Blind Date
Beams of car lights are interspersed in the gray haze, and the red traffic lights seem to be covered with a layer of frosted glass.
Visibility at night is lower than usual.
"…The current monitored haze index is 275, which is trending towards severe haze pollution. The haze weather will continue for the next two days. Citizens are requested to wear visual glasses and filter masks when going out…"
"Recently, the nuclear radiation index of seafood sampling and testing has continued to rise, and has now reached 1,300 Bq per kilogram; the nuclear radiation index of river fresh sampling and testing is 900 Bq per kilogram, which is similar to the nuclear radiation index of poultry on land..."
"Recently, the police have seized two batches of illegally transported frozen meat with excessive nuclear radiation index, and investigated and punished three unscrupulous farms that raised deformed freshwater fish and poultry without authorization. When buying processed meat and vegetables, please look for organic 'green labels' that have passed quality inspection..."
In every moving car, the radio broadcast horrifying reports.
A shiny black motorcycle roared past and stopped in front of a mid- to high-end restaurant.
The owner took off his shiny black helmet, revealing his refreshing and handsome short hair, and wore a fluorescent green film earring on his left ear, which contained a tiny barcode.
She stepped out of the car with her slender legs, took off her windproof goggles that allowed her to see the road conditions, and looked in the rearview mirror to tidy up her short hair that was flattened by the helmet.
Then she stared at herself in the mirror.
She has a cold and beautiful appearance, with a pair of beautiful eyes. When she is not smiling, her eyes are particularly cold and lack spirit.
She opened her eyelids to make her eyes look bright.
The restaurant's door is equipped with a single-person disinfection compartment. She took off her anti-smog filter mask and let the ultraviolet rays disinfect her entire body.
Hidden probes scanned the barcode on her earrings.
[Name: Lu Miao]
[Gender: Female]
【Employment Unit: Nanjiang Military Base】
[Position: Captain of "Fluorescent Green"]
A brief identification message is uploaded to the restaurant's terminal.
The light yellow lights distinguish the restaurant from the foggy world outside.
This is a place where the middle and upper classes live a life of luxury.
99% of the guests were dressed in suits and elegant clothes, and she was the only outlier - she was wearing a black and fluorescent green leather jacket uniform.
When the contemptuous glances fell on the holster on her waist, the guests silently looked away and continued to chat with their companions.
Lu Miao walked straight towards a table.
There was a white rose in the vase on the table, which had a special meaning.
"Sir, are you Si Lan?" she asked the man at the other end of the table.
"I am." The man smiled politely. "You are Lu Miao, please sit down."
His feminine beauty surprised her.
The overly long hair was tucked behind the ears, and the lines of the jaw and nose were smooth and gentle, not harsh; the thin lips were red, and the black eyebrows and eyes had their sharp edges mitigated by a faint smile.
Lu Miao looked at him calmly and sat down calmly. "Due to work reasons, it is inconvenient for me to change into regular clothes. Please forgive me."
"It's okay." Si Lan folded his hands, the cuffs of his suit gleamed silver, and a faint smile hung on his lips. "On the contrary, I'm honored that you can take the time to attend the meeting."
Lu Miao didn't respond, but glanced at the gold-embossed black card menu.
This sudden blind date gave her a headache.
The person who pulled the strings was her mother.
My mother said that the other party worked in a large company, had a high salary, owned a car and a house, was handsome, and most importantly, did not mind his partner going on business trips frequently. He was simply a perfect match, so Lu Miao must meet him.
Lu Miao absolutely does not believe that such a high-quality man needs a blind date. She suspects that he is married and is looking for a mistress, or that he is a playboy who just marries a woman he likes to deal with his family and continues to play around after marriage.
Or maybe a gay guy is looking for a lesbian wife...
"Let's order the food first." Si Lan smiled, his clear eyes slightly curved.
Lu Miao picked up the menu book at hand, opened the first page and his eyes froze.
Ridiculously expensive.
There is little meat.
The dishes here are made with non-processed meat and organic vegetables. A plate of fried rice with minced meat costs more than 200 yuan. No wonder no colleagues have ever come to the restaurant and would rather eat processed meat in the cafeteria.
She flipped through a few pages silently, her eyes dull.
In the end, she ordered a plate of vegetable fried rice, which was completely vegetarian.
Si Lan ordered a dish of cheese fried rice and a dish of baked shrimp.
"Did Auntie mention that my job is to design intelligent programs?" He took the initiative to find the topic.
"Yes."
“I often work overtime, too.”
"Um."
