Chen Yang had the bitterness in his mouth kissed away by Chao Jian. He was carried to their home by him and lay on the bed that smelled of wood, but it still felt unreal.
But it's true.
Chen Yang really walked out of the false world that was entangled and eroded by the mission rules, untied his identity number, and broke away from the identity of the tasker.
He crossed the finish line, met Chao Jian, and went home.
Everything in the past is in Chen Yang's mind, extremely active. They have just returned to where they belong. It seems that every fragment of memory has temperature, and it is still warm.
But in fact, only the moments that Chen Yang recalled were truly hot, hot from the inside out. Most of the memory fragments were just wrapped in a layer of hot skin because they were just out of the oven. When peeled off, they would touch a cold layer.
Because the past that he did not re-experience was too far away from him, he had long forgotten what it felt like at the time, and the emotions could not be connected.
This is their first appearance, and probably the last time. From now on, they will be solemnly sealed up by Chen Yang and stay quietly in their own place.
Chen Yang curled up his arms and legs in Chao Jian's arms, his ear against his chest. Chen Yang sorted out his memories in the sound of Chao Jian's strong heartbeat. The last level was mostly a revolving lantern of life, with only three illusions. They were cleverly arranged by the rules, with the purpose of interfering with Chen Yang, making him unable to distinguish what was real and what was fake, and finally losing his mind and losing his way on the road.
The three illusions are:
-Sister Qiao’s bus mission.
The first half is true, but the ending is false. She did not fail in that mission, and she did die in other missions later and was eaten by the pregnant woman she had saved.
-A Jing's death.
He did not fall into Chen Yang's arms, and Chen Yang did not have time to help him close his eyes.
Ajing walked with his eyes open.
-The computer room, the deaths of Zheng Zhi, Tan Ayuan, Qian Qin, Qiaojie and others, Chao Jian’s death, Chao Jian’s comfort, including Chen Yang himself who was about to finish sowing the seeds, were all illusions.
The fragments of illusions may seem few, but the chain reaction they bring is terrible. Because when Chen Yang realized that there were illusions in the revolving lantern through the contradictory cause of Sister Qiao's death, he began to lose track of which of the memory fragments he collected and treasured were illusions and which were real past events.
Chen Yang initially thought that it was half true and half false. He told himself not to care and just watch whatever was presented to him.
But he still couldn't control himself. When facing his past teammates and himself, he would involuntarily speculate and distinguish between reality and fiction. A fierce dispute was taking place in his spiritual world, leaving it in ruins.
Later, Chen Yang met the sunny and youthful newcomer Chao Jian. The boy he loved was brave, kind, righteous, and respected life and loved the world. He was so good. He missed him while struggling, and neurotically shouted in his heart, "Don't take it seriously, it's all fake, fake!"
Later, Chen Yang was tired, he ended the tug-of-war in his spiritual world and let himself go. Chen Yang thought, it was all true, he treated it all as true, everything he saw and heard was true.
Not knowing whether the scenery along the way was an illusion or reality, Chen Yang forced himself to stick to his original intention with great difficulty. He walked forward, not daring to look back or stop, and kept walking straight ahead.
Then he walked to the engine room.
At that time, Chen Yang was stunned, his mind was blank, and he had lost his ability to speak and think. The severe pain caused by his swollen abdomen and vomited white silk reminded him that he was really parasitic in spores before, and after putting on the headphones, the spores matured and sowed.
At that moment, Chao Jian asked him if he had entered a fantasy.
Chen Yang suddenly realized that he had not broken through the critical point at all. He stopped in the review area. The people and things along the way were all illusions and all fake.
Chen Yang was in despair. He didn't know how to face Chao Jian who was returning from the finish line and crawling towards him little by little. He hated his failure even more.
He could do nothing but ask why over and over again, unwilling to accept the result.
Mental collapse and physical pain were intertwined, interspersed with Chao Jian's gentle gaze and kiss. Chen Yang wandered on the dividing line between destruction and rebirth.
