Chapter 183 The Sky Falls (18) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
Ren Zhiling:……?
This is a weird focus.
"The cat is at home..." she explained, "If I bring a cat with me to apply for a job, it won't look good no matter how I look at it, right?"
Who would bring their pet to apply for a job?
"That's right..." The boss's niece nodded with regret and returned to her previous position with her phone in her arms.
Ren Zhiling took the time to reply to the exploration team members.
There are still more than three hours before Liu Yi appears. Ren Zhiling glanced at the time and suddenly felt inexplicably that the mood she was in while waiting for Liu Yi to appear was probably similar to the mood she had when she was drawing the blind box.
It’s just that this blind box is the blind box of the future.
It was fine the first two days. To them and her, Liu Yi was just a man from the future who was trying to save the world. But now that she knew that Liu Yi was an artificial human created using her genes, Ren Zhiling felt a little uncomfortable all over.
After a few seconds, she couldn't help but stood up and came closer: "Hey Ren Zhiling, no, Sister Ren."
She quickly changed her tone: "Sister Ren, you are a graduate of A University? You are a top student!"
"Ah?" Ren Zhiling was a little surprised. "This video even said which school I graduated from?"
They shouldn't have said so much at the beginning, right?
"That's not the case," the boss' niece shook her head sincerely, "It wasn't mentioned in the video, but someone in the comments said that the person who resigned was his senior. Then someone asked him which school he was from, and he said University A. The senior gave a speech to them before resigning. I guess the resignation is related to this, right?"
This person turned out to be the student present in the concert hall attack that day.
"Did he say anything else?" Ren Zhiling suddenly became nervous.
“No…” The boss’ niece spread her hands. “Many people later asked him what on earth he said in his speech that could be related to his resignation, and he never responded.”
"What's going on? So mysterious," she pouted. "I have a friend who is also a student at University A. I was curious the other day and asked him if he had attended the speech. But he refused to tell me what was said in the speech. He just said that he couldn't tell me."
This is probably the result of Song Jirou making the students who saw the scene keep their mouths shut about the matter when she went to deal with it.
"By the way, Sister Ren," the boss's niece asked casually, "can I tell my friends that I met you? I won't comment on this video, I'll just tell my friends."
"Okay," Ren Zhiling nodded casually, "Just don't let them spread it. I don't really want the teachers at school to know."
Anyway, it won’t have any impact if the location gets out, so she won’t stay there tomorrow.
The boss's niece, holding a lollipop in her mouth, made an OK gesture, and slumped back into the seat next to her. She took out her cell phone and started tapping on it. It seemed that she was indeed going to look for her friend.
Ren Zhiling also took out his cell phone and started sending messages to the exploration team members.
Ren Zhiling: [The niece of the owner of this Internet cafe recognized me.]
Yin Liantao: [Recognized you? ]
She hadn't realized what was happening yet.
Ren Zhiling: [Do you remember the news we bought a few days ago? The one about the scientist who resigned while hugging a cat. That video went viral on the short video platform. She just recognized me as the protagonist of the video.]
[Oh, this person recognized me. I was so scared.] Lu Changfeng breathed a sigh of relief. [I thought you meant that this person recognized that you were related to the future. I almost stood up just now.]
Ren Zhiling: [Is Boss Ye here? ]
AKA-From Afar-Mage: [? ]
Ren Zhiling:?
Wait, who is this person?
Ren Zhiling: [This is...]
Isn't this a small group they formed?
AKA-From Afar-Mage: [Yedian. 】
Ren Zhiling: [Oh...Oh Boss Ye, I mainly want to ask, is it okay if this video goes viral...will it have any impact on the future? ]
Isn't it because they chose network management this time because this profession has no future and the end is foreseeable?
If the future world is tied to her popularity, wouldn't the appearance of this video now ruin their original plan?
"Um... Sister Ren," just as Ren Zhiling was holding up her phone and waiting for Ye Dian's reply, the boss's niece stood up from her seat and said in a strange tone, "My friend heard that you were working part-time here, and he insisted on coming to see you."
Ren Zhiling: “Hmm?”
She turned her attention away from the group chat in a strange way: "Who is this friend of yours?"
