People going to work this morning noticed strange conditions on this floor. There were many smashed tables and chairs thrown in the corridor, and the doors of every room were open. A total of 22 employees from nine companies who were supposed to be here were missing. As if there had been a fierce fight, a lot of things were smashed in each room, but there was no blood on the scene, so there should be no bloodshed.
The photos secretly taken before the police arrived also showed that the scene was indeed chaotic, and it was obvious at a glance that something had happened. The police are probably already contacting the leaders of several companies. The missing people are all those who stayed on late or night shifts. Now it’s up to them to see how the situation is handled.
However, after such a commotion, there were fewer complaints on the forum of "Point of Distortion". After all, yesterday most people said that it was a normal and good game, but now that something like this has happened, as long as no one The secret leader also knows that the game company will probably slow down for a while.
"That's about it." Ying Caiyi drank juice and gave Lu Ning a rough summary of what happened on the forum.
"so?"
"So, the problems caused by the game yesterday are probably not solved for the time being. Their game company doesn't have many people. They lost a few at once and now they are in trouble. They still have to wait for the funds to come back."
"...Really? Well, the game isn't bad anyway."
Lu Ning answered perfunctorily, her eyes still fixed on the photos displayed by Ying Caiyi.
The signs left by the passing of life cannot be easily erased. It is impossible to find those twenty-two people because they are there.
This kind of ability is different from what Lu Ning has encountered so far. So far, even if she has seen some supernatural powers, they are only in the form of destructive power, strengthening certain aspects, increasing the number, etc., and they are not strong. At least any of the four pieces of equipment on her body are far higher than that. level.
But the methods used by the perpetrators this time gave her a sense of danger, and the instinct to take on challenges that had gradually faded away during the past ten days with family and friends began to revive again.
This was not done by an ordinary person, it might even be... someone like her?
Lu Ning remained calm on the surface, turned back to her seat, and took out her mobile phone.
"When I really started to doubt my memory..."
[Find your way home. 】
"If all the memories about the distribution center are correct..."
[Find your way home. 】
"You should have been there all along, I just couldn't see it, and now-"
She swiped the screen and found the crow-shaped APP there. As if instinctively, Lu Ning immediately clicked on the APP, and then the crow enlarged until black covered the entire screen and the white fonts began to light up.
["Homecoming" visitor Lu Ning, you are now on the first stage - blind dream. The tasks in this stage will be released in the order of stage expansion. The number of starting tourists in the first stage is two, and they will be unlocked the moment they come into contact with each other.
This scene "Homecoming" is a chaotic scene.
Serious warning: Tourist Lu Ning is still in the lost stage. Please maintain a clear understanding and stabilize your positioning, otherwise the future risks will be extremely high.
Scene introduction: Those lost wanderers came to a place where they were supposed to exist. Everything in this place was extremely familiar, and the only thing that changed was themselves. However, this is an excellent change. Along with all this, those things that may have brought regrets have now turned around. The imperfections in life can be changed by one's own hands.
However, when reality begins to deviate from its original trajectory, who is performing a puppet show on the out-of-control stage?
The first stage, blind dreams.
1-1 Solve a distortion point incident.
1-2 advances the stage to the second act.
The second stage is about to begin.
May you find your way home. 】
"I've never forgotten what happened there unless my memory was altered for some other reason."
Lu Ning closed her eyes, turned off her phone, and thought again.
The cognitive confusion is particularly uncomfortable, but... a chaotic scene? Why? Even if it is just a scene here, most of it is exactly the same as in my hometown, but with some foreign objects mixed in, even if I am counted as one of the foreign objects.
The white words that had just been displayed in my mind were slowly disappearing. Except for the sentence "find a way home" which was still obvious, the rest were fading from memory.
Lu Ning slowly took two deep breaths.
"Today is Sunday...everyone..." Li Xian turned over from the upper bunk, lowered her arms, and said lazily to the people below, "Would you like to go shopping or something..."
