Day of Imprisonment

The people in the mirror are all 'Luo Xi'.

Or rather, they are his various personalities.

There are many of them, so many that Luo Xi himself doesn't know how many there are, and among these personalities, he only remembers a few. Many others he has no impression of at all.

But it's certain that as long as they are personalities in the mirror, they are all his defeated opponents.

"Long time no see, let's chat." Luo Xi with glasses still looks refined, like a cultured scoundrel.

Besides Luo Xi with glasses, there's also the physically strong Luo Xi who curses, the gaunt Luo Xi, the shaved-head Luo Xi, and the Luo Xi who wears a dress and smoky makeup.

Some of them, if he didn't see them, he wouldn't even remember that such a personality existed.

"I'm busy!"

Luo Xi refused directly.

The Luo Xi with glasses immediately said, "Wait, aren't you curious why that guy ran away scared without even fighting?"

Luo Xi glanced at the Luo Xi with glasses in the mirror.

"Do you know the reason?"

"Of course, I know, after all, we are all in the mirror, and you can't come in here."

Hearing this, Luo Xi frowned.

The Luo Xi with glasses suddenly realized he had said the wrong thing and immediately added, "We can help you catch that guy back!"

"No need!"

Luo Xi finished speaking and immediately got up and walked out, without the slightest hesitation.

This obviously surprised those 'Luo Xis' in the mirror.

"He found out?"

"Impossible, how could he know?"

"It's a pity, what a great opportunity."

"It doesn't matter, stay calm, there will be more opportunities, as long as we are patient enough!"

In the mirror, calm returned, all the figures disappeared, and the desk lamp on the table no longer flickered. Everything seemed to return to normal.

Luo Xi went downstairs to the first floor.

He glanced at the old man, who also looked at him.

"Heh, it seems you didn't pass the second stage." The old man smiled.

Luo Xi didn't speak, and walked out of the chess club.

Qian Pangzi immediately followed.

"Luo-ju, is the chess upstairs a bit difficult?"

Obviously, Qian Pangzi didn't know the situation upstairs. He only saw that Luo Xi didn't seem to have cleared the scene.

Luo Xi didn't answer this question, but asked, "What is the professional card set you told me about before?"

"They can be obtained in certain level scenes. Of course, you can also go to the Time Assembly Hall, or large organizations like the Awakened Association, to exchange for them, as long as you can afford the 'price'."

"So, you know a combination recipe for a certain professional card?" Luo Xi saw why Qian Pangzi was so happy.

"Nothing can be hidden from Luo-ju. It's that big guy over there, Liang Qiu. I hit it off with him, and I learned a recipe from him, and it's a very good match for me. A professional card called [Boxer], the recipe is two [Enhanced Physique], a weapon prop [Boxing Gloves], and a biological card [Mr. Kangaroo] can be synthesized. The synthesis method is to enter 'Tun Tun Boxing Gym' before 7:00 am on each cycle day, put the cards on the recipe into locker number 13, close the locker door, and then open it to get the [Boxer] professional card."

Qian Pangzi really didn't guard against Luo Xi, and basically revealed everything he knew.

Luo Xi listened and pondered for a while.

"In this way, it is almost impossible to find out the professional card recipe you need by relying on your own strength. This is the key, and it is not easy to obtain the cards required for the recipe by your own strength."

Luo Xi understood.

That's why Qian Pangzi called himself over.

This guy is really thinking of himself.

First, he intentionally brought Liang Qiu over, and second, he also helped himself expand his circle of friends and network, because to collect the right professional card recipes and the cards needed for the recipe, more people are definitely more advantageous than fewer people.

In short, the Day of Imprisonment is not a place where you can truly 'clear' by relying on fighting alone.

"Tell me about Liang Qiu." Luo Xi said.

Qian Pangzi hurriedly said, "Qiu-ge is a good person, I'm not being sarcastic, and it's definitely a compliment. He is really loyal, and he doesn't have that many tricks."

A construction worker with little education, he supports his family, pays for his children's education, and pays for his parents' medical treatment, bearing an ordinary family on the shoulders of a man.

However, although he is not highly educated, he is gifted and has extremely strong physique.

Plus, he has been training on construction sites for many years and has great strength.

According to Qian Pangzi, when Liang Qiu passed the initial level scene, it was entirely because he was strong and had too much combat power. Moreover, he did not pass the level by his own strength, but because other Memory Retrievers wanted to kill him, he killed the opponent and seized the [Memory] card. Thus, in the initial level scene, he completely relied on almost crushing power to kill other Memory Retrievers who wanted to harm him and seize the cards.

