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The two of us couldn't figure out what was going on, so we wanted to find a third person, Nan Tian, ​​for reference and support.

Nantian called me and left his phone number. I called and didn't receive a strange voice prompt, but no one answered.

After two attempts, I had to give up temporarily.

"Should we go eat something first?" The thin man touched his belly.

I've been hungry for a long time too. But I am wary of everyone and everything here.

We had come out of the community and stood on the roadside for a while.

The thin man searched the surrounding restaurants and came up with a long list of results. Looking at the markers on the map, they are scattered and look like ordinary residential areas. In other words, there is a large public green space here, which is an empty space on the map.

The thin man pointed in the direction and chose a street with the most restaurants.

As I walked, I observed the surroundings and searched online from time to time.

On social networking sites, none of the accounts I follow have been updated. The web news also stopped refreshing.

But on the homepage of the social networking site, I saw new blog posts randomly refreshed. They are all unknown accounts. Two of them are marketing accounts with millions of fans.

I immediately guessed that the owners of these two accounts should live here. Because of this, they disappear in the real world and reappear here.

After a while, we crossed the road and found the restaurant street with many small shops.

Noodle soup, wontons, dumplings, spicy hotpot, fried chicken...

There is no difference between these small shops and those in the real world.

I observed it for a long time and didn't see any problems, so we chose a restaurant called "Lao Zhang Noodle House" and ordered food.

I saw the QR code posted on the checkout counter and tried to scan the code to pay, and it was successful.

The thin man and I exchanged glances and sat down calmly.

This noodle shop is very clean, but the place is small. There are three long tables, but they are full. All listed on the menu are noodles, including soup noodles, mixed noodles, and fried noodles. The toppings are common spicy meat, braised pork, and vegetarian chicken.

Three people were already sitting in the store. A lone guest, and a young couple.

The store owner sat behind the checkout counter, watching a video playing on his tablet. The three people were each playing with their mobile phones.

In the kitchen at the back, there was the sound of water boiling.

The whole restaurant looks ordinary, nothing out of the ordinary.

My eyes were tired and I didn’t discover anything new, so I had to give up.

The thin man had already checked his cell phone, not knowing what he was looking at.

When the noodles were served, the two of us tried it carefully and found no problems before finishing the hot noodles.

The man eating noodles alone had finished eating and left, but the two young men were still sitting.

One of them picked up his cell phone and made a call, as if discussing business.

I just finished eating, put down my chopsticks, and wiped my mouth with a tissue on the table.

"...Okay! Don't worry! I'll definitely deliver it to you in time! Okay, okay! No problem! It'll be at ten o'clock tomorrow. Huh? The day after tomorrow... The day after tomorrow is Saturday. If we want to specify a time..."

I repeated the motion of wiping my mouth mechanically.

"...The second batch of goods can only be postponed to the 25th. Is the 25th okay? Just the 25th, okay. Don't worry."

I looked up at the thin man.

The thin man had just finished eating a bowl of noodles and exhaled. When he saw me, he looked over, opened his eyes wide, and asked me what was wrong.

I took out my phone and looked at the date and time displayed on the phone.

no problem.

I became confused.

The phone was hung up over there, the two people greeted each other, got up and left.

I was still a little uneasy, so I looked at their backs, took out my phone, went to the search website, and entered the word "date".

The date "October 2, 2017" popped up.

I was stunned.

"Brother Qi, what's wrong?" the thin man asked.

I raised my hand and showed the phone screen to the thin man.

The thin man didn't react at first, "What happened on October 2, 2017?"

"Look at the words above." I reminded.

"Huh? Today's date...huh? Huh?" The thin man called out twice, closed his mouth, and looked up at me.

Today's date is October 2, 2017.

We are back on October 2, 2017.

I don’t know the specific time when this different space appeared, but it must have been between 2017 and 2018.

"Is this good news?" The thin man twitched his lips.

"That's half good news," I said, looking around.

No one here seems to realize that they are "isolated".

Probably?

I'm not sure.

