Chapter 15. Bandit

     Out of the electronic test room.

     Ye Mo went to the locker room to change her work clothes first, took the elevator to the parking lot on the first floor, found her own broken car, and got in.

     This broken car has been with Ye Mo for a few years, and the license plate of Beijing C is more valuable than the car itself.

     At that time, a colleague worked in an Audi 4S store for two years, and bought the car directly from him. The biggest advantage of knowing more about auto parts than the sales staff of the 4S store is that you will not be cheated when repairing the car, and you can buy parts and do it yourself.

     The broken car drove to the fast lane in the city.

     The house Ye Mo bought is not far from Xishan Industrial Park, and the fast lane is usually only a 20-minute drive.

     If you encounter a traffic jam, then I don’t know.

     Since the successful joint bid of Zhangjiakou City and the capital for the Winter Olympics in 2015, the land in this area has increased dramatically, and the number of cars and traffic jams have also increased dramatically.

     Occasionally, you have to take the subway.

     But at this time today, according to common sense, it is not rush hour, and 20 minutes of traffic jam is considered long. Ye Mo has been sitting in the car for nearly half an hour, and there are still endless cars in front and behind.

     No need to open the window, no need to get off the car.

     All kinds of information discussed by drivers and passengers automatically drill into her ears.

     A chain car accident ahead?

     Someone died.

     Female driver?

     Playing with mobile phone while driving?

     Red Ferrari?

     Bloodstains, red, mobile phones, car accidents, all of these will make Ye Mo have bad associations at this moment.

     Coincidentally, the phone vibrated.

     UC pushed a news flash, saying that a man in Shanghai, the Magic City, was suspected to have swallowed bones to death while eating KFC. The comments were all like

      “May there be no spicy chicken leg burgers in heaven”, 

     “May there be no New Orleans chicken legs in heaven”, and 

     “May there be no chicken rolls in heaven”.

     Ye Mo quickly searched several news platforms and found that there were at least 5 news flashes about death across the country within an hour, which occurred in different places.

     There was an unlucky classmate who died of a heart attack in advanced math class, a girl fell into a sewer and died while shopping, and a person died while chatting and laughing…

     The top ten hot searches on Sina Weibo are about a celebrity trainee who was not even 18th-tier. He died in a live reality show in public, and many fans came to commemorate or discuss him.

     Because these deaths were relatively bizarre and sudden, and with the self-media, it is not surprising that the news reports were fast, and it was not surprising that they were on the hot search so quickly, and the comments of netizens were even more varied.

     It was hard for Ye Mo not to associate several coincidences with the elimination warning of the survivor app.

     After a careful comparison, including the current one, there were 3 approximate times of death, and the 3 times were basically more than an hour ago, which was the time when she entered and exited the dungeon.

     It was terrifying to think about it.

     How many people would find these coincidences?

     At least in reality, the police will definitely not all be some idiots on TV!

     “Beep, beep, beep–” The car behind honked the car horn and started to urge.

     Ye Mo came back to her senses and looked to the left. The taxi driver next door, who was sitting in the air-conditioned car, shuddered and stepped on the brakes subconsciously.

     “Master, can you drive?”

     “My head is so banged out of a skull!”

     “MD.”

     “Fortunately the car behind is far away.”

     “…”

     Ye Mo realized that she had inadvertently released her spiritual power. She silently chanted Amitabha and drove.

     When the car passed the accident site, the unfortunate person in the car accident was no longer visible.

     There was a pool of blood on the ground.

     The scrapped red Ferrari supercar had not been towed away. Two traffic police were dealing with the remaining problems.

     You can’t play with your phone while driving, in class, or walking. 

     Don’t click on apps of unknown origin.

 

…

 

     The road was smooth from then on.

     When passing the commercial plaza, Ye Mo stopped the car for a while.

     The target went straight to a brand cosmetics store. On weekdays, apart from basic skin care and hand care, she rarely puts on makeup. The last time she put on makeup was to attend last year’s annual meeting. There are probably only lipstick and powder at home.

     So far, there is only one way to hide your appearance and make you look younger – not to wear a mask all the time, but to put on makeup, and then let your hair down or braid it up, that’s enough.

     There is also limited knowledge about the dazzling array of cosmetics.

     Referring to advertisements and eye contact, under the enthusiastic recommendation of two shopping guides, Ye Mo bought a set of cosmetics including primer, liquid foundation, powder eyeshadow, eyelash curler, mascara, and makeup remover.

     It’s really not easy to be a woman.

     After leaving the makeup store, she turned to the glasses store next door and bought two pairs of light glasses with no prescription, one full frame and one frameless, which can prevent radiation and blue light.

     It gets dark early in winter. When I returned to the community today, it was still bright.

