Even during the day, the office is dimly lit.
Partition after partition divides most of the office area into small boxes. In the middle of each box, there is a desktop computer and a telephone that are not connected to the Internet. All the people were busy, walking around, some were typing, some were on the phone, and some were exchanging files. Lu Xin's workstation is in the middle, and the best employee award banner is hung on the partition.
The busy work of the morning had been taken care of. Lu Xin straightened up and pinched his temples.
After staying in this kind of environment for a long time, I always feel depressed and stuffy, not to mention there are always so many complicated things to deal with.
"Brother Lu, are you busy now?"
A voice sounded beside Lu Xin. Lu Xin looked up and found that it was Lu Cheng, the new young man in the office. Well-dressed, with energetic short hair, and a very sunny temperament, at this time, he was grimacing and said: "The director has arranged for me to sort out this batch of documents, but I can't sort them out clearly. The time is almost up. La, Brother Lu, can you...can you teach me?"
"Yes!"
Lu Xin smiled and agreed: "I'm fine now! ”
“Thank you, Brother Lu, you are so kind!”
With a grateful look on his face, the sunny guy hurried to Lu Xin’s computer desk, one teacher and the other. study.
Many dissatisfied looks were cast from the surrounding partitions, as well as some extremely low whispers.
“My own work is tiring, and I have to teach others!”
“We all have the same job, so we are not afraid of being kicked out if we teach others!”
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Under the dissatisfied looks of many people, Lu Xin helped Lu Cheng organize the documents and waved his hand amidst the other party's thanks.
Although everyone is very nervous in this depressing office atmosphere, Lu Xin has always had his own principles in doing things. Anyone who can help others should do so. The Red Moon Incident made the world Changes occur, but the character of a person must still be maintained.
"Lu Xin, come here, the director is calling you!"
Someone called from a distance.
"Here it comes!"
Lu Xin put down his coffee, got up and walked to the director's office. Here, he saw the director who was so fat that his cheeks were hanging down. On the sofa opposite, there was also a short-haired woman wearing sunglasses and a smart suit.
"Xiao Lu, there is a document here. You can help me take it to the corner cafe on Qingjiang Road now!"
The director didn't say any more nonsense and pointed to the paper on the table. Document bag.
To send documents, someone from the administrative team or the chore team should go there, and it is not your turn to do it.
But Lu Xin still did not refuse and nodded: "Okay!"
Then he picked up the document, nodded to the director and the short-haired woman on the sofa, and thenWent out.
As soon as he left the room, the director immediately changed his smile and said attentively to the short-haired woman: "Team Leader Chen, what you said has been done. Don't worry, I won't ask any more questions, and I won't ask any questions." Think about it, it’s just the project you just told me about..."
"Don't worry, this project won't be given to you!"
The short-haired woman stood up and spoke gently. He pulled down his sunglasses and spoke in a gentle voice.
The director was stunned for a moment, thinking he heard wrongly, and then at this moment, he saw the woman's pupils.
Her pupils seemed to be rotating, faintly red, and seemed to turn into two red moons.
"Don't remember that I've been here, and don't remember what you arranged for him to do!"
The short-haired woman whispered softly, then she put on her sunglasses and turned around to go out. .
The director fell into confusion for a moment. After a few seconds, he woke up and continued to work as if nothing had happened.
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Lu Xin was in the carriage of the high-speed railway around the city, holding the armrest and feeling sleepy. The place where he originally got on the train was There were seats available near the departure station, but when he saw a pregnant woman getting on the bus, he gave his seat to her and stood on the bus for half an hour.
The lights in the carriage flickered slightly, and my sister climbed over along the roof of the carriage with the pieced-together bear in her arms.
She hung upside down in front of Lu Xin, swaying like a swing.
Lu Xin couldn't take his eyes off, pretending to be concentrating on the beautiful legs of a delicate girl wearing hip shorts next to her.
My sister was having more fun, the shaking was getting stronger and stronger, and there was a slight twisting sound in the car.
Fortunately, the train was moving very fast and swaying, so the distortion sound was covered up.
"Brother, brother, look, that fat man is so stupid..."
My sister was playing crazily and suddenly pointed at a fat man not far away who was sleeping standing up and drooling. , smiled at Lu Xin.
"Don't talk to me..."
Lu Xin still forced herself to look at the beauty's legs with concentration, and made an imperceptible sound between her teeth.
"I can't look at you outside, let alone talk to you, you will be considered crazy..."
"Ugh, boring!"
My sister deliberately teased Lu Xin, but when he didn't fall for it, she felt a little bored.
