Chapter 48
A bank does not necessarily have a lot of money, but it must have many counters.
The curved space was surrounded by more than a dozen counters, each of which was two meters high. Pei Zhao was amazed.
What is this for? It’s so high.
But he soon discovered the answer. Under each counter door, there is a door as tall as a person. Xiao Hei led them into one of them. As soon as the door opened, they heard rustling sounds coming from inside.
"Is there anyone?" Pei Zhao said.
Xiao Hei nodded and chuckled twice, "It's our prince. I'll tell you the etiquette of meeting our prince later."
As they talked, they walked deeper and saw only a screen in front of them. Pei Zhao heard a familiar voice coming from behind the screen.
"I know, I know, please let me go."
Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli were both stunned. Before Xiao Hei could tell them the etiquette, Pei Zhao waved the screen away and asked, "Zhou Ran?"
The people inside were also stunned: "God Pei?"
As soon as the two met, Zhou Ran immediately ran over and hugged Pei Zhao: "Help Master Pei! Take me back to school!"
Pei Zhao held Zhou Ran's neck helplessly, "Why are you here?"
Zhou Ran pursed his lips: "I don't know either... I stepped into empty space, and the world changed."
Pei Zhao frowned: "You still have time to joke at this time?"
Just as Zhou Ran was about to say something, he felt a strong force on his arm. Before he could come to his senses, he was forced to separate from Pei Zhao.
Zhou Ran looked closely and said, "Brother Li, you are here too?"
Zhou Yuli's face didn't look very good. He glanced at him indifferently and said "hmm".
Zhou Ran looked back again and saw Bai Zhou, Lan Ji, and a man in black with wings.
Zhou Ran swallowed his saliva. Under Zhou Yuli's gaze, he inexplicably did not dare to pull Pei Zhao's clothes. He said dryly: "...Pei Shen, are you guys, traveling?"
Pei Zhao couldn't stand it anymore and patted Zhou Ran on the head: "Tell me, how did you become the prince here?"
Zhou Ran sighed, "It seems that this is not a dream." He rubbed the painful place where he was hit, and led everyone to sit at the round table in the back. "I have long felt that you and Brother Li are doing something strange. It turns out that this is related to supernatural events... But now, I have to believe it even if I don't want to."
Pei Zhao looked at Zhou Ran helplessly. He actually wanted to tell Zhou Ran about what he had encountered a long time ago, but if he told it to others, he was afraid that not only would no one believe him, but he would also be regarded as a lunatic. He never thought that one day he would be able to meet Zhou Ran in another world.
"You guys weren't in the dormitory some time ago, and I was bored living alone. The school was closed and we weren't allowed to move around, so I went upstairs to play games with my senior. When I went downstairs, it was too dark and I missed a step. When I woke up, I was already here. There was a person who looked exactly like me in front of me, saying something to me..." Zhou Ran scratched his head, as if he couldn't remember.
Pei Zhao glanced at Zhou Yuli and mouthed, "Puppet?"
Zhou Yuli nodded, catching the trace.
Zhou Ran continued, "Oh! That guy told me to stay here to replace him, and he would find a way to save this place." Zhou Ran pouted, "He also took my phone away."
Pei Zhao took out his cell phone from his pocket and asked, "Is this the phone he took away?"
Zhou Ran was delighted: "Yes, isn't this my phone?" After taking the phone, Zhou Ran looked at Pei Zhao again: "God Pei, how did you get here?"
Pei Zhao pointed to his phone and said, "Damn it, your phone. I almost got scared to death by a call in the middle of the night. But what is going on here? What should we do to return to our original world?"
Zhou Ran certainly didn’t understand. He hadn’t even figured out what Pei Zhao and the others were doing here. However, he had been “tortured” so much these days that he no longer had any desire to explore these things that didn’t conform to scientific common sense…
But Zhou Ran knew that with Pei Zhao around, he would definitely be safe. From childhood to adulthood, Pei Zhao has always been reliable.
Pei Zhao looked at the huge dark circles under Zhou Ran's eyes and asked Xiao Hei to take Zhou Ran to rest first. And out of precaution against Xiao Hei, he asked Miu Yi to accompany Zhou Ran.
After all the trouble, only four of them were left.
Bai Zhou held his chin and yawned, and urged Pei Zhao, "Why don't we just ask? We don't know what to do."
Pei Zhao’s idea was right. Instead of wasting time here, it would be better to ask directly.
"Xiaorui?"
[Hello host, gurgle gurgle... cough cough cough!] 】
This is not even an act. Pei Zhao wanted to laugh. Xiao Rui coughed for a long time, and finally calmed down, saying weakly.
【Host……】
"Well, what's wrong?" Pei Zhao was at ease and asked Lan Ji for a cup of water.
[Host, Xiao Rui can only tell you secretly that this mission is to restore order. 】
"Secretly?" Pei Zhao was stunned, "Did someone not let you tell me?"
[Well, he said...#%￥#...!] @……】
Before Xiao Rui finished speaking, all the voices behind him were disrupted, and the sharp sound gave Pei Zhao a splitting headache.
The sound was so harsh that it penetrated deep into his brain. Pei Zhao tried hard to endure the splitting headache, but then he felt his ears were covered.
This is Zhou Yuli. Pei Zhao didn't need to look up, his body suddenly relaxed and fell into Zhou Yuli's arms.
