There were about fifty people, and the hall was full of people. Many newcomers consciously gave up their seats to other seniors and stood to listen.
Lin Chu stood by the window, looking at the deep darkness outside, pretending to listen carefully, and quietly looking at everyone.
Her focus was mainly on one of them.
The man sitting on the far left of the sofa in the middle of the living room was named Ximen Yuan. He had long hair tied behind his head. He looked a bit like an artist. He rarely spoke and never looked at others. He only stared at his long fingers.
Behind Ximen Yuan stood a man with an ordinary face, almost invisible in the crowd. This was his good friend, Tan Xu.
Opposite him, on the sofa on the far right, was a determined-looking woman with short hair. She pursed her lips habitually, and her thick black eyebrows made her look a little unkind. Her name was Shen Zhu, and she had once survived a team-killing mission alone. Many people thought that she had killed all her teammates, so they were very afraid of her.
There were several girls surrounding Shen Zhu, all of them were new women who subconsciously gathered around her. Lin Chu's gaze lingered for a moment on a slender and fragile girl named Yan Haoyue.
In just a second, Yan Haoyue turned his head and looked at her with a sweet smile.
Lin Chu also smiled sweetly, turned away embarrassedly, and continued to look at him in the reflection of the glass window.
It seems that the people who come here are not simple.
Shen Zhu tapped the desktop with his fingertips and said, "While we are busy now, why don't we assign tasks?"
There was also a woman sitting on the sofa to Shen Zhu's right. She was different from ordinary women. She had dark skin, a fit body, was taller than the average man, and had an oppressive aura.
"I agree. Just sitting there is no use. After discussing it, let's take action as soon as possible tomorrow."
Ximen Yuan said nonchalantly: "Ms. Di Ying, there is no point in being anxious. We have too little information right now."
A man named Ling Tong nodded at the other end: "We don't know the missing person's information, nor do we know Lu Yanli's identity. If we search rashly, we will have no direction and may easily encounter danger."
Di Ying, who has dark skin, said: "Since the information is incomplete, we have to find it ourselves. It is better to form a group first than to search in a swarm."
The only man who had not spoken yet said, "I just have one question."
He glanced around at everyone present. "There are only two missing targets and two targets to be killed. And there are fifty-three of us. It's obvious that as long as one person completes the mission, everyone will be free."
The implication of his words is very clear. We all have the same goal and can cooperate, so why should we confront each other
The atmosphere of invisible competition on the field eased.
After a while, Ximen Yuan spread his hands and said, "I don't care. Is there anyone who wants to be in a group with me?"
Although there were more than 50 people, they were not enough compared to the countless households in the town. Therefore, the team made a detailed plan, and after finding the center of the town, they divided the town into east, west, south and north. One group was responsible for one direction, and they exchanged information after returning every day to avoid missing anyone.
Lin Chu joined Shen Zhu's team. Yu Huaiyao, who originally planned to go to Ximen Yuan, also followed.
Shen Zhu's team was half female, and so was Di Ying. The other two groups were just the opposite. After the teams were formed, the man who spoke last to ease the atmosphere said again: "I hope everyone will not take it lightly because of the small number of people on this mission. On the contrary, with so many people being sent out, you can imagine how difficult the mission is."
Ximen Yuan smiled and said, "Okay, thanks for the reminder, Brother Jiang."
Jiang Yu didn't say anything else.
In a corner that none of them could see, the shadow of a person quietly changed.
Little by little, it twists into weird shapes.
Yi Zhenzhen sat in the corner hugging her knees, at a loss. She now had some vague guesses about her mother's death, but she didn't dare to verify it, so she could only stare at her toes.
As I watched, I noticed something was wrong out of the corner of my eye.
Strange, these shadows...
Just as she was about to speak, a shadow cut from somewhere quickly moved and merged into her shadow. An image immediately emerged in front of Yi Zhenzhen's eyes.
That's... That's her mother.
