Survival Paradox [Infinite]

"3...1 plus 1 is equal to..."

Wei Chi repeated it softly, feeling an electric current running down his spine and across his back.

"Gao Qiusuo!" He turned back and called Gao Qiusuo, wanting to ask him if this device was here before, but there was no response after shouting several times.

The device "Meet Yourself in a Parallel Universe" looks like an arcade game machine, except that there is no joystick, there is a sunken handprint and a button on the console, the screen is also fake, and a lonely speaker hangs on the side.

From design to material, it looks as casual and cheap as other educational toys in the exhibition hall. If you look higher, you can even see the logo of the audio brand on the top, which is perfunctorily pasted with a piece of white tape.

But it was such a crude device that made Wei Chi feel an inexplicable fear.

It's like the moment when the protagonist in a dystopian movie walks out of hell after all kinds of hardships, finds the real world is extremely ugly, and finally walks back to hell in frustration.

100 people marched towards the door of truth, 50 people fell on the road, 49 people fell in front of the door, and the last person committed suicide when the door was closed.

Wei Chi stood on the interactive steps, and when he lifted his legs, he felt the weight of something in his trouser pocket. It was the notebook he carried with him, and inside it was the little hero drawn by Yuan Qi, which brought a sense of peace of mind.

Wei Chi gently put his right hand into the handprint on the console, nothing happened, he adjusted the angle, and felt a suction grabbing his palm.

A mechanical sound with no pitch came from the speaker.

"Hello, most familiar stranger."

"nice to meet you."

"Go ahead, ask questions."

The buttons on the console flickered, urging Wei Chi to ask questions.

"Go ahead, ask questions." The speaker repeated.

Wei Chi pressed the question button and read out following the prompts on the console: "...Who are you?"

After 1 second, 2 seconds.

"I'm Parallel..." The sound of the AI ​​voice is clear, and it's pre-recorded.

——It seems that I think too much.

Wei Chi was about to withdraw his hand in disappointment, but his palm was sucked. Just when he was about to push harder, the sound on the stereo froze for a moment, and then changed.

"Parallel, world's n%&%￥you———"

Low laughter came from the electric current.

It still has a mechanical timbre, but both fluency and articulation are completely different from the previous AI, clearly conveying to Wei Chi: This is a real person.

Will Wei Chi's first reaction be Shuoshu? After all, agents have used this method more than once to tease other people, but this tone...

Wei Chi saw the bristling hairs on the back of his hand that was stuck to the handprint of the console.

"who are you?"

The voice rolled out from the depths of the throat involuntarily.

The other side paused for a few seconds, then laughed: "Really? That's the question you want to ask? I'm a little disappointed."

Obviously the other party didn't intend to continue to answer, Wei Chi frowned and read out the second question on the operating instructions: "...where are you?"

This time the response from the other side was quick, and there was a high-profile casualness in the slow answer: "Lab, if you are interested."

"You have one last question." The other side reminded.

Wei Chi was silent.

He has to judge whether this person is really "himself in a parallel universe" as the device said.

The third question in the interactive explanation "What is 1 plus 1 equals" is obviously not helpful for this matter.

So... how to ask?

The question button is still blinking.

Just ask if you are me in a parallel world?

The first two questions have shown that the other party has no obligation to answer and to ensure the authenticity of the answer.

Prove it with information that only you know?Bank password?

No, according to Hu Tianqi, there are discrepancies between the parallel worlds. His bank card password is randomized by software. Numbers are entirely possible.

Hu Tianqi also said that his experiment in junior high school was successful... Do you want to ask this?

Or……

Wei Chi thought over and over again, and finally chose a question that he was most sure of being answered effectively. He repeated it silently in his mind several times to make sure that it was the most appropriate question.

It can be said that it was too late, but the moment he pressed the question button, a question that had never entered his consideration popped up without authorization. With his intuition far exceeding the instinctive speed of the brain, he broke through the finish line.

He blurted out: "When was the last time you saw Ji Jingzhe?"

"Clap" sound.

It was as if the phone was hung up suddenly, and the audio system lost its response.

The other party cut off the contact, and Wei Chi knew that the other party would not respond again.

But sometimes, no answer is the best answer.

He recalled the other party's reaction just now, at the moment when Ji Jingzhe said three words from his mouth...

Thinking stopped, Wei Chi found that the light of the question button did not go out after he finished asking three questions, but continued to flash, and the frequency was abnormally fast.

At the same time, he felt the suction against the palm of his right hand increase.

Wei Chi immediately tried to pull his hand away, but he was firmly attracted by the fingerprints. He tried to pull with his left hand, but it was unsuccessful.

At the same time, the blinking of the question button is still accelerating.

