Abyss Express

Foreword:

Ropes and sticks are the two oldest tools of mankind. The stick can keep evil things away, and the rope can bring good things closer. Both are the earliest friends conceived by mankind. Where there are ropes and sticks, there are people.

——Anbe Public House

[Part ① · Hua La La La La]

"hot"

"It's so fucking hot."

In the rental house, Wu Xiuwen turned over and collapsed from the sofa to the floor.

There was no light in his eyes, like a corpse that had been dead for a long time but had not passed its expiration date.

The phone had 19% battery left, the alarm had just gone off, and there were six unread text messages.

One is a power outage notice, one is that online loan arrears are overdue, and one is that the landlord is urging rent.

Okay, any good news?

As he thought this, half of his face was pressed against the floor, trying to find any feeling of coolness in the hot summer. His mouth and eyes were deformed, as if they were about to melt.

The next text message blind box told an outrageous story.

"Mom cheated on me? How strange."

"Dad killed someone?"

"Hahaha!"

"How did you find out? What happened?"

Wu Xiuwen immediately sat up cross-legged, leaning on the table leg and feeling stuffy. He grabbed the drink can and smashed it against the aluminum alloy window frame, causing the thin and fragile window to open.

"oh"

The big boy held the long letter on his mobile phone and read it carefully——

——It turns out that when my father came home from get off work, he happened to meet my mother having an affair with Uncle Wang next door.

Uncle Wang hid in the air-conditioning box on the balcony, while his mother blocked the clueless father in the living room.

My father left work early for the couple's wedding anniversary and wanted to take this opportunity to travel.

After locking the doors and windows and taking his luggage, Uncle Wang was locked out of the balcony. He hid for two hours but did not dare to call the police. Finally, he fell from the eighth floor and died.

"So damn good! Hehehe! Hehehe!~"

Wu Xiuwen slapped his legs and said with a smile——

"——The old man committed manslaughter and will be imprisoned until he dies! How much gold coins are there! How much of the family property can he inherit? If he sells his ancestral house, he will definitely be able to clear the account."

After reading the fourth message, brother Xiuwen immediately became energetic and his life became colorful again.

For him, there has been no love at home for a long time. He traveled from Zhuzhou City to Taiyin to run takeaways and lost contact with his parents.

He thought, if this is the truth, and life finally comes to an end, then good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil.

There was no time to read the fifth message, so Xiuwen packed up the messy desks and chairs, packed his computer bag, and decided to go back to his hometown for a visit.

As soon as he opened the door, Xiuwen saw Zhao Jianxiong huddled next to the apartment corridor. Hearing the sound of Xiuwen going out, the boy woke up immediately.

"Where are you going?" Zhao Jianxiong was wet and had not changed into his riding uniform. He grabbed Wu Xiuwen and asked him repeatedly.

"Hi!" Wu Xiuwen said with a smile: "Brother is rich! Go back and inherit the family property!"

Zhao Jianxiong asked angrily: "You transferred four orders to me last night! How could I finish the job! I deducted two orders for overtime, and all the bonuses for this month's tasks are gone! Fuck you!"

Zhao Jianxiong and Wu Xiuwen are riders at the same takeout site. They often credit each other, ask each other for battery rental times, and exchange cigarettes and firewood. They can be regarded as brothers wandering in a foreign land.

Last night, Wu Xiuwen was irritated by calls from his landlord. He kept getting calls while running the crowdsourcing night shift. He once recognized a Lou Feng from Zhuzhou on WeChat. The girl came out to sell herself at a young age and became close to Wu Xiuwen. , they were still in the middle of chatting. Lou Feng suddenly talked about Cong Liang's landing - finding a customer and selling him the rest of his life.

This made Wu Xiuwen very depressed. He had no free friends, and there were still a lot of chaotic troubles waiting for him. So all the work was put into Zhao Jianxiong's hands.

This kid had been soaked in the rain all night, and for some reason he ran to the apartment building and squatted in front of Wu Xiuwen's rental house - squatting like this until Xiuwen woke up.

"Just for this? Including the bonus, it's seven hundred yuan?" Wu Xiuwen shrugged and patted Jianxiong's wet face: "How about you come back to Zhuzhou with me? I'll pay you double the compensation!"

"Who the hell cares about money?!" Zhao Jianxiong became more and more angry. He pursed his lips and took off his helmet to reveal thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was so angry that he almost cried: "Why did you lie to me?"

