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However, according to Han Zhou's narration, he and Xiao Xiaoxiao both lost part of their memory after they came back last time, and he didn't know if the same situation would occur this time.
What’s also worth noting is that there were obviously many strange things about Han Zhou and Xiao Xiaoxiao last time, but neither Zhang Tao and others who went to the unfinished building together, nor the many viewers in the live broadcast room noticed these abnormalities. Even if Han Zhou didn’t say it, Mo Yixia herself would hardly notice it.
"Perhaps the reason why this world looks so normal is because many abnormal things have been corrected..."
Mo Yixia was thoughtful. Just in case, she wrote down some key words on paper and in her hands in advance to prevent her memory from being corrected.
Gu Zheng did not object to Mo Yixia's proposal. An hour was already plenty of time. If Han Zhou had not returned by then, there was really no need to wait any longer.
"Okay," she said, "I'll do as you say, but I have to go upstairs first."
"It's up to you." Mo Yixia didn't care.
It was almost 1:20 at this time, but no one was sleepy at all. They picked up their phones from time to time to check the time and chatted casually.
No one knew if it was because they were too worried about Han Zhou and Xiao Xiaoxiao, or because they felt embarrassed, but everyone tacitly agreed not to mention the incident of hiding in Han Zhou's room before.
As time passed, a very loud question suddenly rang in everyone's ears:
"Don't you feel sorry for me?!"
Ouyang Lianyu was stunned, she stood up suddenly and looked around, wondering: "Did you hear Han Zhou's voice..."
Before she could finish, her breathing suddenly stagnated and she felt inexplicably guilty, then she shouted uncontrollably.
"Yes!"
The cry was extremely loud, carrying a hint of shame and self-blame, echoing the question just now.
What am I...doing?
Ouyang Lianyu's mind went blank. She had no idea why she would do such a thing. Her face turned red instantly and she was so embarrassed that she wished she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"..."
Fortunately, she didn't feel embarrassed for two seconds before she heard everyone in the living room shouting out their hearts out one by one, just like they were counting in military training. Even the usually calm Mo Yixia raised her voice, with a dull look in her eyes.
What's even more exaggerated is that even the mosquito-like bell turned red and made a slight response that everyone could hear, which showed how hard she tried to make a sound.
The air became quiet.
The girls all had dazed expressions, their eyes met in the air, then immediately looked away in panic, looking down at their toes.
Thinking of their own heart-wrenching responses, some of which even had a tearful tone, everyone felt extremely embarrassed.
However, when they thought that they were not the only ones feeling embarrassed, everyone's expressions became a little better.
After a long silence, Gu Zheng looked down at her curled toes and asked nonchalantly, "Um... did you all hear Han Zhou's voice just now?"
She dug her toes into the ground and resisted the urge to grab the sofa, otherwise she would probably tear the leather.
"Well, it seems to be the case..."
Zhong Yin also lowered his head and clenched his teeth, but his toes could not be seen.
"Well..." Ouyang Lianyu said, trying to suppress her embarrassment, "It seems like she's asking someone if they feel sorry for him..."
"And we all answered 'yes'."
Wang Lengqiu was an honest man, and just one sentence made the already embarrassed crowd feel even more ashamed.
Compared to others, her reaction was not intense, and she did not seem to deny that she felt sorry for Han Zhou.
After the initial shock, Mo Yixia's expression was still calm, but there was still a faint blush on her face. She said thoughtfully: "The sound just now didn't sound like it came from upstairs. It sounded more like Han Zhou yelling in my ear."
After thinking for a moment, she pointed to a spot near the window and said, "Probably this location."
"Yes, I feel the same way." Ouyang Lianyu nodded repeatedly and agreed, "It's as if Han Zhou is standing there."
Everyone nodded.
Gu Zheng frowned and said, "But Han Zhou is clearly not here."
"Could he be able to become invisible?" Zhong Yin asked in surprise.
Mo Yixia shook her head: "Not necessarily invisible, but he may have found Xiao Xiaoxiao."
"Why do you say that?" everyone asked hurriedly.
"Remember the rumor that Han Zhou just mentioned about the haunted girls' dormitory?"
Mo Yixia said slowly, "The reason why the ghost rumor spread so widely is that more than one person heard strange voices and footsteps in the dormitory corridor, but did not see the corresponding sound source, and this matter is deeply related to Xiao Xiaoxiao."
Gu Zheng immediately understood what she meant and asked in surprise, "Are you saying that Han Zhou's current situation is the same as Xiao Xiao's, where we can only hear his voice but not see him? Is this actually the truth behind the haunting? Do you think Han Zhou is with Xiao Xiao now?"
"That's what I mean." Mo Yixia nodded.
"This is incredible..."
Ouyang Lianyu had a complicated expression. Everything that happened tonight had completely overturned her understanding of the world.
"In that case, if we just wait a little longer, Han Zhou will come back with Xiao Xiao?" Zhong Yin asked.
"should be."
Ouyang Lianyu breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, it was a good thing to be able to successfully find Xiaoxiao.
Everyone fell silent, with relaxed smiles on their faces, but they all tacitly did not mention the "counting" incident just now.
