After more than half an hour, Jiang Ying still couldn't contact Xia Shining.

No reply to private messages, no answer to phone calls, this has never happened before.

A few hours ago, Xia Shining told him that she was safe now and was going to make mashed potatoes for Smelly Flower.

She found that Smelly Flower would not attack her, and was worried that Smelly Flower would be cold at night, so she planned to use a table to build a bed so that she would not have to sleep on the ground.

Jiang Ying didn't know what happened to Xia Shining in these short hours, which made her, a transformed C-level player, not even have time to send out a call for help before she died.

Even in the last world, the cat-headed and human-bodied monster, which was obviously beyond the standard, did not push the player to this level.

Qin Huo led Jiang Ying to the place where the abnormal noise came out, pointed to the counter and said, "I found the work permit under the counter."

Jiang Ying took out a cigarette from her bosom, held it in her mouth but did not light it.

After the initial stupefaction, his expression quickly returned to calm, and he was so calm that he was a little cold-blooded.

He held his cigarette in silence for a few seconds, and showed a comforting smile to the boy, "Xiao Qin should be hungry, you go eat roast chicken first, the two big chicken legs are yours. Brother has some things to do, I will go over to accompany him later."you."

Qin Huo grabbed his trouser leg and asked in a low voice, "Brother, is sister Xia Xia offline?"

Jiang Ying looked down at the ground, and replied with a faint nasal voice: "Well, something may have happened, and it may not necessarily be dead."

His voice was as cold as ever, without any sadness.But under the light, Qin Huo saw Jiang Ying's eyes faintly glowing.

He thought for a while, hugged Jiang Ying's leg, raised his head and said softly, "Xiao Qin will also help Dad find a way."

Jiang Ying could hear the boy calling Dad on purpose, trying to make him happy, but he couldn't be happy.

He didn't say anything, just rubbed Qin Huo's head, leaned over and began to check the surrounding situation.

The boy ran around behind him on short legs.From time to time, he would kneel on the dusty ground and tilt his head to look under the cabinet.

According to Qin Huo, the abnormal noise came from the shelves behind the counter.It was as if someone was rummaging through something and roughly swept all the goods on it to the ground.

After the stinky flowers in the afternoon, Jiang Ying can be sure that when the past changes, he in the future will hear some strange noises from the past.

This may be a warm reminder set by the game to players.

It may also be a small shop or somewhere around, there are some special items.It connects the future and the past.

Jiang Ying guessed that the reason why Xia Shining died might be because she suddenly discovered some information, she ran out late at night to investigate, and ended up dying in the small shop.

But there are too many doubts here.

After Xia Shining was transformed into a dog-man, her brain circuit and behavior were affected.

She is very group conscious and very proactive.No matter what happens, will come to share it with Jiang Ying first.

According to Jiang Ying's understanding of Xia Shining, if she notices something unusual, she will basically send him a message as soon as possible.Before taking risks alone, he will be notified first.

And sweeping away the goods is not like Xia Shining would do.

Most likely, she would take down the products one by one, and put them back in earnest after finding the clues.

Jiang Ying paced in front of the shelves, observing these simple and old-fashioned products.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong with the voice the boy heard.

Jiang Ying thought for a while, then turned her head to look at the boy beside her: "Xiao Qin, please help my brother recall carefully, the sound you heard earlier did not sound like a fight. For example, someone fell and knocked over the shelf, knocking the goods downCome."

Qin Huo patted the ashes on his hands, and shook his head decisively.

He's not a real kid, and he's familiar with the sounds of fighting.He was sure that he was rummaging for something.

Seeing that Jiang Ying had a bad expression, Qin Huo hugged his neck tightly while he was bending over, and rubbed his cheek affectionately.

This is obviously a very common appeasement, but Qin Huo's actions unconsciously revealed a strong meaning.

Xia Shining's death reminded Jiang Ying of some past events.His brain was so confused now that he couldn't detect the boy's abnormality.

After touching his face with the boy, he returned his attention to the shelf, leaving Qin Huo alone in place.

Just now Jiang Ying staggered and leaned forward so much that she was almost forcibly pulled in front of her by him.

Qin Huo even saw a faint red mark on Jiang Ying's fair neck, which was strangled by him.

Qin Huo lowered his head and looked at his hands blankly.

Why was he trying so hard just now?

After being stunned for a while, Qin Huo shook his head, put the matter aside temporarily, and continued to search the small shop.

His vision passed through layers of barriers, and through the shelves, he saw faintly a few extremely thin lines on the yellowed and mottled wall.

Those lines make up a half-person-high, rectangular silhouette.

Behind the shelves of the small shop, there is a secret door?

Qin Huo narrowed his eyes.

He looked through the secret door and saw a dark and narrow passage and a small room at the end of the passage.

Inside was a dusty altar and an indistinguishable statue of a deity.

