The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

The hospital where Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang are located is the People’s Hospital in the city center. It is surrounded by financial buildings, shopping plazas, pedestrian streets, food courts, and countless companies. The bustling city center has a huge flow of people. It’s lunch time, and the streets are full of takeaways The little brother delivered food by bike, the food city was crowded with people, and the aroma of various foods floated in the air.

The city looked bustling and bustling on the surface, but the people hurrying to and fro on the streets did not realize the huge crisis lurking beneath the calm.Xiao Lou walked to the intersection, glanced at the pedestrians on the street, and turned to Yu Hanjiang and asked, "What's the situation with the student you brought today? Are there many people infected in their school?"

Yu Hanjiang frowned and said: "This morning, I received a police mission to go to No. 8 Middle School. The injured male student was suddenly attacked by Zhou Yu from Class [-], Senior Three, in the bathroom without warning. He bit off a large piece of flesh on his arm and scratched him. According to the class teacher, Zhou Yu is introverted and gentle, he has never fought with anyone, and he just asked for leave this morning to go home."

Yu Hanjiang paused, and said with a calm face: "He was obviously parasitized. I didn't expect the parasite to have such a high IQ, and he knew how to lie to the teacher and escaped on the pretext of asking for leave. There were more than a dozen students who were scratched by him, all skin For traumatic injuries, stay at the school and be treated by the school doctor. If those people also mutate, I am afraid that by this time, the entire No. [-] Middle School will have fallen."

Xiao Lou: "..."

The parasites that survive are extremely reproductive and extremely intelligent.Maybe they will find an excuse to keep the teacher and classmates in the classroom... Who would have thought that the classmates who get along day and night will become puppets of bugs? !

This morning, a large number of students in No. [-] Middle School might have been infected by parasites.

At first, the infected people showed only common flu symptoms. They may not know that they were parasitized. Then, the students came home from school at noon and infected their parents, who then carried the parasites to various units...

The more Xiao Lou thought about it, the more frightened he became. There were already so many infected people on the first day, and he didn't even have time to adapt to the environment... He hurriedly said: "We have to find our teammates quickly, in case everyone doesn't know the situation and is caught Infection sucks."

Yu Hanjiang nodded simply: "Let's go!"

The two strode around the food street and shopping buildings, and soon arrived at the square in the center of the city——

There is a large piece of sculpture in the middle of the square, and there are many seats on the outer ring. Some old people are sitting on the seats and basking in the sun leisurely, and some children are standing in front of the sculpture in the square and taking pictures excitedly.

It looks like an ordinary city square, and there are not many people gathered there.

Xiao Lou saw Ye Qi standing in the middle of the square at a glance.

Ye Qi was wearing a hood and ripped jeans, dressed very stylishly, holding a guitar in his hand, and was advertising loudly: "Everyone, uncles, aunts, handsome men and beauties, I will sing a song for you, I think I can sing well If so, please give me some pocket money, life is forced, the rivers and lakes are in an emergency, thank you everyone..."

Ye Qi really tried the familiar routine with great success.

Seeing him alive and kicking, and his voice clear and loud, Xiao Lou finally felt relieved and immediately walked in front of him.

Ye Qi's eyes lit up suddenly when he saw Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou all in one.

His [Guitar] card can sleep in a large area for 3 seconds when using the skill, but it is no different from a normal guitar when the skill is not used, and can be played casually.Just as Ye Qi was about to play the guitar and sing, Xiao Lou shook his head to stop him. Yu Hanjiang followed closely and said in a low voice, "You are the one who ran away from home, right? Your parents are reporting the crime to you, come with me. "

Ye Qi was stunned: "??"

How did I become a runaway?

Although he didn't know what was going on, he still packed his guitar obediently and left with Yu Hanjiang.

The people who were about to gather around to listen to the song were all dazed—the little boy obediently followed the police?It seems that he ran away from home during the rebellious period and was caught by the police!

Ye Qi followed Sergeant Yu with a serious face, and asked suspiciously, "What's going on?"

Yu Hanjiang said: "It's dangerous, you can't stay in the crowd."

Ye Qi nodded in understanding, and said, "Captain Yu wears a police uniform, and Professor Xiao wears a white coat. It seems that you have been assigned the status of a policeman and a doctor? Will this secret room be linked with Hearts again, so that we can solve the case?" Bar?"

"It's not to solve the case, it's just to arrange identities to give us some clues." Yu Hanjiang looked at Ye Qi, frowned and asked, "Where is your refresh point? Is there anything wrong around you?"

"I'm in a conservatory of music. I have a class in the morning. The floating frame tells me to follow the instructions. The teacher wants to roll the roll, so I have to go to class with my classmates first." Ye Qi took off his hood and looked at Xiao Lou nervously. , "It happened to be noon after class. I inquired about the location of the square and immediately came to see you. What happened, you look very nervous!"