"I don't have any problem, but isn't Sister Lu going on a date with her boyfriend?" Ying Caiyi shrugged, "I guess she will leave immediately after training today."
"I have to... call and ask. If not, let the three of us go. Lu Ning, are you free?"
"Yes." Lu Ning smiled.
Li Xian rolled over and got up from the bed, pulled out her cell phone from beside the quilt and hung up a call to Lu Chunxiao. As expected, she went out with Chu Wei to play, and she would not come back until evening.
So the three of them packed up their things and set off.
Zhaoxing North Road is a relatively prosperous commercial pedestrian street nearby, where you can enjoy shopping, food and entertainment. The three of them took a taxi and arrived at the intersection in ten minutes. Of course, this place is more prosperous on Sundays, and crowds have formed around some buskers. Fortunately, it is big enough so that it does not seem crowded.
"Where to go first?"
As soon as they arrived here, Li Xian and Ying Caiyi immediately became energetic. They looked at each other and pointed to the same store with tacit understanding.
"Second-hand store?" Lu Ning looked at the store they pointed to. She had only been here once or twice before, and these were memories before she came back. This unimportant memory had been almost worn away by the soul treatment in the distribution center. No impression at all now.
"Although it is said to be second-hand, the things there are basically 90% new." Li Xian said proudly, "You don't go out often, but we come here every one or two months to look for any good things. One time, Ying Caiyi got an excellent bag and it only cost two hundred yuan."
"You can make money with blood." Ying Caiyi grinned and said, "Lu Ning, you have to follow me. My luck is much better than Li Xian."
"Look, I will definitely be able to find something good this time." Li Xian said unconvinced.
Then the two of them pulled Lu Ning and ran into the store.
The space in the store is not small, there seem to be about a dozen customers here. There were four or five shop assistants who were a bit overwhelmed to deal with around them, but Li Xian and Ying Caiyi estimated that they had come a lot and were familiar with these shop assistants, so they raised their hands to say hello and immediately started to separate. Lu Ning followed Ying Caiyi to the row of shelves on the left.
"There are clothes, bags, accessories and the like here...Li Xian always goes to the CD and peripherals first. How many good things can you get at that place even if there are discounts?" Ying Caiyi said with a smile. , "These clothes are the ones with the most discounts, and the quality is quite good."
It's indeed quite good, but Lu Ning himself doesn't have much need for these things, so he just walked around here with Ying Caiyi.
At the end of this row of shelves were some accessories, not only for wearing on the body, but also for decoration. Lu Ning thought that she could buy one and use it as decoration. Since they are all second-hand products, the prices are basically in the tens to tens of tens, which is very cheap compared to the workmanship.
Ying Caiyi was still picking up bags in front, and Lu Ning came over to admire the ornaments. When she looked up by chance, she saw a wooden ornament placed on the top shelf—no, actually it should be said to be a set of wooden sculptures. On a ladder-shaped base, there were three rows of fifteen tennis ball-sized monster wood carvings. Each one looked lifelike. Lu Ning raised an eyebrow and reached out to take the wood carvings off the shelf.
The patterns of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth were engraved on the base, and the fifteen monsters were divided into five groups. Lu Ning tried it and found that each monster wood carving could be removed. Each monster was carved below the wood carving. name.
There was a very slight distortion on it, and Lu Ning didn't even know if it was something that should naturally exist or something else. She observed the appearance of the fifteen monsters. She had never seen the appearance of these monsters either in the game "Distortion Point" or in reality.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Ning planned to buy this. She walked to the counter and asked the staff about the position of these wood carvings since they were put away. Lu Ning asked for the delivery date and received a reply soon, just two weeks ago.
The timing is also suspicious.
After paying the money, the staff carefully packaged it and attached a photo to Lu Ning to prevent the monsters from scattering. Lu Ning held the box in her hands and returned to look for Ying Caiyi. At this moment, she suddenly heard a scream from the side, followed by a man running over from the shelf on the other side and rushing towards the door.
