Abyss Express

After leaving the milk tea shop, Seventh Brother called an online car-hailing service, and the two rushed to Pingyang County.

It was getting dark, and it was going to be night.

Pass the Huancheng Expressway, pass the fork of the country road in the Ruyun Mountain Scenic Area, and then drive more than 20 kilometers in the direction of the satellite town, and you will arrive at Jiang Xueming's hometown.

Xue Ming and Seventh Brother sat in the back row, chatting without saying a word.

Regarding the group of armadillo hunters, Jiang Xueming still had a lot of questions in his heart, so he wanted to ask Brother Seven for advice.

"Xiaoqi, you said you are new? How old are you? How long have you been at the station? Have you ever seen a live armadillo hunter?"

"A woman's age is a secret. As for how long I've been at the station, it's not convenient for me to tell you." Seventh Brother clasped his hands together, squinting at Mr. Xue Ming: "If you're talking about an armadillo hunter, I should count it. Pass one."

Jiang Xueming: "What does it mean to have seen it?"

"Before we start working, we need to do training." Xiaoqi explained: "How to protect new passengers, how to keep old passengers, these things, we have to watch some video materials to preview. Among these materials, there are Information about the Armadillo Hunter."

Xue Ming took out a pen and a mobile phone, ready to write down everything Seventh Brother said.

The evening sun outside the window sinks to the top of Ruyun Mountain.

The sky and the earth were darkened, leaving only a lonely street lamp flashing from time to time.

Seventh Brother took out the toffee from his bag, tore open the package and threw one into his mouth.

She spoke unhurriedly.

"In the video, we see that most of the hunters are already dead. The death conditions are usually not very good-looking. These people are very difficult to deal with, and they have to use unconventional means.

Regarding this point, Mr. Xueming, you can also feel it during the armament test after completing the safety inspection of the polarizing sextant, right? "

Jiang Xueming asked: "Are you talking about the part where I am taming my limbs?"

Xiao Qi nodded and continued.

"Yes, armadillo hunters were once passengers and highly inspired people, and they all undergo a more or less metamorphosis.

It's like you suddenly learned the fine art of archery.

It's like ordinary people suddenly possessing extraordinary powers.

This kind of extremely fast and drastic change will cause the hearts of some passengers to swell.

When they returned to the mortal world, they already decided that they were no longer ordinary people. Like a great injustice who won the lottery, he surpasses all living beings as a god. "

Speaking of this, Xiao Qi's two small eyebrows also frowned, as if thinking of something very disgusting.

"Speaking of which, many passengers returned to their previous living environment after gaining this power, as if they had completely changed themselves.

There are several classic examples of hunters appearing in video materials alone.

Before becoming a passenger, a hunter was a small boatman in Calcutta, India. He was 43 years old and had a good family. Because her daughter was cut off with a kidney by the local evil forces, she needed exorbitant medical expenses.

His mental strength and inspiration are superb, and the ticket also found the troubled father logically, and successfully got him the panacea and money.

But after he returned to the mortal world, he didn't use any panacea for his daughter. Instead, he left a fee for treatment that didn't hurt, and abandoned his wife and daughter.

He believes that all of this is the grace bestowed upon him by Lord Shiva, the black cat is the mortal incarnation of Lord Shiva, and he has never been a mortal, but a special son of destiny.

He couldn't find his position, and the boundary between the real world and the station began to become blurred. He never took the rules and regulations in the passenger guide seriously.

In three years, he successively killed forty-one ordinary people, three passengers, and stole four panaceas. When encountering unsatisfactory things in life, he is like a moody evil god, imposing death sentences on others. As the watchman of the station, the first to be killed was his waiter. "

"Could it be that no one found out at the station. Was a waiter killed?" Jiang Xueming's eyes stared in disbelief.

Xiao Qi explained patiently: "The materials in our training video are all extreme cases. This hunter is very cunning and good at acting.

