Survivorship Bias

Chapter 127: silver lining

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Probably because of going to bed too late, An Wujiu rarely fell asleep very deeply, as if he had fallen into a large warm vortex, sinking deeper and deeper, and barely woke up until near noon.

The first time he opened his eyes, he saw Shen Ti's face close at hand, and his heart was filled with a huge sense of security, so he subconsciously leaned into his arms and hugged his waist.

"You seem to have slept well." Shen Ti stroked his hair with a gentle voice.

An Wujiu heard it, but his first reaction was: "Did you wake up so early?"

Shen Ti hummed, "I didn't sleep much, I feel a little excited."

An Wujiu felt that this was not normal, "You were always very sleepy before."

It is indeed true, Shen Ti thought about it, he used to sleep for a long time to get enough, but recently he found that he started to sleep less, and his mental state was also very excited.

"Maybe it's because people feel refreshed on happy occasions." Shen Ti also hugged An Wujiu, like a child hugging his beloved and only puppet.

"You have learned a lot." After An Wujiu complained, he checked his information panel with some trepidation, and saw the information of Wu You and Yang Erci, but both of them said that they have not found any information yet. A girl suspected of being his sister.

"It's okay, we still have a few more to look for." Shen Ti comforted, "We'll look for them now."

He said to An Wujiu: "I have a hunch that my sister is still alive."

An Wujiu had already put on his clothes and tied up his hair, "Did you see it with your divine eyes?"

Shen Ti smiled, "It's so strange, I rely on my heart." After speaking, he cupped his chest with his hands.

You have no heart at all, An Wujiu thought.

But he was still willing to believe in Shen Ti's premonition.

"I will miss this place." Shen Ti said before closing the door.

An Wujiu was amused by his seriousness, and joked, "I like this place so much, so come back tomorrow?"

Shen Ti raised his eyebrows, "Okay, come back tomorrow. You are not allowed to go anywhere, just here."

Time was running out, they left the hotel and set foot on the journey to find their sister again. There are not many people left in the list, An Wujiu and Shen Ti start one by one according to the distance from the nearest to the farthest.

Like yesterday, they knocked on a door with hope, only to be disappointed.

In fact, it was the first time for An Wujiu to meet so many different girls, this seemed to be a chance given to him by God, so that he could see these strong girls.

Most of them live in the mud, but they work hard, very hard.

Every girl on this list has been reported as a missing person, just like the penultimate girl they met today, she was very optimistic, but she was already an adult when she was found, and she was a minor for a long time She was displaced and suffered a lot. When her parents found her, she felt like a stranger when she sat and ate with them, even though both she and her mother were in tears.

An Wujiu listened, his heart seemed to be pulled by a thin but tough thread, and he couldn't say a word.

He wondered if his sister would do the same.

But at that time, I had no choice but to try my best to let her escape, and I would end up like him, perhaps even more terrifying, becoming a "failed" experiment.

The girl could read anxiety from An Wujiu's face, so after some struggles, she said to An Wujiu: "You can tell me about your sister, I know a lot of people, maybe I can help .”

Perhaps because of this empathy, An Wujiu told her, even though he guessed the hope was very slim.

"Let me ask for you." The girl said to him, "Please don't give up, she must very much hope to be found by her brother."

An Wujiu nodded and left the girl's house.

Shen Ti hugged his shoulders, silently supported him, and joked, "I don't think I've really met your sister yet."

"Really?" An Wujiu smiled. When he first summoned Shen Ti, it was late at night, and his sister was already asleep.

It seems like only once.

"No," Shen Ti also remembered, "I seem to have heard her voice, and I saw a little bit of her through the door. Her voice is very sweet and cute, and she is holding a rabbit made of cotton and cloth in her hand. .”

An Wujiu was surprised that he could recall it so completely.

At that time, he summoned the "god" according to the spell, and the whole person fell into an irresistible obsession, as if his soul had been grabbed, but his sister's shout outside the door made him suddenly wake up.

In other words, Shen Ti woke him up.

"She was very scared." An Wujiu said in a low voice, "She was still young at that time, she didn't understand why Dad disappeared, and she missed Dad very much. That day she was so scared that she couldn't sleep, so she came to my room to look for me and join me asleep."

My sister shed a lot of tears that night. Although she was so young, she seemed to understand everything.

After An Wujiu told her that her father had gone far away, she would ask An Wujiu if her father would never come back again.

He can only tell her that he will come back, and one day, we will meet him.

It's just that later, even he couldn't meet his sister anymore. An Wujiu couldn't imagine how she would survive alone in this dangerous world, she was so small, so pure and innocent.

An Wujiu can't think about it anymore, otherwise his last hope will be destroyed.

There is only one last person on the list.

Shen Ti remembered that night, the little boy who was also scared played the role of a reliable brother, comforting his sister.

He suddenly thought of the false memory that An Wujiu described to him before, in that memory, his sister ran away from home.

"Who do you think... will write new memories for you?"

About to arrive at the new address, An Wujiu hesitated for a moment in the elevator when he heard this question.

