Forces of Temptation

    No one knows how those "people" got up.

    The bus did not stop halfway after driving on the Ring Expressway, and always maintained a speed of 80 kilometers per hour.

    But the number of people in the car has indeed increased.

    Perhaps only Li Yinhang discovered this matter, or maybe everyone in the carriage discovered it.

    It's just that no one dares to say it.

    She lowered her whole body, her nose filled with the hot, stuffy smell of the enclosed space.

    The air conditioner in the bus hits 16 degrees, and the air conditioner port is above her head.

    The wind is strong and the sound is audible.

    And her fingers were tightly pinched, and the cold wind and hot sweat slowly flowed down the hair into the neck like a reptile.

    …There are indeed many people in the car.

    This feeling is lingering, but it is unclear where there are more people.

    Maybe watching her somewhere behind.

    Maybe it was the man who was sitting two seats in front of her, showing a small stubble.

    He may be silently twisting his head 180 degrees, staring in his direction.

    …

    Brain tonic is a human talent.

    Since a week ago, this talent has been greatly exercised.

    At first, it was just one or two unusual disappearances.

    For example, when a friend who went out to play, the person who left came back with a bag of milk tea, there was no one in front of the cinema.

    For another example, a middle-aged chemistry teacher with a pot belly was giving a drowsy class in a liberal arts class in a senior high school ranked at the bottom of the overall ranking. The students at the bottom fell asleep, and only the monitor took care of him. To save face, under the chemistry textbook, I worked **** the Chinese exercise book.

    He stood up angrily, accusing: "Teacher is angry with you."

    The deterioration of the situation took only one day to night.

    The housewife who was watching the drama with her husband on the sofa found that the water in the kitchen kept making noise.

    She was distressed about the water bill, and walked to the kitchen nagging, and found a stack of bowls full of foam in the sink.

    My daughter is missing.

    Together with her old slippers that would snap when walking.

    She walked back to the living room.

    The living room was quiet.

    The ball game is playing on the TV, a new box of cigarettes has just been unpacked, and the ashtray has been taken out from under the coffee table.

    The disappearance quickly escalated into a "missing incident".

    On the TV, the precautions are repeatedly played on the static color screen, reminding the public to stop unnecessary outings in the near future.

    Because the data proves that staying in a fixed place cannot avoid the possibility of sudden disappearance; but those who go out and run around cannot be faster.

    The whole world seems to have a strange bug that cannot be fixed.

    This is not a random guess.

    As early as five months ago, on February 5th, at 6:00 p.m., millions of people were burned by the fire cloud to a red cloud background, in the position of the sun , and saw a huge dialog.

    [sun.exe is not responding. If you continue to wait, the program may respond]

    [Do you want to end this process? 】

    [End Process Cancel]

    The dialog soon disappeared.

    The duration is one minute, milliseconds are not bad.

    During that time, this huge dialog really caused a storm on the Internet.

    One of the most popular sayings is that there is a bug on the earth, and aliens are systematically maintaining the earth.

    This claim was quickly derided.

    The reason is that, as an alien, the maintenance system still uses Windows16.

    Dialogs appear in various languages ​​over cities around the world.

    On a huge rose plantation in Bulgaria.

    In the sea-like starry sky of Tekapo, New Zealand.

    Australia takes the children to the side of the plane window to the summer camp.

    The end of the turmoil was when a foreign art group came forward and claimed that this was their performance art, projecting people's deep fear of reality on the sun.

    Although they didn't come up with enough equipment to accomplish this great artistic feat, by that time, everyone was tired of discussing the topic.

    This is enough reason to move on to the next hot topic in society.

    Later, some great gods took tens of thousands of photos and compared them one by one.

    Because of the time difference, the dialog box in some places happens to be late at night.

    However, the position where the dialog box appears is still closely attached to the orbit of the sun at that time.

    But most ordinary people have long lost interest in it, and the praise is over.

    Anyway, there is no missing piece of meat, and life goes on as usual.

    Who would have thought that five months from now, the world would look like this.

    This always makes people wonder why the familiar Windows 16 pop-up window appeared.

    Is this really a human joke?

    A force is demonstrating?

    Or, just want to give them a warning of danger that human common sense can understand?

    Li Yinhang really couldn't figure it out, so he just stopped thinking about it.

    Life matters.

    Better not disappear than disappear.

