Exactly the same
“Three, two…”
"One." Jiang Qing read out the last word for her.
A clearly audible sound fell to the ground, the fog was hazy, the sky and the earth were quiet, and the wind passed without a trace.
Jiang Qing turned his head and saw the girl's hair flying in the wind, with a strand floating to the corner of her mouth. The red became redder and the black became darker. Her eyes contained a calming power even in this foggy weather.
The expected thing did not happen. Jiang Qing looked at the girl steadily and said, "You can't stop it."
Jiang Qing's lips curled up, "Isn't there a time limit?"
Jiang Qing was truly surprised this time, "Because of your time travel?"
"Yes," Jiang Qing admitted straightforwardly, "I wasn't sure at first, but your reaction gave me the answer."
Jiang Qing blinked, "It seems I should restrain myself in front of you."
She was quite annoyed. "But I can never do it."
Jiang Qing stepped over her and lay on the half-person-high wall to look down. The height was too high and it seemed a little scary. She felt dizzy after staring for too long.
But she didn't move. She looked at the hard concrete road below and said, "Jump down. It must hurt."
Jiang Qing came over and looked down, "It should be fine."
“When a person dies, the first thing that sweeps over them is confusion, helplessness, and numbness. Then comes the pain, the pain of being broken, damaged, stinging, and following them everywhere.”
"As long as consciousness fades quickly enough, you won't feel anything."
"So..." Jiang Qing's voice was calm, "If you want to suffer less pain, die quickly and efficiently."
The girl's face was calm and composed, with mist condensing on her eyebrows, making them slightly moist. However, her expression was completely different and indifferent, as if she was talking about something irrelevant. But this was actually -
The sudden ringing of the phone interrupted Jiang Qing's thoughts, and she looked up at Jiang Qing.
Jiang Qing smiled at her and said, "Take it."
Jiang Qing's fingertips moved slightly, and Ye Meiyan's rapid voice came from the leaking phone, the voice floating in the air, lingering in circles.
"Jiang Jiang, something's wrong with Jiang Qing."
Da, da, da——
There were bursts of footsteps coming from the stairs, clear and abrupt.
Jiang Qing stood up straight and looked back.
"The day we went to look for Li Qingyun, she turned back and was near you. She watched you leave, but at the same time, Jiang Qing's figure also appeared in an alley 20 kilometers away."
With a creak, the heavy door was pushed open.
"How could Jiang Qing appear in two different places at the same time?"
Jiang Qing raised her eyes and looked at the person at the rooftop entrance.
The black-haired, white-skinned girl stopped where she was, a pair of eyes staring at her blankly.
"Jiang Jiang," Ye Meiyan steadied her breathing, "Do you know what I'm talking about?"
Jiang Qing looked at the familiar face and turned to look at the girl next to her.
In an instant, two identical faces came into her sight.
All the speculations were not as eye-catching as seeing it with one's own eyes. She held her breath.
"I know."
——That was Jiang Qing’s own personal experience.
Jiang Qing said, "Mei Yan, I know."
Hearing this, Ye Meiyan, who was about to say something else, stopped talking and vaguely understood something.
"Jiang Jiang," she said finally, "do your best."
Jiang Qing: "Okay."
She put away her phone and slowly raised a faint smile towards Jiang Qing at the entrance of the rooftop. "Senior, nice to see you again."
Jiang Qing's gaze swept across the other Jiang Qing on the rooftop. She moved the corners of her lips, not knowing what to say.
Lin Nanyan, who was behind her, strode past her and approached Jiang Qing.
"The fence of the building next door," he said, his voice neither too loud nor too low, but loud enough for everyone present to hear, "was cut."
Jiang Qing turned her head and glanced at Jiang Qing, who had a calm expression, and then turned to the other side.
"Senior, why don't you answer the phone?" she asked.
In this foggy sky, Jiang Qing's eyelashes were stained with crystal moisture, and her face was almost transparent white.
She was speechless and could only remain silent facing Jiang Qing.
"Her phone is with me." Jiang Qing, who was standing next to her, spun the phone delicately between his fingers, his tone playful and with an indescribable lightness.
Jiang Qing didn't look at her, but just stared at the person opposite without blinking.
"So you knew that already?"
She said word by word, "So you knew it a long time ago, but you let it happen, letting us be fooled by you!"
"No," Jiang Qing's face paled at the girl's sharp questioning, "It's not like that."
She hurriedly explained, "I was supposed to die in that car accident..."
As soon as she said that, she realized that something was wrong and quickly closed her mouth tightly.
Car accident... Jiang Qing was stunned. So the cause of Jiang Qing's death on the first timeline was not jumping off the building tonight as she had speculated before, but a car accident that happened earlier!
That extra time——
The default time limit node for the new Jiang Qing on the overlapping timeline—
"If you want to suffer less pain, die quickly and efficiently."
Jiang Qing suddenly recalled what the girl had said before.
"Since you want to know, then I..." Jiang sighed softly.
"Jiang Qing!" Jiang Qing suddenly stopped her. Their two identical eyes met, revealing completely opposite emotions. She shook her head, "No."
