Starting from the Red Moon

Even in the daytime, the office was lit with pale lights.

Partitions one after another divided most of the office area into small boxes. In the middle of each box, there was a desktop computer and a phone that was not connected to the Internet. Everyone was busy, walking around, some typing, some making phone calls, and some exchanging files. Lu Xin's workstation was in the middle, and a banner for the best employee award was hung on the partition.

The busy work in the morning had been handled. Lu Xin stood up and pinched his temples.

After staying in this environment for a long time, I always felt depressed and stuffy, not to mention that there were always so many complicated things to deal with.

"Is Brother Lu busy now?"

A voice sounded beside Lu Xin. Lu Xin looked up and found that it was Lu Cheng, a young man who had just arrived in the office. He was well-dressed, had short hair and a sunny temperament, but at this time he was looking bitter and said, "The director arranged for me to sort out this batch of documents, but I couldn't sort them out no matter how hard I tried. The time is almost up. Brother Lu, can you...can you teach me?"

"Sure!"

Lu Xin smiled and agreed: "I just happen to have nothing to do now!"

"Thank you, Brother Lu, you are so nice!"

The sunny guy was grateful and hurried to Lu Xin's computer desk. One taught and the other learned.

In the surrounding partitions, there were many dissatisfied eyes and some very low whispers.

"My own work is tiring enough, and I have to teach others!"

"Everyone has the same job, so I'm not afraid of being kicked out after teaching others!"

"..."

Under the dissatisfied eyes of many people, Lu Xin helped Lu Cheng sort out the documents and waved his hand as the other party thanked him.

Although everyone was very nervous in this depressing office atmosphere, Lu Xin always had his own principles in doing things. He would help others if he could. The Red Moon incident changed the world, but people still need to have character.

"Lu Xin, come here, the director is calling you!"

Someone called from a distance.

"I'm here!"

Lu Xin put down his coffee, stood up and walked towards the director's office. Here, he saw the director who was so fat that his cheeks were about to droop. On the sofa opposite, there was a short-haired woman wearing sunglasses and a decent suit.

"Xiao Lu, here is a document. Please help me deliver it to the corner coffee shop on Qingjiang Road!"

The director did not say much nonsense and pointed to the file bag on the table.

Delivering the document should be done by the administrative team or the miscellaneous team. It is not his turn to do it.

But Lu Xin did not refuse and nodded: "Okay!"

Then he picked up the document, nodded to the director and the short-haired woman on the sofa, and walked out.

As soon as he left the room, the director immediately changed his smile and said to the short-haired woman attentively: "Team Leader Chen, what you said has been done. Don't worry, I won't ask too much or think too much. It's just that the project you just told me..."

"Please rest assured, this project will not be given to you!"

The short-haired woman stood up, gently pulled down her sunglasses, and said in a very gentle voice.

The director was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had heard it wrong, and then at this moment, he saw the woman's pupils.

Her pupils seemed to be spinning, faintly red, and seemed to have turned into two red moons.

"Don't remember that I was here, and don't remember what you arranged for him to do!"

The short-haired woman said softly, her voice was soft, and then she put on her sunglasses and turned to go out.

The director fell into a moment of confusion. After a few seconds, he woke up and continued to be busy as if nothing had happened.

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…

Lu Xin was in the carriage of the Ring City High-speed Railway, holding the handrail, feeling drowsy. Originally, the place where he got on the train was close to the departure station, and there was still a seat, but he saw a pregnant woman getting on the train, so he gave her the seat and stood on the train for half an hour.

The lights in the carriage flickered slightly, and the sister climbed over along the top of the carriage with a patchwork bear in her arms.

She hung upside down in front of Lu Xin, swinging like a swing.

Lu Xin stared intently, pretending to be concentrating on the beautiful legs of a delicate girl wearing hip-covering shorts next to him.

The younger sister had more fun, and the shaking became more and more intense, and a slight twisting sound appeared in the carriage.

Fortunately, the train was running very fast, and the shaking was covered up.

"Brother, look, that fat guy is so stupid..."

The younger sister was playing crazily, and suddenly pointed at a fat guy who was sleeping and drooling not far away, and smiled at Lu Xin.

"Don't talk to me..."

Lu Xin still forced himself to concentrate on the legs of the beauty, and a barely perceptible sound squeezed out of his teeth.

"I can't look at you outside, let alone talk to you, I will be regarded as a lunatic..."

"Tsk, boring!"