A few months after he joined the station, he won the trust of the waiter, and fully understood what kind of person the waiter is, what he likes and what he doesn't like, he even has a clear picture of his dining habits and daily routines, and he had sex with the waiter. The two are almost sure of their relationship as husband and wife.

On the day before the wedding, the bloody hunter poisoned his waiter's wife to death. And from the followers around him, he chose a fanatical female fan.

He used drugs, brainwashing, hypnosis, and cosmetic surgery to turn this female fan into a waiter. As usual, he went back to the station to make a record announcement, and used the excuse of pregnancy to take a year-long maternity leave. . "

Jiang Xueming was stunned. It was hard for him to imagine how a father who went underground to risk his life for his daughter turned into a murderous maniac in just one or two years.

Seventh Brother showed a sullen look on his face, and continued.

"Because passengers were killed one after another, the security level of the station has also been raised. Our waiters not only have to do fingerprint checks, personality tests, but also go to polarized sextants for security checks like passengers. When it comes to DNA testing, we finally put this The fake waiter was caught.

Unfortunately, when our Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted local law enforcement to arrest this hunter, he had already committed many murders.

Usually, during the security inspection at the station, his various values ​​have already entered the dangerous line, and our medical department has also given him a lot of rehabilitation training alone, but after he resisted arrest and was shot dead, we didn't know——

——He has been taking all kinds of hallucinogenic drugs and sedatives that stimulate the mind, just like having a cup of soy milk every morning. These drugs forced him to pass the test of the polarizing sextant. "

Jiang Xueming sighed after hearing it: "It's not good to be a good person, why do you want to be a ghost?"

"It's not just that." Xiao Qi said worriedly: "This boatman has many followers in Calcutta. He relies on extraordinary inspiration and can perform various psychic rituals."

Jiang Xueming: "For example?"

Xiao Qi rubbed her temples, thinking about this case gave her a headache.

"There are many people who come to this hunter to show their supernatural powers in order to see their deceased relatives, lovers and enemies, or just for fun. But you know, we always regard supernatural things as spiritual disasters. But there is nothing good about disasters. occur.

This case involved many cases in the case. There was a wife who was looking for the soul of her deceased husband, and in order to see her deceased husband, she dedicated her uterus to the hunter. There are also horror families who stole and dug out the brains of the children next door in order to protect their sons from being admitted to a high-caste noble school, and then gave the brains to hunters to perform inexplicable psychic rituals. All in all it's very chaotic. "

Jiang Xueming held his forehead, feeling creepy, "Can he really do these things?"

"What is the most indispensable thing at the station? It is the ticket." Xiao Qi corrected: "If you want to deceive ordinary people, the ticket can do many, many 'miracles'."

Jiang Xueming still couldn't figure it out, and gritted his teeth angrily, "He doesn't need money anymore, why would he want to harm others?"

"Because of that illusory sense of ritual." When Xiao Qi talked about this, like Xue Ming, he had an expression of itching teeth with hatred: "Because these hunters all have a common characteristic, which was not obvious at the beginning. , but over time. They are getting farther and farther away from ordinary people.”

Jiang Xueming: "Don't you think of yourself as a human being?"

Xiao Qi nodded and explained carefully.

"That's right, Mr. Xue Ming. Think about it carefully. When the BOSS rescued the boatman, he only treated him as a father who was in urgent need of a panacea—but what did he look like afterwards?

Ordinary things no longer have any value in his eyes, a mansion or a luxury car can't fill the void in his heart, and the matter of abandoning his wife and daughter is easy to do. He wants to have fun beyond all the rules of the station and the world. He wanted to become a god, but he couldn't find a way to do it. He thought that if he built an evil temple and a group of evil believers came, he would be able to create a golden statue for himself. "

"Mr. Xueming, listen to it." Xiaoqi said, while searching in the handbag, found out the mobile phone, and played the video material to Jiang Xueming.

It was a recording of BOSS, and the voice of the big black cat was very recognizable.

