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"Zoomai?" Ye Xi laughed. "Zoomai is not enough. It's too small. It's too slow..."
Ning Gu looked at this person who looked exactly like him, but was a complete stranger and he couldn't find any familiarity in him. He didn't know what to do next.
Cut off this hand.
Can I just cut it directly
Is it the end after killing Ye Xi
If so…
When it ends, will the world still exist
When it ends, where does the world stop
"This is my galaxy," Ye Xi said, "It has no boundaries, no end, no beginning, no end, no time, no space... Countless main cities appear and develop randomly, and only destruction is inevitable."
"Your world," Lian Chuan glanced out the window, then turned back to look at Ye Xi, "How did it 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 ceased to exist."
"The blue sky, the green grass," Ning Gu said, "the parks, the cinemas..."
"That was October 7, 2030," Ye Xi said, "a time that no longer exists, the moment when several Ye Xis ceased to exist, a moment frozen in time, a moment in the mind."
"Everything is just a matter of thought," Lian Chuan said.
"Yes." Ye Xi nodded.
"We are just Ye Xi's thoughts," Lian Chuan said slowly, "We are not a group of experimental subjects, not a group of data, we are just the regret 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 the obsession."
"So, spiritual power is so important in the main city," Lianchuan said, "because it is the cornerstone of all worlds."
"Maybe," Ye Xi said, "I never thought that the mental pain would be far greater than other things."
"Since this is the world you arranged, your obsession..." Ning Gu said.
"It's Ye Xi's." Ye Xi said.
"I don't care who it belongs to!" Ning Gu raised his voice, "Love belongs to whoever it belongs to! Anyway, it belongs to you divisive guys."
Ye Xi said nothing and just looked at him.
"Why do we need an administrator?" Ning Gu said, "Just kill them, why bother using their brains? Why do administrators have to let us choose? We are not even data, how can we make a choice?"
"Let them see what I see, hear what I hear, and feel what I feel," Ye Xi said. "Everything they bring to me, they have to taste for themselves."
This is all we can do for you.
Lian Chuan thought of what Xiao Hong said.
choose.
The choice was not given by Ye Xi, but by the administrator.
The only way for the administrator to struggle against Ye Xi's will is to give everyone who can see them the opportunity to choose.
Choose to end Ye Xi's world, or to continue.
"Do you want to make a choice?" Ye Xi asked, slowly backing away.
"What to choose?" Ning Gu asked.
"The administrator let you 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'll give you a chance to experience it."
There was something wrong with Ye Xi's words, as "you guys" became "you".
Who is this "you" referring to
The surroundings began to lose color. The words written on the corridor wall lost color, the doors and windows lost color, Ye Xi in front of him also gradually lost color, and even the fire burning outside the window lost color.
Everything was drained of color, leaving only a transparent, dark, suffocating yellow.
Old and hopeless.
Ning Gu didn't know what kind of "experience" this was, but having come this far, he no longer cared what was ahead, as long as... He reached to the side and grabbed a handful.
Didn't touch Lianchuan's hand.
When he turned his head suddenly, he found that Lianchuan, like everything around it, had been stripped of its color, leaving only the suffocating yellow that seemed to have existed for ten thousand years.
In shock, he waved his arms towards Lian Chuan, but touched nothing.
"Lianchuan!" Ning Gu roared.
Lianchuan was like a frozen picture, without any response.
"You!" Ning Gu turned and pointed at Ye Xi, "What did you do!"
"He doesn't exist," Ye Xi's voice came from somewhere, "Everything doesn't exist, only you, you are Ye Xi's projection..."
"What are you shooting!" Ning Gu roared. Ye Xi in front of him, like Lian Chuan, had turned into a frozen, colorless picture and no longer responded to his voice.
"Lian Chuan!" Ning Gu turned around and rushed back to Lian Chuan. He carefully raised his hand and slowly stretched it towards Lian Chuan's face. "Lian Gou?"
The hand passed through Lian Chuan's face, but he didn't even feel a trace of warmth.
