Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Gao Qiusuo stayed in "that world" for 45 years.

"I thought I would never doubt myself," he said.

"How could I doubt myself?" He seemed to be confused from the bottom of his heart. "The moment I doubted the world—the world showed me the truth, and I realized that human beings don't have those two lines! How could I Suspect?"

Even if everyone thinks he is sick and crazy, it doesn't matter to him, because he knows that they are not real human beings.

He began to search for causes and solutions, and any little problem was infinitely magnified in front of him.

He started from the weird point he discovered at the beginning—Wei Chi—and explored deeply.He re-checked the traces that Wei Chi should have existed, re-read the student status files, dormitory registration files, and even checked the college entrance examination scores of the national candidates in the year they enrolled, and confirmed that Wei Chi was indeed no such person.

But clues are not entirely absent.

In the photos hanging on the school wall, the positions belonging to Wei Chi are all empty—it may not be obvious from one or two photos, but if you put all these photos together, you will find that Wei Chi originally The position is not replaced by another person, but directly becomes vacant.

In the group photo, Wei Chi disappears, and there will be a large gap between the people on the left and right of him; in the photo of accepting the award, the school leader holds the trophy but hands it to a void.Gao Qiusuo asked other people's views on this void, and everyone's memory was consistent: "No.1 was unable to be there for some reason, but our school is open and free, and the leader accepted the award on his behalf."

Once he asked: "Who is that No.1?"

Everyone will say: "How can I know this? It's been so long."

Wei Chi seems to have been forcibly erased by this world.

He followed Wei Chi's line to check other people. He remembered that Wei Chi's mother worked in the No. [-] Municipal Hospital. As a local parent, Zhou Yingchun had been to the school several times to replenish "supplies" for the boys. With a photographic memory, he felt he could recognize her.

Sure enough, he found Zhou Yingchun on the doctor's wall of the Second Municipal Hospital, and waited for her at the door of her department, but he learned that she had no children, so naturally it was impossible for him to recognize Wei Chi.

He also thought of Ji Jingzhe—Wei Chi's boyfriend. He remembered that Ji Jingzhe was a lecturer in the school's brewing department, and Sun Yong said this matter several times behind his back: "Ji Jingzhe's education can be taught in Sanqing University, I don't know. How hard the background is."

But he found that Sanqing University did not have a department of brewing.

He wanted to contact Yuan Qi and Wei Yuan, but found that he didn't have their contact information, let alone Shuoshu.

He had no choice but to start the investigation by himself. Fortunately, he was really strong-minded and never wavered.

Starting from the historical direction of his major, he spent two years reading all the histories of countries in the world, and found nothing related to this incident.He turned to religion, natural history and mysticism to find answers, but still found nothing.

When he raised his head from the vast sea of ​​books, many people around him left him—grandmother died of cerebral infarction, grandpa died of lung cancer, grandma was paralyzed by stroke, his parents were completely disappointed in him, and the door of the house was tightly closed to him.

And his friends—he didn't have many friends—never contacted him again.

But he was not touched in his heart, because he was convinced that all this was false.

His grandparents left him an old dilapidated small house, and he has been living in it. Before the age of 25, he had a deposit of 2000 yuan, which earned about [-] yuan a year in interest in a private bank, and he lived on it.

When he is convinced that he cannot find the answer in history and the occult, he glances up at the calendar and realizes that 12 years have passed since he discovered the "truth of the world".

He walked out on the street—not that he hadn't been out in 12 years, but he had never seen the scenery around him.

He found that the outside world was bright in spring, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, the streets were crowded with people, and everyone had vivid expressions. The only thing that made him feel strange were the two lines at the corners of their mouths.

He went home.

Grandma is gone, and parents are also old. The wrinkles at the corners of their mouths are as deep as gullies, almost blending with the two "puppet lines".Seeing him, his father walked away without closing the door, but his mother rushed up, crying and beating his chest.

For the first time he had doubts.

Is there any possibility...is there really something wrong with him?

He's back to normal life.

Because of his record of breaking the law and dishonesty, it was difficult to find the position in the academic circle he had longed for. He became a writer and sometimes a gunman, sending many students out of the country.

Because of his extensive knowledge base, his manuscript fee has been rising steadily, and soon, he can be said to have "achieved something", and he no longer has to worry about money, and his parents can laugh a lot.

He just no longer dared to look in the mirror.

In this way, another five or six years passed.

He sees a piece of news.

A residential building caught fire, and an 80-year-old man and a little girl were trapped in the building. A man passing by bravely rescued the grandparent and grandson, but died in the flames.

Gao Qiusuo found that perhaps because this is a "puppet world", people here seem to be more afraid of fire, and he has lived here for nearly 20 years, and he has never heard of anyone drowning.

In this world, to be burned to death seems to be an act of heroism with special significance.

He was touched by the news.

