Lu Yanli caught a glimpse of the handmade calendar hanging on the door of the bar. The date on it told him that nothing had happened. He was back to... before the change.
He was even a little bit unbelieving.
"Hello, how many people are there?" The familiar-looking waiter greeted warmly, but he did not recognize his former customers, and his expression was strange yet enthusiastic.
With Zhuang Ci beside him, Lu Yanli showed no unusual behavior and just said, "You two." The waiter then led them to their seats. Lu Yanli then ordered two glasses of wine and let him leave.
"What are we doing here?" Zhuang Ci, who hadn't drunk any alcohol, asked in a low voice.
"Let's take a look." Lu Yanli didn't explain too much. He glanced around the bar. No one knew that he kept looking at the door again and again as if he was indifferent.
Today is the weekend, and he should be at the bar at normal time, why is he not here now
Time passed by, and more and more people came. A young man came to sing on the central stage. He was familiar with the singer, and he had treated the singer to a few drinks before.
All the familiar customers were there, except for himself.
After the singer on the central stage finished singing a song, he saw a young man walking towards him. He subconsciously thought that he was trying to flirt with her, but the man's expression didn't seem like it. It was hard to believe that someone who wanted to flirt with her would have such a cold expression, so he didn't avoid him.
"Do you know a regular customer who comes here often?" Lu Yanli asked, gesturing with his fingers, "His last name is Lu, he has red hair, can play the guitar, and sometimes sings a few songs here, but since it's not easy to get in the street, he can only sing when there's no one around." At this point, he couldn't help but smile.
The singer shook his head blankly: "I don't know him, I've never seen him."
"Really? Thank you." The faint smile on his face quickly disappeared. Lu Yanli nodded and turned to ask other people.
The answer is without exception: no one knows him, as if he never existed.
He avoided Zhuang Ci immediately and gave psychological hints to each person he questioned before leaving. In this way, even if Zhuang Ci asked about his problem later, he would not know.
Lu Yanli asked a lot of questions without any change in his expression. He and Zhuang Ci agreed to look for clues separately. After the other party left, he turned around and went back.
The sun was shining brightly, and the scenery along the way was both familiar and unfamiliar. He followed his memory and arrived not far from the familiar courtyard.
Lu Yanli saw his parents.
They each carried food and walked past him side by side. The couple seemed to be discussing what to eat this afternoon and did not even glance at him.
"Wait, sorry to disturb you." Lu Yanli chased after them and stopped them.
He had faced various ghosts pretending to be his parents countless times, and thought that he would no longer have emotional fluctuations. However, when he really faced their strange eyes, Lu Yanli still had to work hard to conceal himself so as not to show any abnormality.
"Do you guys... know a guy named Lu Yanli? I'm his friend and I'm looking for him."
The couple looked at each other and shook their heads. "I don't know, I haven't seen it."
The man who should have been his father seemed to have noticed something: "I haven't seen him either. If a friend is confirmed to be missing, we can call the police."
"I understand, thank you." After saying that, Lu Yanli stepped aside, and the couple continued to walk forward, talking and laughing, and opened the gate.
A young man ran out of the yard.
He was completely different from me. He was not the me of the past. No matter his appearance, his face, or even his vague nickname, he was not me. The boy jumped into their arms, calling them dad and mom, and helped carry the vegetables. The three of them happily went into the house and locked the gate.
After Lu Yanli watched them disappear, he turned around and left, walking alone on the street.
He asked the statue to send him to the source of everything, so why did he end up in this world
"Why?"
"What do you want to tell me? Do you want me to know how wonderful the world is without me?"
Near the crossroads, Lu Yanli gradually stopped.
At this moment, the streets were strangely empty. Even the sound of cars disappeared. All the shops were closed without exception. A prosperous city suddenly turned into a deserted and empty city.
Lu Yanli took out the statue from his arms.
It was only half of an elbow, blood-red, shaped into a twisted and weird human figure. It was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, old or young, and its appearance could not be seen clearly. When held in the hand, it had a cold texture.
The statue's face seemed a little blurred, as if the facial features had been smoothed out.
"What are you going to do?" Lu Yanli looked at her, "Are you going to kill me?" As he said that, he took out a small bottle of fluorescent green spores from her bag and placed it in front of her.
"Are you trying to swallow me?" He unscrewed the bottle cap.
"What's so special about me?" The bottle had already landed above the statue, and liquid was about to leak out.
Suddenly, there were sounds in my ears that were tiny and fragmented, but dense enough to converge into a huge torrent. They sounded like prayers, singing, curses, and wishes... Countless noises intertwined together and drilled into my ears.
Almost instantly, Lu Yanli felt a piercing pain in his head. He wanted to put the bottle away, but his limbs suddenly became unable to move. The glass bottle was tightly held in his hand, shaking continuously. The green substance was trembling in the bottle like waves and tides, almost dripping out.
The sky suddenly darkened and a strong wind blew, bringing dark clouds that covered half the sky. Dust, sand and rocks covered the ground, hitting the surrounding buildings with a crackling sound.
