Chapter 151 The First Reincarnation

For a moment, no one spoke in the corridor.

Mu Chenxi walked forward, stopped at the edge of the light spot, squatted down, and stretched out his hand towards the white light.

"Brother!" Mu Yu had just shouted when Mu Chenxi's hand was bounced back.

Everyone was stunned.

Mu Chenxi withdrew his hand and twisted his fingers.

If this thing is really a time tunnel, then the tunnel must allow people to enter, but it rejected him.

Principal Dou on the other side also walked forward, bent down, and tried to touch the light spot - but was also bounced back.

Everyone stepped forward to try, but almost everyone was rejected. No one could reach their hands into the tunnel, leaving only...

All eyes were focused on Mu Yu and Lu Zhongnian.

Mu Yu pursed his lips and said, "This should be the remnant of a certain prop. Maybe only people who have touched that prop can enter."

"What props?" Jiang Shuyue reacted, "Did you remember?"

"Well, it's a long story." Mu Yu turned his head and looked at Lu Zhongnian who was standing next to him.

Ever since this path of light appeared, Lu Chongnian has been staring at it.

It was as if I sensed something from nowhere.

"Lu Chongnian." Mu Yu called him softly.

"...There are images flashing in this light path," Lu Zhongnian turned his head, "Maybe my memory will come back after I go in."

"If you really still can't remember it," he raised his hand, touched Mu Yu's cheek, and said softly, "Then I'll trouble the monitor to help me recall it then?"

Mu Yu stared at him blankly, and raised the corners of his lips: "... Yeah."

Fu Xiaoju asked anxiously, "What do you mean? Only the two of you can go in? We don't even know where this tunnel will lead to!"

"Maybe it was on the morning of the initial incident," Yan Shaowen said, standing on the periphery with his arms folded, "an incident in which only the two of them were involved."

"No, I want to go with you too!" Gao Zhanyuan walked forward aggressively.

Jiang Shuyue held him back: "How can you follow me if you can't even get in..."

"Is it okay for you two to go in like this? Do you need to bring some self-defense items?" Su Mingyun asked worriedly.

"There should be knives in the kitchen here, right?" Fu Xiaoju said, "Why don't you wait a moment and I'll get two!"

Mu Yu shook his head: "It's not necessary. If this is really a time tunnel, then after we go through it, we will also be attached to the body at that point in time, and nothing we bring with us will remain."

Fu Xiaoju: "How do you know——"

"Because this has already happened." As soon as Mu Yu finished speaking, everyone fell silent again.

Beside him, Lu Chongnian stared at him.

For a moment, it was quiet again.

No one knew what to say or what expression to make at this moment.

After Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian go in, can they come back?

If something happens to them on the other side of time and space, what will happen on this side of time and space?

It seemed very complicated to explain what the initial incident was, and perhaps even after explaining it they wouldn't be able to help these two people at all.

Various problems mixed together made them a little confused.

But there is not much time left. If they delay for another second, who knows what changes may happen. Perhaps this light path will be closed, and then they will be really helpless.

Anxiety and confusion are intertwined in their hearts.

"Ayu." Mu Chenxi suddenly spoke.

He walked up to Mu Yu and reached out to straighten his messy coat.

"Remember, if you can't solve it, think of a way out first," Mu Chenxi raised his eyes and pointedly said, "You should know what to do."

"......Yeah." Mu Yu lowered his eyes.

My brother should have guessed the general situation.

"Student Mu Yu, student Lu Chongnian," Principal Dou said in a gentle voice, "take it one step at a time."

When facing god-like high-dimensional creatures, humans are undoubtedly like an egg hitting a rock.

However, sometimes, even if they know they are weak, they still have to fight against the strong with the strong.

In order to survive and to take their destiny back into their own hands, they must face it fearlessly even if there are huge waves ahead.

Even if they are submerged by the waves again and again, and swept into the whirlpools of the deep sea again and again, as long as they still have a breath left, they will float to the surface of the sea again and step onto land.

When facing a fate as cold and grim as steel, what humans lack the most is perseverance and determination to pierce it with the flame of life time and time again.

So, even if they can't go to the other end of time and space, they will wait here.

Waiting for the victory of these two.

Or maybe it's time for them to join forces again.

Mu Yu took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

He glanced at Lu Chongnian.

Lu Chongnian nodded.

They walked forward side by side and came to the edge of the light path.

The light shone from bottom to top on their faces. Mu Yu looked at everyone and said in a calm voice, "Then we'll go."

"The future..." He paused.

