Chapter 144
The briefcase appeared.
He stood in the small room, looked at the person opposite him and said, "You have come to this point, and you still won't stop?"
The man smiled and said, "I should stop? Why should I stop? I have a wife and children now. My whole family is the same as me, just like when I was young, I looked at my parents. What's wrong with that? It was like this before, it is like this now, and it will be like this in the future! The so-called slogans will always be just slogans. You know what? This is what should be done, this is normal, and this is the truth!"
Briefcase said: "Take the error as the truth, and it is your fault."
The man sneered, "Mistakes are real? Mistakes are not real? Only falsehood is real? Only what you believe is real? Only what you want to deceive people is real? Only those things that are so fake that no one would believe are real? Only those things that make others sacrifice their lives and still make you feel smug and great are real? Bullshit."
"I didn't say that," said the briefcase.
The man shouted, "That's what you meant! Otherwise, why did you deny me?"
"No one thinks death is a big deal," said the briefcase.
The man laughed and said, "How can there be none? I am one! Are you talking without thinking or without thinking? Those people never take other people's lives seriously, otherwise, how could so many people die? How could it be like today! Bullshit rubbish. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be in this situation today. I really treated you as a brother and friend. Don't you know?"
Briefcase thought for a moment and said, "It doesn't matter whether you know it or not. It's the past, and time has passed. You have gone through all the mistakes again. Even if you don't need to go to jail, don't lose your job, and can continue to keep your salary, it doesn't mean you are right or normal."
He Shang laughed and said, "I'm not normal? You are the abnormal one, you are the incorrect one. I am the trend of the times! Do you know how those fools outside protect me? They report that this one is against the rules, that one is harmful to teenagers, this one is cult, that one is □□, hahaha! Can you imagine? Even if I have done all the bad things, they still protect me, they think they are righteous!"
Briefcase lowered his eyes and said, "Just because something has not been exposed doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because something has been published in the news doesn't mean no one knows about it, nor does it mean knows about it. It is never against the law to tell others about the news you have learned about. They did nothing wrong. They were killed because of you. You are the culprit."
He Shang sneered, "I am the culprit? Bullshit! They are so stupid that it's like they have a broken melon on their necks. They can't look at it or eat it, so it's just for show. Can you blame me? You are not ashamed to say such things. If you think so, they must think you are extremely evil. You should have joined me a long time ago. What's wrong with submitting to me?
I really don't understand what you mean, but it doesn't matter. Except for you, all those who resisted me died. "
Briefcase said: "Murder is against the law."
He Shang smiled and said, "Yes, yes, of course I know, but I didn't kill them, so how can I be blamed? They committed a crime, so how can I be blamed?"
Briefcase was a little emotional: "You are talking nonsense!"
He Shang laughed and said, "How can I be talking nonsense? Haven't you seen the law? It's very clear! It was just issued recently. The Security Management Regulations, Article 32, Article 33, Article 34, and Article 100. Article 100 means that public security management personnel can send individual law enforcement officers to perform official duties at any time. If the suspect violates the law, he can be dealt with immediately.
Dealing with it immediately means that if he has the intention to attack me, I can kill him. No one can testify whether he really wants to kill me or is just pretending to want to kill me. If I kill him, there will be no evidence. Of course, it is my due. I am fair!
Hahahaha, isn't this the fairness you want? Isn't this the equality you want?
How is it unequal for one person to treat another? It's fair! Hahaha!
The meaning of those thirty-something articles is even simpler: you have harmed the spirit, the spirit, hahahaha!
Spirit, do you know what spirit means? For example, there is a sunflower here, which is the national flower of a certain country. When you pass by it, you knock off one of its petals, then you have harmed the national spirit, hahaha! I can arrest you because you have committed a crime. If you refuse to plead guilty, it is stubborn resistance.
If you confess, you will be treated leniently; if you resist, you will be treated severely. So it is also normal for you to resist fiercely and be dealt with according to the law!
Regardless of whether they were killed during the process or killed after being caught and tried, aren't they all killed?
