Chapter 46 Daily Life (VII)
From surveillance footage from different angles, we can see that Mu Yu went directly down from the third floor to the first floor and left Wenshan Club without eating breakfast.
Apart from this, there was nothing else of note in the lengthy surveillance footage.
Mu Yu asked the staff to bring the footage back to when he came out of room 305, and watched this scene over and over again.
Ye Sui asked him: "Can you see the problem?"
Mu Yu frowned and shook his head.
He asked the staff, "Excuse me, can you pull the surveillance records back to August 20th so that we can take a look?"
On August 20, the whole class agreed to meet at Wenshan Club at 10:30 noon.
Mu Yu vaguely remembered that Lu Zhongnian came with Yan Shaowen that day and took the Yan family's car.
Although Yan Shaowen was only 18 years old and had just graduated from high school, his family background meant that he would not be as ignorant and idle as other students who had just finished the college entrance examination. He got busy as soon as he arrived at the club.
Lu Chongnian, with an indifferent expression, was surrounded by a group of rich young men and taken to the billiard table.
When passing by Mu Yu, Mu Yu vaguely remembered that they looked at each other.
At this moment, the movement trajectories of the other 47 people in the surveillance records have hardly changed.
From the order in which each person entered the door, to who left with whom after entering the door, and what they played together - all the scenes flashed across Mu Yu's lenses one by one, and matched the memories in his mind one by one.
The only one missing was Lu Chongnian.
Yan Shaowen came by himself and left with the manager.
The rich kids also crowded over, but when they saw Yan Shaowen was busy, they returned to the pool table.
There was one person missing from the noisy class reunion, but everyone in the surveillance video looked normal, even Mu Yu himself -
He chatted and laughed with Hong Yang and Ye Sui, but from time to time, he would subconsciously look into the void.
In the picture, every time his gaze accidentally fell on an empty corner, Mu Yu could clearly recall what Lu Chongnian did and said on that real day where his gaze fell.
When did the boy smile gently, when did he lower his eyelashes, and when did he raise them again, his deep and cold black eyes met his unexpectedly.
Mu Yu looked at the surveillance records, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled, as if he wanted to exhale all the foul air in his chest.
Fu Xiaoju said in a low voice: "These pictures are all fake."
The actions and reactions of these 47 people in the surveillance footage all seemed so fake in their eyes at this moment.
Yes, Lu Chongnian is not that important.
Everyone cares about him and likes to discuss him, but he is just one of 48 people after all. In the wider world, he is just one of billions of human beings, as small as a grain of sand on the endless beach.
Even if he disappears, the earth will still function normally and everyone will still be able to live a normal life. The world does not need him.
However, at the same time, the sand is gone and it is a fact that this seemingly perfect beach has been quietly damaged.
The sand fell into the water, causing ripples that continued to spread outward, and no one could avoid being affected.
Everyone in the picture is still laughing and making noise, but whether it is laughing or making noise, it seems to lack a sense of reality.
They seemed to be following the will of some mysterious being, completing their assigned tasks, making the expressions and movements that He wanted.
However, all of their behaviors lack a complete internal logic.
A sense of falsehood filled all the surveillance footage.
Not to mention Mu Yu, Ye Sui and Fu Xiaoju, the three eyewitnesses of the class reunion, even Jiang Shuyue, who was watching nearby, felt more and more uncomfortable.
As long as he imagined in his mind how Lu Chongnian should have appeared in these surveillance images, but was completely erased at this moment, he felt a sense of weirdness.
After watching the surveillance footage, they thanked the staff and walked out.
They gave the first and second floors a rough check and found no clues, so they went straight to the third floor.
There are no guests today and the entire club is very quiet.
On the third floor, a straight and luxurious corridor leads directly from the elevator to the end.
The corridor was very long, with rooms on both sides, all of which had their doors closed at the moment.
There is a passage in the middle of the corridor that bends to the right. That is the bathroom, and the light in the bathroom is dim and dark.
At the end is a terrace, and outside the terrace are lush mountains.
When the weather is fine, the view from this terrace is really nice.
Yan Shaowen used the room card to open room 305, and the group walked in.
The layout of each room here is similar. The only difference between Room 305 and other rooms is that the balcony is on the south side instead of the east side.
