Embers Ad Infinitum

Chapter 6: Ye Yu

   "One price, three gifts..."

  Shang Jianyao glanced at this human-shaped light and shadow, and went directly over "him" to the depths of the hall.

   There is no change in the "human shadow", still letting the voice of "one price, three gifts" reverberate.

   After several minutes, Shang Jian Yao came to the innermost hall and saw a heavy gray stone door.

   It is inlaid on the black metal wall, bathed in the brilliance of the “stars”, highlighting the three grooves on the surface.

   These three grooves are located at a height of two meters, one up and two down, just like the three vertices of an equilateral triangle.

   Shang Jian Yao watched quietly for a few seconds, and suddenly the bright "stars" were reflected in his eyes.

   He then leaned forward and pressed his hands on the gray stone door.

   Clouds of white light lit up in the groove on the surface of the stone gate one after another, as if "stars" fell from a high altitude and crashed into it.

   Within these three "stars", illusory words quickly emerged, but they seemed to be tumbling and changing with Shang Jianyao's thinking, and they could not be fixed.

   The gray-white stone door that looked unusually heavy made a creaking sound, but it was stingy to let the door crack open.

   Shang Jianyao paused, took a sigh of relief, and then applied force again and pushed forward.

   The "stars" in the three grooves first dimmed as he stopped, and then bloomed with bright and pure light during a new round of force.

   The illusory text in them slowed down, but it still didn't stop.

   The stone gate shook lightly, not taking a step back.

   Shang Jian Yao pushed the stone door time and time again. In the end, the blood vessels in his forehead were highlighted, and his facial expression was distorted and hideous, as if he had exhausted his whole body, but still did not get a better effect.

   "Huh." He sighed, paused, and stood in front of the door, watching the three clusters of "stars" in the groove quickly dimmed and disappeared.

   He watched all this quietly, without any movement for a long time.

   After a long while, Shang Jian Yao showed a slight smile, and raised his right index finger and middle finger, touching them to the center of his brow.

   In the next second, he seemed to be "deeper".

   Then, Shang Jian Yao put his left hand in his pocket, stretched his right palm forward, and pressed it leisurely on the gray stone door.

   This time, he obviously didn't exert his strength, but the "stars" reflected in his eyes became clearer and brighter.

   Above the gray stone gate, in the three grooves, the "starlight" suddenly shines, and it solidifies into a white ball. The previous illusory texts also rolled and emerged, but the speed of change gradually slowed down.

   Finally, they are fixed.

  In the order from top to bottom, from left to right, the words in the three white lights are:

   "Inference Clown", "Sympathetic Person", "Lack of Hand Movement".

   The gray stone gate trembled lightly, and in Zazazha's voice, he stepped back a little heavily.

   Behind the widening gap of the door, shimmering light flashed, and an upward silver-white metal staircase stood quietly in the gloom.

   Shang Jian Yao tried to stretch his hand through the door, but failed.

   He tried to put his foot in again, but failed.

   He used his hands and feet together, changed various postures, from the golden rooster independent to the upright handstand, he failed to achieve good results.

   After verification, he was sure that he could only push the tip of his fingers and the tip of his nose through the crack of the door.

   No matter how much he concentrated, the gray stone gate did not continue to retreat.

   In trying again and again, Shang Jianyao's figure gradually blurred.

   He finally stopped and watched his body fade.

   In Room 196, Area B on the 495th floor, Shang Jianyao, who was lying on the bed, opened his eyes.

   He saw the four-panel windows reflected in the light of the street lamp, the wooden table bathed in dim light, the "living room" where the light gradually transitioned to darkness, and the end of the bench and the edge of the old bed sunk in the dark.

   The surrounding is so quiet.

   Suddenly, the loudspeakers hanging from the ceiling of the street sounded at the same time, making a sweet voice with a slightly childish feel:

   "Hello everyone, I am Hou Yi, the hourly news announcer. It is 8 o'clock in the evening...

"At 5:20 in the afternoon, a small fire broke out in a factory on the 102nd floor, which caused one death and three injuries. The open flame has been extinguished, and the material losses are being counted. The director of the company's board of directors and vice president Ji Ze once again emphasized:'The fire is merciless. The alarm bell rings long'...

   "From tomorrow, the No. 2 reactor unit of the'Energy Zone' will be officially shut down for maintenance, and the energy ration for all employees will be reduced by a quarter, and the recovery time is yet to be determined...

"The Chief Scientist of the Geothermal Research Institute, Sun Chuci, said that he has been exploring the establishment of a better geothermal utilization model, which can bring the "living area" to the "inner ecological zone" under the premise of maintaining the best environment. A certain change in temperature at night...