Still, you can never overturn your case even if you speak righteously and justifiably. Because others may be killed innocently, but you must have been killed after breaking the law! You are sentenced to death and you cannot escape. Others may overturn their verdicts. They know that they did not do it. If they were killed, they must have died innocently. Their relatives and friends will testify for them and advocate for them until their injustice is redressed.
But what about you? You don't count. Hahaha!"
Briefcase clenched his fists: "You're going too far."
He Shang snorted, "I didn't make the law, and I'm not responsible for revising it. What does it have to do with me? I'm just telling you. If you're not convinced, you can go and see for yourself! It's quite a big fuss, and everyone knows about it. You don't know because you're ignorant. You have a brain disease and you're blind and deaf. You can't blame others."
Briefcase gritted his teeth: "I don't believe it."
He Shang smiled and said, "Then I'll show you a way. You can go and see for yourself. It's right there."
As he spoke, he pointed toward the door.
Briefcase glanced at him and walked out.
The people outside were about to grab the briefcase, but He Shang walked out and leaned against the door and said to them, "Don't worry, it won't be too late for him to come back after checking it. He is more law-abiding than I am. He is very punctual."
Those people dispersed, and the briefcase ran out, and indeed saw the notice on the bulletin board.
A group of people slowly appeared behind him. He Shang walked over and asked, "Hey! Did you see it?"
He walked around the briefcase and asked, "Can you still say you don't know? Can you still tell me that everything is normal? Haha! What a joke! I know I am deceiving myself. I can't compare with you. How can I compare with you? Don't you always look down on me? What's more, I don't want to compare. This is a fact. Compared with this kind of thing, I am just garbage, but it is really cheap."
The briefcase said, "You mean they are all garbage? I know what you mean. Since I have committed a crime, you can arrest me and kill me. Even if I die, I will not agree with your idea."
He Shang laughed and said, "What does it have to do with me? Go and die if you have the guts."
The briefcase said: "I will not give up my life easily, because my life not only belongs to me, but also to my family, friends, my people and my country!"
He Shang nodded: "Okay, very good. I won't kill you, and I won't arrest you. You know, people like me, even if I play outside, still have a job and a salary, and live a good life. I want you to be outside so that you can know how bad this place is, and you can know that you are fundamentally wrong. Do you know where is the best place? The north, the northernmost part, where you can see the light."
The briefcase murmured, "I know, Ice Nokai Island."
He Shang smiled and said, "Oh, you know, then I won't say much."
At his command, a group of people left.
At night, He Shang swallowed a handful of Fu Lu Shou Xi cream and danced and sang happily with a group of people. They lit the chimney in the cabin, and there was smoke everywhere. In the misty house, everyone fell asleep peacefully.
Leyuan patted He Shang's face and said, "Wake up."
He Shang forced himself to open his eyes and looked around the park: "Oh, it's you. What do you want to talk to me about?"
Le Yuan said, "I know how to leave here and how to go home."
Kawakami nodded: "Oh, that's great."
Paradise said: "We need your help."
He Shang asked, "How can I help you?"
Paradise said, “Rest here.”
He Shang burped: "I know, I'm going to rest now. I won't leave tonight. Don't worry, you can go out now, right?"
Leyuan nodded, stood up and said, "Then I'll leave."
He Shang responded, turned over and fell asleep.
Paradise left the little house.
In the middle of the night, the house caught fire. All the people inside were slowly being engulfed by the flames, but there was no sound at all because they had died before the fire reached them.
When it was daytime and the sky gradually brightened, Leyuan walked over. The room was already dark and looked like a piece of charcoal. The fire did not continue to burn. For some reason, he felt a little regretful. He walked into the room and saw the door he had not seen for a long time.
He walked out and returned to the clearing.
The crowd looked at each other and then looked towards the last door.
"I don't know if we can leave here now."
"If only I could go home now."
"I don't know when those people died."
"We could all be happy if everyone died."
“That’s true.”
"Some people are just garbage. They are garbage and they don't allow others to say they are garbage. Garbage, garbage, garbage."
