Chapter 115 Returning to Qingluan She has lived many lives, and in every memory...
A man's voice came from the door: "Gu Yifeng, are you there? This is Lao Zhou!" With a familiar tone that was a little reproachful, "Why didn't you answer the phone? There's progress in the case, and I have to tell you in person."
Inside the house, the two of them exchanged a quick glance.
The man made a gesture to Wen Yi to keep quiet, and she nodded, holding her breath.
No one answered, and soon there was no movement at the door.
Just when they breathed a sigh of relief, Gu Yifeng's cell phone suddenly rang in the pocket of his coat in the living room.
The dripping sound was neither too loud nor too soft, just loud enough for people inside and outside the house to hear.
The next second, Lao Zhou's resonant voice rang out from outside the door: "Gu Yifeng! You won't answer the phone and won't open the door? What are you doing! Open the door!"
I was careless, Lao Zhou is still outside the door!
The sounds of knocking on the door and turning the doorknob rang out one after another, and Wen Yi's heartbeat suddenly accelerated!
The man frowned and pointed at the unconscious Gu Yifeng on the bed. Wen Yi immediately understood, and the two of them hurriedly carried him off the bed and hid him in no time.
The noise at the door was getting louder and louder. If I didn't answer it, Lao Zhou would probably break in.
Wen Yi took a deep breath, winked at the man, and quickly ran to the door.
When the door opened, Lao Zhou was standing outside, his police uniform was straight, his hair was gray, and his brows were furrowed.
When he saw that it was her, he was stunned and looked shocked:
"It's you?!"
Wen Yi was stunned. Could it be that this old policeman also knew her?
He took a step forward, his expression incredulous. "Aren't you...the person involved in the rape yesterday? Why are you here?"
Wen Yi froze and was speechless for a moment.
Old Zhou's expression instantly turned serious: "Why are you at Gu Yifeng's house?!" He glanced into the room, "Where is he?"
Her throat tightened, and just as she was about to speak, she heard the sound of running water in the bathroom. It was like some kind of tacit agreement, and Wen Yi immediately responded:
"He... he's taking a shower."
Old Zhou looked at her suspiciously, showed his ID, and instead of forcing his way in, he stood at the door and raised his voice:
"Gu Yifeng! What happened? You didn't even answer the phone!"
A man's deep, vague voice came from inside the door, mixed with the noisy sound of water: "Lao Zhou? Wait a minute... taking a shower. I'll tell you later if you have anything to say."
The sound came from far away, intermittent and unclear. Lao Zhou frowned and said nothing.
He turned his head and his eyes swept across Wen Yi's face - her hair was slightly messy, her eyes were evasive, her cheeks were flushed, and her clothes were a little messy.
He turned his head and glanced towards the bedroom: the curtains were closed, the bed was a mess...
Old Zhou's expression suddenly became a little strange, his face sank, and his tone was filled with disappointment and anger: "You..." He lowered his voice and almost gritted his teeth and said: "You went to bed while working on the case?!"
Wen Yi: ...This truth cannot be explained.
"This is a serious violation of discipline, you know?!"
There was only the sound of water in the toilet, and no one responded.
Old Zhou shook his head, as if lamenting his apprentice's incompetence.
"You'll have ten minutes."
"Handle this matter properly, and I'll see you at the police station."
He turned around and was about to leave the room——
“Hmm…”
A low groan came from the direction of the bedroom.
Wen Yi: “…”
Gu Yifeng is awake again?! Why did he wake up at this critical moment? At this moment, even she wanted to hit him on the head with a club.
Old Zhou paused and his eyes suddenly changed. His keen intuition, acquired from years of handling cases, made him subconsciously aware of something unusual.
"Is there anyone else in the room?"
Without waiting for Wen Yi to react, he turned around and strode towards the bedroom.
Wen Yi's heart was beating like a drum, and she followed immediately.
Old Zhou's sharp eyes quickly swept across the room: on the bed, on the bedside table, behind the curtains... He walked forward, bent down and lifted the quilt - there was nothing.
He stood up, glanced at the mop in the corner, and paused slightly.
Then, his eyes fell on the wardrobe - a corner of dark blue fabric was revealed through the crack in the door, which looked like the cuff of a police uniform.
His eyes flashed, he strode forward and pulled open the closet door - a row of uniform shirts were neatly hung in the closet, nothing unusual.
Wen Yi just breathed a sigh of relief when her peripheral vision suddenly trembled: at the edge of the bed, a hand emerged from under the sheets, and its fingertips almost touched her feet!