"Then be careful, there is something wrong with where you go this time!"
She said, and before Lu Xin could ask further, she chuckled She got up and ran forward along the carriage. When she passed the fat man who was standing and sleeping, she suddenly pinched the fat man's face with her hands, then crawled away and disappeared.
The fat man suddenly woke up and shouted: "Who is touching me?"
The people around looked at the fat man who had no one within one meter with strange eyes.
Lu Xin also joined the crowd of onlookers and gave the fat man a look as if he was mentally ill.
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When getting off the car, Lu Xin found that it was close to the outer wall.
The foundations here have become a little dilapidated. You can see that the city wall is more than ten meters high, casting a deep shadow on the building. Although after thirty years, the city wall has become a little dilapidated. Most of the lunatics wandering outside have been cleared away, but people living in the city still dare not be careless. The focus of municipal work every year is to continue to strengthen and repair these tall city walls.
When he arrived at the corner coffee shop, he found that the environment here was very dark.
The surrounding old buildings and bungalows seemed to be empty, with not a shadow in sight.
There was a lot of garbage in front of the door, as if it had been blown by the wind, and no one had ever cleaned it.
As I get closer to this place, I don’t know why, but I feel a sense of oppression.
Lu Xin subconsciously didn't like this place, but she had already agreed to the director, so she still walked in with the document bag.
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"The Observed Person No. 13 has entered the target area!"
It is not far away from here. On a high-rise building not far away, there are more than a dozen observers, who have already placed various instruments. Around the high-rise building, there are also some armed soldiers hiding in the dark, nervously raising the alarm around them. everything.
The short-haired woman is also among the office workers. She is holding a document with black typeface on it:
"Target code name: Street Corner Cafe!"< /p>
"Operation purpose: to test the potential and specific abilities of Observee No. 13 to become a spiritual master!"
"Potential risks: The cafe has been confirmed as a first-level spiritual pollution area.< /p>
The specific manifestations are:
People who are close to the cafe will be involuntarily attracted to it.
People who have entered the cafe will be attracted to it within three to five days. Died within days, mostly due to suicide.
According to analysis, he was contaminated in the cafe and suffered from severe depression!”
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She put down the documents in her hands and asked the people around her: "Are the preliminary support ready?"
The staff nodded and pointed to the next room.
Through the glass partition between the two rooms, you can see an exquisite girl in a dress sitting there like a puppet.
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When Lu Xin entered the cafe, he felt a warm and lively feeling.
The streets outside and the houses seemed empty and deserted.
But this cafe was full of people, and it even felt like it was overcrowded.
Everyone had a smile on their face, some bowed their headsIntimate conversation, someone is sitting alone by the window, drinking coffee and reading a book, someone is squinting, enjoying a delicious sandwich attentively, a soothing and ancient music is playing in the store, and the sun is shining from the window As it sprinkled in, people were in a trance, as if they were back in the world before the Red Moon Catastrophe...
Lu Xin passed through the crowd, came to the bar, and asked the waiter in an exquisite apron behind the bar nodded.
"Someone asked me to send this document over!"
The director didn't say who to send it to, so it should be enough to send it to the bar.
"Thank you!"
The waiter didn't care at all, he just smiled and thanked him, then poured a cup of coffee and pushed it in front of Lu Xin.
"This..."
Lu Xin wanted to say that he had no intention of staying for coffee.
However, the coffee seemed to smell quite fragrant, completely different from the cheap coffee I drank at the company.
"Thank you for your hard work. This is what I asked you to do!"
The waiter smiled, with a kind of kindness on his face that made people feel very comfortable.
Lu Xin felt a little relieved, but could not say any words of rejection for the moment.
Then at this moment, his eyes froze slightly.
Behind the waiter's delicate apron, a thick and ugly tentacle suddenly stretched out, and slowly stretched out in front of Lu Xin. At the top of the tentacle, the skin and flesh slowly cracked, and suddenly there was a coin-sized The black soft body slipped into the coffee. Lu Xin looked down. The soft body looked like an egg and an eye. The black pupil looked at him in the cup.
The coffee instantly became more fragrant, every trace of it had an amazing allure.
The waiter also smiled more cordially and gently pushed the coffee in front of Lu Xin, indicating that he could enjoy it.
"No, thank you!"
Lu Xin politely refused, as if he had discovered nothing, and turned around and walked out.
When he reached the door, he looked back.
I saw that everyone in the store had stopped their movements and looked at him dullly.
He turned around quickly, his body stiffened, and he walked faster and faster.