past
Where did the potatoes go?
Chen Can stood on the bridge, the bright moon hanging high in the sky, looking for nothing at a loss, as if everything had returned to the starting point.
Chen Can hoped that this was just a dream, and that everything would be fake after he woke up. Li La hadn't given him the right to monitor his dreams, Xu Mo hadn't separated in the apocalypse, Shi Mingxi had no plans, and Ou Ranyu hadn't...
Existence, Chen Can would rather forget everything, it is so damn difficult to have a relationship.
When suffering outweighs joy, it will only exhaust a person's expectations and patience. Chen Can didn't want to waste any more time, so he retreated when he knew it was difficult. There was nothing wrong with being able to bend and stretch.
Save the world? Save others? He was a 17-year-old high school student who couldn't even figure out a math problem. How could he possibly save others? In fact, he couldn't even save himself.
Chen Can was going home. No matter whether he was in a dream or not, he just wanted to go home and have a good sleep.
Yes, go home.
Chen Can tried to convince himself and tried to find the way home, but none of the roads in front of him were familiar. He couldn't see clearly and couldn't find the way home.
Isn't it said that the direction of the moon is the direction of home? Oh, because the moon is high in the sky.
Chen Can ran into the darkness like a madman. He no longer cared whether it was the way home or not, he just wanted to leave, leave here.
And all of this still exists, and it cannot be erased even if Chen Can forgets it.
Don't think about it anymore.
Chen Can shuttled quickly in the darkness, but could not escape the countless unclear phantoms in the darkness.
As if the pause button was pressed, Chen Can bumped into an embrace.
Who is it?
God played a huge joke on him. That was the person he was obsessed with in his dreams, and also the person he was now afraid to escape from.
Ou Ranyu.
The darkness around him faded, ushering in the glimmer of light before dawn. Chen Can was already afraid, afraid that it was just an illusion, but even if it was just an illusion, Chen Can still couldn't bear to push him away.
It's all fake.
Ou Ranyu, however, hugged Chen Can tightly, as if to prove something to him. Chen Can no longer had the strength to push him away, but in the end he still couldn't convince himself that everything was fake, because the person holding him clearly had the body temperature and touch of a human.
It seemed like Chen Can was hallucinating. How could a dream produce such a feeling?
It's still fake.
As if he suddenly came to his senses, Chen Can pushed away the person holding him with all his strength, turned around and ran.
With his wrist tightly grasped, Chen Can had no way of escaping. Ou Ranyu said nothing as he pulled Chen Can back in front of him, forcing Chen Can to meet his gaze.
Ou Ranyu before him looked like a puppy that had done something wrong and been abandoned. His eyes were red and he lowered his gaze. He carefully held Chen Can's hand. There was no blame, only pity and reluctance. Without saying a word, his eyes spoke a thousand words.
Chen Can didn't dare to go see him. He had already regretted it. Why should he forget everything? Ou Ranyu had done nothing wrong at all. Did he deserve to bear everything?
Wouldn’t it be painful if the person you love forgets you?
I’m sorry, ...…
He will never forget Ou Ranyu, never...
Chen Can's heart was filled with guilt. He wanted to hug the abandoned person again, but the next second Ou Ranyu grabbed Chen Can's throat and performed the most cruel action in the most pitiful posture.
Chen Can was almost suffocating and he no longer had the strength to struggle.
Ou Ranyu was angry.
Is he going to die here? At Ou Ranyu's hands.
Chen Can even forgot to survive. In fact, he didn't need to survive. The hand that was pinching his neck was slowly loosening, and his breathing was gradually returning to normal.
Chen Can knelt on the ground exhausted. Before he could even take another look at Ou Ranyu, when he fully opened his eyes, he found himself back in his familiar home.
The place where he grew up, filled with countless memories.
Like an ordinary morning, Chen Can opened the window in his bedroom to let the air circulate, and then stood in front of the window in a daze for a while.
