Chapter 170 138. Before it’s too late
“As I said before, I used to be white, but now I’m a little darker.”
The man grinned He stood up, sharp, and then looked towards the new Ikebukuro city not far away, with an expression mixed with nostalgia on his face, and breathed a long sigh of relief.
“Well, dear guest, it seems that time is running out now. You will soon be interviewed by New World’s senior leaders, and I, the guide, will also be held responsible for the violation just now. And become those "disgusting people with strange colors". "
"Is there no way to avoid punishment? "Li Mang asked subconsciously.
To be honest, ever since he came into contact with the guide and learned about the situation, he had developed some affection for this stranger.
"My dear guest, I am honored and happy that you have such thoughts, but..."
The man took a deep breath and took out only a few cigarettes from the cigarette case he carried. The remaining cigarette was carefully lit in front of Li Dang's eyes, and he put the end of the cigarette into his mouth tremblingly.
“But these are the rules, and I have no way to change them. All the people in our new world are bound to this rule... We have no way to escape, and we have no way to resist.”
"So..." Li Meng hesitated.
"Yes, those before were just polite, but the views I express now are my truest thoughts."
The man took a puff of cigarette, then exhaled it, and whispered.
“My dear guest, our identity is always a person in the new world who is struggling at the bottom. It is already my honor to be in contact with people like you, and I will become a Abandoned people in the new world.
So I appreciate your kindness, but please don’t worry about me. I will solve these things myself.”
“This is yours. I respect the choice." Li Min pursed his lips.
He was not a saint, and the guide in front of him was just a casual encounter. He was punished for revealing the rules and secrets. To put it bluntly, it was something he found himself.
But as is human nature, the thought that he was punished because he gave him a secret clue was somewhat difficult to bear mentally.
This thought made him feel even more conflicted.
"Then finally, I would like to ask how to escape from this city, or...how to leave here?" Li Ming looked at the tall city that was gradually emerging not far away, My heart became more and more tense.
“Didn’t you come to the new world by yourself?” The man squinted his eyes, a little curious, and stubbed out the cigarette in his hand at this moment, “Our guides will do this every time before working to receive guests. After receiving information from high-level officials, we always thought that these guests came on their own initiative, but we didn’t expect..."
"It seems that there are huge secrets hidden in this new city..." Li Min hesitated, "By the way, you have seen a girl wearing a cheongsam and several other guests who looked like outsiders. Are those my friends?"
Li Ming also noticed something was wrong. It seemed that his attitude toward this man had changed since he was insulted at first. " "You", it seems that I have accepted this guide from my heart.
“I have never seen the cheongsam girl, but as for outsiders... my colleagues should have seen her, because the guide agency seems to have received a lot of customers in the past few days.”
Suddenly, the two seemed to realize that the city in front of them began to roll up thick fog, gradually swallowing everything around them.
When Li Dang looked around, he seemed to hear a mocking voice, and then he no longer felt the discomfort of being stared at.
"Time is running out, guest, that thick fog is the door to the new world. They will swallow us up. It won't be long before I will become a part of this thick fog."
"Then... ..." Li Mang was interrupted just as he was about to speak.
“Stop talking about these useless pleasantries, guest, let me remind you that entering this gate does not mean that you have completely entered the new Ikebukuro city, you have to go through a Trials, as we call them here, are designed to select guests for appropriate positions. ”
“ But I'm sorry that I don't have enough authority, so I don't know what this traditional trial is, and I can't know its content. But through some channels, I know that the initial restrictions of this trial are The tester has lost his memory and is going to practice a simulated scenario."
"Amnesia?" Li Min tilted his head.
"Yes, it's amnesia." The man discarded the cigarette butt in his hand, "I don't know what impact this will have on the trialists, but my guess is that if you fail the trial or fail to reach those high-level If you are satisfied, your memory will be erased and you will become a so-called 'aboriginal person'."
"So come on, guest."
The man said this, adjusting his clothes and trying to Let yourself become the remnants of the new world in a dignified manner.
"Then at the end, I have another advice. This world is a dream. Staying here will affect everything about you. Please wake up as soon as possible."
How did he know? Is this a white dream?
Li Ming was a little confused, but he quickly thought of something, and the expression on his face became a little cold, and then he struggled as if he was trapped in painful memories.
"You are right, this is a nightmare." Li Min pursed his lips, "And I will eventually wake up from this dream."
"That way Best, last but not least, let me introduce myself. My surname is Sato." The man grinned and threw the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground. He extinguished it with his foot, "By the way, I forgot to ask you something. Can you tell me your name? It seems that you are also a friend of mine."
"My name is Li... ”
Before Li Meng finished speaking, a thick gray mist shrouded from not far away, and then swallowed everyone.
...
Wake up from a coma, the young man found that he had lost all memory. Although he still had impressions of his way of speaking, daily habits, common sense, or knowledge, other than his own I can’t recall my name, family, friends, work or any other memory related to me.
Looking around, this is a room, a studio apartment. There are beds, TVs, tables, bookshelves, cabinets and other furnishings in the room.
He walked to the cabinet where his clothes were placed. As long as he checked the size, he could make sure that the size matched his body shape.
