Terrible news! My deskmate's first chapter is gone!

"What!?"

Chen Xi was completely bewildered:

"Yan Mingliang, explain yourself clearly. What do you mean by 'my mother is gone'?"

"After we ended our call, I told them about my trip to Sheung Shui."

My parents both agree...

Chen Xi stopped abruptly when she finished speaking.

Yup!

The parents' consent simply doesn't exist!

Disorderly... chaotic yet logical...

This is the Black Tower logic summarized by Chen Xi.

The reason no one noticed anything strange was because everything proceeded as usual!

The messages that Chen Xi sent on her own could not be modified, a fact that was already confirmed from the very beginning of the investigation into Lin Fan's surveillance footage.

The scene of Chen Xi and Lin Fan together was modified, but the scene of him alone after leaving the tennis court was not modified.

To put it bluntly, the world that I experience and the world that my parents experience are two different worlds.

However, these two worlds are not completely disconnected; you can still buy high-speed rail tickets and so on.

However, discrepancies can occur in the information exchanged between people.

For example, the messages Chen Xi sends will be received by her parents, and the content will not be modified.

The reason for this is that the Black Tower is not specifically targeting Chen Xi; it only corrects what is unreasonable, making everything seem reasonable.

On the parents' side, they have their own child, Chen Xi, the child who had hallucinations due to academic pressure, who is now taking a year off from school to relax.

Meanwhile, Yancheng was on the verge of being swallowed by the black mist, and everyone inside seemed to be hypnotized.

In their eyes, everything in the world was normal, until one day it was swallowed up by the Black Tower.

"If you put it that way, I don't know either!"

Yan Mingliang's somewhat annoyed voice came through:

"On Yancheng Street, everyone 'appeared' to be normal."

"As usual, people went to work and went to school, and pedestrians on the street were walking and chatting in an orderly manner."

"But as you said, they're not on the same wavelength as me."

"I casually lifted up the short skirts of a few girls on the street to try and observe the stability of the triangle, but unfortunately none of them reacted."

"They don't see me or feel my presence."

"After that, I went to your parents' workplace as you suggested."

"But I only found my uncle, not my aunt."

"Later I went to your house again, and walked along the way to work for your aunt several times, but I still didn't run into her."

"The reason it took me so long to reply is because I was waiting for your housekeeper to get off work at your house."

"I thought Auntie would come back after get off work, but she still didn't."

"It's this late, and only your dad has come home."

"So I'm wondering if there's a possibility."

"Your mother, like me, has entered what's called an awakened state?"

"impossible!"

Chen Xi firmly refused:

"To put it somewhat narcissistically, in my mom's eyes, her only close relatives are my dad and me!"

"If my mom really enters the awakened state, then either my dad or I will have to be swallowed by the Black Tower."

"Obviously, that's impossible. You've found my father, and I can't be directly devoured now."

"Secondly, even if she really entered the awakened state, it's impossible that she wouldn't go home. Instead, she would tell my dad that someone suddenly disappeared, but it seems that only I noticed."

"So my mom couldn't possibly be in an awakened state."

Chen Xi fell silent after saying this.

The scene at this moment is just like a popular saying on the internet.

You're always like this; when faced with a difficult question, you just stay silent.

If one doesn't become a superhuman like oneself, then there is only one outcome.

Swallowed by the Black Tower!

Am I really that unlucky?

It was my mom's turn right away!?

Although I'm very reluctant to accept it, this seems to be the only explanation at the moment.

Yan Mingliang must have thought about this answer after studying it for so long, but he didn't reveal it.

"Please trouble you to bring my dad to Sheung Shui City alone."

"Try to act convincingly on the road, so as not to attract the attention of the imposters."

"I see."

Yan Mingliang hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

The two of them tacitly avoided mentioning Chen Xi's mother.

......

On the other end of the phone.

Chen Xi's home.

After hanging up the phone, Yan Mingliang glanced around and then, like a thief, rummaged through drawers and cabinets before obtaining Chen Xi's father's ID card.

"Found it."

"Luckily, I didn't put these things in a safe or anything like that."

He then took out his phone and entered Chen Xi's father's identity information.

"All done. If we leave now, we can still catch the last bus."

"We should be able to reach Sheung Shui City by tomorrow morning."

After Yan Mingliang finished speaking, he looked towards the bedroom and saw a middle-aged man playing on his phone inside. He then muttered to himself:

"Uncle, I'm taking you away by force!"

And so, Yan Mingliang left the neighborhood with Chen Xi's father.

About a minute after the two left.

At the entrance of the residential compound, a middle-aged woman watched Yan Mingliang and his companion leave, her eyes filled with complex emotions that were hard to describe.

Then, in a voice only he could hear, he softly uttered five words:

"Chen Xi, Mom's gone..."

The five words seemed like some kind of magic potion; after they were uttered, the middle-aged woman's gaze gradually changed from complex to clear and firm.

Finally, the middle-aged woman resembled a candle soaring into the sky, attempting to stand shoulder to shoulder with the sun.

In no time at all, he vanished without a trace.

......

"let's go."

Chen Xi put away his phone and said to Yang Wei.

"Chen Xi!"

The writer suddenly spoke, interrupting Chen Xi's progress:

"If you need it, just give me enough detailed information, and I can write a profile of your biological mother for you!"

"Thank you so much!"

After finishing speaking, Chen Xi left without looking back.

Yang Wei, being pragmatic, followed along.

The two then left the author's home.

......

Sheung Shui City.

Outside a detached villa that had been burned down.

A girl with burgundy, wavy hair suddenly arrived, her high heels clicking on the gravel and cement floor.

She gently tore off the seal on the door with her hand.

Then he raised a long leg and kicked the lock cylinder, giving the door a thorough thud.

squeak~

Push open the door.

The girl went inside and then snapped her fingers.

The damaged gate and torn seal behind them miraculously returned to their original positions, as if they had never been damaged at all.

After entering the room, the girl first looked around.

Then, its nose twitched, like a dog searching for a scent.

Following a certain scent, the girl arrived at a bedroom.

Although it's called a bedroom, everything here has been completely destroyed by a fire, and black is the main color scheme.

Soon, on a charred wall in the bedroom, the girl noticed a strange metallic sheen.

She narrowed her eyes, choosing to use force to overcome all obstacles, and immediately ripped open the wall.

Soon, a broken, sharp piece of metal fell out.

The girl picked up the metal piece, sniffed it carefully, frowned, and muttered to herself in a somewhat incredulous voice:

"No mistake, this is the taste of the Sword of Dawn."

"I never expected it to be smashed!"