"Should I go?"

  Wu Yu said: "Ding team only called me to go, maybe there's a situation, you see it's not convenient. Staying at home is also safer."

  I thought about it and I probably couldn't help much even if I went myself. Maybe they've made some new discovery? Nodding: "Then be careful."

  Wu brought me to the foot of my apartment building and left. I took out my key and opened the door, finding that Wu's mother was not at home, probably having gone out to buy groceries. Wu Miao had been sleeping with her mother these past few days, and the bedroom door was open, looking like she hadn't gotten up yet.

  I tiptoed towards the room, but then I heard a rustling sound coming from her. I quickly walked to the door and softly asked: "Wu Miao, are you okay?"

  She curled up in the blanket, waving her hand in mid-air a few times as if to brush something away. Then she pressed her hands against her head and said: "It's nothing... my head hurts, I've been having dreams all along."

  I walked in and sat down on the edge of the bed, asking "What were you dreaming about?"

  Her face was a bit red, her hair was messy, and she said: "I'm telling you, it's really weird. I saw a vast red sea, and then I kept swimming inside... I was alone, couldn't swim to the end, and couldn't find my brother or mom either. It was so scary..."

  Red Ocean?

  My heart skipped a beat, what was... that? Looking again at the tears in her eyes, she must have been extremely frightened and helpless in her dream.

  I feel that some signs are getting closer and closer to us. From the moment we woke up on this timeline, that feeling has started.

  I said: "Don't be afraid, I'm with you. Do you want some water?"

  She shook her head, and indeed looked unwell, with a hint of panic in her eyes. I touched her forehead and found it to be slightly hot.

  "Do you have a fever?"

  She: "Huh... won't be, right?"

  "I'll take you to the hospital."

  She immediately said: "No need, this little illness goes to what hospital, my brother will say I'm being overly cautious. Drinking some water is fine."

  "That won't do," I said, "Is there medicine at home?"

  She said: "It seems there is no fever medicine."

  I poured her a cup of hot water: "I'll go downstairs to buy it, you lie down obediently, I'll be back soon."

  Who would have known, this time we parted ways, was actually the last time I saw Wu Miao in this space-time?

  ——

  That day, I only remembered myself walking out with a worried heart, on the one hand thinking about Wu Miao's illness, and on the other hand also pondering why those two people suddenly disappeared. There were already ominous guesses in my mind. What places had passed by around me, what people had passed by, didn't pay much attention, just searching for pharmacies.

  The sun has risen, and there are more people on the street. I bought some regular medicine at a small pharmacy and took a shortcut on my way back. All I vaguely remember is that the alley was narrow, with grayish-white walls.

  I accidentally bumped into someone and subconsciously said "Sorry". The person was neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin, and seemed to be dressed quite normally.

  "It's all right, Tan Jiao," he said.

  I was taken aback, and it wasn't just because of the amusement in his tone.

  I looked up in confusion.

  The next moment I suddenly felt a chill all over my body, wanting to retreat but it was already too late.

  I saw the pebbles on the cement road, and also saw the mottled flowing stains on the wall. He wore a fisherman's hat, his face flashed by like a shadow, and I couldn't see it clearly at all. Then a big hand wearing gloves covered my face. At that moment, I felt suffocated all over my face, opened my mouth to bite his palm, and desperately pushed him away.

  But it was no use, he suddenly zhìfúed me from behind, and I felt like I had fallen into a coarse and hard elastic net. He dragged me backwards, and I saw my legs struggling in the air.

  I was terrified, and suddenly I had a very strange feeling, my brain and ears were completely blank, as if the person struggling at this moment was someone else, not myself.

  Tears fell from my eyes.

  He seemed to have sensed it, and his low, hot breath approached my ear: "Baby, don't be afraid, don't be afraid! I'll take you to a great place, take you flying..."

  I suddenly felt suffocated, yet my nose was not covered. Unrelenting fear, like a dark undercurrent emerging in the sunlight, threatened to engulf me at any moment.

  Something heavy smashed into my head, I saw stars, and felt a warm liquid slowly flowing out of my brain. Then, my eyes were covered, and everything went black.

  ……

  They saw me where?

  There is no attack on Chen Ning.

  Because the hunting target has changed.

  History has changed.