Xiao Li walked forward, her black hair fluttering.
She placed her hand, which was full of needle pricks, on the back of Su Mingan's hand and held the door handle with him.
Su Mingan held her hand and said, "It's dangerous outside. You don't have to go out."
Xiao Li shook his head: "Doctor Su, you are very smart, so you have figured out the story of the first tower, right?"
Su Mingan responded.
At this point in the story, he has already figured out the history that the first tower wanted to present.
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【Dr. Su asked me if I had any regrets.】
[I said, if Dr. Su had come to save us before everything happened...if he had come before February 9, before Xiao Li's organs were taken away, that would be...perfect.]
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[“Xiao Li, are you okay?” Su Wensheng helped the girl up. ]
[The girl nodded: "I'm fine. Today is February 8th and the surgery has not yet been performed."]
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The time point that the first tower goes back to is February 8, when Xiao Li had not yet been killed.
Therefore, what Su Mingan meets now is "Xiao Li who was rescued by Su Mingan", which is a new timeline.
The real Xiao Li failed to escape nine years ago. According to Su Wensheng's memory, when Dr. Su arrived on February 13, Xiao Li had just died. What remains in Su Wensheng's memory is "Xiao Li who was not saved by Dr. Su."
Then, I thought of a passage in Xiaoli's diary -
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[The adults wanted to transform me because the blood of qualified people is very strong. They thought that if my blood could be turned into weapons, such as bright red tentacles, like "alien species that can be controlled by humans" - then they can use me to obtain more resources.]
[But, if that happens, I will also become a walking corpse and will no longer be myself. ]
…
Su Mingan raised his eyes and looked out the window.
Dim candlelight shone through the mahogany lattice. The figure of the "ghost" looked like the swaying shadows of trees. It roared madly outside the door, its bright red tentacles spreading around and piercing one corpse after another.
Under the dim sky, its thin body was wrapped in thick red fog, and only a pair of dark eyes and long jet-black hair scattered in the wind could be seen.
——The ghost has black eyes, black hair, and a thin body.
Xiao Li also has black eyes, black hair, and such a thin body.
"The ghost...is 'Xiao Li who was not saved by Doctor Su', right?" Su Ming'an said.
Xiao Li's hands trembled slightly, and she nodded slowly and firmly.
In the timeline when Dr. Su failed to save Xiao Li, Xiao Li was pushed into the operating room and never came out. Therefore, in Su Wensheng's memory, he thought Xiao Li was dead.
However, the truth is that when Xiao Li was pushed into the operating room, the researchers transformed her - Xiao Li grew bright red tentacles and possessed the incomparable strength of an alien species, but she eventually escaped from the researchers' control and lost her mind. She massacred most of the researchers nine years ago.
Therefore, in this game of “ghost chasing people” - the “ghost” does not represent an alien species, but Xiao Li who failed in his transformation that year.
——The "researchers" were not innocent people massacred by the aliens. They were the executioners who turned Xiao Li into a walking corpse.
That's why "ghosts" hate them so much.
——The "girl" represents Xiao Li from another timeline. Fortunately, she was rescued in advance by Su Mingan and was not pushed into the operating room.
The Xiao Li of today is the Xiao Li of the timeline "rescued by Su Ming'an". The ghost outside the door is the Xiao Li of the timeline "not rescued by Su Ming'an". It is precisely because the negative emotions generated by the slaughter of the researchers by the past Xiao Li after she was transformed became part of the driving energy of the first tower, which activated the first tower, merged the past with the present, and allowed Su Ming'an to climb the causal line of the past and save the present Xiao Li.
If "Xiao Li who was not saved by Su Ming'an" is killed, that is, the ghost is killed and the massacre is stopped. Then the causal line of "the ghost massacred everyone to drive the first tower" will also be erased. When the ghost as the "cause" is killed, Xiao Li as the "effect" will no longer exist. In any case, she will not exist in the present.
Therefore - her death could not be saved.
At this moment, Su Mingan understood what the ghost had said before.
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【“Haha, hahahaha…” A laugh came from the red mist, like the miserable laugh of a young girl: “—It’s useless. You don’t understand what a sense of fate feels like. All your struggles will eventually lead to a predetermined ending. Xiao Li is the same, and so are you.”】
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——Destiny.
Su Mingan clenched his fists.
"Doctor Su, I already know what to do. Please let me end this." Xiao Li said.
Su Mingan didn't stop her again.
"Creaky--" The wooden door was pushed open, and Xiao Li walked out slowly. She cut her wrist and smeared the blood on the knife.
"The lanterns in your hands contain a strand of my hair. So, when a 'ghost' of the same origin as me approaches, the lanterns in your hands will light up when it senses something of the same origin. This is the principle of the lanterns." Xiao Li said, "The props provided by the safe house are also made of the blood and flesh of a qualified person like me. They can suppress things of the same origin, so your blood and flesh are needed in exchange."
Every mechanic of the game is explained. This is not a pleasant game of burning grandmas, but a girl's final desperate cry.
People had failed her, and now she was expected to fix it.
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