Card Room

Chapter 5: The moment the double aces were pulled out by Xiao Lou, the entire card wall collapsed in front of everyone as if it had been destroyed by magical power. Countless cards turned into fragments and fell from the wall. This bizarre scene made his teammates widen their eyes in surprise. However, before everyone could say anything, Xiao Lou's eyes suddenly went dark, and he immediately lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a bed.

This room was extremely familiar to him, with light blue sheets and quilts, and cotton curtains of the same color. There were no extraneous furnishings in the room, except for a large wardrobe on the wall. The lamp above the head is a very simple round ceiling lamp with a circle of lines around it. Xiao Lou remembers it very clearly. He bought it personally from a lighting store.

Xiao Lou rubbed his sore temples and got out of bed.

The ground was covered with his favorite wood-colored floor, and he also bought pajamas and slippers from the supermarket. Xiao Lou came to the window with a puzzled mood, and opened the curtains. Downstairs was a familiar artificial lake, with a large lake in the center. The fountain and the willow trees surrounding the artificial lake cast a circle of reflections in the lake. In the wooden pavilion, several elderly people were playing chess.

These scenes were so familiar that Xiao Lou thought he was hallucinating. He rubbed his eyes hard and took a closer look. Everything in front of him was so real, just like what he saw when he woke up every morning.

This is his residence in the real world, located in Yuhua Community on Nonglin Road, Jiangzhou City.

He just bought this house last year and spent a lot of time decorating it. The environment of the community is very good, there is a supermarket downstairs, and the transportation is very convenient. It only takes ten minutes to walk to school. I remember that he went out from the community and was going to buy something at the supermarket across the street. As a result, he was hit by a bus while crossing the street and accidentally came to the card world.

But now, why has he returned to his home?

None of his teammates were there, which made Xiao Lou immediately alert. He quickly walked out of the bedroom and looked around the room. The furnishings in the entire room were exactly the same as his house in the real world. Even the small ornaments on the shoe cabinet at the door were exactly the same as in his memory.

Was transported back to reality

Or is this all an illusion copied by the card world based on his memory?

Xiao Lou calmed down, quickly went back to the bedroom, opened the closet, put on clean clothes, and grabbed the cell phone and keys on the bedside table to go out. As soon as he walked to the door, his cell phone rang, and the caller ID was his mother.

Xiao Lou's heart skipped a beat, and he pressed the answer button "Hello" with trembling fingers.

The voice that came to his ears was so familiar that it made him feel sad. The woman asked very gently, "Xiao Lou, when will your school have a holiday? This spring, I will go back to grandma's house to celebrate the New Year together. Grandma has been thinking about you, and she also said that she would give you a favorite for the New Year's Eve dinner." Dumplings to eat”

Xiao Lou's nose suddenly felt sour and he didn't know how to reply.

How long has it been since I heard my mother’s voice?

Although he has grown up, in the eyes of his parents, he is still their son. In the past, his mother would call every weekend to ask about his current situation, and occasionally she would also care about whether he had anyone he liked and when he would take his lover back.

Because Xiao Lou has been very sensible since he was a child, and his parents have always been tolerant and supportive of him, respecting his decisions and understanding his choices, Xiao Lou feels that they are the best parents in the world. And this phone call was indeed made by his mother in person on the eve of the holiday, and even what she said was accurate.

Xiao Lou remembers saying, "Mom, we have a holiday on the 10th day of the twelfth lunar month, but after the holiday, I have to represent the school to attend an academic conference. This meeting is very important and may not end until the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month."

Xiao Lou said what he remembered. There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, work is important. If you really can't come back, we will fly to Jiangzhou to see you."

Xiao Lou said, "I should be able to go back. I will go home to tidy up after the meeting, and then take a flight on the morning of the 30th. I will get home around three in the afternoon, and I can have New Year's Eve dinner with you."

The voice on the other end of the phone clearly showed a hint of surprise, "Great, then I'll wait for you at grandma's house."

Xiao Lou said "Yeah", told him to take care of himself, and then hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, the excitement of hearing his mother's voice quickly dissipated. Xiao Lou calmed down and frowned, thinking carefully about whether he had traveled back to before the accident or whether everything was an illusion.

Xiao Lou put his hand into his pocket, but did not find the familiar card holder.

He was stunned, and then opened the address book on his mobile phone. The familiar names in it made Xiao Lou more and more confused. He simply pulled the address book to the "y" letter sorting position and found the name "Yu Hanjiang".

Xiao Lou called without hesitation. After two beeps, the phone was connected. There was some noise on the other side of the phone. Soon, Yu Hanjiang's low, calm voice came again, "Hey, Professor Xiao, you have something to do with me." "

Xiao Lou ""

Professor Xiao, this is what Yu Hanjiang called him a long time ago when the two of them were not very familiar with each other. If the Yu Hanjiang on the other end of the phone was the Yu Hanjiang of today, he would never call him that.

Xiao Lou asked tentatively, "Is Captain Yu busy recently?"

