Chapter 157 Extra: Present World-1
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In the high-dimensional perspective,
The traces left by the collapse and restart of the singularity of the Tomb of the Universe are like a breathing and trembling firework.
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After translating five cosmic units, the new 'system universe' that was finally formed was -
Eliminating those desolate timelines that have never met, a timeline that has been deliberately interfered with eventually developed into a relatively independent parallel world.
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In this final, perfectly closed timeline, the "time travel" did not successfully occur, but the world line jumped.
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The frequency hopping time is NX018 in the Blue Star Calendar.
On the busy streets, cars and pedestrians were busy. The traffic lights at the intersection had flashed five times.
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Holding the faulty black-screen phone tightly, Su Xi was immersed in the strange feeling just now and couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
The warm light of the setting sun at the devil's hour reflected dazzling spots on the glass curtain wall and flashed past her eyes. The hustle and bustle of the city around her receded like a tide, and that feeling came back.
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Five days ago, at the same intersection.
A car hit her straight on and she was about to be killed on the spot, but suddenly someone pulled her back hard.
She narrowly escaped a fatal car accident.
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When she came to her senses from her daze, the night suddenly turned into dusk.
Pedestrians were coming and going on the sidewalk beside me, and all my senses seemed to be shrouded in a glass cover at this moment. Everything I felt around me seemed like a dream.
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But no matter how many times she recalled that scene, Su Xi still didn't know who helped her.
Who could it be?
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After that day, Su Xi's perception of the outside world became very strange.
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Everything seems to be true and not true.
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This world is still her era, except that the world's cultures are more integrated, universal values are more similar, and the political systems are also slightly different.
The biggest difference from her hazy memories is that plagues and disasters are extremely frequent in this world.
In particular, due to the threat posed by the deviation of the planet's magnetic field, the competition for resources among countries has become increasingly fierce, and the atmosphere of a world war is tense and on the verge of breaking out.
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But compared with memories, daily life does not seem to have much impact.
However, the childhood of 'Su Xi' in this world is very different from what she remembers.
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The man my adoptive mother married for the second time was a very humble man. He also had a child from her previous marriage, a blond mixed-race man named Asay, who also had a five-year-old daughter named Leila.
In her memory, she and this middle school-aged stepbrother had never gotten along, and except for necessary family gatherings, they had always avoided each other as much as possible.
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I frantically searched for theories such as "memory confusion" and "parallel worlds", but found nothing.
She even went to a psychiatric department for a psychological assessment and consultation, but the only result she got was "second-degree cognitive confusion under high-intensity mental stress," which was not really an answer.
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Su Xi once again flipped through the photos and records of her past travels, but there seemed to be nothing different, just the details of the background... and as she flipped through more things, the memories of the 'past' were slowly covered by the memories of the current real world.
Bang! She closed her laptop and stopped worrying about it.
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The only thing Su Xi can be sure of is that no matter which 'Su Xi' is in her memory, it is herself.
No matter how different the circumstances in life are, as long as the relatives and friends you care about are still there, and the world you love is still there, there is no need to dig into the details.
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Day by day, the sense of 'overlapping chaos' faded away.
Looking at the travel plans circled on the calendar, Su Xi put aside her doubts and lived her normal life.
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Just one month after she had fully adapted to this world, the company she worked for was unexpectedly acquired by a multinational group. Faced with a five-fold salary increase from the new employer, Su Xi shamefully decided to accept the transfer to a new position.
After signing a confidentiality agreement, Su Xi sat down at the workstation in the president's office, holding a small cardboard box.
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To her surprise, in a department with a staff of 20, there were only three people including her.
And it seems that as a paratrooper, he is completely isolated.
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New boss, what can I say?
She looked dictatorial and cold-blooded. Although they didn't interact with her much at work, the occasional look she gave her always made Su Xi feel... as if she was being devoured by her eagerness.
It made her heart palpitate and she subconsciously wanted to escape.
But I can't hate it.
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The first private contact was in a rather awkward situation.
The elevator broke down, and Su Xi stood stiffly in a corner of the hot elevator. Half an hour ago, she was at a booth in the employee cafeteria complaining to her friends about her new job and her new boss.
The man behind me must have heard it, right?
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Bang——
Amid the violent shaking, the malfunctioning elevator seemed to have dropped half a floor.
Then, a strong arm grasped her waist, hot breath gently sprayed in her ears, and she heard the man say: "Hold me, I will take you out."
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Su Xi's body stiffened immediately.
The chest against his back shook slightly, and in the darkness, he chuckled silently. He rested his resolute chin on the soft whorl of hair and gently rubbed it.
But when Su Xi was angry, he let go at the right time.
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The elevator shaft was opened and she was lifted up into the mezzanine.
In fact, this posture is a bit embarrassing, with the hot big hands just ironing between the waist and hips, pinching and lifting.
But the other person was so gentlemanly and proper without any flirtatious look. When Su Xi occasionally looked back, his deep brows were full of frankness, and he just used a steady voice to point out the direction she needed to pay attention to.
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In just five or six minutes, Su Xi's mind was in a mess, as if she had thought a lot, but also as if she had thought nothing. She completed the actions like a spy in a movie in a daze.
The man lowered his eyebrows, hiding his smile in his deep eyes, but he couldn't help releasing a scent like orchid and musk, which blended with the faint scent on her body, swallowing her up and possessively entangled with her.
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Only when the two of them reached a maintenance platform in the elevator shaft were they completely safe.
The emergency call on the cell phone still didn't go through.
Then, just as they stood firm, there was a loud bang and the entire elevator car fell down!
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Although the strong aura of the man next to her dispelled the sense of crisis in the current situation.
But Su Xi would not pin her hopes of survival on others. After taking a few deep breaths and calming herself down, she took out her cell phone, edited a text message for help and sent it to a group of people.
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Looking at the marks on the broken steel cable that seemed to have been gnawed by something, the man's dark blue eyes darkened.
"Suxi."
"Um?"
At this moment, Su Xi was in the dark elevator shaft, moving towards the rescue passage step by step. There was a rhythmic knocking sound outside the elevator door. It seemed that the text message had just been sent.
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"Do you remember anything?"
Su Xi thought his question was about the current predicament. Such an elevator incident that was obviously a human error was obviously the work of either an insider or an external enemy.
So she thought about it carefully and reported a few project names. Although she had other guesses about the current situation, she pretended to be deaf and dumb and didn't want to go into more details.
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As early as after she signed the confidentiality agreement, she discovered that the business line that was originally only involved in civilian AI development had almost completely shifted to military supply and outer space exploration projects initiated by the United Nations after the acquisition.
It was too late for her to regret at that time. She couldn't afford the breach of contract. She could only hope to fulfill the contract steadily in the next few years. As a civilian, she didn't want to get involved in the instability between the forces.
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Half sound——
There was no response in the darkness. Su Xi asked nervously, but she didn't get a self-deprecating laugh. She suddenly felt that the other party was not asking about the current situation, but what he was asking... what did you remember?
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That tone, suppressed desire and hope...as if asking, have you remembered...
Past?
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That strange feeling came again, but before Su Xi could think about it,
The elevator door opened from the outside.
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They were saved.
The man in the crowd regained his cold and strong look, as if the rare smiles and joy in the narrow elevator shaft a moment ago, the bitterness, depression and loss behind the question...
Never happened.
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In the days that followed, Su Xi was a little troubled, but it didn't last long.
Something big happened.
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A major event that affects all of humanity and could wipe out species.