Leyuan walked over and pushed open the door. When the door opened, there was no cliff outside, but groups of living people and groups of dead people, and ashes of a fire that had just been burned. The ground was black and gray, and the air was filled with a lingering smell of paper ashes and some white powder particles blown by the wind, almost covering everyone's eyes.
The sky was dark, as if it would never get brighter again. Everyone's face was filled with fatigue and anxiety. They heard the noise and looked over here. They saw the open door and a group of people behind the door. They were all startled and took a step back, staring at the people here, as if they had never known them before. They were terrified and worried, and their bodies were shaking slightly.
They protected each other, yet were hostile to each other, were wary of each other, yet watched each other, as if they were afraid that there was a ghost hiding among the crowd.
The others couldn't wait much longer and rushed out from Leyuan's side. Leyuan suddenly realized that Jongin had left. He was not beside him. Leyuan felt a strong sense of fear coming over him. He staggered and held onto the door next to him. The door was closed. Everyone had gone out, except him. The door closed right in front of him. After he watched the door close, his legs went weak and he sat down beside him.
His heart was beating so fast, it was as if he had actually died a long time ago.
Leyuan tried to call the system, but there was no response, as if the system had disappeared long ago. For a moment, he felt that he had actually lost hope.
But when he was at a loss, he heard a thin, faint voice answering: "Don't look for them, I'm here."
It's a black shadow.
Le Yuan realized that the voice came from his own head, which meant that it was indeed a shadow.
"Are they all gone?"
Paradise asked like a lost child.
"Why not?"
The shadow's voice gradually solidified.
"They were not our kind."
The shadow said, "You don't know? It looks like you really don't know. Let me tell you. The system is only temporarily living in your brain. If you want to catch them, you have to find another way."
Paradise asked: "What what?"
The shadow said, "To be more specific, the system itself is a kind of weirdness. It comes to you in order to achieve what it wants to do, such as opening the door as soon as possible to let all the weirdness appear here and cause weirdness to explode. This is certain, but if the inside and outside are consistent, the speed will be faster. You see, this is the case now. Those people outside have already experienced it once.
Hehehe.
They have unknowingly witnessed a complete explosion of weirdness, from disbelief to deep fear. Behind those faces, expressions, and emotions you see, there are countless people and lives who died with their eyes open. How interesting!
Can't you see?
Going back a little further, when you died in your dream, you actually exuded a strange aura. That’s how the system found you. Like attracts like. You met, and it told you that if you agreed to it, you could get everything. Now, haven’t you got everything? Think carefully, what were you thinking when you agreed to it? What did you think you could get at that time?"
Leyuan murmured, "What? Everything I wanted, life, no schooling, recovery, power, a quiet place to live, death of all the people I hate, money. Now, I have everything. No wonder it left now. But, it didn't tell me these before. How did you know?"
The shadow laughed and said, "When you came out, you were a little slow. Maybe it was because I am smaller, lighter, and more eager than you, so I was a little faster than you. I came out before you came out. After I came out, I saw them in your mind. They said these words to me before they left. I still had some doubts, so I asked them, and they told me everything. They left very quickly."
Leyuan asked, "Did they disappear all of a sudden?"
The shadow nodded: "Yes."
Lok Won asked, "Are they the system and Jongin?"
The shadow nodded, "Yes, the system is definitely leaving. It took away everything it brought with it, because you didn't say before that you wanted them too. Jongin must be in there. It wasn't originally called that name, but it's happy to meet you later and give it a new name. Speaking of which, it also took something of yours away. I think it was your breath."
It doesn’t seem to dislike you.”
Le Yuan sneered, "Don't hate me? What's the point of not hating me? When they left, they didn't think of me. It's like they dug a hole in their hearts. I really can't imagine it. If they don't hate me, why would they do this? Or maybe they did it on purpose, which makes more sense."
He held his chest, his heart was beating wildly inside, he was so sad that he really didn't want to endure it anymore. He asked, "Please, can you kill me? I have already got what I wanted. If I were to see them again, it would be too cruel. Even if you want to torture me, don't be so disgusting. Kill me now. Everything is fine, but it doesn't belong to me. I don't want to see those strangers.
What can I say to them?"
