Chapter 106: Memory Tide Then how should he face the great...
Li Ming didn't sleep that day.
He sat at Shen Kuo's desk, thinking over and over, but couldn't figure out what was going on: How did the 'Memory Tide' suddenly bring him to the school last week? Was that Li Ming really him?
Doubts filled Li Ming's mind.
Even if he wanted to take a good rest, he couldn't do it.
At dawn the next day, Li Ming stood up in a hurry. He didn't know what time he went to the teaching building last week. What he could do now was to arrive at the teaching building one step earlier than the other party.
"Shen Kuo..."
Just as Li Ming was putting on his clothes, he heard a faint cry from the bed next to him. He Rui asked sleepily, "Why are you going out so early..."
"Because there is something I want to know." Li Ming answered softly.
"Are you still planning to go find Senior Li Ming?" He Rui turned over with difficulty and said to Li Ming in annoyance, "If I had known it was such an important matter, I wouldn't have stopped you yesterday."
"Um?"
"You didn't sleep at all yesterday."
"Uh, yes..."
Li Ming scratched his head in embarrassment and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I didn't fall asleep yesterday. I hope my behavior didn't disturb you."
"Oh, there's no such thing as disturbing or not disturbing."
He Rui waved his hand indifferently. He looked into Li Ming's eyes and asked seriously, "Are you sure you want to leave now?"
"Sure." Li Ming said stubbornly.
This was the closest he had ever gotten to the truth. Not only Li Ming, but many others were troubled by this matter. Li Ming didn't want to be deceived his entire life.
He wanted to know his origins, wanted to know how he met his sister, wanted to know how he became himself... Li Ming had many doubts in his heart.
These doubts are by no means worthless, because it is these doubts that make up who he is today.
"Then go ahead."
He Rui buried his head in the quilt and muttered, "If you cry under the quilt after this is over, don't say I didn't warn you."
"I wouldn't do that!" Li Ming was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.
He took several deep breaths and finally calmed down. Then Li Ming angrily prepared to push the door and leave, but when his fingers were about to touch the door handle, Li Ming could not help but turn back.
"He Rui, thank you." Li Ming said suddenly.
"Um?"
"Thank you for telling me about Li Ming." Li Ming murmured a little disappointedly, "To be honest, I really didn't know that he would leave such an impression in the eyes of others."
"Oh..." He Rui slowly pulled his head out of the quilt.
He sighed with a melancholy tone: "There are always some people in this world who are special. But those special people often don't know that they are special..."
Li Ming didn't finish listening to He Rui's last words.
Because he saw Li Ming who had already left through the dormitory window. Feeling anxious, he hurriedly left the dormitory, leaving only He Rui's faint murmurs lingering in the air.
Li Ming ran out quickly.
The cold air and dim environment in the early morning could not dampen his good mood. He ran towards the teaching building. There were a few people on the road, and their faces were more or less sleepy, but only Li Ming was full of enthusiasm.
He had never felt so alive.
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"It should be about time..."
Li Ming looked at the clock hanging on the classroom wall and murmured somewhat melancholy: "Campus life is more pleasant than I imagined."
He wanted to continue enjoying it, but unfortunately——
He doesn't have much private time left.
Suddenly, the sound of papers being flipped could be heard around the classroom.
The classroom, which originally had only a few people, was slowly being filled with unknown beings. They mingled among the students, imitated their actions, flipped through books or wrote notes.
Only Li Ming was there, with the table empty.
'Li Ming' looked up at the sky outside the window. The sun was about to rise, but the fog symbolizing "disaster" would embrace the sky earlier than the rising sun.
"Before I knew it, I had become a person who would regret."
Li Ming stood up helplessly. He patted his coat stained with white powder and prepared to walk towards the abyss along the folded space of the teaching building.
It's time to go back to fulfilling our responsibilities.
For tens of millions of years, his humanity had been draining away. The abyss was unwilling to exile him, so the accumulation of his humanity repeatedly and abnormally failed, as if it was a useless effort.
I wonder what it will be like when I return to the human world next time.
only……
This time, things finally changed.
Li Ming's eyes suddenly widened. He looked at Li Ming, who suddenly pushed open the classroom door and was bending over to catch his breath, and his mind suddenly went into a circle.
He hesitated when he saw this and said, "You are..."
But before he could finish his question, Li Ming's question came one after another. Li Ming stood up with difficulty, and under the gaze of many faceless classmates, he stubbornly asked the person in front of him:
"Tell me, who are you?"
The faceless students who filled the entire classroom were in an uproar because of this sentence. Their expressionless faces suddenly became distorted and weird, and they were obviously extremely annoyed by Li Ming's behavior.
Just when the faceless students closest to Li Ming wanted to teach him a lesson, Li Ming reached out to stop their useless behavior. He did not explain or speak, he just glanced at them coldly.
Then the classroom returned to silence.
"I didn't expect something like this to happen." He turned his head and looked at Li Ming calmly, saying, "I thought what I did was outrageous enough, but I didn't expect someone could be more outrageous than me."
He was obviously used to giving orders.
Even in a school building filled with monsters, he could still talk to people calmly. He said, "They should be glad they met me. My colleagues are not as easy to talk to as I am."
"I don't understand what you are saying." Li Ming frowned.
"Of course you don't understand." He smiled after hearing this, "If you could understand, you should be sitting in my seat now."
The more I talk, the less I understand.
Li Ming looked very annoyed. He crossed his arms and said calmly, "Listen, if you don't want to tell me who you are, then tell me something else you can reveal."
"My sister is still waiting for me outside."
Li Ming added the last sentence in a bad tone. He was swept away by the current so fast that he didn't even remind Li Yixi. Li Yixi must be anxious...
