Hearing this, Gu Xing suddenly woke up. Since the police were to be organized to blockade Central Park, why didn't anyone notify him... After all, he was also a conscientious, diligent and hard-working patrol officer assigned to the police station under the police headquarters.
Gu Xing picked up his phone. Due to a series of changes in the morning and the rush for time, he still had no time to look at his phone. He always felt uneasy.
Turning on the phone, there were twenty-three missed calls.
Among them, three missed calls came from his immediate superior, the Shiratori Police Department, and the remaining twenty came from Adachi, who was also a patrol officer with him.
Looking at the time of the first missed call, it was 23:54 last night, exactly 20 minutes after the giant finger appeared yesterday.
Oops, I must have slept too deeply last night...
Gu Xing hurriedly called Anda.
As soon as the connection was connected, Anda's joking voice came: "Good guy, you went to have some fun last night."
"I was so asleep that I didn't even hear it."
"It's useless to explain to me. Just wait and see how the boss will deal with you."
"Gu Xing's call?" came the voice of the White Bird Police Department from the receiver.
"Hmm..." It was clearly a very unjust and flattering voice.
"Give me the phone."
"Okay, it's an honor!"
Bastard... Gu Xing gritted his teeth and said respectfully: "The police department... is like this. Last night, I..."
"I don't want to explain," Shiratiao's voice was calm, "I'll give you thirty minutes to get to the entrance of Area F of Central Park. There will be consequences for being late."
"Okay, no-"
"Du-du-du--"
"question……"
Gu Xing looked at the time. It was obviously too late to take the subway. If he took a taxi, he would most likely encounter a traffic jam. It was simply an impossible task.
"What, Gu Xingjun," Long Yi came up behind him, "Are you in trouble?"
"Well, how should I say...I'm in a bit of a hurry."
"That's it..."
After listening to Gu Xing's narration, Long Yi turned to look at his girlfriend.
Chiyo smiled: "It doesn't matter, he is in a hurry."
"Then come with me."
…
In the blink of an eye, Gu Xing got on the back seat of Long Yi's motorcycle and slid through the streets of Lidu.
"Hello,"
Because the car was traveling too fast, Gu Xing had to hug Long Yi's waist awkwardly and asked loudly: "Why do you live in the basement when you have such an expensive motorcycle?"
"It's because of such an expensive motorcycle that I live in a basement."
"oh……"
It took about twenty-six minutes to arrive near Area F of Central Park.
"Thank you so much! I'll treat you to dinner another day."
Gu Xing got out of the car and returned the helmet to Long Yi. To be honest, the smell of Long Yi's girlfriend's shampoo remained on the helmet. Gu Xing always smelled distracted and felt a little sorry for the enthusiastic neighbor in front of him.
"Don't break your promise, haha, I'm waiting for a big meal."
After meeting Shiratori Police Department, there was no harsh criticism as expected. Shiratori only conveyed to him the instructions and duty work arrangements of the police headquarters to temporarily block Central Park.
According to work arrangements, the city's police force will be on duty in three eight-hour shifts in recent days.
Bai Niao designated the area where Gu Xing would be on duty.
"You didn't receive a call last night. I'm going to force you to work a full shift today. You will be on duty as normal tomorrow. How about that?"
“No problem at all!”
"Young man," Officer Bai Niao smiled and patted Gu Xing's shoulder, "Do your best."
After changing into police uniforms, I arrived at my duty station. The triangular cones and strips used to blockades had already been arranged by my colleagues who arrived last night. What I needed to do was to patrol the designated area to prevent those who were still curious at this moment from coming to see Central Park.
It was bustling with enthusiastic citizens.
"The rest is up to you!"
Colleagues greeted Gu Xing and handed over the shift with dark circles under their eyes.
This made Gu Xing feel guilty again, and waved to them: "You guys sleep a little longer, I'm energetic now, I feel like I can still fight for seventy-two hours without eating or drinking."
After his colleagues left, Gu Xing looked up at the sky. This was the edge of Central Park. The black hole in the sky looked much bigger, like a bloody mouth floating in the sky, or like he was staring into the abyss of the world...
"It's really evil,"
When Gu Xing looked up at the sky, Anda also walked over with his neck raised, "Hey, have you seen that finger?"
"I saw it on the video - I got up too late and missed the live broadcast."
"That's such a shame, I've never seen anything so outrageous in my life,"
Anda gestured straight into the air,
"When I came over last night, the finger was hanging there, at most 700 to 800 meters above the ground. I felt that if I poked it downwards, I could make a big fingerprint on the big lawn in the middle of the park.
"
"You haven't found out what's going on yet." Gu Xing's reaction was relatively calm, or at least it seemed relatively calm.
"How to check?"
Anda took out a cigarette from his arms, covered it with his clothes, lit it with a lighter, and put it in his mouth. He knew that Gu Xing didn't smoke,
“Go and ask about the black hole above——
Mr. Black Hole, can you please tell us who the big finger belongs to last night, where it came from, and where it went? Haha, nonsense... However, according to the police department, there was a police officer from Dongdu Police last night.
The investigation team from the mysterious department under the Ministry of Justice has entered the park to investigate, let’s wait for the results.”
"Oh, so I've been working hard all night and there's still no news."
"I think it's early," Anda yawned, "Last night I saw a helicopter flying into the sky, and it circled around my finger. At that time, I was really worried that these people would get angry and move towards that person.
If you fire a few rockets or something from your giant finger, it will be fun."
