Chapter 62 He felt a sense of familiarity
The moonlight was cool and the corridor was silent.
Zhang Chun was still holding the blue potion, with a short knife from the attacker behind him pressed against his neck, but he showed no fear and stared at the bartender in front of him silently.
The silence lasted for a long time. As if understanding something, Zhang Chun spoke first, breaking the silence.
"It is indeed as the information says, he is a suspicious person."
The blade against his throat showed signs of getting closer, and the threat was obvious.
Zhang Chun just stared at the silent bartender quietly and continued the action that was interrupted earlier.
He took out a syringe from his other pocket, dipped it into the blue potion and absorbed some of it. Then, he pierced his wrist with the sharp needle and pressed the blue potion into his skin bit by bit.
The bartender's pupils shrank slightly.
At the end of the corridor, after setting up the domain, Zai Zhe, who was sitting against the wall, quickly supported himself with one hand and tried to stand up. However, halfway through, he seemed to remember something and slowly sat back down, pursing his lips, as if ready to activate the first rule at any time.
Zhang Chun threw the syringe that had been used to inject the medicine on the ground, making a crisp sound that made everyone breathless.
He turned to the bartender again, raised the blue potion, and asked again: "Your choice."
“…”
The bartender finally seriously considered the meaning of Zhang Chun's actions.
Take the potion, restore memory, get rid of this boring game of house, and return to where he should be... Isn't this the ending he has always longed for?
The bartender looked at Zhang Chun and slowly took the blue potion.
The moonlight shining through the corridor window shone on the potion, giving it an unusually alluring luster.
And then? , a clear shattering sound suddenly sounded.
Tiny pieces of glass fell densely from the sky, mixed with blue liquid, splashing cold water on the ground.
The bartender's hand was still in mid-air, with tiny pieces of glass and blue potion between his fingers.
He destroyed what he once desired with his own hands.
"Sorry." The bartender passed by Zhang Chun and said something like a sigh or a cold response, "I still don't believe you."
He? Patted the trembling cloaked man, "Let's go."
The socially anxious guy gritted his teeth, silently retracted the knife, and quickly left behind the bartender.
At the end of the corridor on the other side, Zai Zhe stood up quickly and spoke very quickly, "Rule one, this place? No drugs are allowed--"
He? The voice stopped abruptly.
Zhang Chun is smiling.
"Don't be nervous." Zhang Chun casually pressed the needle hole on his arm, which had almost healed.
He said casually, "I'm past the age of threatening others with poison."
Zai Zhe was slightly startled and sighed: "That's really a surprise."
"But since it's not poison, could it be true? Is it an antidote? This is not like you."
Zhang Chun did not answer, but took down his bangs to cover his eyes, then walked to the side of the corridor, opened the window, leaned out half of his body, and looked down.
"How long are you going to lie there? When?"
Below the window, there was a black shadow clinging to the wall.
The moonlight illuminated this? dark shadow.
It was a black-haired boy who was wandering around late at night without sleeping.
Chu Xiuyan looked up and said stubbornly: "I am just absorbing the essence of the moonlight."
"Yeah?"
Zhang Chun looked up at the bright moonlight. Tonight's moon seemed to be a circle larger than usual, rounder, brighter, and softer.
Chu Xiuyan climbed up a few steps like a spider, sat by the window, and asked in a low voice: "Uncle, what was the result of your test?"
Zhang Chun pondered for a moment and asked a question, "Do you think what I just held in my hand was an antidote or poison?"
Chu Xiuyan: "I'm just making a blind guess. It's neither poison nor antidote."
Zhang Chun laughed, "Blind guess... OK, your intuition is pretty accurate."
"So? How did the test go? Uncle, do you approve of the bartender?"
"Agreed?"
Zhang Chun ruffled the boy's hair and said casually, "Let's take a look."
It was strange that the confrontation and conflict he had provoked could be easily suppressed by the object of suspicion.
The bartender was saner and more perceptive than he had imagined.
He is a smart man.
…
The next morning, when Chu Xiuyan yawned and pushed open the door of the office, he almost thought he had walked into the wrong place.
The whole room was filled with busy figures, running back and forth with a pile of documents in their arms. One of them fell down, perhaps because he was too nervous, and the documents in his arms flew all over the place.
"Wow, I thought this scene only appeared in TV dramas or anime."
Chu Xiuyan sighed while pulling at the door frame.
[Exaggeration. By the way, your shoelaces are untied.]
Chu Xiuyan didn't care? He just shook his feet and swung his shoelaces forward.
Then continue to observe the room.
It turned out that Zhang Chun and the bartender were sitting together peacefully, processing paperwork.
It was as if last night's confrontation had never happened.
Chu Xiuyan still couldn't figure out what Zhang Chun thought of the bartender. Although the atmosphere didn't seem tense, there was a vague sense of weirdness.
