The others naturally didn't have Xia Liang's keen eyesight.

Gardner, standing behind him, looked into the room upon hearing this, but could only see pitch darkness, let alone Dennis who was further back. As for the blind-as-a-bat Shen Lan, he simply didn't move an inch and stood beside Xia Chuan, ears pricked up listening to the movements around him.

"What's wrong?" Xia Chuan, guarding the door, was startled and couldn't help but ask. As he spoke, he saw Xia Liang had already slipped through the door in a flash, only leaving behind a sentence: "Don't move!"

Gardner was anxious, cursing as he strode in after him, looking as if he had completely disregarded whether he could see the way ahead, only repeatedly asking: "Where's Amos?! Where's Buddy?! My God! Amos--"

The voice echoed back and forth in the room and narrow corridor, making the entire cabin seem a bit empty.

Xia Chuan heard the door he was guarding being opened again. That woman slightly poked her head out to take a look, her glowing eyes in the darkness happening to meet Xia Chuan's. Her silhouette visibly trembled, and then she spoke again with some hesitation: "Ah Liang? No... Ah Liang is next door."

Apparently, Xia Chuan and Xia Liang's figures looked even more alike in the darkness, to the point that she was a bit confused.

"I'm not him." Xia Chuan answered in a low voice. He wanted to add a sentence like "I'm his friend" or something else to reassure this woman peeking out in front of him, so as not to scare her, but he couldn't find a suitable adjective to describe his relationship with Xia Liang. In the end, he said, "I'm helping him guard here."

"Thank you." The woman's voice was gentle and pleasant, soft and nice to hear. Xia Chuan actually couldn't find any fragments about her in his memory, but due to psychological factors, always felt that this voice was not unfamiliar, with a sense of déjà vu.

"What happened next door? I seem to hear Gardner shouting." The woman was just asking when Gardner's voice came to the door again.

Xia Chuan looked up and saw two tall figures hurriedly coming out of the door, their postures very strange, as if they were dragging something. Xia Liang glanced at the door Xia Chuan was guarding and said, "Don't shrink back, we've already seen. Come, open the door, let's go in and talk."

"Oh." The woman was caught peeking, obediently responded, opened the door and stepped back behind it. When she saw Xia Liang and the others walk to the door, she took a breath: "The one you're carrying, is that... Buddy?! Wait, what happened? Where's Amos?"

Gardner cursed under his breath and said, "I'm holding him with this arm, let's talk inside."

The two of them maintained their strange posture and entered the room sideways.

Shen Lan couldn't see clearly, but Xia Chuan and Dennis exchanged a glance... If the two of them were not blind, then there was no third person being carried between these two, the so-called position of "Buddy" was actually empty, and Gardner's hands were not holding any child as he claimed.

However, considering the various things encountered before, they already had a rough guess in their hearts, so they didn't say much for the time being, and followed Xia Liang and the others into the room. Xia Chuan, who was at the rear, looked back and scanned the long, dark corridor. After confirming there were no traces of others, he closed the door behind him and locked it.

The room with the door closed was even darker than before. Except for Xia Liang and Xia Chuan, almost everyone was feeling the walls as they walked.

Xia Chuan tentatively walked behind Xia Liang and Gardner, the two maintaining a set distance as they moved towards the bed "carrying Buddy". Xia Chuan raised his hand and swiped between the two, as expected yet unexpectedly, his fingertips did not touch any entity.

"Hit the bed corner, put him down, be careful not to crush my son." Xia Liang said to Gardner while placing the supported Buddy down on the bed, then took Amos from Gardner's arms and also placed him on the bed.

He didn't bother to arrange the people on the bed comfortably, but handed them over to Gardner. He himself turned around, pulled the woman who had been following beside him, and said, "Stay here and don't move, stay with them."

"What about you?" The woman was a bit worried and didn't let go of him.

"Don't worry, I'm not going out, just looking around the room to make sure." After saying that, Xia Liang patted her hand, straightened up, turned his head and said to Gardner, "Pinch their philtrum, wake them up first."

As he said this, he really started moving around the room. This kind of darkness was completely adaptable for him, and he walked almost without any hesitation, and of course, without encountering any obstacles. Seeing him open cabinet doors one by one and feel around, Xia Chuan thought this kind of inspection would take several minutes of effort, so he was willing to help.

However, he had just walked over and said the word "I" when he suddenly realized something, so the words that were about to come out were swallowed back.

"What's the matter?" Xia Liang was obviously very attentive to his every move.

While checking the cabinets and room corners, he didn't forget to turn his head and ask, "Want to say something? By the way, do you see the little guy lying on the bed, don't you feel it's very wonderful? At this time, if he stands up, he could probably only hug your thigh... Saying it like this seems a bit strange, but you can understand, right?"

Despite the tense moment, when he spoke of this matter, his voice still carried a smile.

His voice was very low, and because he was rushing to check for safety, his speech was also a bit fast. The people by the bed obviously didn't hear clearly what he was saying, so Gardner and the woman who should be Xia Chuan's mother didn't raise any questions.

Xia Chuan glanced towards the bed and then said, "What I wanted to say is exactly this... In fact, I can't see the people on the bed."

