"No? In the eyes of that monster, it turns out they are just worms." Zhang Yi smiled, but the tears in his eyes never stopped, "That damn monster devoured his friends and erased the memories related to him. !”
Jiang Cheng couldn't bear what he heard, so he changed the subject and asked, "What happened next, did we all escape?"
"If he could escape, he wouldn't be there." Zhang Yi said with a bitter smile, "He... Sure enough, he couldn't remember his name. He led them to flee continuously, and his friends were devoured one by one. In the past , only Dong, he and Lang Zhijia are very close to Cheng Peng. They came there before."
"They no longer remember how long they have been running around in the orphanage. Whenever they enter a building, they often appear in another building. And there, it seems that the monster's home ground will appear at the fastest speed every time. In front of them, he devoured one of their friends. If he hadn't taken them to escape in time, I'm afraid they would have all died in the teaching building from the beginning. And, if it's like what I said, then even the past They were also devoured. Doesn’t that mean that even if they die, no one will remember them?”
Xu Dingjia did not answer, but his silence seemed to indicate acquiescence.
Zhang Yi nodded, he had already got the answer, and continued: "They just arrived there, and the monster was swimming not far away. For some unknown reason, he did not attack them. But before that, did he let it go? They successfully escaped and blocked the monster's attack with their own bodies. He vaguely remembered that he told them how to leave before he died. If Lang Zhijia and Cheng Peng could leave, it would also reduce the burden in his heart. Feeling guilty, he made a decision. He let Lang Zhijia and Cheng Peng hide in the well, while he went back as bait to lure the monster away and find a way out for them."
Hearing Zhang Yi say those words, Jiang Cheng was shocked. He didn't expect that such a teenage boy would make such a big sacrifice for his friends. He felt that his heart was being tugged, and he couldn't help but ask: "What happened next? Did they successfully leave? And was I..."
"He doesn't know." Zhang Yi shook his head. "After he left there, he never saw them again. He doesn't even know what he is now? If he hadn't rejected us, he might have been stuck in the memory of that escape. . He doesn't even know if he is alive now? Or is he already dead?"
Xu Dingjia frowned and asked, "Was I swallowed by that monster at that time?"
"It seems not, but it seems not." Zhang Yi looked tangled and said: "Shortly after leaving there, the monster really stared at him. So, he escaped into the teaching building, but that time, he appeared in In the attic. He kept running towards the stairs until he reached a balcony. The monster had blocked all his escape routes. He didn't want to die in the monster's mouth, so he jumped east. After landing, In an instant... he saw... saw... "
Zhang Yi's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief, and he said in a trembling voice: "He saw himself, he saw himself being swallowed by the monster, and at the same time, he also felt himself falling eastward. Even when he landed, he heard a deafening sound from his body, and the whole world trembled in his eyes. Later, when he woke up again, he appeared somewhere in the orphanage. He tried to leave, but found that he could not find it. to the place he said. Therefore, he can keep running away in the orphanage to avoid the monster. However, he is not a mortal after all. Often, the monster will catch him and kill him if he stays there for a long time. …devour?”
Zhang Yi's expression became more and more shocked, but he still narrated mechanically: "After that, he will continue to wake up somewhere, lose his previous memory, and be chased by the monster again. He has no memory of how long this process has been repeated. "
After saying all that, everyone in the venue was filled with sighs. Zhang Yi himself has yet to recover from the shock of his story.
"He... he is dead?" Zhang Yi's expression has become a little dull, "And, he died several times... So, who is he now? Is he... a ghost?"
"No, I don't deny ghosts." Xu Dingjia spoke, and he explained: "If you follow what I said before, I'm afraid..."
"No what?" Zhang Yi asked nervously.
Xu Dingjia lowered his head and his voice became a little deeper, "The afterimage of time."
"The afterimage of time?" Jiang Cheng heard another unfamiliar word and couldn't help but ask, "What is that?"
Xu Dingjia pondered for a moment and explained: "I was in the attic at that time, and some kind of accident happened to Coco, which caused my own time to be distorted. Coupled with the sudden appearance of the void creature, its own properties of distorting time and space intensified the kind of The change caused my two branches of time to appear in one space at the same time."
"Time branch?" Jiang Cheng became more and more confused as he listened.
Xu Dingjia glanced at Zhang Yi and said unbearably: "The time in the past is fixed, but the time in the future can be changed. That's why the theory of multiverse came into being. The so-called time branch means that at a certain point in time, Things will have the possibility to develop in another direction, thus forming a multiverse. At that time, I had two possibilities, one could not be swallowed by roasted animals, and the other could not fall to death. Because of the unexpected The emergence of another branch of me also appeared in that space. It also made me see another self, just like a clone. Because of that accident, I became a time afterimage. Because of the past The me that I am does not exist, so the theory that I am now does not exist, I am just a phantom that remains at that time.”
Jiang Cheng murmured: "So, he can feel the temperature of his legs, as if he is indeed a real person. However, the fact is that Zhang Yi's past has been swallowed up, and the theory is that he is a person who should not exist. Yongxuan?"
"Is he... just a phantom?" Zhang Yi looked at his legs, it was so real, but how could he have imagined that he was just a phantom now.
"If he is just a so-called space-time phantom, then why does he continue to exist? Shouldn't he disappear?" Zhang Yi understood Xu Dingjia's words, but still asked without giving up.
Xu Dingjia shook his head secretly and said, "Because that place itself is a weird place."
Jiang Cheng thought of something and said, "Time there seems to have stopped at a certain point. Is that the reason?"