There was the clear sound of leather shoes on the floor on the other side of the phone, followed by the sound of the door opening. He seemed to have walked into the office. After arriving in a quiet environment, he whispered, "I've been really busy lately. By the way, I'm just in time We encountered a difficult case, a serial murder case. We found a rare drug in the deceased's cup and would like to ask Professor Xiao to help identify it."

Xiao Lou suppressed the embarrassment in his heart and replied, "No problem, I will go to the forensic examination today."

The center is at work, so Captain Yu can come over at any time when he is free. "

Yu Hanjiang said, "Okay, see you there at three o'clock in the afternoon."

He then hung up the phone.

Xiao Lou listened to the "beep" busy tone in his ears, and his mind was a little confused for a moment. The current situation is too weird. Logically speaking, after entering the secret room in the past, there would be prompt messages such as "Welcome to the xx secret room. The mission of this secret room is xx and the clearance time is xx." But this time, after he woke up, he was in In my own home, there are no hints. It was as if he had had a long dream and returned to reality after waking up.

It was the end of December, and Yu Hanjiang asked him for help again because of the poisoning case. Xiao Lou remembered that the sunshine was very good that day, and it was Yu Hanjiang who called him first. Although it was him who called Yu Hanjiang now, what Captain Yu said It's basically the same as in my memory. I need his help in identifying a rare toxin.

Xiao Lou took a deep breath, calmed down, opened the door and went downstairs.

The illusion of the community was exactly the same as in his memory. When he walked to the gate of the community, the familiar security guard smiled at him. Xiao Lou smiled back, hurriedly left the community, took a taxi on the street and said, "Go to Jiangzhou Forensic Medicine" Identification Center.”

The taxi driver turned on his watch and took Xiao Lou to turn right at the intersection ahead.

Xiao Lou was sitting in the back row, looking out the window. It was the rush hour for work at this time. The roads were jammed with traffic. People were coming and going in a hurry. Many students in school uniforms were riding bicycles and driving quickly. There happened to be a key university in the city nearby. In middle school, Xiao Lou would see this familiar blue and white uniform every day when he went to work.

The lively faces on the sidewalk, the crowded buses, the students in school uniforms, the familiar aroma from the steamed bun shop next to the street, and the driver’s complaint in an authentic dialect, “Oh, there are traffic jams here every morning, and there are also traffic jams on the street. It’s like ants moving, why are there so many people?”

Xiao Lou came back to his senses, smiled politely, and said, "Life is forced by most people to go to work and school, and there is nothing they can do if there is a traffic jam during the morning rush hour. Master, please drive safely, I am not in a hurry."

His job is as a professor of forensic medicine at Jiangzhou Medical University. If we look at the day Yu Hanjiang came to see him in his memory, he had no classes all day today and did not need to go to school to work. He went to the forensic identification center because Yu Hanjiang came to see him for something. help.

The driver took Xiao Lou around and around, and finally arrived at the appraisal center at nine o'clock in the morning.

Xiao Lou took the elevator upstairs and met two familiar colleagues in the elevator. They greeted him with a smile, "Why are you here today, Professor Xiao? I remember you were not on duty?"

Xiao Lou said, "There are some things that need to be dealt with. I need to use the laboratory later."

The woman with a neat ponytail said, "Okay, Professor Xiao, you can swipe your card in later and register."

Xiao Lou thanked him. After the elevator stopped, he walked into his office and put on a white coat.

According to memory, Yu Hanjiang would come to the office to find him around 9:30 in the morning.

There's still half an hour left.

Xiao Lou sat at his desk and carefully sorted out his thoughts. The experience he and his teammates had in the card world was definitely not a dream, so the world in front of him was definitely not reality. It is impossible for the gatekeeper to be so kind and send them back to reality directly. What's more, if the secret room of the two kings is really free and allows them to pass back to reality directly, then Yu Hanjiang's reaction is too wrong.

what to do

What if this Yu Hanjiang is pretending to be a hunter? Do I have the ability to deal with him? My card pack disappears. This is the worst. I don’t have any cards in hand. How can I fight Yu Hanjiang hand to hand?

Xiao Lou frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered something

At that time, in order to avoid encountering clones in the Double King Secret Room and pretending to be teammates to stab everyone when they were caught off guard, Xiao Lou made a suggestion, asking everyone to whisper a secret message to their teammates as a code to verify their identities.

I won’t go into details about Yu Hanjiang’s secret code. This Yu Hanjiang is definitely not the person Xiao Lou knows in the card world.

But Mr. Shao’s secret code is rather special.

Shao Qingge said to Xiao Lou at the time, "If you see me in the Shuangwang Secret Room, just ask, Mr. Shao, I want to buy stocks recently, which stock do you think has a better rise? If it is Shao Qingge pretending to be, I am sure." I will tell you a stock name. But if it were me, I would say, stock code 18?"

What Shao Qingge said was not the stock code, but his real-world mobile phone number.

Xiao Lou discovered that Mr. Shao was really lucky at the critical moment. He just gave a mobile phone number accidentally, but now it came in handy. At that time, no one expected that the Secret Room of the Two Kings would bring everyone to a real-world environment. Everyone thought it was a dangerous wild survival environment, with countless powerful hunters waiting for them.

