Chapter 147 Autobiography (XII)
An hour ago.
Yu Ning woke up in a cave.
A bunch of matches burned silently in front of him, warming his face but leaving his back cold.
The firelight illuminated the mountain wall. Yu Ning propped himself up from the ground in a daze and saw two lines of large characters carved on the mountain wall.
1. Sound is the only clue that can leave a trace.
2. Find the red button and press it to end everything.
"Sound is the only clue that can leave a trace"?
How can he hear the sound?
Yu Ning stood up.
He was still wearing the white down jacket, but the temperature here was even colder than at Lianda. He shivered and clasped his hands together, rubbing them vigorously. He looked around the cave and felt that it looked familiar...
He turned around and looked outside the cave, his heartbeat gradually quickening.
He walked out step by step, and the light outside the cave greeted him.
——The cold wind blew, and under the lead-gray sky, dead branches stood in the forest.
He was in a mountain... This was clearly the mountain behind my grandmother's house during my childhood!
So this is indeed his book.
But if it was his book, why would he be asked to judge clues based on sounds?
Also, Yan Shaowen came in with him, where is he? Why is he gone?
Yu Ning was thinking...
【Yu Ning! 】
He shuddered, raised his head blankly and looked forward.
【Woof! Woof! 】
[It’s so cold…]
Yu Ning turned around quickly, looked to the left in shock, and covered his ears.
Snowflakes fluttered down from the lead-gray sky and drifted to the ground.
Tiny, fragmentary sounds came from all directions.
【Yu Ning! 】
【Come here quickly! 】
[Hey, what is this red button for? ]
[Meow——]
[Ouch, it’s snowing.]
[Yu Ning, come here quickly! ]
[Lao Zhang, where is your Yu Ning? ]
Yu Ning suddenly opened his eyes wide, and a hint of red appeared on his pale cheeks.
……sound?
He actually heard a sound?!
He lowered his head and looked at the snowflakes that kept hitting the ground.
It seemed that every time a piece of paper fell to the ground, a sentence came into his head.
A huge amount of sound gathered together, like strong winds and waves, which made him stand still in shock due to the sudden surprise.
Tears quickly accumulated in his eyes, his Adam's apple rolled, and Yu Ning was at a loss.
It's not like he was completely deaf since childhood.
The ear problem was congenital, but at the beginning, he still had some hearing left. In his childhood, his parents tried to maintain the remaining hearing with medication and hearing aids.
But later, their marriage became a mess.
Yu Ning's existence became a speck of dust in it.
Neglect, venting anger, violence, those two chaotic years have now all turned into gray memories in Yu Ning's mind.
He couldn't remember exactly when his hearing began to deteriorate. When he came to his senses, he could no longer hear anything. A scar ran under his black hair, extending from near his temples to the back of his head, about five centimeters long.
In addition, he had various injuries of varying sizes on his body.
The two people were arguing in front of him, with angry expressions, wide-open mouths, and veins bulging on their necks when they exerted force, but Yu Ning's world was silent.
He looked at them blankly, sat blankly, and remained silent in the silence.
…
Countless doctors have said that it is a miracle that I can maintain my current level of expression.
This was certainly due to his own efforts, but his grandmother, who took him away from that couple, loved him, took care of him and encouraged him, was the only reason why he could work so hard.
Yu Ning hadn't heard any sound for ten years.
Until the previous copy - he heard it twice in that copy.
Once, when Lan Lu's evil spirit entered his body, the girl's voice sounded in his mind.
He found that he couldn't understand.
Although he could recognize what others said through lip movements, and although his ability to express himself seemed to be no different from that of ordinary people, when those voices actually entered his ears, he was so excited that he burst into tears, but he was at a loss to find that he could not understand, or rather, he could not understand.
He doesn't recognize those words anymore.
The other time was when the copy was about to end.
The rope that was hanging him was cut by Yan Shaowen's evil intention, and he fell down and fell into the stroller. The needle loaded with congenital disease modification factor tablets rolled out of his hand.
His whole body was twitching. He looked at the film moving away from him and wanted to speak, but the pain was so severe that he couldn't utter a word.
At that time, something strange happened.
The needle finally returned to his hand, and he couldn't resist the temptation and finally injected himself.
For the last two minutes, most of the time, my ears were quiet.
But the silence when you can hear and the silence when you can't hear are completely different.
Yu Ning felt at the time that even if he died on the spot, he would have no regrets.
…
During the period after the copy ended, he repeatedly recalled these two brief sounds in his mind.
Although he felt a little annoyed, he accepted one fact - it was normal not to understand what he heard after not being exposed to sound for so long.
