Chapter 117 Daily Life (Seventeen)
Mu Yu had some confusing and intertwined dreams.
He dreamed of the night of the class reunion. In the empty corridor, he impulsively grabbed Lu Zhongnian by the collar and kissed him.
Their auras collided, and Lu Chongnian's surprised look was shattered in the light and shadow.
They fell in the darkness, and he got up in panic, trying to evacuate, but was pulled back by a strong arm. Both of them smelled of alcohol, and these slight smells of alcohol blended together, making Mu Yu dizzy.
For them, "tomorrow" is something that they have not thought about at the moment and is difficult to imagine.
It might be a little awkward.
You may also feel a little embarrassed.
"Tomorrow" makes people nervous, but also excited.
But they didn't think that "tomorrow" would eventually become a blurry mirror. They stood in front of the mirror but couldn't see themselves clearly in the mirror.
…
In the room in the early morning, the bed was made.
The boy stood in front of the window, quietly looking at the mountains outside through the gap in the curtains.
His back felt unfamiliar to Mu Yu, filled with an uneasy atmosphere yet calm.
However, when the other person walked to the bed and placed a gentle kiss on his forehead, the strange feeling suddenly disappeared.
"Wait for me in the room. I'll go get some breakfast and be back shortly."
Leaving behind these words, Lu Chongnian left the "tomorrow" that belonged to them.
Mu Yu in the dream had not yet realized that everything had gone off track from here.
He hugged the quilt and tossed and turned in bed, still recalling the sweetness of the previous night. He took out his phone and wanted to send WeChat messages to Ye Sui and Hong Yang, but suddenly realized that it was still early.
He closed his eyes for a while, but felt itchy, so he stood up, and with an indescribable sense of guilt and excitement, he walked barefoot on the soft carpet to the window.
He drew open the curtains, pushed open the glass sliding door, and walked to the balcony... Just like Lu Chongnian did a few minutes ago, he raised his head and looked curiously at the sky above the mountain.
At five o'clock in the morning, although the sky was bright, there was still a hint of heavy gray left over from the night.
Leaden sky, heavy clouds.
The clouds were blown away by the wind, slowly moving away, revealing a black crescent moon behind them.
Mu Yu was stunned.
He blinked, thinking he was hallucinating, but the black crescent moon hung in the sky and did not disappear.
It is like the dark eye of a monster, quietly looking down at the humans who are looking at it in the air.
In the dream, Mu Yu's heart began to beat wildly.
He subconsciously took a step back and almost tripped over the sliding groove of the sliding door.
He turned around and walked quickly into the room, found the glasses that Lu Chongnian had taken off and placed on the bedside table last night, put them on and walked to the balcony again, but the clouds had covered the entire sky and the black crescent moon was nowhere to be seen.
Where is Lu Chongnian?
For no reason, this thought came to Mu Yu's mind in his anxiety - he picked up his mobile phone and sent a WeChat message to the boy.
【Where are you? 】
The boy replied quickly.
[In the restaurant, come back soon, don't come out. ]
The repeated emphasis on the last three words caused a subtle sense of anxiety in his heart.
Why can't I go out?
It is certainly impossible that Lu Chongnian is afraid that other students will find out about their relationship. Regardless of whether he is the kind of person who regrets after doing something, this boy would never go to such great lengths to avoid suspicion.
So, what did Lu Chongnian want him to avoid?
The time is 5:15, and it has been ten minutes since Lu Chongnian went out.
Although these ten minutes were short, Mu Yu could no longer wait.
There was a voice in his heart urging him to go out and take a look. If you wait any longer, you will regret it. Don't wait any longer!
He hastily put on his clothes, left the room and walked into the quiet corridor.
The corridor is straight and quiet.
Almost everyone was asleep, and not a single sound came from the rooms along the way.
Mu Yu stepped on the carpet and walked forward hesitantly.
Restaurant, the restaurant seems to be on the first floor, so is Lu Chongnian also on the first floor?
But why was he already sweating coldly at this moment?
Why does it seem like there is something terrifying waiting for him ahead?
He was so nervous that his stomach twisted into knots.
There was a corner ahead, and the closer he got to it, the more difficult it became for him to breathe.
