My Endless Life.

Chapter 445 The Disappeared Person
Li Qi then asked Sun Yu when the cyclical changes first occurred.

Or in other words, the cycle that occurs after someone comes.

But Sun Yu couldn't remember clearly.

In her memory, these people seemed to have come from a cycle, otherwise it would be impossible for them all to become part of the village.

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of Sun Yu, Li Qi stopped hypnotizing him.

At the same time he stood up and said to Li Qiao:

"Sister, I'll go to these stores and take a look."

"Don't you need my help?"

"No, just stay here and take care of the Sun family and don't let anything happen to them."

Li Qi gave Li Qiao some simple instructions, then put on his clothes and left the Sun family courtyard.

The heavy snow outside had stopped a long time ago. While it was still daytime and the sky was not as dark as at night, every household was working hard to clear the snow in front of their doors.

Although the village was caught in a loop, the snow was falling in real time.

The snow stopped two days ago, but the villagers turned a blind eye to it, as if they cared about nothing except things related to the village.

Li Qi had just come out of Sun's house and after walking a few steps he saw a young couple clearing snow in the middle of the road, trying to clear a path.

This young couple looked to be only about 23 or 24 years old, like college graduates.

When the two saw Li Qi walking out of the village, the woman stopped what she was doing and greeted Li Qi with a smile:

"Hey, Xiao An, are you out playing again? Come here and let your sister see if you have grown up."

The woman looked like a weird aunt seducing a child, and gave Li Qi a strange laugh.

Her husband beside her flicked her forehead with his hand and said helplessly:
"Be normal and don't scare the children."

After saying that, the husband turned to look at Li Qi and apologized, "I'm sorry, Xiao An. Did I scare you? Your sister Qianqian is like this. She's an adult but still acts like a child. If I scared you, come back to my house and eat dumplings. It will be my apology."

"Hey, who's acting like a kid?"

Hearing her husband saying bad things about her, the wife hit her husband's shoulder as if complaining and acting coquettishly.

Li Qi was speechless as he watched the young couple showing off their love in front of him.

He scanned the two of them again, then without saying a word, trotted to the next house.

Li Qi had investigated this couple before, but because their behavior and mental strength did not seem like those of the holders of rare objects, Li Qi no longer paid attention to them.

Now Sun Yu said that they were outsiders. Li Qi looked at them again and again for a long time but could not find anything wrong, so he skipped this pair of lively young couple again and went to see the expedition team that he cared about the most.

The young couple are journalists, so it is normal for them to come here to investigate the disappearance of the factory.

After all, in the early days of the apocalypse, the world still maintained a certain order. If they set out from the city to investigate here during this period, it is possible that they would arrive at the mountain village just in time when the power ran out.

But that expedition team was not normal.

When the eternal night comes, the world becomes extremely dark. The place without light outside the city becomes a forbidden zone for humans. No one knows what is hidden in this dark area.

Perhaps some frost-resistant beasts are still foraging in the wild, or perhaps there is simply pollution raging.

The expedition team is the most sensitive to danger in the world. It is impossible for them not to know the situation in the wild. But even so, they still questioned coming out for the "exploration" and eventually got trapped here.

No matter how Li Qi thought about it, he felt that this expedition team was very suspicious.

Not to mention that there were clearly five of them, but now one person was missing.

Therefore, Li Qi planned to carefully check this exploration team to see if he could find anything wrong.

The place where the expedition team lived was one of the few two-story buildings in the village.

The two-story building should have been built by the former residents of this village. Now that the doomsday has come, the residents of this two-story building have either fled to the city for refuge or died somewhere. Instead, the building has become a bargain for outsiders such as the expedition team.

When Li Qi arrived at the second-floor building, he happened to see the exploration team clearing snow upstairs.

One person was on the roof of the second floor, shoveling snow down, another person was transferring the snow piled on the ground into a cart, and then another person pushed the cart to the open space behind the building and moved the snow elsewhere.

Three of the four people were here, and one person was left in the room. Smelling the faint aroma of instant noodles in the air, Li Qi knew that the last person was "cooking" in the room.

After determining the positions of the four people, Li Qi did not disturb them.

He used mental suggestion to make the four people ignore him, and he trotted into the small building and began to look for the four people's personal belongings.

Li Qi and Li Qiao had visited these four people before, but because they had not yet figured out who the problem was, they did not enter the room to investigate carefully.

Now that Li Qi has entered here, he has noticed many things are wrong.

According to the 'eldest brother' of these four people, a middle-aged man in his forties, their parents have passed away many years ago, and this small building was expanded on the original bungalow by the four siblings.