"I've thought about many possibilities, even thinking about you." An Wujiu said to him, "For a while, I was still wondering if it was you who did it, but you also forgot."

Shen Ti understood what he meant, "You think that the person who can write a good memory for you is thinking of your own good, right?"

"Well, but after I thought about it, it probably wasn't you," An Wujiu said, "The first time I met you was in the red and black dungeon, you didn't have the opportunity to do this."

Shen Ti did not remember that he had manipulated An Wujiu's memory, he was just curious about the manipulator.

"Maybe it's just a controlled experiment."

Before the elevator door, An Wujiu straightened his clothes against the inner wall of the mirror, he did this every time, wanting to meet her with a better image and state.

It's just that this time, like every time before, it ended in failure.

"I hope you can find your sister." This time the girl, like every one before, gave An Wugui blessings without hesitation.

"Thank you."

But An Wujiu was completely disheartened.

He knew that it was impossible for him to find his sister through such an unexpected list in the vast crowd, and he had never had such luck.

After coming out of the last person's house, An Wujiu called the other two teams, he tried to make his tone sound normal, and reported to them all the situation of his part of the list.

As far as he got, miracles didn't happen, and neither did every one they've ever looked for.

An Wujiu hung up the phone and stood quietly by the side of the road. On this day, the sun was surprisingly strong, drying up all the rainwater that had been there before, and the bright and scorching sun shone in the turbid air, and it seemed to reflect hallucinations in front of my eyes.

He saw himself secretly hiding candies for his younger sister when he was a child, and she had a toothache and cried in his arms. They picked tomatoes in his father's glass greenhouse together, and watered the flowers that hadn't bloomed together.

I don't know if she has ever seen a real peony flower, if not, can she see herself

Among the bustling crowd, some are busy for money and life, some are having fun, some are fanatical heretics who wantonly destroy everything, and some are indifferent passers-by.

Only An Wugui is free from everything.

Thinking about it now, why didn't he grow up in a glass room, but that was not a greenhouse, but an infinite abyss, a hell.

Shen Ti hugged An Wujiu under the sun, silently giving him the last comfort.

An Wujiu thought that he might have made a big mistake in his previous life, so God pressed a button and confiscated all the happiness he had.

The only thing he has now is that which cannot be controlled by God.

An Wujiu quietly watched the people coming and going.

"I really want to see how she grows up."

"Maybe it's just that the list is incomplete, maybe she's not in country A anymore." Shen Ti's hand gently stroked An Wujiu's spine, "My intuition is fine, you trust me."

The younger sister who can't be found is like a return date not given by the altar, they are all guillotines hanging above their heads, and An Wujiu doesn't know when they will fall.

It was almost dusk before they returned to Yang Erci's apartment. Everyone was there, each of them was very active and happy, they were cooking when An Wujiu entered, the kitchen was very lively, even the kitchen killer Zhong Yirou was allowed by Wu You to stay there to squeeze juice.

"No fault! Are you back? We have a lot of delicious food today!" Zhong Yirou was very enthusiastic, too enthusiastic.

An Wujiu smiled at her, "What's there to eat? Do you need my help?"

Zhong Yirou was stunned instead.

He acted so normal it made it uncomfortable.

"Ah...they..." Zhong Yirou looked back at Yang Erci, and then at An Wujiu, "Why don't you squeeze the juice with me."

An Wujiu nodded.

"Then I'll go and see Noah." Shen Ti said to him, and walked to the master bedroom by himself, but before he went in, he suddenly felt weird.

I couldn't tell what was wrong, but this feeling only lasted for a second or two, and soon dissipated.

Shen Ti opened the door and saw a child covered in a quilt on the bed.

He called Noah and walked towards the bed, "Are you okay?"

Noah didn't answer him.

Shen Ti walked over and lifted half of the quilt.

It was not Noah under the quilt, but a pillow.

He frowned, turned around, and saw Noah standing behind the door.

The moment they looked at each other, Noah laughed.

"I tricked you!"

Shen Ti is not An Wujiu, his empathy for human beings is centered on An Wujiu and diminishes, An Wujiu is the most important in his heart, no one can compete with it, the second is An Wujiu's attention people.

For the little girl in front of him, from the first moment he saw her, Shen Ti had a natural and subtle rejection, but he was afraid that An Wujiu would find him strange and hate him, so he didn't show anything.

Noah put his hands behind his back, and tilted his head to look at Shen Ti, "You don't seem very happy, is it because I tricked you? But obviously you like to deceive people too."

"Yes." Shen Ti walked towards her step by step, put his hand on the handle behind the door, lowered his head, his green eyes were full of a rare sense of deterrence and oppression, "You can lie to me, but not You can lie to him."

After finishing speaking, Shen Ti smiled softly again, like a real big brother, "After all, he treats you so well, right?"

Noah nodded, "Of course, Brother Wu Jiu is the best."

Shen Ti's suspicion was not just due to pure intuition, many details made him feel strange.

No matter how smart Noah is, the altar is not entirely a brain game. There are so many game copies that require high-intensity physical strength. It is a miracle that she can survive.

