Chapter 1456 Finding a needle in a haystack(1/2)
We two couldn't understand what was going on, so we wanted to find Nantian, the third person, as a reference and evidence.
Nantian called me and left a phone number. I called but didn't receive a strange voice prompt, but no one answered it.
After two fights, I had to give up temporarily.
"Do you go and eat something first?" The thin man touched his stomach.
I've been hungry for a long time, but I'm wary of the people and things here.
We have come out of the community and stand on the roadside for a while.
The thin man searched for the surrounding restaurants and found a long list of results. Then he looked at the marks on the map, which were scattered and distributed, and it looked not much different from ordinary communities. That is, there was a large amount of public green space here, and a piece of it was empty on the map.
The thin man pointed the direction and chose the street with the most restaurants.
While walking, I observed the surroundings and searched the Internet from time to time.
On social networking websites, the accounts I followed have not been updated. Web news has also stopped refreshing.
But on the homepage of social networking websites, I saw new blog posts that were randomly refreshed. They were all unrecognizable accounts. Two of them were marketing accounts with millions of fans.
I immediately guessed that the owners of these two accounts should live here. Because of this, they disappeared in the real world and appeared here again.
After a while, we crossed the street and found the restaurant street where many small shops were opened.
Noodle soup, wontons, dumplings, spicy hotpot, fried chicken stew...
These small shops are no different from small shops in the real world.
I observed for a long time and didn't see the problem. We chose a shop called "Lao Zhang Noodle Restaurant" and ordered food.
I saw the QR code posted on the cashier and tried to scan the code to pay, but it was also successful.
I exchanged glances with the thin man and sat down calmly.
This noodle restaurant is cleaned very well, but the place is small. Three long tables are placed and it is stuffed. The menu lists all include noodle, soup noodles, mixed noodles, and fried noodles. The toppings are common spicy meat, braised meat, and vegetarian chicken.
There were already three people sitting in the store, one alone customer and a pair of young people.
The shop owner sat behind the cashier and watched the video played on the tablet. The three of them were playing with their phones.
There was a sound of water rumbling in the kitchen behind.
The whole restaurant looks ordinary without any abnormalities.
I was tired of looking at my eyes and didn't find anything new, so I had to give up.
The thin man had already started to browse his phone and didn't know what he was looking at.
When the noodles were served, we tried carefully and found no problem before we finished the hot noodles.
The man who ate noodles alone had finished eating and left, and the two young men were still sitting.
One of them picked up his cell phone and made a call, as if he was talking about business.
I just finished my meal, put down my chopsticks, and sucked the tissue on the table to wipe my mouth.
"...Okay! Don't worry! I will definitely deliver it to you in time! Okay! No problem! It's ten o'clock tomorrow. Ah? The day after tomorrow... it's Saturday. If we have to specify the time..."
My movement of wiping my mouth was repeated mechanically.
"...The second batch of goods can only be extended to No. 25. Is it okay? Just No. 25, okay. Don't worry."
I looked up at the thin man.
The thin man had just eaten a bowl of noodles and exhaled. When he saw me looking over, he opened his eyes wide and asked me what was wrong.
I took out my phone and looked at the date and time displayed on my phone.
no problem.
I became confused.
The phone number was already hung up there, and the two of them greeted each other, got up and left.
I was still a little restless, so I looked at their backs, took out my phone, went to the search website, and entered the word "date".
The date "October 2, 2017" jumped out.
I was stunned.
"Brother Qi, what's wrong?" asked the thin man.
I raised my hand and showed the screen of the phone to the thin man.
The thin man didn't react at first, "What happened on October 2, 2017?"
"Look at the words above." I reminded.
"Hmm? Today's date...uh?uh?" The thin man screamed twice, closed his mouth, and looked up at me.
Today's date is October 2, 2017.
We're back to October 2, 2017.
I don’t know the specific time when this strange space appeared, but it was from 2017 to 2018.
"Is this good news?" The thin man pulled the corner of his mouth.
"Half is good news." I said, looking around.
It seems that the people here have not found themselves "quarantined".
That should be the case?
I can't tell it.
I know I have lost a memory, but I don't know what that memory is about.
Did I experience a dream or something else?
"It may also be...the cycle is repeated." I said this with difficulty.
A better situation is that we have traveled through time and space in this different space on October 2, 2017. Although we don’t know if the people here will lose their memories like people in the real world, at least for now, the society here is stable.
The bad situation is what I just said.
This strange space is constantly circulating on the time period of October 2, 2017. The sun rises and sunsets, and every day is October 2, 2017.
I saw the thin man's face pale, and my face should not look good either.
If you think about it carefully, this strange space is repeated on the same day, and everyone is unaware of it, and it should not be a bad thing.
In this way, this place has really become a stand-alone game that can be saved and read. We don’t need to look for the places we have looked for again, because these places will not change.
I looked at the social club website and found the marketing account I just saw.
The date they posted the picture was October 2, 2017. The content was a bit old-fashioned. It was an emoticon package I saw many years ago. No one should use it now.
After looking through their homepage, I found that there are a lot of information such as "No one has been there in ten minutes?", "Internet celebrities in the past", "first row for the first time" and so on. Compared with the content they posted in the past, various data are falling like a cliff-jumping downward.
This undoubtedly proves one thing: this alien space is also isolated from the real world, and is a two-way isolation.
If the time here stays on October 2, everything is fine. If the time here will flow, it won't take long to find that they are trapped in a bizarre and weird situation.
I still have a lot of doubts about this.
For example, where does the light that can light up on the head come from? Minqing City has only one power plant that supplies electricity to the whole city.
There are also networks and APPs that I can use normally, and who provides them? The signal base station and server should always be unified, right? If both sides are isolated, these things should not be used.
"Well. Let's find someone first." I gave up the endless thinking and called Nantian again.
This time, I heard the prompt tone of "shut down".
My face is even worse.
"How about it?"
"It's shut down." I said with a headache, and I was very worried.
"What are we going to do now?" asked the thin man in a low voice.
"It's better to find someone." I smiled bitterly.
If Nantian couldn't find it, he would look for Liu Miao.
Our original purpose was to find out Liu Miao.
However, we have no clues at all.
"He probably went to a certain community. There must be some problems in that community." I analyzed.
I originally thought that with my ability, I just need to dream of the person who has seen Liu Miao. What I need to do is to wait for the other party’s death and the arrival of the dream, and to seize the opportunity after seeing Liu Miao in the dream.
Now, this road is a little unworkable.
I am trapped in this ghost place myself, so I have to find Liu Miao earlier. There is also a worrying Nan Tian, so I need to take action even more.
"This place is not very big, it's just a little bit of residential areas..." I said something insincere.
No matter how many millions of people are, it is still in the city. Guangxin District and Huangnan District, which border here, are both populous areas and are located in the city center. Just now, I saw dense buildings and countless intertwined roads.
"I remember the background on that photo...well... although it's a bit blurry, you can probably see that it is a beige house, not high, a residential building with six or seven floors... This should be that kind of old-fashioned community." I said.
To be continued...