The glass of water is clear and does not show the slightest impurities.

Zhang Jiao held the purple sand cup in his hand and shook it gently.

I saw that the clear water that was at the level of the mouth of the cup immediately rolled up a small whirlpool in the cup and kept rotating.

The water vapor rises, slowly emitting a scent of tea.

Zhang Jiao sniffed the fragrance of tea lingering on the tip of his nose and took a sip gently.

The tea is refreshing, constantly changing between hot and cold, and people can't tell whether they are drinking hot tea or herbal tea for a while.

After drinking a cup of tea, Zhang Jiao spread out his palm, and there was still the shadow of a teacup in his palm.

He looked at the empty palm and laughed in a low voice, "This mirage is really as the commentary says, true and false, all in one thought, but also mysterious. ”

As he muttered to himself, the figure standing by the pool in the courtyard slowly disappeared into the air, as if it had never existed before.

In the hall of the old house.

Zhang Jiao, who was leaning back on the sofa, licked his lower lips and said softly, "Good tea." ”

With a low laugh, the four-armed figure behind him quietly disappeared.

Zhang Jiao stretched his waist, stood up, and walked to the coffee table.

On the coffee table, the signal light on the mobile phone connected to the charger keeps flashing red, indicating that there is a missed message.

Zhang Jiao picked up the phone, unplugged the connected charger casually, unlocked it and turned on the screen, and saw the time displayed on the phone.

21 May 2024, 13:27.

"Eight, nine, ten, eleven...... Four, five. It's been almost a year, I'm a year older?" Zhang Jiao thought subconsciously.

He tugged at his phone, not too surprised.

Ever since the first mission was completed, he knew that time spent in the mission world did not stand still, and that time in the real world was passing, but in a slightly different proportion.

So, this situation has long been in his imagination.

Zhang Jiao pulled the screen of his mobile phone, opened the flashing message, and saw a text message lying alone in the letter box.

He opened the text message, and a short message immediately came to mind.

"I wish you a happy new year in advance!January 23, 2024, Qin Shiming. ”

Zhang Jiao looked at the name and time of the payment, and after a little hesitation, he immediately replied, "Tongle." I also wish you a happy Dragon Boat Festival in advance. ’

After saying this, a series of advertisements immediately popped up on the phone.

"Good mountains, good water, leisure resort. Welcome to Huangyun Mountain Resort, a five-A scenic spot. ”

"Bloody Nose Horror House Tour, looking forward to your visit, don't be scared to cry!"

"Seven screams in one night, the donkey friend was murdered, what is the reason behind this, let us walk into the mysterious ancient village together. ”

Zhang Jiao looked at the ad that suddenly popped up on his phone, his eyes narrowed slightly.

After a brief browsing, he hid it and opened the letter.

Feixin's circle of friends is still very lively.

Moaning without illness, promoting goods, selfie display, advertorial...... All kinds of information are as always, but none of them greet @ their own.

Zhang Jiao looked at the mess and talked about it, pulled it down, found a small circle formed by a few of his guys and his brothers, and browsed it casually.

The circle is as tepid as before.

It's not the information shared in the mobile game, or the inquiry of finding someone to open the black or go out to eat and drink, or the sand sculpture videos and pictures that I don't know where to find them.

Zhang Jiao clicked on their avatars, looked at the news shared by each of them, and kept whispering to himself.

"Haozi has given birth to another son! It seems that his plan to have a daughter is about to be pushed back again. ”

"Hmm? Is Kenko already engaged? He's a few years younger than me, and he's married so early!"

"Do you dare to eat like this at night? Yuanyuan, your dead girl is almost one hundred and sixteen, and you are not taboo, are you really afraid that you won't be able to get married?"

Zhang Jiao flipped through the close-up of relatives and friends in the group circle, and watched it for more than an hour in the blink of an eye.

After reading this, he was ready to make up the red envelopes for those relatives and friends who had a happy event, but just as he was about to send them.

Zhang Jiao suddenly paused.

He slowly revoked these red envelopes, not to mention, but also deleted them one by one.

"It's good, everyone is fine. ”

He said as he slowly walked towards the outside of the courtyard.

As soon as he stepped out of the courtyard gate, an invincible force immediately descended from all around and firmly bound him.

Zhang Jiao suddenly stumbled for a while, and leaned on the wall next to him for a while before recovering.