"At 6:40 in the evening, there was a quarrel in the'staff canteen' on the 577th floor. An employee accused the catering staff of the canteen for being unfair. For the same meat dish, his portion was about one-tenth less. The'order supervision group' on that floor has stepped in survey……

"From 7:20 to 30 in the evening, two male employees beat each other in the'Activity Center' on the 414th floor. The'Order Supervision Team' on this floor has been involved in the investigation. The specific reasons are yet to be notified. According to other employees on the scene, the incident was related to The result of unified marriage is related to...

  "……

  "...At the end of the news, it is still a cappella song. I hope everyone likes it, thank you.

   "……"

   Shang Jian Yao lay on the bed that the street light could not illuminate, listening to the broadcast with a calm expression, without any movement.

   Before he knew it, he fell asleep.

   When he woke up, the street lights outside had already gone out, and the surrounding area was completely dark.

   The cold air filled the room at night. Shang Jianyao found that he had taken off his clothes at some point, shrank into the bed, and covered the bed with a dark green thick cotton coat beside the bed.

   He doesn’t have a clock, and he doesn’t know what time it is. He can only be sure that it’s not yet 6:30 in the morning because the street lights are still not on.

   He estimated that he might have fallen asleep at less than 8:30 last night, more than two hours earlier than normal, so he woke up earlier than normal.

   After feeling the swelling of his lower abdomen for a few seconds, Shang Jian Yao picked up a awkward flashlight with a black plastic shell from the pillow, and pushed the switch forward.

   A beam of condensed light shot out, reflecting the sink diagonally opposite.

   "I forgot to wash my face, brush my teeth and soak my feet..." Shang Jian Yao muttered, and suddenly opened the quilt, and got out of bed.

   Inside the company, except for those who can be assigned to separate bathrooms, the higher-level employees and managers can only take a bath in the large bathhouse attached to the "Activity Center".

  Except for some employees who have special positions and need to wash their bodies every day, everyone has a quota twice a week, which is invalidated after expiration and cannot be accumulated.

   After getting out of bed, Shang Jian Yao did not delay, put on the dark green thick cotton coat, took the flashlight, hurriedly opened the door, and went straight to the public toilet at the end of the street.

   The battery in the flashlight is part of the energy quota, and he dare not waste it-many employees have wooden barrels, spittoons and other things at home, so that they don't go out at night. Unfortunately, those things also need to be replaced.

   At this time, the public toilet was empty, and the sensor light lit up with Shang Jianyao's footsteps, which was quite dim.

   After solving the physiological problems, Shang Jianyao walked out of the public toilet and prepared to go home.

   Just then, he saw a bright light from a flashlight shooting from the corner of the aisle.

   A few seconds later, a man wearing the same dark green cotton coat of Shang Jianyao walked quickly and turned to the place opposite to the public toilet.

   Shang Jian Yao stared for two seconds, then suddenly turned off the flashlight, trot silently in the dark, and ran towards the small group of light created by the opponent.

   Soon, he approached the man and found that it was a middle-aged employee in the neighborhood. UU reading www. uukanshu.com he has to be called Uncle Shendu.

   "Hi!" He suddenly jumped out of "darkness" and patted the opponent on the shoulder.

   Shendu shook his hand and almost threw the flashlight to the ground.

   He looked at Shang Jian Yao with horror on his face, and breathed a sigh of relief:

   "Little businessman, you scared me to death!

   "In the middle of the night, don't come so suddenly to say hello!"

   Shang Jian Yao smiled and said:

   "Good evening, Uncle Shen, I want to ask what time it is?"

   "It's less than 6 o'clock." Shen Du subconsciously responded.

   Outside his house, there is a "crossroad" with a wall clock.

   "Uncle Shen, where are you going?" Shang Jianyao glanced around.

   "I'll go, go to the toilet..." Shen Du closed his mouth halfway through.

   The direction he walked was completely away from the nearest public toilet.

   Under the light of the flashlight, his gentle face was blue and white, and he did not know whether it was frozen by the cold night air or for some other reason.

   organized the next language, and Shen Du forced a smile:

   "I'm going to the public toilet in Area C. Hey, when I was playing in the "Activity Center" last night, something dropped there. I only found out when I got up just now. I wanted to find it quickly."

   Shang Jian Yao nodded, his dark brown eyes seemed to be stained with the pure black surrounding him.

   He hehe smiled and said:

   "Look, Uncle Shen, you are wearing a green coat, I am also wearing a green coat, you are a man, and I am a man too."

   Shendu felt confused for a while, and then suddenly realized:

   "So, we are church members!"

  He suddenly became enthusiastic:

   "You also went to listen to the sermon of the'Guide'?"

   "Yes." Shang Jian Yao responded with a smile.

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