For a moment, Leyuan lost consciousness and couldn't tell how much time had passed. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a small black box. There was nothing around him, but Leyuan vaguely saw a person in the distance. From the back, it seemed to be Jongin. Leyuan approached hesitantly, and when he passed by, there was indeed nothing there.
He felt a little disappointed but also felt that this was how things were. This situation was only expected and there was nothing to be disappointed about.
He smiled to himself, and a mirror appeared in front of him. The mirror was sparkling, too bright. He thought about it, and the mirror dimmed, like a crystal glass that had lost its luster. Leyuan stretched out his hand, but found that he could not grab the mirror. The mirror dispersed like a cloud.
Leyuan withdrew his hand hesitantly, and the mirror appeared in front of him again. He looked at himself in the mirror and found that he could not see his appearance clearly.
Blurry people, blurry faces, even the shadows and outlines are blurry.
A voice murmured, "How pitiful! How ridiculous!"
Leyuan didn't like the voice and frowned. The mirror disappeared in front of her eyes and a voice shouted, "Who are you? Who are you?"
The sound even echoed in the darkness, as if he was now in a huge cave.
Leyuan got a headache from the echo and almost fell into a coma, but the sound gradually disappeared. He closed his eyes, but found that it was getting brighter outside. He didn't like the light, but thought something was strange, so he opened his eyes and saw that he had come to the house he hadn't seen for a long time.
The house was very big and did not seem like where he lived. Three balls of black air caught him and he began to struggle. During the struggle, he also turned into a ball of black air. His perspective fell on the sofa and he gradually moved to the corner of the wall, like a surveillance camera, faithfully watching everything he could see and recording it.
Three black air groups killed that one black air group, and he realized that the one black air group was himself.
When Leyuan realized his past self, the three black clouds in front of him suddenly changed. They were dripping with unreal blood, soaking the floor of the house. The floor was swollen, as if there was a layer of something growing underneath. Leyuan felt that those things were flesh and blood. He blinked and saw that the house itself was a mass of flesh and blood.
He was a little confused, but he felt that he was getting closer to the truth, and he didn't want to leave here just like that.
He wants to continue watching.
He frowned as he saw the three balls of black air coming towards him.
In just a moment, the black air was extinguished, and Paradise was now unquestionably powerful here.
Three groups of colorful shadows began to move forward. They were kneeling, bowing to the park, and crying out in sorrow: "Don't you recognize me? Don't you recognize us? We are your family! We are one family! How can you kill us?"
Le Yuan laughed and said, "I never knew I had such a family. Besides, I didn't have any family to begin with. You wanted to deceive me, and you have deceived me before. It's been so many years, and that should be enough."
Before he finished speaking, the shadows disappeared like bubbles.
The room was quiet, and even the floor gradually returned to normal. The blood on the surface of the floor flowed through the gaps to an invisible place and disappeared.
We sat in the paradise for a while. There was no one else here and nothing else was happening. The sky gradually brightened, as if there was another world outside here, and in that world, there was also a distinction between day and night.
Leyuan suddenly became interested in the outside world. He opened the glass window of the balcony, walked out, and saw strange-looking people walking here and there as if without a purpose. Ant was worrying about where to find some candy to take home, when he suddenly felt Leyuan's gaze. They all raised their heads and looked towards Leyuan.
Paradise waved to them, and they suddenly grew translucent membrane wings and flew up, approaching Paradise's window. However, they could not get close to Paradise's balcony no matter what, and could only talk to Paradise at a distance. They shouted to Paradise, their hissing voices were vague and strange, and Paradise could not hear what they were saying. They seemed to realize this and looked at each other.
They started changing their language, and after many variations, they adjusted to something that Paradise could understand.
"Who are you? Where are you from? Why are you here?"
"This is my home. If this kind of place can be considered home, then I live here. I came from another place, and usually I would be here when I close my eyes. Now, maybe it's because I died somewhere else that I ended up here."
"Will you appear here after you die? No, no, you won't appear here after you die. We can't hiss."
They started speaking strange, incomprehensible words again.
After waiting for a while, they said to him, "Why can't we get closer to you? Can you come out? If you can come out, we can show you around."