He gasped for breath, and only felt as if he was carrying a mountain, and the various abilities in his suppressed body could not be moved at all.

There seemed to be a force field around his body that firmly bound himself to his body, not to mention, there was an omnipresent sense of surveillance enveloping his whole body, as if he would be immediately hit by a thunderbolt if he moved slightly.

Zhang Jiao felt the sense of oppression from the world, and suddenly thought inexplicably, "No wonder I have never heard of the existence of people like myself in the real world, and I have only experienced three missions and have been suppressed so seriously, so wouldn't those veterans not even be able to get out of their own safety zone?"

"I can see it, isn't this the original intention of that mysterious space, let us stay in the mission world 007 with peace of mind, don't think about returning to the real world all day long to fish. ”

Zhang Jiao had all kinds of thoughts swirling in his mind, and after getting used to it for a while, he staggered towards his storefront.

In the middle of Donglin Street, in front of Zhang Ji Shroud Store.

The storefront, as Zhang Jiao remembered, was dilapidated and old.

He stepped forward, expertly opened the old-fashioned iron lock, removed the door panel that was painted with various marks when he was a child, and walked in quickly.

The house was filled with the smell of mildew, and there were a lot of spider webs hanging in the corners and corners.

Zhang Jiao tried to open the tungsten light bulb that had been used in the store for many years, but he didn't expect that the light bulb was still working and had not been pulled off the electric switch.

He took advantage of the light to look at the unseemly hemp wreath in the room, shook his head subconsciously, and then rolled up his sleeves and moved these things that were no longer usable outside the door.

In the crowded streets, everyone didn't look at Zhang Jiao's actions as if they couldn't see Zhang Jiao's actions.

When the sun was about to set, Zhang Jiao, who had been busy for a long time, finally cleaned up the storefront.

He carefully inspected it, then locked the door again, pulled a small cart, and pulled the swept garbage and moldy funeral goods to the large garbage bin at the end of the street and threw them away.

After doing all this, Zhang Jiao dialed the phone, "Hello, lawyer Liu, I'm Zhang Jiao." I'd like to ask you to come and talk about the gift of the old house in my name. ”

"Okay, then I'll wait for you in the Li Building. ”

......

At about nine o'clock in the evening, after transferring all the property deeds under his name to his cousin, Zhang Jiao immediately returned to his old mansion.

As soon as Fang stepped into the old mansion, the ubiquitous sense of oppression immediately disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Jiao stretched his muscles and came to his bedroom.

He turned on the computer, took out his mobile phone, randomly opened the advertisements that were hidden at noon, and directly entered the five-A scenic spot Huangyun Mountain Resort, and then clicked OK.

Dozens of pictures and videos about the Huangyun Mountain Resort, a five-A scenic spot, quickly surfaced on the webpage.

Zhang Jiao looked at this piece of information, opened a picture at random, and saw the photo displayed.

A group of figures are standing in front of an unfinished hotel, holding a banner that reads Welcome to Huangyun Mountain Resort, a five-A scenic spot.

The picture looks like it's just like when any other construction site is nearing completion, and there's nothing special about it.

But if you look closely, you will find that the figures holding the banner are all bleeding and their eyes are closed.

There is also a white flower pinned to his chest, which looks more like a dead person than a living person.

Zhang Jiao stared at the pictures that appeared on the webpage, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he thought to himself, "That's really the case." ”

He stayed in the previous world for more than two hundred days, and he didn't receive a single message except for Qin Shiming's message.

Not to mention the advertising promotion of other apps, even the mobile phone arrears notice has not been received.

You know, in the past, he wouldn't have received dozens of promotions one day, how could the mobile phone be so clean, only three or two promotions, it was obviously not normal.

Therefore, after taking care of the last bit of personal affairs in this reality, he immediately rushed back to find out the news about these messages.

Sure enough, after a little searching, he effortlessly found a large piece of news about the five-A scenic spot Huangyun Mountain Resort.

Zhang Jiao looked at the increasingly gloomy images on the picture, and immediately opened another web page, searching for the Bloody Nose Horror House and the mysterious ancient village.

More than ten minutes later, after browsing the news on the Internet.

Zhang Jiao thought for a while, and after a burst of photo shooting sound accompanied by the click of the mobile phone, he immediately came to the backyard, drove his half-new old pickup truck, and then opened the mobile phone APP and put it in front of the driver's seat.

