The reason why humans are different from other animals is precisely because they have unique memories and emotions. Every memory is special, making them unique in the world.
If one day your memory is gradually eroded by time, and you forget everything in the past, first your family and friends, then your likes and dislikes, and finally yourself...
You lie on the bed in a daze, unaware of hunger or exhaustion, and just rely on instinct to keep breathing. Then this body has gradually become an empty shell, because when a person's memory disappears, it is also accompanied by the death of the soul...
That is a disease more terrible than death.
Jiang Weimian once sealed a long-lasting memory tightly. He doesn't want to remember, but he doesn't want to forget, stubbornly confronting the endless time.
Jiang Weimian suddenly remembered what happened when he was a boy and suddenly lost his composure. He hurriedly wiped away the tears on his face. He looked uneasy and seemed to be trying to hide something. He turned his head and looked away, and said in a hasty tone: "I didn't cry. I accidentally knocked my eyes while sleeping."
He made a poor excuse for those tears.
Chen Zuixing said nothing when he saw this, and actually didn't laugh at him. At this moment, the game time happened to be over, and a cold reminder suddenly sounded in everyone's ears:
Ding! Congratulations to all players, you have successfully passed the intermediate level trial. The game time has ended. Do you want to go to the next level? Countdown for ten seconds. If no selection is made after ten seconds, it will automatically enter the next level by default—
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Somehow, Jiang Weimian suddenly turned his head and looked at Shen Zuixing, only to see that the other person was lazily supporting his head and happened to be looking at him as well. They didn't say anything or do anything. They just kept looking at each other and spent the last few seconds counting down.
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Ding! About to enter the next level! Congratulations to the five players for getting a golden key and a random reward card. Please keep up the good work! The final level is opening
A golden key suddenly appeared out of thin air in the game item column, and there was also a pure black unknown card with a pattern of two hands intertwined on the back.
A white light flashed before Jiang Weimian's eyes, and he suddenly lost consciousness. When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a crowded street. As night falls, the neon lights of high-rise buildings light up one after another, contrasting with the beautiful sunset on the horizon.
Jiang Weimian's head began to hurt again. He forced himself to sit up from the ground, only to see Shen Zuixing, Qian Duoduo and others squatting beside him, looking at him with their hands on their chins. Most of the people passing by regarded them as weirdos and cast strange looks on them one after another.
Jiang Weimian's eyelids twitched and veins popped up on his forehead: "Why are you squatting next to me?"
Selling yourself to bury your father
Qian Duoduo took out a handful of coins from his pocket and explained in a surprised tone: "Brother Xiao Jiang, we originally wanted to help you lie down on a bench by the roadside, but when the passers-by saw you lying on the ground, they all started to There’s money missing from you!”
He had a handful of coins in his hand, at least more than thirty yuan, including some five- and ten-dollar notes.
He Man blushed and sighed: "It's good to be handsome, but even if you lie on the floor and sleep, someone will lose money."
Unlike Wang Dabiao, sleeping on the ground is probably the only one who throws knives.
Jiang Weimian: "..."
Jiang Weimian only felt embarrassed. He stood up from the ground, frowned and patted the dust on his clothes: "Next time if I don't wake up, you don't have to do anything, just stay away from me."
Shen Zuixing clicked his tongue: "If you don't know a good heart, I should throw you on the roadside next time to feed the mosquitoes."
Wang Dabiao scratched his bald head: "When will the game release the mission? Will there be hundreds of players together like last time?"
He Man was a little uneasy: "I heard that the final level is very difficult, and few people can successfully pass it. The previous level was so difficult, and the last level must be even harder."
They usually do tasks and spend most of their time listening to Jiang Weimian's instructions. But now, for some reason, the latter stood beside him without saying a word, and his silence was unusual.
Shen Zuixing propped himself up with his hands and sat down on the fence by the roadside, his legs hanging down and dangling slightly: "Jiang Weimian, you have become mute, why don't you speak?"
