[Zhongyingmei] If you don't dig a hole, you will die

After the familiar feeling of dizziness finally passed, Heidi regained her composure and found that she had finally returned to her room.

She seemed to be in a hurry for a moment, but she calmed down under the repeated soothing sounds of the system, and started to do the things she should have done one by one:

First, check her physical condition—thanks to the blessing of traveling back and forth between parallel worlds this time, her body has returned to the normal way she should be, and she still wears serious clothes, which she is used to. The old school uniform, small suit and plaid skirt, not some damn lace children's dress or the formal suit that made her feel suffocated for no reason.Ah, very good.

Second, check the current date and time—she doesn't know how long she's been in the world of Arkham Knight.

But Heidi's biological clock has been forcibly cultivated by her mother over the years, almost machine-like regularity.

Since she could feel sleepy there and slept for a long time, it means that at least 24 hours have passed since she came to that world and returned now;

But she didn't know whether the flow of time in different worlds was the same, or how much extra time she would spend going back and forth.

So it's better to be sure, lest there be a situation that only appears in legends like "one day in the mountain, a thousand years in the world".

But fortunately, it hasn't been too long, and in the world she was originally in, it was only a little over a day.

Third, look at the things that were forcibly stuffed in her hands when she was leaving——

Then there is no more.Hetty looked at the self in that photo for a long time, and suddenly understood why the self in that world jumped down.

Even now she has not received any so-called "parallel world memory".

But when the two worlds travel back and forth, the feeling of falling from a height and spinning around cannot be fooled.

Only death can bring the strongest impact to the souls of different worlds.

Hetty was silent for a long time before opening the small portable mirror beside the desk and looking straight at herself in the mirror.

It seems that through mirror reflection, she can see another pair of green eyes from her own green eyes, but they were once full of lifelessness and could not see any vitality:

"Sister, do you know what's going on?"

The system was stunned for a while before realizing that Hetty called her differently from before.It immediately had a premonition that today was the day for a complete showdown between it and Hetty.

However, no matter how much planning it has made before, how many psychological preparations it has made, and how many plans to deal with various possible reactions, at this moment, it hesitates, and even once again has the culprit that caused the current situation. Resentment and sorrow arose:

Why is it like this?

It settled down and reconfirmed: "What did you call me just now?"

"I call you sister." Hetty closed the mirror at hand and whispered: "If you can live up to now, you should be older than me; but from that day on, you will be 17 years old forever. You're younger again. My God, that's a messy generation."

"But no matter how tangled these superfluous questions are...you are also me, me in another world. The person on this obituary is you, right?"

"Then what shall I call you?"

The system was silent for a long time again, and Hetty thought it was going to escape by playing dead, only then did he hear the system sigh, in that always happy, free and carefree voice, brought He felt a little bit of depression as a person like "Hetty Brown": "Except for calling me by my name, you can call me anything. Because apart from the fact that this name will give me a sense of suffocation, listen It always felt a bit weird to have another self calling my own name. No, it’s actually confusing when it’s expressed now.”

Hetty clasped her hands together, as if she could warm the too cold hands of her sister in another world and herself in the parallel world to her gentle palm, and said softly, "Okay, sister."

The two said in unison: "Let's talk."

This sentence is what Hetty's mother in this world said to Hetty most often.

Compared with a geologist in another world who directly killed his daughter with high-pressure education, the relationship between the two in this world has not reached such a tense and irreversible point.Although if this momentum continues, it is estimated that it will be almost the same.

Hetty had always felt that she was under too much pressure.But as long as she meets the eyes of the obituary, which is full of death and the empty "self", she can feel ten times, or even a hundred times the sense of restraint that she can feel now, making her Almost nauseated.

So she had no choice but to quickly hide the obituary in a drawer. To be on the safe side, Hetty even turned out her own manuscript and pressed it on it:

She would rather take the risk of losing her horse in the real world, but also protect this thing that shouldn't appear in this world.

And the other Hetty still remembers this sentence:

Because every time her mother wants to correct her style and force herself to adopt the same peaceful and free attitude as the parents around her, she will start with this sentence;

However, her desire to control that seems to be branded in her bones and the sense of aloofness unique to many Chinese parents cannot be changed no matter what.

So this sentence was supposed to start an equal and gentle conversation. After Hetty was disappointed countless times and completely despaired of her mother, it became a life-threatening talisman.

However, at this moment, when these words finally came out of Hetty's mouth, the two of them could no longer feel the restraint and sense of restraint they felt before.

