Chapter 309 Who is he?
One week later.
Another day of work was over. Youxi packed up and decided to have dinner outside today.
Due to the lack of fresh food in this world, many hotels outside allow guests to bring their own vegetables, fish, meat and clean water, and then hand them over to the restaurant kitchen to process them according to their own requirements.
The guests of this kind of hotel are basically rich and powerful people. The restaurant dare not offend such people and will never tamper with the ingredients.
Moreover, the chefs hired by this kind of restaurant often study various recipes from the past when food was abundant. Not only do they understand the cooking methods of various dishes, but they also have superb skills. Even the most ordinary ingredients can make delicious dishes.
Youxi took out the M12 Wagyu beef, large shrimp, asparagus, and broccoli brought from the native world, and took out some necessary seasonings such as black pepper, green onion, garlic salt, and asked the chef to cook a medium-rare steak and shrimp stewed with asparagus, as well as a garlic broccoli. The
restaurant waiter opened the bag that Youxi handed over and saw the fresh shrimp and juicy vegetables inside. He immediately knew that this was a big customer, so he was extra cautious and asked Youxi about all his taste preferences and various requirements for cooking dishes.
Youxi didn't have any requirements. These were top-notch ingredients even in the native world. Even if the shrimp was boiled in plain water and the Wagyu beef was fried without adding anything, it would still be delicious after it was cooked and paired with seasoning.
Soon, three dishes were served. The steak was tender and melted in the mouth. The shrimps were cut open and the shrimp threads were removed. They were sweet and tasty. The chef was very good. He made all three dishes look good, smell good and taste good.
She sat by the window and enjoyed her dinner quietly. The restaurant was on the 68th floor. Outside the glass was a large platform for parking aircraft. This height was about half the height of the entire city's buildings. It
was completely dark outside. The color of the night sky could not be seen on the heavily polluted planet. All around were three-dimensional signs of various colors, miscellaneous advertisements, and various introductions to various shops and stores.
This is a very magical city, with high-tech and gorgeous buildings coexisting with old and dilapidated buildings in the slums.
On one hand, there are flying machines on suspended magnetic tracks, and on the other hand, there are old rail cars running on the ground. The poor live in buildings that are about to collapse and eat synthetic food that has no taste at all.
But the rich and powerful can sit in luxurious restaurants, listen to soothing music, and enjoy the delicious food cooked with fresh ingredients.
While eating dinner, You Xi thought a little self-deprecatingly that at this moment, she was quite like those people living in the cloud city-state in the "Devouring Land".
She turned her head and retracted her sight from the restaurant window, but she caught a glimpse of a figure walking towards the flying machine.
She felt a little strange in her heart, and this time she turned her head very quickly and set her eyes on the man again. He was a tall man with an upright figure, and from her angle she could just see his profile.
The light from the billboard was clearly extinguished, making his profile flicker. She felt familiar again. When she tried to look at him, he turned around, got into his aircraft, and drove away.
It seemed... it was the man she had seen in the supermarket before.
He was wearing a uniform that day, so she judged that he should also be a member of the army, but it was strange. She had also been in the training center for a while, why had she never seen him there? There was
also this inexplicable sense of familiarity, like a name that came to her lips but could not be said, as if a certain message in her head was blocked.
Who?
Who is he?
**
When she returned to the 20th floor garage of the residential house that night, she did not see the cat in the corner of the wall. It did not appear every day, probably because it was full.
The next time it gets hungry, it will appear again, stay in the same corner and look at her with the same eyes.
The elevator girl didn't show up today either, probably because she had dinner outside and came home late.
The quiet day ended again, and the next day was still a workday. She wanted to go to the training center to check if she could find the man's information, so she left a little earlier.
The husband across the street hadn't left for work yet, until she walked to the elevator, pressed the button, the elevator arrived, and when she walked into the elevator, she heard the door there open.
Then, the young wife's soft voice came: "Drive slowly on the road. The order outside is not very stable now. You have to be careful and pay attention to safety."
"I know, don't worry, I won't drive fast."
"What do you want to eat tonight? I'll make your favorite dishes."
"I may work overtime tonight..."
...
The elevator door closed at this time, and Youxi didn't hear the conversation that followed, but even if she didn't hear it, she knew what the other party would say, which was similar to the situation every time her husband went out to work.
In fact, at the beginning, when she heard similar conversations several times, saw the black cat in the same place, and always met the elevator girl when she got off work, she had a strange thought, wondering if there was something wrong around her, like some kind of cycle.
She even began to suspect that the difficulty of another main mission was hidden, and it was not as easy as she thought?
But soon, this idea was broken by some other information.
First of all, if it is an infinite cycle, there will be more similarities, such as climate, such as the courses in the training center.
This planet is seriously polluted, so the weather changes a lot, and it is always hot and cold.
