102 The flower and bird market rules and strange talk (1) The flower and bird market in the wilderness…

Tieu Lanh silently watched Diep Tich and Ta Giang leave, returning to the 17th office alone.

Today, 4 teams next door went on a mission. 3 teams had nothing to do, everyone was fishing. Xiao Leng jumped out of a drawer and took out a useless notebook, leaning on the table to write and draw.

Ta Giang... Made him really nervous.

But he was really good at serving tables, so he calculated to make up for the lack. Xiao Leng cut a line in the right corner of his notebook, and made a small square out of the original horizontal line. Then, while recalling, he wrote down on the left side of his notebook what Xie Jiang had just done.

Give him a note (cut first, report later), invite Diep Tich to watch a movie, eat together, take him home together for a walk (or drive).

Also, "Call sister".

Xiao Leng stared at the last one for three seconds, then dropped it.

He just looked at the previous few lines on his forehead, rolling over and over to recall, still not quite understanding why Xie Jiang could do these seemingly natural things.

Moreover, it can also make Ye Xi accept it naturally. He felt from the outside that Ye Xi and Xie Jiang were talking very lightly and happily.

... Based on what.

What is he doing now?

Xiao Leng's mouth corners twitched slightly, he flipped through a page, preparing to follow Xie Jiang's previous version and write a plan for himself.

"Hey, Captain Xiao." Yang Ge's voice suddenly appeared beside him. Xiao Leng slammed his notebook shut and turned around: "Something up?"

"Two temporary meetings." Yang Ge placed two documents in front of him, "One for the research institute, one for the operations team, you go one and I go one?"

"Okay." Tieu Lanh just glanced at it and conveniently picked up the research institute's equipment, feeling guilty as he stood up and walked out.

"Who..." Duong Ca immediately did not react, when he reacted and wanted to call him, the person had already gone out.

She thought to say, although it was a temporary meeting, it was not so "temporary".

The meeting is only in the afternoon, what is he doing now?!

"Soul throw?" Duong Ca frowned funny, hurriedly going about his own business.

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"Sister, can you hold this?"

At a restaurant in Xi Thien Street, Xie Jiang realized that he was too far away from Ye Xi's braised pork belly, so he directly used his chopsticks to pick up a piece and brought it to Ye Xi's plate.

"Thank you." Diep Tich said his thanks, then continued the previous topic, "... So I don't need to research the information, I'm sorry to bother you!"

"This is a good thing, what's there to be shy about!" Xie Jiang put down his chopsticks and started to make a fuss again, after a while he threw it in front of her, his eyes filled with admiration, "Now that the exam is so good, big sister can be actively recruited by the superiors, too amazing!"

Diep Tich smiled awkwardly: "I just ran into it. If you really let me test you, I'm not really confident."

—— this is the truth.

Up until now, Diep Tich has always defined himself as "an ordinary person". From young to old, he has always had average grades in his class. After graduating from university, he has never pursued any famous companies, and has only found an ordinary job.

In the strange rules of the discussion, there was a "natural talent" that was completely beyond her expectations. If she really did the test step by step… Just like Xie Jiang said, the current test was like this, although she would use all her strength to prepare, but the final result she would encounter would still be an average result in the written test, and in the end, she would not be able to attend the interview.

"This shows that elder sister should go to the big luck." Xie Jiang said with a smile, then frowned, his eyes filled with sadness, "But isn't this kind of thing super rushed? Can we still ask elder sister to come out to play in the future?"

"... I really don't know." Ye Xi laughed, "Before, I only cared about the mission, regardless of other things, it felt good. But now that I have a permanent position, the amount of work will definitely change, however..." She recalled Xiao Leng and the others' previous state, and said thoughtfully, "It must be that they are always busy! When it's relatively free, they can definitely still go out and relax a bit."

"That's great!" Xie Jiang laughed again, put down his chopsticks, "Big sister eat first, I'll go to the bathroom."

"Yes." Diep Tich nodded, Ta Giang stood up and left. About five minutes later, he came back and continued eating and chatting.

After finishing the meal, Diep Tich asked the waiter to pay the bill but was informed that he had already paid.