The actual pronunciation of those words had long faded from his mind, and what he was most familiar with was the lip shapes produced when they were uttered by others.
At this moment, Yu Ning certainly didn't understand.
The noises were so noisy and overlapping that it gave people a headache. Of course, for him, this kind of headache was also a kind of happiness.
In his excitement, he tried to dig out his childhood memories and match the vague pronunciations in his memories with the words in the conversation at this moment.
What is it... He listened carefully.
Yu Ning...someone is calling his name, a lot of people, but I don't know who it is. The only one who entered this book with him is Yan Shaowen, right? Are those voices calling his name just a trick?
…red…button?
Red button?
【Find the red button and press it to end everything. 】
Yu Ning's eyes flickered slightly.
But there are too many references to the red button in these voices, right? And it sounds like it's in different locations.
There has to be only one red button. Which one is it?
A snowflake landed on his shoulder.
【Lao Zhang! 】
Yu Ning shuddered.
Lao Zhang...? Grandma?
He turned his head and looked down the mountain - was his grandmother in this book?
*
The cold wind was howling and snowflakes kept hitting my face.
Yu Ning ran wildly through the mountains and forests.
He panted, accompanied by overwhelming sounds -
A lone bird chirped in the mountains, and a cat purred lazily.
The puppy didn't know where it was or who it saw, and it barked vigilantly.
People kept calling his name and trying to pull him back, but Yu Ning ran faster and faster, rushing down the mountain without hesitation.
When he rushed into the house in his memory, the snow had already accumulated on the ground to form a light layer of silver.
The door to the first floor was open. There was no light on inside and the light was dim. One could vaguely see someone walking around inside.
Because of the rapid running, Yu Ning's throat was full of blood.
His chest heaved violently, and his legs suddenly felt like they were filled with lead. He had to drag them very hard to move forward.
step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
The closer I get, the more scared I become.
The closer I get, the more I can’t help but feel the sourness in my nose and eyes.
Yu Ning could no longer feel the cold, only his body was still shaking.
He climbed the steps, stepped into the house, and paused.
…The white-haired old man was mopping the floor with his back to him.
A round red button lies quietly in the center of the dining table.
Yu Ning didn't look at the button, but just stared at the old man's back.
The old man dragged his feet twice, as if he suddenly sensed his presence, turned around, and immediately smiled: "Ningning, you're back so soon?"
The sound came from outside. It was the sound of snowflakes falling to the ground, and it sounded energetic.
…It’s the voice in my memory, the voice from more than ten years ago.
Yu Ning opened his mouth subconsciously, but his throat was blocked and he couldn't make a sound.
Grandma didn't seem to notice: "What are you doing standing there? Are you cold? Come on, sit down. Do you want a cup of hot water to warm yourself up?"
Yu Ning felt like a fool at this moment.
He couldn't move, couldn't call out "Grandma", and he didn't even know what to do.
Grandma seemed to find his appearance funny as well. She came over and took him to the dining table and sat him down.
"Grandma will fill a hot water bottle for you," she put her rough palm on his cheek, "look how cold your little face is."
The old man turned and walked away.
Only the red button was left, within his reach.
"It's too cold on the mountain. Don't go there anymore, or you'll get sick from the cold!"
"Just now your uncle Li came to see you and said that his little Li just got home and wanted to play games with you. Do you want to go?"
"If you want to go, finish what you have on hand quickly. Don't put it off until night."
Yu Ning tried hard to decipher the words and meaning in these conversations.
What do you mean by the matter at hand?
He subconsciously looked at the red button on the side.
...are you referring to this?
In an instant, the sourness and warmth that surged in his heart faded away, and Yu Ning quickly calmed down.
At this moment, those tiny sounds were still reaching his ears through the heavy snow outside, and there were still different voices telling him that the red button was here and there.
But grandma's voice never appeared here.
Yu Ning had not participated in many copies, but his limited experience told him that it was impossible for a copy to hand over the answers to the players.
Therefore, the information about the red button in the heavy snow should be false.
But--
Is this button real again now?
This mountain that he was extremely familiar with, this mountain that he would run all the way to his hometown at the foot of the mountain whenever he saw it in his dreams.
Isn't it inevitable that this red button will appear in front of him?
A cup of hot water was placed in front of him.
A hot water bottle was thrust into his hand.
Yu Ning's heart tightened and he looked up. His grandmother was standing in front of him, and her eyes drifted towards the table.
"Why don't you hurry up?" She nodded his head and said with a smile, "Are you trying to cheat again?"
...Yu Ning opened his mouth again, but closed it angrily.