He saw his trembling fingers sliding across Lianchuan's body, once, twice.
"Cancel!" Ning Gu rushed back to Ye Xi, frantically stirring the screen in front of him, and kicked him twice, but missed, stretching his thigh and causing pain.
"Cancel! I don't want to try it!" Ning Gu yelled, "Ye Xi! Ye Xixi! Ye what... I don't want to try it! Cancel!"
There was complete silence all around him, and he heard no other sound except his own.
"Lian Chuan," Ning Gu walked back to Lian Chuan, and felt his voice start to tremble, "Lian Chuan, can you hear me?"
"Betelgeuse," Ning Gu stared into Lian Chuan's eyes. Lian Chuan's sight fell on a certain place behind him, but he could not find the focus. "Wake up."
"Betelgeuse, wake up!"
"Betelgeuse! Wake up!"
"Betelgeuse!" Ning Gu roared, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"
In the colorless world, his voice seemed to be the only one.
Desperate and lonely.
Ning Gu stood beside Lian Chuan for a long time.
Maybe not for long.
there is no time.
Time does not exist.
I myself do not exist either.
"Lianchuan," Ning Gu sniffed and touched his face. Feeling tears, he felt a little embarrassed. He raised his arm and wiped the tears on his sleeve. "Wait for me. I'll go out and take a look to see if there are any other traps."
"Wait for me," he took two steps towards the window, then stopped and looked back at Lian Chuan, "If you come back, shout. If I don't hear you, go out and look for me. You will definitely find me. You are so awesome..."
Ning Gu jumped out of the window.
It landed in the hospital yard.
The fire that was burning before has also been frozen at a certain flickering 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 was burned, leaving only the little bit that he and Lianchuan had seen before.
He reached out and touched the number, his fingertips passing through the paper, across the table, and lightly sliding towards.
Walking out of the hospital gate, the whole world was still, covered in empty yellow.
It was as if someone had used a huge piece of yellow plastic to block out the world, and when the sunlight came in, all other colors were sucked out.
This scene is more despairing than darkness.
Ning Gu stood on the street, not knowing where to go or what to do.
He would rather stand in the black fog of the ghost town, stand in the cold wind, stand in the endless darkness.
He turned around and started walking forward in one direction, walking forward all the time.
Passing through the ruined houses, through the fire, through the lake, through the large flowers...
He didn't know how long this so-called experience would last, after all, time did not exist.
6000 steps.
He counted.
Another 6000 steps.
He never left the area around Ankang Hospital and Shahu Park, and kept going back to the same place over and over again.
If this is Ye Xi's memory, in Ye Xi's moment of thought, perhaps for some reason, he has never left this place in his life, never been anywhere else, even if it is the last moment of the world.
That's all.
A world that was so big, so beautiful, so bright, and so colorful no longer exists.
Never even seen it.
despair.
Ning Gu seemed to suddenly understand what Jiuyi said. The blue sky in the coffin represented despair.
If you have never seen it, the world is just yourself.
If you have seen it but can never possess it, the world is hopeless.
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, it's where we lived."
"If I cut off that hand, maybe everything will disappear," Ning Gu said, "then I won't cut it off. I want to exist forever. If there is an exit, I will find it. If there is no exit, I will be the exit. I want to live in every main city I have been to. Every place I have lived is proof of my existence."
"Ye Xi," Ning Gu raised his head, "Can you hear me?"
"Every main city has its own projection," Ning Gu said, "but I am the only one who can see you."
"I'm not a projection, I'm the variable. My name is Ning Gu. I will survive every generation of the main city. I will definitely survive every destruction. Your world is gone, but my world will always be there."
Lianchuan has changed.
The surroundings also changed.
The oppressive transparent yellow slowly faded into a mottled gray.
Then the whole world began to slowly peel off like an old wall.
Where it fell off, it was all black.
Ning Gu stood there, motionless, just staring at Lian Chuan who was slowly fading away and disappearing into the darkness.