Paradise said: "I don't know if I can go out. What fun would there be?"
They said, "We can show you around. It's not much fun, but for some people it's a nice place."
Le Yuan flipped out of the balcony, and they suddenly turned black and smiled at Le Yuan: "You can be our food, we will take you to the nest!"
As they spoke, they swooped over, wrapped the paradise with a sticky, slightly sweet, translucent liquid, and dragged it away.
They were not lying. Paradise could still look out from the translucent thing and see what was happening outside. But his eyes were still the same as before. Everything he saw seemed to be mixed with different colors. His head was dizzy, if he still had a brain.
After a long journey, they were dropped off in the park. It was pitch black everywhere and looked like a huge honeycomb. You could take a bite of it. Maybe it tasted like chocolate wafer Oreos with dried lemon filling.
They dragged the paradise in and brought it to a golden, round, egg-like object.
The park looked at the thing, and they said to the park, "This is our king. It will eat you, so just wait. We will collect your body. Do you have any requirements for the placement and disposal of the body? We have drainage pipes and cold storage here."
Leyuan said, "No, you guys go out. I'll wait for it to come out and see me and eat me. I don't care what happens to the body. The person is dead."
They nodded, showed a huge and exaggerated smile to the paradise, and said with a smile: "Great! If you are not dead, we will definitely give you a grand reception. You are really a perfect friend to us."
Leyuan responded perfunctorily.
They walked out and closed the door.
The golden egg began to squirm, and a huge white insect crawled out of it. It was a little taller than a human. It moved to the front of the park, sniffed, and seemed to want to eat. It opened its mouth. It was a huge mouth, which was dark black inside. The inside of the mouth and the tongue were bright red. Under the tongue were purple-blue veins crisscrossing each other. The teeth were snow-white and grew in a circle around the lips. The mouth was round.
It wrapped the crispy shell formed by the sticky translucent liquid on the surface of Paradise into its mouth, chewed it with a crunching sound, and spit out Paradise. Its teeth accidentally rubbed Paradise's skin and hooked off the surface skin tissue, just like a sharp object accidentally hooked the thread of a sweater, and Paradise's arm was covered in blood.
It's a little painful, but it's not a problem and I can still move around.
Leyuan staggered twice, sat on the ground, and looked up at the insect. The insect had turned into something that looked very much like a human, except that its facial features were distorted and it still had translucent wings on its back. The wings kept trembling, making a howling sound, and it sounded like a ghost crying. Leyuan rubbed his eyes, took a breath, and felt a little better. He looked again and found that the insect looked more like a human than before.
It was probably designed according to the theme park's director's style, and has two similarities with the theme park.
It's just that he doesn't seem to understand the scar situation, and even the scar in Paradise is copied.
However, he does not feel pain because of other people's injuries.
"Do you think I'm stupid?"
The bug asked.
"no."
Paradise answered.
"Then why did you come here?"
The bug asked.
Its words suggest something else is going on.
Leyuan asked tentatively: "Can't I come over?"
The bug walked around the park twice and said, "You can come, but I don't think you will like it here."
Leyuan looked around and said, "I don't particularly dislike it, nor do I like it. I feel very calm."
Chongzi laughed and said, "You still talk in an abnormal way."
Paradise asked: "What is considered normal?"
The bug said, "Like me, you obviously have the ability to change and become more like us. Why don't you? You don't want to. Don't you still want to be with us?"
Leyuan asked: "You guys? Aren't you the only one here?"
The bug said, "They should be very happy to see you. Since you have asked this question, I will take you out to see them. When you see them, you will know what I am talking about."
Leyuan asked: "What if I see it but don't know it?"
The bug smiled and said, "The time has not come yet. You can't come back yet."
He flew out with Le Yuan. In mid-air, Le Yuan looked down and saw many small black dots like ants on the ground. Upon closer inspection, he found that those creatures looked very strange and had nothing to do with humans. However, when they noticed Le Yuan's observation, they gradually changed their shapes and looked like humans. However, only their outlines and backs were similar. The other parts were still not similar if he looked closely.
Even more terrifying.
