Chapter 14: crossroads

Man is really a very resilient creature.
The next day, everyone adapted to the life of the candidate's resting place.
Although it is not a town, it is much better than a hunter's hut.
Have food to eat and sleep, you will not die when you go out, and there will not be two chickens chasing you to remind you to rewind.
Opposite the rest room is a room, three stories high, with heavy plastic curtains. The plastic has turned yellow and has long been opaque, with only a faint circle of incandescent light.
There was a wooden sign outside the house that read "Curabu".
"What is a warehouse purchase?" The twin girls asked in unison.
The old Yu was very patient with the child, explaining, "It's a grocery store, selling everything. Haven't you seen it before?"
Not only the little girl, but several people shook their heads and said, "We don't call it that way."
"Really?" Old Yu muttered.
He has a long mind, and when he followed everyone to buy things, he dragged the owner to talk forcibly, and found that the other person was really a fellow.
The owner of the warehouse-buying name is Zhao, a very unwelcome fellow.
"Brother, I'll call you Brother." Old Yu said without seeing.
The owner, Zhao Ding, was forty years old, certainly younger than the old one, with a strong build and a straight back. But he actually recognized the "brother" shamelessly, smoking a cigarette, and said half-deadly, "at will."
Old Yu said, "Brother has been away from home for many years, right? My accent is gone, even if my accent is lighter, you are lighter than me. I wouldn't recognize it if I didn't see the word" Cang Mai ".
Zhao's mouth sprayed smoke: "Almost."
"Always shop here?"
Zhao: "It's true."
Old Yu said "Oh", and tentatively asked, "I see, brother, how are you standing, have you been a soldier before? How did you get here to open a shop?"
Zhao finally glanced at him from the smoke and said a long sentence: "I haven't been a soldier. But look at your standing position, have you really been a soldier before? Why is it so fat?"
Older than: "..."
Zhao took a few big mouthfuls in succession, smoking the smoke in his mouth to the bottom of his buttocks, and rolling the soot, saying, "Don't be too close. The fellow's set doesn't work here. I still have tears today, and maybe I will die tomorrow. "
Older than: "..."
"If you want to buy something, hurry up and leave without buying it." Zhao said, and a new cigarette popped up.
The first floor of the warehouse was smoky, and the lungs of the sick patient were all coughing up, and he did not give up the opportunity to shop.
Because there are more things in the store than they think.
It is more like a comprehensive supermarket with a shabby appearance, clothes, quilts, pillows, pots, pans, cups, spoons, chopsticks, and damage to internal and external medication. Some supermarkets have it, supermarkets may not have it, and it has three layers. The floor is full.
There are several shopping carts on each floor, and a layer of ash falls.
Everyone had one hand, and they started sweeping goods crazy just as soon as they wiped it, like a ghost entering the village.
"Wait, none of these things are priced!" Yu Wen cried suddenly.
Zhou Jin took a few bottles of cough suppressant, and wrapped a bunch of anti-inflammatory painkillers, saying, "I discovered it early, cough ... this is like a tourist attraction, the price is definitely doubled."
"While everyone is afraid of death, it's normal to slaughter customers crazy," everyone agreed.
Everyone knows this truth, but no one takes it less.
When money can change his life, he won't feel bad.
Yu Wen still felt a bit wrong. He pushed the car around to find his brother, and found confusion in the corner of the third floor.
To his surprise, you are also scanning goods.
"Brother, you actually pushed a car?" Yu Wen followed.
Youchao heard a glance at him, and his expression was like, "Which do you put?"
Yu Wenji waved his hand and said, "It's all right, I'll take a look ..."
Since even his brother is shopping, it should be fine.
Yu Wen suddenly relieved his heart and flipped through the shopping cart.
He thought he would see a bunch of emergency gear, such as flashlights, batteries, ropes, knives ...
result……
The big guy got a change of clothes and a black backpack.
Gone.
"Uh ... brother, do you have anything else?" Yu Wen asked.
Youxue lined up the hangers and took a black down jacket into the shopping cart: "That's it."
Yu Wen suddenly felt that he had taken a bunch of light sticks, flashlights, batteries ... like a concert ox.
When they returned to the first floor, everyone was almost picked, and people led cars around the checkout counter.
Confused and not crowded, away from the crowd, waiting boredly by the wall.
The old lady who took the lead asked the owner: "That's it, you count the money."
Zhao Yan glanced at the various shopping carts through the fog with an unknown number of cigarettes, meaning he sneered unclearly: "A look is the first time."
Everyone doesn't know why.
Zhao: "The average person comes here and dares to pick this number."
He raised two fingers.
"What do you mean, brother? Two?" Old Yu asked.
Zhao: "Well, this is the most generous one I have ever seen."
How expensive is this fucking?
Everyone silently glanced at the shopping cart that they had piled up into a mountain. Zhou Jin finally couldn't help but ask: "... Can WeChat Alipay? Swipe the card. The cash is not much."
Yu Wenfu agreed: "I haven't withdrawn cash in a year."
Zhao: "Wechat Alipay does not work."
Zhou Jin and Yu Wenxian were discouraged.
Zhao also said: "Cash is not enough."
Yu Wen: "Ha? What's the use?"
Zhao found a card from under the counter glass, which looked exactly like the small hotel room card they had.
