The door of the room opened suddenly, and all the scenes came into view.
The curtains they purchased together, the calendar hanging behind the door, the messy shoes on the shoe rack...
And the dark living room that exudes a faint blue light.
Lin Huai was there and saw Chu Tianshu.
He saw the man sitting alone in the rental house, inside a round machine. How strange, how could a god live in such a room? It's neither high-tech... nor cool in the room.
He saw the man with his back turned to him, his exposed arms were a little dry, and there were many things like wires or pipes inserted into his head and skin.
In front of that person... there are hundreds of small screens occupying the entire wall. On the small screen are all kinds of little worlds in which all kinds of people struggle or live.
Lin Huai stood there, on the boundary of the living room. Finally, he heard the man's voice.
"I asked you to come here..." the man said softly.
"Are you surprised?"
"Originally, it was not unexpected. He is me, and he has never experienced it. The me who remembers here... the moment I died, the me here also completely woke up." The man said, "If it was me at that time If so, I will let you come over to find the truth... "
A chill suddenly spread across Lin Huai's back.
"This is the first time you have eaten a black shadow." Chu Tianshu said slowly like a god, "In the past few times, you didn't, we lived like a black hole, but we were always caught I interrupted, so I started again... This time you noticed it in advance, and you still can't hide it from you."
Sisyphus.
Lin Huai suddenly thought of the description Soi Ying had said to him.
Repeated countless times, Sisyphus pushing the stone up the hill.
A sofa approached him silently. Lin Huai then sat on the sofa that was transferred by Chu Tianshu, who had his back turned to him. He put his hands on his knees and said, "Now can you tell me what happened?"
"Okay." Chu Tianshu said, "Then let's start after you enter the door."
He raised his head and looked at the thousands of screens.
"After you enter the 'door', the entire game is closed. It falls with you in the dark depths, just as you wish."
"The living people gradually forget the memory about the game, and the memory about you. After all the viruses disappeared, the world got rid of the system and you, and began to repair itself. Except for me—I am a person who exists by accident ', I couldn't forget you. I became like a psycho, looking around for information about you. I spent money, I found people, I drove from south to north in cars. The self-healing function of this world is limited, It sure leaves a lot of holes in you. Sometimes it's a message, sometimes it's a drawing, sometimes it's a diary, but…”
"Anytime, as long as I discover your new existing information and rejoice over it, this information will also be discovered by the world, and it will be deleted immediately as a mistake. The information is erased, the painting is burned, Everything you did was replaced by someone else. I lost you as many times as I found you. Later, I even began to doubt myself... "
"Do you doubt that I exist?" Lin Huai said.
"... No." The man on the chair let out a breath, "I doubt whether I should continue to find you. Finding a little trace of you is like finding a placebo, but if I don't find them, they will still exist in the In this world, there are traces left by you, although I will never know it... It's like the world is chasing after me, killing all the you I've had over and over again."
"I found a copy of your diary later. I flicked through it, so fast, I never read words so fast in my life. But they disappeared line by line. I prayed that the world would at least let me read it, at least let me read it. I know what 'me' I am in your heart...but before I even turn that page, the entire diary is blank."
"After that, I forced the door open and entered the 'gate'."
The day when Chu Tianshu committed a serious crime.
The black wind howls, and the ghosts cry.
"I sacrificed the world just to see you."
He looked at Lin Huai who melted into one body with the black shadow in a tragic way that he had never seen before.
'kill me. Lin Huai was still laughing, "If I die...it will die too." You kill me, I win. '
'There will no longer be any ghosts in this world. '
"But I refused." Chu Tianshu said, "I remembered my identity, used the code of the highest order, and became the new core of the system. However, my essence is not compatible with the system, so the price is..."
He smiled: "I can't let you see me now, I'm too bad now. I don't even dare to call myself handsome."
Lin Huai looked at the withered arm.
"And you, of course you can't accept this ending. So I reshaped a body for you who is weak, but it's a pity that your soul and the shadow are hard to separate. The existence of the shadow is always a time bomb, it hides in your body hide from me." Chu Tianshu snorted coldly, "I reshaped the system, forcibly rewritten the game, sealed your memory, let you live well in the real world, and rewritten other people's memories , restarted the world. But I am not compatible with the system after all, and some ghosts in the advanced field always have different ideas, but it doesn’t matter, I will kill them all.”
At that moment, his tone was violent, like a tyrant.
"But it's a pity that the rewritten world always has too many bugs, and the will of the world and the original system will eventually gradually go out of control due to the attraction with your essence..." Chu Tianshu's voice dimmed, "I will I am divided into two parts, one part is used to manage the system, and the other part I deleted my memory about restarting the world, and only kept part of the memory of looking for you, and came to find you in the real world. But in the end time and time again... "
"You have come here." He said softly, "Without those... painful... losing your... repeating memories, I have helped you come here again and again. In the end, we didn't live a good life."
"It's really funny, it's so funny, isn't it? The people who are fighting against me have become me and you. It's me and you, two people, fighting against myself..." He suddenly laughed, his voice was no longer hearty, but As if weeping blood, "Myself, I am actually against myself? But I don't understand anything if I haven't experienced it..."
His withered hand pointed to one side.
"If he ever finds nothing."
"If he also faced you again and again to be eliminated."
"If he ever saw you dying and begged him in pain to kill you..."
His tone became furious: "How could he be so stupid, so arrogant, so arrogant, to accompany you here! And you, you didn't cry when you begged me to kill you, but you were still in surveillance Cry for my death, stupid!"
There was a strong explosion sound in the living room at that moment. Lin Huai sat silently on the sofa, watching the weak and withered Chu Tianshu utter all his fury.