Lu Yanli remained frozen in place.
He felt his limbs being controlled by something cold. This force made him uncontrollably put away the bottle slowly, screw on the cap, and then... he took a few steps forward and walked towards the center of the crossroads.
The wind blew harder, and the dark clouds pressed lower, as if something was trying to break through the dark clouds and poke out from inside. The wind kept blowing the dark clouds away, but there were still endless clouds gathering. As one thing disappeared, the other disappeared, and the thick clouds gradually dispersed a little, revealing a corner of the thing hidden inside.
Lu Yanli saw it.
Everyone inside also saw him.
It was a huge eye that pierced through the clouds and caught a glimpse of the person it was looking for.
Suddenly, the wind blew almost violently to the extreme, and he could hardly stand in the middle of the road. He could not leave, could not move. The only good thing was that his arms seemed to be able to move slightly, and with a clang, the statue fell to the ground.
That eye also saw the statue on the ground.
Being stared at by that eye, his strength seemed to return a little, but he still couldn't move.
What was even worse was that the same car horn honked from all four corners of the intersection. Almost the next second after hearing the horn, four identical cars appeared on the four corners of the intersection, shining their high beams on him from four directions.
Only his arms and neck could move. He raised his head for the last time to take out a jade pendant from his pocket.
He recognized it a long time ago, that eye... belonged to the princess of Erdai country. She had been looking for her enemy.
Her brother and father are both her enemies, and "God" is her biggest enemy. Naturally, she, the person who delivers a message for her brother, is on the revenge list.
The four cars were clearly not her work. This trick was used by the "Statue" a long time ago. It was just that at that time, she could only find life through the mirror image, but now...
He turned his head hard enough to see the rolled-up windows of four cars.
There was no one in the driver's seat, but the reflection of the person opposite was reflected on the glass.
There are no illusions, even the license plate numbers are the same, all four cars are real.
Lu Yanli raised his hand, with the jade pendant in his palm.
The Pisces jade pendant was made by the most famous craftsman in Erdai Kingdom from a piece of beautiful jade. It was divided into two, one for the prince and one for the princess.
He didn't know where the other one was taken by himself, and he didn't know who the one in his hand belonged to. But he needed to let that eye look at him first.
She might not want to die at the hands of something else, let alone let the jade pendant disappear.
The dark clouds dispersed faster and faster, the big eyes blinked, and the speed of the four cars gradually slowed down, but they were still moving forward, driving towards Lu Yanli persistently.
Even if the speed was slow, if four cars really got through, he would definitely be squeezed in.
Still unable to move below the waist, Lu Yanli simply exerted force with his upper body and fell straight down, lying on his back in the middle of the road. He turned over with his elbows, and struggled to crawl away bit by bit before the four cars arrived.
The four cars slowly moved forward and eventually collided with each other. They did not stop until they collided, and the tires continued to roll, making friction sounds on the ground.
The roadside electric pole suddenly broke in half, and he dodged it again a second before it fell on him.
There were a lot of gravel on the ground, and the glass shards flew all over the ground after the car collision. His palms and elbows were covered in blood. Lu Yanli barely propped himself up and continued to dodge.
There was a traffic light pole next to the electric pole, a street lamp next to the pole, and a tall magnolia tree next to the street lamp. All of them were objects that could kill him. Even the houses in the distance were shaking in the strong wind and looked like they would collapse at any time.
"You want to kill me? What's so special about me?" Although his legs couldn't move, his hands didn't stop, supporting himself to dodge various attacks. His mouth was not idle either, and he continued to question.
"Are you angry? Yes, it's just an object, why would you be angry?"
"You mean, you have developed consciousness?" When he said this, something seemed to flash through Lu Yanli's mind, but he didn't catch it.
"It distorts time and space, confuses people's minds, cultivates believers through vision and perception, and even creates another dimension..." Lu Yanli pushed hard with his elbows and rolled on the ground a few times, avoiding a flowerpot that fell from the sky. The porcelain pieces scratched a part of his skin that was exposed, and the blood kept flowing, but Lu Yanli still did not stop.
"With so many features, the functions are a bit too complicated. But I can't activate it now. It doesn't seem to be a native function, right? Otherwise, why didn't you use it before?"
Lin Chu had told him about the Faceless Woman's characteristic - slowness, which could slow down everything, even stagnate, including time.
The Faceless Woman disappeared when she entered the tunnel.
I saw that the statue's face was blurry, as if the facial features had been erased...
"I devoured her to gain my power."
After saying this, Lu Yanli's whole body froze completely, and he couldn't move even a finger.
He watched helplessly as a nearby building swayed in the strong wind. Finally, after a shake that was greater than any previous one, the building collapsed in his direction.
He saw countless people crying and shouting in the building.
Unable to move, and instead of hiding, he simply opened his eyes wide and stared at what might be the last scene he saw before he died.
"I made a wish that I can't die."
"If I die, the jade pendant will be in your hands."
Lu Yanli lay on the ground and said the last two sentences.
The building collapsed with a loud bang, and at that moment, the earth was shaking.