At the moment when the double aces were pulled out by Xiao Lou, the entire card wall collapsed in front of everyone as if it had been destroyed by magical power. Countless cards turned into fragments and fell from the wall. This scene
The bizarre sight made his teammates widen their eyes in surprise. However, before everyone could say anything, Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly went dark, and he immediately lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a bed.
This room was extremely familiar to him. It had light blue sheets and quilts, and cotton curtains of the same color. There were no extraneous furnishings in the room. There was only a large wardrobe on the wall. The lamp above the head was a very simple round shape.
The ceiling lamp was embellished with a circle of lines around it. Xiao Lou remembered clearly that he bought it personally from a lighting store.
Xiao Lou rubbed his sore temples, got up and got out of bed.
The ground was covered with his favorite wood-colored floor, and he also bought pajamas and slippers from the supermarket. Xiao Lou came to the window with doubts and opened the curtains - downstairs was a familiar artificial lake, with a very large lake in the center.
The large fountain and the willow trees surrounding the artificial lake cast a circle of reflections in the lake. In the wooden pavilion, several elderly people were playing chess.
These scenes were so familiar that Xiao Lou thought he was hallucinating. He rubbed his eyes hard and took a closer look - everything in front of him was so real, just like what he saw every morning when he woke up.
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This is his residence in the real world, located in Yuhua Community on Nonglin Road, Jiangzhou City.
He just bought this house last year and spent a lot of time decorating it. The environment of the community is very good, there is a supermarket downstairs, and the transportation is very convenient. It only takes ten minutes to walk to school. I remember when he went out from the community,
I was going to the supermarket across the street to buy something, but I was hit by a bus while crossing the street, and accidentally came to the card world...
But now, why has he returned to his home?
None of his teammates were there, which made Xiao Lou immediately alert. He quickly walked out of the bedroom and looked around the room - the furnishings in the entire room were exactly the same as his house in the real world, and even the small ornaments on the shoe cabinet at the door were exactly the same as in his memory.
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Being transported back to reality?
Or is this all an illusion copied by the card world based on his memory?
Xiao Lou calmed down and quickly went back to the bedroom to open the closet, put on clean clothes, and took the cell phone and keys from the bedside table to go out. As soon as he walked to the door, his cell phone rang, and the caller ID read: Mom.
Xiao Lou's heart skipped a beat, and he pressed the answer button with trembling fingers: "Hello?"
The voice that came to his ears was so familiar that it made him feel sad. The woman asked gently: "Xiao Lou, when will your school have a holiday? This spring, I will go back to grandma's house to celebrate the New Year. Grandma has been thinking about you and said that she would prepare the New Year's Eve dinner for you.
My favorite dumplings…”
Xiao Lou's nose suddenly felt sour and he didn't know how to reply.
How long has it been since you heard your mother's voice?
Although he has grown up, in the eyes of his parents, he is still their son. In the past, his mother would call every weekend to ask about his current situation, and occasionally she would also care about whether he had anyone he liked and when he would take his lover back.
…
Because Xiao Lou has been very sensible since he was a child, and his parents have always been tolerant, supportive, respectful of his decisions, and understanding of his choices, Xiao Lou feels that they are the best parents in the world.
And this phone call was indeed made by his mother in person on the eve of the holiday, and even what she said was word for word.
Xiao Lou remembers saying at that time: "Mom, we have a holiday on the 10th day of the twelfth lunar month, but after the holiday, I have to represent the school to attend an academic conference. This meeting is very important and may not end until the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month."
Xiao Lou spoke out what he remembered. There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and he smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, work is important. If you really can't come back, we will fly to Jiangzhou to see you."
Xiao Lou said: "I should be able to go back. I will go home to tidy up after the meeting, and then take a flight on the morning of the 30th. I will get home around three in the afternoon, and I can have New Year's Eve dinner with you."
The voice on the other end of the phone clearly showed a hint of surprise: "Great! Then I'll wait for you at grandma's house."
Xiao Lou said "Yeah", told him to take care of himself, and then hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone, the excitement of hearing his mother's voice quickly dissipated. Xiao Lou calmed down, frowned and thought carefully - did he travel back to before the accident? Or was everything an illusion?
Xiao Lou put his hand into his pocket, but did not find the familiar card holder.
He was stunned, and then opened the address book on his mobile phone. The familiar names in it made Xiao Lou more and more confused. He simply pulled the address book to the "y" letter sorting position and found the name "Yu Hanjiang".
Xiao Lou called without hesitation. After two beeps, the phone was connected. There was some noise on the other side of the phone. Soon, Yu Hanjiang's deep and calm voice came again: "Hey, Professor Xiao, you're looking for me.
What's up?"
Xiao Lou: “…………”
Professor Xiao, this is what Yu Hanjiang called him a long time ago when the two of them were not very familiar with each other. If the Yu Hanjiang on the other end of the phone was the Yu Hanjiang of today, he would never call him that.
