The girl was stunned for a moment, and I immediately recalled the half-melted candy in Boss He's pocket and the scene when he gave it to Xiao Zhang.
"Is our memory declining because of this taste?"
Yi Yi continued speaking, her tone now tinged with curiosity.
"right."
Mr. He nodded, and his figure became even more transparent as his emotions calmed down.
"This is mixed with my lewdness. If ordinary people smell it too much, they will experience mild hallucinations and forget some unimportant things."
I don't mean to harm you... I can't control this feeling myself.
So you've probably noticed that every time I reappear, I always connect with you in some way, yet I can't quite remember you all.
After he said that, his body became even more transparent.
At that moment, the surrounding scenery suddenly began to shake violently.
The golden hue of the setting sun was instantly replaced by blinding white light.
This time, the white light was more intense than ever before. Even with my eyes closed, I could still feel countless rays of light passing by the corners of my eyes.
What's particularly unusual is that this white light appeared unusually scorching, as if it were about to tear apart the entire space-time continuum.
"Go back...it's time to go back."
A large swath of scorching white light surged up, even more dazzling than before.
This time, I wasn't as panicked as before. After integrating the memories in my mind, I felt like I remembered a lot of things.
I know we should go and save Fatty Zhou. We should cure Xiao Yuan's illness and bring the living person in front of us back to life.
At this moment, Yiyi gripped my hand even tighter.
She told me she was still a little nervous and scared, while I remained very firm in my tone.
“We have already helped them enough. They shouldn’t be causing trouble for us anymore, both morally and logically.”
The white light completely enveloped us, and my consciousness began to blur once again.
Calmly, we landed slowly, but this time it felt like we were being thrown down from mid-air.
Staggering a bit, Yiyi and I stepped onto the cracked asphalt, making a soft crunching sound.
It was another empty space.
The sound of footsteps echoed in the open space, becoming even more jarring.
I took a quick look around and then looked up to see that the sky had been dyed orange.
The sun hung directly overhead, its rays so intense that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes.
This time, Mr. He wasn't in mid-air.
But this harsh light made me feel as if even the air itself was distorted.
"Master, shouldn't it be time for Fatty Zhou to go out this time? Could it be that after experiencing half of Boss He's life, this scene has changed from darkness to daytime and then back to afternoon?"
Lei Jijian hesitated for a moment, muttering to himself.
I, however, denied his idea.
Yiyi and I have been through a lot, but in reality, these scenes gave me a completely mixed feeling.
Even in these scenarios, my memories are somewhat fragmented.
We may not have actually experienced it, but rather replayed it in our minds—it's possible that we experienced it without actually going through it!
Just like what we saw Rabbit Ear Village go through overnight at the mass grave.
You can only enter the illusion at the right time. In our case, the time we enter the illusion is different each time.
The outside world will most likely remain largely unchanged.
"Where...is this?"
Yi Yi slowly opened her eyes, her fingertips still icy cold, but she immediately pulled out the sea marrow that Boss He had given her from her pocket.
When I saw this sea marrow, I was startled.
Didn't she just give this to me? How did it end up in Yiyi's pocket again?
Not only the girl, but even Lei Jijian suddenly realized that he also had a piece of sea marrow that he had been carrying before.
As I searched, I found, to my surprise, that I also had three pieces of sea marrow on my body.
Looking again at the dew-covered branch that the girl had turned over, it still shone with that faint orange light, appearing exceptionally bright under the sun.
There are a few scattered buildings along the roadside, most of which have peeling exterior walls, broken windows, and some have even collapsed halfway, exposing the blackened steel bars inside. There is not a trace of human presence.
The wind blowing through the gaps in the building produced a sound like a knife cutting.
"This... seems to be the central area of the shallow layer."
I murmured to myself, and when I looked back, this was probably the path that Xiao Zhang had taken before.
Yi Yi looked puzzled.
“Look, if you go further east, that should be the management office.”
The lightning sword I explained to her was also something that had been in my mind all along, a feeling of sudden realization.
As I finished speaking, a faint metallic clanging sound came from afar. Following the sound, a jarring building suddenly appeared in our field of vision.
If it weren't right in front of me, I would even think it was edited.
The building's opulent splendor contrasted sharply with the dilapidated state of its surroundings.
"Let's check the time first." I asked Yiyi to take out her pocket watch.
This time, unlike before, I didn't go to see what was happening here first.
Judging from the current situation, I guess we probably haven't returned to the riverside hotel where Fatty Zhou first started.
Yiyi took it out and examined it briefly. At this moment, the hands inside the pocket watch seemed to go crazy, spinning around and around. The second hand could spin three or four times per second, while the minute and hour hands also swayed wildly.
Oh no, we can't tell the exact time at all!
Not only that, even the markings on the dial started to become somewhat blurry.
"how so?"
The girl's voice trembled slightly.
"Could it be... that this watch has gone mad too?"
I stared at the wildly spinning pointer, a chill running down my spine.
Impossible. This thing was given to us by Lao Liu, and considering the spatial context, we brought it in from outside, so it shouldn't be affected by what's inside.
This pocket watch shows the current environment and the actual flow of time.
At that moment, I suddenly realized that it was normal that Xiao Zhang, who had just died, wasn't here, but Boss He, who had been in mid-air, was also gone!
Not only that, even Zhou Pang wasn't here.
Each time he appeared at the hotel entrance before, at least the timeline was clear, but this time even his pocket watch was malfunctioning.
"Brother, is Boss He... really gone?"
Yiyi asked quietly from the side.
Meanwhile, the distant building continued to emit a series of metallic expansion sounds.
Just then, a faint cell phone ringtone came from the direction of the building in front of us, instantly breaking the dead silence.
The ringtone was loud and carried far, sounding exceptionally clear in the open environment.
And this tune is like a death knell!
It's similar to the suona that people usually play at funerals!
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