I slay demons and monsters in a bizarre city.

Chapter 30: Have all the colleagues at the game company gone mad?

If evil spirits can find this place, it means that other terrifying creatures also know this location.

Originally, Li Changgeng also wanted to leave home. The annoying red countdown was unbearable. If he left home, perhaps there would be no countdown, and he would no longer have to see those terrifying monsters on the ghost train.

This death countdown may only be valid within a certain area.

Even the most sophisticated immersive games have boundaries on their game maps, and no matter how powerful a supercomputer is, it cannot have an infinite algorithm.

Finding this boundary will allow us to break through reality and discover the true reason behind the red countdown.

Thinking of the black goat, Li Changgeng still missed him a little bit.

Although this black goat was evil and ate human brains, it was very gentle, with clear and innocent eyes. Unfortunately, the black goat died from a revolver.

Following the previous logic, it seems that something is not right, since it seems that everyone who dies on the ghost train has turned into a card.

The Skeleton Reaper is the number 15 purple card, the Nine-Tailed Fox died but no card appeared, the Black Goat did the same, and that disgusting octopus girl didn't become a card either, which is a bit strange.

Lin Jiuge is such a strange woman. Just as Li Changgeng was about to ask her about what happened in the bathroom in her office last time, Li Changgeng fainted in a daze. He wasn't wearing any clothes at the time, and when he woke up again, he was on his desk. What exactly happened in between?

Taking the subway and entering the station, it was still so empty and deserted, with very few people.

Li Changgeng glanced at the real-time subway timetable; the subway to KMS Games Company would arrive soon.

Meow meow……

A large tabby cat jumped up from under the subway platform and meowed at Li Changgeng.

"7UP? Is that you?"

Li Changgeng was so excited that he almost burst into tears.

The happy family of four, including the parents and sister, all treat their cat Qi Xi as a member of the family. Qi Xi is a female cat who is well-behaved and sensible. She never destroys the house and is very disciplined in her bodily functions. She is definitely the fifth member of the family.

With his parents missing and his younger sister Li Ying lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Li Changgeng would feel much more comfortable and less lonely if 7UP were with him.

Meow meow……

The big tabby cat was still meowing, its tail wagging slightly, staring at Li Changgeng.

As the subway drew closer, Li Changgeng felt a gust of wind and the lights of the subway car flashed by.

"Get out of here, get out of here!" Li Changgeng jogged a few steps. The tabby cat was lying next to the tracks, completely unaware of the danger. The tabby cat looked too much like 7UP.

"Hurry, it's dangerous!" Li Changgeng ran towards the subway entrances and exits. The subway in the first year of Eternal Night had changed a lot. Each train only had three doors for boarding and alighting. The subway was extremely fast, and if there were too many doors, it would affect safety.

The tabby cat kept meowing at Li Changgeng, its cries continuous and sorrowful.

No, I have to pick the cat up from beside the tracks, or it'll be crushed into a pile of blood and flesh...

Li Changgeng seemed to be possessed, and as the train approached, he was about to jump off.

"Has this young man gone mad?" shouted the old man wearing a fisherman's hat. Five or six men and women beside him grabbed Li Changgeng, some around the waist, others pulling on the arms. *Whoosh*...

The subway roared past.

"Let me go, I don't want to die." Li Changgeng stared at the spot where the tabby cat was. After the subway passed, the place was clean and empty, and the bloody scene he had imagined did not appear.

The old man in the fisherman's hat had all white hair. "Young man, life is precious. In this world, being alive is a blessing. Don't think too much about it."

“Grandpa, I’m not thinking anything of it. There was a tabby cat over there just now, and it looked exactly like the one we used to have.” Li Changgeng pointed to the spot where the tabby cat had appeared.

"No, we didn't see anything. We just saw you shouting for no reason and trying to jump down again," the old man in the fisherman's hat said to the people next to him. "Isn't that right, folks? It's rare to see cats these days."

The men who had helped the old man in the fisherman's hat pull Li Changgeng nodded repeatedly. They really hadn't seen a tabby cat; the place was dark and there was nothing there.

Li Changgeng stood there dumbfounded, like a fool. He even forgot to say thank you.

He clearly saw it, and that tabby cat was their pet Seven Up.

Is it possible that everyone around him is normal except for him, who is acting strangely?
Li Changgeng missed the subway to the company, so he found a bench to sit on and put his laptop bag at his feet.

He ran his hands through his hair and pressed hard on his scalp.

Why does he have to go to work every day? Doesn't he have any holidays?
Why does he always choose this subway station to go to work? Actually, his home is not close to this subway station. There is a closer subway station. Li Changgeng has never thought about this question, nor has he ever thought about not going to work. It is as if he is a digital person whose thoughts, consciousness and even memories have been implanted. Is it okay not to go to work?
Li Changgeng has doubted the existence of KMS Games Company more than once.

Why are the scenes about his family in his memories always the same few? Aren't there any other scenes? Life is full of ups and downs, it can't all be happiness or smooth sailing. Aren't there hardships and torments? And it seems that the deepest memory he has is of his sister Li Ying being in a coma. Why didn't he remember the cute tabby cat Qi Xi at home before?

It just so happens that two evil spirits came to kill him today. The fat evil spirit mentioned the rat demon and the cat demon, which triggered his memories of the cat Seven Up. Was it the fat evil spirit's keywords that awakened his memories? This is absurd, as if everything was planned and arranged.

There's also the buck-toothed girl from KMS Games who yells at the top of her lungs that Li Changgeng doesn't actually have parents. Why would she say that?
Furthermore, Li Changgeng began to ponder why everyone at KMS Games was taking medication. He had never considered the reasons behind this before.

This is very strange; there are too many unreasonable explanations.

Attributing all the inconsistencies and strange occurrences to the arrival of eternal night and mist seems far-fetched.

At Black Sea City University, the Nightmare of the Thirteen Coffins of Evil Spirits was fighting so fiercely with Xia Mengmeng, along with the White Snake, the Cat-Headed Man, and the Masked Swordsman. With such a commotion, how could the students of Black Sea City University not have noticed? No one called the police, and there was no report in newspapers, new media, or on television?

Li Changgeng kept thinking about all these events, but he found that none of them made logical sense. Could it be that they were all wrong, or that they were actually right?

I missed another subway train to KMS Games.

What caused all of this to happen, and what was its purpose?

What is real, and what is fake?
Li Changgeng took the subway to the company and exited the subway station.

On the giant glass curtain wall screen of the KMS Games company building, the voluptuous, curvaceous woman had changed into a cheongsam, swaying her hips and puffing out her chest, and blew a kiss to Li Changgeng.

Hello, do you like me?

(End of this chapter)