Chapter 365 The Real Reality
It wasn't until Li Qi sat next to Kate's mother that Ms. Jane's gaze finally changed.
She turned her head and looked at Li Qi, her unfocused pupils revealing an indescribable weirdness.
She whispered:
"Kate, my daughter..."
“…”
Li Qi said nothing.
He only agreed to let Lisa replace Kate, but he did not agree to let Lisa pretend to be Kate and play house with her mother, Ms. Jane.
So he just remained silent, sitting quietly beside Ms. Jane without saying a word.
Li Qi remained silent, and Ms. Jian didn't say anything either. She just reached out and grabbed Li Qi's hand, and whispered:
"Don't leave me, Kate..."
After she said this, she stopped talking and did not let go of the hand that was tightly holding Li Qi.
Only then did Li Qi confirm that Ms. Jane did have some mental problems.
But this doesn't seem to have anything to do with him.
His attention was still on Lisa. He wanted to know what changes would happen to this town made up of dreams after Lisa took the core of the rare object away.
…
Lisa hugged Kate and quickly left the mansion.
There was some joy and anticipation in her eyes.
Although Lisa here and Lisa over there are the same individual, even if they are the same individual, different experiences and encounters will lead to completely different thoughts and completely opposite choices.
Lisa was originally an ordinary agent of the Abnormal Events Management Bureau. More than a month ago, after the Dark Day appeared, Lisa and her colleagues received a mission from their superiors.
Investigate the disappearance of the ghost town.
The Abnormal Events Management Bureau was established a few years ago, and it has collected many strange objects over the years, so there is no need to investigate too carefully. Just by exploring the strange objects within the bureau, the Abnormal Events Management Bureau knew that the disappearance of the small town was due to a newly born strange object.
So Lisa and her colleagues' mission is to find a way to find this disappeared town and obtain the rare item inside.
At the beginning, Lisa's idea was very pure, which was to complete the task hard, obtain the rare item, and then return to the Alien Management Bureau to get a promotion and a raise.
Until she learned a shocking secret from her colleagues.
The end of the world is coming, and countries have prepared for it, but most people in the bureau know nothing about it, including Lisa, who is just an ordinary agent!
And according to that colleague, if the danger of the end of the world exceeds the limit that the Alien Management Bureau can cope with, then they, the ordinary agents, will be completely abandoned by the Alien Management Bureau!
Lisa found this unbelievable.
She couldn't believe that she worked so hard for the Abnormal Management Bureau, but ended up being abandoned!
Because of her disappointment with the Abnormal Management Bureau, Lisa began to have different thoughts.
Just at this time, colleagues found some clues about the town's wonders and confirmed that the town's wonders were "space wonders" in a sense, that is, wonders that came with a unique space.
In other words, if they can get this rare item, then when doomsday comes, they won’t have to worry about the problem of a safe house!
The town's wonders could serve as their safe house in the doomsday! No matter what kind of doomsday comes, they will at least have a way out! Lisa and her colleagues therefore began to seriously search for the core of the town's wonders.
As time went on, they eventually zeroed in on Jane, who was carrying a little girl.
It was basically confirmed that the core of the strange object was closely related to the little girl Kate! However, after Lisa and her colleagues conducted experiments one after another, they found that they could not take Kate too far away.
No matter how they take Kate away, the moment they leave the town, Kate will return to Jane.
If Kate were kidnapped using other more radical methods, the final outcome would be the same as that of Lisa's colleague.
Death occurs instantly and no body is left.
After her colleague died, Lisa waited for a long time but couldn't find a way to take Kate out safely. It was not until Li Qi arrived that she thought of the "exchange" plan.
Now the plan has been half successful. As for whether the other half can be successful, it depends on whether Kate can leave the town.
If Kate could leave the town, it would mean that she had successfully taken the core of the town's treasure.
At that time, Lisa will force the knight to tell her how to leave here. With the knight's method, she will leave this hellhole, stay away from the Alien Management Bureau, stay away from the United States Federation, and find a remote corner with the town's rare items to spend the rest of her life!
If it doesn’t work, it’s okay. We can just think of other ways.
Lisa had already planned her future plans in her mind, and was gradually moving towards the outside of the town with Kate.
Slowly, Lisa and Kate approached the edge of the town and crossed the edge to the outside of the town.
When they left the town and saw Kate still by her side, Lisa showed a happy smile on her face.
"I succeeded! I succeeded—"
She was about to cheer loudly for her success, but then she saw Kate, who looked like Meng An, looking at her with pity, and then her body gradually melted.