Jiang Weimian frowned and looked at the street in front of him, feeling familiar. Or maybe it's not like deja vu, he has indeed been to this place: "I..."
He paused, but finally said nothing: "Forget it, it's nothing."
Shen Zuixing shook his legs slightly, and the heels of his shoes hit the railing, making soft noises. He suddenly said: "I heard that there will be side tasks in the final level. Everyone must choose a side task to complete independently. I don't know if that's true." real."
When He Man heard this, he suddenly looked at him with an inexplicable emotion: "What do you mean?"
Shen Zuixing was bored: "It means that we will probably have to do our own tasks separately. We can't be with Jiang Weimian like we did in the first two levels."
For a novice, this news was like a thunderbolt. Even Jiang Weimian was stunned for a moment. Wang Dabiao chuckled: "How is that possible? I have never heard of such a thing as side missions."
Qian Duoduo hugged his schoolbag tightly: "Yeah, I haven't heard of it either."
Chen Zuixing looked at them directly after hearing this, and asked pointedly: "You have never played the final level, how do you know there is no side mission?"
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The atmosphere in the air became strange for a moment, and no one said a word. As if to verify what Chen Zuixing said, a game light screen suddenly popped up in front of everyone's eyes, with a line of square fonts appearing on it:
There are five side tasks in this level. Players are asked to randomly select a side task and complete it independently.
When the last word of the prompt tone fell, five gift boxes with red stripes suddenly appeared in front of them. They looked exactly like a blind box. Apparently, the game lets them randomly choose missions themselves.
Jiang Weimian once wondered whether Shen Zuixing's mouth had been opened, so how could he say it accurately. He Man and the others obviously don't have the ability to do tasks independently. If they encounter a difficult task, wouldn't they be wiped out from the game
Jiang Weimian thought about this and frowned unconsciously. Chen Zui On the shoulder of a flower seller:
Please follow her and do not let this child out of your sight for four hours. She is very good at hiding. If you lose her, you will be wiped out of the game.
You can choose to start the game now, or you can wait for other players to make their choices and start the mission together.
Chen Zuixing barely hesitated and clicked wait.
Only then did Jiang Weimian notice that there were many children selling flowers with baskets on the roadside. He looked around, trying to find a familiar figure in the crowd, and his heartbeat suddenly increased.
Flower child
When he wrote the novel, he shouldn't have included Ah Xing's story in the book. Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidence? Will Ah Xing also appear in this game
On the other side, Shen Zuixing saw that He Man and others were silent, and reminded him in an emotionless voice: "One box for each person, choose. Who will be the second one?"
No one moved.
Chen Zuixing raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw this: "What, you don't want to choose?"
He Man glanced at him and seemed to finally compromise: "Since it is the rules of the game, let's make a choice. Everyone must abide by the rules of the game, Chen Zuixing."
In the last sentence, she meant something, as if she was deliberately reminding her of something.
Chen Zuixing still looked lazy and didn't seem to take it to heart.
He Man, Qian Duoduo, and Wang Dabiao had to choose a gift box each, and three white doves flew out of it and landed on different flower sellers. The tasks turned out to be very similar, they were to track those children and not let them leave their sight within four hours.
In the end, only Jiang Weimian was left.
He was vaguely aware that the final level might be related to the human trafficking case, and at the same time he was worried about the four people who were about to separate and act alone. He tapped his fingertips lightly, but did not immediately open the last blind box. Instead, he opened the toolbar, took out four golden keys from it, and gave one to each of them.
"Just in case, you each get a key. Maybe it will come in handy."
Keys are always linked to things like door locks. Jiang Weimian wondered in his heart whether these keys might be the key to leaving the game. It was the first time for Chen Zuixing and the others to carry out a mission alone, so they had to have props nearby.
He Man and others were stunned for a moment when they heard this: "Then what should you do?"
There were only four keys. Jiang Weimian gave them to them, so he wouldn't have them anymore.
