Chapter 8 What kind of bug is this? But that little bit of strangeness was quickly…
But he quickly suppressed that slight feeling. She hadn't changed, he thought, but had become a better actress.
Lin Xicai returned to the classroom, pushed open the door, and an eraser flew towards her and hit her right on the forehead.
The two boys who were playing around laughed out loud at this and apologized perfunctorily, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."
Lin Xicai picked up the eraser and was about to throw it back when someone tapped her shoulder. The math teacher walked in just as the second period bell rang. "It's time for class. Go back to your seats."
Lin Xicai was deflated and suddenly felt extremely annoyed. Nothing had gone well for her since she came here. Everyone was causing trouble for her and making things difficult for her. Such messy things happened one after another and had seriously affected her main task.
This day was terrible.
The only thing that comforted her was that Xie Shi did not come that day.
Because of Xie Shi's absence, after a terrible morning, she had a relatively peaceful second half of the day.
Lin Xicai's emotions came and went quickly. When she woke up the next day, her mood had recovered to 90% of its normal state.
Lin Xicai went out with her schoolbag as usual, walked through the garden as usual, and then saw the two uncles pruning roses in the same place.
Lin Xicai stared at the two of them, a little surprised. Wasn’t this flower bed trimmed yesterday?
Before she knew it, they had already walked to the flower bed. One of them handed her a trimmed flower with a smile, "This one is the freshest, just cut."
Lin Xicai was stunned for a moment, then mechanically took the flower. Something strange flashed through her mind, but she didn't think about it too much.
When she got off the bus, the strange feeling became even stronger, because she found that the person sitting next to her seemed to be the same person who sat next to her yesterday.
Is that all?
No.
wrong.
It's not just this person, the one sitting behind her, the one sitting in front of her... they're all the same person.
Sitting in front of her were a grandparents and grandchildren, sitting behind her were a couple, and sitting next to her was an older woman. She even remembered a muscular man in front of her left, holding a shopping bag and a grab ring in one hand...
She had seen all these people in the car yesterday.
Or to put it another way, all the people on the bus today are the same ones from yesterday.
A chill crawled up my spine and swept through my whole body in an instant - this was not normal, this was definitely not a coincidence.
But, but why...
Lin Xicai was walking towards the school with a cup of water in her hand, her thoughts in a mess. At a turning intersection, she bumped into someone heavily. The other person groaned. Lin Xicai took a half step back and the cup of water fell to the ground.
With her arm supported by Xu Xu, Lin Xicai raised her head hesitantly and met a gentle and handsome face.
The man had the same faint smile on his lips as yesterday. He squatted down, picked up the cup and handed it over.
Lin Xicai opened her eyes wide and looked at the face. As the boy wiped the cup of water and handed it to her, he chuckled and said "it's dirty". The dense chill in her heart turned into the most direct fear.
She finally knew what that strange feeling she had been feeling since morning was.
It's repetitive.
Since morning, the world has fallen into a kind of repetition.
From the moment I opened my eyes in the morning until now, everything that happened happened yesterday.
Today, I am repeating yesterday...
Lin Xicai's fingertips trembled, and her eyes fell on the phone screen. The date on the phone caught her eye, making her freeze in place.
October 16th.
It was yesterday's date.
Lin Xicai's face was filled with fear. The person opposite her looked at her and chuckled, "Classmate, do I look that scary?"
Lin Xicai raised her eyes, her throat hoarse, "Can you help me check the date?"
She still had a glimmer of hope, which made her hope that there was something wrong with her phone.
Her panic and uneasiness seemed to be a novelty to the other man. He stared at her and asked knowingly, "What date?"
Lin Xicai felt like she had grabbed a lifeline and desperately needed someone to tell her it wasn't true. "What's today's date?"
The boy glanced at his phone casually, then continued to observe the expression on her face. "October 16th, Tuesday."
As the indifferent voice sounded, Lin Xicai's face turned pale. He was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses. He forced a smile at the two of them, thanked them and left.
That ambiguous gaze followed her until she walked a long way away.
Lin Xicai was in a state of shock. She returned to the classroom, sat down in her seat, looked down at the time, and then stared at the door in a daze.
The next moment, the Chinese class representative appeared with homework in his arms and met her eyes. "Zhong Fei, the Chinese teacher is waiting for you in the office."
Lin Xicai pulled the corners of her lips and smiled bitterly.
The Chinese class representative got goosebumps from her laughter and was quite confused.
Lin Xicai walked into the Chinese language office. When the Chinese teacher frowned and asked, "Why are you alone? Where are your parents?" Lin Xicai did not speak immediately. She looked towards the door hesitantly, and a voice in her heart mechanically read the countdown.