Although she has a good relationship with the students, most of the younger students she is familiar with have exchanged contact information with her. If you want to see her, you can just call her or send a message.
Why does it need to be conveyed through the boss's niece?
The boss's niece said a name she didn't recognize, then glanced at the screen and read, "He asked me to tell you... Senior Ren, you may not remember who I am, but I have a very important academic question to discuss with you. This is a very important question and must be discussed in person."
"It's about the academic direction you mentioned in your speech at the concert hall last time," she read out her friend's original words word for word, "I have been trying to contact you these past few days, but I couldn't find your contact information. I didn't expect to meet you today."
"But what kind of speech is this? It's so mysterious?" the boss's niece complained.
Concert hall related?
Ren Zhiling suddenly grasped this key word.
The friend of the boss's niece was obviously a witness to the concert hall attack. He specifically mentioned the three words "concert hall", which means that he was sure that Ren Zhiling would meet him after hearing this keyword.
He definitely didn't ask any academic questions, and he was definitely not one of those students who didn't know what was going on and just ran along blindly. He knew that he was attacked during his speech that day.
This "academic issue" was probably because he couldn't bring it up too obviously because of the presence of the boss's niece, an outsider. Or it might be because they blocked the information about the attack on the concert hall last time, so the junior didn't dare to bring it up too obviously.
So what is this message that you must tell yourself?
Ren Zhiling thought for a moment and said, "Okay...let him come over."
It would take about an hour to get here from University A quickly, so she would still have time to meet this junior and hear what he had to say.
"Then I told my friend about it," the boss's niece muttered, "Why did this guy gossip to him? He came over to ask academic questions. He must be crazy about studying."
The comments that had been focused on Ren Zhiling also popped up a few lines:
[This academic question actually refers to what happened on the day of the concert hall attack. ]
[Is this person the student in the concert hall that day? ]
[Did you see Liu Yi attacking Ren Zhiling in the concert hall and want to tell Ren Zhiling about this? ]
[Maybe, but didn’t we already know this information a long time ago? ]
[No, Liu Yi is not important information. There must be at least dozens of people who saw Liu Yi that day. Although he disappeared quickly, he appeared in a concert hall full of people. It would be strange if he was not seen. The people who ran the fastest that day were the ones who saw Liu Yi in the last few rows. If this person just wanted to say that he had information about Liu Yi, then with so many people seeing him, I don’t believe that no one could contact Ren Zhiling.]
[Why do I feel like he might have seen something else.]
【Let’s talk about something else.】
…
Ren Zhiling stood nearby, subconsciously frowned, and stared at the default wallpaper of the Internet cafe's computers for a few seconds, then recalled the day of the attack and began to recollect.
On the day the concert hall was attacked, she actually didn't know exactly what happened. She only knew about the two Liu Yis who appeared that day after she heard the descriptions of Ning Xiao and Fu Yandong.
The lights on the concert hall stage were very bright. She was standing next to the podium and couldn't even see the students in the audience, let alone Liu Yi who was standing in the last row of seats in the concert hall. She only felt that she was suddenly knocked down by something, and then she heard noisy running and shouting.
According to Ning Xiao, it was Ye Dian who caught him that day, and then the two of them came over when they saw that most of the students had run away.
Ye Dian aside, the remaining two people standing in the concert hall were both members of the security team, and they knew in advance that Liu Yi would launch an attack, so they were prepared for the chaos that followed. So if there was anything else that happened in the concert hall, Ning Xiao and Xu Zichen would definitely be calmer than the students, and they would probably notice it, and there was no need to hide it from her.
Liu Yi's appearance was not a secret. On the day she resigned, she received at least three or four messages about this matter, all from her junior schoolmates. It can be seen that although the information was blocked among the participants and not spread outside, the information about Liu Yi must have spread in a small range among the participants.
Therefore, it is highly likely that this junior student would not treat this matter, which has already spread among a small circle of participating students, as a big secret and tell it in person.
It becomes strange when you think about it this way. What on earth did this junior see?
A bony hand tapped on the counter a few times, and the metal rings on the knuckles flashed by: "Get a pack of cigarettes."
