Suppressing her chaotic thoughts for the time being, she put Li Rui on the sofa and went to the bathroom to wash her face several times.
Wang Cheng and his executors stood guard outside the apartment building, but Li Rui wasn't the only one living in the building.
After washing her face, she changed into Li Rui's clothes from head to toe and removed her bracelet. In the Allied Nation, all citizens have information bracelets, which are their identity documents and also the connection devices for many devices. But she wanted to escape this identity, so this was the first thing she had to give up.
After doing all this, Xia Yixin stared at herself in the bathroom mirror.
The girl in the mirror had delicate features, but her brows showed a hint of sharpness and competence, bearing many similarities to the middle-aged woman in the last video.
The hesitation in her almond-shaped eyes gradually turned into determination.
If she stays, she will gradually become like the person in that video, or one day she will be with Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan thinks she is avoiding him because she is running away, and Li Rui also thinks she is avoiding him because she can't figure things out for a while. But Xia Yixin knows that she does not want to submit to fate.
Even if we assume that Lu Yan came from Lu Yuan, they are still different.
That's why she thought "like" instead of "it really is him." Only by leaving him could she truly move forward instead of constantly looking back.
Outside, the night was hazy, the lights were brilliant, and occasionally the sound of a PO patrol car could be heard passing by. The third type of emotional ban and the improvement of citizenship rights for B-grade gene individuals brought not only opportunities but also certain crises.
But none of this is Xia Yixin's responsibility, or rather, she doesn't want to bear such responsibility.
In fact, from the very first day she became the leader, she knew that she would leave sooner or later, but Lu Yuan's previous approach accelerated that process.
She washed her face again and cut her hair short. Her plan was simple: to set off the fire alarm and escape during the chaos. Although she felt a little bad for the officers responsible for protecting her, she had no other choice. If she talked to Lu Yuan about leaving normally, even if he agreed, she would definitely not be completely free.
And she didn't want to make him wait any longer.
After tidying herself up, she went to Li Rui's study to leave a letter for both her and Lu Yuan. Just as she picked up her pen, her eyes inadvertently glanced at the photo frame on the table and she was immediately drawn to the photos inside.
It was an old photo, at least ten years old. Li Rui in the photo looked about seven or eight years old. She was wearing the gray uniform of the orphanage and sitting with a group of other children of similar age, taking a picture. It looked like a picnic at the orphanage.
Li Rui is three years older than her, so when she was her age, Xia Yixin had not yet entered the orphanage.
However, what caught her attention was not the children in the photo, but the two clear figures in the corner of the photo.
The picnic was taking place on a large grassy area, on a hillside in the distance. A little girl and another slender woman stood together, seemingly talking to each other.
She quickly removed the photo frame, took the photo and looked at it carefully, unconsciously holding her breath.
The little girl who looked no more than six years old looked exactly like her when she was a child, and the woman standing opposite her was—her!
That's how she appears in the modern world within the experimental system!
How is that possible?
How is that possible!
If, as the videos in the experimental system say, the world she lives in is the real one, then why do the dimensions she has experienced appear in the photos?
She suppressed her racing heartbeat and carefully searched her memories, but this time she was surprised to find that she didn't remember anything before going to the orphanage. In those new memories, her memories before coming to Sky City were all fragmented.
But one thing is certain: she doesn't remember ever seeing a woman who looks like that!
Is it a coincidence?
Or is it just a deception of the eyes?
She unconsciously clutched the photo tightly, quickly ran to the sofa, woke the drunken Li Rui, and placed the photo in front of her.
She asked urgently, "Sister Hua, have you seen the little girl in the back of this photo?"
Li Rui was still dazed, but after seeing the photo clearly, she laughed drunkenly, "Are you stupid? Isn't that girl you? Have you forgotten how you shared so much delicious food with us afterward? You even said that a weird older sister gave it to you? You also said that you would find someone who looks like someone with two eyes, one nose, and one mouth. Pfft. Don't all people look like that?"
Li Rui couldn't help but chuckle as she recalled the adorable and silly Xia Yixin from back then, but she didn't notice that Xia Yixin's expression suddenly turned serious.
Sometimes people forget things. If the experimental system used this forgotten part of her memory to create her experience in the illusion, then that's just a coincidence.
But what if it isn't?
What if... everything she thought before was wrong?
What was V, who calmly faced death, actually hiding?
Suddenly, her mind flashed back to the last conversation she had with V that night.
“...The experimental system itself is an illusion...itself?Itself!” she murmured, a spark gradually appearing in her eyes. At that time, she understood V to mean that the plane in the experimental system she experienced was an illusion, a metaphor.
But what if what V said is true?
If the "experimental system" itself is fake, then the place she is in is also fake?
To find the answer, she had to go to the experimental systems research lab again!
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