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Chapter 1003 Chapter One Thousand and One · "Please grant me a miracle."

Xiao Li walked forward, her black hair fluttering.

Amidst the red mist, she put her pinhole-ridden hand on the back of Su Mingan's hand, and held the doorknob with him.

Su Mingan pressed her hand: "It's dangerous outside, you don't need to go out."

Xiao Li shook his head, and moved his fingers away from the back of his hand: "Doctor Su, you are very smart, so you have already seen the story of the first tower, right?"

Su Mingan responded.

At this point in the story, he has calculated the history that the first tower wants to present.

……

【Doctor Su asked me what regrets I have. 】

【I said, if Dr. Su could come to rescue us before everything happened...if before February 2th, before Xiaoli's organs were removed, then it would be...consummation. 】

……

【"Xiao Li, are you okay?" Su Wensheng helped the girl up. 】

[The girl nodded: "I'm okay. Today is February 2th and the operation has not been performed yet."]

……

The time when the first tower went back was February 2th, before Xiaoli was killed.

Therefore, what Su Mingan meets now is "Xiao Li who was rescued by Su Mingan", which is a new timeline.

And the real Xiaoli couldn't escape nine years ago.According to Su Wensheng's memory, when Dr. Su arrived, it was February 2, and Xiao Li had just died.What remains in Su Wensheng's memory is "Xiao Li who was not rescued by Dr. Su".

Then, I thought of a passage in Xiaoli's diary——

……

[The adults want to transform me because the blood of qualified people is very strong. They are thinking that if my blood can be turned into weapons, such as bright red tentacles, like "alien species that can be controlled by humans" - then, They can use me to get more resources. 】

[However, in that case, I will also become a walking dead, and it will no longer be me. 】

……

Su Mingan raised his eyes and looked out the window.

The mahogany grid revealed a little bit of dim candlelight, and the figure of the "ghost" was like the shadow of a whirling tree. It roared wildly outside the door, and its bright red tentacles spread around, piercing corpses one after another.

Under the dark sky, its thin body was wrapped in thick red mist, only a pair of pitch-black eyes and long jet-black hair blowing in the wind could be seen.

——A 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 Dr. Su', right?" Su Mingan said.

Xiao Li's hands trembled slightly, she nodded slowly and firmly.

In the timeline when Dr. Su failed to save Xiaoli, Xiaoli was pushed into the operating room and never came out again.Therefore, in Su Wensheng's memory, he thought that Xiao Li had died.

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 power of a foreign species, but she finally escaped The researchers lost control and lost their minds.Killed most of the researchers nine years ago.Since Dr. Su had already rescued Su Wensheng, Su Wensheng didn't know what happened next.

Therefore, in this game of "ghosts chasing people" - "ghosts" do not represent alien species, but Xiaoli, who failed in transformation back then.

——The "researchers" are not innocent people who were massacred by alien species, they are all executioners who caused Xiao Li to become a walking dead.

That's why "ghosts" hate them so much.

——"Girl" represents Xiaoli from another timeline. Fortunately, she was rescued by Su Mingan in advance and was not pushed into the operating room.

The current Xiaoli is Xiaoli in the timeline "saved by Su Mingan".The ghost outside the door is Xiaoli from the timeline "unsaved by Su Mingan".It is precisely because the negative emotions generated by her massacre of researchers after Xiaoli was transformed in the past became part of the driving energy of the first tower, which activated the first tower, merging the past with reality, and allowing Su Mingan to climb over The causal line, was able to save the current Xiao Li.

If you kill "Xiao Li who was not rescued by Su Ming'an", you will kill the ghost and stop the massacre.Then the causal line of "the ghost slaughtered everyone and drove the first tower" will also be erased.When the ghost is killed as the "cause", Xiaoli will cease to exist as the "effect".In any case, she would not exist today.

So—her death cannot be saved.

At this moment, Su Mingan understood what the ghost said before.