Xiao Lou asked, "Is there anything unusual during your class?"

Ye Qi thought about it carefully, and said: "Many students around have caught colds, and some people in the classroom have been coughing. The teacher said that the temperature has dropped in the past few days, and remind everyone to keep warm. I entered the secret room this time, and I wore thermal underwear and woolen sweaters inside. , it doesn't feel cold."

In order to prepare for the survival room, everyone went to the shopping mall to buy several sets of clothes, including winter and summer clothes.According to Lao Mo's suggestion, everyone put on several layers of clothing before entering the survival secret room. If the environment is summer, you can take off your coat, and you don't need to take it off in winter.Xiao Lou was also wearing a shirt and a woolen sweater, and even with only a white coat outside, it wasn't too cold.

He explained to Ye Qi in a low voice: "Influenza is probably the precursor of the mutation. It seems that many people in your conservatory have also been infected. What we encountered this time is more terrifying than the zombie virus. It is an unknown parasite that infects humans. Afterwards, it will reside in the human brain, control the human body, and quickly attack other humans to reproduce. There have been a large number of infected people in hospitals and the city's No. [-] Middle School."

Ye Qi's eyes widened: "Bugs?"

He violently shook the goosebumps all over his body, and said with disgust on his face, "That sounds disgusting!"

Xiao Loudao: "What's even more frightening is that infected people will pretend to be no different from normal people. We didn't dare to let you continue singing just now, because once you sing, you will be surrounded by the crowd immediately, and maybe some infected people will suddenly Attack you. You can't go to crowded places now, you have to find another way to join your teammates."

Ye Qi suddenly realized: "I understand!"

The flow of people in the square is too large. Once an epidemic breaks out, people will bite each other. If they are scratched or bitten during their escape, the consequences will be disastrous.

Thinking of the students who kept coughing in the Conservatory of Music, Ye Qi couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling: "When I was in class, the students sitting in the front and back rows of me were coughing, if a cold is a sign of being parasitized, I wouldn't be infected too, right? "

Xiao Lou comforted: "The currently known route of transmission is through blood. If you don't get scratched, you will be fine."

Ye Qi breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a pale face, "Thankfully it's not airborne!"

Xiao Lou glanced at the surrounding buildings, and soon found a good place, and said, "The clothing store over there, do you see it? It's a three-story building that looks like a book page."

Yu Hanjiang and Ye Qi followed his gaze - there was indeed a clothing store in the southeast corner of the square, with floor-to-ceiling windows on two walls, shaped like unfolded book pages, and crystal chandeliers hanging inside, the decoration was very luxurious.The clothes worn by the models in the store are all fur, which looks very expensive at first glance.

Xiao Lou said: "This shop is luxuriously decorated, and the clothes should be very expensive. There won't be too many customers in the clothing store at noon. If there are only two or three shop assistants, we can handle them even if they are infected. We can use this place as a temporary base. , Meet up with your teammates first."

Yu Hanjiang nodded in agreement: "It's true that the high-end clothing store has less traffic at noon. However, other people don't know that we hid in the clothing store. How do we notify everyone?"

Xiao Loudao: "I have a solution, Liu Qiao's Kongming Lantern is in my hands."

Yu Hanjiang was slightly taken aback—he remembered this card. When he was in Liuxi Village, Liu Qiao had placed Kongming lanterns on the mountain, and hung a piece of cloth on it, with the words "Challengers please come here to meet".He couldn't help wondering: "Did Liu Qiao give you this card?"

Xiao Lou explained: "Before entering the spade secret room, I was worried that if everyone was scattered and Ye Qi's method of playing the piano and singing would not work, it would be troublesome to gather, so I asked Liu Qiao to ask for the [Kongming Lantern], as long as I Put the lights above the clothing store, and everyone will be able to notice the Kongming lanterns in the sky as soon as they arrive at the square."

The Kongming Lantern is an A-card with a very simple function—put the Kongming Lantern high in the air and use it as a signal. The Kongming Lantern comes with a white cloth, similar to the promotional slogans hung under the balloons when the mall opens, and you can write on it with your fingers.

Xiao Lou took out the white cloth and wrote two words "Sharp Arrow" - this was the team name originally decided. When everyone saw Liu Qiao's Kongming lantern and then the sharp arrow mark, they naturally knew that it was the team's meeting place.

Ye Qi gave a thumbs up and praised: "This way of gathering is much more reliable than playing the piano and singing that I came up with!"

Xiao Lou said: "Let's go, let's go to the clothing store first."