They walked around the room, and Fu Xiaoju asked Mu Yu, "So you don't remember anything that happened after Brother Lu walked out of the room that day?"
"Yes." Mu Yu sat on the double bed.
That day, after Lu Chongnian said to him, "Wait for me in the room, I'll go get some breakfast and be back soon," what did he do?
Mu Yu fell on the big bed, closed his eyes and tried to recall.
That morning, the atmosphere was filled with shyness and awkwardness. Lu Chongnian asked him to wait in the room. Given his personality, he certainly wouldn't do the opposite at this time.
But if he were asked to sleep again, he would definitely not be able to fall asleep.
…He seemed to toss and turn in bed for a while, then took out his phone and wanted to send a message to Ye Sui and Hong Yang, but at that time…
That's right.
A picture suddenly appeared in his mind - the screen of his cell phone that lit up after he tapped it.
Mu Yu opened his eyes and said, "The time should be 5:05."
In my mind, this is what is displayed on the phone screen.
Ye Sui, Jiang Shuyue and Fu Xiaoju immediately became serious: "Anything else? Do you think of anything else?"
Yan Shaowen, who was leaning against the door, raised his eyebrows slightly.
Mu Yu sat up and thought.
At that time, he realized that it was too early. Hong Yang and Ye Sui must not have woken up yet. More importantly, he definitely could not tell anyone he knew that he had slept with Lu Chongnian.
Then he put his phone down and continued rolling around on the bed.
And then...
Mu Yu's brows were furrowed tighter and tighter. No matter how hard he tried to think about what happened after that, all he had was a blank.
A feeling of irritation rose in his heart, and he stood up and walked back and forth in the room. The other four people just looked at him.
Mu Yu walked around for several times, then suddenly turned around and walked towards the window.
At this moment, the curtains were wide open, and the mountain scenery outside came into view for everyone of them.
The window is more like a glass sliding door than a window. You can open it and walk to the balcony.
Mu Yu felt - he just felt that he had nothing to do at that time, so he would definitely get out of bed, walk to the window, and open the curtains like Lu Chongnian - he would be curious about what Lu Chongnian was looking at at that time.
With a "clang", he opened the sliding door, walked to the balcony, and looked out with sharp eyes.
The mountains spreading out in layers into the distance are full of rich green, and the sunlight makes the lush trees shine.
As he remembered, when he woke up that day, he saw Lu Chongnian with his back to him, his head slightly tilted up, as if he was looking into the sky.
At this moment, Mu Yuyi squinted and looked up into the sky.
The sky on the mountain is clear blue and cloudless, as beautiful as a painting.
What was in the sky that day?
It was a little after five in the morning that day. Although the sky was bright, it was definitely not as bright as it is now. The sky at that time should still have a hint of heavy gray left over from the night.
then……
then……
Mu Yu's pupils suddenly contracted.
A picture suddenly popped up in his mind.
Leaden sky, heavy clouds.
And a black crescent moon appeared behind the clouds.
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After leaving Wenshan Club, they returned to Qiyu Cafe.
Young Master Yan didn't have time to accompany them anymore. After dropping them off, he stepped on the accelerator and disappeared without a trace.
Jiang Shuyue sighed: "Being so lacking in curiosity is also a kind of ability..."
They sorted out what they saw and thought at the Wenshan Club and sent it to the group - in fact, there were not many new clues.
Su Mingyun: "Black crescent? Isn't that the monster generator, just a different color..."
Chang Sen: "This color should not be visible at night. It can only be seen after dawn. But you didn't see it just now. Could it be that the moon has disappeared a long time ago...?"
Jing Qiao: "How about we go again tomorrow morning, around five o'clock?"
Mu Yu: "Well, that's our plan. The four of us will go again tomorrow morning."
College life is busy and leisurely.
On the contrary, Sen and Li Ke are very busy and have no free time even on weekends.
Su Mingyun and Jing Qiao lay in the dormitory for a while, but finally got up and met them in the cafe.
In the cafe, Su Mingyun licked her ice cream and asked, "By the way, are you going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day?"
Jiang Shuyue answered without even thinking: "I definitely won't go back. How can I go back like this?"
Jing Qiao has always been ashamed of Jiang Shuyue's "volume": "You are really interested in dungeon games..."