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["Haha, hahahaha..." Laughter came from the red mist, like a girl's miserable laugh: "——It's useless. You don't understand what a sense of fate is like. All your struggles will eventually lead to the established It’s the same ending for Xiaoli, and it’s the same for you.”]

……

——fate.

Su Mingan clenched his hands tightly.

"Doctor Su, I already know what to do, please let me end this." Xiaoli said.

Su Mingan didn't stop her again.

"Crack——" the wooden door was pushed open, and Xiao Li walked out slowly. She borrowed Su Mingan's knife, cut her wrist, and smeared blood on the knife.

"The lantern in everyone's hands contains a piece of my hair, so when the 'ghost' of the same origin as me approaches, the lantern in your hands will light up when it senses the same origin. This is the principle of the lantern "Xiao Li said: "The props provided by the safe house are also made of the blood and flesh of me, a qualified person, and can suppress things of the same origin, so you need your flesh and blood to exchange."

Every mechanic of the game is explained.This is not a fun burning granny game, but a girl's last desperate cry.

People had failed her and now she was being asked to fix it all.

Su Mingan watched her walk out step by step.The cold wind blew her black hair, obviously at a very young age, but a few white strands were already faintly visible.

The truth of the old world has always been that there is no price, no gain. No matter how powerful a "ghost" is, it still has something to fear.

—it is afraid of itself.

The props provided by the safe house were originally made of its own flesh and blood.And Xiaoli, as its true self, her blood and flesh, has the most suppressive effect on it.

Just like three Su Wenshengs can exist in one place at the same time, under the backtracking cause and effect of the tower, there can also be two Xiaolis here at the same time.

The "ghost" stepped back step by step, making a hoarse cry.

"——Xiao Li." Su Mingan shouted.

Xiaoli stopped, holding Su Mingan's amber knife with both hands, the long blade was almost taller than her whole body, the blood coagulated on the blade, dyeing the blade surface vermilion.

The candlelight shone on her face, and her green cheeks were stained solemnly and calmly.If she can have more years, if her time does not stop, maybe she can really grow into a very good person.

"——What will happen if the timeline is not closed?" Su Mingan said.

[Xiao Li who was saved] Killing [Xiao Li who was not saved] is an act of closing the timeline.Because neither of them should live in this world, when both of them disappear, karma is normal.Therefore, what Xiao Li has to do now is to kill the ghost, and she will also kill herself at the same time.

Xiaoli clenched the knife tightly, stared straight into the distance, and spoke softly:
"Some nodes of fate cannot be changed."

"We may make many decisions throughout our lives, such as whether to have breakfast today, how many glasses of water to drink today, whether to eat an extra bite of tomato, but most of these decisions are meaningless. Whether we No matter how many times decisions have been changed, they will not affect our outcome."

"Only some key event choices will lead to different endings. For example, choose to go swimming, and finally accidentally lead to drowning. So no matter how many times we have made different choices before - whether to eat breakfast, how many tomatoes, Neither will change the final outcome of drowning. The only thing that can change the outcome is the choice related to swimming."

"As long as the key decision remains unchanged, no matter how you change it before, it will end the timeline and achieve the same ending."

"It's like the chemical experiment that Xiaowen once taught me when he was teaching me—every action we make may diverge a timeline, such as adding various kinds of wood to the box, but it is still wood and has no production. New substances, no matter how many times you add them, are still wood. But if you add chemicals to it and a new chemical reaction occurs, then there will be a real change.”

"That is to say, even if you want me to live, at this critical time point, I must erase the traces of the existence of 'ghosts', and at the same time erase me. Because 'we' should not live until now exist."

"I'm sorry, but I can't get out of here."

Because this is fate.

Her small body stood in front of Su Mingan, and she walked towards the ghost step by step, her blood dripped on the ground, and bright red flowers bloomed one after another.

- "Girl".

Her shadow dragged on the ground, shining through the lights in Su Mingan's eyes.

