Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

I was disturbed from my dream by a burst of chattering noise. When I got up, the sun had already disappeared behind the water storage tower on the hotel terrace. Russell, in red clothes and black trousers, was standing nearby, holding a receipt and chatting with a nearby nursery worker. When he saw me slowly waking up, he asked me to help him put the neatly trimmed flowers into water bottles. He told me to use hyacinths as a base, then lilacs, and finally a few roses. The terrace is reserved for guests at night, and will be decorated with lights and a fragrant aroma.

After finishing this, I looked at my watch and saw that it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. I lit up a cigarette and looked at the street scene, ready to finish smoking. In the early hours of the morning, Fan Pang fell asleep while talking, and his condition seemed very bad. Seeing that he was in such a bad state, Xiao Ma and others couldn't help themselves, so they turned their interest to me and talked about various topics. Naturally, I will not disclose any information about the ancient Yin House of Lycu. I will only speculate that the fat man has been doing research in this area. Seeing that I looked very bad, they began to discuss it themselves. It was during this kind of chat that I felt dizzy, and finally my eyelids became heavy, so I curled up on the long sofa and fell asleep.

The setting sun casts an orange afterglow on the green belt of the park in the distance, turning the artificial lake into a golden light. This makes the black GMC Suburan 7 parked in front of the road look even more traditional, like a big priest entering a grand wedding venue. I don’t know what day it is today. The street corners are empty and there are few pedestrians. It makes me feel more and more bleak about cracking the 0514 warehouse.

When I went down to the guest room on the sixth floor, I saw that Krys was already up, and Xiaoma and his group of serious friends were sitting in the room. Fan Fei felt bad that they let the front desk blackmail them into buying a room, so he took out the money to pay him back. After taking it with his eyes, he planned to go downstairs and renew the reservation for another day. He waved his arms and said that his friends were itchy after hearing our description. I also wanted to see it with my own eyes, so I accompanied us to the tower in the evening.

"You wait first, it is inevitable to break into the problematic room, but not tonight. Through this process, we are getting closer and closer to the truth. So before reopening that door, it’s necessary to do a few things. Seeing Xiaoma getting up, Fan Pang held him down and said,"The first thing is to get materials and equipment; the second thing is to confirm the identity of the woman who was chopped into pieces, so I have to ask you to go over and help me get information." Those hacker buddies; the last thing is to confirm the type of thing and whether it is a snail snake."

So, the unfinished topic in the early morning was once again thrown to the table. In order to make it easier for everyone to understand, the fat man began to use prophetic predictions as metaphors, so as to help digestion in a step-by-step manner.

Those who can make predictions in history , there are no more than three types. The first type relies on astrology to predict the future through the movement and position of celestial bodies; the second type is a person who can fall asleep at any time and speculates on the future based on dreams; the third type is a person with super powers. , they used their souls to go out of body to cross the line of time and space. The theory of super powers sounds very mysterious and nonsense, but is it based on evidence? Not to mention it is true, Swedenborg and Da Vinci are one of them, they Being able to know in advance the day when one will die and complete the division of inheritance before then. This is common to many animals and is one of the potentials that humans have not yet unlocked.

Since humans have many classifications, natural loss There are also different types of souls in the physical body. People are always interested in haunted houses and haunted houses, often attracted by their mysterious appearance, which leads many people to enter without thinking, often resulting in bad luck. Through years of research, Fan Pang and Glasses pieced together The two pages of profound and profound paper record the following forms respectively.

The first type is the wandering soul with a hazard level close to zero. They will wander around the places where they have been during their lifetime, and sometimes they will be captured by others; They are slightly harmful ghosts. They have a territorial concept and do not want the old house to be occupied by others, so they will show their bodies and scare away the residents. The third type is quite harmful ghosts. They have been persecuted or tortured during their lifetime and have exhausted their hope of survival. In the end, only obsession is left, and he will actively attack strangers who appear around him, causing them to suffer from diseases, ranging from diarrhea to madness. The snail snake is a particularly strange kind of spirit. Although it died in him However, it will not cause trouble in the local area, but will appear in the place where the treasures are buried in front of it to protect them from being discovered. The way to deal with it is relatively simple, that is to find out the truth and make the secret known to the world, just move the location or Simply burn it down, and the Snail Snake will cease to exist.

In other words, there must be secrets buried in the 0514 warehouse that are still unknown. This leads to the frequent appearance of the ghost who was chopped into pieces, preventing the big house from being sold. Go out, for fear that tourists may accidentally find items that cannot be exposed

"So what is the most powerful one?"Xiao Ma listened with great interest, lit a weed for the dead fat man, and asked

"Are you asking about the one with a hazard level of 100%? It is a pity that there is no record, because all the intruders died and there were no survivors. Anyone who enters the area where it patrols will be trapped and unable to get out. Eventually, they will die of hunger, thirst, fear, and despair. As for the name, no one has named it yet, so it is a blank concept."Pang Fan smiled slightly, with merit and fame deep in his heart.