Everyone looked at him in silence.

He smiled: "——We'll see you later."

After saying this, he held Lu Chongnian's hand and jumped lightly.

And thus fell into the path of light.

*

The light engulfed them.

As they fell rapidly, the wind blew up from below, and a chaotic scene surrounded them, then gathered into the light and shot into their bodies like arrows.

Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian were unable to speak and could only hold each other's hands tightly. In a state approaching their limit, they were overwhelmed by the torrent of memories.

…

…

"'Mu Yu'?" The tall and thin boy in front of him was slightly startled. "...You mean, there was this person in our class, but except for you, everyone else has forgotten him?"

"... Lu Zhongnian, you don't look like someone who likes to make jokes like this."

In the coffee shop, Lu Zhongnian stared at the person in front of him for a long time, and only lowered his eyes after confirming that the serious and confused expression on the other person's face did not seem fake.

He crossed his arms and unknowingly exerted force, and said slowly: "So, I'm not kidding."

He suddenly remembered something, took out his cell phone and opened the photo album.

There are not many photos in the album. He is not a person who likes taking photos, but there was a moment when he couldn't help but freeze that picture with his mobile phone.

It was an afternoon at the beginning of summer, when physical education class was almost over.

The boy was washing his face with water by the pool.

He took off his glasses, wetting his forehead hair. Under the scorching sun, he squinted one eye and looked at the camera blankly. His fair skin was a little red after exercise. It was a moment full of summer atmosphere. Lu Chongnian still remembers the scent of grass floating in the air.

He clicked on the photo and pushed the phone in front of the other person.

"Ye Sui, you really can't remember it at all?"

Ye Sui looked at the photo and was stunned.

I can't say anything anymore.

…

The world has become a little weird.

Life is disrupted by an abnormal rhythm.

Because I couldn't get in touch with the person I was missing, I took the liberty of rushing to his/her school on the night of the welcome party.

Not only did he fail to find the person, but he was also involved in a strange copy event. After the copy ended, he unexpectedly discovered that the person he was worried about did not want to pay attention to him, but had disappeared.

The entire existence of a person is completely erased.

His high school classmates don't remember him, and his high school teachers don't remember him.

There is no record of him in the school archives, and there is no such student in the Department of Science and Technology Computer Science.

Lu Chongnian felt as if he was the only one who had experienced a strange dream, and he was still unable to get over it after waking up - but who was in the dream, and who created this dream?

"So, you think the disappearance of your high school classmate is related to the appearance of the copy?"

After the first instance was over, Jiang Shuyue, a student at the Law Department of Lianyungang University, created a group, where they discussed: "The question is when did your classmate disappear? Could his disappearance have occurred earlier than the first instance?"

Yan Shaowen thought it was a bit ridiculous: "Lu Chongnian, I never thought that one day I would want to introduce you to a psychiatrist I know. Okay, if you insist on watching the surveillance, come over. I'm at the Wenshan Club now."

Everything about the reunion day shown in the surveillance video was different from his memory.

Lu Chongnian discovered that part of his memory had been erased.

He barely remembered what happened the morning after the reunion.

The only thing I remember is that when I woke up that morning, Mu Yu was sitting by the bed and had quietly put on his clothes.

The boy had his back to him and was startled by his awakening. His cheeks and neck quickly turned red, like a caught puppy, panicked and shy.

The boy avoided his gaze and said hesitantly, "I, I'm planning to go downstairs to have breakfast. Do you want to eat something? I, I'll bring it up for you..."

It's rare to see this man so overwhelmed.

When he was in class, he always made decisions decisively and was smart and cunning.

Lu Zhongnian remembered that he wanted to ask him not to be so nervous.

But he himself seemed a little nervous.

After all, everything the night before had been impulsive and chaotic.

He himself had no idea what to say first when discussing the matter.

So, he looked at the figure intently and said with a smile, "I can do anything."

After thinking for a while, he said, "You go down first. I'll wash up and come down soon."

The boy left.

Before leaving, she glanced at him secretly again.

Lu Chongnian likes sweets, but at that moment, he suddenly discovered that there is a kind of sweetness in this world that is perhaps unattainable by all the sweetness in the world.

I'm so corny.

He calmed down and thought.

I can't calm down.

…

As I recall, the sound of the door closing was as light as a feather.

The moment the feather touched him, he couldn't help but smile.

And what happened behind the door?

When he was taking a shower, when he was thinking about how to start the conversation when they met again later, when he was thinking back to the previous night... in the darkness behind the door, what happened to the person he liked?

