After the final exam, Shi Jin packed up and boarded a plane to fly abroad.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm a little nervous." He said this to Xiao Si in his heart, but he had already taken out his tablet and opened the mahjong software. He asked casually, "Xiao Si, are you nervous?"
Xiao Si didn't say anything.
"Pretending to be dead again?" Shi Jin raised his eyebrows, hummed, and habitually checked his game account information. His eyes swept across the blank binding partner column and sighed sadly.
When Lian Jun was erasing the past before leaving, he was so crazy that he even cancelled his game account, causing him to be in a state of missing spouse both in reality and in the game.
"You've actually come to this point, be careful or I'll cheat on you with someone else!" He said some cruel words that would never come true, logged out of the account information, and opened a game.
Eating, playing, and sleeping, more than ten hours passed unknowingly, and the plane was about to land.
Shi Jin suddenly said in his heart: "Xiao Si, time is running out."
Xiao Si finally couldn't pretend to be dead anymore, and called: "Jin Jin."
"Yeah, I'm here." Shi Jin responded in a low voice.
Xiao Si was quiet again. Shi Jin didn't urge it anymore, and lowered his head to continue playing the game.
…
After that birthday, a strange reversal occurred between Shi Jin and Xiao Si. Shi Jin forced himself to think clearly and to face the separation proactively, but Xiao Si, who had cried for a while, suddenly escaped again.
Facing Shi Jin's questions, it always pretended to be silent, as if it felt that as long as it didn't say anything clearly, separation would not come.
But time never waits for anyone. After the terrible review week, Shi Jin completed the final exams and welcomed the winter vacation. Then, as he had decided on the second day of his birthday, he boarded the plane to pick up Shi Weichong.
Now, the plane is about to land, and the monster of separation has bared its claws.
It can't be delayed any longer.
"I..." Xiao Si tried to speak, paused for a while, and lost his words again in depression.
Shi Jin stopped playing cards when it started talking, and waited for a long time without any follow-up. He guessed its difficulty of "not knowing where to start", entrusted the game to the system, and said soothingly: "It's okay, you don't have to think about how to start, just answer my questions."
Xiao Si replied in a low voice after a long while, and said in a disconsolate manner: "Ask, Jin Jin."
Shi Jin did not start asking questions immediately, but turned off the tablet, turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, and said: "Wait a little longer... the plane is about to land."
Xiao Si: "Okay."
...
The sanatorium that Lian Jun arranged for Shi Weichong is located in a semi-isolated town by the sea in Country D. The reason why this town is semi-isolated is because of its special geographical location. It is located on a piece of high ground that is connected to the mainland but only connected by a "line". It is more like an island, but because it is connected to the mainland by a "line", it still maintains a slightly closer daily connection with the mainland than a real island.
The fastest way to get to the town from the airport is three or four hours. Shi Jin gave up the faster city subway and taxi and chose to take a long-distance sightseeing bus specially provided for tourists.
"It's 10:30 local time in Country D." Shi Jin chose a window seat in the back row of the tourist bus and sat down. He held his backpack in front of him and took out his cell phone to check the time. "At twelve o'clock, I will get off the bus somewhere to have lunch and buy some gifts for Shi Weichong. Then we'll get on the bus again and set off. Conservatively speaking, we still have a whole afternoon to chat. Well, that's plenty of time. It should be enough for you to tell stories."
"Not telling stories." Xiao Si retorted aggrievedly.
"Yes, my little master never tells stories." Shi Jin smiled and coaxed him, holding his chin with his hand, looking out the window at the streets of a foreign country, squinting his eyes, "Let's just treat it as a trip, and chat while enjoying the scenery."
When the bus passed an ancient and heavy bridge, the two finally started this long-delayed conversation.
"Is this world really a book?" Shi Jin flipped through the tourist guide on the bus and chose a question that was easier to answer to start with.
Xiao Si replied, "It's not a book. There is no book. This world is real. The book you saw at the beginning was created by me based on you... based on the life and memory of the original owner." Shi Jin
had already guessed this, and was not surprised to hear this result. He nodded and asked further, "At the end of the book, the original owner was reborn and vowed to avenge his five brothers. Did you make up this part?" "
No... It was you who was reborn, and wanting to avenge his five brothers was the original owner's biggest obsession before his death."
Shi Jin stroked the corner of the travel guide and continued to ask, "Is what is written in the book mine, or the life and memory of the original owner?"
Xiao Si was silent for a while and replied, "It's Shi Jin's."