"Hehe, Lao Fan, the kind you mentioned can be found in the Aveyron Forest in France. I know some of it."Seeing his proud expression, I couldn't help but want to make a point, so I punched my nostrils and snorted softly, saying:"In our local area, we call it the Black Mamba."

"oh? Every time I just say something casually, you will have something in your stomach? Is that so? Then come and start a class to open the eyes of rural Georgia villagers like me."The damn fat man is being praised by the boys like stars, so he should ignore me. The so-called black mamba is a species of the cobra family, the largest and most venomous snake on the African continent. And what I am about to say , is it really like Fatty Fatty thinks he is making it up? Of course not, this is also one of the rumors heard in the orphanage. Deep in this forest, there is a special cave. If a person breaks in by mistake, he will be trapped again. He couldn't escape. There was a survivor who struggled to crawl to a place more than 100 meters away from the cave entrance. He actually pulled out a gun and blew his head off and died. The local indigenous people would never go hunting nearby if nothing happened, and said that there were people living inside. The monster named Black Mamba not only targets people, but also kills other animals. Only civets and minks can come in and out safely. According to legend, this evil spirit will release some kind of mold, and people will feel burned by fire inside. , and the pain index will continue to increase, and eventually it will be unbearable and you will have to commit suicide by drinking bullets.

"Because people are ignorant of things outside themselves, they have always attached superstition and mystery to many unexplainable things. This principle is just like the primitive people who saw thunder and lightning and thought it was God's punishment. They would kill sheep and cattle for sacrifice when there was an earthquake. Will modern people still do that? It's not magic power or blindness at all. That kind of thing will be like a contagious virus, attaching a certain emotion or feeling to people hundreds of times, and finally make them miserable before they end their lives. I took off my hat, combed my long hair, and sighed:"There are electric eels in the ocean and vipers on the land. How did you know that there wouldn't be such biological ghosts among the old monsters?""

"It makes sense. Are you saying that we have to classify them as subjects? For example, you said that the Black Mamba is equivalent to the Golden Bark Tree in Soul Society? It can kill almost all creatures, but it can only deal with some inconspicuous badgers? Why have I never thought about this?"Pang Fan jumped up and quickly took out Marlowe's notebook and started recording.

"I've learned a lot in the past two days, right?"Xiao Ma pushed me and asked,"I can't understand the story about Cancrow Monastery you told me last night. If the Bloody Nun is chasing you, how does she manage to be in several places at the same time?"

"You should wait until Hollisman comes back to ask this question. He has experienced it deeply. Moreover," I pointed to Krys who was folding clothes at the bedside and whispered:"We are still hiding this from her. It is inconvenient to elaborate here."

In this way, we made an appointment with Xiaoma. We will stop for two days until everything is ready. The next time we rush to the tower, it will be in the early morning of Wednesday. I will switch to the night shift tomorrow with the woman at the front desk. In this way, all participants will Everyone can maintain sufficient physical strength.

When I returned to the front desk, an ugly-looking woman was having dinner. She was always hostile to Krys and I, thinking that we were deliberately trying to cause trouble for her. I didn’t know that she said a few days ago that she would Going to the hospital to see her brother who injured his leg didn't matter, so he approached her to discuss changing shifts. Unexpectedly, she agreed, took off her coat and drove out with a happy face. At eight o'clock in the evening, I felt She was having chills, as if she had caught a cold. As she was sitting with her neck curled up, she heard someone coming to book a room. When she looked up, she saw that the visitor was very unkind, so he immediately lowered his face and asked her stiffly what she was doing here.

"In your store, are you still chasing customers away and not allowing them to stay? I will sue you!"The man said and took out his mobile phone

"I was just joking, I didn’t say I wouldn’t let you live, but why did you come here?"The person in front of me is the female soldier who fought side by side with me in the orichalcum mine. She was wearing a floral skirt, washed clean, wearing perfume and pink lipstick. To be honest, this outfit It's very unaccustomed, but the appearance covered in mud and blood is more appropriate for her identity.

"I came here to see Miss Lycugu. I miss her so much after not seeing her for so long."She put her hands behind her back and looked at her surroundings.

"It turns out that you are fine with this, but it is a pity that he is no longer a young lady, and his current appearance will never make you cry with joy. Besides, no one was in the store, he went out to do some errands. I glanced at her a few times and said with a smile:"Why don't you go to the bar to find someone else?""

"Of course I know he has recovered, but I am just curious about what the man's original appearance will be like and when will he come back?"

"It's probably a few days away. Why don't you understand?"With that said, I rushed out of the front desk, put my arm around her shoulders and gestured to look towards the restaurant on the second floor, pointed at Krys who was cooking, and said,"That is his real girlfriend Chris. Lin Rui is a dedicated man. If you compare yourself with her, in terms of appearance, how can you compare with her? Even if this guy is here, he won't talk nonsense to you. We do not pursue or defend freedom, which is different from your freedom gendarmes, so it would be better to fight wherever you come."

