Chapter 175 Control Group
Chen Xiao'er suddenly opened her eyes.
She jumped out of bed as quickly as possible and grabbed the alarm clock and held it close to her eyes.
【2025-0901-06:03】
"Hu——" She let out a long sigh and fell on the pillow.
That's great, there's still a chance to go back in time... Uh, it doesn't seem right. The best outcome would be to wake up and find that everything was just a dream, right?
Chen Xiao'er curled up in bed and rubbed her shoulders. The pain of drowning wasn't as intense as she'd imagined. It seemed that each time she rewinded time, the pain she'd felt from the previous round would lessen.
Firstly, there's the dreamlike feeling of estrangement, and secondly, when one has a great hope of starting over, the damage of despair is lessened. This is an unexpected advantage of "Yesterday."
She picked up her phone again, hesitated for a moment, and put it back into her schoolbag.
I can’t call my mom this time.
It's not just to reduce variables, but mainly because the situation in the first round is most favorable to me.
Assuming that the mother in the first round was still alive before the car accident, then there is a simple way to change the death of the mother and Xiaotong in this round: prevent the car accident.
The reason I failed to prevent the accident in the second round was because I didn’t know about the human factor at that time.
Since I have the intelligence from the third round and confirmed the existence of the "murderer", then of course I should do nothing in the fourth round and wait quietly for the "murderer" to show himself.
The best outcome, of course, would be to successfully prevent the car accident, tell Mom that someone was going to attack her, and see if Mom and Xiaotong could survive the day.
The bad result is that my mother died before the car accident, so I must at least catch the driver and use every possible means - even dark methods - to find the key clues.
I won't bear the despair alone, there are still "you" in this world.
The strong hatred burned like a raging fire, and for the first time, Chen Xiao'er had the idea of making those illegal and unreasonable bad guys taste [infinite] pain.
After washing up, she put on her school uniform, picked up her schoolbag again and walked out of the school gate.
This time, Chen Xiao'er wanted to establish an "initial control group," so she observed the surrounding situation more carefully than before.
Are there too many accidents around here?
As she walked out of her home onto the first street, she discovered that there were two people who were nearly hit by cars, not counting those who suddenly slipped and those who were almost hit by flower pots from upstairs.
Chen Xiao'ai refrained from intervening, merely memorizing the appearances of these people. They included both men and women, mostly young and middle-aged.
The coincidence in age doesn't seem to mean anything, after all, it's time for work and school, but so many accidents are suspicious in themselves.
[Could it be that the bad guys are targeting not only Mom and Xiaotong, but also others?]
She subconsciously wanted to deny it, but she buried this possibility deep in her heart, ready to bring it up and reconsider it when there were more clues.
How many people just passed by me?
There were so many people on the street that Chen Xiao'e gave up on this purely memorized attempt after counting to 33. Her brain capacity and attention span were limited, so she had to do her best to grasp the key clues and unravel them.
Maybe the bad guys will plant one or two spies next to me?
She temporarily gave up the idea of paying attention to everyone, and glanced around with her peripheral vision, silently remembering anyone who looked a little weird.
It seems like no one is following me on this road, or maybe I just didn’t notice?
Snap. Chen Xiao'er tripped on the steps at the bridge head and quickly looked up.
The silver-haired girl on the bridge turned around at the same time, looking at her gently with her ice-blue eyes.
"Whatever you want to do, I will help you."
I need help from my senior.
The heart beats hard, pumping blood to every part of the body.
Chen Xiao'er was absolutely certain: as long as she could get Zero's full support, the variables and turning points of the situation would increase several times.
If nothing else, with his agile skills, he could at least suppress Sinaya and immediately pin down the driver who was trying to escape. If he had been well prepared, he might even be able to defeat the "stabbing psychopath."
She took a deep breath and said softly: "Actually, this is not the first time we have met. I..."
"I know."