"Suntech Navigation is at your service. Please enter your destination. ”

Zhang Jiao immediately said, "Huangyun Mountain, Suiyun City." ”

The navigation map listens to the sound, and immediately shows up a map, and a driving route is outlined with a green line.

"I've navigated for you, this journey takes about 6 hours and 47 minutes, I wish you a nice trip. ”

Zhang Jiao glanced at the route, glanced at the fuel gauge by the way, and after finding that the fuel tank was full, he immediately kicked the accelerator and drove towards County Road 302.

As the night darkens, a pickup truck quickly pulls out of the city and onto the county road.

The pickup truck drove smoothly down the county road at eighty yards, no more, no less.

The road was safe, without encountering any accidents, and when it was close to dawn, Zhang Jiao had arrived in Suiyun City.

He followed the instructions of the navigation and did not enter the city, but followed the ring road, and after driving for a long distance, stopped in front of a mountain forest.

In front of the mountains and forests, an old road came to an abrupt end.

Zhang Jiao drove and parked on the side of the road, looking at the old road where there was no village in front of the village and no shops in the back, how to see how something was wrong.

No matter how bad the road in the resort is, it can't be only two people wide, right?

"This is your guide?"

Zhang Jiao squinted his eyes at the Suntech navigation app on his phone, and was about to see if he ran in the wrong place or if the lack of virtue navigation was out of order, when the female voice in the app said sweetly. "We have arrived at our destination, Huangyun Mountain, Suntech Navigation thanks you for using it and wishes you a pleasant journey. ”

As soon as the electronic synthesis sound was played, Zhang Jiao suddenly felt a strange feeling, and the entire mountain forest in front of him immediately became a little different.

In the dim mountain forest, a crisp sound of footsteps came from far and near.

"Step, step ......"

Zhang Jiao looked towards the source of the sound and saw a light walking briskly from the bend of the mountain forest.

"Hello, are you the expert here? ”

Before anyone arrived, a loud male voice came from afar.

Only then did Zhang Jiao see that he was tall and thin, wearing a county guard uniform, and looked about thirty years old.

As soon as he walked over, he immediately stretched out his palm and said loudly, "Thank you for coming, please come with me." ”

After saying that, the man went first.

Zhang Jiao looked at his figure, followed him, and asked by the way, "Do you know that I am coming here?"

The man nodded, and immediately replied, "Yes, at ten o'clock last night, we received an order that another expert was coming and asked us to wait at the intersection. ”

"Another one?"

Zhang Jiao was not surprised that the other party knew that he was coming here, but was more interested in the other expert he was talking about.

"Another tasker?"

As he pondered, he followed the man, and after a few turns, he immediately came to a prefabricated house.

The open space in front of the prefabricated house was full of fences and car-blocking piles, and dozens of officers and soldiers wearing county guard uniforms were guarding the intersection with serious expressions, and they even carried a slight rush in their hands.

Zhang Jiao suddenly looked at it twice, and only then did he realize that there was something very wrong with these officers and soldiers standing guard.

They look like normal people, but every minute of their breath is exactly the same, as if they are synchronously conjoined.

Just as he was secretly pondering, the man who had brought him in earlier had already taken out a document bag from the board room and handed it over.

"Look, expert, that's what happened. ”

Zhang Jiao stared at the man in front of him for a few seconds, and unsurprisingly realized that he was the same as them.

It was as if there was a force acting in their bodies, both restraining and protecting.

"Look, expert, that's what happened. ”

The man repeated the words again, and the document bag in his hand was handed in the air.

Zhang Jiao looked at him, finally took the document bag, and began to look at the documents in the flashlight carried by the other party.

Two months ago, the newly built resort in Huangyun Mountain opened.

Since it has just opened, the resort has launched a series of special promotions online, attracting a lot of tourists.

But something strange happened, and all the tourists who came here were never seen again after entering the resort.

Due to the large number of missing people, after receiving the reports from the families of these missing people, the Suiyun City government attached great importance to it and immediately sent capable catchers to conduct reconnaissance, but after some searching, these dozens of catchers disappeared without a trace at the same time.

The government immediately dispatched troops and started a large-scale search along the last place where the dozen or so arresters appeared, but the results were panicking.

After this search, not only did not find the slightest clue, but more than 10 missing people appeared in the team of nearly 200 people searched.

Just as Zhang Jiao saw this, a dry and harsh voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Friend, you're late, this mission already has a master. ”