Transfer Floor

“Damn it,” Qin An cursed, putting his phone back in his pocket.

Then he walked onto the road, directly stopped a car, pulled the driver out, and immediately fled the area.

Along the way, he ignored traffic lights, speeding through whenever there was no car.

Strangely, despite his actions, no police came after him.

After driving for some distance, just as Qin An thought he had escaped the fake Lin Feng, he suddenly saw a familiar figure in his rearview mirror.

“Hello, Anzi,” the fake Lin Feng said, giving Qin An a strange smile.

“Shit!” Qin An immediately slammed on the brakes and sharply turned the steering wheel, causing the car to crash into the roadside.

The airbag instantly deployed, and Qin An kicked open the door and escaped.

Lin Feng, in the back seat, unhurriedly pushed open the car door, then made a hand gesture like firing a gun, aiming it at the running Qin An.

“Pfft!” The sound came from Lin Feng’s mouth, and his finger, mimicking a gun barrel, flicked upward, as if a real bullet had been fired.

Qin An, who was running, felt the danger approaching and immediately jumped into a nearby shop.

He dodged the invisible bullet.

The shop had a back door, and Qin An used it to enter a crowded alley.

Moving through the crowd, Qin An found a chance to catch his breath.

He looked back and did not see Lin Feng.

However, just as Qin An was about to take a breath, a passerby next to him suddenly transformed into Lin Feng and attacked Qin An.

Just as Qin An was about to be sent flying again, he suddenly felt his ankle grabbed by something.

Unbeknownst to him, a manhole cover had appeared beneath his feet!

And Qin An was pulled down by the person under the manhole cover.

Strangely, the fake Lin Feng, who had been chasing Qin An, did not notice this manhole cover.

After looking around in confusion, he left.

“Shhh!” The person who pulled Lin Feng down was a disheveled old man, like a beggar.

“Who, who are you?”

“Don’t be nervous, I’m also a Seeker.”

“Seeker?” Qin An frowned.

“That’s right, I’m a Seeker from another Survival World.

I’ve been in the Survival World for decades,” the old man sighed, seemingly sensing Qin An’s wariness, and continued to explain, “I found a way to stay on the transfer floor and tried to return to the real world, but after all these years, I still haven’t found it.”

“Transfer floor? Are you talking about this vacation floor?”

“Hmm, I don’t know the specific name of this floor, but its function is similar to a transfer station, so I call it the transfer floor.”

“Do you want to know what was chasing you just now?”

The old man sat on a pile of garbage bags and patted the garbage bag next to him, signaling Qin An to come and sit with him.

“What thing?” Qin An had been in all sorts of harsh environments; let alone sitting on garbage bags, he had even slept in a garbage dump.

So, in order to get more information, Qin An decisively sat down.

“That’s a Cleaner.

He should look exactly like someone you’re familiar with, right?

And he knows everything about you and your relationship.”

“That’s right,” Qin An immediately nodded.

“Hmm, your friend must have been accidentally duplicated on a certain floor.”

“Duplicated?”

“Literally.

Don’t ask.

I don’t know exactly how it’s done.

Maybe you also have a duplicate.”

The old man waved his hand, then muttered to himself, “This world is like a flawless program, and people like us who know the truth are bugs in the program.

The Cleaner’s job is to eliminate these bugs.”

“They generally have two ways to eliminate bugs.

The first is to modify your memory with words.

Clearly, your memory wasn’t modified.

If the first method fails, they will use the second method: forceful removal, eliminating you from all levels of meaning and generating a duplicate to replace you.”

“However, recently, I don’t know what’s going on, but more and more problems are appearing in this world.”

As the old man spoke, he pulled out a bottle of wine from somewhere and drank it in large gulps.

“Don’t worry, this sewer is very safe.

This is a loophole I spent ten years creating, which can also be called a safe house.

The Cleaner cannot perceive this area.”

“Then I want to ask a question, is this world real or virtual?” Qin An swallowed and asked.

“In some sense, it’s real.

Are you hungry?

Do you want some fresh grilled meat?”

The old man took out a piece of grilled steak from a black plastic bag.

He tore off half and handed it to Qin An.

Then he ate the rest in large gulps.

Qin An looked at the steak hesitantly and did not take it.

“Not eating?

Fine, don’t eat.”

Seeing that Qin An had no intention of eating, the old man directly took back the steak and ate it in large mouthfuls, savoring it, his mouth covered in grease.

“How many days can you stay on this floor?”

“Seven days,” Qin An answered truthfully.

“Not bad.

It’s been ten years, and I can finally talk to someone.

Do you know how to play cards?”

“A little.”

..................

During the time they spent together, Qin An gradually lowered his guard.

Plus, he was genuinely hungry, so he accepted the old man’s food and water.

These food and water were collected by the old man daily from above.

He had a way to find loopholes in this world, and naturally, he also had a way to avoid being discovered by the Cleaner.

Seven days later, the old man sent Qin An away, saying that staying on the transfer floor indefinitely was a wrong decision.

After climbing to the ground, Qin An also saw his Elevator.

Upon seeing the Cleaner suddenly appear in the distance, he decisively fled back into the Elevator.

......

And the old man in the sewer hunched over and lay back down on the garbage pile.

He held a green iron bucket filled with gasoline.

Next, the old man took out a cigarette, put it in his mouth, lit it, took a few deep drags, and exhaled a long breath.

Then he poured gasoline on himself, took out a pistol, aimed it at his forehead, and decisively fired.

The bullet pierced his brain, and the old man died on the spot.

The cigarette in his mouth also fell onto his body, instantly igniting the gasoline.

Flames enveloped his body, and soon he was completely burned.........

In fact, from the moment the old man saved Qin An, his safe house was no longer safe.

It wouldn’t be long before the Cleaner would erase this place as if cleaning a virus.

But he also knew that he wouldn’t find the entrance to the real world before he died of old age, so he could only place this hope on Qin An.