The bugs said to Paradise, "They all like you and miss you very much. They hope you will come back soon. Their ability to change is limited because there are always people checking from behind. They think those people are sneaking up on them, so they try their best to make their backs look like yours, so as to avoid being punished for their lack of ability."
Le Yuan was skeptical: "Really?"
The bug said, "You are one of us, why should you be sad about things that have nothing to do with you?"
Leyuan asked: "Originally? Me?"
Chongzi said, "Forget it. From your expression, you don't realize the problem yet. You don't know the situation yet. I won't say more to you. If I say too much, it will affect your thinking. I'll take you back. You don't have a home, and you don't have to live in that house all the time. Just think of it as visiting a friend. I welcome you to come and play with me, and we can also have meals together.
But you don't seem to be able to eat much. Never mind, I won't force you, even if you just sit next to me and talk to me. It's just that I don't like to chatter while I eat. Don't complain that I talk too slowly. "
Leyuan said, "No, you are talking at a normal speed now. I won't mind."
The bug thought for a moment, "Okay."
It sent Paradise back to the balcony: "See you tomorrow, I hope we can really see each other again."
It waved its hand, which was a huge translucent clamp, and behind it was a tail like an octopus tentacle. It waved at Leyuan, and Leyuan blinked, and it disappeared. Leyuan sat on the sofa in the living room, thought for a while, closed his eyes, and everything around him began to collapse, and he was back in the darkness.
He opened his eyes and looked at the darkness around him, then closed his eyes again. This time he encountered a barrier and was held back by a hand.
Leyuan opened his eyes and saw a dark shadow.
"What's wrong with you?"
Paradise looked at it suspiciously.
"Don't you recognize me?"
The shadow grinned.
"It's not that I don't recognize you, but why does your face seem clearer than before?"
Paradise asked.
"I thought you really didn't recognize it. It turns out it's just a small matter. You think about it too much. This is not good. I have become like that. Tell me, why am I so clear?"
The shadow asked.
"I miss it so much, don't I?"
"Yes, I have."
"But why? I was alive without them at the beginning. How come this happened?"
"It's one thing that it didn't happen before and it doesn't happen now, but there's a period of time in between, and you can't throw that period away, so it has to be this way."
"I still can't see you clearly."
"That's because I don't have a fixed, clear look. This is good and safe. I know what looks you like and what looks you hate. I don't like them and I don't want to be the same as them, but I can't stay the same. That's it. Instead of becoming someone you hate, I might as well choose a look that's not so annoying and show it to you. It's better than dazzling you."
"Really?"
"yes."
"Is it really possible for me to get them back?"
"It's possible."
"What to do? How to do it?"
"You have to control your power, like, what happened in that room."
"You know?"
"Of course I know. I know more than you think."
"Where is this place?"
"In the world of consciousness, there is only space for you."
"Then what are you?"
"What do you want me to be? Your friend? Your relative? The hatred you can't let go of? Your emotions? Or your past? Your feelings? You don't know what I am, so I don't know either. My face can explain the problem very well."
"So when did you show up?"
"It's hard to say, but I think you were too eager to see them when you met me. This is not good. If you can't let go of this problem, something bad will happen in the future."
The shadow said.
Leyuan smiled, looking a little self-deprecating, and said with his eyes downcast: "It's as if nothing has happened now."
The shadow said, "Although things are going on now, it's different. Besides, you can't stay here forever."
Paradise asked: "Why?"
The shadow said, "The body will die."
Leyuan said, "But, you and I are both here, who is outside? You won't die in a short time."
The shadow smiled, two parts paradise, two parts Jongin: "The third one is outside. You can call him number three. You are the first, I am the second, and he is the third. So with this arrangement, Jongin and the system are not counted here, because they are still different from us. If we are in danger, and it is physical danger, it is his fault. He is different from us. He has some individual procedures."
Leyuan asked, "What do you mean?"
The shadow said, "You will know when you see him."
Paradise asked: "Now?"
The shadow said, "You can also play for a while, take a nap, wash up, eat a box of cookies, drink some coffee formula sugar, and have a hamburger."
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