Chapter 173
The child who was pushed away seemed to have other things to do and stood there hesitating for a moment.
Seeing the diary being snatched away, Lu Jiamu jumped up from the ground and started chasing the child who stole the diary.
Seeing this, the child who was pushed away also ran with the spark in his hand, chasing after Lu Jiamu.
At the beginning, the child who was trying to grab the diary had not left the two people behind too far.
But when he saw the people behind him chasing him closely, he extinguished the spark in his hand that he was using to light himself, kicked the mud behind him twice, and started running around relying solely on his memory.
The sewers began to branch out and become more complicated. Lu Jiamu was not familiar with the terrain at all and soon got lost in the darkness. He could only stand at the fork and could not move forward.
This development of events made Lu Jiamu feel a little defensive. He frowned and pursed his lips.
Things just happened so fast that he didn't have time to communicate too much with the diary.
Although Lu Jiamu had already accepted the diary's betrayal, he had not fully guessed what its motive was for suddenly and hastily turning against him.
It's just like a cornered dog.
Why? Is it because the number of members that can threaten it has decreased, or is it because some other factors have stimulated it?
Lu Jiamu began to think about this problem.
In fact, Lu Jiamu never really believed in the diary completely. He was always secretly testing the diary in his own way.
He believed that diaries were doing the same thing, and that they could always better hide one's true thoughts.
But there is one thing it can never hide: that is what Fang Gu had written in his diary before his death, which it cannot tamper with.
It knew all the contents of the diary, but it had no idea how much Lu Jiamu had understood.
It is possible that Fang Gu's last words were actually what he did not want them to see.
It has been holding on to its bargaining chips tightly, living under someone else's roof, sweating day and night about this secret, fearing that it would be known.
Every indiscriminate reading from Lu Jiamu may have brought it great psychological pressure, because it didn't know where he was looking, he seemed to have seen everything but also seemed to have seen nothing.
And it can only gamble there blindly.
But it still has to put on a smile, pretending to be indifferent, acting as if it has no selfish motives and is purely caring about others, trying to integrate into their group as much as possible.
Lu Jiamu guessed that it might be that when they were reincarnated into this world, the diary thought for some reason that they were about to learn important information and opened up all reading permissions.
However, reading the contents of the diary would be disadvantageous to it, so it went all out and turned against it.
Having guessed this, Lu Jiamu felt a rare sense of nervousness and anxiety, and began to pace slightly on the spot.
The kid behind him had already caught up with him. Lu Jiamu immediately turned around and grabbed his tattered collar, asking, "Can you still find him?"
This child was obviously much less courageous than the robber. After being grabbed, his eyes widened in fear. He was obviously very afraid that the robber would transfer his anger for having his things stolen to himself: "I, I, I, I, I... I don't know where he went. He and I are not in the same group..."
Lu Jiamu pushed him to the front: "Lead the way."
The child shrank his neck, looking as if he was afraid of being beaten: "The roads here are complicated, and I didn't see clearly where he ran to in the end. I really don't know where to find him..."
Lu Jiamu looked at the brat expressionlessly, and the brat began to feel guilty: "I'm not that familiar with him."
Lu Jiamu quickly adjusted his mentality and calmed down. He thought in silence for a moment, and quickly realized the situation and changed his thinking.
The brat had already run away, and he probably couldn't catch up with him alone. But the brat took the diary with him, which was a good thing from a certain perspective.
The diary is very important to Lu Jiamu. Apart from being a relic of his good friend, it is also the beginning of all adventures and the answer he ultimately wants to find.
Even though the diary has revealed great malice, most of it has been directed at Yu Leng so far and is not enough to endanger Lu Jiamu himself. Lu Jiamu wants to continue keeping the diary.
But if that were the case, I wouldn't be able to explain to Yu Leng.
The diary had just harmed him, and he certainly could not tolerate it. As soon as he got the chance, he would probably want to burn it to death.
But Lu Jiamu also needs this teammate. This is full of contradictions. He always has to give an explanation, and it is difficult to have both.
Now that Diary has escaped on her own, it is actually a best of both worlds situation for Lu Jiamu.
As long as they keep an eye on Yu Leng and don't let Diary turn around and kill him, no matter what Diary is planning now, it has little to do with them.
Because as long as the diary does not want to stay in this world completely, it will definitely find a chance to come back, and they will meet again sooner or later.
Lu Jiamu stopped chasing blindly and started walking back according to his impression.
The child next to him did not leave on his own. Perhaps he really did not know where the child in front of him had gone. Instead, he followed Lu Jiamu eagerly and asked, "Are you from outside? Why have I never seen you before?"
Lu Jiamu was also thinking quickly without showing any emotion.
Having collected the heart that was placed in the diary, now the only living person who could communicate with them became the key.
Although he is just a little kid, in a world like this, no survivor can be underestimated, and he must have some value.
The reverse implication of "Why haven't I seen you before" is "I should have seen everyone." He probably knows which other survivors are nearby, and they have a social circle.
Although they only had a quick glimpse of the world on the ground, and didn't know what the so-called "research institute" was, the tone was already obvious. It was very similar to the school in their first world.
The circle formed by the base is very small, there are few outsiders, and it costs a lot to go out, so the information from outside is extremely valuable but also extremely untraceable.
