Bypass the winding paths, pavilions and pavilions.
Mingyue took Meng Qiancheng to a wooden house.
In the courtyard, Gu Liang sat opposite the man in black.
Judging from the voice, Gu Liang had never seen the man in black before him.
The man in black kept facing the direction of the wooden house, and seemed to be quite concerned about Meng Qiancheng's situation.
After waiting for a while, Gu Liang took the initiative to ask him: "What do you mean he is going to 'there'?"
The man in black turned to Gu Liang and said, "I know you. In the script, I am the one who follows him. I saw you when you played games together. I... am his son."
Gu Liang was a little surprised, and the man in black said again: "I know, you want to say... He told others before that I have mental problems, right? In fact, he lost his memory many times, which caused problems in the memory area."
"After he used the reincarnation card for the first time, there was a slight problem in the memory area. In a certain script, the character he played had a mentally retarded son, and he had a car accident with this son. This is all in the script The plot, but he regards the son in the script as his own son."
"In the case of memory confusion, through communicating with the players and guessing, he guessed the real intention of the game, so he chose a large number of reincarnation cards. It is indeed to find his son and want to send him back to reality..."
When he said this, the man in black fell silent.
But Gu Liang understood what he meant.
Meng Qiancheng exchanged that card because he wanted to meet his mentally handicapped son who was in a car accident with him.
But he didn't know two things—first, even if this incident was true, the system would not allow players who knew each other to get together in order to prevent players from guessing all the truth at the beginning and then affecting the game testing effect. So he couldn't meet his son at all.
Second, in fact, his real son died long ago.
The man in black continued: "I died very early, and became a staff member here after death. According to the worldly saying... probably black impermanence."
"My father wanted to find me in the game, but I was always by his side. It's just that he couldn't see me. It's just... I couldn't tell him the truth."
Gu Liang inevitably sighed, and asked, "Why can't he go back?"
The man in black sighed. "He's old. In fact, there is no one to take care of him. He died not long after he became a vegetable. However, the reincarnation card in his hand was not used up anyway, and I also made a special application for the system. The system Allow me...to walk the last part of the journey with my father in this way."
"Anyway, at the back, the system sometimes lacks people. If it's not for an NPC to play, it's okay to let him play."
"Speaking of it... In reality, when I was young, I wanted him to play games with me, but he was busy with work. When he retired, I was busy again. Then... I had an accident, and I asked him to send black hair to others. Send people."
"This period of time is considered as the time that the system gives to our father and son. Let me... seize this opportunity and play a game with him silently."
"Now the time is up, I should send him away too."
Gu Liang frowned: "So...'over there' refers to the real hell."
The man in black nodded.
Gu Liang asked again: "What's the matter with repairing the memory area?"
The man in black said: "Of course it is to let him recover completely. No matter how he walks in the future, he must first remember who he really is. People often say that when you go to hell, you can see the merits and demerits of your life... That's probably what it means."
Sensitively grasping something, Gu Liang asked: "Will Mingyue restore memory?"
The man in black: "There is Wangchuan River, and of course there is Jichuan River. Recently we have an improvement project for Jichuan River, and Mingyue has participated. You can ask him to see."
"Then..." Gu Liang asked again, "If I return to reality, can I go back with my memory? Also, can I bring a can of Jichuan water?"
"If this is the case, you definitely can't go back as an ordinary person. As far as I know, the system arranges people in the human world. Such people are actually ordinary people who work and go to school normally, but they have an extra layer of media. Specifically, they will I don't know what to do, you have to sign the agreement anyway, the hell the agreement is the kind of—"
The wooden door was pushed open at this time.
Then Mingyue's voice came. "You talk too much."
The man in black looked at him and stood up. "Is my father well?"
"Well, there's no problem, it's just that he's still in a coma. Wait for him to wake up later. I'll send him to hell." Mingyue said.
Gu Liang couldn't help asking: "Mingyue, I want to ask—"
Mingyue interrupted him: "Don't ask if you shouldn't."
Gu Liang stood up and faced him, and said seriously: "If you really don't want me to know, why would you let me sit with the man in black?"
