Survivorship Bias

Chapter 149: Fate is hard to break

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All the actions of Shen Ti in front of him are exactly the same as they were twenty minutes ago.

An Wujiu also took the Zhuyeqing that he handed over directly.

If it is really the same as the previous cycle, then now...

An Wujiu directly swung the knife downward.

A hand that was stretching out quickly, all five fingers were cut off by An Wujiu.

And last time, he was first held by this hand on his ankle, and then cut off from his wrist.

Sure enough, it was the same as last time.

"Retreat one after another!"

He grabbed Shen Ti's arm and led him back together. Sure enough, the vending machine in front of him was still the same as the previous round, igniting spontaneously under the rage, turning into a huge fire monster and rushing towards them.

An Wujiu subconsciously looked towards another intersection.

A truck speeds by...

Everything was the same as the previous cycle, the truck knocked the monster that was about to devour them into the air, and stopped in front of them, the door opened, Wu You sat in the driver's seat, Nanshan was in the co-pilot.

"Brother Wujiu, come up quickly!"

An Wujiu nodded blankly, and got into the car with Shen Ti.

In the last round, his arm was corroded and pierced by the mucus of pollutants, but after a round of backtracking, the wound on his arm completely disappeared.

The four of them also successfully got rid of the pollutant that assimilated the gun vending machine this time, and all the conversations that took place after getting in the car were exactly the same as what An Wujiu experienced in the previous round.

"I finally found you." Nan Shan turned around and glanced at the two of them, "Do you have guns?"

"I just got it." Shen Ti said with exactly the same state and tone, "This monster has a conscience and didn't run away before we got the goods."

Even after he finished speaking, the action of turning violently to the right due to inertia was the same as before.

Wu You turned the steering wheel, "I don't care about this pollutant?"

An Wujiu felt as if he was in a dream, he had experienced so many games, no matter how weird or frightening he encountered, it didn't make him terrified at this moment.

Is he the only one who has entered this cycle

"Brother Wujiu?" Wu You didn't get a response, and glanced at the rearview mirror, wanting to see what happened to An Wujiu.

This glance is different from before.

It was precisely because of this glance that the car almost hit the cable pole that was about to fall—

"Wu You be careful!"

Nan Shan turned sideways and stabilized the steering wheel, thus narrowly avoiding a catastrophe, otherwise they would all be crushed to death by the falling cable pole.

"I'll come, I'll drive."

As before, Nan Shan and Wu You exchanged places.

An Wujiu tried to calm himself down, looking for the reason for falling into this cycle.

He lowered his head and tugged on his right sleeve.

New numbers are engraved on the exposed wrist.

12:10:23

wrong.

An Wujiu frowned.

How could the time he had suddenly become so much, from twenty minutes to a full twelve hours!

An Wujiu turned his head, took Shen Ti's wrist, and checked his time.

00:29:43

When meeting Shen Ti in the last round, An Wujiu checked his time on purpose. At that time, he had 45 minutes left. It is normal to calculate that 16 minutes have passed.

An Wujiu raised his head and asked the other two, "Nan Shan, Wu You, how much time do you have left on your wrists?"

"There are still..." Wu You glanced at his own, "61 minutes."

"I have 49 minutes left." Nan Shan told An Wujiu.

An Wujiu quickly made a calculation in his mind, the time of the two of them was also the same as last time, at least the total amount remained the same.

"What's wrong?"

Shen Ti at the side seemed to have realized that An Wujiu was wrong, and held his hand.

An Wujiu was thinking whether to tell him or not, after all, he still hadn't figured out why this happened.

When Shen Ti looked over, his eyes moved up, and his face suddenly changed.

"What happened to your health? Are you injured?"

Wu You turned around immediately after hearing this.

An Wujiu was a little confused, he raised his head and looked at the two parameter bars above his head.

The sanity value has hardly changed, but the life value has decreased, about one-eighth.

"I'm not injured." An Wujiu checked again. Indeed, with the experience of the previous round, he deliberately avoided the pollutants from the vending machine, so there was no wound on his body.

Even though An Wujiu said so, Shen Ti still felt strange, because some weird images vaguely appeared in his mind, An Wujiu's arm was injured, and he lost his temper, took off his coat to bandage him.

But An Wujiu wasn't hurt, it seemed like his memory was messed up.

"Why did you lose blood for no reason?" Wu You couldn't understand, "I didn't do anything."

No.

Not doing nothing.

An Wujiu suddenly understood that he had entered a cycle, and this might be the price.

Thinking about it, he denied it again. It is still impossible to conclude that this is a cycle, because there are only two times in total, maybe he just went back in time once.

Yes, back in time.

An Wujiu immediately thought of the time card he had drawn earlier.

However, he felt that it was unlikely to be the function of this card. After all, the rules at the time were very clear. The use of this card required the payment of life points as a price. Players were required to voluntarily and actively submit part of their life points in exchange for Go back in time.

But at that time, he was directly torn apart by the monster, and he had no time or subjective consciousness to use this retrospective card.

An Wugui opened the system. At this moment, the altar player system has been damaged, and many functions have been forcibly closed, but fortunately, the easter egg card page is still there.

