ID number 019

The sky changed in the afternoon, the warm yellow sun was covered by layers of overcast clouds, and the sky and the earth were dark.

Chen Yang sat in front of the bed and looked at Chao Jian who had fallen asleep after taking the medicine. He was pressing the quilt with one hand and carelessly swiping on the phone screen with the other.

After a few seconds, Chen Yang clicked on the contacts and looked. Sun Wenjun, who was lying in the list, had disappeared, along with their call records and messages.

Sun Wenjun's traces left in Chen Yang's phone were cleaned up, and his former partner, Xiang Zimu, didn't even tell him his contact information.

"There is no need to contact, everything is inseparable from cause and effect. After the reset, we are no longer fellow travelers. I will pray for you. Let's go and move forward."

These were the last words Xiang Zimu said to Chen Yang when he left the alley.

Chen Yang leaned his head back against the back of the chair, and put the hand holding the phone over his eyes. When he cleared the level, the memories he got back would be bound up with a bunch of sadness and regret.

Might as well not have those memories...

Chen Yang shook his head, yes, that was his past.

His old teammates stopped and went, were erased and forgotten, there must be someone who misses them, let him do it.

The corners of Chen Yang's suppressed mouth turned up, and he laughed out loud, his eyes covered by his arms turned red: "I'm struggling here so hard, it's not up to me to decide if I want to or not."

"I don't know if I can reach the end..."

Chen Yang curbed the curve of his mouth and sighed bitterly. If he died, Chao Jian would die too, so he was walking forward with two lives and the hopes of his teammates on his back.

No matter what you have to go on, you must go on!Chen Yang grabbed the quilt and buried his head in it, covering his suppressed sobs.

Chao Jian dreamed of Chen Yang's death again. He woke up from his sleep, his bloodshot scarlet eyes were staring at the ceiling, and his face was stupefied after an extreme breakdown.

Chen Yang, who was sitting on the bed facing the window, turned his head in response. When he saw Chao Jian's appearance, he quickly knelt down and said, "Chao Jian?"

Chen Yang yelled several times in a row before Chao Jian's mind and soul slowly returned to his body. He stared at Chen Yang's neck with a creepy look.

At that moment, several fragments appeared in Chen Yang's mind. There was a picture of Chao Jian being frightened and crying by the nightmare, and there was a picture of Chao Jian holding him with trembling hands and saying that he dreamed of a lot of blood, which looked like blood. He and Xiang Zimu revealed today Regarding his death, his breathing became difficult in an instant.

Chen Yang held Chao Jian's hand and put it on his neck, coaxing hoarsely: "It's not broken, look, it's good."

The skin under the palm was warm, the arteries were strong and alive, and Jane's heart stopped beating just now.

it's dark.

Chen Yang and Chao Jian leaned against the head of the bed, they didn't speak for a moment, their hands were clasped together, tightly clasped.

After a long time, when Chen Yang felt that his fingers clasped with Chao Jian were wet and numb, Chao Jian's voice sounded in his ear. "I was in the last mission before you reset, Xiangzimu, Sun Wenjun, Xiangdong." Chao Jian's throat was rubbed red, swollen and oozing with sandpaper, and his voice was tearing.

Before Chen Yang turned his head to Chao Jian, he heard him say: "There are more than 40 people I don't remember."

so much?Chen Yang was stunned.

Chao Jian once again said surprisingly: "That's an audit task."

Cracks appeared in Chen Yang's expression management, he let out an "ah" and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

"Before my left leg was injured, Xiang Dong violated the death condition." Chao Jian held Chen Yang harder, "After you died, I went directly to the last level when I saw your corpse. "

At that time, no one knew that they were in the inspection area, and it was only found out after Chaojian passed the customs.

Chen Yang took a deep breath. Earlier, Ding Huichun said that even if he was registered, he might not be able to pass the review. After completing the audit task, continue to do the task and move forward, and wait for the threshold to reach the line again to be registered.

In other words, both he and Xiangdong were in the first category, and they died in the audit mission.

"As for Xiangzimu, I asked Ding Huichun to investigate. She came out of the review task at the beginning, but was reset because of other task failures." Chao Jian said.

Chen Yang swallowed, that Xiang Zimu belongs to the first half of the second category...

