Ten minutes passed, and the person who jumped into the sewer still hadn't come out.
Li Wanyi patiently stood in place and waited.
The mystery has been cleared away. There's nothing in the sewers. What was that person doing down there for so long?
Twenty minutes passed, and Li Wanyi had checked her watch at least five times.
A voice came from the other end of the earpiece, "Haven't you waited for Wanyi yet? Maybe he's just an ordinary person who accidentally jumped into the manhole?"
Li Wanyi was a little irritated. "Impossible. He lifted the manhole cover and jumped in. He's quite skilled. I couldn't have been wrong."
Even so, she still walked forward with unease. The opening of the manhole, with its cover lifted, was pitch black. Li Wanyi steeled her heart and jumped down.
"Don't move, you're surrounded," Zhou Ping said calmly, pressing the branch in his hand against the back of the person who had come down. He had been lying in ambush for a long time.
Hearing Zhou Ping say this, Li Wanyi's heart skipped a beat. "Who are you, and what is your purpose?"
Could this be a trap set by the damned Church of the Ancient Gods?
Damn it, she actually fell for it?
With something sharp pressed against her back, Li Wanyi dared not make any rash moves.
The person on the other end of the earpiece heard what Li Wanyi said. There was a moment of silence on the other end, and then they asked, "Wanyi, you keep him occupied, we'll be there soon!"
"What is your purpose? Why are you following me?" Ever since he started walking this road, especially when he lifted the manhole cover, Zhou Ping had noticed that someone was watching him.
His body had been tense ever since then.
Li Wanyi was speechless for a moment when asked, "When did you cultists start doing all these complicated things?"
“I’m not, I’m just an ordinary person,” Zhou Ping said, frowning in denial. He was not a cult member.
"Ordinary people would surround us Night Watchmen? Would they threaten us?" Li Wanyi questioned.
"Ah...you're a night watchman?" Zhou Ping was silent for a moment, then quietly put down the branch in his hand.
He initially thought it was someone with malicious intent trying to follow him, or perhaps the mysterious accomplice he had killed, but it turned out to be a member of the Night's Watch...
Seeing that the person had lowered the weapon that was pressed against her back, Li Wanyi instantly made a move, wanting to give the person behind her an elbow strike.
Zhou Ping nimbly dodged it.
The sewer was too dark and the space too small, so Li Wanyi didn't linger and nimbly climbed up.
After climbing up, she saw her teammates rushing over from the street. She took a breath and looked towards the well.
When Zhou Ping saw the person climbing up, he did not stop him. Instead, after the person climbed out of the sewer, he also climbed up by holding onto the edge of the well.
As soon as he stepped outside, he saw three men with weapons glaring at him menacingly.
"Don't move! You're surrounded!" Xie Jin, who had come to help, pointed his gun at Zhou Ping, who had just crawled out.
"..." Zhou Ping silently took out the branch he was holding, head bowed, unsure how to explain himself...
What should I do? It seems like I've done something wrong.
I really want to go home.
"Where are your accomplices? Didn't you say you just surrounded me?" With her teammates by her side, Li Wanyi felt much more at ease.
"I have no accomplices," Zhou Ping said honestly.
"When I say 'surrounded,' I mean you are surrounded by me all by yourself."
Li Wanyi: ……
Team members who came to help: ...
"Then what was the weapon you used to threaten me with?" Li Wanyi questioned again.
Zhou Ping glanced at her and handed her the branch he was holding. "It's a branch."
"Pfft."
"Hahaha."
They're truly a pair: one dares to speak, and the other dares to believe.
Two bursts of laughter came from beside her. Li Wanyi felt embarrassed and annoyed, never expecting to be threatened by someone with a tree branch.
It seemed to be a misunderstanding all along. Li Wanyi wiped her face, turned her back, and refused to face it all.
The other two team members also lowered their weapons at Zhou Ping, and one of them stepped forward and extended his hand to Zhou Ping.
"Hello, my name is Xie Jin, and I'm a member of the Night Watch team in Xijin City!" Xie Jin flashed a big smile. "Did you kill that mysterious creature in the sewers?"
Zhou Ping nodded, and when he saw Xie Jin's outstretched hand, he reached out and shook it. "I did it."
"Hahaha, are you interested in joining us?" Xie Jin continued with a friendly smile.
"good."
"Hey, you joined us without even asking what we do?"
"Um."
"You're quite aloof..."
...
Because of this chain of events, Zhou Ping joined the Night Watch.
Shang Yan, who was lying in bed playing on his phone in various positions, exited the game page at nine o'clock in the evening and opened the little green letter.
He saved Zhou Ping's contact as "good brother".
After opening his good friend's message box, Shang Yan sent a message.
"Are you home yet?"
Zhou Ping walks very fast, so he should have been home by now. Why hasn't he replied to the message yet?
Shang Yan scratched his head.
The page displayed "The other party is typing..."
Hey bro: I'm home, just got here.
Shang Yan lay on the bed for a while, then sent another message to Zhou Ping.
"Are you going to work part-time at the retail store tonight?"
The other party replied instantly this time.
Good buddy: Go.
A knock sounded on the door, and Shang Qingqian's voice came from outside, "Shang Yan, you should go to sleep. Put your phone away. I'll give it back to you tomorrow."
Upon hearing this, Shang Yan quickly asked, "Sis, can I sleep with my phone?"
"Do you think I don't know what kind of person you are? All you do is stay up all night with your phone!" Shang Qingqian rubbed her temples and pushed the door open.
Shang Yan quickly picked up his phone and typed a message to Zhou Ping.
"I need to hand in my phone now, my sister tells me to go to sleep quickly!"
"I don't want to leave my phone!"
Goodnight, Zhou Ping.
Two messages quickly popped up in Zhou Ping's chat box.
Goodnight, my friend.
Good buddy: See you tomorrow.
Shang Qingqian ruthlessly took away his phone, and Shang Yan lay on the bed, feeling utterly hopeless.
"Host, go to sleep. I'm scared of you with your eyes open like this," 019 advised.
Shang Yan sighed heavily. "It's only ten o'clock, how can I possibly sleep!"
[019, I've discovered something.] Since he was awake anyway, Shang Yan decided to chat with 019.
【What?】, 019 asked in confusion.
"I've figured out my current timeframe for these episodes; it's between 3 PM and 5 PM," Shang Yan said earnestly. "It's already a good thing that my memory has only been messed up for two hours now, compared to the previous day when it was all confused."
【I think so too.】 Thinking about how Shang Yan looked when his memories were confused before, 019 gets a headache.
"I'm not going to take the medicine anymore. I feel it's useless," Shang Yan said, stroking his chin. "I don't think it has anything to do with the medicine."
[...], the silence of 019 was deafening.
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