Wu Xiuwen said innocently: "How did I lie to you?"

Zhao Jianxiong: "You told me you wouldn't time out! Please help me! You are sad! You have something wrong! Then I thought, I can help with this. After all, you are my good buddy! I can definitely help. !”

"Yes." Wu Xiuwen didn't understand.

Zhao Jianxiong: "Then you have to tell me something, right?! Last night you didn't say anything, just turned the bill over and left without saying a word."

Wu Xiuwen: "Yes, yes."

Zhao Jianxiong: "Then what? I'm anxious. After delivering these orders to you, I'll come to find you, and you won't answer the door."

Wu Xiuwen: "Awesome, you waited for me all night?"

Zhao Jianxiong: "Otherwise?"

Wu Xiuwen: "Hahahahahaha."

To be honest, he didn't expect this co-worker to care about him so much.

He was even willing to wait all night in the humid and hot corridor, wearing a wet raincoat.

"I almost called the police." Zhao Jianxiong waved his fists and looked excited: "But when we met, you just smiled and wanted to go back to your hometown to inherit the family property? Is it interesting for me to play like this? Young Master?"

Wu Xiuwen was silent. He suddenly felt that the truth of life and the theme of life needed to be changed.

"Hehehehahahahahahaha! Walk? I will never lie to you in the future!"

Zhao Jianxiong immediately cursed: "Fuck you! Why are you leaving?"

"You won't leave with me?" Wu Xiuwen only has family property in his heart. He urgently needs a sum of money to pay rent and car loan (an electric car for takeout) and solve life problems. This money can also pay back Jianxiong's favor. .

Zhao Jianxiong turned on his mobile phone and pressed the elevator button.

"Let's go play! You said you can't be happy anymore. I'll ask my eldest brother to drive out and we'll find a place to play!"

Before Wu Xiuwen could resist, Jianxiong dragged him into the elevator.

"Hey! Stop it!"

Zhao Jianxiong: "I made an appointment with my eldest brother last night!"

Wu Xiuwen: "Where are you going to play? I want to go home!"

Zhao Jianxiong lowered his head and only focused on sending the message, holding Xiuwen's hand tightly.

"There's no rush! I've already made an appointment! I'll be watching over you all night! I'm just afraid you won't come!"

Wu Xiuwen: "Your eldest brother?"

Zhao Jianxiong: "Yes, Zhao Jianying, as you have seen, he has money, but I have no money. Catch him, he must know where to play."

Wu Xiuwen couldn't resist the stubborn Zhao Jianxiong, so the two of them walked out of the alley and waited on the side of the road.

Jianxiong took the time to hand over a cigarette, Xiuwen took it and lit it. He turned on his phone and looked down at WeChat. He saw Lou Feng's profile picture was still at the top of the queue and blocked this cigarette friend.

When he had some free time, he opened the fifth message.

It was from Jianxiong, a boy who wanted to treat him to a meal and invite him to travel and relax.

"There is no difficulty in the world that cannot be overcome, Brother Xiuwen. Hehe."

Wu Xiuwen silently thought about this news in his heart, looking at the bustling factory apartment building, looking at the sweaty people coming and going, looking at the breakfast shop and fruit stall under the scorching sun, and the lady who owned the rice roll shop in the alley where spanking children was not wearing any clothes. Underwear, wearing a pink suspender skirt, he took a second look at it.

Zhao Jianxiong followed Wu Xiuwen's gaze and immediately blushed.

"Brother Xiuwen, what are you looking at?"

Wu Xiuwen: "Hahahahahahaha! Aren't you watching too?! Are you asking me? You're so serious!"

Zhao Jianxiong blushed, took off his raincoat and hung it to dry on the concrete floor in front of the apartment building, refusing to say any more.

After about ten minutes, an old Buick sedan drove in from the street corner. It stopped in front of Jianxiong.

Zhao Jianying rolled down the window, passed out a cigarette, and shouted to Wu Xiuwen: "Get in the car!"

Wu Xiuwen was stunned on the spot. There was a familiar but unfamiliar girl sitting in the passenger seat——

——That was Lou Feng, the gangster friend who had just broken off the relationship with him, and successfully redeemed himself ashore.

"Guan Xiangxiang?"

"Ahem! Ahem! Ahem." Xiangxiang's face immediately turned ugly when she saw Wu Xiuwen, and she quickly started coughing.

Zhao Jianxiong: "Do you know me?"

Wu Xiuwen covered his face: "College classmate."