She angrily looked at Xie Jiang, who was eating at the free cafeteria and was given a matcha ice cream ball, when she caught his eye he smiled foolishly: "Congratulations on your new job, I'll take it!"

Diep Tich frowned: "If you keep sneak attacking like this, I won't be able to come out next time!"

"Don't ah..." Xie Jiang immediately put down the ice cream, thought for a moment, and quickly said, "Then what if big sister invites me to watch a movie? There haven't been any good movies recently… Wait until next year to find a New Year movie, how about that?"

"I have to go back to my hometown for the New Year." Ye Xi helplessly picked up the ticket-buying app on his phone and flipped it open. He clicked on the special feature and raised a large piece of paper in front of him, "It's hot, can't you see it?"

"... Look!!!" Having just taken another bite of ice cream, Xie Jiang frantically nodded with the spoon, "I just wanted to ask my sister to look at this, my classmate looked at it and said it was extremely refreshing!"

"Okay, I'll buy a ticket then." Ye Xi breathed a sigh of relief, searched the street opposite the shopping mall for a movie theater on the top floor, found a suitable show time, chose the golden viewing spot in the middle, and presented it to pay.

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At 5 o'clock in the evening, Tieu Lanh returned home, passed by Diep Tich's door, raised his hand and carefully knocked twice.

There was no response from the room, he sighed, opened his own door. Sat on the sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling.

... How to chase the girl?

He does not understand.

A few meters away, the elevator rang. Xiao Leng, who was in a daze, originally did not notice this sudden movement, but very quickly he heard an impossible-to-ignore chatter.

"... There are also preferential student benefits for salvaging the bottom of the sea! 69 points! Next time we go pulling goat hair together!" It was Xie Jiang's voice.

Tieu Lanh's eyes trembled, his gaze turned to the door, he was silent for two seconds, then stood up and left the door.

When he opened the door, Ye Xi happened to open the door as well. The door beside him suddenly opened, she naturally looked over with her side hand, Xie Jiang also looked over, and then his eyes revealed surprise: "Brother, you and elder sister are neighbors?"

Who is calling out? Xiao Leng raised his eyebrows.

Then, while groping Xie Jiang's gentle and natural state, he tried to open his mouth to Ye Xi: "Aren't you going to eat? I'm about to make it, do you want it or not..."

"Let's eat!" Xie Jiang didn't need to think, he smiled innocently, "After watching the movie, we passed by a newly opened restaurant, with a 20% discount on student ID, and they also gave us some sweets, so I pulled my sister in to have a taste!"

After speaking, he looked at Xiao Leng, suddenly realized something, and opened his eyes wide in nervousness: "Brother, do you have something to look for older sister for? Is it something from work? I've been outside with older sister for so long, aren't we delaying important matters?!"

"No, I won't officially start working until next year." Ye Xi smiled faintly at Xie Jiang, Xie Jiang let out a sigh of relief: "That's good, that's good..." Then happily waved his hand at Ye Xi, "I'll go back first, big sister, rest early!"

"Yes, take your time." Diep Tich smiled, "Tell me when you get to school."

"Okay, don't worry!" Xie Jiang waved to her as he headed towards the elevator. He looked very handsome and refined, with his day-trimmed trousers and chestnut-colored hair, he looked extremely radiant.

Diep Tich stood at the door until he heard the elevator door close before turning around to go inside, then discovered Tieu Lanh was still standing at the door.

"..." Diep Tich looked at him, "Do you really have something important to say to me, and it is not convenient to say it in front of Ta Giang?"

"No." Tieu Lanh pretended to be comfortable and held the door latch tightly, "I'll cook first, and then I'll bring you a late night snack."

Diep Tich: "I don't spend money..."

Tieu Lang closed the door.

... Eating is also right.

Diep Tich pouted and turned back to her room.

After more than ten days, Diep Tich ate more than five meals personally cooked by Tieu Lanh, and also received more than three snacks sent by Ta Giang.

At this point, Xie Jiang used his rich second generation attribute to the fullest. The snacks he gave Ye Xi were basically because he suddenly ate something delicious, and asked for a gift from her. But from his school, he asked for a gift from her for 170 to 70 or 80 yuan, but the snacks weren't necessarily worth 70 or 80 yuan. The most exaggerated one time was that there was only a jar of small travel biscuits inside, the recommended retail price on the box was 23 yuan, counting the gift from her, it made her worth about five times as much.