At this time, a figure appeared from behind him and touched his head, "Brother Zhang already has a son. Time flies so fast."
Then he walked into the office shaking his head.
Soon, another strange man appeared outside the door. He touched Chu Xiuyan's head awkwardly, coughed lightly, took out a palm-sized box from his arms, and said, "I heard from the captain that you like blood crystals. This is a meeting gift."
Chu Xiuyan was at a loss? What was the gift? The box, opened, was full of blood crystals that were almost blinding.
“…Wow.”
So, when the third man with a strange face was about to enter the office, he saw the black-haired boy standing at the door suddenly raised his foot and pressed it against the door frame on the other side, blocking his way.
Then? Very impolitely? He extended his hand, and silence spoke louder than words.
Strange man: “…”
Zhang Chun in the office raised his head while busy, and saw the scene at the door. He said helplessly: "Yun Yan, stop playing, let me go."
Chu Xiuyan picked his ears and said, "I am deaf today."
The next second, the collar seemed to be hooked by something, and then the whole person was lifted up uncontrollably and placed on the ground beside him.
The bartender calmly drank the last sip of tea, wrote a capital "Reject" on the proposal report in front of him, put it in the pile of rejected documents, and then took back the silver thread.
I thought a black-haired boy would come running in angrily to complain soon, but when I looked up, I found that he was squatting at the door, with a black aura wrapped around his body, hugging his knees, and staring at him with a gloomy look.
The bartender calmly said: "It's a bit conspicuous."
Zhang Chun was busy handing over work to his old subordinates who had just arrived, and casually replied: "You caused it, solve it yourself."
The bartender fell silent.
At this time, Zhang Chun's old subordinates walked into the office one after another. I don't know if they had discussed it in advance, or if the dark shadow squatting at the door was really conspicuous, so that everyone who stepped into the room would touch the boy's head.
When a heroic short-haired girl followed the example of the person in front of her and stretched out her hand, Chu Xiuyan finally couldn't help it.
"That's enough! My head is not a walnut. If I keep grinding it, I'll go bald!"
He stood up angrily and prepared to run away.
But the short-haired girl handed over a dark red short knife. After pulling out the scabbard, she could clearly see dark red lines flowing in the blade.
"Blood crystal particles have been incorporated into it. Can it restrain some polluting organisms? The ability to heal itself."
The short-haired girl shrugged and said, "I owe Zhang Chun a weapon, and now I'm giving it to you."
Although Chu Xiuyan couldn't use this weapon, it looked cool on him, so? He happily accepted it, "Thank you. Where can a weapon like this be forged?"
"Ruined city, looking for G7 company."
…
"To the ruined city?"
After waiting for the arrival of the group of old subordinates with great difficulty, and successfully assigning the tasks one by one, Zhang Chun could finally breathe a sigh of relief. However, after hearing the boy's secret reminder, he wanted to sigh.
"I can't go to the Ruined City. If you want to go, the Ruined City will send someone to take over Jing Heng tomorrow. You can follow them."
Chu Xiuyan bit the table, making crisp crunching sounds.
"What about going out to sea? Aren't we going to chase the water monster?"
"They are going to the desert. The desert area is located in the west of the ruined city. After crossing the forest, there will be grasslands. If we continue to go west, we will reach the desert. So we will go by land. Cui Zhiyong and his team should go to the northwest first by sea, and then go south to the desert."
Zhang Chun drew a simple map for Chu Xiuyan, marking two routes. One was the eastern sea route, which would first go north across the strait, enter the northwest snow mountain area, and then go south to the desert, which would require a big detour; the other was to go directly west, pass the ruined city headquarters, cross the forest, pass through the grassland, and directly enter the desert.
Chu Xiuyan rested his chin on the table, dragging his voice and saying in a sticky voice: "But I want to go out to sea by boat——"
"A3 base? There are no ships. The ruined city does have a few, but they have not been used for many years. Let me contact the professionals there first, and then? Think of a solution, okay? "
Zhang Chun patiently explained to the boy.
"So? Why? Can't you go to the ruined city?"
Zhang Chun frowned, why are we back to the same place again?
He began to break down some of the principles that could not be explained clearly and told them to the young man.
Simply put, Zhang Chun, who was guilty of a crime in his past and now forcibly took a large piece of territory from the ruined city, does not have a very good reputation in the ruined city. In addition, it is very likely that the remaining forces will launch a sneak attack and assassinate him, which will cause unnecessary trouble.
Chu Xiuyan thought hard, "Can you? Wear a mask! Disguise your identity, pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger!"
Zhang Chun laughed: "Then what role should I play?"
Chu Xiuyan blinked his eyes: "There is a ready-made one, our amnesiac? The head of the family, the captain of the ghost team!"
