In the dark and deep tunnel, only Cheng Sihan's breathing could be heard.
At that moment, it was as if she had been abandoned at the end of the world. There was only endless silence around her. However, Cheng Sihan did not panic. The sound of Beta's footsteps had disappeared, and it was very likely that it had suddenly stopped moving.
If she was not mistaken, Beta should not have gone far. She was probably hiding somewhere nearby.
Only then did Cheng Sihan realize why Beta wanted her to hand over her phone and search her body. It was not only to prevent her from contacting others and exposing her location, but also to ensure that there was no light source on her body. In other words, Beta had been preparing for this moment for a long time.
However, if she wanted to get away just like that, she would have underestimated her senior, Cheng Sihan.
Since Cheng Sihan could hide a knife on her body when she was not paying attention, of course, she could hide something else. The next moment, Cheng Sihan took out a phone from her bag.
The phone did not belong to her. It belonged to a female high school student in the car. There was a cute cat's head hanging on the bottom of the phone. Cheng Sihan saw her chatting with her classmates on the phone earlier, so she remembered her screensaver password. When she put the phone back in her pocket and was about to get out of the car, Cheng Sihan stole her phone.
Of course, all this happened after Beta finished searching her. Before Cheng Sihan and Beta went down the iron gate, she used the phone to send Meinan a location message. However, when Cheng Sihan turned on the phone's flashlight function and illuminated her surroundings, she could not help but frown.
Unlike what she had imagined, she did not see Beta nearby. It was as if Beta had really disappeared into thin air. Cheng Sihan raised the phone in front of her face and checked the surroundings again. She did not find any hidden passages or exits nearby. At this moment, she was in an abandoned tunnel, with thick concrete walls on both sides.
Beta's disappearance was like a magic trick.
However, for Cheng Sihan and the world she came from, this kind of thing was not impossible. Not long ago, Cheng Sihan had played with something similar in front of Zhang Heng. After all, β was currently ranked second on the first round of the proxy war leaderboard, and she was also Loki's agent. It would be strange if she didn't have any trump cards up her sleeves.
However, what Cheng Sihan didn't understand was why Beta didn't use it when they were in the hospital or on the road. Why did it only use it here? Was it because the tools she had could only be used here? Or was it purely to bring him here? Also, how many of the things she said on the subway were true and how many were false?
Cheng Sihan looked at the seemingly endless tunnel in front of her, then looked at the phone in her hand. She didn't know if it was because she was too deep underground, but the phone showed that there was no signal, so she couldn't contact the outside world.
Cheng Sihan hesitated for a while and decided to go back the way she came. She would wait for Zhang Heng and Meinan to meet up before discussing what to do next.
Fortunately, she didn't chase too far away. According to Cheng Sihan's own calculations, she had been running in the dark for about four to five minutes. Since she couldn't see the path under her feet, she wasn't running fast. So, if she turned on the flashlight, it would only take her two to three minutes to go back.
However, after walking for six or seven minutes, Cheng Sihan still couldn't find the platform she came from. What was even stranger was that this time, Cheng Sihan paid special attention to her surroundings. Except for the lack of railway tracks, she found that there was no difference between this place and the tunnel that was in use above her head. There were no forks in the middle, so she ruled out the possibility that she went the wrong way when she came back.
Cheng Sihan's heart sank. She didn't feel anything when she chased after β earlier. Now that β was gone, she was the only one left in this tunnel. At the same time, the light from her phone cast her shadow on the wall on one side of the tunnel, stretching and elongating. It looked indescribably weird.
In front of her and behind her was bottomless darkness, and she was the only one left in the entire tunnel.
…
On the other side, Meinan had also received a message from Cheng Sihan, and she rushed to the subway station with Zhang Heng. However, they ran into a little trouble when going through the security check. Whether it was the Shrouded Sheath or the Pestilence Bone Bow, Zhang Heng had to find an extra-large travel bag to pack them up. At the same time, he tried to create a small commotion at the entrance to attract the attention of two security guards not far away.
After that, he and Meinan swiped their cards to go through the gate, walked down the stairs, and came to the platform.
Meinan looked around, but she didn't see Cheng Sihan or β. So she said, "This is the last location my sister sent me. What do you think she meant? Did she want us to take the subway here?" "It doesn't look like it.
"It doesn't look like it. This subway line is the one we were tracking at the beginning. However, your sister's phone somehow ended up in the hands of that thief, and he changed the subway line in the middle. Your sister and β should still be on the subway at that time, so they should have gotten off here instead of getting on the train. However, if they were just getting out of the station, your sister wouldn't have to take the risk to send them a message. She even went to the station. There's a high chance that they are still here."
"I'll go to the toilet and check," Meinan said.
"Okay, I'll find a way to get the surveillance footage." Zhang Heng looked up at the several cameras on the wall. These cameras basically covered the entire platform. If he could find the footage, he should be able to find out what happened here.
However, Meinan was a little worried. Unlike the security guards at the gate, the people in charge of monitoring the surveillance in the monitoring room generally wouldn't come out no matter what happened outside. And there were more than one or two people in the monitoring room. Of course, these people combined would be no match for Zhang Heng. If Zhang Heng really obtained the footage through violent means, it would probably cause a lot of trouble afterward. After all, this was the real world, not a quest.
Logically speaking, this should be the time for her to make a move. If she still had her disguise ability, she could disguise herself as the leader of the subway station and swagger in to watch the footage.
But now, her ability had disappeared. Although Zhang Heng's makeup skills were good, he wasn't good enough to disguise himself as someone else without being recognized by his friends and subordinates. However, Zhang Heng didn't seem to care much about this matter.
It took Meinan less than five minutes to check the toilet. After that, she went upstairs to the monitoring room.
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