Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 384 A surprising discovery

Han Zhou went upstairs not because he knew where to find Xiao Xiaoxiao, but because he was not sure what would happen after taking half a sleeping pill, so he needed to find a place away from everyone to use the method in the secret book.

Xiao Xiaoxiao disappeared inexplicably, so if he wanted to find her, he would probably have to disappear for a while. If there were other people nearby when he took the sleeping pills, he might take them away with him.

But then again, he actually felt somewhat familiar with Xiao Xiaoxiao's disappearance. It was very similar to what happened when they went to explore the haunted unfinished building. At that time, they thought that everyone else was missing, but in everyone's eyes, they were the ones who actually disappeared.

I have to say that there are indeed many similarities between these two things.

Of course, there are some differences. For example, he disappeared with Xiao Xiaoxiao that time, but this time it was only Xiao Xiaoxiao who disappeared...

Thinking of this, Han Zhou suddenly had a bold guess -

Perhaps this is the reason why Xiao Xiaoxiao found an excuse to send Ouyang Lianyu away?
The reason why the two disappeared together was because they were very close to each other at the time. As Ouyang Lianyu is Xiao Xiaoxiao's roommate tonight, if she does not leave the room, the two will sleep next to each other all night, and the distance between them will only be closer.

Perhaps Xiao Xiaoxiao had already realized in advance that she would disappear, and in order not to implicate Ouyang Lianyu with her, she found an excuse to send her away?
Han Zhou felt that this possibility was very high.

He was very sure that Xiao Xiaoxiao had enough sleeping pills. He had to have some purpose behind using such a poor excuse as "I've run out of sleeping pills" to ask Ouyang Lianyu to come to his room in the middle of the night.

Apart from being worried that Ouyang Lianyu would be implicated, he could not think of any other reason.

It can't be that the purpose is to let him and Ouyang Lianyu stay in the same room alone, so as to take the opportunity to bring them together, right?

Han Zhou returned to his room while thinking. This time, he did not hesitate at all before going to bed and locked the door resolutely.

After tonight's lesson, he decided that he would never leave his door unlocked before going to bed again.

Lying flat on the bed, he took out sleeping pills from the inventory, took out a tablet and broke it in half, put one half into the bottle, and held the other half in his hand to examine it carefully.

Even if I want to find Xiao Xiaoxiao, I need to use sleeping pills. This thing is indeed related to her...

Taking a sleeping pill will make you fall asleep quickly, and I don’t know what effect taking half a pill will have. Will it make you enter a half-asleep and half-wakeful state?
He thought for a moment, and without much hesitation, he threw the sleeping pills in his hand into his mouth and swallowed them.

At the same time, a line of small words popped up in front of his eyes.

"Do you want to consume half of the current points to proceed to the next step?"

"Yes."

It was the first time that Han Zhou used points other than modifying his status and shopping in the mall. Looking at the rapidly decreasing points, he couldn't help but feel distressed.

What surprised him was that after half of the points disappeared, nothing special happened to him or his surroundings.

In simple terms, nothing happened.

Apart from anything else, he had taken half a sleeping pill, so he should have felt a little sleepy, but he was not sleepy at all. Instead, he felt full of energy.

Could something have gone wrong?

Han Zhou murmured in his heart, but he was still convinced of the ability of the status bar, so he was not in a hurry. He lay on the bed and waited silently for a while, but no changes appeared.

No, maybe the changes have already occurred, but they are not intuitive enough...

He was lost in thought, and couldn't help but think of the last time he and Xiao Xiaoxiao visited the unfinished building at night. At that time, they thought that everyone else had disappeared, but in everyone's eyes, they were the ones who had disappeared.

So the change is...

As if he had thought of something, Han Zhou quickly got out of bed, opened the locked door, and quickly went to the living room downstairs.

As expected, the living room was empty.

In order to prevent himself from making a wrong judgment, he quickly checked the entire villa as quickly as possible, including every room on the second floor, but did not see Mo Yixia and others.

Everybody disappeared.

No, he should be the one who disappeared.

