"The revolving door?" Ye Xi laughed, "The revolving door is not enough, the revolving door is too small, the revolving door is too slow..."
Ning Gu looked at this person who looked exactly like himself, but was completely unfamiliar, and couldn't find anyone he was familiar with, so he didn't know what to do next.
Cut off this hand.
Can it be cut directly
Is it over after killing Ye Xi
If this is the case…
When it ends, will the world still exist
When it's over, where does the world stop
"This is my galaxy," Ye Xi said. "There is no boundary, no end, no beginning, no end, no time, no space... Countless main cities appear randomly, develop randomly, and only destruction is inevitable."
"Your world," Lian Chuan glanced out the window, then turned back to look at Ye Xi, "What happened in the end?"
Ye Xi looked at him, and his voice sank: "Darkness."
"Is it the same as outside the main city?" Ning Gu asked.
"There is nothing," Ye Xi said, "Endless, empty, dark, my world no longer exists, it has long since ceased to exist."
"Those blue sky, green grass," Ning Gu said, "the park, the movie theater..."
"That was October 7, 2030," Ye Xi said, "a time that has long since ceased to exist, the moment when a few Ye Xies ceased to exist, a time freeze, a moment in the mind."
"Everything is just in one thought." Lian Chuan said.
"Yes." Ye Xi nodded.
"We are just Ye Xi's thought," Lian Chuan said slowly, "We are not a batch of experimental products, not a set of data, we are just the... remnants of a person who died long ago in a world that has disappeared. "
"It's obsession," Ye Xi said, "pain, despair, fear, unwillingness, helplessness, all obsessions."
"That's why spiritual power is so important in the main city," Lian Chuan said, "because it is the cornerstone of all worlds."
"Maybe," Ye Xi said, "I never thought that mental pain would be far more important than others."
"Since this is the world you arranged, your obsession..." Ning Gu said.
"It belongs to Ye Xi." Ye Xi said.
"I don't care whose it is!" Ning Gu raised his voice, "Whoever loves it belongs to him! In short, it belongs to you few divisive bastards."
Ye Xi didn't speak, just looked at him.
"Why do you need an administrator?" Ning Gu said, "If you kill it, you will kill it. What are you doing with your brain? Why does the administrator insist on letting us choose? We don't even have data, why choose a fart?"
"Let them see what I see, hear what I hear, and feel what I feel," Ye Xi said. "They have to taste everything they bring to me."
This is the only thing we can do for you.
Lian Chuan thought of Xiaohong's words.
choose.
The choice is not given by Ye Xi, the choice is given by the administrator.
The only struggle that administrators can go against Ye Xi's will is to give everyone who can see them a chance to choose.
Choose to end Ye Xi's world, or continue.
"Do you want to choose?" Ye Xi asked, slowly backing away.
"What to choose?" Ning Gu asked.
"The administrator asked you to choose," Ye Xi said, "but I can give you a chance to experience it. No one has ever been here, and no one has ever seen any Ye Xi, so I will give you a chance to experience it."
Ye Xi's words were a bit wrong, from "you" to "you".
Who is this "you" referring to
The surroundings began to lose color, the words written on the corridor wall lost their color, the doors and windows lost their color, Ye Xi in front of him gradually lost his color, and even the blazing fire outside the window also lost its color.
Everything has been stripped of color, leaving only a transparent, dark, and suffocating yellow.
Stale and hopeless.
Ning Gu doesn't know what kind of "experience" this is, but he has come to this point, he doesn't care what's in front of him, as long as... He scooped up a hand with his hand.
Lian Chuan's hand was not touched.
When he turned his head suddenly, he found that Lian Chuan, like everything around him, had been stripped of its color, leaving only that suffocating yellow that seemed to have passed ten thousand years.
In shock, he swung his arms and grabbed Lian Chuan, but he didn't touch anything.
"Lian Chuan!" Ning Gu roared.
Lian Chuan was like a frozen picture without any response.
"You!" Ning Gu turned his head and pointed at Ye Xi, "What did you do!"
"He doesn't exist," Ye Xi's voice came from nowhere, "Nothing exists, only you, you are Ye Xi's projection..."
"What kind of shot!" Ning Gu roared, Ye Xi in front of him, like Lian Chuan, had become a frozen and faded picture, and no longer had any reaction to his voice.
"Lian Chuan!" Ning Gu turned his head and rushed back in front of Lian Chuan, carefully raised his hand, and slowly reached out to Lian Chuan's face, "Lian Gou?"
