After the final exam, Shijin went into battle with a light load and boarded a plane flying abroad.
"It's been a long time since I saw my big brother, and I'm a little nervous." He said to Xiao Death in his heart, but he had already taken out the tablet in his hand, opened the mahjong software, and asked casually, "Little Death, are you nervous?"
Little death said nothing.
"Playing dead again?" Shijin raised his eyebrows, hummed, and habitually checked his game account information. He glanced over the bound partner column that had become blank, and sighed sadly.
When Lian Jun wiped out the traces of the past before leaving, he frantically even cancelled the game account, which caused him to be in a state of missing spouse no matter in reality or in the game.
"Even so, be careful that I'm not happy to cheat and find someone else!" He vehemently said some ruthless words that could not be achieved, logged out of the account information, and played a game.
Eat, play, sleep, and sleep. After more than ten hours have passed without knowing it, the plane is about to land.
Shi Jin suddenly said in his heart: "Little death, time is running out."
Little Death finally couldn't pretend to be dead anymore, calling out: "Jin Jin."
"Well, I'm here." Shijin replied in a low voice.
Xiao Di was quiet again. Shijin didn't urge it anymore, lowered his head and continued to play the game.
…
After that day's birthday passed, there was a curious exchange between Shijin and Xiao Death. Shijin forced himself to figure it out, and wanted to face the parting positively, but he suddenly evaded the little death after crying a lot.
Facing Shijin's doubts, it always pretended to be silent, and seemed to feel that as long as it didn't say anything clearly, the parting would not come.
But time never waited for anyone. After the terrible review week, Shijin completed the final exam and ushered in the winter vacation. Then, as he decided on the second day of his birthday, he boarded the plane to pick up Shi Wei Chong.
Now, the plane was about to land, and the parting monsters had already spread their minions.
Can't drag on any longer.
"I..." Xiao Di tried to speak, paused for a while, then dropped to the ground and lost his words.
Shijin stopped the card hand when it spoke, and waited for a long time without waiting for the following. He slightly guessed the difficulty of "I don't know where to start". He entrusted the game to the system, and said, "It's okay, you No need to think about how to speak, just answer my question."
It took a long time for Xiao Die to reply in a low voice, and said unconsciously, "You ask, come in."
Shijin didn't start asking questions right away. Instead, he turned off the tablet, turned his head and glanced at the high sky outside the window, and said, "Wait a little longer... the plane is about to land."
Little death: "Yeah."
…
The nursing home that Lian Jun arranged for Shi Weichong is located in a semi-isolated town near the sea in Country D. The reason why this small town is said to be semi-isolated is because its geographical location is somewhat special. The mainland is connected, but there is only one "line" on the high ground. It is more like a small island, but because it is connected to the mainland by a "line", it still maintains a slightly closer daily connection with the mainland than a real island.
It takes three or four hours to get to that small town from the airport at the fastest. Shijin abandoned the faster city subways and taxis, and chose to take long-distance sightseeing buses specially for tourists.
"It's 10:30 local time in country D." Shijin took a seat by the window in the back row of the sightseeing bus, hugged his backpack in front of him, took out his phone to check the time, "By twelve o'clock, I will pick a place to get off for lunch, buy some gifts for Shi Weichong by the way, and then continue to get on the bus and set off. If we conservatively estimate, we still have a whole afternoon to chat. Well, it’s quite enough, it should be enough. You tell a story."
"It's not telling a story." Xiaoju retorted aggrievedly.
"Yes, Lord Death never tells stories." Shijin laughed and coaxed him, raised his hand to support his chin, looked at the streets of a foreign country outside the window, and squinted his eyes. "Let's take it as a tourist and watch Let’s talk over the scenery."
When the bus passed an ancient and heavy bridge, the two finally began this long-delayed conversation.
"Is this world really a book?" Shi Jin flipped through the travel guide on the bus and chose a better question to begin with.
Xiao Di replied: "It's not a book, there is no book. The world is real. The book you saw at the first time was my visualization based on you... from the life and memory of the original owner."
Shi Jin had already guessed about this. He was not surprised when he heard the result. He nodded and asked further: "The last owner of the book was born again, and he vowed to avenge his five brothers. Did you make up this part?"
"It's not... You are the one who is reborn. Wanting to avenge the five brothers is the original owner's biggest obsession before his death."
Shijin rubbed the corner of the travel guide, and continued to ask: "Is it mine or the life and memory of the original owner?"
Xiao Death was silent for a while, and replied: "It's time to advance."