Old Zhou was looking through the closet with his back to her. She forced herself to remain calm, quietly lifting her right foot and, with a deft flick of her toes, neatly and efficiently kicking the offending hand back under the bed.
Just then, the sound of water in the bathroom stopped.
With a "click", a tall man in a bathrobe pushed the door open and walked out. His hair was wrapped in a towel and water droplets dripped from the ends of his hair.
He didn't go back to the bedroom, nor did he say hello to Lao Zhou. He walked straight to the kitchen as if nothing had happened.
A few seconds later, the sound of a microwave oven "dinging", the hum of the oven starting up, and the gurgling sound of the kettle boiling came from the kitchen, as if someone had just finished a bath and was preparing for a midnight snack.
Old Zhou suddenly turned around, frowned and shouted, "Gu Yifeng?" He slammed the wardrobe door shut, turned around and chased after him into the kitchen.
Wen Yi's pupils suddenly shrank: It's all over! As soon as he enters the kitchen, he's dead!
The moment Lao Zhou stepped out of the bedroom——
“Bang!”
The circuit breaker tripped.
The whole house was plunged into darkness.
Wen Yi's heart instantly fell from her throat back to her chest: That was close!
Just one more step, and it's all over! This power outage came at the perfect time!
Before she could breathe a sigh of relief—
"despair."
Old Zhou unscrewed the police flashlight he carried with him. A beam of cold white light pierced the darkness, sweeping across the living room, the sofa, the dining table, and finally pinned to the kitchen door. He shouted at the top of his voice: "Gu Yifeng! What are you doing? Where is the electricity meter box? Let me see if there is a circuit breaker!"
Wen Yi: “…”
The person who had finally managed to trip the power hid in the dark corner of the kitchen, silently clenching the rolling pin in his hand.
Old Zhou was searching for the electric meter box at Gu Yifeng's house. His police radio beeped twice, and then a clear dispatch voice came through:
[Yunhu Public Security Bureau Command Center: Criminal Investigation Team, Zhou Zhen, return to the bureau immediately.]
He immediately pressed the shoulder microphone and replied: "Got it!"
He turned around and shouted to the kitchen, "I'll go back first! You should hurry back too." He looked at Wen Yi coldly again, wanting to say something but stopping himself. Finally, he shook his head and turned to leave.
The door slammed shut. Wen Yi's tense body instantly gave out, and she slid to the ground, her palms covered in sweat.
In the kitchen, Gu Yifeng leaned against the wall and closed his eyes.
The system sound suddenly rang in his consciousness:
[System prompt: Wen Yi's consciousness dissociation degree has returned to 100%, and the risk of high-dimensional feedback has been eliminated.]
[System prompt: Please maintain the copy stable until the dynamic genome scan is completed.]
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): What's her favorability?]
[System: Brother, some things really can't be forced. At least, she chose to believe you.]
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): What's going on with this memory? Who was that police officer?]
After a few seconds of pause, the system responds:
【System: Brother, this is you too.】
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): Impossible! How could I possibly do such a thing?]
[System: This is a scene constructed from real memories. What you see is you on another timeline.]
Gu Yifeng was silent for a while, then continued to ask:
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): Why does she... have memories of other timelines?]
[System: This is what I wanted to tell you. We found a large number of discontinuous memory fragments in her hippocampus.]
[System: They do not belong to the same life.]
[System: She has lived many times in different timelines.]
[System: We currently cannot explain how she did it. But the only thing we can be sure of is—]
He didn't say anything, as if waiting for the calm before the thunder.
[System: In every one of her memories, there is a you.]
Gu Yifeng was stunned, and a loud bang seemed to come from the depths of his soul.
After the bang, the world suddenly became quiet.
He lowered his head and did not answer.
The worries that had troubled him for countless days and nights since the day he met Wen Yi finally came to light. The fragments in his mind were not his imagination, but the real past, the path he and she had taken.
The joy, anger, sadness, and fear in my heart because of her suddenly disappeared after the loud bang.
He couldn't describe the feeling. His emotions, which should have been surging, became unusually calm in that instant.
It turns out that there really is a power in the world that he cannot explain, which can travel through the universe and time and send her back to him time and time again.
What is that?
Is it higher-dimensional technology? Is it quantum entanglement? Is it an undying obsession?
still……
A petite figure quietly entered the kitchen, interrupting his thoughts.
In the darkness, he didn't say a word, but the corners of his mouth rose slightly.
Wen Yi fumbled to stand still and looked up at him: "I have to go."
"Where are you going?"
"...Qingluan Mountain." After hesitating for a moment, she told him, even though she still didn't know who he was.