"Oh, okay," Ren Zhiling suddenly came back to his senses and looked in the direction of the person who came, "Ye..."
Why are it Ye Dian and Xu Zichen?
"Hey customer," before she could finish her call, the boss's niece turned around and replied, "The place where you guys open the machine is a non-smoking area, you can't smoke."
"How do you feel?" Xu Zichen blinked, "Are you used to this job?"
"You two know each other, are you Sister Ren's boyfriend?" The boss's niece was stunned, looked at Ren Zhiling, then at Xu Zichen, and asked subconsciously.
"No, we're just ordinary friends. We're her colleagues," Xu Zichen shook his head and said casually, "She came here to look for another job today. We happened to be free, so we came to accompany her."
“Oh, I’m sorry…” The boss’ niece blinked awkwardly and repeated subconsciously, “The area where you operate the machines is a non-smoking area. You can’t smoke.”
"Can't smoke?" Bai Jinshu looked around, "Then can you guys?"
"This is a non-smoking area, but you can walk a few steps to the door," the boss's niece replied quickly, "The machine hasn't been turned on for long, brother, why don't I move you to another seat, to the smoking area."
Xu Zichen turned around and glanced at the place she was pointing at, which was further away from the counter.
Bai Jinshu said that when they first came in, they chose a seat that was closer to the counter and the door.
The main reason was that the exploration team members were afraid that Liu Yi would suddenly appear, so they were always ready to pull him out of the door.
Although the seat they chose was close to the door, it was still some distance away from the counter. They could only see Ren Zhiling seemingly talking to the boss's niece, but could not hear clearly what they were saying.
"No need." They didn't come here to smoke in the first place. Xu Zichen waved his hand. "We just have a craving for cigarettes. Since it's open at the door, we can just go there and smoke one. Let me see what cigarettes you have."
The boss's niece put down her phone and turned to open the cabinet next to her. Her attention was drawn away. Bai Jinshu took a few steps forward and raised his chin towards Ren Zhiling: "What's wrong? Why didn't you reply to the message?"
Ren Zhiling opened the group chat, and sure enough, during the few minutes she was talking to her boss's niece, several messages had already been refreshed in the group -
AKA-From Afar-Mage: [It will definitely have an impact. It depends on what Liu Yihui says today. ]
Xu Zichen: [Ren Zhiling, please send us that link so we can have a look.]
Xu Zichen: [Ren Zhiling? ]
Xu Zichen: [? ? ? ]
The chat record stopped here for a few minutes. It seemed that the exploration team members noticed that Ren Zhiling was talking to the boss's niece.
Then Xu Zichen spoke: [Ye Dian and I will find an excuse to go and take a look.]
No wonder they suddenly came to the front desk to buy cigarettes.
Xu Zichen picked up a pack of cigarettes at random, and the two of them stood at the door under the pretext of smoking. The location of this Internet cafe was remote and the work was not busy. The boss's niece was sitting on the sofa, playing with her mobile phone while looking at the counter. Ren Zhiling found an opportunity and walked to the door and told the two of them about her new discovery.
"Does he have to come to the scene and tell you in person?" Bai Jin thought for a moment, "I guess this person knows that this matter cannot be discussed online."
"Is this the information you blocked?" Ren Zhiling asked.
"It wasn't us, it was Song Jirou," Xu Zichen explained, flicking the ash off his cigarette. "It was the captain of the security guard who was in charge of Mr. Xi when he went abroad. We asked her to suppress the concert hall incident. She probably monitored some keywords on the Internet or warned these students in order to spread this incident on the Internet."
"I think so," Ren Zhiling touched his chin, "This junior said he had something important to tell me, and he also said he had been looking for me for three or four days. I don't know what he wanted to say."
"It's worth listening to it. Maybe it's some new information." Bai Jinshu held an unlit cigarette in his mouth.
Ren Zhiling nodded and walked back to the front desk.
"That day at the concert hall was special. Maybe something else happened there," Bai Jinshu seemed to be thinking. "That day was the day when the operations personnel and the communications personnel overlapped. Maybe there was something that you didn't notice."
Xu Zichen nodded.