Judging from the situation in the second dungeon, old players may not necessarily be involved in the new dungeon.
In other words, "staying away" may really be a way to get rid of it.
Where the instance will take place, which players will be selected - as long as they stay away, these things will have nothing to do with them.
Of course, Jing Qiao didn't really want to abandon everyone and become a deserter, but if someone really did that, she would completely understand.
We are all ordinary people. We can’t take care of so many things. We can only take care of ourselves.
But no matter what, she would not be like Jiang Shuyue - Jiang Shuyue not only seemed to not want to stay away from the copy, but also seemed to want to actively crash into it.
Jiang Shuyue said seriously, "It's not that I'm interested, but I've been dragged into this. Can I just avoid it if I want to?"
"The problem is already in front of us, so there is only one way to go, which is to 'solve it'. Otherwise, you will have an unstable life in the future."
Ye Sui nodded in agreement.
Fu Xiaoju also said: "Yes, and although most of you first batch of players have avoided the second copy, didn't Jiang Shuyue and Mu Yu fail to avoid it?"
Mu Yu was typing on the keyboard and interrupted: "But I don't want to hide."
Jiang Shuyue: "Well, I didn't want to hide."
Fu Xiaoju: “…”
Su Mingyun: "I see, the dungeon must be specifically selecting ruthless people to be veteran players!"
Everyone laughed.
Su Mingyun's words were a joke, but Mu Yu pondered: "But I think there should be a pattern in the selection of players in the dungeon..."
But what is that rule?
It is not known yet.
They still knew too little about the dungeon, and couldn't make any conclusions from their discussion. They spent most of the day chatting about random things.
As night falls, the reflection of another world appears again.
Li Ke rushed out, holding a laptop and a drone, and set off with them to continue measuring the reflection range of the underground world.
This time they went to the west side of the university town.
Just as they had expected yesterday, the reflection disappeared when they reached the border of the university town.
It seems that there is an invisible boundary line across the earth, and outside this boundary line, the world goes on as usual.
Li Ke was flying the drone back and forth, staring at the real-time images on the computer screen. Suddenly, he made a hissing sound and said, "Something is wrong."
The other six people immediately gathered around: "What's wrong?"
Li Ke: "I feel like... the reflection of the underground world seems to have shifted a little. Hmm, I'll record the angle data and measure it again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."
That night, Mu Yu, Ye Sui, Jiang Shuyue and Fu Xiaoju did not return to the dormitory, but booked two rooms in a hotel outside.
At four o'clock in the morning, Fu Xiaoju yawned wildly and followed three other energetic people into a taxi, driving all the way to Wenshan Club.
The car went up the mountain and stopped in front of the clubhouse.
They asked the driver to turn on the meter and wait for them, then ran directly to the back of the clubhouse and looked up into the sky.
It was almost five o'clock and the sky was already getting light.
The mountains gradually began to wake up, and the birdsong was wrapped in the sound of the wind, as if floating in the gentle waves.
The moon had not yet completely set, emitting a bright white light in the western sky.
In the vast sky, they could see nothing except thin clouds and a plane slowly crossing the sky as a white line.
Mu Yu pursed her lips.
I can't even say I'm disappointed.
In fact, once the dungeon game begins, the players may have already lost the initiative, and it is obvious that they cannot easily catch the existence behind the dungeon.
But it's really tiring to keep coming up empty-handed.
On the way back, the other three people were drowsy, but Mu Yu looked out the window, keeping his eyes open in silence all the way.
He took a candy from his pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and put it in his mouth.
In the evening, Li Ke rushed out again to measure the reflected world with them.
After three days of testing, they confirmed an astonishing fact:
The reflected world is spinning!
Just like the rotation of the earth, it is also automatically rotating clockwise at a speed that is imperceptible to the human eye!
*
"By comparing the speed of the reflection world's rotation in the hours after it appears each time, and the deflection angle when it appears again after a day, we can determine that it is still spinning when we cannot see it during the day."
"The overall speed should be about 0.5 degrees a day."
The National Day finally arrived, and in the end none of the ten of them returned to their hometown.
