Chapter 10 The Night's Watch and the Strange Sleep
"Hey hey hey..."
"hey-hey……"
"Hey……"
"Damn it, I can't sleep."
"No, no, I have to hypnotize myself. One sheep, two sheep...one dumpling, two dumplings..."
"Oh shit! I still can't control myself! Cancerous cells that iterate and reproduce in the human body to this extent! I never dreamed that I could get such a thing after leaving that wretched place."
"Look what kind of luck I've had, tsk tsk, I'm so prosperous!"
"Gan, no. I still have to sleep."
"One bowl of dumplings, two bowls..."
Ren Zhong didn't know that after he left, Sun Miao's sleeping cabin could be heard laughing and laughing for a long time.
…
In the reception hall on the ground floor of the town house, Ren Zhong and Zheng Tian met the mayor of Xinghuo Town.
The mayor's name is Ma Dafu. He is short and fat, with a wrinkled face and medium-long silver-black hair combed into a neatly slicked back hair.
At this time, Ma Dafu was looking at Ren Zhong with a serious expression, with three words of impatience written on his face.
"Name?"
"It's a heavy responsibility."
"age?"
"23 years old."
"What are you doing in Spark Town?"
Ren Zhong thought about it and said, "Employment."
Madafu frowned even more tightly, "With all due respect, you are not a formal citizen. If you are just visiting Spark Town for a short trip or resting, I personally have nothing to say. But if you want to work here or even live here for a long time, then I advise you that it is best
Give up on this idea."
Ren Zhong glanced at Zheng Tian next to him and asked Ma Dafu tentatively: "Is it because of the census?"
"Of course. The number of temporary homeless people in the town has been greatly exceeded. It is impossible for you to obtain the status of a formal citizen within three months. Out of a responsible attitude towards you, I suggest that you make plans early and leave early to avoid the time.
If you're in trouble, don't blame me for not warning you."
Ren nodded, "I know."
"That's good. I have registered your identity. Now you have the identity of a temporary citizen of Spark Town, but you are ranked last. You should understand what this means."
"Thank you, mayor."
…
Ren Zhong and Zheng Tian walked out of the town house side by side.
Zheng Tian glanced at her watch and said: "It's almost the legal sleep time. We have to go to the centralized sleeping cabin quickly. You have just arrived and are not familiar with the place. Let me take you there. I have reserved a sleeping cabin for you in advance.
But I didn’t apply for renting a formal watch for you. If you want to rent it, you can do it yourself tomorrow.”
Ren nodded, "Thank you."
Zheng Tian came up to her again and winked, with an innocent look, and said, "Why are you so polite? We are friends, so I should do you a little favor."
I have to admit that her cute baby face coupled with the innocent expression on her face at this time is extremely deceptive.
Ren Zhong nodded with a more silly and sweet expression than her, "Well, you are interested. We are friends."
"Okay. Let's go quickly."
Zheng Tian took hold of Ren Zhong's arm and pushed him forward quickly, heading in the direction that those low-level desolate people had previously traveled.
The bodies of the two touched each other, and their heavy movements seemed a bit stiff.
Zheng Tian seemed carefree, but in fact she was quietly observing Ren Zhong's condition.
Oh, I am still shy, but I am a junior brother.
Ren Zhong looked a little uneasy, but he was still calm inside.
He just secretly thought that if he had a choice, he actually didn't want to deal with Zheng Tian's team anymore.
We have only known each other for less than half a day, and we are still far from being called friends. Being courteous for nothing is a traitor or a thief.
What's more, he has seen Zheng Tian's cold-blooded side, and now he feels more and more that Zheng Tian is a dangerous woman.
If you continue to mess around with this person, you will always feel like you are seeking skin from a tiger.
It's a pity that I am a newbie here and I have no one to rely on.
Rather than relying on other people who are stranger and less clear about the details, it is better to stay in contact with Zheng Tian's team first and become thoroughly familiar with the environment before looking for anything else.
The centralized sleeping cabin is located under the corner of the high wall on the outer edge of the town, which is a flat square.
In the center of the square are twenty-five rectangular bodies, shaped like large coffins, stacked neatly.
There is a Z-shaped steel ladder folded up on the side of the cuboid.
Each cuboid is twenty meters high and divided into ten equal layers, each two meters high.
There are ten long rooms on each floor.