Her mother appeared in a room that looked like a tomb. She was seriously injured and fell to the ground, still calling out to herself.
Yi Zhenzhen's eyes were wet in an instant.
She didn't know where the image she saw came from, but she had a vague feeling that it was real, she really saw her mother.
Suddenly, a hand appeared in the picture.
Looking up along the hand, I saw an unfamiliar young man who was also covered in scars, but he still moved his hand to his mother's neck.
"No!!"
Yi Zhenzhen already had a premonition of what would happen next.
But the owner of the hand was merciless. He exerted force and strangled the woman who had fallen to the ground with his hand, which had almost completely turned into bones.
At the end of the picture, there is a man’s grim face, which gradually disappears into the darkness.
"don't want!!"
Now, everyone's eyes turned to the corner, looking at the girl who suddenly burst into tears and screamed.
"Don't..." Yi Zhenzhen suddenly knelt down on the ground and burst into tears.
Suddenly, another thought came to her mind: the man who killed her mother was Lu Yanli.
Yes, it must be him! He is Lu Yanli!
Kill him... Kill him!
The black substance that looked more and more like a shadow moved rapidly on the ground and merged into the shadow of the girl. Yi Zhenzhen half lowered her head, her face full of grief, but her eyes gradually became crueler.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly yelling?" A woman standing next to Yi Zhenzhen asked her, "Did you suddenly have a nightmare?"
Yi Zhenzhen took a few deep breaths to calm herself down: "No, it's not."
She looked around at everyone and said, "I know what Lu Yanli looks like."
A stone stirs up a thousand waves. Di Ying stood up suddenly and asked: "What did you say just now?"
Yi Zhenzhen didn't hesitate too much and told him everything about the illusion he had just seen.
As she spoke, the others looked at each other in disbelief.
Could this be the hint for the mission
But why was the tip only given to an underage girl
Others couldn't figure it out, but they had no other choice. They were even more frustrated when they heard Yi Zhenzhen say that she couldn't draw.
And in a place that no one noticed, a figure in blood-stained clothes stood on a tree branch, staring at everyone in the house through the slightly opened window.
Lu Yanli knew that the jade pendant was not a copy, but a future self. Now, he let his future self die, which meant that he had to make changes before the future death node came in order to survive.
The taskers have entered and the world has become normal again.
"Give me one of the jade pendants." Lu Yanli from the future stretched out his hand. "I can't explain it now, but you need to trust me."
Lu Yanli looked at the other person.
Seeing the same cold and defensive look in the eyes as his own, he nodded, handed one of the jade pendants to the other self, and watched the other person leave.
What information will my future self know compared to my current self? What choice will he make? Lu Yanli knew that he must have discovered something in the future, which was why he was targeted.
Now, what does he need to do before he gets involved in the mission
On the other side, another Lu Yanli was walking on the road.
He came back again, and was successfully called back by his past self. Before this, he had used various methods to go back in time, but he always failed. It would cost a lot to make a wish to the god, so after he requested his wish to go back to the past, he made preparations in advance so that his current self would have the idea of using the Pisces jade pendant.
Now, he needs to take the next step.
As someone who came back from the future, he naturally knew what the mission was this time, but in order to minimize the butterfly effect, he did not reveal it.
Lu Yanli rented a car and prepared to leave.
"Master, let's go to the psychic town." The entrance to the town is in this city, not too far away by car.
The driver in the front seat responded, turned the steering wheel and drove in the other direction.
No conversation along the way.
But... the car did not go to the psychic town smoothly as he wished. Instead, it spun on the road suddenly, and the tires rubbed against each other with a sharp sound.
He raised his head alertly, and in the rearview mirror, the driver in the driver's seat suddenly disappeared.
Oops!
Lu Yanli immediately pulled the handle of the back seat, but the back door seemed to be sealed and could not be opened no matter what. He pulled out a metal knife from his pocket, cut a hole in the glass, and then used his elbow to smash the glass window. Then, he jumped out from the hole.
