When the law of conservation of isolation is broken

The cemetery was very quiet for a while, and weeping came from a distance, that is other areas, people mourning for loved ones.

Zhao Yi's arm slowly dropped, and she threw the gun on the ground, letting it drop five meters away.She didn't even look at it.

"You have a father, right?" After a second pause, she suddenly asked Joad.

Joad was stunned for a second, he didn't expect that she would suddenly mention this under this circumstance.

"I have it too." Zhao Yi lowered his eyes and said softly, without paying any attention to the situation in front of him.

Joad's suspicious face was mixed with some confusion. He hesitated for a while, as if he was considering whether to interrupt her and send them back to the original topic, or follow Zhao Yi's words.In the end, he chose the latter carefully, and asked her: "...Aren't you an orphan? You said it when you entered the Mars base."

Zhao Yi sighed, and shook his head negatively for his answer: "I am indeed an orphan, but I have not always been an orphan. I had a father before I was seven years old, but then he died. I just didn't tell anyone, including you guys. .And people in the Mars base don't like to mention this, everyone only mentions Mars, missions, and the future, and other things are not important."

"Sorry." Joad said cautiously, still not knowing what Zhao Yi was selling.

Zhao Yi signaled that he didn't need to apologize for this: "It's unnecessary." She sighed, "And I didn't want to mention my father at the time, because I thought my father was unique and couldn't be compared with others, and—"

She raised her head, glanced at Joad and said, "Aren't you too?"

Joad suddenly became a little stiff because of her words, but he quickly hid the stiffness, and said casually as usual: "What is it?"

Zheng Zheng shrugged and directly exposed him: "I think your father is unique."

Joad was silent for a while, Zhang Luotuo didn't know if he was really thinking or wasting time for the bird, Zhang Camel guessed it was the latter, because Joad's silence was more like a deliberate cover than meditation.Zhang Luotuo seemed to be able to pass through the door and see birds. He grasped his 25 minutes and tried his best to crack this behemoth computer. He prayed that Zhao Yispeaking would slow down, slow down, and delay time.

"You could say that," Joad admitted slowly at last.

"It's the same as me." Zhao nodded and narrowed his eyes. "That's why I became interested in your father when I was in the base. I wondered what kind of person he was."

"It's just ordinary." Joad said casually, as if he didn't want to mention his father to Zhao Yi, or rather, he didn't want Zhao Yi to mention anything on Mars, he wanted to turn the topic back to their current orbit superior.

"I also guessed that way at the time, but I still want to know, because you are not ordinary." Zhao Yi raised her head and flattered Qiao De with a subtle tone, but she had to say that she looked very honest.For some reason, she said that with a little trepidation, her gold nose ring gleaming.

"So..." she said, "When Lu Xing told me that there seemed to be a photo of you and your father in your room, and asked me if I wanted to see what the family of your unreasonable guy looked like, I Will be interested right away."

"We sneaked into your room while you were training and found a photo of your father and you together." Zhao Yi raised her head, and she took a breath, as if she had to stop, otherwise she would lose something, " And guess what I found?"

She looked at Joad, and Joad's expression looked complicated.He didn't speak, he seemed to want to blame their behavior first, but it had been many years, and Zhao Yi's last words made him frown again, so the confusion on his face rose and fell , like the tide.He didn't seem to understand what they might find, or rather, he wasn't interested in what they found.In the end, he just raised his eyebrows, signaling Zhao Yi to speak, and he was listening.

Zhao Yi didn't bother Qiao De's indifference, she continued: "I saw the man in your photo, that father."

She took a deep breath, raised her head, and looked at Joad. It seemed that it took her a lot of courage to say this: "He looks exactly like my father."

Joad was stunned for a moment, however, his expression was quickly covered up.

Zhang Luotuo had been listening, and his reaction was even more bewildered than that of Qiao De. He had been confused by Zhao Yi's words.