Kate's melting process was like a candle gradually melting away.
Neither the skeleton nor the internal organs were exposed. The whole person just slowly shrank and disappeared, turning into a pool of white sticky liquid, and finally disappeared completely.
Lisa had never seen such a disappearance before.
Seeing Kate disappearing from her side like this, Lisa had a bad premonition in a trance.
That means she and her partner may have gotten something wrong from the very beginning.
…
The interior of the mansion on the other side.
Li Qi, who had already promised Lisa to help her, followed her to the path she mentioned, and suddenly asked curiously:
"Even if you really wanted my help, why did you kill the Knight?"
"The United Nations has already determined that the Antiquities Council is a global terrorist organization. All official members have the power to kill anyone from the Antiquities Council on the spot if they see them."
Lisa responded blandly in an official tone.
Li Qi asked: "The knight has a way to leave here. Isn't it a pity that you just killed him?"
"After I complete my mission, someone from the bureau will take me away, so I won't need the Ancient Monuments Society's methods."
Lisa's calm response was in stark contrast to Lisa who was looking for the knight to ask for a way to leave.
The reactions of the two Lisa were completely different. Li Qi thought that this might be because they were in different places and had experienced different things, so they had completely different ideas.
So here comes the question.
If the town lets the two go and their consciousnesses merge into one, which consciousness will be the main one for them in the future?
Aren't they schizophrenic?
While Li Qi was thinking about these messy questions, Lisa had already brought Li Qi to the path she had discovered.
Surprisingly, the road Lisa mentioned was actually the basement where Li Qi and Kate went on their "adventure" that day.
Lisa brought Li Qi in here and opened the door to the basement. She said to Li Qi, "I have never been to this place before because only children can enter here, so I don't know what is inside. But I can be sure that if the strange object that created the town really exists, it is very likely in this basement."
"So you're not sure?"
Li Qi looked at Lisa with a strange expression.
Lisa said confidently: "I am sure it must be here. My colleague told me this with his life."
Lisa told a lot of lies to Li Qi and the others, such as that she was not actually a police officer, but a member of the Abnormal Control Bureau, and that she did not come here without knowing anything, but actually knew everything and came here just for the strange objects.
But there was one thing Lisa didn't lie about.
She does have a partner.
Most of the agents who have reached a certain level in the Alien Management Bureau work in teams of two, and they share a rare item to carry out their missions.
Lisa has a good relationship with her colleague, who is also very adventurous. After arriving here, he is the most active person in looking for rare objects.
But it was precisely because of his adventurous spirit that Lisa's colleague did not survive to this day.
However, before he died, Lisa's colleague confirmed with her that the core of the magic object was in the basement, but no one could get in, only the children could get in.
Lisa didn't know how her colleague guessed this, but she chose to believe it.
Li Qi didn't know how to comment on this matter.
He remembered that the last time he came here for adventure with Kate, he found nothing except a passage connecting to another mirror.
Although he was confused, Li Qi did not mention his last visit to Lisa.
After confirming that Lisa wanted him to come in, Li Qi nodded to Lisa, took out the flashlight Lisa gave him, and stepped into the dark basement in front of him.
When he stepped into the basement, before he could take a few steps forward, a familiar petite figure appeared in front of Li Qi.
That's Kate.
Kate appeared in front of Li Qi at some point.
"Ann, I'll take you to a nice place."
Just like when she first met Li Qi a few days ago, Kate extended her hand to Li Qi.
Looking at the small hand Kate stretched out, Li Qi hesitated for a moment and then shook it.
And the moment he touched Kate's palm, a dazzling light flashed before his eyes.
He closed his eyes and opened them again, and Li Qi appeared in a small town on the other side.
Li Qi raised his hands and looked at his palms, then touched the strange earrings on his ears. He instantly realized that he had become one with another self.
From now on, he is no longer divided into two people, there are no longer two Li Qis, there is only him here.
The one and only Li Qi.
Thinking of this, Li Qi turned and looked at Kate's mother, Ms. Jane.
Ms. Jane looked at Li Qi with eyes full of love, as if she saw her daughter Kate.
But from Li Qi's perspective, Li Qi also saw Ms. Jane's true appearance.
The real Ms. Jane was lying in a basement holding the rotten body of a child.
She closed her eyes tightly, holding her 'daughter' who was like a treasure to her in her arms, with a happy smile on her face, sleeping peacefully.
Li Qi knew that was the reality.
It is also the root of Dream Town.
(End of this chapter)
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