As soon as it landed, the out-of-control vehicle crashed into an unknown dark vortex coming from the front and was wrapped in a thick ink color.
Lu Yanli turned around and ran back.
The taxi drove to an unknown place. It was quiet and desolate all around. Tall and short bushes stood on both sides of the road, casting sharp black silhouettes in the darkness.
Lu Yanli kept running forward, almost at his maximum speed. However, that thing seemed determined to take his life. As he ran, he came to his senses and found that he had run into a cemetery.
The dark twilight enveloped the area, and pale grave mounds stood in rows. Lu Yanli thought something was wrong and turned to leave, only to find that the road he had come from had long disappeared, and had also turned into a vast cemetery with no end in sight.
On the other side, the familiar darkness came again.
Oh no!
Lu Yanli vaguely knew what that thing was. He wanted to leave, but the tomb facing him suddenly exploded, and endless blood poured out and soaked him immediately.
Then, he couldn't move anymore.
The light around him gradually brightened. He could barely see clearly that his name was written on all the tombstones in this cemetery!
There was no year of death, only a blood-red name engraved on the tombstone, with only one big word below it - Death!
Lu Yanli, die!
Grave after grave exploded, drowning him. A cry of extreme pain came from the darkness.
Lu Yanli, who had a new start, never expected that he would die earlier than last time.
But he couldn't do it again.
There is no telepathic function between the original body and the future body.
He only hoped that his past self could successfully find the clues he had given him.
Under the gaze of that thing, he couldn't do too much, otherwise, his other self would be strangled prematurely.
Hurry up... find it.
Lu Yanli felt very uneasy.
He always felt that something was watching him.
Since the whole world changed, he has vaguely realized that he might be a little bit special, but he doesn't know what is special about him, so he can only explore it bit by bit. Later, a tasker from another world came, and he realized the commonalities between the two worlds. Therefore, he kept working hard, hoping that he could find a way to restore the world to normal.
However, after five or six years, he still had nothing to show for it. Now his goal had changed. He no longer hoped that the world would become normal. Because... this was the world of the dead, and he only hoped that he could go to that normal world.
It didn't matter if he became a tasker, it didn't matter if he occasionally experienced supernatural events, it didn't matter if he could never see familiar people again. He just wanted to be a normal person.
But... ever since this idea came up, Lu Yanli discovered that the difficulty of the tasks that were not too difficult for him in the past immediately increased, and in the later stages, there was almost no one left alive.
Is it because of your own thoughts
Because of my own thoughts, I changed my future and threatened the thing behind me. So, it started to target me
Sensing the omnipresent gaze, Lu Yanli tensed up, but he could only pretend not to know.
What did your future self discover
Will he be in danger
Lu Yanli subconsciously wanted to create another copy of himself, but as soon as this idea came to his mind, the sense of crisis that followed made him hold it back.
You will die.
If you do this, you will definitely die.
He shuddered violently.
Lu Yanli always believed in his intuition. If he had such thoughts, then... the other self might be in danger!
He immediately left the room and hurried downstairs.
After he left, someone in the next room heated up aerosol insecticide in a microwave. With a bang, the whole floor exploded.
Lu Yanli had already run to the edge of the road, feeling chilled in his heart.
If he was still in that room, he would probably...
Just as this thought came to his mind, a taxi came rushing towards him from the distance, as if it had lost control.
There was no one in the driver's seat of the car!
Lu Yanli immediately turned sideways and fled to the other side of the road, allowing the car to crash into the gas station not far behind him, with flames rising from the car body.
Wait! Gas station!
He ran as fast as he could, and soon, there was a deafening noise and flames behind him.
He was being targeted!
Lu Yanli could only keep running.
At present, the thing that is targeting him probably has no way of taking direct action, such as sending a ghost to kill him, so he has to use the things around him to create coincidences, which leaves him with a glimmer of hope.