Chapter 7: The Power of Plot Inertia
In the morning, Lin Xiao thoroughly familiarized himself with the game system, and the functions were basically clear, roughly similar to those in the game, but there were slight differences in some places, which was not a big problem.
All in all, this game system is very powerful, only one point, just like DNF games, it must also be kryptonite, but the game eats money, and the system eats the source force.
Lin Xiao didn't have to think about it to know that the system would definitely intercept part of the source power, for example, if you kill each demon dog, you can absorb 2 points of source power, then the system will hack at least 3 points of source power, which is obvious.
Although it is not clear what the source of the system is and what the purpose of crossing is, Lin Xiao knows very well that there is no free lunch in the world, and if you want to get it, you must pay something, and I hope that the purpose of the system is not to take away yourself or destroy the world.
In the morning, Joey, who was full of tiredness, came home and quickly asked Lin Xiao if Will had returned, and after hearing the negative answer, he sat on the sofa with his eyes distracted.
The two of them ran to the forest behind the house, where Will's secret base was located, a dilapidated shed with the Star-Spangled Banner, and there was naturally no Will's whereabouts here.
Then the police in the town also came, and a middle-aged uncle appeared with a bicycle, which was the sheriff of the town's police station, Sheriff Hope.
In the original play, this Sheriff Hope, equivalent to the male protagonist in adults, has a very heavy role, and is also the main character in the fight against the monsters of the reverse world, is a very loving uncle, and later adopted the heroine No. 11 and became her adoptive father.
In the afternoon, Sheriff Hope mobilizes the townspeople to search for Will in the forest around Jonathan's house.
Lin Xiao always had a very strange feeling when he followed the crowd, he knew Will's whereabouts, but he couldn't tell it, and he had to follow them around to find someone.
In addition, crossing into Jonathan and integrating into this new world also makes him feel very unreal, is his current self really still his original self?
The search was futile all afternoon, and it was not until midnight that everyone went home, and Joey went around to thank everyone, and Lin Xiao followed behind to thank him.
Unlike the cold feelings of big cities, the rural towns in the United States, like the villages in China, are in a state of acquaintance society, not to say that they are very familiar with each other, but at least familiar with each other, especially people in the same community.
Lin Xiao made dinner and served it to Joey, she couldn't eat it at all, so she sat in place in a daze.
Lin Xiao also didn't eat, accompanied his mother to starve, and the two sat in silence, relatively speechless for a while.
"Jonathan, you go get some pictures of Will, and tomorrow I'll print the missing person notice."
Joey said tiredly, Lin Xiao returned to the room and brought a box containing a large number of photos, which were taken around by the original Jonathan with a camera.
The plot returns to inertia again, and the mother only discovers what her eldest son is doing when she chooses photos.
Thinking that for so many years, because of the divorce, he has hardly cared about his eldest son, and he can't help choking.
Lin Xiao was also a little sad, he had no intention of dying suddenly, and when he crossed into this world, his parents must have also cried silently, and the fact that a white-haired person sent a black-haired person was the saddest thing in the world.
The mother and son were heart-to-heart, the phone at home rang suddenly, Joey hurriedly ran to answer, there was a noisy blind voice on the phone, I couldn't hear what was being said, just a few rapid gasps.
Lin Xiao stood on the side, he had a God's perspective, and he naturally knew that this call was from Will, who was in the reverse world, and it seemed that the current Will had come to his home in the reverse world and dialed the phone number at home.
That is to say, in the reverse world, Will at this time is also using the phone at home.
The same phone, different worlds, this is the magic of the reverse world.
After the phone rang a few times, a flash of electric sparks, the receiver was burned, and Joey almost lost control of his mind, kept dialing the phone, and began to babble in a hurry.
"Mom, calm down, Will will definitely come back safely."
Lin Xiao grabbed Joey and comforted him, his tone was full of confidence, and he seemed to be extremely sure that he would be able to find his brother safely.
Joey was soothed by his tone, and suddenly found that his eldest son had really grown up, had become the pillar of the family, and was a man to rely on.
After a sleepless night, the next morning, Joey called the police again, called Sheriff Hope, and told him about Will's call last night and that the phone had been burned.
Sheriff Hope naturally didn't believe it, thinking that it was just caused by last night's storm, which calmed her down, and at this time Joey was indeed very excited, almost on the verge of collapse, and his tone was very impulsive, which made Sheriff Hope speechless.
Sheriff Hope asks Joey's ex-husband, Will's biological father, if he has answered the phone, and after hearing a negative answer, the sheriff walks out the door to find Will's father himself.
According to the development of the plot, here, Jonathan should chase him out and tell Sheriff Hope that he went to find his father, but was rejected by the other party and asked her to stay at home with his mother.
Lin Xiao, who had already learned the answer, naturally didn't want to run in vain again, let alone run to find a strange man, and call the other party's father, which made him very uncomfortable, so he agreed not to look for it.
Later, Joey brought a missing person notice from the print shop, and the mother and son split up and posted them around town.
Lin Xiao drove to Hawkins High School, the original Jonathan, who was also a sophomore at Hawkins High School, had asked the school teacher for leave in the past few days because of Will's disappearance.
He came to the school's poster, and was posting a missing person notice, and a few familiar people were standing in the corridor in front of him talking and laughing, which were just a few supporting roles in the play.
Mike's sister, Nancy Wheeler, commonly known as "Sister Framed", and her boyfriend, Steve Harrington, as well as his fox friend, Tommy, and his girlfriend Carlo.
The group looked at Lin Xiao and smiled unscrupulously, Tommy pointed at him and said:
"Do you want to bet that this guy killed his brother and hid the body?"
"Shut up."
Steve punched his friend, and Shaw heard their conversation and stared at Tommy like an arrow.
Jonathan in the original play is an introverted honest man who is often bullied at school, and later because of Nancy's affairs, he rose up and beat King Steve hard, beating him to the point that his nose was blue and his face was swollen.
"Look, your brother wasn't killed by me, maybe he was abducted by human traffickers, I heard that some perverts like these little white-faced asses, you can go and ask among them."
Tommy laughed and said, if there is anyone in this drama who is completely annoying, then he and his girlfriend are definitely at the top of the list.
Lin Xiao walked over with a calm face and said lightly:
"Take back what you just said and apologize immediately."
A group of people were slightly stunned, Jonathan was usually very withdrawn, often teased and bullied by his classmates, belonging to the kind of soft persimmon that is best bullied, anyone dares to pinch it, when did it become so hard.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was wrong, they don't just like the ass, they love the mouth."
Tommy and Carlo laughed wildly, causing many of their classmates to stop and point their fingers.
Lin Xiao shook his head, why is there such a stupid lack everywhere in this world.