My boss hung up again

"Let's do this." Bian Yuan stood up, "Maybe what happened on the high-speed rail just now was indeed a bit scary, and it's normal for you to find it hard to accept for a while, but we still have to move forward, as long as you are willing to cooperate with me, no matter what you think If I'm out of my mind or something, you should know that I won't hurt you. We can save a lot of trouble by working together. You don't have to trust me now, just don't treat me like you did when the [-]st time restarted. "

"How did I treat you that time?"

"At that time, I was eager to explain everything to you on the high-speed rail, but you just poured water on me to calm me down. The water was still the boiling water you just brought back."

"...I don't do this kind of thing, normally I don't resort to violence to solve problems."

Bian Yuan smiled, waited for a while, looked at the ground, and then walked up: "It seems that you don't know yourself very well."

Xin Yitong said nervously, "What are you doing up there!"

"It's okay, the police and terrorists are gone."

"You..." What Xin Yitong wanted to say was "how do you know", but she didn't say it out, she could imagine how Bian Yuan would answer, she would definitely say - I know everything.

Carefully following Bian Yuan back to the ground, sure enough, there was no one on the platform, the high-speed train with the doors open stopped quietly, and there were still dead bodies in the carriage.

Bian Yuan boldly walked into the wild grass, Xin Yitong didn't dare to follow her, and was worried that she would have an accident, so she stepped on the edge of the grass and looked in, and Bian Yuan came out after less than 5 minutes.

"Still dead."

"Who?"

"Professor Su."

Xin Yitong: "??"

"It's the man with the suitcase. He's a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences."

With such a scruffy appearance, it is impossible to think of him as a professor at all.

"do you know him?"

"It doesn't count as acquaintance, of course he is not my acquaintance, but even if you have seen him hundreds of times, he can't be regarded as a stranger."

Bian Yuan put her hands on her hips and sighed deeply, and said to herself: "It seems that this time I still failed...Forget it..."

"Hey, Bian Yuan..."

"Let's go."

"where to?"

"go outside."

Bian Yuan walked back to the underground passage again, and walked easily in the dark passage, as if she knew that there was no danger ahead, and her steps were fast.When she walked through the tunnel and came to the brightly lit high-speed rail station, when she turned her head, she saw Xin Yitong, who was so excited by the light that her eyes were squinted, following her.

"It seems that you are better this time." Bian Yuan continued to walk forward and stood on the escalator.

Xin Yitong turned a blind eye to her back and continued to follow. Of course, she would not choose to believe in a restart time. She just wanted to go out, find a place to live, and wait until tomorrow morning when she returned to the city before considering whether to change jobs. Stay away from this strange person.

The arrival station and the waiting hall were only separated by a large glass wall. When Xin Yitong walked the icy air and walked on the road, he found that the waiting hall was deserted and there were not many people, not to mention the police and survivors who got off the high-speed rail.

"Don't look." Bian Yuan didn't look back, she had already walked to the exit, "They're not there."

"Why is there no police? Shouldn't everything be blocked when such a big thing happens?"

Bian Yuan pulled open the heavy iron door at the exit, and the iron door made a very ear-piercing sound of metal rubbing against each other.

"No." Bian Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, "There are too many strange things, and you will gradually get used to them in the future. Come quickly, or it will rain."

"Are you so sure I'll follow you?"

"Yes. Because you have no other choice."

Xin Yitong saw taxis coming and going in the waiting square from a distance, but when she passed by, they never came again.

Xin Yitong: "..."

"What did I say?" Bian Yuan walked to her side, took out a folding umbrella from the big pocket of the jacket and opened it, "You can only follow me."

Xin Yitong was puzzled, what kind of umbrella should I use on this beautiful night with a bright moon and few stars.As soon as my thoughts came up, a burst of heavy rain fell into the sky, almost summoned by Bian Yuan's umbrella.

Xin Yitong was tongue-tied, and Bian Yuan almost turned into a wizard who called the wind and rain.

"Let's go, there is a last bus to the city center, you have no place to sleep here."

Sure enough, there was a dilapidated small bus parked at the other end of the street in the distance. They got on the bus in the rain. There were only four people in the bus, and the two of them sat in the front seat.

