Chapter 177 Dual Lines

Compared to the situation in episode 22, where "Alien" became a hot topic due to mild insults, the large-scale explosions after the end of episode 24 were truly exaggerated.

During this period, many people did vent their emotions out of deep love and resentment, and they could not accept this ending, which led to an emotional outburst. But more people just went with the flow, followed the emotional outburst of others, and vented some of their own negative things on their own.

These people never had time to read the story, or perhaps they simply didn't bother to read it.

Someone who considers himself a fan of "The Psycho" left a comment under the trending search: [I simply cannot accept that "The Psycho" has reached this ending, because no matter how you look at it, it seems extremely illogical. In addition, there is another point that I cannot accept, that is, everything that He Jingtong worked hard for ended in complete destruction. I don't think it should be like this...]

Below this slightly sad and slightly complaining comment, there are a lot of comments: [It's just a comic, you are too emotional.] [Expecting to find logic in comics, are you crazy or am I crazy?] [If hard work can get good results, then why are there so many people who are frustrated.]

These are relatively peaceful messages. Most of them are harsh attacks on He Jingtong, the author Jing, and all the circles that include, derive from, or are related to the word "comics".

When the chaos started, it was just a curse fight, and when the chaos ended...

But it is full of incredible things.

It all started with a woman named Xu Yihua.

Social animal, working party, finished overtime, 11pm, and waiting for Didi...

He Jingtongxiang stood at the entrance of the company with a shell that cost 20 million points to create, a one-to-one replica of his own image, just to allow ordinary people in the second dimension to accurately see his own shell. He looked down at his mobile phone, frowned, and greeted Xu Yihua.

"Hello." The voice was polite yet clean and transparent. It might not attract the favor of those who are not voice-controlled, but it was enough to prevent passers-by from being disgusted at first sight.

It was just a male voice, but it made Xu Yihua, who was originally looking at the trending searches on his phone, raise his head instantly and reveal a vigilant look.

When the spirit He Jingtong discovered all this, he decisively took a step back, and then he explained: "I'm sorry for the disturbance, but I just want to ask about the current situation. That's just something related to the time and date, and I don't intend to add your social contact information or anything like that, don't worry."

He explained it all in detail and awkwardly.

Xu Yihua turned her back to the company building which was still lit, and looked at the person who was about two meters away from her.

It is better to have less trouble than more trouble. After confirming that the two-meter range was enough for him to run back to the company at any time, Xu Yihua said decisively: "August 1, 2023, 23:25 pm, today is Army Day. Do you have any other questions? If you still want to ask for directions, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with this area. You can choose navigation or ask other people. It's too late now."

After thinking through a series of words and blurting them out, and accurately expressing her refusal to delve into the topic, Xu Yihua repeatedly discovered that the person in front of her was not the kind of adult male who would bring her a sense of danger.

He was a teenager, or to be more blunt, he could even be called a child.

The other person was slightly taller than her, but the size of a teenage boy was obviously different from that of an adult. In addition, there was an overly obvious, bowl-sized tear on his chest.

This couldn't make people think that the spirit He Jingtong was some kind of being from another dimension. It only made Xu Yihua think that this child might be experiencing a school bully...

It is always embarrassing to continue the conversation after clearly expressing refusal, so Xu Yihua also showed hesitation.

But she didn't want her so-called conscience to affect her thoughts, or even cause her to suffer from insomnia at night...

So when the alien He Jingtong understood Xu Yihua's subversive words and was about to turn around and leave, he heard the latter hesitate a little, and even after the first sentence was uttered, all the other sentences were vaguely filled with words of regret.

"If you are experiencing any misfortune, I can help you call the police."

Xu Yihua had a trace of annoyance on her face. She thought that there was no need for her to meddle in other people's business. But since the conversation had already started, she had no intention of stopping it halfway.

"The police station has people on night duty. I don't know what happened to you that you haven't gone home yet at this time, but if you really need it, I can try my best to provide some insignificant help from passers-by."

"That's it anyway. I hope you won't make requests that are too difficult."

The act of trying to help while feeling regretful made the alien He Jingtong reveal a very faint smile.

He tried to make his voice sound crisp and clear to avoid causing panic among the women who were traveling alone at night, and then he replied earnestly, "It's okay."

The alien He Jingtong took another step back: "I haven't experienced those bad things, I just want to know if this is still my world."

"Sorry, I may have said something you don't understand." The alien spirit He Jingtong took another step back to show that he was harmless.