Mu Yu's family lives in the city center. He went back there during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Then, amid his parents' dissatisfied voices and his older brothers and sisters' suspicious eyes, he quickly returned to school and devoted himself to researching issues related to the copy.
On the fourth day of National Day, they met at a board game store.
At this moment, the board game store was very lively, with college students sitting upstairs and downstairs.
The ten of them occupied a round table in the corner, on which were placed various board games. The ten of them leaned forward and spoke in low voices. When the boss came to deliver milk tea, he looked at them strangely.
After the boss left, Li Ke cleared his throat and said, "Anyway, that's it. In fact, it may not be them that are spinning, it may also be us who are spinning."
"It's also possible that our two worlds are rotating together, but for the sake of discussion, let's just assume that it's the reflection world that's rotating on its own."
He also drew a rough map of the reflected world, using various auxiliary lines to demonstrate its rotation angles during these nights.
Everyone looked at the picture and started thinking.
Ye Sui pondered, "The reflected world was originally 180 degrees away from us, but now it is approaching us?"
Su Mingyun opened his eyes wide: "What will happen on the day it aligns with us?"
for example--
At that time, will one of Lu Chongnian and Mu Yu have to go to the other person's world and never come back?
The problem is back to the old way.
Suddenly, everyone looked at Mu Yu, who was holding his glasses and looking at the map carefully.
Mu Yu thought about it for a while, and this time he had a vaguely clearer idea about this problem.
"If something really happens after the two worlds align, it probably won't be as simple as just me or him traveling to another world."
Bird Brother: “Why??”
Mu Yu did not answer the question immediately.
He put down the map, tilted his head and said, "Now you know that all of this probably stems from the mysterious incident that happened on August 21 in Room 305 of the Wenshan Club where Lu Zhongnian and I were."
"After the incident, two parallel worlds emerged from different directions of development."
"In one parallel world, Lu Zhongnian's existence was completely erased; in another parallel world, my existence was completely erased."
After Mu Yu finished speaking, he looked at them calmly: "Do you have any thoughts on this matter? You can tell me anything you want, it's okay."
Everyone looked at each other, with different expressions.
Bird brother was the first to say: "I just think... it's so suspenseful, I can't figure it out, I need to use my brain!"
Su Mingyun and Jing Qiao nodded vigorously.
Yu Hui said: "I hope to find out what's going on as soon as possible, and then it would be best if the copy doesn't appear in the school again..."
Chang Sen nodded vigorously again.
Mu Yu: "Anything else? You can tell me whatever you have been thinking in the past few days."
Li Ke hesitated to speak.
He has worked the hardest these days and everyone is very grateful to him.
Seeing him hesitate at this moment, everyone waited patiently and encouraged him with their eyes to speak boldly.
Li Ke put down his pen and said, "...Actually, I have thought about it. Is the copy appearing because of you two?"
Everyone was stunned.
This seems to be the case, but Li Ke's tone at this moment is obviously...
Mu Yu remained calm. He did not interrupt Li Ke but listened to him.
"After the dungeon was released that day, I started thinking about it."
Li Ke said weakly: "Why you two? If the copy happened because of what you two did, then are all of us innocently dragged into this just because of you two..."
Everyone's expression became a little subtle.
Fu Xiaoju and Jiang Shuyue seemed to want to say something: "This is not——"
Li Ke continued speaking without stopping: "——But, but later I figured it out myself!"
"You and Lu Zhongnian are just ordinary people...what can you do?"
"Do you know where the copy is? Do you know what will trigger the copy? No, you two definitely didn't know anything at the beginning."
Li Ke looked ashamed when he talked about the thoughts that had appeared in his mind.
"The thing behind the copy is clearly the culprit, but I put all the blame on you two just because you two are visible and tangible beings that can be blamed."
"I'm too timid to face the fact that our enemies might be beyond our imagination. I can't even think from a human perspective why He created these things."
"But, but when I thought of this, I suddenly understood," Li Ke swallowed, "It is precisely because He is so high above us that what He wants to do is something that ordinary humans like us cannot easily stop."
"Instance games will definitely appear in this world, but their arrival may require a certain opportunity. If you think about it this way, could it be that you and Lu Chongnian are actually the first unlucky couple they found when they first descended into this world?"
"Among the billions of people in the world, the two most unlucky people."
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