gray manor

While waiting for her luggage, Zhaoxi changed the time on her watch with her mobile phone, which had automatically calibrated the time zone and time. For her, the most important thing she should not forget after changing the time zone was to adjust the precise time, especially by raising her hand. The watch you see needs to be accurate.

After standing still for about 10 minutes, she finally found her checked suitcase on the luggage belt that looked like revolving sushi. She looked like she had slender arms and legs, and Zhaoxi, who seemed powerless, lifted it lightly with one hand. He pulled up the lever neatly and pushed it straight to the outside of the pass.

After swiping her ID card to confirm her identity, she walked through the last manual security check, skillfully tapped the screen on the last terminal, and went through the self-service entry procedures with ease.

The days of laboriously applying for a visa to enter the country are long gone. Now if your credit is qualified, you only need to buy a good ticket, use the card to self-check and register before the flight, and then swipe the card to log in to the account to register and enter the country, and you can conveniently embark on another journey One country.

Today, the boundaries between countries are gradually blurring, and the era of sword tension ended in the peace statement proposed by the United Nations in 2008.Although she was not born at that time, she was a teacher of world history after all, and it is still very familiar to talk about these things—the sense of panic and social instability brought about by the awakening of superpowers is consistent in all countries in the world, but each country is weighing the pros and cons Later, it was believed that it was more important to work together to understand the incentives for the awakening of abilities than to continue to stage countless spy war dramas for the sake of profit. Therefore, the major powers with absolute influence signed and reached a peace agreement in 2012. .Since then, the positions between countries have become much more slack, and the moments of confrontation have gradually diminished.Although the capital game and political struggle still exist, the awakened superpowers have indeed influenced the concept of peace in this world and provided it with a force that cannot be underestimated.

Of course, the rapid implementation of most of the people-beneficiary initiatives is still thanks to the global United Nations public welfare organization [RainbowLight (RainbowLight)].

The RL (abbreviation for RainbowLight) organization was established in the millennium and has rapidly grown to all parts of the world in just ten years. After the peace agreement in 2012, it has become a recognized international peace organization that can affect the world.It was founded with a strong tolerance and concern for human rights issues, and is committed to serving everyone in need. Zhaoxi's best friend, Xin Xi, is a member of the branch of this organization [Blu-ray Project].

Each color of RL corresponds to a different priority: red is responsible for managing and registering superpowers, orange is responsible for relieving the awakening of abilities or various psychological problems related to it, yellow is responsible for mediating disputes between awakened and unawakened, and aurora (also Green) is responsible for basic medical care and biological research, blue bird serves children, and blue and purple are divided into two levels and appear in the form of teams to deal with special affairs.They are comprehensive and have arranged every aspect of the function in a down-to-earth manner.

RL members are located all over the world, providing personal and considerate assistance to everyone.The organization is based on a large number of volunteers, and they never pick on the objects they help, because they themselves come from the audience of [Rainbow Light], and they themselves are all people regardless of gender, age, race, or social status.

Since its inception, it has given the world so many different colors. It has penetrated into every corner of people from every aspect of daily life. Their volunteers include everything from famous scientists to basic-level voluntary laborers.They share love and responsibility, while also actively providing systematic Awakened materials to the local infrastructure in each country.After all, an organization without the support of local political parties and capital will not last long. This is a tacit fact that everyone knows.

There are naturally blood and tears behind the peaceful and convenient life, but with the rainbow in front of them, people can still see the beautiful scenery.Although this beauty is very one-sided, as long as it exists, it is the dawn.

However!The beautiful scenery in Zhaoxi's imagination disappeared after leaving the customs!She didn't see Xin Xi himself, nor did she see her name written on the sign in front of anyone who came to pick up the plane!

Hesitantly pushing the box and walking to a corner, Zhaoxi turned on the phone to contact Xin Xi, but found that this guy's phone couldn't get through at all. She didn't expect her excitement full of anticipation to be lost in this way, without any buffer. room.

In an instant, Zhaoxi became the most helpless person in the entire airport, comparable to a homeless wanderer.Anger or resentment are no longer enough to describe her current mood, Zhao Xi only feels that she has endless disappointments pouring up, what is she doing this for?

She sighed deeply, and was going to find other ways to contact Xin Xi.

