It's daylight again.When Luo Binhan opened his eyes, the first glimmer of light was shining through the gap in the curtains.He stared at the slender bright line, feeling that it was like a door that was about to open.His laptop was open on the desk, the cooling fan making a slight hum.This noise is familiar and reassuring, because it means that the machine is running as usual, and Lihai City itself is a machine that is running all the time.

He had no intention of falling asleep.After what happened yesterday, he thought he would never be able to sleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes and opened them again, four hours had passed.He didn't feel sleepy or excited, as if the four hours had just been taken away out of thin air.

He quietly sat up from the bed, checked the messages he had sent to Luo Jiayang and Nan Mingguang last night, and then walked out of the bedroom and went to the bathroom to wash up.While washing his face, he touched the razor - in fact, he hadn't used it for a while, and the stubble seemed to grow very slowly.In order to prevent Yu Xiaorong from asking questions from unexpected angles, he still put some water on the blade from time to time when washing his face.He had done this five or six times, but this morning, for the first time, he felt that his fingertips were touching something sharp.

Everything becomes clearer.In the days before, the surrounding environment was often separated from him by some invisible barrier, making him slow to react and unable to pay attention to anything.The whole world feels, looks, and smells like a muddy, chaotic mess.A blade is no sharper than cotton, and a car horn is no louder than human laughter.But now that the barrier was gone, he felt his thoughts light and agile, like a drunken man staggering forward, thinking he was strolling down the road, but suddenly found that there was an abyss at his feet.That moment of shock is enough to wake up a drunkard.The chill on his back was seeping deeply into his spine. His fingers lightly slid over the blade, and goosebumps appeared on his arms.

Yu Xiaorong kept staring at him during breakfast.

"What's wrong?" Luo Binhan asked.

"Are you cured?"

"Yeah, it's just a minor problem. I must have eaten the wrong thing yesterday because I didn't pay attention."

"You are particularly energetic today."

"Because I slept long last night. And, lend me your cell phone."

"What about your own?"

"It's out of battery. I forgot to charge it last night and it's still charging now. I have an urgent call to make."

Yu Xiaorong gave him the phone suspiciously.She wasn't afraid that he would peek into it, because most of the content was in German.Therefore, Luo Binhan walked into the bedroom generously, closed the door and dialed Shi Qi's number.It's not that he can't use his mobile phone, but there is a risk of being monitored.He could only try to be as careful as possible.

It took three calls before the call was answered.Shi Qi must have regarded this unfamiliar number as a harassing call. When she answered it, her voice was still sleepy, and the background was filled with the sound of the subway arrival announcement.She almost said "I don't need to borrow money" and hung up. Luo Binhan called out to her and explained to her that this was his sister's mobile phone.

"I might not be able to go next week," he said. "There's something urgent. I have to go on a business trip for a few weeks."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Shi Qi expressed that she understood.Her voice still sounded the same as usual, but Luo Binhan was a little worried that she had misinterpreted the cancellation of the date. "It's just a business trip," he said repeatedly and emphatically, "I'll tell you as soon as I get back, okay? Don't forget what we agreed. I've even thought about the gifts I'll give you when I go to visit the doctor. "

"Don't give too heavy a gift."

"You have to express it. I always feel that your aunt has a big misunderstanding of me. When are you going to tell her that I really don't work in the flower and bird market?"

"Isn't that great? She likes to grow flowers."

Luo Binhan wanted to ask whether that person "likes to grow flowers" or "likes people who can grow flowers", but the phone line has been disconnected. It must be that the subway has entered a tunnel or something.Regardless, the top item on today’s to-do list can be crossed off.He walked out of the bedroom and returned the phone to Yu Xiaorong. She didn't ask any questions and just immersed herself in paddling her tablet.

Luo Binhan went downstairs.Last night, he told Luo Jiayang that he was healed and asked him to pick him up normally the next day.This capriciousness must have surprised Luo Jiayang, so the latter showed up early.This was the first time that he arrived earlier than Luo Binhan.When Luo Binhan got into the car, his eyes in the rearview mirror were filled with suspicion.

"I came very early today." Luo Binhan said, deliberately not explaining his change of heart last night, "Let's go, I'm very busy today."

The car drove onto the road.Along the way, Luo Binhan looked out the window, whistled vaguely, and hummed an English song called "The Wolves Are Outside the Door."Luo Jiayang began to turn his head to look at him from the driver's seat.

"Don't look at me, drive your car." Luo Binhan said, lowering his head to open the chat software on his phone, "Have you been in contact with your friends recently?"

"You asked yesterday."