Just like the unfinished building incident, although the surroundings were still the same scene, it was a completely different place from reality.

As incredible as it sounds, it seems to be the case at the moment.

Han Zhou secretly clicked his tongue, not having time to think about whether this was a parallel time and space or a mirror space. Instead, he was thinking about where Xiao Xiaoxiao had gone.

According to the tips in the brocade bag, Xiao Xiaoxiao is very likely to be in this place, but he just searched the entire villa and couldn't see her anywhere.

Unless that guy can run to another "parallel world", she must be nearby. Since she is not in the villa, she can only be outside.

Thinking of this, Han Zhou left the living room and headed towards the door.

When passing by the kitchen, he looked at the clock in the hall from afar and suddenly noticed something very strange.

The time pointed by the wall clock hands was not one o'clock, but close to eleven o'clock.

He remembered clearly that he took the sleeping pills at around one in the morning.

He took out his cell phone and thought about it. The time on the phone was 11:11, the same time as he remembered, but there was no signal at all.

Weird, why is the time on the wall clock different from the time on the phone...

Han Zhou felt strange. With his photographic memory, he remembered looking at the wall clock when he just arrived at the villa in the afternoon. The time was a little after six o'clock, which was close to the time he arrived at the villa. Even if there was a deviation, it would not be as big as it is now, with a difference of more than two hours.

He had a headache and suddenly sighed, thinking that it would be useless even if he figured these things out now. After all, all the memories of this period would disappear when he returned. It would be better to find Xiao Xiaoxiao as soon as possible.

Just then, he suddenly heard some noise in the kitchen next door and immediately walked in quickly.

The light was on in the kitchen and the refrigerator was half open. The door was very high, but he still saw the two shoes under the door at a glance.

Han Zhou remembered it very clearly. These were Xiao Xiaoxiao's height-increasing shoes.

Obviously, the other party was hiding behind the refrigerator. He breathed a sigh of relief, but it was a bit strange, because he had checked the kitchen just now, but he didn't see anyone in the kitchen at that time.

Although it was strange, he didn't say anything, but quietly approached the refrigerator, intending to give Xiao Xiaoxiao behind the refrigerator door a surprise.

However, the moment he approached the refrigerator, something incredible happened.

I saw the short figure hiding behind the refrigerator door suddenly run behind me, and then pass through the wall and leave!
That’s right, through walls.

"Fuck!"

A swear word came out of his mouth uncontrollably. Han Zhou widened his eyes and suddenly doubted whether he was dreaming.

But if it wasn't a dream, why could Xiao Xiaoxiao pass through the wall?

It took him a long while to regain his composure. He quickly walked to the wall where Xiao Xiaoxiao disappeared and tentatively touched it with his hand. It felt hard and cold, obviously a real solid wall.

As soon as this thought popped up in his mind, he suddenly felt a chill on his arm, and then his eyes widened, only to see that his arm had penetrated the wall without him noticing, and was still slowly moving in!

Before he could figure out what was going on, he had already passed through the wall, left the villa, and came out into the pouring rain.

In the midst of the violent storm, the scene outside the house was blurry. The rain was icy, and the bean-sized raindrops hit his body, bringing a slight pain. The cold air with the fragrance of earth penetrated into his nose, making him shiver uncontrollably.

All of this seemed to be telling Han Zhou that he was not dreaming and that passing through the wall just now was not an illusion.

It was raining heavily outside, and he was soaked almost instantly. Just as he was about to go back through the wall, he saw a faint light in the villa next door from a distance.

It is worth mentioning that the light in the villa was green, which looked like a scene in a horror movie, giving people a creepy and terrifying feeling.

No way, walking through walls and being haunted?
Han Zhou became more and more confused. Thinking that the direction Xiao Xiaoxiao had just left seemed to be the location of the villa, he couldn't help but feel a little worried, so he rushed over quickly.

The door of the villa was locked. For safety reasons, he did not use his ability to pass through walls to get into the villa, but instead found a window to observe the environment inside the villa.

It was very dark in the villa, with only a faint green light and extremely limited visibility. If Han Zhou had not seen several cameras, he would have really suspected that this place was haunted.