"Why don't you say anything? You keep opening and closing your mouth. What bad things have you done that you don't dare to tell grandma?"
“……” Yu Ning shook his head.
"Really?"
Yu Ning raised his arms, crossed them in front of his chest, and shook his head firmly.
Grandma smiled immediately.
Yu Ning looked at her with mixed emotions, then raised his arm, signaling her to go about her business and not to worry about him.
"Okay," Grandma raised her chin towards the red button, "Don't forget it."
After saying this, he turned and walked away.
Yu Ning looked at her back quietly.
After a moment, he got up, holding the hot water bottle, and went out to the corridor.
The snow was falling heavily and the world was noisy.
Yu Ning looked up at the heavy snow, feeling a little empty in his heart.
The copy knows his weaknesses very well. This is the second time that Grandma has appeared in the copy.
However, the more surprised you are when you see it, the more empty you feel when you pull yourself away.
He never thought of staying in the copy. Yu Ning didn't like to immerse himself in an illusory dream, but sometimes, after returning to real life, he would sometimes wonder if real life was also a dream? A dream that made people feel sad.
He stood there for a moment, then opened his mouth.
Snowflakes fell in front of his toes, carrying the sounds he made into his ears.
"Yan...Haowen."
He was startled and subconsciously lowered his head, his cheeks quickly turning red.
Is this his voice?
Why does his voice sound so strange? His pronunciation is weird too. This is not how the eldest young master's name should be pronounced, right?
Is this the sound that others hear every time he speaks?
Panic and shame swept over him, and he prayed that Yan Shaowen didn't hear it. However, as the snowflakes fell to the ground, a unique sound entered his ears.
"Finally you remembered me?"
Yu Ning instantly clenched the hot water bottle in her hand.
【Sound is the only clue that can leave a trace. 】
In this book, players can indeed communicate over long distances through snowflakes.
Another snowflake fell.
"I've been calling you for a long time."
Snowflakes fell on the steps.
"Call my name again?"
"Those three words are pronounced yan shao wen."
Yu Ning lowered his head and watched the snowflakes gradually cover his sneakers with a layer of silver frost.
...How come his voice is so nice?
"Yan... Shao Wen."
He followed along quietly.
The man chuckled.
"...Yan Shao Wen." Yu Ning muttered softly again and recited it fluently.
“Yeah, pretty standard.”
Yu Ning's heart suddenly relaxed.
He raised his head and tilted it: "Can you also hear a lot of noises over there?"
Amid the complex noise, the deep male voice inexplicably became extremely clear.
"certainly."
"So, how do you recognize... mine?"
"Can't you find mine among so many voices?"
A complex emotion arose in Yu Ning's heart.
The world in this book looks lonely.
From the beginning till now, he has only seen his grandmother.
But the various sounds all around him made him feel that the world was very lively.
There were so many people shouting his name and so many animals hanging around.
But in the end, it still seems lonely here.
In this small world, there are only him and Yan Shaowen.
But thinking about it this way, he felt that he was not so lonely.
When he was with the young master, his thoughts were never calm or still. His sight could always catch what the man said to him, and his words always aroused his emotions.
Next to Yan Shaowen, he was never quiet in silence.
"Where...are you now?" Yu Ning asked.
“The top of the mountain.”
Snow flakes drifted down to the tip of his nose in the wind.
"Guess what I saw here."
*
library.
“——This is a history of His evolution.”
As Mu Chenxi finished speaking, everyone's expressions tensed slightly.
This entire library... is a huge autobiography of Him.
He actually laid out His evolutionary history so nakedly before them. Was this a way of showing off His power? A way of mocking and showing contempt?
Did He want to see them get angry?
There was a snap, and it seemed as if a book fell.
Footsteps sounded, Jiang Shuyue picked up a book, ran out and shouted: "The last book is called "Only Flesh/Body", the author is a shovel, Gao Zhanyuan went in!"
Everyone came out from between the bookshelves, their spirits lifted.
At this point, all five books have been found, and they just have to complete the remaining three books.
Jiang Shuyue and Fu Xiaoju plan to go into the book together to help Gao Zhanyuan, but there is a problem now.
The book "Hedgehog" cannot stay in bookshelf area 1-4, it must be moved.
Now they only know that there are rules in areas 9-12 where "No Sound" is located, but they are still unclear about the initial settings of areas 5-8 where "Only Flesh/Body" is located.
If they want to swap, they must ensure that the remaining two books can be successfully cleared after the position change.
While they were discussing, Yu Ning and Yan Shaowen suddenly appeared among them.
Some snowflakes fell on their shoulders, and Yu Ning held an axe in his hand.
——These two people also passed the level!
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