Tang Xinjue's eyes shrank, and his palms tightened.
"It was me who gave you this watch?"
The little boy nodded, then shook his head again. He couldn't speak, couldn't make any expressions, couldn't show any direct information. The only answer that can be given is action.
So he moved his finger again, pointing to Tang Xinjue's pocket, the watch that belonged to Guo Guo.
Only slightly changed the movement, but made the answer from clear to vague, as if it still contained other meanings.
Tang Xinjue frowned again, and his thoughts changed abruptly: "... when you received this watch, the person standing in front of you was me, but I'm not the only one, is it?"
"Papa papa!"
I don't know if he understood Tang Xinjue's words, the little boy suddenly clapped his hands vigorously, pointed at Tang Xinjue with his fingers, then moved to Tang Xinjue's side, poking non-stop in the empty air, Dangling happily.
For some reason, Tang Xinjue seemed to be able to vaguely understand the meaning of the obviously weird and abstract movements.
Following this intuition, she spread her perception and counted in her heart.
One, two, three...
The child is in the air, pointing to three locations.
It was as if there were three people standing there.
Immediately, the child withdrew his hand, and seemed to take a step back in confusion, rubbing his hands vigorously in the air, as if to erase the position he just pointed out.
"Erasing" the outermost layer of "person", the child opened his crumpled coat, took the watch from Tang Xinjue's hand, and put it inside. Then I tried my best to erase the second and third "persons"...
In the end, only Tang Xinjue was "left". The child stomped his feet and stretched out his hands, as if to indicate that he had finished all the lectures and now asked for his watch.
Tang Xinjue was thoughtful, and after a while he said quietly, "It's really interesting."
She had no knowledge of the scene described by the faceless child.
Two completely opposite things cannot be true at the same time. If what the Faceless Child expresses is true, then what is false is her memory.
So, is the child lying, or is her memory lying
Seeing that she was not moving, the child stomped anxiously again, urging her to give the watch.
Tang Xinjue raised his eyelids: "You think I've already given it to you, so now the watch is yours?"
The kid nods.
"But I don't remember." There was a shallow arc on the girl's face: "The one who promised to give you the watch is the one I used to be, and the one who took back the watch is the one I am now. The memories of the two me are different, and I can't remember the same thing. Confused."
Faceless Child: "..."
"Besides, your mother hurt me." Tang Xinjue spread out her palm and pointed to the almost healed tiger's mouth: "Do you understand the medical expenses?"
Faceless Child: "..."
The child rubbed his hands in a daze, and when he realized it, he sat down on the spot with a "slap" and shrugged his shoulders, as if crying loudly.
About three minutes later, Tang Xinjue pulled his mind away from the rush of thoughts, and saw the little boy still sitting on the ground, refusing to move, looking very sad.
And with it as the center, the cold feeling quickly released and spread outwards, pulling the temperature of the entire gas station down by more than ten degrees, and there was a tendency to intensify.
In order to prevent this place from turning into an ice cave, Tang Xinjue squatted down, still very gentle: "However, although the watch is gone, I can give you other gifts."
The child ignored it. Tang Xinjue's repeated ruthlessness had dealt a heavy blow to the ghost's young heart, and he had no credibility at all.
Tang Xinjue was not in a hurry, and went straight to a cracked ground, grasped the metal with both hands and pulled it up forcefully, pulling out the refueling gun that had just been thrown by the dejected young man from the cracked ground.
Then she beckoned the child over: "How about it, is this gift big enough?"
The faceless child got up in a daze, and just as he stretched out his hand, the fuel gun was stuffed into his arms, his body shook suddenly, and he was about to fall to the ground.
Tang Xinjue gently lifted it up: "Such an expensive gift, you must take it home and keep it well."
Faceless Child: "!!!"
"Yo, why is there a child here?"
The door of the station room was suddenly pushed open, and a dejected young man in a yellow uniform finally walked out slowly. Seeing the scene in front of him, a trace of interest finally appeared on his face: "Whose child is this, why are you still holding it... Isn't this cheering?" gun?"
The young man raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Tang Xinjue said casually: "Anyway, this is scrapped and can't be used anymore. I will recycle it and give it to the children to play with. If you want to reimburse it, you can go to Grandma Mayas."
"..."
The young man opened his mouth: "Okay, but this gift..."
At this time, the faceless child who saw the young man cherished the refueling gun and pulled it out step by step, clumsily dragging his "gift" into the bushes and disappearing into the depths of the mist.
"...so chic."
The young man shrugged his shoulders and stopped talking, installed a new fuel nozzle, and quickly filled up the convertible.
"You can go on now, and make sure you can reach your final destination safely."
The young man lazily slapped the car door twice, and when he spoke, his two light gray eyebrows were pressed wearily, making his complexion paler, and he looked like he was going to die from overwork at any time.
The moment the thought appeared, Tang Xinjue also asked, "You have a lot of work here? You seem to be very tired."
She rubbed her stinging temples, and glanced lightly across the empty gas station, as if she was just mentioning it casually.
I didn't intend for the NPC to answer seriously, but I didn't expect the young man to glance at her, and actually said, "I'm a part-time student."
"The regular employees here have a little problem, and I came here temporarily to take over."
"Student part-time job?"
Tang Xinjue caught this word and blurted out: "How many universities?"
… The study of the three universities in University City had been etched into her subconscious mind.
She couldn't help but smile, but before she had time to change the words, the young man gave the answer lightly:
"A university."
The hands on the steering wheel froze, and Tang Xinjue stopped tapping his fingers.
A thought came to her mind, she said softly: "Which one university?"
Then she heard the youth's voice:
"Student, there is only one university in the university city."
…
college town.
At this moment, Tang Xinjue understood what the "highway outside the city" on the road sign meant.
A strange palpitation prompted her to raise her head and look far away from the road to the fog-shrouded sky.
This is the world where the game is located, the place where ghosts are born, and behind the maze at the end of the road, perhaps this is the truth of this world.
The young man said to himself again: "Part-time jobs are not tiring. The main reason is that the amount of study is a bit heavy, so I came out to get some air. Otherwise, I would have died suddenly. Well, you should be okay. I heard that Sanben will be easy. point?"
Tang Xinjue didn't answer immediately. After a while, she smiled: "I don't seem to have said that I am a student from Sanben University."
"How did you know?"