Chapter 16 Cigarettes

Chapter 16 Cigarettes

Chapter 16 Cigarettes
Six forty.

Wu Rui finished her porridge and ate two fried dough cakes.

His appetite is bigger than Luo Xi's.

At this moment, she wiped her mouth with a napkin and looked at Luo Xi with her big eyes.

Except for Wu Rui, none of the people Luo Xi was waiting for had arrived.

I couldn’t contact Brother Mao. I called him and the call went through, but no one answered. I couldn’t get through to Zhang Yanan at all because his phone was turned off.

Just when Luo Xi was about to call Guo Zening, the other party called him.

connected.

"Luo Xi, I...something is wrong here. It's very wrong." Guo Zening's voice was filled with panic and fear. The background noise was very messy, as if many people were talking very loudly.

"Take your time." Luo Xi took out a small notebook and a pen from his pocket.

"Someone died. I mean, first someone slipped me a flyer and then the person handing out the flyer was killed. He was lying on the ground, blood all over the floor. Luo Xi, I was panicking. The murderer searched the dead man's body and found a card. Everyone hid in another car."

Guo Zening was obviously a little incoherent.

"Where are you?" Luo Xi asked.

"Me? On the subway. There are only three stops left before I get to your place."

"Get off at the next stop. If you can't get off, try to hide. Also, what does the flyer say?"

"Yes, that's the ad I was just about to tell you about. The content on it is very strange. It says to break free from the shackles of repeating the same day, restart time, and return to your true self. Contact number: 1XXXXXXXXXX"

Luo Xi wrote down the phone number.

"Don't hang up the phone. Observe the people around you carefully and move closer to the door. How long will it take to get to the station?"

"We'll be there soon. No, no, the car didn't stop. Damn, what's going on? We've arrived at the station, why didn't it stop?" The noise on the phone was a lot louder than before, a mess, with cursing and screaming. Obviously the fact that the vehicle did not stop normally at the station caused panic.

"Guo Zening, Guo Zening" Luo Xi had to raise his voice.

"I'm here, I'm listening!"

"Listen carefully. You may have entered another 'scene'. I don't know the situation on the bus, so I can't give you more advice. The safest way is to do nothing and hide yourself. You have a bound card [Greedy Survivor], which allows you to save your memory on the next day of confinement and get an extra memory card. The disadvantage is that it cannot be triggered continuously. You have already saved your memory once, so you should have another memory card in your hand now. The worst case scenario is that you wake up on the next day of confinement. As I said, contact me as soon as possible. But I still suggest that you maintain a good attitude, explore and observe carefully, and recall all the abnormal places since you got on the bus. In fact, it is not difficult to pass the level."

"What? Scene clearance?" Guo Zening on the other end of the phone was numb after hearing this.

My head is buzzing and empty.

How did we enter another scene? Could there be the same terrible killings and monsters as in the company?

Guo Zening had experienced what happened to Mao Ge and Feng Kai after they became cleaners, and he never wanted to experience that kind of thing again in his life.

Whatever is scary comes from it.

"Luo Xi, you mean, there will be cleaning"

"Don't say it, or someone might hear it. The person you saw being killed earlier might have been killed because he was exposed. As for what you want to ask, I can answer you that there will most likely be cleaners involved, and because the scene is very special, you don't have much time left."

Before he could finish, a busy tone came from the phone.

The phone was disconnected.

I called again, but the call didn't go through. It said the other party couldn't reach me temporarily.

Luo Xi sighed, and called Liu Mao and Zhang Yanan one after another. Just like before, the former's call went through but no one answered, and the latter's phone was turned off.

On the other side, although Wu Rui did not hear Guo Zening's voice on the phone, she heard clearly what Luo Xi said. She was also very nervous at the moment. She could not help but speak until Luo Xi put down the phone.

"Did you know about Guo Zening and the others a long time ago? That's why you asked me if the journey was smooth?"

"I just guessed there would be problems, but now it seems that this is indeed the case."

Luo Xi replied casually. He thought for a moment, picked up the phone and dialed a number.

It’s the mobile phone number printed on the small advertisement that Guo Zening mentioned just now.

It rang once and it worked.

It is an automatic voice broadcast.

"Hello, if you need help, please go to Room D250, No. 58 Huiling Road. We look forward to seeing you."

Luo Xi hung up the phone and muttered, "Fishing!"

Then he stood up and scanned the QR code to pay the boss.

"Let's go!" Luo Xi called Wu Rui.

"No. You won't wait for them?"

"I can't wait any longer." Luo Xi walked to Wu Rui's car, opened the right back door, and sat in.

Wu Rui also got in the car.

"So, where are we going?"

"Let's go to the company." Luo Xi said as he fastened his seat belt.

"Where?" Wu Rui thought she had heard wrongly. She never wanted to go to that place in her life.

"Drive, and wait for me downstairs when you get there." Luo Xi picked up his phone and opened the local news to read.

Wu Rui couldn't help but ask, she started the car, started off, changed gears, stepped on the accelerator, and sped away.

It is not far from here to the company, and the drive takes less than twenty minutes. Luo Xi was looking at the local news on his mobile phone and quickly found the latest news.

".Suddenly, a bus in this city suddenly exploded while driving, causing many casualties. Please click to view the details."

