Chapter 418 Safe House
Standing in the ruins of the fire, Xu Zhiyan's thoughts were a little confused.
But soon, he realized something more serious than the first two problems...
He lowered his head and stared at his palms. When he saw his fingers moving according to his thoughts, Xu Zhiyan not only did not calm down, but his whole body tensed up, as if he was not giving up. He raised his legs again and walked a few circles on the spot.
Looking at the ashes that left a long trail of footprints, Xu Zhiyan could no longer hold back.
No, that doesn't make sense!
Theoretically, his memories are stored in the Uta, so if he wants to get his memories back now, it should be as easy as a dead person watching a revolving screen, and all should be loaded in a flash.
Even if the human body is weak and cannot carry so many memories at once, he should fall into a coma and then watch slowly.
Now, who can tell him why he can control the body in his memory?
What was even more unacceptable was that he found that apart from controlling his young body to move around, he could not do anything else. He could not even leave the restricted area, as if he was trapped inside.
To be on the safe side, Xu Zhiyan did not call the system out loud, but just called a few words in his mind. When he found no response, he had to give up for the time being.
The smell of ashes was still strong and lingering.
He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
The more unclear the situation is, the less anxious you should be.
After adjusting his mindset, Xu Zhiyan looked around again much more carefully than before.
The room was of medium size, with no windows but a half-melted door. Four dazzling crystals were hanging at the four corners of the ceiling, and the light came from there.
Seeing that the crystal had a smell of props, Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
Props? He's in the dungeon?
Unfortunately, the crystal was hanging high up and he couldn't touch it with his short legs. Suppressing the thought in his mind, he began to walk around the room, trying to dig out some clues about the location from the ruins.
But there was nothing in the ashes on the ground.
He kicked the cold, hard black mass. Except for some melted and cooled metal in the corners, everything in the room was burned.
At this point, Xu Zhiyan had to admit that this was a man-made fire scene. He couldn't help but curse in his heart, who would put a four or five-year-old child in a pile of ashes? Isn't this pure and sick?
The door has melted. He can’t turn into a gecko and crawl out through the crack in the wall!
Want to knock on the door for help?
As soon as the thought came to him, he felt resistance.
The child was weak, and soon the fatigue came over him like a wave. Xu Zhiyan stood for a long time, moved his almost numb legs, pursed his lips, walked to a relatively clean corner, leaned against the wall and slowly sat down.
Forget it, it’s just my own memories anyway. After all, he’s lived to be in his twenties, so he will definitely not die.
After feeling a little more confident, Xu Zhiyan simply tilted his head and fell asleep.
He didn't know how long he slept, but in a daze he heard a loud noise from the door.
“Boom—”
The twisted door was opened inward by external force and fell heavily to the ground, making a loud noise and raising a lot of smoke and dust. Indistinct sounds of conversation also came from outside the door, making it difficult to hear clearly.
Xu Zhiyan was startled and suddenly woke up, looking towards the door with a wary look on his face.
After several minutes, until the smoke completely dissipated, a woman walked in tremblingly.
In the corner, Xu Zhiyan was stunned when he saw the woman's face clearly.
He has seen this person.
In Cen Jinyue’s memory.
The nanny in front of him once held his hand when he was young in a quiet corridor. No matter how much he cried, she would remain indifferent and hold his hand tightly.
Since the other party is here, it is almost certain that he is now in Xu's house.
The problem at the location was solved. Xu Zhiyan put away his guarded expression and tried to act as childish as possible. He raised his eyes and looked eagerly towards the door... Pretending to be a child was not a difficult thing for him.
Unexpectedly, after the woman entered the room, her expression became more and more solemn, especially after her eyes swept across the corner, the fear on her face almost became a physical thing.
Without waiting for Xu Zhiyan to say anything, the woman screamed and ran away just by meeting his eyes.
“…”
Listening to the screams that echoed throughout the space, Xu Zhiyan prepared some childish words but couldn't use a single word.
But now that the door was open, his mind became active again.
Just as he walked to the door and peeked out to check the terrain, Xu Zhiyan heard a woman's hurried voice and turned back.
"Mr. Xu, I swear, that child is different."
"He wasn't unconscious like before. He was sitting in the corner when I just walked in."
"And when he looked up at me, there was a sparkle in his eyes! It was completely different from before! As for the surveillance... they were all burned, and I don't know what he went through."
Frightened and hurried words came from afar, accompanied by a series of footsteps. Xu Zhiyan suppressed the uneasy speculation in his heart, shrank back into the room, returned to the corner, sat down obediently with his legs hugged, and lowered his head to hide the calculation in his eyes.
It wasn't until the footsteps stopped at the door that he heard an 'oh' with a hint of curiosity.
The person who answered was a man, his voice was low and gentle, with a bit of the steadiness that comes from being in a high position for a long time.
Xu Zhiyan felt his scalp tingling after hearing this.