Lu Miao continued chatting with him calmly until the waiter robot brought the dishes.
The golden cheese and orange baked shrimp make her vegetable fried rice look very simple.
The tempting baked shrimps were placed in the middle of the table, with two sets of disposable gloves.
Lu Miao just focused on eating fried rice, intending to finish the battle quickly.
Si Lan on the opposite side was wearing disposable gloves and peeling shrimp shells elegantly.
The slender fingers first broke off the shrimp head, skillfully separated the shrimp meat and the shrimp shell, and placed the whole shrimp body on the fried rice.
After a while, Lu Miao noticed that there were four peeled shrimps on the surface of his fried rice, and the intact shrimp shells were neatly displayed next to his plate.
She thought of the bodies displayed at the accident scene.
The exhibitor is like a coroner with a kind face and a cruel heart.
At this time, Si Lan took off his disposable gloves and began to taste the baked shrimp and fried rice.
He eats slowly and leisurely, in an elegant and pleasing manner.
Lu Miao is different. Because she is on call at all times, she may not have time to finish a meal, so she often eats in no time.
Si Lan picked up the cup and took a sip of water.
She looked up.
One mouthful.
Two mouthfuls.
Three people.
…
The seventh bite.
Sure enough, he picked up the cup and took a sip of water.
She kind of understood why he needed a blind date.
bell--
The phone rang at an inopportune time. Lu Miao glanced at the caller and his expression turned cold. "Sorry, I'll take the call."
"Please." Si Lan smiled.
She tapped her headset and answered the call from her boss.
"Miao Miao~"
"Stop talking nonsense." She said in a cold tone.
"Ah~ A closed ghost story t area has appeared in Qingshui Apartment, No. 152, Dongqing District, and 'Fluorescent Green' support is needed."
She frowned. "Qingshui? I remember it was Team Yellow's mission."
Two days ago, the team without any missions was eating together in the unit’s cafeteria when the radio suddenly notified Team Huang to rush to Qingshui Apartment, where the ghost story area appeared.
"Not anymore. Team Huang has been in Qingshui Apartment for more than 24 hours, and the ghost story area of Qingshui Apartment has not disappeared, which proves that no one has escaped yet. The situation has become serious. You have 24 hours left to crack the problem, otherwise the higher-ups will block the entire Qingshui Street and mark it as a dead zone."
"Understood."
"Miaomiao, you won't let me down, right?"
She hung up.
"Dead zone" means an area of unsolvable ghost stories. After the police evacuated all residents outside the area, they were ready with hot weapons to kill any living creature coming out of Qingshui Apartment.
There were only a few mouthfuls of fried rice left, and she ate hurriedly while notifying her teammates to assemble.
A minute later, she picked up the napkin and wiped her mouth.
"Mr. Si, I don't think we are suitable, and I don't have time for love and marriage. Let's end it here. I wish you find your ideal partner as soon as possible and grow old together." Her cold voice sounded like she was telling someone else's story.
Si Lan pursed his lips. "I hope I can get a chance to get to know you."
Lu Miao sneered. "My job is to risk my life. If you don't want to meet today, you will see my portrait tomorrow. It's better for everyone if it ends here."
"I just came here for work temporarily, so I'm leaving first." She took out a hundred and fifty yuan in change and put it on the table, then stood up and left.
It was the price of the fried rice she ordered, and the change was just right, not more or less.
It was still foggy outside the restaurant and all the lights were blurry.
Lu Miao felt the gaze from the restaurant. She put on a filter mask and visual goggles, fastened her black helmet, and drove away on her motorcycle.
The night is hazy and visibility is low, and only red light can penetrate the haze.
The entire Qingshui Apartment seemed to be installed with LED lights, and the exterior walls emitted a ghostly red light, announcing to humans that this building was a ghost story area.
Three years ago, after a large-scale water and power outage, a dangerous and strange ghost story area randomly descended.
The sign of the arrival was a sudden power outage for 12 hours. On the third day, the strange story area arrived on time, capturing those who remained in the area and forcing them to enter, and emitting a red light.
It is convenient for humans to stay away, or enter actively.
Anyone who can escape from the ghost story area, as well as survivors who stay in the area for more than 2 hours and survive until the area disappears, will receive a single-person, single-day supply of survival supplies.
There is pure drinking water, pollution-free organic vegetables, healthy animal meat, etc.
People who have enjoyed survival supplies have found that drinking nutritional supplements and eating processed meat are equivalent to eating shit.
