CH 178

Chapter 178 – 1992-2020

After getting off work, the key appeared miraculously in his pocket by itself, which shows that the disappearance of the key was indeed not a coincidence.

The meaning of this is obvious. It is to make him commute to and from work on time and live as though he was in reality.

Xu RenDong and Lian Qiao returned home, but they didn’t feel tired at all. Compared with playing in the dungeon, the company’s work is really much easier – although they are actually in the instance, Xu RenDong often has the illusion that he has returned to reality.

The layout of the home was also a little different from when he went out in the morning. The luggage has already been returned to its proper place and the furniture is not as brand new as before. It’s just that there is still an empty feeling in the house.

Xu RenDong stood on the porch for a while and understood.

“One pair of slippers is missing,” he said.

Xu RenDong went to the shoe cabinet to find a pair of slippers and put them together with his own slippers. Two pairs of slippers are placed side by side in the entrance and a familiar feeling returns.

Lian Qiao’s eyes became hot. He rubbed his hair with a smile and said helplessly, “What kind of life did you live before you met me?”

Xu RenDong lowered his head and said while changing his shoe: “If I had never seen the light, I could have endured the darkness.”

Lian Qiao was taken aback.

Xu RenDong smiled at him: “Come in. Cook quickly, I’m so hungry.”

Lian Qiao’s cooking skills were as satisfactory as ever. This is the first time they cooked by themselves inside the instance. Holding the steaming rice bowl in his hands, Xu RenDong couldn’t help feeling: “It’s really like we are already out…”

Lian Qiao: “Calm down.” He scooped up a spoonful of hair from the soup bowl and his eye muscles twitched slightly.

That strand of long hair obviously didn’t belong to the cook. Xu RenDong lost his appetite in an instant and said helplessly, “Okay. Let’s see if other dishes are still available.”

Fortunately, nothing strange appeared in other meals. Lian Qiao dumped the soup into the trash can, then picked up the rice bowl again and quickly settled the meal with RenDong.

After eating, the two discussed what happened today.

“The fence of the subway disappeared in front of you, and the subway that was supposed to brake didn’t slow down at all when it entered the station. If I hadn’t pulled you back, you would have been crushed to death.” Lian Qiao said.

Xu RenDong nodded: “There were also hairs pulling me in the tunnel. That’s probably the long-haired aunt.”

“Also there was a ghost in the company today. But the monk’s ghost didn’t cause any substantial harm to you. It just wanted to scare you…” Lian Qiao pondered. “Why is that?”

RenDong was silent for a moment and said, “Maybe because he still has the memory of his life, so he doesn’t want to hurt me?”

Lian Qiao’s mouth twitched and then he subconsciously made a mocking smile: “Doesn’t he know who killed him? He doesn’t want revenge?”

“Maybe?”

Lian Qiao narrowed his eyes: “Do you regret it?”

Xu RenDong felt that this topic was not suitable to continue so he said: “Let’s not talk about this. There are only three days left in 2020 and there is not much time left. I want to go out and explore again to see if there are any clues about the whereabouts of the button.”

Lian Qiao’s expression eased but shook his head and denied him: “No. On the contrary, I think we should recharge our batteries for the last day of the big battle.”

According to the current trend, there will undoubtedly be a big battle on the day of 2020. It’s likely that the group of teammates who died in the university will turn into ghosts and come to seek revenge one after another.

Thinking of this, Xu RenDong didn’t have much fear in his heart. Anyway, they have already grasped the weakness of ghosts: that is, they are afraid of chanting scriptures. It doesn’t matter how many ghosts come.

The difficulty is that they must show up at the intersection outside the company parking lot on time at ten o’clock in the evening in 2020, otherwise they may miss the big truck and the elevator that came with it.

Although the condition for the elevator to appear is only Xu RenDong’s personal guess, however there was no more reasonable answer other than that. Lian Qiao agreed.

However, Lian Qiao said next: “The ghosts in this scene seem to be stronger.. I suspect that it will not be so easy to fight them.” RenDong was surprised and, after thinking about it, he understood the reason for what he said.

It was very simple. The ghosts in this scene are no longer afraid of the sun,and can blatantly appear in broad daylight.

“Do you think this could be…” Xu RenDong considered his words, “Uh, the characteristic after being killed by a human? Half human and half ghost, so they can appear during the day?”

“It’s possible.” Lian Qiao frowned and sighed. “This will be troublesome. If the ghosts can also appear during the day this time, then we might have to fight for 24 hours in a row on the day of 2020…”

RenDong corrected him: “It should be 22 hours. Ten o’clock in the evening, the elevator should show up.”

Lian Qiao smiled wryly: “Two hours is not much difference. Let’s go to bed early today.”

Hearing this, RenDong also felt pressured. So after a simple wash, the two turned off the lights and went to bed.

In the darkness, RenDong felt that Lian Qiao hugged him. He couldn’t help but struggle lightly: “Didn’t you say to have a good rest? Don’t…don’t do it today, okay?”

Lian Qiao’s voice was gentle and low: “Okay, we won’t do it. I’ll hug you.”

