"Hey, wait. There's a convenience store in front of you with the lights on, so why don't you take a look? ”

While the two were talking eagerly, Li Xiaoxuan saw a convenience store in an alley that was obviously still open, with a brand new façade and lights on in the house.

"Squeak~"

The wheels slipped slightly, and the car stopped in front, and the two quickly got out of the car and walked towards the convenience store.

"There may be monsters, so we have to be careful."

Li Xiaoxuan was patrolling with a gun, while Gao Ji was walking quite fast, leaving the former far behind.

The snow in front of the door was heavy and thick, but the carpet was very clean, as if it had been replaced as new, which attracted attention. Gao Ji carefully peeled off the curtains, and several rows of empty shelves came into view, and at the same time, a strong wind was blowing in his face.

"Come and see this, oh my God."

There was an exclamation from the front, Li Xiaoxuan hurriedly entered the store, and looked in the direction of Gao Ji's finger, a huge hole was broken in the ceiling, 1/3 of the entire roof was gone, and some bare, exposed masonry and steel bars had been piled up with a thin layer of snow, and it seemed that it had been abandoned for a few days.

The strong cold air flow came in through this hole, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, blowing so that the two of them had a pain in their brains, and they could only put on their hats for a while.

"How did this happen?" Gao Ji also asked the question in Li Xiaoxuan's heart, because such a huge gap, unless it was hit by a cannonball or an earthquake, it was impossible to exaggerate it like this.

The convenience store's rented storefront was a bungalow, similar to a small shop, and the two of them had a little idea of what was going on after about two minutes of walking around in it.

Gao Ji found two broken plastic rods on the shelves, and in the back of the cash register cabinet, he also found an old down jacket, the former one was difficult to conclude that it was artificial, but when he searched the back of the down jacket, he found a mobile phone in its internal pocket.

The phone battery is dead, but the appearance is undamaged, and it seems that it can be used as long as it is charged.

Li Xiaoxuan also searched hard for a long time, and found some debris of the building in the gap in the corner, which should have been dialed in by someone when cleaning the ground.

If there is such a large piece of the ceiling, there will definitely be a lot of garbage, but the two of them could not find the fallen rubble and tiles at the scene, and some were just a layer of dust and debris that Li Xiaoxuan found in the corner of the wall.

"I think some people accidentally left these marks when they were cleaning the floor, and they didn't act in a hurry, but maybe they didn't have enough time overall, so they didn't clean up the debris in the corners at the end."

Li Xiaoxuan went out and walked around this convenience store, but he didn't find the abandoned bricks, soil and gravel, and he felt that there was something strange in it.

Along the way, the monsters encountered in the mirror world have limited intelligence, and even if there are monsters like the police station girl who can speak, their ferocious nature is still very easy to expose.

Except for the second man in the suit who didn't take the initiative to attack the two, the other two were all on sight, and if the huge gap was caused by such a monster, it would be almost impossible for them to clean up the debris and debris that they had shot down.

This kind of time-consuming and laborious move is more likely to be done when people are rebuilding after the earthquake, and more often choose to directly demolish the original building and then rebuild it.

But that's not the reality here......

Thinking about it, Li Xiaoxuan suddenly felt that it was likely that normal humans had come here, and they had temporarily used this place as a residence, otherwise there was no reason to clean it up so cleanly.

"Monk, do you think there can be people living here?"

"Resident?"

Looking around casually, Gao Ji said after taking the photo:

"If you move all these shelves outside, then at least seven or eight people can live here, although it is a little crowded, but if you put that kind of bunk bed, I believe you can continue to increase the number of people."

Gao Ji is also a smart person, as soon as he heard Li Xiaoxuan mention living people, he immediately thought of some of his thoughts, his spirit suddenly lifted, and his eyes brightened: "Are you guessing that someone once lived here?" ”

"Well, it's not speculation, I think there's a high probability that this will be the case. What about the remnants of the broken bricks and tiles? ”

Pointing around, he said calmly:

"Monsters don't bother to clean it up, only humans can."