Time advances... When does it advance? Is this time advancing, or that? Or the same time
With these thoughts in his mind, Shi Jin looked at the cathedral as he gradually entered his field of vision outside the window. He shifted his gaze, looking at the cross on the church spire, leaning sideways on the window rail, swallowing these questions as if evasive, and changing the question. Asked: "Then what are you? Are you really a mysterious system, and I am the chosen son of the system?"
"I did choose you." Xiao Di's tone became hesitant, "and I... I am... I don't know."
Shijin mentioned that half of his heart was stuck in the middle, and asked in disbelief, "Don't you know?"
"Um... but I can feel a little vaguely." Xiao Death replied hesitatingly, as if he didn't know how to explain it. After stumbling for a while, he suddenly said, "Jin Jin, you know why the progress bar for you and the baby One is 999 and the other is 1000?"
Shijin was really curious about this, and hurriedly replied, "Why?"
"Because there are still 1 to 998 ahead, and each progress bar has an owner. They are all people who will die tragically in the original trajectory of life, and then have the opportunity to change their destiny."
Shijin was surprised and asked, "There are so many progress bars? Have you done the system of those progress bar owners? Who selected these people? How to determine the maximum value of each person's progress bar? distributed?"
"Yes, I did, they chose the progress bar themselves. As for the maximum value..." Xiao Shi organized the language and replied, "The maximum value of the progress bar represents the possibility and possibility of the progress bar owners to reverse their lives. The higher the value, the more difficult it is to change the destiny and the greater the danger, but on the contrary, the fault tolerance rate when changing the destiny will be higher. The value of each person is not assigned by others, but determined by their own conditions."
Shijin digested the information, and then questioned: "Then the 998 people in front of me, have the progress bar disappeared?"
"No, one progress bar affects one, if one is eliminated, then the subsequent progress bar will not be generated at all." Xiao Death replied in a low voice.
"The one who didn't eliminate the progress bar..."
"Should all have passed away."
Shi Jin felt that the word "should" was used strangely, and asked, "Should?"
Xiao Di's voice became lower and lower, almost inaudible: "Well... Actually, I don't remember very much. Every time I leave a host, my memory will be cleared once, and only some basic information will be kept. According to common sense, in If the host’s progress bar has not been eliminated, I must stay until the host dies before leaving."
Cang Dang.
Shi Jin's arm tilted, his head hit the car glass, and he sat up.
Xiao Death was taken aback, and hurriedly added: "But you and your baby are not the same. Even if I leave you, I will remember you, because you successfully changed your destiny and eliminated the progress bar!"
Shijin was a little bit angry: "How can you guarantee that you can remember, you have forgotten 998 people!"
"I will really remember, my instinct tells me, I will remember." Xiao Death promised.
"How can you be so sure about this by intuition?" Shijin couldn't believe it, and his emotions were about to collapse. "What if your instinct lied to you! Then wouldn't you forget me too?"
"It doesn't matter, if I forget you, correspondingly, you will also lose the memory of me." Xiao Death quickly calmed down.
Shijin only felt that a bucket of hot oil had been poured on his head, and then someone passed a torch over and laughed angrily, and said, "If you dare to touch my memory and let me forget you, I will... just..."
What is it? If the memory is really taken away, what can he do? It is estimated that he will only be like a fool, and spend his whole life happily.
His high spirits slowly fell back, softened on the chair, and for a long time, he compromised and said: "Little death, I believe you, don't forget me... Don't you always say that you are the father of me and Lian Jun? How can a father forget his child."
"No, I will definitely not forget you!" Xiao Death promised again, and even made a poisonous oath.
Shi Jin thought it’s swearing tone was a bit funny, but because of the pressure in his heart, he really couldn’t laugh. Seeing that it was past eleven o’clock, he simply picked up his backpack and looked in the sight of the surrounding tourists looking at mental patients. , I found a crowded street and got off the car.
I improved my mood with food, and then bought some gadgets for Shi Wei Chong as a gift. At 12:30, Shi Jin boarded a sightseeing bus to the town again, sorted out his emotions, and once again assumed a chat posture. , Asked in his heart: "So you are actually a system dedicated to helping others change their destiny?"
"No." Xiao Death replied, and considered the sentence again, and said, "My ultimate goal is not this, but if I want to achieve my ultimate goal, I must first help you change your destiny and let you live well."
Shijin was puzzled and asked, "Then what is your ultimate goal?"
Xiao Di's tone suddenly became serious and solemn, and he replied in a round tone: "Save the world!"
