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Pengcheng.

In a Conference Hall on the 10th floor of an office building, eight people including Zhang Qian and Tang Baona are having a meeting to discuss some temporary problems.

However, the expressions on the faces of several people are relatively relaxed. After all, they are not encountering major problems, and time is not tight.

Only Yang Zhener, who sits at the corner of the conference table and looks at the notebook, has a solemn expression on his face. He seems to think that the problem is serious, as if he is dissatisfied with the way Tang Baona and Zhang Qian discussed.

However, until the discussion was over, Tang Baona and Zhang Qian, as well as the others in the Conference Hall, got up and started to pack up and leave. She didn’t say a word, she just closed the laptop silently. , And then followed Tang Baona to leave, as if she was just a meeting recorder.

Zhang Qian and the others had to take the elevator down to the underground parking lot to drive, but Tang Baona and Yang Zhener lived in a hotel near the office building and were within walking distance, so they said goodbye on the first floor.

Out of the office building’s gate, Tang Baona glanced at Yang Zhener, who was carrying a backpack next to him and still squinting. Yang Zhener, who seemed to be worried, couldn’t help but said with a smile: “When we had a meeting, you were looking at something Is it heavy and miserable social news? Why do you keep suffering?”

Yang Zhener heard this for a moment, and then dissatisfied: “Hey? Why are you wronging people? Am I the kind of person who will openly watch the news and fish when other people are in a meeting to discuss business matters! I can’t be Looking at the company’s documents, are you thinking about the issues you are discussing? Maybe I also have unique insights! None of you asked my opinion just now!”

“Then, “Manager Yang”, what do you think?” Tang Baona made a virtual fist, pretending to hold a microphone and handed it over.

Yang Zhener stopped, leaned back slightly, glared at her, and said, “This is not in the Conference Hall, and Zhang Qian and others are not there. It’s useless if I tell you, don’t tell!”

“Oh, you’re still playing with a little temper?” Tang Baona said, and he took Yang Zhener’s neck and leaned her against him, said with a smile: “Come on, just in the Conference Hall, I You can see what you are watching on the screen from the reflection of the glass behind you. You are just reading the news in pictures and texts! You are scanning Weibo! And you know! There is also a white background. What website is it from?”

“I’m not! I don’t have it!” Yang Zhener also grabbed Tang Baona’s neck with his backhand and sneered.

“Don’t admit it yet, you take out your computer and look at the browser history record, you can see the browsing time on it!” Tang Baona tightened Yang Zhener’s neck, chuckled.

Yang Zhener was first caught under the armpit by Nana. She lost her position advantage and couldn’t exert her strength. She couldn’t resist. She had to poke her hand down and scratched her waist.

Tang Baona smiled and flicked away, then reached out to grab her computer bag.

Yang Zhener said while hiding, “seriously” with an expression of “seriousness”: “Don’t make a fuss first, tell you a big, big, big thing I found!”

“What’s the matter? The fan you were chasing after was cut, or the peripherals you wanted to buy were out of stock, or your mom asked you to go back to get married, and your dad asked you to go back to inherit your family business, and your driver’s license scores were deducted. , Did you forget the annual inspection of your car?” Tang Baona obviously felt that she was changing the subject, so she naturally said with a smile casually.

Yang Zhener ignored his friend’s chuckles and continued to maintain a serious expression: “It’s related to Chef Xiang. Do you remember the news about Myanmar we talked about when we were eating at noon? There were riots and monsters. That?”

Tang Baona said strangely: “You mean that many people saw hallucinations in Montamilla? What does that matter have to do with Xiang Kun?”

When they had dinner with Zhang Qian and the others at noon, the director Lin talked about the news casually, but only briefly said that there was a riot in Muntamira, Myanmar, and then a illusion of a huge monster appeared, turning the mob They were all frightened and stopped the riot.

However, because they had other things to talk about at the time, this topic was only casually mentioned. Director Lin didn’t elaborate on it, and others didn’t at all discuss it in depth.

After all, it happened in another country, and to Tang Baona, what monster hallucinations, illusions and so on sounded like some kind of group confusing behavior, it is not that she would pay attention and curiosity Information.