In the information about Xu Yan submitted by Asa, there were some audio recordings of brief conversations between collectors. He had heard such a voice once before.
There were too many factors, and thought after thought flashed through his mind.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and just when Xu Zhiyan had made up his mind to disguise himself as a human cub, he found that he couldn't move!
He could sense that his body was still sitting in the corner, hugging his knees and covered in dirt.
But when he heard the other party walking into the room with someone, he wanted to look up, but he couldn't control his neck...
His vision gradually faded away, and it seemed as if there was a layer of glass between him and the outside world.
At this moment, a cheerful electronic sound like thunder rang in Xu Zhiyan's ears.
[Hi! Host! Why didn't you call me before you came in?] It was the safe house system that appeared from nowhere.
Perhaps it was because the system's naive tone was too contagious, the uncontrollable tension in my body suddenly disappeared, and even the possibility of meeting the collector in advance became insignificant.
"Can you please turn the volume down a bit? I'm going deaf."
Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but speak.
After saying this, he was stunned for a moment, then realized belatedly that he seemed to be communicating with the system in his mind, while the young body that trapped him did not speak, still curled up in the same posture as before.
[OKOK! Speaking of which, why did you lose contact with me? That's strange... and why is the view in front of me so dark and blurry?]
The system took a while to react before realizing that there was a dirty knee in front of it.
"Lost contact? Where exactly is this place?"
Xu Zhiyan was a little confused.
Perhaps sensing the host's urging, the system quickly explained the current situation.
[This is your memory world, the things that happened in your memory, but I don’t know why, you just entered and I lost contact with you here... As for Mr. Ghost, haha, I didn’t find him.] God knows how terrified it was when it came in and found that both masters had lost contact.
Listening to the system's optimistic words, Xu Zhiyan had no time to study them in detail.
Now we can basically determine that the person who came is the collector himself. From his field of vision, we can see the tip of the shoe approaching. The pure handmade leather shoes are exquisitely made, and we can tell at a glance that they are very expensive.
Xu Zhiyan inexplicably felt his vision was a little blurry, as if he had been hit by some skill that affected his thinking. Before he could figure out what was going on, his vision finally changed.
An adult male's face appeared in front of him, and at the same time, a hand pinched his chin.
The nannies and bodyguards around were silent, and no one dared to make a sound.
The man in the fur-collared coat squatted in the ashes, reaching out to pinch the boy's face, seemingly not caring at all about the ashes on it. Under his monocular glasses, his eyes were fixed on the child in front of him, as if he was looking at some satisfying prey.
The boy's face, which he was pinching, was forced to look up, his round almond-shaped eyes were filled with water and confusion, and even the dirt could not conceal the boy's outstanding appearance.
After a while, Xu Yan let go of his hand and a smile appeared on his face.
"Very good, recovering quickly."
"His talent is much stronger than I thought. He will be the best container."
After saying that, he turned around and said to his men, "Take him down to change his clothes, let him have a good rest, and take good care of him."
As if to show his gentle side, Xu Yan reached out and touched Xu Zhiyan's face twice, and said softly: "We will meet again in a few days."
I took my hand back and someone immediately handed me a towel to wipe my hands.
Xu Yan took it and wiped the dust off his hands carefully, even between his fingers, as if he couldn't stand the dirt on his fingertips.
Only after he had done all this did he turn and leave.
The woman who was left standing there exchanged a glance with her silent subordinates. Finally, under their cruel eyes, the woman swallowed her saliva, stepped forward hesitantly, and picked up the boy.
The process was very quiet, without any noise or disturbance, and everyone seemed to have taken a mute drug.
However, no one knew that at this moment, the mind of young Xu Zhiyan was already filled with noise and excitement.
[Oh my god, host! You were such a crybaby when you were little! You looked so pitiful with your eyes full of tears!] The system made exclamatory sounds one after another, although the focus was completely wrong.
It even used its special ability to take a few screenshots of Xu Zhiyan.
"Can you do something useful? You have such a good opportunity, but you don't collect information about Xu Yan, but instead take pictures of me?" Xu Zhiyan was like a cat whose tail was stepped on. He refused to admit that the blurriness just now was caused by the tears in his eyes.
Since they were free anyway, after realizing that they could do nothing and could only watch passively, they started to complain.
[His shoes look expensive.]
"Not only are the shoes expensive, but the clothes are not cheap either, and the watch is even more expensive than the one Gan Mi gave me. I don't know how much money he, a mimic, has taken from our Xu family!"
[He also wore several rings!]
"Don't mention it. The ring hurts my face when it touches me..."
[Hey, how much does this cost...]
"Hey, I have to take them all back when I have the chance in the future."
From the time I met the collector till now, it had been less than twenty minutes.
Xu Zhiyan's mentality has changed from being on high alert to thinking about how to get his property back from Xu Yan.
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