172 Another Self (Part 3)
◎Come find me quickly, let's go find Xiaoyuan together.◎
There are many people with the same name, but they also happen to participate in shooting competitions and are in an orphanage. How could it be such a coincidence?
Zhu Ning's name suddenly appeared in the center. The paper was yellowed, and under the green filter, it revealed a strange sense of age.
The other awards were basically for 100-meter races and long jump competitions, which were events that Zhu Ning would participate in. When she was a child, she wanted to try all kinds of sports.
She saw traces of herself for the first time in the contaminated area. Was this a message from another self, or a fabrication by the contaminated area? An attempt to mentally pollute her?
Zhu Ning looked away with difficulty and opened the drawer. Inside the drawer was a pile of scattered small gadgets and a basic mechanics textbook, but there was no name written on it.
She usually has her own habits when searching for things. For example, she will feel around at the top and bottom of the drawer because that's where she likes to hide things.
She was just casually touching something and actually touched it. It was very inconspicuous. It was a piece of paper folded into a square and then taped to the top of the drawer with transparent tape.
The note was very thin and had a low presence. Zhu Ning frowned after touching it. This habit was very similar to his own.
If the pollution area just forged her information and knew her name through some means, it would be normal, but isn't it too exaggerated to know her living habits?
Zhu Ning carefully unfolded the note, which contained his own handwriting: The wasteland world is too scary, I must find a way to escape!
The short sentence at the beginning had a strong impact on Zhu Ning. She felt a chill on her back. She had been to so many polluted areas, but none of them was as terrifying as this sentence.
What does it mean that the wasteland world is too scary?
Normal people in the wasteland world would not say such things. At most, they would say that this era is too terrible, or that Area 103 is too terrible. Only people from other worlds would say this.
For example, Zhu Ning who came from the zombie world.
Moreover, the handwriting was not a child's notes, but something written by an adult's soul in a child's body.
There is a possibility. Could it be that she traveled through time a long time ago and was rescued by Lao Yang right after she came through? But Lao Yang and his men were defective and unable to raise a child, so they sent her to the red house to be raised by a mechanical mother?
Then she "restarted" herself, and all her memories were erased, making her mistakenly believe that she had just traveled through time?
If the certificate and the note are both true, this room is the room Zhu Ning lived in, and her inference is the correct answer.
Was the person who wrote this sentence really my childhood self? Why did I write it on a piece of paper and put it under the table? Was it because I was afraid I would forget it?
Suppose, suppose I really wrote it myself, that when I was a child I already knew that there was spiritual pollution in the world, and I was afraid of losing my mind, so I left a reminder.
She seemed to understand the horror of this polluted area, and she could hardly distinguish between reality and pollution.
Bang--!
Zhu Ning was thinking when the door behind him suddenly slammed shut.
Zhu Ning turned around and found that the narrow room was too small for an adult. She felt like she was trapped in a coffin.
At the same time, a light came on outside, shining through the crack under the door.
"It's time to go to bed," a broadcast suddenly came from outside, and the entire contaminated area came alive.
A mechanical female voice sounded, speaking very slowly, enunciating each word: "Children, please go to bed early. After lights out, you are not allowed to go out without permission."
The words were clearly meant to lull the children to sleep, but because they were mechanical, there was an eerie feeling of a machine imitating human speech, which actually sounded a bit creepy. "Good night, children."
After the broadcast ended, footsteps began to be heard in the corridor. Zhu Ning held his breath and did not move.
There was someone at the door, a pair of feet standing right at her door.
Zhu Ning reached for the gun with one hand, and her God's perspective opened, and she saw a person standing next to her door.
I don't know if she can be called a human being. She is a robot, but her structure is too simple. The mechanical skeleton is exposed, and the bony skeleton is covered with a layer of unrealistic human skin, like a wax figure.
She was wearing a red suit with an apron tied around her waist.
Zhu Ning didn't know why, but he immediately knew she was the legendary mechanical mother. Zhu Ning had an instinctive fear of her, as if it was engraved in his bones.
The mechanical mother stood at her door. She knew that Zhu Ning was particularly naughty and very difficult to discipline, and always did things out of line, so she put one ear on the door, waiting for Zhu Ning to be disobedient.
But this time she heard nothing. A minute later, the mechanical mother left with some disappointment.
From Zhu Ning's God's perspective, she checked every child's door to make sure they were all locked. Finally, she walked to the end of the corridor, turned off the lights, and then went to check on the children on the third floor.
The clattering sound of footsteps completely disappeared. Zhu Ning breathed a sigh of relief only after the mechanical mother reached the third floor. Her heart almost jumped out of her chest just now.
Why is she so afraid of the mechanical mother?
Because this sense of authority is instilled in children from a young age, even if they don't speak out, it will be intimidating to them?
Zhu Ning seemed to understand that if she had really lived here before, the role she needed to play would be herself.
She has played the roles of a dentist, a cashier at a hot pot restaurant, and a tourist who accidentally entered a deserted village in a polluted area. This is the first time she has played the role of the original owner.
What should I do next? Sleep? Or take this opportunity to go out and have a look?
Zhu Ning touched the quilt. There was a musty smell in the quilt, and the bed was a little small for her.
Zhu Ningjing sat quietly in the night, still unable to believe that she had entered some strange place. Ever since the mechanical mother appeared, the air seemed to have become heavy, and she felt uncomfortable everywhere. She was very anxious and just wanted to leave.
Zhu Ning put the note away and carefully explored the structure of the entire room, hoping there might be other clues.
Zhu Ning was feeling around when he suddenly heard a slight thud.