Shi Jin took out his ears: "... What?"
"My ultimate goal is to save the world!" Xiao Death repeated eloquently.
Shijin bowed his head deeply, thought for ten minutes, then raised his head and snapped his fingers, and said, "I'm probably a little confused by jet lag. I actually experienced auditory hallucinations. Come on, let's change to the next question."
"Jin Jin, you don't believe me." Xiao Death's tone became aggrieved.
Shi Jin choked, then rubbed his face crumbled, turned his head to look at the exotic beauty outside, brainwashed, and said: "I don't believe you, I just... just need a little time to digest. I'm actually a materialist. Do you believe it?"
The little death grunted aggrievedly.
"Okay, actually I don't believe it myself." Shijin withdrew his gaze blankly, feeling that he was still too uncomfortable. Up to now, he has accepted the mysterious things of rebirth and an extra system in his mind, and that system is clamoring to save the world, so what is so fuss about.
He seriously and carefully digested the four words "save the world", and did a good job of mental construction, until he thought that his mentality was so strong that he could calmly accept whatever he said next, and then asked again. "So every one of your hosts is reborn after death, just like me? If I change my fate and fail, and then you are bound to Lian Jun, will he also have a chance to be reborn? Still say His body will be occupied by another soul... Wait."
He suddenly realized that something was wrong, frowned and said: "Did you say that the progress bar is one that affects one, and if one is eliminated, then the progress bar behind it will not be generated at all. Push the other way around, that is, the progress bar is The elimination of this one failed, and the next one will only occur when the owner of the progress bar dies, right?"
Xiao Death didn't expect him to be so keen, and replied: "It's usually like this, but the baby is different."
"Where is it different?"
"He is the last one, and the most critical one." Xiao Death replied, his tone becoming heavy, "The progress bar is an opportunity, and my opportunity is only a thousand times. He appeared too early, and I couldn't even be as immediately as before. Determine his identity and location, because there is still you in front of him."
Shi Jin frowned deeply: "You mean, after you failed to save 998 times, two progress bars that need to be eliminated suddenly popped up in front of you?"
"Basically."
"Then if Lian Jun and I fail..."
"I will disappear completely and the rescue mission will fail."
Shijin still felt that saving the world was too unreal, and said: "How come Lian Jun and I have become the key to saving the world? This is simply... Lian Jun may also influence the world. After all, he had a special status and a human being. Very clever. If he wants to be a gangster overlord and stir up troubles in various countries, no one may be able to stop him, but me? Me? Ordinary like me..."
"Jinjin, you and your baby are both important. The baby's influence lies in him, your influence lies in your family background. You may not be good, but you can influence five other people who are good enough."
Shi Jin didn't speak anymore. After pondering for a while, he had to admit that there was actually some kind of causal logic in these seemingly imaginary words that Xiao Death said.
"Little death, I want to know, in the original fate, what happened to everyone after Lian Jun and I died? I mean the five brothers of the Shi family, and Gua Yi and them. Also, if I don’t appear in Lian Jun By your side, you haven't had time to bind to Lian Jun, where will he die?"
Xiao Death was silent for a while, and replied: "Those are things that haven't happened. Your destiny has all changed, and I can't give an answer."
Shi Jin leaned back in his chair and sighed, "Forget it, I don't need you to answer." He can make up the answer to this question himself.
If his destiny has not changed, he hasn't been reborn, and the original owner is dead, then with Xu Jie's temperament, after the original owner is resolved, she will definitely reach out to the other brothers in the Shi family. The other brothers in the Shi family are not good friends. The relationship between the last few brothers will definitely become a mess, and it is possible to become enemies and kill each other. And the more excellent people are, the greater the impact of fighting. The five brothers of the Shi family stand at the top of various industries. Once they become true, the turbulence caused will only be large or small.
There is also Lian Jun. If Lian Jun is dead, then Gua Yi and the others will definitely be trapped and die in the dark world, unable to get out. They may inherit Lian Jun's will and try to get rid of Mie, but without Lian Jun's guidance, it's really hard to say what the outcome will be.
And where will Lian Jun die... If he doesn't show up, Lian Jun will be smashed to death by a chandelier when he is in the orchard.
After he posted it for a while, his thoughts slowly got a little bit horny, and he asked: "I still don't understand. Since you are going to save the world, it proves that there must be a big problem in the world, right, but how can the world go wrong? What? Even if mankind is dead, the earth is still the earth, and the world is still the world, how could it need to be saved. Are you actually trying to save mankind? But even if the world is in chaos or a war breaks out, it is unlikely that mankind will be extinct. If it is not extinct, human beings will definitely be able to slow down by themselves, there is no need to save them specially."