The three of them soon came to the clothing store, and looked in through the floor-to-ceiling glass. The business of the clothing store at noon on weekdays was really deserted. There were only two beautiful shopping guide girls and a cashier, and no customers could be seen.

Xiao Lou walked to the back of the clothing store, activated the Kongming Lantern card, and placed it high in the air.

The people in the square soon discovered that a big lantern resembling a hot air balloon appeared in the sky, and the words "Sharp Arrow" were written on the hanging white cloth. A few people to pay attention.

After finishing the arrangement, Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang and Ye Qi walked into the clothing store together.

The embarrassing thing is...

This clothing store sells all women's clothing.

Women's coats, furs, high-end down jackets, the prices on the clothes are indeed frighteningly expensive.

Three big men walked into the women's clothing store, and the shop assistants were stunned at the same time. A shopping guide with a ponytail quickly realized it, stepped forward with a smile and asked, "Three gentlemen, are you here to choose clothes for your girlfriend?" ?”

Yu Hanjiang said calmly: "Buy it for mom."

Xiao Lou immediately cooperated with the performance: "Mom's birthday is a few days away, let's pick out a birthday gift for her, you go to work, let's take a look first."

The shopping guide nodded and said: "Okay, here are the new styles of this season, the three of you take a look, and tell me what size you need."

After the shopping guide left, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

The shopping guide girl in the clothing store looks normal and should not be infected.But the three of them still didn't dare to relax their vigilance. They pretended to pick out clothes for their mother and walked slowly in the store. Yu Hanjiang kept observing the movements of these shop assistants from the corner of his eyes.

At this moment, a man and a woman suddenly opened the door and came in.

——Long Sen and Qu Wanyue!

The two obviously saw the assembly sign, and saw the three of Xiao Lou from the French window outside, so they walked in directly.

The clerk went up to greet him, Long Sen said: "Hey, your birthday is coming soon, why don't you buy some clothes for you?"

Qu Wanyue said cooperatively, "Okay, I'll pick and choose."

She pretended to pick out clothes, walked to Xiao Lou, and "coincidentally" liked the same one as Xiao Lou, Qu Wanyue asked: "Sir, can I have a look at this one?" Xiao Lou handed her the clothes: "Please go ahead .”

While handing over the clothes, Xiao Lou lowered his voice and said, "Wait for everyone first."

Qu Wanyue nodded to express her understanding.

She chose this dress, walked in front of Long Sen, and conveyed Xiao Lou's instructions to Long Sen.

The two stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and continued to pick out clothes slowly, while the three of Xiao Lou walked to the other side so that the teammates could see them.

Not long after, Mo Xuemin and Liu Qiao also came in.

Seeing that his teammates were all there, Liu Qiao also pretended to buy clothes, wandered around in the clothing store, walked in front of Xiao Lou inadvertently, and said softly: "Uncle Mo and I met in the square, and we came here when we saw the Kongming Lantern. , are you gathering here?"

Xiao Lou nodded: "Well, are you all okay?"

Liu Qiaodao: "It's okay. I came to the square to look for you after class in the morning. Uncle Mo said that he was assigned to a decoration company nearby, and he also came over after receiving customers."

She scanned the audience and found that Ye Qi, Yu Dui, and Long Qu and his wife were all there, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Everyone wandered around in the clothing store for a long time, and a few shop assistants realized that they were just wandering around and had no intention of paying for clothes, so their attitudes naturally cooled down, and they ignored them, sitting at the cashier and chatting on their own .

The clerks ignored people, which was exactly what Xiao Lou wanted.

He winked at his teammates and told them to gather in a corner near the fitting room. He lowered his voice and quickly introduced the current situation to everyone. After hearing this, the faces of his teammates were not very good-looking.

Qu Wanyue frowned and said, "In the dance center I'm in, there are a few children who are coughing, so they are also infected?"

Long Sen said: "The same goes for the sports school. Many people asked for leave for sprint training this morning, saying they had a bad cold."

Liu Qiao and Mo Xuemin also said that someone in their medical school and decoration company had a cold. Liu Qiao also said: "When I was in class, some students were injured and said they were bitten, and they were going to the hospital for rabies vaccination. .”

It seems that the epidemic is spreading from all corners of the city.

Many people have been infected, and the source is still unknown. However, according to this "multi-point spread" method, it is very likely that the epidemic will spread faster than everyone imagined!

Xiao Lou stood in the corner, looking at the square through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

There was nothing abnormal in the square outside, but he gradually felt uneasy in his heart: "Where is Mr. Shao? Why haven't you arrived yet?"

It was already one o'clock in the noon, even if Shao Qingge went to eat lunch slowly and come back again, it should be there, right?

The teammates looked at each other, expressing that they did not see Shao Qingge.

Xiao Lou worriedly said: "Is there anything wrong with him?"