Chapter 44 Daily Life (V)

The reflection of the city lit up when Mu Yu stepped down the last step and touched the ground.

At that moment, it was like a stone falling into the lake, and the entire surface of the lake began to ripple.

Brilliant lights and shadows condense and flicker on the lake surface. Tall buildings stand in a row below the lake, growing in their opposite directions and reaching towards another night sky at the bottom of the lake.

The reflection of the city stretched out in all directions, like a magical painting unfolding on the earth, but the pedestrians around were walking back and forth as usual, as if no one had noticed the sudden change. Only the seven of them who had just come out of the copy could see it!

"This...what is this?!" Fu Xiaoju was dumbfounded.

Mu Yu was also a little stunned.

He lifted the foot that had just stepped down, but the city scene on the ground did not disappear.

It's like a lamp. Once it's on, it's on and will never go out automatically.

The group of people went downstairs again in a hurry.

The way they lowered their heads and looked at the ground in shock attracted the attention of people around them.

The reflection of the city under their feet was obviously not the reflection of the city in their world, because the buildings in the reflection did not match the buildings next to them at all!

The reflection under their student activity center building was not the student activity center at all, but a row of unfamiliar buildings on the flat main road.

The reflection under the teaching building is not a teaching building. There is no reflected object on that piece of ground. It may correspond to the road surface of the world under your feet, but the shadow of a building appears for no reason on the farther road.

They scattered, dumbfounded.

Soon, the group "Win 100 million tomorrow" became lively.

Su Mingyun: "Fuck, I just came back from having hotpot with Qiaoqiao, what's going on on the ground, is there a light show?"

Chang Sen: “Ah?”

Jing Qiao: "@Chang Sen@Jiang Shuyue@Mu Yu, go and see!"

Chang Sen: "I just finished a game."

Chang Sen: "What the hell, what the hell, what's going on???"

Chang Sen: "@Jiang Shuyue@Mu Yu, did you see it?!"

After waiting for a while and getting no response from the two, I @ed them again in the group.

Jiang Shuyue: "Yes, I see. Things are a bit complicated. I'll tell you later..."

Chang Sen: "?"

Jing Qiao: “???”

Su Mingyun: "This tone definitely shows that something has happened. I have a bad feeling..."

On this side, Ye Sui stared at the ground beneath his feet and murmured, "Could this be the world where Lu Chongnian is?"

"But didn't he say he was in a world exactly like ours?" Yu Hui said, "This is obviously different."

Mu Yu watched all this with wide eyes and suddenly felt something was wrong.

He turned around and observed it again, then asked, "Do these buildings look familiar to you?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Shuyue said: "Yes, I wanted to say that too! Don't you think these buildings look like teaching buildings?"

He pointed to the row of buildings reflected on the main road.

This row of buildings is not tall. At this moment, only one or two rooms have lights on, and the rest are in darkness.

Judging from the area of ​​the windows and the faintly visible tables and chairs inside, this row of buildings is neither a residential building nor an office building. It looks more like a teaching building in their school, but it is definitely not a teaching building in their school.

Fu Xiaoju scratched his head: "Which school's teaching building is this..."

Li Ke raised his hand and said weakly: "I, I seem to recognize it..."

Everyone looked at him immediately.

"It feels like the Institute of Culinary Technology. I have a friend there and I often visit him. This building seems to be their Building 10..."

Xinlian City Culinary Technology College? ?

Everyone was surprised.

That is the only vocational school in Xinlian University Town, located in the north of the university town!

But their School of Science and Technology is in the south of the university town, just across from the School of Culinary Technology. How come the other school building is reflected here?

Mu Yu walked around again and went to talk to Jiang Shuyue and the others: "I feel like the world below me may have rotated. I need to find a higher place to take another look..."

Li Ke raised his hand again and said weakly: "I have a drone, maybe I can fly it..."

Everyone: It feels so good to have thighs to hug!

*

Eight o'clock sharp.

The “Win ​​100 million today” group.

[“Jiang Shuyue” invited “Ye Sui” to join the group chat]

[“Jiang Shuyue” invited “Fu Xiaoju” to join the group chat]

[“Jiang Shuyue” invited “Yu Hui” to join the group chat]

…

Five prompt messages popped up in succession. Su Mingyun, Jing Qiao and Chang Sen: “…………”

Chang Sen: "Don't tell me..."

Jing Qiao: "You guys are......"

Su Mingyun: "I told you I had a bad feeling! [screaming]"

Bird Brother: “Hello!”

Yu Hui: “[So many people.jpg]”

Li Ke: "@Chang Sen? Why are you here?"

Chang Sen: "Fuck you, Senior. I was just wondering how you got in..."

Mu Yu: "Senior Li Ke is also a civil engineer?"

Li Ke: "[Civil engineering dog falls down.jpg]"

Chang Sen: “[awkward]”

Jing Qiao: "You won't encounter another copy..."

Jiang Shuyue: "Just came out from inside [sweat]"

Chang Sen: "Fuck... where is it this time? Are you guys okay?"

