171 Another Self (Part 2)
◎Is this her room?◎
"Hello?" the kid asked. "Xiaoyuan?"
But there was no sound from the other side, only very heavy breathing sounds. The little ghost tried to call out many times.
With a click, Xiaoyuan hung up the phone and disappeared completely.
Xiao Gui was stunned for a long time. He rarely encountered such a situation. It was equivalent to the program process being cut short. The second half of the program should be him analyzing Xiao Yuan's problem, and the audience in the barrage would give advice to the caller.
The little ghost was a little dazed. He didn't dare to speak at all and couldn't comment on the story he had just heard.
A strange force was stopping him, and he always felt that if he commented on himself without permission, he would suffer a terrible consequence.
The live broadcast room fell into silence for a full two seconds before the barrage of comments began to flood the screen.
[What's going on? Why is there no sound? Don't scare me!]
[Xiaoyuan, are you okay? Do you need me to call someone for you?]
[This is so scary! Is she dead? But she's not saying anything! Help!]
The live broadcast room was flooded with comments like snowflakes. The discussion was too intense. Later, someone issued a warning in red font, just a few big words.
Don't talk to it!
Don't talk to it!
The entire live broadcast room was covered with red barrage, and then the video was disconnected and the post was finished.
bite--
The system prompt sounded: [Congratulations on triggering the random mission: Another Self. Mission objectives: Uncover the secrets of another self, assist in finding the truth behind death, and purify the contaminated area. This mission is a random mission and is not mandatory. Please choose whether to accept it.]
[This mission will automatically close before dawn, please make your decision carefully.]
There is only one point left on the progress bar of the side quest "Finding the Truth of Death". It seems that this quest can be completely solved.
The name of this mission is also very interesting. It directly calls him "another self". Is it hinting something to Zhu Ning?
This mission might be the final destination, so Zhu Ning clicked yes.
[The mission has been successfully accepted. Please complete it before dawn.]
Planning to do some research before going, Zhu Ning opened his secondary brain and searched for relevant information on the Internet, but he couldn't find the program "Little Ghosts Telling Ghosts". There was no trace of the host on the Internet.
Why? The column was cleared?
Zhu Ning changed the keyword again, this time to another self, or the same self, an extra person in life.
This time I found some sporadic sharing from netizens, and various versions were circulated. It seemed like an urban legend. Basically, everyone felt that something was wrong with their life and that there was an identical person in their family.
There is a warning widely circulated on the Internet: if someone like you appears, do not talk to it. Once you talk to it, you will complete some kind of transaction and you will disappear completely.
There were no clues on the Internet, so Zhu Ning could only carefully recall the video he had just watched, which contained some key information.
1. Xiaoyuan is probably a girl. Although her voice has been changed with a voice changer, her gender can be clearly sensed from her choice of words and her intimacy with her sister.
2. Xiaoyuan has many brothers and sisters, which is not very common. Because the life pressure in District 103 is too great and the world is too bad, people always feel that bringing children up is a sin. Everyone has a very clear understanding that they are consumables. DINKs like Huang Yaruo are more common.
3. Her house should be quite big. She mentioned that the kitchen is on the first floor, which proves that there is a second floor.
4. Why didn’t she mention her parents?
Zhu Ning didn't find any exact information. If this was the terminal, it would be very troublesome. Zhu Ning thought about it before leaving and sent a message to Xu Meng. She had promised Xu Meng to let her know wherever she went.
[Captain, I'm on a mission today.]
Xu Meng didn't reply, probably because she wasn't awake yet. Zhu Ning sent the address again, "I'm going there. I'll come see you tomorrow."
It was one o'clock in the morning when I received the notice for the grave. Other matters were left to Huo Wenxi. Now the cleaning center was in chaos, and Zhu Ning, a small figure, could do nothing.
Zhu Ning went back to the Noble Queen Store, put on a full set of black protective clothing, and carried a cleaning backpack and the weapons prepared for her by Prometheus.
The luxury car turned on the automatic navigation mode and headed for the destination, which was very close to the garbage dump. From here, the garbage mountain could be seen, which was also not far from the beehive.
Zhu Ning discovered that several mission locations were actually quite close to her home.
Zhu Ning stopped the car and saw an old red house hidden in a dark alley.
The red house is a little faded due to its age, and there is no light at all. It looks like an eerie red cemetery in the night.
The style of this building is very old. It is actually a wooden house. It appears in the steel forest-like Area 103, like an ancient building that has directly traveled to the high-tech age.
There was no federal cordon. Zhu Ning searched for the specific coordinates in the technical department of the cleaning center, but found that this contaminated area was not registered at all.
In other words, the cleaning center officials don’t even know about this place?
Zhu Ning searched around, but it seemed like no one knew where this was. Was it so mysterious?
All the information about this polluted area seemed to have been cleared up. There was not even a single word about it on the Internet. Zhu Ning didn't even know what this house was used for.
Did Prometheus deliberately hide this place?
But there is no clue at all. What role will she play when she enters the contaminated area?
The red house was surrounded by weeds and looked like no one had lived there for many years. Zhu Ning walked to the front door and opened it with a master key.
The door creaked open, and a cloud of dust and a foul smell blew in, as if something had died inside.