The phone suddenly vibrated.
He lowered his head in panic, and the screen lit up. It was a message from Lu Chongnian.
[Mu Yu, I hope that when you see this text, you don’t think about what happened first, but remember this text...]
He unlocked the screen blankly, opened the WeChat chat box, and read the entire paragraph.
He was still confused.
He knew every word in this passage, but when they were put together, he had no idea what it meant.
What are the stealers and keepers? And what are the rules?
What did Lu Chongnian want him to do?
Why should I say "sorry" to him?
He raised his head and continued to move forward in a daze.
Until he reached the corner, he turned his head palely and looked to the left, at the end of the corner.
The bathroom door was closed, leaving only a gap.
A strong smell of blood wafted out from the crack.
*
The few days after the evening self-study copy ended were calm.
Li Ke posted a picture comparing the positions of the reflection world and their world in the group. Unknowingly, the reflection world had rotated more than ninety degrees.
This is of course thanks to Gao Zhanyuan's amazing operation, but Li Ke also said that the spinning speed of the reflection world is still increasing.
Jiang Shuyue: "Didn't Lu Zhongnian take a lot of letters away? I guess he has made some progress there too."
Ye Sui: “Probably.”
Su Mingyun: "If that's the case, then if we can get through six more copies, we can almost wait for the world to reunite? [Headache] A bit nervous..."
Li Ke: "I don't think we need six more. At the current rate, maybe two or three more will be enough."
Jing Qiao: "[covering chest.jpg]"
Zhang Huawei: "The sooner you die, the sooner you will be reborn..."
Jiang Shuyue: "@Muyu are you in the dormitory? If you are, I will come over and give you the letter later."
Zhang Huawei: "You're writing a letter again? How can there be so much to write?"
Jiang Shuyue: “[adjusting glasses.jpg]”
Jiang Shuyue: "How can such a complicated matter be explained in just one or two letters?"
Fu Xiaoju: "@Zhang Huawei, if Brother Lu didn't look difficult to talk to, I doubt he could have a conversation with him in the other world..."
Jiang Shuyue: “…”
Zhang Huawei: “Hahaha, that’s possible!”
Jiang Shuyue: "@Fu Xiaoju you said Lu Chongnian is not easy to talk to, I took a screenshot."
Fu Xiaoju: “?!”
Fu Xiaoju: “Oh my god!”
Gao Zhanyuan: "He who intercepts others' plans will always be intercepted by others."
Fu Xiaoju: “[flipping the table.jpg]”
Jiang Shuyue: "@Muyu?"
Hong Yang: "Don't @ him, he's been quiet again these past two days."
Jiang Shuyue: "What's wrong?"
Hong Yang: "I don't know. He was fine when the dungeon ended, but he became strange after I went back."
Zhang Huawei: "Was he criticized by his brother?"
Mu Chenxi: “?”
[“Zhang Huawei” withdrew a message]
Zhang Huawei: "[kneeling down and begging for mercy.jpg]"
Gao Zhanyuan: “[laughing.gif]”
Mu Yu suddenly appeared.
"I have something I want to tell you. Let's get together on Friday night. @蒋书阅, please give me your letter then."
Several question marks popped up in the group. Jiang Shuyue asked him what it was about, but Mu Yu just said he would talk about it when the time came.
Friday night.
After all, not everyone is free, so in the end, the ones who came to attend the current party were still a few old faces.
Mu Yu started a video call with Mu Chenxi, and then put the phone in the waterproof bag on the table.
As soon as this thing appeared, it attracted everyone's attention.
"Whose phone is this?" Chang Sen leaned over to take a look. "Why is there black stuff on it? It's so dirty?"
Yan Shaowen reminded: "That's blood."
Chang Sen: "?!"
He was startled, and the others' expressions changed slightly.
Fu Xiaoju asked anxiously, "Does this phone look familiar?"
"It's Lu Zhongnian's phone."
Mu Yu spoke, his voice a little hoarse.
With just one sentence, everyone's faces were filled with shock and bewilderment - Lu Zhongnian's phone? How did Lu Zhongnian's phone end up in his hands? And why was it stained with blood?