"What about Sun Wenjun?" Chen Yang asked hastily, "Sun Wenjun didn't clear the customs, how could he become the deputy head of District B? Does he have any other identity?" Actually he didn't die?

Looking at the hope in Chen Yang's eyes, Chao Jian dialed a number, and the call was connected quickly, with a hoarse female voice on the other end.

"Hello." It was Ding Huichun.

Chen Yang repeated the question just now, holding his breath and waiting for an answer.

Ding Huichun said: "Mr. Sun has not been reset."

Chen Yang was startled: "Then why..."

"His accumulated task points are very high." Ding Huichun said, "Besides, since he entered the review task with you and came out, the threshold has been at the registration line. He has been registered and has been doing review tasks, but I can’t make it to the last level, it’s a special situation.”

Chen Yang was at a loss for words, Ding Huichun's words were unexpected and expected.

Sun Wenjun's threshold seeds germinated and grew branches and leaves, and he could neither die nor live. This has already revealed his phenomenon.

Chen Yang seemed to see Sun Wenjun pushing up his glasses, and smiled at him, "Your Brother Xiaowen failed."

Sun Wenjun looked for a way out in the dead end, but he couldn't find it. He wanted to retreat and found that he had no way out, so he was desperate, powerless, and finally relieved.

It wasn't relief, he was just tired.

"For example, if the threshold requirement for the registration line is 20, only when it is as low as 5 can you enter the final level."

Ding Huichun saw that Chen Yang didn't say anything for a long time, she thought he didn't understand, so she explained: "Mr. Sun is always stuck between 20 and 5."

Chen Yang: "Isn't it the highest value?"

"It doesn't count." Ding Huichun said, "The rules will examine the minimum value of the tasker's emotion, psychology, and perception."

Chen Yang fell silent, he made a mistake, he got it upside down, during this time he completely got it upside down.He thought that Sun Wenjun was on a business trip to find a way to increase the threshold, but it turned out to be a way to lower it.

Then when his threshold seed starts to germinate, it means that his threshold is decreasing, and when the buds bloom, it means that it has dropped to the minimum limit set by the rules.

Chen Yang took out his mobile phone and searched online.The lower the threshold, the easier it is for people to lose control, and throwing a spark can ignite a skyrocketing fire.On the contrary, the closer you are to the sage, you will have no desires or desires.

Since it is looking at the lowest value, that is to say, the condition for entering the last level is...burning the soul.

The last level is a revolving lantern strung together by illusions. The rule is that the tasker needs to face the bright and dark parts of his life in a fragmented state.

"Mr. Sun became the deputy head of the district. In addition to getting the threshold seed, he also recovered his memory and lost the qualification for the second reset. He is a good guy, although I don't have much contact with him." Ding Huichun said, "Now he If you die, the position will be vacant, but it is a pity that you can only choose people according to the rules, and you cannot recommend them."

"You talk, I'm asleep." Ding Huichun hung up the phone.

Chen Yang glanced at Chaojian's cell phone, it was early five o'clock.The lives of most taskers are not normal. Some people can't sleep all night, some go to bed early, but they are so thin that they are out of shape.

"Go ahead." Chen Yang rubbed his face, put down his hands to meet Chao Jian's restless gaze, "I can bear it, it's fine."

Chao Jian's sickly lips moved slightly: "The rules will record and check the thresholds of all taskers. Once they reach the registration line, they will be sent to the assessment area. Whoever breaks the threshold first will enter the last level."

Chen Yang's heartbeat couldn't help but quicken.

"Then all the people who signed up are experienced old taskers?" Chen Yang asked impatiently.

"Not necessarily." Chao Jian gave Chen Yang an unexpected and cruel answer, "The rule doesn't matter how many times you do the task, whether you have enough experience, or how capable you are, it only looks at the single data of the threshold."

This is not like breaking through a game, where levels are set according to the difficulty level, and the only review standard for the rules is the threshold.

Threshold has certain congenital factors.Some people start off with a review task, while others have done more than ten or twenty tasks, and they can't even pass the review line.

So Chao Jian asked Ding Huichun to borrow the threshold seed and bound it to Chen Yang, so that he could control his threshold drop while observing the changes in the seed, and at the same time teach him to adapt to the rules and ensure that he was at the right time. Get the truth.