"In the rituals of many ancient civilizations, many barbaric and bloody sacrifices have procedures for sacrificing livestock or living people, and offering hearts or various organs as contents to various gods. Why is this?"

"Because people's subconscious common sense believes that life is the most precious thing of the primates of all things—dedicating the most precious treasures to the gods is also the sacrifice, the chief priest, the initiator of the main body of the ceremony, the personnel participating in the ceremony, and even Audience, for these people, this is the closest they can get to God."

"The characteristics of most hunters are that they think they have the supernatural power of longevity and long-term vision in ten directions and eight poles, and they also like to perform many inexplicable rituals. This is a very dangerous thing."

"Homo sapiens is a kind of social animal that helps each other, can use tools to make tools, and is willing to fight for a long-term goal of coexistence—but all of this has nothing to do with gods. In other words, as the BOSS of the station, I I have always been an atheist. Recognizing animistic things and dealing with spiritual disasters has always been a process of breaking superstition."

"For the terrorists among the passengers who betrayed and turned into hunters, all waiters should pay attention to this phenomenon. Once they become obsessed and study various spells, gods, catastrophes, and spirit bodies, it will be difficult to turn back.

The station itself is not a place outside the law for Homo sapiens civilization. Before becoming a member of the station, everyone has the citizenship of a natural person. We respect every natural person.

When these hunters go to persecute other natural people—

——every elixir we handed over, like the Mad Butterfly and the Vita brand that has always plagued us, becomes a weapon for the murderer to inflict violence on the victim. "

"Even though the underground road ahead is scary and dark, I still ask the waiter to help the passengers to light up new astral nodes."

The recording ends here.

Jiang Xueming finished shorthand, "Your corporate culture is quite novel."

"Yes, when I first joined the job, I wore a lot of pendants on my body, and I even got a skull tattooed on my arm." Xiaoqi recalled: "The elder brother who was in charge of personnel told me repeatedly, don't do anything with me in the future. Tattoos, and don’t bring in things like crosses, just keep them clean.”

Jiang Xueming was curious: "How did you answer him?"

"At that time, I was still a rebellious girl in the second grade." Xiaoqi smiled, and felt a little embarrassed: "Let me tell you, since no gods can enter this station, is it like a place like hell?"

Jiang Xueming: "And then?"

Xiao Qishen replied mysteriously.

"Hell doesn't care about anything, hell cares about everything. That's what the big brother from the personnel department said.

If you want to think that the underground world is hell, then it is true. The boss is not only the most difficult living Hades to serve, but also a bad kid who is disgusting.

We have to keep our eyes open during our journey.

Take a closer look at its lava lake, see the ancient runes on the rock wall, see the colossus and the starry sky.

See clearly every mysterious and weird place——

- see it

-understand it

—Tear off its veil and terror, and carefully, like a bride's hijab, slowly take it off. "

"I see." Jiang Xueming put away his notebook and mobile phone, "That boatman is the hunter you mentioned just now, what happened in the end?"

"The local government cooperated with the armed personnel at the station to use two helicopters to take over his den. As for him himself, he made a bunch of messy things, like some kind of alchemy workshop, a private laboratory for researching panacea , and many dangerous weapons. But human beings have limits, but even carbon-based creatures can’t carry 20mm machine guns to wash the ground.” Speaking of this, Xiao Qi remembered something again, half-jokingly He said: "You won't follow suit, poison me, right? Mr. Jiang Xueming?"

Jiang Xueming: "Are you kidding me?"

Xiao Qi was suspicious.

"Then have you ever thought about this in your heart? Even a little bit of evil? Did you find me as a waiter annoying for a moment? I made it clear that the waiter not only wants to protect you, but also takes care of you. After all, I don't know your past.

If you are like the protagonist in Doraemon, being bullied by the fat tiger every day, you may not be sure that the first prop you get in this comic is the life restart gun.