Soon, there were spores in Chao Jian's body. He knelt down in front of Chen Yang and couldn't stand up. Then his teammates died, one by one.
The string in Chen Yang's mind that had been vibrating violently for a long time suddenly broke into two pieces, bouncing and hitting him heavily at the same time.
The pain was so severe that I lost my vision.
When Chao Jian was about to die, he touched his face and said, Brother, I have already made up my mind. It doesn’t matter if we can’t reach the end. Let’s go to hell together.
Chen Yang agreed.
The dividing line between destruction and rebirth began to burn. Standing there, he had empty eyes, his body and mind were shaking, waiting to fall into the abyss of destruction.
It was Chao Jian who pulled him back.
Walking out of the last illusion of the last level, Chen Yang seemed to have touched the rule itself. It said, I throw you into the long river of memory and illusion, can you still find your way home
If you can't find it, you will be buried in the long river, buried forever with your weak faith, your unwillingness, regret, and the lover who is still waiting for your redemption.
Once you find it, you can come back.
Where is the book
As soon as Chen Yang had this thought, the book was placed in front of him by a hand.
Chen Yang hugged the book tightly, Chao Jian put his hand back on his back, and hugged him tightly.
Neither of them spoke, just quietly listening to each other's heartbeat and breathing.
After a while, Chen Yang said hoarsely: "My diary..."
The diary, like the book, was handed into his arms by Chao Jian, who had expected it.
Chen Yang put the book down, picked up the diary and opened it. The first page was still blank, but the second page was different.
The teammates he had previously recorded were tampered with by the rules and turned into lines. Now that he has passed the level, those lines have returned to their original state.
They are all people's names, densely packed.
Chen Yang turned the pages one by one, reading out the names one by one. The further he went, the more dull his reading became, as if he was numb and used to it, but his hands holding the diary kept shaking.
Chao Jian has been with him all the time.
There were still three or five pages left to turn when Chen Yang's head fell into Jian's arms and fell asleep.
My mental strength has been overdrawn, and holding on until now is already a limit that ordinary people cannot reach.
Chao Jian did not pull out the diary that Chen Yang was still holding. He just held the person in his arms, closed his eyes and let out a sigh.
Chen Yang felt it was unreal, and so did he.
This road is too difficult, too long, and too painful. When you really walk out of it, it will feel like waking up from a nightmare. They all need to repair their inner selves and let their scarred and exhausted souls sleep for a while.
The rest will come after the soul wakes up.
Chen Yang slept from the bright sunshine to the cold and lonely night. When he opened his eyes, he felt dizzy from sleeping too long and his waist was aching.
It's the kind of sore feeling that comes from being pinched for a long time.
Not only his waist, but also his limbs and his whole body hurt. Chen Yang found that he and Chao Jian were entangled hands, as if they were grown together.
Chen Yang sensed the gaze above his head, and when he looked up, he bumped into a blood-red scene. Chao Jian's eyes were too red, with bloodshot eyes.
Chen Yang stroked Chao Jian's eyes with heartache, not knowing that he was not much better.
"When did you wake up?" Chen Yang touched Chao Jian's hair, inserted his fingers into it, and watched his chestnut hair shuttle between his fingers.
"More than two hours ago." Chao Jian's throat moved slightly.
Chen Yang was stunned: "Then you..." He found that he was resting his head on Chao Jian's arm and quickly sat up. This simple action made him dizzy, nauseous and want to vomit. He really slept for too long and he hadn't slept like this for a long time.
Chao Jian let Chen Yang massage his numb arm muscles. He stared at him, his eyes, which were red as if bleeding, gradually becoming hotter and wet.
"elder brother… "
Chen Yangqing said, "Why are you crying? Today is a new beginning. We should smile."
Chao Jian stared at the corner of his mouth that was raised, and smiled as well: "It was yesterday."
"Ah? Yesterday?" Chen Yang glanced at the hazy moonlight outside the wooden window. What time is it now
"It's a little after one in the morning." Chao Jian said.
Chen Yang: “…” So now it really is the second day.
The knife above his head disappeared, and he came down from the wire, beginning to feel the dull passage of time.
