"Just sit here!"
"Um."
The two came to Qingshui Park and sat down on a bench in the shade of a tree with a relatively quiet surrounding environment.
"How did you get into the loop? What happened the last few times? Why did you suddenly come to me?"
Yang Chen asked three questions in a row as soon as he opened his mouth, asking what he was most interested in and wanted to know most.
Just when Li Shiqing was about to answer, she suddenly heard a soft "bang" in the distance, and her expression suddenly changed.
"Did you hear it?"
"Um."
Yang Chen nodded with a serious face, walked quickly to an open area, and looked up in the direction of the cross-river bridge.
I saw a mushroom-shaped black smoke ball billowing in the distance and rising into the sky.
"The bus exploded again!"
Li Shiqing murmured to herself. She stood next to Yang Chen and looked at the black clouds rising in the sky in the same posture. The expression on her face was very complicated, including emotion, happiness, and a little self-blame.
She felt emotional because this was not the first time she had seen an explosion, and she had even experienced it personally. She was thankful because they escaped the explosion this time, and blamed herself because she failed to save the passengers in the car.
"One forty-two, the same time as the last explosion. Judging from the position of the smoke rising, the explosion location should be at the intersection in front of the cross-river bridge. The cause of the explosion was probably the collision with a tanker truck. Yang Chen looked at his watch and said calmly.
"When there was an explosion, did you still have time to check the time?" Li Shiqing looked at him in surprise.
"We didn't have time to see when it exploded, but we can deduce it. When we woke up last time, I checked the time and it was one forty. The time we spent in the car struggling with the driver and passengers was about two minutes. Around 1:42, plus the time loop, so I speculate that the time of the last explosion was also at 1:42!" Yang Chen said.
"It makes sense!" Li Shiqing said.
"Since it is a time loop, the bus trip this time should be very different from the last time. Most likely, it encountered a red light at an intersection, and then the explosion occurred while avoiding the collision between the delivery boy and the oil tanker!" Yang Chen As he spoke, he returned to the bench and sat down.
Li Shiqing sat down next to him and nodded in agreement.
"Do you have paper and pen?" Yang Chen asked.
"have."
Li Shiqing took out a paper and pen from her bag and handed them to Yang Chen.
"Tell me about the cycles you've gone through several times before." Yang Chen said.
"Actually, I have only experienced four more cycles than you. The first two times I didn't even realize what was going on and it ended. By the third time, I wanted to forcefully get out of the car. I tried to tell them that the car was going to Something happened, but they didn't believe me, and even the driver refused to put me down halfway. Only you believed in me, and you successfully opened the door. But that time, before we could get out of the car, the explosion happened."
"Then it was the fourth time. After I woke up, I asked you directly for help. You smashed the glass with a window hammer, and then the car exploded. Then it was the fifth time, that is, the time we successfully jumped out of the car. During the process, you We all know... Until now, I don't know why you believe me so much?" Li Shiqing looked at him curiously, her watery eyes full of curiosity.
Of course Yang Chen knew the reason, but he couldn't tell her.
The Shenhao System is his biggest secret, and he will never reveal it to anyone.
So, Yang Chen decided to tell a little lie.
"Maybe it's because our auras are relatively similar. Normally I don't believe in auras at all. But the moment you asked me for help, I suddenly felt your urgency and helplessness clearly from your eyes. , expectations and fears. At that time, my mind was full of enthusiasm, so I decided to make a desperate move and take a risk with you, whether it was true or false... Facts have proved that men's intuition is also very accurate!"
"Really or not?" Li Shiqing asked delicately.
Any experienced woman would never believe his nonsense.
But Li Shiqing was just a relatively simple college student with little experience in the world. When she heard Yang Chen's words, she felt a little sweet in her heart, and even her heart beat a beat faster than usual.
"Of course it's true, otherwise what do you think the reason is?" Yang Chen stopped and quickly changed the topic, "From what you just said, I discovered a problem."
"What's the problem?" Li Shiqing put away her confused thoughts and returned her gaze to her eyes.