As she counted the last number in her mind, Fu Yanxiu appeared at the door.
The tall figure, the cold expression, and even the sarcastic curve at the corner of his lips were exactly the same as yesterday.
She heard the same words again and experienced the same ridicule again.
Faced with the teacher's criticism and Fu Yanxiu's cold and aloof sarcasm, Lin Xicai no longer felt the guilty embarrassment of yesterday. Her mind was in a daze, and only the nightmare-like confusion and doubt remained.
Why?
What exactly happened?
Lin Xicai tried desperately to summon the system in her heart, but no one responded to her.
She felt a little irritable, but more desperate, like a lonely boat thrown into the sea, with no one paying attention to it and leaving it to fend for itself.
Lin Xicai returned to the classroom, pushed open the door, and her eyes turned white. The eraser flew towards her again.
Lin Xicai stared at the flying eraser and the two instigators who were teasing each other not far away. A rare murderous look appeared in her usually clear and bright eyes. She raised her hand to catch the flying eraser and threw it heavily at one of them before the teacher could stop her.
"Take your things." Lin Xicai said.
The man who was hit immediately covered his forehead and said, "What are you doing? It's not intentional."
"Really?" Lin Xicai sneered, "I didn't mean it."
"you……"
Lin Xicai walked past the two of them, saying something ambiguous, "People won't be hit by the same eraser twice."
The two boys looked at each other.
A boy scratched his head and asked, "What are you talking about?"
The other boy nudged him with his elbow, pointed to his head, made a face that said "you know what I mean."
Lin Xicai didn't care about these things. The most important thing for her now was to figure out what happened and why such a bug suddenly appeared in the world.
Lin Xicai sat back in her seat, like a calm bystander, watching everything that happened in the classroom, examining everyone's movements and expressions.
Everyone in the classroom behaved exactly the same as yesterday. The teacher's tone and order of explaining the questions had not changed at all. Even the person called on to answer each question was the same person from yesterday. Every line of dialogue perfectly matched yesterday's. Those classroom jokes that should have appeared randomly seemed to have been set in advance, appearing at the right time and place, without any deviation.
Everyone was unconsciously performing hard, maintaining a false liveliness amidst laughter and scolding, like a group of dedicated NPCs.
She could not see any pain or confusion on their faces - and Lin Xicai was sure that even if this day went on forever, they would not feel panic or anxiety.
For them, who are incapable of feeling anything unusual, even if this day repeats itself a thousand times, it is still a brand new day. They will always experience this day a thousand times with a sense of novelty and anticipation.
And she is the only freak.
She was like an intruder who didn't fit in, with all her five senses awake, forced to feel this despairing repetition and cycle.
Maybe one day she will go crazy from this repetitive torture, and no one will know how she became crazy. They will just think that she went crazy suddenly.
Lin Xicai looked at the empty space beside her, and a strange feeling of relief flashed through her despair.
This person didn't come to class yesterday, so he still won't come on this day after being trapped in the loop. Does this mean that if the loop doesn't stop, she will never have to see this person again?
Lin Xicai curled the corners of her lips. She was indeed not an ordinary person as she could find a way to comfort herself from such a tricky angle.
Lin Xicai sat listlessly in her seat, holding her chin while listening to the class. Putting everything aside, she did understand a few questions after being forced to listen to the live class twice.
When the bell for the fourth class rang, Lin Xicai was lying on the desk in a daze, and the classroom suddenly became very quiet.
It was a very abrupt silence, as if it had been suddenly paused.
Lin Xicai thought the teacher had come and turned her head to look over unconsciously.
It was just a casual glance back, but the moment he saw who was coming, his movements froze and his pupils suddenly shook.
Lin Xicai stood up from her seat almost instantly, and then looked straight at the person walking towards her, with emotions surging and unpredictable in her eyes.
Xie Shi walked in carrying a backpack, looking as arrogant as ever. The breeze brought by his passing by blew her hair in front of her forehead. He let her gaze pierce him and was too lazy to even glance at her.
For such a dangerous person, it is not wise to stare at his face for a long time, but at this moment, Lin Xicai can't take her eyes away no matter what -
From this morning till now, at this very moment, the only variable in this repetition has appeared.
Xie Shi didn't come to class yesterday, but he came today.
When everyone was repeating their previous behavior, only this person made a different move from yesterday. This meant that - this meant that he, like her, could sense this cycle and had memories of the previous day.
Or perhaps, Lin Xicai's heart sank, the reason why this strange cycle appeared...
This is definitely the work of this person.
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