Chapter 70
Chapter 70
A WeChat notification chimed on her phone.
[Xu You: Sister Sen, have you gotten in touch with Huang Xinze?]
Wei Sen quickly replied.
[Wei Sen: The number is disconnected.
Xu You: I think something about this is really strange. Let’s meet up first.
Wei Sen: Okay. [Location] Come to my place first.
Xu You: OK.]
About two hours later, Xu You appeared at Wei Sen’s front door with a woven sack slung over her shoulder.
“What’s all this?” Wei Sen looked her over. With that outfit, she looked like she was fleeing a disaster zone.
“We monastics call the whole world home. It happens. I’ll just leave my stuff outside.” Xu You looked at Wei Sen’s spotless home and felt too embarrassed to come in covered in dust from the road.
Wei Sen chuckled. “It’s fine. Come in.”
“Hehe, then I won’t stand on ceremony.”
Xu You stepped inside and looked around. “You live alone?”
“Mm.” Before Xu You arrived, Wei Sen had already put away everything in the house related to Li Chang.
“When you said you were a butcher, I thought you would be…” Xu You trailed off and smiled awkwardly.
“Oh, that.” Wei Sen remembered the occupation she had casually made up back at Zhihui Primary School. “Part-time. I don’t have a proper job right now.”
“That’s what I thought. Butchers carry heavy karmic sin on them, but you…” Xu You looked solemnly at Wei Sen. “You don’t have any.”
“Really? You can tell that?” Wei Sen smiled faintly and led Xu You to the sofa. “Sit down first.”
Wei Sen glanced instinctively at the living room.
The System’s Secret Space was still here. Li Chang’s corpse was still left inside the Secret Space, but as long as she did not summon it, the space would not appear.
If the karmic sin of slaughtering pigs was heavy, then wouldn’t killing people be even heavier?
But Xu You said there was none on her.
Perhaps the “people” she had killed carried even less weight than the lives of livestock?
“It’s not something I see. It’s more of a feeling,” Xu You said.
“You haven’t eaten yet, have you?” Wei Sen headed toward the kitchen, not continuing the topic.
“How did you know?”
Wei Sen said nothing. Looking like a refugee, Xu You probably hadn’t had time to eat.
Before long, two bowls of noodles were placed on the dining table.
Xu You was starving, but after taking one bite, she froze. A long moment passed before she slowly said, “Sister Sen, not gonna lie, your cooking… has a lot of room for improvement!”
Wei Sen did not really mind. To her, eating was simply a way to maintain basic survival.
In the past, Li Chang had always cooked for her. She had basically never cooked before, so being able to boil the noodles properly was already not bad.
“Wait!” Xu You’s expression turned grave as her nose sniffed the air.
“What’s wrong?”
Xu You leaned closer to the dining table and sniffed hard, astonishment flickering in her eyes. “Why is there such a strong smell of blood on the table?”
Wei Sen had not expected Xu You to be this sensitive.
“Sister Sen, I didn’t realize you liked eating blood curd.” Xu You smiled, then went back to demolishing her noodles.
Wei Sen remained calm as usual and continued eating as well.
“Huang Xinze shouldn’t have given us a fake number,” Xu You said between bites.
“Mm. Do you believe in the theory of parallel universes?”
Xu You smiled. “The Dao transforms into countless forms, each becoming its own world. The bubbles floating in the Great Void all return to the One.”
All return to the One…
Wei Sen put down her chopsticks.
If there really were many worlds, and they were all essentially the same, then perhaps they could also overlap and pass into one another.
Just like…
Those inexplicable memories in her mind. Were they memories from before she lost her memory, or memories from another world?
But for now, everything was only speculation. They had no evidence proving that Huang Xinze was someone from another world.
Or, if they could prove that the Eerie World was one of many parallel worlds, that would also explain Huang Xinze’s situation.
But neither of them could do that.
Wei Sen had originally thought that if she wanted to learn the truth, her only option was to accumulate enough Merit Points to meet God again.
But now, it seemed she might be able to start with Huang Xinze instead.
If she could find evidence proving that Huang Xinze really was in another world, wouldn’t that also prove the existence of parallel universes?
And if parallel universes existed, then perhaps that could explain the memories in her mind that didn’t match up with the Real World!
If she followed that trail and kept investigating, maybe she really would have a chance to obtain the “truth” she wanted through her own efforts.
However, she currently had no way to contact Huang Xinze, so all her questions would have to wait until they met again in the next Instance.
“Ding-dong~ Ding-dong~”
The doorbell rang. Wei Sen and Xu You looked at each other.
“Who is it? A friend of yours?”
“Probably not.” Wei Sen got up and walked toward the door. “I’ll take a look.”
“Hello, there are two packages here that need to be signed for by Ms. Wei and Ms. Xu.”
When she opened the door, the courier standing outside was the same young man from last time.
As he spoke, the courier kept trying to peer inside. After looking around, all he saw was another woman sitting by the dining table. There were no other people, and nothing strange.
Could it be that what he’d seen last time really had been a hallucination from exhaustion?
Wei Sen didn’t hesitate and accepted the packages.
Anything being delivered at a time like this had to be from the Mysterious Organization.
Xu You came over in confusion. “Wait, how did you know I was here?”
The courier pointed at the shipping label. “It’s written on the address.”
“Sign for it first,” Wei Sen said.
“Oh.” Xu You didn’t hesitate either and quickly signed for her package.
After closing the door, the two of them opened their packages separately. Each contained an Invitation, just like last time, except the addresses were different.
“No, seriously, how did The Organization know I was at your place?” Xu You couldn’t make sense of it no matter how she thought about it. “I’ve only been here for two hours! Damn it, I forgot to ask that guy when he received the order!”
Wei Sen looked at the shipping label. The date sent was yesterday, and the sender’s address had been hidden.
A package mailed yesterday-how could they possibly have known where Xu You would be today?!
“Where were you when you received the Invitation last time?” Wei Sen asked.
Xu You thought back. “I’d just set up my stall at the time. I hadn’t even made a single sale yet.”
“Is your stall location fixed?”
“How could it be? I set up wherever there aren’t any urban management officers around. When they show up, I run.” Xu You laughed.
Wei Sen thought of the state Xu You had been in that morning. She had probably been chased off by urban management officers then, too.
“So last time, they also predicted your location in advance and mailed out the package,” Wei Sen said gravely.
Xu You realized it belatedly. “Right… Last time, I didn’t pay attention to when the package was sent. I thought someone had called a courier on the spot to deliver it to me. But now that I think about it…”
Xu You carefully checked the tracking number again.
It was an ordinary courier company. The package had indeed been sent yesterday!
The Invitation last time had also been delivered by this company, and this company’s delivery standard was next-day arrival, so there was no way someone had ordered it delivered that same day.
And if someone had ordered it delivered that day, there would have been no need to disguise it as a package.
“What on earth is going on?” Xu You was completely baffled. “How did they know I’d be at your place?”
Wei Sen also fell into thought, her grip tightening around the Invitation in her hand. “If we want to know why, we’ll have to ask that woman.”