——What is the fate of the "girl"?Did he die in the operating room full of unwillingness, did he die here with ghosts in despair, did he miss the agreement with the young Su Wensheng, or stay in the past nine years ago forever?
In any case, there seemed to be no future ahead of her.Her future—was cut off nine years ago.No matter how she struggles, no matter how she looks back, her death cannot be avoided, just like a butterfly suffocated in a jar.

Su Mingan stretched out his hand to hold her trembling arm.Her strength was too weak, and the Amber Knife was about to crush her.

"I am a qualified person. If the qualified person does not benefit mankind, mankind will suffer." The words in her diary are dazzling.

"Before my parents died, you saved me from domestic violence, and we made an appointment to grow up together."

"A man loves to cry so much, how can he save other children in the future?"

"If someone really comes to save you, they must come back in the future and destroy this place."

--I am back.

Even if it's not the real Su Wensheng, he's back.He came back with his heart full of hot blood and his heart that was not yet cold.

The girl's hair fluttered in the wind, and there was a faint callus in her hand. Su Mingan held her hand tightly.

"Please, help me." Xiao Li's voice was very soft:

"With my strength, it is impossible to get close to the ghost. You can help me get close to it and use my blood to kill it."

"Don't be sad, my death is in the past tense. Even if you insist on saving me, more people will die because of me, which I don't want to see. Now the tower has let everyone witness this This period of history, in the future, there will be fewer similar situations—that’s what I want to see.”

"You help me, will you?"

Su Mingan held her hand steady.

Just as he respected the death of the Bright Knight back then, he also respects Xiaoli's choice now.

The moment he held her hand tightly, he saw many memories.

——Back then, after the relatives who adopted Xiao Li died, a new family soon adopted Xiao Li.They manipulated her and treated her like a nanny at home.Until they were accidentally injured, Xiaoli couldn't bear them to die, so she fed them her blood.

From that moment on - the nightmare came.

Because of her kindness, she exposed her identity as a qualified person, and the family sold her to the research institute immediately after recovering from her illness.

She was transported to various places, underwent various tests, and endured countless pains.Until one day when she was sitting in the car and passing by her home, she saw that the originally poor family had built a luxurious big house, the golden wheat field was swaying in the wind, the old man and their children were sitting at home At the door, drink tea and brag with your neighbors.After they sold her, they became so rich, so happy.

And she was sitting in the car, no matter how many times she screamed for help, and slammed the window until her fists bled, no one came to save her.

After being sent to the Experimental City, she was forced to undergo various experiments—starvation experiments, burn experiments, and freezing experiments. She often suffered from starvation because people wanted to observe her body's reactions.The scalpel cut her skin, the long needle pierced her body, the restraint belt restricted her movement, and the severe pain penetrated her flesh and bones all the time.She has no dignity, like a sheep lying on the chopping board.

[She] is still being persecuted continuously.

"If...in this world...really...there are gods who love us...gods...please grant me a miracle, please...you...please..."

"If...Mom and Dad...are still...then they...will definitely come...to save me..."

She fell down in the dim ward, repeating, repeating.

"Xiaowen..."

"Xiaowen...will also come...to save me."

"Then...the bad guys will be...defeated...the kind adults...will give the bad guys...punishment..."

"Persist until...that time...persevere until...a kind lord descends from the sky...extradite me from suffering..."

Xiaowen has been comforting her, saying that someone will definitely destroy this place and expose all evils to the light.He shook her bony hand and promised to go home with her.

But in the end, until she was pushed onto the final operating table, the light pierced her tearful eyes, the scalpel shone coldly and cut her chest and abdomen, and the adults wore masks to look at her greedily—until that last moment, she Still praying, still hoping.

"I've never...did...anything wrong..."

"God... angel... please... save me... save... 'us'..."

But until the end—the scalpel fell on her heart—

No one came to rescue her.

(End of this chapter)