Survival Paradox [Infinite]

"You want to piss me off." Wei Chi stared at him for three seconds, then smiled, "It's pointless."

That Wei Chi said, "How could it be meaningless?"

Wei Chi: "Maybe I will be really irritated by you, but I won't show it. What kind of pleasure/sensation can you get from this?"

"But I am you." That Wei Chi said, "I can feel whether you are angry or not."

"Even if I'm angry, so what?" Wei Chi looked at him and said slowly, "The truth is——he would rather die and come back to me."

"Oh." That Wei Chi laughed and shook his head, "Let's stop being jealous here like two shrews. Talking to you, I seem to be arguing with myself. It's boring."

Wei Chi said: "Then tell me, how can we stop all this?"

That Wei Chi shrugged: "I said so."

"At this point, it's impossible for me to hand him over to you." Wei Chi said, "Is there no room for negotiation?"

That Wei Chi looked at him for a while, then shook his head amusedly: "You came in today just to convince me?"

"You have to try first." Wei Chi said, "They are all decent people, and they always want to be courteous before fighting."

That Wei Chi said, "But you can't convince me."

Wei Chi didn't answer, he knew that Wei Chi still had something to say.

That Wei Chi changed the subject and talked about other things: "Three years ago, I saw Magritte's painting in the Berlin National Gallery, and I was immediately hit."

"I saw that huge eye... staring at me across the canvas, time and space, and the world." He choked up, "Later I saw more of his works...I feel that I and him have missed the era Best friend—we are all so painful, so desperate, with a shadow that we can never get out of, and a lover who can never be honest with each other."

"He was afraid of painting 'face' and 'watching', and I was too." He said, "His whole life was stuck in the scene where his mother was salvaged...and so was I."

Wei Chi suddenly trembled uncontrollably: "Did you see...?"

"No." Unexpectedly, that Wei Chi shook his head, "I only saw the photos. More... It's my imagination."

That Wei Chi waved his hand, and the world suddenly changed.

Because of the sudden change in vision, Wei Chi suddenly became dizzy and nearly rolled to the ground.

And that Wei Chi was still standing calmly.

After a moment, the rotation of the world stops and the scene moves to the police station.

A photo suddenly appeared in the hand of 15-year-old Wei Chi, and the person who handed him the photo was a young policeman with a sad expression. He handed the photo to him and was still talking, but Wei Chi couldn't hear it. .

The police station in front of him is like a black and white mime, and Wei Chi feels like he is watching this scene through a layer of glass.

Zhou Yingchun stood beside him, but she seemed to be black and white.

But that photo belonged to his world, and he saw it clearly.

It was a photo of the scene of the car accident. It was a panoramic view of the overturned truck and the flattened car. The size of the photo was not big, and the people on it seemed even smaller.

The front row of the car was completely pressed down, and nothing could be seen. In this photo, only half of Ji Jingzhe's body could be seen lying outside the car, with her slender legs twisted and bent.

Wei Chi suddenly fell back into that dream——

He seemed to have appeared on the scene and saw this scene close at hand.

The front row of the silver-gray car has turned into a cake, with viscous plasma and the curly hair of the hostess oozing from the cracks.

He could smell blood and fire.

Ji Jingzhe, who was sitting in the back row, was thrown out of the car window, lying on the outside of the car, but his face was pressed by the wreckage of the car, and his royal blue sweater was stained dark purple with blood.

He felt his heart beating deafeningly, and there was a sharp pain in his heart.

"This is the second day after Ji Jingzhe was rescued, that is, the first day I came back from Los Angeles." That Wei Chi walked to his side and watched the scene side by side with him, "In that dark , Less than 3 minutes after the moment of despair, I got a call from my mother. She told me to go to the police station and she would meet me later."

"At that moment, I actually still didn't know what happened, but I didn't ask anything... I just heard a voice in my heart: Sure enough."

The huge pain in his heart has not dissipated, Wei Chi turned his head in a daze, and met a pair of most familiar and most unfamiliar eyes.

That Wei Chi looked at him and said slowly: "My life has stopped at this day, and I will never be able to get out."

He seems to be very calm, but Wei Chi can smell his madness... Maybe it's from his trembling pupils, trembling breathing, trembling veins, maybe it's just some kind of sympathetic intuition ——This face will soon be unable to hold back, and immediately, something terrifying will tear it and rush out.

This intuition made Wei Chi unconsciously take a step back.

"You said you 'pulled' me in today to convince me..."

That Wei Chi laughed, and suddenly started pacing in a small area, going back and forth three or four steps in circles.

After a long time, he turned his head slightly, and Wei Chi could see a strange, distorted arc at the corner of his mouth: "Then how do you know that I didn't come in today to persuade you?"

Wei Chi felt his heart tremble, and a drop of cold sweat slowly emerged from his forehead: "...What do you want to convince me?"

That Wei Chi said, "Death."