"Zhao Yi, what do you mean?——" He said confusedly, interjecting into this confusing conversation, almost thinking that he had misheard, "What do you mean——you have the same father as him?"

It was rare for Zhao Yi not to scold him arrogantly, on the contrary, this time she just glanced at Zhang Luotuo lightly and nodded: "You guys sometimes have brains."

She turned her head, faced Joad, and continued: "My first reaction was just like him - it was very confusing. We have the same father? Are we brothers and sisters? But I clearly remember that my father died a long time ago, I watched him die, in the hospital, he was pushed into the ward, and then his heart stopped beating, but according to Lu Xing, your father seems to be alive and still in contact with you." She murmured, "So I was confused, almost amazed, when I saw the picture."

Zhao Yi raised her head, she squinted her eyes, and looked at the crystal cubes in the distance, where countless imitation people were buried. She paused for a while, sorted out her words, and then moved on again.

"Speaking of my father—I still remember what he was like," she continued. "He was a scientist and loved dead insects. He used to take me to the museum to see butterflies, especially the yellow ones. Butterflies, he loves them, he loves them, and I took pictures with a yellow stuffed butterfly when I was six years old." Her voice had returned to its former arrogance and calm, monotonous.

Qiao De's expression was slowly changing, and Zhang Luotuo noticed that a kind of stiffness hidden under his calmness slowly emerged from his expression like a butterfly shedding its cocoon.

Zhao Yi looked at Qiao De's expression, and shook his head with a complicated expression: "Is it very familiar - I feel that this is your father? But don't worry, we are not brother and sister, and our life is not a bloody series. "

She sneered, as if she thought it was ironic: "But that's what I thought at the time, and I was even a little unnecessarily anxious. I wanted to talk to you, but I didn't dare. God, I thought, me and You, we may have the same father, that is to say, you are my brother, and I am even excited about it. So I decided to recognize you, so one day, I want to ask you tentatively."

Her gaze stayed on Joad's gray eyes: "Do you remember? That day Mars was celebrating the city festival, but we couldn't go out because of training, and the three of us snuck some brandy in the house?"

"Remember." Joad answered her succinctly. As he spoke, he seemed to be trying to find some clues from Zhao Yi's words, even though the twists and turns of the story were confusing.Apparently, he didn't quite believe Zhao Yi's claim that he and her father were the same person, that was too dramatic, but at the same time, he looked a little confused, maybe because of what he knew about Zhao Yi, Zhao Yi didn't I'm joking about that kind of thing.

Seeing this, Zhao Yi nodded in satisfaction, paving the way for her story to continue: "Then the two of you got drunk that day, and I didn't drink at all. Because I wanted to ask you about that at the time, but I didn't dare to tell you about it before you. I ask you in a sober state, you were too alert at that time, and any mistake would make you suspicious. As a result - when you were drunk, you know? You are much easier to get along with than now, almost talking about everything, I I just asked about your father, about your father’s hobbies, name, and how you got along. The more I asked, the more shocked I became, because I found that our father was exactly the same except for your father’s name. I almost cried out at that time ——Thought it was some kind of destiny, you are my brother, we come from the same blood. But, at that moment, you suddenly talked about how your father took you to the museum when you were eight years old."

Zhao Yi paused, as if she was recalling the past.Behind her, a clock kept beating.

Neither Zhang Luotuo nor Qiao De understood the relationship between blood relationship and going to the museum at the age of eight.

But Zhao Yi just kept talking to himself and continued calmly: "Do you still remember? You must not remember, you were so drunk that day that you completely broke down." Seeing Qiao De's blank expression, she said decisively , "But I still remember the incident you said, and I can recount the museum incident now. You said you went to the door first and bought a green fake pine leaf, and it ended up being freckled by a running yellow ponytail Girl, a green pine leaf floats in the sky, lands on a graffiti wall, and sticks to a fake fly number 1025. Then you go into the museum, see a lot of butterflies, and finally take a photo with the yellow stuffed butterfly I got the photo—I just listened to it, and it just felt very familiar, but after I heard it, I was stunned."

