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He Lizhou immediately ran into the stairwell with the bag of vegetables. Before he could hide, the footsteps stopped nearby. He Lizhou listened to the number of footsteps and guessed that he was probably at the elevator.
He gently put down the bag of vegetables, then reached into it and took out the newly bought kitchen knife, making sure that no sound was made.
Just as He Lizhou was about to rush out to subdue the man, the elevator sounded.
It was too late. The man went in.
I didn’t see the man’s face again, I only saw a glimpse of his clothes. It was a very familiar experience.
He Lizhou was still a little annoyed. He hated that he didn't just take the kitchen knife by itself at that time, which wasted some time.
Just when he had this thought, he realized that this scene was exactly what he experienced yesterday!
Yesterday, I was teleported into a copy by the system. When I was about to go out, I saw a person guarding my door on my mobile phone app. He lowered his head, and ran away when I was about to open the door.
Now that I think about it, that person’s figure, clothing, and movements are exactly like myself today!
He Lizhou couldn't help but feel fortunate that he was a step slower. If he had really rushed out directly and killed his yesterday self in a moment of quickness, that would have been real death.
Just as he figured this out, He Lizhou felt dizzy again. When he opened his eyes again, he was still lying on the bed in the room.
He Lizhou seemed to have realized what had happened. He turned on his phone and saw that the date on it had changed back to 7:30 in the morning of the first day.
Sighing, he called his boss directly, "Boss, I need a day off. I'll deduct 100 yuan from my salary for each day off, so I'll get 350 yuan."
Boss: “…Oh.”
He Lizhou hung up the phone and felt refreshed as he didn't have to go to work. But before he could feel refreshed for a few minutes, his boss called him back and said, "What was your attitude towards me just now? I'm going to deduct 200 yuan from your salary!"
He Lizhou: "...Okay, one hundred and fifty is one hundred and fifty."
The boss hung up the phone angrily. He Lizhou turned around and went out, still choosing the elevator.
Standing in front of a row of buttons, He Lizhou thought for a moment and finally pressed "4" first.
Like Sheng Ju, He Lizhou also knocked on the door of 404 as soon as possible.
No one responded in room 404, but there was a prying gaze from another room. However, when He Lizhou looked back, the gaze disappeared again.
He Lizhou thought about it and felt that this time should be considered very early. Players would not go out for work earlier than now. If there were no players in the room at this time, then it was probably that no one was living there.
So he turned to knock on the doors of the other three households. Since they noticed his gaze, there must be someone inside one of them. Even though He Lizhou knocked for more than ten minutes and no one opened the door, he still didn't leave.
There are too many rooms in this apartment building, and the chance of encountering residents on another floor is very small. He Lizhou decided not to let go of any resident he found.
402 couldn't stand it anymore and opened the door. It was an old man with a sullen face, "What are you doing!"
He Lizhou smiled and said, "I want to come and see your decoration. Can I come in?"
The old man glanced at He Lizhou's hand blocking the door frame, and his expression became even more tense. "How can I disagree?"
He Lizhou nodded gracefully, "Thank you."
The old man turned and left. He Lizhou followed him and looked around the room calmly. He saw that there was also a convex mirror hanging in the room facing the window.
Looking around the room, there were very few decorations inside, most of which were hanging items that were said to ward off evil spirits according to folk traditions.
The windows had curtains tightly drawn.
He Lizhou walked to the window and said, "It's broad daylight, why don't you open the curtains and get some fresh air?"
Before the old man came over to stop him, He Lizhou had already pulled open the curtains and looked into the eyes of a strange-looking thing outside the window.
He Lizhou silently pulled the curtains back. When the old man saw He Lizhou's action, he snorted coldly with an indifferent smile on his lips.
He Lizhou didn't stay for long before he said goodbye. The old man was already impatient to see him off and immediately waved his hand to close the door.
If you were half a step later, you would be caught by the door.
Standing in the corridor, He Lizhou glanced at the other two rooms. Since they were unwilling to open the door, he would not disturb them anymore. One day, they would leave the room.
He pressed the elevator button, but unexpectedly the door behind him opened. He Lizhou turned around and saw a little girl holding a doll.
This character image is also standard in the copy. He Lizhou became alert. Generally speaking, the lethality of this kind of kid can easily become the highest in the entire copy.
He Lizhou turned around and squatted down to be level with the child. Only then could he see clearly that her eyeballs were large and black, almost filling the entire eye sockets, with little white visible.
These glasses are dark and can easily make people feel depressed and scared, but He Lizhou seemed not to notice and asked softly, "Little boy, where are your parents?"
This was a very dangerous question. The moment He Lizhou asked the question, his body tensed up, ready to respond to the little girl's sudden attack at any time.
Originally, it was not appropriate for him to ask this question when they first met, but He Lizhou subconsciously felt that time was urgent and he had to finish this copy as soon as possible, otherwise something uncontrollable would happen, so he simply hit a straight ball right from the start.
But to his surprise, the little girl was very calm, "My parents are dead, they died a long time ago."
