game zero

Gu Ling somewhat accepted this reality. He knew that there should be a number on his head, but when he looked in the mirror, the clock on his head never appeared.

The days went on like that, until one day, Gu Ling suddenly discovered something.One day, when he was passing by a street corner, he saw a woman with three days on her head, but when he met that woman again in a cafe in the corner of the city, the number on her head became 20 years. .

Gu Ling was extremely curious about this matter, he even went forward to have a chat, the handsome guy's approach made passers-by involuntarily relaxed, Gu Ling was sure that this was the girl he met last time, and that she didn't have twins.

"Well, did you ask me what happened last Tuesday? When I got off work in the company, I was pestered by a little flower girl for a while. I felt sorry for her and bought a few flowers. Then I missed the last train, so I took a taxi and went home." The girl recalled, "But later, when I read the news, the last train of that car had an accident, and all the people in the car died. Thinking about it makes me feel terrible."

Gu Ling remained silent for a while. He understood the law of number transformation. The girl missed the arrival of the god of death because of one action, so her fate changed accordingly, and the number on her head also changed.

It is understandable to think about this kind of thing. This is probably what the old people call changing one’s life. Every time you make a choice in life, stand at a fork in the road, and each choice is different. Then the life span, life, and state of human beings will all change. not exactly.Sometimes this kind of change is positive, sometimes it is reversed. You don't know which action changed your life, and you don't know which thing you messed up.

Two days later, Gu Ling met a blind man crossing the road at the intersection. The number on his head was ten seconds away. When Gu Ling saw the number, he suddenly became nervous. He thought of his mother's countdown card, the number was clear. Zero, the person will also die.

"Please wait a moment!" Gu Ling yelled these words almost subconsciously, and the blind man turned his head and looked for the sound suspiciously.

At that moment, a truck that ran a red light roared past the intersection in front of them.

Gu Ling raised his head and looked at the number above the man's head. When it was cleared, the whole number turned red, the countdown flickered for a few seconds, and the number suddenly flipped sharply, and then changed to two years and 28 days.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person." Gu Ling said lightly, then turned and left, leaving behind a somewhat inexplicable blind man.

Gu Ling, who turned around, felt a tinge of joy and excitement in his heart. Just now, his tiny action changed the fate of the person in front of him, adding two years to his life.

This kind of thing, there is the first time, and then there is the second time, the third time...

Gu Ling felt that he was a good person, and he saved other people's lives without those people knowing it. Doing this kind of thing gave him a sense of satisfaction, as if even an ordinary life had become meaningful.

Until one day, Gu Ling was stopped by an old man playing chess in a small park.The old man Gu Ling often saw him sitting in the park with a chessboard in front of him every day, but there was never anyone else but himself.

Gu Ling was a little puzzled why the old man called him, and he sat opposite to the old man.

The old man looked at him and said, "I have a secret. I can see the number on some people's heads... This number may have a special meaning, and it may represent the length of life left by a person."

After saying this, the old man twirled the chess piece with his rough fingers.

Gu Ling: "..."

This was the first time for him to meet someone like him in this world.It's also possible that more people were able to see the numbers, but none of those people told anyone else.

"But your number, every time I see you, is changing." The old man said, "Forgive me for not telling you what the number is. In this world, those numbers are known as secrets. If I tell you, I will dead."

"Then how did my numbers change?" Gu Ling asked.

The old man hesitated for a moment, but still told him, "It's decreasing. Every time I meet you, your number is decreasing."

"Why..." Gu Ling was stunned. He also guessed that the reason for this change might be because he helped some people and changed some people.But why did his numbers decrease when he did good deeds?

The old man said: "I think you may have changed the fate of some people. I have been sitting here for more than ten years, and I have never dared to do anything to change others. In human society, the life of each of us depends on Like dominoes, they are interlocking. Once you do something and change some people, it may cause a chain butterfly effect. I can’t comment on whether the things you do are good or bad. The things themselves may be good Yes, maybe it’s bad, but it’s meaningless. Sometimes good is evil, and evil is good. For example, if you saved a doctor who was supposed to die, then the doctor went to perform an operation on a rich businessman. At the same time, the fate of the wealthy businessman was changed, but later the wealthy businessman forcibly demolished a private house, resulting in the death of several people, so can you say that you did the right thing in helping the doctor?"