Feeling hopeless.From the intertwined hands, from the endless struggle, from the resistance that never gave up, and from the process of pursuing freedom even at the cost of life, there was finally enough warmth and bright light to bring this sentence to them countless times. The hazy words drive away all the darkness.

Both of them were full of anticipation and confidence for the next conversation. Before the conversation even started, they suddenly had a feeling of "heart-to-heart connection".

They can clearly know what the other party wants to ask and what to say.Even the "system" that has no entity and can only be borrowed in Hetty's mind has a feeling of tears filling his eyes:

This is the soul connection, this is the blood connection.

This is what depends on each other.

Hetty was the first to ask, "So the world I'm in now is some kind of compensation?"

The system replied, "Yes. But no matter what world we live in, our mothers probably wouldn't know how to spell the word "freedom."So even if she in this world is relatively gentle to you, I have to take responsibility to come and take care of you. "

"Because my body is dead, what remains in this world is my spirit, my soul, a piece of brain wave... I don't know what I am, but the only thing I can know is that I can provide you Help within our ability. For example, cut off your phone at a critical moment, urge you to continue writing, and dig a hole for you by the way.”

"It's just that when I do certain things, my consumption may be too great, so I disappear from your consciousness."

Hetty instantly understood what she wanted to do in another world: "You want me to use this method to pursue my spiritual self and freedom, so that my tense spirit can find an outlet to relax, right?"

Even though the "system" has no entity right now, Hetty can still feel the gratified and emotional atmosphere: "Yes. So I hypnotized myself first, so that I firmly believe that when I first appeared in your mind You are a system, so you won't be seen through;

Immediately afterwards, you forged "death in your previous life" in your mind, and used the excuse of "you will die if you don't dig a hole" to urge you to write something, and you will believe in me with false memory of death; Finally, I will use interesting things like "there will be random pits that cannot be jumped out" to make you interested in this. "

"When something becomes a habit after 28 days of persistence, let alone something you have been doing as a "life extension".

In this way, even if I am gone in the future, even if you don’t know the truth in the future, you will continue to do this and complete your own redemption. "

It's just that what it never expected was that Hetty discovered it so quickly: "You didn't move a word that night in New York, so you vaguely discovered this. It's just that I said it myself now, you to confirm?"

Hetty's eyes were a little red, but she managed not to shed a single tear, and hugged her shoulder with her backhand.

It's as if this can pass her unknowingly strong heart, her sourness and tenderness to her forever 17-year-old self:

"Yes. It's just that I was too stupid to fully discover the truth until now."

"I didn't recognize these things earlier, it's been so long, I've worked hard on you."

The voice that was very similar to her finally took off all the camouflage and said in a low voice: "If it were someone else, you might not be able to find it until now. Don't keep using such strict standards just because your mother has too perfect requirements for you." Standards demand themselves."

"Besides, if I work for you, it will never be called hard work, dear little Hetty—"

"Because we share weal and woe."

So everything in this world has an explanation:

In the world of Arkham Knight, only Flash helped the dead Hetty one last time, and made her a tombstone according to her original intention;

So in this world, in order for Hetty to get help from him in advance, Flash, who was aware of Hetty's family problems in advance, in order to spend more time with her and give her spiritual support, became Her "nominal boyfriend".

In another world, Hetty felt the hopelessness of "friends who have no blood relationship will strongly support her. But her blood relatives do not";

In addition, she was too young, and when she was prone to mood swings, she had been oppressed for so many years.

That's why he resisted in such an extreme way.That's why in this world, she doesn't have those same-age friends who would support her, but then quickly forget her. Instead, she was given Pamela Eisley, an older and reliable guide, who also bought One gave one away, giving her guide a lifelong partner, so that Pamela could be firmly tied in the world of normal people.

At the same time, in order to solve the problem from the root, Hetty's mother in this world has been a lot gentler: she will allow Hetty to leave her sight and go to Gotham to study.Although she will be asked to write a letter to report her safety, it is already a thousand times better than in another world where she is so extreme that she can't wait to leave;

After Hetty hung up her phone, it wasn't as extreme as in another world, where she dropped all the work at hand and flew over, stuffing Hetty into the school she wanted her to go to.

Although there are still many flaws in the ointment, the world is actually leaning towards Hetty Brown.

This is an advance prevention for Hetty Brown who has not yet set foot on the road to death, and it is also a compensation for the girl who is always frozen in time at the age of 17.

Indeed, there is no time flow in any world that will stop half a minute for the death of a person. This sentence is not adulterated at all——

But a fair world will specially create another parallel time and space as compensation for them who are kind and gentle until death.