Day of Imprisonment

Entering room 809, Luo Xi looked around.

"Just as I thought!"

He muttered.

It was evident that the room was still messy, with traces of blood in some places, likely from the emergency response after discovering the daughter's suicide.

"Besides the ambulance this morning, many police officers came as well. Lao Zhou reported the case, constantly yelling that someone had killed his daughter. However, the conclusion of suicide was something I and a police officer inquired about. They also collected evidence, and Lao Zhou will be notified of the results."

Brother Mao looked around: "Early in the morning, it was a mess here, alarming the entire building. It took quite a while. You came late; you could have seen it if you had come earlier."

"The room has been reset," Luo Xi said, squatting down near the trash can and touching the desk.

"What are you saying?" Liu Mao asked, puzzled.

"The administrator's room originally shouldn't be affected by the reset of Imprisonment Day. However, after Zhou Xinpeng was fired, his room was also reset. Have they really abandoned this checkpoint scene?"

It could be said that the person in front of him was completely different from the Luo Xi he knew.

"Luo Xi, what on earth happened to you?" A hint of curiosity flashed in Liu Mao's eyes.

At this moment, Luo Xi was carefully inspecting every room.

"The desk is empty, and there's no disconnected telephone. Have these things originally belonging to the administrator been taken away?"

Luo Xi muttered, walking into Zhou Ya's room.

Bloodstains remained on the bed, and blood-stained plush toys were scattered on the floor, unattended. It was evident how chaotic it was here this morning.

Luo Xi carefully examined the room but didn't find the blood-stained diary.

"Since the room was reset, the diary should have been refreshed as well. Or is it because the diary is a card item, or belongs to the administrator's room, so it's not within the scope of being refreshed?"

Luo Xi began to check the drawers.

"Luo Xi, what are you looking for?" Liu Mao asked at this moment: "I'll help you find it!"

"Actually, I'm not sure what I'm looking for... By the way, Brother Mao, how much do you know about Zhou Ya?" Luo Xi suddenly asked.

"My daughter and Zhou Ya are classmates, and they live in the same building, so they often interact. That's why I'm very familiar with Lao Zhou. How should I put it? Zhou Ya seems quite quiet and a bit introverted. To be honest, I don't know much, but you can ask my daughter about this."

Luo Xi was stunned, then nodded.

Liu Mao's suggestion was excellent.

Children have their own circles, and some of their little secrets that adults don't know, but children definitely know.

"Brother Mao, what were you going to say earlier?" Luo Xi asked, getting up from the floor. He had been looking under the bed.

Unfortunately, he found nothing.

"Actually, yesterday... no, not yesterday. You said that Imprisonment Day would constantly loop. Today, there is no yesterday, and there is no tomorrow. So, on the previous cycle day, didn't you ask me to take my family and children to have fun and experience life? So I took the children to a big meal and then to the amusement park, but..."

"You encountered a checkpoint scene?"

"Uh... how did you know?"

"So, the previous cycle day didn't achieve the goal of enjoying life?" Luo Xi wasn't surprised, or rather, he seemed to have anticipated this result.

Liu Mao was very surprised. He nodded: "It was fine at the beginning when we were having a big meal, and the children were overjoyed, especially when they knew we were going to the amusement park. But when we went to Bear Valley Amusement Park, things went wrong..."

As he spoke, a trace of pain appeared on Liu Mao's face.

Clearly, he had other terrible experiences on the previous cycle day.

"Who would have thought that Bear Valley Amusement Park would also be a scene, and even more terrifying..." Liu Mao's expression was very bad at this moment, and it could be seen that he was suppressing his emotions.

When he said 'even more terrifying,' it meant it was more dangerous than the two scenes he had previously experienced, 'A Day as a Worker' and 'Sega Apartment Building'.

According to this situation, Liu Mao taking his family to the amusement park on the previous cycle day was not actually going to have fun, not going to enjoy life, but actively entering a terrible 'slaughterhouse'.

The result didn't need to be said anymore.