Although six computers were turned on, the exploration team members were naturally in no mood to sit here and play computers like normal customers after learning the new news. Bai Jinshu and Xu Zichen pretended to stand at the door and then returned to their seats.
After a while, a boy in a sweatshirt walked into the Internet cafe, talked to the front desk for a few words, and then went out with Ren Zhiling.
The exploration team members who were still in front of the computer looked at each other and followed.
This junior student in a sweatshirt seemed to be quite familiar with the area. In order to avoid being seen, he took Ren Zhiling into a relatively small alley with fewer people.
When Bai Jinshu and the others were walking over, they happened to hear the boy's voice: "Senior Ren, we've been looking for you for days! After we left the concert hall that day, we were told that it was a special event and we couldn't discuss the relevant content with irrelevant people or post it on the Internet. Once the risk control detects the relevant keywords, we will be summoned for a talk."
"I know," Ren Zhiling pulled her hair back and threatened her junior, "This matter is quite sensitive and involves some things that are hard to talk about. If you want to ask me about the details, I can't tell you. Do you want to ask me what happened that day?"
"No, I know exactly what happened that day," the man said anxiously. "Although we can't talk about it online, he can't stop all of us from talking. Many of the students who attended the meeting were from the same department or class, and everyone knew what happened after passing the news around. Some said that a man in white clothes shot you down with a gun from the last row, and everyone was very worried."
"I'm fine," Ren Zhiling could only comfort him, "I'm not injured, don't worry, is this what you wanted to tell me?"
"That's not it," the boy said hurriedly, "I learned this from my roommate. My roommate said that he saw people wearing white clothes on the day of the concert hall attack."
"Have you seen it?" Ren Zhiling frowned.
According to Ning Xiao, at the moment the attack failed, the Liu Yi who attacked her and the Liu Yi who organized her death should have disappeared together. If the boy wanted to see Liu Yi, he could only do so before that.
The exploration team members looked at each other.
Xu Zichen lowered his voice and asked, "Did you see the Liu Yi we met?"
When Liu YiD showed up, he didn't avoid people. He appeared directly in the teaching building. Although it was class time, there were still quite a few people at the entrance of the concert hall.
It's not surprising that someone saw Liu Yid.
"Yes, I have seen it," the male voice was firm, "The man had his face covered, but there were other people around him. I know that this man is the murderer who attacked you, so the people around him must be accomplices, and at the very least they can provide the specific identity of the murderer. We don't know if the murderer has been caught. We wanted to provide you with clues, but we couldn't contact you. We called the institute and they said you had resigned."
"I did resign from the institute..." Ren Zhiling pressed his forehead, "What else did you see? Can you explain it more clearly?"
"It wasn't me. It was my roommate. He didn't go to the lecture, but he saw it when he skipped class," the man said with a hint of regret. "I told him what happened at the lecture that night, and he told him that he saw the person in the silver tights I described during the day, and there were other people around that person, and it seemed like they had some kind of dispute."
Ning Xiao lowered her voice and said, "In the teaching building... we did have an argument. Brother Ye didn't believe that he was trying to save Ren Zhiling. He thought he wanted to transfer us away from Xi Enze."
"Your roommate..." In the alley, Ren Zhiling seemed to be thinking about something, "Did you tell him about this? About the attack on me?"
“Uh…” The boy paused, “Well… We’re in the same dormitory, I really can’t hide it, but I asked them not to post it online! There are three people in our dormitory who are preparing for postgraduate study, so we definitely don’t dare to post it carelessly!”
"I don't mean to pursue responsibility," Ren Zhiling shook her head. "I want to ask if your roommate is willing to provide evidence for us if he knows what happened. For example, what did the person standing next to Liu... the short-haired man in a silver tights look like? Is there a specific description of his clothes or a portrait? And where did he see him?"
She was a little suspicious that the roommate actually saw Ye Dian and Ning Xiao.
"The location is in the corridor leading to the concert hall from the teaching building," the boy answered quickly, "but the appearance... We are all science students, and we don't have any painting skills or anything like that. My roommate just said that if he saw it again, he would definitely recognize who it was."
"Okay, I understand," Ren Zhiling nodded, "I'll add your contact information. When your roommate is free, I'll ask him to come and recognize me, okay?"