"Know, know?" Chen Xiao'er was stunned, and her leg, which was about to take a step, froze in place.
Ling smiled faintly and walked towards her against the morning light. She walked down the stairs one by one until her shadow completely enveloped the girl.
"Xiao Ai, I know everything." Ling lowered his head and rested his forehead against hers, whispering softly in her ear: "Today is your fourth time, and my second time. It's our first meeting, let's get started."
“Ah ...
The girl's crying was so loud that the classmate who was about to jump into the river was frightened and retracted his foot and ran all the way down the bridge.
…
"What's going on? Does Zero also have power-level abilities?!"
"No, don't talk nonsense, she just inherited the memory from last week's show."
"She must have used Chen Xiao'er's ability to enter Chen Xiao'er's time loop..."
The barrage of comments in the monitoring center flew into a ball, and everyone had a heated discussion on the topic of "Why can Zero inherit memories and go back to the timeline synchronously with Chen Xiao'er."
After a few minutes, the argument with the highest number of approval was [Because she and Chen Xiao'er died at the same time and place, their causes of death were intertwined.]
"They both died close together. Perhaps Zero got a ride back to zero because of that?"
“That makes sense.”
"And Ling's death is somewhat related to Chen Xiao'er..."
A few seconds later, two experts sitting in the same row stood up at the same time and shouted, "Oh no! Xinnaya!!"
…
Where is Xinaya?
Chen Xiao'er stood in the bookstore waiting for a long time. Waves of classmates left, but there was no sign of that blond, emerald-eyed jerk or her motley crew of followers.
Could it be that due to some unknown butterfly effect, they rode their bikes to other places to play?
"What's wrong? Is there a killer nearby?" Zero's grip on her wrist tightened slightly.
"Pfft~ No." Chen Xiao'e bit her tongue as she laughed. Although that bastard Xinnaya's lethality was no less than that of the killer.
Come to think of it, Zero doesn't know Xinnaya yet.
The senior students only have memories of last week's episode. They did not meet Xinaya last week, so naturally no conflict occurred.
It seems that I must tell my senior sister in advance, so as to avoid being ambushed if we meet each other and then being locked up in the basement together.
She sighed softly and gestured towards the school gate, “In the beginning, Xinnaya would meet me at the school gate, have a big fight with you, and then follow me in her car after school.
The second time, starting today, I deliberately waited for her at the school gate to leave first, and ended up running into her again after school, and was kidnapped by her... In short, she's a very annoying person, and it's best to avoid her."
"Okay." Zero agreed cautiously.
Chen Xiao'er's fingertips suddenly brushed past a familiar figure. A pink-haired girl was walking in with the crowd carrying a schoolbag.
Her eyes lit up and she quickly chased after him: "Wait a minute, classmate in front, good morning!"
"Good morning?" Lin Lang turned around and glanced around to make sure she was calling him, then smiled politely.
"Hey, my name is Chen Xiao'er, and I'm a freshman this year." Chen Xiao'er approached familiarly, "I have a feeling we'll be classmates!"
"Hahaha, what a coincidence." Lin Lang was amused by her strike-up, and the three of them walked into the school gate one after another.
To align with the timeline of Act 1, Chen Xiao'e deliberately slowed down her pace, even pointing at the flowers in the flowerbed to delay a bit. Finally, she slowly said goodbye to Ling in the corridor and agreed to meet again that evening.
"Goodbye, senior sister! Let's go in." Chen Xiao'er pressed the door panel with a smile, and after hearing a loud "boom!", she pushed the back door open with force.
"What are you doing?!"
The black-haired girl glared, frightening Du Zhizhu so much that he trembled all over. Then he looked aggrieved: "Hey, now I'm the one being grabbed and thrown against the blackboard, okay?" It's really strange, why does everyone favor Zheng Lu?
"Stop fighting, let's talk it out!" Lin Lang rushed in and forcibly separated the two people who were fighting.