There are pitch-black wires wrapped around his body, trying to tie him up here completely, not allowing him to make any resistance. He seems to have heard Chu Tianshu's voice:
He wants to do it all over again.
Is he Sisyphus, or is Chu Tianshu the desperate Sisyphus
Finally, Lin Huai opened his mouth and said something very inappropriate: "Chu Tianshu, the house exploded, and you are responsible for repairing it."
This sentence is simply an inappropriate cold humor, but the black wire that was originally wrapped around him was loose.
It was as if Chu Tianshu was on the verge of losing control of his rage, and was soothed by his words that he became listless.
Lin Huai said again: "So, you died so badly in the dungeon just now, is it because you are angry at yourself and taking revenge on yourself?"
Chu Tianshu: ...
Lin Huai: "Chu Tianshu, you sound like a sand sculpture."
Chu Tianshu: ...
Lin Huai actually heard an embarrassing cough. At this moment, he actually heard the awkward cough of Chu Tianshu, who was still looking like a blackened God of Creation just now...
No, think about it again, Chuangshi Shen set up his living space as a rental house, even if it is to cherish the good times of the two of them, it is too sandy.
Lin Huai said again: "What about our truth?"
"..."
"The truth of this world."
Chu Tianshu did not answer him.
"Then change the question." Lin Huai shrugged and said, "What do you want? Chu Tianshu?"
…
…
"I want you to be happy." Chu Tianshu finally said softly, "How can I tell you that we live in a world without freedom? Do you know the truth of this world?"
He moved his fingers and finally spoke.
Lin Huai heard a very strange world view from Chu Tianshu's mouth.
What they exist is something like a "two-dimensional world" in the universe. Compared with the world in a broad sense, their world is more like a collection of circuits. However, within this circuit, a whole world is born, and "creatures" live in it.
Human scientists from outside the world have discovered this world. They are extremely curious about this world, and try to program this "silicon world" like programming a computer. "Silicon World" is the code name they named this world. They sent many materials from the human world to the past, and their plans to rewrite or destroy them have completely failed. The internal defenses of "Silicon World" are extremely strong.
Therefore, they formulated virus infection plans again and again, and the viruses were blocked in "Wen County" to kill each other with the defense system. In the end, they made a special plan.
That plan is called the "Eve" plan.
They analyzed the defense system and programmed a very special virus based on it. Myths and legends say Eve was born from one of Adam's ribs. So they named this particular viral sequence "Project Eve."
When this virus was born, humans also found it difficult to control it. But in the end they were still conceited about their ability and sent it over.
Based on the word "Xia", the sequence of the virus is named Huaixu, and the original virus is code-named zero.
"You can understand our world as a computer. Every human being is a file, you and the ghosts are viruses, and the ghosts born are files infected by viruses. And I, the defense system, is also a virus isolation sandbox The file shredder in the computer.” Chu Tianshu finally explained this in a very easy-to-understand way, “No matter what your will, your existence and your internal code will cause infection wherever you go. When When I am a god, I can use my power to infuse infected files with sanity and make them sane ghosts, but this is also limited. If you don't completely destroy you, as long as you exist, wherever you are will eventually become a horror haunted paradise."
"Sealing you into a new body and sealing your memory can temporarily suppress your toxicity. Otherwise, even if your own will is not the case, the world will be infected. If you don't want the world to be infected..."
"You're stuck in a dark isolation sandbox for the rest of your life."
"so… "
He stopped talking.
The clock ticked away. Lin Huai stroked his wrist. He looked at the withered figure on the seat, and suddenly said softly: "So, you plan to do it again, right?"
"..."
"You plan to seal my memory again, and then put me back in the restarted world, because do you think, compared to the dark isolation room, has such a time been at least happy and free?"
"..."
Chu Tianshu didn't speak.
"Look back at me, Chu Tianshu." Lin Huai said suddenly.
"..."
"From the time you entered the room until now, you haven't looked back at me." Lin Huai said, "Because you dare not look at me."
"..."
"You are afraid that seeing me will soften your heart. You feel that you have made the most correct choice. And your own body is drying up here, lingering."
"..."
The colors on the thousands of small screens were turned into black and white. Lin Huai saw the withered fingers move.
He decided to suppress the anger that Chu Tianshu dared to hide from him first.
"There is a sentence I haven't finished." Lin Huai said, "Before I entered the unit building just now, I wanted to say..."
"I want to say I love you in the real world."
The room was completely silent.
Finally, all the black wires that were originally wrapped around Lin Huai's ankles dissipated.
Lin Huai got up and walked towards the figure step by step. He reached out and took his soft hand that was pale and dry from going against the will of the world.
He finally walked up to him. The dry man stretched out his hand at that moment, trying to cover his face with his hand.
That was the face that the unrestrained and hearty Chu Tianshu should never have.
"You are so handsome now." After a long time, Lin Huai smiled and said, "It's just getting old. One day, we will all be old."
"..."
"We'll grow old together."
The dry man finally put down his hand. Lin Huai's back is facing thousands of small screens, so he can't see that the scenes on those small screens have become bits and pieces of their past.
"Lin Huai..."
"Ok."
"I'm afraid..." the withered man finally pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, "I'm afraid of you..."
"Tell me." Lin Huai said softly and firmly like never before.
Chu Tianshu: "I'm afraid you won't be able to be hard on me after seeing me now."
Lin Huai: ...
… Half an hour later, he loosened his fist, and the veins on his face popped out.
Sure enough, he shouldn't have had a romantic drama with Chu Tianshu from the very beginning.
Even if it's a darkened version.