flying switch

Zhong Rong successfully applied for a job at the third bar, Liuleng Bar.The boss here is a gender-neutral woman, surnamed Liu, very casual. Seeing that Zhong Rong was a good match, she left him without asking his name.It's fine for Zhong Rong to come for two days every weekend, and it doesn't matter if he comes or not on weekdays.There are not many rules, and the atmosphere is very comfortable. Zhong Rong didn't think about it, and decided to work here.

Boss Liu saw that he seemed young, so he didn't agree with his night shift self-recommendation, and only let him work during the day.When he wanted to fight for himself again, he thought he was annoying, and told him to roll aside to work, while he went to the bar to mix himself a glass of wine and drink.

She is a weird person, but Zhong Rong unexpectedly likes her.Very straightforward, similar to Brother Li, the type of boss he likes.

On the first day of work, Boss Liu didn't keep him for too long, and let him go home at three o'clock. The reason was that he thought he was wearing too much clothes and looked hot, and asked him to wear short sleeves when he came next time.

Zhong Rong left with a smile on his face, bought a few comfortable T-shirts at the mall along the way, and strolled home.

The small shops on the side of the street exuded heat, and the tangle filled the whole street, stopping in front of the shopping mall building, and continuing at the other end of the shopping mall.Zhong Rong rolled up his sleeves, put them in his pockets, and hung a shopping bag on his wrist, and walked forward casually, staring at the lines on the sidewalk under his feet.

Just after the meal time, there were fewer pedestrians, Zhong Rong ate some fast food at Liuleng to fill his stomach, and now his stomach is growling with hunger.He casually pushed open the door of a snack bar, walked to an unoccupied corner, exchanged the remaining change in WeChat for a decent dinner, and ate on his own.

When Qian Shuichong transferred the money to him yesterday, he didn't ask much, and directly transferred 100 yuan, so that he survived with the pitiful [-] yuan in his account, so that he could afford a meal for himself. [-] The future currency transferred to him in the last mission was transferred by him to buy clothes just now, and the rest was directly transferred to Qian Shuichong.

Qian Shuichong was probably busy and didn't reply to him.Zhong Rong finished his meal with a big mouthful, and leaned on the back of the chair to digest after paying the bill.He picked up his mobile phone, opened WeChat, and the chat with Qian Shuichong still stopped at his transfer records and subsequent explanations.

"Return the two thousand and eight to you first, and I will make up the rest later."

Zhong Rong fiddled with the phone, feeling a little annoyed: "It seems to be too distant, but he shouldn't be that fussy..."

He also felt that he cared too much about Qian Shuichong's attitude: "Why do I care so much about him?"

Although Qian Shuichong is a pretty good person, it's not right to care about him like this.Zhong Rong frowned and stuffed the phone back into his pocket.In two months, he will leave here as an adult, so there is no need to get too involved with the people here.It's one thing to be nice, it's another thing to make friends.

Yes, his wording was just right, those inexplicable reliance on and concern for Qian Shuichong before were all just muddled heads.The lives of him and Qian Shuichong are completely in two directions, and it is only a short contact, there is no need to add troubles and troubles to themselves.

The sun was just right, Zhong Rong stopped being in a daze, got up with his shopping bags, and walked out of the restaurant where the crowds began to increase again.The street that had been deserted for a while began to be noisy again, Zhong Rong walked through them expressionlessly, and inevitably heard those happy conversations.Classmates, friends, family.

The sun is still hanging in the sky, but its position is low.Zhong Rong saw the reflection of the closet glass from the corner of his eye, and a few children ran over holding the hands of their companions, followed by a few chatting adults.The children surrounded in the center wore simple birthday crowns. They were a little shy, but they were soon infected by the happiness of other children and laughed with them.

Zhong Rong lowered his head, put on his hood, and let the shadow cover his expression.

A child bumped into Zhong Rong recklessly, and was about to raise his head to apologize, but found that Zhong Rong didn't stop at all.He looked towards the place where Zhong Rong left and saw the projection of clocks on a certain building. He became interested and called back to his partner: "Hey! Let's go there to play!"

At [-]:[-], there were more people on the bus.Zhong Rong went up to the second floor and found a random corner to sit down.

The headphone cables were in a mess, and he didn't bother to tidy them up, so he just hung them on his ears.A few students who were walking together went up to the second floor chattering, and the girl at the end stared blankly at Zhong Rong in the corner, and immediately whispered to her companion in a low voice after sitting down.

"Look at that man in the corner, I just saw his profile, absolutely!"

"Really? But his headphone cable is messy."

"Oh, but he has that tugging and cold demeanor—"

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"Don't worry about it, he is my favorite, I must strike up a conversation with him!"

