A soft but majestic female voice sounded in my ears, dispelling the layers of restraint, and the darkness receded like a tide.
He slowly raised his head. After a moment, the confusion and surprise in his eyes quickly dissipated, and he showed a little doubt in time: "Huh?"
"Let me ask you, can you even fall asleep?" In front of him, a good-looking young policewoman was surprised and a little angry.
"I'm sorry, I didn't sleep well last night. I had a little tinnitus just now. What did you just ask?"
"Checking your name!"
"Oh, my name is...my name is Cheng An."
He rubbed his brows, looking like he was still hungover, and said mechanically: "22 years old, a senior majoring in archeology in the Department of History. My parents are local farmers in Haicheng. I have a younger sister at home. My hobby is sports. and novels.”
"Classmate, it's okay. This is not a household registration check. You don't need to answer any questions I didn't ask."
The policewoman's eyes widened, she interrupted his endless chanting, cleared her throat, and asked seriously:
"Where were you from eight to twelve last night? Have you seen the deceased?"
"I've never seen him before. He studied in the library at around eight o'clock, ran around the school after half past ten, and returned to the dormitory to sleep around twelve o'clock."
"Are all the other roommates here?"
"I don't have roommates."
"Huh? What's going on?"
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"Someone in this dormitory died suddenly after staying up late playing games before. Others didn't want to live there, but I was the only one."
"You are quite brave, so you have been running for so long and you haven't seen anyone suspicious?"
"Really not... It was cold last night, so I only met that couple. They were playing in the corner around eleven o'clock. Fortunately, I met them, otherwise someone would have died, hehe."
Cheng An seemed to be gradually regaining his energy, and Cheng An became more alert.
As he spoke, he glanced maliciously at the desk next to him.
There were also two students over there who were cooperating to assist in the investigation. The girl was young and beautiful, with evasive eyes; there was also a burly boy who looked over with resentment.
The policewoman secretly rolled her eyes and said angrily:
"Okay, sign here to confirm. If you find anything unusual after returning, remember to tell your school leaders immediately."
"okay."
A few strokes of brush strokes and a big name tag.
Cheng An opened the door with a click and strode out.
"Next!"
After he came out, someone walked into the office of the Political and Education Office and slammed the door.
Dozens of students from Haicheng University were waiting in the corridor. They were all notified today to come to the Academic Affairs Office to assist the police and cooperate with the investigation.
One of them sneakily came up to him and patted him on the shoulder with a sense of loyalty: "Hey, brother, what did you ask just now? I heard that someone committed suicide yesterday? Hehe, do you know who it is...ahhhhh? "
Halfway through his question, a shadow suddenly shrouded his eyes, and then he received a solid slap on the head.
"You are still so excited when someone dies. Do you still have a sense of justice?"
The boy's eyes were filled with stars, and the wind was whistling by his ears. When he stood there blankly, his eyes were completely empty. Where could there be any sign of Cheng An?
He couldn't help but cursed in anger:
"Damn, you're crazy!"
…
…
The cool breeze is blowing and the autumn leaves are falling yellow. It is the time of autumn.
In a corner of the campus, the river flows by, and Cheng An doing warm-up exercises on the stone bridge directly becomes a beautiful scenery.
His muscular figure is rare among students, and coupled with his pretty good looks, he attracts the attention of passing girls from time to time.
He pinched his wrist for a while, patted his thigh for a while, and after a while he took a deep breath and said to himself: "Me in the parallel world? I really traveled through time."
In his previous life, Cheng An was a serious part-time worker who worked 996 during the day and 669 at night. He accidentally died in a car accident. He was handsome and died young, which made countless people sigh with regret.
However, death is not the end. Now life continues, just like being reborn...well, not like, this is.
For a person who has died once, being able to live again is the greatest luck.
Cheng An now loves life so much that he wants to celebrate by hugging his mother earth on the spot.
Therefore, when he just woke up and found himself being interrogated, he quickly digested the memory of the original owner of the body and showed that there was nothing abnormal, so as not to be taken away as a heretic.
It's strange to say that it was obviously another person's lifetime memory, but it didn't take long for Cheng An to absorb it all.
There is no splitting headache, and there is no conflict with my original memory. This body's brain is quite developed.
But now there is a problem.
