Chapter 622: Adventure in the Old Power Plant
[Don’t talk, or I’ll tear your mouth out when I get back. 】
Mo Tan first replied through the telepathy between the two people (dragon/turtle), and then greeted the two new faces in front of him with a normal expression and briefly introduced them. There doesn't seem to be anything different between him and Wang Ba Dan.
But!
It's just that there is nothing strange on the surface. In fact, Mo Tan's heart has already set off a huge wave. The reason is that the girl named Pomegranate said in the first place, "My name is Pomegranate." , is a marginalized person, hello'.
Although Shiliu later changed her name and called herself a future person under Qiuyue's accusation, the previous sentence seemed to be more than just a slip of the tongue, although the girl leader opposite seemed to really think that sentence was a slip of the tongue...
But Mo Tan knew it. To be precise, he had indeed heard of the concept of 'marginal people'.
Time, three years ago, location, a small shop in a small commodity market in City B [Strange and Weird]
Mo Tan clearly remembers that at that time, he was going to go to Brother Rice to brag and talk. When I walked into Weirdness, I didn't see the two of them immediately. In less than two seconds, I heard a vague sentence from upstairs, "Those marginalized people are really becoming more and more down-to-earth recently. Yesterday The guy who was exorcising demons in the old power plant actually used the ones from our store...'
The next moment, Ferry Rice's voice suddenly stopped, and then he was holding a large box of something unknown. Joe Rice walked down the stairs together, both of them staring at Mo Tan unblinkingly.
"Hey, I was just about to call you two."
Mo Tan yawned and put down the cell phone held by his ears, looking at the two brothers in front of him with a mean smile: "Everyone is I'm really not afraid if I don't stay down here Are you inviting thieves? Tsk, don’t say anything. Give me something good to teach you a lesson, so that you don’t have to empty the downstairs next time you two are having sex upstairs.” br>
Ferry He was stunned for a moment, and then he smiled and grabbed a handful of candies from the box in Qiao's arms and threw them to Mo Tan: "That makes sense."
"Another truant candy? Isn't that a bit stingy? ?”
Mo Tan curled his lips, put the [Standard Skip Candy] in his hand that he had secretly tested countless times, and sat in the magic supplies cabinet with an unhappy look on his face. on the chair in front.
Qiao, who walked downstairs with Fei Li, threw the box into the corner, turned to Mo Tan, gently shook his index finger, and said with a smile: "The fact that we are willing to cooperate with your unreasonable blackmail is enough to prove that we These two are really generous."
"By the way, buddy."
Feli lazily leaned against the cabinet next to Mo Tan and raised his eyebrows. Not orthopedic, not gay, even the type of girl he likes is different."
Needless to say, Mo Tan, who knew that he was in a state of 'chaotic neutrality' at the time, grinned and said: "But I am. I feel that the girl who will fall in love with you, regardless of appearance or personality, is likely to fall in love with another one as well."
"Haha, although from various angles, we are both. Much like..."
Ferry shook his head exaggeratedly and shrugged: "But in the final analysis, Joe is still Joe, and I am still me. If you can't tell the difference, you can't say you love us."
"Mom It's an exception. I believe she loves us, but she is a little careless. "
Qiao made a face, then glanced at Mo Tan casually, and asked casually: "By the way, you didn't hear anything just now, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mo Tan's calm and calm expression changed instantly, a drastic change!
“Hey...hey, hey, hey...”
He stood up suddenly and took a step back towards the door. His expression and voice were extremely stiff: "You two...were not really upstairs just now..."
"Upstairs" I tried a new product, burping candy."
Feli grinned and shrugged: "So you can put away that dangerous idea."
"Scared me... ..."
Mo Tan breathed a long sigh of relief and sat back with a curse.
For the next two hours, he chatted with the Rice brothers as usual, and in the process, he tricked out a few undeveloped burp candies that would make people burp crazily and fart continuously until the sun went down. I just said goodbye to the two of them, went to the vegetable market to help a few bosses to check their blood pressure, and then went home.
For the next three days, Mo Tan behaved very normally.
