Free Web NovelPerhaps it was because he had experienced too much yesterday and was mentally exhausted, Lu Yibei finally fell asleep peacefully. By the time he woke up, it was already close to noon.
Drowsily, he reached under his pillow and pulled out his phone for a look.
Time: 10:27
"Damn, it's already this late?"
Lu Yibei exclaimed softly, sat up, and patted his cheeks with both hands to wake himself up. He then quickly scrambled out of bed.
Just then, his phone suddenly rang.
It was Su Mi calling.
After connecting the call, Su Mi's voice on the other end was clearly anxious.
"Old Lu, you finally answered! Do you know how many calls I've made to you all morning? I was about to die of worry."
Lu Yibei pouted, saying dismissively, "If I don't sleep in during the summer vacation after graduating high school, would I be worthy of my three years of hard work? Speaking of which, why are you so anxious?"
"Didn't you tell me last night that an unknown Miss climbed through your window, broke into your house, and asked me to ask my Old Dad to help check her basic information?" Su Mi asked.
Lu Yibei glanced towards the living room through the closed bedroom door, nodded, and said, "Yeah! She even came in through the bathroom window. Is there a problem? Is it inconvenient for Uncle's side..."
"There's a problem! A big problem!" Su Mi's voice on the other end rose a few octaves. "You might have really met a ghost!"
"Huh?" Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment and didn't immediately react.
"Through her ID card, her basic personal information has been found. Her name is Gu Xiliu, and her family lives in Half-Mountain Apartment..."
"Wait!" Hearing this, Lu Yibei sensed something was wrong and interrupted, "Half-Mountain Apartment? Isn't that place a condemned building? It's been empty for many years, right? How could anyone live there?"
Isn't her name Gu Qianqian? How did she become Gu Xiliu? The Gu Xiliu in the dream memory seems to be another person entirely! Lu Yibei muttered inwardly.
"Yeah! No one has lived there for a long time!" Su Mi paused mid-sentence, her tone becoming mysterious, "What I'm about to say next, don't be scared!"
"Don't worry, I'm a professional. Even if you put a real urban legend in front of me, I wouldn't be scared," Lu Yibei teased.
I am the Huacheng Monster King... well, in my dream.
"You said it," Su Mi said. "First of all, this Miss Gu Xiliu disappeared over ten years ago, and she was declared dead in the archives." fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
"Secondly, her family also went missing one after another a few years later."
"Finally, and most importantly, do you know what it is?"
"What?" Lu Yibei asked.
"Before her family disappeared, they participated in a lot of Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society activities and were even arrested, leaving a criminal record!"
"Xunzhen..." Lu Yibei froze for a moment, then reacted, quickly asking, "You mean that cult group that caused such a stir a few years ago?"
Lu Yibei had long heard of the so-called Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society.
They were a group of fanatics who claimed that this world was fake and that one must leave here and go to the real world to gain true freedom.
The Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society in the rumors was like a monstrous flood beast, devouring people without spitting out bones, doing all sorts of evil for the things they pursued.
However, rumors are just rumors after all, sometimes more deceptive than memory.
Lu Yibei briefly recalled, he seemed to have never personally witnessed the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society doing anything evil. The occasional news he saw only characterized them as a cult group, without specific examples.
He rejected and stayed away from the Xunzhen /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ Mutual Aid Society simply because most people rejected and stayed away from it.
After all, normal people habitually keep a distance from madness and danger.
But now, after having that incredibly real strange dream, meeting Gu Qianqian face-to-face, and feeding her five buckets of family-sized fried chicken, he suddenly became a little curious about the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society.
Among a crowd of muddled people, a very small number of clear-headed individuals are anomalies, so being clear-headed becomes a mistake, and the clear-headed become lunatics.
Maybe the members of the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society are a group of clear-headed "lunatics," and I am becoming one of them. Lu Yibei thought.
"Exactly! That's the one!" Su Mi said anxiously, "So, Old Lu, that Miss in your house is very dangerous, call the police quickly!"
"Not necessarily, right? I'll see how things are first..."
"Then... then keep your phone with you at all times! If anything happens, call the police immediately or contact us!"
"Okay, got it!"
Lu Yibei hung up the phone, turned his head, and looked towards the living room through the closed bedroom door, falling silent.
Although he confirmed that there really was a person named Gu Qianqian, or rather Gu Xiliu, in this world, and it wasn't a hallucination caused by his mental breakdown, he couldn't feel happy at all.
The fact that Gu Qianqian and her family were connected to the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society, which claimed the "world is fake," made him feel very uneasy, as if a cloud had settled over his heart.
