Chapter 94 Fighting Alone
The second time I saw Lu Wei in the meeting room, Lu Wei didn't bring anything with him.
No good news.
He didn't bring any documents with him, and knowing the law well, he knew there was no direction to strive for.
Lu Wei sat quietly in the meeting room, without saying a word.
Lin Xi was calmer than she had imagined.
On the morning of May 20th, she had already considered the possibility of dying. Entering the outbreak center so closely, if she failed to contain the source of the zombies in time, once the zombies broke out, even if she had the strength to fight, it would be difficult for her to leave Hongwen Hospital alive.
Lu Wei, who heroically sacrificed himself at Hongwen Hospital in his previous life, had already put this into practice.
But she was prepared.
If you don't succeed, start over.
Until one dies and lives again.
But Lu Wei had previously expressed his disgust for her thinking, and Lin Xi didn't want the only person in the world who was kind to her to hear such discouraging words again.
She tried to start a conversation: "Let's chat, I'm bored here anyway."
Lu Wei sat quietly and listened to her speak.
Lin Xi, bearing the weight of the shackles, raised her left hand: "Although it's not fully healed, this arm can move. This world really does need doctors. In my previous life, without a doctor's help, my right hand was crippled."
This shows how important medicine is.
Although she was detained in a detention center awaiting trial and sentencing, the detention center had doctors to treat the suspect and had the right medicine. Her left hand injury healed very quickly, and she was able to lift it up even before it was fully healed, despite the pain.
Lu Wei was finally moved and took the initiative to ask, "What happened after I died in my previous life?"
"Although you didn't succeed, you delayed the large-scale zombie outbreak, resulting in fewer casualties than before. Moreover, these changes had a butterfly effect, allowing everyone to successfully clear out the zombies and temporarily return to normal life."
Lu Wei listened quietly.
Lin Xi: "I had my resume with me and was about to go out to look for a job when I encountered zombies as soon as I stepped out of my house. Luckily, I survived and ran back home."
"My family, you know it."
Lin Xi remembered that Lu Wei had visited her house before it was completed. She asked, "Engineer Yu said you also need to do safety renovations. Your family... should have escaped unharmed, right?"
Although Nanhua suffered heavy casualties, there were more survivors than those on the same date previously.
Lu Wei had said that his family needed a safe house. He tried his best to save the day but couldn't prevent the apocalypse from happening. However, his family in that timeline should have avoided the tragedy.
She suddenly realized that Lu Weigen, who was already dead at the time, could not possibly know the answer to this question.
Lin Xi changed the subject: "How many times have you been reborn?"
She belatedly realized that Lu Wei must have been a reincarnated being when he first asked for her WeChat, and that he must have remembered her to want to add her as a contact.
However, she became afraid of Lu Wei because he brutally beat her corpse, so she deleted and blocked him...
Lu Wei: "4 times."
Lin Xi: "This is... my 9th time."
Lu Wei: "..."
Death is a matter of a snap of the fingers, but once you die, you remember it solemnly for a long time, like a heavy lesson.
But after dying many times, people begin to become numb.
There are many things in a person's life that occur as frequently as nine times.
So Lin Xi wasn't so scared anymore.
The two sat silently, each contemplating the emotions brought about by death and reincarnation.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Wei seemed to have made up his mind, and he finally spoke up: "We don't always run into each other."
Lin Xi: "Hmm... because I always hide at home."
Lu Wei's eyes, however, rejected this answer.
He said calmly, "In my previous life, the you I met did not recognize me."
"?" Lin Xi didn't react. "In my previous life, you came to Yunxiang and helped me with a lawsuit."
Lu Wei: "That was your previous life."
In Lin Xi's previous life, Lu Wei died very young.
So, the "previous life" that Lu Wei was referring to is...
Lin Xi suddenly had a bad feeling; what Lu Wei was about to say next...
She questioned, "Which 'me'? How do you know that 'me' doesn't know you?"
Lu Wei: "Your rebirths will probably all occur before the zombie outbreak, right?"
"Um."
Lu Wei: "We first met in 2022, which is the time you mentioned when we had the court hearing in Yunxiang."
"Hmm." Lin Xi was completely confused and felt a strange sense of panic.
Lu Wei: "But my previous life was the one in which I was reborn after failing to stop the zombie outbreak at Hongwen Hospital, not this one."
"..." Lu Wei's words were like a tongue twister, and Lin Xi silently tried to understand their meaning.
Lu Wei continued, "In my previous life, I saw you in 2025. You were working in Area B in 2025. You weren't afraid or flinched when you saw me. That 'you' didn't know me. I've seen 'you' many times, and the 'you' who knew me always looked at me with a little awkwardness and evasion."
That's true.
Lin Xi's heart jumped, only to hear Lu Wei say again, "'You' and I didn't react when we faced each other."
Looking into Lin Xi's eyes, Lu Wei further explained, "That 'you' is the initial 'Lin Xi' in 'My World,' the 'Lin Xi' who hasn't been reborn."
Lin Xi seemed to have figured out what Lu Wei was trying to say.
Lu Wei asked, "Have you ever thought about why we were reborn? Do we, the reborn versions of ourselves, even exist?"
Lin Xi waved her hand: "Wait a minute! Don't say anything yet! Tell me, what was the 'initialized Lin Xi' doing in your previous life?"
Lu Wei: "I worked as an accountant at XX company. When the zombie outbreak occurred, I was trampled flat in front of your company."
That's absolutely true.
The original Lin Xi in this world was trampled to death by zombies that rushed into the company on the day of the zombie outbreak.
Lin Xi suddenly felt a chill run down her spine: "You mean...we actually have our own...worlds?"
"I'm not sure." Lu Wei seemed somewhat bewildered as well. "It's like we're in a survival game, and we just happen to have overlapping instances. Like characters in countless parallel universes."
"When we die, we are reborn into a new world and go back to the past. We may meet, or we may not."
"Just like in my previous life, after I died at Hongwen Hospital, I entered a new beginning, while 'you,' the real 'you,' are still living in my previous world."
However, this world is a real world. In Lu Wei's world, there appears a 'reset Lin Xi', a Lin Xi without the memories of rebirth, a Lin Xi who belongs only to Lu Wei's world.
Lin Xi felt a chill run down her spine and concluded, "Only when we are all dead can we possibly enter the same world."
The two sat facing each other in silence for a long time, silently processing the rebirth setting.
It wasn't until the police knocked on the door to remind him that the meeting time was approaching that he was able to continue.
Lu Wei looked at Lin Xi, hesitant to speak, and then stated a piece of information: "You may die, but 'I' survived in this world. In your next life, there will only be 'the initial me'."
"That 'I' didn't know you, didn't have the ability to regenerate, and died at Hongwen Law Firm on the first day of the zombie outbreak."
Lin Xi seemed to understand why Lu Wei was doing everything he could to help her out of her current predicament.
I understand his reaction when he said he would be reborn in the next life.
Lu Wei seemed to find it hard to admit this: "I'm sorry, I couldn't help you in this life."
He will not have an afterlife.
Lin Xi has resolved the crisis in this world, and he will live a normal life here.
Lin Xi felt a void in her heart, but she was neither panicked nor disappointed.
Her voice wasn't loud, but her tone was firm:
"But I've always fought alone."
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Lu Wei: Xizi! It's okay if I'm no longer in your world!
Hiko! You must live!
(Just kidding, don't take it seriously)
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