Murder across time
My cheap brother Zhang Tianyi once joked not long ago, saying that it was such a coincidence that all the handsome guys in our family were born in the same family.
When I heard this, my head was covered with bruises and I didn't think much about it. Now that I suddenly think of it, I break out in a sweat. I'm not sure whether this sentence was just a coincidence or he really meant something.
Yes, there is no such thing in the world, that all of us brothers and sisters have encountered the most mysterious life stories, and they all have established the deepest connection with Yishu.
Low-probability events happening again and again are not luck or honor in this world. It is not called "fate is in my hands", but someone is secretly causing trouble.
Now, connecting many things in the past, a story is gradually taking shape in my mind.
First of all, from the information briefly mentioned in this file, the wanderers seem to have confirmed that the banyan tree suddenly disappeared from the hands of their creators and has been out of contact for a long time. It went upstream in time, fell into the past, and fell into the hands of the original young lady.
Moreover, this young man obviously knows a lot about banyan trees, even too well.
She had a calm, human-born arrogance towards the banyan tree, and never let the Nian family use the banyan tree to make wishes. Judging from the fact that the distorted and blinded Nian family in later generations only used the empty iron shell of the banyan tree to suppress geothermal heat, no one may have known from the beginning to the end that the banyan tree also has the power to make wishes come true.
It is precisely because of Nian Ziqing's skillful control of the banyan tree that the Nian family only regards the banyan tree as a special tool. Since ancient times, humans have separated from the ranks of wise apes and have been able to use tools. The banyan tree has always been extremely conspicuous, but it has been used very commonly in the Nian family, and its sacredness has been completely erased.
Therefore, after the banyan tree was stolen, the Nian family did not seem to feel too bad. When they entrusted everything to the successors of the Zhang family, they did not mention it much, and even the broker did not know about it.
I can imagine the natural attitude of the Nian family: it is just the contents filling the bronze armor, so if it disappears, it will disappear, and it will be the same if they put their bodies into it. After all, it is just the flesh and blood that people voluntarily donated. The predecessors had it, and the Nian family also has it. It is not worth being afraid of it.
In fact, it is foreseeable that if the Nian family had not gradually distorted and perished in the pollution and distortion, and the fake people had not come to steal it, then the banyan tree could have remained dark under the lamp so silently, and it would be difficult for the wanderers to find it. Then the banyan tree could indeed be ignored by the Nian family.
Now let’s look at this:
Nian Huairen left the Nian family and wandered around alone. He only had a vague understanding of many things and was too deep in some secrets. This state was very unnatural. Perhaps the group of wanderers he interacted with hoped to use and mislead this marginalized Nian family member to find a way to take back the banyan tree.
(From the experience of Gao Liu and Zhou Tingmao, the banyan tree was indeed found at least a dozen years ago, and was then replanted in the lake to balance the comb jellies.)
One terrifying thing to think about is: if I remember correctly, we had accidentally calculated in the valley where the tour group was that Gao Liu was two years older than me, which means he was born in the same year as my brother.
The turning point of the fate of all the young people of our generation seems to have started in the past two years, with earth-shaking changes taking place one after another and too intensively.
In the past, I witnessed the wonderful fate between Gao Liu and the tour guide, and wondered why such a coincidence happened, which made the tour guide Gao make a wish to the banyan tree, and happened to borrow the young Gao Rui from more than ten years ago with the help of the power of the comb jellyfish to travel through time, forming a warm and desolate closed loop. This brought together this pair of mother and daughter who had never met and had no blood relationship.
How could it be so coincidental that the fake people playing hide-and-seek targeted tour guide Gao and deliberately lured her into the trap through the distant relative who was a driver.
Thinking about it now, things are quite intriguing.
The banyan tree suddenly disappeared from the hands of the wanderers, and ran upstream to the time when the Nian family was first built; Ms. Nian Ziqing was too familiar with the banyan tree. Can we make a bold guess like this:
Perhaps this young man was a person who traveled through time, and in later life he had come into contact with banyan trees, and he also knew that comb jellies could reproduce retrogradely in the stream of time.
By chance, she came into contact with the wanderers and took the banyan tree away. Then, she followed the cavity where the comb jellyfish and the banyan tree roots passed through and came to the time when the Nian family had not yet been born.
Thus, after a long period of time, the banyan tree reached a time point where it did not yet exist. It was forced into complete silence and weakness, and was suppressed in the glow of the migrating rats. It had to fight against the invasion of migrating rats for its family members.
In retrograde time, this can happen.
First, the human beings Li Zhaoying, Huang Yazi, the goddess of Hongyan Village, and the children represented by them, because of their excessive inspiration, can directly see the wall and the more essential cavities around the wall.
The children have also experimented with sending gifts through the cavity to unknown places. Some of those gifts were sent from the past.
Comb jellies and banyan trees can reverse time and cause and effect to a certain extent. It is very likely that they use these cavities to follow the laws of nature and reproduce in this inherently broken world.
To them and the children who can see the wall, the world is just such a vast deep ocean. They only need to keep diving to reach wherever they can see.
Secondly, as the first young people, they should have experienced the rules of being a "tour guide" and "celebrator".
I have personally experienced that under the rules of the "tour guide", people will be protected by the vehicle. Those long grasshoppers imitating the banyan tree can still take me for a while, running safely in the heavy snow, all the way to the underground palace of the moving rat.
