I'm the mayor of a simulated ghost city

Seeing Lu Ming treating the factory director so rudely, Lu Yao couldn't bear it anymore and pulled Lu Ming's hand away: "Can we be gentler?"

Lu Ming let go of his pair of snow-white but bloodshot hands with an impatient look.

Alas, this child is useless.

He is obviously a sunny and gentle young man, why does he become so violent after changing into red clothes?

Lu Yao had no time to care about him. He first pulled the frightened Meng Xin aside and said earnestly, "Director, Guangming Power Plant has never had a deputy director over the years, so there is only one answer, you are the deceased."

Lu Yao had said this once, and now he can say it with ease.

Meng Xin blinked and finally opened his mouth: "What!!!"

......

It took Lu Yao half an hour to finally make Meng Xin accept the fact that he was dead.

At this time, Meng Xin was huddled in the corner of the utility room, drawing circles.

Lu Yao was already talking until his mouth was dry. He patted Meng Xin on the shoulder, handed him something, and walked out of the utility room.

As soon as I went out, I saw Lu Ming standing in the corridor with his hands in his pockets. He looked leisurely at the basketball court opposite through the guardrail at the side of the corridor.

Seeing Lu Yao coming over, Lu Ming couldn't help but jokingly asked, "Why, you haven't succeeded in persuading someone to commit suicide?"

"Not yet." Lu Yao glanced at the factory director in the utility room behind him.

Lu Ming looked at Lu Yao and said without any emotion: "You are going to lose."

Lu Yao was slightly stunned, and then he saw that as soon as he finished speaking, the lights in the corridor began to flash irregularly.

Although this is in a different space and everything is illusory, the irregular flashes also show something even more unusual among the unusual.

Lu Ming took out the old Siemens mobile phone, which showed the time: it was almost ten o'clock in the evening.

The bell for the end of work has not yet rung.

Suddenly, there was a scream on the basketball court, followed by the sound of chaotic running footsteps.

Lu Yao looked towards the basketball court. Factory workers occasionally organized friendly matches for leisure, but this sounded unfriendly. She could see a group of people in a mess.

Lu Yao concentrated, and a bad premonition came over him: "What happened?"

"There was a quarrel. One team was fighting with another team."

"A fight doesn't mean there will be a murder. If someone persuades people to stop, it can be calmed down."

"What if the basketball pole suddenly breaks and hits someone in the dispute?"

The situation will inevitably escalate and lead to bloody conflict.

As soon as Lu Ming finished speaking, he heard someone shouting, "Stop fighting, someone is injured, send him to the infirmary."

The bad premonition became stronger and stronger, and Lu Yao began to clench her fingers slightly. This situation was too unfavorable for her. If someone died before Meng Xin committed suicide, then she would have lost!

However, Lu Yao still said optimistically: "Maybe the injury is not serious, and it will be fine with timely treatment."

"What if the circuit malfunctions and the factory building near the infirmary catches fire?"

As soon as the words fell, there was another scream, and a shout was heard near the infirmary: "Oh no, there's a fire! Come and put it out!"

How could such a coincidence happen!

Seeing this, Lu Yao turned around and asked, "Lu Ming, is it you who manipulated the space and made everything around you dangerous?"

Lu Ming looked at Lu Yao calmly and smiled coldly: "Since I agreed to bet with you, I won't do such a cheating thing."

"Why is it such a coincidence, why now?"

"Because of you." Lu Ming patiently explained, "You changed the trajectory of all events and told the deceased the truth in advance. The trajectory of the disaster will also change accordingly, and it will naturally come earlier."

After saying that, Lu Ming stared at Lu Yao, unable to tell what his expression was: "Give up, you lose."

Hearing this, Lu Yao ignored Lu Ming and looked outside again: "As long as no one is dead, I haven't lost yet."

As he was speaking, the fire had already come into Lu Yao's sight. The fire began to burn and grew bigger and bigger.