Du Zhizhu's face darkened, and he pointed at Zheng Lu and shouted, "I didn't mean to fight! This girl is the daughter of a mistress, and she even curses people! She caused me to break my hand!"
She kept looking into Chen Xiao'er's eyes as she said this, but the girl seemed determined to take sides and said with disdain, "Who would believe that? You look like you're lying."
Humph, Zheng Lu explained everything clearly during the break of the first week of class. It was all caused by jealousy between relatives.
Moreover, Du Zhizhu was taken to the teacher's office for criticism and education for splashing an unknown liquid, and the teacher said that his parents would be called. Is there any need to ask who was right and who was wrong?
Hearing her words, Zheng Lu, who had been standing silently beside her, slowly raised her head.
The sunlight shone through the window onto her dark hair, casting a rainbow halo on it. The girl raised her face and smiled at her.
The world suddenly became quiet.
This encounter seemed not to be the first, or even the second... tiny points of light flickered and overlapped in the endless world lines.
"Excuse me..." Zheng Lu raised her hand with all her might, as if trying to touch the invisible barrier between them. "Excuse me, are you real? Or is this just my desperate imagination?"
Du Zhizhu looked at Chen Xiao'er with red eyes, and the hatred in his heart suddenly shifted.
Damn it, damn it, damn it, everyone thinks I’m wrong! Yes, I’m the bad guy, so what!
She also saw the glint in Zheng Lu's eyes, and suddenly a strange inspiration came to her: Zheng Lu is difficult to kill, and this girl is much weaker. If I kill her, Zheng Lu should reveal some flaws.
Okay, let’s take a gamble!
Du Zhizhu pretended to hold her stomach while her other hand fished out a glass bottle from her belt and deftly uncorked it. She suddenly lowered her body and shot out like a cannonball.
Give me - die!
Crackling.
Chen Xiao'e didn't expect that she would splash the bottle on someone else, so she was a little slow to dodge and had to swing her arm hard to shake it off. Her arm hit Du Zhizhu's hand hard, causing the glass bottle to jump up.
"Hello?!" Du Zhizhu watched the glass bottle spin twice in the air, spilling a few drops of liquid, and then fell to the ground with a clang and shattered.
"Ouch?" Two drops of unknown liquid splashed on Chen Xiao'er's wrist. She was so scared that she quickly wiped it with a tissue, but the little bit of liquid was immediately evaporated by her body temperature.
"Oh, it has to be water," she said, throwing the tissue into the trash can with a sad face.
Zheng Lu rushed over and pushed Du Zhizhu to the ground. She held her hand worriedly and looked left and right. Finally, she breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay. Come home with me tonight and I'll help you deal with it."
"Okay. But I have something to do tonight and will be late for a while." Chen Xiao'er took out her phone: "Let's add each other's contact information first."
It's no use just recording them in the address book, she will definitely memorize everyone's contact information one by one!
Seeing how happy they were, Du Zhizhu clenched his fists with bloodshot eyes, ready to get up and punch someone on the back of the head.
But a hand pressed her shoulders from behind and slowly pushed her down.
"This classmate." Milo blinked and said, "Come to my office after class."
…
Chen Xiao'er put her schoolbag on the middle seat in the fourth row from the back.
As soon as she put down her schoolbag, she quickly raised her head. Lin Lang put the bag on the left, and Zheng Lu also dragged her schoolbag to the right.
Great, everything is back to how it was in the first week.
Chen Xiao'er sat down in her seat with a slight relaxation and listened to the class attentively.
The first day of school passed uneventfully, and at 5:30 p.m., the bell rang on time.
Chen Xiao'er immediately put on her schoolbag and prepared to follow her classmates out of the classroom.
Boom!
There were loud banging sounds coming from the front and back doors at the same time, and then a group of guys with colorful hair rushed in with weapons.
One of them was wearing a mask and had long golden hair.
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