Lu Chongnian wasn’t seriously injured in the evening study session, right?
Mu Yu told him what happened.
He hadn't slept well these past few days and his face was full of fatigue, but when he spoke at this moment, he was still clear, calm and steady.
As everyone listened, they began to show signs of astonishment and confusion.
"So that's why you asked me that day if I had ever encountered a situation where my vision disappeared?" Hong Yang frowned.
"Yes, but then I thought to myself—"
Mu Yu unlocked the screen and opened the memo, allowing the text to appear for everyone to see.
"Lu Chongnian mentioned the 'thief' and the 'guardian'. We have already analyzed that there might be two forces competing with each other. At that time, the vision around the vending machine was completely wiped out. I think it might have been done by the 'guardian'."
"This phone was able to travel from August 21 to our time, and it was able to leave the dungeon with me. These should not be bugs in the dungeon. It is impossible for so many bugs to appear by coincidence and all happen to be beneficial to us. Therefore, I think it is the 'Guardian' who is helping us."
"Wait, wait," Zhang Huawei suddenly interrupted, "Are we going to fast forward here? Aren't there still many questions that we haven't figured out? Isn't the most important question -"
He pointed at the phone and asked, "How could Lu Zhongnian know so much?"
For a moment, the whole round table fell silent.
Yes, this is the most surprising part.
The editor of this text is obviously very familiar with the copy game, and he even seems to have fought against the "thieves" and only failed, so he passed this text to them, as if he wanted to place his hope on them.
...But that’s Lu Chongnian.
That was Lu Chongnian, who had started with them from the Welcome Party and had always shown the same level of understanding as them.
...How does he know these things?
Mu Yu was silent.
Everyone was looking at him.
Fu Xiaoju asked in a low voice: "...Are you sure it was Brother Lu's hand you touched at that time?"
"I am sure."
Mu Yu took off his glasses, put them on the table, leaned back in his chair, and said, "...I remembered some things, not much, but I can basically confirm that when the special incident happened on the morning of August 21, Lu Zhongnian did show a very skilled attitude in dealing with it."
"But I can also confirm that when I met him again at the welcome party, he knew nothing about the dungeon. I know some of you will definitely think that he is deliberately hiding something from us, but I believe him. I think he has lost more memories than we thought."
"What you mean is," Su Mingyun said hesitantly, "long before the welcome party, there may have been many copies that happened, and Lu Zhongnian participated in the copies earlier than any of us...but after the special incident on August 21, he lost all his memories before that?"
"Maybe, but I'm not sure," Mu Yu rubbed his eyes, "because the memory of that morning was completely erased for both him and me, but Lu Chongnian obviously remembered everything before that day. If there were many copies that happened before that, and Lu Chongnian participated in them and forgot them, then his amnesia pattern would obviously be different from the one we have later..."
"It's so complicated." Li Ke grabbed his hair.
Mu Chenxi listened quietly for a long time on the other end of the video call.
He opened his mouth and said, "Don't worry about what you don't remember for now. Let's take a look at this paragraph in the memo first."
"He mentioned the balance of power between the Thief and the Guardian. You mentioned before that the Guardian's power seemed to be getting weaker and the Thief's power was getting stronger. But since the Guardian can open this space-time connection and allow you to contact each other in two space-times, then His power should not be as weak as you think."
"Wenshan Club is the starting point of all the events you know, but there was no clue until more than half a month ago, when a space-time rift appeared in the club," Mu Chenxi said in the video, spinning the pen in his hand. "This is a clue. Although you haven't figured out the connection yet, clues are loopholes. In a way, this may be proof that the thief is suppressed."
Everyone was stunned.
Mu Chenxi's words opened up a new line of thought for them.
"So looking back, what appeared along with those space-time cracks? It was the spin acceleration of the reflected world."
"Is there a possibility that the proximity of the two worlds may itself be the source of power to suppress the Thief?"
Everyone thought deeply.
They thought that the overlap of the two worlds was definitely not what He, the thief, wanted, but they had never thought of this level.
What Mu Yu's brother meant was...
Mu Chenxi continued, "But what's interesting is that even if you don't speed up, the two worlds are actually getting closer. No matter how hard you try, the thief will eventually be suppressed. So - is the split between the two worlds really caused by the thief?"
