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At dusk, You Xi stood behind the blinds, gently opened some of the leaves, and observed the situation outside from the shadow.

Diagonally across the four-lane road is the community where she, a world figure, lives. After she left by bus in the early morning, she quietly returned here.

She still believes in some old sayings, such as the most dangerous place is the safest place.

Of course, she has also thought about leaving Hairu City, but the geographical conditions here are special. If she wants to leave to other cities, she must use transportation.

You can leave by boat, plane, train, truck or by car.

She definitely can't take public transportation now. After using [disguise lipstick], her image does not match the one on the certificate. But when she returns to her original appearance, she is afraid that she will be stopped before getting on the bus or the plane.

Self-driving cars don’t have this problem, but if you want to really leave Hairu City and go to another city, you have to go through the mountain tunnel.

The total length of this mountain tunnel is 55 kilometers, and the mountain leading up from the tunnel is more than 2,000 meters high. In this kind of apocalypse, especially after she experienced the collapse of the undersea tunnel, it didn't sound very safe.

As for climbing the mountain and leaving by herself, when the surrounding steep mountain walls came to her mind, the idea only flashed through her mind for a moment and then she gave up.

It is a global catastrophe, and it cannot be avoided no matter where she goes, so it is better to stay still than to move, so she should reserve her strength where she is and wait and see what happens.

Later, facts proved that her judgment was correct.

This is a twelve-story commercial building, and she is currently on the sixth floor - a large 24-hour Internet cafe. The Internet cafe can stay overnight and has private rooms.

She decided to come here after finding pictures of the private rooms inside this internet cafe on the Internet.

The private room has a window, facing the road, and has a good view. In addition to computers, there is also a TV, a large sofa and a bathroom, so staying overnight is no problem.

She arrived here just before noon. She originally wanted to see if she could come in without ID. After all, her face did not match the ID. If that didn't work, she would think of other ways.

As a result, she came in smoothly. After that, she paid the fees for two days. To avoid suspicion, she also bought a bunch of barreled instant noodles, various snacks, and drinks.

There is a water dispenser in the private room that can be heated, so even if she stays in the private room for the next two days, there will be no suspicion.

After all, her current image is that of a young boy. It is reasonable for boys to indulge in online games in the private room.

After entering the private room and locking the door, she first checked around to see if there were cameras. She knew that some Internet cafe private rooms had them, but this was a different world after all, and there would always be slight differences in the normal world.

She took out her mobile phone from her native world, which contained an app that could check whether there were hidden cameras. To see if the room was safe or not, just scan it.

Fortunately, there are no cameras in the box, so everything is normal.

She hasn't slept since she woke up at around one o'clock in the morning. The world seems to be stable, and a relative peace period of 48 hours was given in the early stage. However, in fact, there are crises everywhere, and it is not easy at all.

She lowered the blinds and went to the bathroom to solve her physical problem. When she was about to wash her hands, she suddenly remembered something and turned on the water faucet without reaching out to touch the water.

The clean water flowed out and there was no strange smell, but to be on the safe side, she took out the hand sanitizer and washed her hands clean.

Afterwards, she put the chair behind the locked door, took out the blanket and leaned on the sofa to take a nap.

In the evening, You Xi woke up to the sound of the alarm. Everything in the box was normal. She picked up her phone and turned on the selfie function. The person on the screen had returned to her original appearance as a world figure - the way she looked when she was thirty.

She walked to the window to check the situation outside. There was still a black SUV parked on the road diagonally opposite the entrance of the community.

Although the doors and windows were closed, she knew who was inside. The car had been parked there since she left the community in the morning. She had also seen the car after entering the box at noon.

The other party probably judged that she was still hiding in the community - after all, she had never been seen coming out, and apart from her mobile phone, wallet and related documents, she had not taken away any belongings belonging to people in the world, so they still refused to give up.

Or maybe she would start looking for her everywhere in the community, or try to use her mobile phone to locate her, but it was useless. She had thrown the mobile phones of world figures into the Star House warehouse as early as last night. As long as she didn't take them out, they would never be able to find her.

I can't even locate her.

After You Xi observed it and determined that there was nothing abnormal, he sat down to have dinner.

She took out a fried rice cake, a bowl of spicy beef vermicelli soup, and an almond tofu for dessert.

Her appetite has not fully recovered yet, so she can only eat some small meat for the time being.

The fried rice cake tasted exactly like the one I had in the store that day. It was soft and glutinous. The beef vermicelli soup was spicy and fragrant. Every bite was enjoyable. The almond tofu had a silky milky aroma and a little bit of sweetness.

After eating, her appetite recovered a little, and she took out another box of durian meat and ate it.

This is the best golden pillow durian. It has a soft texture, sweet but not greasy taste. Because it has been chilled, it has a slight coolness. When you bite it, it feels like eating ice cream.

While she was chewing, she used the computer in the box to surf the Internet and check the news of the city.

There were no news or videos related to the collapse of the undersea tunnel, subway accidents, or news related to black worms, and the word "worm" did not even appear.

Not giving up, she slowly pushed forward from the news of the past two days day by day, trying to find and piece together useful information from all kinds of mixed news.

Five days ago, a piece of news about a group of workers fighting each other at a seaside construction site rolled across her eyes. Because of the words "seaside construction site", she couldn't help but take a few more glances.

In the video, the reporter rushed to the scene in time to take pictures. The people fighting in the group looked like they were all construction workers, and there was nothing special about them.

