Survival Paradox [Infinite]

"Ah!" Bai Yueguang sneezed.

The two turned their heads and found that Bai Yueguang raised his hand to wipe his nose.

Shuo Shu: "Professor Bai?"

"Ah." Bai Yueguang looked at him, his eyes were still a little dazed, but slowly they came into focus, "Ah, what's the matter?"

Wei Chi asked, "What did you dream about?"

"I dreamed about my wife." Bai Yueguang smiled, the smile was mixed with sadness and happiness, and it was hard to say, "I haven't dreamed of her in 30 years."

"She is still so beautiful and young, wearing a blue cheongsam, standing at the door of the house, singing and waiting for me." Bai Yueguang looked down at his hands, "But I am so old."

"Sorry, professor." Wei Chi helped the old man's shoulders, "It's not yet dawn, why don't you rest for a while?"

Bai Yueguang was still in a daze, and fell asleep again after a while.

Wei Chi turned to Shuo Shu: "I'll keep watch at night, you sleep for a while."

"No." Shuoshu said, "I'm thinking, sleep may be the condition to trigger 'sleepwalking'."

Wei Chi thought about it and thought it was very possible.

Shuoshu: "Think again, is there any other clue?"

Wei Chi looked at the faces of Zhou Yiyang and Bai Yueguang illuminated by the fire, thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "Did the professor just say that his wife sang or something?"

Shuo Shu: "I mentioned that my wife was waiting for him singing at the door."

"Singing." Wei Chi said, "I also heard singing in my dream."

He described the voice of the female lead singer of the jazz band in the café.

Shuo Shu frowned and recalled for a moment: "I didn't hear any singing."

The two talked for a few more words, but they didn't come up with any important clues. In order to save energy, they stopped talking and each fell into deep thought.

Nearly an hour later, Zhou Yiyang suddenly moved.

Wei Chi thought he was awake, and called him a few times, but there was no response, realizing something was wrong.

Zhou Yiyang got up, closed his eyes, and walked slowly towards the ocean.

Wei Chi pushed him to the ground.

On the other side, Bai Yueguang also got up, but was controlled by Shuoshu.

Wei Chi said: "They seem to be going to the sea."

Shuoshu nodded: "It was the same way before. Although the paths you take are different, you basically all go towards the sea."

Wei Chi: "What's in the sea?"

Wei Chi felt Zhou Yiyang struggling under him, with quite a lot of strength.

Zhou Yiyang looks only over 1.7 meters tall, and is as thin as a reed stick. He did not expect to have such great strength.Wei Chi pressed him tightly, but was afraid of hurting him.

On the other side, Shuo Shu let out a "Hey" and said, "No, I haven't struggled so hard before."

Wei Chi observed the direction of Zhou Yiyang's force, and said, "I think it's the sea's problem, we're too close to the sea."

Shuo Shu made a decisive decision, pointed to a direction different from the ruins where the eyeball man was, and said, "Back up!"

They took Zhou Yiyang and Bai Yueguang away from the coastline, one by one.

The farther they got from the shoreline, the less and less they struggled.

Later, they came across a forest.

Wei Chi: "It's getting late, we'd better not go in, just wait here for dawn."

Shuo Shu agrees.

The two of them pressed one another and waited for dawn.

Wei Chi also paid attention to listening, except for the wind in the wilderness, he did not hear any singing.

Shuo Shu suddenly said, "What is that?"

Wei Chi looked along Shuo Shu's finger, and saw a rolling scale on the sea water, showing a diamond-like silvery color under the moonlight.

Shuo Shu hesitated: "Does it look like... a mermaid?"

Wei Chi squinted his eyes: "It's too far away, I can't see clearly."

Shuo Shu: "Mermaids, singing voices, make sense."

In any case, the two of them couldn't spare their hands to do other things, so they could only waste their time doing this.While pressing down on the people under him, he was paying attention to whether there were any strange things like eyeball monsters around him.

Later, I don't know how long it took, the thing in the sea also disappeared.

The day is getting brighter.

Wei Chi first heard a muffled groan, followed by Zhou Yiyang's scream: "It hurts! It hurts so much!"

He bowed his head to confirm, looking at Zhou Yiyang's angry eyes.

Wei Chi: "Are you awake?"

Zhou Yiyang: "Let go of me, my hand hurts so much!"

Wei Chi let go of Zhou Yiyang, Zhou Yiyang sat up, clutched his wrist, and was about to yell at him, Wei Chi interrupted him: "What did you dream about?"

"Ah?" Zhou Yiyang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly forgot that he was about to lose his temper, and recalled, "I dreamed about Daniel."

"Daniel?"

"It's the dog I raised in Canada when I was a child, the Great Dane." His arrogance suddenly weakened, and he was even a little pitiful, "I miss him very much."

"and then?"

"He was waiting for me in that house, it was my childhood home, where I had the happiest time of my life...Daniel came rushing to lick me, and I tried to hug him, but he ran away. I just chased, I don't know why, but it never let me hug it. I just kept chasing it..."

Shuoshu interrupted: "You just chased him all night?"

Zhou Yiyang blushed: "W-how did it take so long!"

"Look, it's already dawn." Shuoshu pointed to the sky, "We moved you at least five kilometers."

Only then did Zhou Yiyang react, and looked around: "What's going on! Why am I here?"