"Bus Route 45. The road on Beijiang Bridge is currently blocked. Drivers nearby please take a detour."

Luo Xi looked up at this time: "Is Zhang Yanan's family living over at Miaomiao Street?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Wu Rui nodded.

Luo Xi didn't say anything. To get from Zhang Yanan's house to where she lived, she had to take bus No. 45. Plus Zhang Yanan's phone was turned off, maybe she was on that bus.
Besides, Zhang Yanan doesn’t have any extra memory cards.

"What happened?" Wu Rui stopped the car on the side of the road at this time.

Luo Xi handed the phone over. Wu Rui took a look at it and a look of shock appeared on her face. She was not stupid, and it was obvious that Luo Xi had asked her where Zhang Yanan lived just now.

"Yanan, she won't?"

"Keep driving!" Luo Xi took back his phone and continued to browse the news, as if he didn't care at all.

The carriage was unusually quiet after that. Luo Xi focused on the local news list, while Wu Rui had mixed feelings.

Other serious incidents were not reported in the news, and of course, some things might not be reported even if they occurred.

Luo Xi looked out the window and saw that there were more and more cars on the road. However, it was a cloudy day today and the tall buildings looked a little eerie in this environment.

In Luo Xi's eyes, this city hides many terrible secrets.

".This world is fake but, how is it possible?"

Even from the perspective of a madman, the idea that the world is fake would seem absurd, because what kind of existence could forge a fake world?

god?
Buddha?
God?

"Or maybe all this is just my hallucination? Because I didn't take my medicine on time?"

At this time, Luo Xi's cell phone rang.

He immediately checked the caller ID, but it was obvious that the caller was not the person he expected.

connected.

"Hello, Luo Xi, where are you?" A man's voice came from the other end of the phone, hurried and excited.

It’s Du Lei, Mr. Du.

Luo Xi was not surprised.

Last time he broke the cyclical 'mechanism' of the company scene. Since several of them can advance the time anchor point to escape from that scene, Du Lei can do the same. The prerequisite is that he must have a memory card in his hand, otherwise, he will still become an amnesiac.

"I'm almost at the company, is there anything Mr. Du can do for me?"

"Let's talk. Let's meet downstairs in the company."

"it is good."

Luo Xi didn't say anything more and hung up the phone.

A few minutes later, the vehicle arrived at the company's location, a building in the development zone with a good environment and convenient transportation.

Luo Xi looked at the time.

Six fifty-seven.

I have to say that Wu Rui drives quite fast. She arrived there in just over ten minutes.

Luo Xi got out of the car, and Wu Rui also got out.

"I'll go with you!" She looked like a suicide squad member who was going to fight to the death, with a determined look on her face, and it was obvious that she had a weapon hidden on her waist.

Perhaps noticing Luo Xi's gaze, Wu Rui simply pulled out a knife and an anti-wolf spray from her waist and said, "Just in case."

"Very good!" Luo Xi looked up at the building. At this time, some people had already arrived for work, some of them were even acquaintances and colleagues.

"Morning, why don't you go upstairs?"

"What are you two doing here? Have you had breakfast? I have extra boiled eggs."

Luo Xi looked at them expressionlessly without responding to anyone. Wu Rui didn't know what he was going to do, but she also remained silent.

After a while, a man came over on a shared bicycle.

It’s Feng Kai.

When he saw Luo Xi and Wu Rui, he was stunned at first, then nodded as a greeting.

Colleagues are also divided into close and distant relatives. It is obvious that Luo Xi and the other party are just colleagues, and at most they just say hello when they meet.

Feng Kai obviously didn't remember what happened last time, and he walked into the building normally.

"What do you think of Feng Kai this time?" Wu Rui couldn't help but ask.

"No, last time, I made him a cleaner. This time, he's just an amnesiac who lost his memory."

Luo Xi continued to wait.

After a while, a car drove over, braked suddenly and stopped on the side of the road.

Du Lei got out of the car.

He walked over quickly, obviously excited.

"The time for memory recovery has been advanced. Luo Xi, what did you do in the last round?" Du Lei asked impatiently as soon as he walked in.

"I'm curious too. Mr. Du, did you do something but didn't tell us?" Luo Xi played dumb.

Obviously, Du Lei did not gain his trust and certainly could not tell the truth.

"Stop talking nonsense, it must be you, it must be..." Du Lei looked around and continued, "I was on the 23rd floor, trying to comfort the employees, and then that lunatic Feng Kai rushed down and started slaughtering people. He turned into a monster, but why was it him? I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out. After thinking about it, it can only be you who did it, and then that bastard Feng Kai killed me. The next moment, I found that I was actually at home, and the time for me to recover my memory was advanced. This means that as long as I don't go to the company and don't go upstairs, I can escape from that horrible place."

"Isn't this a good thing?" Luo Xi said.

"But we didn't actually escape." Suddenly, Du Lei became extremely manic. He seemed to be trying hard to suppress his emotions. It must be said that he did it. After a few deep breaths, he calmed down a little.

Then, he took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a cigarette and handed it to Luo Xi.

The latter realized something and took it.

The moment his fingertips touched the cigarette, Luo Xi muttered, "Sure enough!"

(End of this chapter)