Joad looked at her silently, and pressed his lips tightly. After a long time, he said, "I remember the passage I told you, and I remembered it the next day. I wasn't that drunk at the time."

Zhang Luotuo glanced at Qiao De, he saw that Qiao De remembered that memory, but apparently Qiao De did not understand how it was related to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi showed a tired smile, and she could see Joad's strangeness: "You don't understand, do you? The reason for my surprise is very simple - because I also have an exact same experience in my memory, the same museum, the same freckled girl , including the details of hitting a fake pine leaf and falling on the graffiti wall, catching flies. The difference is that I was five when I went to the museum, and you were eight."

"You don't have those memories, I have them too." Zhao Yi said, facing Qiao De.

Joad looked like he was hit by something heavy, but soon, he frowned, as if looking at someone who was talking nonsense.

But Zhao Yi was not panicked, nor was she afraid of Qiao De's questioning look. On the contrary, she looked at him without fear: "What I said is true—and, since you still remember what you told me After these things, do you remember the details you told me? Every-"

Joad nodded: "I remember." He explained simply, "I was drunk that day, but I didn't forget everything."

"Then I can tell you some details that you haven't mentioned to verify this." Zheng Zheng didn't blink his eyes.

She took a deep breath and said, "For example, the girl with the ponytail who ran past you, you didn't give that detail—but I remember, she ran past and bumped into her, her eyes It's purple—a cheap purple that teenagers inlaid themselves in to catch the trend, and her purple pupils didn't shrink when she ran by because her artificial pupils covered up the throbbing—didn't I? I said That's right? You didn't tell me this at the time, but I knew it because I had this part in my memory."

Qiao De's stiff expression flashed past. He was listening to Zhao Yi's words casually, but his expression suddenly became serious.

"For another example." Zhao Yi said softly, "When the yellow butterfly was torn off from the fly numbered 1025, the sound it made was not an ordinary tearing sound, but a long, endless sound. The sound, because the wings of the yellow butterfly were completely stuck, and I had to waste a lot of energy slowly."

Joad's shocked expression was replaced, and at this moment he was more confused, like a bottomless pit, and he fell into the hole.

Zhao Yi didn't seem to notice his expression, she continued to murmur, "This made me a little confused, and I was quickly freed from the fantasies of brothers and sisters."

She turned her head and took a look at Joad: "Because I still remembered a truth at that time, and you may also remember-at that time, we had to repeat that sentence hundreds of times a day."

Joad's eyes flickered, and he looked at Zhao Yi speechlessly.

Zhao Yi also stared at Qiao De, she pondered for a while, and said to Qiao De as if testing or feeling: "Even if two people have experienced exactly the same thing, their feelings and perspectives are different, because there is no Two identical leaves. If they are identical—then it is a forgery, and it is also a falsehood. You must see through the darkness and grasp the only truth."

Joad's voice was low and deep, almost conditioned to catch it: "The motto of the Mars base."

"Do you still remember?" Zhao Yi said softly.

Joad didn't speak, he acquiesced, even though he was now completely against Firestar, Firestar still left deep marks on him that belonged only to the base.

"But you made a mistake, this is not a proverb, this is the truth, the absolute truth." Zhao Yi raised his head and corrected him coldly.

"Then do you remember where Martian used this sentence?" She pressed him.

Joad glanced at Zhang Luotuo, but did not answer.

"You still take care of his feelings, don't you?" Zhao Yi's tone sounded a little sarcastic, "I remember very clearly that Mars asked us to memorize this sentence, and always remember it in Chongqing, don't be confused by the imitators here .Because the fake human looks like a human, but it is actually a fake human, because no one in the world will be exactly the same, but the fake human is produced on an assembly line, including memory and body structure."

Zhao Yi forced a smile, her smile was like a cheap item that could be shattered with a single blow: "But Martian must have never expected that this motto opened everything and opened my thinking."

