Chapter 58 Paradox

"Huh?" Parker was stunned and frowned at Chen Ke.

Chen Ke didn't say anything, but looked at Parker in front of him carefully, trying to find some details that were inconsistent with his impression, so as to give himself an explanation.

The Parker in front of him was wearing the same clothes as when he met in Xijin Building. The only difference was that he was a little dirty. His trouser legs and shoes were covered with white dust, his blue shirt was covered with mud and sweat stains, and the M1911A1 in his hand was a little paint-chipped.

Chen Ke and Parker only met once, and Parker's initial encounter with him in Xijin Building did not leave a deep impression. Even if Chen Ke observed him now, he couldn't find out what was different.

Expression? Tone? Small movements? Chen Ke didn't know Parker, and he couldn't tell what was wrong with the Parker in front of him through these things.

The simplest way is of course to use the automatic recognition ability of various strange things in his field of vision, but so far, Parker has neither appeared in the entry nor the information pop-up box, and he is indeed an ordinary person.

However, Chen Ke, who always believed that seeing is believing, could not convince himself from logic and common sense that the person in front of him was Parker who was bitten to death by a group of dogs.

"Where have you been? And you changed into a new set of clothes...?" Parker asked back.

"You confused me, Parker, I don't know how to answer you." Chen Ke said, hugging his chest and crossing his legs.

"You confused me too, man, I don't even know your name yet." Parker said.

"My name is Chen Ke, and I'm an agent of the Psychic Administration." Chen Ke replied.

"Oh... Oh... Administration... But when we first met, you didn't look like..." Parker was a little unconvinced.

Chen Ke picked up the ignition broadsword beside him, and with a thought, the cold sword body ignited flames in an instant, like a torch.

Although Parker was an investigator and had learned about the holy objects in books, he had never seen it with his own eyes, so his expression looked like he was watching a contemporary magic.

"It just burned like this... ? Is this the power of psychics?" Parker looked at the blazing broadsword and thought thoughtfully.

"Okay, enough of the tricks. Tell me what happened when you were surrounded and bitten by the human-faced dogs?" Chen Ke extinguished the sword, and the blade returned to cold steel, without any traces of burning.

Parker began to tell his own experience, but the story he told was very different from what Chen Ke saw.

After he was dragged down from the service desk in the lobby on the first floor by the human-faced dogs, what happened was paradoxical to Chen Ke's experience.

"... I shouted at you loudly that I wanted to change the bullet, and as soon as I finished speaking, I was dragged down by the human-faced dogs. You didn't save me at that time!" Parker said while gesturing.

Then, the story took a turn. Parker was not bitten by the human-faced dogs, but immediately rolled over after landing to avoid the siege of the human-faced dogs. Not only that, he also loaded the magazine and repelled the group of human-faced dogs alone.

"Where was I at that time?" Chen Ke asked in surprise.

"Damn, I want to ask you, where did you go? Since you are an agent of the Administration, why didn't you take out your fancy sword at the beginning?" Parker's tone was somewhat blaming.

"I swear to you, what I experienced is completely different from what you said..." Chen Ke said while looking at the gun in Parker's hand.

Parker did not have any bite wounds on his body, but in Chen Ke's experience, Parker was bitten very badly...

"Whatever you say, you'd better have a reasonable reason. And I saved you again, you owe me two favors now." Parker said.

"How did you get here? This place is a bit far from Opportunity City..." Chen Ke asked with his arms around his chest.

If there is no portal, who would know that there is such a place in the world?

Parker shrugged, showing an elusive smile, and said: "You asked the right question... I entered the Opportunity City Building from this side..."

After he finished speaking, he showed a weird smile.

Chen Ke's pupils suddenly dilated, and his hand unconsciously touched the hilt of the sword. What on earth is this Parker?

Perhaps after seeing Chen Ke's reaction, Parker realized that he didn't make his words clear, so he quickly raised his hands and made a "calm" gesture.

"It's not what you think, Chen Ke! Listen to me!" Parker said hurriedly.

"Don't scare me, I'll kill anything when I get excited..." Chen Ke's hand didn't let go of the hilt of the sword, and he even wanted to pull out a gun.

Parker hurriedly explained that he was doing a routine D-level black box sweep at the beginning, which was the daily routine of an investigator.

"That's another D-level black box space that has been open for many years and belongs to the Si Consortium." Parker said.

"Go on..." Chen Ke's ears perked up when he heard about the Si Consortium.

I thought it was a relaxed daily life for a D-level investigator, but that day, something suddenly happened in that D-level space, leading to the double effect...

Similar to what Chen Ke experienced, the monsters in the entire black box space quickly broke through the D-level category. Of course, it was not as exaggerated as the Xijin Building, but it was also a very dangerous thing for a D-level investigator like Parker.

"A B-level monster entangled me, and I kept running away. Guess what happened? A crack of light opened up in front of me!" Parker gestured vividly.

"Sounds really unlucky, huh?" Chen Ke agreed, while thinking about what the light crack was? It seemed that when he escaped from Xijin Building for the first time, he also jumped into the light crack and came to the alley outside the building...

"That kind of unstable, random passage, who knows where it will take you. But at that time, a B-level monster happened to be chasing me from behind, so I had to jump in to survive..." Parker said.

Chen Ke nodded, and then Parker came here through the light crack.

It seems that the double-overlap effect will not only reopen a door opposite the door, but also randomly open several temporary small doors in the process of opening the door...

"Yeah, you know, I was trapped here... Until one day, another light crack appeared in front of me..." Parker spread his hands.

"Wait! Wait... One day? Parker, how long have you been here?" Chen Ke asked in surprise.

"The first time I came in, it was fifteen days... Then I entered the building where you were through the light crack, separated from you, and came in again, it was almost twelve days..." Parker shrugged.

So, Parker stayed here for almost a month? A drop of sweat fell from Chen Ke's forehead. He didn't find any traces of cooking nearby. How did Parker survive for this month...?

"How did you get back here from the building?" Chen Ke asked.

"I searched floor by floor to find you, and saw the portal on the sixth floor..." Parker explained.

"And you went in? You knew that door couldn't take you out of the building." Chen Ke spread his hands.

"Of course I know, but there is no other door in the whole building except that portal, and I heard a very scary sound. I don't want to stay with the thing that made that sound." Parker said.

Scary sound?

"What kind of thing?" Chen Ke asked.

"I don't know. I think if I see it, I'm dead. Its voice can be heard through the headphones. It keeps repeating something like you owe me a soul... If I didn't jump into the door at that time, I would definitely lose my mind. And I think you also jumped in, and you may even have been killed by that thing." Parker said.

Chen Ke knew what it was.