Zhong Rong didn't notice that there were people coming up at all, his earphones sound insulation was not bad, and now only the crowd in the building retreating rapidly and their passionate rap were left in the world.He ignored his reflection in the car window and looked at the buildings on the street.

There are not so many high-rise buildings in F City, but more dilapidated apartments.Moreover, there has never been such a continuous sunny day in F City, and it is always cloudy and rainy.

There is a part of Zhong Rong in F City, and this part of Min Rong has been parked in the rain forever, but his heart is clear.Zhong Rong is now under the sun, but his heart is like the city of F where he grew up, it is raining continuously.He forced himself to empty his mind, not to think about home, not to think about who was lying in the cemetery, but to stare at the glass outer wall of the building.

He didn't want the rain in his heart to leak out of his eyes.

The glass outer wall reflects sunlight, like flashing neon lights, making people's eyes hurt.But if it slides in parallel with the skateboard, the neon lights will gather and recede, linking up into beams of light, and jumping into the night behind them.

I won't be offline today, Zhong Rong thought, let's play until late at night.

The bus was about to arrive at the stop, Zhong Rong stood up and went downstairs unsteadily.The girl in the front row immediately caught up and grabbed his wrist: "Well, can I add a WeChat?"

Zhong Rong glanced at her and pulled out his hand: "Sorry, I don't use WeChat."

The girl was taken aback: "But..."

"Goodbye." Zhong Rong said to her in a low voice, and when he heard the notification sound of the arrival of the bus, he stopped delaying, walked downstairs in a few steps, and swiped his card to get off the bus.

There were more people at the station, Zhong Rong still wore his hat, picked up his mobile phone for swiping his credit card, and walked towards the Qingkai community.

"Zhong Rong?" Qian Shuichong opened the door, "Come in, I will record your fingerprints later, and next time you just press it and come in directly."

Zhong Rong nodded, took off his hat, and saw the vacant doorway: "Game cabin...?"

"I called someone to deal with it," Qian Shuichong fiddled around the doorknob for a while, holding his mobile phone to signal Zhong Rong to hold the handle, "You don't mind?"

Zhong Rong held the doorknob and shook his head: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Qian Shuichong smiled: "It's okay. I made something to eat, do you want to eat?"

After the fingerprints were entered, Zhong Rong ignored Qian Shuichong and stepped on his shoes: "No."

"Ate?"

"En." Zhong Rong turned and went upstairs, and quickly closed the door after entering the room.

Qian Shuichong blinked strangely, feeling that Zhong Rong was extraordinarily cold after he came back, a bit like the first day he came here.The stove beeped twice, he ignored Zhong Rong, turned and walked into the kitchen, and served his dinner.

MOON told him that he found something in the pearl necklace, and asked him to go online, intending to chat with him.He was eating dinner, counting the time, preparing to meet the moon first, and then teleport directly to the Nautilus.

Zhong Rong hurriedly took off his hoodie, and got into the game room with his bare upper body.Anyway, the game cabin has a constant temperature setting, so you don't have to worry about catching a cold here.He closed his eyes and let himself fall into the fast-paced world of data.

The sound of adjusting the magnifying glass came from the studio, and there were clicks and clicks.Zhong Rong walked towards the source of the voice: "Alai."

Alai didn't look back, wearing a repair magnifying glass to carefully observe the ruby ​​in his hand: "I'm missing something."

Zhong Rong noticed the fake gem on his hand, stepped forward to take a closer look: "Why don't you hand over the task later? You can have more time to observe."

"That's not necessary," Alai picked up the fake gemstone and compared the real gemstone and the fake gemstone under a magnifying glass. "It will take another 10 minutes. I have figured out their data, but I always feel that something is wrong."

Zhong Rong bent over and leaned forward, narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a long time: "Is there any?"

"Yes," Alai twirled the two gemstones back and forth on his fingertips, "something very tiny... what is it?"

Zhong Rong simply pulled up a chair and sat beside him, took the screen projector and connected it to a magnifying glass, projected the picture onto the whiteboard beside him, and followed Alai to find out what was wrong.

The two gemstones were next to each other, and Zhong Rong's gaze carefully walked through every corner, trying to find out what was wrong.He gradually had the same feeling as Alai, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that there was something missing in this gemstone, which seemed to be different from that at the auction.

The color hasn't changed, the texture hasn't changed, the teardrop-shaped interior hasn't changed... so what's changed?

"Maybe it's because of the light." Alai muttered, turning the brightness of the light higher.Zhong Rong changed his posture casually, stepped on the chair with one leg curled up, and his thigh was bitten by something on the workbench that fell out of the table and was about to fall.

