Chapter 63 Daily Life (X)
Almost at the same time, the WeChat group became lively and messages began to burst out.
Li Ke: "Did the reflected world just now speed up? Did anyone see it?"
Fu Xiaoju: "What? I'm playing games."
Su Mingyun: "I, I, I saw it!!"
Jiang Shuyue: "? What's going on?"
…
On this side, Mu Yu suppressed his inner shock and quickly fell into deep thought.
...The reflected world suddenly spun faster, most likely because Qu Ge just remembered Lu Chongnian.
But was it because of "Qu Ge" or because he "remembered Lu Chongnian"?
Qu Ge is no ordinary person.
This boy was also a well-known figure in their Xinlian No. 1 Middle School. He had won numerous competition awards and was always in the limelight in the news during school anniversaries.
He is a child of destiny, but whether it is him, Lu Chongnian, or many others... in front of the unknown existence - Him, they are probably just one of the tiny lives that cannot be more ordinary.
Therefore, the accelerated spin of the reflected world is probably due to the latter...
——It was because of Qu Ge’s action of “thinking of Lu Chongnian”.
Mu Yu suddenly thought that the reflection world appeared on the earth only after the end of the second copy, so what kind of turning point occurred in the second copy?
——At that time, Fu Xiaoju and Ye Sui remembered Lu Chongnian!
After figuring out the key point, Mu Yu let out a long sigh.
Sure enough, making more people remember Lu Chongnian was a way to narrow the distance between the two worlds, and they were not going in the wrong direction.
He looked at Qu Ge, who was also patiently waiting for his answer.
Mu Yu sat up straight, tapped the table with his fingers, and said carefully: "There are some things we can't say, but I will try my best to tell you what we can say..."
*
In the cafeteria, students gradually left, and the tables and chairs became empty.
The lights in some corners had been turned off. The cleaning man walked over here while wiping the tables and saw four students still sitting there. He walked past them and left the lights on for them.
“…Anyway, that’s probably it.”
After Mu Yu finished speaking, he felt that he was actually a little too excited.
Qu Ge's reaction exceeded his expectations, so much so that he instinctively wanted to share the information they already had with Qu Ge to see what else he could think of.
They had worked together before on brain-teasing competitions at school. Qu Ge was efficient in thinking and had a broad range of ideas. Sometimes he could think of things that no one else could. It was really fun to work with him.
However, when it comes to the copy, there is still too little information they can "say".
With just these few fragmentary clues, what can we expect Qu Ge to come up with?
Qu Ge folded his arms across his chest and lowered his eyes in thought.
He stopped eating and memorizing words. This series of events had obviously aroused his interest.
"You mean to say that Lu Chongnian only exists in a parallel world now, and you only exist in this world. Although I don't know what method you plan to use, your goal is to merge the two parallel worlds, right?"
"right."
"Are you sure you can merge the two worlds?" Qu Ge suddenly asked.
Mu Yu, Ye Sui and Hong Yang were all stunned.
"Mu Yu, you know about the 'butterfly effect', right?"
Qu Ge looked out the window. He couldn't see the reflected world, but his gaze made people feel as if he could see it.
"The parallel world was born because one thing took two different directions. From that point in time, many things should have become different. Aren't you and Lu Chongnian a pair of examples?"
"Some people may be alive in our world, but dead in the parallel world. Some people may only live in the parallel world, but dead in our world."
"If the two worlds really overlap, will these people be dead or alive at that time?"
"You should also know that we can't expect that as long as everyone is still alive in one of the worlds, they will be able to survive after the worlds merge."
"Then suppose that after the worlds merge, only the results of one of the worlds can be preserved. In the end, which one will be preserved, our world or their world?"
Qu Ge turned around and stared at Mu Yu: "Will you survive, or will Lu Zhongnian survive?"
"Or - will it be that in the end, only those who exist in both worlds will survive?"
And people like Mu Yu and Lu Chongnian will all disappear and evaporate from the face of the earth?
Ye Sui and Hong Yang immediately looked at Mu Yu and frowned.
After being slightly stiff at first, Mu Yu calmed down.
"It's impossible that you haven't thought of these problems, but you just don't want to think about them," Qu Ge said slowly, "Mu Yu, think about it again. Maybe the real answer is not to accelerate the merger of the two worlds, but the opposite."
Mu Yu shook his head and said in a gentle tone: "No, after listening to your analysis just now, I am more convinced that merging the two worlds is the correct answer."
Qu Ge was startled, a puzzled look on his face: "Why?"
Mu Yu said carefully: "It is related to some information that we can't tell you. What you said just now made me suddenly realize that there are already hints hidden in those messages."
Hong Yang and Ye Sui seemed puzzled. They came forward and asked in a low voice, "What are you talking about?"
Mu Yu explained to them: "The reason why Qu Ge raised such doubts just now is actually because he thinks there may be a large number of people like me and Lu Zhongnian in the two worlds."