He had noticed that the green light was emitted by something similar to fluorescent sticks, which were hung in many places, and some places were even equipped with green screens. It looked like a movie shooting scene.

Although this scene is very shabby.

Han Zhou pondered, if this place and reality are similar to a parallel world, does that mean that in reality, there is also such a scene in the villa next to them? Or even a crew is filming a horror movie?
If this is true, then it can explain the terrifying woman that Teacher Ouyang saw at night...

He suddenly felt enlightened. Seeing that there was no danger, he tentatively reached out his hand to the wall in front of him, and sure enough, he went through it again.

Entering the villa, the feeling of being hit by the heavy rain suddenly disappeared, but the wet and sticky feeling was really uncomfortable. He endured the discomfort and walked slowly forward while looking around the scene in the villa.

"It turns out they are filming a horror movie..."

The room was decorated with some horrific props such as severed limbs. Just by looking at the crude workmanship, one could tell that the crew shooting this movie was indeed short of money.

Han Zhou's original intention was not to analyze whether the crew had money. He mainly wanted to see if there was any trace of Xiao Xiaoxiao in the villa. However, after searching for a while, all he could see were these rough props.

Just then, he suddenly heard some noise upstairs, and his expression became serious. Considering that Xiao Xiaoxiao would hide from him like she did just now, he immediately ran upstairs as fast as he could.

However, the noise just now was separated by a floor, and he was not sure where the sound came from. After arriving on the second floor, he first glanced in the direction of the corridor, then used the "wall-penetrating technique" to directly drill into the room closest to the stairs, and then rushed forward with the ability to penetrate walls, searching the rooms along the way one by one -

Walking through the door is too slow, it would be much faster to find Xiao Xiaoxiao this way.

During this period, he had actually figured out a lot of things.

Han Zhou remembered very clearly that when he was alone in the kitchen tonight, he clearly did not make any sound, but everyone was convinced that they heard him shout "Fuck!"

He was very sure that he did not make such a sound at that time, but just now, he did shout "Fuck" in the kitchen.

In other words, what Mo Yixia and others heard at that time was most likely the sound he had just made.

In other words, we heard voices from the past and from the future.

This seems to be the case on the surface, but if we consider the wall clock in the villa's lobby which is two hours slow, this conclusion may need to be revised.

The real fact should be "he went back to the past from the present."

Although it cannot explain why the villa was empty after going back to the past, this is obviously a more reasonable explanation.

Something similar seemed to have happened during the last night exploration of the unfinished building. It was said that the other people who were exploring the unfinished building at the time heard strange noises. Now that he thought about it, the noises those people heard might have been caused by him and Xiao Xiaoxiao.

The two arrived in the past from the future, and although others could not see them, they could hear the sounds they made.

Of course, there are still many inexplicable aspects of this speculation. For example, from the perspective of time, the time when he and Xiao Xiaoxiao disappeared and the time when other people heard the strange noises were actually roughly the same. If we have to divide the past and the future, the difference is probably only a few minutes, which is far less than the two-hour time span this time.

For example, when they were at the unfinished building, he and Xiao Xiaoxiao chatted with each other after they disappeared, and although other people said they heard some noises that sounded like human voices, no one suggested that they were their voices.

But this time it was different. Except for himself, everyone else could be sure that it was his voice that they heard at that time, even though they were not far away from each other.

"Could it be because I didn't go back to the past with Xiao Xiaoxiao this time, but used points to come here? The former is sneaking, while the latter is a real payment, so the signal is much better?"

Han Zhou thought about it and this was the only explanation he could think of.

In addition, he also developed richer associations.

Assuming that the time when Xiao Xiaoxiao and I disappeared consumed zero points, this time it consumed 147 points. Zero points can only push the time forward a few minutes, while 107 points can push the time forward two hours.

If we calculate it this way, is there a possibility that...

As the number of points consumed increases, the time that can be pushed forward will also become longer and longer?
In other words, if he spends enough points, can he go back to a year ago, ten years ago, or even to any time point in the past he wants to go to?

(End of this chapter)