The room is not very large, similar to the usual arrangement of the interview work, in front of the subject's seat, there are seven tables and chairs, each of which is occupied by people, men and women, generally over thirty years old, the oldest has white hair and a face full of vicissitudes.

When Colin sat down, the old man with white hair and vicissitudes of life spoke:

"Mr. Colin, let's start the assessment now?"

"Okay." Colin nodded, and habitually crossed Erlang's legs, glancing at the "old man" in front of him.

Except for some documents, there is nothing on the desktop that identifies the other person's name or anything.

In addition, his rich experience let him know that this is a "pusher", that is, don't look at the other party's old appearance, the actual age may be two years younger than many Jin who are middle-aged and elderly.

"Smack."

The "old man" picked up a stack of papers, knocked the edge on the table and made a crisp sound, and then asked with a serious face:

"Do you have any thoughts on salted tofu?"

“.”

It's not so perfunctory. Colin was speechless in his heart, but he pursed his lips on the surface, groaned, as if he had thought deeply, and then said:

"I don't know, I usually drink sweet."

"Yes, that's good."

The "white-haired old man" nodded seriously, picked up the pen and wrote on the paper in front of him: "Calm personality, well-founded, not panicked in the face of difficult problems, not in a hurry to give immature answers, but after careful consideration, the answer is given, the decision-making ability is very strong, can quickly make the right decision in complex situations, is the highest level of people I have ever seen in my life.'

And while he was writing these things with a serious face, another assessor spoke:

"If an old man falls down on the side of the road and beckons to you for help, will you save him?"

"The conditions are too few to give, and I don't answer." Colin said casually.

"Are you sure that's the answer?"

"Yes."

Hearing this, the assessor nodded seriously, glanced at him with a pleased gaze on the surface, and then began to write:

'In the face of what is considered unreasonable, he has the courage to question, he dares to challenge authority, he has the courage to pursue the truth, he has a strong will and a high degree of consciousness, and his mind has led and surpassed the top level of the current era.'

At the same time, another person said seriously:

"If you had money, would you give money to ordinary people"

"If you don't give it, it's better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, I will teach them to fish and get paid a certain percentage."

"Good!"

After about half an hour, the examiners stood up one after another, sorted out the documents, showed smiling faces, and clapped their hands while saying congratulations.

"Congratulations, welcome to the absolute high score that you have never had before, and you have passed the written test!"

"Yes, yes, it's my honor to interview such an outstanding young man as you!"

"My assessment of you is perfect, lad, do a good job!"

“.”

'I know it's a show, but'

Listening to these words, even Colin, who has always heard too much flattery, couldn't help but feel a little hot on his cheeks.

It feels like being caught through the back door and being executed in a public yin and yang weird way.

According to many Kim, very high ratings, which rarely appear, will increase the likelihood of attracting attention from the 'Book of Numerology', but it doesn't matter if it's normal, I'll be able to get by.'

Colin muttered inwardly.

"Alright, we'll hand in the paperwork first, and you'll stay here for a while, Mr. Colin."

After the "white-haired old man" finished speaking, he left the office in turn with his documents and six other people.

That is, about ten minutes after they left.

There was a sudden silence in the office.

All voices seemed to be cut off at this moment.

'Here we are! ’

Colin felt a pang in his heart.

Maybe it's because the relevant documents are entered and "uploaded", and then, some kind of indescribable thing seems to be throwing a gaze here, a curious gaze.

It seems strange who would receive such a high evaluation.

It is at this moment that

Colin's senses were suddenly confused, he seemed to see a book with his tongue, smell the book with his ears, and touch the texture of a book with his nose.

His perception is distorted!

"Whoa!"

A scorching fire ignited from his body, and all of Colin's senses were forcibly restored to a fraction.

Immediately after, he noticed that the scene around him had been severely distorted.

And in this distortion, the light emitted by the flame reflects the outline of a book

Only, when Colin saw it, the book opened from the middle, like a big mouth, and swallowed towards him, leaving little room for resistance.

'Damn, a lot of gold told me not to resist, this is especially something I can't resist! ’

After the last thought, all consciousness sank into darkness.

At the same time, within a radius of several kilometers, all the staff in the vicinity of the park, including many Jin, who had just walked out of the distance, could hear the sound of books slamming shut clearly.

"It seems that success has attracted attention." Many of the kims stopped and muttered to themselves.

As one of the high-ranking personnel of "Pusher", he knew very well what that voice meant.

He also knew that Colin would enter the holy land in the hearts of all the "pushers" and know the deepest secrets that even he, an eighth-level person, did not know.

"Well, it's clear that I came first."

He said half jokingly, half sighing.

Then, turn around and continue walking towards the area that will become a battlefield.

I don't know how long it took, but when Colin came back to his senses, he found that although it was still dark all around, it was no longer textureless.