Is this true?
Chen Can could hear the chirping of birds flying by outside the window and the roar of the neighbor auntie, feel the warmth of the sunlight, and see the entire morning.
So this is all true, right?
Wrong.
Chen Can only needed to turn his head slightly to see the bright white notebook on the desk.
The one that Ou Ranyu recycled.
Chen Can still doesn’t know where this notebook came from, and he’s not even sure whether it belongs to Ou Ranyu.
What is the secret?
For some unknown reason, Chen Can opened the strange notebook on the table.
Every time Chen Can turned a page, the contents of the notebook would disappear, leaving a blank memory after being washed away by time without leaving any trace.
Suddenly, the flushing stopped. Chen Can stopped at a page filled with words.
5××5, October 15th, Dawn of Dusk
"Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to be a scientist, and later he actually became one. That scientist was me. I had a great dream, and I wanted to realize it. Later, I founded a team with a group of partners who shared my dream, and together we wanted to realize this great dream that concerns the future of mankind..."
The scene switched again, and Chen Can was in a place that looked like a laboratory. Isolation chambers of various shapes were placed on the walls, blocked by glass, so he couldn't see what was inside. Chen Can stood under the central flat panel light. There were no knives and no blood, but Chen Can still felt a chilling sense of discomfort.
The laboratory was very quiet, so quiet that you wouldn't even notice someone coming in unless you saw it with your own eyes.
Shi Mingxi appeared in front of Chen Can out of nowhere, passing through Chen Can silently like a ghost and coming to the front of the control panel.
The partition separated Chen Can, and he couldn't see what Shi Mingxi was doing.
After a while, someone else came up.
"Junior brother."
There was no one escorting him. Li La's face was pale and he didn't dare to get close to Shi Mingxi.
"Do you have any explanation?" Shi Mingxi pushed open the partition and walked up to Li La step by step.
"Why did our prospective instructors become trainees?"
Could it be that time? What Chen Can and Ou Ranyu experienced in Junzilou was also the past of Chen Mo and Ou Zhixu.
So is this Li La's consciousness or Chen Mo's dream? Or Shi Mingxi's?
"Why would any student betray their mission and desecrate the sacred arrangement?"
Shi Mingxi sighed deeply and looked at Li La with disappointment.
"Do you remember why I originally founded the academy?"
"Fight for a bright future for mankind."
"You've forgotten it, and I need you to remember it again."
Li La bit her lower lip tightly and endured it without saying anything.
Chen Can was sure that he had cursed Shi Mingxi's ancestors thousands of times in his heart.
"Before that, let that rebellious devotee awaken you."
The large screen on the control console showed Su, who was hanging in the isolation cabin in a bright blue body, without a trace of life.
Chen Can didn't know which one here it was, and he wanted to smash all the isolation cabins.
"I've just set up the programs. This one's the compression program, this one's the radiation program, and this one's the fixed disk..."
Shi Mingxi lowered a chair for Li La to sit on. Li La, already controlled, sat down with resistance.
"You must watch carefully and don't miss a chance to repent."
Shi Mingxi slowly pressed the first execution button.
On the screen, it looked like a lamb in a slaughterhouse being cut into pieces, forming strands of red lines, and then only a bloody mass of the lines remained, and finally it was all occupied by bright red.
Li La struggled desperately but didn't move at all. Only her tightly bitten lower lip began to bleed blood, mixed with tears and soaking the cold floor.
Let him go, let them go! Let them go!
don't want!
Chen Canming knew that he could not change anything, but he still tried his best to pry Shi Mingxi's evil hands apart. The collisions and blows went through without any deviation, but it was all in vain.
Chen Can knelt on the ground, holding his head weakly.
Fake fake fake fake.
He tried to convince himself again and again, but he could clearly hear Li La's roar and Su's screams.