The two had just finished checking the row of standing wardrobes outside and walked into the bathroom. Xia Liang was pulling open the shower curtain to look inside. Upon hearing this, his hand paused. He turned his head to look at Xia Chuan and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Buddy, Amos, and the younger me that you mentioned? There are a total of three people lying on the bed?" Seeing him nod, Xia Chuan continued, "From my perspective, there is only..."

He got stuck when mentioning that woman, not knowing how to address her for a moment.

"You mean Anyao?" Xia Liang caught his meaning very keenly and picked up the conversation, "It's okay if you can't say it, totally understandable. After all, she probably looks about the same age as you now. Coincidentally, she has the same last name as me, Xia. So we always joke that the three of us are destined to be a family, no matter whose last name you take."

Xia Chuan pursed his lips, revealing a faint smile. Fortunately, the other party had amazing eyesight and could see the slight curve at the corner of his mouth even in such darkness.

However, the important matter was still at hand, and their topic instantly returned to the previous track. "Anyway, I can't see the other three people. It was the same in the corridor earlier. The power had just gone out not long ago, and behind us, there was only one person standing there talking to himself in the entire corridor, with all the words cut in half. Dennis was startled at the time, do you remember?"

Xia Liang didn't speak, seemingly trying to recall.

But before he could say anything, Xia Chuan had already continued, "In fact, thinking back, this whole ship seems a bit off. There are too few people on board."

"There are indeed very few people on this ship." Xia Liang slowly added.

"Strangely few." Xia Chuan shook his head, "Since we woke up from the coma, Shen Lan and I have been paying attention to the rooms on both sides of the corridor. Among them, the ones with signs indicating occupancy are indeed not many, probably only half. But in this day and night, we have only seen people from two rooms in total. One is the person I just mentioned who was talking to himself in the corridor during the power outage, and the other is a young lady who was playing a CD in her room when we passed by her door."

Xia Liang let out an "hmm". "You mentioned it earlier in your room."

"Even at noon in the restaurant, it was clearly mealtime, but there weren't many people dining in the entire restaurant." Xia Chuan recalled, "In the huge restaurant, there were only a countable few tables with a sparse number of guests. Including me, Shen Lan, and Dennis, there were no more than ten in total. And from the power outage until now, we haven't heard any loud commotion.

"Don't you find it strange? What the three of us have seen and what you have seen are two completely different scenes. It's as if a certain condition has been set, and what we see is a world filtered through that condition, only a part of what you see."

Xia Liang listened while checking the bathroom, then patted Xia Chuan's shoulder, gesturing for him to return to the room.

"Before this, have you encountered similar situations?" Xia Liang pulled him back to the bedside and asked.

"We have indeed encountered it, but not on this ship." Xia Chuan nodded, "It was before coming here, in the previous world."

"Huh? Previous world?" Gardner, who was trying hard to pinch Buddy's philtrum, suddenly turned his head, obviously startled by these words, a bit confused by the meaning.

"I'll explain it to you in detail later." Xia Liang replied to him, then raised his chin at Xia Chuan, saying, "You continue." As he spoke, he bent down to check Buddy's breath, then patted Gardner to indicate for him to move aside a bit. "Let me."

Xia Chuan used a few sentences to briefly describe the strange phenomenon they encountered in the tribal battle before.

"You mean, you could only see the people from your own tribe at that time, but not the other side? They were blocked by a thick black fog, and you couldn't find any targets to attack at all? And when you accidentally passed through that black fog, you arrived here, is that right?" Xia Liang asked after listening.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Dennis, who had been standing aside listening for a while, more or less understood what Xia Chuan and Xia Liang were discussing.

He became excited, gesticulating wildly as he described it, not even sparing the dinosaur world. Although he wasn't as concise as Xia Chuan, his speech was very fast due to his heightened emotions. He managed to say most of it in a minute or two. "Actually, I've always had an idea about this..."

At the end, he suddenly became quiet again, not knowing what he thought of, his mood plummeting.

"You mean people from different time periods can't appear face to face at the same time?" Shen Lan's words were really a bit convoluted, and it was a wonder he could express it smoothly.

Dennis nodded, then shook his head, "To be precise, I think the people we can't see are all still alive in this world... The three people lying on this bed, one is Chuan when he was young, one is a younger Professor Linton, and the other is—wait, holy shit!"

Previously, because of the relationship between Xia Chuan and Xia Liang, they were startled and didn't have time to calm down before experiencing the power outage.

The group hurried back and forth, changing several places in succession. As a result, no one had the time to continue thinking about more things in detail. Now, under this analysis, mentioning Amos, Xia Chuan and the others who understood the ins and outs suddenly thought of something—

Xia Liang had said that he was shenlan01, and currently there was no 02 at all. He had also mentioned that the people from Wes Company ignored his opinion and secretly conducted another physical examination. This time, the list included his son and Gardner's son.

Dennis's voice sounded a bit dazed, "If Mr. Xia's son is Xia Chuan, then Mr. Gardner's son Amos is very likely..."

His trembling hand pointed at Xia Chuan, then at Shen Lan. However, because it was too dark in the room, he couldn't grasp the distance and suddenly poked Shen Lan's shoulder, letting this blind overlord who was utterly confused feel it for real.

Xia Anyao: "...Who did you say is Xia Chuan?"

Gardner: "............Wait, who is my son?"

Shen Lan: "............................................................"