Survival Paradox [Infinite]

There was only a little discomfort at first.

From the first time I saw that head, I found out that there were no less than a hundred of them in that forest.

To walking for hours holding that head...

Fear builds up little by little.

Wei Chi has been holding three heads.

One in each hand, the head that gave him a weird feeling was held between the other two heads and held on top of it.

closest to his face.

At an unknown moment, he smelled something.

Smell is the most special sense in the biological sense.Information from vision, hearing, taste, and touch passes through the thalamus before entering the specialized areas of the brain for processing.The sense of smell, however, first passes through the olfactory memory and processing area.In other words, before the person realizes what the smell is, the brain has actually processed the relevant memory.

Therefore, people's memory experience of smell is generally: I know that I have smelled this smell, although I can't remember where and why I smelled it, but I have smelled it.

At a certain moment, Wei Chi had such a feeling.

He was sure that he had smelled the smell emanating from this human head in a certain place and in a certain scene.

The olfactory center of the brain is the olfactory cortex, which is closely connected with two other regions, the limbic system and the amygdala, which are important for memory formation and the emotional elements involved in retrieval.

This means that olfactory memories are mostly emotional. They may not be more vivid and accurate than visual and auditory memories, but they will be more emotional.

The moment Wei Chi smelled that scent, his eye sockets became wet unconsciously.

For a while, he couldn't remember where he was, under what circumstances, who he was with, and he had smelled this smell, but he was hit by a mood.

—— Warmth, nostalgia, sadness, a little complaint, and unspeakable retention.

This is so creepy.

This kind of private, hidden emotion, which even he himself had forgotten, was awakened in such a terrifying world.

How absurd.

"I don't know." Wei Chi murmured, "I really don't know..."

He was more confused than anyone present.And, fear.

Shuo Shu noticed his strange behavior, helped him by the shoulders and led him away from the edge of the cliff, observed his situation for a while, and decided not to mention this matter again before he was out of danger, so he changed the subject: "At least We confirmed one thing."

Zhou Yiyang didn't notice anything wrong, so he interjected, "We want to collect his missing limbs!"

"Yes." Shuo Shu glanced at Wei Chi again, and asked tentatively, "Wei Chi, what do you think?"

Wei Chi closed his eyes, took another breath, tried his best to drive away the chill like a gangrene in his heart, and said, "This time... Maybe he is really right."

This "he" refers to Zhou Yiyang.

"The eyeball monster has one eyeball, and the mermaid monster should also have a part." Wei Chi turned to the boy, "Zhou Yiyang, do you have any other ideas?"

Zhou Yiyang was affirmed, and his whole body was full of spirits, and his voice was a little higher: "If it is in a game, generally speaking, a map will have a main boss, or a main plot, and the important clues of each map will be cleared. After arriving, you can clear the level." He stretched out his finger to draw a map on the sand, "At present, this world has sea, sand, forest, and the grassland in the other direction that we saw when we first came out of the tunnel. a map."

"Looking at it now, we have found the clues of the 'Forest Dungeon', and we have also confirmed the boss 'Mermaid Monster' in the 'Sea' and the boss 'Eyeball Monster' in the sand. Let me see, our current choice is - kill this Two bosses, or explore new maps."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head to beg for a reward: "How is it?"

"Not bad." Wei Chi said to Shuo Shu, "I think he's right."

Shuoshu: "Then how do we choose now?"

Zhou Yiyang interjected again: "I explained the weaknesses of 'Eyeball Monster' and 'Mermaid Monster' before, do you still remember?"

"Remember." Shuo Shu said, "So how do we choose?"

Wei Chi looked at the time and said, "It's about four o'clock now, based on my estimated distance...the grassland is in the opposite direction from the sea. It took us an hour to walk here from the tunnel, and the grassland over there looks like it will be longer." It’s farther away, so it takes at least two hours from here to the grassland, and back and forth... it’s four hours.”

Shuo Shu said: "If I go alone, the time can be halved."

"I just suddenly thought of a question." Wei Chi said, "Of course this is all based on guesswork—because we haven't actually seen the true face of the so-called 'mermaid monster'."

Shuo Shu: "Say it."

"We assume that it is really a 'mermaid monster', and it is in line with the image of a mermaid conceived by the public." Wei Chi said, "I remember just seeing a painting in an art gallery - the subject is a The back of a woman with long curly hair, she stands in the sea, with a crescent moon above her head, the sea and sky in the picture are all blue."

""Evening Dress", I remember that painting." Shuo Shu said, "Yuan Qi seems to like it very much, and told me a lot about it."

"Now if we assume that it is the back of a 'mermaid'." Wei Chi said, "I'm afraid that means—Yuxi—she will only appear on the night of the new moon."

"And yesterday." Wei Chi continued, "It was a new moon night."

Zhou Yiyang was startled: "Will the next new moon be a month away?"

"Not really." Wei Chi said, "In the natural world, the moon phase that can be called a new moon should last for six or seven days, but the crescent moon that bends like that in the picture should only last for a long time. Up to three days."