"Yes! A college classmate! Yes!" Guan Xiangxiang glared at Xiuwen: "I actually went to college!?"

"Hey! What a coincidence! Let's talk about it after we get in the car!" Zhao Jianying honked the horn to ask the electric riders in front of him to see the road clearly. He didn't care what this college classmate said.

[Part②·Beautiful time]

After getting in the car, several old friends huddled together and began to talk about family affairs.

"Hey, how did you two know each other?" Wu Xiuwen was only curious and leaned towards the front passenger seat to ask: "I didn't expect that."

Guan Xiangxiang rolled her eyes: "If you say a nice word, you will die, right? When the wedding comes, you will sit at the children's table."

"Congratulations then!" As a "college classmate", Wu Xiuwen probably had to play this role well in the future. He only felt happy and inexplicably free and easy, as if he had ignored everything.

Zhao Jianying drove hard, weaving through narrow alleys, and finally drove out of the auxiliary road and arrived at the Wujiang Scenic Area. Only then was she on the main road, and she could plan her next destination.

The most difficult part of the road was over, and he finally had enough time to talk to Wu Xiuwen about it.

"Xiangxiang and I met online."

Wu Xiuwen: "Netizens are complaining?"

Zhao Jianying: "She was quite shy and introverted at first, but then the more we chatted, the more we got along. She came here from Zhuzhou. At that time, I didn't realize that you two were old classmates?"

"What a coincidence, isn't it?" Wu Xiuwen laughed, his eyes couldn't stop glancing forward, feeling like a guilty thief.

Zhao Jianying: "It's really a coincidence."

Guan Xiangxiang reminded in a low voice: "Watch the road! Red light!"

The vehicle was parked at a T-intersection in the scenic area. On one side was the green belt of Wujiang River. Looking into the distance, one could see the Wujiang No. 2 Bridge, which was newly built in the past two years.

"Does your brother know where this bitch came from?" Wu Xiuwen whispered about Guan Xiangxiang, almost close to Zhao Jianxiong's ear.

Zhao Jianxiong: "What's the origin?"

"No, no, no! It's nothing, nothing!" Wu Xiuwen quickly changed his words, blushing and never mentioned it again.

The car started again and was about to walk onto the bridge to the other end of Jiangxi.

The awkward atmosphere spread in the car, but Zhao Jianxiong quickly broke it——

"——Where are you going? Brother?"

Zhao Jianying: “I know a bar where Xiangxiang and I met offline for the first time!”

Guan Xiangxiang took the time to show off the QR code——

"——Add WeChat?"

Wu Xiuwen tremblingly scanned the QR code to add friends, feeling like he got to know him again.

At this time, Brother Xiuwen just felt that he was in a big furnace. He should be under the car, not in the car. Looking at Lou Feng's amused expression, thinking that this girl could find a reliable fiancé, this kind of thing is really - so strange.

He had a feeling of grievance that made him laugh or cry but was difficult to express. He could neither express it nor express it through his expression.

He lowered his head to scroll through his phone and saw the last unread message.

That was from Guan Xiangxiang.

[I don’t plan to continue doing this. I haven’t seen you for a long time and I don’t know how you are doing. Recently I found someone who is very good at chatting with me. He is in Taiye. ]

[I remember you said half a year ago that you couldn’t stay in Zhuzhou anymore, and you didn’t want to stay here even if you went to Taiye to beg for rice. ]

[Maybe I should go for a walk too, right? ]

[I want him to pick me up, come tonight, maybe tomorrow I will go to another place, another completely strange place, where no one knows me. ]

[When it comes time for me to treat you to dinner, it will be the same as before, but with a little difference. ]

[When you used to treat me to dinner, you would watch a movie after the meal, then treat me to milk tea after the movie, and then treat me to a small dessert after the milk tea. Anyone with a discerning eye would know what you mean! ]

[You also paid for the hotel room, and you got up late the next day and asked for lunch. You spent so much money and took out a loan to hook up with a prostitute? ]

[What are you pretending to be in front of me? little kid]

[I don’t think you can go on like this, Wu Xiuwen. ]

[I want to find my happiness, and you also want to grow up. ]

[When I treat you to dinner, you don’t need to sleep with me. ]

Wu Xiuwen was afraid that Jianxiong would see it, so he quickly deleted the message.

He had mixed feelings in his heart and could no longer say a word - why are there so many confused bastards in this world, with incomprehensible grievances and grudges, why?

