From the end of the world

Chapter 52 Doomsday Girl Date 1
The GPS bracelet I bought online was originally used to prevent children from getting lost. The bracelet is red in color and looks a bit like a toy, but it can also be said to be a delicate decoration that suits the style of junior high school students.

If someone is familiar with this kind of gadget, they can probably recognize its real purpose at a glance. According to my observations during this period, although Ma Zao has a certain degree of understanding of modern electrical appliances, it is still relatively superficial. For example, she knows refrigerators and televisions, but she is unfamiliar with smartphones. When she saw the sports bracelet I bought out of nothing, she curiously asked me what it was. It was then that I came up with the idea of ​​giving out GPS bracelets.

Admittedly, the concealment of thermal energy signatures is definitely better than that of GPS bracelets, but since I have some doubts about whether the "firefly" based on superpowers can be discovered by Ma Zao, I naturally cannot be 100% confident in the thermal energy signature that is also based on superpowers.

We should use superpowers and modern technology.

Keeping Ma Zao by my side is the most important thing in my life. How can I feel at ease with only one layer of defense?

Hearing my voice, Ma Zao was startled at first, then he got up from the sofa in confusion and walked over.

"Give me a gift?"

"Yes, this is it." I handed over the red GPS bracelet that looked like an ordinary decoration.

But she didn't take it immediately. Instead, she hesitated and reminded him quietly, "I'm leaving tomorrow."

"I know. You don't have to feel embarrassed. Just consider this as a farewell gift." I spoke with the greatest sincerity I could muster. "Even though it's only three days, we are still eating and sleeping under the same roof.

"You are a criminal being pursued by official forces, and I am your accomplice who is protecting you. From this perspective, we are also hiding a common secret that cannot be known to others. It is not an exaggeration to say that we are accomplices. Don't you think so?"

Hearing this, she thought about it and could only nod: "That makes sense..."

"Even if you leave, I will never forget you; similarly, I don't want you to forget me after you leave." I continued, "And this bracelet is a souvenir I give you."

She looked like she was about to be convinced: "...but I can't give you a return gift."

"It's okay. As long as you still remember me and are willing to come back to see me in the future, I will be satisfied."

As I said that, I slowly reached out and held her left arm.

When I touched her, I could feel her reflexive tensing. But soon, she deliberately relaxed and let me hold her arm. She was still wearing my gray long-sleeved T-shirt, and I rolled up the sleeves for her, revealing her slender white wrist, and then carefully put the red GPS bracelet on it.

She retracted her wrist and looked at the GPS bracelet with curiosity.

Seeing her looking at me so carefully, I couldn't help but feel uneasy. I couldn't help but say a few more words in the hope of attracting her attention: "I'm just a student, and my financial situation is not good. If I had the conditions, I would have bought you a more expensive ornament. But now I can only buy you this bracelet that looks like a toy."

"No, it's okay, I love it."

I don't know whether she really likes it or is pretending to like it, but if someone gives her a gift, she definitely won't say to someone's face that she doesn't like it.

While responding, she smiled with joy and stroked the GPS bracelet with ulterior motives.

"How many years have passed since I last received a gift..." She revealed a hint of nostalgia.

It seems that she did not identify the true function of this bracelet.

To be honest, giving a GPS bracelet to a 13- or 14-year-old girl as a decoration is the most perverted thing I have ever done in my life. Even I can't help but marvel at my own perversion. The teenage me I dreamed of last night could never imagine that I would become such a despicable and shameless man in the future.

Seeing that the atmosphere was gradually getting better, I decided to keep up the good work and make the next move.

"Ma Zao, although you just said you're leaving tomorrow, I hope you can wait a little longer tomorrow."

Hearing this, she came back to her senses and asked suspiciously, "Why?"

"Look, aren't you still wearing my clothes?" I said what I had prepared. "A normal girl wouldn't walk around outside wearing men's clothes that are so much bigger than hers. You're not wearing the blood-stained hospital gown like you did at the beginning, but it would be easy to arouse suspicion if you walked out like this. What's more, there's a wanted warrant for 'underage girls in possession of guns and ammunition', which would make it even easier to get into trouble."

"But as long as I avoid the gazes of passers-by..."

"I don't know what the population density will be in the doomsday world, but in today's society, the urban population is very dense. If you just hide, you may be able to avoid the eyes of passers-by. But once you want to do something outside, it is impossible to avoid everyone's sight." I said very seriously, "You may say that you can steal other people's clothes, but I don't want you to steal other people's clothes outside. That is a bad behavior." "According to what you said, what should I do?" she asked back.

