"Just woke up." Shi Yu finished drinking the milk, "Did you call me before?"
Xie Yunli stood upright against the wall, one hand in his trouser pocket. The residual light of the LED par light leaked from the door beside him, making the shadow on the ground flicker. "I have a flight back to Nanhang tomorrow night. Is there any place to take me in?"
"You guys aren't competing anymore?"
"We're done with the game." Xie Yunli said lazily, "Xiao Yu'er, you don't care about your brother at all."
Shi Yu sat on a rattan chair, the night wind blew the birdcage-like chair back and forth: "I don't know when I will wake up tomorrow, leave the key with the guard."
He wakes up too easily when he sleeps, so he usually keeps his cell phone in the living room and never brings it into the bedroom.
But if someone really came, it wouldn't take much effort to wake him up with a phone call and then open the door. Such an answer was indeed a bit perfunctory and heartless. Xie Yunli was not angry either. He was looking at the potted plant-shaped wall lamp and the thin and winding vines hanging from the wall lamp: "Your security guard may not recognize me, so I'm afraid he won't give it to me."
Shi Yu: "Then I'll put it under the carpet at the door."
Xie Yunli laughed: "You should leave it with the guard. I'll take you out to play as a reward later."
It's nonsense to say that the security guard didn't know the person so he couldn't get the key. Once he asked for the name and phone number, it would be clear whether it was the real person or not.
Xie Yunli and Shi Yu are cousins, related by blood. Strictly speaking, Shi Yu should call Xie Yunli's father uncle.
According to the agreed time, Xie Yunli dragged a 28-inch suitcase, wore a mask and a baseball cap, and opened the door of the apartment early in the morning of the third day.
He carried his luggage in, walked into the kitchen, took off his apron from the hook, opened the mobile app, selected a video, and without watching it, put it aside and listened to it with headphones as BGM while boiling water.
When Shi Yu woke up and left the room, he saw the other person sitting at the table playing games.
There was a bowl of steaming noodles on the table, and the temperature showed that it had just come out of the pot.
Shi Yu finished washing up and picked up the chopsticks. The other team's game was getting intense.
"Come and drive."
"There's a bag there, who's going to lick it?"
"Why did you fall?"
"Lie down, I'll come over."
With the microphone on, he gave the directing in an efficient manner.
As soon as Xie Yunli finished speaking, he controlled the little man to stick his head out of the window, and the next second.
"Bang--"
He shouted, "I am dying, help me."
Teammates: “…”
The request for help was also very justified.
I thought there was a big boss in the team, but it turns out he is just a bronze player in disguise.
A team of four noobs struggled to survive for another five minutes, but were ultimately wiped out without a doubt.
Xie Yunli started a new game directly.
He selected the skydiving location, and chose the Shura Field with the most people.
This time it ended even faster. Four minutes later, Xie Yunli not only received swear words from his companions, but also a letter of denunciation.
He deleted the letter calmly, looked up and saw that the other party had almost finished eating: "Xiao Yu'er, go online and form a team."
Shi Yu took a tissue and said, "I uninstalled the game."
"Why uninstall it for no reason?"
“Occupies memory.”
“…”
Xie Yunli brought the bowl to the sink and said, "Apart from the built-in apps on your phone, what else do you have? They're taking up so much memory. Quick, quick, download them now."
Shi Yu: “Charging.”
Xie Yunli directly took out a tablet from his backpack and threw it to him: "No password, go online."
Why a person with clumsy hands would be particularly fond of this kind of competitive game that requires strong manual operation is a question that no scientist has yet figured out.
Shi Yu played with him for the whole morning, and forcibly pulled his account back to silver after it had fallen back to bronze in the morning. He logged off without hesitation and prepared to return to his room.
Xie Yunli was happily calculating points, counting the little stars back and forth, and when he was done he called him: "Hey, what are you doing?"
Shi Yu: "Sleep."
“…”
In the end, I didn’t get to sleep.
Xie Yunli dragged the man out of the house under the pretext of going out for lunch, and after wandering around for a long time, he took him to a bar.