As for Tieu Lang on the other side...

No matter how you say it, his cooking skills are indeed not bad, whether it's Chinese food or Western food, they are all very satisfying to her taste. But... when he and she are together, they seem to be too tense, making her unable to relax, and then the atmosphere will be filled with awkwardness.

She does not understand this very well.

... It was as if she didn't understand what part of her he liked, she also didn't understand why he was such a big man, and also had a team to manage, so he was so bad at socializing.

Life is really more difficult to understand than weird talk!

However, Diep Tich still couldn't help but eat delicious food, occasionally returning a small gift to them, to avoid owing too many favors.

As time passed, her unwellness gradually increased, and she began to feel empty. Especially after she hurriedly finished the [Prophet] transaction, the feeling of being idle and suffering from the guilt grew more and more.

This point surprised her. When Minister Ding said he would start working next year, she thought about the fact that she was about to welcome a month-long vacation. She clearly felt very refreshed.

But thinking carefully, in fact, from the beginning of second grade, she basically didn't have much time to rest. In 11th and 12th grade, she had nominal winter and summer breaks, but in reality, she was taking extra classes, reviewing questions, and preparing for the college entrance exam. With great difficulty, she passed the entrance exam to City B University, and even during her first year, she could truly relax a bit. From the beginning of second grade, she was either taking exams or working tirelessly to find part-time jobs to earn extra income. Her winter and summer breaks were both compressed to a very short time.

Her parents teased her because she was "a fool", but she felt that her rich life was very enjoyable. Now it seemed that her life had been too rich, and she was no longer able to adapt to living in a state of stagnation.

Ye Xi thus learned a lesson, and with a firm intention, sent Yang Ge a message, tactfully expressing the idea of ​​"I've been so idle lately, if there's anything I can do, you can ask me to do it." Yang Ge was clearly stunned when he saw the message, and he handed her a phone call, his tone extremely difficult to understand: "Xi Xi, how are you? Minister Ding was afraid that you would regret it, so he specifically told us not to bother you recently, and to wait until next year to talk about anything. How are you... doing the work of others???"

Diep Tich forced a smile: "I recently watched 20 movies, read 4 books, now I want to do something different."

"Then... let's go." Yang Ge scratched his head, "Recently, there's a strange case outside the province where the death rate is very high, it's giving people a headache, the local team can't handle it, they want to hand it over to us. There's a meeting this afternoon, are you coming?"

Diep Tich: "Which one is awake?"

"H province." Yang Ge said, "H province is the capital of C city. You go to the meeting first and listen. If you don't participate in the action, come back and talk about it later?"

Diep Tich took a deep breath: "I'll join."

Duong Ca: "Ah?"

"This time, I will participate." Diep Tich's mood became heavy, "That is my hometown, my parents are both there."

"Ah..." Looking at Ye Xi's resume, Yang Ge belatedly remembered that there seemed to be such a thing, and choked out, "Alright… Then at three o'clock this afternoon, let's see the office."

——after a week, 17th point aimed at this strange conversation opened four times. Actually from previous experience, this kind of meeting has very little impact on the task, it is estimated that 95% of the time it is useless work.

But even so, holding meetings is inevitable.

Because every move of the strange talker is directly related to life safety, if ten rounds can avoid 1% of danger, then all ten rounds will be worth it.

The real mission time is set at 1 month 28 days. Because of the complicated import situation, this time 17th dispatched a total of 16 team members, coming from 4 small teams, planning to conduct a mass inspection at the possible import locations.

In the ideal state, the ultimate mission goal is still to destroy the monster's entrance, this goal still relies on the research institute to provide the ly bullet. The research institute is upgrading its initial equipment base, hoping that it can make an impact this time.

If this goal cannot be achieved, then at least we want to do the same as before to protect as many people as possible to leave safely, and conveniently absorb experience, organize the strange chat report, and hand it over to the local strange chat squad.

1 month 28 day dusk 5 o'clock, team members arrive at mission location.