"It's simple. I've already ordered a few clothes for you online. The sizes are calculated based on the hospital gown you took off." I gave a direct answer. "It just takes some time for the courier to deliver them. If they haven't been delivered today, they should be delivered tomorrow at the latest. Then you can go outside wearing your new clothes."

I dare not say the day after tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, otherwise she might turn around and leave.

I can only delay for a while and then use the extra time to continue persuading her to stay longer.

She lowered her head and pondered for a while, then nodded with difficulty: "Okay, then I will wait tomorrow... By the way, where is the hospital gown now?"

"Because it was too dirty and torn, I threw it away."

In fact, I kept it as a "souvenir of a bizarre encounter."

In order to prevent her from misunderstanding me as a pervert, I decided to keep this matter a secret.
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Ma Zao said, "We'll leave tomorrow," but after my unremitting efforts, I was able to extend the time to the day after tomorrow.

While I was pestering her, I was also researching the information I needed on the Internet.

Although the official platform has not made an official statement yet, there have been many wanted news about "underage girls in possession of guns and ammunition" on the Internet. In addition, there have been fabricated victims of fictitious incidents that occurred in recent days, and the incident has even made it onto the hot search list. All kinds of rumors are spreading wildly.

Just as Agent Kong said before, Luo Shan's search for Ma Zao has expanded to the entire country. This is just a ripple on the surface. I guess Luo Shan has more actions in secret that I can't see, and the latter is probably the real main force.

I also asked Zhu Shi indirectly about this, and the answer was pretty much the same. In addition, I also asked her about the "jinx constitution".

It is true that a jinx physique will attract weird physiques, but weird things will naturally attract each other, and a demon hunter with weird powers will also attract weird things. From the demon hunter's point of view, could it be that Ma Zao's jinx physique is not that special?

But Zhu Shi denied my idea.

Demon hunters do have the property of attracting monsters, but this property will not affect the people around them, let alone the people around them; secondly, demon hunters will not attract monsters very frequently, and may not happen many times a year. At most, it will only ensure that "the demon hunter cannot truly live a common sense life."

For example, "picking up hemp at night, and being visited by strange things the next morning" can only be said to be cursed by something. Moreover, if all demon hunters have such absurd physiques, combined with the six degrees of separation theory (that a person can know any stranger in the world through at most six levels of relationships), I am afraid that human society will not continue to this day.

She also let me know another very important piece of information - in the past two or three years, the frequency of strange events occurring around the world has been increasing significantly.

The authenticity of this information can also be verified through the Internet. In the past two or three years, strange stories, urban legends, and eyewitness records of supernatural events have increased significantly. Needless to say, I have long noticed this abnormal phenomenon and have repeatedly investigated the places where the eyewitness records occurred, but I have never found anything.

If Zhu Shi hadn't told me this himself, I would have thought that those eyewitness records were all nonsense, and that it was just that a new culture of ghost stories had been emerging on the Internet in the past two or three years.

Whenever I think about this, I find it incredible that even though this wave of weirdness lasted for so long, I still missed it again and again. If I hadn't met Mazao, I'm afraid I would still mistakenly think that this was a phenomenon of the rise of new weird culture.

By the way, the scene of me breaking the unfinished building during the battle with Agent Kong was also witnessed by passers-by, and someone even filmed a video nearby and uploaded it to the Internet. The filmer claimed that the scene was not processed with any special effects, and some locals commented under the video saying that they could testify, while most viewers thought that this should be some kind of unexplained explosion accident that can be explained by common sense, or simply thought it was a well-made special effects video.

I never thought that one day I would become the protagonist of an incident. Maybe other ghost story enthusiasts will come to investigate on the spot.

Now that I have stepped onto the stage of the demon hunter world as a superpower, I will naturally no longer hide my power, nor will I continue to be secretive and insist on "not using superpowers in front of people" and so on. I will not show off when I don't need to use them, and I will not talk about this taboo or that taboo when I need to use them. Just let it go.

But in front of Ma Zao, since I had previously established the image of an ordinary person, if I showed my power now, I was afraid that she would be suspicious. I couldn't keep it a secret forever, so I had to find a suitable opportunity to speak up.

And now it is the fifth day that I have known her.

This time, I couldn't find any reason to convince her to postpone her departure.

She was determined to leave.

(End of this chapter)