After Cheng An looked at himself, he found that the situation he, or the original owner of this body, was in at the moment was not very good.
The student who "committed suicide" was named Qin Dong, and he was one of Cheng An's roommates when he entered school.
After the sudden death incident, Qin Dong and the other remaining person moved out to rent a house. Only Cheng An, due to family poverty, did not change his dormitory and continued to live there.
Nothing happened in the past few years, until an accident happened last night and Qin Dong was killed.
This is definitely not suicide. A person with a cheerful personality, excellent grades, and a good family background is one year away from his senior year, and is about to graduate and inherit the family property. He has lived a smooth life, how could he commit suicide inexplicably?
Could it be that he couldn't write his graduation thesis and was so worried that he committed suicide?
I don’t even believe it!
Of course, another reason why Cheng An didn't believe that Qin Dong committed suicide was that he received a text message from an unknown number this morning.
It says:
"You are the next candidate."
Then, just at noon, the original owner of Cheng An's body died.
While being investigated by the police, he died suddenly and suddenly in full view of the public, without any warning.
From the beginning to the end, the female police officer responsible for questioning him did not realize that the boy in front of her had experienced death and his body was time-traveled in just a few seconds.
This is a blatant assassination!
"Qin Dong is dead, so is Cheng An. In principle, he is also dead. So, does this matter have any impact on me?"
After sitting on the stone bridge for a long time, a beep of "Didi" suddenly sounded. Cheng An received a text message from the other party, and the attachment was a photo waiting to be downloaded.
Cheng An raised his eyebrows, but without reading the content, he immediately clicked on the other party's message and made a call.
"——I'm sorry, the number you dialed is not available, please check and dial again."
Gan!
If you don’t want to pick up the phone, don’t let the operator apologize for you!
Cheng An was annoyed and clicked to download the picture to confirm.
After a brief delay, the photo gradually revealed its true form.
His eyes also became solemn.
This is the shooting of Qin Dong’s death scene.
In the photo, he is neatly dressed, sitting on his knees in front of a student's bed, holding his hands together and holding a strange hand above his head.
There are objects like statues of gods and Buddhist paintings enshrined in front of the desk, but the shooting angle is limited and cannot be seen clearly.
There was a wound on his wrist that was deep enough to show the bone, and blood flowed from top to bottom all over his body like tadpoles. This must have been the cause of his death. He cut his wrist and lost too much blood.
The blood marks on his body formed incomprehensible symbols. At a glance, it made people feel weird and depressing.
Cheng An is a person who has died once after all, and his psychological quality is very strong.
But this scene is like a cult sacrifice, and it still makes people feel extremely uncomfortable. A chill rises from the back of the spine to the neck.
Soon, Cheng An received another message from this number.
"Twelve o'clock tonight, Baichi Mountain Crane Gang Wangjiang Pavilion."
Seeing this information, he suddenly felt a little stiff, as if his back was being stared at by a poisonous snake.
This mysterious man wants me to meet at Baichi Mountain at night?
Was he the one who killed Qin Dong?
Will I die again from this?
Should I tell the police?
But this thing is so evil. He could have killed me in front of the police just now. I don’t seem to have the ability to resist him...
It’s terrible. Why can I, an ordinary person, encounter this kind of thing when I am a novice? How pitiful is it that when I was in the best physical condition in my previous life, I could only run 100 meters within 13 seconds...
"Forget it, it's a blessing, not a curse. It's a curse that you can't avoid. Let's go and have a look tonight! The worst case scenario is that you'll die, just pretend you've never been reborn!"
Cheng An is not an indecisive person, a man has his own temperament.
"Didi didi."
Then his cell phone rang again.
The other party sent him a video.
This time, Cheng An didn't hesitate at all, stopped trying to make a call, and directly clicked on the download.
When the picture was played, it shook for a while at first, and then stopped. It felt like the camera was being fixed, and the background was shown. It was in a dimly lit space, and there were upside-down stalactites above it, which was a cave.
Immediately afterwards, a man wearing a peaked cap appeared in the camera. He lowered his head and coughed for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice:
"I am Xia Shushi. If you can see this video, it means I am dead."
Sure enough it was him!
Cheng An's eyes narrowed, he was surprised, but also felt a sense of fateful recognition that "this is really the case".