Until the fourth night, he was carrying three homemade flash bombs, two police stun batons, a Nepali dog-leg knife, a bright flashlight and half a bottle of homemade halothane spray, extremely professional He avoided most of the surveillance cameras along the way, and spent a full five and a half hours finally entering the only old power plant in City B.
"I heard something interesting..."
Mo Tan, who walked past the coal yard and around the chimney, quietly walked into the boiler room, his eyes shining with excitement. , people and animals looked around harmlessly with a flashlight.
He was wearing a very loose casual windbreaker, and the guys he brought were all hidden in the inner lining that had undergone several magical modifications. They looked harmless and did not look like a nefarious person who came here with a purpose.
This is actually quite logical. After all, this power plant, which was abandoned half a year ago, is not an important military site. Although almost no one comes here to visit for free, it is indeed not a place where idlers are free. Wherever you go, those valuable things have already been taken away when they were abandoned. There are no boilers, circulation pumps, burners, steam turbines, etc., so there is no fear of attracting thieves.
To sum up, in fact, even if Mo Tan randomly called a taxi and had someone take him here, holding a camera while singing rap and playing adventure, no one would theoretically care.
However, he still did his best to operate as covertly as possible. Not only that, he even "armed" himself to a certain extent, which was rare. It felt like it was very overkill.
But Mo Tan himself does not think so. In fact, if he were not worried that some 'possible traces' would be erased in a short period of time, he would definitely come back with more comprehensive preparations. .
From the beginning, what he was worried about was not the 'trouble' in the conventional sense, but the 'truth that might be hidden under the convention'.
This world is not simple. Mo Tan had already noticed this through various details before he met the Rice brothers. Although he only grasped some 'traces' that were not even clues, but But he never ignored those happenings Mo Tan, at least under his current personality, has never ignored the 'abnormalities' surrounding 'daily life'. Although it is probably just a kind of obscenity that is close to daydreaming, he is still eager to uncover the things that he has noticed. The truth behind the 'traces'.
Whether the answer is a boring thing that proves that he is just guessing at Xia Jiba, or an unknown danger that may cause him to get angry, he doesn't care, because for the current personality of 'Mo Tan', The pursuit of answers is extremely interesting in itself, and the results are probably just a tack.
The Rice brothers are not simple, they may even be a member of the 'unknown world'. Mo Tan has made similar speculations for a long time, but has never obtained conclusive evidence.
Until a few days ago…
"That guy who was exorcising demons in the old power plant~"
Mo Tan repeated in a low voice what Ferry Rice said on the second floor of [Weird and Weird] that day, and narrowed his eyes slightly: "Yes. It's right to call them 'marginal people'... ha... So what does it mean to eliminate demons? Nothing interesting seems to have happened in this old power plant recently, such as gas explosions. Could it be that the one who was say Wouldn't this act of 'eliminating demons' cause too much trouble?"
The fruitless results in the first half hour did not make Mo Tan feel the least bit impatient, and he took his time in the empty boiler. As he walked in the room, he was not affected by the eerie and strange environment around him, because all abandoned boiler rooms in the world were basically like this in the middle of the night, so he naturally did not feel scared at all. Of course, with a 'chaotic neutral' personality, even if this place is really haunted, and then something like a slit girl suddenly pops up and bites him, I guess this guy will bite back happily, but he won't be able to bite him. Being able to bite off it is another matter.
“Huh?”
At this moment, Mo Tan's eyes suddenly widened, and he swung the flashlight and shone it steadily on a concrete pillar that didn't look like anything special at first glance.
An excited smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, but he saw Mo Tan walking over quickly, then turned off the flashlight with a snap, and just stared at the stick in front of him in the darkness. The outline of the pillar can be clearly seen... The two scratches on the side, no more than two centimeters in length and one centimeter in width, are emitting dots of blue light.
“It’s interesting, it’s interesting!”
Mo Tan muttered twice, and the extremely excited expression on his face instantly disappeared as if it had never existed, and then Putting the flashlight into his pocket, he quickly scanned the surroundings with his eyes that had gradually adapted to seeing in the dark, and reached for the Nepali dog-leg knife hidden inside the windbreaker.
