"What are you busy with recently?" Luo Zheyu asked while controlling the character in the game interface.
"Hey, we don't have anything to do. Does playing games count?" The plump young man sitting next to this body was named Gao Fang. He was a classmate of this body. He still had a childish look on his face. He stared at the computer screen, his fingers constantly tapping on the keyboard, and answered casually.
"What have you been doing lately?" He paused and asked.
“I didn’t do anything…” Luo Zheyu pretended to be vague, tempting the other party to take the initiative to reveal information about this body.
"Tsk, you're so secretive all day long and don't participate in group activities. I see you haven't played the game for a month, and you said you didn't do anything. You're either doing something secretly or you have a girlfriend!" The new information from the other party was exactly what he wanted to ask.
"Ahhh! Fang Liyang, your operation is amazing! We will definitely win this time!" Gao Fang shouted in surprise, and he was instantly energized as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
A few minutes later, the game was won.
"It's been a month?" Luo Zheyu exited the game interface and checked the game's historical login records.
The records show that the last time the game was logged in was on April 5th.
It has been almost a month since today, May 19th.
The game login records before this were very frequent. Basically, this account logged into the game every day and the game time was not short.
It doesn't seem like he stopped logging in because he was tired of the game, and it's even less likely that he went from having plenty of free time to suddenly being too busy to log in for a month.
Luo Zheyu picked up his cell phone, checked the time, and stood up.
"I have something urgent to do, so I have to go first."
More than half an hour had passed since he sent a message to the man in "People Nearby". The message status showed that it had been read, but the other party had not replied to him. I guess he should have responded by now.
"Hey! Fang Liyang, where are you going? I finally called you out, let's play a few more games!"
"Yes, what's the urgent matter?" Gao Fanghe's classmates shouted behind him.
"There will be a thunderstorm today, go home and collect the clothes." Luo Zheyu replied, waved at them, and walked straight out of the Internet cafe.
"Eh?" Gao Fang raised his head and glanced at the sky outside the window. Sure enough, he saw that the sky was dark and dark clouds began to gather in the sky.
"It's really going to rain, why don't we go back to school?" He turned and asked his companions.
"No, it's so hot, why should I be afraid of rain?"
"That's right. At worst, I can just stay up all night in the Internet cafe to avoid the rain."
"Forget about staying up all night. I'd rather go back in the rain..." Gao Fang refused.
"The game has started, the game has started!" someone shouted.
Several people immersed themselves in the game again.
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As he gradually approached Fang Liyang's rental house, where the body was dumped, Luo Zheyu's figure walking slowly in the desolate and deserted alley gradually faded, disappeared from the naked eye, and merged into the dust in the air.
The sleight of hand conceals his presence and whereabouts.
He took out his cell phone and sent a message to the first of his recent contacts on the social app.
【You are here. 】
On the other side, on the fourth floor of the shopping mall, a man in sportswear was sitting by the window in a restaurant, staring out the window for a long while without moving, like a statue.
Looking down from the window, you can see the residential buildings at the intersection diagonally opposite, including the residents and pedestrians coming in and out of the buildings downstairs.
“Ding ding…”
The cell phone suddenly rang, and the man in sportswear turned around and picked up the phone on the table.
After opening the message received on his mobile phone and seeing the content and the sender's account number clearly, the man in sportswear suddenly clenched his mobile phone, stood up from his seat, looked around, and his eyes kept scanning back and forth among the people dining around him.
He is trying to find the person who sent the message.
Found it! The man in the "nearby people" really came to Fang Liyang's rental house within half an hour and hid himself. He was definitely related to Fang Liyang's body.
Luo Zheyu raised his head and looked towards the shopping mall on the right side in front of him, his eyes slightly narrowed.
At the moment the information is sent, it uses its own digitization capabilities to instantly capture the place where the same data information is received within the smallest range, and that is the location.
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Nothing was found in the crowd. The man in sportswear did not see any human who looked like Fang Liyang, nor could he notice anything unusual among the people dining around him.
These humans... five out of ten humans, all hold communication tools in their hands, with their heads lowered, looking at the screens of the communication tools seriously and attentively.
What's more, while eating, he kept his eyes fixed on the communication tool in his hand. Therefore, even if the person who sent the message was mixed in with such a group, he would not be able to tell the abnormality.
After taking a final glance at the entrance of the residential building at the intersection outside the window, the man in sportswear decisively gave up waiting and turned to walk out of the restaurant.
He walked down the escalator. He preferred to leave this way rather than taking the small, sealed, extremely dangerous-looking, unsecured elevator.
“Ding ding…”
The familiar message sound rang out from the communication tool again...
【Why don’t you come over? Where are you going? 】
The man in the sportswear stiffened, then suddenly twisted his body and looked around the mall.
There was no emotion in those wide open lifeless eyes, as if dead fish eyes were embedded in them, constantly scanning up and down and left and right.
