I loaded the dream game

Being able to naturally extend "normal thoughts" to "abnormal things", Kato Megumi is indeed a normal girl who cannot be measured by common sense.

"About three or four days ago, I bought a new camera..."

Just as Xia Zhi was sighing here, the people over there had already started chatting.

"Then, when I tried to take pictures with this camera later, I took some... weird things." The girl was a little vague.

"Weird stuff?"

"Hmm..." The girl nodded, and after a moment's hesitation, she continued, "I took pictures of... a lot of dead people."

"..."

Kato Megumi tilted her head, while Yukino remained silent and moved towards Xia Zhi without making a sound.

"Did you take pictures of the crime scene?" Xia Zhi asked puzzledly.

The girl shook her head vigorously, her face turned slightly pale. She bit her lip and struggled in her heart for a long time before she took out a mobile phone from her pocket, turned on the screen and placed it on the table in front of them.

Xia Zhi took a curious look and saw a photo on the screen of a pale-faced girl with her hands folded on her belly, lying quietly in a coffin covered with flowers. Judging from the surrounding scene and the girl's bloodless skin, it was obvious that she had been dead for a long time.

I don’t know why, but Xia Zhi always feels that the girl in this photo looks familiar.

"This photo was taken at my home..." The girl opened her mouth and explained, "And the person in the photo... is me."

I thought so. Xia Zhi suddenly realized.

Suddenly, he felt a faint pulling sensation at the corner of his clothes. He turned around in confusion, only to find that Yukino had completely shrunk to his side without him knowing when. Her eyes were fixed on the girl in front of her, and her right hand unconsciously grasped the corner of his clothes, as if she was looking for a sense of security.

"So, classmate, are you trying to say that you are dead?" Xia Zhi thought for a moment and looked at the girl again and asked

"No way!" the girl retorted fiercely, "Besides me, I also took photos of many other people, my father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, and my younger brother... Are they all dead?"

Although he said that it was scary and weird, he still used that camera to take a family photo of himself... Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

"I couldn't sleep every night these days. As soon as I closed my eyes, the scenes I saw in the photos would involuntarily emerge in my mind..." The girl couldn't help but tremble slightly.

"If you're so scared, why don't you just not take pictures in the first place?" Xia Zhi asked.

"But... I can't help it!" the girl answered loudly.

"I have tried to destroy the camera, but no matter how hard I tried, it would return to its original state on the cabinet next to my bed the next day. I also tried to throw it away, but no matter how far I threw it, it would still return to my bed the next morning... I have no other choice, so I came to you!"

"Have you ever tried changing the bedside table?" Xia Zhi asked curiously.

"..."

"..."

"Xiazhi, please don't make trouble at this time." Kato Megumi pulled the corner of his clothes and reminded him in a low voice.

"Sorry, sorry." Xia Zhi waved his hand, thought for a moment, looked at the girl and asked, "So, do you have that camera with you now?"

The girl nodded slightly, took out an ordinary silver-white 3.2-type camera from her schoolbag, and placed it on the table.

"Because there's no way I can throw it away... I just have to carry it with me."

Xia Zhi didn't say anything, he just picked up the camera, closed his eyes and "felt" it.

"I see... I can capture the moment when things end."

Soon, Xia Zhi learned about the additional settings on this camera.

Afterwards, he thought about it, turned the camera around, pointed the lens at himself, and simply made a V-shaped photo gesture. Without waiting for the people present to react, he pressed the shutter without hesitation.

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Chapter 208: Can it be reimbursed?

"..."

I waited for a while, but nothing happened.

Xia Zhi was a little confused: I haven’t done anything yet, how come it broke?

"Um..." The girl raised her hand weakly to remind him, "You forgot to turn on the phone."

"..."

Xia Zhi turned on the camera as if nothing had happened, without bothering to adjust any parameters, raised the lens to point at the girl, and pressed the shutter again.

click-

"Huh!?"

As the shutter sounded, the girl let out a short scream and shrank back in fright.

"Don't worry." Xia Zhi looked at the photo displayed on the camera screen, which was exactly the same as the photo on the girl's phone just now, and comforted her: "The way you die has not changed."

"This is not something to be assured of at all, right?" the girl cried out.

Doesn't that mean I'm dead?

"Aren't people supposed to die?" Xia Zhi looked at her puzzled.

"…If you were told that you were going to die at a young age, everyone would be scared, right?"

Xue Noi finally calmed down, took a deep breath, looked at Xia Zhi and asked, "So, this camera and that wooden sword are the same kind of thing...right?"

"About that." Xia Zhi nodded and replied.

Kato Megumi was a little confused, but she also heard it, and they both seemed to agree that this camera was not simple.

She tilted her head, looking a little confused, but didn't say anything. She just stood aside and looked at the people in front of her quietly.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi picked up the camera and pressed the shutter button towards the activity room in front of him, then lowered his head to look at the screen.

The photo shows a dilapidated and ruined classroom. From the layout of the doors and windows and some marks on the wall, it can be vaguely identified that this seems to be the activity room where they are now.