Then...
"Young man, be careful!"
The light of the flashlight bloomed in the darkness, and a short middle-aged man wearing a security uniform suddenly rushed out from behind Mo Tan and pushed him to the ground.
Mo Tan, who was pushed down unprepared, immediately changed his expression. Then he took away his hand that was reaching inside the windbreaker without any trace, and looked up at the man wearing a security uniform with a flashlight on and a blank look on his face. Uncle: "Huh?"
< br>"Ah, what, look how dangerous this is!"
The uncle bent down and pulled Mo Tan up, then shined his flashlight on the pillar that the latter had just observed, and hummed in a bad tone. : "Look what this is!"
Mo Tan scratched his hair and took a closer look with the light from his uncle's flashlight. He found that two exposed wires outside the pillar were constantly emitting tiny sparks of electricity.
"You know how many volts this thing has! If I had been one step slower just now, you would have been dead!"
The uncle patted his beer belly with lingering fear, turned his head and looked at Mo in shock. Tan asked: "By the way, little brother, who are you? , I didn’t sleep at night and came here to try my courage?”
Mo Tan smiled coquettishly and whispered awkwardly: “I have an urgent need to urinate, I thought there was no one here...”
“Oh, I almost died from a splash of urine.”
The middle-aged man laughed dryly and patted Mo Tan on the shoulder: "Okay, go out quickly. There is a raw water pond on the right turn when you go out. It was drained some time ago. If you can't hold it in, go over there and deal with it. , and no one is looking at you now."
Mo Tan quickly thanked you, and then. Then he rushed towards the door with a frightened and steady expression. He waited until half of his body was out of the boiler room before turning back and shouting: "Thank you!"
"Go, go, go. Come on, don’t hold it back any longer.”
The uncle waved his hand in confusion.
"Uncle, are you the security guard here? Isn't this power plant abandoned?"
Mo Tan continued to ask while covering his crotch.
"I'm the security guard of the neighborhood next door."
The uncle shrugged and said with a smile: "I came here to borrow the toilet."
"Hi, I'm a comrade. "Mr. Brother, you can borrow it first, uncle. I'll borrow it outside."
Mo Tan chuckled, then happily went out and turned right, and soon found the original pond that the uncle mentioned just now. After peeing, I ran to the intersection diagonally across the street and took a taxi home.
It wasn't until he entered the house that Mo Tan's expression suddenly darkened. He didn't even change his shoes. As soon as he entered the house, he rushed into the bathroom and stuck out his tongue at himself in the mirror...
Of course, this is not being cute, because in the mirror, there is a very clear small gap near the tip of Mo Tan's tongue. Although it stopped bleeding more than an hour ago, it can still be clearly seen. It was a fresh wound not long after the bite.
Yes, it’s a bite!
Mo Tan bit it himself, and he had no impression of the process at all!
"There is something wrong with my memory..."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, leaned on the washstand and looked at himself in the mirror steadily, and whispered: "The wound in the mouth is a reminder, a reminder I left for myself."
Mo Tan He breathed a sigh of relief, turned back to the living room and sat down on the sofa. The corners of his mouth curled up in a happy arc, and then he glanced up at the electronic perpetual calendar above the TV.
The time displayed above is AM05:15...
"Based on my average heart rate of about 1.7 beats per second, refer to the current standard time..."
Mo Tan removed his right hand from his left wrist and murmured in a low voice: "It should have missed about one hundred and eighty-seven seconds."
[You casually erased my three-minute memory? Haha, this world is so exciting that it makes you want to scream...]
He stared at his own eyes that never existed for even a second. The electronic perpetual calendar with errors was trembling with excitement.
However, in the next moment, Mo Tan suddenly became excited, and his slightly evil smile suddenly disappeared, and then he started to tremble again.
This time I was scared!
Mo Tan, who suddenly switched to an 'absolutely neutral' personality, became more and more frightened as he thought about it, and felt his blood pressure rising slowly.
And then...
A total of one hundred and ninety-one seconds of erased memories suddenly poured out from the depths of his mind!
Chapter 615: The End
(End of this chapter)