Chapter 194 Who
It was late at night. Li Lin stood at the apartment door for a long time before opening the door and walking towards the elevator.
Your name is Li Lin.
Who exactly are you?
[A person suffering from delusions.]
[A pathetic creature abandoned by Eoubs.]
Two memories swirled in his mind. One told him that he was an ordinary resident of Dolphin Community, living a mundane but stable working life. The other told him that everything he had experienced was fake, and that he actually came from a despairing and profound world.
The elevator doors opened with a click, and two sisters stood inside, flashing Li Lin bright smiles and striking identical poses. The cabin lights flickered, as if inviting him in.
Like most people, you have unrealistic expectations about life.
[Wake up! W ...
Li Lin ignored him and subconsciously took a step back.
The sisters waited quietly for a while, but seeing that he still didn't react, they had no choice but to walk out of the elevator. Only then did he realize that their bodies were bound together with chains, and their hands, which were tightly clasped together, were locked in place, making it impossible to separate them.
They remained in that hand-in-hand position, disappearing step by step into the corridor.
Li Lin glanced at their backs and suddenly felt that they looked somewhat familiar, but still turned around and entered the elevator.
What came to mind?
You can't remember anything.
The air inside the elevator gradually grew cold and damp, and liquid began to drip.
He felt an itch on his scalp, similar to the sensation of someone gently scratching him with their fingers.
He lowered his head slightly and noticed a few strands of black hair hanging down his neck out of nowhere.
Li Lin looked up, and the reflective mirror on the dome gradually blurred, but the anomaly was immediately apparent.
A corpse hung upside down from the top, staring at him.
What did you see?
The unfamiliar face hung upside down, like an oil painting with a sacrificial effect. The fluorescent light shone from behind the corpse, and the elevator stopped abruptly. The cabin was instantly bathed in crimson light; he looked as if he were engulfed in flames, while the corpse's remains were just a charcoal-like shadow.
The man's mouth was wide open, something stuck inside, containing flesh and blood, wet and dripping with blood.
He stood on tiptoe, reached out, and with the gentlest of movements, took the thing out—
An identity card.
You didn't see anything.
When Li Lin came to his senses, he could only see his pale face in the mirror; the strange sensation on his head was just an illusion.
You have severe delusions.
He didn't think much of it, and the elevator resumed operation. The lights stopped flashing red, and none of the anomalies made him change his expression.
In the end, Li Lin returned safely to her floor, entered the password to unlock the door, and, as she had done for the past nine thousand days, began to cook dinner.
Dinner was simple—a cheap medium-rare steak, two slices of whole-wheat bread left over from the morning, and a bottle of leftover red wine—the kind you get as a free gift when you top up your convenience store membership for 100 yuan.
[The taste is terrible, not even as good as a burger mass-produced in an Eoubs shredder.]
The taste you once ate, that beloved flavor, is unforgettable.
The taste is pretty good, and it's cheap and a good deal.
You think this will save you a lot of money, but rent is getting more and more expensive these days, it's practically killing people.
At night, Li Lin sat on the sofa he'd bought from a junkyard, watching the news. Lately, there had been more and more strange reports. The female anchor on the screen was a blonde foreign woman named Sean Connery. As she was reading her report, she suddenly pulled out a can of oil and poured it over herself. Only then did she realize she was being broadcast live, and she gave an embarrassed and shy smile: "I'm so sorry, but I'm currently on medication withdrawal, and I really want to die every day. I think you can all understand, right?"
Li Lin smiled and nodded, and the female host on the screen smiled with satisfaction again and lit a match.
What you see is the truth.
What can you see?
Did you see that?
【No. 】
Turn around and look at me.
Look at me.
Just then, a figure flashed past the window—falling from a high school, accompanied by a piercing scream.
Li Lin seemed oblivious, focused intently on the live news broadcast—there was no horrific sight of a person burning; the female anchor, expressionless, continued recounting recent news from her prepared script. Then, another identical figure fell from the window, emitting the same scream.
Why aren't you watching?
Look, look, look, look, look, look at me!
After the same interval, he heard screams and the sound of something falling again. Throughout the night, he didn't know how many times that thing had jumped from the building. Early the next morning, Li Lin finished washing up and went to work. The ground in front of the apartment building was spotless, completely clean, with nothing there.
It's as if the suicides that happened last night were all an illusion.
You have severe delusions.
That's a reflection of your consciousness.
[Wake up, wake ....]
The company was very close to his residence, so Li Lin chose to walk to the nearby subway station. On the way, he passed an open-air meeting hall where everyone was dressed in dark black uniforms, sitting upright with solemn expressions.
"Today, we gather here for the safety of all humanity. I believe you are all courageous heroes, so let us—"
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