Volu 4: High School Arc - “I” Co to Find You~
When I picked up my phone and saw the contact na on the screen, a trace of doubt rose in my heart.
Because the contact na on the screen matched exactly with that vague feeling I had deep down.
The incoming call reminder was from Xu Han.
Even though I had no idea Xu Han would call , I just had this feeling, as if I already knew she would.
Feeling this, I couldn't help but glance back at Lu Haochen.
There was a hint of confusion in Lu Haochen's eyes, as if he didn’t know why I was looking at him.
This matter—I’d explain it to him later.
I answered the call, and although I didn’t know what Xu Han was calling about, vaguely I felt like I had already known this would happen.
This strange... sense of déjà vu?
No, it didn’t seem like déjà vu, but rather... a premonition, a sense that she would call, just like suddenly sensing sothing is about to happen.
It was very similar to déjà vu, but slightly different.
"Yunyan, it’s , Xu Han."
"Ah~ Sister Xu Han, what’s the matter?"
"It’s nothing much, really, I just wanted to invite you to a al. Are you free?"
"Ah... um, we already had lunch. How about dinner?"
"Okay, then let’s do dinner."
Xu Han’s gentle voice ca through the phone.
At that mont, I seed to see so vague images flash before my eyes, like I couldn't really see them, yet sothing was there.
What exactly... was this feeling?
Sothing was off.
From last night until now, this feeling had been hovering around , ever since... I finished writing that note.
It was as if... I had forgotten sothing.
Yes!
Just like I had forgotten sothing.
Wait, logically speaking, I shouldn’t know anything about Zhang Yang, but this feeling...
So then... what exactly did I forget?
After setting the dinner appointnt with Xu Han, I suddenly felt sothing.
"Sister Xu Han, are you and Brother Yulong at the office today?"
"Hm? Today’s Saturday, it’s a holiday."
"Oh... alright then, see you tonight."
After I said that, I hung up the phone, then nodded at Lu Haochen and brought him into my car.
After telling Shao He we were heading to Tianding Everything, I sat in the back seat with Lu Haochen.
Naturally, there was nothing to say along the way—mainly because we couldn’t let Shao He know.
And Shao He seed to have sensed sothing faintly, looking at with a strange expression.
I didn’t know how to explain it either, so I decided to just leave it for now.
It didn’t take long before we arrived at the base of Tianding Everything’s office building.
I imdiately made a call for Sister Feifei to co down, since she was the only person I knew at the company.
Sister Feifei seed to be in a eting, but she still sent soone down to et us.
Without any unnecessary words, I directly said I wanted to access surveillance and personnel records.
Sister Feifei didn’t ask a single question and imdiately had soone take us to the surveillance room, while soone else went to fetch the records.
"Didn’t expect Zhang Yang to actually exist."
At the mont, Lu Haochen and I were in the reception room.
Shao He was there too, just in the small side room near the entrance.
While replaying the final surveillance footage of Zhang Yang from yesterday on the computer, I also went through the personnel files.
Zhang Yang’s information was very simple.
Just a worker from out of town, working in the software programming departnt on the nineteenth floor, a low-level coder.
Overall, there wasn’t anything special about him.
Twenty-five years old, Han ethnicity, temporarily living in the northern part of the city near Baishan West Bridge.
From what I knew, that was a relatively poor area.
I handed the file to Lu Haochen.
"What do you think, see anything?"
Watching Lu Haochen fast-forward through the video, I also looked at the computer screen.
It was already past three in the afternoon, not long until the end of the workday.
"Looks like his ntal state wasn’t very good, probably a cold or sothing. Nothing else stood out."
Lu Haochen said this, then turned to take the file I handed him, glanced at it, and flipped through a couple pages.
"His phone number is listed here, should we try calling?"
"Mm... wait."
Just as Lu Haochen was about to pull out his phone, I stopped him.
"You can’t call."
"Why not?"
Lu Haochen was slightly stunned, then suddenly seed to realize sothing.
He hesitated for a mont, then put the phone down.
"You’re right... If we call now and he’s already dead, we might get targeted by the authorities."
Although Lu Haochen looked a bit gloomy, he still didn’t make the call.
"Alright, don’t sulk. I know you value lives, but we can’t act so recklessly. Otherwise, we might end up dead ourselves."
I patted him on the shoulder.
I had to admit, sotis he could be a bit impulsive, especially when it ca to matters of life and death.
Like just now, it seed like he didn’t even think before trying to call and confirm if Zhang Yang was alive.
But if he had actually done that, it would’ve definitely exposed both of us, and then it would be impossible to explain.
How would we explain?
We never even t the guy, didn’t even know his na—how could we possibly know he was dead?
"Zhang Yang is in the programming departnt. His supervisor is a middle-aged man nad Liu Xing. Wait a second, I’ll make another call."