"I found that in every cycle, we wake up earlier than the previous time. If you think about it carefully, is the time you wake up the second time longer than the first time, and is the time you wake up the third time also longer? Longer than the second time?" Yang Chen asked.
"Hey, that seems to be true. I thought about it carefully. Every time I wake up, the scenery outside the car is indeed different from before!" Li Shiqing said in surprise.
"I remember that the last time we woke up was 1:40, and this time we woke up at 1:39. Looking at it this way, every time we wake up, we should wake up one minute earlier than the last time. ." Yang Chen said.
"Yeah." Li Shiqing nodded.
"So far, you have experienced a total of seven cycles, and I have experienced three cycles. According to this rule, the time you first woke up should be at 1:45, and the car exploded just after you woke up. The cause of the explosion is uncertain."
"The time you woke up the second time was 1:44, and the car exploded soon after. The cause of the explosion is uncertain, and the time of the explosion was probably 1:45."
"The time you woke up for the third time was probably 1:43. I helped you open the car door, and then the car exploded. The cause of the explosion was man-made detonation. The time of the explosion is uncertain."
"The time you woke up for the fourth time was 1:42. We used a window hammer to smash the glass, and then the car exploded. The cause of the explosion was man-made detonation, and the time of the explosion is uncertain."
"The fifth time you woke up, it was also the first time I woke up. The time was 1:41. We successfully jumped out of the car, and then the car exploded. The cause and time of the explosion are uncertain."
"You woke up for the sixth time and I woke up for the second time. The time was one forty. We pretended to be sick and got out of the car. The car exploded. The cause of the explosion was that the bus hit the oil tanker. The time was one forty-two. .”
"You woke up for the seventh time, and I woke up for the third time. The time was one thirty-nine. The cause of the explosion was a car accident. The time was one forty-two!"
As Yang Chen spoke, he simply drew a list.
"Okay, now let's review it. If we do nothing, the No. 45 bus will explode at 1:45 under normal driving conditions. The reason is unknown. If we want to force the bus to get off, the bus will explode. It will explode the moment we get off the bus. The cause of the explosion is man-made detonation. If we ask the driver to stop and let us get off the bus, the bus will slow down, encounter a red light at the intersection, and then collide with the oil tanker. ,explosion occurs!"
Li Shiqing nodded. After listening to his analysis, her thinking became much clearer.
…
Crossroads, car accident scene.
Firefighters have extinguished the burning flames and a cordon has been set up at the scene of the accident.
Inside the cordon were more than a dozen car wrecks, of which the No. 45 bus and the oil tanker were the most seriously damaged.
The police also went to the scene to investigate.
"Based on the results of the on-site survey and the clues currently available, it is preliminarily determined that this was a traffic accident caused by a takeaway truck forcibly grabbing the road. The identity of the passenger who died is still being confirmed. I have asked Ye Qian to call the surveillance cameras along the bus. , to further confirm the real cause of the accident." Zhang Cheng reported to the Du Bureau.
"Master, we checked the surveillance along the station and found that there were ten passengers in the car until the last station where the accident occurred, which is Yanjiang East Road, including the driver. But now, only nine bodies have been found. "At this time, Jiang Feng walked over quickly and said to Zhang Cheng.
"What do you mean, two people are missing out of thin air?" Zhang Cheng was startled.
"Already checking." Jiang Feng said.
"Check carefully and notify me immediately if you find anything." Zhang Cheng said.
"Yes." Jiang Feng said.
…
"Based on the current known information, we can infer that the murderer of the bombing is in the car, and the bomb is probably in his hand, otherwise he would not have detonated the bomb as soon as we broke the window." Yang Chen Definitely authentic.
"Who is the murderer?" Li Shiqing nodded and asked again.
"I'm not a god. How could I possibly know who the murderer is... Why didn't I think of it earlier." Halfway through his words, Yang Chen suddenly felt something in his heart. Although he is not a god, he has [clairvoyance]. He can tell who has the bomb just by opening his eyes.
"What didn't you expect? Do you know who the murderer is?" Li Shiqing asked quickly.
