Chapter 88 Chu Tong? Chu Tong
Chapter 88 Chu Tong? Chu Tong
Chapter 88 Chu Tong? Chu Tong
"Do you want to answer the phone with her?"
Chu Wuji breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to release the people who were nailed to the wall behind him, but the iron thorns still trapped them.
"Okay, give him the phone. I'm fine here."
There were some rubbing sounds on the other end of the phone, which meant the two people had switched terminals.
"Hey, bro, are you alright?"
'
Chu Wuji's expression froze instantly.
"Feed?" Chu Tong called out again when Chu Wuji didn't respond.
"Who are you?"
"ha?"
Chu Wuji hung up the phone and switched to video call.
The other end responded quickly; the brain-computer interface only flickered for a moment before the camera switched from rear to front, revealing Chu Tong's face.
In the video, Chu Tong's eyebrows, eyes, and figure were exactly the same as Chu Wuji remembered, and even her hairstyle was similar to the campus life vlog that Chu Tong sent this morning.
But the subtle expression in his face gave Chu Wuji a strong sense of unfamiliarity.
Chu Tong never called himself "elder brother".
"W-what's wrong, Big Brother?" Chu Tong's expression was somewhat puzzled, as if she didn't know why Chu Wuji had done these things.
"...Stand there and don't move. Don't hang up the video. Keep yourself centered in the video feed. I'll be there in ten seconds."
After saying this, Chu Wuji ignored Chu Tong's reaction and turned to look at the people he had tied up.
"Stay here and behave yourselves. I've marked you all. You can't escape. Wait for me to come back."
With a sickeningly twisting sound, Chu Wuji reached out and "twisted" the heavy metal door that he had violently torn apart back together like putty, ensuring that the mechanism was damaged and could not be opened.
After doing all this, Chu Wuji disappeared from the spot.
He just lied.
With his proficiency in the Blood Demon Art - Save Point already at the beginner level, plus 4 points of Qi attribute, Chu Wuji can place 8 save points at the same time.
He returned to the convenience store in less than a second.
Chu Wuji's figure reappeared in the back alley of the convenience store. The piercing sound of police sirens reached his ears; the aftermath of the fight must have attracted the Pingkou Division.
But it didn't matter. Chu Wuji flashed and silently jumped to the rooftop, running towards Gu Zixin's house.
He initially helped Gu Zixin find a house partly out of sympathy and partly to gain control over her address, but he never expected it would come in handy here.
Upon arriving at the apartment building, Chu Wuji immediately noticed a crack in Gu Zixin's room window, and it wasn't hard to imagine that "Chu Tong" had entered through this opening.
Turning over and entering through the window, Gu Zixin and Chu Tong were still standing at opposite ends of the sofa, maintaining their positions as if on the phone.
Gu Zixin, needless to say, was wearing a dinosaur plush pajama set, clearly having been woken up by Chu Tong while catching up on sleep.
Chu Tong's clothes were covered with cuts from sharp objects, and her fair skin underneath still bore the marks of healing.
"Who exactly are you? Where is Chu Tong? Or are you controlling Chu Tong's body right now?" Chu Wuji stepped forward and scanned Chu Tong, focusing his gaze on the hair behind Chu Tong's left ear.
There, at her hairline, was a small scar from when Chu Tong fell down the stairs as a child, and hair would never grow there.
The scars are so fine that most people can't even see them, and even if they do, they'll just think it's an uneven hairline.
The "Chu Tong" in front of us does indeed have the exact same scar behind her ear.
Chu Wuji noticed that while he was sizing up the other person, "Chu Tong" was also sizing him up.
After a moment, Chu Tong sighed.
"Why-
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"You're quite perceptive. How did you figure that out? Is it the way she addresses you?" Chu Tong, ignoring their stares, plopped down on Gu Zixin's sofa. "That's right, the problem must lie there. What does she usually call you?"
"Brother and elder brother." Chu Wuji twitched his fingers, but he dared not act rashly, because he was unsure whether the person in front of him was a copy of Chu Tong's body or was using Chu Tong's body.
"A brother-obsessed idiot," Chu Tong muttered under her breath.
"Since you've figured it out, I'll just say it directly."
"I am Chu Tong, but not from this timeline... well, not from this parallel world."
As she spoke, she glanced up at Chu Wuji: "What, you don't believe me?"
I believe you.
"If you don't believe me, I can tell you... Huh?" Chu Tong suddenly looked up: "Why do you believe me? This doesn't make sense, does it? Aren't you afraid I'm lying to you?"
Chu Wuji plopped down on the sofa and looked at Chu Tong, who claimed to be from a parallel world: "Does your world not have me?"
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"Holy crap." Chu Tong's expression gradually turned horrified: "How did you know? Can you read minds?"
"That's easy to guess. First, if you were a stranger who possessed my body, then there are two possibilities: one is that you have Chu Tong's memories, and the other is that you have absolutely no knowledge of Chu Tong's memories."
"If it were the former, you couldn't possibly not know how Chu Tong usually addresses me, and you wouldn't have given yourself away."
"But if it's the latter, why are you able to find Gu Zixin even though you know nothing about her?"
"Besides Grandma Zhang and me, only Chu Tong, who lent Gu Zixin her sanitary napkins when she first moved in and hadn't bought all her household supplies, knew her address."
"Then it's easy to guess what happens next. We know that you don't have Chu Tong's memories, but you still worry about my safety and come to me. You know Gu Zixin's address and that Gu Zixin can contact me."
"So we can conclude that although you don't have Chu Tong's memories, Chu Tong will definitely be able to contact you and trust you enough."
"So your parallel world theory may seem unreasonable, but it's actually quite reasonable."
"Besides, you don't know me, so you probably don't have me in your world."
She listened quietly, then asked with some curiosity, "What if I were someone else impersonating Chu Tong?"
"Similarly, since you have absolutely no memory of her, and given Chu Tong's personality, you can't get her to talk, so you won't be able to find this place."
"Brilliant." Chu Tong clapped her hands. "You've shared your guess, so let me give you my answer too."
"I am indeed Chu Tong from a parallel world. As for how I got here... do you remember what my special ability is?"
"Speed up? Oh, I see." Chu Wuji suddenly realized, "Superpowers are really cheating."
"Well, I couldn't have figured out this kind of formula at this point in time, especially considering how much you've protected me."
"I passed this formula on to her. Its function is to temporarily summon me to possess her body. As for why I did this... it won't do you any good if you know now, but I can guarantee that I will not harm the me in this world."
Chu Wuji scoffed, "Anyone can talk the talk, but there's nothing I can do about it."
"My existence has a purpose in being spoken of."
"Whatever, where did my Chu Tong go?"
Chu Tong nodded: "She's asleep. Should I wake her up?"
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