Chao Jian tried her best to make everything go well for Chen Yang.Successfully passed the review and entered the last level, and came out smoothly.

"Are the review tasks unified?" Chen Yang broke the silence.

"No, randomly." Chao Jian said, "But the chances of us being able to get into that mission back then are extremely low."

Chao Jian restrained his emotions, with no expression on his face, and a haze in his heart. He didn't want to go in again, and he didn't want to see those old scenes again.

Because there were seven or eight hallucinations in the last level of his mission scene, he had seen enough.

Chen Yang raised his eyelids and glanced at Chao Jian, and said, "My review task is most likely in Area B of the rehabilitation center."

Chao Jian rubbed his fingers: "No matter what the mission background is, we must find clues and avoid the taboo of death."

"I know." Chen Yang thought, to pass the audit first, this is the first step.The second step is the last revolving lantern.

Chen Yang felt that his last task must be more difficult than Chao Jian.

Because Chao Jian first experienced his death before starting the last mission.Chao Jian's world was squeezed and deformed, and he could only accommodate him alone.

But Chen Yang is different, his life is not only about court documents, but also comrades who can surrender their backs, it will be more difficult for him to come out.

"Are you hungry?" Chen Yang suddenly smiled.

Chao Jian stared at him blankly.

"Let's eat fried rice. There are leftovers from last night in the refrigerator." Chen Yang straightened Chao Jian's hair.

Chao Jian was still in a daze.

Chen Yang pulled down the black rubber band on Chao Jian's wrist, tied it for him, and then got out of bed and opened his arms: "Come on, brother hug."

The deep marks between Chao Jian's eyebrows stretched out little by little, and he rushed towards his light.

On the weekend morning, Chen Yang and Chao Jian went to Xiang Dong's house. When they got there, there were snowflakes in the sky.

On the way here, Chen Yang learned something from Chao Jian. Among their group members, not only Wen Qing was not reset, but also the painter and Zhao Yuanfengli. He said as he walked, "It's better not to tell Wen Qing They are gone, what do you say?"

"Don't tell me what?" A voice suddenly came from behind.

The duck rack and duck neck in Chen Yang's hand almost fell to the ground, he turned his head and glared at Wen Qing: "Why are you here?"

"I'll go downstairs to pick you up." Wen Qing put on his sleeves like an old man.

Chen Yang patted the paw stretched into the duck's neck bag: "I mean, aren't you abroad, when did you come back?"

"One hour ago, this was a family gathering. Can I not come back?" Taking advantage of Chen Yang's inattention, Wen Qing quickly put his claws into the bag, grabbed a duck neck and jumped aside, "You haven't answered yet." What about my problem, why don't you tell me?"

Chen Yang circled the bag a few times, and glanced at Jane from the corner of his eye.

Chao Jian is taking milk tablets, and has no intention of helping him solve the current problem.

Everyone has a different way of dealing with feelings. Some people put fate first and let nature take its course;

Chao Jian's paranoid personality disorder has been rooted deep in his soul and cannot be pulled out.

The current Chaojian and the illness merged into one, he doesn't want friends, comrades in arms, or relatives, only Chen Yang.

Chao Jian's ability to see that Chen Yang made friends was the effect of countless drugs accumulated, and it was also his limit. It was impossible for him to help Chen Yang deal with friendship.

The three stopped in the snow, and the atmosphere was a bit delicate.

"Okay, okay, I won't ask any more," Wen Qing said empathetically after nibbling on the duck's neck, and he pouted, "Anyway, I know everything."

Chen Yang said calmly, "What do you know?"

"I know what you know." Wen Qing was unpredictable.

Chen Yang's gaze stayed on Wen Qing's face for a while, he didn't have much doubt.Even Ding Huichun thinks that Wen Qing is a different kind of person, and everything that happens to him is normal.

The three continued to move forward, and the wind and snow sent them all the way.

Wen Qing gathered his coat, and he swept Chao Jian up and down: "Li Mao, your complexion is not good, have you been sucked dry?"

Chao Jian supported the stumbling Chen Yang.

"Oh." Wen Qing stroked his chin, "Brother Yang, you abused Limao."

No one cares about him.

