Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Wei Chi opened his eyes, and there was a golden light and shadow on the ceiling.

It's getting late.

He sat up suddenly, looked around, and found that he was at home, on his own bed.

What's going on, wasn't he still in the subway just now?

He glanced at the time, it was less than two o'clock.

Same time as on the subway.

How are the others?

other people……

He closed his eyes, remembering.

Strange, when he just woke up, he felt that he remembered it very clearly, but when he thought about it again, he didn't seem to be so clear.

...It's like waking up from a dream.

He heard movement at home, sat up and walked out, followed the movement to the kitchen, opened the door a little, and saw Zhou Yingchun's back busy in front of the stove.

"Mom." He said in a daze, "Are you back?"

Zhou Yingchun turned around and smiled at him: "Are you up? You've slept long enough, Wei Xiaozhu."

Wei Chi took a few more steps towards her and looked at her face: "When did you guys come back?"

Zhou Yingchun glanced at him again and said, "This morning...what's the matter with you?"

Wei Chi shook his head and said, "Why didn't you tell me in advance?"

"What's wrong with you today?" Zhou Yingchun was puzzled, "Didn't I tell you yesterday that I work the night shift?"

"On the night shift?"

"Yeah." Zhou Yingchun laughed at him, "Why did you sleep so stupidly? Don't I always come back in the morning when I work the night shift?"

"Didn't you go with Uncle Xu..." Wei Chi said this, his mind was suddenly covered with a layer of fog, and he couldn't remember, "Go...to Europe?"

"What a mess." Zhou Yingchun had starch in his hand, so he pushed him out with his elbow, "Go, go, don't get in the way here. Wait outside."

Wei Chi was pushed out, grabbed the door frame and asked, "Are you going or not?"

"Where are you going? Europe?" Zhou Yingchun had already turned around to knead the dough. After a while, he said worriedly, "Don't tell me he wants to surprise me? You can tell him not, I still have several As for a patient, it is impossible to ask for leave."

Wei Chi stood at the door and watched her for a while, then walked to the sofa and sat down.

He looked at the furnishings in the house, and there was nothing wrong with it, and there was nothing wrong with the smell.Maybe it's because of Zhou Yingchun's presence that he gained a little more popularity.

The afternoon sun came in through the floral curtains, shaking slightly on the ground.

Wei Chi sat there for a while in a daze, and saw the wall clock on the opposite wall, which just pointed to two o'clock.

He turned to the kitchen and shouted, "Mom! What time do you think it is? What are you cooking so early?"

Zhou Yingchun poked out half of his head from the kitchen and replied, "What's wrong with you today? Don't sleep like an idiot? My son can't be an idiot."

Wei Chi said poorly: "If I become an idiot, you don't want me anymore?"

Zhou Yingchun: "That's right?"

Wei Chi smiled, and said again: "What are you cooking so early?"

"Your uncle and the others are coming today, have you forgotten? Wei Yuan seems to have a girlfriend." Zhou Yingchun returned to the stove again, his voice sounded far away, and he made gossip comments among relatives, "I heard Wei Yuan Yuan's girlfriend is divorced and has a daughter with her, but she is a nice person, and she has met Wei Yuan's eyes... When will you bring me a daughter-in-law back?"

Wei Chi sat on the sofa, unconsciously emptying his mind again.

The hospital, the school, the library, Avalon, the airport, the subway station...he clearly remembered these things, but recalling them now...was a bit vague.

He was sitting on the sofa in his own home, wrapped in warm sunlight, like a tide slowly passing over these memories, letting them slowly dissipate in the dream,

So... not just the subway station, but all of this is a dream?

He picked up his cell phone and called Ji Jingzhe.

"Hello?" A strange voice came from the other end of the phone.

Wei Chi paused, and said, "Excuse me, please call me Ji Jingzhe."

"What?" said the other end, "Did you make a mistake?"

Wei Chi was stunned, and a chill rose in his heart: "Isn't this... Ji Jingzhe's cell phone?"

"You made a mistake." The other side hung up.

Wei Chi froze for a few seconds, then called back.

The other side picked it up impatiently: "I said you made a mistake."

Wei Chi: "I'm sorry, because I'm sure this number is correct, may I ask you, when and how did you start using this number?"

Over there, after thinking about it, he said, "I've used it for a year or two, and the number is a phone card I bought."

Wei Chi: "Thank you."

He hung up the phone.

He couldn't control it, and his whole body was shaking.

When he called back for the second time, he confirmed the phone number, it was the one Ji Jingzhe used at the beginning——the number Ji Jingzhe used before he disappeared.

After Ji Jingzhe disappeared, Wei Chi called dozens of times a day, and he knew the number by heart.

After Ji Jingzhe came back from the UK, the original number had been canceled due to long-term suspension, so he changed it.

But just now, what he subconsciously dialed was Ji Jingzhe's first name in the address book - an a was added in front, so it could be ranked first - but what he dialed was the previous number.

But after Ji Jingzhe came back, he obviously changed his mind.

...What exactly do you mean?

...Where did the dream start?

