Aoba Office

The thin man wrapped the chain of the pocket watch around his finger, and the pocket watch hung down and dangled twice.

The dangling pocket watch hung just above my head. The scene seemed a bit like it was trying to hypnotize me.

However, not long after, the pocket watch stopped shaking and stood still there.

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

I could hear the second hand move and see the second hand move on the dial.

The second hand does not move normally, but swings back and forth at the "12" position, as if it is stuck there.

As the atmosphere in the room changed, the second hand suddenly started to rotate normally, from "12" to "1" and further forward.

I glanced at the thin man.

He had a serious look on his face, but he just held up his pocket watch without any unnecessary movement. His eyes were not looking at me, but at the pocket watch.

The second hand rotated smoothly, as if some switch was pressed, and the hour and minute hands, which had stopped at 4:40, began to rotate.

The two thin hands rotate rapidly and merge with the second hand stopped at "12".

At this time, ripples like the sea appeared on the smooth dial.

Blue emerges from the inside of the dial, and then green, yellow, red and other colors appear in turn.

The dial became colorful, and the colors merged and turned into black.

This is like the dynamic dial of some kind of electronic watch. It's not beautiful, it can only be said to be novel.

The three stopped hands seemed to be moved, each crossed an arc, and stopped at a fixed position.

"Six points, seventeen minutes and twenty-one seconds." The thin man leaned over, looked at the time, and held the pocket watch in his hand, with the back facing up, as if he was comparing it to something to calculate.

I didn't see what the back of the dial looked like.

Fatty and Guo Yujie had already leaned over to watch the excitement.

The thin man's face became surprised. He looked at the pocket watch, then at me, and then at the pocket watch.

"What's the result?" I asked calmly.

"It's true." The thin man was speechless and responded to my answer.

The fat man and Guo Yujie both looked surprised, just like the thin man.

There seemed to be light flashing across Chen Xiaoqiu's eyes, and his expression became unnatural for a moment.

"So, in this case... the whole world, and us..." The thin man was at a loss, his eyes widened, and he kept staring at me.

"What's that pocket watch?" I felt something was wrong.

If the whole world is changed and I am the only one who slips through the net, then the pocket watch should not be immune either. The history it knows should be the changed history, not the history I call it.

"The bloody Earl's pocket watch." The thin man answered honestly. "A long time ago, there was a noble Earl who didn't like people to deceive him and didn't trust other people, so he often used torture on people to test whether they were telling the truth. This It's his pocket watch. Well, it's a bit like a lie detector. He will make a judgment based on some questioning techniques, checking the person's heartbeat and breathing, and other things. This pocket watch is a tool that he wears and uses. It’s like a curse. He killed a lot of people.”

The thin man explained it to me in detail.

The pocket watch will give a time according to different people. Those numbers can be interpreted according to the comparison table, which is similar to a password.

The thin man also made a judgment based on this.

All the pocket watch can tell is the truth of what I say.

"Your memory is not very accurate. There are some mistakes and omissions, and there are still some things you didn't say. But everything you said is true," the thin man said.

"Is there anything else to hide?" Guo Yujie looked at me, as if she was dissatisfied.

"I told you everything I can remember." I answered calmly.

In more than a year of life, there have been so many things, and it is impossible for me to remember all the details and tell them all. My memory isn't that good. Besides, I'm not in that mood right now.

When I narrated it just now, it was just a desire to talk, and I wanted to tell the thin people the most important truth and give them a warning. I don't care about the minutiae so much that I don't even think about it.

"No, you must have missed something important," the thin man said.

I was stunned.

I subconsciously recalled that in the narration just now, I said everything I wanted to say, and I consciously did not miss any important information.

"What's missing?" I asked.

"How do I know?" The thin man asked, and he immediately reacted, "This pocket watch can only judge these things. Its judgment is based on yourself. You must have missed something, subconsciously... well, subconsciously you think it is important. ”

The thin man is not so sure either.

Something that I feel is important subconsciously...

My expression turned dull.

"How did the four of them, the four people from Qingye you mentioned, die?" Chen Xiaoqiu asked.

I didn't answer.

All four of them looked at me.

"You just said that they were killed by the Ghost King. What are the details?" Chen Xiaoqiu asked further.

I closed my eyes.

I recalled those images again.

I have vivid memories of what happened at that time.

Although it wasn't that long ago, I can clearly remember every detail, including the smell of the explosion, the wind when the ashes were flying, the outline of the blood stains, and the touch of the white porcelain powder.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it." Guo Yujie said with sympathy in her tone.

I opened my eyes and saw the thin man putting away his pocket watch and standing next to the fat man. Their bodies did not match each other and their expressions were equally heavy.

"It's better to speak out." Chen Xiaoqiu said.

The thin man and the fat man frowned and looked at Chen Xiaoqiu.

"Xiaoqiu." Guo Yujie also called out.

"That's very important. At least, that's what you think deep down in your heart." Chen Xiaoqiu said.

"Yes, that is very important." I echoed Chen Xiaoqiu's words, but I was not prepared to tell them the details.

When the conversation changed, I asked Chen Xiaoqiu, "Can you trouble your uncle to check on Nan Tian's house?"

I also remember Nangong Yao’s last words clearly.

Nan Tian is pretending to be the Ghost King, so Nangong Yao's family may also be in danger. Maybe all his family members have died and been replaced by the Ghost King or his subordinates.

"That big star. I saw the notice before. Is he really dead?" Guo Yujie asked.

"Yeah. If history hasn't been changed."

"What's going on at home?" Chen Xiaoqiu asked.

"Sihai Wealth. That big group must be in finance." I'm not sure.

Of course I have heard of the name Four Seas Fortune. When Nangong Yao mentioned this for the first time, a few of us checked it out. But after so long, I can’t remember it clearly. I'm not sure about the scale of Sihai Fortune and the businesses involved. I think it's a huge thing.

I couldn't help but think of the live broadcast of Big Horned Deer in costume.

There are many ghosts hiding there, and people who live broadcast and watch the live broadcast are killed.

If there is a problem with Sihai Wealth...

I suddenly saw Chen Xiaoqiu's expression change.

The changes this time are obvious, not the subtle changes before.