Li Ke: "How can it be alright [crying] @Changsen you have encountered this kind of thing, why didn't you tell me earlier? If I had known, I would have taken a leave of absence earlier [crying]"

Chang Sen: “[awkward][awkward]”

Yu Hui: "@李柯, let's join the army of those taking a leave of absence [handshake]"

Jiang Shuyue: "If there are more dungeons later, and more science and technology students become players, then you all will drop out of school hand in hand, and the science and technology university will become an empty city by then [laughing and crying]"

Bird Brother: "Don't curse us, we in the Polytechnic Institute didn't offend anyone!!"

Mu Yu: "[I reposted a post, come and have a look!]"

Fu Xiaoju: "What is this?"

Mu Yu reposted a post from the Xinlian University Town Forum.

The post was posted this afternoon, and the title was "What's going on outside the Polytechnic today?"

There is a photo on the main building, which is taken at the entrance of the Polytechnic School.

A group of college students were crowded there, and everyone was jumping with their fingers pointed up to the sky.

The poster said: "I was in a taxi jam at noon, listening to them singing Calabash Brothers in a chorus with a confused look on my face. Is the mental state of science and technology people so abstract?"

1L: “What the hell, hahahahaha why are you singing Calabash Brothers?”

2L: "It's unreasonable that the science and technology people gathered together to sing Calabash Brothers instead of reciting President Dou's famous quotes today [狗头]"

3L: "I was at the scene, I don't know why I started singing along, it seemed to be because there were three mysterious passers-by cosplaying as Calabash Brothers, I couldn't even see their faces clearly [covering face]"

4L: “I have a photo! [The photo] is a little blurry!”

5L: "The photo above is so blurry that I thought I was extremely nearsighted."

6L: "I was also there. Those three mysterious passers-by were really mysterious. They suddenly jumped out and scared us. The snake demon was a woman dressed as a woman. Suddenly, he started to lead the singing of Calabash Brothers and asked us to sing along. After the singing, the three of them ran away. They came and went without a trace..."

7L: "A man dressed as a crossdresser?? Requesting high-definition photos!!"

8L: “It’s strange that there are no high-definition photos. I asked many friends who were there at the time, and they all said that the photos they took were blurry, and even the videos were blurry.”

9L: “Do all you science and engineering students have hands that shake like this [dog head]?”

10L: "Pass it on, everyone in science and engineering will have trembling hands [dog head]"

11L: "Damn it, don't slander us! It's those three people who are difficult to film!"

The building behind is crooked.

Students from seven universities got together and discussed for more than 200 floors around topics such as "What do science people do in their daily lives to make their hands shake like this?", "The best way to prove that not all science people have shaking hands is to take a high-definition photo?", "But there was not even a single high-definition photo of the chorus of nearly a hundred people at noon?", and "This is totally unscientific."

212L is the moderator, and he said: "OK, move this post to the Weird Talk section."

The following comments are all:

"???"

"ah?"

“Just because there are no high-resolution photos? [Laughing and crying]”

"It's really weird if you think about it carefully..."

"Years later, students in the university town clicked on this post and found out that the cause was actually a chorus of Calabash Brothers..."

…

At this moment, Mu Yu posted this message, and Jing Qiao said excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes, didn't I tell you, I went to school at noon and watched, the faces of those three people were really not clear, I have photos too!"

She sent a blurry photo.

Yu Hui and Niao Ge replied to her with six points.

Jiang Shuyue: "@Jingqiao, don't you think that snake demon looks familiar?"

Jing Qiao: "Ah? What do you mean?"

Jing Qiao: "Wait..."

Jing Qiao: “Ah???”

Jing Qiao: "Don't tell me this has anything to do with the copy..."

Mu Yu: “[adjusting glasses.jpg]”

Jing Qiao: “Help! Aaaaaah!”

…

After that, the group chatted for a long time. Jiang Shuyue sent two voice messages, which were heard by Jing Qiao, Su Mingyun and Chang Sen as being outside, and they asked him where he was.

Jiang Shuyue said that they had just come out of Li Ke’s dormitory and planned to find a place to fly a drone to see what was happening in the underground reflection world.

Jing Qiao, Su Mingyun, and Chang Sen: "Then let's come too!"

At half past eight, ten people gathered at the gate of the Polytechnic Institute and went into a small woods behind the institute.

The sky is clear today, and there is not a single thick cloud at night. A thin crescent moon hangs high in the night sky, and the stars are shining brightly.

In the dark grove, the drone took off, rising slowly into the air with a buzzing sound and flying forward.

Li Ke connected the drone and the laptop.

At this moment, everyone gathered behind him, watching him operate the drone to shoot another city below their city shrouded in night.

The underground world corresponding to the grove is exactly the main entrance of the Culinary Academy.

Out of this door, across the street is the school's dormitory area.

The dormitory area was brightly lit. They could not see anyone in the city, but they could imagine the scene of students entering and leaving the dormitory area.

Flying further ahead, they saw the complex in the commercial district and shops along the street.

The street lights, the large screen on the exterior wall of the complex, the colorful lights in the green belts, all kinds of lights come together, as noisy as their world.

Jiang Shuyue just happened to have friends in this complex in their world.