·
It's very quiet, like being in an empty space. A mechanical sound of "beep, beep" was heard from the snow-white sky.
In the haze, there was a clear female voice...
"He will be..."
Pei Zhao opened his eyes wide and woke up from his dream.
What caught my eye were Zhou Yuli, Bai Zhou, Lan Ji, Zhou Ran, Miu Yi, and Xiao Hei, who had no idea what was going on.
Seeing that he woke up, Zhou Yuli sat down beside the bed and supported Pei Zhao: "Are you okay?"
His ears still felt uncomfortable, but his hearing was not affected too much. Pei Zhao grabbed Zhou Yuli's hand and said, "I dreamed of... a voice..." But he could not remember what the voice said.
Seeing that Pei Zhao stopped talking, Zhou Yuli patted him on the back and said, "Don't be afraid."
Pei Zhao's expression was dazed. He felt that his memory of the dream just now was disappearing rapidly bit by bit.
It starts with a woman speaking, then voices, electronic sounds, ambient…
"Empty and snow-white." Pei Zhao only had time to utter two words, and when he raised his eyes again, there was nothing in his eyes.
"What?" Zhou Yuli seemed not to hear clearly, but Pei Zhao had already forgotten what he said.
"Nothing." Pei Zhao shook his head. He seemed to have forgotten something, but... he couldn't remember it. Maybe it wasn't important.
When no one was paying attention, Zhou Yuli took out his cell phone, opened the memo, and wrote something down.
…
"The system says that the mission this time is to restore order." Returning to the round table, Pei Zhao shared the information he got from Xiao Rui with everyone.
Bai Zhou was puzzled: "Restore order here? Do you mean to drive away the sea monster?"
Pei Zhao shook his head: "She was taken away before she could explain." Pei Zhao sighed. He tried to call Xiao Rui again, but there was only an electronic voice like a robot, repeating the same words over and over again. Normal communication was impossible.
Lan Ji touched his chin and said, "Or restore the original order of this world."
"I have a guess." Pei Zhao said, "First of all, I can confirm that Zhou Ran is not from this world. The real prince brought Zhou Ran here in order to find us to save this place."
Lan Ji nodded and frowned: "But there is one thing I can't figure out. Since he asked us to rescue him, why didn't he come back by himself?"
Bai Zhou said, "There is a problem."
Everyone looked at him: "What?"
"Perhaps according to His Highness's plan, Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli should have come here that night. Perhaps he didn't expect us to come."
Pei Zhao asked: "Does this matter?"
Bai Zhou rubbed his index finger and thumb together, raised his eyes and looked back, his noble temperament was revealed again. He raised his voice and said in a noble tone: "You may not know that Hall City also has a barrier. Generally, this kind of barrier can only allow a certain number of people to enter and exit at a time. If the number exceeds this, the barrier will not open."
An answer vaguely emerged in his mind, and Pei Zhao said: "You mean... originally, that prince should have come with us?"
Zhou Yuli, who had been silent the whole time, also spoke at this time: "That is to say, now, besides Pei Zhao and me, there are three other people here. In other words, besides that prince, there are two people from another world who are outside with him."
…
Pei Zhao was silent.
"If the standard for restoring order is to get everyone back to their places, then we may be in trouble now," Zhou Yuli said. "We may be completely cut off from the outside world."
·
That night.
The discussion didn't go well, but life went on. The possibility proposed by Zhou Yuli was undoubtedly a bombshell, so much so that Pei Zhao and Zhou Ran didn't have a good meal that night.
"If we can't restore order, we can't go back." This thought lingered in Pei Zhao's mind. He felt very guilty. The responsibility for this matter was his. He shouldn't have asked Bai Zhou and Lan Ji to come along. He had thought that there would be strength in numbers, but he was too inconsiderate.
Zhou Ran blamed himself, saying that he was the cause of the incident.
If he had controlled that prince in time, or resisted, perhaps everyone wouldn't have been dragged into this world, and wouldn't have to restore that shitty order.
Unable to think of a solution, Xiao Hei just said that you should never leave the bank at night because the sea monster lives in the city and if you go out, you will surely die.
Fortunately, there are many rooms in the bank. I don’t know if it’s a local feature, but the entire corridor is tidy, just like a hotel room.
Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli were arranged to stay in one room, Bai Zhou and Lan Ji were arranged to stay in one room, and Zhou Ran and Miu Yi were arranged to stay in one room reluctantly.
Miu Yi yawned: "But at night I am used to sleeping in my original form, it is more comfortable that way."
Pei Zhao was in a bad mood, and Bai Zhou spat out two words from between his teeth: "Bear with it."
Miu Yi immediately behaved well: "Okay, brother."
There are two beds in each room. Not afraid of Zhou Ran thinking too much, Pei Zhao entered the room, buried himself deeply in the bed and did not move.
Zhou Yuli stood and looked at him for a long time, then sighed softly and looked around. Surprisingly, everything he needed was there, including spare clothes and toiletries.
Zhou Yuli inexplicably had a sense of trance, as if they were not in the underwater world, but in reality.
Pei Zhao on the bed still didn't move, so Zhou Yuli had to hug him: "Don't be sad, I'll go take a shower first, and it will be your turn later?"
Pei Zhao groaned, and Zhou Yuli pulled him out from under the quilt and kissed him on the forehead. "Wait for me, it will be quick."
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