When you get the weapon, you shoot back at the little friend who used to bully you like a bullet. When the time comes, I will stop, I am afraid that I will be the first to be shot. "

"I've thought about it." Jiang Xueming replied earnestly: "People who have taken advantage of me, or bullied me, I have never had the habit of keeping overnight revenge. It seems that this gun is not needed."

"That is to say, if you had the chance, you would still pick up this gun?" Xiao Qi was careful - after all, the boss had told her that Jiang Xueming was very special.

Jiang Xueming turned his head and looked out of the window, not wanting to meet the eyes of Brother Qi who is interrogating prisoners.

He just explained: "Don't worry, I won't do drastic things. How could I poison you just because of Fat Tiger?"

Under this delicate crisis of trust, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

In order to alleviate the embarrassment, Xiaoqi smiled and said: "According to the following story, if you don't poison me, then we will get married, right?! You can continue this, if we What will you do during pregnancy leave? You are so smart, make me a fifty-dollar one."

"I think of something." Jiang Xueming also said with a smile, "Is there a poison that can make you forget certain things and live a peaceful and happy life?"

Xiaoqi made fun of himself, pulled his face down, and typed out the diary on the phone.

She wrote silently.

"He even poisoned me and cared about my safety and health. He is so gentle, I cried to death."

"About the sense of ritual," Jiang Xueming still couldn't figure out one thing: "Why did the BOSS want us to walk the section of Moon Lane? You said it was for the sense of ritual? But what's the use?"

When it came to this, Xiaoqi felt a sense of inexplicable anger again, and she explained it in a good voice based on the impotence and rage in her heart.

"This is an unnecessary and necessary road specially reserved by the BOSS for every new passenger. You have various reasons and rush to the station to do things. For example, saving your sister must be in a state of emotional agitation, panic and fear.

You walked for almost an hour, saw such a big house and bronze sculptures, and saw so many strange people traveling with you, and always thought in your heart that this is a good thing, someone like you came to this station. There will definitely be more powerful people to help you, at least you will be quiet, and you won't disturb the brothers and sisters working in the Five Kings Council, and you won't be dying like a doctor.

The first time we formally meet you passengers in our waiter costumes, we want to tell you that - when you finish this road, you will find that the ritual of [walking] has no meaning in itself, it is just going from one place to another a place.

What matters is you, your goals, and the means by which you achieve them. Break the superstitions in your heart. We are natural persons when we enter the station, and we are still natural persons when we leave the station. "

Jiang Xueming nodded: "It's very interesting. I'm starting to like BOSS."

Xiao Qi continued to mutter: "So you are a cat lover. Later, I will raise a cute cat to charm you, hehe."

At this time, Jiang Xueming just silently looked out the window at the field in the dark night.

He jotted down a few features in his mind.

Armadillo hunters: carbon-based organisms.

Guaranteed plan: use 20mm caliber airborne artillery to kill, individual weapons of the same caliber can consider anti-device rifles, the kinetic energy of the shell is similar to that of the anti-aircraft machine gun using 14.5mm ammunition, and the killing efficiency on the human body is also similar, but It should be hard to get these things.

The solution that can be tried: dump truck Juheshu, the price of a 16-wheel truck with a license plate is less than 200,000 yuan. According to the National Three Standards, most cities can go on the road after 10 o’clock in the evening. Judging from the current financial resources , can support at least 30 releases of the Juhejutsu, and the contents of the vehicle can choose earth cubes or gravel with high mass density. It is easy to start, but the requirements for the terrain are more stringent.

When they arrived at the health center in Pingyang County, the two had just got out of the car and hadn't stood still—the car door was not closed tightly.

The driver slammed the gas and rushed back into the boundless dark road with the sound of the wind.

Xiao Qi scratched his head fiercely, and the sound of scratching his head was spread far and wide on the cement floor of the clinic.

"What's the matter? Why was the order canceled? I can't find the driver's information. I haven't paid yet."