"Do you all have this? Brush this." Zhao played the card face, as if the enthusiasm that had not been shown before was all at this moment. He smiled and said, "Isn't there the admission ticket on the back of the room card? Is there a cumulative score on it? I have to buy points for everything here."
"It's not expensive. The daily necessities include 0.5 per piece of clothing and 1 point for food and medicine. As for a knife that can be used as a weapon, 2 points for each item is very easy to remember. Would you like to calculate the price yourself? "
The crowd froze on the spot, their faces pale.
Just those full shopping carts are enough to buy a negative score.
Zhou Jin looked at a cart of drugs, took a sigh of cold air, and coughed his heart.
No wonder……
No wonder those shopping carts are all ashes, no wonder the most generous people only take two.
The scores in my hands are all earned with fright, and no one dares to say what the next test will be.
If you buy one or two more here and settle it back, you are just one point away from passing the exam.
Zhao was surprised at this scene.
After stimulating him, he recovered into a cold and mournful mourning and said, "Come, checkout."
Just after speaking, the people around the counter took two steps back.
"Don't buy it?" The confusion waiting by the wall suddenly said.
Everyone, including the shopkeeper, set his sights on him.
He straightened up, pushed the car to the counter, took out the room card from his jeans pocket and handed it to Zhao: "Checkout."
Zhao: "..."
He opened his mouth and looked at the confused shopping cart, but his cigarette fell on his shoes.
The confused fingers waited for a while, holding the card, slightly impatient.
Zhao turned back abruptly, bounced a foot in a hurry, rolled his cigarette butt, and said, "I'll calculate--"
Add 3 points for inside and outside clothing plus jeans, black bag, and down jacket.
Confused to hear the results, he nodded.
He seemed to think that there was plenty of money in his budget. He glanced over the cupboard behind his boss and said, "Get another pack of cigarettes and a lighter."
Zhao: "..."
Yu Wen couldn't help it: "Brother you don't smoke, why do you buy this?"
Confused to put the clothes in a black bag, without looking up, he said, "Just in case."
Two minutes later, when you wandered back to your residence with your backpack on one shoulder, the cumulative total score on his admission ticket had become 15. With the speed of jumping, it became the lowest score of the group.
Yu Wen looked at the other person's cold face, and felt that his brother was really new.
Candidates rest in the blink of an eye for 7 days.
At 3:12 pm on the last day, the entire staff automatically checked out, and the boss Chu personally blasted them out of the door.
"Well, go straight ahead. There is a crossroad at 200 meters. Let's go." Chu Yue waved at them and said, "Don't delay, the option is not good late, I hope this is not farewell . "
When she had finished speaking, she closed the hotel door.
The lightbox with the words "Accommodation, Heating, Catering" flashed twice and suddenly went out.
Those houses are still standing in the snow and fog, but none of them is like a dilapidated house that has been abandoned for many years.
"Is this really a haunted house?" Yu Wen gave a shudder.
Confusion reminded me of asking the invigilator before.
He asked if it was a spooky event, and the invigilator replied no. The other party wanted to add something at that time, but before they had time to speak, they received a warning of violations.
and so……
What exactly is this?
Confused and wondering, when the next exam begins, you must find a chance to trick the proctor to tell the truth.
I hope the proctor drawn this time is honest and deceiving.
200 meters is not long.
Everyone quickly went to where Chu Yue said.
It was indeed a crossroads. A security booth was solitary in the middle of the intersection, and a figure slumped outside the pavilion.
The man saw them and struggled to stand up.
Everyone came closer to see that it was the tattooed man who didn't want to live in the resting place.
However, he had changed his appearance at this time, covered with blood, his left arm was drooping lifelessly, and one leg was also squinting.
"How did you do that?"
Although everyone doesn't like him very much, but no one wants him to become disabled or dead. After all, he was just a stranger and no injustice.
The tattooed man said with a dumb voice, "It would be nice to be crazy."
"How long have you been here?" Everyone looked at the security booth.
The tattooed man said, "Two days."
"Why not go back to the candidate's resting place?"
The tattooed man's face was a little embarrassed and a little angry: "Grandson when I went back, and ... I turned around and couldn't find the way. I couldn't find those houses when I went back, only here."
"Then why didn't you go on?" Yu Wen asked.
The tattooed man glanced around, pointed at several intersections, and said, "Look at the sign for yourself."
After reminding him, everyone noticed that the intersection led to four directions, and a sign was erected at each intersection.
Under normal circumstances, those signs will say road or street.
But not here.
Here are four street signs in the southeast, northwest, and four words:
Language
foreign language
mathematics
history
Inside the security booth, the small horn suddenly sounded, and the familiar voice on the radio appeared here again.
[This round of the exam system is 3 + 1 + 1. Congratulations on successfully completing one of them, and there are currently four other exams pending. 】
[Candidates have the right to choose, and they can arrange the order of examinations on their own. 】
[Please make your choice within 30 seconds. 】
[Latecomers deprive them of exam opportunities. 】
Everyone: "..."
At this kind of crossroads, they want to stand still and die.
Dog leg Yuwen grabbed and bewildered and said, "Brother, I choose whichever you choose!"
Everyone else looked at him.
Who knows Youyou glanced around and said blankly, "I have a choice? I'm showing foreign languages ​​in all four directions."
Yu Wen: "What ????"
Even more annoying is that at the intersection of sight, there is a figure at each intersection.
The man was tall, standing under an umbrella in the snow, and seemed to be waiting for him.
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