170 Another Self (I)
◎They look exactly the same◎
Zhu Ning felt quite uncomfortable when he first saw the title of the tombstone. Purifying polluted areas is to protect ordinary people, but now ordinary people don’t know how long they can live.
After pollutants appeared in the lobby of the cleaning center, the official tasks of the cleaning center were reduced by two-thirds, and only some emergency tasks were still being carried out.
At this critical juncture, isn't it inappropriate for Prometheus to let her enter the contaminated area?
However, if she succeeds in purifying the contaminated area, it will only take a few hours at most. If she fails, she will die in there.
Anyway, these two outcomes have no impact on the current situation.
Zhu Ning already knew that this was another way for him to communicate with himself, otherwise he wouldn't want to go.
This game will definitely have an "easter egg", what do you want to say this time?
Fentie is an online column called "Little Ghost Talks Ghost Stories" and the host is called Little Ghost.
The theme is to share the supernatural stories around you, and live broadcast with the people who have witnessed the supernatural events.
Because it is shared by firsthand witnesses, the immersive experience is particularly strong, and the barrage interaction feels very good.
He also has a segment where he helps those seeking help solve their problems. The host is said to be a ghost exorcist himself, and the barrage will also make corresponding suggestions.
Zhu Ning clicked into the live broadcast room, but the time was not displayed, so he didn't know whether it was a recorded broadcast or a live broadcast.
The background of the vertical screen is a blood-red wall with several yellow talismans pasted on it. It should be that the blogger specially made it to create a horror atmosphere, especially like a makeshift troupe that is deliberately mysterious.
The screen had a blood-red horror filter on. Sitting in front of the camera was a round-faced man in a Taoist robe, looking like a charlatan. "Hello everyone, welcome to Little Ghost Talk. I'm the host, Little Ghost."
As usual, Xiao Gui interacted with the comments, saying a bunch of polite words asking for tips and likes, then pressed a button. "Next, let's welcome our first guest today. What's their name?"
After Xiao Gui fell silent, there was a crackling sound on the other end of the phone. There was a pause of about three seconds, and the voice that came through was also voice-changed. "Just call me Xiaoyuan."
This sounded like a pseudonym, and Zhu Ning guessed that this was the protagonist.
Little Ghost: "Hello Xiaoyuan, are you in any trouble?"
There were breathing sounds coming from the other end of the phone. Xiaoyuan seemed to be talking close to the microphone, making her breathing sound particularly heavy.
Xiaoyuan lowered her voice and said, "There seems to be another person in my house. I don't know what to do. I don't dare to talk to it."
Barrage: [Is it so exciting today? ]
[Interesting, Modo Modo.]
The host had heard a lot of ghost stories, and although he wasn't afraid, he put on a serious expression to match the scary atmosphere. He lowered his voice and asked, "Can you tell me who it is?"
Xiaoyuan: "I, I don't know, but it's extra."
Xiao Gui often receives calls about confusion and offers some guidance: "Can't your family see it?"
Xiaoyuan: "I, my family seems to think it's me."
Little Ghost: "What do they think? As far as I know, relatives should not make mistakes."
"No," Xiaoyuan lowered her voice, as if she was desperate. "They really made a mistake. All my friends can admit their mistakes. As long as I'm not around, it will play me, and it plays better than me. I feel like it's going to replace me."
The kid was silent for a moment, and then a comment popped up: [I know the answer to this question. Typical symptoms of schizophrenia. In fact, the two people are the same person.]
[Yes, Yuanzi should go see a psychiatrist. He'll tell you exactly what's going on.]
[Forget it, most people with mental illness don't even know they have a disease, and once the test results come out they go crazy.]
The little ghost asked: "How did you find out the first time?"
Xiaoyuan didn't know where she was hiding when she made the call. The voice was very strange, as if it was from some enclosed space. "I, I feel like it has existed for a long time, but I never knew it existed."
"To protect my privacy, I don't want to talk about my family," Xiaoyuan said. "My family is very large, and I have many brothers and sisters."
Xiaoyuan: "I'm a very, very ordinary person, so ordinary that I don't have any shining points at all. I don't have much entertainment, I just like reading novels and playing games."
"It happened to be the weekend, and I was going back to school the next day. When I was packing my things, I found a registration form on the table. It said I was going to participate in a swimming competition."