Wen Qing snorted, with piercing eyes: "Li Mao has vomited blood recently."

Chen Yang's footsteps stopped suddenly.

"Look at the beautiful world more, listen to the sounds of nature more, relax your mind, don't keep things in your mind, remember to remember." The first half of Wen Qing's sentence is very serious, but the second half is crooked, "The most important thing is to ban the bed matter." He said earnestly, "Brother Yang, bear with it."

Chen Yang: "..."

·

Not long after, Chen Yang sat in the living room of Xiang Dong's house, next to the members of the "Walk All the Way" group, absent were the painter, Zhao Yuan, and Fengli.

The group members present seemed to be silenced, and no one spoke.

"Oh, it's so boring. Xianggou, where's your computer? I'm going to watch a movie." Wen Qing stretched.

Pointing to the east: "Get out!"

"It's so fierce, be careful of being bald." Wen Qing left the living room cursing at Xiangdong.

"A few bald ones." Xiang Dong snorted coldly, "I don't have any bald people in my family." The next moment he sent his head to Chen Yang, "Am I showing any signs of baldness?"

Chen Yang peeled the orange: "Aren't you only 28?"

"What's 28, now you're going bald in your [-]th or [-]th year." Xiang Dong held a cigarette in his mouth to get a lighter, "Our pineapples lose a handful of hair at a time, just like filming ghost movies."

Chen Yang said: "I think he has quite a lot of hair volume, and the hair quality is also good."

"Wig." Xiang Dong spat out two words in pain.

Chen Yang was speechless.

"Fortunately, I have a good head shape, and I can manage any hairstyle. If I lose a lot of hair in the future, I will cut my head bald." Xiang Dong paused, and cursed, "Fuck, why are you talking about hair loss?" He kicked the side Bai Tang said, "Everyone is here, let's talk about something, hurry up."

Baitang didn't know where his mind was, and he didn't move at all.

"You're farting, Professor Bai." Xiang Dong threw the lighter on the floor, grabbed Bai Tang's sweater and turned him aside, making him face Chen Yang, "Look up!"

Baitang looked at Chen Yang, his peach blossom eyes couldn't see any charm, there was only silence in it.

Chen Yang's brows twitched slightly, he had never seen Baitang so depressed during the mission, and the other party lost a lot of weight, and his chin was pointed.

Xiang Dong leaned against the back of the sofa and smoked: "I told Professor Bai my guess, and he was frightened out of his wits."

Chen Yang understood, he handed the peeled orange to Chao Jian, and said to the east: "Give me a cigarette."

"Old Chen, are you going to give a speech without a script? Do you still have to prepare it?" Xiang Dong threw the cigarette case and lighter to him.

Chen Yang lit a cigarette, and smoked with half-cast eyes.

The world is dead, and it is reasonable to assume that we are already dead.

This is equivalent to a rebirth and reconstruction base. According to genetic selection, those who are selected will be issued an identity card.

Those who pass the customs can take the identity number to be reborn.

If you can't clear the level, you will be given another chance if you have a high total task score, and you can arrange a new life and start on the road again.If the score is not high, the task will be cleared if it fails, and the identity number will also be canceled.

That's it.

All these tragedies are the fault of the rules, but not all of them.

Because the source of the tragedy is that the real world is broken, which may be caused by natural disasters.

The emergence of natural disasters will be related to human beings, and in the end I am afraid it will still be a cycle of cause and effect.

Chen Yang couldn't tell all the above information, let's keep a little hope, he thought, keep a little bit.

For example, Wu Yu just realized that she has no home, she has no hope, and she doesn't want to leave.

Chen Yang coughed and let out a puff of smoke: "It is indeed what Xiang Dong said, this real world is fake."

Baitang loosened the fingers that were clenched together feebly.

Xiang Dong grabbed a pillow and threw it into his arms: "Have you heard it, do you believe it now? I have told you [-] times if not [-] times, you have to..."

"Don't be noisy," Bai Tang interrupted Xiang Dong, he threw the pillow aside, raised his head and asked Chen Yang, "Then we were really teammates with you in the previous life?"

Chen Yang pinched out the cigarette, he changed from sitting to squatting, and ate a piece of orange meat with Chao Jian's hand, and mentioned reset vaguely in his voice.