    As a humble bank customer service, she and a new colleague who joined the company for less than a few days lived in the dormitory provided by the unit and chose to stay on the spot.

    My colleague walked into the bathroom and never came back because he couldn't bear the hair he hadn't washed for three days.

    Li Yinhang did not dare to look at it, for fear that he would follow in his footsteps.

    Therefore, the leaking water from the unclosed shower head fell on the tiles, and it ticked for two days.

    At times like this, she is always grateful for her laziness, and likes to place snacks within a distance that she can touch while lying on the bed.

    She relied on snacks, sand sculpture videos and chargers to survive, trying her best to ignore the sound of water dripping on her nerves.

    Tick, tick.

    Until the rescue team knocks on the door.

    Because there are too many missing people, the organization department changed its response strategy in time, voluntarily called volunteers to form a rescue team, searched from house to house, and rescued children and elderly people who had not disappeared or who were unable to take care of themselves. , The disabled are sent to the nearby temporary "safe cocoon room" for centralized isolation, or food is sent to those who are trapped at home, and people who are unwilling to leave are assisted to achieve self-closing.

    The volunteers are all uncles and aunts wearing red armbands.

    Because the data shows that children under 18 years old and people over 60 years old, there are no cases of disappearance yet.

    Li Yinhang thought, extending his head is also a knife, and shrinking his head is also a knife.

    Shrink here again, the food will be finished sooner or later.

    She doesn't want to live alone in an empty apartment where the sound of water drops.

    Even if she disappears, she hopes to disappear in the crowd.

    So she got on this temporarily requisitioned two-door bus.

    Before she got into the car, the uncle who was squatting on the driver's face casually said: "No. 3."

    When Li Yinhang got into the car, he saw two other figures in the back.

    Sleeping alone in the second-to-last double-row chair.

    The other also covered his face with his clothes, leaning back on the seat in the last row and sleeping soundly.

    So she suppressed the desire to say hello, came to the fourth row from the bottom, and sat down by the window.

    A signal jammer is installed on the car.

    This is also one of the recent methods by the authorities to control unprovoked disappearances, achieving high-intensity magnetic field disturbances in small confined spaces.

    However, the function and coverage of the signal jammer is too limited.

    To achieve a comprehensive and effective magnetic field isolation, it is necessary to go to a "cocoon room" made of special materials.

    So the psychological comfort of this shielding device may be far greater than the actual effect.

    Li Yinhang, who couldn't play with his mobile phone, had no choice but to empty his mind, trying his best to block the sound of dripping water that had been ringing in his head for a few days.

    Tick, tick.

    The bus only took three adults away in this apartment complex.

    The car stopped and went, some people came up and some people left.

    There are several children who have been sent to a children's shelter.

    There are two volunteers, one old and one young, who signed up and were sent to the site.

    There is a husband who got in the car and regretted it temporarily, and wanted to wait for his wife to come back.

    At first, when Li Yinhang saw the person getting into the car, he would look curiously and try to catch up with him.

    But she quickly wears off.

    The bus never filled even one third of the people.

    Everyone is a stranger, so they are naturally vigilant, so they sit here and there.

    Li Yinhang quietly cosplayed the **** at the bottom of the river without saying a word.

    They passed a bridge across the river.

    A small car was crooked near the bridge pillar, and only the steel skeleton was left. The cover hangs on the bridge rail, and the wind makes a screeching metal screeching sound.

    squeak-squeak-

    Li Yinhang didn't want to think about the cause of the car accident.

    She turned her eyes to the inside of the bus and wanted to count how many people were in the bus now.

    But the next second, the bus rushed into the tunnel.

    Darkness is coming.

    When Bai Shuosuo's sky light came back on, Li Yinhang felt that there was a strange dislocation on his retina.

    …There seems to be something more in the car than just now.

     But the sense of reality replaces this fleeting visual afterimage at an extremely fast rate.

    She didn't even have time to compare what went wrong.

    But her sixth sense told her that there must be something more.

    There were not so many people in the car just now.

    There is no such deadly silence.

    Various conjectures ran through her mind.

    The repeated fears made Li Yinhang more and more afraid to look up.

    She squeezed her fingers nervously, afraid to be the first to make a sound.

    Who would have thought, because of the excessive force, her knuckles made a crisp sound.

    —crack.

    This sound created a strange echo in the too silent carriage.