In the upper left corner, two women are walking hand in hand. Based on their age and intimacy, they are identified as mother and daughter. They are not using any communication tools, so they are excluded.
In front, a man and a woman were leaning against the fence and talking and laughing. Their relationship could not be determined, but they were not using any communication tools, so this was ruled out.
Below, four women were passing by together, two of them were holding communication tools in their hands, but they never paid any attention to him from beginning to end, so he was temporarily ruled out.
…
There were not many people wandering around the mall during this time period, so after the man in sportswear eliminated all visible people within his sight, he did not find anything unusual.
He withdrew his gaze, quickened his pace, and began to jog.
Luo Zheyu looked at the man in sportswear running towards him on the escalator on the second floor, with the corners of his lips slightly raised on his handsome and pale face.
He lowered his eyes and typed a new message on his phone.
“Ding ding…”
The sportswear man's phone rang again, indicating that he had received a message.
He paused and hesitated for a moment, but still clicked on the message.
Sure enough, it was sent from that account again——
【I see you.】
At the same time, he was surrounded by a strong feeling of being stared at. The sight followed him like a shadow, making him feel uncomfortable and restless, but there was still nothing unusual around him.
At least he couldn't find anything unusual.
For the first time, he experienced what it meant to feel cold all over.
Waves of chill surrounded him. On such a backward planet, he actually felt fear for the indigenous creatures.
It comes from the fear of the unknown and is applicable to all intelligent creatures.
The weak native who was originally not taken seriously suddenly opened his huge mouth like the abyss, which made people more frightened and panicked than encountering a poisonous beast at the beginning.
He even lost control of his body and when he walked down the escalator, the back of his foot stepped on the ground and he fell to the ground.
The communication tool also fell to the ground with him, making a crisp sound.
The man in the sportswear was stunned for two seconds, ignoring the usual gazes from the natives of this planet. He lay on the ground, staring at the communication tool that had fallen to the side.
He suddenly remembered something, jumped up from the ground, bent down to pick up the small communication tool, and regardless of the strong gaze piercing him, he rushed towards the direction of the toilet sign hanging above.
“Crash…”
Looking at the communication tool being flushed away from the toilet with the water, the man in sportswear breathed a sigh of relief.
It must be because of the communication tool that the other party was able to find him!
Damn it, it was only two months, and it was so easy to survive among the natives of a planet with a backward civilization that I even ignored such common sense!
Now he could only abandon this new body and use his original body's extremely fast movement speed to leave this place and escape.
The man in sportswear closed the toilet lid, sat on it and lowered his head.
The whole person suddenly froze, even the rise and fall of his chest stopped. Behind his head, the back of his head squirmed a few times and quickly got out of his brain. A black object left the back of his head, leaving only a slightly round black hole, which was empty inside. Half of the outer shell of the back of his head disappeared.
The black object, the size of an adult's fist, was moving so fast that there was almost no afterimage. The door of this bathroom had only a gap in the front, and both sides were made of a whole piece of wood, and the bottom was completely sealed. Therefore, the black object had to crawl out through the gap in the door in front of the small bathroom cubicle.
Then he went to the compartment on the left.
The compartment door on the left was locked and there was someone inside.
After changing to a new shell, these backward natives wouldn't notice anything, and he could use the new shell to avoid their sight...
“Chichichi—”
A pale hand suddenly stretched out from the side and grasped the black mass tightly. The long, sharp black nails dug deeply into it, and a few drops of black liquid quickly seeped out and dripped onto the floor.
The black mass tried to split in half, flashing a cold light, with two rows of sharp teeth exposed, trying to bite down hard on the hand that was holding him.
Luo Zheyu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he exerted a little force in his hands. His long, sharp, black nails sank deeper. The black ball made a "chirping" sound, and after struggling for a few times, it stopped.
"What, what sound?" An anxious voice asked from the toilet cubicle on the left.
"There are mice." Luo Zheyu replied casually.
"Oh... why are there rats in the mall toilet..." the other person murmured in surprise.
Luo Zheyu did not answer. He walked into the toilet cubicle on the right, tore off a few pieces of toilet paper and put them on his left hand, jumped up, grabbed the edge of the wooden board above the cubicle with his free left hand, and looked into the locked cubicle.
The man in sportswear sat on the toilet with his head down, his limbs hanging limply. There was a big hole on the back of his head, but it was clean, not a drop of blood or other liquid had flowed out.
After a few seconds, Luo Zheyu let go of his hand, wiped off a few drops of black liquid on the floor at the cubicle door with toilet paper, and put them in his pocket.
He walked out of the mall with the black ball in his right hand.
I even have time to go to the supermarket and buy a glass jar.
As for the strange, dying creature held in his right hand, he naturally hid it with a trick so that others could only see his empty right hand.
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