Chapter 450 The character design collapsed
"What are you doing! Are you sick!"
Discovering that the kitten was frightened and running away, the little brother in black immediately exploded, pushing Xiao Heyun away, ignoring Li Shiqing who was next to him and quickly chasing after him.
"Cat?" Xiao Heyun rubbed the wrist that was freed by the brother in black, and grinned, "Isn't it just a cat, why is it so secretive and sneaky?"
Zhou Ji came from the side, passed by the two of them and kept walking, "Because pets are not allowed in the car"
Li Shiqing's eyes followed Zhou Ji's movement, and when he saw him walking towards the green belt in the distance, she immediately understood, and hurriedly followed to help the little brother in black find the cat.
"Hey~ wait for me." Seeing the two walking away, Xiao Heyun reluctantly followed, but as soon as he reached the overpass, he saw Zhou Ji carrying out a two-three-month-old little orange cat from the flower bed on the side of the stairs .
Zhou Ji returned the kitten to the brother in black, using the excuse that Xiao Heyun mistook the backpack and mistook the bag in the other party's hand for the one he had lost a few days ago, so he got a little emotional and asked the other party for forgiveness.
Xiao Heyun didn't dare to refute anything after taking the blame, so he could only admit it embarrassingly, and apologized repeatedly.
The little brother in black saw Zhou Ji’s old-fashioned gown, and a strange light flashed in his eyes. Although he didn’t recognize which cos manga, but since he ‘likes’ the second dimension so much, he must be someone of the same kind.
Finally met a similar person, the boy in black calmed down a lot, turned his eyes to look at Xiao Heyun next to him, raised his backpack and said, "I just bought this bag."
"Yes yes yes, we misunderstood, sorry, really sorry."
Xiao Heyun kept apologizing in embarrassment, and suddenly, a loud roar accompanied by billowing thick smoke rose from the intersection.
The little brother in black was taken aback, and subconsciously looked at the location of the explosion, his eyes gradually changed from shock to fear, and then a trace of doubt flashed from fear.
Suspect.
It seemed that he himself couldn't tell what he was suspicious of. When he turned around and looked at the three people who had just stopped him under the car, he found that the three had left quickly without looking back. It was rumored that the little brother in black hesitated and decided to send the kitten to the pet hospital first. After seeing the news broadcast on the hospital's TV, the original fleeting suspicion resurfaced again, this time. Incomparably clear.
On the other side, after Zhou Ji took Xiao Heyun and Li Shiqing out of the overpass, he wanted to go to a park not far from the river to discuss matters related to the time cycle, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Xiao Heyun helplessly said, "Why are you going where? ?”
"Huh?" Zhou Ji asked suspiciously, "Have we been there before?"
Now even Li Shiqing couldn't help but nodded, "More than once."
"Look, we got out of the car normally this time, right?" Xiao Heyun adjusted his glasses and analyzed with his fingers, "This explosion was caused by hitting a fuel tanker, right? It stands to reason that the startled party should not They will find us so quickly, and even if they find us through surveillance, they won’t treat us the way they treated ‘suspects’ like last time, right?”
At the end, Xiao Heyun thought of the dullness and aggrievedness of being locked up in a small dark room, his voice became lower and lower, his confidence became weaker and weaker, and he added at the end, "Should...not be?"
Zhou Ji is not an arbitrary person. He learned that he went to the park more than once in the previous cycles, but the true energy in his body still failed to recover. But it makes sense, since the sure way to reset the cycle is to sleep, even if it is discovered by the surprised party, it will not hurt.
The big deal is to stun the two of them before being found by the startling party, and then reset the cycle through breath adjustment, so as to avoid internal friction between oneself and the startling party, and also find a way to restore the lack of true energy.
Zhou Ji nodded slightly, and said with a smile: "There is indeed some truth in what you said."
"right?"
With Zhou Ji's approval, Xiao Heyun swept away the gloom, adjusted his glasses, and showed a proud expression, "I just saw a coffee shop on my mobile phone, the location is remote and the environment is good, we can go there to eat and rest, and discuss the next step How to go."
Zhou Ji looked at Li Shiqing, saw a flash of emotion in her eyes, nodded and said: "Then listen to you, let's go."
The three of them took a taxi and quickly came to the coffee shop Xiao Heyun mentioned.
The coffee shop is located on the second floor of a renovated abandoned factory building. The decoration is biased towards retro industrial style. It has a large space and seems to have few customers.