Mingyue smiled, crossed her chest and looked at Gu Liang: "I deliberately let the water go, and you still have to expose it? I've never seen you so ignorant. You should prepare for the test first. Pass your own test before we talk."
Gu Liang saw that there was something interesting, and asked again: "That Ji Chuan Shui..."
"You can't ask me for this stuff, you have to ask another person." Mingyue didn't know if she thought of someone difficult to deal with, her face was displeased, and her brows frowned slightly.
"To whom?"
"You'll know when you pass the test."
After Meng Qiancheng woke up, Gu Liang went to see him.
Meng Qiancheng grabbed him with snot and tears and cried, "Little brother, I won't see you again."
Gu Liang was not very good at comforting others, so he could only pat him on the shoulder.
"Hey, I'm just a little bit reluctant to part with you, and I'm not really afraid of death or anything. I think about everything, and I feel that I have been in the system for many, many years... It is indeed enough. Calculated in this way, I am actually alive long enough...”
"Little brother, let me tell you my name, age, home address, and work unit. If you can go back, if you have time, please burn a piece of paper for me. It doesn't need much. Just that kind of dollar bill will do."
"I still like to play mahjong! Help me burn some more mahjong!"
Gu Liang was almost dumbfounded. "I know. I will."
Meng Qiancheng smiled. "Then my old man can rest assured."
Hearing footsteps behind him, looking back, it was the man in black who came in, so Gu Liang went out, leaving this place for the father and son who finally recognized each other.
Pushing open the door and going out, walking along the steps to the gravel road, Gu Liang raised his head, and could vaguely see a little bit of starlight in the night sky.
The moon is bright but the stars are sparse. This situation seems to be no different from the night in the world.
But probably no matter which world you are in, parting is always inevitable.
We don't meet each other in life, but we move like participating in business.
Three days later. The bright moon returns from the underworld.
Gu Liang ushered in another test.
Blood-red flowers covered the banks of the river.
Gu Liang set out from the river bank in a small boat, paddling a wooden paddle, trying to find his way home.
When the arm was exhausted, the familiar sound of falling into the water came.
After a while, Gu Liang sat on the boat and turned around, and saw a woman's arm appearing on the side of the boat, pale, swollen, and emitting a rancid smell.
Gu Liang stepped forward to grab her hand and pulled her up from the water.
The person sitting on the boat has a familiar face, it is Wang Qing.
Gu Liang jumped into the river as usual. But this time he didn't swim back, instead, he clung to the side of the boat with one hand, and stretched out the other hand towards the people on board.
The man raised his head, but this time his face was no longer Wang Qing, but Gu Liang who was several years younger.
In the icy river, across the narrow boat, Gu Liang and his early twenties looked at each other from a distance.
Gu Liang stretched out his hand and said to him, "Help me."
The young Gu Liang's complexion was extremely pale, with a hint of hostility on his forehead, and his eyes were full of vigilance, fear, and distrust.
Sitting on the boat, his body trembled a little. "I... I committed suicide. Am I going to hell? Save you? I, I won't save you..."
"Why do you look like me? Are you my future? No, you look fine... it shouldn't be. I won't be like you. My life sucks. I'll be like you it is good."
"I won't save you. I'm selfish and I kill people casually. How can a person like me save you? You'd better not count on me. I don't want to take another life. Besides, this ship can only carry Alone, I saved you, what should I do?"
It's so embarrassing. Gu Liang thought to himself.
—It turned out that when he was depressed and wanted to die, he described it as such a mess.
Gu Liang said: "I calculated it last time. The two of us stay in the same boat. After about a minute, the boat will sink. And if someone clings to the side of the boat, it will take another five minutes for the boat to be swept down by the current again." .”
"So, you can just take me forward for five minutes. After five minutes, you pull me up, and you jump off and climb the boat, and let me take you away. In this way, after another five minutes, we two again exchange."
"As long as you and I trust each other, we can all go ashore."
The shoulders of the young Gu Liang on the boat were shaking, and his tears kept falling. "But no one trusts me. I don't want to trust anyone. Even if you are another me, I don't trust you."