Hands passed across Lian Chuan's face without even feeling a trace of warmth.
He saw his trembling fingers swipe across Lian Chuan's body once, twice.
"Cancel!" Ning Gu rushed back in front of Ye Xi, frantically stirred at his image, and even kicked twice, and kicked directly into the air, causing his thighs to hurt.
"Cancel! I don't want to experience it anymore!" Ning Gu roared, "Ye Xi! Ye Xixi! Ye what... I don't want to experience it! Cancel!"
There was silence all around, and he never heard any sound except his own voice.
"Lian Chuan," Ning Gu walked back to Lian Chuan, feeling his voice start to shake, "Lian Chuan, can you hear me?"
"Betelgeuse," Ning Gu stared into Lian Chuan's eyes, and Lian Chuan's gaze fell somewhere behind him, but he still couldn't find the focus, "Wake up."
"Betelgeuse, wake up!"
"Betelgeuse! Wake up!"
"Betelgeuse!" Ning Gu roared, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"
In the whole world that has lost its color, it seems that he is the only voice.
Desperate and lonely.
Ning Gu stood beside Lian Chuan for a long time.
Maybe not for long.
No time.
Time does not exist.
The self also does not exist.
"Lian Chuan," Ning Gu sniffed, touched his face, touched the tears, he felt a little embarrassed, raised his arms and wiped the tears on his sleeves, "wait for me, I'll go out Go around and see if there are any other organs."
"Wait for me." He took two steps towards the window, stopped and looked back at Lian Chuan, "If you come back, call, if I don't hear you, go out and look for me, you will definitely find me , you are so powerful..."
Ning Gu jumped out of the window.
Landed in the hospital yard.
The fire that was burning before has also been frozen in a certain beating moment.
Ning Gu walked to the registration room and saw the registration book on the table, most of which had been burned.
Half of the last page that was opened was burned, leaving only the point that he and Lian Chuan saw before, 2030.10.7.
He stretched out his hand to touch the numbers, and his fingertips passed across the paper, across the tabletop, and gently swipe across.
Walking out of the hospital gate, the whole world is still, covered in a hollow yellow.
It was as if someone had wrapped the world with a huge piece of yellow plastic paper, and when the sun shone in, all other colors were drawn away.
The sight was more hopeless than darkness.
Ning Gu stood on the street, not knowing where he was going or what to do.
He would rather stand in the black fog of the ghost town, in the cold wind, and in the endless darkness.
He turned around, started walking in one direction, and kept going.
Through the ruined house, through the fire, through the lake, through the large flowers...
He didn't know how long this so-called experience would take. After all, time doesn't exist.
6000 steps.
He counts.
Another 6000 steps.
He never walked out of Ankang Hospital and Shahu Park, and kept walking back to the same place over and over again.
If this is Ye Xi's memory, in Ye Xi's thought, maybe for some reason, he has never left this area in his life, and he has never been to other places, even if it is the last moment of the world.
And only this.
Such a big, beautiful, bright, and colorful world no longer exists.
Never even seen it.
despair.
Ning Gu seemed to suddenly understand what Jiu Yi said, the blue sky in the coffin was despair.
If you have never seen it, the world is just yourself.
The world is hopeless if you have seen it but can never have it.
Ning Gu walked back to the hospital.
Lian Chuan was still standing in the corridor without any change.
Ning Gu stood in front of him.
"I want to take you back," Ning Gu said, "even if it's just an illusion, a world that never existed, that's where we lived."
"Cut off that hand, maybe everything will disappear," Ning Gu said, "then don't cut it off, I will exist forever, if there is an exit, I will find the exit, if there is no exit, I will be the exit, I will live In every major city I have experienced, every place I have lived, is the proof of my existence."
"Ye Xi," Ning Gu raised his head, "Can you hear me?"
"Every main city has your own projection," Ning Gu said, "but the only one who can see you is me."
"I am not a projection, I am the variable. My name is Ning Gu. I will live through every generation of the main city, and I will definitely pass through every destruction. Your world is gone, and my world will always be there."
Lianchuan has changed.
The surroundings have also changed.
The oppressive transparent yellow slowly faded into mottled gray.
Then the whole world is like an old wall, slowly falling off.
Where it fell off, it was all black.
Ning Gu stood still, motionless, just staring at Lian Chuan who slowly fell off and disappeared into the darkness.
When the darkness completely enveloped Ning Gu, he felt as if he was suspended in the air.
But the hand gradually began to feel it.
He clenched his hand violently.
There was an immediate response from the palm of my hand.