However, the honest man Wang Lengqiu once again tore off the fig leaf of the crowd and nodded, "The question just now has the ability to make people answer sincerely involuntarily. I believe Xiao Xiaoxiao will answer loudly after hearing the question, just like us. In this way, Han Zhou will be able to find her easily."
The smiles on everyone's faces froze.
Mo Yixia showed an interested expression: "Do you also think that everyone's answers just now are sincere?"
"Isn't it?" Wang Lengqiu tilted his head.
Mo Yixia did not answer, but said: "But everyone's answer just now is 'yes'."
Wang Lengqiu was puzzled and asked, "Doesn't this mean that everyone feels sorry for Han Zhou?"
Mo Yixia couldn't quite understand what the girl was thinking, so she wasn't sure if she had said those words on purpose. However, she noticed another thing, which was that the other party was obviously a little awkward when calling Han Zhou's name, as if she was forcing herself to change her words, as if she rarely called Han Zhou that.
"You have a point."
Putting her thoughts away, Mo Yixia picked up the teacup and took a sip, then glanced at everyone in the living room with a smile.
"There should still be some time before Han Zhou comes back. Are you interested in talking about how you feel sorry for him?"
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 387 Do you remember it?
As a large-scale skill that only requires ten points to activate once, the effect of "Asking Questions and Feeling Guilty" is much stronger than Han Zhou imagined.
Because he not only heard the response from Xiao Xiaoxiao upstairs, but also heard the voices of Mo Yixia, Gu Zheng and others.
Although the voices of others except Xiao Xiaoxiao sounded a little ethereal, he was sure that it was not an illusion.
"It's over. How could I have forgotten about this..."
After being stunned for two seconds, Han Zhou suddenly remembered that although he was suspected to be in the past, according to his previous inference, his voice at this moment could be heard by people in the same area who were in the same time in the past.
He just shouted so loudly that unless they were deaf or asleep, anyone in the villa could hear it - no matter what time it was.
In fact, everyone in the villa did hear his question, otherwise the "asking will make you feel guilty" effect would not be triggered and they would not be forced to answer.
What he found difficult to understand was why everyone answered “yes”?
It is not difficult to see from the relevant description of "You will feel guilty if asked" that this skill can force people to tell the truth. Everyone gave an affirmative answer. Is it because they all felt guilty about him?
Han Zhou was in mixed mood and suddenly became worried about the situation he would face after returning.
Just because you can’t keep your own memory doesn’t mean that other people’s memories will disappear as well. Otherwise, no one would remember the “shit” that came from the kitchen.
Han Zhou felt uncomfortable when he thought that everyone would look at him strangely when he returned. Especially when he thought that everyone might be frank with him and talk about the order in which people should enter his room tonight, he felt his scalp tingling.
If Gu Zheng knew that Mo Yixia was the first person to enter his room and had been hiding in his quilt for so long, he would definitely be dead tonight...
Thinking of this, Han Zhou felt uneasy and suddenly had the idea of "why not go back?"
While worrying, he ran upstairs as fast as he could.
If he hadn't been so determined to find Xiao Xiaoxiao, he wouldn't have ignored such an important issue. Now that things have happened, if he can't find Xiao Xiaoxiao, it would be a complete loss.
While going upstairs, he suddenly thought of a question -
According to previous speculation, compared with the actual time of 1 a.m., the time he is now at should be two hours ago, that is, around 11 p.m., when no one had returned to their rooms to sleep.
Compared to the "Fuck" in the kitchen, his shout just now made a louder noise, not to mention that everyone in the villa responded with almost the same volume. But the strange thing was that, in his impression, he didn't seem to notice this in reality.
Everyone was shouting at the top of their lungs, but before that, he hadn't heard any other people's voices, and no one else had ever come to him to question him about this matter.
It's like this never happened.
In other words, the event that should have happened at eleven o'clock in the middle of the night did not happen, or it did not happen at eleven o'clock.
Han Zhou frowned slightly.
There are two possibilities. One is that, just like the last time we went to the unfinished building, some obviously abnormal events were corrected, so everyone forgot about it.
Secondly, the nature of "traveling through the past" might be more complicated than he imagined - although he has returned to the past in a sense, the time he is in is not flowing constantly like reality, but is advancing in a leap-forward manner.
It was eleven thousand one just now, maybe in a minute it will be eleven fifteen.
That's right, since the question-and-answer incident has already happened, then excluding the possibility of memory erasure, the most likely reason why he didn't notice the incident before taking the sleeping pills is that the incident happened after he took the sleeping pills, which was around one o'clock in the morning.
...a time point that is extremely close to or even overlaps with the present.
This would only make sense if it happened after he went back in time.
Because he no longer exists in reality at this time, he naturally has no idea what is happening in reality.
This conjecture is not without basis. Han Zhou noticed early on that in all the responses just now, Xiao Xiaoxiao's voice only appeared once. Moreover, compared with the slightly ethereal voices of others, her voice was particularly clear, and even the direction was quite intuitive, which was on the second floor of the villa.
This should indicate that Xiao Xiaoxiao and he are in the same time and space.
And if this incident happened before Xiao Xiaoxiao disappeared, then Xiao Xiaoxiao's voice should have been like Mo Yisha and the others, with a hazy feeling that came from across time and space.
Therefore, Han Zhou suspected that the time he was at this moment was probably no longer two hours ago, but a time relatively close to the present.