Then there is the bookshelf next to me. There are many books on the bookshelf in the room. They all seem to be different volumes of the same series of books. The title of the series is "The Complete Works of Lovecraft", and all the books are Translated into Japanese, the author is "Lovecraft".
It would take weeks or months to read all the books, but after a rough reading, you can tell that this is a translated version of an overseas horror novel about the fictional mythology system called the Cthulhu Mythos. It contains poisoned monsters, as well as their related belief spells and rituals, etc. Arkham, Kingsport, Innsmouth, and Miskatonic University in the United States are all place names and universities in the real world, but they appear in the novel as the stage where events occur.
However, he found that he had no impression of the original author, translator and publisher recorded in the book.
Li Dang pursed his lips, a little confused.
There is a smartphone on the low table on the right. After charging, the first thing displayed is the fingerprint authentication screen. However, there is only the initial application in the smartphone. If you check the address book, you will only find that the address book has been saved. a number.
If you enter the names of the original author, translator or publisher on your mobile phone, you will find that they do not exist in the world you currently recognize. These things probably exist in the outside world.
While the young man was exploring the room, the TV suddenly turned on by itself and began to broadcast news about the unusual serial murders that had become a topic recently.
Two incidents occurred in succession during this week, and the third incident was discovered last night. Each time the murder method of the prisoner was different, and it was very unusual. This is the common denominator of this series of incidents. They were called New World Incidents because a note saying "Welcome to the New World" was left at the scene of each incident.
The victim in the first incident was a male. The man was in an unstable state in the morning. He appeared at the intersection of a busy street and then fell to the ground and died. The cause of death was suffocation.
There is a huge wound on the man's chest from which his lungs were removed, and the words Welcome to the New World are written on the notebook held by the man.
The second incident was that a college student had his heart ripped out and died. On his bed at home, on the notebook on the table, there was a scrawled welcome to the new world. The handwriting belonged to the dead student.
In the third incident, a body broken into several pieces was found on the river beach. The body was discovered together with the body when it was buried in the soil and dug out. There was also a picture, welcome to Pieces of paper to the new world.
It seems that since arriving in this world, I have been passive.
While he was thinking this, the sound of picking the lock suddenly came from outside the door, and then a man entered the room.
"You are finally back, Li Ming, do you know how worried I am about you?" The man played with the key in his hand and looked at the young man in front of him, "I thought you were also involved in those incidents. You were hit...but luckily, since you survived, it’s the best thing.”
"Who are you?" Li Ming frowned and took a cautious step back, his face full of suspicion.
"I am your friend, have you forgotten me? Really... you can even forget such a thing, I am Sato." The man grinned.
Everything seemed so familiar, but Li Dang could never remember it.
After careful consideration, Li Dang decided to ask the man in front of him about his current state.
“Where is this?”
"This is your room, and you live alone here. I am your friend. We can almost be called faxiao."
"Since we are faxiao, why do you have the key? Then my parents It should be said that this key is mine, right?”
“Your parents told me that they wanted to entrust you to me, and then gave me the key, so they always carry it with them when taking care of you. "The man nodded disapprovingly.
“What about my family?”
“Your family is abroad now, and I have been entrusted to take care of you, and because of your personality, you like cold and damp. There are no other close friends in the corner.”
"What about my job? Or I'm still in school now, what about my school?"
"Have you even forgotten such a thing... It's really nerve-wracking. You just changed from the past. I resigned from my workplace, so I’m still looking for my next job. You have plenty of time now.”
Why does this guy emphasize that he has plenty of time? ?
Is it to lay the groundwork?
"After we had dinner together last night, I went back at five o'clock in the afternoon, so nothing happened. As for your amnesia... I can't figure it out myself."
"Then what's going on with those books?"
"What books? Are you talking about the books on the bookshelf? I haven't heard of them. As far as I know, this should be your favorite. Books, you actually forgot about this, it’s really a tricky thing.”
Sato said with a smile, then took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to the young man in front of him.
The envelope has no stamps, no postmark, and no sender written on it. There is a note in the envelope.
Li Dang took a few steps back warily, showing a suspicious expression.
At this moment, the man in front of him suddenly took out a knife he was carrying. The young man who had no time to dodge was at a loss when faced with the sudden action.
The man in front of him looked at the young man with an expression distorted by madness, and then he raised the knife again as if to give a heavy blow, and in the next moment——< br>
Li Ming blinked, his dull eyes regained their vitality, and he looked at the envelope in front of him.
"Although this letter was not sent to you, it was indeed written to you by me. First of all, it must be stated that this letter contains a huge lie, which I am deliberately hiding. Based on this fact, I wrote this letter."
"It is not fashionable for you to accept this fact, because it may make you lose your complete sanity and usher in your own destruction, so I cannot explain it again, but I hope you can notice the mystery hidden in it. , save the world."
"Although the order of explanation is a bit wrong, your world is now facing a crisis of extinction. You may be confused by these sudden words, but you are the only one who can save this world. I hope you can investigate the new world. The truth of the incident Really."
"First of all, let me give you an instruction. Go to Professor Shirai at Shangying University before it is too late."
(This chapter End)