After chatting with "Exile", Qin Siyang left the warehouse, went home, washed up and went to bed.
"I hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow," Qin Siyang said to himself before falling asleep.
[Blue Star Calendar, January 22, 2010]
[Western Calendar, Friday.]
[Lunar Calendar, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the year of Jichou, Laba Festival, suitable for traveling]
Today was Friday, but Qin Siyang didn't go to school.
Because the time was too tight.
The exit of Safe Zone No. 38324 was 21 bus stops away from his home.
Even if his sequence was promoted and his physical quality was further improved, it would still take him five or six hours to walk there, and it would take more than ten hours to go back and forth.
This didn't even count the time he needed to wait for an opportunity to hide the silver coin.
If all these were taken into account, he might not be able to get home until the early morning of Saturday.
As for taking the bus?
He couldn't get off the bus before it reached the station, which would limit his route of action.
His own two feet were the means of travel that would never go wrong.
Of course, the prerequisite was that you had enough physical strength.
In order to avoid encountering other troubles on the way and wasting time, Qin Siyang chose to set out early in the morning.
By the time he reached the vicinity of the exit of Safe Zone No. 38324, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, there weren't many people at the safe exit.
The sequence ability users had all gone to have lunch or take a rest.
Naturally, the ordinary people who wanted to "get a share of the pie" beside the sequence ability users had also dispersed, leaving only a few lonely people wandering around the exit of the safe zone.
Qin Siyang hid his face in the wide hood of his sweatshirt. After counting the floor tiles, he passed by as if nothing had happened. Taking advantage of no one's attention, he lifted a small gap in the floor tile at the fastest speed and then flicked the silver coin in.
After putting the floor tile back, he stepped on it, wanting to make sure that this floor tile had the same height as the other floor tiles and there was no difference.
"Bang bang—"
After two dull sounds, Qin Siyang confirmed that the floor tile was firmly stepped on and then turned around and left.
Next, Qin Siyang found a corner where ordinary people gathered to rest.
Many ordinary people were sitting or lying here, seizing the time to rest. Because when the sequence ability users started to leave the safe zone to hunt gods, they would also get busy.
It was very crowded here. A small place accommodated thousands of people. Just because it was very close to the exit of the safe zone.
If a sequence ability user came, they could see it as soon as they looked up.
Although the place close to the exit of the safe zone was relatively cold. But with many people huddled together, they could also help each other block the cold wind.
Moreover, compared with the opportunity to turn their lives around, what was a little cold?
Qin Siyang carefully avoided the people who were lying on the ground taking a nap, found a place where he could barely stand, and squeezed the people on both sides.
Then, under the disdainful gazes of the people around him, Qin Siyang also sat down on the ground like them.
He took out the lunch box from the bag and wolfed down the food.
As soon as the lunch box was opened, the people around all showed contemptuous expressions.
Although they were all ordinary people, they could afford to buy ingredients and cook at home.
No one's cooking could smell as bad as the food in Qin Siyang's lunch box.
Even if it was just stir-fried with a little oil and salt, it was absolutely impossible to emit such a nauseating smell!
A middle-aged woman beside him finally couldn't help it and said to Qin Siyang, "Young man, looking at your young age, this should be the food cooked by your mother, right? Your mother's cooking smells so bad! The ingredients are simply wasted in her hands!"
Qin Siyang swallowed the meat of the nine-tailed black rat, and then said expressionlessly, "My mother is already dead."
The middle-aged woman was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "Was it cooked by your father?"
"My father is also dead."
After hearing this, the middle-aged woman opened her mouth for a long time, wanting to say something, but in the end, it turned into silence, and she didn't make a sound beside him.
An elderly woman beside Qin Siyang murmured to herself, "Poor child. It seems that he just graduated from high school, but his life has no future already."
Qin Siyang still ate the cafeteria food in the lunch box, ignoring the words of others.
After finishing eating, he packed up the lunch box and put it in the bag, planning to put the bag under his head and lie down to rest.
This time, he didn't take the initiative to squeeze in. The people around spontaneously moved aside to give him a place to lie down and rest.
"Thank you."
Qin Siyang didn't look at anyone in particular. He generally expressed his gratitude for the faint kindness shown by the people around him.
When he lay down, he didn't close his eyes and fall asleep. Instead, he stared in one direction in a daze.
Others might have thought he was feeling melancholy or reminiscing about something.
But in fact, his gaze was always fixed on the floor tile where the silver coin was hidden.
Although "Exile" had told him to put down the silver coin before tonight, he didn't think that "Exile" would definitely take out the silver coin after tomorrow.
"If I were 'Exile', I would definitely try to take out this silver coin tonight."
"This is an unequal transaction. 'Exile' can know all the real information of the person who wants the sequence forged, but the person who wants the forgery doesn't even know whether 'Exile' is male or female. All those who want the sequence forged won't be willing to be controlled like this."
"The agreed transaction deadline is tonight. Then, tomorrow, the other party to the transaction is likely to focus on lying in wait here to find out who exactly took the silver coin."
"In that case, the risk of his exposure will increase a lot."
Qin Siyang believed that his judgment was flawless.
He just quietly observed from the side.
After the lunch break ended, teams of sequence ability users started to set out from here.
The crowd also surrounded the area again, blocking the exit of Safe Zone No. 38324 so tightly that not even a drop of water could pass through.
Qin Siyang also surrounded the area with the crowd and had always stayed near that floor tile to ensure that the floor tile was always within his sight.
Whenever a sequence ability user entered or left from here, these people would rush forward and promote the transactions they wanted to make with the sequence ability users.
Some were selling houses.
Some were offering services.
Some were promoting their daughters.
Qin Siyang was swept along by the flow of people, moving back and forth without making any move.
His numb face was hidden under the hood of his sweatshirt, making the people around him wonder what this silent guy was doing here.
But no one would ask him about the purpose of his coming to the exit of the safe zone.
In the eyes of other ordinary people, having one more silent fool around meant one less competitor.
Maybe he was too reserved to say it out loud. Or maybe he wanted to be the favorite of some female sequence ability user but hadn't found the target yet.
No one paid attention to or cared about Qin Siyang's thoughts.
The people who came here all had a strong belief and purpose, hoping to turn their lives around today. Who had the time to care about an idle person?
Just like this, Qin Siyang, who had no independent actions like a puppet, was carried along by the ebb and flow of the crowd and actually came to the side of that floor tile.
He deliberately kept a certain distance from this floor tile, just ensuring that he could see the floor tile, in order to avoid alerting the enemy.
As a result, with the surging of the crowd, he actually came beside the floor tile.
"Forget it. I was just accidentally pushed here. If I immediately dodge aside, it will seem a bit guilty."
Qin Siyang still maintained his passive appearance and let the crowd carry him along. Finally, he was pushed onto this floor tile and stepped on it.
"Thud."