Old Liu watched this scene and kept shaking his head.

His expression was one of utter disbelief.

The cigarette in his mouth was swaying up and down.

"Young man! And you, young lady, I don't know who you are, but this is really too strange!"

The fact that you two came back alive from there is already an incredible stroke of luck for you.

Once you get that contract, your time will suddenly start counting down, but so much time has already passed, and your pocket watch is still going at this speed!

You're still alive!

"You two are really tough!"

Old Liu kept sighing over it.

I was completely baffled. What was so special about this? Could this pocket watch possibly reflect the expiration date of the contract?

I asked a question, and Lao Liu patiently explained it to me, but his eyes remained wide open the whole time.

"You should remember when we were in the house together, there was no cell phone signal or time display, right?"

I nodded.

Indeed, at that time, apart from Lao Liu searching through the cached information in the group for me, I didn't know anything else.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so confused by that fake corpse and by the time in the fog.

"Later, I drove out alone along the side road, and suddenly the road returned to normal!"

According to that time, two whole days have passed now!

I went back to sleep, and when I woke up, I had already gotten more than a dozen orders! And that was in this sparsely populated area in the west.

It's strange that you two are still alright.

"I'd say you two are just lucky..."

When I heard this, my heart skipped a beat.

What's the meaning?

Two whole days have passed?

Yi Yi's face was also filled with surprise at this moment.

I looked at Lao Liu, and no matter how much I tried to recall, it was only one night.

We parted ways before midnight, and it's only just dawn now, how could two days have passed?

But no matter how much I talked to Lao Liu about the timeline, he still denied it outright, insisting that two days had definitely passed.

He also told me in detail what he had been eating these past two days: stir-fried potatoes and soup his wife had made for him.

Hearing this sent a chill down my spine.

Could it be that... while we were experiencing those scenes inside this hotel, time was flowing at a normal rate outside?

Logically speaking, since the time and place we encounter in each scene are different, the time outside should be completely fixed there!

Moreover, the girl's physical energy did not change at all during this time, and remained in a slightly longer state, which means that the entire time we spent in the hotel should have been in the latter half of the night!

I didn't dare to think about it any further.

"No matter what, we're back now."

Yiyi also spoke up.

"Yes, at least they're back now."

Lightning Sword echoed this sentiment.

It was precisely this sound of lightning striking—his own voice, with a slightly ethereal quality—that startled Mr. Liu, who was sitting in the front row.

The cigarette in his mouth was so startled that it fell out of his mouth, burning a small hole in his clothes.

"A ghost! What is that?!"

Driver Liu quickly looked down at the back seat, while I explained to him to calm down, saying there were many things about us that he had never seen before.

This Mr. Liu, he always appeared before me as someone who had been through it all or a seasoned and experienced driver.

Upon seeing a sword that could speak, he was utterly astonished, yet his eyes also held a hint of envy.

"This is amazing! I've never seen anything like it before!"

It was precisely Lao Liu's enthusiasm that left Lei Jijian completely bewildered.

I mentally transmitted a message to Lei Jijian: "You're not exactly good at socializing, so get to know this Lao Liu better and see what kind of lightning you can unleash with this!"

"Master, please stop joking with me! Only you can control this electricity within me."

If an average person were to carry it, given its weight, they probably wouldn't be able to lift it and would just leave it aside.

If I release even a tiny bit of energy, I reckon a normal person would be electrocuted and fall to the ground!

Do you want this driver to be electrocuted, or do you want me to indiscriminately kill innocent people?

Lei Jijian quickly started chattering away in my head using telepathy.

I didn't say anything more about him, but instead told Lao Liu that we had indeed only spent half the night here.

"If that's the case, then the scenes you experienced inside are very likely what actually happened outside."

Furthermore, the speed on this pocket watch proves that while you were inside for an hour, at least several hours have passed outside!

Hearing this, I finally began to understand a little bit.

This means that what we are experiencing is indeed happening.

However, because our time and location were disordered inside, the watch hands moved erratically.

"Alright, whatever, we need to get out of here now. Hurry up and clear a path. Is there still fog there from last time?"

I got straight to the point and started talking to Lao Liu.

He immediately hesitated.

An even more shocked expression appeared on his face.

I'm a little puzzled, what's wrong with Lao Liu today?

He seems so excited; could it be from smoking too much?

But I can't blame him, since what we told him was just too revolutionary.

If it weren't for Lao Liu taking us, I would never have said so much to him.

"I have something to tell you, but don't be in a hurry."

I nodded.

I thought he was going to ask me for three times the fare again.

But this time, Lao Liu didn't seem so greedy.

He spoke very harshly.

"Now we have no choice but to take a detour. That road is indeed open, and when I came here, I saw that there was no fog at all."

The problem is... that fog is now filled with corpses!

ah?

The place was filled with corpses?

Yi Yi was also quite surprised.

I quickly pressed for details, asking what had happened.

Old Liu swallowed hard.

Initially, no one identified the bodies that appeared, but the next day, a driver led passengers into the area.

Old Liu was also watching the driver with the intention of watching him make a fool of himself, but he later learned from the drivers' group that the guy didn't even go in and came straight back.

Only after asking did I learn that the car wheel had run over something hard as soon as it went a short distance inside.

Thinking it was something special, the driver went down to check and found it was actually a dried-up human corpse!

Those faces were exactly those of the passengers and driver who had disappeared inside the big house but had not been found!