"I used it to think about you and my father, and I had no idea before." She swayed in place and turned half a circle, as if the crystal boxes beside her were just some ethereal entities, "according to Mars It is impossible for two people to have exactly the same memories, not even for siblings—unless Mars' truth is wrong, but since Mars is far from being wrong, then our identical recollections can only mean one thing, as What Mars said is that our memory is fake. Then if our memory is fake, the father who exists in the memory cannot exist, even our father is also fake.”

"You and my father are false." Zhao Yi said calmly, and she deduced this conclusion.

"But if we don't actually have a father, where did we come from? Could it be that we drifted directly in the universe? But that's impossible, that's religion, and Mars hates it, Mars only believes in science." She spoke aggressively, even though The target is myself, "I thought of a possibility, a terrible possibility. That is to say—"

She raised her head and stared fixedly at Zhang Luotuo for some reason, she said to Qiao De: "We are the same as them."

She didn't make it very clear, but Qiao De obviously understood Zhao Yi's meaning at that moment, his brows were tightly wrinkled, and those gray eyes that had been calm for a long time and had become relaxed began to flicker at this moment .

"And that's why I stand here today, facing you, Joad," she said, "because I fully understand that I am the one who holds the truth, and I understand a fact that can never be changed, a Horrible truth, I've struggled with it for a long time, and I've suffered for a long time."

"But after struggling for fifteen days, after I witnessed a scrapped fake human being thrown into a garbage dump, I realized that even if I knew the truth, it was useless, because I had nowhere to escape. The smartest way is to pretend to forget I know the truth and put it behind me, so that in the end we really don't know. I forget it, move forward, and follow Mars' arrangements without knowing anything, and come to Earth. What I want to do is to be safe Four years, and then go back to Mars and live out my ordinary life like everyone else."

Zhao Yi turned her eyes back to Qiao De, she was counting on him to wake up, and murmured: "Qiao De, do you understand? There is no need for you to risk yourself, just for a person on earth..." She Looking at Zhang Luotuo, she wanted to finish those three words, but she couldn't say it anymore, because she knew that she was one of them, "You just need to stay here for four years and return to Mars .It's been a year and a half now, and we'll be able to go back in two and a half years."

She looked at Joad, hoping that Joad would understand her, understand the danger, and she watched hopefully as the light in Joad's eyes flickered wildly as something disintegrating hit him.As for Zhang Luotuo next to him, Zhao Yi saw it. Obviously, Zhang Luotuo also saw that something was wrong with Joad. He heard something from the conversation, and he completely understood. Looking at Joad with a gentle look of wanting to hug someone.But Zhao Yi doesn't care now, she just wants to persuade Qiao De that they are different from Zhang Luotuo and they can choose.

She waited a few seconds, and she watched Joad look up.She waited for him to go back with him.

But she was shocked to see that Qiao De just shook his head slightly, as if Zhao Yi's words didn't seem to move him, and he didn't believe a word.

Zhao Yi persuaded anxiously in a low voice: "Maybe you don't believe everything I say, but it's all true. I have the same memory as you. We are actually made... people," she paused , seems to find this word difficult to say, "But we don't need to be angry about it, if you come back now, we can pretend that nothing happened, we can still go back to Mars, just like other real humans, don't worry about anything, because They feel like we are their kind, and we're going to start living, a real life, instead of being here, facing the false and the void."

She is loud enough.life, void.She had put the choice in front of him, as well as everything that was originally hidden by this dirty city.

But she didn't expect Joad to interrupt her again, he shook his head, and said again: "I believe you, in fact, I guessed it before."

Zhao Yi was stunned, this time it was Qiao De who looked directly at her, but she was stiff and speechless.

"But I didn't confirm it at that time, but I confirmed it today." He said, slowly.