With a flash of lightning, Zhong Rong took a sharp breath: "The thing in the water drop is gone!"

"Ah?" Alai turned his head stupidly, the magnifying glass went out of focus for a while, and finally fixed on Zhong Rong's shining eyes.Zhong Rong excitedly took the gem in Alai's hand, turned his head and motioned him to look at the real gem: "Did you see the water drop in the center?"

"Ang, what's the matter?"

"What was in it?" Zhong Rong recalled the hard-to-see inside of the ruby ​​droplet in the glass box. "When I saw it in the auction studio, there was something in the droplet. Although I couldn't recognize it at the time, but There is definitely something in it, now there are only clean water droplets, and that thing is missing in it!"

Alai gasped: "No wonder! The data looks weird. Something is missing—did it come into contact with anything on the day you took the gem?"

Zhong Rong recalled carefully: "It has only been in direct contact with me."

"That's probably not direct contact," Alai mused. "You said [-] used a signal jammer?"

Zhong Rong nodded.Alai thought for a while, and then vetoed his conjecture: "No, the signal blocker can only block the signal, and does not have something to change the data of the item..."

"Could it be that this ruby ​​is designed to automatically lose its data after someone gets it?" Zhong Rong asked.

Alai knocked on the gem: "It's possible, but there is no automatic data loss setting in the data. There may be a primer or something."

Zhong Rong looked over suspiciously, and Alai explained to him: "For example, this ruby ​​originally had a specific relationship with something—distance, contact, etc., and then this relationship changed, so the data was transferred to the introduction. It’s on me. I read Zuo Yu’s previous interviews and said that she loves this kind of technology. I guess she may have designed that kind of technology into the game.”

Zhong Rong opened the memory door again: "If there is an introduction, will it be that the distance has changed?"

"If the distance changes," Alai touched his chin, "the introduction may be something in the studio at that time."

"That's a bit too much..." Zhong Rong ruled it out, "First of all, it's not the first three auction items. When I saw something in the gemstone, those three auction items had already left the room. Then the glass containing the auction items was left. The safe and the fourth auction item..."

His eyes suddenly lit up: "If it was designed by Zuo Yu, then the introduction and ruby ​​should appear at about the same time, and it cannot be something added by the player later!"

"So it's not a glass safe," Alai's eyes lit up, "it's the auction item!"

"Black pearl necklace!" Zhong Rong stood up, "I have to tell [-]."

Alai frantically searched and searched: "Black pearl, black pearl... here it is! 'Contest Prize: Black Pearl Necklace', this is an official competition prize held by Flyswitch. You can see the year of the competition, but there is no black pearl The earliest creation record of necklaces."

"It's the same as rubies, they are all competition prizes," Zhong Rong said, "They are all collected by Mr. T."

"And the year of creation is unknown," Alai swallowed, looking at the ruby ​​in his hand, "Oh my God, I have a hunch that this gem is really a treasure gem."

"If it is, then what's missing in it should be a reminder of the next treasure."

"Those people outside snatched it wrong." Alai looked at Zhong Rong. "Now the real valuable information is in the data of that necklace."

Zhong Rong's eyes sank: "I have to tell [-]."

It happened that someone sent him a message, Zhong Rong was taken aback, and opened it to check: "...it is [-]."

Alai took off the magnifying glass: "What did he say?"

"He said," Zhong Rong frowned, "to talk to me, his partner found something interesting in the necklace."

"Are you sure?" MON sat on the table, looking at [-] who sent a message to Wuzhong, "It's good to keep this kind of information for yourself."

"We need to form a team," Qian Shuichong rolled his eyes, "you have to show some sincerity."

Moon shrugged indifferently, looked at the necklace in his hand: "Did he get back to you?"

Qian Shuichong was stunned for a while: "MOON."

"Excellence," MON rolled her eyes, and moved closer to him, "Those who didn't know thought he sent you a sex invitation... what is this?"

"Information sharing," Qian Shuichong came back to his senses, "Ruby may be a treasure gem, and what you found in the necklace is most likely a hint about the next treasure."

Moon whistled, and said with a pun: "There is drama, Dionysus."

Qian Shuichong smiled speechlessly, and accepted Moon's teasing: "I have to wear this necklace."

"Then you have to be careful, these bugs are everywhere." Moon said.

"Don't worry." Qian Shuichong quickly sent a few messages to Wuzhong, then turned to look at the necklace.It lay limply on MON's "dissecting table", and the data was projected onto the computer screen.

Among the countless letters and numbers, a line of Chinese is particularly eye-catching. It is a reminder from Zuo Xun that Moon converted a line of strange codes.