"The Free Military Police refers to a freely combined group of mercenaries, you know what the heck. I didn’t say I wanted to break up the couple, just say hello and have a meal. Besides, this is America, he and Chris are not married, they are still independent. The female soldier pushed me away nonchalantly, took out her wallet, took out a stack of bills, and threw them on the desk. She said,"Stop for three days and I'll wait for him to come back.""

"Okay, since you're so insistent, name? Although you mentioned it, I have forgotten it."I went back to the computer and started typing

"Charlie, or the homophonic word"cherry", it doesn't matter. Anyway, I have nothing to do these days, so I might as well stay in Charlotte for a while. She took out her driver's license and threw it to me, then asked,"He is also working as a waiter in this shabby shop now?" I shouldn't be able to make much money either."

"He is a boring man. Because Chris loves this store so much, he chose to stay in order to make his wife happy. As for the salary, he didn't care at all. Seeing that she kept looking at Krys in the distance, I suddenly thought that it might be interesting to let her stay, so I deliberately sighed:"Actually, we are quite destined to be together. If you are really interested in Lin Rui, as his brother, I will can be matched from"

"No need, I just stopped by to see him."She called to the foyer to come and pick up the luggage in an indifferent tone. She played with the platinum chain around her neck and headed towards the elevator. I smiled slightly and put the receipt slip into the business folder. The room number was clearly marked 0512.

Will she call to complain? Or will Russell secretly tell her about the house next door? I don't care at all. This single room is for sale, and there is no problem. It's just that it will be a little noisy near a residential building. Even if there is a noise in the middle of the night, it will be noisy at most. Give her another guest room. However, I think a person like her who works as a mercenary should have a much stronger heart than an ordinary person.

As expected, the female soldier was quiet after she moved in. There was no movement at all. In fact, I was kind of looking forward to her calling, after all, it was very painful to sit alone for a long night. The huge courtyard was dark, with small green lights on in the corners of the room, and the boring rhythm of the kitchen refrigerator could be heard in my ears. It makes people feel that time passes very slowly.

In this quiet environment, there is an advantage. It is easy for people to calm down and think about things that interest them. I can't help but think of the women I have come into contact with in my mind. Arrange the words and make a comparison, so let’s include her for now.

There is no doubt that Freesia is the brightest pearl among all women, and she is also the first person closest to my aesthetic. But if Times make people, and if I were to be paired with her, it might not last long. Given her natural beauty, she would have many admirers and suitors. Even if she was very loyal, I would probably be intolerable because of all kinds of suspicions. Woman It's enough that she looks just right. If she's too beautiful, she has the aura of an unfaithful wife, which is not suitable for a couple. Moreover, she places too much emphasis on friendship and compassion, which will make people like me suffocated and suffocated all the time. Depressed. Thinking about it, I crossed out her name on the paper.

Then what appeared in front of me was the purple-eyed fox who died tragically in the Leiyinweng. She was the sweetest-looking among all women, wearing a youthful coat. With her smart appearance, she is actually an old woman who is many years older than me, mature and worldly. Because of this, she knows how to get into people's favours, and is good at seducing and teasing. She is a master at playing with her brains. But for a novice like me, it is very difficult for her to It would be easy to fall into her trap, hot-headed and fight for her, and even to death he would not realize that he was being used. Then, she was also removed from the list.

Then the remaining waitresses and San Vitale , including the short-haired female Kyoko in the carriage, in my eyes, they are not even considered women, so there is no need to compare them. After all, only this female soldier named Xiaoying is left.

This person is neither good-looking nor good-looking. It’s not ugly at all. She has a popular face and is at the bottom of the pile. She has no charm at all, but her neck and fingers are more graceful. If she is safe as a partner, she doesn’t have to worry about having a love rival. But I I have a vague feeling that she is a little extraordinary, that she has some unique temperament. As for what it is, I still don’t know.

What kind of world is this? I became angry. Ordinarily, a man like Lin Rui is too upright and follows the rules. , both boring and boring, there is no market at all. Compared with him, I feel that I am much funnier and better-looking. As a result, all the women like him. Is it because he has the style of running away across the border after being prosecuted and jailed? , can they attract their attention?

Just thinking like this, I slowly dozed off. By the time Krys came in to change my shift, it was already daylight. He raised his hand and looked at his watch. It was seven o'clock in the morning. There were two people standing in the middle of the hall chatting, one was Fan Pang and the other was the female soldier.

Wearing a pink sweatshirt, she listened to Fan Pang's chatter. After a while, she put on her headphones and opened the door to go for a morning run. I saw Krys looking at us with a strange look, so I quickly came to the fat man.

"Where are you going so early in the morning? I glanced at the female soldier's back and asked,"What were you two talking about just now?""

"I went to Oakboro to meet some hackers, the same people I mentioned in the past, and wanted to use them to hack into the artillery bureau's database to check the files. But I'm very pessimistic. There has never been a case filed against the hotel. Even if a case was filed, it would have been too old and most of the documents have been disposed of. Anyway, it is better to go once than never. He lit up a cigarette and asked,"Did you find that female soldier?" Why don't you tell me?"