Absurd Deduction Game

Chapter 251 Nightmare (12) - Gray Sky

There were a lot of people in the subway station, and there happened to be a subway station. Many pedestrians with numb expressions stepped out of the subway station. They followed the rule of walking on the right with expressionless faces, and passed by another group of numb people.

“Passengers please abide by the rules and get off first before getting on…”

The broadcast is mechanical and rigid, but with a comfortable gentleness, repeating repeated words over and over again.

Yu Xing walked in from the east entrance and looked around. His slightly concealed look made some passers-by aware. Those playing with mobile phones, waiting for others, and chatting all paid more attention to him and looked at him from time to time. Take a glance.

 A group of people just got out of the car and walked across from him. He glanced at them out of the corner of his eye, and then walked towards Zhao Ruru who was waiting in front.

"You came so fast?" Zhao Ruru was touching the red strap around her wrist. She looked up and saw Yu Xing. She came up to him, a little surprised, "How long has it been?"

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows and corrected: "Thirty minutes, it's not fast."

 He came out of the cemetery, took a taxi, and walked into the subway station. The time spent was definitely not fast for a person who was anxious, especially when the mission goal was lost. How could Zhao Ruru say such a thing.

 Unless—she was really surprised.

As expected, Zhao Ruru took out his phone, put on a tired smile, and glanced at the screen: "Thirty minutes? Are you kidding me? It's only... eh!?"

"Really... wait, why is it almost two o'clock?" She was stunned for a moment, then frowned tightly, "Zhou Xue and I just took a high-speed train, it couldn't have taken so long."

 Zhao Ruru’s palms were hot, and she was holding coins in her fisted right hand: “The time is not right.”

　　When she called Yu Xing just now, she also looked at her phone, but she didn't pay attention to the time.

 Unconsciously, time seemed to pass so fast that she couldn't think of anything she had done to fill such a big gap.

"Yes~ Congratulations for finally realizing that there is a time gap between us, and this time seems to be based on mine." Yu Xing's time passed normally. He put his hands in his pockets and felt that the time around him was There were too many people and it was difficult to talk, so he raised his chin towards a corner with fewer people, indicating that he should go there to speak.

 But in fact, there is nothing in the subway station that cannot be heard. Both of them need to maintain the personalities of their roles in front of the NPCs, so they can only talk briefly.

Yu Xing leaned against the pillar of the station with a gloomy face: "Is there any warning before she leaves?"

For a moment, Zhao Ruru thought Yu Xing was imitating Zhao Yijiu, but after two seconds she realized that Yu Xing told her last night that his character looked so weird.

 Perhaps...artists all have eccentric personalities?

She put aside the thought that there was nothing for a moment and replied: "No, I got off the car before her, and as soon as I turned around, she was gone."

Yu Xing accepted the looks from the passers-by around him and was accustomed to these looks, and then asked: "Could it be that she didn't get out of the car at all?"

 Zhao Ruru was very happy: "Do you think I'm mentally retarded?"

Can she not figure out the difference between not getting out of the car and getting off and disappearing?

"Oh." Yu Xing just said it casually. He looked at the crowded subway station and listened to Zhao Ruru repeating how "worried about her neighbors" she was. After hearing this, she immediately became impatient: "It seems that there is no place to be found in the subway station." We’re here, let’s go out and take a look first?”

Since Zhou Xue can disappear, this place cannot be viewed with common sense. Instead of expecting to find Zhou Xue in any corner, it is better to look forward to whether Zhou Xue will appear by himself after leaving the subway station.

 It is useless to waste time doing useless work here. Zhou Xue's temporary safety does not mean that she will be safe in a while. Time cannot be wasted. Zhao Ruru just wanted to find an excuse to meet with Yu Xing. She had to have the same amount of information as Yu Xing, otherwise it would be easy for ghosts to take advantage of her. She naturally agreed to Yu Xing's proposal.

Incidentally, she also "told" Yu Xing about Zhou Xue's encounter with the ghost in his dream, citing worries as an excuse. This supplemented the setting and provided a reasonable explanation for Yu Xing's subsequent appearance in front of Zhou Xue.

The two of them made plans and walked all the way out. Yu Xing came in through the east gate, and this time he and Zhao Ruru left through the west gate.

 Another train stopped. People left the disturbing sounds behind and took the elevator up.

The end of the elevator is the exit. Not far away is a commercial street with various buildings. But when they went out, when they looked up, what they saw was not the beautiful blue sky with sparkling clouds like when they went out, but a layer of gray clouds. The black gauze-like sky.

Just like the evening on a cloudy day, the endless discolored cloth wraps the world, as if it is about to fall into another layer of empty dreams.

 One by one, uniquely shaped street lamps lighted up, reflecting in Yu Xing's dark pupils, replacing the disappeared stars with dots of stars.

Yu Xing’s shadow is unclear and elusive in these illusory brilliance.

He looked at the sky, with a flash of thought in his eyes, stepped out of the elevator and stepped into the hustle and bustle.

"It's night...?" Zhao Ruru looked around in surprise and had some new ideas about the background setting of this stage of the task.

 Previously, when I first came in, this world was very normal, as if everything in the "real world" was stable and followed the rules, while the "dream world" was completely separated from reality and belonged to Zhou Xue's experience alone.

So subconsciously, both she and Yu Xing thought that regular weirdness would not occur in the "real world" unless it was like going to the cemetery specifically to trigger a plot.

  But what’s the result? Zhou Xue disappeared silently in "reality", and the sky turned from blue to gray and black before they saw it.

 It shows that this "real world" is not as peaceful as they imagined. Under the bustling illusion, undercurrents are surging.

Zhao Ruru looked at her phone again, and saw that the number that was a little over one o'clock a few minutes ago was close to two o'clock, but now it was past six o'clock, and it was about to be night.

"It seems that we misunderstood the three-day time limit." Yu Xing was beside her, and his tone sounded very calm. Zhao Ruru even suspected that he had expected this to happen before he came to the subway station to find her. , so now it’s just expected.

"There is no need to protect her for 72 hours. Sometimes time is skipped in large sections." He stopped in the square. "There was almost no time skipped yesterday, but today it is skipped one after another. There must be a reason."

"Is this the key reason?" Zhao Ruru encountered Yu Xing's brainwaves in a rare moment of exhaustion. "By the way! Is Zhou Xue's disappearance related to the time jump? It happened that time changed at that time, so she disappeared where she was. , in fact, she went to another timeline normally?"

“In her eyes, I just swipe it and it’s gone, but because I can’t receive text messages from another timeline, I can only receive text messages from that time.”

I will keep writing tonight, posting as much as I can, until I go to bed.

 (End of this chapter)