As he spoke, Li Xiaoxuan also smashed the wall a few times with the butt of the gun, only to see the countless powdered white ashes falling, and on the knocking part, a few pieces of wall skin could not withstand the destruction of this force, and fell to the ground with a "pop".

"You see, I smashed it at random and it was still this effect, I really can't imagine how many broken slag bricks and tiles would have to fall if I really smashed open this kind of crack with brute force."

Li Xiaoxuan shook his head, his mind was more firm, he paced slowly in the convenience store, and checked the two places that Gao Ji had just explained.

"Is this outage a regional event?" Li Xiaoxuan said, "There has been no electricity in Haisha High School, and there is no electricity in the villa, but this small convenience store actually has electricity!" ”

Based on this alone, it can actually be seen that the federal government should be a virtual existence in the mirror world, and even the power supply of schools cannot be guaranteed, which shows that it no longer has the power to maintain normal order.

It's no wonder that Li Xiaoxuan was amazed, you must know that a large part of the roof of this convenience store has been knocked off, but the internal wires are still strong.

At this time, just when Li Xiaoxuan was about to take a few more photos and retreat, one of the several rows of shelves was actually blown down, and the alloy shelves were cordially lifted from the ground, and there was a tooth-aching collision sound immediately.

This fall, it seems that it also happened to hit some trigger devices, only to see that all the partition braces on the shelf suddenly twisted, and then the steel shelves on the beam were all turned over 90 degrees, and the two were tightly fitted, very much like a steel plate bed!

Li Xiaoxuan, who discovered this change, hurriedly called Gao Ji to go together, and only a few minutes later, the two of them found a button on the side of each baffle, as long as they pressed the button and adjusted the position of the shelves, those rows of shelves became steel beds.

And they also found some steel rods to splice these beds up and down......

Sure enough, it's an inhabited place!

After confirming this information, a trace of surprise flashed in Li Xiaoxuan's eyes, and he focused his attention on the mobile phone that Gao Ji had found.

The contact information of this group of people who once lived here is likely to be in the mobile phone, and it is not known if they left it on purpose, but Li Xiaoxuan is now desperate to get some information through it.

"Doesn't this phone come without a charger?" Frowning slightly, Li Xiaoxuan took the mobile phone handed by Gao Ji and began to observe its charging port.

Because the time is set in 2002, the technology in all aspects is very backward, and the more advanced things such as smart phones are also made by various manufacturers, such as the one in his hand, by identifying the laser trademark and interface, he can't even say its exact name.

Damn, even charging this thing is a problem.

At the moment, I don't know how to get out of such a world, then the charging function of this mobile phone has undoubtedly become a major problem......

The two of them restored the bed slats on the floor to shelves before leaving from here.

And the next place to go, the two are set at Li Xiaoxuan's house.

No, to be precise, it should be the home of "Li Xuan".

The choice here is not only based on the consideration of completing the side quests, but also to try your luck and see if you can meet Li Xuan's mother Alice's lover Jer.

Both of them knew in their hearts that this probability would be very small, but they both wanted to take the initiative to try.

The time came to 11:50 a.m., the two quietly came to the Grand Apartment, after parking out, the surrounding buildings were quite quiet, none of them had lights through, and some birds that are usually very common could not be seen, and there was only snow on the bare branches.

In such a monotonous environment, the two of them have seen each other thousands of times along the way, so they are also accustomed to it, standing at the door of the house, Li Xiaoxuan raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Bang Bang~"

It's hard enough, it's late at night at this time, although Li Xiaoxuan and the others have lights, but both of them have turned the light to energy-saving mode, because it's always on, so the power consumption is a little serious, I don't know how long they want to stay here, and they are also saving as much as possible.

After a minute of symbolic knocking, there was still no response inside, and after glancing at each other, Gao Ji directly took out a pair of pliers to open the keyhole roughly, and the two entered the house.

As soon as you enter, the ceiling crystal lamp above the entrance reflects a charming glimmer in the light, and the sofas, tables and chairs are not much different from the real ones, at least the orientation is no different.