Shi Yu looked at the sign above his head for a long moment, "Didn't you say you were coming to eat?"
"I'm here to eat." Xie Yunli held his phone in one hand and pulled him a few steps inside by pulling his sleeve with the other hand, then handed him a printed menu of the bar, "Here, order whatever you want. You won't go broke eating this."
Shi Yu repeated: "They?"
Xie Yunli commented: "A bunch of idiots."
Here's the thing.
A few days ago, when Xie Yunli was on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, he and several of his teammates participated in an event that was written into the world competition. After winning a gold pot, the coach decided to organize a tour to reward everyone.
Xie Yunli originally had no intention of participating and directly refused to buy a ticket back home. He planned to stay in Nanhang to rest for a while and then find time to visit his hometown.
Unexpectedly, his teammates suddenly mentioned that Nanhang is also a first-tier city in the country and has many popular check-in spots. Everyone came from all over the world, and after discussing it, they thought that instead of increasing KPI for foreigners, it would be better to contribute traffic to their own country, so they came to Nanhang without telling him and prepared to start an uninhibited journey.
As soon as Xie Yunli arrived at Lanwan Community, he received a secret message that they had concealed together in order to give him a surprise. If the mobile phone could connect to different spaces, he would definitely be able to crawl over along the Internet cable and beat up those guys.
Unfortunately, the matter was already settled. Although Xie Yunli was kept in the dark, he knew in his heart that they just didn't want him to be the only one missing from the celebration. In the end, he found it more funny than annoying, and he didn't plan to do anything serious, but he would definitely use this opportunity to trick them.
What makes this bar unique from other similar establishments is its menu, which contains real food.
During the day, the store naturally lacks the decadent atmosphere that comes with the word "nightlife". It does not focus on drinks, but does not want to waste space, so it simply runs it as a restaurant.
The dim corridor twisted and turned, and Shi Yu followed several groups of people who were there for unknown reasons.
When he passed by one of the tables, the person at the table seemed to sense something and looked up in the direction he was leaving, but only caught a glimpse of his silhouette cast by the colorful lights.
The people around him were puzzled by his daze: "Old White?"
Bai Jiwei looked around but couldn't find the target. He looked away with a little doubt: "Maybe I recognized the wrong person."
He opened a bottle of sparkling wine, thought about it, then took out his cell phone and found a number that he had not called since he had made a note of it.
Not long ago, Shi Yu's departure from the third game caused a stir in the player forum as usual. Bai Jiwei watched the other party's video afterwards and knew that the other party should be in the reality outside the divine realm at this time and was able to receive calls.
Shi Yu already has three fragments of the divine domain, so the next game will undoubtedly be the mandatory group game of the Lower Nine Heavens.
When Bai Jiwei thought of this, he made a phone call directly.
The call was connected in one second.
He raised his eyebrows, but before he could express his surprise, a clear and clear voice came from the other side: "Hello, this is Yongbai Law Firm, are you here for consultation or to make an appointment?"
“…”
Bai Jiwei said: "I'm looking for someone."
The other end asked, "Excuse me, who are you looking for..."
He said, "Shi Yu."
The voice on the other end was so gentle that it could squeeze water out of it: "I'm sorry, but we don't have the person you're looking for in the firm. Do you need legal advice on finding a human being?"
Bai Jiwei was about to hang up the phone when he paused: "...Does the law firm provide this kind of service?"
The other party said seriously: "We lawyers don't speak nonsense, as long as the money is in place."
If it were someone else, they would have hung up directly, but unfortunately, firstly, the phone number was indeed written by the other party himself, and secondly, Bai Jiwei had not been exposed to such a situation in his living environment for some time.
Five minutes later.
Wen Hesi looked at the newly received payment information and said, "Regarding finding the missing people, our suggestion is that you call Yaoyaoling's police number directly."
Bai Jiwei: “…”
The phone was hung up.
Wen Hesi changed the note of the number to "18", meaning the eighteenth fool. After thinking about it, he added "rich man" at the end, meaning a foolish rich man.
