Chapter 39 Looping

As the mission progressed, they felt increasingly familiar with everything. This road was the same one they walked yesterday, and they could already see the office building not far ahead.

Their company was on the 9th floor of the building, and they were sure that "Wang Jie"... was waiting for them in the corridor outside the company door.

"Brother Qiang," Yuan Xiaotian leaned in, lowering his voice, "This is the road we walked yesterday, and the cars parked nearby." He gestured with his eyes. Xia Qiang followed his gaze and saw a red sports car parked by the side of the road, very eye-catching.

"I noticed this car yesterday," Yuan Xiaotian whispered. "And the pedestrians nearby, I also saw a few familiar faces just now."

"This is completely repeating what happened yesterday," Zhou Tong said with a solemn expression.

A cold gaze swept slowly around. Xia Qiang sized up the passersby walking past him.

There were white-collar workers rushing to work with coffee in hand, middle-aged men standing on the side of the road smoking and talking on the phone, and students carrying backpacks, just out of the breakfast shop…

All kinds of people, all kinds of faces, each one very vivid.

But after looking at them for a long time, Xia Qiang suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart.

It seemed… these people were more like robots following a set routine.

Their thoughts, emotions, and even their bodies were all set by code, unchanging.

They were constantly repeating this mechanical and rigid life.

It was a very strange feeling, but at this moment, Xia Qiang really thought so.

Seeing Xia Qiang's strange expression, Zhou Tong asked, "Brother Qiang, did you think of something?"

Regaining his thoughts, Xia Qiang raised an unavoidable issue, which was also the biggest threat to them now. "I think that Wang Jie should still be waiting for us," Xia Qiang said slowly.

"Definitely," Yuan Xiaotian said through gritted teeth.

"Then how should we respond this time?" Xia Qiang asked. "I'm thinking about this."

Last time, Li Mengyao disappeared after seeing "Wang Jie" off.

After a moment of hesitation, Huai Yi spoke this time, "Last time someone died because they were alone, alone with that Wang Jie. This time, we shouldn't separate."

"Right, just stay in the office and don't go out no matter what!" Fatty looked very imposing. Anyone who didn't know better would think he was very capable.

Xia Qiang was not sure what he was thinking. He didn't quite agree with Huai Yi and Fatty's ideas. After a moment of silence, he exhaled and said, "Although it looks like this, I feel it's not that simple."

Because the clues were few and very confusing, even if they continued to discuss, there would be no result. Xia Qiang shook his head and ended the discussion.

At this time, the group had arrived at the foot of the office building. It was still a familiar scene, but this time, Jiang Cheng stopped and whispered a few words to Sister Wen. She nodded and obediently went in first.

After Sister Wen's figure disappeared, Jiang Cheng turned around and said bluntly, "Wang Jie is still waiting for us upstairs."

"Yes," Xia Qiang said.

"For the time being, this is a loop, or a time loop. We are trapped in a short period of time, and this will all be repeated every day."

"If we want to escape the mission, we have to break this time loop, otherwise we will all die." After a pause, Jiang Cheng said with a serious expression, "Like Li Mengyao, killed by that thing."

"In a way we can't understand now," he added finally.

"Then what should we do now?" Zhou Tong asked upon hearing this.

"There is no way for the time being. We can only try little by little, collect clues. When there are enough clues to connect into a line, it will provide a complete idea," Jiang Cheng said directly.

"Now I want to ask, are you ready?" Jiang Cheng looked at everyone and asked, his tone carrying a hint of inexplicable strangeness.

"Just say what you want to say, don't beat around the bush." Yuan Xiaotian's mood was not good because of Li Mengyao's death.

Jiang Cheng didn't argue with him. Instead, he turned to look at Xia Qiang, who was the one who could really make decisions among this group of people.

"We need someone to go with Wang Jie," Xia Qiang looked at everyone. "This is also to avoid miscalculations. We may face unbearable consequences."

When the words "unbearable consequences" were uttered, everyone understood that Xia Qiang was worried about the safety of Lin Muyun and Lin Muwan.

For people like Xia Qiang, anyone could be sacrificed, including themselves, but Lin Muyun and Lin Muwan, as mission targets, absolutely could not.

These two people must live.

Thinking along these lines, Xia Qiang's concerns were not without reason. Li Mengyao's death clearly told them that being alone with "Wang Jie" was very likely to be killed, in a very strange way, dying in a rain night that didn't exist.

So this time, everyone should actively avoid it, which is like Fatty said, never leave the office.

But could this really avoid being killed?

On this point, Jiang Cheng and Xia Qiang's judgments were consistent.

It was possible, but the probability was very small.

So they had to make other plans, such as, if "Wang Jie" found that no one was seeing her off, or that no one was alone, would this trigger a series of uncontrollable reactions?

The greatest possibility was to use some incomprehensible means to forcibly make one of them be alone.

And who could be confused by this means… Jiang Cheng glanced at Lin Muyun and Lin Muwan. The greatest possibility was this pair of siblings.

After all, compared to himself and the others, these two people were just ordinary people.

And once taken away, even Li Mengyao could not escape being hunted down. Putting it on either of them, the result could be foreseen.

Therefore, once all kinds of methods had been tried and were still ineffective, then the only way to ensure that both of them survived was to choose one person to actively follow "Wang Jie" and leave, playing the role of Li Mengyao before, and drawing the aggro.

"Let's decide by drawing lots," Xia Qiang said, "There are 7 of us in total, draw one..."

Jiang Cheng suddenly spoke, his tone firm, "Captain Xia, you're wrong, there are 9 of us."

"Young Master Lin and Miss Lin are just ordinary people, they don't have any ability to protect themselves. If they are really caught in it, they won't have a chance to survive at all. Aren't you making things difficult?" Zhou Tong looked at Jiang Cheng, dissatisfied.

Jiang Cheng looked at her and said calmly, "This is your business, what does it have to do with me? You can't just because you have a mission, my brothers have to die, there is no such reason."

If Lin Muyun and Lin Muwan did not participate, then the probability of Jiang Cheng and the others being drawn would increase a lot. Judging from the current situation, no matter who was drawn, it would be difficult to survive.

Jiang Cheng had even started calling out to Wu in his heart, but it was still the same as before, with no response.