Finally, after understanding the mechanism of the Day of Imprisonment, he cleared the level.

"Qiu-ge is a fierce man!" Qian Pangzi looked serious, as if he was stating his dream: "Luo-ju, in terms of intelligence, you are the NO1 in my mind. If anyone can think of how to escape the Day of Imprisonment, who can find that almost non-existent number 000, I think no one else can except you, not even that Lin Yixuan. But when it comes to force, I have always been unconvinced by others, but Qiu-ge is really amazing. He may be the ceiling of human combat power in the Day of Imprisonment, so I want to bring the two of them together, the strongest brain plus the strongest force, only in this way, it is possible to escape."

After speaking, he sighed: "Because I know myself, I can't do it, so I knew from the beginning that if I want to escape, I must hug the thighs, but I can't hug them blindly."

"Get to the point!" Luo Xi interrupted the other party's emotion.

"Oh, right, Qiu-ge joined the Awakened Association, thinking the same as me, just to rely on a big tree and contribute his own strength, only in this way can he leave the Day of Imprisonment. However, he said that dozens of cycle days have passed, but he can't see any hope at all. In addition, their leader, Lin Yixuan, doesn't seem to care about this matter, especially recently, he doesn't care about the affairs of the association at all, and it's all supported by that girl An Zhiyan. You met her, in Tun Tun Bookstore in the morning."

"Her, I remember!"

"Then I'll continue, Lin Yixuan promised Qiu-ge something, but it hasn't been done, which makes Qiu-ge very disappointed. After I knew about it, I thought, if Luo-ju you can help Qiu-ge with this matter, maybe, he will risk his life for you!"

"What is it?"

"Save his wife and children!"

Liang Qiu smiled and handed the phone to Luo Xi. He said, "Actually, I've already figured it out. Some things are not what I want them to be. It's just... Qian Pangzi said you are very powerful and praised you to the sky. Actually, I admire you people who do scholarship. My brain doesn't work. I'm not that kind of material. My daughter is learning, but... Hey, it's okay. Don't worry, it doesn't matter if you can't help. Let's take a look first."

Some people, the more they say they don't care, the more it actually shows that they care.

Even, this Liang Qiu is like what Qian Pangzi said, he can't even lie.

Luo Xi looked at the chat history on the phone.

It said 'Wife' on it.

The previous chat logs were from outside the Day of Confinement, meaning they were from the true 'yesterday.' The content was simple care, greetings, and sent videos and photos.

Around four in the morning, two voice messages came through.

One was thirteen seconds long, and the other was only five seconds.

Luo Xi clicked on the thirteen-second voice message.

"Daddy, help me! Where are you? It's on fire here! Daddy, boo hoo hoo hoo, please come save us!"

The background noise was chaotic and messy.

And the child's crying took up a lot of time, making it clear it was a little girl's voice.

It should be Liang Qiu's daughter.

Luo Xi glanced at him; his eyes were red, but he still said, "It's okay, I've heard it countless times, I'm used to it."

So Luo Xi clicked on the second voice message.

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This time, there was no sound; the other side was still chaotic and noisy.

And then it was gone.

It seemed like she wanted to say something, but couldn't make a sound.

After that, there was a series of failed call prompts, presumably because Liang Qiu, after discovering the voice message, tried to call back anxiously, but the other party didn't answer.

"Every cycle day, I wake up at 6:11 AM, I can't wake up earlier, no matter what I do, I can't wake up earlier. Every time, I can only watch this voice message come through, every time, I try to call back..."

Liang Qiu couldn't continue speaking.

He looked up at the sky, saying nothing.

Qian Fatty beside him also had a solemn expression. This guy was usually joking and cursing, not serious most of the time, but when he needed to be serious, he was more serious than anyone else.

Luo Xi was flipping through the chat logs.

He didn't empathize, nor did he feel any sympathy. The [Absolute Rationality] card was placed in the card book, and the card's power was influencing him, allowing him to focus on extracting clues while ignoring any factors that could affect his emotions.

From the chat logs, Liang Qiu and his wife had a very good relationship. They contacted each other almost every day in the past, sending each other pictures, videos, and various emojis.

The child would use her mother's phone to send voice messages to her father, and enjoyed it very much, sometimes sending a dozen in a row, with content such as 'What is Daddy doing?', 'When are you coming back to see us?', 'The teacher praised me today,' and so on.

A few minutes later, Luo Xi looked up, "Find a map."