"Hello? Are you Jessie Zhao?" A black-clothed man ran up to Zhaoxi in a hurry, and asked with a straight face.

Zhaoxi narrowed her eyes slightly, quietly pushed the suitcase with her name tag behind her, and raised her eyes to look at him vigilantly.

"I'm Tim, and Clara told me to pick you up."

The man named Tim is full of travel and dust. He wears sunglasses, so he can't clearly see his expression clearly.Today she brought her suspicions to the extreme. Although the man in front of her was suspicious, she couldn't see any extra information about him, and Zhao Xi couldn't accurately judge his attributes.But she will look at the problem in context. According to the characteristics of the events that happened today, if she can easily trust strangers at this moment, then she is stupid.

The man didn't seem to notice Zhao Xi's alienated and alert expression, and continued on his own: "Oh, I'm sorry I'm late! It's all due to the traffic jam on the road!"

"Why didn't she pick me up by herself?" Zhao Xi decided to test out.

"Oh...well, Clara wanted to come over too, but she was held back by work. You know, that kind of experiment or something, and they needed her help."

"What experiment? Didn't she ask me to attend her wedding tomorrow because she is going to get married? Why are you still working now?" Zhaoxi felt that she had finally grasped the key to this series of questions.

"What?!" The man in black looked much more shocked than she was, he quickly swung his hands sideways and denied, "No, no, I haven't even heard that she has a regular date, how can she get married Woolen cloth?"

Tim's tone is sincere and anxious, which is the standard demeanor for explanation.

She was deceived by the Xin family!This little bastard who killed thousands of knives!

"There seems to be some misunderstanding, Miss Jessie. Hmm... But maybe it would be better for you to confirm with her in person, the time is almost up, please come with me."

After that, he stretched out his hand, wanting to help Zhaoxi carry the luggage.Tim's expression looked kind and harmless, Zhao Xi didn't want to be suspicious, and couldn't hold back his enthusiasm, so he gave him the suitcase unavoidably.However, she followed behind Tim, her hands still unconsciously clutching her carry-on bag, ready to run away as soon as something unusual happened.She was tormented mad by the awakening of her abilities and being alone and helpless. Before she really saw Xin Xi, she didn't believe anyone.

The two left the terminal building one after the other and walked towards the parking lot outside the airport. Tim was obviously a chatterbox, and kept looking for topics along the way, completely ignoring Zhaoxi and using "OK", Words of no more than two syllables such as "AllRight" and "Fine" are perfunctory for him.

After walking for about 5 minutes, Tim stopped in front of a black car, followed by Zhao Xi, who took a closer look at the car and couldn't help but gasped.

Isn't this the car that appeared in her nightmare?

Taking a closer look in reality, this car is even more scarred than in her dream!

Zhao Xi is about to cry at this moment, although her face is still calm and composed, but her heart is on the verge of collapse, God is probably addicted to playing with her today.Tim couldn't see her reaction, so he didn't know what she was thinking, so he scratched the back of his head unconsciously, and said with some embarrassment: "Sorry, all the good cars have been driven away. When I went out, I only saw This is it. Don’t look at its rough appearance, but its performance is actually quite good! Uh... it can be driven... if you work hard, there is no problem in 90 yards!"

After everyone said that, what could she do?Can you still put on a face?

Zhaoxi immediately expressed that she didn't mind, and she was still in a hurry to confront this guy Xin Xi, these were nothing!Xin Xi dared to use such things as marriage to scare her into traveling all the way here, hmph, a beating is always inevitable.

Tim gently helped her put her luggage in the car, and opened the door of the driver's seat for her very gentlemanly, yes, it was the driver's seat.The scene here is almost exactly the same as what Zhaoxi dreamed in the dream, except that the people who appeared in the dream have no specific faces, just a vague concept.

Cold and neat as Zhaoxi, she didn't ask any questions, just thanked her and sat in the driver's seat lightly.Perhaps feeling sorry for the girl, Tim gave a slightly embarrassed smile and closed the car door for her.

"So, Miss Jessie, I can only take you here. Oh, by the way, the car is full of gas, and I have adjusted the destination for you in the navigation. Clara lives in [Grey Manor], I wish you Bon Voyage!"