"Okay," the boy was busy adding her social software friends, "It's good to be able to help senior sister, we are always available, and we can skip class if we don't have time!"
"That's not necessary..." Ren Zhiling and he added each other's contact information, and finally found an excuse to trick this junior away before five o'clock, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Your junior..." Bai Jinshu walked out from the corner, frowning thoughtfully, "It's possible that the person you met was Liu Yi, the one who came to us to stop his former self from killing you."
"I think so too, but in case of any unexpected events," Ren Zhiling modified the note to this junior, "If there is time tomorrow, just ask his roommate to take a look at you, Boss Ye, and Ning Xiao."
Everyone nodded.
Everyone thought there was some major discovery, but it turned out to be information that had been known for a long time, so everyone couldn't help but seem a little uninterested.
"Five minutes left." Fortunately, the new Liu Yi was about to appear. The alarm set by Xu Zichen rang, and he quickly said, "Find a hidden place."
There are a total of six exploration team members here. Xu Zichen divided them into groups of three, and put himself and Ye Dian, the only two who knew the truth, together: "Changfen, you, Yin Liantao, and Fu Yandong go to the entrance of the Internet cafe. If Liu Yi shows up, quickly pull him over. Ye Dian, Ning Xiao, and Ren Zhiling and I will go together."
The three people who were separated quickly ran towards the Internet cafe.
Ren Zhiling and the remaining three people found a shady corner of a residential building and waited for Liu Yi to appear this time.
But the strange thing was that five or six minutes after five o'clock, Liu Yi, who was always punctual, still did not show up.
Could it be that Ren Zhiling's future as the network administrator successfully prevented the sky from falling, which led to Liu Yi no longer appearing?
"What's going on?" Ning Xiao glanced at the group chat. "The other three people said that there was no one in the Internet cafe either. Moreover, the owner of the Internet cafe came back and said that it was dinner time. He had something to do tonight and only his niece was preparing dinner. Someone was needed to watch over the place. He asked where Ren Zhiling had gone."
"Boss Ye, should I go back first?" Ren Zhiling turned around and asked.
"You go back first and let Xu Zichen wait here." Bai Jinshu frowned.
The relationships between these Liu Yis are complicated and a lot of problems have not been solved. It is impossible that the biggest problem that will plague the future, the Fall of the Sky, can be solved like this.
If the key point of Sky Falls is only Ren Zhiling's career choice, then what does Xi Enze do in relation to the rules identified by fixed attributes.
Ren Zhiling hurried back to the front desk and sat in front of the display screen. Bai Jinshu and Xu Zichen repeated their old tricks, took out another cigarette and waited at the door.
Just then, the computer in the Internet cafe made a ding-dong sound.
"This computer..." Ren Zhiling subconsciously wanted to ask the boss's niece, but after turning around, she realized that she had gone to the residential area behind to cook, and she was the only one here.
"What's going on?" Xu Zichen and Bai Jinshu walked in.
"There seems to be new information on the computer," Ren Zhiling said, somewhat embarrassed. "Maybe after I left, the boss's niece logged into her social media account."
The sound of ding-dong is endless.
"He must be looking for her for something," Ren Zhiling touched his chin awkwardly, "Why don't I tell this person that the person he's looking for is not here at the moment."
She turned around and opened the display screen, wanting to reply to the message.
Suddenly, Ren Zhiling was stunned.
"Hello, I'm Liu Yi." She looked at the screen, her brows getting deeper and deeper, and she read it out loud subconsciously.
"I'm sorry, I don't have a physical body, so I can only communicate with you in this way. I hope you don't think my appearance is a prank."
"This is..." Ren Zhiling looked at the time when the first message appeared.
Five o'clock sharp.
"Is this Liu Yi this time?"
"What happened in the future?" She bit her tongue and tried to stand up straight, but bumped into Xu Zichen's elbow.
The two exploration team members who were outside before had stood behind her at some point.
Both of them looked at the computer screen. Ye Dian's voice slowly rang out as he read the message: "Today should be your first day as a network administrator. At that time, you certainly didn't know what kind of future would be caused by opening Pandora's box."
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