Shi Jin's... Which Shi Jin? This Shi Jin, or that Shi Jin? Or the same Shi Jin?
Shi Jin was thinking these things as he looked out the window at the cathedral gradually coming into view. He moved his eyes upwards to look at the cross on the spire of the church, then leaned over the windowsill and swallowed these questions as if to escape. He asked another question, "Then what are you? Are you really a mysterious system, and I am the chosen one chosen by the system?"
"I did choose you." Xiao Si's tone became hesitant, "And I... I am... I don't know."
Shi Jin's heart was stuck halfway through, and he asked in disbelief, "You don't know?"
"Well... but I can vaguely feel it." Xiao Si answered hesitantly, as if he didn't know how to explain it. He stuttered for a long time and suddenly said, "Jin Jin, do you know why your progress bar and your baby's progress bar are 999 and 1000 respectively?"
Shi Jin was indeed very curious about this, and hurriedly replied, "Why?"
"Because there are 1 to 998 in front, each progress bar has an owner. They are all people who will die tragically in their original life trajectory and then have the opportunity to change their fate." Shi Jin
was surprised and asked, "There are so many progress bars? Have you also made a system for the owners of those progress bars? Who selected these people? How is the maximum value of the progress bar owned by each person determined and allocated?"
"Yes, I have done it. The progress bar chooses them by itself. As for the maximum value..." Xiao Si organized his words and replied, "The maximum value of the progress bar represents the possibility of the owner of the progress bar to turn around his life. The higher the possibility, the more difficult and dangerous it is to change the fate, but conversely, the tolerance rate for changing the fate will also be higher. The value of each person is not assigned by others, but determined by their own conditions."
Shi Jin digested the information and asked hesitantly, "Have the progress bars of the 998 people ahead of me been cleared?"
"No, one progress bar affects another. If one is cleared, the progress bars behind it will not be generated at all." Xiao Si replied in a low voice.
"Then those who didn't clear their progress bars..."
"They should have died."
Shi Jin thought the word "should" was a bit strange and asked, "Should?"
Xiao Si's voice became lower and lower, almost inaudible: "Well... Actually, I don't remember much. Every time I leave a host, my memory will be cleared once, leaving only some basic information. According to common sense, if the host's progress bar is not cleared, I must stay until the host dies before I can leave."
Clank. Shi Jin
's arm tilted, his head hit the car window, and he sat up.
Xiao Si was startled and added: "But you and baby are different. Even if I leave you, I will remember you, because you have successfully changed your fate and eliminated the progress bar!"
Shi Jin was a little angry: "How can you guarantee that you can remember, you have forgotten 998 people!"
"I really will remember, my intuition tells me that I will remember." Xiao Si promised.
"You are so sure of this matter just by intuition?" Shi Jin couldn't believe it, his emotions were close to collapse, "What if your intuition deceives you! Then won't you forget me too?"
"It doesn't matter, if I forget you, correspondingly, you will also lose your memory of me." Xiao Si hurriedly comforted him.
Shi Jin felt as if a bucket of hot oil was poured on his head, and then someone handed him a torch. He laughed angrily and said, "If you dare to touch my memory and make me forget you, I will... then..."
Then what? If his memory was really taken away, what could he do? He would probably just live his life happily like a fool.
His high spirits slowly came down, and he slumped in the chair for a long time, then he compromised and said, "Xiao Si, I believe you, you must not forget me... Don't you always say that you are the father of Lian Jun and me? How can a father forget his child?"
"No, I will definitely not forget you!" Xiao Si promised again, and even swore a poisonous oath.
Shi Jin thought the tone of its oath was somewhat funny, but because he was worried, he really couldn't laugh. Seeing that it was already past eleven o'clock, he simply picked up his backpack and got off the car on a crowded street while the tourists around him were looking at the mental patient.
After improving his mood with delicious food and buying some gadgets as gifts for Shi Weichong, Shi Jin boarded a tourist bus to the town at half past twelve. After tidying up his mood, he started chatting again and asked himself, "So you are actually a system that specializes in helping others change their destiny?"
"No," Xiao Si replied, and then he considered his words and said, "My ultimate goal is not this, but in order to achieve my ultimate goal, I must first help you change your destiny and let you live well." Shi
Jin was puzzled and asked, "Then what is your ultimate goal?"
Xiao Si's tone suddenly became serious and solemn, and he replied in a clear voice, "Save the world!" Shi Jin
picked his ears, "...what?"
