Neverland

"What are you looking at?"

Xu Muzhou was so fascinated that he didn't even know when Yan Cen would come out of the house.He was startled, and a page of documents in his hand fell to the ground.

Yan Cen bent down to pick up the page for him, and asked very naturally: "Where are you looking at the documents?"

Xu Muzhou raised his eyes subconsciously, and choked back abruptly before saying yes.

Yan Cen just took a shower, and only wore a half-length bath towel around his waist. He didn't even seem to have the patience to dry it off, and water was still dripping from the ends of his hair.A few drops of water slipped past his tight shoulders and neck, snaked down his abdominal muscles, submerged into the towel, and disappeared in an instant.

There was still warm water vapor on his body, and a seemingly indistinct cool fragrance swirled and dispersed in the air. I don't know if it was the smell of sea water wafting in from outside, or the fragrance of shower gel on Yan Cen's body.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

Yan Cen didn't seem to feel that there was anything wrong with his face at all, he even reached out and took the information in Xu Muzhou's hand, and briefly flipped through it.He read the documents very quickly. After turning the documents from beginning to end, Xu Muzhou still maintained that petrified appearance and did not move.

"Xu Muzhou?"

Yan Cen frowned, and said to himself that he had managed to get a new colleague, he wouldn't be a comeback, and he would be scared stupid when he woke up.

Xu Muzhou came back to his senses, he pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly, stretched out his hand and swiped from top to bottom in the air next to Yan Cen, making a rather exaggerated gesture of showing.

"Mr. Yan." Xu Muzhou said sincerely, "I hope you understand that dressing like this in front of a man with a sexual orientation is tantamount to playing hooligan."

Yan Cen: "..."

Perhaps it was Xu Muzhou's honesty that shocked him too much, Yan Cen's face was rarely blank for a short time.

"I didn't think carefully." Yan Cen quickly recovered his voice: "Sorry."

As he said, he put down the document in his hand, and while walking towards the bedroom, he mentally slapped a big red and bold trouble label on Xu Muzhou.

Xu Muzhou rearranged the scattered documents on the table.In fact, he wouldn't have any thoughts about Yan Cen because of this, after all, he is not a stallion that throbs when he sees people.It's just that Xu Muzhou really thinks that in order to avoid being frightened frequently in the future, it's better to kill this kind of behavior in the cradle.

In a way, he is not a very easy-going, accommodating and easy-going person.

Yan Cen's movements were quick, and he turned back after a while. He was wearing a pure white nightgown this time, only a small piece of skin under his neck was exposed.Xu Muzhou noticed with sharp eyes that he was still holding a sharpened pencil in his hand.

Xu Muzhou gave him half of the sofa, and pointed to another sealed folder with his name written on it.

"This is yours. I didn't open it when you weren't here." Xu Muzhou raised the documents in his hand as he spoke, "I don't know if it's different from the one in my hand."

Yan Cen hummed, tore off the seal on the document, and took out the documents inside and put them on the table: "This is the first time there are double copies of documents, and I don't know too well, please check."

Seeing him like this, Xu Muzhou also put his own copy on the table. After comparing, he found that Yan Cen's copy was indeed one page longer than his.

It was a mission assessment form, and the risk assessment column on the form read "high risk, uncontrollable".In addition, at the bottom of the form, there is an additional line of remarks - please ensure the safety of the new employees.

"New employee" Xu Muzhou looked at this line and felt a little complicated.It seems that with this line of words placed here, the high risk on the top is not so eye-catching.

"What's wrong?" Seeing him in a daze, Yan Cen leaned over to look at the information.

"It's nothing." Xu Muzhou shook his head: "The assessment from above is high risk, what will happen if you die at work?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing more than the failure of this job." Yan Cen said: "Although I will try my best to protect you, I still suggest you to be cautious. Although the system will protect your body from damage, it is used to ensure that you The basic life is safe, but your soul will be traumatized to a certain extent... Believe me, you don't want to experience that kind of feeling."

Xu Muzhou clicked his tongue, although Yan Cen's face was very calm, but Xu Muzhou had already intuitively realized that this was definitely not a good experience.

This topic was put aside for the time being, Xu Muzhou picked up the form with the task background and looked at it again, then turned to Yan Cen and asked: "I don't know the information above, is it the same with your previous information?"

Yan Cen had just read through the information in Xu Muzhou's hand, but he didn't answer, he just took the paper and touched it, then turned it over again, revealing the white pages at the back.Xu Muzhou watched as he brushed a thin layer on the back of the paper with a pencil, and within a moment, the back of the paper was painted with different shades of lead marks.

"This--"

As if knowing what he wanted to ask, Yan Cen opened his mouth first: "Zhong Lu—oh, that woman you met on the fifth floor, she occasionally has such bad tastes. It's called exercising thinking ability, but it's actually purely It's a boring work with no real meaning, just get used to it."

