Chapter 16 Comics updated
Episode 16 Comic updated
The red light on the pedestrian crossing remains on for between 60 and 90 seconds.
This period of time is enough for me to replay every scene of the comic trailer in my mind.
The car accident occurred at the intersection of the street, which is also the current intersection.
I remember there was a very obvious coordinate point here - a big banyan tree that was at least thirty years old. The bricks of the sidewalk were also cracked due to the floating roots of the trees. Some children, held by their parents' hands, are now lowering their heads and stepping on the tree roots, as if they are stepping onto a small stage. They are extremely excited and have no idea when bad news will happen here.
However, at the age of four or five, they had just begun to understand the world and did not even know what death was.
After receiving the notice, I didn't just escape or respond passively.
Because in fact, this problem is not as difficult to solve as imagined.
You know, if this were the real world, then chance, coincidence and accidents would always catch people off guard. However, the comic book world always emphasizes the law of causality, that is, in a given system, if all conditions are known, the results can be accurately predicted.
This is why so many people, when traveling through novels or comics, can change their destiny just by knowing one little thing. The core principle is the law of cause and effect - there is a cause for every effect.
Of course, there will definitely be people who say that there are also anti-routine operations that are completely unable to change fate, such as the butterfly effect and the convergence of world lines.
However, this part of the operation is unknown to the audience and readers in the fourth perspective, that is, this aspect is unknown to them, and it is up to their expectations and the author's style to choose which principle to follow. As an NPC, to them, I am just a paper man who is naturally unable to change my own destiny.
What they don’t realize is that I have a sense of autonomy, which is my natural advantage.
In other words, I artificially changed my own personality, that is, I put the jade pendant around my neck into the drawer and did not wear it when going out, which means that the person who got into trouble in this cartoon was not me. Likewise, I will not be manipulated or controlled by the author's consciousness, or suddenly forced to wear the jade pendant that may bring bad luck.
As long as you think about this clearly, it is not difficult to break the deadlock.
But this would really break the situation, which would mean that the protagonist of the comic has a naturally strong fortune.
If Shang Hexing is really the protagonist, I have no advantage in confronting him head-on. This can be referred to in a certain note. The detective, who was a representative of human decency, ended up getting the final truth by dying. As the plot of the comics is still unclear, there is no harm in remaining at peace with him on the surface.
My goal is to continue to be a marginal figure with no sense of existence, just like last year.
At this moment, the red light shook, and it was obviously a signal.
There is a yellow light to serve as a buffer when the green light turns to red, but there is no delay when the red light turns to green. The moment the green light comes on, there will be the clear calls of cuckoos. This is next to the red and green signal light at the top of the telephone pole. There is also a special signal machine with an audio device installed to make it easier for blind people to cross the road based on the sound.
At this moment, the cuckoo's call seems particularly deep and ethereal in such a rainy night, as if it came from another world.
To be honest, there is about a five-second lag between the red light for vehicles and the green light for pedestrians. In other words, the vehicle will stop for about five seconds before pedestrians will receive the signal to pass. Therefore, in reality, it is rare for a car to cut in when a pedestrian is the first to cross the road, as shown in TV dramas.
Generally speaking, this kind of incident usually happens late at night, when there are no other cars in front or behind, and some unscrupulous car owners will run a red light.
However, there is something clever about this setting in the comics.
Before we cross the road, there is a road island less than 1.5 meters away.
We had to get onto the road island first and then cross the sidewalk of the road again.
There are no traffic lights on the road island to restrict vehicles from going left, which means that if vehicles in this area are unwilling to give way (which is usually impossible), they will compete with pedestrians for the road.
The green light became brighter, and among the three of us, "Fu Lin" had the fastest reaction ability, and he took the first step.
I didn't have any special feelings at the time, but I could feel that the flow of time around me was a little slower than I imagined.
It is very common that conscious time is inconsistent with real time. For example, some people feel that time passes quickly when they are thinking, while some people feel that every second feels like a year when they are in pain.
I only saw Shang Hexing's footsteps step onto the sidewalk first.
Before others followed me towards the road island, I suddenly felt two beams of car lights shining on me from behind. It felt like I was flipping through a comic and this scene flashed before my eyes. I subconsciously called out, "Fu Lin."
The bad feeling made me wish he could walk slower.
However, Shang Hexing was not sensitive enough to react immediately to the name "Fu Lin". He Qisi, who was standing next to me, also turned his head because of what I said, and looked in the direction of Shang Hexing in confusion, wondering why I suddenly called out to Shang Hexing.
In the next second, Shang Hexing, who was walking in the front, slipped and lost control of his body. He seemed to be pushed by something and staggered towards the center of the road. At the same time, two beams of strong white light suddenly approached, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound from the wheels rubbing against the ground, like a knife piercing the air and cutting into the eardrum. The heart is struck by this rapid and uncontrolled loud sound, which makes people dizzy.
At this moment, the brain was almost blank, and the body acted before reason.
My body reacted before my mind did. I rushed out, grabbed Shang Hexing by the back and pulled him back. The force of her fingers gripped him tightly like an iron clamp.
The out-of-control white car stopped right at our feet. We were only one step away and the tires of the car would have run over our feet.
Its headlights were still flashing the left turn signal, flickering and making a "click-click-click" sound, as if it was gasping for breath with lingering fear.
The pedestrians on the roadside were in deathly silence, almost frozen in place by this thrilling scene. It was not until the cuckoo's singing suddenly stopped that everyone woke up from their dream and the tense atmosphere dissipated like a tide. The crowd either exclaimed in low voices or took a few steps back, as if trying to find a way out for their pounding hearts that had survived the disaster.
When I went back home at night, I still felt that this incident lingered in my mind for a long time. It's like, it was me who was almost hit by a car today.
This was the only major incident that happened throughout the entire day, and I couldn't feel at ease at all.
When I finally persuaded myself to forget the thrilling feeling and was about to go to sleep, my phone suddenly moved.
I turned over and checked the message, and unexpectedly found that it was a text message from Shang Hexing.
"Thank you for saving me today"
The few words were concise and to the point, without even a punctuation mark, and seemed understated. It didn't seem like Fu Lin's style, but more like Shang Hexing himself.
In fact, he thanked me once at that time, but I didn't take it to heart. In that kind of public occasion, "Fu Lin" would just say thank you. However, this time the text message of thanks took me by surprise.
For me, it can be said to be a strange feeling.
Because Shang Hexing himself doesn't thank people easily. This made me feel like I was seeing a glimpse of Shang Hexing's inner world through a window blocked by thick curtains, which was not easily noticed.
For some reason, the corners of my mouth curled up, and I felt at ease and began to relax.
"You're welcome."
"I'm glad you're okay!"
"Go to bed early."
I sent three text messages in a row.
After sending the message, Shang Hexing also replied "Good night".
This made my original anxiety completely disappear. After putting my phone back on the charging station, I fell asleep almost as soon as it touched the pillow and slept until dawn the next day.
I usually wake up fifteen or thirty minutes earlier than my normal schedule.
Because I have time to check my phone.
This time, just as I turned on my phone and was about to check the time and think about how long I could stay in bed, a "comic update" notification popped up.
I was stunned for a moment.
What is going on?
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