May 3, 2021, Province Z, City N, District Y of China.
A black man about 1.75 meters tall was walking slowly on the midnight street. He was wearing a shabby and dirty shirt, a somewhat heavy down jacket, and an invisible stripe on his lower body. The jeans of their original color were covered with traces of dried vomit.
Since the time was just around three o'clock in the evening, there were not many pedestrians on the wide street, and there were even very few vehicles passing by. No one noticed this strangely dressed black man, and even if they did, they only noticed it. I'll just think of him as a homeless bum.
After walking along the street for a long time, the shops on both sides were closed. After all, at this time, most people had already gone to play chess with Zhou Gong. Only a few 24-hour convenience stores or restaurants were still open, but the shops were basically open. The door was empty, and there were not many customers around.
"welcome."
As the door was pushed open, the doorbell of Grandpa's Fried Chicken shop keenly captured this change, and according to the set procedure, it issued an emotionless welcome.
This is a very small fried chicken restaurant. Due to various reasons such as location and rent, it was finally chosen to open in this low-end location. There was only one clerk sleeping on the counter. After hearing the doorbell, He opened his eyes tiredly.
"Hello, need something... Ugh! It smells so bad..."
The night shift clerk yawned, with a habitual smile on his tired face, and asked the question that had been asked countless times.
But before she could finish her words, she smelled an indescribable stench in her nose. She hurriedly covered her mouth and nose subconsciously and looked at the person's appearance carefully.
The clothes on the other party were not to say tattered, but they were indeed extremely dirty. The rancid and musty smell seemed to have condensed into a physical fist, and he punched the poor female clerk left and right, up and down.
The black man didn't pay attention to the other party's movements or the expression on his face. After looking around for a while, he slowly spoke.
"Hello, may I ask if the current time is May 2, 2021, and the location is Z province, N city, and Y district of China?"
After the black man finished speaking, he closed his mouth and stared at the other person quietly without any unnecessary movement.
It's like the "wooden man" game I played when I was a child. After I finished speaking, I instantly turned into a lifeless wooden man.
This made the female clerk feel a sense of fear in her heart. She actually forgot about the other party's inquiry and stood there blankly, feeling a little at a loss.
"Hello?"
Seeing that the female clerk had no response, the black man asked again, but the difference was that this time there was a questioning tone in the inquiry, which was a significant change from the previous dullness.
"Uh, uh, what did you just say? I was a little distracted. I'm sorry..."
The female clerk hurriedly smiled and apologized. Her good professionalism and kind heart did not put discrimination on her, but she spoke out very politely.
"My question is, is the time now May 2, 2021, and the location is Province Z, City N, and District Y of China?"
The black man repeated the question again, but the pronunciation between the lines was much more accurate than the previous sentence. If he was just a Chinese beginner at the beginning, then this sentence now gives people a rather awkward feeling. The feeling of success.
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"Well, this is indeed China's Province Z, City N, and District Y, but it's already May 3rd. After all, it's already three o'clock in the morning, hahaha..."
Although the female clerk was doubtful about the other person's mental state, she couldn't show it clearly, so she had to answer the questions cooperatively and use laughter to cover up her embarrassment.
"okay, thank you."
The black man nodded dully and said words of thanks, but his face still had no expression, and it was so stiff that it didn't look like a living person's face.
After thanking him, the man froze on the spot again, seeming to be thinking about something, and then suddenly spoke after a few seconds.
"Based on human expressions, the smell on my body makes you unhappy, and the necessity of changing clothes is as high as 98%..."
The black man seemed to be talking to the clerk, or to himself. The clerk could understand it a little at first, but the subsequent words were more like disorganized sleep talk, and he could not understand the meaning at all.
"Revealing the information would cause Minkowski units to rise and would not be helpful in accomplishing the target mission, but according to the first of the three laws of robotics, I cannot stand by and watch an individual human being put in danger."
"Summary: Revealing necessary information, but not revealing too much information, can effectively save the lives of human individuals, and the increase in Minkowski units is within a controllable range."
"Retrieve necessary information that can be disclosed..."
"The retrieval failed, the energy amount is insufficient, the retrieval conditions are not met, and the backup energy cannot be turned on..."
"Sir? Are you okay? Do you need any help?"