"My ultimate goal is to save the world!" Xiao Si repeated it in a clear voice.
Shi Jin bowed his head and thought for ten minutes, then raised his head and snapped his fingers, saying, "I'm probably a little confused by the jet lag, and I just had auditory hallucinations. Come
on, let's change the next question." "Jin Jin, you don't believe me." Xiao Si's tone became aggrieved. Shi
Jin choked, then rubbed his face in frustration, turned his head to look at the exotic beauty outside to cleanse his mind, and said, "It's not that I don't believe you, I just... I just need some time to digest it. I'm actually a materialist, do you believe it?"
Xiao Si groaned aggrievedly.
"Well, actually I don't believe it myself." Shi Jin withdrew his gaze expressionlessly, feeling that he was still too impatient. At this point, he had accepted such mysterious things as rebirth and an extra system in his brain. What was so strange about that system shouting that it wanted to save the world?
He carefully digested the four words "save the world" and prepared himself mentally. Only when he thought he was mentally strong enough to calmly accept whatever Xiao Si said next, did he ask again: "So every host of yours died and was reborn like me? If I also failed to change my fate, and then you were bound to Lian Jun, would he also have a chance to be reborn? Or would his body be taken over by another... A soul occupies...wait."
He suddenly realized something was wrong, frowned and said, "Didn't you say before that progress bars affect each other? If one bar is deleted, then the progress bar behind it will not be generated. In other words, if the progress bar fails to be deleted, the next one will be generated when the owner of the progress bar dies, right?"
Xiao Si didn't expect him to be so sharp, and replied, "Generally speaking, it is like this, but it's different for babies."
"What's the difference?"
"He is the last and most crucial one." Xiao Si answered, his tone becoming heavy, "The progress bar is an opportunity, and I only have a thousand chances. He showed up too early, and I couldn't even immediately determine his identity and position like before, because there was you in front of him." Shi
Jin frowned deeply: "You mean, after you failed to save him 998 times, two progress bars that needed to be eliminated suddenly popped up in front of you?"
"That's basically it."
"Then if Lian Jun and I both failed..."
"I will disappear completely and the rescue mission will fail."
Shi Jin still felt that saving the world was too unreal, and said, "How come Lian Jun and I became the key to saving the world? This is simply... Lian Jun may still have an impact on the world. After all, he had a special status and position before, and he was also very smart. If he was determined to become some underworld overlord and stir up trouble in various countries, no one could stop him. But me? I'm such an ordinary person..."
"Jin Jin, you and baby are both important. Baby's influence lies in himself, and your influence lies in your family background. You may not be outstanding, but you can influence five other people who are outstanding enough." Shi Jin
stopped talking. After thinking about it, he had to admit that there was actually some kind of causal logic in these seemingly completely fantastic words that Xiao Si said.
"Xiao Si, I want to know, in the original destiny, after Lian Jun and I died, what happened to everyone? I mean the five brothers of the Shi family and Gua Yi. Also, if I didn't appear beside Lian Jun, and you didn't have time to tie yourself to Lian Jun, where would he die?"
Xiao Si was silent for a while, and replied: "Those are things that didn't happen. Your fate has all changed. I can't give you an answer." Shi Jin
leaned back in his chair and sighed: "Forget it, I don't need your answer." He could figure out the answer to this question by himself.
If fate hadn't changed, he hadn't been reborn, and the original owner had died, then given Xu Jie's temperament, after dealing with the original owner, she would definitely reach out to the other brothers of the Shi family. The other brothers of the Shi family are not easy to get along with, and the relationship between the brothers will definitely become a mess in the end, and they may become enemies or kill each other. And the more outstanding the person, the greater the impact of the fight. The five brothers of the Shi family are at the top of various industries. Once they get serious, the turmoil they cause will only be big, not small.
And Lian Jun, if Lian Jun died, then Gua Yi and the others would definitely be trapped in the dark world and unable to get out. They might inherit Lian Jun's will and try to whitewash Mie, but without Lian Jun's guidance, it's hard to say what the ending will be.
And where will Lian Jun die... If he doesn't show up, Lian Jun will be killed by the chandelier in the orchard.
He was stunned for a while, his thoughts gradually got stuck, and he asked, "I still don't quite understand. Since you are going to save the world, it proves that there must be a big problem with the world, right? But how can the world be wrong? Even if humans die, the earth is still the earth, and the world is still the world. Why does it need to be saved? Are you actually going to save humans? But even if the world is in chaos and a war breaks out, humans are unlikely to be extinct, right? As long as they are not extinct, humans will definitely recover on their own. There is no need to save them. I went to save you specially."