In the infirmary downstairs, the doctor had already fled, leaving the newly injured patient behind.

Lu Yao gripped the railing of the corridor tightly; the sweat on his hands had already made the railing wet.

Lu Ming glanced at Lu Yao and said, "Don't tell me you didn't have any backup plan. Do you really want to pin everything on Meng Xin's suicide?"

"I didn't keep any." Lu Yao said frankly, "Since it's a gamble, let's gamble to the end."

Lu Ming's dark pupils were startled for a moment, and then he said nothing more, watching the development of the situation quietly.

At this moment, Meng Xin rushed out of the utility room, still holding the thing that Lu Yao had just given him, and quickly ran downstairs.

"Is he preparing to escape?" Lu Ming watched Meng Xin's disappearing back as if he was watching a play.

Lu Yao also glanced at it but did not respond.

Unexpectedly, Meng Xin went downstairs and jogged all the way. His fat body, which had not been exercised for a long time, made him sweat profusely.

He ran to the infirmary without stopping.

The fire almost engulfed the infirmary.

Meng Xin rushed in and carried the injured person out.

"Crash!" The fire burned the building, and a wooden beam collapsed. Meng Xin did not hide, but leaned over to protect the injured, bearing all the weight, and lying in the fire...

When Lu Ming saw this scene, his pupils returned to their human form and dilated slightly.

Lu Yao also began to breathe heavily, his heart beating violently. Meng Xin was dead? He died just like that. He didn't commit suicide, but died on the way to save people...

But the fire was still burning, several meters away from the injured!

At this moment, a gust of wind blew and hit Lu Yao's lips.

"It tastes salty." Lu Yao licked his lips, "It's raining."

Sure enough, at this moment, heavy rain poured down, extinguishing the fire near the injured, and the injured woke up from his coma. The group of people who had just escaped ran back again, helped the injured up, and got away from the disaster...

With the heavy rain, the seemingly strange crisis ended quietly.

a long time...

"You win." Looking at the heavy rain falling, Lu Ming raised his head and actually felt a sense of relief.

Lu Yao reached out his hand and touched the heavy rain, and heaved a sigh of relief. The last bit of fire disappeared, and Meng Xin disappeared with it. Suddenly, no one downstairs remembered Meng Xin, not even the injured person rescued by Meng Xin.

Just then, someone found a half-burned photo in the area where the fire had burned.

The photo is a family portrait, which includes the factory director, his sister, his wife, his children, as well as Meng Xin, Meng Xin's wife and children.

However, everyone thought that this was a photo of the factory director that was accidentally left here, and no one knew that they once worked together with a deputy factory director.

Fortunately, a sharp-eyed guy spotted Meng Xin in the photo: "Hey, isn't this the brother who had a car accident with the workshop director's son a few years ago? It turns out he's a relative of the factory director. The brother was a good person, it's just a pity."

"He is indeed a good person." Lu Yao heard the conversation of the people downstairs.

In that photo, she admitted that she actually cheated.

It was a test of human nature, and to be honest she didn't dare take the risk.

But she still dared to test her family ties.

The words she used to persuade Meng Xin were undoubtedly this photo.

Because everyone has family and everyone has people they care about, Meng Xin cares about his surviving family members, so he cannot bear to watch them get into trouble again because of disaster. He must choose to face his own destiny.

But Lu Yao didn't expect Meng Xin to choose to die like this. Maybe... she underestimated the kindness of human nature...

Heavy rain was pouring down on the ground. A white mist appeared in the rain and gradually came to the floor where Lu Yao was.

"Cough cough..." Lu Yao coughed again, "This fog is too weird, it's like a fog machine exploded, it came as soon as I said it would."

Just as Lu Yao was complaining, Lu Ming's voice rang out from the fog: "You are exactly the same as I imagined."

What?

Lu Yao paused and touched his face: "Ah, my long legs are back!"