"This process is not as painful as just now. Just bear with it and it will pass." Shi Mingxi's snake-like voice was almost distorted and drilled into Chen Can's ears.
"Don't worry, it will be fine soon."
Chen Can closed his eyes, as if he could not feel anything.
Time stopped at this moment. After a long time, Chen Can finally stretched out his fingertips in endless pain.
"Junior brother, do you remember?"
Li La's sinister eyes were filled with murderous intent. As long as Shi Mingxi released his control over Li La, Li La would definitely kill him.
"He would be one of the most perfect devotees."
"Then, Junior Brother, you will be the next most perfect devotee."
Shi Mingxi pushed Li La into the isolation room, and the cold data transmission tube passed through Li La.
don't want!
Chen Can crawled over and rushed over, and Shi Mingxi increased the intensity of indoctrination.
"The perfect 'dream maker' will give everything for humanity."
Chen Can knelt down in front of Li La's isolation cabin in the face of Shi Mingxi's crazy smile, and slapped the isolation board desperately.
It's not like this, it shouldn't be like this!
Shi Mingxi, why don't you just die! You should fucking die!
Shi Mingxi, I will kill you!
Chen Can was completely determined to kill Shi Mingxi.
"May 10th, 57 minutes, 23 seconds, 0.73 attoseconds, New Era—" The sound of an instrument suddenly rang out in the silence. A heavily processed image appeared on the screen.
The picture shows the backs of two people, they are Chen Mo and Ou Zhixu who escaped.
"Did the other two would-be consecrated persons escape? Who did it?"
It transforms into an enlarged face on the big screen.
"Gu Zhe."
Gu Zhe? He was the one who saved Chen Mo and Ou Zhixu.
Chen Can stared at the unfamiliar face on the screen, having no impression of it at all.
If Chen Mo and Ou Zhixu fell into Shi Mingxi's hands, Chen Can would really disappear in pain immediately.
Can you still forget?
Are you still distancing yourself from the matter?
Can we still pretend that nothing happened and return to the original time world and live in peace?
No more.
Chen Can buried his face deeply.
He must kill Shi Mingxi, Shi Mingxi must disappear.
Damn this messed up time and space!
"Then, someone stopped us and we weren't able to realize our dream."
"Our dream is to 'save humanity and continue civilization,' but we have disappeared without realizing their dream."
"We have discovered the secret of space-time. This is definitely a great oversight. A rift in space-time will make a huge contribution to the future of mankind!"
"I traveled through time and space across various worlds, trying to find a way to change the trajectory of each world's destined destruction. But I can't do it alone. I need more like-minded devotees."
"I have traveled with countless people from different time and space. I firmly believe that by working together with these dedicated people from different time and space, we will succeed."
nausea!
Chen Can was so disgusted that he wanted to vomit. How could Shi Mingxi be such a shameless person?
Chen Can was standing in a new scene. Shi Mingxi was standing in a ruin at a loss. He looked at the collapsing buildings in front of him and felt unprecedented confusion.
The building that symbolizes the "future of mankind" finally collapsed.
Because Shi Mingxi sent so many people, the original order of each world has been changed.
"Shi Mingxi, you will get the punishment you deserve."
Chen Can turned around and saw Chen Mo supporting the unconscious Ou Zhixu as they stood out from the collapsed house and stared at Shi Mingxi from afar in the ruins.
Shi Mingxi seemed to come to his senses and suddenly burst into laughter.
"It's not over yet. So what if I'm punished? This is just the beginning, and the great plan will continue!"
"This space-time itself is wrong. It shouldn't stifle the great human race. Humanity should break free from the shackles of fate and create all possibilities. We will not lose. There will definitely be a day when we break the limitations of space-time!"
Shi Mingxi stood in the center of the ruins, like a determined war declarer.
"It's really ridiculous to exchange all your vibrant existence now for an illusory future."
