betting convention

When you can't tell whether it's a red light or a green light, how do you walk across a four-character intersection with no one there?

Ding Bai glanced at the little figure jumping on the traffic light at the opposite corner, and walked across the gray zebra crossing.

Chen Zhifei's world is gray and gray, and the neon lights not far away look like pixel blocks with dropped frames.Ding Bai walked downstairs to Chen Zhifei's building by memory, and pressed the elevator by memory.

There seemed to be no one in the room. He checked the time and it was past eleven o'clock in the evening.After the elevator stopped at this floor, it never went down again.

When I checked the time again, two hours had passed, and the elevator was still on this floor.Ding Bai turned his head and looked at the gray city downstairs. It seemed to be raining outside, and the pixels of dropped frames were blurry, as if a few frames had been pulled out.

After his patience was exhausted, he reached out and pressed the elevator back to the first floor.

On the way here, Ding Bai thought of many ways to say hello, but he didn't expect that he never met Chen Zhifei.

"Cut..." He said he was waiting for me, but he couldn't even find anyone.Ding Bai murmured in his heart, turned around the corner and saw the man standing in a daze under the rain curtain.

He wanted to go up to say hello, but he froze in place until Chen Zhifei turned around and saw him standing there.

"..." Chen Zhifei was also in a daze for a moment, not knowing when Ding Bai appeared, the point was how he appeared.After being stunned for a long time, he said, "Why are you standing in the rain?"

"I don't know." Ding Bai squinted his eyes and looked forward. Chen Zhifei's shoulder was wet by the rain, and he asked, "What about you? Why are you standing in the rain?"

There was the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, Ding Bai's wet coat was placed on the back of the stool, and Chen Zhifei walked over to hang up his clothes.

After finishing these things, he took out a set of clean clothes from the closet, turned around and knocked on the bathroom door.

"What?" The bathroom door opened, a head stuck out mixed with smoke, Ding Bai touched the water on his face and looked at Chen Zhifei.

"A change of clothes." Chen Zhifei handed over the clothes in his hand.

The person inside reached out to take it, and before he could see the expression on the other side, the door was closed from the outside.Ding Bai froze in place, he somehow felt that there seemed to be some strange emotions between him and Chen Zhifei.

The fog in the bathroom is like a thick layer of window paper, waiting to be pierced.

Chen Zhifei glanced at the closed bathroom door, and those images in his mind were hard to get rid of.In the bad game, after the last game, he had a very long dream, dreaming of himself as a dealer and Ding Bai, the banker who was still holding the eight of diamonds in his hand at the time.

"Good evening, dealers. There are 12 participants in this round of gambling, and the time is seven days. Please complete the gambling tasks and find the corresponding golden flower cards within seven days." Chen Zhifei looked at the person in front of him and mechanically read out the old Lines that have been said hundreds of times.

"This gamble is a gamble of life and death. If you make a decision and leave it, you will not regret it. I wish all the dealers a wealth of money."

When everyone walked through the door leading to the gambling game, Chen Zhifei, who stood at the end, also walked in.As early as in the previous gambling games, the croupier was obliged to supervise the whole process.

The person at the end of the team is always a little careless, holding the red square card in his hand. Speaking of which, only Ding Bai in the whole team has the highest value in his hand now.

"Hello." The person in front stopped and turned around slightly, "As a croupier, you probably don't know the plot of the game, right? You said that we have such a good relationship, so why can't you tell me about the plot?"

Chen Zhifei looked over the other party's head and saw the crowd going away. He said blankly, "They have gone far away, and who is on good terms with you?"

"Tsk." Ding Bai tskted helplessly, "It's really rigid, don't you want to see me win as soon as possible so that I can take you out by the way?"

"What is there to do with your poor place? The gray area is like a horror movie." Ding Bai seemed to be talking to himself, and turned to follow the crowd.

After walking two steps, the wind blew up. The wind came suddenly, as if sticking to the person's body, and instantly blew Ding Bai thoroughly. He shivered and saw someone running from not far away. people.

"A student transferred from the next-door college, right? I'm a counselor from the Art and Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts." The visitor wrapped himself in a windbreaker, looking a little cold, "Thank you for your hard work, it's getting late today, first Come with me to the dormitory, tomorrow morning there will be a design meeting that requires your participation."

Speaking of the counselor, he led them forward. Ding Bai followed the crowd and looked at a building not far away. He didn't know if it was the wind or what happened. The lights in this building were flickering. Like it's over.

"The students changed it themselves during the art festival. They said it was interesting." The counselor pointed to the blinking lights, "Kids who study art should have a unique idea."

Ding Bai didn't understand what a unique method it is to change a good lamp into such a bad connection. With such doubts, he followed the counselor into the building. At this time, the howling wind outside was a little bit less.

The whole building was a bit quiet, as if there were not many people living there. The instructor in front was talking in a low voice. Ding Bai heard her say that it was the holiday period, and only some students who were going to participate in the exhibition stayed in the school to prepare.

In the back and forth exchanges, they got some information about the bet.

The background of the gamble was in an art college. A total of 32 people participated in the art exhibition that was originally planned to be held during this holiday. Due to some unknown reasons, some students disappeared mysteriously.So they were specially invited to help these students complete this art exhibition.

"Actually, this is a trivial matter. As you all know, art students are forward-thinking. The rumors about the mysterious disappearance are just wild guesses among the students." The counselor led everyone up to the second floor, " So if you hear any bad rumors, don't pay attention to it."