The growling of his stomach dispelled Chen Yang’s emotion. He was stunned for a few seconds, feeling confused and worried. There were only him and Chao Jian on the island. How would he solve the food problem
Fishing? What about clothes and things to use? Supplies are a big problem. I don’t know if I can go out to sea. What’s on the other side of the sea…
It certainly wasn't a group of Smurfs.
Chen Yang had a lot of random thoughts, but he pushed them all aside and piled them in a corner. The most important thing right now was how to stop his stomach from making noises. "Did you bring out the milk tablets I gave you?" Chen Yang held Chao Jian's cheek.
Reaching behind Jian's back, he pulled back the quilt from the wall.
Those were a few boxes of milk tablets, the packaging boxes were still intact, and Chao Jian hid them inside the bed.
Chen Yang pressed Chao Jian to reach the milk slices, then he lay on top of him to open one of the boxes, peeled a few and shared them with him.
"Go to the kitchen, I'll cook noodles." Chao Jian said as he devoured the milk slices.
Chen Yang was stunned. There were noodles on the island? Where did they come from
Chao Jian got up from the bed and put on his shoes. He turned around and picked up Chen Yang, holding his butt and holding him in front of him: "I had it when I came."
Chen Yang's brain had been overused for a long period of time, and now as soon as he relaxed, it went into maintenance mode. It took him a long time to come around. It was not until he was carried out of the room by Chao Jian and stood in a room in the south of the yard that he got goose bumps all over his body.
The supplies are complete.
We can start again and hit the road.
This was the first thought that came to Chen Yang’s mind after seeing the things filling the room.
Chen Yang put one arm around Chao Jian's neck and pointed at the room in front of him with the other hand: "What's in this?" I've already come out, why should I bother thinking about it
"It's a reward for those who pass the level." Chao Jian laughed softly.
Chen Yang got down from Chao Jian's arms, rushed into the house with a few big strides, and took a quick look at the supplies. Rewards? Rewards, that's really down to earth.
Chen Yang went to look at the many supplies again. He seemed to smell the fragrance of food and feel the warmth brought by the cotton-padded clothes he wore in the cold winter...
That is the life of firewood, rice, oil and salt.
It's so out of touch with reality, so precious and so rare. Chen Yang wiped his face randomly and turned around to look at Chao Jian.
There were two people, one at the door and the other in the house. You looked at me with red eyes, and I looked at you with red eyes. The night wind outside was very strong and cold. It was late autumn, but they were very warm and hot between them, as if spring had just arrived.
"How do you know this is our home?" Chen Yang suppressed his excitement with difficulty and followed Chao Jian into the kitchen to watch him busy himself.
Chao Jian said: "By the time I reacted, I was already standing in the yard."
Chen Yang nodded. There was a circle of stone houses on the island, but Chao Jian was the only one here. This was enough to prove that this was their home.
Besides, the supplies they won are also here.
Chao Jian boiled water to cook noodles, and Chen Yang skillfully made a bun for him. The two chatted about light topics.
"Are you going to sleep after eating?"
"what ever."
"I don't want to sleep anymore. I want to watch the sunrise."
"Okay, let's wait for sunrise." Chao Jian kissed Chen Yang on the ear.
Chen Yang was very hungry, but he didn't eat much. He and Chao Jian ate a bowl of noodles, tidied up their food, and sat by the window to watch the night.
Wait a little longer, until the dawn comes, then they will go to the hillside, to the seaside, to watch the sunrise.
In fact, Chen Yang still wanted to know something. He wanted to know why the world was broken. Was it really as he guessed, a devastating natural disaster? Someone would do the population registration tomorrow, and he should be able to get that part of the information then.
wrong!
It's today!
Someone will come today.
Chen Yang lit a cigarette and held it between his fingers, occasionally kissing Chao Jian. His left ear was caressed by Chao Jian, and the slightly cool touch made him feel a little itchy.
Chen Yang got back all his memories, including the fragment corresponding to the scar on his left ear. He knew the address of the family he saved very clearly.