Qian Fatty immediately went to find one, and quickly got one. It was very old; Luo Xi remembered seeing it on the wall of the chess club before.

Fatty actually just took the map off someone's wall.

"We are located in Tun Tun City, and your wife and child are in Gu Gu County, 430 kilometers away. It's half a day's drive. Have you tried going there?"

Luo Xi looked at Liang Qiu.

The latter nodded, "The guy named Lin is Lin Yixuan, the leader of the Awakened Association, known as the smartest brain among the Memory Retrievers. Heh, he had me drive to find them, but..."

Liang Qiu's face showed fear as he spoke.

Before this, this burly man had always been carefree. He might suddenly become sentimental because of certain things, but he had never been afraid of anything.

But at this moment, the fear on his face was hard to hide.

"What did you encounter?" Luo Xi asked.

"I died!" Liang Qiu replied.

"What? Died?"

"Yes, died. Actually, I don't know how I died. I was driving, reached the edge of the city, but the next moment I suddenly 'woke' up..."

"Woke up?" Luo Xi immediately understood what he meant, "You entered the next cycle day?"

"Yes!" Liang Qiu nodded.

"How many times?" Luo Xi immediately asked.

"Many times. They discovered my abnormality and stopped me, otherwise, I might have continued to try. At that time, I seemed to be in some kind of unclear state. I was like a madman, constantly trying, again and again, each time consuming a [Memory]. If Lao Pu hadn't discovered and stopped me, I would have already lost my memory."

Liang Qiu hadn't actually encountered anything terrifying; he just couldn't leave the city. Each time he just got to a certain location he would enter the next cycle day.

But just thinking about this made him feel terrified.

Moreover, the more he thought about it, the more afraid he became.

"I tried many roads, many directions, but all failed. No matter how I tried, the result was the same. We couldn't even get out of this city."

"So, you believe that as long as you leave this city, you will die?"

"That's the only explanation, and the guy named Lin also said so." Liang Qiu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "After that, the guy named Lin told me that maybe my wife and children don't exist at all, or that they are not trapped in the Day of Confinement. But I feel that's not right, because my daughter did send me a voice message on the phone. I can hear it, it's her, it's my girl."

"So, you started to resent that Lin Yixuan because of this?" Luo Xi asked.

"No, I'm not that petty. One thing is one thing, I still understand this principle. We can't be unreasonable." Liang Qiu said, his tone suddenly rising a few degrees, "But, the guy named Lin killed Lao Pu. I can't forgive him for this."

Luo Xi didn't care about Lao Pu's death.

Because he didn't know the other person at all.

"But people from other cities do exist." Luo Xi remembered that he had seen news, news about other cities, and even the international situation.

"But we haven't found any Memory Retrievers from other cities. The Awakened Association has specifically investigated this matter, and it is still ongoing. We can see news from other cities and can even contact them, but they are all Amnesiacs, no Memory Retrievers have been found. Gu-laoshi from the Awakened Association is in charge of this matter, he is a scholar, if you have the opportunity, you can ask him, you will definitely be able to chat."

"Then, you should have contacted acquaintances over there, but there were no results, right?" Luo Xi asked.

"Yes, I've tried all the methods I could think of. It's strange, I can't contact any of the acquaintances over there." Liang Qiu was also puzzled about this, "I even called the radio stations and newspapers over there, asking them to help find people, called the police, but although they accepted the case, there were no results. By the next cycle day, everything was in vain."

"Since that's the case, let's give up for now," Luo Xi said at this time.

He got up and clapped his hands.

Liang Qiu frowned, "Give up? You want me to give up? That's my wife and children, that's my family, how could I give up?"

"But you can only give up, and as I said, it's temporary. I guess that Lin Yixuan also gave the same suggestion. Instead of dwelling on an unchangeable ending, you might as well think of a way to break the Day of Confinement. Also, when you consider problems, sometimes you need to change your perspective, for example, if your wife and children are not in the Day of Confinement, then what you hear and see is false; conversely, if your wife and children are also in the Day of Confinement, then they, like us, must also follow this almost endless cycle and reincarnation, and as long as they still exist, there is still hope of reunion."

Liang Qiu's expression was solemn, and he didn't say anything.

Just like he said before, he understood the principle, but it was difficult to accept the result.

Luo Xi thought for a while and looked back, "Of course, this is the optimal choice. If you are still obsessed with this, then you can try not to carry [Memory], and then try to leave this city and go to Gu Gu County. Of course, you will become an Amnesiac, because I speculate that if you want to reach another city, you must become an 'Amnesiac'."