The living room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

"Fuck, it's not a piece of crap in my previous life. I ran twice, and this is the second time!" Xiang Dong jumped up and down in front of the sofa like a stimulant gorilla, and he suddenly stopped at the same spot. After a while, he kicked on the coffee table, and the bottles and cans shook with thrilling noises.

"The world is false, life is false, and memories are false." Baitang murmured at a loss, "Xiangdong, our past is also false."

After Baitang finished speaking, he bit his lip, with an expression of wanting to cry and laugh at the same time.

Panting roughly, Xiang Dong burst out with a foul language: "It's enough if the relationship between teammates is really bad."

Baitang suddenly buried his face in his hands, no, no, his thin shoulders kept shaking.Some things are understood, it is better not to understand.

He regretted asking for the truth, he shouldn't have asked, he really shouldn't have come.

"Why are you so sad, maybe you were also exes before you reset." Wen Qing's slow voice came from the door on the left.

Xiang Dong subconsciously said: "There is a bullshit meaning to talking about this."

"Yes, yes, it's meaningless. If you want to know what your real life is like, then go out alive and go home." Wen Qing walked into the living room with a smile.

"Go home..." The darkness in Baitang's eyes cracked, and light seeped in.

Wen Qing winked at Chen Yang, how about my inspiring technique, have I learned anything from you?

Chen Yang communicated with him with his mouth: "Listen as long as you want, why are you hiding at the door?"

"It's fun." Wen Qing blinked.

Chen Yang tried to look at Wen Qing's soul through Wen Qing's eyes, but found that he had no soul.

Wen Qing is the type of person who is born with a high threshold.

"Professor Bai, you look like a little white rabbit when you cry. I want to pinch your ears and feed you carrots." Wen Qing squatted in front of Baitang with a tissue box in his arms, "Calm down, it's time to come Anzhi, each of us has our own ending day." Wen Qing laughed abruptly, "Except for me, I am a serial drama, and there will never be a big ending!"

Bai Tang was taken aback by Wen Qing's temperament change.

Chen Yang pulled Wen Qing away: "Say a few words less."

"I'm telling the truth." Wen Qing shook his head and sighed, "Why do you live so tired? Isn't it just that you have so many thoughts, you want this and that, hey, people can only be happy if they learn subtraction."

"Take me for example. I just want to have fun. I run through two worlds for this purpose. I don't know how happy I am." Wen Qing made a "V" on the chin.

Chen Yang didn't expose Wen Qing's bubble kingdom: "Everyone has their own choice."

"Hmm." Wen Qing sat next to Chao Jian, "Li Mao understands me, we are the same kind of people, we only need one thing in our life, simple and happy, right my good friend?"

Chao Jian bypassed Wen Qing and went to Chen Yang's side.

Seeing Baitang chasing after Chaojian and Chen Yang with envious eyes, Wen Qing couldn't help smacking his lips.You think that other people's happiness is brought by strong winds, you have a good idea.

That day, Xiang Dong took out all the good wine given by the artist, and he got his teammates drunk, as well as himself.

Wake up, it’s dawn, the snow is falling, there are children in the community playing snow fights downstairs, accompanied by the soft sound of wild cats flopping in the white bushes, it’s another day.

Life in this fake world still needs to be lived, the road still needs to be walked, and they must try their best to walk well without stopping. The real home is waiting for them.

Wen Qing will not leave for the next few months, and Chen Yang sent 03 to him.

Nini didn't reject 03, they played well.

Wen Qing ate at Chen Yang's three meals a day, even thirty nights.

The staple food of the New Year's Eve dinner was dumplings, all the beautiful ones were made by Chen Yang, the others couldn't tell which ones were made by Chaojian and which ones were made by Wenqing, they were all equally ugly.

After eating and drinking, Wen Qing dragged Chen Yang to watch the party, ignoring Chao Jian who was waiting for the two of them the whole time, and he didn't leave until after midnight.

Chen Yang was packing the refreshments on the coffee table, and found a note in the chewing gum jar he bought for Wen Qing.

Ah Yang, happy ending is boring, but I hope you are.

——Wen Qing stayed on New Year's Eve in 2024.

Chen Yang read it word by word, and he put the note into the book he wanted to take home.