"Let me see if there is anything new today." Luo Binhan said, "Go and call them over for a meeting."

Luo Jiayang didn't respond.Luo Binhan guessed that he mistook the last sentence as an auditory hallucination, so he repeated it again. "Go and contact them," he said in a half-command tone, "and introduce to me the ones who are the most provocative."

The red light is on.Luo Jiayang slammed on the brakes and turned to glare at Luo Binhan.His two incompatible eyebrows showed a dark anger.

"What do you want to do?" He forced his voice out of his throat.Luo Binhan looked at this suppressed and angry face.Before this morning, he had always been instinctively wary when looking at this face, just like when a person sees a colorful and winding rope, he would inevitably think of a poisonous snake.But now he doesn't feel it anymore, because human perception can only be based on comparison. If you are having one of your legs chopped off alive, there is nothing to say about someone giving you an injection in your arm.When he looked at Luo Jiayang's face now, he saw that it was as clear and safe as a glass plate. There was nothing more than boiling sewage underneath, and it was definitely not a powerful dirty bomb.Even when they are not eating, hyenas look pretty cute.

"I need to use them to do something." Luo Binhan said, "I will pay enough, but I can't let others know."

Luo Jiayang looked at him silently, as if watching a normal person suddenly go crazy.Then he seemed to feel that there was some kind of trap here, set just to torment him. "You don't want your old man to know?" he asked suspiciously, "What exactly do you want to do?"

"I found that my rebellious stage has arrived." Luo Binhan said.He smiled cheerfully and told Luo Jiayang that he had to have the contact information of those people before this weekend. "Have you ever extorted money?" He confirmed. "Have you ever blocked a lone person on the road? Hit someone on the back of the head with a stick? You guys don't just drink and fool around all day long, and you haven't even caused a bleeding wound to anyone, right?" "

By the time they arrived at the company, Luo Jiayang had stopped talking to him.He was completely convinced that Luo Binhan was really crazy today.Luo Binhan asked him to go out and buy something in a pleasant tone, while he continued to hum a tune while sitting in the car.After Luo Jiayang left, he took the pillow from the storage table at the back and took out the inner bag containing the weapons.He carried his computer bag into the office, and within a minute Lu Jin came over to ask about the results of his visit to the hospital yesterday.

"It's nothing serious." He said briskly, "I forgot that I had eaten cephalosporin yesterday, and I also ate some alcoholic desserts. Fortunately, the amount was not too much, and I was almost better after a sleep."

Lu Jin was relieved.Luo Binhan asked him how he treated the audit team yesterday, and Lu Jin told him that everything went smoothly.The reception lasted about two hours, and we didn't talk about anything particularly important.

"I should have gone." Luo Binhan said, "I am familiar with their people, and I also want to ask professionals about some things - let's find time to arrange another meal. I think this weekend will be good. By the way , where do they live now?”

Although there are several locals from Lihai City on the audit team, the firm itself is in Wojiao City, and the accommodation of these people must of course be paid for by Party A.This is not a problem for them because they have a hotel in their own name.As expected, Nan Mingguang arranged them to stay in the best hotel in the city, which was considered a favor to Zhou Quan Lingfan.Luo Binhan was deeply impressed by that hotel because of its unique appearance and many stories.They gave it a quite decent name, "Zhuyaju", but the locals always called it "Blue Cave", and even Luo Binhan himself often called it that.Even for a building, the nickname is always more appropriate than the name.

"It's not bad to live there." Luo Binhan said, "I remember that there is the Yuyang River nearby, right? Beyond that is the mouth of the sea. There seems to be a yacht club there. Is it still open?"

"It should still be there." Lu Jin said uncertainly.

"Let's go check it out. They'll probably have to stay here for two or three months, and I think we'll have to host one or two tours. In my opinion, it would be good to go to the river or the sea. We can make an agreement Yacht, go and stay on Fenjiangzhou for two more days. You should also check out the restaurants on Fenjiangzhou. They are also serving Zhuyaju for dinner now, right?"

"It's there."

"I'll go over to have dinner with them tonight." Luo Binhan said.The screen of the mobile phone on the table suddenly lit up.He glanced at it and saw the messages on the screen passing by like water.But he didn't open it immediately. Instead, he told Lu Jin a few more things about the overseas branch before sending him away.After the office door was closed, he looked around the entire room.There is a smoke alarm on the ceiling, which flashes red light from time to time, which always makes people suspicious that there is a camera hidden in it. In fact, this is just a normal phenomenon.There wasn't another physical pair of eyes in the room, but he was definitely more than just a thought.

