He has been in a state of "unable to see" since he was born, and Lu Chu has never had such a personal and profound understanding of the word "see".
The tower is not completely dark, and candles are evenly arranged on the edge of its inner wall. It has been burning for many years, and the wax oil is dripping and mottled, but there is no embers yet. The dark yellow candles were dimmed, which could not be described as bright, but Lu Chu's eyes were astringent by the light. He took a deep breath, calmed down the fluctuations in his heart, closed his eyes for a moment, and then opened them again.
The originally blurred light became clear, and the interior of the tower was fully displayed in front of his eyes. Although what he saw was only the monotonous yellow and the old black of the inner wall of the tower, Lu Chu was still moved by this.
After simply looking around, he turned to look at the man beside him.
Lu Chu has never seen anyone's face. Similarly, he has no idea of the so-called "handsome" or "beautiful", but looking at a man's face, he thinks it is good-looking.
People's feeling for beauty is an instinct.
Thinking instead that the man said that he would know everything he wanted in the tower, Lu Chu turned around and wanted to write on the man's palm to ask.
As soon as he took the man's hand, the man said: "The death of your parents and the chaos in this town are not accidents. Strictly speaking, the real accident is only you."
With just one sentence, Lu Chu was shocked and didn't know what to continue to ask, so he could only unconsciously write with trembling fingers—"What did you say?"
"I know what you want to ask." After the man finished speaking, he untied the ropes from their hands and continued, "Now, close your eyes and don't look at anything, walk along the steps to the end, and then tell me, look What's up?"
— how to tell you.
The man still hasn't regained his dual senses. When Lu Chu reached the top of the tower, no matter how far away, whether the sound can still be heard, even if the sound can reach the bottom of the tower, the man can't hear it.
"When you see the truth, I will also regain my dual senses." Having said that, the man added, "The restriction on my perception is caused by you, and has nothing to do with this town itself."
Hearing this, Lu Chu looked up at the internal structure of the tower. Looking from the bottom up, there was nothing in the middle of the tower. The structure that should have been seen at a glance, but the top of the tower could not be seen, and the upper part seemed to be swallowed in black. A spiral staircase with no handrails winds its way up the mottled walls, also without end. The stairs are narrow and can only accommodate two people side by side. If you walk along the stairs without handrails with your eyes closed, you will step on the air and fall from a high place if you are not careful.
Fortunately, for Lu Chu, who is used to the unknown and darkness, this is not difficult.
Everything, the sudden loss of feeling, the broken peaceful life... and the sudden death of parents may all be explained after walking down the stairs to the end.
"Remember, don't open your eyes unless you reach the end."
Lu Chu turned his head and took a deep look at the handsome man beside him. The man still covered his eyes and showed no expression, but Lu Chu could hear the seriousness in his tone.
-it is good.
Lu Chu wrote the last word in the palm of the man's hand, and then walked to the stairs.
He closed his eyes, put one hand on the wall, and started walking up.
Step by step, Lu Chu didn't know how high the tower was, nor when he was going to go, but his mood was exceptionally calm.
When the muscles began to ache, it became a habit to lift his feet. Lu Chu finally stopped because he almost lost his step—the steps had disappeared. He continued to walk forward, and within a few steps he touched a wall, blocking his way.
It seems that it is the end.
Lu Chu opened his eyes while thinking, and the dazzling candlelight almost hurt his eyes. After he got used to it, he found that the walls around the top of the tower were transparent, and he could overlook the whole town. However, when he When he gazed into the distance, he froze in place.
At the bottom of the tower, the man who regained his sight and hearing closed his eyes.
"Tell me, what did you see?"
When the man's voice came, it should be very far away, but the voice seemed to be ringing in my ears, clear and calm.
Lu Chu was dumb and didn't answer, just staring at the scene in front of him in a daze.
However, what makes Lu Chu like this is not the world that unfolds in front of his eyes one by one, the colorful world of bright sky, bright moon, green grass and green forest that he has heard from others since he was a child.
At this time, the man's voice sounded again, and he paused every word: "Lu Chu, tell me what you saw."
Lu Chu finally had a reaction. Without blinking his eyes, he said blankly, "I... didn't see anything."
True, he saw nothing.
The tower is really tall, but most of the buildings in the town are low. Although it is already late at night, the moon is extraordinarily bright and bright, and the whole town is so bright that Lu Chu stands here overlooking the whole town. no more. Lu Chu looked over the villa area, the park, the square overpass, Lu Chu's home... until the edge of the town.