"Okay, here we are." The counselor brought him to the dormitory after the science popularization last night. "The rooms are all divided, two people share one room, you should go to bed earlier."

After finishing speaking, she hurried downstairs, looking anxious, as if someone was chasing her.

Ding Bai entered the room. The conditions of the Department of Art and Design are good. It is a standard double room, but since it is a room with a stranger, it is still a bit difficult to let go.

The person who lives with him is a young boy, tall, thin and handsome, named Wei Jie.The two chatted for a few words and prepared to take a break first. After wandering around the house, they found that there was no bathroom.

"The bathroom is outside. There is no separate bathroom in this age." Wei Jie complained a few words and was about to go to the bathroom, "Why don't you go?"

Ding Bai didn't think much about going to the bathroom yet, so he walked to the balcony alone.Looking out from the balcony, I saw the road they came from. Under the flickering street lights, Chen Zhifei didn't know where he was thinking.

Standing on the balcony in a daze for a long time, Ding Bai touched his pocket and found no cigarettes.

This gamble is limited to seven days, and the time is counted from the time of entering the gamble. It is ten o'clock in the evening at this time, and no strange clues have been found yet.

Ding Bai recounted the clues he knew so far in his head, and Chen Zhifei downstairs disappeared in a blink of an eye.

"Fuck!" Wei Jie rushed in from the door in a hurry, "I was scared to death, I was almost scared out of my mind just now."

"What's the matter?" Ding Bai felt strange, walked back to the room from the balcony, and saw Wei Jie's expression of shock, "What happened?"

"Nothing happened, I just came out of the bathroom and met a girl wearing a facial mask, her cold and cold face scared me to death!" Wei Jie patted his chest, "And she asked me whether she was pretty or me. "

Ding Bai felt a little funny, and asked him instead: "How did you answer?"

"How can I answer, I was almost scared to death, I can only say that she is beautiful." Wei Jie felt a little funny as he talked, and clasped the ring on his hand, "I just saw that there are still people living in this building. Except for other people, the school is quite open now, and men and women live together.”

"Didn't it mean that there are still students staying at the school? It is estimated that this is only a place for students who are preparing for art exhibitions to live temporarily, and it is not a serious dormitory." Ding Bai said.

"That's right." Wei Jie agreed, "Forget it, let's rest first. Maybe what will happen tomorrow."

Tomorrow?Ding Bai thought to himself, something might happen tonight.

I didn't sleep well that night, maybe it was because of the unfamiliar environment, or maybe it was something in my heart, Ding Bai had a dream all night, he had everything in the dream, but he didn't remember anything when he woke up.

His whole body was inexplicably sore, as if he had been beaten, and when he turned over and sat up, he even felt that his waist was about to break, as if he had put on some strange posture all night.

Could it be that the bed is too soft?

Ding Bai shook his bewildered mind, there was no one on Wei Jie's bed next to him, he probably went to the bathroom.He stood up and moved around and walked to the balcony. The weather outside looked pretty good.

Someone was walking in the corridor, and the sound of a slight conversation came in. Ding Bai glanced at the time and it was just past eight o'clock.It seemed that last night was very peaceful, but on the contrary, Ding Bai felt a little surprised by this.

It can be considered that he has been in the gambling game for quite a long time, and this is the first time he has encountered such a... calm beginning. Before, someone died in the middle of the night, and a corpse was discovered early in the morning.

On the contrary, this gamble is as plain as fake.

When they were about to clean up, someone came to tell them to go downstairs. He didn't see Wei Jie back until Ding Bai went out. Could something happen to this guy?

Before he had time to delve into it, he followed the crowd downstairs. The counselor who led them to rest last night was waiting downstairs. When everyone arrived, he led the others to the design room on the first floor.

It is said that the design room is actually a big classroom, which is divided into several sections, and each section is in charge of different people.Because it is an art and design exhibition, the projects here are still very "magical".

It's miraculous, but Ding Bai couldn't think of how to describe the scene he saw.There are all kinds of people in this room, there are people who pile twenty catties of cotton into a strange tower, and there are people who don’t know where to find a pile of broken copper and iron for secondary creation.

Anyway, how amazing it looks, Ding Bai thought maybe this is the so-called art.

Due to the random grouping, Ding Bai was divided into a group with a few students who were originally from this academy and two dealers. Facing two jars of water, he couldn't figure out what to do.

The other two dealers in the same group as him were a very young girl and a punk-dressed rock youth. The three of them stared at the two jars of water in front of them in a daze.

"Honestly, I really don't know what we can do here?" Rock Youth said.

Ding Bai wholeheartedly agrees, although he thinks this young rocker looks very artistic, but it is probably difficult for the other party to rock out to two tanks of water.

"But having said that, don't you realize that our people are not all here?" The little girl said, her eyes circled around the classroom, looking a little weird.

Only then did Ding Bai realize that Wei Jie had never appeared.He glanced around sharply for a moment, but found nothing unusual.

"Could it be the mysterious disappearance that the counselor said?" The rock youth was splashed with water after saying this, and the students of the Academy of Fine Arts stared at them in horror. brush.

"Is there something wrong with you!" The rock youth said angrily, and the panic on the faces of the students quickly turned into fear, and they apologized repeatedly.

Ding Bai vaguely felt that something was wrong, and when he heard exclamations behind him, he turned his head and saw a hand leaked from a pile of clay sculptures not far away, and the ring on his hand seemed familiar to him.