In the past ten days since she returned to reality, she has experienced the temperatures of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. It has rained and the sun has been out. The climate is not exactly the same every day.
In addition, she reads the news every day, and the news is different every day.
Finally, the husband opposite does not go to work every day. The work and rest time here are calculated in days, seven days of work and two days of rest.
When the husband next door is resting, he will not show up in the morning. He will accompany his wife to eat out at noon and go shopping in the supermarket.
The black cat appears at different times each time, but it always likes to stay in the same place when it appears. The elevator girl does not appear every time.
If she expands her vision, the images she sees in the memory fragments all match this world one by one. All the logic is very strict, and she can't think of anything wrong.
Therefore, the doubt about the time loop has long been refuted.
But it is undeniable that every time she sees the black cat, the elevator girl, and the couple next door, she can't help but have some subtle feelings in her heart.
This feeling, just like the one she had when she saw that man before, would inadvertently pass through her mind with a subtle sense of strangeness, but once she thought about it carefully, she couldn't figure out what the problem was.
In Youxi's view, since she could feel a sense of familiarity, then she must know that man, so she wanted to try to find him in the personnel files of the training center.
Unfortunately, that day she went through all the information of all the trainers and trainees, and looked through every photo one by one, but she didn't recognize anyone, and she didn't even have that sense of familiarity.
**
After work, she went to the supermarket first with the idea of giving it a try, and then went to the restaurant yesterday, but found nothing.
This feeling was also very familiar, just like in the original world before, when she saw something placed in a corner every day, but when she needed it one day and went back to look for it, she found that she could not find it.
She took the elevator to the 30th floor, where there was an aerial corridor connecting this building with the building where the training center was located.
The corridor was divided into two left and right lanes, which were two-way passages, separated by more than 20 meters. The outer circle was wrapped with glass walls. When coming, you walked on the left side, and when returning, you walked on the right side.
She walked from the right corridor to the opposite building. When she was halfway there, she suddenly realized something and stopped and turned around.
On the opposite left corridor, a young and tall man was walking slowly.
He has dark brown hair, a straight nose, deep eyes, and a mixed-race look. He was wearing a military uniform, looking straight ahead, and walking slowly across the corridor alone.
Almost at the first sight of him, that strange sense of familiarity came over her again, and this time because she saw his face clearly, the sense of familiarity became even stronger.
You Xi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly walked to the glass, waved to the person opposite, trying to get him to stop.
However, the glass of this high-rise sky corridor is specially made, soundproof and explosion-proof, with a distance of more than 20 meters in the middle. It was dark, and it was impossible for a normal person's vision and hearing to notice You Xi.
She knocked on the glass twice, but the other party was unaware and had already walked through the middle of the corridor and walked to the other end.
You Xi turned around and walked towards the building she came from.
In the technological age, there are electronic surveillance cameras everywhere. Those who come out of the endless train will only have one more space, and the physical data improved in the game will not be brought out. She didn't want to be the first person to be studied because of her strong physical fitness, so she only maintained the fastest speed of a normal person.
But when she returned to the building and walked through the complex building corridors to the entrance of the opposite corridor, she could no longer find the man.
In fact, she had already seen the other person's face clearly and remembered who he was. She just subconsciously felt that she shouldn't see him here, so she wanted to confirm it face to face again.
Like every time she saw him before, his appearance had changed slightly - or it was modified. When she thought of the word "modification", a strong sense of violation came to her mind.
Whether it's Ron, Kao, or Ling Feng, no matter what his name is, he shouldn't be here.
Because he is an NPC in the world of the Endless Train game.
Why would an NPC appear in reality? Even if the world of the Endless Train is not a virtual world, but a real low-latitude world, it is almost impossible for an NPC to cross the barrier and go from the low-latitude world to the high-latitude world after awakening.
On the way back to the house, You Xi made a lot of assumptions. Maybe Ron was not an NPC originally. He was also a person in reality who was chosen and bound. It was just that something went wrong, or he encountered a special situation, and he became an NPC by chance.
If he was a real person in reality, he would naturally leave the train and return to reality.
Or maybe, he is not only a real person, but also a tasker of the system tower, so he appeared around her several times. But if he is really a tasker, and he has returned to reality and recovered all his memories, why didn't he attack her these times?
He appeared around her three times in just one or two weeks, and she didn't think it was a coincidence...
You Xi frowned and analyzed, parked the aircraft, then got out of the car and walked towards the elevator.
She had all kinds of guesses in her mind for a while, and when she passed the corner, she glanced inadvertently and saw the black and white cat again. It squatted in the corner and looked at her, just like every time it appeared before.
At that moment, all the complicated and disordered guesses in You Xi's heart suddenly disappeared, and the cat was like a mute button, making the whole world silent.
She stopped and stared at the cat in a daze. A strange and bizarre thought suddenly crossed her mind.
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