"What was that book just now?" The Book of Numerology'? Am I swallowed by it? ”

Colin was puzzled, but he didn't think much of it, he looked around and could clearly "observe" that there were a lot of strange things around.

There was a feeling that they were about to overwhelm him and make him lose themselves.

Immediately, he instinctively "banged" again and burst into flames, isolating the suffocating feeling that drowned him.

Immediately afterwards, I saw that those strange things were actually black silk threads that trembled and wriggled like a thread, some were thicker, like a nematode, and some were thinner, like hair

"What the hell is going on?" Colin stood there and frowned.

But at this moment, a word suddenly came to my ear: "It's amazing that the 'bonfire' can be lit here, but it is also convenient for me to find you."

"Mr. Wu?" Colin said in surprise.

But you don't see anyone around?

"Well, I saw you through my ability, you don't have to worry, control your consciousness, move forward, while things haven't really started yet, I probably still have some time and energy to show you the way."

"Yes, thank you." Colin nodded.

But after saying that, I heard Mr. Wu suddenly say thoughtlessly: "Be careful for a while, although your ability will not have an accident here, but in order to prevent accidents, I will give you a flaw and make good use of it." ”

"Huh?" Colin was a little puzzled, and just wanted to say "what a flaw", but choked back to the second half of the sentence under a kind of inspiration.

Then, he heard Mr. Wu say: "There is no danger here, but, of course, if you can, you had better put away the 'bonfire', otherwise you may accidentally burn the 'fate' of those ordinary people at once."

"Thanks for the reminder, I'll keep the fire under control."

Colin bowed his head, and then saw an invisible "man" in front of him.

His thoughts drove him and he went with him.

Walking through the ocean woven by countless "numerology threads", I don't know how long he walked, he suddenly smelled a faint but unignorable smell of corpses.

It's strange that even a bonfire can't hide this stench!

At this time, Mr. Wu's hearty and gentle voice sounded again: "Hehe, this taste is directly input to your perception in a certain way, so it can't be avoided."

"For example, if I write a paragraph on a piece of paper, 'You smell a smell,' then you will smell it, and you can't avoid it by normal means.

"However, if you disperse the campfire now, the stench of the corpse may be 'corrected' into a scent."

This is also a means of the "Book of Numerology"? Is it so magical, but under the bonfire, revealing his true appearance, Colin couldn't help but mumble in his heart, and then listened to Mr. Wu's last words, and shook his head:

"That's not necessary."

He vaguely felt that there might be something wrong with this "old Mr. Wu".

It's just that when Colin felt that the other party had a problem, he didn't know why he couldn't be vigilant.

However, as he chatted and went deeper, the surrounding "thread of fate" gradually disappeared, and as the flames reflected, Colin saw a community in the dark.

The neighborhood looks old, it seems to have been built in the last century, and many of the white tiles have long since fallen off.

Although it is eerie, it inexplicably makes people feel a little warm.

"Do you know where the 'Book of Numerology: Fragments' came from?"

"Listening" to the other party's words, Colin suddenly had a slight change in his pupils, as if he had noticed something, but then he disguised himself as if he hadn't noticed anything, and decisively made this discovery as "inspiration" to hide.

He had a hunch that what he saw would become a key piece of information for a while.

Then, with curiosity on his face, Colin tried to prostitute his knowledge in vain and said, "I don't know, what's the saying?" ”

To be honest, he used this thing a lot in the early days, but now he generally doesn't use it much.

It's just that some more points will be given to employees, and after an interval of seven days, they will use this part of the points to do what they understand

"Hehe, do you see that grease stain on the ground?"

"Yes." Colin nodded, then realized that he heard the other person explain.

"This is corpse oil, and it is also the origin of the 'Book of Numerology: Fragments', which will flow into an anomalous area of the real world in a special way, which we call 'Area 1' because it is the first place where the anomaly appeared."

"After collecting the corpse oil, when making paper, you can get the 'Book of Numerology: Fragments' by adding it to the wood pulp in proportion, and ordinary people who use this kind of paper have the opportunity to become the most basic 'life pusher' because of the trace infiltration of the active ingredients in the absorption of the corpse oil."

Hey, there is such a secret in "pushing life", speaking of which, when I saw the fragments of the "Book of Numerology" in the official way before, there was indeed a smell, but at that time, I didn't expect it to be the corpse oil Colin snorted.

However, there is no resistance to corpse oil, after all, he often uses "corpse oil" products

It's just that after it's handled, there is no smell.

"Okay, don't say anything, you walk all the way along this place where the corpse oil flows, of course, the 'bonfire' may accidentally light it, if you can, it's better to extinguish it, don't worry about not being able to see it"

"It's okay, I'll take care of it."

I didn't know why for a while, but Colin felt extremely resistant to the act of extinguishing the fire in his heart.

It's as if this is his untouchable bottom line.