"Get him!" a woman screamed.
Lu Ning raised her leg and hooked the man's calf with her toes, kicking him so hard that he staggered. Then she reached out and grabbed the man's collar and pressed hard, pushing him to the ground. Finally, she added a Her foot caught one of his hands. The hand let go, and a wallet fell on the ground. A mother and daughter ran over from behind, and people around them gathered around to help hold down the man who was still trying to break free.
"The police have been called, please don't worry." The staff rushed over in time with their mobile phones. "Are you two injured?"
"My mother sprained her ankle!" the younger woman shouted, "Can you call a taxi for me? We have to rush to the hospital...Thank you, and this girl, please help us first Deal with it, I have to send my mother to the hospital for a check-up first!"
"Okay ma'am, this is our phone number here. After your matter is settled, if you want to know the follow-up here, please contact us. Please also leave your phone number so that the police can contact you later." The clerk is obviously a mature and experienced person. Yes, he immediately took out a card from his clothes and handed it to the lady. The lady hurriedly thanked her, picked up her wallet, said a number, and helped the old lady out of the house.
"It's so dangerous."
After such a commotion, Ying Caiyi and Li Xian also came around. They restrained the man from behind and waited for the police. Of course, Lu Ning didn't need to come, so she quietly retreated to the side. However, the two friends saw that she was the one holding down the thief just now. Li Xian couldn't help but patted Lu Ning on the shoulder: "Okay, Lu Ning, such a gentleman rushed over and you were knocked down directly."
"It's Qiao Jin. He took advantage of the situation when he lost his balance, but it's quite dangerous." Lu Ning said.
"Ha, that's true."
Lu Ning originally meant that the thief was quite dangerous. If she hadn't pulled the collar and pressed it from behind, and suddenly fell when she rushed, she would have caused problems with either her nose or her jaw, but she thought about it and decided not to say so much. , this kind of emergency situation is not often encountered.
The police came soon and asked on the spot. Some guests, including Lu Ning, provided some information they knew. Then the thief was taken away. Before leaving, the man glared at Lu Ning, and Lu Ning didn't even bother to pay attention to him.
When checking out, the clerk handed Lu Ning a small box the size of a palm.
"Thank you for your timely help. If the thief escapes, our store may have to bear more losses. This is a small gift, please accept it." It's the same clerk who came to deal with it.
"Then I won't be polite."
This incident did not affect the mood of the three people. After leaving the second-hand store, they bought some fried chicken, sausage, milk tea and the like from a snack bar on the street, and continued shopping while eating. Lu Ning also opened the small box and took a look. It was a string of crystal clear necklaces. Of course, they were probably not made of expensive materials. They were just pretty.
"The thief...do you remember Lu Ning?" Li Xian suddenly said while eating a bunch of meatballs, "What if he is released to retaliate?"
"Then you have to be able to find them. There are so many people in the city, where can you find them?" Ying Caiyi shrugged.
"Yeah, don't worry." Lu Ning also said.
——He will be beaten again when he comes.
The streets were not so peaceful in Lu Ning's eyes. People's vitality was different, and the anger they showed was not particularly the same. The effect of "Requiem" is weakened when it is not fully displayed. In fact, Lu Ning can turn it off. She is just worried about the problem of distortion points that may pop up at any time.
It seems that I have a mission to solve a distortion point incident?
Lu Ning knew that she had probably forgotten something, but she couldn't remember exactly where or when the forgetting happened. She only knew that she should believe in herself and the hints she had left for herself.
After walking out of a cosmetics store, Li Xian suddenly said sorry, picked up her cell phone and walked to the side to answer the call. Lu Ning and Ying Caiyi looked at each other and shook their heads helplessly.
"Would you like to go see a movie later?" Ying Caiyi asked.
"What good movies are there recently?"
"There is a movie called..."Winter", which seems to have been quite popular recently. It is a suspense film."
"Really? That's okay. Let's go together on the weekend anyway."