"But I really don't need any extra help. Thank you again for your kindness. Goodbye."

The alien spirit He Jingtong originally wanted to add one more sentence, "I hope you have a safe journey", but saying this at this point in time might very likely become a threat to the woman in front of him, so he chose to keep silent and turned away.

At this moment, the Didi that Xu Yihua took had also arrived.

The car was coming from the direction opposite to He Jingtong. When the light shone on his back, Xu Yihua inexplicably felt a complex feeling in her heart. It was an intuition, an intuition that told her that if she missed this person, she would most likely regret it for a long time.

If Xu Yihua was still a student, or someone who had just entered society, she would most likely choose to call out to the alien spirit He Jingtong.

As a worker who has been a social animal for several years, she will simply suppress her intuition the moment it arises.

But the inexplicable and indescribable feeling still made her turn on the rear camera of her phone.

The act of filming might not be a good thing, but Xu Yihua's instinct overwhelmed this moral impropriety at this moment. Her instinct told her to just record that she had met someone tonight who was likely to have been bullied on campus. Perhaps it could become evidence that could be provided to the police later.

But when the camera clicked and the flash went on, Xu Yihua finally realized how offensive his behavior was.

A much louder apology was heard than before: "I'm sorry!"

Xu Yihua bent slightly, but the worker's body was tired after a day's work, so he couldn't bend his upper body completely.

She wanted to continue saying something, but all her words were interrupted by the alien spirit He Jing turning around.

That is truly a life form from a different dimension, a different world, or even a different dimension...

An indescribable shock was fluctuating invisibly.

It was just like my trip to the Potala Palace last winter. It was a soul-stirring experience.

The valuable mobile phone in Xu Yihua's hand slipped uncontrollably, and the movement of the phone's corner hitting the ground seemed to be slowed down.

Until in a flash, the mobile phone, which would not be broken but would at least have scratches on it, appeared in the hands of the alien He Jingtong.

“You, you…you!”

How can I organize the countless information that appears in my mind in an instant into normal and understandable vernacular?

Xu Yihua didn't know.

She only knew that under the high beam of the car, the boy, whose figure was finally not hidden by the darkness and could be seen clearly, was like a real person who walked out of a comic book...

If you choose to swipe left at the bottom of the phone to open another software interface, then I think the alien He Jingtong will be able to see clearly in an instant that the words said by Xu Yihua are refreshed in real time in the comments below the hot search.

[Is this shitty ending really worth showing to others?

All my love for this comic is based on my love for He Jingtong.

After he dies, I can tell myself that there is another form of He Jingtong, that is, the spirit He Jingtong, but I just can't accept this kind of ending to destroy all traces of He Jingtong's existence in the world. 】

These words are based on the fact that Xu Yihua knows clearly what death is.

Being forgotten by everyone is the real death.

There is a saying that death is the same as you plus the world minus yourself.

He Jingtong is dead, but it doesn’t matter. Those who survived because of him are still trying to move forward.

Although it is full of tragedy, it is still acceptable. At least as a reader who has suffered countless cuts and seen countless bad endings, Xu Yihua thinks that all of this is acceptable.

But the only thing she couldn't accept was that everything was gone.

So she cursed, spitted, and vented her negative emotions when she talked to her friends about the same topic...

But I never thought that a figure in a story would actually walk out of the story.

They really look alike.

The rational part told Xu Yihua that comics could not come true, but the emotions made her ask a question involuntarily.

She lowered her head, looked at the figure who took the phone and slowly stood up, and asked in a slightly trembling voice: "Are you cosplaying He Jingtong from the "Alien" comics?"

Xu Yihua swallowed his saliva more than once when he heard these words.

Until the spirit He Jingtong stood up and told her, "What is that?"

The scar on the chest was not a tear, nor was it the kind of cut made by a sharp knife. At least the sharp weapons that ordinary people can get hold of today are definitely not capable of making that kind of cut.

Xu Yihua has also seen many big names who have cosplayed He Jingtong on the Internet, but each of them has very obvious traces of the second dimension.

Wigs, clothes, makeup...

Those are things that have nothing to do with daily life and usually only appear in specific occasions.

But when the same thing, the same trace, appears on the person in front of me, it is definitely not a subsequent addition...

It is the most real thing, transformed from a flat plane to a three-dimensional plane, and without any trace of human intervention, everything is natural, and also... a slightly terrifying fact.

"Which normal person would catch my dropped phone from four meters away in less than a second..."

The collapse is the collapse of the worldview, and the joy is the joy of loving and not being betrayed.