Wei Chi brought the topic back: "Is there singing?"

Zhou Yiyang: "What?"

Wei Chi: "In the dream, did you hear the singing?"

"Singing?" Zhou Yiyang covered his mouth, which is his habitual action when thinking, and then suddenly opened his eyes wide, and said firmly, "... Yes! Yes! My house is a townhouse, and there is a woman next door singing all the time !"

Wei Chi turned his head and looked at Shuoshu: "It seems to be singing."

Shuoshu nodded.

"What, what happened last night?" Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Zhou Yiyang shrugged his nose, and smelled his clothes again, "Why do I smell so bad?"

Wei Chi: "Oh, maybe it's my smell."

When Zhou Yiyang saw it, he was so frightened that he rubbed back several meters: "Why are you covered in blood?"

Shuo Shu: "When you were chasing the dog, we were carrying you while being chased by ghosts."

"Hmm." Bai Yueguang under Shuoshu also moved, and said weakly, "Is the old man's hand broken..."

"Professor Bai! I'm sorry! You always get up quickly..."

After they rested, Wei Chi and Shuo Shu decided to go to the woods behind them.

Bai Yueguang was exhausted, so he took the initiative to stay where he was and wait. Wei Chi and the others originally wanted Zhou Yiyang to stay with Bai Yueguang, but Zhou Yiyang quit, and Bai Yueguang also said: "Take him with you, I'm an old bone, When it’s gone, it’s gone.”

Shuo Shu hesitated for a while, and finally took Wei Chi and Zhou Yiyang into the woods.

This forest is not as dark as Wei Chi had imagined before, and it even has a bit of the warmth in Hayao Miyazaki's animations. The sun shines through the branches and leaves, and the vegetation around the halo is illuminated into bright yellow.

Later they also met a small stream, Wei Chi still adhered to the idea of ​​"If you want to play me to death, you can't poison me to death" in the previous world, and had a good drink.

Zhou Yiyang chattered endlessly, wanting to ask clearly about yesterday's situation, and now that there is water again, he is even more relentless.

Shuoshu was overwhelmed by the disturbance, so he picked and told him everything, for the sake of the mental health of the teenagers, Lou Gaosheng's tragic death was skipped.

Zhou Yiyang covered his mouth and began to solve the puzzle: "Assuming that the eyeball monster and the mermaid monster are two boss units, if we want to attack them, we must find out their weaknesses."

"According to what you said, the eyeball monster is 'slow at first, and then gets faster and faster', Yuxi may be a 'growth type', the way to defeat it is to fight quickly."

"Mermaid monster, 'create dreams with singing, trick sleepers into its domain', this is the 'territorial type', assuming its territory is the ocean, if it can be lured ashore, it may be able to deal with it."

Wei Chi said: "We didn't come here to fight monsters, but to find an exit. Don't go head-to-head with these monsters. If you die here, you can't reload the file and start over."

Zhou Yiyang disagreed: "No, all the bosses in the game are designed to be useful."

The speaker didn't mean it, but the listener meant it, Wei Chi's heart suddenly moved.

A question from a long time ago came to mind again. It was the original and most essential question, the one that was covered up by the turbulent life during this period, and the question that should be explored the most.

- What is the purpose of this world?

——This world has an "architect", and it turns out that all of this is indeed man-made.

——Then, what is the purpose of the designer?

——Why...why did you choose him as the protagonist?

"what!"

Zhou Yiyang yelled, tripped over a tree root, and fell to the ground.

From about 2 minutes ago, they walked into an area with relatively lush vegetation, and the trees were obviously taller and denser. It feels like the transition from "My Neighbor Totoro" to "Princess Mononoke", which is a bit like a deep mountain and old forest.

Wei Chi's heart sank from the fright of Zhou Yiyang's voice, and was about to curse, Zhou Yiyang rolled and rolled away, and howled again, louder than the one just now, like a piglet being killed.

Wei Chi held his collar by the back: "What's your name?"

Zhou Yiyang: "Everyone, everyone..."

Shuoshu jumped to the place where he just fell, pushed aside the grass, and stopped.

Wei Chi's heart sank, and he asked, "What?"

Shuoshu hesitated for a moment: "Like...a human head?"

Wei Chi walked over and saw that there was a human head-shaped thing lying under the blade of grass, with a section of neck, and the fracture was neat and smooth, like the head of a plastic mannequin.

It has no facial features, just a blank head.

Zhou Yiyang's legs were so frightened that his legs went limp, he was almost hanging on Wei Chi's body, pointing to the head: "Touch it... yes, it's true..."

Hearing this, Shuoshu went over to observe it, then touched it cautiously, and concluded: "In short, judging from my experience... it is indeed human skin."

He smiled at Wei Chi and Zhou Yiyang: "And it's still warm."

Zhou Yiyang was so frightened that he hid behind Wei Chi, but when he changed his perspective, he only had time to let out a dying "cheep" as his throat was strangled, and pouted on his back.

Wei Chi was almost taken down by him, so he didn't know why: "Hey! Hey, what's wrong with you..."

Shuo Shu suddenly called out: "Wei Chi."

Wei Chi's scalp went numb, he looked at Shuo Shu, and followed Shuo Shu's prompt to look around.

He felt he saw at least a hundred heads.

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