"..." Gu Xing was speechless and rubbed his hands.
"but,"
Anda looked at the big hole in the sky, touched his chin, and his expression suddenly became serious,
"To be honest, this black hole looks really scary. All of us on the night shift felt the same way yesterday. Alas, I always feel that some inexplicable and scary things are going to come out of it. It's not good...
…”
"Shut your crow's mouth," Gu Xing raised his head again, "I think the breath coming from this black hole is quite friendly."
This is absolutely true.
"Friendly?" Anda's mouth opened wide, "I have discussed it with every brother on duty, and they all think it is scary, penetrating, weird, good guy! You are the first one to think it is kind, it is simply a monster."
"oh……"
Gu Xing didn't want to get into too much trouble with him on this topic, "By the way, you worked all night and didn't go back to rest? Are you not sleepy?"
"The upper and lower eyelids are about to stick together," Anda pointed to his sleepy eyes, "But how can such explosive headlines be missed so easily? I took the initiative to apply with the police department to continue working the day shift. I had to see the results of the investigation."
"It's really hopeless."
"You wait, I'm going to buy a can of coffee to wake up. I'm going to fight the black hole to the end!"
Gu Xing shook his head helplessly.
Originally, Gu Xing thought that if such a terrifying phenomenon occurred, the citizens of Lidu should hide as far away as possible, and the residents of the community near Central Park should move away.
Unexpectedly, as the sky became brighter and brighter, more and more citizens gathered nearby. Some even tried to jump over the fence set up by the police and rush into the park.
It can be seen that the world will never lack brainless adventurers.
Gu Xing had to get busy with his colleagues on shift and politely persuaded the adventurers to leave.
"Sir, please step back a little. You have stepped on the isolation line."
"Ma'am, please go outside the park and watch."
"Kids, you're not allowed to urinate on the lawn, uh..."
…
After finally maintaining order at the scene, and having a moment of leisure, Gu Xing looked at the large triangular advertising screen opposite the park.
At this moment, the big screen was playing a news report about giant fingers from Lidu TV——
The dignified and lovely female reporter stopped an old lady who was standing near the park watching the excitement.
Reporter: "Hello, I am a reporter from Lidu TV Station. Can I interview you?"
Old lady: "I was the first one to see that finger. You asked the right person."
Reporter: "Excuse me -"
Old lady: "That finger came down from the sky. It was very slow at first, as if it was testing something, oh... of course it didn't go fast at the end. After it came down, it stirred up the sky a little. Oh, it was so scary. I I almost ran away at that time.”
Reporter: "In other words, you didn't run away at that time?"
Old lady: "Oh, how could I escape from such a big fuss? If a reporter wants to know about the situation in the future, I don't even have an insider."
Reporter: "That means you stayed here all night?"
Old lady: "I'm so tired that I don't dare to blink. The helicopter whined and whirred around last night, which made me feel dizzy... By the way, at around twelve o'clock last night, Several weird people wearing round hats and long gray windbreakers walked in from the park, and no one else was allowed in..."
The reporter quickly squeezed the old lady out of the screen: "Host, I am reporter Kudo Ai, and this is my report from the scene."
The screen switches to the studio.
Host: "Okay, now, let's broadcast an instant news.
According to reports sent by our reporters on the suburban expressway, since early this morning, a large number of citizens drove private cars and planned to drive out of Lidu via the Lidong Expressway.
Next, please connect with on-site reporter Shan Ye."
The screen switched, and in front of me was a highway toll station. There was an endless queue in front of the toll station, and a large gray haze suddenly appeared behind the toll station.
A male reporter stood next to a private car and started reporting with a microphone.
Gu Xing heard the report and realized that the uneasy citizens were planning to flee Dongdu because of the huge black hole.
Somewhat unexpectedly, around 6:30, which is when the giant finger disappeared, haze suddenly appeared outside the entrance of the highway, with visibility less than one meter, and the police immediately blocked the entrance to the highway.
At this time, Anda came over with two cups of canned coffee and threw one to Gu Xing.
"boom!"
Anda opened the coffee, raised his neck and took a sip, looking at the big screen, "Humph, believe it or not, no one can leave."
"boom!"
Gu Xing also opened it, "That's nonsense." After saying that, he took a sip, looked at Grihuan'er and said in surprise:
"Huh? I'm hit, let's have another one."
"Let me see," Anda took the ring. "It's true. The store is on the opposite street. I'm too lazy to go. You can change it yourself."
As he said that, he started to drink, "Just wait and see, no one can leave."
Gu Xing looked at the big screen, where the seemingly endless gray fog swallowed up the clear world in the distance.
Turning his head to look at the big black hole over Central Park, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought——
Last night at 23:34, the giant finger appeared. At about that time, he stuck his finger into the hole in the basement wall.
At 6:37 this morning, the giant finger disappeared. It was about this time that I woke up and walked out of the basement.
The time is absolutely right...it can't be so outrageous.
Gu Xing opened the video on his mobile phone again, stared at the huge finger in the picture carefully, and then picked up the one he stretched out. The shape, appearance, and texture were all too similar.
To be honest, Gu Xing really wanted to go back to the basement and take a look.
After a while, the news station's broadcast of the citizens' escape was suddenly interrupted.
After a long time, a promotional video about boycotting school violence began to play.
"Again?"
Anda walked to the trash can and threw the can in, "It's really boring."
There was a clang, and it was empty inside. Gu Xing could hear the banging of the jar in the distance.