What's more, in many cases, Noah seemed to disappear from their field of vision.

This is the conclusion Shen Ti reached in the last round of the game. As a blind civilian, he can only judge everyone's identity through their words and deeds, so as to pave the way for his future layout. So at that time he observed them specially, and the strangest of them was Noah.

Most of the time, she was not with them, and her whereabouts could not be found, but Shen Ti never broke her deal with other people, except for occasionally walking with Zhou Yijue.

Zhou Yijue was obviously still her enemy in the casino.

None of these doubts could make Shen Ti define Noah as a good person, at most he was just a neutral person.

After dinner, the sun had completely set, they drank some wine, and Zhong Yirou chatted about many things that happened in the past.

"I was actually very happy when I was a child. At that time, the family was not short of money." Zhong Yirou's cheeks were flushed, and her long hair was casually tied behind her head with a chopstick, giving her a slightly drunk and naive feeling. .

"What does your father do?" Wu You asked casually.

"He..." Zhong Yirou thought for a while, "It's about the same as me, and he also does these things. When I was a child, I watched him sitting in front of the table making prosthetic bodies, all kinds of things."

She was a little incoherent, "He said that this is a very hard and difficult job, and he needs to earn a little more money, so I won't have to do it in the future."

"But I did it anyway." Zhong Yirou smiled.

Yang Erci frowned, as if thinking of something, "Where's your father?"

Zhong Yirou was dizzy, and she took another sip, almost unable to hold the cup, "He was burned to death."

After finishing speaking, she lifted up her long skirt, revealing the replaced and re-transplanted skin, and pointed it out to everyone, "Here, did you see it? The fire was so big, I was the only one in our family who escaped, and it was my mother who protected me." Me, who let me escape, don't know why it caught fire."

The room suddenly fell silent, and a few alarms sounded outside, which was particularly ear-piercing.

But sirens are the norm here and no one cares. Instead, Zhong Yirou pointed out the window, "Listen, the police don't know either."

"Then you're alone?" Nan Shan asked in a soft tone.

"Well," Zhong Yirou said, "I was already in my teens at the time, which was better than Wugui, but it was really hard to make money. They forced me to do things I didn't want to do, so I kept running away. Trying hard to teach myself... but I don't have a license, so I can only work as a black doctor."

Zhong Yirou raised her head and took a breath, "But I also worked hard to treat everyone, and my patients like me very much."

"Of course." Shen Ti smiled and clinked glasses with her, "Who wouldn't like you."

Zhong Yirou laughed, and touched Yang Erci's cup with her own, but she lost her balance and leaned into her arms, even letting out an "ouch".

Yang Erci supported her, his expression was ugly, she looked at An Wujiu across a table of dishes.

Just this one glance, An Wujiu understood.

I'm afraid her parents are the same as theirs. The fire was not an accident, but a premeditated one.

An Wujiu doesn't know how many more broken families are caused by the so-called evil god who is about to return.

It's a blessing that they can gather here, it's a lot of heartbreak piled up.

There seems to be a huge and terrible magnetic field here, which gathers them who have lost everything and tastes their own brokenness.

The meal ended with Zhong Yirou completely drunk.

Yang Erci helped her back to sleep, Wu You, Nanshan and Noah cleaned up the dishes, An Wujiu and Shen Ti cleaned up the kitchen.

Just after disposing of all the garbage together, An Wujiu suddenly received a phone call.

"Hello, remember me? You came to see me today."

An Wujiu suddenly thought of the girl who promised to help him, his back was stiff, "Remember, do you have any news?"

"Yes," the girl paused, as if hesitating, but with the encouragement of the people around her, she said it out, "Actually... I was sold to a place where there were many girls like me , I stayed there for about half a year and met a sister with a lot of contacts."

"Today I asked her about it. By chance, she told me that there was indeed a girl at that time. She traveled to many cities and was finally sent to them. The reason why the sister remembered it was because the girl once went crazy. Repeatedly told them she was looking for her brother."

"She said it soberly most of the time, the sister was sure that the girl hadn't been brainwashed at the time," she emphasized first, and continued, "But because she said her brother was in Chauvin, everyone put She treats her like a lunatic. You know, for people like us, it is impossible for relatives to work in such a big company, which is unthinkable."

Shen Ti didn't hear his call, but he felt a sharp heartache, as if it was conveyed to his chest through a silk thread.

He stretched out his hand and held An Wujiu's cold hand.

"Are you still there?" The girl asked softly, and continued after receiving an affirmative answer, "I sent you the address that my sister gave me, this is the last time she can find out, she may not be there yet. "

An Wujiu said thank you with difficulty, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, I'm not sure she is, I'm afraid it will make you happy, but I still want to tell you." The girl paused, "...your sister is also working hard to find you, I really hope you can meet tomorrow. "

"Me too." An Wujiu thought, he wanted to see her tonight.

After hanging up the phone, he received a message with an address sent over.

An Wujiu zoomed in on the virtual map, zoomed in again, and then froze in place.

"this place… "

Shen Ti frowned, "Isn't it Gabriel's nightclub?"