"Hmm, who are you?"
Le Gia Bao asked with a doubtful tone when he heard Duong Khanh Vi calling his name.
In his memory, he didn't recall seeing the man in front of him with a cigarette in his mouth, dressed in a white suit, and wearing sports shoes.
"Why are you asking that?"
Duong Khanh Vi tossed the half-burnt cigarette on the ground and used his shoe to put it out.
He would never forget Le Gia Bao's appearance. This person joined the organization at the same time as him and saved many people in the world of horror.
Speaking up, at that time, Le Gia Bao had been his partner for a while, but later they were assigned to different areas of responsibility, and they gradually had fewer chances to meet.
Duong Khanh Vi had recently heard about Le Gia Bao's death not long ago, and he mourned for him for quite some time.
But he never expected to meet him like this here.
He had really found his counterpart in this world.
"Huh?... Oh, sorry, where did we meet? I have a bit of memory loss and can't remember who you are."
Le Gia Bao replied with an excuse of memory loss, looking at Duong Khanh Vi in front of him, then asked, "May I know who you are?"
Seeing Le Gia Bao's strange reaction, Duong Khanh Vi didn't say anything. He directly took a step forward and pressed Le Gia Bao against the wall.
Immediately, he pulled open the other person's clothes, revealing a gruesome scar on his neck.
"What are you doing?!"
Le Gia Bao immediately pushed Duong Khanh Vi away.
Facing this person he had just met, suddenly being pinned against the wall and undressed, a burst of anger surged within him.
"If it's for the world's development script, you don't need to continue acting. No one pays attention to us."
Duong Khanh Vi confirmed Le Gia Bao's identity and spoke directly.
"What are you talking about? What acting? I don't understand what you're saying..."
However, Le Gia Bao couldn't comprehend what Duong Khanh Vi was saying to him. He wanted to go back inside and not have anything to do with this crazy person.
"Still acting?"
Duong Khanh Vi felt that something was not right, but after looking at the watch on his wrist, he didn't find anything unusual.
At normal times, that is.
It didn't necessarily mean that he had to act...
...
This watch was one of Duong Khanh Vi's cursed sources.
It could predict anomalies in the surrounding paranormal events.
If there were any paranormal beings paying attention to him, the watch's time hands would move faster, allowing him to perceive it in an instant.
The watch on his wrist was still normal.
That also meant that at this moment, there were no paranormal beings in his line of sight...
If that was the case, there was no need to continue acting according to the script, right?
Le Gia Bao ignored Duong Khanh Vi's actions and just angrily went back inside, taking his dog with him.
But just as he was about to close the door...
Duong Khanh Vi held onto the door.
Then, he quickly squeezed into the small gap and got in.
"What are you doing?!"
Le Gia Bao saw the man coming directly into his house.
On reflex, he ran into the kitchen and took out a kitchen knife, pointing it at the intruder.
"Please leave immediately, or I'll scream for everyone to hear!"
Le Gia Bao couldn't hold the kitchen knife for too long.
He only intended to scare the other person.
Seeing this, Duong Khanh Vi knew Le Gia Bao's intention and also knew that the other person wouldn't really use the knife on him.
So, he closed the door.
Moving closer to Le Gia Bao...
"Step back! Stay at the door and don't move. Take another step, and I'll stab you!"
"Le Gia Bao, I think you can put the knife down. You're crazy now, and I need to talk to you properly..."
"What's wrong with your mind?!"
...
Duong Khanh Vi didn't stop.
He carefully observed Le Gia Bao's every move and the tone of every word.
Compared to that student.
Le Gia Bao was showing his true emotions...
...
...
Sitting by the old desk.
With a pen between his fingers, he looked down at a notebook in front of him.
A pleasant breeze blew in from the window.
Gently blowing his hair, neither long nor short...
The bedroom door remained locked as usual.
The others were sitting outside watching TV, chatting with each other, not coming in to disturb him.
Because he had said he would stay in the room to do his homework.
This study excuse was Hoang Tuan's very effective way to deal with situations.
Briefly...
Holding the pen, he tapped it gently on the blank sheet of paper in front of him, randomly drawing a few circles and writing the date in the bottom right corner.
【29-09-2004.】
This diary.
Supposedly, there should have been a record of what he had written with ink before, thoughts about observing what had happened in this world.
However, when he woke up today.
He found that what he had written in this notebook had disappeared...
The black ink marks, even the traces left behind, were all gone, without a trace.
As if it had never been written.
"The reason for the assimilation is not because of any kind of food, nor is it due to any mental influence."
The pen of Hoang Tuan tapped lightly on the notebook.
Carefully considering the rules of everything that had happened...
"At first, the flow of time was quite normal, and tomorrow would be October 1st."
"But from the day before yesterday to October 1st, the time of waking up yesterday did not change, and the date was still October 1st."
Hoang Tuan was calculating the laws of all this.
He flipped a page of the notebook, drew a black dot in the middle of the clean paper, and then connected a line from the corner to the black dot.
In the content of the novel control panel next to it.
Only "3" words were left for him to edit.
Missing a word when doodling inexplicably led to his assimilation...
【In Mother's world.】
【Hoang Tuan gradually didn't know who he was...】
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...
...
【In Mother's world.】
【Hoang Tuan gradually did know who he was...】
The next day.
When he woke up, the date had changed to "September 29th."
Mixed in with his memories were the disappearances of some classmates, leading to school holidays for two days.
"So, the real target is not to keep me waiting until the end of the seven-day National Day holiday."
"The time is running backward..."
"It will return to the starting point of all the stories."
"And start over."
Hoang Tuan's pen continuously wrote curved lines following the black lines on the notebook.
He wrote so much that the ink became faint.
Then, he wrote "October 1st, endpoint" next to the black dot.
A question mark was added at the beginning of the black line...
"Based on this repeated timeline, maybe when I wake up tomorrow, I have to wear my school bag and go to Tran Hưng Dao High School..."
"Well, missing students and holidays..."
As I suspected, if it's the prequel of Tranhungdao High School, how could it not be related to that school?