As a result, when I opened my eyes, I saw such a quiet, peaceful and familiar Jiangzhou City.

Xiao Lou took out his mobile phone and dialed the number that Shao Qingge told him in his memory. Soon, a familiar voice came from the other side of the phone. The man seemed to have just gotten up, and there was a hint of sexy hoarseness in his voice. " Hello, who's there?"

Xiao Lou said, "Mr. Shao, I am Xiao Lou."

Shao Qingge seemed stunned for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and said, "Who is Xiao Lou? Where did you get my private number?"

Xiao Lou ""

Something's wrong, everything's wrong

Is it because everyone has forgotten their experience in the card world? Or is it that Yu Hanjiang and Shao Qingge who are currently answering the phone are not themselves?

Xiao Lou took a deep breath and asked calmly, "Do you still remember Ye Qi?"

Shao Qingge smiled and said, "I don't know who Ye Qi is." He turned over on the bed.

He said lazily, "Sir, I don't know where you got my private number from. I don't like getting close to strangers, so I hung up."

The call was hung up crisply, Xiao Lou looked at the darkened cell phone, thoughtfully.

After a while, Xiao Lou made up his mind and went to the laboratory to find a micro syringe. He opened a box of anesthetic and sucked it into the syringe, hiding it on his body just in case this Yu Hanjiang was a hunter, and Xiao Lou didn't have a card in his hand. , you can’t just sit still and wait for death. If he really wanted to fight Yu Hanjiang, he would definitely take the anesthetic and maybe even have a chance to escape.

Xiao Lou returned to the office and waited patiently for time to pass.

The hour hand finally reached nine-thirty, and as expected, there was a knock on the door outside, and Xiao Lou said, "Please come in."

The door was pushed open, and Xiao Lou met a pair of familiar deep eyes.

The man was wearing light casual clothes today. The fitted brown trousers showed that his legs were particularly straight and slender. He had a serious look on his handsome face. He was holding a stack of documents in his hand, as well as a sealed bag commonly used by the police when collecting evidence. Bacteria box.

He walked up to Xiao Lou and extended his hand, "Hello, Professor Xiao."

This person is exactly the same as Yu Hanjiang who came to the appraisal center to find him in his memory.

Xiao Lou's heart was beating very fast. He was really afraid that the next moment Yu Hanjiang would take out a gun and point it at his head. Xiao Lou's left hand gently held the anesthesia needle in his pocket, and he stretched out his right hand and shook Yu Hanjiang's hand. .

Yu Hanjiang put the information in his hand on the table and said, "I brought over the toxin sample found in the deceased's cup. Please ask Professor Xiao for identification."

Xiao Lou was frightened, but on the surface he tried to maintain calm. "Okay, Captain Yu, please come with me."

The test results in the laboratory finally came out a few moments later.

Xiao Lou said, "This toxin is called ciguatera toxin, which comes from deep-sea fish. Ciguatera toxin is mainly distributed in the head, internal organs, and reproductive organs of fish. High-temperature heating or freezing cannot destroy the toxicity of the toxin. A small amount of this toxin will only cause harm to humans." Vomiting and abdominal pain, large amounts can lead to death. Judging from the content of the sample you brought, the purity of the toxin is very high, and the murderer deliberately extracted ciguatera toxin for killing people."

Yu Hanjiang frowned, "In other words, the murderer is familiar with deep-sea fish and knows how to extract toxins. He should be a professional in chemistry and pharmacy, and may have been exposed to fish containing this toxin for a long time."

Xiao Lou nodded, "That should be the case."

Yu Hanjiang stretched out his hand again, "Thank you Professor Xiao, I know what to do."

Xiao Lou reluctantly shook hands with him and said, "Captain Yu, you're welcome."

Yu Hanjiang said, "Invite Professor Xiao to dinner another day. I'll go and get busy first."

After he said that, he turned around and left. Xiao Lou looked at his back and couldn't help but froze in place. Wasn't this Yu Hanjiang a hunter? Why didn't he do anything to him?

Xiao Lou subconsciously shouted, "Captain Yu."

Yu Hanjiang stopped and turned around with a cold expression, "Professor Xiao has something to say."

Xiao Lou smiled and asked, "Do you have a girlfriend? I have a very beautiful colleague who I can introduce to you."

Yu Hanjiang frowned displeasedly, "Thank you, no need."

He turned and left without looking back.

Xiao Lou looked at his tall back and felt very complicated.

This Yu Hanjiang should not be a hunter, but the Yu Hanjiang in his memory.

The mother who first called him was not her real mother, just a reappearance of a memory.

Perhaps, all teammates are in such a closed world at this moment, and they cannot communicate with each other. The teammates they meet are all the teammates before entering the card world.

That's why in this world, Yu Hanjiang has such an indifferent attitude and politely calls him "Professor Xiao"; that's why Shao Qingge doesn't know Xiao Lou; his mother will call him to ask if he's going home for the New Year, and his colleagues are also there Greet him with a smile.

Xiao Lou finally understood that he was trapped in his "memory world".