An Wujiu clicked, just as he thought, the time retrospective card was not used.

Why

"You still haven't drawn one." Shen Ti saw it and said casually, "Why don't you draw it?"

"Yes..." An Wujiu responded in a trance, and nodded as he said.

But the system doesn't respond at all.

"Maybe it's broken." An Wujiu clicked again, "No response."

"It's really not interesting." Shen Ti snorted coldly, "It's a reward to give it so much fuss, but now it's better to just swallow it."

He leaned back on the seat, "Try again in a while, the altar seems to have issued a system maintenance announcement."

"Is it okay to take all three?" Wu You asked.

"The first one is free, and the second one I got a time retrospective card." An Wujiu explained the specific rules to them, but omitted the need to exchange life points.

He didn't want these people to worry and prevent him from using the card in a pinch.

"I see." Wu You nodded, "This card may play a key role at some point."

"Perhaps." An Wujiu said softly.

Nan Shan drove the car silently, thought of something, and said, "No fault, you'd better use this card with caution."

An Wujiu looked at him, and suddenly found a pollutant in front of him. He picked up the assault rifle, opened the window and turned sideways, aiming at the fastest speed, shooting continuously, and eliminated the opponent.

"Sorry." He withdrew his body, sat down, and said to Nan Shan, "You continue."

Nan Shan drove the car, trying her best to avoid the pollutants in front, leaving them to clean up with weapons.

"What I said may be more metaphysical, you just take it as a reference. Things like going back in time sound like they can redeem and make up for past mistakes, and have one more chance to make amends, but..."

He changed his unreliable image in the past, and said to An Wujiu with a very serious attitude, "Time is a very complicated thing that is difficult to grasp. When you are changing the past, the future of the past is also because of you." Behavior has been changed. Whether the new future is what you want, no one knows."

"But I'm not trying to scare you with fatalism," Nanshan smiled softly, "On the contrary, what my Taoist beliefs taught me is anti-fatalism, it's the theory of destiny, destiny is like the time that goes all the way, it's the law of nature , is the ultimate law in the universe. karma and chance, destiny cannot be violated, but it depends on human effort."

Wu You understood a little bit at first, but he got around him again.

"what are you talking about?"

Shen Ti scolded him for being stupid, "I'm just telling you that maybe the rules of this world's operation cannot be changed, but as long as you actively do the right thing, maybe one day you will break through your own destiny, such as becoming a fairy?"

Nan Shan smiled and said realistically: "This is just a beautiful ideal."

An Wujiu understood.

Nan Shan was telling him not to act recklessly just because he has the ability to go back in time, because there is a destiny that people like him cannot change and shake in their entire lives. But even so, he can't fall into negativity, thinking that no matter what, he can't change his fate.

As long as you find the right path, even if you can't change the time, you may be able to find the ending with the least loss under the balance.

"Thank you." He said to Nanshan.

Nan Shan smiled, "Just talk casually, you can listen to it casually."

They encountered a lot of pollutants on the road, An Wujiu gave the gun to Wu You and asked him to shoot, so as to increase the time.

And just like the previous cycle, they discussed the whereabouts of Zhong Yirou and Yang Erci, as well as the safe zone of the city, and Wu You once again proposed to go to the abandoned factory in the southwest.

An Wujiu looked at the sky through the window, the cracks in the night sky were still deep, like ice floes on a glacier that were about to disintegrate, breaking into pieces one after another.

"We're not going to that factory." An Wujiu's tone definitely changed Wu You's plan.

Wu You was a little surprised, turned to look at An Wujiu, "Aren't you going? There should be no one there."

Seeing Wu You's face, An Wujiu felt a little sad.

Yes, and a very dangerous person.

No matter what, he must rescue Wu You this time.

"No, let's go to Yirou's house."

Shen Ti nodded, "That's right. She has a single family and there should be no one there, and there are at least some supplies. We can treat her house as a transfer station. If the two of them are also initialized to other places, it is best The gathering place that comes to mind is either Yang Erci's house or Yirou's house."

Wu You nodded, "That's good."

He turned around and said to Nan Shan, "You drive, and I'll guide you to Sister Rou's house."

Because of the existence of An Wujiu, they changed their decision in this cycle. He knew that the masked man was ambushing in the factory at this moment, so he couldn't seek his own death no matter what.

The route was the same at the beginning, so the pollutants they encountered on the road were exactly the same. An Wujiu also encountered the pollutant that sprayed mucus before, but this time he avoided it by relying on his memory.

He killed the pollutant and his arm was intact, not corroded.

"Just ahead, turn left."

The factory is on the right, and Yirou's home is on the left.

"Yes, go straight, be careful there are pollutants on the right catching up!"

Wu You stared at the rearview mirror, and Shen Ti directly killed the huge monster that was chasing him with a light machine.

After some twists and turns, they finally arrived. Nanshan parked the car about 200 meters away from Zhong Yirou's house, leaving some room.

"The house seems to be dark." Wu You took a flashlight from the car and distributed it to everyone as before.