"I thought it was very strange at the time because I can't swim, and the handwriting on this piece of paper is my own, but it's much better than my own. I don't know if you can understand, but it's words you need to write carefully."
Zhu Ning probably understood that most people's handwriting was rather sloppy, so it was enough to just make sure it was legible.
But the handwriting people write on important occasions or in important documents will look better, written stroke by stroke. Sometimes people will feel strange if they stare at their own handwriting for a long time.
"Did I write this? When did I write it?" Xiaoyuan wondered. "I thought it was strange at the time, but I couldn't understand it at all. Our school was really going to hold a swimming competition, and I really did have this form. My first reaction was that someone had signed me up, so I went to ask my brother."
"My brother was a very naughty kid. We always fought when we were little. I suspected he was playing a trick on me. He wanted to sign me up and make a fool of myself. He was imitating my handwriting."
"Then I took the registration form to my brother, who was with my older brother and sister. When they saw me, they all asked, 'Are you ready for the competition?'"
"I thought it was my brother playing a prank, so I got angry at him and told him not to touch my things in the future."
"But," Xiaoyuan's voice choked, "after I lost my temper, everyone was stunned. I remember the way they looked at me was scary. They looked at me like a stranger. My brother asked, 'Didn't you say you wanted to go to the swimming competition?'
Xiaoyuan paused before continuing, "They said that I suddenly told them yesterday morning that I was going to participate in the competition. I said it myself."
She seemed afraid that people wouldn't understand, so she emphasized several times that she said it herself.
Xiaoyuan: "I finally felt something was wrong. I said it out loud. It's impossible. I definitely didn't say that. Otherwise, I will be struck by lightning. Besides, I played games too late yesterday and got up at twelve o'clock. There is absolutely no way I would talk to them in the morning."
Little Ghost: "What happened next?"
Many people in the live broadcast room were fascinated by the video. After Xiao Gui asked the question, some people reacted and asked in the comments if he was sleepwalking.
Xiaoyuan: "My sister said I was sleepwalking and told me to go back and get some sleep, so I went back to my room. I was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at the registration form in my hand. My handwriting was on it. I don't know how to describe that feeling. There were no ghosts, and no one was trying to harm you. On the surface, everything seemed normal, but you knew something was definitely wrong. But there was no way to explain it. If I kept trying, they would send me to see a doctor."
Xiaoyuan: "I couldn't sleep at night. I tossed and turned but couldn't figure it out. From then on, I began to observe carefully to see if there was any more evidence."
Xiaoyuan: "I tore up the registration form and didn't go to the swimming competition. Then the next weekend, I came home and heard laughter coming from the audio-visual room. My sister and brother were playing in there, so I wanted to join in. Then I opened the door and walked in. My sister was playing games. I sat next to her, and she suddenly said, "Are you back from the bathroom?"
"I thought she had the wrong person. What are you talking about? I didn't go to the bathroom. I just came back."
"My sister's face changed at that time. She put down the controller and looked back at me. Didn't you say you wanted to go to the bathroom?"
"I," Xiaoyuan said, her emotions a bit strained. "I didn't expect what happened next to be so... so strange. I later asked my sister in detail. In their world, I played with them for over four hours, then went out to the bathroom. When I came back, my temperament had completely changed."
"During these four hours, I even played games with them. The game consoles still have saved files, and they all said they liked the other me better."
[Schizophrenia, absolutely.] The commentary made its judgment.
Xiao Gui wasn't so direct. He felt there must be something else going on. Xiao Yuan: "At first I really thought I was schizophrenic, but after thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem right because I can find my alibi. On the day they played games together, I was looking up information in the school library, and the school surveillance cameras showed it."
"So while I was at school, there was another one at home with my sisters, and when I was almost home, it said it had to go to the bathroom, and then I walked in, and we connected seamlessly."
"I'm sure there's another person who only spends time with my family and friends when I'm not around, and I feel like it's going to replace me."
[It's actually pretty good, isn't it? I sometimes fantasize about having another version of myself, so someone can play with my cat when I'm not home.]
[Don't let the capitalists find out. If they knew you could exploit two people, they would go crazy.]
Isn't that terrifying? If your alter ego is better at everything and everyone else likes it more, what do you do?