I don’t know what caused the conflict, but they were all very excited. From the occasional close-ups of their faces, it can be seen that both sides of the fight are red-eyed and unwilling to give in to each other.

Even if there were other construction workers and the police who rushed to the scene, they could not get away for a while.

Later, the brawlers began to use tools, hit them with bricks, and some even picked up steel bars and stabbed them.

The scene became chaotic, and the police brought the situation under control after calling for additional personnel.

Finally, the reporter made a follow-up report outside a certain police station, saying that several people who caused a fight have been detained and may face punishment later. As for the reason for their fight, the incident is still under investigation.

You Xi calculated the time. What happened five days ago, these people should still be locked up.

She scrolled forward and paused for a moment when she reached another piece of news.

This was news eight days ago. It was a notice that a certain mountain sewer was temporarily closed due to disrepair. It was a very small one and did not even have a picture.

But the words "in disrepair" and "temporarily closed" reminded her subconsciously of last night's night news. It was obviously an undersea tunnel that collapsed, but it was treated as if it was in disrepair.

She read this text-only news several times and made a bold guess in her mind.

Perhaps the same thing happened in this sewer. The relevant personnel came to investigate. Because the thing was strange (the first time it was discovered) or they were prepared (it was not the first time), the sewer was closed and the focus was blurred.

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But no matter what kind of news it is, it is just her speculation at the moment.

Perhaps all the answers to the mystery will not be revealed until the end of the forty-eight hours of relative peace.

Now, there are still eighteen hours left before the safe time ends.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, the black SUV parked outside the opposite community finally left. I don't know if it gave up on her as an "experimental" subject, or for some other reason.

In preparation for the forty-eight-hour time limit coming tomorrow afternoon, You Xi decided to sleep for a while. Before going to bed, she took off her clothes, took out the [Instant Cleansing Oil] and went to the bathroom to "take a shower."

Although it was only the second time she used it, she already liked the feeling of instantly isolating dirt from her body.

She didn't stay outside for long today, and she didn't have any new wounds on her body, but she just didn't feel at ease. Living in such an apocalyptic world, she used [Instant Cleansing Oil] every day just to make herself feel at ease.

Sure enough, after using it, there were only some very fine flakes of skin on my feet, not even dirt.

You Xi was satisfied, and put on a clean short-sleeved T-shirt and sportswear cover again despite his oily face, then took out the blanket, set the alarm clock and closed his eyes.

She still didn't sleep well that night. After all, she was in a strange apocalyptic world, and her hearing was too good. From time to time, when she was half asleep and half awake, she would hear sounds of breaking things, making trouble, and arguing in the distance. It was like someone was coming.

Emotional breakdown, yelling and fighting.

But because the sounds were far away, she didn't allow herself to wake up completely.

There wasn't much time left, so she had to take the time to rest.

Until later, she was awakened by the sound of a dispute nearby.

She opened her eyes and took out her phone to check. It was less than six in the morning.

The quarrel came from outside the box door, and the incident should have occurred in the Internet cafe.

She listened for a while and quickly figured out the reason for the quarrel between the two. They were male and female friends who came from Liancheng, next to Hairu City, to travel. Originally, the girl planned to go back last night, but the boy wanted to have more fun.

A few days later, the girl agreed to stay with him for two more days.

The two of them had a game date with someone last night, so they temporarily checked out of the hotel and booked a private room in this Internet cafe to spend the night playing games.

However, not long ago, the girl received a phone call from Liancheng Public Hospital, stating that her parents were affected by a threat nearby late at night, and the glass window of their residence was hit by a petrol bomb, causing a small explosion and fire.

Both her parents were injured, especially her father, who was seriously injured in order to protect her mother and is currently undergoing surgery in the hospital.

When the girl heard this, she panicked and started quarreling with the boy while packing her things.

"Bang--" The sound of heavy objects being smashed began to be heard outside, and everyone else in the Internet cafe was alarmed. From the sound of footsteps and breathing, there were about a dozen people staying in the Internet cafe overnight.

You Xi thought for a while, got up, put on a mask and baseball cap, opened the box door and went out to check the situation.

This Internet cafe is like most Internet cafes. After entering, there is a large hall. There are two corridors in the front. There are private rooms on both sides of the corridor. There are also small windowless private rooms in the middle. Because she wants to sit along the road and next to the window, she wants

It is a relatively expensive large box located at the innermost side of the entire corridor.

The first sound of the argument came from the box in the corridor near the lobby. Later, the noise left the box and now the two of them are in the lobby.

Everyone else was gathered there, including the night guard at the Internet cafe, and no one noticed You Xi's appearance.

I don’t know who broke the thing first. When You Xi stood at the entrance of the corridor, he found that two computer screens had been smashed.

The night guard at the Internet cafe was not the one she saw at noon. He must have changed his shift. At first, he tried to break up the fight, but now he looked angry and asked another night guard sitting behind the cashier to call the police.

There was a circle of people standing nearby to watch the excitement, and some people came forward to try to persuade him, but the girl picked up a cup and threw it at him.

She didn't know if it was because she was excited, but the whites of her eyes were a little red. She looked extremely angry, and her face was completely distorted.

She was screaming and smashing things hard. She was no longer able to speak coherently like You Xi had first heard. She seemed to be completely in some kind of extreme emotion, which reminded her inexplicably of the news about the construction site fight last night.
To be continued...