"Do you really think of yourself as a savior? Shi Mingxi, you don't deserve it!" Chen Mo recalled some sad past. "You are a scumbag. Everything you do is to satisfy yourself. Nothing you do will be recognized by anyone. You are just like your so-called plan. It's a complete joke and disgusting!"
"I don't need the world to judge me." Shi Mingxi didn't know how to move in front of Chen Mo, and was knocked away by something just before he could grab Chen Mo.
What?
Chen Can then saw clearly that it was a person with his face covered, who seemed to have been buried under the rubble.
"Stay away from them, lunatics."
The masked man's mask was about to fall off, and Chen Can wanted to help him pull it off.
"You should stay away from me, you filthy hypocrite." Shi Mingxi kicked the masked man hard in the stomach. The masked man dodged, and Shi Mingxi took the opportunity to completely remove the mask from his face.
"Why don't you dare show your true face to others? Are you afraid of dirtying other people's eyes? Gu Zhe."
"'Gu Jiji' sounds better."
Shi Mingxi smiled and tried to hit Chen Mo's throat, but was stopped by Gu Jiji again.
"I'm afraid I'll scare you to death. Who I am is none of your business. Why are you yelling?"
Gu Zhe? Gu Jiji?
If Chen Can was not mistaken, it was that Gu Jiji.
"Gu Jiji, don't waste time talking to him. The space-time rift has already opened." Chen Mo protected Ou Zhixu tightly in the flying sand and shouted to Gu Jiji.
"Take care of yourself first and load the cargo!" Mingxi replied to Chen Mo in his spare time when Gu Jiji stopped him.
The wind brought up a large amount of stones and sand. Shi Mingxi was being sucked away by a strong suction force, and Gu Jiji was being pulled away. Chen Mo hugged Ou Zhixu and tried to grab Gu Jiji's legs, but Gu Jiji quickly retracted his feet.
"idiot!"
After Gu Jiji finished cursing, he was completely sucked into the space-time rift along with Shi Mingxi.
Chen Mo didn't have time to grab anything. He only saw half of the mask lying quietly on the ruins after the wind and sand subsided.
Chen Can also stared at the half mask, unable to say a word.
Chen Can could deduce the rest of the story without even having to read it. Shi Mingxi vanished, and the world Chen Mo and Ou Zhixu inhabited enjoyed a brief period of peace before inevitably undergoing destruction. To keep those in this world alive, Ou Zhixu used his abilities to completely rip the rifts in spacetime apart, completely destroying the protective "field" and allowing everyone except Chen Mo and himself to escape to another world. Consequently, like Shi Mingxi, he suffered the same punishment from spacetime. To avoid implicating Chen Mo, Ou Zhixu, at the last moment of this world's destruction, gave Chen Mo's dream consciousness to Li La. If he's right, Li La was at the spacetime processing station at the time. Ou Zhixu then bore the punishment of spacetime alone.
The punishment is disappearance. No matter in which world, "Ou Zhixu" will no longer exist.
To be precise, Ou Ranyu is the "Ou Zhixu" from another world. He was sent to Chen Can's world by Ou Zhixu and is now in danger of disappearing.
"Everyone disappeared except the scientist."
"When I woke up again, the world was no longer the same, and I was no longer the same person. I don't know why I woke up in this body, but I know that my awakening was to restart my unfinished dream - to allow the human race to continue."
"I was lurking in this body, and through these eyes I saw a different world, like a strange little girl. Two little girls, to be exact. It was really strange, and it sparked my desire to research."
"Those two little girls came from different worlds. I confirmed this fact by chance. Although I didn't find the secret passage to the other girl's world, I found another, more important place—the place where my dreams once began. I can sense that a powerful force is calling me. I need to take control of this body as soon as possible..."
It turns out that everything was premeditated. Shi Mingxi had been lurking in Shi Zhimu a long time ago. In this world, he met Li Xinyi and Venatches through Shi Zhimu, and used Shi Zhimu's neurotic traits to plan the explosion in order to activate his old nest, deliberately lure Li Yachang, and accidentally bump into the other three people.
