For two days in a row, Lei Yue left early and came back late. He followed the crew of "Dongzhou Night" to the mountains for filming and also received special training from Mo Xigan.
Learn to shoot firearms, posture, aim, pull the trigger...
Learn motorcycle driving, sitting posture, balance, sense of direction...
During breaks, Lackey would also give him lessons, teaching him how to throw flying cards and play poker like darts.
Teach him some card tricks and all kinds of "lucky tricks to win over girls":
"Boys don't have to be handsome, but they must be clean and decent! Except for some perverts, no girl will like a guy who looks like he's just picking up trash."
"Be humorous, but don't be greasy; be knowledgeable, but don't show off your knowledge; be passionate, but don't be entangled; be confident, but don't be arrogant; be cool, but don't be arrogant; be nice to them, but not too nice."
"Laki, you seem to have failed at all." Moxi said bluntly, which almost made Lei Yue happy.
Lei Yue laughed and said to Lackey who was staring angrily, "Brother Chicken, please continue, I just feel... I am really happy today."
"You'd better stop laughing, I was almost scared to death by you," Lackey said.
Lei Yue's laughter became even louder. The three men beside the pickup truck were all laughing hard while eating.
Since her mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer, Lei Yue has not smiled so happily for a long time.
But after getting to know Ayasha and then hanging out with these people, he laughed every day. The more familiar he got with them, the more he laughed, and he burst into laughter again and again.
Some laughter is bitter, and some laughter has an inexplicable warmth.
He was really happy today. He even forgot to go back to Fu Rong Village to offer incense to his mother-in-law and parents. However, it had not lasted for a week and they should not be hungry.
He hadn't paid attention to the updates of his classmates in his circle of friends for several days, but he just couldn't remember it.
Mak Kee, Home Bar, Mak Kee, Home Bar...
After the special training every day, when Lei Yue returned to the old bar warehouse, he would see Sister Hua already guarding the bar.
She will ask about his training progress, and will also gradually teach him some knowledge about alien and other worlds.
Urban legends are naturally the top priority. Now, he knows three of the twenty-six categories:
“Killers”
“Freaks”
"Abductors"
"Momo Challenge" falls into the category of kidnapping.
Most of the ghost cards in this category have characteristics related to deception. Most of the related urban legends are about abducting children, luring others, and deceiving others to follow.
Sister Hua said that human abduction is one of the main categories. Such legends appear in large numbers in the main realm, in various worlds, and in all countries in this world.
Many of them are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and have even become popular culture:
Slender Man, Candy Lady...
Lei Yue thought of an urban legend that all Dongzhou children may have heard: "The Kidnapper"
"If you don't obey, the kidnappers will come and take you away!" Some parents always scare their children like this.
There is indeed a "Kidnapper" in that "Encyclopedia of Urban Legends", but it has not been resonated with yet.
"This looks like an awesome trick card. It's the essence of kidnapping. It's not so easy to be resonated with. Just take a look at it. This thing doesn't fit with your positioning."
This is Sister Hua's intention, and Lei Yue is not interested either. Kidnapping people is not his stage.
However, even though he is a professional like Sister Hua, he still has not found the specific goal that best suits him.
"If you don't want to become a man who failed to undergo plastic surgery, don't be impatient." She said.
Lei Yue also recognized more symbols, but he had not yet seen the red three concentric inverted triangles on the pistol grip.
I want to ask, but I don’t know how to ask.
But tonight, when he returned to his hometown bar after a day of training, the answer to this mystery suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Today you come to recognize this symbol." Sister Hua showed several stickers with the same symbol behind the bar.
The bar was closed today, and Lackey left and said he wanted to find a girl. Apart from Lei Yue and Sister Hua, there were only mohawks sitting nearby in the warehouse, drinking "dark cooking tea".
"This is?" Lei Yue looked at the symbol that he had been studying secretly for a long time and tried to look calm.