The temperature was already high at the end of May, and the office didn't have air conditioning on. He took off his coat, wiped the sweat off the screen with a piece of paper, and threw his phone to the assistant who was standing next to him like he was being punished: "Go back."
The assistant answered with both hands: "Teacher, why do calls come to this phone every once in a while looking for someone? Who are they looking for?"
Wen Hesi picked up his personal cell phone and said calmly, "You must have called the wrong number."
The assistant said, "Wouldn't it be bad for us to cheat them like this? Although this number is basically half useless, what will happen to our law firm's reputation if it gets out?"
"They got the wrong phone number and transferred the money themselves. I just provided normal consulting advice. Both parties voluntarily paid for the goods. Is there anything the law says cannot be done?" Wen Hesi opened the address book. "Even if they really report it to the police, you can just return the money to them. Jokes that do not cause substantial harm are not covered by the law. The total amount of money in this phone is tens of thousands. Have you ever used a penny of it?"
The young assistant suddenly felt a chill running down his spine and quickly shook his head.
Wen Hesi raised his eyes, his eyes were gentle and elegant under the lenses, and he smiled slightly: "Okay, let's go back."
The assistant turned and left.
The smile in Wen Hesi's eyes faded and he clicked on the number in his phone.
Shi Yu was struggling with the fried eggs on the plate at the moment. He looked down at the incoming call and answered it.
Wen Hesi listened to the background voice from his side: "You're not home?"
"In the Qing bar."
"Going out to play?"
"Western food."
“…”
Wen Hesi, with his brain that was said to be worth a thousand gold in the industry, couldn't figure out what this new hobby was. He could multitask while reading the files. "Who did you mess with again?"
Shi Yu separated the yolk and white of the omelette and poked the white with a fork: "Hmm?"
"Your eighteenth lover just came to me and transferred a five-digit sum to me." Wen Hesi twirled his pen and turned the pages. "Why do you always provoke these monsters? If they didn't realize that they were deceived into transferring money because they wanted someone's phone number but failed, and this reason was too embarrassing, they would not be able to overcome their shame and report it to the police. I can't protect you here."
Shi Yu: "What does the call your assistant answered have to do with you?"
Wen Hesi smiled.
The assistant was not an ordinary assistant, but a bold one who dared to embezzle the public funds of the law firm. When Wen Hesi first found out something was wrong, he wanted to get rid of him, but he could not find any evidence of the losses in the early stage because the embezzlement was in small amounts and multiple times, and firing him was not in line with his life principle of tit-for-tat.
Shi Yu, who happened to hear about this, gave him the first phone number. According to the other party, it was a harasser who he had met on a pedestrian street before and had failed to harass him.
…
And now it is the eighteenth.
Facts have proved that human greed is truly endless.
The young assistant lived up to expectations and moved away tens of thousands of deposits obtained by fraud.
If the illegal amount involves more than six figures, you will go to jail.
Although the voice was changed when answering the phone, it was actually the assistant's mobile phone number, the assistant's account number for receiving money, and even the stolen money used by the assistant. If the police really investigate this, they will only accuse the assistant of breaking the law.
As for Wen, what is it like?
At most, he is a boss who doesn't know people well.
He said, "Sometimes I really think it's a pity for you not to commit a crime."
Wen Hesi can at least play the role of a deceived victim in this story, but Shi Yu is really just a completely unrelated passerby.
He clearly planned the most shameful thing, but he appeared to be the cleanest person.
What kind of experiences does one have to go through to be shaped into this state?
Wen He seemed to not know, and had no interest in asking: "I have a feeling that your eighteenth peach blossom will not just let it go. After he reports the case to the police and arrests the thief in my law firm, I'm afraid that your peach blossom will get entangled with me."
Shi Yu finished her fried egg whites and drank some juice: "Just say you don't know me."
Wen Hesi thought seriously for once: "But since your number is so valuable now and can attract so many suckers, if I'm really implicated and can't continue working, why not just make a living by selling your number?"
“…”
Shi Yu hung up the phone expressionlessly.
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