Chosen Son

Just when he and Hu Jing were in a stalemate, he saw a ray of light suddenly appearing behind Hu Jing, accompanied by the sound of a car slowly driving down from the ground.

When he and Hu Jing staged a chase just now, the whole building was dead silent, and no one came out to take a look. He didn't quite believe that this was an ordinary resident who happened to come back at this time, and Hu Jing obviously didn't believe it very much either. She slowly turned her head to take a look, then turned her neck around stiffly, and continued to look at Gu Fan motionlessly.

Although Gu Fan didn't know exactly what she was, but somehow he put on his own mother's face, no matter what, he couldn't let her stand there, but if he got close to her, he would be caught by her again, and he was a little hesitant for a while. .Just when he made up his mind and wanted to go over and give Hu Jing a hand, she seemed to be shocked suddenly, turned her head and walked towards the elevator on the side, without even turning her head, Gu Fan watched her go to the elevator in a daze. At the elevator entrance, he dully pressed the up button, then turned around and disappeared at the elevator entrance without even looking at him again.

Only then did he feel that his overused hands and feet had regained consciousness.

After a while, the car had already approached, Gu Fan hid behind the pillar, just about to pretend to be a ball of air, when he saw the car stopped in front of him.

Gu Fan: "..."

Is this the legendary protagonist's halo?

With a "click", the car door slowly opened, and a man in black came out. He was the passer-by he met at the entrance of the gym during the day. More importantly, he clearly remembered that this man himself said that he lived in The other side of the fog.The man probably saw his vigilance, so he took the initiative to speak and introduced himself:

"My name is Xue Bin. You don't have to be afraid, I'm of the same kind as you, and I'm here to save you."

Gu Fan calmly squeezed the small knife he carried with him when he went out, made a stop gesture to him, and asked, "How can I trust you?"

"You can only trust me, because the two of us are the only living people in this world." The man shrugged and looked at him, "If you don't believe me, you can knock on all the residents in this building and go to the street It’s okay to go and have a look at the various stores, but I don’t know if there will be anything extraordinary.”

"You mean, everyone in this world is a ghost?" Gu Fan thought for a while and said.

"No." The man smiled, "Ghosts are what humans say, they are products from birth to death, but these creatures, as far as I know, have never been lifeless things. If you have to make an analogy, you can Think of them as NPCs in the game. They walk around the city like ghosts. If it’s only on the surface, they will feel that they are no different from humans in the real world, but once you do things outside the limited range , they will chase you endlessly."

Gu Fan let out a "hmm", which was indeed very consistent with the appearance of Hu Jing he had just seen.

Just saying that...

He glanced at the man suspiciously: "Then where are you from?"

"Me?" The man seemed to be caught in a distant memory, and finally gave a short laugh, "I really miss you when you suddenly ask. Speaking of which, I have been in this world for a long, long time."

"Strictly speaking, you and I are from the same place."

The hour hand passed a little bit, and the night seemed to be a little thicker.After a gust of wind, some withered and yellow leaves quietly fell on the side of the street, looking quite bleak and beautiful.It's just that the street is empty and there is no one there, so naturally no one appreciates the beautiful scenery in the middle of the night.

Gu Fan followed a man named Xue Bin into a very inconspicuous hotel. After taking two cans of hot coffee from the vending machine, he swiped his card and went straight to a standard room on the first floor.After all, it is not a big hotel, so the room looks rather simple, but it can be seen that the owner is a clean person. Although there are not many things, they are all neatly arranged.Gu Fan sat down on a wooden chair beside the tea table, looked around, and asked curiously:

"You live here long?"

The man took some water from the kettle, put it on the pot and boiled it, then wiped his hands and sat opposite him. Hearing his question, he looked at him in surprise: "How do you know that I live here?" How long?"

Gu Fan pointed to the washstand beside him: "You brought your own towels, cups, toothpaste and toothbrush, and half the tube of toothpaste has been used up, and there are many books beside the bed. The bookmarks should be brought with you, so I think that if you only live for a day or two, it is impossible to have these things."

"Very smart." The man pushed his eyes, and there was some appreciation in his eyes, "As expected of..."

"What is it?" Gu Fan gave him a strange look.

"As expected of the same kind that can survive in this strange world with me." The man smiled, "What do you think I'm going to say? However, I'm quite surprised that you followed me so easily. Aren't you afraid that I'm a bad guy?"

