Kanon followed Er Gou to the back door of the casino. He checked his watch and as soon as it hit 10 p.m., he imdiately pulled Kanon into the workshop.
"Where is this?"
Er Gou didn't take Kanon deep into the workshop but asked her to stay in the storage room.
The shelves in the storage room were stacked with black cases, behind which was a dark red iron door.
"Wait here for one minute."
Er Gou shook his finger and turned to push open the red iron door, entering the workspace.
Kanon pricked up her ears for a while, hearing continuous clinking sounds from next door, unsure of what was being done. She took off her mask and sniffed around the shelves; it seed they were all filled with t-091.
The scent of t-091 was unmistakable, like rust sprinkled into rotten milk, very easy to identify.
Er Gou ca back, holding the black case that Kanon had given him last ti.
"Here we are, shall we start?"
"Start what?"
"Hmm... a kind of ritual?" Er Gou said, "Originally, I should have perford this ritual on Dark Street, but I had no choice; the police are watching there too closely, and I can't work there anymore."
"What's in Dark Street, exactly?"
"You wouldn't understand even if I told you, so I won't waste my breath."
After saying this, Er Gou pulled out a dagger from his chest and without blinking, cut across his wrist.
Blood flowed down Er Gou's arm like water, turning Kanon's face pale. The cut on Er Gou's wrist was deep, it seed even the tendons were severed.
"What are you doing?"
"This is sothing I learned in school, it works well." Er Gou raised his arm and said, "You might hear so strange noises, please don't be too surprised."
"Okay..."
Kanon nodded, but soon after, she started hearing strange murmurs in her ears.
The sound made her feel dizzy, as if she were drugged.
However, this state didn't last long. By the ti the murmurs disappeared, she and Er Gou were already on Dark Street.
"How did we get here?"
"This is magic I learned from the Traveler star people; using this, you can walk in the void and cross galaxies in an instant. Now we are both in the casino and on Dark Street."
"I don't understand?"
"Just as I said, explaining it to you is pointless." Er Gou looked at Kanon and said, "Now let's complete the second part of the transaction. I can give you the price you want, twenty years off your sentence, how about that?"
"No, too little."
"There's no one else in the world who'll give..."
"No, I an, I don't want a reduction in my sentence." Kanon shook her head, interrupting, "I want to exchange it for a different reward."
"What do you have in mind?"
"I hope to borrow your phone; I want to contact my family."
Er Gou suddenly beca silent, his brows knitted as if they could crush a fly.
"What? Is it difficult?"
"No, are you sure that's all?" Er Gou said, "I thought you'd ask for sothing more outrageous."
"I'm not here to extort you."
"Well, since you say so."
Er Gou shook his head, squatted in the corner, and started doing sothing in the air.
Kanon observed Er Gou's movents carefully. She noticed Er Gou's arms straining as if grabbing onto a pull ring, but oddly, she couldn't see anything.
"@#......"
Er Gou closed his eyes, muttering incomprehensible words, and repeated them three tis.
Kanon pricked up her ears to listen and silently morized them in her heart.
Imdiately after, a streak of golden light flashed before Kanon's eyes, and when it faded, they found themselves back in the storage room.
"It's over."
"Over?" Kanon blinked. "What did you just do?"
"It's hard to explain. Co on, let's go to my room. I'll lend you the phone."
Er Gou gestured for Kanon to follow him.
Kanon felt sothing was off.
The power Er Gou had just displayed was clearly so type of weird power. In Wapeng, such powers seed to have been greatly weakened, with everyone under the control of laws and surveillance by robots.
Logically, she had just gained Er Gou's initial trust, so why would he dare to show her this kind of weird power?
After so thought, Kanon finally spoke up.
"Why would you brazenly use that trick in front of ? Aren't you afraid I'll speak out?"
"Would you speak out?"
"Maybe, maybe not."
"I'm not afraid if you do." Er Gou smiled. "Even if you did, no one could catch ."
"Oh?"
Kanon raised an eyebrow but said nothing more, continuing to follow Er Gou.
Er Gou walked to the bedside table, took out a cell phone, and handed it to Kanon. "Here you go, but... I must stand by you and watch."
"Worried I'll tip soone off?"
"No, since I agreed to let you make a call, I've completely trusted you. Staying by your side is just to help shield you from the robots' detectors, so you won't get caught for breaking the rules."
"Oh, I see."
Kanon took the phone, focusing her ntal energy on it, activating her talent- "Hive Mind."
Instantly, Kanon's consciousness left her body, traveling through countless parallel worlds.
She saw nurous adventurers dying tragically and even found adventurers from other planets. However, when she tried to communicate with these adventurers, she couldn't understand them due to language barriers.
"Forget it. Let's see who's left among the human adventurers."
It seed like Kanon had spent a lot of ti, but only a mont had passed. She then found the only two remaining adventurers.
Gu Yi and Dennis.
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At 10 p.m., Gu Yi was sitting in the police station when he heard a phone ringing.
The police couldn't hear the ringing, they were just busy with their work.
Gu Yi couldn't deduce what would happen if he answered the call, but he decided to pick up the phone anyway.
Zzzzzz
A buzzing sound ca from the other end, followed by a flash of white light that blinded Gu Yi.
When his vision returned, he found himself standing in a purely white square room.
Opposite him stood a voluptuous woman with delicate features, and beside him was a man of average height with sharp eyes.
"Hello, let introduce myself. My na is Hattori Kanon, an adventurer from Sakura Country. My ability is called 'Hive Mind,' which allows to communicate with adventurers from parallel worlds.
This is the 'Hive Space' I've created. We can stay here for twenty minutes without worrying about the passage of ti outside. Ten minutes here will only seem like two seconds in the outside world."
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