Chapter 229 Line 2
When Youxi crossed the intersection again, she did not choose to go straight, but turned left. Five minutes later, she successfully left that area and drove back to the city center.
She had downloaded the map of the entire Wukong City in the map APP on her mobile phone last night. With the main north-south trunk road and the east-west transportation river as the central axis, Wukong City was roughly divided into four areas.
She was in the southwest area before, but that was where she came out of the station. There should be many other passengers nearby. In addition to the fall from the building last night, she decided to go to the northeast area, which is farther away from the southwest area, to look for clues to the hidden station.
There were quite a few passengers leaving the station that day, but she did not see other passengers nearby immediately after she left the station, which means that the exits should be randomly located so that passengers would not be mixed in the same small area.
As for the reason, the fall from the building had already told her indirectly.
Such a weird way of death is definitely not something a normal person can do, so the person who killed the novice passenger must also be a passenger.
This shows that fighting and killing are allowed among passengers on the train.
Under normal circumstances, killing for the sake of killing rarely happens, and most people kill for profit, so the novice passenger must have something that others want. Can we infer that all novice passengers have something that experienced passengers covet?
She remembered that on the train, when several newcomers were arguing in all kinds of confusion, those old hands with calm expressions were silently looking at their faces, as if they wanted to memorize their appearance.
And she, by mistake, was mistaken for an experienced passenger because she appeared calm.
But this does not mean that she is completely safe now. There must be other problems in this city.
As she drove closer to the city center, she saw a light gray building standing in the distance. Compared with other buildings in this city, this building with a height of over 100 meters and nearly 50 floors has a feeling of standing out from the crowd.
Probably because the building is too tall and the area is not large, the whole building looks like a square tower, which can be described as slender.
She drove to a nearby place, stopped at a parking space, and then searched online. This building belongs to a high-tech company called "Ruo Ai".
The company specializes in many projects, including new energy, genetics, human health, network technology... All the projects involved are at the forefront of scientific research, and they have mastered many patented products. It is not an exaggeration to describe this company as a technological empire.
Youxi looked through the information of "Ruo Ai" company and found that although there is a lot of information, there are not many that really involve key content. They are all superficial introductions.
It is indeed a city in the world of endless trains. It is impossible for such a dominant technology company to be placed in her native world.
Youxi flipped to the end of the company information on her phone and saw a job advertisement for a technology company recruiting security guards. She took a screenshot of the page that posted the job advertisement and saved it, then started the car again.
She continued to the northeast region as planned, and detoured to a street with many small commodity shops.
She had a bowl of beef ramen for breakfast here, and packed five servings of ramen as usual, and moved into the space after getting in the car.
Afterwards, she bought a square water tank here. There were very few one-cubic-meter water tanks, and she couldn't put them in her car. In the end, she chose ten half-cubic-meter water tanks, which fit in the trunk after being stacked.
Then she saw the boxes of instant noodles. Thinking that she didn't buy any at the supermarket yesterday, she bought five boxes of different brands of instant noodles, one box for each brand, with mixed flavors, 48 packs in a box. She also bought two rechargeable small pots specifically for cooking instant noodles in this store.
For Youxi, having supplies gives her a sense of security. More than half of the 100 cubic meters of space is full. She doesn't plan to stock up in large quantities for the time being. The remaining space is for backup, and she occasionally buys some things she needs and puts them in.
Half an hour later, she arrived at a five-star hotel in the northeast region, which is her accommodation for the next week.
This hotel is quiet in the midst of noise, surrounded by many business buildings, shopping centers, and citizen squares, and is quite popular. It's convenient for her to mingle with people in a low-key manner in crowded places.
She requested a suite closest to the fire escape, with one bedroom and one living room, on the seventh floor.
After entering the room, she checked the interior of the room as usual to make sure there were no problems, then opened the balcony sliding door and went to the balcony to check.
Outside the hotel is a clear water river, with green plants on both sides. On the other side is the Civic Square and the shopping mall, which is about ten minutes' walk away.
In addition, the subway entrance is also very close to here, right next to the shopping mall.
Youxi was very satisfied with this place. She stretched her arms and legs on the balcony, warmed up, took out her yoga mat from the room, and started doing plank support.
Half an hour later, she put down the tablet support, took out the water tank, cleaned it, put it in the bathtub to boil water, and then sat aside to use her mobile phone to search the Internet for the information she needed.