The little death seemed to be questioned by him, and it took a long time before he said: "Jin Jin, do you know about rebirth?"
Shijin couldn’t keep up with its topic, and replied: “Of course I know, I’m not just born again... Do you want to say that this is actually fake? Or is it that I’m crazy, you don’t exist at all, everything is me? Imagination after going crazy?" He said as he scared himself, he hurriedly looked at the people around him, and pinched himself, trying to make sure that everything he was experiencing now was real.
Little Death said: "Of course your rebirth is real, and the rebirth of many people in this world is real."
Shi Jin was stunned, then his eyes widened: "The rebirth of many people? What do you mean?"
"Not only rebirth, but also transcendence, soul exchange... and all other unnatural phenomena, these are often happening in this world." The little death's tone became heavy again, with a hint of helplessness, "All creatures follow Appearing, surviving, and perishing according to a certain law, they formed the world together and promoted the development of the world. Then one day, this law in human society, there was a small accident. A touch of soul that does not belong to this world came here , Occupying the body of a native human, and then the butterfly flapped its wings, and the course of the world changed."
Shijin frowned slowly, listening intently.
"If there is only one such accident, then the rules still have a way to slowly digest the impact it caused. But when such accidents appear second and third... even when there are people who break the rules among the native humans. … There must be something wrong. There is a loophole in the rules. If you continue to let it go, no one knows what will happen. In order to make up for the loopholes and eliminate the impact of various accidents, a progress bar appeared… ”
Following Xiao Death's narration, a world that Shijin couldn't understand at all appeared before his eyes.
In the narration of the small death, the world of Shijin's survival became a container that must operate according to the law to exist in a healthy manner. Then one day, an outsider didn't know how to squeeze in, and he used knowledge that did not belong to this world to stir. The wind and rain changed the fate of many people, destroyed the operation of the container itself, and caused cracks to appear on the container.
After the cracks, more and more outsiders squeezed in, and gradually even the people inside the container had problems. The operation of the container becomes a mess. If this vicious cycle continues, the container will be damaged sooner or later. Container herself finally realized that it was wrong, and she began to try her best to save herself by the rules, but this method was too slow to work, and more and more outsiders and mutants have been in high positions, which greatly influences and changes the world, and cannot be killed at will. In the case of, she thought of a quicker way to save herself that could directly approach the source of the problem. This method was the progress bar.
To save oneself, the crack must be eliminated. And to eliminate the cracks, you must first eliminate the influence of those outsiders and mutations, and return the operation of the container to the right track. So the most fundamental solution to the problem is to eliminate the influence of outsiders and mutations.
The progress bar selects the people who are most affected by the fate of outsiders and mutations, binds them, and guides the progress of the world in a way that helps them change their destiny.
"Violent organizations shouldn't have appeared in the first place. Shi Xingrui is the life style of being old and getting children, and being dragged down by relatives for his life." Xiao Si finally ended with a sentence that shocked Shi Jin's brain, "but Because of the promotion of a certain outsider and a certain change, the violent organization became a legal existence in China. Shi Xingrui founded Ruixing and gave birth to six sons. Both you and your baby were changed invisibly."
Shijin was completely speechless.
"Jin Jin, you have asked me why you are so many times." Xiao Death paused, and said with difficulty, "I have never told you the truth in the past... because it can only be you, and that is your life. You change."
Shi Jin only felt a hum in his ears, and his heart sank as if he had lost support.
"I have failed 998 times. Only you and my baby are left. I have no choice. So I did what I didn't want to do and used the most power I could use." Xiao Death's voice was very dry and contained. Deeply guilty, "I need a strong and optimistic host, but you can’t do it in the past. You are too fragile and your heart is full of hatred... I can almost foresee my 999th failure. The baby’s appearing prematurely makes me Had to go slant forward."
"What did you do?" Shijin asked.
"I made you also a mutant, changed your time exceptionally, returned you to the time when you had time to save everything, then stripped your memories and feelings away, sent you to other places, and made you look like Like those outsiders who came here, they went to other places to live a completely different life, and then before you could have an impact on another world, they brutally brought you back with death, letting you be like others Perspective, to save your real life. Your last life, in this world, was actually just a beautiful dream you had when your soul was out of your body for a short time." The little death's voice slowly brought into a cry, "Go in, I'm sorry, I lied to you from the beginning."