ryethenovel Chapter 74 Level 0.8 Anomaly
Chapter 74 Level 0.8 Anomaly
Outside the residential area…
Jiang Yu slowed down only after confirming that Ms. Zhao Zilong had not caught up.
Jiang Ning, sitting in the back seat, yawned, her voice soft and sleepy.
She pressed her face against Jiang Yu's back, wrapped her arms around his waist, and looked like a koala hanging from a tree.
After a long while, she spoke in a daze.
"Brother...do you think that grandma will continue to live with us?"
Jiang Yu tightened his grip on the handlebars slightly.
He certainly wouldn't let this continue.
Today, he will figure everything out.
Understand the "refresh" mechanism...
Figure out why the two people who appeared after the "refresh" didn't know each other, but knew him...
Figure out how to get everything back to normal.
"No, I'll be able to handle it quickly."
"How do we solve this?" Jiang Ning asked curiously.
"You'll find out soon enough," Jiang Yu replied calmly.
Jiang Ning nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
She trusted her brother.
Just like every time before.
No matter what happens, my brother always finds a way to solve it.
All she had to do was quietly stay by her brother's side and wait for things to get better.
soon…
The electric scooter was parked in front of the No. 11 Middle School.
Jiang Ning jumped off the back seat, rubbed her sleepy eyes, slung her newly bought pink backpack over her shoulder, and waved to Jiang Yu.
"Brother, I'm leaving!"
"Okay, go ahead. I'll pick you up after school."
"good!"
Jiang Ning turned and walked into the school gate, her ponytail swaying behind her head.
Her figure grew increasingly blurry in the morning mist, finally disappearing at the entrance of the teaching building.
Jiang Yu turned the car around, twisted the accelerator, and drove towards the government service center.
He spent the entire journey thinking about his next line of dialogue.
All the arguments and evidence swirled in his mind all night…
Now he's finally going to start the "debate".
……
The fog is very thick today.
When he rode to the vicinity of his workplace, he could see the government building in the distance.
A thin mist enveloped the building, shrouding the entire structure in a hazy gray-white hue.
There was a damp coolness in the air, which felt very comfortable to breathe into my lungs.
He locked his electric scooter and started walking towards the building entrance…
But my steps slowed down uncontrollably.
Because he saw a car parked in front of the building.
A black, older model Audi A8.
The boxy body, the somewhat dated rectangular headlights, the five-spoke wheels…
The license plate number was exactly the same.
It was his master's car.
This older model A8 looked quite eerie in the thick fog.
Jiang Yu felt like he had arrived in Silent Hill.
He was a little confused.
How could this happen...
According to his conclusion yesterday, once the "anomaly" is resolved, some mechanism of the world will change.
Yushan has become Genggeshan, and the old A8 has become the new A8…
But why has it changed back now?
Has the "abnormality" been remedied and resurfaced because it wasn't properly addressed?
and many more…
If the car turns back...
That means…
Jiang Yu picked up his phone and, with trembling hands, searched for the two characters "彧山" in the search bar.
Click to search…
really!
The screen is full of travel guides for Yushan Scenic Area!
"A Three-Day Itinerary for Yushan: Avoiding Common Pitfalls!"
"The most beautiful hiking route in Yushan – these five must-see spots!"
"This guesthouse on Yushan Mountain offers a view of the sea of clouds right from the window!"
It's exactly the same as the one he found when he first stood at the entrance of Yushan and searched for it on his phone!
But it was definitely gone after I dealt with it that day...
Why are you back now?
Travel guides for the scenic area, that variety show featuring celebrities from Yushan…
They're all back!
Jiang Yu got goosebumps all over.
What happened?
Did I travel back a week in time?
That is, before Yushan was dealt with?
He glanced at the date on his phone…
There are no problems today!
I didn't time travel!
So... what exactly is going on?
Jiang Yu stood in the mist, his hand holding the phone trembling slightly.
He felt his brain was overloaded.
Every brain cell is burning desperately, but it just can't produce an answer.
Because the current situation is somewhat different from the "refresh" mechanism he had guessed.
Why does this bring up the switching function?
The arguments and evidence that had been carefully prepared overnight began to crumble in the face of this old A8.
"Beep beep!"
The horn of the old A8 sounded once.
The driver's side window slowly rolled down...
Nagi leaned out of the driver's seat and waved to him.
"You're here pretty early, kid."
"Hikari... Hikari-nee?"
Jiang Yu paused for a moment, then quickly walked over.
He walked to the car window and looked at his master.
It's been several days since I last saw you.
She still had that same affectionate smile on her face, as if she were looking at a dog with deep affection.
"Come on, get in the car, I have something to tell you." Nagi Hikari patted the passenger seat.
"Um."
Jiang Yu, his mind a jumble, opened the door and sat down.
The car still smelled of that familiar leather, mixed with Nagi's faint fragrance.
He glanced instinctively at the driver's seat and the center console...