Years passed slowly and quickly.Chen Yang has been waiting for the review task to come, and when he found out that it was coming, he had a strong premonition.

This caused Chen Yang to be confused for a moment, even though he waited for a long time, he was well prepared.

Chen Yang walked back and forth in the old house, feeling flustered and nervous about going to the examination room.

Chao Jian frowned: "I told you, just treat it as an ordinary task."

"Understood." Chen Yang responded perfunctorily, but his footsteps rushed into the room.

After a while, Chen Yang came out with a small silver box. Whether he died or left, this house no longer belonged to him.

Like the little dumb cousin's house, there will be new owners.

What about diamonds?

Chen Yang gave the box to Chao Jian: "You make up your mind."

Chao Jian bit her milk tablet and said, "I donated it to build Hope Primary School."

Chen Yang was stunned for a moment: "Even if this is a false world, besides the taskers, are they NPCs?"

"Okay, listen to you." He immediately called the painter.

The painter was participating in an auction abroad, and he got up and left the hall, "splashing" the disinfectant spray all the way.

"If you have something to say, I'm listening." The painter stood on the empty corridor.Before Chen Yang left, he also solved his incense problem, and this friendship made him feel very precious.He wished Chen Yang and Chao Jian all the best.

Chen Yang talked about the donation: "Will it be a bit troublesome?"

"No trouble, I'm doing it myself." The painter agreed without hesitation, "The amount of your diamond batch is relatively large. I will hand over related matters to the team and build a foundation in your name."

"Don't use the names of me and Chao Jian," Chen Yang looked at Chao Jian who was sitting in the morning light, "just use the name Chao Yang."

Chen Yang left behind two diamonds, one is a red diamond named SEIUNICO.The other is blue diamonds, Desperatelove, desperate love, he put them in the bottom.

We all got together again that night.

Chen Yang and Xiang Dong played a game with Wen Qing for a few hours, they all quieted down by coincidence,

"Damn it, what the hell, is this the special ability to reset and go twice, Lao Chen, you are about to pass the last level, I have a sense!" Xiang Dong threw the game controller out.

Baitang on the side rubbed his brows, and he did the same, he couldn't sleep at all these days.

"I didn't feel it." Wen Qing was aggrieved, "What, is it because my looks are not worthy?"

"Yes." Xiang Dong said contemptuously.

Wen Qing's face changed as soon as he said it, and he smiled sullenly: "What did you say?"

Baitang grabbed Wen Qing in the play: "Chen Yang is leaving."

"Ah, look at my memory, Ah Yang, have a good trip, see you later." Wen Qing's face turned bright in seconds, as if he just remembered, casually as if he could see you tomorrow, even if he couldn't tomorrow, in a few days God can.

But he didn't want to go to the finish line at all.

Seeing you again is never to be seen again, Wen Qing went to turn coins by the wall.

"Damn it, I know such an idiom, and I'll say shit after you say it." Xiang Dong yelled at Wen Qing with a dark face, playing with the freshener that Chen Yang returned to him unused, There are still dozens of them at home, and I don't know when they will be used up.Anyway, before you die, you can't use it up.

Bah, not before death, but before going out!

"Give me an idiom similar to bon voyage." Xiang Dong's elbow turned Baitang, "speed."

"Bon trip." Bai Tang said.

"Old Chen, what Professor Bai said is exactly what I want to say, please answer if you hear it!" Xiang Dong shouted hoarsely.

Chen Yang put the puppy who was holding on to his clothes into Nini's arms, squeezed its soft paws and said goodbye to it: "I heard."

No one wondered if this would be the last meeting, a farewell, they all skipped the thought.

"Xiangdong, you have to put away the notebook I gave you, and you can't lose it. The background of the task is related. You slowly tell the painter Fengli and the others, come a little bit, and be sure to pay attention to the threshold. Xiangzimu is my old partner. I posted her photo in the group, if any of you meet her in the mission, please take care of her, she is tired from walking, and needs someone to stand with her, give her a hand, talk to her..." While exhorting Chen Yang, he walked towards Chao Jian who was waiting for him at the door. He turned his head, smiled and waved to his teammates.

"I'll take a step ahead with Chao Jane, you guys follow quickly."

See you at the finish line.