While he was talking, his hands were not idle, and he had already sketched out a rough outline of the page.Xu Muzhou leaned over to take a look, only to find that it was something like a floor plan.

When Xu Muzhou was an intern in his senior year, he used to do private work to help his junior students in the Department of Architecture make hand-painted drawings, so he was quite sensitive to this layout.

The picture is the floor plan of a certain floor, and the stairs are marked in the middle of one side of the corridor. The corridor extends to both sides of the stairs, and there are four rooms on each side of the corridor.

This kind of drawing will not be a domestic residence, but more like a hospital, a hotel, and an old commercial office building.

Xu Muzhou took another document, pointed to the mission location on it, and asked, "School?"

"Eighty percent." Yan Cen threw the pencil on the table casually.He always leaves a bit of leeway in his speech, but he already feels that the big difference is not bad.

Xu Muzhou pursed his lips, feeling a bit difficult - he was 26 years old this year, and he pretended to be tender and said that he was still born in the 1983s. 80 was a year in his memory. It was just a sentence in the [-]s of the last century. For him, this kind of mission location is no different from a black eye.

Perhaps other children could still listen to their parents' memories of their youth when they were young, but Xu Muzhou's childhood was either being called around or fighting with children in the orphanage.He racked his brains for a long time, but he couldn't find such sporadic impressions from the depths of his memory.

"...At that time?" Xu Muzhou asked hesitantly: "There is an elementary school with buildings?"

He didn't expect Yan Cen to answer, after all, the other party looked only a few years older than him, and he didn't look like someone who had survived from the 80s.Who knew that Yan Cen thought about it seriously for a while, before he finally said: "At that time, there were very few, and most schools were bungalows that needed to burn coal. But strictly speaking, there are not no buildings—this may also be a clue."

"Wait a minute." Xu Muzhou interrupted him suddenly, he stretched out his hand and clicked on the second room on the left hand side of the stairs: "Is this written?"

Without waiting for Yan Cen to speak, Xu Muzhou took the pencil and painted another layer of pencil marks on the known room.The originally looming lines became clear, Xu Muzhou picked up the paper and looked it up to the light, only to find that the dark pencil marks were a few small Chinese characters.

— safe house.

"What do you mean?" Xu Muzhou asked, "It's safe to enter this house? That's not right, aren't we going to an escape game?"

Of course, Yan Cen also saw these words, but it was the first time he encountered the situation where the two systems were integrated to perform two-line tasks, so it is not easy to jump to conclusions.

After a long while, Yan Cen shook his head and said cautiously: "I don't know yet, and this is only a floor plan. I can't be sure which room it is until I see the school...Let's write it down first. Time to adapt."

Xu Muzhou thought about it, and felt that what he said made sense.

The so-called information is only a few sheets of paper, and no matter how much research is done, nothing can be found. Finally, Xu Muzhou yawned and ended this inexplicable work discussion, and only waited to see the actual situation before making plans .

Zhong Lu said that Xu Muzhou was given three days to get acquainted with Neverland, but he didn't go anywhere, took a huge book from the bookshelf and went into the bedroom, never going out except for meals.

His life without worrying about everything was dim, and three days passed by in a flash.

In the early morning of the third day, Yan Cen knocked on the door and entered the house, and gave him a necklace with a black pendant on it.The pendant was a small hydrangea, which was worn on a leather cord, so it didn't look feminine when worn.

"You can think of this as a task progress bar." Yan Cen said: "When this flower turns white, you can smash this necklace, and you and I will return to Neverland."

It sounded like a signal flare, Xu Muzhou nodded, and hid the pendant inside his T-shirt.

"When are we going to leave?" Xu Muzhou asked.

"No rush." ​​Yan Cen said, "You can go back to sleep again."

When Xu Muzhou woke up, he gritted his teeth and felt that he really believed in Yan Cen's evil.

Just like the last time he inexplicably appeared on the high-speed rail, he opened his eyes from the void of consciousness, and found that he was stepping on a piece of cold yellow land, the sky was foggy, and he couldn't tell whether it was evening or early morning.

A three-story building similar to a school stood quietly not far away. The doors on the first floor were opened to both sides, and the lights in the school were not turned on. Xu Muzhou probably looked at the windows outside the building, feeling inexplicably eerie.

Xu Muzhou was standing on the playground, not far behind was a pile of firewood, stacked neatly.The current season seems to be between late autumn and early winter. Xu Muzhou wore a long-sleeved sportswear and still felt chilly.He rubbed his arms and found that there were four or five people scattered in the playground, and some of them seemed to have not recovered from their senses, and stood there in a daze.

The hydrangea pendant on his neck suddenly became hot. Xu Muzhou turned his back and pulled the pendant out with a leather cord to take a look, only to find that the lacquer-like black on the original pendant seemed to come alive Flowing slowly on the pendant.