"Sister?" He asked in surprise, "Our sister should be dead."
Just as He saw Li Ming's face becoming increasingly worse, He added distressedly as if he remembered something: "Wait, I understand what you are saying."
"What is your identity?" Li Ming couldn't help but complain.
It is true that He can communicate, but how could He forget that He has a sister? Li Ming even suspected that this was just an illusion of the "memory tide".
“When you regain your memory, you will be able to experience my feelings.” He said calmly, “It is difficult for me to explain to you the difference between us. Because the scale of division is not clear…”
"But I can tell where something went wrong."
He looked coldly at the dark clouds outside the window and explained, "Millions of years ago, when the master of the 'Memory Tide' made a big mistake, a Knight of Apocalypse was ordered to defeat him."
“Although He has tried his best to avoid being recorded in the domain, things never go as smoothly as expected.” He turned his head with a little regret and said, “I think this is why we can meet.”
"You are not Li Ming."
Li Ming suddenly spoke up. He emphasized in a serious tone: "You are not a Knight of Apocalypse either. You are a product of the 'Memory Tide', a product it created based on its impression of Li Ming."
"No one can restrain a Horseman of the Apocalypse, not even the Abyss."
"Let's just take it as it is."
He smiled after hearing this and did not refute much.
It was not difficult to recognize this reality, even though He had just learned about it. Because an Apocalypse Knight could not have two silhouettes at the same time. If Li Ming was real, then He must be fake.
“I should leave.” He said calmly, “The abyss is calling me, and I cannot stay in reality for too long. This is also the rule you set in the beginning.”
"Wait, I don't know anything yet!" Li Ming was stunned.
"You will understand."
He looked at Li Ming gently and said, "The Memory Tide has been around for millions of years. It has always liked to record important events that determine the past and even the future. You will definitely be able to find the truth from its records."
The window behind Li Ming suddenly became dark, as if the light had been sucked away by a black hole.
Countless arms made of bones stretched out from the black hole. They formed a strange bone staircase to welcome their master back to the abyss.
The sound of the sand pile collapsing rang in Li Ming's ears.
Li Ming looked to the right, and saw that all the faceless students in the classroom were instantly turned into powder and collapsed to the ground. The suppression of the high-sequence disaster on the low-sequence derivatives was fully demonstrated at this moment, and even the neighboring classrooms could hear similar collapse sounds.
“Remember…”
He murmured with a hint of regret: "Remember to say goodbye to our sister. We probably won't be able to wait for her reincarnation..."
Millions of years ago, when he was ordered to defeat the 'Memory Tide', his sister had just passed away. Although he could not understand the importance of family, when the tide used memories to confuse him, he still stayed for a moment.
Maybe this is the answer.
A mistake made millions of years ago has continued to this day, and has become the key to breaking the impasse of civilization. He was originally an empty and dead body, but because of his longing, he gave birth to a soul.
"We can only return to the earth when civilization comes to an end."
The pale eyes of the Apocalypse Knight reflected Li Ming's figure, and he said in a gentle tone: "But there is one thing I must explain: So far, you are the only one who has stayed in this memory of mine."
"The humans on this planet have found the key to breaking through from other aspects."
"What did you find?" Li Ming wondered.
"Discover……"
“He” laughed and said self-deprecatingly, “We who have discovered the abyss and those who represent the abyss can communicate normally.”
"Um?!"
Li Ming was so scared that he quickly took a few steps back.
This was something he had not expected. He could not imagine what kind of behavior humans would have after learning about this, and bloody and violent scenes flashed through his mind.
Those are experiments that disregard humanity and betray ethics.
He hated these existences as much as he hated humanity itself. Sometimes Li Ming would rather be an ignorant and fearless monster than be a member of the human race.
But when Li Ming thought of Jiang Huai and the friends he met, he felt a little relieved.
"The pain of betrayal is indelible."
Seeing this, the Apocalypse Knight whispered to himself. He stepped onto the skeleton steps and sighed sadly, "I can only pray that the final outcome will be good..."
Li Ming was confused after hearing this.
Just as Li Ming was about to ask, he heard Wei Zhehan's shout from the corridor of the teaching building -
"Li Ming! Li Ming, where are you?"
Li Ming remembered the incident. Last week, Wei Zhehan came to find him after noticing the great changes in the school, but Wei Zhehan was still unaware of the changes in the teaching building.
He will be rescued by Li Ming at this time.
However……
Li Ming turned around and asked in confusion: "Aren't you going to rescue him?"
"Our fate has ended." The Apocalypse Knight said with a face that showed no sadness or joy, "If we have to save them all, who will save the billions of civilizations that have been infected by the disaster?"
Li Ming fell silent after hearing this.
He stood in a corner of the classroom, unable to take any action for a long time.
Last week, Li Ming did save Wei Zhehan because he was his friend. After he awakened his memory as the Knight of Apocalypse, before he was about to return to the abyss, he didn't mind using his human identity to help Wei Zhehan.
But the Horsemen of the Apocalypse millions of years ago rejected this action.
His gaze was focused on living beings. He had witnessed the extinction of countless beings and the destruction of countless civilizations. The death of a single being and the fall of a single civilization could no longer be reflected in his eyes.
If the purpose of rewinding the game is to pull the Abyss’ “They” to the same position as humans, then he… Li Ming looked at his palms in silence, his emotions fluctuating:
So what attitude should he take towards everyone?
Li Ming could no longer consider himself a human being. He was even thinking about why the situation had turned out like this. Did he allow these things to happen, or had he been betrayed long ago?
Time and space are collapsing, and the scenery before my eyes is fading due to the confusion of memory.
He stood in a dark corner, listening to the cries of his former classmates, and finally—
Closed his eyes.
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