Old-fashioned mechanical watch dials, old-fashioned rotary knobs, manual transmission gear levers…
Everything was exactly the same as when he "first" rode in this car, just as he remembered.
If we absolutely had to find a difference…
"Guangjie, where did that lucky bag go in your rearview mirror?"
Jiang Yu remembers clearly that when he went to Yushan that day, there was a red lucky bag hanging on the rearview mirror.
The last stretch of road was very bumpy, causing the lucky bags to keep hitting the windshield with a "smack, smack".
He was very annoyed by the sound.
But since it was his master's car, he couldn't really say anything.
Nagihiko gave a wry smile upon hearing this.
"Don't even mention it, that lucky bag was an 'anomaly'."
Jiang Yu: "..."
"But it's nothing, just a level 0.8 'anomaly'. It only slightly affects a person's cognition, makes them irritable, and weakens their reaction and judgment abilities. I destroyed it the day I came back from Yushan."
"You know I have a bad memory. I thought I got that lucky bag from some temple. I didn't expect it to be something unusual."
Again.
She's started talking about "abnormalities" again!
Unlike last time, Jiang Yu didn't ask, "Hey, why is your car different?"
There was no immediate questioning like, "Abnormal? You didn't say that last time!"
He patted the seat as if nothing had happened.
"Sister Guang, your car is pretty old, aren't you planning to get a new one?"
"Why would I change it? I'm attached to this car; I've driven it for five or six years," Nagi said calmly.
"Okay, Sister Guang, let me tell you, the new A8 is much cooler than the old A8, the handling is great, and it's incredibly stable to drive!" Jiang Yu said with a look of reminiscence.
"Oh? You even drove a new A8? When was that?" Nagi asked curiously.
"..."
He brought her back in his new A8 that day!
She was sleeping in the back row at the time.
But why doesn't she remember now?
The awkward thing is...
His own master has a bad memory.
Jiang Yu is currently unsure whether Master Goldfish forgot to clear the "abnormality" and triggered some mechanism that caused the A8 to revert to its original state...
Or perhaps there were other circumstances he hadn't considered.
"I recently drove a friend's new A8 to Mount Gengge. That mountain is really nice. Have you been there, Sister Guang?" Jiang Yu emphasized the words "Mount Gengge".
"Gengge Mountain? I've never heard of it before. Where is it?" Nagi asked blankly.
Jiang Yu fell silent.
Nagi frowned slightly as she watched Jiang Yu staring intently at the center console and talking incessantly about the new A8.
"Why do you seem to particularly dislike my car..."
"No, no..." Jiang Yu replied perfunctorily.
"Come on, I can tell you're really complaining. We went on a mission to Yushan last week, didn't you have a great time when you came back?" Nagi joked.
Jiang Yu: "???"
He drove the new A8 down from the mountain last week, not this old A8!
Nagi Hikaru had a look of reminiscence on her face.
"I was half asleep at the time, but I forced myself to stay awake to listen to you sing."
"Hey, you actually sing pretty well."
"How about we invite Xiaowei to go karaoke sometime?"
These few words left Jiang Yu in a state of confusion.
Let's not discuss how Yushan reappeared...
He was in no mood to sing on the way down the mountain after completing his mission that day.
He was extremely anxious at the time, practically wanting to step into the gas tank, just wanting to get back to his unit as quickly as possible to find out what was going on.
"Sister Guang, do you remember what I said to you when we got back to the car after we came down from Yushan?" Jiang Yu asked.
"Let me think about it... I have a bad memory."
Two minutes later, Nagi finished thinking.
"I can't remember..."
"..."
Jiang Yu deliberately glanced at the vehicle's dashcam.
Nagi slapped her full forehead: "Yeah, there's a dashcam, isn't there? We'll know once we check it out!"
"Okay, let me take a look."
Jiang Yu sat up straight to operate the dashcam.
Nagi looked at him, who was operating the equipment very skillfully, and looked puzzled.
"You seem quite familiar with my dashcam recording; you're really good at it..."
"These things are all pretty much the same."
While giving him a perfunctory answer, Jiang Yu found the video of their trip to Yushan that day.
He watched the video from beginning to end.
Especially when setting off in the morning.
Those conversations are still there.
It was those unrestrained words that Nagihiko said when she "had an attack" in his memory.
The claims that Yushan was a newly created structure, and the strange buildings and objects mentioned, are all just excuses used to fool the patrol department…
And then there's Nagi Hikari suddenly getting emotional and smashing the steering wheel...
It seems they were all affected by that level 0.8 lucky bag?
Especially now, looking back at my reaction at the time...
Something is clearly wrong.
For example, when he hears Nagi Hikari reveal some truths, he should be able to think of some things.
But he remained unmoved at the time.
Is this what Nagi Hikari meant by affecting cognition, reaction, and judgment?
I never imagined a lucky bag could have such power.
What exactly is that thing?
and so…
Can things that suddenly "refresh" in this world be that small?