Thinking of this, Chen Yang turned his head back and looked at Chao Jian who was lying on his back: "Let me ask you something."
Chao Jian rubbed his shoulder and responded lazily.
Chen Yang asked Chao Jian where he lived in Sanlianqiao when he was a child. Please be more specific. The more detailed the better.
Chao Jian looked at Chen Yang in confusion. Prompted by the other's gaze, he recalled and described the place where he lived in those days.
Chen Yang stood up suddenly.
Chao Jian covered his jaw which was bent by his elbow, with an innocent and confused look on his face: "What's wrong?"
Chen Yang pushed Chao Jian's hand away and looked at his chin, which was only slightly red: "Comrade Xiao Chao, I am your benefactor."
Chao Jian curled his lips: "I know."
"Earlier." Chen Yang talked about the past, "When I saved you, you were less than one year old." Chen Yang was also a child at that time. Who would have thought that their bond would appear so early.
Chao Jian looked at him blankly.
Chen Yang sat back down, grabbed Chao Jian's hand and put it back on his waist. Chen Yang didn't ask Chao Jian who threw him down the stairs. That question involved all the grudges of the previous generation, and asking it would be meaningless for them now. Chen Yang was just curious: "You don't know anything, why do you always care about my scar? Touch it whenever you want?"
He shook his head toward Jane. Every time he saw her, he wanted to touch her.
Chen Yang took several puffs of his cigarette, hugged Chao Jian tightly and kissed him for a long time before pulling away, and promised hoarsely: "Brother will treat you well in the future."
He laughed out loud at Jian: "Oh."
Chen Yang pecked at Chao Jian's lips, which were stained by his kiss: "Is there any medicine in the supplies?"
Chao Jian: “No.”
"What if you run out of medicine? Where can we get medicine if your uncle doesn't come out?" Chen Yang.
Chao Jian whispered something, Chen Yang was stunned for a moment, then he rubbed his finger gently on his tall nose.
"Brother, I'm saved." Chao Jian said.
He has returned to the sun, and will slowly try to reduce the dosage and get rid of the drugs. Even if he can't go back to the way he was before, he won't become a madman who has completely lost his mind.
While waiting for the sunrise, Chen Yang asked Chao Jian what happened in the computer room after he entered the last level, what happened to Zheng Zhiqin and the others, and how Chao Jian came to this island.
Chao Jian said that he got here in the blink of an eye.
Chen Yang was both surprised and not surprised. He experienced an important node in the last level, but it was just a moment for Chao Jian. It was just like when they were doing a mission, they stayed at the mission point for several days, and only one second passed when they came back.
The timeline is different.
A faint halo appeared in Chen Yang's pupils. Dawn was coming, and he pulled Chao Jian out.
The death of Zheng Zhiqin and others in the computer room was his illusion, and they still had hope.
Those who are on the road have the hope of escaping from hell and welcoming light.
The moment the sunlight came out, Chen Yang cried, he was so moved. It was the first time in his life that he felt the sunrise was so beautiful.
"I'll watch it with you tomorrow." Chao Jian wiped the tears from the corners of Chen Yang's eyes.
Chen Yang did not cry uncontrollably. He just shed a tear of gratitude and thanksgiving when he received the gift from nature: "I won't come tomorrow."
Before Chao Jian could speak, Chen Yang said, "I want to stay up late with you tonight and work. I won't be able to get up tomorrow."
"..." Chao Jian said, "No wait?"
Chen Yang asked back, "Can you wait?"
Chao Jian was silent. He couldn't. He had thought about it when he saw him in the mountains yesterday.
"Your legs can run." Chen Yang remembered something and bent down to touch Chao Jian's legs, feeling a vigorous and powerful muscle line.
Chao Jian's left leg felt a little hot where it was touched, and his face was quite calm: "Well, just come out."
Chen Yang smiled towards the wind. Chao Jian's illness was all caused by the mission. Once the mission was completed, his illness would be cured.
During the day, Chen Yang did nothing but wait in the yard for the arrival of unknown people who were doing population registration.