"So... what will we encounter next?" Xin Yitong asked with some concern and expectation.

Bian Yuan put away the umbrella dripping with rain: "As long as you follow me, nothing major will happen until you return to the city."

"According to what you mean, will there be anything to do when you return to the city?"

"You'll know then."

"Don't be tricky." Xin Yitong became excited.

"Don't you believe it?"

"If it's possible, I really don't want to believe it..." Xin Yitong suffered from a severe headache due to high brain pressure, and massaged his temples in annoyance, "But there are too many things that can't be explained, I want to hear what you say."

"I actually explained it to you at least 50 times."

"Miss Bian." Xin Yitong smiled wryly, "It won't happen again."

Bian Yuan's smile made her feel inexplicably familiar and warm, although she couldn't find the impression of Bian Yuan smiling at her like this in her memory.

"Although there are different details and accidents every time, you expect me to call me 'Miss Bian' when I tell a story."

The driver finally arrived, and the night bus wobbled slowly on the muddy road on a rainy night, but Bian Yuan's words attracted all of Xin Yitong's attention, even the biting cold inside the car was ignored.

Time restart is just a guess of Bian Yuan.

As she said, not every time she restarts, she will remember what happened. The probability of keeping her memory is very low, but even so, she can already count 320 restarts.

The conspiracy of this world is huge.

Xin Yitong has a question: "If your memory cannot be preserved, how do you know that you have forgotten it? I mean, what you don't remember is the same as it never happened, right? If what you say is true, The end result should also be that you don't even remember the fact that you lost your memory."

"Yes, when the memory is erased by an unknown force, there is indeed no reason to know that it has been erased. Of course, you can't judge it with your own brain, but you can use other methods to remind yourself."

"Such as hiding a ring at my house?"

"The first time I woke up and remembered what happened in the last cycle, I panicked. I made countless efforts to make myself remember everything, such as writing in a notebook, putting the notebook by the bed, thinking I will definitely see it when I wake up the next day. It’s a pity that this is stupid. When the time restarts, what happened is reset, the dead are all resurrected, and the whole world starts to enter a new cycle. I wrote Those reminder notes are of course gone. At the beginning of the new cycle, I didn't and didn't write any notes."

Bian Yuan went on to say: "But once I woke up and lost my memory, I found that my ring was missing. It was a very important thing to me and I never took it off. I searched my room that day I didn’t find it, I wondered if it would be thrown outside, and I was absent-minded all day. Then I went on a business trip with you. Coincidentally, my memory was saved when the time was restarted, and it was miraculous the next day. Yes, my tail ring appeared on my little finger again, and I knew that after time restarted, everything would reset, and my lost tail ring would reappear." She raised her hand to show Xin Yitong the ring. ring.

Xin Yitong didn't understand, and shook his head: "If this is the case, your tail ring will not disappear, because it will be reset every time."

"It's hard to understand the mystery without thinking and experimenting yourself." Bian Yuan said, "I can't remember anything when the memory is erased, but when the memory is restored, I can recall all the things that happened in the cycle of retaining the memory. Everything, and why my tail ring was missing. After hundreds of attempts to leave evidence to guide myself in the house to no avail, I began to experiment with new methods-marking elsewhere. At first I think it was because I damaged the mark unconsciously when I was amnesiac, and that’s why I had the idea of ​​protecting the mark. After repeated repetitions, I understood the law of resetting. It was not me who destroyed it, but a mysterious force that made it disappear. Although The world will be reset, but the human way of thinking is still the same. Regardless of whether my memory exists or not, I will experimentally bury the tail ring in a place other than my home - under the ginkgo tree in the central park of the city, make a mark, and then Draw a mark on the tree, and wait for the next restart to record a new one. And this time I went to Central Park to count, and there are 320 scratches on the trunk."

"But why is the ring at my house this time?"

"That's right, burying the ring in the park was actually the first few times I did it, and then I put it in your house." Bian Yuan leaned back in her chair with a shy smile, "I still remember when I rushed to the Is there anything your family does?"

Xin Yitong's expression changed, and his face became a little hot.

How could he not remember that it was the first time someone kissed her forcibly in such a big age.