These couple of days RenDong had been messed about by him so much that he felt persecuted and really didn’t believe him. But Lian Qiao’s embrace was warm and familiar and he was really reluctant to push it away. Under all kinds of entanglements, he could only say one sentence as if resigned to his fate: “You can’t lie to me.”

Lian Qiao smiled softly, leaned over and kissed his forehead: “I promise you.”

This kiss had a strong comforting meaning, which made RenDong’s heart settle down at once.

Lian Qiao really did what he said. After the kiss, he didn’t do any excessive movements, just stretched his arms under his neck and let him use himself as a pillow.

The muscles on Lian Qiao’s arms were strong and well-proportioned, and the pillow was very comfortable to lean on. RenDong couldn’t help stroking the lines of his arms and the scene of being held up and down by his waist emerged in her mind.

……Oops. I obviously told him not to act recklessly, but why did I start thinking about it myself?

Xu RenDong secretly scolded himself for his double standards and chanted Buddhist scriptures to force himself to calm down.

In this way, the night passed.

Probably because Xu RenDong had a good night’s sleep after returning to his familiar home. He woke up feeling refreshed.

The two left the apartment after breakfast. Sure enough, as soon as the door of the apartment was locked, the keychain in his pocket disappeared. Instead, a car key appeared.

In real life, Xu RenDong bought a car at this point in time. At that time, he had already started to deal with some work with customers, so buying a car became a rigid need.

Driving to the company, Xu RenDong found that today’s colleagues were different from yesterday and there were a few acquaintances.

Their industry is highly mobile and it is common for colleagues around them to change. Looking at the familiar faces, Xu RenDong’s feeling of not knowing where he is is getting stronger and stronger. He had to turn his head to look at Lian Qiao, reminding himself that this is not reality.

Lian Qiao looked at him and said: “Sure enough, the acquaintances still appeared.”

RenDong faintly felt that he seemed to be expecting an answer and said, “Don’t worry. If they do something to me, I will not show mercy.”

Lian Qiao laughed: “That’s good.”

The work in the morning was nothing special, except for ghost images flashing on the computer screen, hair growing out of drinking tea and a scarred face floating in the toilet, everything was normal.

Seriously, RenDong is still thankful for these little hauntings. This made him sober, reminding himself repeatedly that even if a familiar colleague and boss appeared, he should not be soft-hearted when necessary.

However, at noon, the new boss called him over and gave him an unexpected task.

—Meet clients.

It’s really nothing to connect with customers, but the special thing is that the customer this time is his college roommate.

RenDong doesn’t quite remember whether he has experienced this in reality. But if it comes, it comes. Anyway, there is only a glass door between the reception room and the office area of their department and Lian Qiao is sitting outside, so even if something happens, he will be taken care of.

The roommate seemed to really come to discuss business with him. After Xu RenDong recorded the customer’s needs, the roommate loosened his tie and smiled with a relaxed posture: “I didn’t expect to meet you here.”

It seems that he wanted to start chatting.

Xu RenDong did not relax but listened to the words of his roommate with more concentrated attention than before.

“I didn’t expect to meet you here either.” He said it neither humbly nor arrogantly.

The roommate asked: “How are you after graduating from university?”

RenDong: “As you can see, it’s pretty good. What about you?”

The roommate laughed and said: “Hey, I couldn’t find a good job, so I had to go home and inherit the family business “

RenDong: “…” He glanced at the well-known big company on his old classmate’s business card, and couldn’t control his expression for a moment.

“By the way, why is your brother here?” The roommate pointed out the glass door.

This glass door is transparent on one side. Only the inside can see the outside and the outside cannot see the inside. When RenDong heard the word “your brother”, he was stunned for a moment and then realized that he was talking about Lian Qiao.

RenDong involuntarily looked at Lian Qiao outside the glass door. He saw him staring here with his brows furrowed, his eyes unblinking. He didn’t know that he was being watched, so the worry on his face was unreserved.

RenDong’s heart was sweetened and he raised the corner of his mouth and said, “By some coincidence, he also joined this company.”

“Oh.” Then the roommate asked, “Then how is your sister-in-law?”

…Sister-in-law?

RenDong looked at his roommate in surprise. The roommate stuck out his tongue: “Uh, did your brother change partners? Sorry I didn’t know.”

..Putting aside changing partners or not, please explain to me what is going on with “sister-in-law” first!

RenDong narrowed his eyes, lowered his voice unconsciously and began to ask his roomate: “He has so many friends, which ‘sister-in-law’ of mine are you talking about?”

The roommate scratched his head: “I just… met him when I was a freshman. The one from then.”

RenDong was stunned: “Freshman?”

The roommate said: “Do you remember, on the first day of freshman year, your brother sent you to school. Later, when you were not feeling well, your brother helped you to buy food. A few of our roommates went up with him and later brought the food back for you.”

“That’s when I met your sister-in-law, er, no, it was his girlfriend at the time. Anyway, that’s what your brother told us … That girl is so pretty, her face is red, like an apple, she is very cute. She seems to have something urgent to find your brother about so your brother took her away and forgot to give us the money for the meal…”