There are indeed several high mountains on the outskirts of the town, as people in the town say, but behind the high mountains are not continuous mountains, nor another town, but nothingness.
True nothingness.
The walls around the tower are all transparent, and Lu Chu can take in the surrounding scenes. This town surrounded by "mountains", after crossing a few mountains, there is nothing outside. The lonely town seems to be built in a different time and space even with the "mountain" that protects it. Going outside is an empty space, with nothing, nothing exists.
Lu Chu looked at the dazed "deaf people" biting and struggling with each other in the distance, his face turned pale: "Why..."
In a trance, memories of the past twenty years came flooding back.
Self-sufficient quiet and peaceful town.
The old man said repeatedly, "We have never had a foreigner here."
Everyone tacitly does not approach the deep mountains.
A building that is all low except for the tall tower.
…
This is a "empty" town, so naturally no outsiders will come. Because Lu Chu can't see it, he won't leave home easily, and has no intention of leaving. It's just why the other people have lived in peace for so long, and no one has had any doubts for so many years, or has the idea of "I want to go to the world outside the mountain". Even, people in towns never build taller buildings, thus avoiding the possibility of seeing the mountain from a high place.
"Why..." Lu Chu felt that his life had been greatly impacted, "What is this..."
The man who seemed to have expected everything early said lightly: "It's the 'bureau'."
Lu Chu murmured: "'Bureau'?"
"That's right, there are many kinds of 'offices', 'the whole city' is just one of them, and the people living here are the existences derived from the 'offices' themselves, following the 'rules', just to make the 'offices' go smoothly Go ahead."
Lu Chu became more and more at a loss: "Then what are we?"
The man's voice sounded without emotion: "Derivatives belong to the 'game' itself and are bound by the 'rules'. In the eyes of those who are selected to participate in the 'game', they are equal to npc."
Before Lu Chu could react, he heard the man continue: "You are an exception and a loophole. In the 'bureau' of 'the whole city loses sense', all derivatives will live normally until the day when the sense of loss breaks out, and then because of I have never experienced symptoms such as 'blindness' and fell into chaos and collapsed civilization. People who are selected in the real world will be required to live here for seven days, and if they do not survive seven days, they will be out. The balance of this "game" was disrupted. Not long after, your parents inadvertently saw the scene on the other side of the mountain in order to help you cure the disease, completely breaking the "rule" that derivatives cannot know that they are living in fiction , so they died without warning under the 'rules'."
Hearing this, Lu Chu's eyes were moist. He couldn't believe that everything he experienced was a derivative of the so-called "bureau". , why not destroy me at birth?"
But let his parents be obliterated because of him many years later.
"The death of your parents is because they discovered the truth themselves, which violated the setting of the 'Bureau'; you are a loophole derived from the 'Bureau', and in principle belong to the 'Bureau' itself, and the 'rules' can't do anything to you."
Lu Chu was so shocked that he became numb: "Then, who are you?"
This time the man didn't answer him, he just said to himself: "In this 'game', no one who has been selected in the real world has come. When the clock strikes midnight, a door will appear in front of you." Door."
Speaking of this, the man paused for a moment, and his voice became solemn: "Lu Chu, open the door and go out, you will get rid of the identity of a derivative, and the 'rules' will default that you are a selected person from the real world. "
As soon as the man finished speaking, the midnight bell rang. The transparent wall in front of Lu Chu's eyes slowly fell off, and the outside world slowly disappeared in front of Lu Chu's eyes. What then appeared was a door with intricate carvings and rusty patterns. Door.
"Lu Chu, open the door and walk in."
Lu Chu didn't move.
"Lu Chu, don't forget your parents."
Parents... Lu Chu still remembers the words that made him swear to live a good life when his parents were weak. One day, you will leave here—for a moment, Lu Chu remembered what his parents had said to him.
Lu Chu took a deep breath: "What about you?"
The man replied, "I'll go find you."
Hearing this, Lu Chu finally pushed open the door in front of him and stepped into the white light.
At the same time, the man at the bottom of the tower suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest and fell to the ground. His whole body twitched, his skin began to crack and bright red blood oozes out.
"7, you violated the 'rule'."
Enduring the heart-piercing pain, the man stood up slowly. He clutched his chest and leaned against the wall, letting his skin tear and heal. His body was stained with blood, but his voice was exceptionally calm.
"Ok, I know."
——
Everything may have just begun.
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The source of inspiration for the loss of sense in the city - "Blind Flu", a movie I watched a long time ago, I can't remember the plot clearly, if you are interested, you can watch it
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