A few old photos were placed on the cabinet, Li Xiaoxuan took a deep breath, knowing that he was back in this cozy nest again.

He left here in the morning, and when he came back after more than ten hours, he actually had a feeling of emotion.

Li Xiaoxuan and Gao Ji did not engage in separate searches, they still followed the search order of one after the other, and steadily advanced forward, after a few hours of cooperation, there was a tacit understanding between the two, sometimes just a gesture, a small look can read the next move of the other party.

The three-bedroom and two-living room apartment took the two of them less than two minutes to search, and Li Xiaoxuan also came to the bedroom to remove the laptop on the table.

Xu Bai's abandoned house has a very good set of computers, and this guy may be able to break the password and help him get a glimpse of the secrets in this computer. Li Xuan should have used this computer a lot, so much so that even the A and C sides of the computer were seriously worn, and the trackpad was more like it was broken, black and mushy.

Coming out of the bedroom, the two decided to sit in the living room and rest for a while, and then continue on their way later.

Boredom looked at the things on the table, Li Xiaoxuan found that the large bottle of blueberry jam that had been placed on the table was gone, and the whole box of condoms was also gone.

This once again caught his attention, judging from the condition by the door, there was no sign of anyone coming back here, and the slippers and hangers had not been touched, so how could these items be missing?

Li Xiaoxuan, who couldn't find the answer, could only bury his doubts in his heart, and began to chat with Gao Ji without a word.

It's nothing more than some of the two people's views on the current mirror world, and they want to construct a reason for saying the past through discussion, so as to explain the strange things that have happened along the way.

However, it turned out that this combination of student + monk was not a reasoning genius, and apart from the consumption of a lot of brain cells, the discussion between the two did not make any progress.

Li Xiaoxuan's eyes also stared out of the window from time to time, after all, there was a car on the side of the road, and there was some luggage on it, if the monster that came out at this time punctured the tire or broke the glass, then he would have to walk on foot.......

But looking at it, Li Xiaoxuan suddenly saw that there was a little more light in the glass of the opposite house, and soon, on the exterior of the apartment building opposite, some dark matter like pieces of paper began to peel off on its own, very quickly, and they disappeared into the air after peeling, as if they were forcibly recalled by something.

Not only the surface of the wall has such a phenomenon, but also the garbage room and street lamp pole...... The outer layer of every object changes.

When all the dark matter was peeled off, the lights outside the window gradually brightened, and the extinguished street lights also lit up.

The two were stunned, because the room they were in was also undergoing such changes, just as Li Xiaoxuan took out his mobile phone and was about to take a photo, there was a sudden pain in his head, and vaguely, he seemed to hear a voice whispering in his ear, but it quickly disappeared again.

When Li Xiaoxuan came back to his senses, the changes around him had stopped, and an indifferent prompt sounded in his ears at the moment he opened his eyes:

"Visitor 10156 has left the 'Katos Dream', and some of the Dream World items obtained from it cannot be taken out, and these items will be automatically held the next time you enter."

"Hint: In the Katos Dream Realm, you will not be able to regain your energy while resting."

Katos Dreamland!

It turned out that it was ...... just now A dream?

Li Xiaoxuan hurriedly checked the loot in the backpack and found that these things were still there, but the mobile phone was gone, and the laptop that had just been stored disappeared.

As if thinking of something, Li Xiaoxuan stepped sideways and pressed the button next to him, and the lights in the living room also turned on, and the light emitted by the crystal lamp illuminated the living room very brightly.

There's electricity!

It seems that it should be back to the real world, Li Xiaoxuan looked at the table, and saw that the big bottle of jam was placed on it at the moment, and many things that had been used in the morning were placed there.

"Monk, let's see if the photos we took are still there?"

Those are deliberately left evidence records, so that the two can compare them according to this in the future, and the disappointing scene still happened, and the photos stored in the mobile phone are also gone, and they are deleted cleanly.

"What the hell." Gao Ji casually picked up a glass of milk with the lid open, and took a few big sips, "It's okay, the taste is very pure, this is a serious nightmare world." ”