But that's not what I mean by shaking my head. He sighed, and said, "What I mean by shaking my head is...you demean yourself so much."We are living authentically right now. "

Zhao Yi froze, her open hand froze in the air.Joad remained unwaveringly watched by her, his gray eyes unblinking.

"Go back." Joad said, his voice almost sighed, "I'm alone, don't worry about me."

The bright light left nothing between the three of them.Zhang Luotuo saw that Zhao Yi's eyes gradually filled with tears, and then rolled down her cheeks.

"Jod, do you know what you're talking about?" she said softly.

"I know." Joad replied calmly, although obviously, his expression was a little confused, "I always knew."

"Maybe you will die." Zhao Yi said.

"I know." Joad replied without hesitation.

"For a fake person." Zhao Yi said.

Joad paused, and then his tone became more determined: "Isn't it worth it?"

"Where's Mars? Aren't you afraid?" Zhao Yi said.

Joad shook his head, already to the point of being tough: "Never."

Zhao Yi looked at Qiao De in a daze, and Qiao De still watched from her, without flinching. In the end, Zhao Yichao took a step back and nodded.Her tears dripped in the air, her nose ring dangling hastily as she nodded.

"It is indeed you." She said blankly, "You are never afraid, unlike me, the reason I always act arrogant is because I am afraid."

She raised her head to face the white light of the greenhouse, letting the warm and moist air cover her tears.She held back the tears for a long time, almost like forever.

In the end she let the tears fall freely, and she bowed her head silently, letting the whimpers and sobs engulf her.

She was silent for a while, like a mechanical bird reattaching her wings.

"Listen..." Finally, she took a deep breath, let the tremolo pass through her throat, wiped away the tears with her hands, and regained her composure, she looked directly at Joad, "I'm going back now, I don't I’ll take care of you, the same, but I’ll also say I’ve never seen him.” Zhang Luotuo’s heart skipped a beat, and Zhao Yi’s eyes swept over him for the first time today.She looked at him grimly, as if noticing him for the first time, and examining him for the first time.Zhang Luotuo felt uncomfortable under her gaze, but he kept himself from giving in.

Zhao Yi continued, very tired: "But the R-63 assigned by Mars has already discovered that you are not there. They may come to hunt you down, and what happens after that will have nothing to do with me."

Joad listened to her words, nodded, and said softly, "Thank you."

"You actually say thank you. It seems that you have really changed a lot in places I don't know about." Zhao Yi squatted down, she picked up the gun, and smiled wryly.

She turned and left without a word.

Zhang Luotuo stared blankly at her back gradually shrinking, disappearing among the countless undead in Area D.

The overhead lights flickered like a bolt of lightning.

Seeing Zheng Zheng's back disappear, Qiao De immediately looked down at his watch.

"15 minutes." He said hurriedly, "Let's go see that guy's plan." He wanted to turn around and go to the monitoring room, but he found that Zhang Luotuo didn't move, but stayed where he was, but his hand was still holding His, as if never separated.

"What's wrong with you?" He frowned and asked Zhang Luotuo softly.

Zhang Luotuo cleared his throat, raised his head, looked firmly at Joad, and looked into Joad's eyes. Joad originally wanted to avoid his visit, but it was too late. Zhang Luotuo had already found him, because According to Zhao Yi's words, Zhang Luotuo found another Joad that was hidden and hidden in the corner so easily, because he had seen this Joad countless times.The loss like a fortress, the sadness after being disintegrated, the sigh of sinking into peace, the kind of fragility that I try to hide because I have never experienced it.

Zhang Luotuo stepped forward and hugged Qiao De.Joad froze in place, he didn't move.But Zhang Luotuo didn't care about this. He buried his head into Joad's shoulder and increased his strength in hugging people, just like hugging Mao Mao when he was sleeping. He hugged him with all his strength, determined to accompany him through every day. a long night.Joad hesitated for three seconds, and then he hugged Zhang Luotuo tightly.

"You don't have to worry, I'm fine, and I've never been better than now." He whispered, firmly and gently in his ear.