A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

But then it was as if nothing happened. The doctor's face returned to its harmless expression, and he smiled and said to Yabu: "I'm just kidding, but you have to understand this problem yourself."

The acting was quite realistic, making Yabu think for a moment that she was really jealous of her past self.

"Okay... then goodbye everyone, I hope your goals can be achieved." Yabu took a few steps back, and after scanning everyone present one by one, he waved to them to say goodbye.

"crown for you."

As the last words fell, Yabu, who was standing in front of everyone, disappeared from everyone's sight without any warning, as if he had arrived suddenly.

"It's okay. Let's go. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting for me for so long." The doctor's voice, which he put on his mask again, changed back to that dull voice. He quickly suppressed his emotions and became lively. He shrugged and said, "It seems that this mission will be successfully completed."

"Doctor, is this what Aide said just now?"

Hearing the doctor's words, the one who was called "Iron Controller", or the elite operator Mechanist, who had been standing by quietly like a bodyguard from beginning to end, suddenly asked, with a hint of hindsight in his tone. The surprise I felt afterwards was like winning a big prize.

"Yes, it's Yabu's blessing. We shouldn't be in any danger this time."

"Ha, now that I'm back, I have to tell Scout and the others properly."

"What's going on?" Mulseth on the side felt a little puzzled.

She didn't understand why they felt reassured by a verbal blessing. They had already set a flag and started to conclude that this meeting and the mission would definitely go smoothly.

superstitious?Or just for peace of mind like good luck cookies?

But when Mulseth turned his head to look at Ceria, he found that even someone like Ceria, after hearing the doctor's words, the expression on his face actually relaxed a little visibly.

That's Ceria...

What's going on? I feel like I'm the only one who can't do it.

The Doctor and the Mechanist faced Mulseth without saying anything. The two canned men were so tightly wrapped that they couldn't even see their faces, but Mulseth could inexplicably feel that the two of them were hanging on each other. He looked at himself with a smile without saying a word.

Seeing that these two people didn't intend to say anything, Mulseth had no choice but to look at Ceria.

Seeing Mulseth staring at her with a curious and confused expression as if he was scratched by a cat in his heart, Ceria had no choice but to think about it for a moment and then said: "I don't know either."

"what?"

"But Ifrit mentioned when chatting with me that she was blessed by that person."

"Could it be that Ifrit's situation is like...wait a minute."

Mulseth, who had recovered enough to be able to leave Ceria's crutch and stand where he was, suddenly hammered his palm as if he remembered something.

"Do you know how easy it is to ask Yabu for help? I thought Evefu was joking with me before. Evefu told me that as long as..."

Ifrit said, just draw a four-pointed star, a small star like the end of Ceria's tail.

You don't even need to actually draw it on anything, you can do it by facing the air or even imagining the shape in your mind.

"Ahem...! Ms. Muirseth."

The doctor coughed a few times, interrupting Mulseth's thoughts of continuing, and stretched out his index finger to make a silencing gesture.

"That is a secret that Yabu has given to all Rhode Island operators. Although Rhode Island will not take possession of it, please don't tell it. People who need help will naturally know."

"...All the Rhode Island operators? Every one?" Mulseth's mouth twitched as he looked at the doctor who nodded in affirmation, and asked in a half-joking tone, "I'm changing jobs now. Is it still too late to go to Rhodes Island?”

"Yes, but a reminder, each person has only one chance to ask for help. You have already used it, and it will be useless even if you come to Rhode Island."

"Huh? Are there any restrictions?"

Mulseth suddenly felt as if he had suffered a serious loss.

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*A somewhat old but well-protected notebook with four horizontal lines on it, all of which have now been marked with slashes.

*When all Rhode Island operators go on missions, their equipment will always be equipped with a small box with "Emergency Rescue" written on it. After opening the cover, there is a red button inside.

*The button is actually just a seal.

*? c: 48%

Chapter 26 How did you do it! ?

613...614...

The sunlight outside the window filled the room, making the room completely devoid of any feeling of darkness. However, there was a motionless person sitting on the chair in the room, which directly transformed the transparent and warm atmosphere into a heart-warming one. A hair-raising chill.

She sat there like an inanimate object, and the eerily quiet atmosphere in the room made it impossible to feel the breath of any living person.

615...616...

The thin and petite doctor in the hotel is like a cold and dark rag doll. Only the fingers that tighten from time to time can make people realize that she is not a dead thing. She is holding the pendant of Yabu tightly in her hand, with all her strength It was so big that the edge of the pendant dug into the flesh.

The doctor who was sitting there had an open book on her legs, but she never lowered her head to take a look at the book. Instead, she kept counting the numbers in her mind and stared at the place where Yabu disappeared.

617 ......

"Doctor, doctor, doctor! Come on, come on!"

"came back?"

"Isn't this because I'm afraid that you'll be anxious, Doctor?"

The sore palms slowly stretched out, and the doctor closed the open book on her knees with a calm expression, giving people the feeling that she was just reading and waiting for Yabu to come back, and was not affected by Yabu's disappearance. Any negative emotions.

"How could it be? I believe you will definitely come back."

It was as if the person who was watching Yabu's disappearance like a dead thing had nothing to do with her. There was only one person sitting there from the beginning to the end who believed that Yabu would definitely come back and was not surprised enough to even find time to read a book. PhD.

"How long have I been gone, Doctor?"

"When I think about it, it seems like..."

In fact, there is no need to think about it at all. It disappeared for a total of 617 seconds, which was so long that she felt suffocated.

The torturous feeling of not being sure whether Yabu will appear again will appear at the beginning of every second. As the regret and a little expectation gradually deepen, the next second will come, until Yabu finally returns to himself, The other self in her ear kept scolding and whispering to her before finally disappearing.