The sound was so soft that it was easy to miss, but Zhu Ning knew it was not an illusion because another sound came afterwards.
Dong, Dong, Dong, the sound had a certain rhythm and came from the wall on her right.
"Zhu Ning." Someone called her softly.
Zhu Ning did not answer rashly. She was still not used to playing herself. It turned out that she was the most difficult person to play.
From a God's perspective, Zhu Ning saw a little girl wearing striped pajamas and kneeling in the corner, carefully knocking on the wall, afraid of being discovered.
This should be the way the two little girls in the orphanage communicate with each other.
The little girl didn't hear a response, so she knocked on the wall again and whispered, "Is Zhu Ning there? Li Xin is calling Zhu Ning. If you hear me, please answer. Over."
So her name is Li Xin?
Zhu Ning stopped groping for the floor. She stood in front of the wall, was silent for two seconds, tried to knock on the wall, and actually had a conversation with a little kid.
"Zhu Ning is here, over." She actually spoke in the voice of a little girl.
Li Xin heaved a sigh of relief when she heard the reply. She said to the wall, "Hey, Xiaoyuan hasn't been found yet."
Zhu Ning was stunned. Small garden?
It turns out that the incident of the grave-sticking happened so long ago, and her name is Xiaoyuan?
Didn't Xiaoyuan say during the phone call that she wanted to protect her privacy and not reveal too much? But kids probably don't have enough awareness of this and think using a nickname as their real name is safe online.
Could it be that Xiaoyuan... is someone Zhu Ning knew when he was a child?
Li Xin sensed something was wrong with Zhu Ning and asked, "Why are you so silent today?"
Zhu Ning: "I'm a little sleepy."
Li Xin snorted, "You're such a boaster. You even said you'd take me to find Xiaoyuan, like a detective."
Zhu Ning half-knelt in the corner, talking to Li Xin across the wall. She knew that the other party should be a pollutant, but he was very gentle to her, as if this was her childhood playmate.
Zhu Ning's lines came out naturally: "Agent Li Xin reports on the situation."
"Great!" Li Xin replied excitedly, "This is the third day since Xiaoyuan disappeared."
Zhu Ning listened carefully. It turned out that Xiaoyuan disappeared after the tomb sticker was posted. The current timeline was the third day after Xiaoyuan's disappearance.
"Xiaoyuan's real name is Jiang Yue. Because she has a round face, everyone calls her Xiaoyuan. We're not very familiar with her."
Zhu Ning laughed when he heard this. The child's choice of words was very interesting, and half-baked.
"That night, Xiaoyuan said she wanted to call for help. We didn't know what she was asking for," Li Xin said in a low voice, "so we just wished her good luck."
Li Xin said: "But the next day, the robot mother opened the door and found that her room was empty and Xiaoyuan was gone."
Zhu Ning asked, "Why is he gone?"
Li Xin: "Are you testing me?"
Zhu Ning: "I'm helping you clear your mind."
Li Xin, a child with little wit, said, "Well, we all know that once the lights are turned off, the door to the room will be locked from the outside and no one can get out. There are no traces in the room. After Xiaoyuan disappeared, a few clothes fell out of the closet."
"Later, the Robot Mother sent people out to look for her, but there was no clue at all. Some people speculated that the Robot Mother took her away and gave Xiaoyuan to bad people to eat. Some people said that she turned into a butterfly and flew away."
Zhu Ning: "What do you think?"
"I think..." Li Xin stretched out her tone, "She was taken away by a ghost."
Zhu Ning asked, "Why?"
"Hey, are you really testing me? Why do I feel like you've lost your memory?" Li Xin sensed something was amiss and asked, "Are you Zhu Ning?"
Zhu Ning thought to himself, I really am, but I don’t know which one you know.
Zhu Ning: "Yes."
Li Xin: "What color do I like?"
Zhu Ning looked at her room from a God's perspective. There was a purple rabbit doll on the bed, and the sweater hanging next to it was also purple.
Zhu Ning cheated and answered, "Purple."
"It's true," Li Xin laughed. "Let's continue talking about Xiaoyuan. I feel like she's very strange. She always behaves differently, like she's crazy. The day before she disappeared, she said this was her last chance to save me, and she asked for help."
"This person must be haunted by a ghost, otherwise why would he ask for help?"
Zhu Ning thought to himself, you are quite smart, but you are not a ghost, you may be a pollutant.
Zhu Ning: "Amazing, you are worthy of it."
Li Xin: "You are so perfunctory."
Zhu Ning had no memory of getting along with her, so it was already good enough that it had come to this point.
Li Xin: "Don't talk to me anymore, the mechanical mother is gone. Come on, use your key to let me out, and let's go find Xiaoyuan together."
Zhu Ning was stunned and asked, "Key?"
Li Xin: "Yes, don't you have a magic key that can open all doors?"
Li Xin actually knew Zhu Ning had a master key? If this was a smokescreen set by the pollutants, knowing her name, Zhu Ning would be understandable.
It's understandable that she can shoot, and it also makes sense that she forged her handwriting, but she never told anyone that she had a system item.
How did Li Xin know this? Could pollutants have reached this point?
There was only one possibility left, and that was what Zhu Ning said herself. She and Li Xin were good sisters and could share some secrets. She often used this key to take Li Xin out to play secretly, and do things in the middle of the night that the mechanical mother would not allow her to do.
Zhu Ning actually felt vaguely that this speculation was correct, because it was something she could do.
Li Xin urged her: "Come to me quickly, let's go find Xiaoyuan together."
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