"Luo Xi, you actually anticipated it, right? You deliberately let me go... to make me recognize reality..." Liu Mao stared at Luo Xi, waiting for the other party's answer.

He thought Luo Xi might feel guilty or quibble. After all, no one could know about this in advance, and he could easily get away with it by finding a reason.

As a result, Luo Xi didn't feel embarrassed or have any intention of quibbling or concealing anything.

He nodded: "I guessed that some special scenes of Imprisonment Day would inevitably be made into checkpoint scenes, and there should be an amusement park among them. Of course, that was just a guess. I can only say that I'm not surprised by the situation you encountered, but it can't be said that it was intentional... Brother Mao, how are you feeling now?"

"I'm feeling very bad. To be honest, when I saw them being killed by those monsters with my own eyes... at that time, I really wanted to ask you face to face what your intentions were. I wanted to scold you and even kill you, but before I died, I suddenly calmed down."

"Some things are better to realize sooner than later. Besides, you didn't do anything wrong. You just didn't remind me that I might encounter other checkpoint scenes, and I forgot to be wary of these possible dangers, knowing that Imprisonment Day is very dangerous. To put it bluntly, it's still my own problem. And at that moment, I understood many things."

"Luo Xi, there's one thing I've always been curious about. Why did you choose me out of so many people in the company, and say that I'm a Cleaner... I know what Cleaners are, like Fan Yong, who went crazy and killed people with a hammer, or Zhou Ya... But I don't know how to become a Cleaner. I used to fantasize about using the power of the Cleaners to kill all those monsters and avenge my family, but the actual situation is not like that. I'm like a pig about to be slaughtered, hung upside down, and drained of the last drop of blood."

"Then, I woke up again, looking at my sleeping family. Don't laugh at me, I cried at the time, crying like a baby. I hid on the balcony wiping away my tears, then smoked a few cigarettes, and finally understood... Luo Xi, I don't care what your plans are, and I don't care what you do. Since you chose me, then as long as you need it, I will help you, anything is fine. I just hope that one day when I wake up again, my family and I can live in a normal world. I can fulfill my wish to help my wife travel abroad, and I can watch my children enter junior high school, enter high school, go to college, and then grow old like normal people..."

Liu Mao's throat moved, and he lowered his head, taking a deep breath.

Clearly, he was calming down.

Luo Xi understood, so he didn't say much, just nodded.

"There's also one more thing I find very strange. Before I woke up this time, I had a dream... I mean, although I've had dreams before, this dream was before I woke up this time, which means that before I woke up on the previous cycle day, I didn't remember any dreams, but this time I remember it, and it's very real. I remember every detail."

At this moment, Liu Mao's expression was very strange. Clearly, the 'dream' he was talking about was definitely not normal.

"What kind of dream was it?" Luo Xi's curiosity was piqued.

"Uh, I dreamed that..." Liu Mao glanced at Luo Xi: "I was killing people, Luo Xi, you know? That feeling was very strange, as if the me in the dream had fallen into a kind of madness. I could feel extreme anger... no, not anger, it was resentment, the feeling of being treated unfairly or being deliberately discriminated against, but a hundred times stronger than I can describe. Anyway, the me in the dream was full of resentment, wanting to kill all the living people in front of me."

"Was it at the company?"

"It seems so, but I'm not sure, because everything I saw in the dream was blood red, and many things were severely distorted. But every person I killed was very clear, and I could recognize everyone, including Wu Rui, Guo Zening, Zhang Yanan, and Director Du, and you."

"A dream?" Luo Xi looked excited at this moment. He looked Liu Mao up and down: "Brother Mao, actually, I initially pulled you out to break the cycle mechanism of the scene, but do you know, later I had an interesting discovery after experiencing several other checkpoint scenes."

"What discovery?" Liu Mao felt a little uneasy being stared at by Luo Xi.

"Taking the Cleaner as an example, you are more powerful than the Cleaners in other scenes. So Brother Mao, you are very special!"