Could the "real world" that the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society was searching for be the world in the dream memory?
But if the memory in the dream is real, then what is everything I have seen and experienced?
Here I have Ms. Wang Meili, I have my childhood friend Rao Hua, I have my good brother Su Mi... What does the "real" world that the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society talks about have?
As Lu Yibei thought, the first things that came to mind were the seven limited edition White Little Flower figurines and Jiang Li at home, followed by Smelly Girl and Qingji, then the Coat, Mengmeng, Du Sixian, Uncle Zhang Shan, and the Little Freak at home... After a long time, he reluctantly added Bai Kai.
Counting it this way, it seems there are more people waiting for me over there? Lu Yibei thought.
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A moment later, Lu Yibei got up, preparing to check on Gu Qianqian.
Standing in front of the bedroom door, holding the phone ready to call the police in one hand and the doorknob in the other, his heart rate slightly accelerated, and he unconsciously held his breath.
He slowly turned the doorknob, trying not to make any noise.
After the bedroom door opened just enough to see the situation outside the living room, Lu Yibei waited quietly for a moment. Seeing that nothing unusual happened, he pushed open the door and left the bedroom.
In the living room, the near-noon sunlight streamed in, bright and dazzling.
The chair on the living room balcony was empty; Gu Qianqian had disappeared.
Only the broken wire on the ground and the five empty buckets of family-sized fried chicken on the coffee table remained, all proving that she had been there.
Lu Yibei walked over to the empty chair and saw the note with childish handwriting on the chair, frowning.
The note read: 【Lu Yibei, I'm going to find my family!
If I find them, I won't come back!
Left by Gu Qianqian】
Staring at the note for a moment, Lu Yibei frowned and muttered, "Does she mean she'll come back if she doesn't find them?"
Talking to himself, he put down the note left by Gu Qianqian and picked up the broken wire. His brows gradually knitted together, and his heart tightened.
He suddenly thought of another abnormal and strange thing...
Lu Yibei stared at the broken wire in his hand, feeling a little heavy-hearted.
Last night, Nanling Yaohua suddenly appeared at his house with braised pork, catching him in the act of feeding Gu Qianqian.
At the time, he was completely flustered, only thinking about getting through it quickly, but he ignored an important detail.
Although Nanling Yaohua most likely couldn't see Gu Qianqian, she should have been able to see the wire tied to Gu Qianqian.
Late at night, a pile of wires floating above an empty chair, vaguely outlining a human form, could already be considered a supernatural event.
Her gaze clearly lingered on the chair, but she didn't show any fear or surprise, as if she hadn't seen the wires at all.
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This situation made Lu Yibei feel as if not only was Gu Qianqian a figment of his imagination, but a series of events that happened when he interacted with Gu Qianqian were also imaginary.
And at that time, his mind was too tense, and he didn't notice this anomaly.
Lu Yibei had read some stories about multiple personality disorder before. The protagonists in those stories would often unconsciously do some things under the control of a potential personality.
When they woke up, they would treat the things they did unconsciously as if they were done with another person, or completely unrelated to them, but happened to someone else.
Of course, there is also a possibility that, just like the information obtained from Su Mi, Gu Qianqian's real name is Gu Xiliu.
After she disappeared, she suffered some unknown things, developed a mental problem, and then broke into his house last night.
"But, Rao Hua also asked me to make the humidifier disappear using magic..." Lu Yibei murmured.
Nanling Yaohua's behavior was like seeing Gu Qianqian and the scene where she swallowed the chicken leg, but not exposing it, deliberately playing a prank.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Yibei decided to ask her personally.
He took out his phone and dialed the number. Soon, he heard Nanling Yaohua's familiar voice in his ear.
"Hello, Xiao Bei? Are you already out playing ball?"
"Uh, it's me, not out yet!" Lu Yibei replied, then said seriously, "Xiao Hua, before I go out, there's something I want to ask you."
"Loved you..."
Lu Yibei's eye twitched. "Can you be serious?"
"Hahaha, sorry, I couldn't help it, it just slipped out." Nanling Yaohua on the other end of the phone laughed. "Ask, ask."
"Yesterday..." Lu Yibei opened his mouth, took a deep breath, and said, "Just yesterday evening, when you came to my house to bring me braised pork, did you see a Miss tied to a chair with wires?"
The Miss I saw at the intersection during the day... Lu Yibei added in his heart.
"..."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
After a long time, Nanling Yaohua burst out laughing, "Xiao Bei, what are you thinking? Bringing a Miss home late at night and tying her to a chair with wires is a crime!"