Generally speaking, they are the kind of people who are very easy to deceive and believe whatever you say.
As outsiders who suddenly appeared, they had to rely on themselves to tell their life stories and experiences.
At the same time, they can know nothing about the "Institute" and can ask directly if they want to know anything. As outsiders from afar, it is reasonable and they have the right to speak.
After deciding on the communication strategy, Lu Jiamu looked back at the child with a cautious expression, then nodded reservedly: "Yes... We had just arrived not long ago, and we were suddenly arrested. Do you know why they arrested us?"
The child showed a very surprised expression on his face: "Don't you know? The radio has been playing for a long time."
Lu Jiamu said calmly, "We came from far away and don't know the rules here. We just found a base here and came in."
Somewhere far away?
The child's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked, "Is there a place suitable for survival outside? How far is it? How did you get here?"
Lu Jiamu patted his sleeves and glanced at the child strangely: "Of course. Very far is very far."
Afraid that the kid would think he was just a weak and vulnerable kid from another place, Lu Jiamu waved his hands and added more accomplices to his background story: "We followed our parents, classmates, and teachers on the migration for a long, long time. We walked a long way to get here. But now we are lost."
Sure enough, the child followed behind Lu Jiamu, showing a bit of envy: "You still have a father and a mother?"
"Yeah. You didn't?"
The child did not answer.
But he was still quite shrewd in assessing the situation. After hearing these words, he realized that although they were all children, Lu Jiamu was just a precious child who was temporarily lost, and he was different from them, the homeless children who had no one to rely on.
He is highly valued and has many potential backers, a large group of friends, including his parents, friends and teachers.
So you have to treat them with care and try your best to please them, maybe you can get some benefits from it and get on their good side.
"I see, you are a capable child." He was in awe. "The teacher has just heard about you from other children and is actually asking us to come find you."
But as soon as I came over, I saw that they seemed to be snatching something.
This child was also deeply embarrassed that another child stole the diary as soon as he arrived.
Books are very scarce in this era because they are difficult to preserve. Sometimes they may record some inheritance from previous generations or even items from direct ancestors, so they are extremely precious.
It was none of his business.
But in order to please Lu Jiamu, the child still tried to say something nice: "Don't be afraid, he will come back sooner or later. The chance of survival outside alone is very low. When he comes back, the teacher will help you get justice, and you will definitely not suffer this loss. When he runs back, I will help you beat him."
"Now come with me to see the teacher."
Lu Jiamu pretended to hesitate for a moment and said that he wanted to find his companions first before setting off together.
The child immediately held up the spark and took two quick steps forward diligently, then walked to the front to lead the way.
When Lu Jiamu returned the same way, Yu Leng was still standing there without running around. He was curled up and biting his fingers nervously.
Seeing that he was still there through the dim firelight, Lu Jiamu calmed down again.
Stay with him and wait for the diary to wander back on its own. Everything may still turn around.
At this moment, Yu Leng was shocked, frightened and confused, and he didn't even fully understand what was going on.
He only remembered that a ghost had just tried to take over his body, and Lu Jiamu helped him. Then his only companion suddenly ran away without a word, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
He could only huddle together and squat in confusion, cowering into a corner as much as possible to minimize his presence.
Everything in the darkness is unknown. There may be monsters lurking with ulterior motives who want to replace him, and he has lost his companions and is left alone.
Such scenes always stimulate people's associative ability at inappropriate times.
Yu Leng thought of his own powerlessness and incompetence in his frantic heartbeat.
There have been many companions in the past.
But he is neither as capable and fearless as Kouman or Wang Biao, nor as calm and purposeful as Lu Jiamu, and he is not as sinister and cruel as the thing in the diary.
If he were alone without a companion, he wouldn't be able to go anywhere.
What the monster just said was quite telling.
He is very weak, but he wants to go home very much, and his teammates must also hope to have a stronger partner. There is an inexplicable glimmer of logic in the monster's terrifying perverse logic.
This made his fear of the diary even worse.
Every second in the darkness seemed as long as a century.
So when Yu Leng saw Lu Jiamu's calm little figure reappear, his heart was suddenly filled with a feeling of gratitude and ecstasy.
Yu Leng's hands were shaking as he called out softly, "Lu?"
Lu Jiamu was thinking about other things in his mind, and responded indifferently: "Yeah."
Yu Leng looked at him carefully and asked cautiously: "What...what is that thing? Why do you have something like that? Did you bring it back...?"
Lu Jiamu patted his little clothes and interrupted him in a childish tone: "I lost it. It was stolen."
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Yu Leng had no idea about how things would develop afterwards, but after the ecstasy he felt when he saw Lu Jiamu again faded away, he began to fear him again.
He doesn't seem to be a very good teammate, but as the only remaining companion, Lu Jiamu naturally won't get rid of him.
But now the monster has proposed a new plan to replace him and continue walking. He is no longer the only irreplaceable candidate to go with him. He cannot guarantee that Lu Jiamu will not turn around and help the monster to harm him after he finds out what is going on.
It seems that they all have their own little thoughts and are not as united as before.
"Let me pull you up." After looking at him for two seconds, Lu Jiamu touched his wrist and took the time to analyze their fragile relationship. Then he softened his tone and took the initiative to express his friendship, "I have never lied to you, and you shouldn't doubt me."
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