There was the clear sound of leather shoes on the floor on the other side of the phone, followed by the sound of the door opening. He seemed to have walked into the office. After entering a quiet environment, he whispered: "I have been really busy recently. By the way, I
We happened to encounter a difficult case, a serial murder case. We found a rare drug in the deceased's cup and would like to ask Professor Xiao to help identify it."
Xiao Lou suppressed the embarrassment in his heart and replied: "No problem, I will go to work at the Forensic Identification Center today. Captain Yu can come over at any time when he is free."
Yu Hanjiang said: "Okay, see you there at three o'clock in the afternoon."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Xiao Lou listened to the "beep" busy tone in his ears, and his mind was a little confused. The current situation was too weird. Logically speaking, after entering the secret room in the past, there would be "Welcome to the xx secret room. The mission of this secret room is xx"
, clearance time xx" these prompt messages, but this time, when he woke up, he was in his own home, and there was no prompt at all.
It was as if he had had a long dream and returned to reality after waking up.
It was the end of December, and Yu Hanjiang asked him for help again because of the poisoning case. Xiao Lou remembered that the sunshine was very good that day, and it was Yu Hanjiang who called him first. Although it was him who called Yu Hanjiang now, what Captain Yu said
It's basically the same as in my memory. I need his help in identifying a rare toxin.
Xiao Lou took a deep breath, calmed down, opened the door and went downstairs.
The illusion of the community was exactly the same as in his memory. When he walked to the gate of the community, the familiar security guard smiled at him. Xiao Lou smiled back, left the community in a hurry, and took a taxi on the street: "Go to Jiangzhou City."
Forensic Identification Center.”
The taxi driver turned on his meter and took Xiao Lou to turn right at the intersection ahead.
Xiao Lou was sitting in the back row, looking out the window - it was the rush hour at this time, the road was jammed, people were coming and going in a hurry, many students in school uniforms were riding bicycles and driving quickly, and there happened to be a school nearby.
Xiao Lou, a key middle school in the city, sees this familiar blue and white uniform every day when he goes to work.
The lively faces on the sidewalk, the crowded buses, students in school uniforms, the familiar aroma from the steamed bun shop next to the street... and the driver's complaints in authentic dialect: "Oh, there is a traffic jam in this area every morning.
It's like ants moving on the street, why are there so many people?"
Xiao Lou came back to his senses, smiled politely, and said: "Life is forced, most people have to go to work and go to school, and there is nothing they can do if there is a traffic jam during the morning rush hour. Master, please drive carefully, I am not in a hurry."
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His job is as a professor of forensic medicine at Jiangzhou Medical University. If we look at the day Yu Hanjiang came to see him in his memory, he had no classes all day today and did not need to go to school. He went to the forensic identification center because Yu Hanjiang came to see him for something.
help.
The driver took Xiao Lou around and around, and finally arrived at the appraisal center at nine o'clock in the morning.
Xiao Lou took the elevator upstairs and met two familiar colleagues in the elevator. They greeted him with a smile: "Why are you here today, Professor Xiao? I remember you weren't on duty!"
Xiao Lou said: "There are some things that need to be dealt with. I need to use the laboratory later."
The woman with a neat ponytail said: "Okay, Professor Xiao, you can swipe your card in later and register."
Xiao Lou thanked him. After the elevator stopped, he walked into his office and changed into a white coat.
According to memory, Yu Hanjiang would come to the office to look for him around 9:30 in the morning.
There's still half an hour left.
Xiao Lou sat at his desk and carefully sorted out his thoughts. The experience he and his teammates had in the card world was by no means a dream, so the world in front of them would never be reality. The gatekeepers could not be so kind and send them back directly.
When it comes to reality, what's more, if the two kings' secret room is really free and they are allowed to pass directly back to reality, then Yu Hanjiang's reaction is too wrong.
what to do?
What if this Yu Hanjiang is pretending to be a hunter, can I deal with him? My card pack has disappeared, which is the worst. If I don’t have any cards in my hand, how can I fight Yu Hanjiang hand to hand?
Xiao Lou frowned and thought for a moment, and suddenly remembered something——
At that time, in order to prevent the Double Kings from encountering clones in the secret room and pretending to be teammates to stab everyone when they were caught off guard, Xiao Lou made a suggestion, asking everyone to whisper a secret message to their teammates as a code to verify their identity.
I won’t go into details about Yu Hanjiang’s secret code. This Yu Hanjiang is definitely not the person Xiao Lou knows in the card world.
But Mr. Shao’s secret code is rather special.
Shao Qingge told Xiao Lou at that time: "If you see me in the Shuangwang Secret Room, you can ask Mr. Shao that I want to buy stocks recently. Which stock do you think has a better rise? If it is Shao Qingge pretending to be
, I will definitely tell you a stock name. But if it were me, I would say, stock code 180376521... Do you understand what I mean?"
What Shao Qingge said was not the stock code, but his real-world mobile phone number.
Xiao Lou discovered that Mr. Shao was extremely lucky at the critical moment. He just gave a cell phone number accidentally, but now it came in handy. At that time, no one expected that the Secret Room of the Two Kings would bring everyone to a real-world environment.
, everyone thought it was a dangerous environment like wild survival, with countless powerful hunters waiting for them...