Xiao Si seemed to be stumped by his question, and after a long while he said: "Jin Jin, do you know about rebirth?" Shi Jin
couldn't keep up with the topic, and replied: "Of course I know, I was reborn...Are you saying that this is actually fake? Or that I am actually crazy, you don't exist at all, and everything is my imagination after I went crazy?" He scared himself while talking, and hurriedly looked at the people around him, and pinched himself, wanting to make sure that everything he was experiencing was real.
Xiao Si said, "Of course your rebirth is real, and the rebirth of many people in this world is real."
Shi Jin was stunned, then his eyes widened: "Rebirth of many people? What does that mean?"
"Not only rebirth, but also time travel, soul exchange... and all other unnatural phenomena. These often happen in this world." Xiao Si's tone became heavy again, with a hint of helplessness, "All living things appear, survive, and die according to certain laws. Together they make up this world and promote the development of the world. Then one day, this law caused a small accident in human society. A soul that did not belong to this world came here and occupied the body of a native human, and then the butterfly flapped its wings, and the course of the world changed." Shi
Jin slowly frowned and listened to it attentively.
"If there is only one such accident, then the rules can still slowly absorb the impact it causes. But when the second and third such accidents occur...even when there are people among the native humans who break the rules...something must be wrong, there is a loophole in the rules, and if it continues to be left alone, no one knows what will happen. In order to fill the loopholes and eliminate the impact of various accidents, a progress bar appears..."
As Xiaosi narrated, a world that Shijin could not understand at all appeared before him.
In Xiao Si's narration, the world where Shi Jin lives has become a container that must operate according to the rules to exist healthily. Then one day, an outsider squeezed in by unknown means. He used the knowledge that did not belong to this world to stir up trouble, changed the fate of many people, destroyed the operation of the container itself, and caused cracks to appear in the container.
After the cracks appeared, more and more outsiders squeezed in, and even gradually, the people inside the container also had problems. The operation of the container became a mess, and if this vicious cycle continued, the container would be damaged sooner or later. The container finally realized that something was wrong, and she began to try to save herself with the rules, but this method was too slow to work. As more and more outsiders and mutants were in high positions, greatly influencing and changing the world, and could not be wiped out at will, she thought of a quick way to save herself that could directly approach the source of the problem, and that was the progress bar.
To save herself, she had to eliminate the cracks. To eliminate the cracks, she had to first eliminate the influence of those outsiders and mutants, and get the container's operation back on track. So the most fundamental solution to the problem was to eliminate the influence of those outsiders and mutants.
The progress bar selects those whose fates are most affected by outsiders and mutations, binds them, and helps them change their fates to correct the course of the world.
"The violent organization should not have existed. Shi Xingrui had a son in his old age, and his fate was to be dragged down by his relatives for his whole life." Xiao Si ended this narration with a sentence that shocked Shi Jin's mind, "But because of the promotion of a certain outsider and a certain mutation, the violent organization became a legal existence in China. Shi Xingrui founded Ruixing and gave birth to six sons. The fates of you and your baby were changed invisibly."
Shi Jin was completely speechless.
"Jinjin, you've asked me many times why it was you." Xiaosi paused and said with difficulty, "I never told you the truth in the past... because it can only be you, that's your life, and only you can change it."
Shi Jin only felt a buzzing in his ears, and his heart seemed to lose its support and fell down heavily.
"I failed 998 times, and only you and the baby were left. I had no other choice, so I did what I least wanted to do and used the greatest strength I could." Xiaosi's voice was very dry, with a strong sense of guilt, "I need a host who is mentally strong and optimistic, but you in the past couldn't do that. You were too fragile and full of hatred in your heart... I could almost foresee my 999th failure. The premature appearance of the baby forced me to take a different approach."
"What did you do?" Shi Jin asked.
"I made you a mutant, and twisted your time, so that you could still save everything. Then I stripped you of your memories and emotions and sent you to another place, so that you could live a completely different life like those outsiders who came here. Then, before you could have an impact on the other world, I cruelly brought you back by death, so that you could save your real life from the perspective of others. Your previous life in this world was actually just a beautiful dream when your soul temporarily left the world." Xiaosi's voice slowly became tearful, "Jinjin, I'm sorry, I lied to you from the beginning." This site
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