Although investigating Zhang Yang's identity might attract the attention of Liu Feifei or even Gong Lianyu, now wasn't the ti to overthink things.
However, if I wanted to approach Zhang Yang, I couldn't do it through Liu Feifei.
I directly called Xu Han.
"Sister Xu Han, I need to trouble you with sothing."
On the other end of the phone, Xu Han seed to hear the seriousness in my tone and probably understood sothing.
"Go ahead."
Twenty minutes later, Xu Han called back and inford of the result.
I wasn’t surprised by the outco.
The managent levels in the company were all sowhat connected, and this call was to have Xu Han and Jiang Yulong use their connections to see if Zhang Yang’s supervisor, Liu Xing, could give him a call.
Even just a greeting would do.
At the very least, a supervisor checking in on a sick subordinate wouldn't raise suspicion.
I didn’t know how Xu Han did it, but Liu Xing made the call, and Xu Han also got the result.
Zhang Yang... didn’t answer the phone!
I told Lu Haochen the result.
His eyes darkened slightly, then he turned his head to glance at Zhang Yang, who was standing inside the elevator.
Suddenly, when he saw the two people standing next to Zhang Yang, a flash of realization passed across his face.
At the sa ti, I also saw this scene, and a thought flashed through my mind.
"Your na!"
"My na!"
He and I locked eyes and almost simultaneously spoke those words.
Seven segnts.
Zhang Yang, Tianding Property's 19th floor, elevator, Liu Yunyan, supervisor, phone call, he was behind.
From that mont on, they all connected.
Zhang Yang worked in the software programming departnt on the 19th floor of Tianding Property.
While taking the elevator after work, he ran into Jiang Yulong and Xu Han and overheard them discussing Liu Yunyan.
Afterward, he returned ho and received a call from his supervisor.
And then...
"Did Liu Xing ntion what ti he called him last night?"
Lu Haochen frowned as he asked.
I shook my head and said:
"The supervisor didn’t ntion those details, but based on the current situation, we shouldn’t continue interfering in Zhang Yang’s matters anymore. Also, the earlier parts of the details—we’ve already figured out. Except for those last words, the rest can basically be deduced."
Lu Haochen nodded, then shook his head again, with a trace of helplessness on his face.
"If Zhang Yang is already dead, then it looks like we can’t interfere anymore."
I agreed with what Lu Haochen said.
But... if we didn’t continue investigating, then the trail would end here.
If possible, I really wanted to go to Zhang Yang’s ho, even just to see his corpse with my own eyes.
"Yunyan, I have a theory..."
While I was thinking about how to check out Zhang Yang’s situation, Lu Haochen suddenly said this.
"What?"
I subconsciously responded upon hearing Lu Haochen’s words.
"You said... you forgot sothing. But you rembered these things, and these should’ve been Zhang Yang’s actions yesterday afternoon. So, is it possible to infer this?"
As he spoke, Lu Haochen began tapping lightly on the solid wood chair with two fingers.
"Last night, you said you fell asleep. Before falling asleep, you didn’t sense anything unusual. But after waking up, you rembered these details. This indicates that during that period, you might have seen what Zhang Yang experienced this afternoon."
At that point, Lu Haochen looked up at , his eyes filled with solemnity.
"It’s even very likely that last night, you experienced everything in his place!"
As soon as Lu Haochen said that, my mind suddenly cleared!!
His conclusion—
It might actually be true!
The details I wrote down were all things Zhang Yang experienced yesterday afternoon.
Then could it really be like he said?
Did I... go through—or even fully experience—Zhang Yang’s life?
If we deduced from that angle, it would also explain why I had so many déjà vu monts throughout the day!
Things I’d never encountered before, yet I had a vague sense that sothing would happen.
That strange déjà vu might have co from this!
Thinking of that, I couldn’t help but lock eyes with Lu Haochen.
Lu Haochen looked at , a flash of understanding in his gaze.
"We don’t know yet whether you watched it happen or lived through it yourself."
I imdiately added:
"But at the very least, we can confirm that what I forgot last night should all be related to Zhang Yang."
Lu Haochen directly continued:
"And the reason you forgot might be due to so hidden rule of the ga. This was a clue the ga gave you!"
I followed up right away.
"That’s also why I wrote down those clues last night—because I probably sensed I was starting to forget!"
Taking turns, Lu Haochen and I deduced what had happened last night, one line at a ti.
"If that’s the case, then this mission probably won’t last too long. Which ans..."
Lu Haochen rubbed his chin, and suddenly his eyes sharpened.
At the sa ti, I thought of sothing too.
Instinctively, my gaze t Lu Haochen’s again, and we spoke at the sa ti.
"Sothing will still happen tonight!!"
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