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After half an hour.

There are 176 consoles in total.

It is exactly the same as Jinwu No. [-] base.

Ji Yushi frowned suddenly, it was much more difficult than he imagined.

Every two consoles correspond to two energy transmitters, which continuously transmit energy at both ends of the PU-31, and keep it from being sucked by the crack while providing the energy source.

Just imagine, if a certain energy transmitter is turned off too much at the same time, PU-31 will lose its balance, everything will be turned upside down, and landslides and tsunamis will be trivial matters.

Therefore, according to the coordinates on the real-time model of PU-31, whether it is on Jinwu-[-] or Jinwu-[-], during the monsoon rains, the consoles must be turned off in an accurate order to maintain its balance.

He knew that when the mission was completed, PU-31 would cease to exist.

So before the task is completely completed, someone must stay behind to perform the final operation, plan a route to avoid all "black walls" and return to the original jump point, and take the capsule to return to their own era.

Ji Yushi has long understood why they will continue to choose points from Team A and Team B for extension in the future.

Not only because the No. 3 and No. 4 teams are the most hopeful points to break the game with the largest number of people, but also because the creation of two parallel timelines ensures that someone will stay to complete the final operation, and also ensures that they can get as much as possible. All return.

The point of choosing them must be the result of countless cycles of them in the future.

Then the question that directly hits the soul arises——

The "I" on the two parallel lines are actually the real "I" and the real subjective consciousness. Who should stay to complete this task?

The console was a foot away, and the battle was fierce.

The teammates fought bloody battles, and no one thought of backing down.

Team B is to Team A.

It is yourself who is standing side by side with yourself.

"boom!"

Ji Yushi raised his purple right arm to kill a zombie, his emotions were unclear under his black eyelashes: "Have you guys discussed this issue?"

Another Ji Yushi said: "No."

No surprises during the monsoon.

Because he never thought of giving this multiple-choice question to his teammates to choose too early.

Competing with yourself is too cruel.

"There are two possibilities to complete the task." He asked, "Are you afraid that both of them will be wrong?"

"Afraid." Another Ji Yushi said calmly, "What about you?"

"boom--"

The sound of bombing interrupted the conversation between the two.

Song Qinglan's last energy cannon exploded, and the shock wave made everyone fall to the ground.

The corpse of the giant spider flew across, and all the ventilation ducts burst open. Amidst the earth-shattering bang, the alien species hidden in the duct finally fell to the ground, revealing its original appearance.

A mass of meat made up of unknown species, wriggling on the ground with mucus, and countless tentacles like "tongues" probing around on the ground, panicked as if they were extremely afraid of light.

The lump of meat is so sticky that it has no ability to walk independently, so it hides in the pipe and only relies on wriggling and sliding.

It squirmed, and human limbs and faces appeared on the back, each moving as if they were still alive—it absorbed the unmutated living people in the base, and integrated them with itself.

When Li Chun saw this scene, combined with the mucus remaining on his body, he vomited on the spot.

The other Li Chun didn't know why, but seeing himself like this, he couldn't think of any connection, so he also knelt on the ground and vomited.

Everyone: "..."

They shot at the meat ball at the same time, and in a short while, it was turned into rotten meat.

Two or three seriously injured giant spiders fell from the sky and ran away dragging the rotten meat under the gunfire.

The rest of the zombies were seven to eight, and everyone was panting with exhaustion. They shot them from time to time to prevent them from approaching, and they didn't want to move at all.

"Consultant Ji." Two Song Qinglan stepped into the control room, "How's the calculation going?"

They spoke in no particular order, but they were surprisingly consistent.

Ji Yushi in black said: "On Jinwu-[-], I have shut down some of the energy transmitters in order. I just need to set aside a route back to the jump point, and everyone can arrive safely."

Ji Yushi's face in white clothes was paler. As the same person, he looked much weaker: "That's right. I will turn off the energy transmitters in order until the end."

"You want to stay?" Song Qinglan on the left looked at him, and the one on the right also frowned.

No one present could tell the two Song Qinglan apart.

Of course, everyone is the same.

Li Chun covered in mucus and Li Chun without mucus.

The silent Zhou Mingxuan with small eyes sat and stood up.

Duan Wen with a little more blood on his face and Duan Wen with not so much blood.

Tang Qi with an arm injury and Tang Qi with a leg injury.

There is also the lonely Tang Le, who seems to understand something, and is standing in the middle of the two soups with aggrievedness.

"When the last energy transmitter is turned off, the mission will be completed. When the device is restarted, we must all sit safely in the capsule and jump back to our original time coordinates immediately, otherwise the success will be in vain." Wearing a black combat uniform Ji Yushi said, "So someone must stay."

Ji Yushi's expression in white clothes was very calm, seamlessly connecting the words of another self: "According to the plan, we who stay here will return to the anchor point after being swallowed by darkness, and the anchor point already has us at that time, we will become one."