The female clerk looked at the black man who was talking to himself with anxiety. She had been listening carefully to what he said, but she sadly discovered that she could understand every Chinese character he said, but they could not be connected into one sentence. After that, I couldn't understand the meaning at all.
Except for the previous sentence of "need to change clothes".
"Help? Yes, I need your help."
The man who behaved strangely looked around, and finally fixed his sight on a socket on the wall.
"Do you have anything like wires? Or any linear conductors?"
"Um, are you talking about the data cable for charging your mobile phone? There should be one. Do you want an Apple or Android one? Wait a minute, I'll look for it..."
This time the female clerk understood the other party's needs and quickly rummaged through the storage cabinet under the counter. After a while, she found several mobile phone charging cables with several plugs attached, as if they were pulled from the ground. Like carrots, they were pulled out of the cabinet one after another.
"Thanks."
The black man did not choose, but reached out and directly connected all the wires. He skillfully cut open the plastic covering on the wires with his nails, revealing the copper wire core.
"this……"
The female clerk was about to stop her, but what happened next made her shut her mouth tightly, not daring to make the slightest sound.
The black man directly inserted the exposed copper wire into the flesh of his right hand. The sharp copper core wire easily pierced the man's skin and penetrated deeply into the muscle.
However, the scene of heavy bleeding that he expected did not happen, and there was no look of pain on the man's face. It was as if the hand that had just been pierced by the copper wire was not his hand, but someone else's palm.
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The black man did not pause. After confirming that the wire was firmly inserted into his palm, he turned around and came to the wall. There was a white socket near the ground. The man squatted down and tried to insert the plug in his hand into the hole!
"What are you going to do!"
No matter how slow the female clerk reacted, she had now realized what the other person was about to do. She quickly stopped her in a hurry, but the black man remained unmoved and continued to insert the penis into the jack.
"Click."
The sound of the plug rubbing against the socket came as expected, but the expected short-circuit trip did not occur. The black man seemed to have been immobilized by Monkey King. He squatted on the ground, motionless, as if he was not even doing the most basic things. Breathing stopped.
"Call the police! I want to call the police!"
Seeing that there was no sign of electric shock on the other party, the female clerk was relieved, but she also planned to call the police.
The behavior of this black man is so weird that it cannot be speculated by ordinary people's psychology.
Just as the female clerk took out her mobile phone and was about to call the police, the surrounding lights began to flicker on and off, and even the computer screen on the counter began to appear snowflake-like stripes. The picture on the screen jumped and flickered, and began to change. Have to become unstable.
"Is the voltage unstable?"
The female clerk subconsciously thought, but her hands kept moving. She took out her mobile phone and quickly dialed the police number.
"Beep...beep..."
The ringback tone before the call was connected soon appeared in the phone, but before it could hear the second tone, the light bulb on the counter suddenly lit up, followed by a series of soft "pop" sounds, and all went out!
The small fried chicken shop was instantly enveloped in darkness, and even most of the street lights outside the shop were extinguished. It was as if the power grid in the area was completely paralyzed and all equipment that required power went on strike.
When darkness fell, fear was like a big invisible hand that grabbed the female clerk's lungs, squeezing out the remaining air bit by bit, and was replaced by a breathless sense of oppression.
"ah!"
A high-pitched scream pierced the night sky. No matter where it was, fear of the dark was always a common problem among humans, and female shop assistants were no exception.
What's more, there was a black man in the store who was behaving strangely.
The female clerk's screams did not last long, and reason quickly took over the high ground of consciousness. She began to try to find the black man in the darkness, but everything was pitch black, and her eyes had not adapted in a short period of time. Can't see anything clearly.
Just when she felt extremely panicked, a steady man's voice sounded in the darkness, and at the same time, there was a pair of eyes glowing red.
"If you don't want to die, please leave for Siming Mountain immediately and bring enough food and drinking water. Remember not to drink raw water. May the light of freedom bless you."
After saying this, the pair of eyes suspended in mid-air, glowing with red light, disappeared into the darkness without any warning.
Since the doorbell is powered by batteries, the power outage did not affect its work. After detecting that the guest had left, it sent out its own greetings very dedicatedly.
“Welcome next time.”
In the moonlight outside the store, the female clerk vaguely saw a dark figure who was not tall and walked out of the store. After taking off the heavy down jacket outside the door, she walked slowly towards the city center. go……
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