“Do you know what the monster illusion that appeared in Montamira is like?” Yang Zhener approached and said mysteriously.

“Since it is an illusion, does it matter what it is like?” Tang Baona asked strangely.

Yang Zhener shook his head: “Several blocks, many people have seen the same illusion, it is not just an illusion. You know, all the monster illusions they saw have one characteristic, eight arms , Eight eyes! How do you think of something?”

Tang Baona brows slightly wrinkle: “You mean, the wood carving that Xiang Kun had carved before?”

“Yes, yes, it was he who carved the eight-armed eight-eyed wood carving that was given to your grandfather. Later, you Second Uncle secretly sent the wood carving to someone for a’practice’, and then you found out that he was coming back. Didn’t you say to the chef that the image with eight arms and eight eyes was designed by him?” Yang Zhener repeatedly nodded.

“At the beginning, he did say that, but the image of eight eyes and eight arms should not be unique to his wood carving?” Tang Baona said.

Yang Zhener took out her mobile phone, and after checking it for a while, showed it to her: “Look, this is the wood carving from the chef before.”

When Xiang Kun gave the wooden sculpture of eight arms and eight eyes to Tang Baona, she also took several photos, and even sent them to Old Xia specifically, let her help analyze it, Xiang Kun created such a What kind of mentality is the image of wood carving?

In addition to the eight-arm, eight-eye woodcarving photos I took earlier, Yang Zhener flicked the picture again to let Tang Baona see another picture she had just found.

That picture is also a monster with eight arms and eight eyes. It was obviously drawn by someone with a good background in painting. Although it was not colored, it looked very realistic.

Look at the previous woodcarving photo first, and then look at this drawing. The two are compared. No matter who, they will feel different artistic expressions of the same thing.

“This was painted by the in-persons at the scene of Mentamila last night. This picture is the image she saw. How about it, it is basically the same as the wood carving of Chef Xiang! Is this the same?” Yang Zhener took back his phone again, searched on the browser, and then passed the video he found to Tang Baona to watch: “Look at this, this is a 3D image restored by foreign media based on the descriptions of other witnesses, right? Is it basically the same?”

Tang Baona can see slightly wrinkle: “It’s a bit like… but the wood carving made by Xiang Kun is much more lovely… There is also a 3D picture in this painting… Should it be just a coincidence?”

Yang Zhener immediately said: “I just searched online when you were in a meeting. Generally, the statues with many arms are three eyes, multiple arms, or Three Heads Six Arms, three heads and eight arms. I look for For a long time, I haven’t found an image with eight eyes and eight arms at the same time. The only thing with similar characteristics…only spiders.”

“So what you mean is that the hallucinations that many people in Montamilla had, the hallucinations they saw, were created by Xiang Kun? Why did he do that? How did he do it?” Tang Baona asked.

“Does this still need to be said? Of course it is to prevent Montamira from rioting against the Chinese!” Yang Zhener said, lowering the volume, next to Tang Baona, holding her arm, and whispered:” Nana, do you remember when I told you last time, what might a secret organization with super powers join the chef? To quell the riots, it should be the mission that secret organization gave him! Hey, Nana, do you remember before? Did we watch JOJO together? You said that the style of painting cannot be accepted and only watched the two episodes. I will watch it all by myself. In fact, you will be able to accept the style of painting after a while…anyway, anyway, to the third Department, the powerhouse abilities are all done by an illusory shadow called avatar, you said, will the monster illusion of eight arms and eight eyes be the avatar of Chef? We usually look towards Chef When cooking, doing woodcarving, and doing many things, he was actually summoning the’stand-in’ to work, but we can’t see it…”

Tang Baona frowned slightly at the beginning, and listened very seriously, because she also felt that the paintings painted by Montamira’s personalities, the 3D images made by the media, and the eight-armed and eight-eye wood carving that Xiang Kun had carved before Quite similar, at least the overall structure is basically the same. But as she listened, she smiled and bent over at Unable to Bear, and Zhener started to overcompensate again.