Ren Zhong followed Zheng Tian to the fifth floor of one of the cuboids, then took two steps onto the balcony and entered the room next to the steel ladder.
There are ten iron frame beds arranged on the left and right sides, with a very narrow distance in the middle, only one meter. There are five beds one and two meters wide on one side, connected end to end.
"This is my bed. Han Yu and the others walked in along my bed and have already fallen asleep." Zheng Tian patted the flat bed on the left side of the room and pointed to the opposite side, "That's you
Yes. We wash and wash in our own house. You don’t have a house yet, so we’ll make do with it tonight and think of a solution tomorrow. Go to bed early.”
"Um."
Zheng Tian said hello again, first lay down on her bed, and then slapped the wall with her palm.
A square hole opened with a click in the wall, which looked like a hidden grid.
She raised her hand and reached in, took out a watch from it, put it on her right hand, then lay down flat and ignored the burden.
The new watch she took out had an alloy wire, one end was tied to the dial, and the other end was connected to the open compartment. It looked exactly like an anti-theft chain in a mobile phone store.
Ren Zhong calmly and carefully examined the watch on Zheng Tian's right hand. Its style was somewhat similar to Dr. Sun Miao's, also with a round dial.
He looked around again and found that everyone else sleeping in the room was wearing such a watch on their right hand.
This is probably the rental watch that Zheng Tian and the mother and son mentioned before, and they don't know how the function is different from their own.
I'll try it if I get a chance tomorrow.
No longer thinking about the burden, he lay down and pulled the thin quilt from the side.
But he immediately took off the quilt and threw it aside.
The smell is so strong, I don't know what kind of monsters have used this quilt before.
Ren Zhong tossed and turned for a while, but couldn't fall asleep.
The room has no door.
The double moonlight shines through the door opening onto the alloy floor, creating a reflection that looks like frost.
By the moonlight, Ren Zhong glanced at Zheng Tian opposite him.
Her eyes were slightly closed, as if she had fallen into a deep sleep.
Ren Zhong sighed secretly, this person slept really well. If I remember correctly, less than thirty seconds after she lay down, her breathing became even and steady.
Taking advantage of this rare peace, since he couldn't sleep anyway, Ren Zhong subconsciously analyzed the situation again.
From the time he first came into contact with Zheng Tian's team in the evening to now, after several hours of hard work, his understanding of this new world is continuing to deepen at an extremely fast speed.
But he still didn't quite understand why everyone in the town, except those who brought their own sleeping cabins, gathered here to sleep.
He felt intuitively uneasy.
What's the reason for this?
Don’t these people find it inconvenient?
Do you want privacy if you are poor?
Don’t they have their own house?
If it is said that it is to squeeze together to exchange feelings, then this reason is too far-fetched.
Is it really dangerous?
The danger is so great that you don’t even dare to sleep in your own home, so you have to gather it in this one place?
Also, when I was going up the stairs on the ladder, I could see two people at the front and back ends of the balcony on each floor, holding guns and craning their necks, looking around nervously, obviously on guard.
Ren Zhong is puzzled by this.
Time passed little by little.
Before I knew it, it was already one o'clock in the morning.
He still didn't fall asleep.
Suddenly, a dazzling light shone through the doorway.
Immediately afterwards there were deafening violent explosions one after another.
"Here we come! Get ready to fight!"
Ren Zhong heard a slightly nervous shout from outside the door.
The room he was in was very close to the stairs.
The shouting voice of the gun-wielding guard on this floor seemed to be very close.
"Report to the captain of the night watch! Three first-level ruin beasts, night wolves, appeared under cabin 13! Request support from the mobile team! Request support!"
Immediately afterwards, the sound of dense kinetic energy guns sounded, like thousands of firecrackers.
Ren Zhong's heartbeat quickened, his complexion changed drastically, and he sat upright from the bed suddenly.
He had made speculations in Sun Miao before, but now he just verified his conclusion.
In this world, things do happen while sleeping.
He wanted to go out and see what was going on.
But he suddenly found Zheng Tian, Chen Hanyu, Wen Lei and others lying on the bed motionless.
These people's eyes were still closed, their breathing was still steady, and they were completely unaware of the noise outside, as if they had passed away.
There was a fierce battle outside, as if danger was very close at hand, but there was an eerie sense of peace and tranquility in the doorless room.