Zhou Ji observed the interior layout, and went straight to a seat not far from the window and sat down. Li Shiqing wanted to sit next to him, but found that Xiao Heyun grabbed the seat first, so she could only sit on the opposite side resentfully, her eyes fell on the table. The menu on the menu said with a smile: "I feel like the last time I ate was in my previous life, but it's strange, I don't seem to be hungry at all."
"I've really thought about this issue." Xiao Heyun proudly showed off his 'research' discovery, "Every cycle will reset everything, such as wounds, and the consumption of body energy. Another point is that regardless of How much money you spend, the next cycle, the money will come back."
Hearing 'body energy consumption', Li Shiqing subconsciously looked at Zhou Ji, a trace of worry flashed in her shiny eyes.
Although she didn't ask Zhou Ji, and Zhou Ji didn't take the initiative to tell her, she could feel the urgency and prudence of Zhou Ji's every cycle.
Maybe for her, every cycle resets everything but memory.
For Zhou Ji who reset his memory, what will he keep?
Zhou Ji sensed the worry in Li Shiqing's eyes. With a thought, he realized that she might have guessed something. He calmed down a little, smiled slightly, and said gently, "Don't worry, it's fine."
"What's all right? What are you worried about? Did you listen to what I said?" Xiao Heyun looked at the two in surprise and rubbed his fingers together, "No matter how much we spend, every cycle will be reset! Do you know what this means? It means that we can buy services that we are usually reluctant to experience.”
Seeing that Zhou Ji and Li Shiqing were still not very interested, Xiao Heyun said anxiously: "The simplest and most direct thing is to eat! Eat whatever you want, even if you eat up your credit card, you don't have to be afraid. Anyway, when you wake up, everything will be back again. place."
eat.
Zhou Ji's eyes lit up, so he didn't expect it?
The vitality of the world in this world is too lacking, maybe food can be used to supplement the lack of spiritual energy.
Xiao Heyun saw that Zhou Ji finally became interested, and his expression became more and more complacent.
As plates of delicacies filled the entire table, Xiao Heyun waved his hand and said proudly: "Eat at ease, I'll treat you."
"You paid for the taxi just now and last time, why don't I hire it." Li Shiqing quickly took out her mobile phone and called the boss to pay first.
Xiao Heyun shrugged his shoulders indifferently, opened the computer bag and said, "Actually, it doesn't matter who invites you, since it doesn't cost money anyway."
"I just suddenly feel a little guilty." Li Shiqing said a little embarrassedly: "You say, such a big matter is placed in front of me, and I can still eat and drink here."
"Don't stretch yourself too tightly, you will have the strength to save the world when you are full~~" Zhou Ji cut a piece of steak and handed it to Li Shiqing's table, comforting.
Li Shiqing heard Zhou Ji's comfort, her eyes were soft, she nodded and said with a smile: "It makes sense."
After eating, the sky outside the window had already dimmed, and most of the food on the table had entered Zhou Ji's stomach. Unfortunately, the efficiency of refining it into energy was too low to be used to replenish true energy.
Seeing that it was getting late, Li Shiqing swiped to a link under the news, and learned about Brother Key's identity as the anchor and the mourning event held at the crossroads, so she wanted to go and have a look, maybe she could get information about other passengers.
When the three of them arrived at the intersection, there were already several Internet celebrity anchors preparing for the live broadcast. When they were about to leave, a guy in black wearing a mask stood in front of them.
"Do you know the inside story of the bus explosion?" The boy in black looked at the 'coser' who had changed into his normal clothes, trying to confront him on the 'radio wave'.
Li Shiqing's expression suddenly became a little nervous, Xiao Heyun squeezed out a stiff smirk, and stammered: "How do we know? You said that."
"Then you are here to save me, right?" The little brother in black can see Xiao Heyun's insincere words at a glance. Compared with Xiao Heyun who is full of lies, he still has inexplicable trust in Zhou Ji, who is also a "secondary element".
Zhou Ji saw the anticipation in the other party's eyes, shook his head and said: "No, it was accidental to save you, our original intention was to test you."
"Test me? What do you test me for?" The little brother in black's eyes lit up, "You really know something!"
The little brother in black looked around after finishing speaking, and said in a low voice: "This is not a place to talk, you follow me."