“Walk around, let’s have some supper first. I’m starving to death. You eat and YY.” Tang Baona walked behind Yang Zhener and pushed her forward.

“Where to eat? I want to have soup, hey, but that one is a bit far away. It’s too late now. Let’s eat beef noodles…Wait a minute, what YY! I am seriously analyzing the problem, OK!”

After looking for a noodle restaurant nearby, Yang Zhener continued to “improve” her inference after ordering something good.

But seeing Tang Baona’s squinting eyes and looking at his expression with a smile, Yang Zhener asked disabled to bear: “Nana, don’t you believe what I said? Is it unreasonable?”

“No, if you want to confirm, can you just ask Xiang Kun?” Tang Baona said with a smile.

“When you were in the meeting, I already sent him a dozen WeChat messages, and he didn’t reply to one! And I also asked Liu Chuang on WeChat. He is still in Tongshi Town, but he said The chef has not been to’Youlong Restaurant’ in these two days! I also asked Old Xia, but Old Xia hasn’t returned me yet.” Yang Zhener said.

“Can you just call him directly?” Tang Baona said.

“That won’t work…then…then beat the grass to scare the snake!”

Tang Baona said with a smile: “Are you afraid that Xiang Kun will expose your naive guesses directly?” She said, picked up the phone directly, found Xiang Kun’s name from the call log and dialed out.

“Hey?!” Yang Zhener was taken aback, and quickly got up, got up next to Tang Baona, leaned his head over, and snooped on her phone.

“…The subscriber you dialed is temporarily unavailable, please redial later. Sorry, The subscriber you dialed…”

Listening to the female voice prompt from Nana’s phone, Yang Zhener chuckled, remaining calm and composed while handling pressing affairs, walked back to his position and sat down, and said, “Look, it’s there again. The mobile phone can’t get through and people disappear. Every once in a while, there will always be a day or two or even days! It must be to’execute a task’!”

Tang Baona frowned and thought about it, and she was about to call Old Xia. She knew that Old Xia was helping Xiang Kun build a breeding research center. During this time, she was either in Tongshi Town or Chongyun Village. Kun’s whereabouts should be clearer.

But before she pressed the dial button, Yang Zhener’s cell phone on the other side rang first.

Yang Zhener picked up the phone and took a look, was taken aback, and said to Tang Baona: “It’s my mom… strange, why would my mom call me so late?”

“Is it something urgent? Hurry up!” Tang Baona urged.

Yang Zhener didn’t say a few words after connecting to Mother’s phone, but his expression became more and more surprised. After talking with Mother for a long time, he hung up the phone.

Tang Baona cared about: “Is someone kidnapped in your family?” From the few words Yang Zhener said during the conversation with Mother just now, someone in her family was kidnapped, but what is strange is that they communicated The tone of judgment is not as if it is urgent.

Yang Zhener moved a chair across from Tang Baona, approached her, and whispered, “You know the kidnapped person. It’s my stupid big fellow cousin,’big guy’ Xia Tianhuo. But it’s already It’s okay, he has been rescued, he was actually kidnapped in Myanmar three days ago…”

Tang Baona caught the key word at once, frowned and asked: “Myanmar?”

“You also thought of it, right? Yes, it’s Myanmar, and it’s in Montamilla!” Yang Zhener pressed the volume, but couldn’t suppress her excitement and excitement.

“We were just talking about Myanmar, so of course we will think about that. Your cousin was kidnapped by who, how was he rescued?” Tang Baona asked, her curiosity this time It was also caused by Yang Zhener.

Yang Zhener said: “My mother just found out, the specific details are still unclear, it seems to have been tied up for three days. But you know what, my stupid Old Brother asked the kidnapper to call the first person, Not my uncle or aunt, but Old Xia!”

“So…your cousin was rescued because of Old Xia? But Old Xia is still in China, right?”

“I don’t know, but if I knew that the person my cousin was kidnapped was Old Xia for the first time, then Chef Xiang might also be understood for the first time!” Yang Zhener became more excited: “Then it happened to the chef in Meng Tamira performed organizational tasks and got Old Xia’s help call, so she saved the’big guy’ by the way!”