Xia Shushi, a top student in Jiang Province's college entrance examination, should have gone to a top university like Yenching University, but chose to stay and study there for his first love.
He was the other roommate who moved out with Qin Dong.
"If this person really dies, out of the four people in dormitory 302, I will be the only one left..."
The more Cheng An thought about it, the more he felt terrified. This was indeed the beginning of a standard horror story.
In the video, Xia Shushi looked a little sad and desperate. He covered his face and remained silent for a long time, then said:
“I don’t have much time left, so I’ll make a long story short.
"The dream world is real, the universal journey is not groundless, the gods are not illusions, we call that world, the other side."
After saying a few words, Xia Shushi suddenly lost his voice.
The picture is not still, you can see his body moving slightly and his eyes are dull.
"Dream world?" Cheng An hurriedly recalled the memories that he had not paid attention to before.
Universal walking and dream world are two words that are very popular in this world.
If you open any forum, you will find posts everywhere from people who claim to be universal walkers, telling them that they can travel to and from the dream world and introducing their experiences in dreams.
Not to mention, each of them described it in a vivid and serious way.
However, everyone is just watching this phenomenon for fun.
Some people may take it seriously, but most people don't.
What are those dream travel notes if not short compositions?
Cheng An, as a good young man who grew up under the influence of contemporary scientific civilization, naturally would not take this kind of thing seriously.
He has already experienced the era of information explosion. Similar grand occasions are almost the same as those students in the streets talking about the plot of a certain novel and competing on the strength of the characters in a certain animation.
After all, for now, the so-called "different world" connection is more like a marketing method, maybe to build momentum for the release of a dream world online game.
But now it seems... is the dream world real?
Cheng Anxin scored three points.
I can travel through time myself, there is a dream world, what else can’t I accept?
In the video, Xia Shushi, who had been stunned for a long time, continued:
"The Star Gate has penetrated more and more into reality. Sooner or later, this world will fall like the other side, and terror will envelope the earth."
Then, he looked at the camera, as if he was looking at Cheng An from afar:
"I am lucky, but also unfortunate. I have a narrow escape from death. If I really can't come back, after my death, the coordinates will be given to you.
"You should have received the address. I put it under the fourth floor tile in the center of the south.
"Of course, if you don't want to take the risk, just keep this secret forever;
"The choice is yours, I wish you good luck."
The video ends here. When Xia Shushi stood up, he seemed to have made some movement. Unfortunately, the light was too dark to see clearly.
After reading it, Cheng An was speechless for a long time.
What is this? A parting gift from a lucky man chosen by fate to his roommate?
You also said that the choice is mine?
Cheng An is not a child who is easily deceived. When he heard these words, he immediately checked himself.
As a result, as expected, I found a hideous bloody scab on my wrist. It was dark in color and hidden under the skin, and the button could not be removed.
And the shape of this blood scab is exactly the same as the gesture made by Qin Dong in the photo.
"..."
Fuck! I knew it!
He cursed secretly, guessing that Qin Dong might be the first one to die tragically after receiving this 'gift'.
Moreover, Qin Dong died in the dormitory. He did not look like Xia Shushi who had been adventuring for a long time. It is not difficult to speculate that Qin Dong died in the dormitory.
After receiving this gift, he died tragically in the rental house just as he started trying.
The original owner Cheng An was the second one. He was even worse. He died suddenly on the spot because he did not dare to try.
Cheng An himself might become the third one?
Whether this thing is a gift from a friend or a curse is hard to say.
Now that things have come to this, Cheng An is not a timid person. Since he can't escape, he must go to Baichi Mountain.
This guy, Xia Shushi, specifically picked his own roommate to attack. He said it was your choice, but in fact he secretly forced you to commit suicide. He pretended to be the Great Sage of the White Lotus and was not a good person!
Cheng An watched Xia Shushi's video and took a sip.
Didi didi.
The phone rang again.
But this time it was not a message from someone, but a news feed.
"During the early morning hours on the night of September 9th to 10th, there will be a meteor shower in the eastern coastal areas of our province. Experts reported that this meteor shower comes from the constellation Virgo, which is known as the miser..."
"Haicheng TV station reminds all astronomy enthusiasts to pay attention to travel safety when observing and shooting..."