Because of what happened last time, An Wujiu still had lingering fears, he said to Nan Shan and Wu You, "You two stay here, just sit in the driver's seat and the co-pilot, and drive if you have anything to do."

Nan Shan didn't understand, "Let's go in together, it will be safer if there are more people."

An Wujiu insisted on his own thoughts, "Protect Wu You well, Shen Ti and I will go in and have a look first, if everything is normal, I will ask you to go over, and you will come back when the time comes."

He originally wanted to go in alone, but he also knew that Shen Ti would not agree.

"That's good." Shen Ti hugged An Wujiu's shoulder, "I like this group."

"Get in the car." An Wujiu looked into Wu You's eyes.

Wu You felt something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, he just felt that An Wujiu looked at him with sad eyes, which made him unable to bear to oppose his command.

"good."

After Wu You settled down, An Wujiu and Shen Ti walked towards Zhong Yirou's house.

The house was indeed dark, and the door seemed to be closed. An Wujiu approached, and the smart lock outside was destroyed, but the door seemed to be blocked from the inside by a heavy object.

Could it be that pollutants are chasing after them

An Wujiu looked around and indeed found mucus on the ground.

He stood up and glanced at Shen Ti, who was ready and loaded with bullets.

"Yirou?"

An Wujiu stood outside the door and called her name, "Are you inside? I'm Wujiu, here we come."

At this time, even if they are here, they are still alive and may be polluted, but An Wujiu cannot give up.

There was no sound from inside.

An Wujiu thought about it, but took a few steps back.

"What are you doing?"

"The only way to open the door is violence."

He ruthlessly kicked the door open a big crack, and the heavy object inside fell down under his force, Shen Ti stepped forward and kicked it, and the door opened.

An Wujiu immediately illuminated the surroundings with a flashlight, the inside was still the same as when they came last time, it was a container.

The two walked in carefully, An Wujiu could vaguely hear suppressed sobbing.

They pressed their footsteps and walked towards the sound. The source of the sound was getting closer and more real. It was the innermost container.

Shen Ti walked over with the gun in hand, and the scene in front of him was completely stunned by the light of the flashlight.

Zhong Yirou knelt down on the ground with tears all over her face, and in her arms was Yang Erci who was bleeding like a river.

An Wujiu was also stunned, "How could this happen?"

He couldn't help recalling what Nan Shan said not long ago in his mind.

[When the past is changed, the future of the past is also changed. Whether the new future is what you want, no one knows. ]

Has it really been changed

He put away his gun and walked over, half kneeling on the ground to check Yang Erci's breath.

"She's dead..." Zhong Yirou lowered her head in pain, "I, I didn't save her..."

Shen Ti checked Yang Erci's body with a flashlight, "It's a knife in the chest, it shouldn't be the hands of pollutants."

At this moment, Zhong Yirou was about to lose his reason and willpower, unable to narrate the complete facts.

An Wujiu held her arm, "Yirou, calm down first, you tell us what happened, otherwise Erci might really not come back."

"She couldn't come back..." Zhong Yirou couldn't tell them how she spent this painful time, and wiped away the tears on her face with her bloody hands. The tears and blood mixed together, making her look even worse. despair.

But even so, Zhong Yirou tried his best to tell them what happened in desperation.

"Just now... Erci and I rushed back, thinking... to get some medicine and escape, but on the way back, we met a man who crashed into our car, and Erci was already injured... he Grab Erci's hair and ask her for something."

An Wujiu frowned and asked, "What?"

"Mail." Zhong Yirou shook his head, "I don't know what it is. He kept hitting Erci's head against the car. I... picked up a gun at that time, but there was only one bullet in it."

Zhong Yirou almost collapsed, "I obviously hit it, I hit it, but that person seemed to be able to see what I was going to do in advance, so he avoided it."

She lowered her head and tried her best not to cry, "Then...then he stabbed Erci to death..."

"He didn't get what he wanted, so he left and drove away... I brought Erci back and wanted to save her, but I didn't even dare to turn on the lights, and I couldn't even save someone I liked..."

Zhong Yirou was exhausted, the last appearance of Yang Erci was in front of his eyes. She covered her face with her hands and burst into tears.

"What to do... no blame... I don't know what to do."

Why can it be predicted in advance

An Wujiu always felt that something was wrong, and this place was too dangerous.

Shen Ti said what he wanted to say in advance, "Let's go first, since he bumped into you on the road, maybe we can find this place."

"Do you remember what that person looked like?" An Wujiu asked.

"I..." Zhong Yirou stood up, somewhat exhausted, "I can't see him because his face is covered."

These words were like a bolt from the blue, making An Wujiu's mind go blank for an instant.

"The Masked Man..."

In this way, everyone maintained the actions of the previous cycle, except himself.

And that masked man.

It turns out that he is not the only one who can go back in time and go back to the past.

"Oops."

Zhong Yirou wiped away tears and tried to cheer up, "It's okay, this place is hard to find, he had already left at that time, he probably wouldn't come here, and he didn't come so soon, let's go."

"Yeah?"

The door opened with a creak, and a processed electronic sound came.

Under the moonlight, a figure leaned against the door, playing with a short knife in his hand, with a cold tone.

"I'm already here."