After walking out of the tavern, Aura immediately held her head tightly when she was hit by the cold wind.
As soon as she sobered up a little, her nerves, which had been numbed by alcohol, immediately felt bursts of complaining pain, making her already bad mood even more irritable.
Without thinking, he raised the hand holding the photo and threw the photo away.
The photo flew around and hit the head of a delinquent with yellow hair very 'accurately'.
"What bastard—!?"
After being stunned for a moment, the bad guy immediately looked back with an unkind expression. Then the next second, he felt that his body suddenly became very cool, even a little bit cold.
Just when the bad guy was confused by this turn of events, the crowd around him had already vacated his surroundings. The timid ones only dared to take a glance, while the brave ones even started taking photos.
Then, the bad guy heard the bewildered voices of his younger brothers.
"Big...brother! Your clothes...clothes..."
Hearing this, Badan lowered his head and observed himself, and then he reacted.
[Ah, it turns out that my clothes are gone...]
Clothes, pants, and shoes were all spread out on the ground haphazardly, and only a pair of boxer briefs with a certain beautiful girl game character were left on his body. His long body hair was trembling in the wind, just like the delinquent's delicate heart at the moment.
Just hearing a "wow" sound, the bad guy burst into tears, turned around and ran away.
Behind him, his two younger brothers ran two steps quickly and then came back immediately to grab the clothes on the ground. One of them pointed a shoe at the surrounding crowd, and first said a few words in a warning voice, "Stop filming!" Also, delete the photo just now, do you understand? ’, and then quickly turned around, shouting, ‘Brother, wait for us,’ and quickly ran away in the direction where their eldest brother left.
Looking at this farce, Aura, who was revealed as the crowd dispersed, curled her lips, clapped her hands with a look of disgust, and was about to leave. However, the route happened to be in the direction where the discarded photo fell. He glanced at the photo subconsciously, his pupils shrank instantly, and his eyes couldn't help but widen.
"That is... Ur?"
After a moment of disbelief, Aura's face suddenly became very ugly, and the remaining bit of drunkenness completely disappeared.
She took two steps forward, picked up the photo, and looked at it intently for a while. Then she immediately turned the photo over. When she saw the address written on the back of the photo, she immediately raised her hand and hailed a taxi on the roadside.
The taxi master asked: "Miss, where are you going?"
Aura said: "Hongshang Biological Research Institute."
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When she was still some distance away from the Hongshang Institute of Biology, Aura asked the taxi driver to stop the car and asked him to wait for her there, and then she arrived at the gate of the Hongshang Institute of Biology alone.
And when Aura stood in front of the gate of Hongshang Biological Research Institute, she suddenly felt a special sense of emptiness.
Aura frowned and looked at the open door in front of her, then looked beyond the door and looked inside. Not to mention the people on duty, there was no light at all, and it looked like an abandoned venue.
[Is Ur really here? ]
This made Aura couldn't help but have such a question.
But soon she sighed, stopped spending time in this place, and stepped inside.
Just as she saw outside, there was no one in the research institute. The only thing that she didn't expect was that the protective facilities in the research institute were all in an 'open' position just like the door outside. In an undefended state, visitors and visitors are allowed to enter.
"What on earth is going on? Could it be that..."
Aura suddenly thought of a possibility and immediately quickened her pace.
Then, Ur was found in a room marked [Time].
The room was empty except for a bed covered with white cloth in the middle of the room. At this time, Ur was lying on the bed, wearing something like two pieces of cloth stacked together with only a few elastic bands. The simple clothes connected on both sides look as shabby as in the photo, which makes people feel heartbroken just looking at them.
"Ur, wake up, Ur?"
Looking at Ur who was so thin that he was almost unrecognizable, Aura shook his shoulders gently, not daring to exert too much force.
But despite this, Ur still had no intention of waking up.
If he hadn't tested Ur's breathing, Aura would have thought he was dead.
Taking a deep breath, Aura lifted Ur up and let him lie on her back.
The moment she stood up with Ur on her back, Aura's expression couldn't help but stagnated again.
"So light!"
The look in her eyes darkened, and Aura left this place with Ur on her back.
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Where taxis park.
When Aura came back and saw that the taxi was still there, she breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, when she saw that the person sitting in the driver's seat was not the familiar taxi driver, but Swaruz, her face suddenly darkened.
"Swaruz, why are you here?"
Swaruz held the steering wheel and turned to look at Aura, who was standing next to the car with Ur on his back through the open window, with the corners of his mouth raised.
"I don't need your permission to do things. Get in the car."
Aura gritted her teeth and hesitated between walking to the hospital with Ur on her back from a deserted place and taking a car to the hospital. Finally, she chose to open the car door, carefully put Ur in the back seat, and followed her. Got in.
But after getting in the car, Aura thought about it and couldn't help but ask again: "Where is the taxi master?"
"Then who knows."
Swaruz smiled and started the taxi, turning the steering wheel to make a U-turn.
Putting her hands around the unconscious Ur, preventing him from being thrown under the seat by Swaruz's driving style that didn't consider others at all, Ola continued to ask as if she hadn't heard Swaruz's answer just now. Said: "Is he still alive?"
The taxi turned around and finally began to move forward smoothly.
During this period, Ola's eyes were looking at Swaruz intently, as if she would not give up until she got Swaruz's answer.
It seemed that such persistence finally moved Swaruz, or made him feel a little annoyed, so after the taxi drove for a while, Ola heard the answer as he wished.
"Alive."
Hearing this, Aura was silent for a moment, then leaned over, picked up an old white ball from the footrest of the back seat, and put it into the pocket of Ur's familiar blue suit, which was turned inside when he came in.
Then he lowered his eyes and said nothing, as if the sound coming from the trunk when the car body swayed did not exist.
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Hongshang Institute of Biology.
Maki Kiyoshi, who glanced at the surveillance screen from time to time, just looked away and suddenly looked over again.
Ur, who was lying on the bed in the picture just now, has disappeared. Even playing the surveillance video backwards has no meaning. It seems that the boy who has been lying on the bed for eight years without waking him up has disappeared out of thin air.
But even though he saw such an incomprehensible event that seemed to be haunted, Maki Kiyoshi's face still had a calm expression that would not change even if the sky fell.
He turned his head and said to the hairless doll sitting on his shoulder.
"I see. Is this how ordinary people feel when time stops?"
As he spoke, he looked at the machine on the other side with the doll's face.
It was a data collector soaked in bright red liquid, and now, as shown on it, it seemed to have collected some very interesting data.