…

The person he likes is called Mu Yu.

He likes Mu Yu.

Lu Niannian began to repeat it over and over in his mind.

He was afraid that one day he would forget that person.

He fell into a chaotic situation that he himself could not understand.

During that period of time, copies happened one after another, and more and more people were involved, including Bird Brother, Fu Xiaoju, Ye Sui, Hong Yang, Yan Shaowen, Qu Ge...

They gradually remembered Mu Yu and seized every opportunity to discuss the source of the copy and how to stop it.

"Where on earth did Mu Yu go?"

——This issue has also been discussed by them.

But no matter who it was, they gradually accepted that Mu Yu was dead.

Lu Chongnian also felt that Mu Yu should be dead.

But he still couldn't help but wonder, is Mu Yu really dead?

Could that boy still be hiding somewhere in this series of copy events, trapped in a lonely corner where the dust has settled, waiting for them to find him?

Lu Zhongnian never told anyone about it, he just kept thinking about it in his heart, and then slowly, he wondered, how could he and Mu Yu become like this?

On the day when the college entrance examination ended, the day when they stepped out of their alma mater for the last time, he still remembered that he got in the family car and looked back to see Mu Yu and Ye Suihong Yang walking away together.

He didn't keep him.

There was no reason, no thought of keeping him.

——If it weren’t for Mu Yu’s impulsive kiss that night, or in other words, if Mu Yu hadn’t taken the initiative, their relationship might have remained at that point forever.

ridiculous.

If it weren't for Mu Yu's initiative, if it weren't for Mu Yu...

Lu Zhongnian gradually began to wonder what he was getting himself into.

He just suddenly realized that his response might have allowed the two of them to successfully stay together, but if Mu Yu hadn't taken that step forward, they would always have been just classmates.

Why?

Because he is indifferent to feelings.

Because he has no expectations for love.

Because he is not interested in anything around him, even if there is someone who can arouse his emotions, he has never thought of taking the initiative to touch the other person.

Because of his indifference, Mu Yu became the one who had a harder time.

——They are obviously in love with each other?

Later, because he was immersed in the happiness brought by the silly Mu Yu, he missed the most important moment - the moment when Mu Yu disappeared from this world.

What is he doing?

Lu Zhongnian asked himself this question countless times.

What else can you do for Mu Yu?

…

"Your mother has returned home."

During the dinner, grandpa suddenly said.

There were only the two of them at the long dining table.

The man who was both his son and his father had long lost the qualifications to enter this family - although he would still find ways to participate in various social activities of the Lu family.

"Do you want to meet her?"

Lu Zhongnian lowered his head and asked calmly, "Does she want to see me?"

silence.

"That's not necessary."

When he stood up, Grandpa looked up at him and said, "Go and see me if you want. Grandpa is not testing you. I was wrong back then—"

"I'm not trying to please you, Grandpa," Lu Zhongnian interrupted him, "I just think it's unnecessary."

I really wanted to see her once - of course I was also afraid to see her - but I really wanted to know what she was thinking when she chose to leave.

When Lu Zhongnian was very young, he felt that his parents should not be together.

It was time for his mother to leave and fly away freely.

But why did I look at him with fear in the end?

This question had troubled him for several years like an obsession, but recently, he seemed to have suddenly felt relieved.

Does it really matter?

She left, and no matter what, she could finally live a good life, and that was enough.

If the men of the Lu family were all trouble to her, then the only thing he could do was to stop bothering her.

And he - who once felt instinctively reluctant to protect anyone, now had someone he couldn't help but want to protect - he also moved forward, and that was enough.

"It's just that, don't you think you've been a little hysterical lately?"

Yan Shaowen asked him this.

"I don't think we should let go of Mu Yu's matter. After all, the source of the copy is related to him, but - have you not let go of his death yet?"

That evening, Lu Chongnian was staring at the twilight sky outside the cafe, lost in thought.

"Why would I let it go if there's still a chance to get him back?"

"Opportunity?" Yan Shaowen narrowed his eyes. "What opportunity?"

…

Various signs in the copy show that there are two forces competing with each other.

A force created copies, starting from the Polytechnic Institute, and seemed to want to spread the catastrophe.

There is a force protecting them, and everything it does seems to be to preserve the world as it was before.

So, let’s assume that the human world is a pinball in the hands of higher-dimensional creatures.

This marble originally had an owner, a guardian. The one who invaded this world and swept through it was the thief.

There were many more details that appeared in their lives.