Tim was half bent and leaning against the car window when he explained all this. When Zhaoxi looked at him, he didn’t know if he saw it wrong. From the top of his black sunglasses, he could see his irises Glowing scarlet, like a bloodthirsty vampire.

It was just an unintentional glimpse, and Zhaoxi, who had a strong ability to accept it in her heart, looked away as if she had never heard of it.Since the other party covered it with glasses from the beginning to the end, and didn't intend to take it off, it would be impolite if I looked at it like that just now and reacted strangely, so I had to avoid it quickly.

Zhaoxi didn't say much, started the car, turned on the navigation, clicked on the item marked Gray Manor, said goodbye to Tim, stepped on the accelerator, and drove away from here at an extremely fast speed.

The movements are neat and murderous.

This part of the journey almost coincides with her dream on the plane. Although it seems familiar, Zhaoxi can't help but want to shudder whenever she thinks that there will be such an eerie forest path waiting for her.It was a very long drive, and in addition to the serious traffic jam in the city, Zhaoxi's "going to the countryside" journey took nearly two hours, not counting her time to enter the forest. time.

The plane meal she stuffed into her stomach ten hours ago had already been digested into useless chyme, and she was a little irritable with hunger.She didn't eat the second meal on the plane, and climbed into this classic car before getting off the plane without having time to eat something to pad her stomach. Zhaoxi, who was born in a middle-class family, experienced for the first time what is called a real "" Hunger and cold", what a miserable word.

But think about it differently, this is okay, at least she won't really spit out something during that bumpy and boring road.

It can also be regarded as a useful psychological comfort.

The mobile phone rang at this time accompanied by the sound of hungry intestines. Zhao Xi glanced at the name and immediately pressed the answer button and turned on the hands-free. Before venting the weird feelings that had been suffocated all the way, the signal connected to the speaker was so convenient. First came the voice of Xin Xi, she said: "Zhao Zhao! Where have you been? Tim told me that he sent you to the car!"

Still full of vigor...but the tone that makes the current Zhaoxi feel that he needs to be beaten.

"I'm going to the suburbs soon." She calmly answered Lu, and Zhaoxi felt that she could bear it for a while before seeing her.

"Oh! Then I'll go back to the manor and wait for you, see you later! - Ah, Eli, don't touch that! - Siren! Come to me, we're going back! - Wait! Ah! God! Look what you've done!"

There were screams one after another, and the scene on the other end of the phone should be a mess.

Zhaoxi, who was in a bad mood, felt that the surging noise was really harsh, frowning and hastily hung up the phone.At this time, the car was driving along the road into the suburbs, leading straight to the dense and towering forest not far away. She swallowed lightly, slowed down the speed of the car from 90 yards to 40 yards, and drove in cautiously. .

As expected, it was shaded by trees, but the road was not as bumpy as in the dream. Apart from being narrower, the road surface was clean and straight without any problems.She turned on the lights and picked up the speed a little.This road should be frequently visited by people or regularly maintained by a dedicated person. Otherwise, with the prosperity of this kind of natural plants, if no one cares about it, it will not be long before the place will be covered by nature again, and it will become the horrible and rough place in her dream. , The road of suffering is riddled with holes.

Because of the faster speed, and the fact that the road conditions in reality are much better than in the dream, Zhao Xi’s irritable mood just now has calmed down a lot, thinking: Fortunately, there is a certain distance between imagination and reality.

In less than 10 minutes, she saw the bright exit, and overjoyed, she heard the navigation report: "Turn left along the road after 100 meters, and there are still 300 meters to Gray Manor."

Doesn't that mean it's just around the corner?

Thank goodness!

When she drove out of the forest, she suddenly felt that her eyes were clear, and she felt refreshed. After turning left along the road according to the navigation, she was as surprised as if she had entered a new world—the wide building in front of her could be called a castle!Even at Zhaoxi's distance, the boundary cannot be seen at a glance, which is too exaggerated.

Is this the legendary Gray Manor?It is so luxurious and vast that it is terrifying.

If she and Xin Xi hadn't infiltrated into each other's family long ago, she would have started to wonder if Xin Xi's true identity was actually the lost apple of the chaebol group president's palm!

While feeling emotional, Xin Xi called again, Zhao Xi slowed down the speed of the car, and pressed the answer button while admiring the whole picture of Gray Manor visible to the naked eye.