There is no definite reason... Maybe it's because of the fire, maybe it's because my mental state that day is easy to be sentimental, maybe it's because the surname of the brave gentleman is "Wei"-he was touched.

He found the "hero"'s home through information on the Internet, sneaked into his funeral, and found out that his name was Wei Yuan.

He saw Wei Yuan's posthumous photo, which was the Wei Yuan in his memory, who he wanted to find back then but had no contact information.

Wei Chi does not exist in this world, but Wei Yuan exists?

He asked those present, Wei Yuan's family members, if they recognized Wei Chi, but no one recognized him.

He went to the toilet and came out, only to find that Wei Yuan's photo was gone.

Why was the funeral photo withdrawn even though the funeral was not over?

He found someone and asked, "Where is the photo of Mr. Wei?"

The man was confused: "What Mr. Wei?"

"Wei Yuan!"

The man said, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Gao Qiusuo pointed to the mourning hall where there was no photo, and said, "Then whose funeral is this?"

The man was still confused: "This is the mourning hall of Uncle Zhang in the building next door... It's been full for three days, and it's about to be collected—"

Gao Qiusuo felt dizzy for a while.

He searched for the fire news on his mobile phone, but couldn't find it. He went home and asked his parents if they remembered the news. They obviously saw it on the morning news together...

But his parents looked horrified: "I've never heard of anyone being burned to death."

His mother looked like she was about to cry again, and it was an expression he was very familiar with: "Seeking...don't get into the horns again..."

But he couldn't hear anything.

The feeling of discovering "the truth about the world" is back.

He couldn't break free.

What if... what if, he was right all along?

If human beings really do not have those two "puppet threads" as he remembered——

If those "dreams" more than ten years ago were not dreams——

If...this world is the same kind of "world" as the "school world", "laboratory world" and "science and technology museum world" that I encountered back then...

Those who escaped...will they "disappear" from this world like Wei Chi and Wei Yuan?

...Or does death just "disappear"?

Long, long ago, he once thought briefly: If no matter how long he spent in the "world", it was still just a moment in reality, then, after they escaped from "that world", "After that, what about the rest?

Will they all be killed by monsters?

still is……

If the limit of the "world" is infinite, those who can't find an exit can also continue to flee until...the day of old age and death?

Just like… just like—he is now.

But...if this is the case, if you can live like this in the "world" for 50 years, even if you die directly after you go out, it won't be a loss, right?

But...but...if this is the case...what about the truth that he has been looking for all this time?

At this time, another voice said in his mind: "Could it be possible to find the truth in 'reality'?"

Before he could think of a rebuttal, the voice said again: "Then how can you be sure—that is indeed 'reality'?"

He had no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground. When he came back to his senses, he found himself standing in the middle of an abandoned parking lot, in the rainstorm.

He had been walking for three hours unconsciously, feeling that he was at the end of his rope and unable to do anything, and an overwhelming thought flashed through his mind in an instant——

It's dead.

He fell to his knees and saw his own face in the bumpy and broken reflection.

I saw the two "puppet lines" that could not be ignored.

In the pouring rain, he suddenly thought of the flame burning on Wei Yuan that he had never seen with his own eyes, and which was now dead and untested in this world.

In the illusory flames, he saw Wei Yuan's scorched black puppet body, and gradually, that black figure turned into himself—the idiot-like self who had nothing but nothing to fear when he was young .

At that time, his axis was earth-shattering, and eight horses could not turn back what he decided. He fell in love with a girl, and he had already acted out 23 scenes in his heart, without saying a word to her, and had read [-] books. "Love Guidebook".

At that time, he always believed that people were born with a certain mission.

He bent down and looked at himself in the reflection.

When the rain stopped and the puddle became as calm as a mirror, he made a decision: "I am the last human in Rhino City, and I must not just surrender like this."

He started looking again.

On a night when he could see the Milky Way, he suddenly had an idea——

If you can't find answers from the past... what about the future?

He turned to areas he had never touched before—mathematics and physics.

"It took me 27 years to solve that puzzle." Gao Qiusuo said, "The moment I solved that formula, a door of light appeared in front of my eyes."

He looked at the people in the house, and seemed to see a faraway place, his eyes were young, but also old: "I'm back, back to the moment on the way to the library."

"I made a prophecy, and that moment lasted for 45 years."

Li Xiaofei unconsciously opened her mouth wide and asked, "So... what did you find?"

Gao Qiusuo said: "The truth of 'that world'."

Three questions: "What is it?"

"To put it simply - it is a 'Schrödinger' world." Gao Qiusuo said, "It is a world that exists and does not exist."

The author has something to say:

ok friends it is indeed quantum mechanics hhh

Non-professionals, pure nonsense, welcome to advise

"I am the last human in Rhino City, and I must not just surrender like this." - A tribute to Ionesco's "Rhino"