Chen Zuixing frowned slightly, probably disagreeing with this approach: "This kind of key is not like a prop card. It does not have any auxiliary skills, and it will be of no use if you give it to them."
He didn't seem to want Jiang Weimian to give away the keys, but he couldn't say why.
Jiang Weimian obviously wouldn't change his mind because of this kind of thing. He thrust the last golden key into Chen Zuixing's hand and said, "Chen Zuixing..."
When he read out the name, he suddenly paused for a moment, not knowing what to think of. He suddenly looked at Shen Zuixing blankly, staring at the other person's eyebrows, trying to find something out of that face that had long since lost its childishness. I noticed traces that I was familiar with, but found nothing.
Drunken Star...
Ah Xing...
What exactly did he write in the book, and what is the relationship between these two people
Jiang Weimian always felt that he had almost remembered the plot. Even if he couldn't remember it, the dream he had in the Internet cafe was enough to give him some clues to deduce something.
However, Shen Zuixing didn't give him too much time to think. He clenched his fingertips and took away the key: "Hurry up and open the remaining side tasks. It will get dark if you linger any longer."
He turned around, deliberately facing away from Jiang Weimian, his figure looking a little blurry in the dark night.
Seeing this, Jiang Weimian opened the branch blind box without saying a word, and a pigeon also flew out of it. The pigeon flapped its wings and circled in the sky, as if it didn't know where to land. Finally, the target was found, but it flew into the distance.
Please follow this dove.
Jiang Weimian's mission seems to be different from others. The game only gives this prompt and nothing else. No punishment was stated, and no time limit was stated.
Seeing that Jiang Weimian was motionless, Shen Zuixing quietly walked up behind him, reached out and pushed him from behind, and whispered: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? If you don't catch up quickly, the pigeons are almost flying away."
At the same time, the game also sounded a prompt:
The side missions have been selected and the game is about to start. The countdown is three seconds. Players, please be prepared.
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When the last number fell, I saw those children selling flowers on the street suddenly began to shuttle quickly among the crowd, as if they were playing hide and seek, divided into four directions, southeast, northwest, and ran away in an instant. Seeing this, He Man and others' expressions changed slightly, and they quickly pushed aside the crowd to catch up with them, and disappeared in an instant.
The pigeon that Jiang Weimian wanted to track seemed extremely friendly, flapping its wings in the sky unhurriedly, and occasionally slowing down to wait for Jiang Weimian.
Jiang Weimian had been following the pigeon, but he didn't notice that Shen Zuixing had appeared behind him at some point and was watching him quietly. After a while, he quietly turned around and left.
The pigeon flew around high-rise buildings, flew across the streets, and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated building. It cooed and landed in an alley, lowered its head and pecked its own feathers. There was a rose next to its paws.
The alley is dark and shabby, with a blue street sign hanging on it, covered in black dirt, but the number "13" can be vaguely discerned.
Jiang Weimian looked at the dilapidated slum-like place in front of him and was stunned for a moment. Then he slowly lowered his head and discovered the bright red plastic rose on the ground. All the strength in his body seemed to have been drained, and he suddenly fell to the ground uncontrollably.
This is…
The place where Ah Xing died...
Jiang Weimian's brain felt like it had been pricked by tens of thousands of needles, and he turned pale with pain. However, under the stimulation of such pain, a large amount of text miraculously flashed through his mind, and he finally recalled the plot of the original novel -
Jiang Weimian leaned against the wall, his fingertips trembling, and he took out a pen and a stack of notes from his coat pocket with difficulty. He found this from Qian Duoduo's schoolbag, but he didn't expect it to come in handy at this time.
Jiang Weimian seemed to be afraid of forgetting. He clutched the pen with such force that his joints were faintly green. Word by word, he began to record something quickly on the stack of palm-sized sticky notes, and began to write down the original content:
"Crime Scene No. 13"!!!