When the darkness completely enveloped Ning Gu, he felt like he was suspended in mid-air.
But I gradually felt something in my hands.
He clenched his hands suddenly.
There was an immediate response in the palm of my hand.
Lian Chuan's familiar reverse grip made him instantly feel tears welling up from the corners of his eyes.
"Even the dog?" he called softly.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded.
Ning Gu didn't say anything else. He turned sideways and hugged Lian Chuan.
"Is that you?" he said in a trembling voice.
"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 couldn't find you. I almost couldn't find you in this life. No, I almost couldn'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 want any anyway."
Ning Gu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter, almost laughing out of breath.
"Where are we now?" Ning Gu laughed for a long time before he remembered to ask.
He and Lian Chuan were now hanging in the darkness, unable to see anything.
But even so, as long as he knew Lian Chuan was right next to him, he felt that it was no big deal and could even ignore the situation.
"I don't know," Lian Chuan said, "I think he's still in Ye Xi's consciousness. If you were 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 could stand in front of me," Ning Gu said, "would he still be my shadow?"
Lian Chuan didn't say anything.
"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.
"What?" Ning Gu pressed his face into his palm.
"What did you just see?" Lian Chuan asked, "It doesn't look like you at all."
"Isn't it cool?" Ning Gu asked.
“… It’s the same again.” Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu laughed and touched Lian Chuan on the back: "You haven't changed at all, you are still Lian Chuan."
The darkness continues.
Ning Gu reached out his hand several times to explore the side, trying to feel if there was anything else, but there was nothing.
"What on earth is this place?" Ning Gu asked.
"Maybe it's the last time." Lian Chuan said.
"What do you mean by 'finally'?" Ning Gu didn't understand.
"Ye Xi's last consciousness," Lian Chuan said, "everything disappeared, time was gone, space was gone."
"Are you saying we're just going to hang here like this forever?" Ning Gu said.
"It's also possible," Lian Chuan said, "It's not hanging here, it's stopped here, everything has stopped."
"No," Ning Gu said, "No, we are still here, we can speak and think, as long as we are here, we are still moving forward."
Lian Chuan reached out and touched the back of his head again.
"What!" Ning Gu raised his voice.
"What on earth did you just encounter?" Lian Chuan asked.
Ning Gu was silent for a while, then sighed softly: "Just now, I was the only one in the world. Everything, including you and Ye Xi, turned into photos, very old and yellowed."
"Really?" Lian Chuan said, "That should be the last second."
"Very...desperate," Ning Gu lowered his head and pressed his chin on Lian Chuan's shoulder, "Ye Xi said that everything doesn't exist, and you don't exist either...I was wondering, if I choose to cut off the hand holding the marquee, it will end up like that, in a 'last second' that I can never get out of."
"Maybe, so the choice given by the administrator," Lianchuan said, "is this: do you choose to return to a world of constant destruction and eternal struggle, or do you choose to end everything and return to the 'last second'?"
"The opportunity given by the administrator," Ning Gu said, "wasn't 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 meet us from those galaxies he destroyed," Ning Gu said, "What if I don't choose? I don't choose either. Is there any other way?"
"Since time does not exist," Lianchuan said, "there is no future or past."
"Speak human language." Ning Gu said.
"We don't have to go forward at all," Lianchuan said, "We can go back and kill the scavengers. If there is no exit, we can create one."
“I am the exit.”
"You are the exit."
A little light appeared in the distance to the side of the two people.
When Ning Gu turned his head, the light turned into two points, then three points...
Like a star.
I don’t know if they were moving over there or the lights were flying over here, but the light was slowly getting bigger.
The first bit of light turned into a palm-sized patch, and something could be seen shaking in the light.
When they got closer, they could see clearly that there was a human figure swaying in the light.
"I want to see the administrator."
Ning Gu heard his own voice.
"Key."
"Exit."
"Who are you?"
"I said that I will live in every generation of the main city, and my world will exist forever."