? When he saw something strange on the Coke bottle, he refused to buy it; And the "tall fat man" who returned to the store for the second time ......

"No, you may be mistaken," Vero didn't seem to notice one more person in the reflection on the glass. She frowned and said, "I remember seeing this bottle of Coke after I sat down, let me think about it"

After a few seconds, she slowly turned her head towards the glass window.

Vero's reflection also turned his head towards her.

When the eyes met the two of them, there was not only their own reflection. The shadow of a tall, fat, vague man, huddled in a ball, was crouching under the reflection of the table, slowly poking his neck out a little.

Ai Weili bit the inner wall of his mouth, trying not to scream, and quickly swept under the real table - there was no one.

Vero jumped to his feet and took two steps back, nearly hitting the shelves behind him; After she hurriedly backhanded the item that almost fell, she seemed to react, and there was no one under the table next to her.

After relieving his breath, Vero said, "The first time I saw that bottle of Coke, it was there. ”

She and Reflection raised a hand at the same time, pointing at the table.

Ai Weili's heart sank—isn't it? You can't say that, can you?

When they sat down, the table was empty; And the first time Vero saw Coke on the table, it was in the reflection on the window?

Isn't this equivalent to breaking an anomaly?

"Surely yes," Vero said, looking down at the can of Coke at his feet, "I first saw a bottle of Coke on the table in the reflection and then I saw it on the table, so I had no doubt."

"Vero," Ai Weili called, "Don't say it! ”

Vero gave her a wry smile in return. "It's all this time, do you think it makes sense for me to avoid talking about it? Maybe I shouldn't have reminded you, I thought I was talking very vaguely, but it looks like I've broken the principles of the town. Otherwise, it's hard to explain why I'm stuck here. ”

Ai Weili looked at her, his throat as if he was clutched. "I'm sorry."

"In life, you can't escape the time when you step on dog shit." Vero didn't look at her, stooped down and picked up the Coke bottle with his fingertips, and carefully looked inside the bottle. "But what's the point of you rushing to apologize? Did you blacken the glass? Are you pretending to be a naked man? You pulled the shit? “

Ai Weili opened her mouth, and once again she couldn't say anything—but this time she was speechless, and it seemed that she had experienced it differently than she had experienced before.

Once he decided to let go of his words, Vero was really a very vocal person.

"What does this town's have to do with you, if you want to be held accountable, you should blame this town for turning a blind eye to what shouldn't have happened. Of course, I'm one of them. She couldn't tell the name of the Coke, so she simply threw it in the trash and said, "So, I thank you, you don't act like a terrorist organization that is in a hurry to become famous, and quickly claim responsibility for a terrorist attack wherever it looks." ”

It wasn't until half a minute later that Ai Weili connected the nerves in his head. She grabbed a pack of paper from the shelf, and while wiping the floor, she whispered, "But it may be that I have bothered you"

"Then you can catch these things and apologize to me." Vero said, turning around, his gaze on the glass window again.

In the reflection of the glass, the table was empty.

At this moment, every move of the two of them is faithfully and clearly reflected on the glass; It is like the most ordinary mirror, no matter how long you stare at it, the reflection of the two does not change.

"Let's go to the back of the cash register and sit down," Ai Weili suggested, really reluctant to continue sitting next to the reflection.

She dragged a chair over, and the two of them sat together in the small space behind the cash register, adding a sense of security because of the hot popularity and limbs beside her. The clock was facing the two of them, and in the anxiety that they couldn't find a place to stay, they walked slowly.

After sitting down, nothing happened for several minutes, and Ai Weili couldn't help but start to doubt herself: Did she really see the reflection of the tall and fat man just now? Didn't Vero say nothing? Maybe it's just a mislabeled version of Coke, or maybe it's precious......

The store was full of goods, so she dared to pack tickets, was there really no Coke on the table just now?

She felt a little silly for a while, a little embarrassed for a while, and refused to continue to deny her eyes; Ai Weili absentmindedly folded the corner of the detective's book, his eyes always wandering on the clock.

"First you, then me, it seems that the bottle of Coke really wants to enter the human body." Beside her, Vero asked in a whisper. "What do you think would happen if I drank Coke?"

Ai Weili has been trying not to think about it; What's more, she really doesn't have an answer.

"Don't use that strange expression," she said, feeling Vero beside her glance at her.

Wait a minute, how did Vero know that he was also facing the situation of drinking that bottle of Coke...... too?

Vero didn't finish his words.

"If I drank Coke, which of the following do you think would happen?" She went on to ask, "One, very positive consequences; Second, more positive consequences; Three, the consequences of neither good nor bad"

Ai Weili slowly turned his head towards the person next to him.

Verro's gaze met it—her mouth was tightly closed, her face pale.

And the voice still floated in the air, at first it seemed a bit like Vero, but as it spoke, the more ridiculous it became, like an overly forceful imitation: "Four, more negative consequences"

Wei Luo couldn't help but cover his mouth, looked at Ai Weili without blinking, and shook his head desperately.

"Or, five, the consequences that none of you want to see?"

The wild deer convenience store is too short, and the ninth chapter will be in V...... (If you don't enter in two days, it will be even more complete!) ）

Anyway, I'm thinking about whether to change the posting time to the evening, as if the evening is more suitable for reading......?

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