With that, he took a step forward and walked in the direction of the community

Three or five minutes later, in one of the buildings in the unmanned dark community, he actually saw that on the thirteenth floor, there was a bright window, from which the dim and warm light shone out, which looked extremely strange in the dark.

The grease on the ground, which smelled of corpses growing stronger, flowed from behind the building's open first-floor door.

Colin went all the way in.

I saw corpse oil flowing down the emergency passage next to the elevator door

He looked at it for a moment, then continued inside.

In the narrow and cramped corridors, the smell of corpses was unusually strong.

At this time, the voice of "Mr. Wu" continued to appear, like a good friend: "It will be very tiring to take the stairs, in fact, if you don't use the 'flame', you can take the elevator, which is more convenient." ”

"I usually don't exercise much, so it's good to take two more steps." Colin still didn't agree.

After only a few steps up the stairs dripping with corpse oil, he felt a very strong feeling of tiredness, and after walking two steps, he became out of breath and could not stand up from exhaustion.

However, this is only to the eighth floor

"I said I'm tired, do you want an elevator?" "Mr. Wu" made a suggestion.

Colin shook his head and continued upward.

Finally, when he had walked the thirteenth floor, he sat down on the edge of the steps tiredly, his mouth dry and extremely tired.

"How could I, be so weak?" Colin gasped for air, his eyes puzzled.

"I don't usually exercise, but I exercise a lot at once." "Mr. Wu" said next to him: "If you disperse the flames on your body, you can save a lot of effort."

"No, no, no."

Colin took a deep breath, put his hands on his knees, stood up with force, and walked out of the emergency hallway.

Outside the door, there was only one hallway, and at the end of the hallway there was an open door.

When he came here, Colin looked behind the door and found that it seemed to be a large flat floor, with a very luxurious decoration and solid wood style, which was very different from the old appearance of the community.

And on the ground, there are quite a few things scattered in it, some books, some documents, etc., etc.

However, compared to these, what really makes Colin care is .

In one of the rooms, the faint light was quietly lit up through the crack in the slightly open door, and the sound of a pen scratching the paper, as if someone was writing in it.

"Anyone?!"

For a moment, Colin became nervous.

But after a while, he still chose to prepare to enter and push open the door—

Although he didn't know why, he felt like that was what he was here for.

"It's very rude to go into someone else's room, if you use a flame, you see so many documents on the ground, what if it burns out, or put out the fire and then go in, if the old community burns it, it's not good, fire protection. There may not be water in the plug."

"It's like. too"

Colin had a strong desire to dissipate the flames from his body, because it all made sense.

But another emotion is resisting it!

That is, when he was in a "dilemma", the "inspiration" in Colin's mind suddenly flashed, he suddenly realized something, and suddenly stretched out his hand to the side and grabbed it.

From nothingness, an invisible "person" was dragged.

Then the flames stirred up, ignited them in an instant, and burned them all

Finally, there was silence in my ears.

That urge to put out the fire is gone.

"Almost smacked." Colin's eyes were clear, he felt the wetness behind him, and he found that he had been shocked into a cold sweat.

If he hadn't discovered a flaw before, he might have really had something wrong this time.

As for the content of the "flaw", during his conversation, he suddenly noticed that when the other party verbally said the fragment of the "Book of Numerology", it was actually "The Book of Numerology, the fragment", not the "Fragment of the Book of Numerology".

This made him realize that he had not heard anything, but had seen what the other person was "saying" from his retina.

And with this "flaw" as a mouth, you can immediately detect other things that are wrong!

", speaking of which, just going upstairs shouldn't say less exercise, it should be said that there is more exercise, you can climb casually, otherwise I wouldn't be so tired now."

The strong inspiration made Colin realize that the reason why he was so tired now was because he was "affirmed" by others.

said less, the "old Mr. Wu" who didn't know what to do directly arranged for him, and then he really exercised less

So much so that the existence that can confront the first-level containment object is almost exhausted after climbing the stairs.

"But speaking of which, thank you Mr. Wu for that wave of help, otherwise something will definitely happen"

Colin exhaled.

Then, after cleaning up the "Old Mr. Wu" who didn't know if it was related to the "Book of Numerology", he rolled his eyes and looked at the slightly open bedroom door in the room where a large number of documents and books were scattered all over the floor.

The tip of the pen clicked from time to time, and the people in the bedroom didn't seem to notice that something was peeking outside the door.

Colin's attention shifted slightly downward, noticing.

At the bottom of this doorway, there was a viscous and foul-smelling corpse oil, which flowed out little by little.

This time he could be sure that behind this door might be the "Rabbit Lady" and the other things that everyone else cared about.

As long as he pushes the door open, the truest appearance of the world will be displayed in front of him, and the peace of the past may be gone.

For a while, he even gave birth to a "retreat".

"No, I can't hesitate, I feel like I've been affected again"

As thoughts flickered, Colin stepped into it.

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(End of chapter)

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