Therefore, some people, from the initial panic, became brave warriors who entered the field of ghost stories one after another to earn survival supplies. Even if they did not enjoy them, they could sell them at a high price on the black market.
In the hazy smog, a bicycle and an electric car came one after another.
The boy riding the bicycle was only 14 years old, thin, and wearing a fluorescent green choker around his neck.
"Captain, this is the information of Qingshui Apartment. Time is tight, so I will only print the information of the residents in the past year." The young man He Ping'an handed over two copies of the information.
Lu Miao took one of them.
The girl on the scooter took the other one. "That's amazing! You found a year's worth of information in such a short time."
The girl is called Wang Keke, she has pink hair, blue eyes and mixed race, and she also wears a fluorescent green choker around her neck. She also wears purple eyeshadow and lipstick, a typical hot girl style.
When asked why she worked with makeup, she said that she would rather die beautifully.
The two wore the same leather jacket uniform, and the choker had an identity barcode.
He Pingan wore a black filter mask, his eyes calm. "Anyone who knows that a department has a household registration system can search it."
Wang Keke raised an eyebrow. "Captain, there is no department rule that prohibits beating teammates, right? No?"
"snort."
Lu Miao quickly scanned the first page of the information and said in a neutral tone, "Team Huang has been in there for more than 24 hours. The situation is not optimistic. We have 23 hours and 42 minutes left to crack the ghost story area, otherwise we will mark the entire street as a dead zone."
Hearing this, the expressions of the two people who were bickering changed drastically.
"Coco, is your fist still hard?"
The two were silent.
Lu Miao put the information away and looked up at the apartment building that was glowing red. Her fluorescent green earrings reflected the ghostly red light.
"The closed ghost story area will send us to random places. We'll do things according to the old rules."
"receive!"
"OK!"
The three of them entered through the main door of the apartment building.
His brain seemed to be twisted by an invisible force, and he was in chaos for a moment. Then, a simple room came into his sight.
The gun at the waist disappeared temporarily.
The strange story area blocks weapons, electronic products and food that are carried. This is a hidden rule.
Lu Miao took off his filter mask and smelled the pervasive fishy smell of water.
She looked around and her eyes stopped at the red words on the white paper on her door.
The red Song font has gold glitter, sparkling dreamily under the light.
She was suspicious.
The first time I encountered the rules, the font was blood red with gold glitter.
"Residential Rules..." She read each rule carefully, pondering the meaning of the red font with gold dust.
[Dear residents, welcome to Qingshui Apartment. In order to improve the quality of life, please abide by the following rules:]
【1. When going out, residents must wear white clothes and bring the keys to the apartment. If you lose the keys to the apartment, please go to the management office to get a spare key. 】
[2. If you forget to wear white clothes when you go out, please make sure that the neighbors you meet are humans who walk upright, have two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, and four limbs.]
【3. When the situation described in Rule 2 occurs, if you encounter a neighbor other than the above or a neighbor with red eyes, do not stare at them for more than 3 seconds, do not look back, and go home immediately.】
[4. The water purifier at home is equipped with drinking water, please feel free to drink it. ]
[5. Security guards will deliver meals to your door every 6 hours. Please open the door and receive your meals ten minutes after hearing three short knocks.]
【6. Do not eat fish and fish-related foods. 】
[7. Writing a diary is a good habit to share your life. Please write a diary every hour and remember what you write.]
[8. The diary is for writing. Do not take it out of the apartment.]
[9. If you find a page of your diary stained with blood, please quickly turn to the next page and do not look at it for more than 3 seconds.]
[10. If you feel memory loss, or your skin bleeds for no apparent reason, you feel abnormally thirsty, or you hear voices, please go to the first floor and find blue clothes to put on immediately.]
[11. If the situation in Rule 10 occurs, please make sure that you are in an apartment building, there will be no boys in red clothes around you, there will be no singing, and the walls will be white.]
【12. Residents should avoid using elevators. 】
【13. Please try not to go out. 】
[14. If you encounter a patrolling security guard, please do not look at him for more than 3 seconds, do not talk, and leave immediately.]
[15. Please make sure that the security guard’s uniform is not red. If not, please stay where you are, do not move, do not talk, and do not look at the security guard for more than 3 seconds.]
After reading the fifteen rules, Lu Miao found a blank diary on the desk in the bedroom.
A note fell out of the diary, and the words on it were also in red Song font with gold powder glittering: Remember to wear white clothes and bring the key to the apartment.
There are red words written on the title page of the diary: Record the truth.
She picked up the pen and thought for a while, then wrote down something that only she could understand:
Haze day.
I met a strange man.
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