"If I saw it, even if it were you, I would have to call the police and have Uncle Police arrest you."
Lu Yibei, "..."
That's right, given the "heroine's" personality, if she saw such a situation, she would definitely act righteously even against her own family.
"Xiao Bei?"
"Huh?"
"Are you okay?" Nanling Yaohua asked softly, "If not, I can ask the dance Teacher for leave and come over to keep you company?"
"Uh..." Lu Yibei was stunned for a moment. "I'm fine. It's probably the effect of that strange dream the day before yesterday, there were still some remnants yesterday. Now that I've had a full night's sleep, I'm much better."
"Okay, then let's leave it at that! They're calling me over there to play ball, so I'll hang up now!"
After hanging up the phone, Lu Yibei looked at the broken wires and fell into deep thought.
In a trance, Lu Yibei felt as if an invisible pair of eyes was watching him, reaching out an invisible hand to stop him from seeking the truth, from continuing to ask Rao Hua or Su Mi, and not to expect to know anything from them. ƒreewebɳovel.com
Ms. Wang Meili was somewhere in a remote sea area in Alaska, playing with king crabs, and her phone couldn't be reached at all. He currently had no other close person he could talk to or ask.
He couldn't possibly call the police and say, I tied up a Miss yesterday, and this morning I woke up and found that she was a dead person and had disappeared, could he?
Then Uncle Police would definitely send me to Yun Kang Mental Hospital! Lu Yibei thought.
Immediately after, he remembered the girl named Jiang Li, and a strange flutter went through his heart, as if reminding him that Jiang Li was also someone very close to him.
However, when he wanted to further search for events in his dream memory that could prove his relationship with Jiang Li, the relevant memory scenes suddenly became like a layer of mist, gradually drifting away, impossible to grasp.
Everything became unclear.
This disturbing lack of clarity instead aroused the "desire to win" hidden deep in his heart.
He wanted to know who Jiang Li was.
His intuition told him that she was someone whose importance was no less than that of Ms. Wang Meili and Rao Hua.
"..."
In silence, Lu Yibei vaguely felt that if he wanted to continue exploring the dream memory, perhaps he could only try to find members of the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society.
If he could find members of the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society, he should be able to ask them something.
Don't they only play with "truth"? They shouldn't lie, right?
Gu Qianqian's family are members of the Xunzhen Mutual Aid Society, and her family address is in Half-Mountain Apartment...
Speaking of which, should I go to Half-Mountain Apartment to check? Maybe I can find Gu Qianqian there. If she really went to find her family, she should go there, right? Lu Yibei thought.
"Okay, that's decided. I'll eat something first, and then head out!"
He lightly punched his palm, stood up, and walked towards the coffee table, preparing to find something to eat from the leftover family-sized fried chicken from last night to fill his stomach simply.
Then...
"Damn it! Damn Gu Qianqian, she even took something before she left!"
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1:05 PM.
Lu Yibei packed the plunger into a backpack, then randomly stuffed a pile of Ms. Wang Meili's jade talismans, which were said to have exorcising effects, into the bag. He put on the backpack and left the house.
After eating a bowl of fried sauce noodles at a restaurant near the faculty and staff compound, he hailed a taxi, preparing to go to Half-Mountain Apartment.
"Master, please go to Half-Mountain Apartment."
After telling the taxi driver the destination, Lu Yibei subconsciously glanced at his work information. When he saw the name "Zhang Shan," he slightly frowned.
Seriously, I can even run into you when taking a taxi in another world. Our quantum entanglement is quite serious! Lu Yibei subconsciously complained.
Combining the dream memory and the current situation, he even suspected that if he were to travel to some fantasy world and hail a land dragon carriage, the driver would be named Conrad von Zhang Shan.
As if remembering something, Lu Yibei glanced at Uncle Driver and asked, "Master, do you like listening to urban legend stories?"
Uncle Driver glanced at Lu Yibei with his peripheral vision, puzzled, "I do like them, but why do you ask?"
"Oh, it's like this..." Lu Yibei explained, "I heard from a friend that if I tell you urban legend stories, the fare can be waived. I wonder if it's true?"
Anyway, Uncle Zhang Shan in the dream memory could be freeloaded off of.
"Friend?" Uncle Driver frowned.
Be honest, isn't this friend you yourself?
He grumbled inwardly, didn't delve deeper, and changed the subject, "Can you ask me that question again?"
"Do you like..."
"Sorry, I don't!"
Lu Yibei, "..."