This time the mission location was in the outskirts of H province, C city. These few mountain areas all had open space, the entertainment life of the young people in the countryside was monotonous, these open spaces were set up with some theater stages, theater palaces, those specialized performing teams that roamed in the countryside, every time there was a performance, the residents of the nearby dozen or so villages would all rush over, the scene was very lively.

In recent years, the internet has been widely spread throughout the country, live broadcasts, short videos have been popular, and the need for the rich to squeeze out time to go out has led to the decline of rural performances. Those large stages have fallen into disrepair, but the open space is still there, and slowly the villagers have spontaneously formed markets. In the morning, some people sell their own vegetables, fruits, tofu, and cakes from their fields, and in the evening, some people sell small commercial snacks. On holidays, there are also temple festivals and large gatherings, which are not bad at all.

But from about a month ago, the strange rule appeared here.

Based on the preliminary preliminary test results, every Sunday from 5 to 7 pm is the time for the entrance of the strange pond to open, each time three entrances will open at the same time, but the specific location is not fixed, each time will absorb 24 individuals.

——The strange pool opens only once every weekend, and it doesn't attract many people, which should originally be a good thing. But combined with the special conditions of this place, it becomes a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, opening a low frequency will naturally reduce the number of victims, but on the other hand, this assumption also makes everyone lower their guard, feeling lucky that this kind of small probability event will not happen to them.

Strange talk was discovered at the beginning of the two or three weekends, the majority of people were still relatively nervous, even if they went to the market, they would at least avoid 5 to 7 o'clock this time period. But now, many people were too lazy to hide——everyone felt that the slowest was a few hundred, at most a few thousand people appearing at the same time in the market, absorbing 24 individuals, the probability was very low. Compared to below, earning money to support a family and live temporarily was the most important.

What's more unfortunate is that if this market appeared in City B or a big city like City C, management would be relatively simple. The relevant departments only needed to put up a guard outside the market and prohibit residents from entering, and "he" would have no way out.

This rural market has no clear border, several mountain ranges have open space to set up stalls. The open space in Jia and Yi is forbidden, the rich can still go to Yi Bing, Bing Ding, if not, they can still take two steps up the mountainside. Wanting to bring all the mountains into the border range, the locality does not have that much manpower.

Therefore, if the strange talk does not enter the gate, the 17th line will fix some experience, which is also a matter of scorching the eyebrows. Although the strange talk's rules will change according to the situation, the local squad can still use this to avoid a part of the danger, and then try their best to join the market every Sunday to protect ordinary people.

This is the most extreme eclectic solution.

When the team members arrived at the market, the market was already decorated with lanterns and flowers. There were still more than ten days left before the Lunar New Year, and many universities had already closed. The young people who went out to study were returning to their hometowns in droves. Merchants displayed abundant New Year goods for the wealthy to buy, and the market's scale had tripled to its usual size.

17 four small teams from different entrances entered the market, through the walkie-talkie maintenance contact, set the time to confirm the status with each other. The research institute sent people two kilometers away to stare at the remote monitor screen to monitor the entrance direction, if there was any abnormality, they would also promptly notify the team members through the walkie-talkie.

The three teams participating in the mission, except for Ye Xi, were also the team leader Xiao Leng, the vice team leader Yang Ge, and Ren Ningning. All four of them were special aliases. According to the base's strange chat mechanism, entering the portal by their side opened up an extremely large possibility.

However, Xiao Leng still bought a bag of candied fruit less than five minutes after entering the market. That candied fruit must be made now, each one has a thick thumb, is hollow inside, and is wrapped in white sesame seeds on the outside, and is very crunchy when chewed.

Yang Ge didn't eat lunch, hearing that crispy sound suddenly felt very hungry, reached out and wanted to grab one to eat, but was accidentally avoided by Xiao Leng.

"..." Yang Ge rolled his eyes at his food-protecting person who had already adapted to him, too lazy to speak, but the next second he saw him hand the paper bag to Ye Xi, his words were already kind and attentive: "It's quite tasty, try it?"

Ye Xi was originally looking back at the roadside stalls selling moldy tofu, feeling that the white fluffy moldy tofu monsters were adorable, and didn't pay attention to what they were doing. Seeing Xiao Leng conveying the message, he naturally picked up a stick: "Thank you."