Zhang Chun's expression changed instantly. "That Dark? What? I absolutely won't use it!"
"Damn it! What's wrong with my Dark Night Destruction King being handsome??!"
…
Zhang Chun struggled to persuade the black-haired boy to leave, using the excuse that he needed to rest up before heading to the ruined city tomorrow.
He planned to find a secret room to hide tonight, and then come out tomorrow after everyone left.
I didn't expect that after I finally found a remote room and fell asleep, two dark shadows appeared beside the bed.
Zhang Chun opened his eyes instantly out of vigilance, but the next second he felt dizzy. He was wrapped tightly in a blanket and carried on someone's shoulders like a cicada pupa. A black shadow quickly packed his luggage and then cheered.
"It's too late. Let's go, uncle!"
Zhang Chun struggled for a moment, and saw the bartender standing at the door and the Lion Boss laughing crazily, and sighed helplessly.
"Why are you accompanying him? It's nonsense..."
Boss Lion was inexplicably very proud: "I am a member of the Amnesiac family. I have to fulfill the wishes of my family, hahahaha!"
The bartender looked away, a complicated expression on his face, "He? Has? Been pestering me for a whole day."
Therefore, before the team sent by the ruined city to pick up Boss Lion arrived, all members of the Amnesiac family set out overnight, without even having time to notify Qiu Wei and others who were supposed to go with them.
…
Time passed quickly. With Zhang Chun's guidance and Lion Boss's insistence, they finally approached the ruined city headquarters three days later.
It was raining heavily at this time, and the way down the mountain was difficult to walk, so they planned to set up a tent on the mountain and take a rest.
Chu Xiuyan right? The first impression of the ruined city is that it is a city built in the rain.
Looking down from the hillside, a giant fortress stood tall in the heavy rain, with numerous dozens of meters high sentry towers rumbling and patrolling in all directions. Black shadows could be vaguely seen shuttling quickly through the woods, and occasionally a few stopped and looked up the hillside from afar, as if they had spotted the figure of the lion boss, then pretended to know nothing and continued to move forward in the direction of the mission.
The big raindrops hit the waterproof cloak, making a rustling sound.
Chu Xiuyan stared blankly at the steel city. Under the misty sky and the pounding rain, everything in front of him seemed hazy and unreal.
He? Slowly? raised his hand, made a photo-taking gesture, and made a slight mocking sound with his mouth.
“Click. This angle and this scene are perfect for the cover.”
"Take photos? The scenery is indeed nice. There are many similar scenes in the ruined city. If you like, can I lead the way for you and take photos?"
Suddenly, a hand gently pressed his shoulder. Chu Xiuyan suddenly came back to his senses and turned around to find that Zhang Chun appeared behind him without him noticing. He asked casually.
"Have you ever been to the ruined city before?"
"No, I just felt that this scene was very shocking. It would be great if I had a camera to capture it."
"Many people will have this feeling when they see the ruined city for the first time. There is a magazine company in the city, which has magazines specially recording various landscapes. Can you go and have a look?"
"First, I have to buy a map! Then, I have to buy a camera and take some photos and check in!"
Zhang Chun observed the boy's expression quietly and calmly. After finding nothing unusual, he suspected that he might have seen it wrong, so he responded to the boy's previous sentence.
"Before buying anything, you need to find a suitable hotel to stay in."
Chu Xiuyan made an OK gesture, then? pushed Zhang Chun away forcefully. After a while, he? sneaked back by himself.
As a result, I saw the bartender also standing on the hillside, looking at the city in the rain.
Chu Xiuyan puffed up his cheeks, stood aside, and then? squeezed him madly? .
The bartender glanced at the troublemaker and moved two steps to the side, leaving a lot of space.
Chu Xiuyan was satisfied.
The cold rain fell down with a clatter, suppressing many sounds, as if everything was isolated in another world.
"Do you have that sense of déjà vu, too?"
Chu Xiuyan took the initiative to ask the bartender, speaking naturally, "I have seen many similar scenes, movies, TV series, animations and even various landscape pictures, so that the brain collects so much information and begins to make up some non-existent scenes. So, when I stand here and see that this scene in reality is similar to the scene made up by my brain, I will feel a sense of familiarity."
The bartender didn't look at the boy, his eyes were still calm, and he said, "I am in a state of amnesia, everything I see is very familiar."
Chu Xiuyan took two steps closer to the bartender and whispered, "Stay away from Boss Lion. I feel like you're about to be assimilated by him."
The bartender glanced at him lightly, as if he was speechless, then turned around and said, "I took a temporary name. After entering the ruined city, you can just call me Chu Li."
"Also, don't worry too much. The number of strong people around you and the power you possess are enough to solve all problems."
He? He looked up and found the man standing by the car staring at him silently.
At that moment, the bartender's face froze with an uncomfortable expression.
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