    Li Yinhang tensed the muscles in his throat for a moment.

    Fortunately, she is not alone.

    Behind Li Yinhang, a man trembled with extreme control: "Master driver, can you stop? I'm a little uncomfortable..."

    The driver did not respond.

    …I don’t know if it was an accident or an expectation.

    After the silence was broken, the man just now became more courageous, and he was about to go to the cab to check the situation.

    Just as he passed Li Yinhang's seat, a hand suddenly stretched out from the side, blocking the man's path.

    The nervous Li Yinhang was taken aback.

    …She didn’t even know when someone was sitting in front of her.

    The man glanced down and saw that the person blocking him had dyed silver hair.

    A black hair tie with a beautiful scorpion braid halfway over the collarbone contrasts with a black choker with a silver chain on her slender neck.

    Faced with such a good-looking arm, the man suddenly became more courageous.

    He reassured: "Beauty, don't worry, I'll check the situation."

    Then, Li Yinhang heard the man's clear male voice: "Don't move."

    …He acquiesced in the title of "beauty" very calmly.

    Before the man could recover from the sluggishness, a large number of colorful balloons suddenly poured out from the cab where he should be sitting.

    Big purple big blue, big red big green.

    The color saturation hurts the eyes.

    A girl sitting in the front row screamed in fright and stepped on the edge of the seat to avoid the balloons that were scattered and rolled like human heads.

    Next, out of the hundreds of colorful balloons, a naive head and a pair of chubby little short hands emerged... a mushroom.

    A red mushroom with white spots on the canopy.

    It doesn't look any different from the mushrooms that Super Mario hides in bricks and eats them.

    Mushroom shook the umbrella cover exaggeratedly, and neatly arranged the umbrella brim like a hat.

    Because of its short hands and feet, it looks like a cute pet.

    But no one who sees this scene that subverts the world view can laugh.

    Mushroom jumped forward clumsily twice, spread her short hands,

    "Welcome to the world of "Gravity"! Bika is honored to be your guide! Welcome to the demo level—"

    Li Yinhang has stopped moving.

    The scene in front of her is beyond the scope of her mere twenty-four years of life.

    She didn't think about why the name "Universal Gravity" was so familiar, but subconsciously observed other people's reactions.

    Especially the silver-haired young man who stopped the man in time to approach the driver just now.

    …He was not looking at the most eye-catching mushroom.

    His eyes swept across the entire carriage, and counted the number of people as quickly as possible.

    Li Yinhang was busy taking pictures of cats and tigers, and followed him to count.

    There are eleven in total, not counting mushrooms.

     But Li Yinhang did not dare to use the word "human" to describe these creatures in the car easily.

    Before Li Yinhang's thoughts went deeper, he saw a half-figure slowly standing on the first row of seats.

    …there is one more?

    Seeing that person, the first word that popped out of Li Yinhang's mind was "incompatible".

    The young man was wearing an inappropriate half-length black lapel trench coat and a two-piece suit. He could not tell whether he was tall or not, but he could only see his temperament from the curve of his neck.

      A sense of coldness.

    The key is that he is the closest to the mushroom in the whole car, and it is almost sitting on the same horizontal line.

    But he didn't look scared, and even held an apple firmly in his hand.

    …and he looked like he was actually studying the mushroom.

    Li Yinhang observed it carefully for a while, and found something wrong again.

    He looked at the mushroom with a sullen look.

    …This person seems to be simple, not awake.

    Not waiting for Li Yinhang to make any more useless judgments, the sudden cracking sound behind her made her shrink her neck.

    The man in the penultimate row picked up the red emergency escape hammer installed by the window at some point and smashed the window violently.

    The moment the glass shattered, the wind at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour poured into it, blowing Li Yinhang's eyes.

    Before Li Yinhang could calculate his hope of surviving by jumping out of the car under such circumstances, the man couldn't wait to reach out to hold the window frame.

    In the face of this strange situation, it is human nature to escape.

    However, after sticking half of his head out of the window, he had no next move.

    No one knows what inhuman pain he suffered at that moment.

    Boom!

    The snow-white slurry dripped down his shoulders, like mushroom secretions.

    Mushroom's sharp girl's voice was almost scraped against everyone's scalp.

    "Please listen to the Demo Level Notes—"

    "First, once the copy is opened, don't try to forcibly escape—"