“How could that be?” Hua Lingze shook her head. “I just felt that the girl looked familiar.”
Lin Nai laughed: "I've seen a lot of rich young men pick up girls, and they all start with this."
“It’s not just that girl,” Hua Lingze said calmly. “Actually, I saw many passersby who looked familiar, but I just couldn’t remember seeing them here before.”
“At first, I thought it was just a coincidence. But later the feeling got stronger and stronger. I felt like I had seen many of the people walking on the street before... Maybe I don’t know them well, but I’m sure I have seen them before.”
Linna raised an eyebrow.
Just now... he had that feeling for a fleeting moment too...
The sun was barely hanging on in the west, almost sinking below the horizon.
The town streets were stained crimson by the blood-red sunset.
Linnaeus said, "Let's not think about that now. The sun is about to set. Let's find a place to stay first."
Hua Lingze nodded gently: "Mm."
The three of them wandered around the town for a while, and after some searching, they found a guesthouse that looked relatively large and impressive.
"Haha, greetings to the three gentlemen! May I ask if you'd like to stay at an inn or have a meal?"
As soon as Lin Nai, Hua Lingze, and Fang Wu stepped into the inn, they heard a cheerful voice.
A man in his forties came out to greet them with a smile.
Lin Nai was completely stunned when he saw this person, and remained frozen for a long time.
"Old Zhang???"
That's right...
The innkeeper in front of me looks exactly like Old Zhang!
"Old Zhang" was taken aback by Lin Nai's words and asked blankly, "Eh? How does this young master know that my surname is Zhang?"
Lin Nai frowned, lost in thought.
For a moment, he thought it was arranged by the event organizers, and that Old Zhang was pretending to be an NPC...
But seeing the boss's reaction, Lin Nai suddenly felt it was impossible.
Well, Lao Zhang doesn't have that kind of acting skill.
Hua Lingze also turned to look at Lin Nai and asked, "What's wrong, Lin Nai?"
Lin Nai shook her head: "It's nothing." Then she smiled faintly at the boss who looked just like Old Zhang: "Could you please arrange a guest room for us? The biggest one."
"One guest room?" Old Zhang looked puzzled. "The three of you are staying in one guest room?"
"Don't worry, you'll get your share of the silver." Lin Nai pulled a large silver ingot from his sleeve and tossed it to Old Zhang.
Old Zhang's face lit up with a smile the moment he saw the money, and he had no further objections: "Alright, alright... I'll arrange it for you right away!" Then he turned around and shouted, "Little Yang, are you done yet?! Why are you taking so long? Are you deliberately slacking off? Believe me or not, I'll dock your entire next month's pay!?"
"Coming, coming... Boss, I'm sorry..." A young man hurriedly ran out from behind the curtain.
When Lin Nai saw this person, he almost spat out his food.
Isn't this Yang Xiaochuan??
"Gentlemen, please come upstairs with me." Yang Xiaochuan greeted Lin Nai and the others with an embarrassed smile.
"..." Lin Nai looked at Lao Zhang, then at Yang Xiaochuan, and suddenly felt that he was really out of character, and almost couldn't hold back his emotions.
It's possible that two people look alike.
These two people... are obviously out of the question...
However, Lin Nai pretended to be nonchalant and said calmly, "Okay, lead the way."
Yang Xiaochuan: "Okay!"
Fang Wu followed Yang Xiaochuan upstairs, while Lin Nai and Hua Lingze followed slowly behind.
Hua Lingze asked in a low voice, "What's wrong? Did you find something?"
Lin Nai gave a wry smile and said, "The innkeeper and the waiter from earlier look exactly like my night watch teammate..."
Hua Lingze raised an eyebrow upon hearing this. She then said, "I see... I recognized several of the people on the street just now. Now that you mention it, I understand. Several of the people in this town are my former classmates from school or servants my family used to employ. However, I don't know many of them well; I've only met them once, which is why I can't recall their names."
Lin Nai thought to herself, "So that's how it is."
Now he was starting to understand what was going on in this town.
"It seems that the residents of this town are parallel world clones of people that we contestants have met before."
Linnaeus said this.
"It seems so."
As Hua Lingze spoke, she suddenly thought of something else.
"By the way, where did those guys who were following us go?"
Lin Nai knew that Hua Lingze was referring to the contestants from those gene companies, and shrugged: "I don't know."
"Just now, when I was searching for a way out of the maze in the mountains, I left behind a lot of small trap talismans along the way."
"They probably couldn't keep up with us and got lost."
......
"Tiger...Brother Tiger...."
As it grew dark, a student from a genetics company couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure this is the right road?... If it gets dark, it'll be even harder for us to find our way out..."
"How would I know!" Hu Xiong gritted his teeth.
He never expected that Lin Nai would be so cunning!
Linna must have discovered their tracking long ago, which is why he left so many trap talismans along the way!
They were injured by the trap talisman and now they've lost track of it, disoriented in the woods...
"Don't panic." Hu Xiong tried his best to calm himself down. He had been searching for the way with his eyes closed the whole time. "If what that young master of the Hua family said is true, the maze formation in this mountain forest is just an illusion. As long as we don't let our eyes affect our thinking, we can get out of here."
"But we've followed you for so long, and we still haven't gotten any results..." a student behind him muttered softly.
Just then, another student saw something, his eyes lit up, and he suddenly shouted, "Brother Tiger! Look!"
Upon hearing this, Hu Xiong opened his eyes.
Then, the familiar town gate appeared not far away.
"Hahaha... See? I told you, following me was definitely the right thing to do!" Hu Xiong laughed and waved his hand. "Let's go! We've reached the finish line now. I think we shouldn't be too slow; we'll definitely be within the top two hundred!"
"Mmm..." The students behind him were also very confident.
After all, this maze formation is so difficult that even Lin Nai and Hua Lingze had to put in a lot of effort to unravel it, so it's unlikely that others would be able to unravel it so easily.
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