Xiaoyuan couldn't see the comments and only told her own story, "I made a decision to catch it, but I didn't expect that this would be the decision I regretted the most."
Life goes on when you don't notice, but once you do, it's impossible to ignore, and you'll find that your life seems like a giant lie.
Xiaoyuan: "I knew it would appear when I wasn't home. I had planned to go out with a friend that weekend, so I went out. But I didn't go far and quietly returned to my home."
"I approached quietly and saw it from a distance with my sister, helping her with housework. The kitchen was on the first floor, and I saw them talking and laughing while making cakes together."
"I was standing there in front of the window, stunned. She just happened to look up and see me. My sister had her back turned to get something from the refrigerator, so we were the only two staring at each other," Xiaoyuan said, her speech accelerating like crazy. "I thought she was afraid of me, but she wasn't at all! She just stood there quietly by the window, looking at me! No expression at all!"
"Later," Xiaoyuan's voice began to tremble, as if recalling this incident made her painful, "My sister was about to turn around. She had already closed the refrigerator door. If she turned around, she would see me standing outside the window. At this time, I made a decision that I didn't understand myself. I hid."
"I bent down and hid under the wall, continuing to listen to them talking and laughing," Xiaoyuan could be heard sobbing. "I didn't understand why I had to hide when they were the extra person. But that was my instinctive reaction. I was really scared."
Barrage: [Wow, is this going to replace you? ]
This seems like one of those substitute ghost stories.
Xiaoyuan really cried, her voice tinged with sobs. After a long while, she said, "Then I wondered, am I the extra one?"
Barrage: [Right! How do we prove the caller is a human?]
[This...could it be a ghost? ]
[Have you heard? Even ghosts can access the internet now.]
The little ghost said at the right time: "It's possible, but we really can't prove it."
After this sentence, the live broadcast room was particularly lively and everyone began to discuss passionately. Some people thought that Xiaoyuan was the original owner, and another person knew that Xiaoyuan could not swim, and signed her up for the swimming competition obviously with the intention of killing her.
Some people think that Xiaoyuan is the ghost but she doesn't know it, otherwise why would she hide and why is she so guilty.
The question netizens are asking now is, who of these two people stayed?
Seeing that the discussion was almost over, the little ghost asked, "Is there anything else next?"
"Then?" Xiaoyuan's voice became dazed, and she suddenly laughed dryly. "Then it started to show up openly. It stood behind my sister when I was eating, sat in the corner when I was watching TV, and hugged me from behind when I was sleeping. I wanted to get used to it, but it was difficult."
There is one more person in your life. She will just observe you quietly. When you are not around, she will get along with the people around her for you. In the eyes of others, there is only one you.
Everyone's life is normal, only yours is not normal.
“When we exist at the same time, no one else can see it, only I can see it.”
"I wanted to talk to her several times. I wanted to ask her what she wanted! If she wanted my life, I would give it to her."
"But I don't know why," Xiaoyuan lowered her voice, suddenly bursting into laughter and then falling silent, her voice sounding strange, "I don't dare to talk to her."
She seemed to have been tortured for a long time and was completely accustomed to this kind of life. She said coldly, "She is right behind me, but I dare not say it."
Every time she tried to speak, an invisible force stopped her, and no one knew what would happen after the conversation.
Sometimes people have self-protection mechanisms, and some inexplicable intuitions are protecting you from harm.
After Xiaoyuan finished saying this, he fell into a long silence, and the sound of breathing could be heard.
No one spoke in the barrage, and Xiao Gui was also stunned. At that moment, it seemed as if the whole world was paused.
Everyone present, including Zhu Ning, felt an indescribable feeling. A gloomy atmosphere seeped out from an unknown corner, as if it could accurately reach your world through the screen.
"Then..." The little ghost asked a key question: "Where are you now?"
They could clearly feel that the place where Xiaoyuan was speaking was not a normal place, and her voice was particularly suppressed, as if she was hiding from something.
Xiaoyuan whispered, "In the closet."
"So where is it...now?"
"Outside the closet."
Two people were separated by a wooden door of a wardrobe. One of them was hiding in the wardrobe in fear, trying his best to hide himself in the clothes, while the other was standing at the door of the wardrobe. Because he was standing too close, his nose was touching the wooden door with a smile on his face.
They look exactly the same.
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