I looked up at the bright and tidy activity room in front of me, and then at the dilapidated scene in the photo. The sharp contrast between the two gave me an unreal feeling.

"If it's 'death', shouldn't there be footage of it being dismantled?"

A thoughtful expression appeared on Yukino's face.

"Perhaps it's because when it became broken into this state, it had already lost its function as a 'classroom'."

As Xia Zhi spoke, he took pictures of various things around him with his camera. The pictures he took showed that all of them were in a dilapidated state, and no longer existed or could no longer be used for their original purpose.

After thinking for a while, he took the camera to the window and took a picture of the sun in the sky. Then, a dim ball of light appeared on the camera screen, which was much smaller than the current sun.

“What is this…?” the girl looked puzzled.

"White dwarf." Yukino explained to her, "The state of the star we call 'the sun' after it dies."

Can we even see the death of stars?

The girls were a little scared.

"There is no time limit." Xia Zhi whispered to himself.

At least, it should have no problem seeing the end of the sun in five billion years. So, let's make a bold guess: even if it wants to see the end of the universe, it should be able to do so, right?

After thinking for a moment, Xia Zhi picked up his cup on the table and threw it into the air, then quickly pressed the shutter before it landed.

Click...

pat--!

One after another, the sounds of shutter clicks and glass breaking rang out, and what appeared on the camera screen was a photo of the cup that had been shattered into pieces on the ground.

Looking up at the place where the cup fell, there were also scattered glass fragments on the ground. Comparing carefully, you can find that the number and location of the fragments are exactly the same between the two, even the most insignificant glass residue is not different at all, as if it was directly copied and pasted.

"In this way, the accuracy of the prediction can be confirmed."

Xia Zhi said to Xue No beside him.

"it seems to be like this."

Seeing this scene, Yukino had to admit it.

"So... I'm dead, right?" The girl's voice was tinged with tears.

"Don't worry, it's not over yet."

As Xia Zhi spoke, he turned around and took a photo of the chair next to him.

As expected, the photo shows a tattered chair with one leg missing, which obviously can no longer be used normally as a "chair".

Xia Zhi didn't care what his favorite chair had become. Instead, he handed the camera to Xue No, picked up a piece of glass on the ground, walked forward, and cut a deep gash on the back of the chair.

"How is it?" He turned around and asked Yukino.

Yukino quickly understood what he meant and lowered her head to look at the screen of the camera in her hand.

"The photo...hasn't changed."

As if she had thought of something, she immediately picked up the camera and took another picture of the chair in front of her.

Then she discovered that the photo that appeared on the screen was exactly the same as the one just now. Although it was still shabby and looked like it could be scrapped, there was no deep scratch on the back of the chair.

This shows what?

“The future predicted by the camera is fixed and does not change as the present changes.”

Xia Zhi looked at the girl and said with a smile: "Congratulations, you have one more way to die."

The girl's body shook violently and her face looked like she was about to cry.

"Please say that her future can be changed and she won't die like the photo, okay?" Yukino sighed, then looked at the girl and reminded her, "However, I still suggest that you go to the hospital for a physical examination in the near future to avoid any hidden diseases."

The girl nodded quickly, then seemed to remember something, looked at the two of them carefully and asked, "Then...what should we do with this camera? Can you take it away?"

"Don't you want this thing?" Xia Zhi asked.

The girl hurriedly shook her head, obviously having a deep psychological trauma from this thing.

"Yeah……"

Xia Zhi thought that this thing was quite interesting.

But if the girls don't want it...

He thought about it, took out two banknotes from his pocket, handed them to the girl and said, "Then I'll buy it."

"Eh?" The girl was stunned.

"Don't you want to sell it?" Xia Zhi looked at her and asked.

"No, no!" The girl shook her head quickly, then hesitated for a moment and said cautiously: "It's just... 2,000 yen may not be enough..."

Summer Solstice: “…030…”

……

"that's it?"

After the girls left the activity room and the door was closed again, Yukino looked at Xiazhi and asked.

"Well, that's no problem." Xia Zhi replied while fiddling with the camera in his hand.

"Because of this camera, it has 'nothing to do' with her now."

In addition to the feature of "being able to capture the moment when things end", the camera also comes with various settings such as "state recovery", "personal binding" and "cannot be discarded".

The "personal binding" is bound to the identity of the camera owner. In other words, as long as you find a way to change the owner of the camera, you can unbind it from the girl.

Because of its non-disposable nature, stealing or robbing is obviously not possible, but if it is a normal transaction based on mutual consent, then there is no problem.

By the way, although there are many settings attached to the camera, there is no setting to "enhance the owner's desire to take pictures."

In other words, when the girl said "I can't help it" before, she really just couldn't help it.

I can only say that she is indeed quite honest, Xia Zhi complained in his heart.

"In this way, the first commission after joining the company has been successfully completed...right, Director Yukino?" He looked at the girl and asked.

Xue No hesitated for a moment, then nodded gently: "Let's just say this..."

Although it was a little different from what she had in mind...

"So..." Xia Zhi paused, looked into her eyes and asked expectantly: "Regarding the expenses of this commission... can the club help reimburse me?"