Zhou Mingxuan asked: "However, the people who returned to the anchor point after being swallowed by the darkness are a few hours earlier than those who return to the jump point now..."

That's right.

The time to return to the anchor point after the group is destroyed is always 4:41 in the morning.

But it is already 16:12 in the afternoon, and the time of returning to the jump point is completely different from the anchor point time, and it is even nearly [-] hours later.

Ji Yushi, who was wearing a white T-shirt, said: "In the normal timeline, it is impossible to have two of the same individual, and the memory will be superimposed after the two are merged into one."

Ji Yushi, who was wearing a black combat uniform, continued: "The moment the mission is completed, we may be hit by a wave of memories stuffed into our brains. No matter who we are in the so-called 'parallel timelines', we will all become one."

Ji Yushi in the white T-shirt: "So it's the same for the two of us who stay, but I think it's more beneficial for me to return to the jump point if I'm not injured."

The appearance of the two Ji Yushi fighting side by side just now was too dazzling, and now they are the only focus in the eyes of everyone.

And the intense running-in during this mission made everyone believe in Ji Yushi's words.

Soon, Li Chun, who was covered in mucus, chose to stay: "Then I will stay."

Then came Duan Wen, who felt more tired, and Tang Qi, who had a leg injury.

Tang Le only has one, so he has to follow the big team: "I don't have a double body...I have to go, don't I?"

Tang Qi rubbed his head: "Yes."

In the end, Song Qinglan was left.

"I stayed."

The tall man took off the red energy magazine that had already become dim in Shenshui, and replaced it with a new blue magazine.

He glanced at himself, who was facing each other, and said, "I'm tired from fighting monsters, so I'll replace you with running that part of the journey."

Another Song Qinglan raised her eyelids: "No problem."

As he said that, he looked at his teammates who had decided to leave, and said in a deep voice, "Don't be so sad, it's all about yourself and yourself. Isn't it all the same after returning to the anchor point? This is saying goodbye to you this morning. There is no difference in waking up."

The inexplicably sad atmosphere dissipated, and everyone seemed to wake up.

As the captain, Song Qinglan always has the ability to make her teammates think clearly and revive her with full blood.

"There is a space car from Jinwu-[-] outside, and we will return to the transition point as soon as possible." Ji Yushi in black said slowly, "We will contact you through the public channel. Be careful, this base does not know if it is still alive." Are there any other variants?"

"Okay." Another season of rain agreed.

Not much to say, I want to end this nightmare PU-31 journey as soon as possible.

With Song Qinglan's order, the seven left quickly.

The rest of the room seemed to be the "weaker" version of me.

At the beginning of the meeting of the two teams, A and B, it had been foreshadowed that they were about to bid farewell.

Is this the end?

they thought.

It was obvious that it was impossible to continue, but at the moment when I was about to be relieved, I felt a strong sense of unreality.

Really... has it reached the end?

Facing the scene full of stumps, broken arms, carrion, and the overwhelming smell of blood, no one relaxed their vigilance.

This way, from the first cycle to the present.

Can it really be over?

The noisy base suddenly became very quiet. Occasionally, giant spiders crawled past, but because it was so quiet, they could not feel the vibration, and crawled away from the damaged wall.

Li Chun and Duan Wen froze in place, not knowing what to do. Zhou Mingxuan helped Tang Qizheng to sit aside.

A zombie crawled over in the blood and was killed by Zhou Mingxuan with a dagger.

In front of the console, during the monsoon rain, the energy transmitters will be turned off according to the calculated sequence.

There are 176 consoles and 88 pairs of energy transmitters. Every time one is turned off, a chaotic energy field will appear outside, bringing nothingness into this world, forming the so-called "black wall".

PU-31 is gradually disappearing, and the only route left is their way of escape. They know that there is a space car outside, racing wildly in a world where zombies gather and black walls are everywhere.

Ji Yushi heard someone whisper behind him: "Consultant Ji, you're lying again."

Ji Yushi's movements paused, and he turned around: "Why do you say that?"

The corpse blood stained Song Qinglan's face red, leaving a pair of deep eyes that were very bright.

On a rare occasion, he smiled at Ji Yushi, who couldn't tell which Song Qinglan was left behind for a while.

Soon he knew.

Because the other party said: "The way you brainwashed everyone just now is exactly the same as when you were kidnapped and said I was your boyfriend."

During the monsoon rain: "..."

It was Song Qinglan from Team A who walked through this timeline with him.

Song Qinglan held Shenmian with one hand, and she completely relaxed, revealing a bit of laziness that cannot be seen in battle, making people remember that he is just an ordinary person, and he will be tired sometimes.

He said: "Whether we in parallel timelines will merge into one, you are actually not sure, are you? It's like the meatball made up of various human bodies just now-it's not only a mutation, but also a multi-dimensional phenomenon in the parallel universe. The consequences of two identical individuals collapsing together after appearing in the same world."

That's right.