I knew I had lost a memory, but I didn’t know what that memory was about.

Did I experience a dream, or was it something else?

"Maybe... the cycle repeats." I said this sentence with difficulty.

The better situation is that we arrived in this different space on October 2, 2017, and time and space traveled together. Although I don’t know if people here will lose their memory like people in the real world, at least for now, it seems that the society here is stable.

The worst situation is what I just said.

This different space is constantly cycling through the time period of October 2, 2017. The sun rises and sets every day on October 2, 2017.

I saw the thin man's face was pale, and I probably didn't look good either.

If you think about it carefully, it shouldn't be a bad thing if this different space keeps repeating the same day and no one notices it.

In this way, it really becomes a stand-alone game that can save and load files. We don’t have to look for the place we have looked for again. Because these places won't change.

I looked at the Shejiao website and found the marketing account I just saw.

The date they posted the picture is October 2, 2017. The content is a bit outdated. It is an emoticon I saw many years ago, and no one should use it now.

After flipping through their homepage, I found that under their message there were a lot of messages such as "No one has been there for ten minutes?", "Past internet celebrity", "First time in the front row" and so on. Comparing the content they posted in the past, all kinds of data have dropped off a cliff.

This undoubtedly proves one thing: this different space is also isolated from the real world, a two-way isolation.

If the time here stays on October 2, everything will be easy to say. If time here could flow, then it wouldn't be long before someone would find themselves trapped in a bizarre and bizarre situation.

I still have a lot of doubts about this.

For example, for a light that lights up above your head, where does the electricity it needs come from? Minqing City has only one power plant, which supplies electricity to the entire city.

Also, who provides the networks and apps that I can use normally? The signal base station and server should be unified, right? If both sides were isolated, none of these things should be usable.

"Yeah. Let's find someone first." I gave up my endless thoughts and called Nantian again.

This time, I heard the "power off" tone.

My face looks even worse.

"How about it?"

"It's turned off." I said with a headache and felt very worried.

"Then what are we going to do now?" the thin man asked softly.

"It's better to find someone." I smiled bitterly.

If Nan Tian couldn't find him, he looked for Liu Miao.

Our original purpose was to find Liu Miao.

However, we have no clue at all.

"He should have gone to a certain community. There must be some problems in that community." I analyzed.

I originally thought that with my ability, I would just dream about the person who had met Liu Miao. All I need to do is wait for the other person's death and the arrival of the dream, and then seize the opportunity after seeing Liu Miao in the dream.

Now, this path is somewhat unworkable.

I'm trapped in this damn place myself. I have to find Liu Miao as soon as possible. There is still a worrying Nan Tian, ​​and I need to act more quickly.

"This place is not very big, just a small residential area..." I said something that didn't mean it.

A district has a population of several million. This is still an urban area, and Guangxin District and Huangnan District, which border here, are both large-population areas and are located in the city center. When I looked at the map just now, I saw densely packed buildings and countless intertwined roads.

"I remember the background of that photo...well...although it's a little blurry, I can probably tell it's a beige house, not high, a six or seven-story residential building...this should be that kind of old-fashioned community. "I said.

Similar buildings are not uncommon on the streets of Minqing, and they are all residential areas built in the same era.

"Maybe it's a single-family building?" The thin man suggested another possibility.

"That's right. Let's look for it first. It's actually more convenient to look for that one than the building." I hinted.

When Liu Miao went to inquire about information, it could only be information related to supernatural beings.

In this way, as long as I find Yin Qi, I should be able to find him.

We left the noodle shop, hailed a taxi on the road, and prepared to explore this unfamiliar urban area.

"Just drive?" The driver looked at us suspiciously.

"Drive as you like. Let's walk along the main road first. From south to north." I said.

The driver checked again, and after getting a positive answer, he happily turned on the watch and stepped on the accelerator.

The thin man took the initiative to strike up a conversation with the driver. I was searching the Internet for news about supernatural events here.

We have so few clues that we can only look for a needle in a haystack.

Goodnight everybody. _(:3　∠)_