The courtyard gate was open, and the sea breeze came in through the island, bringing a familiar feeling.
Chen Yang waited and waited, from morning till afternoon, and after drinking a few glasses of water, no one came. Just when he wanted to shout a few times to vent his anger, his expression suddenly became strange.
Two legal citizens settled on the nameless island.
Genetic authentication completed.
Chen Yang: 180cm tall, weight 71kg, type A.
Household registration: Yi clan.
Identity number: 019.
Chao Jian: 190cm tall, weight 62.5kg, type O.
Household registration: Yi clan.
Identity number: 0111.
Relationship: comrades-in-arms, spouse.
Chen Yang stood up mechanically. He wanted to go to the room where supplies were stored to find Chao Jian. This was the only thing he wanted to do at this moment.
But he stopped after taking only a few steps.
He knew everything he wanted to know, right then and there.
A natural disaster struck the Earth and the world shattered.
The advanced civilization retained some larger fragments in the emergency and used the previously stored genetic cell backups of humans on Earth.
Thus, a virtual earth was born.
At the same time, the consciousness of all human beings separated from genetic cells also appeared.
When the disaster occurs, the humans will know their ages, grades, jobs, families, etc. In the fake world, they will start from that point in time and continue their original life trajectories.
The virtual earth was running smoothly, and after it was confirmed that there were no problems, a genetic selection was launched, with the center set in Qingcheng.
Advanced civilizations screened human genes, discarded all the bad genes, and cleaned up along with the consciousness of the false world.
Those whose genetic consciousness is below the passing line will be edited into NPCs, those who are above the passing line and of the right age will become taskers, and those who are not old enough but have the qualifications will be reserves.
After a tasker fails the assessment, they will be determined to see if they are eligible for a second reset based on the total score accumulated during the task. Those who are not eligible will have their consciousness erased directly. Those who are eligible will have their consciousness modified and their life edited.
The genes of the tasker who has completed the assessment will be taken out, stored in a growth chamber, and adjusted to a matching age skeleton to carry the consciousness of the tasker.
The moment the tasker steps out of the finish line, he is no longer a consciousness, but a body of flesh and blood.
A human being.
The fake Earth is a modified version of the real Earth. The mission world is not a fragment of the real world as Chao Jian said, it is a copy.
The information he found was biased, and the real fragments of the real world were outside the end point.
There are no NPCs, no rules, no ghosts, no taskers, and everything is settled in this world.
…
Chen Yang swallowed his saliva for a long time. The world actually suffered a natural disaster. It was exactly as he thought.
The purpose of the tasker is to select excellent genes.
The advanced civilization hopes that humans who have passed the level can protect the hard-earned fragments of the world, take good care of the damaged earth, repair it, respect it, and not repeat the same mistakes.
so…
Chen Yang guessed it right a long time ago that the original intention of all the rules and levels was not to create a dead end or destruction, but to overcome difficulties, break through the siege, and find the dawn.
Chen Yang stepped back to a chair and his waist was hit by the chair. He forgot the pain and his mind was full of these information that seemed to be explosive but did not hurt him mentally.
He is really dead...
Live in another way.
The reason why Chen Yang's spirit was not hurt was because he thought that this was how it should be, and death was reasonable.
The world is broken and destroyed, how can humans survive
Moreover, if everyone still has a normal human body, how can NPCs be randomly assigned various roles, and traces of their living circles be arbitrarily deleted and modified, and how can taskers shuttle between two worlds in an instant, and their brain memories be tampered with... and reset and transformed for a second time.
Chen Yang suddenly ran into the inner room, rushed to the table, quickly opened his backpack, and took out his book "The Relationship between Consciousness and the World in Quantum Theory". He held the book and did not move for a long time.
What a wonderful fate.
Chen Yang licked his trembling lips. He thought of Brother Xiao Wen. The other party reminded him to read. Perhaps it was not only to remind him not to forget the way home, but also to hint at the connection between consciousness and the world.
