Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 2 Their Death
The roar of the bell echoed in my mind.

The moment when time returned to Li Daosheng was actually very ordinary.

What surprised him was that this was the first time he saw his own posture in such a comprehensive and three-dimensional way from a third-person perspective.

It was the beginning of winter. I was hunching my neck, rubbing my hands, and breathing into my palms. I could even see the white mist that was coming out.

As the right foot took a step forward, the left heel was slightly lifted.

He remained frozen on the sidewalk in a statue-like pose.

Not only him, but the whole world was frozen like this, as if the pause button was pressed and everything was frozen.

Until the next moment, Li Daosheng regained consciousness and felt a chill in his face. He raised his left leg on the heel and took a step forward.

Time flows.

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he saw a countdown in the air in front of him.

07:59:59.

I reached out and grabbed it, but I could see it but couldn't touch it.

The passersby looked the same, probably because they couldn't see it.

Time is of the essence…

But what happened today?
How could I die?

and many more……

Li Daosheng suddenly thought of a question.

He felt around and found his cell phone was still there. He opened it and checked the time.

It is now 3:27 in the afternoon.

Three twenty-seven...

Why is this the time to come back?
The location is... a sidewalk near the university town. There is nothing unusual. It seems that he placed himself there randomly.

What I just saw was clearly the state in which the entire world was paused. If what Gu Xi said was true, and all thirteen people died today, and the world was paused at the moment of death, then this moment is... the time of my death?
Li Daosheng's heart skipped a beat.

I died on November 1st, at 3:27 p.m.

Li Daosheng frowned. What happened today?
Was it an accidental death?

Or was there murder?

Li Daosheng quickly browsed the local news as he walked.

He wanted to see if anyone had discovered the body, but he was in a physical state at the moment, and he thought that his death, which was not noticed by the world, and all traces of the body should have been erased.

This is really a difficult problem. As Gu Xi said, even a passerby who happens to pass by may be his anchor.

Li Daosheng tried to lock his target on a passerby, and sure enough, the words "Confirm anchor point" appeared below the countdown.

and many more.

Li Daosheng stopped.

Although I have no memory of today and have no recollection of what happened, the memories of yesterday and even further back are still there.

So what did I plan to do today?
After thinking carefully, Li Daosheng's brain, which had been a little confused due to the excessive information he had received today, gradually became clear.

Yes... Today I'm going to meet two people. One of them is a brother who grew up with me, a guy named Zheng Tunan.

The other one is Chen Qingqing, the daughter of the neighbor next door. She also grew up with her family cursing and quarreling with each other, and no one treated her as the opposite sex.

He didn't think his death had anything to do with them.

Zheng Tunan didn't have that kind of brains. When he was a kid, he came up with a bad idea. He went to the construction site and stole people's wire and sold it to buy popsicles. He and Zheng Tunan agreed to split the money 50-50.

Zheng Tunan said, "No problem, but we need to make it clear first who will take 50%."

Until now, Li Daosheng still remembers Zheng Tunan's serious and slightly stupid look.

As for Chen Qingqing, she was a homebody, a combination of laziness and greed. Although he often criticized her, she wouldn't hate him to the point of killing him, right?

Go to them first to find out the situation.

It was past three in the afternoon. If this was indeed the time of his death, then it was extremely important to figure out the entire movement path. Even if it was truly a chance witness, it would be necessary to follow the correct movement path to find him.

Having made up his mind, Li Daosheng first called Zheng Tunan.

No one answered.

Li Daosheng felt a little puzzled.

He hailed a taxi, the destination of which was his home, and then called Chen Qingqing in the next community.

The call was connected, but still no one answered.

Now, Li Daosheng was a little nervous.

If Zheng Tunan didn't answer the phone, it might be because he went out to play, but if Chen Qingqing didn't answer the phone, that was almost impossible.

That woman never puts her phone down. She stares at it while eating, walking, and going to the bathroom. It's impossible for her not to receive a call.

"Master, please drive faster, I'm in a hurry."

"Okay!" The driver stepped on the accelerator, and the half-hour journey arrived in less than twenty minutes.

"Thank you, master!" Li Daosheng got out of the car quickly, passed by his own home, and headed straight for Chen Qingqing's residential area.

This is an old residential area. The residential buildings are all seven stories high and there is no elevator. Chen Qingqing's home is on the third floor.

But before he could fully enter the community, he saw something unusual happening in the residential building.

The cordon and law enforcement officers are all there!

problem occurs.

Li Daosheng's heart suddenly tightened. He looked around and did not rush forward. Instead, he grabbed an old lady next to him and asked, "Auntie, what happened?"

Li Daosheng lives in the next community, and this face is not unfamiliar to the residents around him.

Most people know whose kid this is from the neighborhood.

Hearing this, the old lady shook her head and said, "The daughter of the Chen family, the girl named Chen Qingqing, was murdered. I heard that someone slashed her throat with a knife. Blood flowed out from the crack in the door and flowed down the stairs. She struggled for a long time before she died..."

Li Daosheng only felt a sharp roar, his eyes went dark, and he felt dizzy and unstable.

Is Chen Qingqing, who always holds her cell phone tightly and rolls her eyes at herself, dead?
The surging impulse in his heart made him want to rush forward, ask clearly, and see clearly.

But his remaining sanity kept him stuck in the spot.

calm……

I only have about seven and a half hours, and going up now to explain the situation and do basic research would waste a lot of time.

Moreover, I came to see her this morning, and I was also a big suspect in their eyes, and it was impossible to explain it clearly in a short time.

Only if I survive first can I have a chance to figure it out.

Calm down, huh...

Li Daosheng took a deep breath, turned around and ran.

But at the same time, a worse premonition continued to emerge in his heart.

Tunan, Zheng Tunan, you can't...

Li Daosheng, who was turning around and running, stopped again and stood there in a daze.

He kept refreshing the local messages on his phone because he was looking for clues about today's body.

however……

The appearance of a video made his mind go blank.

"A murder occurred on Youxin Road. The deceased is a 20-year-old male university student named Zheng..."

I couldn't hear anything and everything was blurry.

The voices and appearances of his two childhood friends kept circling in his mind. Their deaths shocked Li Daosheng even more than knowing that he was dead.

how so……

(End of this chapter)