He picked up his phone and looked at it. At the top of all the chat boxes, there was a contact that he had never added as a friend. The nickname was in English, called "Alice Kettler", and the avatar was a color scheme. A forest oil painting with extremely weird shapes.Last night, Luo Binhan secretly searched for this painting on the Internet. Before he could upload the picture in the search box, "Alice Kettler" took the initiative to tell him that this painting was "Black" painted by Edvard Munch. Spruce Forest".

"We don't really need to go wandering in this kind of forest!" Luo Binhan said to the mobile phone.He didn't turn on his camera or microphone, but the chat box responded with a smiley face composed of simple characters.

After "going online", Li Li liked to communicate with him in this way of pretending to be a chat robot.Once she was far away from the black box containing her data, it seemed that she could no longer wander around in the traditional ghost image, nor could she communicate with him in that iconic tone. From the messages sent all the time, Luo Binhan read All you get is lines of impersonal, real-time information.Every connected computer and cell phone in this building, and everywhere they might need it, became her eyes.Pandora's box has been opened, and now the woods are full of sentinels monitoring the whereabouts of wild beasts.

Such a complete intrusion into other people's lives was something that Luo Binhan had never imagined, but the actual experience was not that shocking, because the person who really did it was Li Li after all.She gave him only the information she felt necessary to reveal, usually in concise text, occasionally with maps or illustrations.So Luo Binhan knew that Xiao Rong was still here today, so he chatted with others in the accounting office of the Finance Department. The topic was the new members of the audit team.At the same time, Li Li also tracked Nan Mingguang from out of town and Luo Jiayang who was passing the intersection camera. She even tracked Reigenberg and told him that Yu Qingshu was drafting an appeal for a criminal case in front of the computer at this moment.

She refreshed the information from time to time and informed him of the movements of many people.Or if Luo Binhan takes the initiative to ask her, she will tell him that Shi Qi has been working intently in the past hour, and Yu Xiaorong has indeed been writing her homework.Now that the ghost girl has nowhere to hide, this gives Luo Binhan a sense of morally unworthy victory.But he also tried to tell himself that there was really nothing to be proud of. This was just to complete their hunting goal and not for any other purpose.If this was a game, he would be cheating now.Li Li really seemed like a plug-in, but it wasn't sent by a hacker, but by a visitor from outside the world - he really wanted to ask that visitor from outside the world if he had foreseen today's situation.Jing Huang looked really reluctant when he threw the black box to him.

Unfortunately, the head office does not adhere to a particularly strict office management system, so cameras are only placed in key entrances and exits and important document rooms. Most conference rooms are blind spots for surveillance.Li Li could only tell him what was happening in an office below through the microphone and camera of his mobile device.The audit team has arrived, five of them have turned on their computers, and a few others are gossiping about the recent stock market performance.Everything appears in the form of text summary on Luo Binhan's mobile phone screen. These monitoring records read like running group records, but they are much more boring.Because most of them are subjectless, about travel, weather or gossip.Thank God Li Li is responsible for filtering and summarizing, otherwise it would be enough to make any listener fall asleep.

Li Li even gave him a simply drawn map of the conference room, with a dozen small dots distributed along the long table, marking each person's name.Luo Binhan asked her how she could determine the specific location of each person. She explained that this was the result of a combination of network signals, several camera images and sound positioning algorithms.Although it is quite comprehensive, there is one most important flaw. There are only twelve small dots marked with names on the map - their real target is invisible on this simple map.

"Is he in the room?" Luo Binhan asked uncertainly.

A line of description popped up on the phone, telling him that at 32:[-]:[-] this morning, thirteen people from the audit team passed by the cameras at the entrance and the elevator, and were not filmed leaving, which meant that no one left in advance. Slip away through normal channels.The hunting target was invisible in Li Li's ubiquitous eyes. If he was really in the room, it meant that he was not caught by the camera, not recorded by the microphone, and did not even have a piece of clothing on him. Electronic devices on the Internet.This "invisibility" doesn't seem to be intentional.

"He seems to know you are here." Luo Binhan said, "He is in a room with a dozen people who are talking happily, but he doesn't say a word? This must seem very abnormal, right? What do you think?"

Only two words came back to him on the phone: Maybe.

"Then does he know who is not here?" Luo Binhan asked again, but immediately felt that this was a redundant question.Of course Zhou Wenxing knew, otherwise how could he dare to wander under his building?Li Li didn't answer him.Luo Binhan got up from the chair by himself.Since Li Li's eyes couldn't find the target, he had no choice but to take a look himself.


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