"But the question is, are there really that many people like us?"
"Parallel worlds are created because the same thing develops in two different ways, and from that point in time, many things in the two worlds will become different. But what is the most significant difference between our two worlds at present?"
Ye Sui and Hong Yang were stunned for a moment, and a light flashed through their minds.
——It’s a copy!
There are copies in their world, but in the world where Lu Chongnian is, it seems that copy games do not exist!
Ye Sui's eyes turned slightly, and he immediately said: "I know."
Qu Ge frowned: "What on earth is it?"
Mu Yu looked at him and said, "Qu Ge, the incident that triggered the parallel world did cause the butterfly effect. The butterfly effect may indeed cause some people to die only in our world, creating a group of people who 'only live in one of the worlds.' But - they are not completely dead in our world."
"What's the meaning?"
"Their bodies were preserved, but their souls seemed to be dead. But if the world really wanted to sentence them to death, why did they preserve their bodies?"
From the time the first instance happened until now, all players have had a question in their minds—a very indignant question.
Time goes back, why can't the dead players be resurrected?
If they cannot be resurrected, why should their skins be preserved and turned into zombies? Is this a desecration of life?
Mu Yu has always felt that things related to copies are always filled with an indescribable sense of contradiction.
He who creates copies will never have mercy on humans.
Given His sinister and vicious nature, would He care whether human society would be turned upside down by the copy game?
Would He care whether the bodies of players who died in the dungeon would cause unrest in human society once they were exposed to the sight of all humans?
He doesn't care.
So why go back in time?
Obviously everything is different, so why do we need to go back in time to make it seem as if nothing had happened and the world is still intact?
Why are dead players destined not to come back, but their skins should be preserved so that they appear to be "alive" in the eyes of others?
Isn't this just deceiving yourself?
But now, thanks to Qu Ge's analysis, Mu Yu suddenly understood all these problems.
He also thought of the various details he had noticed before -
For example, in the first copy, he and Lu Chongnian discovered that they could not hear the sound from the stage outside in the prop area. At that time, he thought, is it because the rules of the prop area are complicated enough, so the copy wants to reduce interference and ease the difficulty for them?
Would the copy be so kind?
And the rules - why are there more than one set of rules in each instance?
Why is it that the general rules are all true, but the secondary rules may be false?
All signs seem to indicate that there are two forces competing against each other in secret.
The question is, are there really two forces competing with each other? !
There is a force that creates copies, and its only purpose is to tease humans and watch them struggle to death in the copies, just like ancient humans built the Colosseum and regarded the beasts' bloody fight for life as a passionate performance?
The other force is on the side of humans. It is trying its best to help and protect humans. It wants the world to return to its original state, so it leaves chips for humans?
In two parallel worlds, are there really many people like him and Lu Chongnian who only live in one of the worlds?
Or is it that the biggest variables are actually all in the copies?
——Only those who have entered the copy and died in the copy will experience this situation of "dying in one world and living in another"?
So, who created the time reversal, and who preserved the bodies of the dead players?
Could it be the He who is on the side of humanity?
Could it be that He preserved the skins of those players so that on the day when the two worlds merge, those players could reunite with their selves in the other parallel world and achieve true resurrection?
Qu Ge was stunned.
"The dead person's body was preserved...?"
If that was the case, then he somewhat understood Mu Yu's thoughts.
He frowned slightly:
"But what about you and Lu Chongnian?"
The light was pale and cold. The wind blew in through the window, quietly bypassing the corner without disturbing the silence of the moment.
Qu Ge, Ye Sui and Hong Yang all looked at Mu Yu.
He and Lu Chongnian were wiped out in their respective worlds...but their skins were not left behind.
If the parallel worlds really merge one day, when that day comes, only those who exist in both worlds can continue to survive...
So where will the two of them go?
Mu Yu took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
He sat up straight, picked up the chopsticks, and smiled: "I don't know, but I think, whether it is for me or Lu Zhongnian, the most important thing now is-"
"We finally know how to save the world!"
*
As night falls, the reflected world beneath the earth slowly spins.
The perspective is reversed, and in another world, the same scene is happening at this moment.
There was a knock on the door of a dormitory in the dormitory area of Lian University.
"The door is open, come in." A cold voice sounded faintly in the dormitory.
The door was pushed open and Yan Shaowen walked in with a swagger.
He shook his phone: "Why didn't you reply to the message I sent you?"
At this moment, there was only one figure sitting at the desk in the dormitory.
Yan Shaowen walked behind the figure and leaned back on the chair with his elbows bent. When he saw what the other person was making, he felt choked: "What are you doing?"
The boy pinched a small photo card with his slender fingers and inserted it into the back of the transparent phone case.
Lu Zhongnian thought for a second and recalled the name of this thing: "Mobile phone case?"