Gu Liang opened his mouth, admonishing with a hoarse voice: "No, you are not such a person. You will get better. You take medicine and treatment well, and you will get better completely. You have changed to a good job with a stable job. Income. You will also…”
"You will also meet a lover. You love each other very much. His name is Yang Ye. He will tell you that you are the best Gu Liang in the world. In his eyes, no one can compare to you."
"Impossible. Where did you come from to be a liar? How can anyone like me love me?"
"Love yourself first before loving others. This is the truth you have learned by yourself. You will become very good, and you will be... worthy of liking."
Five minutes is almost up.
The current was getting faster and faster, and Gu Liang could feel as if water plants were entangled with his feet, about to pull him into the abyss.
He reached out to his younger self. "You will save me. I trust you very much. You must save me too. When you save me, you save yourself."
After saying this, a small wave hit, not big but enough to throw Gu Liang into the river.
His hand gradually lost strength, unable to hold on to the edge of the boat, his forearm sank inch by inch, and finally his fingers.
There are only a few mottled stars on the dark river.
The starlight swayed along with the water waves, rushing towards the unknown years.
A hand slowly disappears on the river, and soon it will be like a scene without a trace.
It seems that in the long river of time, he never existed at all.
But at the last moment, when Gu Liang's chest was almost suffocated, his hand was held.
The man dragged him toward the boat, keeping his head above the water.
Sufficient oxygen was poured into the lungs immediately, and Gu Liang looked like a newborn.
In the next instant, time and space intersected, Gu Liang lowered his head and found himself sitting on a boat.
He returned to his youth.
And the person he had just rescued became another older self.
Gu Liang scratched his arm very uneasily, scratching his hand full of blood.
His heart is full of sadness and anger, hating the whole world.
Almost uncontrollably, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the hands of his other self. "No, I still don't trust you. I don't want to live. You don't want to live. What's the point of living? Let's die together. Not now, not in the future, and not in the past. Let's sink together..."
"Gu Liang, at least you can still be angry, sad, and cry. This is a sign that you still have the desire to live. Don't be fooled by appearances. Everything is far from the point where you can lose all hope."
"You saved me, which means you can trust yourself and others."
"everything will get better."
"Come on, you hug me, and then you jump into the river. You can do it."
"And I will definitely pick you up again."
Gu Liang didn't speak, but just shed tears, as if he wanted to cry all the tears that never really flowed out.
"Gu Liang, if I leave you, or if you leave me, we won't be able to go ashore."
"We have to go back together."
"If you take this step, everything will pass."
Standing up and looking at the river, Gu Liang was still trembling.
But he finally made his way to the edge of the boat step by step and jumped in.
Less than five minutes later, a strong hand grabbed him.
He opened his eyes in the dark river, and saw the burning fire, which seemed to symbolize light.
The sound of "crackling" keeps ringing, implying some kind of warm sound.
The voice was very familiar, followed by an equally familiar snap of fingers.
Consciousness gradually recovered, the galaxy receded, and the wooden boat disappeared.
The past and present two Gu Liang merged into one, Gu Liang opened his eyes and found himself lying sideways on the carpet in front of the fireplace.
The crackling fire in the fireplace was the light he had seen in his dreams.
A large swath of the carpet was wet from tears he had shed involuntarily.
Gu Liang was a little exhausted, he didn't want to move, he just turned over and lay down on his back, meeting Mingyue's gaze with his tear-stained face.
It was also at this time that he realized that he was holding Mingyue's hand.
"Can the hypnotist's hands be used as props?" Gu Liang said, his voice was tired and hoarse, but his whole body was relaxed and gentle.
He asked Mingyue softly: "So, this is not a test, it's just psychological treatment. Your system also includes a service for treating players?"
At this time Gu Liang heard a strange voice. "This is psychotherapy for you, but it is indeed a test. It's just that this test is not for you, but for Mingyue."
Gu Liang turned his head to the side, wanting to see who was speaking.
But his head was very dizzy, and soon he couldn't help but close his eyes and fell asleep.
Closing his eyes, he only vaguely saw a masked man walking in from the door.