Tang Baona gave her a white look: “You are here again! If, as you said before, Xiang Kun’s mobile phone can’t get through when’on mission’, then how did Old Xia contact him? How to let him know about you What happened to my cousin being kidnapped? And it happened to be in Montamira? Is there such a coincidence?”

Yang Zhener was taken aback, nodded and said: “Yeah! Could it be that Chef Xiang was entrusted by Old Xia to go to Montamilla to rescue the’big guy’, and then the people they organized said’Aiya Brother Xiang, you should perform the task, what? You are in Myanmar, in Montamira? That happens, there is also a task over there, you can solve it by the way, so after saving the’big guy’, he went to Bangladesh. Tamira has put the riots down!”

“You call and ask Old Xia to see where Xiang Kun is now, do you know this,” Tang Baona said.

“Reasonable!” Yang Zhener called Old Xia’s cell phone, but after a round of ringing, it was not picked up.

“I guess Old Xia is already asleep, right?”

“No, during the previous meeting, I sent her WeChat and she didn’t reply, so she went to bed so early.” Yang Zhener said, dialing again.

After a few rings this time, the phone finally picked up.

……

Xia Libing sat up on the bed, looked at the ringing mobile phone, and then at Xiang Kun who was playing on the floor not far away, after thinking about it, and pressing the connect button.

“Old Xia! What are you doing?” Yang Zhener heard a little anxious voice from the earpiece with a hint of excitement.

“Sleeping.” Xia Libing as it should be by rights replied.

“Hey? Didn’t you go to bed very late before? You were in the group at two o’clock in the morning?”

“I didn’t sleep well yesterday.” Xia Libing said.

“By the way, I just heard my mom say, “Big Man” was kidnapped? And the kidnapper’s phone call for money came directly to your cell phone? Did you notify other people?”

“Right.” Xia Libing responded.

“The’big guy’ was kidnapped by who, and who rescued it?” Yang Zhener asked hurriedly again.

“After he returns to China, ask him yourself, he is more clear.” Xia Libing said.

“Where is Chef Xiang? Where is Chef Xiang now?” Yang Zhener continued to ask.

Xia Libing replied without any pause: “He went to South Germany the day before yesterday.”

“South Germany? Isn’t it Montamira?” Yang Zhener on the other side of the phone seemed very surprised.

“Why is Montamira?”

“Didn’t you ask Xiang Kun to go to Montamilla to rescue the’big guy’?” Yang Zhener asked.

“I didn’t ask him, why do you think so?” Xia Libing asked rhetorically.

“Have you seen the discussion on the Internet? In Montamilla last night, many people saw a phantom with eight arms and eight eyes. Witnesses drew a picture, which is very similar to the original wood carving of Xiang Kun before! I suspect that what happened to Montamira was done by Chef Xiang to complete the mission of the secret organization to which he belongs! Remember what I told you last time? Xiang Kun may have some fortuitous encounter last year and added a secret Organization…”

Yang Zhener became more excited as she spoke, and re-described her earlier guesses and the words she just said to Tang Baona with Xia Libing, describing and perfecting her guesses.

At the end, Yang Zhener said: “Old Xia, have you found something wrong with Xiang Kun in Chongyun Village during this time? Have you noticed that he often disappears, does not reply to WeChat, and cannot connect to his cell phone?” /p>

“I didn’t find anything wrong.” Xia Libing said, “His phone seems to be broken. When he comes back or buys a new phone, you can ask him.”

Ending the call with Yang Zhener, Xia Libing sat on the side of the bed, watching the light shining from the living room into the door, watching the sound of sleeping on the floor, no movement, no sound of the phone ringing to her just now Xiang Kun, who was so noisy, was thinking about something.

She has only slept for more than two hours so far. Naturally, her sleep is not enough, but after being awakened by her cousin’s phone call, she did not continue to sleep immediately.

She didn’t wonder why she fell asleep on the sofa before, but now she’s on the bed. Obviously it doesn’t matter if Xiang Kun sleeps or not, so Xiang Kun put her on the bed as a “resource”. Make the best use of.