"I know. I mean," Yan Shaowen's mouth twitched, pointing to the pile of pain shells on his desk, "what do you want to do with all these?"
Lu Zhongnian picked up one of the pain shells and handed it to him: "To give it to someone else?"
"...You don't want me to use it?"
"If you don't want to use it, you can put it on your desk."
"...If I use this kind of thing as a decoration, I will be misunderstood."
"Do you still care about this?" Lu Zhongnian glanced at him, "What do you want from me?"
Seeing that Lu Chongnian was still holding the painful shell, Yan Shaowen's mouth twitched again, and he had to take it.
He frowned as he looked at the boy with glasses and a cute smile on his face, and said, "Old Duan asked me out for dinner and asked if you wanted to go. It's been a while since the first year of college started, and we haven't had any gatherings yet - are you still obsessed with this person named 'Mu Yu'? I asked someone, and there's no such person in the computer department of the first year of science and engineering."
"I know."
"There is no such person in our high school archives."
"I know."
Yan Shaowen lost his temper: "You seem to care about this matter, but you didn't even check it. I was the one who checked it."
Lu Zhongnian turned his head and said, "Because I know, and I also told you not to check."
"But how did you know that?" Yan Shaowen asked inquiringly, "When a person mysteriously disappears, a normal person's first reaction would definitely be to call the police, but how come you seemed to know from the very beginning that the other person's entire existence had been wiped out?"
Lu Zhongnian turned around and looked at the smiling face of the boy on the photo card.
He was silent for a moment, and only said something without a beginning or an end: "Yan Shaowen, have you ever had a sense of déjà vu?"
Yan Shaowen was stunned: "Of course, everyone has had this experience, what's wrong?"
Lu Zhongnian didn't answer again. He was quiet for a while, then stood up and said, "I'm not going to eat anymore. I've made an appointment with Ye Sui and Hong Yang to meet at the Polytechnic Institute."
Yan Shaowen was stunned again: "Ye Sui and Hong Yang? Why did you suddenly think of looking for them?"
"Send something," Lu Zhongnian shook the phone case, "Since you are going to meet Lao Duan, why don't you bring a few with you as well and give them to them."
Yan Shaowen: “…………”
Yan Shaowen: "When the sun rose from the west, Lu Zhongnian actually gave a gift to his old classmate; when the sun rose from the north, Lu Zhongnian gave a gift and it turned out that he made a mobile phone case by himself; when the sun rose from the south, there was actually a man on the mobile phone case."
"Not 'male'," Lu Zhongnian said in a gentle voice, "Tell them, he is Mu Yu."
Yan Shaowen crossed his arms over his chest and tilted his head: "You have really become weird recently."
Lu Zhongnian waved his hand and said, "Remember to close our dormitory door when you leave."
He passed his roommate's desk, which was cluttered with things and had a calendar in the corner.
The calendar is blank.
"Okay." He heard Yan Shaowen's helpless answer behind him.
I went downstairs, arrived outside the dormitory area, and got a taxi.
The driver asked, "Where are you going?"
"Xinlian Polytechnic Dormitory Area 3."
Vehicles were driving through the university town at night, and the street lights outside the window were like flashing lights, constantly passing by them.
The red light ahead popped up, the car stopped, and the driver answered a phone call, chatting happily.
"Yes, yes, my wife's due date is at the end of January!"
"Hey, why don't you just come over here? Why did you come all the way here?!"
"Ok, ok, ok, let me see what number it is."
The phone was stuck in the holder with the screen facing the back seat.
The driver opened the calendar app on his phone, took a look and answered his friend on the other end of the phone: "It's January 27, right, right, well, then you just need to come over, no need to bring red envelopes or anything!"
The phone screen was also blank.
But no one noticed.
There was a constant stream of people on the road, pedestrians walking on the sidewalks with laughter, and the shops along the street were bustling with noise, but no one noticed——
The lock screen of their mobile phones only shows "time" but not "date".
Their calendar app is completely blank, whether it's the thumbnail or the large image when clicked.
There is no “activity time limit” on the promotional posters of the shops along the street.
There was no "registration date" on the flyers flying in the air.
People in this world are living either happily or sadly, leisurely or painfully. They are walking forward according to the predetermined trajectory of life, but are completely unaware that the world they live in has become a little weird at some point.
It was like a gap suddenly appeared in a running gear.
It trembled, it stuttered, and it emitted a deep hum, but everything was drowned out by the tremendous noise of the world.
Lu Chongnian looked at the scenery outside the window for a long time and took out a folded piece of paper from his pocket.
There were intricate creases on the paper, left over from when it had been folded into a thousand paper cranes.
At this moment, Lu Chongnian unfolded the letter again and read it for the fifth time.
In this world that seems to have lost its past, present and future and is stagnant in the void, only this piece of letter paper can bring him a faint, vivid, and solid sense of reality.
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