Love, death, and false man

Chapter 64. A Secret Date
10/11—13:51
The oil tanker leak that occurred in the western district of our city at 11:09 this morning has been brought under control.

The main building damaged was the Emmanuel Monastery. Police revealed that the building was abandoned, and the unregistered cult was illegally occupying the land.

[Police have preliminarily determined that the fire may have been self-inflicted, possibly due to spontaneous combustion during a sacrificial ceremony. More reports are available...]

Located in the southern part of Binhai City, this dessert shop features a themed decor style with contrasting wall decorations and various standees and stickers featuring cartoon characters.

Fang Yan had already gone to the Salvation Army's special clinic for treatment, but his left leg was still throbbing with excruciating pain. He sat anxiously in a corner of the dessert shop, his other leg trembling, and he didn't touch the mousse cake and sundae in front of him.

I breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the news report. [Hunter Channel] was amazing. It was probably because they successfully eliminated Andy and carried out a high-powered elimination of the impact.

According to the lieutenant, it would be an honor if it caused a Mandela Effect, resulted in a mismatch between rank and rank, and failed to successfully eliminate the target.

Fortunately, Andy died; otherwise, his own headshot would have been all over the news, and he would have truly been living the life of a fugitive.

In a few days, I can go back to No. 6 Middle School to continue avoiding big data algorithms and following the life script given by number 0-1, I will remain hidden in No. 6 Middle School for another two years.

So now only one question remains: who exactly is this girl from the Dyeing Girls' High School? Staring intently at the other person, trying to find a flaw.

Ji Wei bit her straw, twisting the ends of her hair with her fingers, her eyes darting around. She was confident that her makeup skills were fine; she had applied colored contact lenses, eyelashes, under-eye bags, lipstick, nose contouring, highlighter, and so on. She looked like a completely different person compared to when she was without makeup.

Although Fang Yan was very grateful to her for saving him, everything was too strange.

"How...how did you find me? How did you know I was near the monastery?"

Fang Yan was puzzled. After leaving school in the morning and arriving in the West District, he only had time to stop at a convenience store for a while to prepare himself mentally and wait for the tanker truck at the gas station for more than ten minutes. He had no other free time at all, as he had been on the road the whole time. It would have been difficult for him to get here quickly, let alone a strange woman.

Was she stalking him all along?

Despite the other party's overwhelming amazement—three people had already come to ask for Vs within ten minutes of sitting in the dessert shop—Fang Yan still felt uneasy.

Whether it was an illusion or not, a sense of extremely ominous foreboding overwhelmed the terrifying sexual repression for a short time.

"Sorry, it's your phone's location tracking. I've hacked into the server set up by the carrier and am monitoring several suspicious individuals in real time."

"I was planning to come find you this morning to solve the mystery, but I followed you out of curiosity after seeing you head towards the more secluded western district."

Ji Wei's performance in the Method acting style somewhat embodied the character Ye Yutang, a rather serious high school girl who is obsessed with supernatural and paranormal events, UFOs, and mystery novels.

"No need for apologies, thank you very much, otherwise I would most likely be dead."

Fang Yan had never been to such a dessert shop before. He scooped out a piece with a spoon, and it was so sweet it was cloying. There must have been too much sugar in it.

The school closure will last until the 15th, supposedly because the school is going to reinforce the security windows and weld an iron railing at all the rooftop entrances.

A week has passed since the time-coordinated operations on the Globe 7500. Will the lieutenant assign new missions now that the holiday is over?

Aren't you going to ask me what I'm doing?

"what?"

"Most people would probably be confused, right? An explosion and all that."

Fang Yan noticed that Ye Yutang was quite calm. Theoretically speaking, what happened this morning was not a very ordinary event, but she didn't seem curious at all, as if she was very experienced in handling such crises.

"I just understand it as an ultimate battle... You might be eliminating fakes or something like that."

Ji Wei said that she originally planned to go to No. 6 Middle School early, wait for him at the school gate for lunch, and take the opportunity to find out the women who liked to use the word "rape" online, and there was more than one of them.

I checked the comments again this morning, and they've gotten even worse. There were comments like "putting him in handcuffs," and other things that no one had ever imagined. It's infuriating!

Unexpectedly, due to unforeseen circumstances, Fang Yan suddenly did something outrageous.

"Could it be related to the student who committed suicide this morning? The one in your class?"

"I don't think I told you which class I was in, did I?" "It's on that urban legend website."

"Oh."

Fang Yan didn't know what to talk to this woman about. She had mentioned before that the equipment came from the monitors she had killed, and so far, there were no flaws in the story.

but……

Even if the story is fake, and the person approached you for some other purpose, could you bring yourself to harm the person who saved you if they turned out to be an enemy?

Given that Fang Yan's only skill in picking up girls was learned from porn, and his approach was purely like taking a background check—asking for names, ages, addresses, and what they did—Fang Yan didn't know what to say. He also didn't want to just turn around and leave. Because the other person was so amazing, he was a little intimidated and wanted to...

Ji Wei was also biting her straw, seemingly considering her words with some trepidation.

The atmosphere instantly became incredibly awkward.

Just as Fang Yan was about to say something casually.

"I'm happy to be able to help you."

Ji Wei stopped fiddling with the straw covered in teeth marks, and a somewhat naive smile appeared on her face.

boom!
Fang Yan, who had just finished carrying out a terrorist attack, was shot in the chest again. What was going on? This time it was probably for real. This woman might have feelings for him!
"what?"

Fang Yan blurted out something nonsensical. He couldn't describe the destructive power of that smile, as if it pierced through the dull, monotonous street scenes of the city.

He completely shut Fang Yan down, like a flock of pigeons startled by a fountain in a stone square after a nuclear bomb exploded in World War III.

The phantom pain in my left hand, a side effect of using the water-blade arm armor, felt like it had been directly anesthetized.

Fang Yan's reaction seemed rather intense.

"No, no, no, you misunderstood. I mean, if this is the case, you should tell me what you know."

Ji Wei quickly waved her hand, realizing she had said the wrong thing. Could it be that he disliked her?

"I see..." Fang Yan had been keeping a straight face in front of the beautiful woman, his expression unreadable, but he was also a little disappointed, realizing he had overthought things. "Of course, there are many things I can't say because I can't talk about them. But I can tell you other things, though you might find it outrageous, like I'm lying."

"No, after experiencing all this, I'll believe anything, no matter how outrageous it seems."

"is it?"

Fang Yan scanned the dessert shop, looking for any suspicious targets or cameras, but then he had a second thought.

A life lived in fear... is not a real life. I'm too sensitive, always on edge. If this continues, I'll go crazy.

"Do you know The Matrix? It's like the Matrix, except that on Earth now, the Matrix is ​​an external, semi-embedded entity that controls the human brain by directly transmitting neural impulses from satellite base stations. This external Matrix is ​​even more terrifying, blurring the boundaries between illusion and reality. Do you understand?"

"I'm trying to understand."

"To put it more bluntly, it's like... all of humanity has been brainwashed by a sword-type being. Anyone who can't be controlled will be killed. There are no super-powered beings, only the sword-type's subordinates, people trying to escape the mother body, and some other random people. The place I just blew up was one of those random people."

Fang Yan took a bite of the sundae, which was just ordinary ice cream, maybe a little loosely structured.

"I will kill all mind control dogs."

Fang Yan added.

Ji Wei was stunned for a moment. He actually thought that way...?

(End of this chapter)