Shi Mingxi is very familiar with the mechanism of time and space. As long as he creates extreme chaos and violates the original order, he can open a space-time rift and trigger the recovery mechanism. But how can he be so sure that he has triggered the correct mechanism? What if the space-time rift he opened is to punish him?
"I have no choice. As long as I can restart humanity's great plan, I am willing to pay any price. I have to succeed."
Chen Can was really speechless about Shi Mingxi. This guy really didn't change his bad habits and only used his energy for crooked ways.
However, this contradicts Ou Ranyu's story. Shi Mingxi has never been to Venatches' world, much less transformed Venatches. So what secrets does the world they visited in the game hide? And where does Venatches' ability to "create the world" come from?
Ou Ranyu, did you do it on purpose or unintentionally?
Chen Can stroked the gradually disappearing words on the notebook and fell into deep analysis.
None of these doubts will hinder a fact that must be implemented - make Shi Mingxi disappear completely.
Suddenly, an arm wrapped around Chen Can's waist, interrupting his thoughts.
"I have no ill intentions." The familiar cold voice of the young man interrupted Chen Can's struggle.
"Ou Ranyu, do you know where Shi Mingxi is?"
Chen Can turned around anxiously, but found nothing.
"Why don't you continue reading?" As light as a feather, it was enough to break all illusions.
July 12th...
"I am Ou Ranyu... a garbled character summoned back through time and space."
"Because of Ou Zhixu's perverse deeds, he disappeared from the other world. I thought that 'Ou Zhixu' would no longer exist in all the worlds. But how could a person's existence be completely erased? So I was born. I am a new individual compressed by countless 'Ou Zhixu' who were eliminated by time and space. My birth was originally an error caused by time and space, so I was destined not to stay long. In every world I have been to, the final result is that others forget me after I disappear. I don't care anymore, because I won't remember at all, and all human emotions will not stay on me for long. Even if I really meet the source of evil, Ou Zhixu, I won't have any emotional waves, because I will forget it very quickly. I don't know what I have experienced before, and I won't remember anything after this."
"Am I a real 'person'? Actually, I'm not. In every world, I just follow instructions according to a specific program. My behavior, my feelings, and my emotions are all pre-arranged programs."
"Including me in this world now."
Is this really the case?
Chen Can smiled bitterly, his fingertips lingering on the "I" on the page.
If Ou Ranyu was really just following instructions according to the established procedures, then how could there be any "I"?
fraud.
"Ou Zhixu threw me into this world, simply placing me in another program. I followed 'their' instructions and numbly executed my own program in this world. I never knew who 'they' were because it didn't matter at all and I would soon forget. Even after I learned that 'they' were compressed objects of time and space like me, I didn't feel any emotional fluctuations."
"I planned the 'bombing' according to 'their' instructions, and then withdrew the plan according to their instructions. I believed that Time Twilight and I were on the same side as they were instructed. Later, I approached a person according to their instructions, interacted with him according to their instructions, changed my emotions according to their instructions, guided him according to their instructions, and finally, fell in love with him according to their instructions."
"Even though 'they' don't dare to come near me anymore because of you, I still attribute it all to programming."
"Then I realized I was about to disappear again. I was scared, and I attributed it to the program. In order to continue existing in this world, to make him remember me, and to be with him forever, I began to look for a way to stay. This way was to find evidence of my existence. That way, even after I disappeared from this world, I would still remember him and me, and he would remember me too, and I would return to him again and again.
"I don't care whether it's programmed or not, I just want to be with him forever."
"His name is Chen Can. He doesn't care what I am. He says he loves me as deeply as I love him."
"I won't give up on him, so I won't let him give up on me."
"Now, I have to help him sort out some miscellaneous matters."
"Are you ready, dear?"
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