He didn't ask why, but just said, "Let's go." He threw the rolling pin away and reached out to her.
"You...you want to go with me?" She was stunned.
He turned around and his deep gaze fell on her face.
"You're asking anyway?"
He walked into the bedroom, pulled out a shirt from the closet and put it on neatly.
Wen Yi looked at his figure, tall and straight, with straight shoulders and a faint hint of tight abdominal line. The moment he put on the uniform, it was as if he walked out from the depths of her memory. It didn't feel out of place, but rather as if it should be so.
He buttoned the last button and turned to look at her: "No matter where you go or what you do, I will accompany you." As he turned around, he grabbed her hand.
Wen Yi's face turned slightly hot, but she didn't struggle and just let him lead her away.
[System prompt: Wen Yi's favorability towards you +3]
*
The night is as dark as ink, and the car lights cut through the darkness.
Wen Yi leaned on the passenger seat, her fingertips unconsciously stroking the metal buckle of the seat belt.
The navigation shows: 7 kilometers away from the destination Qingluan Mountain.
Gu Yifeng gripped the steering wheel tightly and glanced at her sideways: "We'll be there in a few minutes. Will we make it in time?"
Wen Yi nodded.
Last time, she was not so lucky. She was alone and had to struggle all night before arriving at Qingluan Mountain at noon the next day.
By the time she rushed up the mountain, everything was already settled.
She suppressed the surging memories and clutched the hem of her clothes. This time, she was still in time.
The car stopped in front of the mountain. Wen Yi pushed the door and got out, but what came into her eyes was a void, like an unloaded canvas.
Her eyes were filled with confusion.
[System Alert: Degree of Consciousness Dissociation: 98%!]
Gu Yifeng was stunned.
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): What's going on this time?]
[System: The target event has not been triggered, and the memory anchor point has not been activated.]
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): How long will it take to activate?]
【System: After noon.】
Gu Yifeng: ...He rushed over so fast, but he came early, isn't it enough?
[NPC: Dr. Gu (Customized Version): Use the real terrain data of Qingluan Mountain to create a virtual-real projection.]
[System: Understood. We are retrieving real satellite map data and constructing the virtual scene.]
He walked over to Wen Yi and put his coat on her. "It's cold in the mountains at night." He asked tentatively, "Are we... too early?"
Wen Yi nodded.
"Since we're here early," he suddenly held out his hand to her, "how about we go to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise?"
The action was too abrupt, but she still put her hand in his palm.
"...Okay." She heard herself say.
"The road is difficult to walk on. I'll carry you." Before she could refuse, he squatted down and said with a quick and decisive movement, "Hurry up and get on. If you don't leave now, you'll miss the sunrise."
She hesitated for a second, but finally lay on his back obediently.
Gu Yifeng carried her on his back and walked into the void step by step.
The mountain road seemed to stretch endlessly, pitch black along the way, with not a soul in sight. But lying on his warm back, Wen Yi felt strangely at peace, and her hands quietly wrapped around his neck.
From that moment on, the scenery in front of him became clearer with every step he took.
The virtual and the real begin to blend.
The autumn morning light fell on a light mist, damp and slightly chilly. The outline of the distant mountain ridge emerged from the gray and white. Rocks, trees, and paths grew inch by inch, and the whole mountain seemed to come alive again.
"Why did you have to come?" he asked suddenly.
"Don't ask." She buried her face in his shoulder. "You wouldn't believe it even if I told you."
"How can I know if you don't tell me—"
"etc!"
Wen Yi's exclamation interrupted him, and she patted his shoulder lightly, "Look over there."
He looked in the direction she pointed.
Ahead, on the mountainside, a faint blue light seeped from the cracks in the rocks. It wasn't liquid, but rather solidified light, flowing silently.
As the two approached, the light flowing in the cracks of the rocks seemed so close that it was definitely not an illusion.
"What is that?" Wen Yi was about to reach out her hand but was stopped by Gu Yifeng.
"Don't touch a substance until you're sure of its properties," he reminded her. "We know nothing about it."
They continued to climb the mountain, and more and more similar faint lights appeared, seeping out from different cracks in the rocks, like a glowing net. Some were as thin as a hair, and some were as wide as the lines on a palm, like faint blue veins quietly awakening.
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Small Theater
Lao Zhou: You...are so disrespectful!
Wen Yi: God damn, he ended up in bed while investigating a case [rolling eyes]
Gu Yifeng: I’m not, I didn’t, don’t talk nonsense! [Laughing and crying]
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