After getting up to the living room and pouring a cup of hot water and drinking, Xia Libing returned to the house and recorded some data on Xiang Kun lying on the ground. It was the same as the previous Xiang Kun’s several blood drinking and sleeping periods. same.

Then she went back to the living room and sat on the sofa, looking at the laptop on the coffee table, thinking about something.

The part of Yang Zhener’s close to the truth speculation, not at all shocked or surprised Xia Libing.

As the blood-drinking period passed one after another, the mutation deepened. Although Xiang Kun looked like it did not change much from when he first met, in fact, more and more abilities have made him recognize the world. Great changes have taken place in the way of thinking, the efficiency of thinking, and the angle of thinking.

With the continuous expansion and derivation of the “hyperlinked system”, this change is intensified at an unnoticeable influence at an extremely rapid rate.

He didn’t have much contact with many people before. After the mutation, he deliberately kept a certain distance from most people. Only people with strong insights can feel it in a small amount of contact. So a little bit different about him.

But if you have a good relationship with him and have more exchanges and contacts, no matter how slow you are, you will still find his peculiarities somewhat. This is almost inevitable.

Even if they are subjectively unaware because of habit, they will definitely be aware of it in instinct and subconsciousness. In essence, the way Xiang Kun exists in this world has a huge difference with the ordinary person category. difference.

Xia Libing knows that not only the cousin Zhener, but also Nana, Zicheng, Chang Bin, You Meng, and even Liu Caifu, Chu Xiuwen and the others who have been in contact with Chongyun Village recently, are somewhat aware of Xiang Kun. Peculiar.

It’s just that the information they know is very limited, and they are all able to explain the past with some reasons. They are self-convincing. For people who are familiar with and trust, people’s psychology will automatically repair and adapt their cognition.

Xiang Kun must have considered these situations.

Xia Libing is now thinking about another issue.

She just came to the living room to pour water and found her laptop computer with the screen facing the door.

If Xiang Kun was using the computer when she was asleep before, the screen should also be facing the sofa. There is only one row of sofas in her living room, and there is no place to sit on the other side.

Furthermore, according to Xiang Kun’s laptop habit observed by her until now, after a stage of use, such as when leaving home or going to dinner, he will take the initiative to turn the laptop on or off. Closed.

Since he was going to sleep after drinking blood, he would close the computer after using the computer, according to his habit. He would not leave it like this, and he would face the door weirdly.

The computer screen is off, but it is still turned on, and the power cord is connected. She clearly remembered that before Xiang Kun came back, her laptop was not connected to the power cord.

If other people saw this scene, most people should not think more about it.

However, Xia Libing thought of many things at once, such as the abruptly lit camera indicator at Xiang Kun’s home when she helped Xiang Kun drink blood for the first time during the sleepy vigil.

Like now, this laptop looks like the screen is facing the door, which is meaningless, but in fact the camera on the top of the screen is also facing the door, although it seems that the camera indicator is not lit.

During this time, in Chongyun Village, she spent most of her time with Xiang Kun, doing experiments on “Zero One,” “Zero Two,” and some other creatures earlier, even When she sleeps and Xiang Kun doesn’t need to sleep, she basically knows what Xiang Kun is doing.

She is pretty sure that Xiang Kun is not at all sitting in front of the computer writing code, designing, and making changes as needed, but Tang Baona, Yang Zhener, Zhang Qian and others can still get various opinions continuously. Modified and iterated new game version, and from their discussion, it can be seen that the game has evolved very greatly, not a small feature patch.

Xia Libing has no knowledge of programming and game production, but some basic related common sense is still there, and I have also played the game developed by Xiang Kun, judging from the richness of the game’s features, version iteration and speed , Xiang Kun now has no time to realize it.

So, maybe he has another team working for him?

But if this is the case, there is no need for him to hide from Zhang Qian, Nana and others, let alone with himself.

Unless, that team is very special, knows the secret of Xiang Kun’s mutation, and has been providing technical support, even helping him monitor his own state, can’t it be exposed?

But this guess was immediately denied by her.

Xia Libing eyes slightly narrowed, looked towards my laptop.


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