Lian Chuan's familiar backhand grip made him instantly feel tears welling up from the corners of his eyes.
"Even the dog?" He called softly.
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
Ning Gu didn't speak any more, turned sideways and hugged Lian Chuan suddenly.
"Is that you?" He trembled.
"Yes." Lian Chuan patted him on the back.
"Where have you been?" Ning Gu tightened his arms.
"I didn't go anywhere," Lian Chuan said softly, "What's wrong?"
"I don't know," Ning Gu said, "I can't find you, I almost can't find you in this life, no, I almost can't find you forever."
"Is it because you can't find the way?" Lian Chuan asked, "Go back and ask Jiu Yi for some brains, he doesn't really want it anyway."
Ning Gu froze for a moment, then suddenly laughed, almost out of breath.
"Where are we now?" Ning Gu smiled for a long time before remembering to ask.
He and Lian Chuan are hanging in the darkness like this now, unable to see anything.
But even so, as long as he knew that Lian Chuan was beside him, he felt that it was no big deal, and he could even ignore the situation.
"I don't know," Lian Chuan said, "It's still in Ye Xi's consciousness. If you are his projection in these worlds, you should see more..."
"Can my shadow see me?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know." Lian Chuan replied.
"If my shadow can stand in front of me," Ning Gu said, "is he still my shadow?"
Lian Chuan didn't speak.
"If the scavenger wants to destroy everything," Ning Gu said, "if I kill the scavenger, will the world still be destroyed?"
Lian Chuan's hand touched Ning Gu's face.
"Why?" Ning Gu pressed his face into the palm of his hand.
"What did you just see?" Lian Chuan asked, "It doesn't quite look like you anymore."
"Isn't it cool?" Ning Gu asked.
"... It looks like it again." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu laughed and touched Lian Chuan's back: "You haven't changed at all, you're still Lian Chuan."
The darkness continues.
Ning Gu stretched out his hand several times to explore the side, trying to feel if there was anything else, but there was nothing.
"What exactly is this place?" Ning Gu asked.
"Maybe the last." Lian Chuan said.
"What's the last?" Ning Gu didn't understand.
"Ye Xi's last consciousness," Lian Chuan said, "everything is gone, time is gone, space is gone."
"You mean we'll hang here forever?" Ning Gu said.
"It's also possible," Lian Chuan said, "it didn't hang here, it stopped here, and everything stopped."
"No," Ning Gu said, "No, we are still there, we can talk and think, as long as we are still there, we are still moving forward."
Lian Chuan reached out and touched the back of his head again.
"What!" Ning Gu raised his voice.
"What happened to you just now?" Lian Chuan asked.
Ning Gu was silent for a while, then sighed softly: "I was the only one in the whole world just now, and everything, including you and Ye Xi, turned into photos, very old ones, yellow ones."
"That's right," Lian Chuan said, "there should be the last second."
"Very... desperate," Ning Gu lowered his head and pressed his chin on Lian Chuan's shoulder, "Ye Xi said, everything doesn't exist, and you don't exist either... I'm wondering if if I choose to cut off the person holding the revolving lantern That hand, that's what it ended up being, in a 'last second' that never gets out."
"Maybe, that's why the administrator gave us the choice," Lian Chuan said, "that's it. Do you choose to return to the world of constant destruction and eternal struggle, or choose to end everything and return to the 'last second'."
"The opportunity given by the administrator," Ning Gu said, "was not given by Ye Xi, right?"
"Yes," Lian Chuan said, "Ye Xi never gave us a chance to choose."
"He never thought that one day he would see us from his ruined galaxy," Ning Gu said, "What if I don't choose? I don't choose either, is there another way?"
"Since time does not exist," Lian Chuan said, "there is no future or past."
"Speak human." Ning Gu said.
"We don't have to go forward at all," Lian Chuan said. "We can go back and kill the scavenger. If there is no exit, we can create an exit."
"I am the exit."
"You are the exit."
On the side of the two of them, a little light appeared in the distance.
When Ning Gu turned his head away, the light turned into two points, three points...
like the stars.
I don't know if they are moving over there, or the bright lights are flying over here, and the bright lights are gradually getting bigger.
The first bright light that appeared turned into a palm-sized piece, and something could be seen shaking in the light.
When they got closer, they could see clearly that it was a human figure shaking in the light.
"I need to see the administrator."
Ning Gu heard his own voice.
"Key."
"EXIT."
"Who are you?"
"I said that I will live in the main city of each generation, and my world will always exist."