The younger sister deliberately teased Lu Xin, and seeing that he was not fooled, she felt a little bored.

"Then be careful. There's something wrong with the place you're going this time!"

As she said this, before Lu Xin could ask any more questions, she started to giggle and suddenly ran forward along the carriage. When she passed by the fat man who was sleeping standing up, she suddenly pinched the fat man's face with her hand, then crawled away and disappeared.

The fat man suddenly woke up and shouted, "Who is touching me?"

The people around him looked at the fat man, who was completely alone within a meter, with strange eyes.

Lu Xin also joined the crowd and looked at the fat man as if he was a psychopath.

...

...

When getting off the train, Lu Xin found that he was close to the outer wall.

The foundations here have become somewhat dilapidated. You can see that the city wall, which is more than ten meters high, casts a deep shadow on the building. Although after thirty years, most of the wandering crazy people outside the city have been cleared, but people living in the city still dare not be careless. The focus of municipal work every year is to continue to strengthen and repair these tall city walls.

When he came to the coffee shop on the corner, he found that the environment here was very dark.

The old buildings and bungalows around seemed to be empty, and there was no shadow.

There was a lot of garbage in front of the door, as if it was blown by the wind, and I don't know how much has not been cleaned.

When you get close to here, you don't know why, you will feel depressed.

Lu Xin subconsciously doesn't like this place, but he has promised the director, so he still walked in with the file bag.

...

...

"The 13th observed person has entered the target area!"

On a tall building not far from here, there are more than a dozen observers who have set up various instruments. Around the tall building, there are also some fully armed soldiers hiding in the dark, nervously watching everything around them.

The short-haired woman was also among the office staff. She was holding a document with black lead type on it:

"Target code: Street Corner Cafe!"

"Purpose of the operation: To test the potential and specific ability of the 13th Observer to become a psychiatrist!"

"Potential risks: The cafe has been confirmed as a first-level mental pollution area.

Specific manifestations are:

People who approach the cafe will be attracted to it involuntarily.

People who have entered the cafe will die within three to five days, and the cause of death is mostly suicide.

According to analysis, they should be contaminated in the cafe, resulting in severe depression!"

"..."

She put down the document in her hand and asked the person next to her: "Are you ready for the support?"

The staff nodded and pointed to the next room.

Through the glass partition between the two rooms, you can see a delicate girl in a dress, like a puppet, sitting there.

...

...

When Lu Xin entered the cafe, he felt a warm and lively feeling.

The street outside and the house seemed empty and deserted.

But this cafe was full of people, even feeling overcrowded.

Everyone had a smile on their face. Some people lowered their heads to talk intimately. Some sat alone by the window, drinking coffee while reading a book. Some squinted their eyes and concentrated on enjoying a delicious sandwich. A soothing and ancient music floated in the store. The sun poured in from the window, making people feel as if they had returned to the world before the Red Moon disaster...

Lu Xin walked through the crowd and came to the bar. He nodded to the waiter wearing an exquisite apron behind the bar.

"Someone asked me to deliver this document!"

The director didn't say who to deliver it to, so it should be fine to deliver it to the bar.

"Thank you!"

The waiter didn't care at all, just smiled and thanked him, then poured a cup of coffee and pushed it in front of Lu Xin.

"This..."

Lu Xin wanted to say that he didn't plan to stay for coffee.

However, this coffee smelled very fragrant, completely different from the cheap coffee he drank in the company.

"Thank you for your hard work, this is my treat!"

The waiter smiled, with a kind of kindness on his face that made people feel very comfortable.

Lu Xin's heart eased a little, but he couldn't say no for a while.

Then at this moment, his eyes froze slightly.

A thick and ugly tentacle suddenly stretched out from behind the waiter's exquisite apron, slowly reaching in front of Lu Xin. The skin and flesh at the top of the tentacle slowly cracked, and suddenly a coin-sized black soft body slid into the coffee. Lu Xin looked down and saw that the soft body looked like an egg, and also like an eye, with a black pupil looking at him in the cup.

The coffee instantly became more fragrant, and every wisp of it had an amazing temptation.

The waiter also smiled more kindly, gently pushed the coffee in front of Lu Xin, and motioned him to enjoy it.

"No, thank you!"

Lu Xin politely refused, as if he had not noticed anything, and turned to walk out.

When he reached the door, he looked back.

He saw that everyone in the store had stopped their actions, and looked at him in unison, woodenly, and dully.

He turned around quickly, his body stiffened, and walked faster and faster.