So normally, there might be some of the old people’s things in the room, but not too many.

At least the elderly’s clothes, shoes and daily necessities should be put away.

But when Li Qi arrived at the room and took a look in the closet, he found a lot of things used by the elderly, and there were even children's toys in the drawer!

This proves that elderly people and children once lived in this building.

Not to mention the old people, none of these four people are children.

Moreover, as people living in the village, there are not many things that villagers should use in their rooms. Instead, there are mostly equipment for adventure.

For example, ice shovels, ice axes, hiking boots... Li Qi even found the Luoyang shovel they hid in their luggage!

Wait, what does the expedition team need the Luoyang shovel for?
After checking the equipment of these people, Li Qi realized that something was wrong. Regardless of whether these four people were the culprits who put the village into a cycle, their equipment alone was enough to prove that this group of people came prepared!

Because the area where Li Qi was located was still winter before the end of the world, but it was not as cold as the north.

The constant temperature at that time should be around 0 degrees.

If they were going out for an adventure at this time, they shouldn't carry so many things that can only be used on snowy days.

And now there are anti-slip boots, ice axes and ice shovels, as well as warm tents and so on... This proves that they had already expected the weather to become extremely cold.

Of course, these things are nothing. What really concerns Li Qi is the shovel used for digging, and...

"Compass? Are they here to explore or to rob tombs?"

Li Qi was playing with a special compass engraved with the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches in his hand with a very strange expression.

Would a normal person carry a compass when going on an adventure?
Will you bring a Luoyang shovel with you when you go on an adventure?

Obviously not!

So what is their purpose...

Li Qi was still thinking, but suddenly he heard the sound of wind coming from behind him!

With a frown, Li Qi made a choice in a flash and rolled to the side.

clang!
The thick baseball bat hit the ground with a crisp sound. Li Qi looked back and saw a thin man with disheveled hair standing behind him, looking at him with red eyes.

This man was not any of the four people Li Qi had met before.

He is the fifth person who disappeared!

Li Qi glanced at the slovenly man.

But with just a glance, the man completely disappeared in front of him, as if he had never existed.

"?!"

The man's disappearance made Li Qi alert.

Because he couldn't feel any breath of the man before, it was not until the moment before the other party's sneak attack that Li Qi felt the other party's presence with his keen intuition.

That's why Li Qi chose to dodge instead of fighting back.

In Li Qi's opinion, if someone could hide from his perception, his attack would definitely not be that simple.

But now Li Qi felt that he might have thought too much.

Judging from the way the man disappeared, his disappearance and reappearance were probably not his intention.

So...either you used the magic item, or you paid the price for using it!
"Is that why he disappeared? Wait, is he stuck in a loop?"

Li Qi suddenly thought of this most crucial point.

The missing person in the expedition team is not in Sun Yu's memory. Does this prove that this person is not in the loop at all?

Just like Li Qi and Li Qiao.

Li Qi looked around vigilantly, but the man disappeared and never reappeared.

It was not because he was afraid of Li Qi, but because the sound of something falling on the ground just now attracted the person who was cooking in the house.

"who is it?"

The woman who was cooking noodles walked in with a spatula in one hand and a candle in the other.

The candle light swept across the room, but from the woman's perspective there was no one.

Even though Li Qi was actually standing in front of her, she turned a blind eye.

“…did you hear wrongly?”

After looking around the room, the ponytailed woman frowned and muttered, then turned and left.

Li Qi watched her leave and focused his attention elsewhere.

This time, because he remained vigilant enough, Li Qi was ready to react the moment the news came out.

He immediately turned around and raised his right hand to grab behind him!

boom!
A dull sound was heard, and a metal baseball bat fell into Li Qi's hands, but Li Qi himself did not move at all.

The sloppy man who suddenly appeared behind him had strength and speed only at the level of an ordinary person, which could be seen from the previous attack.

Li Qi took the other's baseball bat without any hesitation. When he was about to raise his foot to kick the man behind him, the sloppy man with disheveled hair suddenly disappeared from Li Qi's sight!
"?"

Li Qi's kick missed and he looked stunned.

This time he was concentrating on staring at this place and using his mental power. It stands to reason that it is impossible for anyone to escape from Li Qi, even if the other party used a magical object.

But now the other party just disappeared from his sight!

Li Qi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, and he understood the reason why the other party disappeared.

"Because I saw it..."

Thinking that this person disappeared twice because his eyes fell on him, Li Qi made a bold guess.

(End of this chapter)