From the urban area to the eastern suburbs, several people exchanged names on the road. Lu Di took them to a comic exhibition park in the eastern suburbs of memory. At this moment, the comic exhibition has ended, and only a few booths in the park are still clearing up the billboards. Zhou Ji looked around. , there was an indescribable sense of vision again, as if he had been here before.
Enter an indoor basketball court and go up to the second floor through the side door stairs. Ludi unlocks the combination lock and invites them into the room.
As soon as you enter the room, the animation elements are so strong that you are suffocating.
There were a few kittens in the cages in the corner of the room, and they greeted Lu Di cheerfully. Lu Di signaled the three of them to sit down on the sofa, and walked to the freezer with a three-color cat in his arms, fetched a few bottles of water and handed them to them. , "This is the secret base I rented without telling my parents, no one knows."
Li Shiqing sits awkwardly next to Zhou Ji, as if stepping into a completely strange world, looking around in novelty, colorful and colorful, and totally unfamiliar.
Xiao Heyun was a little bit resistant to telling outsiders about the "reincarnation".
But now that the team members decided to tell Lu Di, he couldn't say much, and explained helplessly: "It's like this, we stopped you under the car today not because I lost my schoolbag, but because we wanted to see your bag What's in it."
Xiao Heyun first explained the misunderstanding during the day, and said with a straight face: "Actually, we have entered a cycle."
"Cycle?" Lu Di frowned slightly, showing a thoughtful expression, "But it's not even August yet."
"August?" Li Shiqing was at a loss for Lu Di's reaction, her tone slowed down, and she didn't understand why she said: "What's wrong?"
Lu Di turned around and took out a thick handbook from the cabinet, and brought it in front of the three of them. It was densely filled with various pictures and texts. When he opened one page, he looked at the key marked ∞ symbol and said: "August It's the high incidence period of the cycle, but it's only May now?"
Li Shiqing was dumbfounded and asked in surprise, "Will there be a cycle in August?"
Xiao Heyun said with some distaste for popular science: "The cycle in anime usually occurs in summer, such as "Summer Wars", "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", and "Your Name"."
"ha?"
Li Shiqing was about to speak when she was taken aback by Zhou Ji's sudden reaction. He turned around and looked at Xiao Heyun, exuding endless oppression, as if even the surrounding air was about to freeze.
"Is one of your examples circular?"
Xiao Heyun's expression froze, and when he was about to refute, he heard Zhou Ji continue: ""Summer Wars" is a story about high school students in the countryside who are pulled up by their seniors to engage in hacking attacks, not to mention looping, and time-traveling is not even counted! It’s Summer Again that’s really about the cycle.”
"There are also "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and "Your Name", both of which are time-traveling themes that are dislocated in time and space, and have nothing to do with cycles."
For a moment, the room fell into silence, even the kitten in the cage was silent beside the cage.
No, there is still sound.
Li Shiqing looked at Zhou Ji dumbstruck, as if hearing the crisp sound of glass jade shattering in the bottom of her heart, echoing for a long time.
"To talk about the time loop, it should refer to "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", endless August, the origin of the August cycle, "Magic Girl Madoka Magica", "Steins;Gate"."
Wait, it seems that there is something a little strange mixed in.
'Magical girl'
Li Shiqing's mind suddenly came up with the picture of "Cardcaptor Sakura" that she had seen when she was a child.
Another crisp sound came, and the image of Li Shiqing's aloof, handsome and graceful in his heart was completely shattered to the ground.
Is this what he really looks like?
Li Shiqing had mixed feelings in her heart, and when she saw Zhou Ji babbling on, she couldn't help but reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes.
Zhou Ji felt that the corner of his clothes was being dragged by someone. He turned his eyes to meet a pair of eyes that were so complicated that he couldn't describe it. He coughed lightly, straightened his clothes, and sat back to his original position with a normal expression: "I'm sorry, I lost my composure."
You're more than just losing your composure, you just broke the persona, okay?
Li Shiqing was powerless to complain, so she could only give Xiao Heyun a sympathetic look from the corner of her eyes.
(The reason for opening this volume is because of the complaints in the last paragraph. The examples in the August cycle were all wrong. Obviously, the details of the whole drama were full, but the chain was lost here. When I was following the drama before, this paragraph was very suffocating. Bend.)
(Supplement: Endless August, a chapter in Haruhi Suzumiya, the production team uses eight episodes of different original paintings, different storyboards, and almost the same plot to tell the story of time loops, which can be called a textbook on loops.)
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