"She won't remember." Jiang Qing raised his eyebrows, his words revealing a casual and nonchalant tone.
Lin Nanyan raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the girl who was speaking.
Jiang Qing stretched her hand into the mist, and the moist air was like an invisible hand, falling on her palm with a slight weight.
"As long as you die, no one will remember you."
Jiang Qing's eyes widened instantly, "What?"
Jiang Qing met her eyes and felt that the girl looked even cuter like this.
"Didn't I tell you?" she said with a smile, "I killed her twice."
"After those two times, time continued to flow, but no one remembered anymore," she said, looking at Jiang Qing. "No one remembered that your future self had been here, and no one remembered what your future self had said."
"Jiang Jiang," she said gently, "The time travel has been erased."
Jiang Qing, however, thought of another question amidst this complex information, "What about you?"
Jiang Qing: "What?"
"If time travel is erased, then you who were born in multiple timelines," Jiang Qing raised his eyes, "where are you?"
"As for me," Jiang Qingqing said, "of course I disappeared along with them."
Liar, Jiang Qing and Lin Nanyan looked at each other.
If it was really as she said, then how could she know about the time travel being erased.
unless--
After Jiang Qing's death, she was trapped in the loop and witnessed everything with her own eyes.
In the first timeline, Jiang Qing was seriously injured in the car accident and his consciousness completely dissipated in the early hours of this evening.
In the subsequent timeline, Jiang Qing died too early, and her time travel was erased. The future Jiang Qing could only be trapped in it until the original time node tonight, at which time she dissipated. Therefore, the future Jiang Qing knew the time limit so clearly.
Only in this way can it be explained.
But from this, a new problem arises.
If the first time Jiang Qing in the future didn’t know there was a time limit, he would have taken the initiative to kill the original Jiang Qing and then been trapped.
What about the second time?
Why did you still take action the second time even though you knew it?
What is the difference between the first and second time?
There was a slight pulling feeling at her hand, and Jiang Qing unconsciously looked over and saw the little self in Lin Nanyue's eyes.
yes.
There is only one difference between the first and second time.
——She took the initiative to approach Jiang Qing.
This has never happened before in the timeline.
Did Jiang Qing realize that she had also traveled through time as an uncertain factor, so he took action again?
Thinking of this, Jiang Qing looked up and asked a question seriously, "Do you know that I came here for you?"
Upon hearing this, the two Jiang Qings looked at her at the same time, their movements synchronized, with the same look of bewilderment on their faces.
Jiang Qing pursed her lips and said, "I once told you that I traveled back from the future."
“But more accurately,” she paused, “I’m stuck in a loop.”
She raised her eyes and looked at Jiang Qing in the future. "Same as you."
“The first time was on the day of the art exhibition.”
"The second time was in Aoki Park."
"Every time I cross over here, I'm caught off guard and back again," she said, expressing a question she had been pondering but had no answer to. "I never understood why I crossed over, and when the cycle would end."
"Until just now, I confirmed——"
"Jiang Qing," she was calling out to Jiang Qing, and also to the person who was also trapped in the loop, "Your death is the opportunity for me to travel back in time."
Lin Nanyan suddenly held Jiang Qing's hand.
"In other words," Jiang Qing said without hesitation, "I came here for you."
Jiang opened his mouth lightly, unable to speak.
She thought that since Jiang Qing and Jiang Qing had just met, as long as she acted early enough, everything would return to normal and Jiang Qing would not be involved too much.
But it turned out that she was wrong from the beginning.
The other Jiang Qing's eyes were wet and he spoke incoherently, "I don't know... I'm sorry... I don't know..."
When the other her came to her door today, although she was a little surprised, she quickly accepted it all calmly.
She thought that as long as she kept her distance from Jiang Qing, her own affairs would not affect Jiang Qing.
But it turned out that she had always been self-righteous.
"It doesn't matter," Jiang Qing said suddenly to his past self, "as long as you die, everything will be solved."
Jiang Qing raised her eyes through tears. She couldn't see her future self's expression, but she could guess that it must be calm and resolute.
"As long as you die," Jiang Qing emphasized again, "as long as you die tonight, the cycle will end."
"In this way, Jiang Jiang will be completely free."
She said, "What happened before was just because you died at the wrong time. This time, you can definitely die."
Jiang Qing nodded heavily and agreed.
Jiang Qing: ???!!!!
She was greatly shocked when she heard this. How could such cold words come out of a mouth that was only 37 degrees Celsius?
What's the difference between her death and your death?
Jiang Qing said those words just because she wanted Jiang Qing to know that she came here to solve the other party's death, but after she said it, it seemed to have the opposite effect.
Watching the two people in front of him seriously discussing murder... no, suicide plan, Jiang Qing felt as if countless little people in his head were collapsing and screaming.
From Li Liang's previous series of actions, she guessed what Li Liang was planning.
He really didn't lie, every word he said came from the heart.
From the beginning to the end, he never thought of killing Jiang Qing. His plan from the beginning to the end was to let Jiang Qing give up his own life.
But what about Jiang Qing? Why would her future self be so murderous towards him?
"No, I want to ask," Jiang Qing couldn't help but ask, "Why? Why must I die?"
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