At this moment, he received the photo taken by the other party at his request and said, "In both worlds, the external screen advertisements of this complex are the same."

Mu Yu stared at the real-time picture on the laptop and asked, "How far can the drone fly at most?"

Li Ke: "My plane reached the top after more than one kilometer."

Jiang Shuyue: "Then should we move to another location? Where should we go next?"

Mu Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Let's go east."

To the east of the university town is Xinlian University, abbreviated as Lianda.

Lianyungang University and Polytechnic University have been competing for the top spot for countless years, and the winner is still unknown. The relationship between students of the two schools is very delicate. They are rivals of each other, but sometimes they also sympathize with each other.

Lian Da is Jiang Shuyue’s happy hometown. He took everyone to find a quiet open space, and Li Ke took off the drone again.

Mu Yu looked at this century-old school.

Originally, Lu Chongnian should have studied here.

And now?

At this moment, Lu Chongnian has already returned to this underground world, right?

What is he doing?

Did he return to the dormitory, or was he, like them, with the reflection of their world appearing under his feet and looking down?

Mu Yu looked at Li Ke's laptop screen in silence.

On the screen, the drone captured images of the underground world in this area.

Mu Yu recognized it quickly this time: "This is the Medical University."

Lian University is located in the east of the university town, and its corresponding underground world is the Medical University which should be in the west.

Ye Sui seemed to be thinking: "The underground world and our world are 180 degrees apart."

Bird Brother: “Why is this happening?”

Su Mingyun also raised a question: "Is the entire underground world reflected here? What I mean is, outside of Xinlian University City, are there reflections of the underground world in other places?"

"I don't know," Mu Yu said decisively, "Let's take three taxis to the media department and take a look."

Xinlian City Communication University, where Hong Yang was studying, was located in the northeast corner of the university town, close to the edge of the university town. They could go there to find out what was going on.

Three taxis drove forward and backward in the night.

After arriving at the Communication University, they asked the driver to drive a few kilometers further.

Along the way, Mu Yu and Ye Sui did not contact Hong Yang.

The two sat in the back seat of the same taxi, and Ye Sui whispered to Mu Yu: "Now I can understand your previous thoughts."

Mu Yu wanted to keep a distance from them before because he didn't want to involve them.

The copy game is too dangerous and players can lose their lives in it if they are not careful, but neither Hong Yang nor Ye Sui before him understood the seriousness of the matter.

And now...

The question now becomes, if they want to keep Hong Yang outside the copy game, then how long will they have to fight with the copy before they can find out the existence behind it.

Where will the two separated worlds go?

Mu Yu looked at the scenery outside the car window. The light and shadows passed across his lenses, and he remained silent.

Arriving at a wasteland, Jiang Shuyue paid the three taxi drivers to wait and let them continue to use the meter.

The three older drivers smoked and looked at the ten of them with strange moods as they walked a few steps away, turned on their computers and flew the drone.

The drone was circling above this desolate land, and the ten students were also walking around, not knowing what they were looking at.

In the middle of the night, are you doing geological survey?

Li Ke suddenly said: "No more, it ends here!"

Everyone gathered behind his laptop and saw that the drone flew about 900 meters to the northeast and the reflection disappeared.

Nine hundred meters away, the ground was just ordinary ground, plain and silent in the night, without even a trace of reflection.

Jiang Shuyue pondered and said, "I guess it's the same in other directions. At this distance, there will be no reflection if you go further out."

Everything is clear now——

The city reflection is likely to appear only within the Xinlian University Town, with the center of the university town as the center of 180-degree rotation.

They didn't know whether the reflected world would continue to expand outward.

But since this is the current situation, the strange events such as the appearance of copies, two separate worlds, etc. must be related to what happened in this university town.

They all looked at Mu Yu, Ye Sui and Fu Xiaoju.

On the way here just now, Fu Xiaoju had already told them what happened on August 21st.

It was the second day of the reunion of Class 12, the freshly graduated senior class of Xinlian No. 1 Middle School.

The alumni reunion was held at the Wenshan Club, which was located halfway up the mountain in the southeast corner of the university town and was naturally within the scope of the university town.

Fu Xiaoju asked Mu Yu: "Have you asked Yan Shaowen if that club is owned by his family? Has there been any supernatural incidents in their club recently?"

"No, Yan Shaowen said that their surveillance is normal, and they have been operating normally during this period," Mu Yu glanced at his phone, "but this morning I asked him if he could let us go and take a look, and he hasn't replied to me yet."

The young master was always busy, so it was great that he was called out by Mu Yu on that day.

Fu Xiaoju: "Damn it, wait, I'll go to their dormitory tomorrow and find him out! Brother Lu has disappeared and he's still so calm!"

Mu Yu: "Then count me in tomorrow."

Ye Sui: "Count me in, too."

Jiang Shuyue: "And me, and me!"

Everyone: "Why are you going there? You're not in their class!"

Jiang Shuyue blushed: "I..."

Mu Yu: "Ah, the fight for the title of 'school hunk' is really a complicated one!"

Jiang Shuyue: “…………I didn’t!!”