Chapter 662: Chapter 660 Old Path (20)_1 Chapter 662: Chapter 660 Old Path (20)_1 “It sounds like you found a better version of yourself in the midst of crisis.”
Facing Fran’s recommendation to descend the mountain and her self-analysis, Fu Qian smiled and commented with approval, giving her a thumbs up.
“I accept your recommendation, let’s head down now.”
…
Fran’s expression was still peculiar, clearly showing she didn’t find Fu Qian’s praise highly credible.
But since he had accepted her suggestion so readily, she had nothing much to add.
“Anyway, thank you.”
As she walked alongside Fu Qian towards the exit, Fran spoke in a quiet voice.
“I haven’t really met you before, but after interacting these past few days, you seem more reliable than I imagined.”
“Having you accompany me up here made me feel a lot more at ease.”
Reliable?
Faced with her praise, Fu Qian sighed inwardly.
“That’s exactly the problem.”
“What do you mean?”
His words had obviously piqued Fran’s curiosity.
Thinking back, the first task was actually quite simple, since anyone could potentially be Laxik.
If enough pressure breaks through a certain psychological limit, anyone could enter this “Laxik” state, just like Fran is now.
In the most extreme case, if he had simply put Fran in the Iron Maiden right from the start of the mission, he probably would have completed it straightaway.
And even if not, given the uncanny circumstances of this group of young people, it wouldn’t be strange for them to panic.
However, at this moment, because he was overly reliable, he had become a sort of spiritual pillar for the group, alleviating the tense atmosphere to some extent.
From his own perspective, this was why Laxik was so elusive.
Because around him, the chances of Laxik appearing naturally decreased.
It’s like looking everywhere for something and not finding it–right under your nose!
Of course, he wouldn’t explain this to Fran. Fu Qian just hummed in response.
“If it wasn’t for that, why would Chief Jones consider me the prime suspect.”
Hee hee!
Just as she was about to duck into the car and heard Fu Qian say this, Fran couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
She hadn’t heard the conversation between Jones and Fu Qian, but she could tell that Jones had targeted Fu Qian.
So what Fu Qian said was not a problem.
People who are too calm always raise suspicions.
“Now the chief probably doesn’t suspect you anymore, but I wonder how Jessica and the others are doing; she is one of the few friends I have.”
However, she immediately reined in her smile and sighed.
“Speaking of which, it seems like you’re not very familiar with everyone here.”
“Are you accusing me of being indifferent?”
Fu Qian asked casually as he started the car.
“How could that be? What good have my concerns done apart from causing chaos?”
Fran said self-deprecatingly.
“Actually, you’re right; I’m really not familiar with you all.”
Fu Qian spoke with unexpected honesty this time.
“But regardless of what you say, you seem quite passionate in your actions.”
Fran pondered for a moment.
“You’re not really here looking for someone, are you?”
Sharp ears–she had actually overheard his conversation with Jones.
“Yes,”
Fu Qian continued to choose honesty.
“I’m looking for someone called Laxik.”
“Laxik…”
Seeing that Fu Qian didn’t appear to be lying, Fran murmured the name to herself, then shook her head.
“Sorry, I’m not familiar with this place either, can’t help you…”
“It’s okay, I’ve already met him.”
“Ah! When?”
Fran was quite surprised.
In her memory, Fu Qian was still discussing the search with Jones around noon.
“Not too long ago.”
…
“When you went out with Chief Jones?”
Fran pondered for a moment, his face showing shock again.
“In any case, you know he’s involved with this series of disappearances.”
Fu Qian smiled faintly, his meaning deliberately vague.
“Involved with the disappearances…”
Fu Qian’s style of saying half and leaving half unsaid was undoubtedly very irritating.
In fact, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that at a certain moment, Fran’s face did take on a ferocious expression.
Lacking Laxik’s self-awareness, but retaining some memories while extremely loathing things beyond his control.
Witnessing this, Fu Qian silently judged.
And it seemed that the obsession to find a way to Transcendence had been inherited as well.
Even though the original person was already shattered.
Fu Qian remembered the previous scene in the secret passage.
If the person who passed through was indeed Jessica, then in her Laxik state, it seemed she was instinctively searching for something.
In Laxik’s cognition, was there an item causing infinite recurrences hidden in there?
That was indeed a normal line of thought.
Believing that he had performed this act thousands of times, and judging from the results, it seemed fruitless.
Basically, it was as if he had eliminated a wrong answer for himself; it was highly unlikely that the recurrence was caused by some object.
If it wasn’t an object, what else could it be?
Vacationing young men and women?
Could it be that at the end of the countdown, this story would end with a happy ending?
The likelihood felt slim.
Knowing this building’s underground layout so well, it was hard to believe Laxik hadn’t considered this.
Fu Qian watched Fran’s face in the rearview mirror, the ferocious expression had completely disappeared.
In Fu Qian’s view, in countless recurrences, not to mention the common happy ending, it was likely they had experienced a total annihilation ending not just once.
Plot-driven storylines could also be ruled out.
But after excluding these two categories, what else could there be?
He could really empathize with the feelings of brother Laxik at that time!
Wrapped in his musings, the car had already passed that classic corner.
“What exactly happened here?”
Fran also changed the subject.
“Why do you ask?”
“When you came down, Lei had injuries on his face…”
“And then there’s Chief Jones’s attitude afterward, I always felt that something happened on their way to buy things.”
At this moment, Fran’s mind was noticeably more agile.
“Firstly, at that time, I was with you tinkering with that Iron Maiden.”
Fu Qian shook his head upon hearing this.
…
“Secondly, it doesn’t matter if I tell you, Lei probably killed someone here.”
“Alright… What!”
Fran’s voice instantly rose in pitch.
“Who did he kill–Mrs. Harold?”
“Then because they couldn’t find the body, he refused to admit it; that’s why Chief Jones hit him… I understand now.”
Fran seemed to suddenly understand quite a lot.
“Yes, so here comes the question, if you killed someone here, where do you think is the best place to hide the body?”
After his moment of shock, Fu Qian asked with a smile.
Where to hide the body…
Fran looked out the car window, silent for several seconds.
“Facing this question, my mind really conjured up more than one place… Even though it’s my first visit here, what is going on?”
“The land is full of spiritual essence; perhaps it’s wisdom bestowed by heaven.”
“…Do you want to go to those places and try to find the body?”
The next moment, something seemed to dawn on Fran, and he looked up with a piercing gaze.
“No.”
Regrettably, almost the moment Fran finished asking, Fu Qian had already given the answer.