If the prompt content is interpreted as a task, her most important task now is to find the hidden station in Wukong City within 44 days. However, Wukong City is so big, and she only has two confirmation opportunities. Such a task is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack, which is not consistent with the evaluation of Wukong City (C grade).
So thinking about it the other way around, since there are no detailed clues in the prompt, it means that the hidden station will not be in some small random places, but more likely to be placed in a few special places, so she plans to start with the landmark buildings.
She is now online to search for landmark buildings and special buildings in the whole city.
After the inquiry, she took screenshots and recorded them one by one, and then divided the order of exploration according to different places.
After more than half an hour, four places were written in the notebook:
Yijia Commercial City.
Longhu Park.
Qianshu Hotel.
Meifeng Museum.
In Youxi, the "Noai" technology building she saw before can be regarded as a landmark building. But it is not a public area and ordinary people cannot enter. She plans to explore it last.
Afterwards, she packed a small backpack and prepared to go to the nearest Yijia Commercial City.
This commercial city is not on the ground, but underground, located at Yijia Station on Metro Line 2.
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Youxi tied up her long hair, put on a mask and a hat, walked across the river, and went to the subway station next to the shopping center. Line 2 will also pass by here, and it is only five or six stations away.
The subway station in Wukongcheng is also quite old, and the lighting is not very bright, even a little dim. During off-hours, the subway station is not crowded, but it is not too small. Youxi saw the direction clearly, waited for a while, and got on the subway smoothly.
There was an empty seat in the carriage, so she sat down near the door and took out her mobile phone to continue checking the information about Yijia Shopping Mall.
Many people got on the carriage at the next stop, and the subway ran in the dark tunnel again. The wide carriage glass was like a mirror in the tunnel because of the lights, clearly reflecting everyone in the carriage.
On the diagonally opposite right side, a two or three-year-old girl was held in her mother's arms, playing with a windmill in her hands. On the other side of her sat a middle-aged woman. From their conversation, we can learn that she should be the girl's grandmother.
The girl has been sick these days and has to go to the hospital for atomization treatment every day. Every day at about this time, her grandmother takes the girl to take the subway.
Today, the mother took a leave and went with them. As the two chatted, the middle-aged woman's tone became heavier. She complained loudly that her daughter's marriage was completely a widow's marriage. She blamed her for not listening to her and marrying her current husband. He has never taken care of the child since she was born. They both have to go to work, but every time something happens, it is her daughter who takes the responsibility...
Across the subway door from her, the two couples were arguing.
The cause was that the two were originally playing a game, and the boy received a WeChat message in the middle, and he clicked it to read it. Because the girl lost the game because he was reading WeChat for a few seconds, she came over to read it, but found that the WeChat message had been deleted by the boy.
The girl questioned, suspecting that the boy was having an affair with someone else, so he deleted the WeChat message out of guilt.
The boy said it was an advertisement and he deleted it because he thought it was useless. He thought girls were suspicious all the time. The two of them started arguing.
In the seats opposite the two couples, there were two people sitting. One man was leaning against the seat motionlessly, as if he was asleep.
The other was a middle-aged man with a briefcase on his lap and a cup of hot coffee in one hand, talking on the phone. He seemed to be a salesperson, flattering the customer on the other end of the phone while praising his own products.
While he was talking, he accidentally spilled the hot coffee in his hand on the sleeping man, who jumped up and cursed.
The swearing affected the middle-aged man's telephone sales work. After he hung up the phone, he not only did not apologize, but also swore loudly. The two people immediately started arguing.
In addition to them, there were other people in the carriage. Everyone was attracted by the noise of these people. Everyone was particularly disgusted by such noise regardless of the occasion. At that moment, some people began to persuade the people who were quarreling nearby.
Someone took out a tissue and handed it to the two people who were spilled with coffee, hoping that they would wipe off the stains on their clothes and pants and stop quarreling.
Someone couldn't help but remind the middle-aged woman that her voice and the anger in her voice had scared her granddaughter, so she should be careful in front of the child.
Someone advised the couple to stop quarreling on the subway and go home if they wanted to quarrel...
These things happened almost at the same time. Because of the crowd, Youxi couldn't see their full appearance and expressions, so he didn't look up, but just received these messages from the voice dialogue.