"Well, about 10 minutes." The doctor stood up and walked to Yabu. After looking around, he helped him straighten his clothes that were full of wrinkles due to being hugged with some obsessive-compulsive disorder.

It's really strange. It's obvious that he is just a person like himself, and his body cannot act as a light source. But when he returned to this room, the doctor felt that the depressing and cold environment around him had become extremely bright, brighter than the sun outside the window. .

"That's it. It seems that the time on both sides is synchronized. It's almost 10 minutes on my side. Oh, by the way, Doctor, let me tell you, you will never guess who I just met..."

"I?"

"...?"

It was as if a stone man had invaded Yabu's brain. The whole machine was down. His face showed a sluggish expression like a murmur, and his thoughts began to slowly escape into the starry sky starting from the Big Bang.

"...is it really me?"

"No, ah, no, yes, ah, wait a minute, this, hiss..."

What was the situation? How did you know it? Did you get the inspiration? 1d100 rolled a 1?

"How did you do that!?" Yabu made a sound that he would make when facing other people's outrageous actions while playing Mario.

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"That means you met my future self."

"Yes, so how exactly is it done?"

Although Yao Bu wouldn't say anything because of her past, after all, she didn't want to be seen in her bad self. After knowing that the person Yao Bu met was not her past self, the doctor was secretly relieved.

"So the pendant is not only transmitted on the space axis, but also on the time axis."

"Yes, so how exactly is it done?"

"Then you met the future me. After helping to remove a few iron knots, the future me gave you a staff. One of the people accompanying you also helped us solve the identity problem in the present."

"Yes, so how did you do it, doctor?"

"Tsk..." The doctor smacked his tongue quietly.

At this moment, the doctor is pressing the paper that Seria handed over to Yabu with one hand, and holding a pen in the other hand to translate the text on it into Yanguo, so that Yabu, who has a weak dominant left hemisphere of the brain, can read it. Understand this foreign language.

From time to time, the doctor would raise his head and glance at Yabu, looking at the knife given to him by his "future self" in his hand. Although he knew that in general it was him, the doctor still felt inexplicably felt in his heart. The feeling of frustration.

If you are looking for death, you must be sick.

You are all my future self. Don’t you know that I also want to give Yabu a staff when it’s time to give it to me? If you give it to him, what should I give you?

...Excuse me, don’t you have your own Yabu? Why are you here to improve Yabu’s favor with me?

"So Doctor, how did you do it? Please, if I don't know anymore, I feel that the future will be gloomy, and my life will be meaningless to me."

This is too exaggerated, but...

"What?" The doctor, with a little revenge, kept hanging on Yabu's curiosity, pretending not to understand what he was talking about.

"How did you guess that it was you I saw just now?"

"Well, I'm just guessing. It seems that my guess is quite accurate."

Seeing that Yabu was about to become twisted like a cyberpsychotic due to being tortured, the doctor moved his eyes away from the knife. A childish sense of superiority brought a bit of pride to the doctor's voice.

"Since you can ask me that question and ask me to guess, then you should meet someone I know and will be surprised when I hear it. But you and I have just arrived here and don't know anyone. The only person I know, other than you, is me, and then I just tried to choose one, and I guessed it...probably."

"perhaps?"

"Because it was just a guess anyway, so I guessed a rather outrageous one, and who knew I actually won."

Yabu slapped his mouth a few times, and after a few seconds of organizing his words as if he was hesitating to speak, he slowly squeezed out a sentence from his mouth. "...6."

No more fighting, this is a high-end game.

"Just think you're praising me."

Although he didn't know what Yao Bu was playing, the doctor could still feel what he wanted to express. He shrugged and lowered his head, covering up the raised expression at the corners of his mouth, and helped Yao Bu translate the words on the paper. .

In fact, there are some other points, such as judging from some dents in the clothes, the man seems to be about the same height as himself, and when Yabu asked that question, he looked at himself as if he wanted to play a prank... .

Although he said it was just a guess, if he thought about it carefully, he could still think of many places, but he thought too fast and the process seemed to have been omitted.

But it would be too boring to say it all. It’s like magic, and it loses the fun if you explain it in too much detail. Now it’s quite fun to see Yabu’s surprised expression on himself.

'Tsk, but if you think about it this way, you haven't grown in height at all. '

The doctor, who was not very confident about his height, felt a little sad.

"Okay, the translation is done. I have translated them into Yanguo. You read it again and I will hear if there is anything you misunderstood."

The doctor breathed a sigh of relief, capped the pen, picked up the paper with Yan Guoyu written on it from the table, and prepared to hand the paper to Yanbu.

"Give...huh?"

But when the doctor raised her head and looked at Yabu, she suddenly frowned, as if she was not sure whether she was dazzled. After blinking a few times, she rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand.

"What's the matter, doctor?"

"What's that thing on your chest?"

It appeared to be an...inverted white heart shape.

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*? CE: 50%

*A pure and spotless soul

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Chapter 27 Aide

"Is it really okay for you to just block that heart?"

"Let's make do with this for now. I'll write the letter first. Then, dear Ms. Seria, I..."

"Huh? Why don't you start now, my dear?"

"No, it was a slip of the tongue. My dear, my dear, I have only written to my mother before, and she said it smoothly."

I can count on one hand the number of times I have written letters to Dabu since I was a child. The only times I was asked by the school to write to my parents on Mother's Day.

However, because Yabu's mother was often amused by the formal tone in Yabu's letters and laughed out loud in front of Yabu, Yabu had always been somewhat resistant to writing letters.

"Forget it, you better stop being free and I will write the rest for you."

If he continues to express himself freely like this, the doctor always feels that he will say something harmful to the pen tip.