Not only Wu Ming, but also Zhao Chensi, an ordinary person, was keenly aware that something was wrong.
Today is obviously the morning rush hour on weekdays. Almost every bus is packed with people like a can of sardines, but the bus he is on is the only one with not many passengers. It is so empty that even the seats are more than half empty. . There was a lifeless atmosphere permeating the entire carriage. The passengers sitting in the carriage were all immersed in playing with their mobile phones. While pretending to be indifferent to the outside world, the environment inside the carriage also seemed a bit strange...dead silence.
No one spoke, no one raised their head, not even a station announcement when arriving at the station...
"Let's just sit here. We won't have to squeeze out from the back when there are more people getting off the bus..." Zhao Chensi and Wan Qi chose seats near the back door of the carriage. The somewhat depressing and lifeless atmosphere in the carriage made him feel depressed unconsciously. After helping the latter put away his bulging backpack, he started chatting in a low voice: "I arrived on time this time. Don't make any excuses about me pigeoning you..."
Wan Qi, who had long hair and pigtails, rolled his eyes, obviously not interested in the bragging of his classmates and friends: "Twelve times out of ten times when we go out to play, you are always trying to beat me. Fortunately, you were not late today, otherwise we would Whether we can get there today is a question..."
Zhao Chensi was a little dissatisfied: "Isn't it just to explore an abandoned village that is rumored to be haunted? It's not the same whether you arrive early or late... In my opinion, those are all evil things spread by others... Remember when we were in primary school? That little statue of God? On the back of that statue, his name, summoning process and incantation were clearly engraved, and it also said when you fall into a dream. As a result, in the end, we didn't summon the Vulture or the Tulu god... carefully Think of all our attempts and experiments since then to show that supernatural forces do not exist in this world..."
As he spoke, he felt his cell phone vibrate in his pocket, and the scenery outside the car window seemed to suddenly change, but he didn't care.
Wu Ming, who was sitting in the second-to-last row and followed the two quietly, heard their conversation, and immediately the auxiliary device played back the simulation of the scene at that time, which made his eyelids jump.
As expected of a history student who aspires to become a gravedigger but chooses the wrong major. Even his tricks and age group are better than others...
Originally, this prayer should have ended when Zhao Chensi met Wan Qi on time, but the remnants of his extraordinary power and his past suicide experience made Wu Ming, who was worried, not stop tracking him.
Generally speaking, even if ordinary people perform rituals according to urban legends, the probability of attracting extraordinary power or causing extraordinary events is very slim. But if you have ever been exposed to extraordinary power or been affected by it, then performing these ridiculous rituals will often lead to some... or to run into some extraordinary events head-on.
Wu Ming couldn't help but think of a popular science post he saw when browsing the office's intranet forum two days ago - extraordinary powers attract each other.
The popular science post for novice operators pointed out a common-sense mistake that many novice operators may make, and there are many laws of knowledge, one of which is:
The Law of Supernatural Attraction.
Ordinary people who have been exposed to extraordinary power, or have been actually affected by extraordinary power, if they have not corrected their life trajectories, cleared away the residual supernatural power in their concepts, and stabilized their life trajectories, it is easy for them to suffer one after another in their subsequent lives. Encounter all kinds of extraordinary events.
Of course, there are factors that lead many experiencers to take the initiative to commit suicide out of curiosity...
But think about it carefully, when things in the extraordinary realm deliberately hide themselves from the world, how can the same ordinary person encounter extraordinary events one after another?
Do you rely on your own natural luck?
Obviously impossible.
The reason is the supernatural influence that remains on them.
The Law of Mutual Attraction of Extraordinary Powers No. 1: Everything involved in the extraordinary realm has influence and attracts each other, and its size increases or decreases according to the level of extraordinary power.
The second law of mutual attraction of extraordinary powers: High-level extraordinary powers will always become the center where extraordinary events and low-level extraordinary powers gather. Low-level extraordinary powers and events will always be attracted and influenced by higher-level extraordinary powers.
Law of Mutual Attraction of Extraordinary Powers No. 3: Extraordinary powers at close levels will interfere with, attract, influence, and confront each other. When three or more extraordinary powers at the same level confront each other, they cannot form a stable gathering center point.
At the end of this popular science post, there was a series of formulas used for demonstration, as well as calculation formulas and constants for extraordinary power levels. Wu Ming felt his head hurt just looking at it, so he simply skipped it.
Although I can't understand the formula, the post explains the working mechanism of the law in terms that even a sardine can understand.
To put it simply, if things in the extraordinary realm are compared to various celestial bodies in the universe, then the high-level extraordinary power is like a massive celestial body. Its gravitational field can bend the surrounding space, and in this way capture the nearby passing objects. Small-mass celestial bodies use this to form a vortex of events centered on high-level extraordinary power. When multiple massive celestial bodies confront each other, small celestial bodies will not only be captured by the gravitational field of a certain massive celestial body, but will mediate in the gravitational confrontation between multiple celestial bodies and eventually be torn apart. A certain part completely leans towards one of them.
So when Zhao Chensi still has extraordinary power and its influence, and his life trajectory has been disrupted by extraordinary power since half a year ago, Wu Ming naturally cannot treat this incident as an ordinary prayer.
What's more, regardless of his major or behavior, Zhao Chensi now gave Wu Ming the feeling that he might successfully commit suicide and die on the spot at any time.
So Wu Ming felt that it was necessary for him to keep an eye on this young man who was keen on committing suicide.
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The car ride was always long and boring. Zhao Chensi and Wan Qi chatted in the car for about half an hour. The latter started to yawn and rely on the car window to catch up on his sleep because he got up early. Yan Du dug around. Some bumpy road conditions made him feel sleepy for no reason, so he squinted his eyes and fell asleep. He didn't know how long he had been asleep, half asleep and half awake. It wasn't until the bus driver suddenly braked that he hit his head on the handrail of the exit door that Zhao Chensi woke up.
"Hiss..." Zhao Chensi took a breath, feeling a little unlucky as he rubbed his forehead that was hit by the armrest in front of him. It took him a while to recover. He looked around and found that the passengers in the car were While he was dozing off, it seemed that more and more seats had been replaced one after another, and now there were only two or three unoccupied seats in the car.
Zhao Chensi secretly observed the new-faced passengers and found that each of them was immersed in playing with their mobile phones. All of them had dull expressions and stared blankly at the mobile phone screen without even blinking. Their fingers seemed to move automatically. The behavior of clicking or swiping the screen is repeated mechanically every once in a while.
This scene gave Zhao Chensi a strange illusion in his heart. It felt like they... were enslaved by their mobile phones...
Feeling the almost substantive weird atmosphere in the carriage, Zhao Chensi, who felt a little scared in his heart, muttered: "Why are you all playing with your mobile phone..."
His whispers seemed to be noticed by the passengers in the car who stopped operating their mobile phones at the same time. Then they raised their heads in unison, their necks clicking like a rusty machine - There was a sound of bone friction. Little by little, the passengers twisted their necks into strange arcs amidst the overwhelming crackling sound of their cervical vertebrae, looking at Zhao Chensi with dull eyes...
The passengers in front, the passengers in the back, and the passengers sitting on the other side of the aisle beside them, some of them twisted their necks 180 degrees, some twisted their necks 90 degrees, and some just shifted their necks slightly. angle, then...
They all showed a charming smile to Zhao Chensi!