As a result, when I opened my eyes, I saw such a quiet, peaceful and familiar Jiangzhou City.
Xiao Lou took out his mobile phone and dialed the number that Shao Qingge told him in his memory. Soon, a familiar voice came from the other side of the phone. The man seemed to have just gotten up, and there was a hint of sexy hoarseness in his voice:
"Hello, who's there?"
Xiao Lou said: "Mr. Shao, I am Xiao Lou."
Shao Qingge seemed stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Who is Xiao Lou? Where did you get my personal number?"
Xiao Lou: “…………”
Something is wrong, everything is wrong!
Has everyone forgotten their experience in the card world? Or is it that Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge who are currently answering the phone are not themselves?
Xiao Lou took a deep breath and asked calmly: "Do you still remember Ye Qi?"
Shao Qingge smiled and said: "Who is Ye Qi? It's inexplicable." He turned over on the bed and said lazily: "Sir, I don't know where you got my private number. I am the most unlucky person.
He likes to get close to strangers, and he’s dead.”
The call was hung up neatly, and Xiao Lou looked at the darkened cell phone, thoughtfully.
After a while, Xiao Lou made up his mind and went to the laboratory to find a micro syringe, opened a box of anesthetic, sucked it into the syringe, and hid it on his body - just in case this Yu Hanjiang was a hunter, and Xiao Lou didn't have it.
With cards, you can't sit still and wait for death. If you really fight Yu Hanjiang, he will definitely be subdued by the opponent within 3 seconds. If you take an injection of anesthetic, you may still have a chance to escape.
Xiao Lou returned to the office and waited patiently for time to pass.
The hour hand finally reached nine-thirty, and as expected, there was a knock on the door outside, and Xiao Lou said: "Please come in."
The door was pushed open, and Xiao Lou met a pair of familiar deep eyes.
The man was wearing light casual clothes today. The fitted brown trousers showed that his legs were particularly straight and slender. He had a serious look on his handsome face. He was holding a stack of documents in his hand, as well as a sealant commonly used by the police when collecting evidence.
Fungus box.
He walked up to Xiao Lou and stretched out his hand: "Hello, Professor Xiao."
This person is exactly the same as Yu Hanjiang who came to the appraisal center to find him in his memory!
Xiao Lou's heart was beating very fast. He was really afraid that the next moment Yu Hanjiang would take out a gun and point it at his head. Xiao Lou's left hand gently held the anesthesia needle in his pocket, and he stretched out his right hand and shook Yu Hanjiang's hand.
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Yu Hanjiang put the information in his hand on the table and said, "I brought over the toxin sample found in the deceased's cup. Please ask Professor Xiao for identification."
Xiao Lou was frightened, but on the surface he tried to maintain calm: "Okay, Captain Yu, please come with me."
The test results in the laboratory finally came out after a while.
Xiao Loudao: "This toxin is called ciguatera toxin, which comes from deep-sea fish. Ciguatera toxin is mainly distributed in the head, internal organs, and reproductive organs of fish. High-temperature heating or freezing cannot destroy the toxicity of the toxin. A small amount of this toxin will only cause
People suffer from vomiting and abdominal pain, and large amounts can cause death. Judging from the content of the sample you brought, the purity of the toxin is very high, and the murderer deliberately extracted ciguatera toxin for killing people."
Yu Hanjiang frowned: "In other words, the murderer is familiar with deep-sea fish and knows the method of extracting toxins. He should be a professional in chemistry and pharmacy. Is it possible that he has been exposed to fish containing this toxin for a long time?"
Xiao Lou nodded: "That should be the case."
Yu Hanjiang stretched out his hand again: "Thank you Professor Xiao, I know what to do."
Xiao Lou reluctantly shook hands with him and said: "Captain Yu, you're welcome."
Yu Hanjiang said: "Invite Professor Xiao to dinner another day, I'll go and get busy first."
After he said that, he turned around and left. Xiao Lou looked at his back and couldn't help but froze... Could it be that this Yu Hanjiang was not a hunter? Why didn't he attack him?
Xiao Lou subconsciously shouted: "Captain Yu."
Yu Hanjiang stopped and turned around with a cold expression: "Professor Xiao has something to say?"
Xiao Lou smiled and asked: "Do you have a girlfriend? I have a very beautiful colleague around me who I can introduce to you."
Yu Hanjiang frowned in displeasure: "Thank you, no need."
He turned and left without looking back.
Xiao Lou looked at his tall back and felt very complicated.
This Yu Hanjiang should not be a hunter, but the Yu Hanjiang in his memory.
The mother who first called him was not her real mother, just a reappearance of a memory.
Perhaps, all teammates are in such a closed world at this moment, and they cannot communicate with each other. The teammates they meet are all the teammates before entering the card world.
That's why in this world, Yu Hanjiang has such an indifferent attitude and politely calls him "Professor Xiao"; that's why Shao Qingge doesn't know Xiao Lou; his mother will call him to ask if he's going home for the New Year, and his colleagues are also there
Greet him with a smile.
Xiao Lou finally understood that he was trapped in his own "memory world".