"Hasn't the Thief ever imagined that once he embarked on this path, the situation would eventually develop into something that would be disadvantageous to Him?"
There was silence at the round table, and everyone was frowning in thought.
Jiang Shuyue was a little confused. "Wait, but the emergence of parallel worlds is because one thing has two developments. This may also be something that the thief cannot control, right? We said before that He created the parallel world, which means that the events He threw out caused this situation, but this situation may not be deliberately 'created' by anyone...?"
In response to his statement, Mu Chenxi asked, "But have you ever thought that there is still a problem here - there are so many 'events' happening in this world every day. Assuming that the different developments of each 'event' will naturally generate parallel worlds, there should be countless parallel worlds. Why is it that only this parallel world can be seen by us and can be close to us?"
"If this parallel world is so special because it is related to the copy, then is that the only incident related to the copy?"
"In the instance that just ended, if I was a step slower when Huang Jiajia fell, he might have been killed by the scarecrow," Mu Chenxi's words made Huang Jiajia, who had been listening, shudder. "Of course this possibility exists, so the world where Huang Jiajia is dead should also exist. Why didn't this parallel world appear before our eyes?"
...This is indeed a problem.
The emergence of the reflection world is certainly possible because one thing has two developments, but the "parallel world" theory does not seem to be fully applicable to this matter.
A world where only Mu Yu exists, and a world where only Lu Chongnian exists.
These two worlds do not seem to have appeared naturally.
Someone made them, but the one who made them was not a thief.
Mu Yu was silent for a long time, and then said, "Brother, do you think the emergence of these two worlds was induced by the guardian?"
Everyone present was shocked.
Mu Chenxi put down the pen: "Yes."
Suddenly, everyone became agitated.
"No, Brother Lu was wiped out in this world because he... died, right?" Fu Xiaoju couldn't help but say the fact that they had not dared to point out from the beginning, "Then Mu Yu disappeared in the other world probably because he died in that world. Could it be that the guardian used them just like this to get rid of the thief——"
"Why do we have to use human concepts of good and evil to speculate on higher-dimensional creatures?" Mu Chenxi asked calmly, "You call Him a guardian, so does that mean He is an angel?"
Everyone choked.
“Even if it’s not Him, but humans, once the things that need to be protected are very large, sometimes they will choose to sacrifice some tiny individuals. This is the choice.” Mu Chenxi’s voice was cold and hard.
"Brother," Mu Yu said softly, "If people can't communicate with each other, many misunderstandings and conflicts will arise, not to mention between us and Him. Don't get angry over such uncertain things."
Mu Chenxi glanced at him and stopped talking.
Then, the round table became quiet again.
Mu Chenxi's words overturned their previous assumptions, and everyone was a little overwhelmed.
Will the guardian do whatever it takes to protect this world?
So is He still guiding them now?
Are their every choice made by themselves, or have they unknowingly walked on a path paved for them by some being?
An atmosphere of uneasiness spread.
Yan Shaowen tapped the table with his fingers.
He said, "Actually, I had a dream these past two days that was related to that morning, but I'm not sure if it really happened."
Everyone looked at him.
"I dreamed that Lu Zhongnian called me that morning, around 5:05 in the morning. I remember you, Mu Yu, mentioned this time."
Mu Yu sat up straight and said seriously, "Yes, Lu Zhongnian had just left the room at that time. What did he say to you?"
"He asked me where I was, and of course I was sleeping," Yan Shaowen said, his eyes thoughtful. "I usually wake up at 7 o'clock, and he knew it, so I thought it was strange at the time. Then he hung up the phone, and nothing happened."
Everyone stared at him.
that's all?
"That's why I said I'm not sure if it really happened. It's possible that it was just a dream." Yan Shaowen spread his hands.
Mu Yu thought of something and looked down at the phone on the table. Soon, he said, "It's not your dream. This phone has the call record."
But why did Lu Chongnian make this call at that time?
What happened that morning was a complete mystery.
Everyone's brows were furrowed, and they couldn't figure out what was going on.
It seemed that the more clues they got, the bigger the puzzle they faced.
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