"It's nothing. What I mean is, if we had known, we wouldn't have gotten out of the car. We would have just found the murderer in the car and stopped him from detonating the bomb!" Yang Chen said.
"It doesn't matter, there will be another chance next time."
Li Shiqing nodded, then looked thoughtful, and drew a simple seat map on the paper while thinking, "If I remember correctly, there are eleven people in the car. In addition to us and the driver, there are also There were eight people. Sitting in the front, in the row on the left, there was an anchor wearing a floral shirt, an uncle carrying a snakeskin bag, an aunt carrying medicine, and an uncle a migrant worker. He also brought a very old Suitcase. There was a muscular man and an aunt in gray clothes in the row on the right. In addition, there was a guy with glasses sitting next to me and a boy wearing a mask in the last row. I remember that the boy was holding a schoolbag in his arms. "
"The flowery shirts and the muscular men can line up, they didn't bring any luggage. The medicine aunt can also be excluded, her bag is full of medicine. Moreover, the murderer plans to die with us, so he won't mind his own business. Sit here with you The guy with glasses next to me can also be ruled out. When I woke up the first two times, I found that he was sleeping. If you were holding a bomb and preparing to blow up the bus, how could you fall asleep on the bus?" Yang Chen also helped with the analysis. one time.
"So now the suspects of the murderer are focused on the uncle holding the snakeskin bag, the migrant worker holding the suitcase, the aunt on the right and the boy wearing a mask in the last row. In the next cycle, we will focus on investigating these four people. ." Li Shiqing's face showed excitement.
"That's right." Yang Chen responded calmly.
"Then what should we do now?" Li Shiqing asked.
"We can't do anything now, just wait for the police to come to us." Yang Chen said.
"Ah?" Li Shiqing looked suspicious.
"For something as big as a bus explosion, the police will definitely conduct a strict investigation. We took the No. 45 bus and got off the bus midway. The police will definitely come to question us," Yang Chen said.
"Then, what will we say if the police find us?" Li Shiqing said.
"You can say whatever you want. Anyway, after the next cycle starts, everything today will be covered, so it doesn't matter what you say, even if you say nothing," Yang Chen said.
"What if, what if there is no next cycle?" Li Shiqing said.
"Then we can only mourn for the passengers who died in the explosion, then tell the police what we know, and leave the rest to the police," Yang Chen said.
…
crossroads.
"Master, this is what Ye Qian just sent from the team, monitoring the route of bus No. 45."
Zhang Cheng handed a tablet to Zhang Cheng. A video was playing on the computer screen. It was the video of Yang Chen and Li Shiqing getting out of the car.
"You see, they got off the bus just before the explosion, and they were not at the station yet. I feel a little suspicious."
"Suspicious? Is there any evidence? Evidence is required when handling a case. Has the person been found?" Zhang Chengdao said.
"Ye Qian has called all the nearby surveillance cameras and found that they finally entered Qingshui Park and have not come out yet." Jiang Feng said.
"Ask Ye Qian to continue to keep an eye on every surveillance at the exit of the park, and report to me any situation at any time. You take someone with me to the park." Zhang Cheng said methodically.
"Okay." Jiang Feng responded.
…
In Qingshui Park, two people were sitting on a bench.
"Actually, the police also came to question me when I was in the hospital." Li Shiqing said to Yang Chen.
"What did you tell them?" Yang Chen looked at her.
"I told them that I have gone through cycles." Li Shiqing said.
"Do they believe it?" Yang Chen asked.
"No." Li Shiqing shook her head.
"It's normal. Not everyone is as compassionate as me." Yang Chen smiled.
"Thank you." Li Shiqing thanked Yang Chen, thanking him for believing in her at the most dangerous moment.
"You're welcome. We are comrades who share life and death, so there's no need to be so polite. By the way, how did you enter the circulation in the hospital? Do you remember?" Yang Chen said.
"I remember that after the police asked me, I was a little sleepy and fell asleep. When I woke up, I was on the bus." Li Shiqing recalled.