Then, as an authentic celebration, Ms. Nian Ziqing can naturally use the authentic banyan tree as a ferry, obtain some special safety protection, fly through time, and keep approaching the original Rat Palace that did not exist yet.
She may not have done it on purpose, but she just didn't want to give in at the critical moment, so she simply jumped. After all, judging from all the information available so far, she should also be a child who can see walls, and maybe, like Huang Yazi, she was abducted by vagrants and became a test subject for the banyan tree.
It was probably an accidental rebellion, a random transition, when it happened even Nian Ziqing herself didn't know where she would go. Before her, perhaps there were other children who kept trying, but unfortunately met with failure and ridicule.
But when it was the young children's turn, she still took over the children's seemingly weak and ridiculous resistance.
Perhaps life is so unexpected. The coin of fate flipped accidentally at that moment, and she gained freedom in the deep sea. With the simple obsession of children, she swam towards the ghost stories and the past without looking back.
I remember Taizi once said that in the beginning, there was only one "wall" in the underground palace of the Rat Movement. Later, people built palaces around the wall to trap it. Therefore, the underground palace of the Rat Movement was originally intended to expel and suppress, rather than to worship.
Perhaps in the unknown transition of Nian Ziqing and the banyan tree, they were attracted by the original "wall". So the ferry followed the rules and arrived at the docking station, and the banyan tree was forcibly captured by the power of the moving mouse, and immediately brought Nian Ziqing to the wall.
From that day on, those mysterious, desolate and fragmented past events began.
As for the wanderers, no matter how evil and immortal they were, they were still firmly bound to the banyan tree. As a price, they naturally could not reach a time when the banyan tree no longer existed.
For them, the situation suddenly came to a stalemate, with no way to get the banyan tree back. It seemed that they could only wait unwillingly for time to pass by, and pray in vain that God would return the banyan tree one day.
The originally weak experimental subjects suddenly gave the wanderers the loudest slap in the face in their contempt, and their crazy desire to return home was suddenly dashed. For the wanderers who gave everything at all costs, it was absolutely impossible to accept this.
If I were the wanderer, since I couldn't reach the time when I was trapped in the banyan tree by myself, I could only try to see if there was a way to bring Nian Ziqing back to the present and reset all the upside-down currents.
Tour guide Gao borrowed Gao Rui from the past, which might be one of the attempts by the wanderer to fan the flames behind the scenes. The fake people who were hiding must have been blinded by the inner demon of searching for "who am I" and were used by the wanderer.
Now that I think about it, my appearance was an accident. If it weren't for me, Gao Liu's fate would be to eat his brother, the wild cat, in the womb of the Moon Palace, get some kind of "evolution" and be rehatched, then come to the lake and be alienated again under the infection of Gao the tour guide and the comb jellyfish.
If Gao Rui was still alive at that moment, then with the regular convening of the Zhang family gatherings, she would naturally arrive in front of the Yishu Underground Palace. And it is very likely that she and the broker, the instructor and foster mother, would escort the fake young man, and "just in time" to catch up with the destruction of the small building that suppressed the wildfire, and the imbalance of Yishu's power would erupt.
Perhaps in the original plan of the wanderers, Gao Liu arrived in front of the moving mouse, and the broker or the fake young man became the sacrifice to open the light of the moving mouse. They could use this to open an unprecedented passage and make another capture in the past.
In this way, they could try to find the escaped young lady, greatly advancing the time for the banyan tree to be recaptured.
Is this urgency possible? It is not because of greed and blindness, unwilling to wait until the banyan tree is automatically returned on the current timeline, but because the wanderers are running out of time.
In this situation, Gao Liu may be a deliberately created perfect container to issue a call and position.
But due to various changes, all plans were disrupted, and even the comb jellyfish were temporarily closed in the time loop that they had finally grown in recent years, and returned to live many years ago. The stream of time suddenly closed the channel in front of everyone.
For the wanderers, this probably means that the relatively solid cavities they could find are gone, and there is no way to repeat the original layout for the time being.
What’s worse is that time has no mercy at this point and is approaching the critical moment when the vagrants form a banyan tree in the community.
In other words, no matter how much power they once had, how huge they were hiding in the dark, how many chilling plots they had, and how much they struggled...
——The time has come, they must die.
The iron laws of the strange story calmly demanded their corpses, just as whales naturally siphon mayflies from the sea water to eat.
Huang Yazi once said in her suicide note that her time had come and she wanted us to watch the ending of the wanderer on her behalf and complete her final revenge. Perhaps this was the moment she was referring to.
Time and strange stories have endowed wanderers with extraordinary evil powers, allowing them to squander the lives of others and themselves at will, and they will naturally retrieve the bait on time and swallow it with big mouthfuls.
Whether it was Huang Yazi and the others or the wanderers, the outcome of the battle might have changed in an instant. No matter how opposing their positions and identities were, everyone's wishes were also realized in a distorted way at that moment, contradictory and equal.
As for Nian Huairen, he should also be another plan of the wanderers to find the original Nian Ziqing and destroy her journey back to the past across time.
It can be logically inferred that Nian Huairen was by no means the only executor of this plan, but rather an ordinary tool at the very edge of the wide net. There should have been quite a few hidden players who were tempted by the benefits and cooperated in finding and killing "Nian Ziqing".
- After all, since it is known that Nian Ziqing was born at the current time, why not just end it all once and for all, find her, and control or kill her at the moment of her birth?
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