The helmet system broadcasts data: [It has been confirmed that cleaner Zhu Ning has entered the contaminated area. The pollution level is roughly estimated to be Class B. Please choose whether to report to the cleaning center technical department.]
The current pollution concentration has reached a maximum of 170, and the contaminated area is 25,000 cubic meters in size. It is impossible to detect whether there are pollutants inside.
It was only a B-class? With the same pollution concentration as the black dentist's office, she had thought the final destination would be at least an S-class.
However, if the pollution concentration is too high, it will definitely attract a cleaning center and be cleared in advance. No one pays too much attention to a Class B pollution area.
The night vision function of the helmet was turned on, and gray-black lines appeared in front of my eyes, and the background color of the polluted area appeared.
The interior of the house is also painted red, which looks eerie against the green filter.
There was no one inside. The red house had at least eight floors, and each floor had a row of small rooms. It didn't look like an ordinary home, but more like a school dormitory or an orphanage.
Yes, the orphanage. Zhu Ning suddenly understood the strangeness of the owner of the grave sticker.
Why didn’t she mention her parents? Xiaoyuan might have been an orphan, so she said she had many brothers and sisters.
As an orphanage, this place is not very big and can accommodate at most a hundred children.
Zhu Ning’s “original body” should also be an orphan. She thought of the information Yue Kaiyuan found, which showed that she was not raised by Lao Yang, but by a mechanical mother. So which orphanage was she in?
There were lots of graffiti on the walls that had been drawn by children, with black paint running from one end to the other.
The ground was covered with dust. Zhu Ning walked in carefully. The red wooden floor made a creaking sound when people stepped on it.
It was similar to Xiaoyuan’s description, and there was indeed a kitchen on the first floor.
The kitchen is quite large and can accommodate twenty people working in it. It is just like a hotel kitchen.
The stainless steel countertops were covered in dust, and there were traces of food on the table. The perishable food had all rotted away, leaving only a pile of animal bones covered in spider webs.
There was rotten meat and bones in the pot, as if someone had once cooked here.
No wonder the Demon Hunter likes to push things down by force. When you grow to a certain stage, you really don’t have the patience to look for clues. Unfortunately, she is not here to purify, but to find clues, so you can only look through them bit by bit.
Xiaoyuan said before that the other girl was here making cakes with her sister, while Xiaoyuan herself was outside the window.
Xiaoyuan crouched down and hid herself the moment her sister turned around. This was a blind spot and she could not be seen at all hiding under the wall.
Zhu Ning tried to simulate the scene. This was the location of the refrigerator, and the corresponding position should be this table, which just happened to be facing the window.
Zhu Ning was still looking for the right position when he suddenly looked up and saw a black shadow flash in the reflection of the window.
Zhu Ning had already prepared himself mentally, thinking that he might run into someone like himself in this polluted area, so he didn't panic.
According to normal logic, when she looked up, she might see another self looking at her with horror, and she would repeat Xiaoyuan's horror.
But no, when she looked up, she only saw an ordinary piece of glass. The glass was covered with dust, and she couldn't even see clearly outside the window.
There is a very old tree outside the window. The leaves are blown by the wind, like a shadow passing by.
So unconventional?
Zhu Ning searched the kitchen but found no clues, so she turned around and prepared to leave. She planned to visit all the places Xiaoyuan mentioned.
Kitchen, dining room, audio-visual room, and most importantly, wardrobe.
Xiaoyuan was last seen in the wardrobe. What happened to her? Why did she suddenly disappear? Was it because she accidentally spoke to another version of herself?
This polluted area is also quite strange. No pollutants have appeared so far. It is just an ordinary abandoned orphanage.
Zhu Ning went up to the second floor, which was probably the "dormitory" for the children. The small doors on the second floor looked like pigeon cages. She carefully pushed open a door and found a single bed inside. The bed had not been made up yet, and the mattress gave off a musty and rotten smell.
The room consisted of a wardrobe, a bed, and a table. Awards were hung on the walls, such as "Three Good Students" and "Best Sprinter".
Many children would hang their medals of honor on the wall. I didn’t expect that the wasteland world would be so traditional in this regard, and it was almost the same as before.
From the traces in the room, it can be inferred that a little boy once lived here, but what happened to this place? Not even the luggage was packed, as if all the children here disappeared overnight.
What happened to Xiaoyuan in the end? Were the other children replaced by another version of herself?
Zhu Ning looked from house to house, trying to find clues in each room.
What does Xiaoyuan's room look like? She definitely can't swim, so there's probably a video game console or some novels in there.
She was the only one in the entire red house. The corridor was dark and chilly, with gray and black lines all around.
She walked into the next room. The room still had the same structure. There was a dark window opposite, and the closet door was half-open. There were a few moldy sportswear hanging inside. She judged that it should be the little girl's bedroom.
This child has a lot of award certificates, which are densely packed together in a large area. However, due to age, the paper has turned yellow and breaks easily when touched.
Zhu Ning was just looking around casually when he was suddenly stunned.
Among a pile of certificates, one particularly stood out. On the yellowed paper was written a line of words: Zhu Ning, first place in the women's shooting competition.
Is this her room?
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