At this time, Guan Xiangxiang held up her mobile phone and was still playing games. She moved to the middle of the shelf and said something behind her.

"His gaming skills are much better than yours, classmate, you are so bad!"

"Yes, yes! I'm so good!" Wu Xiuwen laughed loudly: "You'd better be talking about gaming technology."

After getting off the bridge, we drove all the way according to Jianying's navigation and came to the Sacred Heart Bar next to the Sacred Heart Church with the same name as the church.

They still had to find a parking space and drove to the open-air parking lot in the atrium of the church, but unfortunately it was already full and there was no more parking space.

Two drunk men walked out of the back door of the bar and were about to pick up the car - one of them was named Wang Damin and the other was named Li Kunhai.

Zhao Jianying did not rush out of the car to communicate, but patiently waited for the two guests to pick up the car and leave so that Jianying could park the car.

When Wang Damin saw the new guests arriving, he was not very smart, so he felt that the Buick was blocking the road, so he shouted loudly under the influence of alcohol.

"Hey! Why are you blocking the road?! Make way! Get out first!"

Zhao Jianying responded: "You can leave! You can leave!"

Li Kunhai took out the key to unlock the car door. After inserting it for a long time, he couldn't get it into the key hole. So he got angry and cursed loudly: "Why are you leaving! You are urging me! I am urging your mother! Didn't you see that we drank wine?" Why are you being unreasonable? How can you drive out! Are you bullying people?! Taking up such a big road?! Fuck you!"

Jianxiong got angry when he heard the scolding and wanted to get out of the car to reason.

Wu Xiuwen also got out of the car and immediately smelled a strong smell of alcohol. I was also terrified - these two drunken lunatics actually dared to drive drunk?

Wang Damin saw Zhao Jianxiong, a tall young man, approaching. He didn't flinch due to the strength of his drink. He quickly stepped forward and slapped Jianxiong hard in the face.

"Hit me?" Jianxiong's eyes were filled with disbelief.

Wu Xiuwen was anxious and immediately took action without any explanation, and the four of them started to struggle together.

After a while, several people were bleeding from head to toe. Jianxiong's face was stained with color. Wu Xiuwen felt his blood became hot when he waved his fist. This hot summer weather was nothing to worry about -

——He was in great pain, one of his fingers seemed to be broken, and his face was broken.

His tongue accidentally scraped his teeth, and there was a fishy smell in his mouth and nose.

He heard his heart beating wildly, and the pain made him live in this moment, as if a zombie could come back to life.

Zhao Jianying turned off the engine and got out of the car to help.

Wu Xiuwen shouted: "Don't come! You want to drive! You want to take me out to play! You want to get married!"

Zhao Jianying's face was solemn and unable to move forward or retreat: "Brother!"

Wu Xiuwen grabbed Wang Damin's head and pushed him towards the tire, trying to wake up the drunkard.

Guan Xiangxiang leaned forward in the passenger seat and said anxiously: "Old classmate! Pay attention! Don't kill anyone!~"

"Fuck your mother! Did you kill someone?!" Wang Damin was still adamant despite being restrained, and cursed at Guan Xiangxiang: "Smelly idiot! Wait until your grandpa gets rid of these two beasts! I'll fuck you right away!"

"Damn it!" Guan Xiangxiang raised her fingers with a ferocious face, leaving behind all the baggage of her image and managing her expression properly: "Try harder! Wu Xiuwen! Didn't you eat?!"

In the floating dock, a haggard-looking gunsmith teacher grabbed a simple hand drill and used a piano bow to pull the drill bit to drill holes in the ship's planks.

"The rope and the stick are the two oldest tools of mankind. The stick can keep evil things away, and the rope can bring good things closer. Both are the earliest friends conceived by mankind. Where there are ropes and sticks, there are people .”

"Then by combining the two, you can use it to drill wood to make fire, or you can leave the support of electricity and let the iron nails work instead of the electric drill."

Although with the help of psychic powers, a group of sharp-edged craftsman apprentices have to adapt to the complex shipbuilding process after leaving the electricity. The ancient and primitive tools are still a bit unfamiliar to them.

The gunsmith had just finished teaching his first lesson in the morning. When it was time for recess, he returned to his private studio at the floating dock in Taiye County, where he met three "netizens" from the fantasy world - Jian Xiong and Xiu Wenhuan. There is Xiangxiang, and the three of them are all affected by the fragrant dream and are traveling in another world.

I hope I can find myself again during that beautiful time.