"I apologize in advance, I was so excited at the time, because it was the first time to take the cycle to a new stage, and it was also the first time we expressed our hearts to each other, and it was just a little bit that we could break through everything and maybe see new The hope, the result... That death was terrible. When I woke up and found that I still had memories, I rushed to your house for the first time. The feeling when I saw you alive in front of me cannot be described in words, so I did it impulsively To you. I forget you don’t remember anything, you forget all the experiences and emotional changes between us, to me you are my girlfriend, but to you I still have to compete with you The rival in the same position. I'm really sorry, please don't take it to heart."

After hearing her words, Xin Yitong felt her nose sore inexplicably, and even felt a little guilty: "Forget it, I'm an adult now, and I don't lose a piece of meat."

Bian Yuan looked down at Wei Jie, but didn't speak.

Xin Yitong realizes that she is still very raw, and if she forgives, she will put more distance between her and Bian Yuan.But how can she get close?She really doesn't remember what she and Bian Yuan had at all, it's embarrassing to suddenly get close.

Besides, how could she be with Bian Yuan?It's unbelievable what happened that she would have that kind of relationship with Bian Yuan.

Xin Yitong didn't want the atmosphere to remain gloomy, so she tried to change the subject: "So why did you put the ring with me?"

Bian Yuan said: "This is your idea, and it is also the first step of our experiment. After you accept the idea of ​​time restart, you want to be like me and want to keep the memory of the previous cycle after restarting. But this It is not easy. We are aware of the weirdness of the world we live in, and we are not satisfied with just keeping memories. Our greater goal is to explore the mysteries of the world. Only by mastering its secrets can we be more active in controlling our own destiny. I and When you mentioned that everything recorded in the notepad will disappear, but the ring placed in the park will be preserved, you have a guess - when the time restarts, is it only the area related to me that will be reset to The starting point? For example, Central Park, there is no essential connection with me, so the unknown force ignored the ring that should not belong there when resetting everything. So, what would happen if you put the ring in your home? Put it in your house The ring in the bathroom tank at home is our first experiment, and you have seen the results of the experiment, verifying your guess—you can leave clues in places that don’t belong to me. As for the orientation of the handle of your dental cup, it is For some reason my house was destroyed, you took me in and let me live in your house, I borrowed your tooth cup and changed the direction of the tooth cup handle, which broke your life rules and left traces. You should be more than once Did you find that the handle of the tooth cup has been turned? That is the evidence that I arrived at your house in the last cycle."

"You moved my tooth cup and it won't be reset?"

"Yeah, that makes me affirm what you're saying - we all have special zones where everything reopens, but what's done in places that don't belong to us tends to go unnoticed. It's more than just applicable It applies to me as well as to you.”

Xin Yitong said: "But we have to do so many things in a day and go to countless places, how can we ensure which ones belong to us and which ones don't?"

"I don't know about these. To be honest, I only noticed some fur. In addition to the fragmentation of thinking and clues caused by the high probability of amnesia after each restart, I couldn't figure out the reason for many things."

Bian Yuan found that Xin Yitong was very smart, and the clues she had summed up so far were very scattered, and she didn't deliberately organize them and just talked to her casually, but she followed her own thinking closely, and even kept asking questions.It is no accident that the ring test method can be proposed.

Xin Yitong fell into a long silence.What Bian Yuan said had a great impact on her.In fact, Xin Yitong already had thoughts similar to Bian Yuan's in his heart.

Time is restarted, and the cycle is as high as hundreds of times... No wonder some people seem to have experienced some things when they meet them for the first time.

"What are we going to face? Another death?" Xin Yitong subconsciously bit her lips, and the bloody smell that gradually filled her mouth couldn't stop her trembling body.

"Perhaps." The word Bian Yuan made her even more uneasy.

"Since you know you're going to die, why do you still have to go on a business trip and take this high-speed train?"

"Do you think nothing will happen if we hide at home?" Bian Yuan said firmly, "No one likes the taste of death, and I have blocked our progress more than once, but in the end I found that no matter what we choose, in the end We will always be involved in extreme events and lose our lives. This is the path that has been set long ago, and we can only move in a certain direction." Her eyes were full of determination, and she exuded courage, "Escape can't solve any problems. What we get at home is just another meaningless end of life. Our only hope is to find answers, find hope, and break through death on this road."