"How do you... know where I am?"
Luo Qili sensed something was off.
Even if Zhao Yi called from the future, how could he know her exact location now?
"Because soon you'll be coming out to meet 'me.'"
Zhao Yi's tone was calm.
It contrasted sharply with the heart-wrenching screams outside the alloy door.
Luo Qili was dumbfounded.
"Didn't you say that if I don't want to die... I shouldn't go out?"
The Zhao Yi on the phone replied:
"If you walk out just like that, you will indeed die."
"The 'me' outside is not the same as the one you saw before."
"If you want to survive, turn up the phone volume to the maximum and switch to speaker mode."
"Let me talk to 'him.'"
Luo Qili's heart skipped a beat.
"Hurry up, we don't have much time..."
The Zhao Yi on the phone urged her. Luo Qili hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth, immediately switched to speaker mode, and turned the volume to the maximum!
This Nokia was indeed absurd; the volume was so loud it made her ears ring.
Then, she pressed the button to open the door.
The alloy door opened.
The hellish scene before her pierced Luo Qili's eyes like a sharp sword, stabbing straight into her soul!
The ground was littered with severed limbs, and blood spread like splattered ink.
The thick stench of blood made Luo Qili feel as if she were in a slaughterhouse!
Many of the dismembered people were still alive, lying on the ground, wailing in agony!
It seemed they had suffered severe mental contamination; many had gouged out their own eyes and continued to dig into their sockets with their fingers, the flowing blood even tinged with white...
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The man standing in the center... held Bal's lifeless body in one hand, a bizarre smile on his face, quietly watching her.
His body was covered in hideous black veins, leaving terrifying patterns on his skin that were unbearable to look at.
Just one glance, and Luo Qili could clearly feel her SAN value plummeting!
The once familiar Zhao Yi... had become strange and terrifying!
In the moment of distraction at the door, Luo Qili suddenly snapped back to reality.
However, the scene that made her soul tremble appeared!
Zhao Yi, who had been two hundred meters away, had vanished!
He...
Where did he go?
An indescribable sense of danger enveloped Luo Qili's heart, her eyes frantically scanning, trying to find that terrifying figure among the scattered limbs.
Left... nothing!
Right... nothing either!
Where is he?
Where is he?
At that moment, a sinister voice came from right behind her:
"Are you looking for me?"
Luo Qili shuddered, her body stiffening.
Her blood seemed to freeze, her mind blank.
Even though she had been mentally prepared, determined not to give in easily in the face of danger, the voice behind her still made Luo Qili experience a fear that came from the depths of her soul!
Like a newborn fawn facing a fierce tiger.
Even with healthy legs, a tiger's roar would leave it trembling on the ground, awaiting death!
A pair of hands covered in black veins slowly caressed her cheek.
Luo Qili felt as if she were falling into a bottomless abyss...
Everything before her was drifting away...
The world grew darker and darker...
Just as the last trace of color was about to vanish from her sight, a voice came from the phone:
"Friend."
In an instant, Luo Qili's vision returned to normal.
Her body was drenched in cold sweat!
A hand took the phone from her, and Luo Qili dared not look back, standing there like a piece of wood.
After Zhao Yi took the phone, he canceled the speaker mode, and it was unclear what was said on the other end.
After a long while, Luo Qili felt the chilling presence from the abyss behind her disappear.
"Ready to complete the logical loop."
Zhao Yi's warm voice sounded.
Luo Qili turned around, panting, and asked Zhao Yi behind her:
"What just happened to you?"
Zhao Yi didn't answer her, dialing a number instead.
A hotel number.
On the first day he received the call from the future, he had deliberately checked the bottom of the phone and memorized the number.
The ringtone played:
"La~ lalala~ lalala~"
"The pink fan dances~"
"La~ lalala~ lalala~"
"I want to stroll with you~"
"The heartbeat of love, how fast~"
Damn!
What a strange ringtone!
It didn't match the heart-wrenching screams around at all!
"Hello?"
The phone was silent, seemingly not yet connected.
Soon, there was a crackling interference from the other end.
Zzzzz—
Seeing the call connected, Zhao Yi spoke:
"Take a camera to Kala Asylum."
After speaking, Zhao Yi hung up.
Then he handed the phone back to Luo Qili. Not long after, Luo Qili also received a call from her future self, instructing her on when to call herself on the first and second days to provide important information.
Once Luo Qili provided the correct information to her first-day self in the hotel, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At least their first logical loop had been successfully established.
The second logical loop was to be established on the fourth day.
The two of them needed to call their 'selves' on the second day at a fixed time and place, providing the next correct piece of information.
Watching Zhao Yi fiddling with his camera, Luo Qili suddenly posed a thought-provoking question.
"Zhao Yi... why did our fifth-day selves tell us all about our itinerary for the fourth and fifth days?"
"According to the previous pattern, it should have been our sixth-day selves calling our fourth-day selves, explaining the fifth day's itinerary..."
This was something easily overlooked.
On the first day, they received a call from their third-day selves, telling them where to go on the second day.
On the second day, they received a call from their fourth-day selves, telling them where to go on the third day.
But on the third day, their fifth-day selves called to inform them about the events of the next two days.
This seemed to disrupt the pattern.
Zhao Yi pondered for a moment and replied:
"Remember when I told you that the system might pull some tricks on the sixth and seventh days?"
Luo Qili thought for half a second, her eyes lighting up.
At that time, Zhao Yi had even been silenced for three minutes.
"I have a hypothesis, but I'm not sure yet..."
"Once we enter the fourth day and I get the last component of this camera—the battery, I can confirm whether my hypothesis is correct."
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