"Just to be on the safe side," he said, "we'd better get rid of 'Merfolk' tonight."

It is only early four o'clock, and it is said that there is still some time before night, so Shuo Shu decides to go to the grass alone to have a look. Wei Chi and Zhou Yiyang stay to discuss the evening plan, and take care of the sleepy Bai Yueguang.

At almost seven o'clock, Shuoshu came back.

He said that he almost walked through the grassland and found that there were plains and valleys in the distance. He saw that there was not enough time, so he rushed back first.

"Just come back." Wei Chi said, "Do you have anything like a rope on you?"

"Rope?" Shuoshu asked, "What are you going to do?"

Zhou Yiyang volunteered and told him his plans for the evening.

Shushu finished listening, and said, "It's a little risky."

Zhou Yiyang was eager to try: "How can you get a tiger cub if you don't enter the tiger's den?"

Wei Chi: "So do you have any rope?"

Shuo Shu pulled out a rope as thin as a hair from the belt: "It's nanoscale, it won't break if you break it."

Zhou Yiyang looked at Wei Chi in surprise: "He really has it!"

Wei Chi said: "People like them can't sleep without ropes and pistols."

Night fell at last.

Several people came to the beach, less than 200 meters away from the sea.

The sea breeze is too strong to make a fire.

Bai Yueguang fell into a coma all day today, but he was still numb under the sun, so he woke up anyway.

Zhou Yiyang, as a "bait", needs to sleep, and everyone else does not sleep.

So, at 08:30, Zhou Yiyang lay down under the gaze of the three.

After lying down for half an hour, he sat up: "I can't sleep."

Wei Chi was about to teach Zhou Yiyang the "how to fall asleep" that Shuo Shu taught him yesterday, but saw Shuo Shu hit Zhou Yiyang on the back of the neck with his hands, and Zhou Yiyang fell down.

Wei Chi: "?"

Shuo Shu: "It's so convenient."

Wei Chi: "Then you didn't treat me like this yesterday, I have to thank you."

Shuo Shu: "No need."

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He's back here again.

His home before he was ten years old.

A small milky white villa located on the outskirts of the St. Lawrence River in the southwestern part of Quebec, Canada.

Where are you coming from?Since when did you come back?He can't remember.

He felt a little strange. After thinking for a while, he couldn't figure it out clearly, so he didn't want to.

Everything in front of his eyes was shrouded in a layer of gentle sunlight, and he walked slowly towards the house, feeling a long-lost peace in his heart.

He walked past the embankment of the gurgling river, the neighbor who loves to grow flowers, the neighbor's daughter singing on the balcony, oh, her singing voice is so beautiful...

"When I was one, Iateabun, going over the sea, Ijumpedaboard.

Asailorman'sship, and the sailorman said tome,

Going over, going under,

Standattention like as older with a one, two, three..."

In the singing, he missed his parents, the pumpkin pie baked by his grandmother, and his partner Daniel.

It's strange, I will see them tomorrow and every day, why do I miss them so much?

It seems to be busy in the world, and it seems to be timid near the hometown.

……Um?Do these idioms mean something that a ten-year-old kid like him should understand?

"Wang! Wang!"

He saw Daniel, his companion, his loyal dog Go, meeting him at his door.

"Daniel!"

He walked quickly towards it.

Suddenly, he found that he couldn't run anymore.

He turned his head and saw that the corner of his clothes was caught by Daniel.

Ok?

Confused, he turned his head back and looked in the direction of home.

Daniel was still there, tail wagging and bouncing to greet him.

... Then, what's going on with this Daniel?

"Daniel, let me go," he said, "let's go home together."

The Daniel behind him was holding his clothes in its mouth and dragging them back.

"Daniel! What are you doing?"

"Daniel!"

He was scared.

He started to call for the Daniel at the door, hoping that it could save him, but that Daniel just jumped anxiously at the door and couldn't come over.

He started to struggle.

He kicked the Daniel that was holding him, hit its nose, picked its eyes...

But it still didn't let him go.

Then at a certain moment, he suddenly remembered.

Before he was ten years old, his family lived in Canada because of his parents. Those were the happiest and most peaceful ten years of his life.

Later, Daniel, who grew up with him, died, and his father's adultery with the secretary was also broken by him in the same winter.

In the second year, the family returned to China because of their parents' job changes.

He made an agreement with his father, and has been keeping his secrets about that winter in private.Then one night when he was 13 years old, he ran into the sex/things between his mother and an uncle at the dinner table. That uncle was the man he secretly regarded as the most admired male elder after being disappointed with his father.

He broke out and brought the matter up in front of his parents.

But his parents were not as hysterical as he imagined.

In fact, they already knew about it and acquiesced to each other.

They told him: life is like this, you will understand when you grow up.

His world collapsed.

After that, nothing seemed to change in his life.

Everything seemed to have changed again.

His parents were strict with him, and he had no strength to resist.They told him over and over again: This is what life is like, this is what life is like, going to school, going to work, getting married, having children, having fun, going back, getting old... this is what all life is like.

If all life is like this, then why, not an eternal loop?