"Three concentric inverted triangles, the symbol of a 'controlled strange variable'."
Sister Hua said quickly, took a glass and shook it, and then said:
"Heterogeneity will not only change the human body, but also cause the alienation of other things, or it may be said that by chance and under various influences, some kind of extra-dimensional alien force resonance will be achieved.
"Take this wine glass as an example. It can suddenly change strangely and possess abnormal power, but it is also very unstable and dangerous.
"However, both the alien and the empty card have the opportunity to control the strange creature.
"When the human body and strange objects attract each other and then reach a resonance with each other, they will be controlled.
"This requires people and things to be just right! When it comes to the realms of thinking and subconsciousness, in order to achieve resonance, a whole set of ritual procedures are often required, which is very difficult to do.
"Not to mention completing the control program, even figuring out what the control program of a strange variable is is already a super difficult step.
"After control, the process still needs to be repeated at regular intervals to maintain the resonance between the human body and the strange object.
"Once the strange variable is controlled, this three concentric inverted triangle will automatically appear.
"On the contrary, when the mark on the controlled strange object disappears, it means it is out of control and everyone has their own troubles.
"Why is this happening? Maybe the senior officials of big companies and organizations know a little bit about it, but I don't know. There is no public information in this regard."
After talking on the phone, Sister Hua tore off a symbol sticker and put it on the wine glass, "Just like this."
Lei Yue looked at the wine glass in silence. Not only did he not understand, he also understood some of the confusion he had had since that rainy night:
Controlled mutants
That gun used to resonate with the shotgun man, and then...
It turns out that I was already a blank card that night. Did I reach a new resonance with that gun?
When it changed from a shotgun to a pistol, was it because the resonance object was changed? Or was it due to insufficient supernatural power?
However, speaking of "control programs"...
Lei Yue was confused about this. What had he done?
He turned and glanced at his crow friend on his left shoulder, whose eyes were calm and dark.
And the pistol was still heavily hidden in his pocket.
"Strange creatures are so rare, even the Special Investigation Bureau doesn't have many of them."
Sister Hua continued, "It can also be said that possessing strange mutated objects is the sign of a star mutant. This is not something that can be accomplished by relying on Dabuliu alone."
At this time, the mohawk over there was stirring black tea and participating in the topic in a deep voice:
"The shotgun of the Shotgun Man is a magical object, and it is said to be of a higher level than ordinary magical objects.
"It may have fallen into the hands of Jack the Ripper, but does Jack the Ripper really exist? No one knows for sure.
"So, everyone is looking for the gun and trying to control it and keep it as their own."
Lei Yue nodded wordlessly, some questions were solved, and some new questions emerged:
Why do I resonate with the gun? What is the control program? What is the reason for its deformation? Will the gun suddenly lose control...
While his thoughts were confused, Lei Yue took a sticker with the three concentric inverted triangle symbol on the bar and tore it off.
He then pulled out the Pioneer II pistol that he had been practicing with for the past few days from the holster on his waist, and put the sticker on the pistol's grip guard.
"Stop!" Sister Hua shouted and cursed angrily:
"Don't do this, it's too fake."
She swept away all the stickers on the bar and said:
"It's not shameful to have strange things, but it's shameful to have some knockoffs! That's a trick played by funny people, and it's completely inconsistent with your personality."
"..." Lei Yue shrugged.
In the past few days, Sister Hua has worked with him to study and interpret the details of the character's personality, carefully choosing what words can be included in the vocabulary and what cannot.
That character really wouldn't do such a thing...
However, he actually had another idea in mind.
Maybe no one would be able to tell the authenticity of that genuine strange object pistol if it was taken out like this?
People's first reaction should be that "it's just a knockoff", after all, strange things are so rare...
At this time, before Sister Hua could continue to lecture him, Ginny's exhausted voice suddenly came from the door of the bar:
"I'm back, I'm back, I almost couldn't come back, there are so many border patrol agents, something big is going to happen!"