"As I thought, sleep is the condition for entering the cycle. When we fall asleep, we will enter the next cycle. So now there is a question, if we don't sleep, how long can the cycle be extended at most. If we If one person is asleep and the other is not, will the sleeping person enter the cycle... It may also be that I think too much, and at a certain point in time, the cycle will be forced to start." Yang Chen guessed.
"It should be that at a certain point in time, the cycle will be forcibly opened. It is impossible for us to keep extending the cycle." Li Shiqing expressed her opinion and said, "Also, how do you think the cycle should be released?"
"According to the experience of those movies and TV dramas we have watched in the past, we must prevent the bus from exploding and save all the passengers before the cycle will be lifted. Of course, this is just my guess. But we have no other ideas now and can only move towards this Go ahead and do it." Yang Chen said.
"There's another question. Every time we cycle, we wake up one minute earlier. What does this mean?" Li Shiqing said.
"This means that the number of infinite loops may be limited. Otherwise, if we loop to the hundredth time, the No. 45 bus has not yet left. We call the police directly, and the police send seven or eight plainclothes officers on the bus. The murderer has no clue. Escape." Yang Chen's tone was low.
"The number of times is limited?" Li Shiqing's face suddenly became solemn. "What if the number of cycles is really limited, and at the last time, we still failed to prevent the bomb from exploding?"
"There may be three situations. The first one is that we are killed directly in the car, then we are completely dead, and it is over. The second one is like now, we get off the car, but other passengers are killed. The second one is The sun will rise as usual the next day, and time will continue to move forward. We will do whatever we need to do, as if we survived the disaster and escaped by luck. There is also a third type, when the number of cycles reaches the limit, no matter whether we survive or not , will be wiped out of thin air by some mysterious force... Moreover, the most likely one is the third one."
The look on Yang Chen's face was very serious, but he was not very worried in his heart.
Because Li Shiqing is the heroine of a drama, have you ever seen a heroine die halfway through?
Especially for this type of infinite loop story, most of the heroines can solve the mystery at the last moment and successfully escape from the loop.
Moreover, Yang Chen is sure that their current progress will be faster than the progress in the show, because he has [clairvoyance], which can save the trivial investigation links and directly identify the real culprit.
He boldly guessed that it could be recycled at least five more times in the future, so he was not very anxious.
But when Li Shiqing heard Yang Chen's words, her face turned pale with fright, and her eyes were full of fear and worry.
"Don't worry, I'm here. I will definitely find a way to catch the murderer and break the cycle." Yang Chen held Li Shiqing in his arms without any surprise, and gently stroked her back to comfort her.
"What if, what if this is the last cycle..."
"No, trust me!"
Yang Chen's words seemed to have a calming force, which made Li Shiqing's nervous mood ease a lot.
A few minutes later.
Li Shiqing's mood had completely stabilized, and she couldn't help feeling a little shy when she found that she was hiding in the arms of a boy in such an ambiguous posture.
"I'm fine, you...you can let me go."
"It doesn't matter, you can treat this place as your boyfriend's arms and stay as long as you want."
"I-I don't have a boyfriend yet."
Li Shiqing struggled slightly, broke away from Yang Chen's arms, gently flipped her hair, and whispered shyly.
"That's great. My greatest advantage is that I am willing to give. You can treat me as your boyfriend. Come on, don't have any burden." Yang Chen said solemnly.
"You are so thick-skinned!"
Li Shiqing rolled her eyes at him coquettishly, but there was no unhappiness in her tone, and the corners of her mouth could not help but curl up slightly.
"Ha, this is my third advantage!" Yang Chen laughed.
"The third advantage? What about the second one?" Li Shiqing said.
"Isn't it obvious?" Yang Chen suddenly put his face in front of Li Shiqing, "You're so handsome!"
"cut."
Li Shiqing made a 'cut' sound with a look of disgust on her face, but she felt her heartbeat suddenly speed up.
"I have a fourth advantage, want to know?"
"In no mood!"
Li Shiqing moved her body to the side without leaving a trace, and Yang Chen immediately rubbed up against her.
While the two were flirting, the police arrived.