Yang Ge looked down on the sky, picked up the walkie-talkie, and said in a clear voice: "Dear, I want to eat sugar cane, buy it for me in a moment!"

Everyone on the walkie-talkie was on the same channel, and immediately a team leader, Zhang Zhao, protested: "Fuck, I'm not on duty, aren't I showing off my love?"

Then Tran Dang Vu laughed: "Okay, I also saw peanut bowl, do you want to eat?"

Duong Ca: "Eat, eat, eat, buy more points! I'm so hungry I'm going to faint!"

Diep Tich vaguely guessed what had just happened, and looked up at Tieu Lanh.

Tieu Lang looked back and asked nervously: "You also want to eat peanut bowl? I'll go buy some!"

"... Not eating!" Diep Tich was very resolute.

Xiao Leng lowered his head, obviously a little humiliated. Yang Ge saw this and was mentally balanced——they were both showing off their love, the difference between her and Xiao Leng was that she actually had a boyfriend, and whether Xiao Leng could chase after a girlfriend was another matter!

Huh!

Yang Ge furtively raised his eyebrows and exhaled. Not long after, the intercom rang again: "The tangguandong and peanut soup are both delicious. I'll give them to you in a moment!"

Duong Ca smiled brightly: "Buy! Love you!"

——before she finished speaking, her head sank and her eyes turned black.

Feeling the same way as her, there were a few people beside her. The big guy couldn't control himself and fell down, his body went soft as cotton and he lost consciousness.

When consciousness returned, Diep Tich smelled a strong smell of gasoline.

It was the kind of smell that was often seen on old buses. When Ye Xi was young, he suffered from severe motion sickness and would vomit his bile from the smell. Although it wasn't so exaggerated when he grew up, he would still feel nauseous because of it.

"Ah ——" Diep Tich couldn't help but gag, quickly tilting his body forward. He then vomited twice more, but luckily didn't spit it out.

Not far away, a gentle female voice came: "Carsick? Good, we're here, get off the car slowly."

The passengers who were slowly recovering their thoughts were shocked by these words. Everyone simultaneously looked out the window. When they saw the golden sand in the sky, the vast majority of them immediately reacted to what had happened.

Diep Tich stopped breathing, his eyes moved down, and he quickly found the destination of this action.

"Wilderness of flower and bird market".

... Based on.

Although they had opened a few rounds before, they actually knew very little about this dungeon. Mainly because the death rate was too high, the local squad sent four or eight people into the strange pool one after another, and there were only two survivors, all of whom suffered from different levels of contamination, and they all self-destructed one after another.

Before the self-destruction, they were also basically unable to communicate normally. From the crazy and crazy people who said a few words, they knew that this copy seemed to be a "market", but specifically what kind of market it was, what its name was, they all had absolutely no idea.

Now looking at this name, Diep Tich's whole body was filled with evil chill.

Previously she saw strange talks with names like "Vo Trang", "Huong Ve", "Duyet Tam", "Tinh Nguyet", "Duc Luong", although the styles were different, some were also very talkative, but none of them could compare to the one in front of her.

"Wilderness", deserted mountains and forests... At first glance, it doesn't seem like a good place.

After a brief commotion, the passengers realized that their complaints were useless and had no choice but to quietly get off the bus. The man walking in front of Ye Xi stopped when he passed the ticket seller and said while holding his phone, "My phone just charged 188 yuan, how come it's finished now? The signal here is not good?"

The generous ticket seller smiled and said: "That's right, the signal in the mountain is not good, if there's anything, let's go back and talk about it later."

The two passengers turned their heads, their eyes filled with disdain: Where did you two idiots come from, don't you know that it's normal to have a strange conversation without a signal?

The three female students simultaneously raised their eyes and silently looked at him.

Diep Tich was closest to him, directly reaching out to push him: "Go quickly." His tone was very impatient, the index finger stuck to his back quickly moved, roughly writing "Diep".

"Embarrassed." Tieu Lanh smiled and glanced at her, then quickly got out of the car.

Duong Ca was the first to get off the car, and happened to be standing in front of a few people. Waiting until the last person got off, she said, "A total of 24 people."

Same news as they got before.:,,.

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