If they who were at the anchor point and those who returned to the jump point after completing the mission did not successfully merge into one, it is very likely that the same accident as the meatball will occur, and the two selves will overlap in one body, resulting in deformity or death.

As an experienced captain, Song Qinglan's set of theoretical knowledge about time and the universe is not necessarily less than that of Ji Yushi.

"That's the worst outcome, it might not happen." Song Qinglan seemed to be talking about something unimportant, "But it is very likely that the moment the mission is completed is the moment we are about to disappear."

During the rainy season, he lowered his purple right arm and stood quietly: "Then why did you stay?"

Song Qinglan said: "Because, I think you must be prepared."

During the rainy season, my heartbeat was slightly disturbed.

Only another Ji Yushi knew these words, and that was himself, so it's not surprising.

But the feeling of being guessed by others is very strange, and he has almost never experienced such an experience before.

Song Qinglan said: "About the black wall, I remember that the first time it appeared was when we first arrived at the park management office, around 5:5. But whether it was Jinwu No. [-] or Jinwu No. [-], we were not there. The energy transmitter has been turned off during the time period. I boldly guess that there are actually more than one anchor points set by the sky. After we are engulfed by darkness, we will enter a new cycle and reach another anchor point until we close at [-]:[-] in the morning. The first energy transmitter."

"It's like a bigger loop is inserted into this small loop... It's just that we don't know, and we can't be sure." Then, Song Qinglan said, "So, they are the only ones who jumped out of the loop in front of us. We must have someone stay here To complete this new cycle, let 'us' who have just arrived at the jump point and walk towards the park management office see the arrival of the black wall, this is a complete circle, and everything that 'us' encounters after that can happen."

During the monsoon rain: "..."

At a given moment, to complete a given event, so that everything in the future may happen.

Song Qinglan guessed it.

In Ouroboros mode.

They create darkness.

Became the one chasing the dark again.

In a sense, maybe this is the real break.

This is another answer to the mission goal: they will become veritable dark chasers.

"Two-handed problem-solving ideas, two preparations to complete the task." Song Qinglan said, "If you guessed wrong, the task is actually not as complicated as you think, and it is redundant for us to stay and do these things now. Then after we die, The other self can also smoothly return to the transition point and return to our era."

"If you guessed correctly, then we will enter a new big cycle after being engulfed by darkness for a while, to close the first energy transmitter at 5:[-] in the morning, and to complete the established event-this is the real completion of the task. We It will also return to the original anchor, as if we never left the woods, and it will still be whole us."

Startled during the monsoon rain.

Song Qinglan curled her lower lip, and said nonchalantly, "But you forgot, even if we made a mistake, we still chose to stay. Sacrifice for yourself is not sacrifice. You don't have to bear all these things."

Monsoon is just an ordinary person.

Even if he has super memory and super powers of observation, he can't guarantee that everyone on the parallel timeline can go back to the same world safely, he can only choose this way.

But how could Song Qinglan guess all these things he couldn't say?

Then, the other Song Qinglan must have guessed it too.

Recalling the words the other party said before they left, they all matched Song Qinglan's attitude now.

Song Qinglan threw him something: "Do you really think that they don't know anything, and they all know how to play games like you in class?"

The teammates all looked in their direction and waved to Ji Yushi, expressing his reassurance that they were fine.

When Ji Yushi took it over to take a look, it turned out to be his black and white screen handheld.

He was startled: "This?"

"You gave me the other one." Song Qinglan said, "If there is really a new cycle, and the time is still so long, are you sure you don't need it to divert your attention?"

Rubbing the game console during the monsoon rain.

I only heard Song Qinglan ask: "Is it a gift from my family?"

When it rains in the monsoon, it responds.

Song Qinglan was silent for a second or two, then said, "Let's make a bet."

Ji Yushi: "What are you betting on?"

Song Qinglan: "Bet on the second method you choose to complete the mission, it's even better than what you thought. If I win, you will stay in Team Sky Seven."

Song Qinglan looked very serious, and her eyes were deep.

Probably any captain who cherishes talents and is eager to seek talents has such eyes.

Ji Yushi asked, "What if you lose?"

Song Qinglan has found the last console.

At this moment, another voice of Song Qinglan came from the public channel, and everyone could hear clearly: "We have all entered the capsule and are ready."

"If I lose..."

Song Qinglan spoke in a low voice, as if talking to herself.

But in the end, without saying anything, he just pulled the valve down.

The last two energy transmitters located at the Jinwu No. [-] base and corresponding to the transition point were turned off.

The bloody battlefield in front of the console.

The huge base of Jinwu-[-].

Together with the rest of the team, they disappeared into the darkness with PU-31.

The last impression of this world during the monsoon rain is the game console with body temperature in hand.

With Song Qinglan's broad back in front of her...

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Note: I didn't expect a more appropriate sentence to let everyone understand the plot. The sentence "at a given moment, to complete a given event" used in the article comes from Xue, the author of Douban's "Former Destination" film critic.