Xu Yihua, who is already in her twenties, has been focusing on fantasy stories for more than ten years.

She believes that those stories exist, whether they are good or bad, or illogical, they are all buggy.

In short, those worlds do exist, they are just in another latitude that cannot be touched or crossed.

When the Didi drove up to him, Xu Yihua had a brief moment of wanting to pull this obviously abnormal creature into the car and take it home together.

But this irrational behavior was not actually carried out.

She simply asked, "Are you He Jingtong?"

"Just now... Is it time again?"

It was like a conversation in a riddle.

The taxi driver assigned to women at night lowered the window of the driver's seat and said to the two people standing on the roadside: "Hello, young lady, are you the customer with the last digit 0103?"

With the background noise that Xu Yihua could no longer hear, the woman who had remained rational and calm until then successfully saw the alien He Jingtong lip-syncing.

He shook his head, which made Xu Yihua's heavy heart no longer so depressed.

But until he said, "I am not him, I was before, and have always been called——"

"The alien spirit congratulates Jingtong."

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"It's time for another one." Confirming that everything in the second dimension is on the right track, the author Jing, who is in the system space, also muttered to himself.

The system was confused and asked, "What happens next? How will the story proceed?"

[The world is over...]

"You should be able to locate the coordinates directly from the dimension of time."

Just like when it first appeared on the plane.

The multi-view function successfully pauses the scene at the end of the 24th chapter of the manga.

This means that only the system functions are suspended, not that time is also suspended.

In fact, starting from the sentence that the author Jing reminded the system of, everything at the moment has been gradually covered up.

Afterwards, the system finally began to locate the coordinates of the alien.

Author Jing also said: "Contact the companies that adapted the two-dimensional comics into animations and tell them that although the "Obsessed" movie cannot be released this summer, there will always be a suitable opportunity to release the 'theater version' during this year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, or at the end of the year, or next year's New Year."

After successfully locating the coordinates of the spirit, the system responded: [I understand.]

At the same time, the multi-view screen starts rotating again.

It's like time has gone back, and everything that was destroyed has been restored to its original state.

Along with these, the Otherworldly appeared at an earlier point in time.

That is, the moment when the alien Qi Yuan was born.

This was completely different from what the alien spirit He Jingtong had imagined. What he originally wanted was for the two of them to go see the mountains, seas, stars and moon together one more time before the alien spirit Qi Yuan completely disappeared.

But the reality is that the alien spirit went straight to the beginning.

Of course, the supernatural beings don't care about certain assumptions.

That is, if the alien spirit Qi Yuan had already been affected at this time, would everything in the future develop as the plot has already been described in the comics?

After all, this causal logic does not hold true at all, and soon he will have to go back to the past even earlier.

From the perspective of the entire world's timeline, the alien spirit went from the present to the past. From the perspective of the individual's timeline, the alien spirit replaced the alien spirit He Jingtong and went to the future that the alien spirit He Jingtong wanted.

That is what the alien spirit He Jingtong wanted, to be able to see the future of stars, moon, mountains and sea again with the alien spirit Qi Yuan.

At this moment, it is replaced by a strange spirit.

When he actually appeared in the scene accompanied by death, the first person the alien spirit saw was not the alien spirit Qi Yuan, but Qi Xueyi, who raised his hand to feel Qi Yuan's breath, confirmed that her body had cooled down, and also confirmed that she was dead.

In the void that could not be detected by humans or spiritualists, the alien spirit looked at Qi Yuan, the alien spirit who was standing on the side in a daze.

The formation of the alien spirit Qi Yuan, like the alien spirit He Jing, was not born of sin.

Suicide is not accepted by the world in many metaphysical and logical theories, but in the world of "Alien", suicide without any regrets, pain, or despair is the purest form of innocence.

Qi Xueyi was emotionally broken, hugged Qi Yuan's body and cried, and even fainted and fell down. Other elders came one after another, with noisy footsteps and continuous messages...

It was as if all of this was deliberately voided, unable to bring any emotional ups and downs to the two people placed in the void. They all became background sounds like white noise.

The alien spirit ignored all the pain, just looked at the alien spirit Qi Yuan, and said in a slow voice like guiding and educating a child: "Do you want to come with me?

The ghost stretched out his hand, and when the setting sun shone through the mirror, it also penetrated his palm, casting an orange-yellow light on the white wall.

The alien spirit told the alien spirit Qi Yuan: "Although we won't walk together for a long time, as long as we walk together for a while, it will be enough. !