A little girl who looked no more than seven years old, holding her beloved doll, said in a calm tone that her parents had died a long time ago.
This scene is really weird.
He Lizhou blinked uncontrollably, "Who are you living with now?"
The little girl giggled: "Of course it's the master."
After saying this, the little girl ran back into the house holding the doll, and following her footsteps, the door was closed.
From beginning to end, the little girl did not touch the door handle once.
He Lizhou stood up and found that his hands were a little numb. He didn't know whether it was because the nerves were compressed or he was scared by the little girl.
The four-story building was not very high, so he did not take the elevator. Instead, he went down the stairs to the first floor and saw the supermarket owner still sleeping there.
He Lizhou couldn't help but sigh that this person's sleep quality was really good.
He walked into the supermarket and the voice prompt at the door sounded, alerting the owner that a customer was coming.
The boss rubbed his eyes and raised his head, glancing at He Lizhou, "You're here again."
His tone was ordinary and calm, as if he had already expected He Lizhou to come back.
He Lizhou walked around the supermarket, picked up some common daily necessities and put them at the checkout counter. Just as the boss was about to count the bill, a pocket watch fell from He Lizhou's wrist and swayed slowly in front of the boss's eyes.
This was a prop that He Lizhou had picked up in the hotel. It could confuse people's minds in an instant, but the boss raised his head and smiled, "What are you doing?"
He Lizhou didn't expect the prop to fail, and felt a little embarrassed, but he didn't show it at all, "Oh, it fell out, thank you for reminding me, boss."
The boss sneered and lowered his head to continue calculating the accounts.
He spoke slowly, "Eleven... plus... twenty-three... plus five..."
He Lizhou kicked over the cash register, and something behind it immediately fell out. It was a group of tangled insects.
The boss's face turned stern. "...I thought you were really here to buy something, so I didn't take your little tricks seriously. But what are you doing now?"
He Lizhou knew that the other party already knew what he meant by this, but he still wanted to ask this question. So he didn't plan to respond. He kicked the overturned cash register again, and the banknotes in the cash register fell out.
He Lizhou took a look and confirmed that it was a real banknote, but he didn't pick it up. He sneered: "I just don't like you. What's wrong with me venting my anger?"
The boss's expression softened after hearing this. He did not stop He Lizhou from leaving. Instead, after he left, he hummed a song and put up the cash register in a good mood.
After propping up the cash register, the boss picked up the bug that had fallen to the ground, held it in his hands and blew away the dust with a distressed look, "Oh, my dears, are you scared? It doesn't matter, he will die tonight."
The bug squirmed twice in the boss's palm. It was not known whether it responded to the boss's words. The boss's face turned ugly again, but soon he smiled again, "It doesn't matter. It's not his turn tonight. It will be his turn sooner or later."
…
Although the time was reset, there was a high probability that the player's physical condition was not reset. When He Lizhou returned to 4404, he was already dizzy and hungry.
He took out a bucket of instant noodles from the refrigerator, probably left by the original owner. He Lizhou also took a look at the expiration date. It was within the time limit, so he boiled water and put the noodles in.
He Lizhou picked up a thin book from the table and covered it with it, then leaned back on the sofa and waited for five minutes to pass.
He was good at estimating time. As soon as five minutes were up, he opened his eyes and took off the book covering the instant noodles.
When he touched the book this time, He Lizhou discovered that after the pages were wet, a piece of cardboard was very conspicuous inside.
He Lizhou turned the page of the book and saw the cardboard inside.
It was a message from Sheng Ju to him.
"Paper man".
The last stroke was written in a hurry. I don’t know what happened that made him write so concisely. Under normal circumstances, it would not be Sheng Ju’s character not to write a full page.
He Lizhou thought about it, turned over the paper, and added two more words: "Self".
In a single-player copy, the most common situation is losing yourself.
Although he didn't know how Sheng Ju got the card into his room, and he didn't know whether Sheng Ju would come back to take it away, He Lizhou still held out a glimmer of hope.
After all, this is the only way they have found to communicate with each other since entering the copy.
Even He Lizhou's communication dagger is useless in this copy.
He Lizhou couldn't contact Peng Ningyu, and had never received any message from Peng Ningyu.
Hope everything is going well for her.
This copy is really strange. Until now, no player has encountered it. He Lizhou always feels that he is missing a link, but he really doesn’t know what clues he has missed.
He Lizhou sighed, he really couldn't think anymore. He was very hungry, so he opened the lid and started eating noodles.
Before he could take a few bites, He Lizhou suddenly felt the space around him distorted. It was a very strange feeling. The change in space was very difficult to detect, but after He Lizhou was bound to the hotel, he was very sensitive to these reactions and was able to notice the changes.
He Lizhou's eyes moved to the pages of the book beside him, and saw that the book that had just been sandwiched with the cardboard now had no trace of the cardboard.
So that's how it is.
It turns out that they have always lived in the same room, just in different time and space.
He Lizhou suddenly realized that the kitchen knife from his room that appeared in the stairwell two days ago and the space distortion in the elevator also had an explanation.
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