Near the statue, lay a skeleton.Judging from the torn clothes on the skeleton, it should be Xia Shining's body.

Qin Huo looked back and began to think about how to tell Jiang Ying about the secret door as a child.

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After running outside to smoke three cigarettes in a row, Jiang Ying finally regained her composure.

After clearing his mind, he already wanted to understand what was going on with Xia Shining.

There are four players in this game.The other two belonged to other camps, and he couldn't get in touch for the time being.

All the signs in the small shop indicated that the person who made the strange noise in the past was probably not Xia Shining.

Maybe she didn't come to the small shop at all, and stayed at home honestly the whole time, busy taking care of poor Smelly Flower.

Since Xia Shining herself has never been to the small shop, there is only one explanation for her blood-stained work card appearing here.

Among the other two players, one player is in the past, a past farther than Xia Shining's timeline.

He did something in the past, changed the original timeline, and indirectly caused Xia Shining in the future to die in the small shop.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ying reached into her pocket again and took out the tissue again.

He pursed his lips and slowly opened the tissue.

The golden hair that had disappeared before reappeared in front of his eyes.

This shows that from the perspective of the timeline, the time of Xia Shining's death this time was earlier than the time when she took in Smelly Flower.

Jiang Ying quickly ran into the yard and into the vegetable field.

There are still no shadows of stinky flowers in the cucumber field, but there are still inconspicuous excavation marks on the ground.

Jiang Ying leaned over and pressed the ground, picked up some soil and rubbed it with her fingertips to feel the humidity and temperature.

This is what has been dug out in the past few days.

Jiang Ying frowned slightly, he probably knew why Teacher Liu's wife came to Xiao Chunhua's house.

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In Xiao Chunhua's diary, she once wrote down two rather special records.

In the diary on June 9, 1039, she mentioned that a reporter wanted to help them, but she had already signed and could not leave the deaf village.

And on June 1, 1040, Xiao Chunhua said in her diary that the female reporter had contacted her.

Xiao Chunhua seemed very excited, she was going to use this opportunity to send 'Jiang Ying' and her child Xiao Bao out of the deaf village.

In the diary of 1039, Xiao Chunhua did not write the gender of the reporter.

But in the photo album, there is a photo of 'Jiang Ying' and Xiao Chunhua's mother and child, which was taken on June 9, 1039.

On the back of that photo, it says 'Photographed by friendly lady reporter.'

On June 1, 1040, Xiao Chunhua met the reporter again, and the village head's son admitted that he had seen Teacher Liu's wife that day.

On June 2, the blond woman and Xiao Chunhua went to the river, the same day Teacher Liu went to the village to find his wife.

On June 3, Mr. Liu was imprisoned by the village chief and his son.

Teacher Liu's wife is the blonde woman, the reporter that Xiao Chunhua mentioned twice.

She had learned about the abnormality in Deaf Village at least a year ago.

Xia Shining, who lived ten years ago, heard Teacher Liu and Teacher Wang discuss the case of a large number of missing persons.

When Jiang Ying first entered the game, the news was playing on the black and white TV in the second bedroom.In the scroll bar below the news, there is a large list of missing person notices.

In other words, the disappearance case ten years ago is likely to remain unsolved.

Teacher Liu's wife, as a reporter, has been tracking and investigating this matter for nearly ten years.

The clues of the investigation point to the deaf village. In 1039, she came to the county town near the deaf village, met Xiao Chunhua, and learned about the strangeness of the deaf village from her.

Xiao Chunhua must have told the female reporter that there was a stinky flower buried in the backyard of her small shop.

That's why the female reporter found a way to enter Deaf Village and contact Xiao Chunhua again.

Her purpose is to get relevant clues about Smelly Flowers, and to spread the fact that there are monsters in Deaf Village to the outside world.

Try to take photos, or directly take the smelly flower out, and use it as evidence to attract the attention of the country and the police.

In the original timeline, the female reporter, led by Xiao Chunhua, went to the backyard to dig out the stinky flower.

Xia Shining dug out Smelly Flower ten years ago, and the timeline changed for the first time.

There are no monsters in the yard of the small shop, so Xiao Chunhua had to ask the female reporter to look for Smelly Flowers in other parts of the village.

The female reporter therefore changed her original route and passed by the village chief's house, where she was beaten to death by the village chief's son.

And just now, another player in the past changed the timeline again.

His actions caused Xia Shining to die in the small shop ten years ago, or even earlier.

Without Xia Shining's participation, Smelly Flower was not poached in advance.The plot of Xiao Chunhua and the female reporter has changed back to the original.

As for Xia Shining's death, whose plot will change, Jiang Ying does not know now.

Four players are in the same world, four different time periods.

Each time point has a corresponding clue.Everyone's actions will have a huge impact on others.