     This is rare.

     Ye Mo is a native Beijinger and has experienced the soaring housing prices in the capital.

     Although I moved from the capital BJ to Zhangjiakou City, HB Province for work reasons, I still know how to seize opportunities.

     So around 2003, I paid the down payment for a small independent house.

     Although other people also call it a small villa.

     But Ye Mo’s small villa is still very different from the single-family villa of the neighbor next door. It can only be regarded as a quasi-detached villa. There is no swimming pool, pavilion, basketball court, etc.

     A total of more than 500 square meters, two floors, with a basement and a private garden.

     Close to the capital, even in the early 2000s, the housing prices in Zhangjiakou City were not cheap. Ye Mo didn’t like living in high-rise buildings, and she didn’t have land to build a rural courtyard by herself, so she could only buy a quasi-detached small villa.

     Open the door on the first floor.

     The decoration is as expected, the Nordic decoration style, mainly light white, extremely simple and light, also known as the “cold style”, but the room is not as clean and tidy as that of an obsessive-compulsive disorder patient, on the contrary, it is a bit messy.

     You may still see one or two black hairs on the ground.

     “Woof woof woof!”

     A big black dog rushed out of the living room.

     The dog’s skeleton was strong, and it had grown a lot of flesh, so its neck looked even shorter, and its four legs were thinner than those of ordinary dogs. If you look closely, you can see that its fur is black with some yellow spots, and its tail is shaking like a helicopter propeller.

     It was really ugly.

     This was a stray dog she picked up on New Year’s Eve two years ago, a stray dog of unknown bloodline.

     When she met it, it was still a dog of medium size, with a small head but a short neck. Not only was its fur messy and tangled, but there was also a large patch of baldness behind its buttocks. It was dirty, thin, and ugly.

     When she got closer, she could clearly see the rows of ribs on its belly. It was so hungry that it was just skin. It stared at her with a pair of black eyes, warily and eagerly.

     Ye Mo was not a very kind and loving person.

     But when she met such a life that looked like she was asking for help on a special holiday, she bought a few sausages in the supermarket, peeled them and threw them to it, and then this bandit stayed with her.

     From then on, there was a dog in her life. When she went out to walk her dog in the morning, the rate of people turning back to look at her might be higher than that of other people walking their cute dogs.

     “Bandit, go away!”

     Ye Mo didn’t dare to let it eat the dog food box, so she changed her slippers and moved her backpack and fire axe to her bedroom cabinet.

     “Woof woof, woof!”

     The big black dog followed the shit shoveler from the living room to the second-floor bedroom, and then from the second-floor bedroom to the living room. Seeing that she ignored him, he rolled around at her feet, rolling his fat body around again and again.

     In addition to eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping, the two most powerful skills of the bandit are rolling around and wagging his tail to act like a spoiled child.

     “Bandit, you have a treat tonight. I bought it at the store last time–” Ye Mo opened the refrigerator, and her voice suddenly stopped. After searching the refrigerator for a long time, she decided not to cook anything.

     The special beef jerky that was originally intended for the bandit was thrown away along with a few potatoes, half a box of soy beans, cabbage, and most of the winter melon.

     I didn’t feel it when I just came out of the zombie world, but I found that my physical condition can also bring troubles in a clean world.

     Especially the exaggerated vision, taste, and smell, for example, I can smell a little fishy smell from nowhere from a pile of potatoes full of soil, and I can tell which potato it is.

     The smell of frozen chicken breast is not very “normal”.

     “…”

     We are back to the peaceful world, and I don’t plan to torture and test the bandit’s stomach. The bandit should eat dog food tonight, which is a mixture of beef and fruits and vegetables. He likes that the most.

     “Bandit, come here.”

     Ye Mo likes to stay on the balcony on the second floor the most.

     You can see the small garden below. The garden is planted with some not very precious plants, gardenia, jasmine, aloe, rose, camellia, orchid, etc. It is not a life interest, she learned it from Grandma Ye.

     Ye Mo sat on the ground and took the big black dog to rub. Although the bandit was a little ugly, his fur was very soft and he had a lot of meat on his body. It was still very comfortable to rub.

     It was also very stress-relieving.

     The dog food is much more attractive than that of the shit shoveler, but Bandit could not escape the shit shoveler’s palm: “???”

     “Silly.”

     “Woof woof woof.”

     “It’s a bit ugly.”

     “Woof woof woof.”

     “Don’t do push-ups like me!”

     “Woof woof woof woof?”

     “Puff!”

     “Woof woof!”

     “…”

     Ye Mo spent the first night back from the dungeon while checking videos of military boxing, Tai Chi Baguazhang, Wing Chun, Muay Thai, yoga, and Taoism.