Wei Chi smiled: "Then you try."

"That's fine." That Wei Chi said kindly, "Have you ever thought that because of you, because you want to dominate Ji Jingzhe alone, a hundred or a thousand people will be caught in a strange world and endure all kinds of hardships?" Don't they deserve the torture they endured, the broken families they faced?"

Wei Chi felt unbelievable: "Because of me?"

"Of course it's because of you!" that Wei Chi said with a smile, "Because you took my 'luck' - I am certainly a 'villain' with corrupt morals, but you are a 'hero' with a conscience..."

Wei Chi never thought that one day he would say such grandiose words from "myself", and was too shocked to have anything to say.

That Wei Chi "puchi" smiled: "It seems that this method is not very effective."

Wei Chi still didn't speak.

"If the feeling of guilt is useless... what about the sense of sacrifice?" That Wei Chi looked at the sky, swayed for a while, and said, "You have to know that the matter of you not dying will never stop... and as long as you Make this sacrifice and it's over, I can even... take them back, reunite lovers, reunite family."

Wei Chi: "In your heart, am I such a noble person?"

"What if?" Wei Chi said, "After all, we started going our separate ways after we were 15 years old."

Wei Chi shook his head and said, "Is there any more?"

"Why can't you accept my kindness?" He wrinkled his face in pain, "I just want you to live happily without knowing anything about accidents."

"Accident?" Wei Chi said, "Are you referring to the Second Municipal Hospital, the University and the Provincial Library?"

"Yes." That Wei Chi admitted, "If you... could die well in these worlds, why bother to suffer today's crimes?"

"I hope you die in an accident—a crazy doctor, a collapsing cafeteria, or a falling elevator, which is the least likely to produce obsessions, but I failed. Later, I no longer stick to the real world or watch A plausible accident, I let you play games, let you and other people kill each other... But, you never die - yeah, how can I beat myself? I can only hope in you... "

Wei Chi suddenly felt a bit out of harmony, difficult to be consistent, interrupted: "If that's the case...why do you leave an exit in every world?"

After saying this, he found that Wei Chi's eyes flickered.

It was only for a brief moment, but he caught it.

That person was almost himself, and it was absolutely impossible for him to misread his expression!

--what does that mean?

Could it be... that there was an exit... that he didn't know about it?

Thinking about it this way...it is true.

It's fine when you don't know who is behind the scenes, but once you know that those worlds are built by yourself...the sense of disobedience is everywhere.

That superficial, logical, naive, brain teaser-like exit design method...it really doesn't seem like my own handwriting.

Who is that?

Who can insert these "exits" in under his nose without anyone noticing?

Is it Ji Jingzhe?

But if Ji Jingzhe has this ability, is it still necessary to turn himself into a "skeleton"?

He suddenly laughed out loud: "It seems that not everything is under your control."

That he sighed, and suddenly said, "Wei Chi...look at yourself."

They stand in the rain.

Only then did Wei Chi realize that the "dream" of the car accident was not his own imagination, they were really standing on the highway, in front of the pile of steel ruins.

It was raining heavily, but the two cars were still burning, and the flames were not extinguished.

Wei Chi felt his heartbeat stop for a moment, swallowed his saliva, and said, "What did you say?"

That Wei Chi lowered his head, looked at his feet, and said, "Look at yourself."

He looked down at the puddle under his feet.

It was obviously raining heavily, but the puddle under his feet was calm, like a mirror.

He saw his own face in it.

He looked at it for a while, and finally found out slowly where the strange thing he had always felt was.

In this world, he is actually not alone.

Presumably some consciousness had been wiped out of the world, and he wasn't aware of it.

Until then, when that Wei Chi spoke, it was like a god's "words follow the law", and he became aware of it.

He found that there were two lines at the corners of his mouth, which had been submerged into his collar.

There are such gaps in the joints of his hands and feet, faintly, with thin silver lines looming in the mirror.

He suddenly remembered that after entering this world, everyone he saw was like this...

No wonder... no wonder he can't control his body...

That Wei Chi said, "Wei Chi, we are puppets."

"I'm not the one holding your thread." His eyes were very sad, "It's fate...it's God."

As he approached step by step, wherever he went, the puddles became mirrors: "Everything today is doomed."

That Wei Chi's face was getting closer and closer to him, and he could see it more and more clearly through the heavy rain curtain. His scalp went numb, and he realized that the monster hidden under that skin was about to appear.

That face showed a frozen indifference, and he said, "Wei Chi, actually, I have made a lot of preparations to meet you today."

"I know, I've changed beyond recognition," he said. "I spent a lot of time imagining your life, your experience, I tried to think, build myself, re-feel... I hope when I meet you, I can It's a decent gesture, no different from yours. I don't want to scare you, I don't want you to see... like this."

"Whether you believe it or not, I really hope today that we can resolve this matter peacefully."