... Could it be that Ji Jingzhe's return was also a dream?

Wei Chi stood up and rushed into his room. Because he rushed too fast, he bumped the coffee table, and the fruit plate and cup on the coffee table fell to the ground.

He remembered what he saw in a daze when he just woke up.He didn't pay attention at the time.

There is a small display cabinet on the left side of the entrance door, which was made by his grandfather himself. When Zhou Yingchun moved into this house, he insisted on putting it in, and promised to display his various awards and trophies—he does not have such a narcissistic style. , just use it as a storage cabinet, and put some professional books.

Now, there is a row of photos on this small showcase.

More than half of the photos are Ji Jingzhe, and they are Ji Jingzhe when he was a child, and the oldest graduated from the third year of junior high school.

Others are photos of him with Zhou Yingchun and Wei Renjie, as well as his graduation photos.

The photos were indeed his, and he remembered the source of each one.

But he never printed it out, framed it, and put it here!

——Where is this?

—Whose house is it?

Stepping on slippers, Zhou Yingchun walked in with great momentum, and shouted loudly, "Wei Chi! What are you doing today? Are you going to turn the world upside down? What enmity does the coffee table have against you?"

Wei slowly turned her head and looked at her.

——Whose mother is this?

"Mom." He heard his own voice, "Where's Ji Jingzhe?"

He was sure that at that moment, he saw panic in Zhou Yingchun's eyes.

There was an eerie silence.

Zhou Yingchun's lips trembled, and his eyes suddenly turned red: "...What are you talking about, Xiaochi?"

He asked again: "Where's Ji Jingzhe?"

"Xiao Ji already..." Zhou Yingchun tilted his head, his expression was painful and puzzled, "...What's the matter with you, Wei Chi?"

Wei Chi heard a voice say in his mind: "Ji Jingzhe never came back, everything is your imagination."

"No, that's not right." Another voice immediately dismissed the idea.

Reasonable and logical.

——If Ji Jingzhe didn't come back, then he still complained about Ji Jingzhe's feelings, and it is absolutely impossible to put Ji Jingzhe's photo here.

At this time, there was a knock on the door suddenly.

Zhou Yingchun wiped away tears in a panic, turned around to open the door: "Ah, your uncle and the others are here."

"I go."

Wei Chi passed her and opened the door.

Facing a bright white light.

In this chaotic white light, he floated like a feather at first, without any feeling.I don't know how long it took, but he felt the pain.

Headache.

It hurts so much, it's like the head is about to split.

Then he heard someone calling his name.

Enduring the severe pain that his head was about to split open, he opened his eyes with all his strength.

I saw Ji Jingzhe's face.

It was Ji Jingzhe, Ji Jingzhe who was almost 25 years old, with wheat-colored skin, broad shoulders, and gentle eye lines at the corners of his eyes.

"Wei Chi." Seeing that he woke up, Ji Jingzhe smiled at him and said, "It's okay, you sleep for a while, it's okay."

He grabbed the corner of Ji Jingzhe's clothes and fell asleep in peace.

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Wei Chi stayed in the ICU for two days, was transferred to the general ward for another day, and woke up in the early morning of the third day in the hospital.

When he first opened his eyes, he felt panicked.

Until he felt a gentle touch on his left hand, he turned his head to look, and saw Ji Jingzhe sleeping on his stomach, with his forehead resting on his wrist.

He stared at the hairy head for a while.

"Hey, short lady, it's time to change shifts!" Suddenly the door was pushed open, and Wei Yuan walked in with a satchel on his back. He met Wei Chi's eyes and said pleasantly, "Yo! Brother, are you awake?"

Just as Wei Chi was about to speak, Ji Jingzhe also woke up, threw himself on him, and murmured for a while: "Chichi, you scare me to death!"

Wei Chi raised his hand to hug his back, feeling that one hand was a little out of control, and found that there was still something in his hand, and asked, "What is this?"

Ji Jingzhe took a look: "Oh, it's my clothes."

Wei Chi looked like you don't like me: "What?"

"It's my clothes!" Ji Jingzhe stood up and showed him the T-shirt with a corner missing, "I'm afraid you won't admit it, the evidence is intact!"

Wei Chi looked at him in shock, then looked at his hand, which had turned white from convulsions due to holding this position for too long: "You don't know how to take it out for me?"

"Uh, I still want to say something for the little lady." Wei Yuan interjected, "You are so 'powerful', who can pull it away? The doctor said that if you pull it hard, your bones will be broken .”

Ji Jingzhe took the opportunity to confess: "Fortunately, you grabbed the clothes. If you caught my hands, I would have to chop them off for you."

Wei Yuan kicked him from below: "Hey -- it's so gross."

Wei Chi: "How long have I been lying down?"

Ji Jingzhe: "Three days."

Wei Chi couldn't believe it: "You haven't changed your clothes for three days?"

Ji Jingzhe: "What?"

"It stinks."

Ji Jingzhe lay down on him again: "You stink to death, you stink to death, you stink to death!"

"Cough." Someone knocked on the door, "Excuse me."