Chapter 61: Road Trip Tips
Chapter 61: Road Trip Tips Tang Xinjue's eyes narrowed and her palms tightened.
"Is it me who gave you this watch?"
The little boy nodded, then shook his head. He could not speak, could not make any expressions, and could not display any direct information. The only answer that can be given was action.
So he moved his finger again and pointed at the watch that belonged to Guo Guo in Tang Xinjue's pocket.
He only slightly changed his movements, but the answer changed from clear to vague, and it seemed to still contain other meanings.
Tang Xinjue frowned again and thought suddenly: "...When you received this watch, the person standing in front of you was me, but I was not the only one, right?"
"Bah bang bang!"
Not sure if he understood what Tang Xinjue said, the little boy suddenly clapped his hands vigorously, pointing his fingers directly at Tang Xinjue, then moved to Tang Xinjue's side, poking in the empty air, dangling endlessly.
It was a very weird and abstract movement, but for some reason, Tang Xinjue seemed to be able to vaguely understand its meaning.
Following this intuition, she spread her awareness and counted in her mind.
One, two, three...
The child pointed out three locations in the air.
It's like there are three people standing there.
Immediately, the child retracted his hand and took a step back, seemingly confused. He rubbed his hands vigorously in the air, as if to erase the position he had just pointed out.
"Erasing" the outermost "person", the child opened his wrinkled coat, took the watch from Tang Xinjue's hand, and put it inside. Then he struggled to erase the second and third "person"...
In the end, only Tang Xinjue was left. The child stamped his feet and stretched out his hands, as if to indicate that he had finished speaking and now asked for his watch.
Tang Xinjue was thoughtful, and after a while she quietly said: "It's really interesting."
She had no idea about the scene described by the faceless child.
Two completely contradictory things cannot be true at the same time. If the faceless child expressed the truth, then what was false was her memory.
So, was the child lying, or was her memory lying?
Seeing that she didn't move, the child stamped his feet anxiously again, urging her to give her the watch.
Tang Xinjue raised her eyelids: "Do you think I have given it to you, so now the watch is yours?"
The child nodded.
"But I don't remember." A slight arc suddenly appeared on the girl's face: "The me who promised to give you the watch is the me in the past, and the me who got the watch back is the me now. The memories of the two me’s are not the same, and they cannot be mixed up.”
Faceless child: "..."
"Besides, your mother injured me." Tang Xinjue opened her palms and pointed at the almost healed injury between her thumb and index finger*: "Do you understand the medical expenses?"
*虎口, lit. tiger’s mouth, acupuncture point between thumb and index finger. The name is a reference to the ability of the thumb and index finger to open wide like a tiger’s mouth, where the point is located in between
Faceless child: "..."
The child rubbed his hands in confusion, and when he realized what she was doing, he sat down on the spot, shrugging his shoulders as if he was crying.
After about three minutes, Tang Xinjue pulled herself out of her surging thoughts and saw the little boy still sitting on the ground refusing to move, looking very sad.
With him as the center, the cold feeling quickly spread outwards, pulling the temperature of the entire gas station downward by more than ten degrees, and the it was still getting worse.
In order to prevent this place from turning into an ice cave, Tang Xinjue squatted down and remained very gentle: "However, although the watch is gone, I can give you other gifts."
The child ignored it. Tang Xinjue's repeated ruthlessness had dealt a heavy blow to the young ghost's heart, and he had no credibility at all.
Tang Xinjue was not in a hurry, and went straight to a cracked ground. She held the metal with both hands and pulled it up with force, and pulled out the refueling gun that had just been thrown by the decadent young man from the cracked ground.
Then she waved the child over: "How about it, is this gift big enough?"
The faceless child got up in a daze. As soon as he stretched out his hand, a gas gun was stuffed into his arms. His body suddenly shook and he was about to fall to the ground.
Tang Xinjue gently lifted it up: "Such an expensive gift must be taken home and kept well."
Faceless child: "!!!"
"Hey, why is there a child here?"
The station door was suddenly pushed open, and a decadent young man in a yellow uniform finally walked out slowly. Seeing the scene in front of him, a trace of interest finally appeared on his face: "Whose child is this? Why are you still holding it... Isn't this Gas gun?”
The young man raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Tang Xinjue said casually: "Anyway, this can be scrapped. I'll recycle it and give it to the children to play with. If you need the reimbursement, ask Grandma Mayas."
"..."
The young man opened his mouth: "Okay, but this gift..."
At this time, the faceless child, who saw the young man, hugged the gas gun very dearly, pulled it out step by step, clumsily dragged his "gift" into the bushes, and disappeared into the depths of the mist.
"...It's so unique."
The young man shrugged and stopped talking. He installed the new refueling gun and quickly filled the convertible with oil.
"You can continue on your road now, make sure that you reach your final destination safely."
The young man lazily patted the car door twice, and his two light gray eyebrows were pressed tiredly as he spoke, making his complexion even paler, making him look like he was about to die from overwork at any moment.
The moment the thought came to mind, Tang Xinjue also asked: "The work here is very heavy? You seem very tired."
She rubbed her stinging temples and glanced at the empty gas station lightly, as if she just mentioned it casually.
She didn't expect the NPC to answer seriously, but she didn't expect the young man to glance at her and actually say: "I am a student working part-time.
"As for the regular employee here, there was a small problem, so I came over temporarily to take over.”
"Student part-time job?"
Tang Xinjue caught the word and blurted out: "Which university?"
...The research on the three universities in the University Town had been engraved into her subconscious.
She couldn't help but smile, but before she could change her words, the young man had already answered lightly:
"First-Rate University."
The hand on the steering wheel froze, and Tang Xinjue stopped tapping her fingers.
An idea came to her mind, and she said softly: "Which university?"
Then she heard the young man's voice:
"Classmate, there is only the First-Rate University in the University Town."
…
University Town.
At this moment, Tang Xinjue understood what the "road outside the city" on the road sign meant.
A strange palpitation prompted her to raise her head and look far away on the road, all the way to the mist-shrouded sky.
This was the world where the game was located, the place where ghosts were born, and behind the obstacle at the end of the road might be the truth of this world.
The young man was talking to himself again: "It's not tiring to work part-time. The main reason is that the workload of study is a bit heavy, so I came out to get some fresh air. Otherwise, I would have died suddenly. Well, you guys should be fine, right? I heard that Third-Rate University is easier?"
Tang Xinjue did not answer immediately. After a moment, she smiled: "I don't think I ever said that I am a student from Third-Rate University.
"How did you know?"
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