This dungeon requires players to work together, otherwise no one can successfully pass the level.

Because people in the past cannot know what will happen in the future.

People in the future can't change the past even if they know everything.

Jiang Ying turned on her phone, ready to send her conjecture to a nearby channel and tell the other two players.

In order to survive, they must work closely together.

Just typing a few words in the input field, Jiang Ying suddenly felt dizzy in her brain, as if she was hit hard by something.

He staggered two steps, barely holding on to the wall.

Immediately afterwards, he felt sudden severe pain all over his body.

It was as if someone pinned him to the ground and kicked and beat him constantly.

Jiang Ying's body began to tremble, and he fell limp from the pain, biting his lower lip so as not to let himself moan in pain.Moan out loud.

Qin Huo was on the side, trying to observe the statue through the wall.Hearing movement behind him, he turned his head abruptly.

In the empty, small and dark shop, Jiang Ying fell to her knees, with a lot of blood spilling out of her mouth for no reason.

His pupils had already begun to dilate, but his hands were still trembling as he pressed the buttons on his phone.

Under Qin Huo's surprised gaze, Jiang Ying vomited a mouthful of blood.

There were inexplicably torn marks on his clothes, and a large number of bruises appeared on his skin, including shoe prints, fist marks, and hideous knife wounds.

Qin Huo didn't see any danger around him.

He ran to Jiang Ying, lowered his head to bite his wrist, and fed Jiang Ying blood to heal his wounds.

Jiang Ying struggled to grab his arm and comforted him weakly, "Don't be afraid, Xiao Qin, I'm not really dead, it's just that the timeline has changed. Someone did something in the past that indirectly killed me in the future.”

"I just posted this incident on a nearby channel. Now... ahem, the other two players have also known about it. They are all old players, and they will understand that if Xia Shining and I die, they will not survive.”

Qin Huo's lips trembled unconsciously, he held Jiang Ying's hand, his mind was at a loss.

Jiang Ying's clothes were soaked in cold sweat, and her face was so pale that there was no trace of blood.He coughed a few times and spat out a piece of offal.

Because of the pain, physical tears flowed from his eyes, wet his delicate and fair face.

It happened so suddenly, Qin Huo stared blankly at his blood-stained lips.valve.

Before he had time to be sad, he just felt very confused.

He is an SSS level player, the treasure of the future alliance, and Jiang Ying had an accident by his side?

The pain was like a tide, drowning Jiang Ying.

Panting heavily, he said intermittently: "We may disappear together, or I may disappear alone. Xiao Qin, don't be afraid, as long as the people in the past have made the right choice, your sister Xia and I can come back.You have to protect yourself, don't..."

Before Jiang Ying finished speaking, the next second, a deep scar suddenly appeared on his fair and slender neck.

It was as if someone had slashed him hard, almost beheading him on the spot.

Under Qin Huo's gaze, Jiang Ying's pupils completely lost focus.There was no light in the usual beautiful eyes.

His head was tilted limply, his empty eyes stared straight at the boy in front of him.

It was only a few minutes from when Jiang Ying knelt down to his death.

Qin Huo knelt beside Jiang Ying's corpse in a daze, his face full of astonishment.

Jiang Ying is dead?

Just like Xia Shining, died suddenly?

Under Qin Huo's gaze, Jiang Ying's body disappeared out of thin air, and even her mobile phone disappeared.

The originally fresh blood on the ground turned into long-dried black blood at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the same time, the furnishings in the small shop also underwent inconspicuous changes.

Qin Huo still knelt on the spot, looking down quietly at the place where Jiang Ying disappeared.

Someone killed his friend, right in front of him.

At this moment, the sound of the wooden door opening came from behind Qin Huo.

He looked back and saw an old man walking in unsteadily.

The old man glanced at Qin Huo, and said casually: "If you want to buy something, take it yourself."

Seeing the old man, Qin Huo subconsciously looked at the stairs beside him, and found that the stairs leading to the second floor had disappeared without a trace.

This two-story building has been turned into a one-story house.

The old man's impatient urging sound woke Qin Huo from his daze.

He stunned the annoying NPC with a glance, and sat alone in the place where Jiang Ying disappeared, thinking.

He heard Jiang Ying's words before her death.

But Qin Huo couldn't contact other players, so he couldn't trust them.

Even though Qin Huoming knew that Jiang Ying was not really dead, the scene of his death played in his mind like a slideshow.

He couldn't get rid of those scenes that made him uncomfortable.

Qin Huo touched the red rope piglet on his wrist, and at this moment, his brain finally came out of the shutdown.

Looking at the dried blood on the ground, he only felt a stabbing pain in his chest.His vision was blurred by the sudden tears.

His friend died, right in front of him.

Qin Huo held the red rope piglet tightly, and anger rose in his eyes.

He has only one friend, and he is going to get his Jiang Ying back.