Brother Xiaowen's consciousness was cleared and disappeared forever. They will never have the chance to sit together and drink tea, chat, and reminisce about their careers as taskers.
Chen Yang thought of Wu Yu again. The speculations she told him after she woke up in the rehabilitation center were almost all correct.
He remembered that day when he came out of the ward, stood in front of Chao Jian and asked a question - are we real
Chao Jian didn't answer, just looked at him.
Chen Yang still remembers that look vividly. Chao Jian had put his life and death in his hands, and as long as he felt it was true, it was true.
Whatever he chooses, Chao Jian will have it.
At that time, Chen Yang grabbed Chao Jian and answered himself in his heart, it was true, they were all true, and it could only be true, he could not let their persistence for so long become meaningless.
So he used the time of a serious illness to remove all the negative emotions caused by the problem. He continued walking, and he told himself that he must take Chao Jian out to see what the outside world was like.
Now I see it.
Chen Yang held the book tightly, walked to the door, and looked up at the clouds in the sky.
"When Chao Jian unveiled the truth for me, I began to suspect that the world was fake, and we were fake too. This was a logical phenomenon. After Wu Yu said those words to me, I became even more..."
"fine."
No surprises at all.
Chen Yang thought, it can’t be said to be fake, the so-called truth and falsehood are relative. On that virtual earth, those forms of consciousness are just humans, aren’t they all ordinary humans there.
However, NPCs serve the taskers, and every time a tasker dies, one consciousness will be lost, and the fake world will be deleted one day.
I still have to come back.
Even if my home is broken, I will come back.
Chen Yang bit the joint of his index finger and watched the blood ooze out.
The average life span of genetically modified people is 200 years, but they are no different from normal people. If their skin is broken, they will bleed and feel pain.
Chen Yang wanted to bite again, but a force clamped his wrist and freed his knuckle from between his teeth.
Chao Jian looked into his eyes, and their tacit understanding was enough to make them understand one thing.
The two people have the same information.
"This is the same way the tasker gets the task prompt." Chen Yang curled his lips. He thought someone would come to do the population registration and then tell him some things.
So that's what happened, that's it.
Chao Jian pressed Chen Yang's bleeding index finger, and his ear was suddenly covered by two soft lips. In the unbearable warm touch, he heard Chen Yang say, "I want it."
He frowned and whispered, "I haven't packed my supplies yet."
"Okay, you go and clean it up first, I'm not in a hurry..." Before Chen Yang could finish his words, he was kissed.
The two of them entered the house kissing each other passionately and intensely, without even having time to close the door.
Dinner was at around ten o'clock in the evening. Chen Yang was lying on the bed flipping through a book. He turned to a page and took out the note that was stuck inside.
Ayang, happy ending is boring, but I hope it is you.
—Wen Qing stayed on New Year’s Eve 2024.
Chen Yang put the note back and smoothed it out carefully.
Whatever equipment and items a player carries when he comes out of the game will be the same as the equipment and items on his body.
He even had to carry his backpack.
Chen Yang placed the book next to his pillow, rubbing his sore waist and changing from lying down to lying down. How should he live this long life
The door was opened and Chao Jian walked in, holding some small fruits that he had picked from somewhere.
Chen Yang smiled.
Thank you for the long life, the future is still long, that’s great.
Chen Yang really wanted to turn around and tell his teammates who wanted to give up that moving on would be a new beginning.
Unfortunately, once he got out, he couldn't go back, he could only pray for them outside.
The background of this island in the mission world is as Awu said, it is inhabited by a group of Yi people and has no name.
Later it was occupied by bandits and was named Xiaoyin Island.
However, the island in the real world has no name, it is called the Nameless Island.
The sense of ritual deeply buried in Chen Yang's bones came out. He chose a good day to make the stone tablet and wooden sign, and asked Chao Jian to give the island a name.
Chao Jian said, let’s call him Chaoyang.
Hope, sunshine.
Then a stone tablet appeared on the island, and there were several small wooden signs hanging on the trees, each with three words engraved on it.
—Chaoyang Island.
The calm and stability after the storm is not easy to come by.
