Gu Qiao left the ship and went ashore.

The beating of the timeline gave her a more realistic understanding after entering the urban area.

The dazzling neon lights at night give the city an ambiguous color.

If it weren't for that particular TV tower landmark that was still eye-catching, she would almost not recognize it, and this is S City.

The high-rise buildings everywhere, as well as the cars driving on the ground, are full of modern technology, and the city streets also have some familiar and unfamiliar traces.

The only fortunate thing is that the development of science and technology is within the scope of Gu Qiaoshang's understanding, and there are not too many qualitative leaps.

"August 1, 2032 ......"

Gu Qiao raised his head and looked at the time displayed on the electronic screen of a makeup flagship store not far away, and shuddered for no reason.

The mobile phone of 'Gu Qiao' in the space, the time on the screen is still stuck at 0:00 on June 3, 2022.

This is the time when 'Gu Qiao''s existence in this copy ends, and it is also the time when she enters the assembly.

The 7-day countdown period for the red mission has not changed.

But more than ten years have passed since she came in, and this time is ......

[Hiss..... This day is not very auspicious. 】

The Eva in her mind, seeing this time, is also a little taboo.

Although there is no such thing as a death date for an intelligent body like it, in the Tube Building, the day of stripping from the 314 player is August 1st.

On this day, it is also the 18th birthday of Gu Qiao, who grew up in the tube building.

It was also the day when Gu Qiao, like the others in the tube building, died without resistance after re-understanding the world.

"It's really unlucky."

Gu Qiao agreed with Eva's words, for her, the time to die and wake up in the tube building has not passed long, but for the time latitude of this copy now, a long, long time has passed.

Time, to her, is just a changing number.

This feeling is wonderful, but it also makes Gu Qiao feel a subtle sense of unease.

Is she like this, can she survive for 'Gu Qiao'?

Live to 2023?

Or is it that as soon as the assembly of believers is over, all this is just a dream of flowers in the mirror, the moon in the water, and nothingness?

"Isn't that sister dressed like this?"

"Shhhh

At night, the streets are filled with the heat of midsummer, and the pedestrians are dressed coolly.

Gu Qiao came back to his senses and met the curious eyes of a five or six-year-old boy.

The young woman beside him nodded at Gu Qiao embarrassedly, and led the little boy away quickly.

Gu Qiao looked around, and had already walked to the city center with more pedestrians, and this black robe was inevitably eye-catching.

To be on the safe side, when the mother and son were far away, she opened the aura of passers-by and got into a nearby underground passage.

The underground passage was dim, it was extremely deserted at this time, there was no figure, and after making sure that there was no monitoring equipment, Gu Qiao put the black robe into the space.

“......”

The moment the black robe was lifted, Gu Qiao looked at the junior high school uniform on his body, and there was a subtle depression in his heart.

In a sense, she did not live for 'Gu Qiao' until 2023, and in this assembly, time seemed to stand still in her.....

The small body of this junior high school student is the best proof of this.

[According to my observations, Anna Leia and they entered the Pure Love Dungeon in advance through improper means, and Ron and they should have entered the believers' assembly because of that bounty mission, and returned to that early time when the timeline jumped...... You killed them, and maybe invisibly changed the course of some things. 】

[You may have been completely excluded from the timeline of the main storyline, so you can't grow up.] 】

Eva gives a relatively reasonable explanation.

Gu Qiao also knew very well that the theme of the believers' assembly was related to time.

Time is powerfully inclusive, but at the same time unpredictable and unknown.

Players enter a congregation of believers, and every action they take, every choice they make, under the influence of the timeline, can lead to world-derived differences.

Whether it is Ana Leia or Ron, they will inevitably interfere with the current world derivation for their own purposes, and develop the derivative changes in the timeline according to their presuppositions.

After she killed them and put an end to the changes they brought and generated, the countless possibilities that were derived also meant that all the information they had collected for the quest was wasted paper.

Because of the timeline that Anna has experienced, any kind of future and shortcut that she knows ends at the moment she kills her.

And for 'Gu Qiao' on this rally timeline, she may have ended her lifeline on the day she went to celebrate Xie Ran's birthday, because of the encounter with the player, .....?

[It may also be that Xie Ran woke up on the boat, no, it should be Xie Jinyan.... He once again trimmed the timeline of 'Gu Qiao' in the assembly. 】

Eva's guesses are all reasonable.

Gu Qiao could only be forced to accept this fact, anyway, whether it was his height or his appearance and age, it was all a code value, so there was no need to dwell on it.

"Ahem...."

A faint cough rang out from the other end of the passage.

Gu Qiao quickly came back to his senses, slightly shocked.

In the passage, there are other people..... However, the super search field of vision was not detected in time.

Slowly raising his eyes, Gu Qiao saw the source of the coughing sound.

In the dimly lit corner of the passageway, a thin figure sat in the shadows, with messy hair and a long hair, and a peaked cap covering his face, full of despondency and scribbling.

It's a grown man.

Wearing a black shirt, revealing pale arms with scars on them.

“......”

Because of the aura of passers-by, the other party did not notice her.

Just coughing gently, revealing a sense of weakness, in the cold passage, a little blank and depressed.

[Hey, there's a beggar. 】

Gu Qiao frowned, under the super search vision, the top of the man's head was displayed as a non-level NPC, although there was no lack of a sense of despair, but the clothes on the other party's body were very clean.

There was no bowl in front of him.

The flow of people in this passage is low, there are almost no people at this point, and the beggars will not choose to be here.

Moreover, he seems to be injured.

"Ahem....."

In the quiet passage, the man's faint cough sounded again.

[This big beggar seems to be dying, and the breath of life is very weak......]

Gu Qiao didn't want to be nosy, but when he heard Eva's words, he still forcibly changed the pace of preparing to leave the passage and walked to the figure in the dim corner on the other side.

*

"Are you alright?"

In the corner, the man lowered his head, and when he heard Gu Qiao's voice, he didn't even raise his eyelids, nor did he look at Gu Qiao.

He stared at the ground numbly, as if in a daze.

Until the moment when Gu Qiao squatted down and was about to check his physical condition, the man waved her hand away violently, in the dim light and shadow, with full defensiveness and disgust.

"Don't come near me."

The man shouted warning.

His voice was slightly hoarse, and he coughed more violently because of some violent movements.

"Don't touch me."

Without waiting for Gu Qiao to approach again, the man let out a low roar, struggled to get up, and staggered to the steps leading to the ground.

[Gu Qiao, look at his shoes! ] 】

The mechanical voice in his head was full of consternation.

Gu Qiao stared at the man's distant back, and under the super search vision, the pair of shabby sneakers on the other party's feet that did not fit and could only be half-stepped on, the familiar style, made her scalp tingle for a moment.

"Gu Huai!"

Gu Qiao's expression was awe-inspiring and he called out the name.

The figure, however, seemed to be frightened, ran away desperately, and disappeared into the distance of the crowd.