Until a scream suddenly broke out in the crowd -
the person who took out the tissue to persuade was suddenly pulled over by the salesman, pressed on the seat, held his arm and smashed it against the handrail. After two hits, only a crisp fracture sound was heard, accompanied by the other party's scream, and the man's arm was actually broken.
Everyone around them took a step back in shock. When someone reacted and tried to stop them, the couple suddenly smashed the person in front of them with their mobile phones, causing the person
's head to bleed. The whole carriage was in chaos. Everyone in the carriage retreated towards Youxi, but soon the third accident also broke out. The middle-aged woman suddenly grabbed the hair of the person in front of her and pulled it hard. Amid the other person's screams and pain, she tore off a lot of hair along with the skin, and blood spurted out. The middle-aged woman
's daughter was so frightened that she couldn't say a word. She hugged the girl in her arms and shrank to the side.
At this point, the carriage was in complete chaos. Some people shouted "Help! Someone is killing someone!", some people screamed "This is crazy!" and hid to the side...
Some people wanted to step forward to stop it, but people were crowded together, pushing each other, some people fell down, some were trampled, some were grabbed by the crazy people without paying attention, and immediately struggled desperately, dragging others around them...
In such a chaotic situation, it was difficult to protect yourself, let alone stop it.
After the couple man smashed the heads of three people in a row, he suddenly took out a sharp pen from his pocket and stabbed the person in front of him in the eye.
At the critical moment, his wrist was grabbed by someone. The victim looked over tremblingly. A young girl with a backpack stood on the seat, holding the boy's shoulder with one hand and holding his wrist with the other hand, and stopped the fatal blow in time.
You Xi held the boy's wrist, but she was secretly shocked. The opponent's strength was incomparable, completely beyond the range of strength that a normal person should have.
She frowned and stretched out her hand to hit him on the back of the neck. The force should be enough to make him unconscious, but this action only angered the opponent. He suddenly went from a mad state to a violent state. He took the sharp pen with his other hand and turned to stab her. He didn't even care that his wrist was held. You Xi could even hear the sound of the wrist bone breaking under his fingers.
She quickly dodged the opponent's attack, and then restrained his other wrist, twisting both wrists behind him at the same time, pressing his whole body on the chair while stepping on his twisting body. She
looked down to check the other person's condition. He didn't look like he was infected with the mutation. Whether it was his pupils, lip color, or the exposed skin, he was completely normal. He looked like a normal person, but his emotions were abnormally angry and excited, as if he was pushed to the limit by something.
She couldn't knock him out, and she couldn't really kill him, and there were several other sources of chaos in the car at this time.
She pulled off the leather hair tie, tied his wrists together behind his back, and pulled him up by the collar, trying to pin him to the handrail beside her. However, when she pulled him past the window glass, she found something unusual.
No, it takes about three to five minutes to travel between each station in the subway station, but from the time these people started arguing to the chaos, it has been far more than five minutes. Why hasn't the subway arrived yet? Why is it
still dark outside the subway window?
Wait - You Xi noticed something and looked at the window beside her again. The face of the boy she was holding in her hand was clearly reflected on the clear glass.
He is smiling!
No, it should be said that the "boy" in the glass mirror is smiling!
The boy in her arms twisted his body with anger on his face, and kept shouting: "Let me go, you stinky XX! Who asked you to meddle in other people's business! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to beat you to death!"
A trace of coldness climbed up Youxi's back again. She suddenly thought of the weirdness she saw in the bathroom mirror last night. She once thought it was just her illusion!
What's going on in this city?
She frowned and stared at the "boy" in the glass mirror: "Who are you?"
The next second, the boy in the mirror who was originally looking elsewhere suddenly looked at her, and his weird smile was full of sarcasm and ridicule, which made people feel disgusted.
She suddenly became angry, and it seemed that there was a huge anger in her heart that she wanted to vent, and she wanted to destroy it crazily without caring about anything!
It was as if a voice was saying in her heart, don't be patient, don't be patient, go and vent, this is an absurd world, you can destroy everything if you want...
Youxi looked at the boy who was still twisting in her hands. She knew that as long as she held the back of his neck and twisted it hard, he would never utter such an infuriating curse again...
Youxi reached out and held the back of his neck. On the car window beside her, her own reflection looked at this scene happily.
- Just once, as long as she was controlled once, she would never be able to get rid of "her" again...
But the next moment, with a bang, a crack appeared on the window glass, and the crack split "Youxi's" smile, and the smile froze, and "her" face seemed to be cracked.
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