Chen Yang found that there were many seeds in the supplies. He thought the seeds should be discarded because the ecological environment on the island was not suitable for farming.
Who would have thought that after sowing a handful of vegetable seeds, green little vegetables would actually grow.
Chen Yang began a life of growing fruits and vegetables, raising birds and catching fish during the day, and fighting with Chao Jian at night. There were only two of them on the island, and they didn't know when other tribesmen would show up.
I don’t know when it started, but small nests were built under Chen Yang’s door and on the trees, and the birds settled down in his house.
Chen Yang was fine except that sometimes when he was working with Chao Jian, a row of sparrows would stand outside the window...
Chao Jian couldn't bear to throw away the milk tablets, so he threw away the medicine bottle.
There was a loud "bang".
The sparrows flew away and Chen Yang was depressed. He took a look at his target's figure and face and felt fine again.
In the spring, Chen Yang went out to sea on the boat he and Chao Jian built. They didn't want the boat to take them far, they just wanted to pass through the fog on the sea.
However, they were unable to get out; they were blocked.
The fog seemed to materialize.
This did not bring much of a shock to Chen Yang. He talked about it, verified it, and found that it was indeed the truth.
If they could get out successfully, the earth would not be broken.
"Each piece of the world fragment is separated by space." Chen Yang said this when he got off the ship. "They were isolated in the first place, probably to protect them from being destroyed by disasters."
Chao Jian responded calmly: "Yeah."
He also thought of everything that Chen Yang thought of.
"Young man, don't be discouraged. What we have the most right now is time." Chen Yang patted Chao Jian's shoulder like an older brother, "Let's slowly waste time with fate."
Chao Jian pushed his damp hair back, his brows were clear and deep, "I won't waste time with it, I'm busy."
Chen Yang admired the beauty of his target: "What are you busy with?"
"Busy living with you as husband and wife." Chao Jian stood on the beach. The wind stirred up the waves, brushing across his gentle eyes as he looked at Chen Yang.
Chen Yang's face flushed. He leaned over to Chao Jian's ear and whispered, "Should we try it in the sea?"
"No." Chao Jian said coldly, "I don't like being outside."
Chen Yang couldn't understand the young man's thoughts. He took off his shoes, stepped on the sand, and asked curiously, "Why?"
He tilted his head toward Jian, sneered, and said with disgust: “There are nasty birds and insects outside, and fish swimming in the sea, and they will all see you.”
Chen Yang: “…”
He touches his partner's head, and this aspect of eating alone has reached another level.
The rushing sea water pushed towards the beach, and waves rose and fell, creating countless waves.
Looking closely, the intertwined ripples rise and fall in such unpredictable ways that it almost makes one dizzy.
Chen Yang's feet were on the beach, the water reaching his ankles. As he looked at it, a strange feeling he had never experienced before flashed through his mind.
"Chao Jian, do you see these waves coming over?"
"Um."
"You said... Is it the wave coming over..." Chen Yang paused delicately, "or is it the island going over?"
"… "
Chao Jian stopped pulling the boat and looked at Chen Yang: "You mean, is it the water that's moving, or the people?" He threw the rope over and said, "This is really an ancient philosophical question."
In the absence of any reference objects on the sea, if the island was moving, Chen Yang and Chao Jian on the island would not be able to feel it clearly, just like when they were on Earth, they could never feel the Earth turning.
"Since this is just a fragment of the world, then... what else can cause tides?" Chen Yang looked at the continuous waves, confusion welling up in his eyes.
"The moon?" He looked up at the sky.
"I'm afraid it has already disappeared along with the Earth."
Chen Yang kept looking at the sky, not knowing what he was thinking. Chao Jian stood beside him and brushed away the hair on his forehead: "All the waves are coming towards the island."
"Yes, all of..." Chen Yang's voice suddenly stopped, and the next second all the pores on his body opened up. He concentrated on observing the movements of the sea, and his pupils shrank. There could only be one explanation for this phenomenon.
The island is floating!
Just in the opposite direction of the waves!