Wei Chi knew something was wrong, so he didn't have time to think about anything else. With his left hand, he took out the saber given by Shushu from his bag, threw it away, and inserted it into the question button.

But the blinking didn't stop.Wei Chi pulled out the knife, and pried the blade in against the edge where the palm of his right hand and the fingerprints fit together. After half of the blade went in, Wei Chi obviously felt that the suction had weakened. He let go of the handle, grabbed his right wrist, He raised one leg and stepped on the dangling handle of the knife, and at the same time as his whole body exerted force, two hands appeared from behind to hug his standing leg, pulling him back hard——

"Boom!!!"

"Meet Yourself in a Parallel Universe" blew up.

Wei Chi was pushed away by the impact of the explosion, and didn't stop until his back hit the pillar. No matter who was behind him, his speed was fast enough to avoid Wei Chi who had landed on the ground without being hit.

Wei Chi can only think of two such people, plus what he just grabbed was his legs instead of his upper body, so it's obvious...

Wei Chi raised his head—because he was lucky not to be hit by a pillar into a concussion because of his lowered posture—and saw that brat standing next to him.

"you--"

As soon as he spoke, the boy ran away.

Wei Chi saw that the curtain of the ball screen hall was lifted, and Gao Qiusuo rushed out in a hurry.

"What's wrong? Wei Chi!" Gao Qiusuo rushed to Wei Chi's side and frantically supported his head.

"It's okay, it was smashed, but it didn't blow up." Wei Chi grabbed Gao Qiusuo's hand, sat up with his strength, and leaned against the pillar.

Gao Qiusuo saw Wei Chi who was lying down first, and then saw the exploding interactive device, he was stunned: "Fuck."

Wei Chi picked up the EMF hanging around his neck - this time it didn't ring.

"What happened?" Gao Qiu asked.

"That thing is called meeting the self in the parallel universe," Wei Chi put down the EMF, "Do you have any impression?"

"A few children played in the morning, I didn't introduce much, I feel that it is too difficult for them to understand."

That means it has always been there, and it was not created after entering the world.

But what he just went through...

Wei Chi turned his head back to look at the device that had been blown up to only half of its wreckage, and suddenly froze.

"Gao Qiusuo," he grabbed his roommate's arm, "I see."

"Have you ever been to Indonesia?" the agent asked.

They have completed the second inspection of the life and health exhibition hall, and are searching the corners and corners along the entire building.

"I went there several times when I was young." Yuan Qi said embarrassingly, he already knew that Shuo Shu's investigation of him could not be as simple as checking his nationality, "I was born in China."

"Both parents are not Chinese." Shuo Shu answered the question instead.

"Well, my grandfather came here illegally." Yuan Qi said it frankly, he knew that everything was no secret in front of the secret agents.

Shuoshu didn't make any comments, just asked: "Have you ever thought about taking citizenship?"

"Haha," Yuan Qi laughed, "My grandpa's biggest wish is for me to get Chinese nationality, but it's too difficult... My dad was also born in China, and he never got it in his life."

"It would be much easier if the mother was Chinese."

Yuan Qi said solemnly: "It is the mother who gives life to the child, not the child who chooses the mother."

Seeing his serious eyes, Shuo Shu looked away: "When this matter is over, I can help you solve it."

"Really?" Yuan Qi was surprised, but immediately changed his expression, "Forget it, I don't want to deny my birth."

Shuo Shu didn't interrupt, Yuan Qi continued: "But my grandfather's green card has always been problematic. He is old and in poor health. If he is rejected by the hospital again, he may really die. Can you help him?"

Shuoshu: "I will solve it."

"Then I'm relieved!" Yuan Qi said with a smile, "Because you seem to be the kind of person who will keep your promise no matter what happens, even if the other party is gone."

"Look?" Shuoshu pointed to his face and joked, "You mean this?"

"Of course not!" Yuan Qi justified himself angrily, "I'm not Wei Yuan, what I look at is the inside!"

This sentence successfully made Shuoshu laugh.

Ji Jingzhe and Wei Yuan walked in the greenhouse one after the other.

It was Wei Yuan who clamored to see the plants, but he was not interested when he actually came in. How are they different from the trees planted on the street outside?Wei Yuan couldn't see it.

He kept playing with something in his hand, the dice he threw when he first played flying chess.

"Obviously there are only six sides, how can you get a seven?"

Wei Yuan couldn't figure it out.

"Know what?" Gao Qiusuo asked nervously.

"You see different things from different perspectives."

"This is not what Yuan Qi said..."

Wei Chi pulled Gao Qiusuo's arm down until he squatted down, lowering his body even lower.

"Look." Wei Chi said.

"What are you looking at?" Gao Qiusuo was at a loss.