These behind-the-scenes things are things that Gu Ling has never considered. In this society, the relationship between people is too complicated, and there are countless threads between every point, which affects the whole body. .

When the old man said this, he looked at Gu Ling and continued: "Even if what you do is right or wrong, we won't tell what the result will be. When you know that you are using your life to change the fate of others If it were, would you still do such a thing? It’s like saying, we admire those who do what is right, and a young man wants to go into the water to save an old man. Before he goes into the water, he knows that the old man will be rescued. Add one or two years of life, but he will die because of it, he has relatives and children, you say, will he go into the water without any worries?"

Gu Ling felt a headache, "I haven't considered the issues you mentioned in the past. These things are too complicated. It is difficult to define right and wrong, and it is also difficult to make rules for behavior."

The old man nodded, "I'm just telling you these things, what are the details, what should you do, and in the end it's your own choice."

Gu Ling walked out of the small park, lowered his head all the way, thinking about the problem, and went home.

In his apartment, Jiang Jie ordered some takeaways and spread them out on the table, as if she had been waiting for him for a long time.He sat on the other side of the dining table and looked at him with a spoon hanging. "The takeaway I ordered today is not bad. You can try this soup."

Gu Ling took a few sips, then raised his head and asked him, "Jiang Jie, let me ask you, if now, you can choose to save others, but the price is that you might... Would you still do such a thing?"

Jiang Jie laughed, "Why do you ask this suddenly? I count as a policeman. That's my job. I will naturally do what I should do."

Gu Ling asked, "But aren't you afraid of death?"

Jiang Jie said: "There must be fear. There is a saying that when I am alive, death does not exist. After I die, I no longer exist, so why should I be afraid of it?"

"Even so, are you sure that what you did must be correct?" Gu Ling asked again.

Jiang Jie thought for a moment, then shook his head, "I'm not sure, but I know one thing, I only do what I think is right. How can you use numbers, time, and calculation formulas to measure the importance of life? Woolen cloth?"

Gu Ling raised his head and looked at Jiang Jie. He was a familiar person, but he was extremely strange. Even everything around him became strange.Suddenly, he looked up and saw the number on Jiang Jie's head, three months, there were still three months left.He wanted to remind him, wanted to love him more, but suddenly he felt his eyes were hot, and he couldn't express that feeling in his chest.

Jiang Jie was still talking freely, "There are many people who, after knowing the countdown to their lives, will completely change their person. It's like, if they know that there is still half an hour left, they will do nothing. If there is still a year left , just go all out to accomplish what you want to do, to care for the relatives you neglect. If you know that there are still ten years left, you will feel that you still have a lot of opportunities. Isn't that the same thing? In the end, all people come to that end, as Tolstoy wrote, 'If we remember that we are mortal, our whole life will acquire another purpose.' Your own life and other people's lives are the same." When he said this, he paused and asked him, "Have you finished your meal?"

"What?" Gu Ling was taken aback.

"Your time is up, you should go." Jiang Jie said in front of her.

Hearing these words, Gu Ling suddenly remembered that he seemed to be in the system, and there was white mist everywhere, and he lost consciousness. Gu Ling couldn't help but ask, "Where is this?"

Jiang Jie smiled, "It's just a dream. You weave a dream with obsessions that you can't see through. Some dreams are confusing, some are beautiful, some are terrifying, and some are persistent. Everyone's Dreams are born in everyone's heart and brain."

The whole dream was tumbling, and the pavilion outside the window was breaking into pieces and gradually collapsing. Pieces of things, like tiny memories, floated in the air, and they shattered silently.

Gu Ling looked at him, and stretched out his hand to grab him, but the person in front of him became unreal, and he said, "Thank you, I seem to know the answer I want."

The person in front of me said, "No, it's not me, the answer is in your heart, this is not a conversation between Jiang Jie and you, this is a conversation between yourself and yourself, when you go out from here, the numbers on the top of human heads will no longer exist , you may be more calm, but that number, like the blood bars on the characters in our game, really exists in a place unknown to humans."