For example, the love movie played on the lawn before the Yinghu Park copy began.

In fact, after the copies began to appear, the element of "movie" always appeared around them, sometimes playing in public places, and sometimes with people around watching.

The frequency of this element's appearance has surpassed that of the past.

For example, in the Garbage Street copy, they can restore their companions' status to the starting point by tidying up the desktop.

For example, in the Life Science Museum, they can rewind personal time.

——Their progress bar can be returned to the original state.

Some being was hinting at them.

But what exactly is a progress bar? How can we pull the world's progress bar back like a movie player?

——Yes, "Movie Player".

There was an item with this name in the vending machine.

Lu Chongnian clearly remembered that the time this prop appeared, he stopped in front of the vending machine and felt that his vision around him was suddenly cleared.

——So, everything was hinted at in advance.

…

It snowed in this university town on the last day before the New Year.

Those who participated in the last copy were all those who came voluntarily.

Yan Shaowen, Yu Ning, Qu Ge, Fu Xiaoju, Jiang Shuyue, Ye Sui, Hong Yang, Principal Dou, Mu Chenxi, Mu Chenxing, Jing Qiao and Su Mingyun.

Over a period of four months, they lost countless companions.

Even Gao Zhanyuan, the man who used to follow Mu Yu around and call him "Brother Yu" left and right, died in the Life Science Museum and was buried under the soil in the disposal room with four other players.

They did not push this last copy of the library to the end.

Because Lu Zhongnian finally waited for the prop "Movie Player".

In the book "Violence", he exchanged this item for a demon coin.

Then he used nine demon coins to exchange for the "maximum attribute" item.

Then, he returned to the library from the book and informed everyone of his plan.

Jiang Shuyue was worried: "Are you sure this prop can really send you back to August 21st? Even if you really go back, do you know what to do?"

"In fact, when I was attacked by Qu Ge's Yin film at the end of the last instance, I remembered what happened that morning." He turned the small toy-like camera in his hand and raised his eyes. "So, I have a general understanding of the situation. The specific situation can only be known after I return."

These words caused a commotion.

"Do you remember?"

"What happened that morning?"

"How did Mu Yu die?"

His answers were simple—simple, really, because everything he had experienced that morning was simple, too.

What he saw was probably just the tip of the iceberg that morning.

As for Mu Yu's death, he still doesn't know what happened.

"Then can we go back with you, Brother Lu? Can we all use this prop together?" Fu Xiaoju asked immediately.

"The item should only be activated by me, but I don't know the specific scope of its application."

Yan Shaowen crossed his arms and said, "Anyway, we'll know when we really get back to that day."

The library became quiet.

If Lu Zhongnian could really use this small prop to turn back time... then when that moment comes, they will naturally know if there is anyone other than Lu Zhongnian who has returned to that day with his memories.

If not... then Lu Chongnian would probably have to fight alone in the initial incident.

No, maybe there was also Mu Yu who was still alive at that time.

Qu Ge was silent for a long time, then opened his lips and said, "... Lu Chongnian, do you still have the confidence that you can get him back?"

Lu Chongnian lowered his eyes.

He thought back to that day.

When there were only a few minutes left in the Life Science Museum copy, Qu Ge finished talking to him and left.

At that time, he was the only one left in the treatment room.

But at that moment, he always felt that there was someone behind him.

The man hid there, watching him quietly.

He turned his head and wanted to look back, but somehow he felt that if he looked back, his expectations would be dashed.

Just like these four months.

He had felt countless times that Mu Yu seemed to be right next to him, perhaps in a seat in the front row of the classroom, or perhaps in a corner of the campus. As long as they turned around at the same time, their eyes would meet.

But every time he looked up, his sight was always focused on emptiness.

So, in the treatment room at that time, he stopped himself from looking back.

He didn't want to look again, didn't want to be disappointed again, he just wanted to let himself quietly feel that he was still by his side.

Even if it was just a short second, two seconds, three seconds——

But how long will this false intoxication last?

When will he really come back?

In the library, he raised his head and said calmly:

"I'll get him back."

If you can’t succeed once, try twice, three times.

If only time could go back.

He is willing to try countless times.

[Now, please select a property: 1. Its material; 2. Its playback speed; 3. Its playback quality; 4. Its playback content]

【4】

【Please use your imagination based on this attribute. Your imagination will determine the final appearance of this item.】

[It will play everything that this world has experienced since the copy maker came to this world.]

【The attributes have been successfully maxed out. 】

【The movie starts playing. From now on, you can adjust the progress bar freely. 】