Gu Fan looked at him helplessly: "Brother, I am 20 this year, not a three-year-old child. You should stop using pure words like "bad guy" to describe yourself."

The man smiled slightly, but did not speak.

"How can you catch a tiger if you can't enter the tiger's den?" Gu Fan said, "Everything you just told me is more in line with my guess. Although I don't know who you are for the time being, you seem to be It doesn't look like you're plotting something wrong for a while, and my instinct tells me that you can provide me with a lot of useful clues, so if you don't come, you won't come."

"And." He talked dryly for a long time, and finally added in a low voice, "I have no other place to go."

"Puchi..." The man couldn't help laughing, as if he didn't expect to get such a series of straightforward answers, he shook his head, skipping this topic, and continued:

"You're right, we are now considered allies. If you have anything you want to know, you can ask me, and I will try my best to answer. We can also exchange some information, in case we find out and escape from this place." The breakthrough of the world is unknown."

"Okay." Gu Fan nodded and agreed to him very readily.

However, although Xue Bin said so, there were too many questions buried in his heart, and he didn't know where to start, so he simply threw out an empty opening: "How much do you know about this world?"

"A lot, but it's just the tip of the iceberg." The man thought for a while and said, "The first time I came to this world was by accident. Strictly speaking, in the real world, I should already be in a vegetative state .It was a regrettable car accident. I remember that the other party was also seriously injured. There should be casualties. When I woke up, I was here."

"Wait a minute." Gu Fan suddenly had an absurd guess, and quickly interrupted him, "I feel like I might know why the two of us are the only ones in this world. When did you get into a car accident?"

The man paused and said a date.

"It's the same day." Gu Fan murmured, "Which street?"

The man thought for a while, and reported the name of the street. Seeing Gu Fan's somewhat sluggish reaction, he also understood: "You don't know..."

"Coincidentally." Gu Fan looked at him weakly, "It's just what you think."

"Then it's too coincidental." The man didn't expect that a good science popularization would turn into "recognition of relatives", so he had to smile helplessly, "I answered the phone at that time and didn't pay attention to the road. It was too late to get the car...I am really sorry for the current situation."

A perpetrator and a victim, the two sat here silently looking at each other for a while, and the air was filled with suffocating embarrassment.

After a long while, Gu Fan suppressed the wailing in his heart that wanted to beat the person in front of him, and smiled at him politely, "It's okay, we are both trapped here anyway, let's forget about the past." Bring it up again."

Just kidding, you come to tell me this after the five worlds are over, what do you expect me to say?

It's not just that I can only grit my teeth and forgive you.

Xue Bin obviously also knew that Gu Fan was scolding himself in his heart, so he coughed awkwardly, and quickly said: "After I woke up, I found myself lying at home, my body intact, without any injuries, but I looked at the time , found out it was time for the accident to pass, I was confused at the time, and then I went out the door."

When he said this, he seemed to be considering the appropriate wording, so he asked Gu Fan a question: "Let me ask you first, why did you appear in the park that day?"

Gu Fan was caught off guard by his question, thought about it for a while, and said: "My mother asked me to go out and buy potted flowers, and then I went to the flower shop in front of our house. It happened that the proprietress of the flower shop gave me a Gym card, said that this gym is not far from our home. I didn't have the nerve to refuse, so I took it in my pocket, but when I got home, I found that the key was left at home. I was really bored, so I passed it , By the way, didn’t I meet you, you told me that you lived on the other side of the bridge, and you shocked me.”

The man was taking notes while listening, and finally looked at the timeline in his hand, and said, "Are you a careless person? Recall carefully, did you really take the key when you went out that day?"

He said so, there must be a reason for the incident, Gu Fan was silent for a while, and said: "I remember that I definitely took it, but because I left in a hurry, I didn't pay much attention. You mean..."

He said in disbelief: "Someone is deliberately guiding me there."

The corner of the man's mouth slightly curved: "You are really smart."

"But." Gu Fan raised his head and looked into his eyes, "How do I remember that when I met you in the park, you also guided me to the other side of the bridge intentionally or unintentionally?"

The man looked back at him, a quick flash of light in his eyes for a split second.

Immediately, he put down his pen and smiled at him: "Of course, that was on purpose. Because "I woke up."