Death Progress Bar

After the final exam, Shi Jin packed lightly and got on the plane to fly abroad.

"I haven't seen my brother for a long time, I'm a little nervous." He said to Xiaoshi in his heart, but he had already taken out the tablet in his hand, opened the mahjong software, and asked casually, "Xiaoshi, are you nervous?"

Xiaosi didn't speak.

"Playing dead again?" Shi Jin raised his eyebrows, hummed, habitually checked his game account information, glanced at the blank binding partner column, and sighed sadly.

When Lian Jun erased the traces of the past before leaving, he even canceled the game account in a frenzy. As a result, he is now in a state where his spouse is missing no matter in reality or in the game.

"It's actually come to this point, be careful I'm not happy to cheat and find someone else!" He said some cruel words that would never come true, logged out of the account information, and started a game.

After eating, playing, playing and sleeping, before I knew it, more than ten hours passed, and the plane was about to land.

Shi Jin suddenly said in his heart: "Xiao Si, time is running out."

Xiaosheng finally couldn't pretend to be dead anymore, and called out, "Come in."

"Well, I'm here." Shi Jin replied in a low voice.

Xiao Si became quiet again.Shi Jin stopped urging it, and continued to play the game with his head down.

……

After that day's birthday passed, the situation between Shi Jin and Xiao Shi had a wonderful reversal.Shi Jin forced himself to figure it out, wanted to face the parting positively, and Xiao Si, who had cried a lot, suddenly escaped again.

Faced with Shi Jin's questions, it always pretends to be silent, as if it feels that as long as it doesn't say anything clearly, parting will not come.

But time never waits for anyone. After the dreaded review week, Shi Jin finished his final exams and ushered in the winter vacation. Then, as he decided on the second day of his birthday, he got on the plane to pick up Shi Weichong.

Now, the plane is about to land, and the parting monsters have already opened their minions.

I can't put it off any longer.

"I..." Xiaoshi tried to speak, paused for a while, and lost his words in a low voice.

Shi Jin stopped playing cards when it opened its mouth, waited for a long time without waiting for the next sentence, guessed its difficulty of "I don't know where to start", entrusted the game to the system, and said soothingly: "It's okay, you Don't think about how to speak, just answer my question."

It took a while for Xiaoshi to respond in a low voice, and said in a not very energetic way: "You ask, come in."

Shi Jin didn't start asking questions right away, but turned off the tablet, turned his head to look at the thousands of miles above the window, and said, "Wait a little longer...the plane is about to land."

Xiaosi: "Yeah."

……

The nursing home arranged by Lian Jun for Shi Weichong is located in a semi-isolated small town near the sea in country D. The reason why this town is said to be semi-isolated is because its geographical location is somewhat special. The continents are connected, but only connected by a "line" on the high ground.It is more like a small island, but because it is connected to the mainland by a "line", it still maintains a slightly closer daily connection with the mainland than the real island.

From the airport to the small town, it takes three or four hours at the fastest by car.Shi Jin gave up the faster city subway and taxi, and chose to take the long-distance sightseeing bus specially for tourists.

"It's 10:30 local time in country D." Shi Jin sat down at the back seat of the sightseeing bus by the window, held his backpack in front of him, took out his phone and checked the time, "It's twelve o'clock, I will pick a random place to get off the car to have lunch, buy some gifts for Shi Weichong, and then continue to get on the car. If it is a conservative estimate, we still have a whole afternoon to chat. Well, it is relatively sufficient, it should be enough You tell a story."

"It's not telling a story." Xiao Shi retorted aggrievedly.

"Yes, Master Xiaoshi never tells stories." Shi Jin coaxed it with a smile, raised his hand to support his chin, looked out the window at the streets of foreign countries, and squinted his eyes, "Let's treat it as a tourist, while watching Let's talk while enjoying the scenery."

When the bus passed an old and heavy bridge, the two finally started this long-delayed conversation.

"Is this world really a book?" Shi Jin flipped through the travel guide on the bus, and started by choosing an easy question to answer.

Xiao Shi replied: "It's not a book, there is no book, this world is real, the book you saw at the beginning was concretized by me based on you... based on the life and memory of the original owner."

Shi Jin had already guessed about this, and he was not surprised to hear this result. He nodded and asked further: "The original owner of the book was reborn at the end and vowed to take revenge on the five brothers. Did you make up this part?"

"No...you are the one who was reborn. Wanting to take revenge on the five older brothers was the original owner's biggest obsession before his death."

Shi Jin rubbed the corner of the page of the travel guide, and continued to ask: "Is the book written in mine, or the life and memory of the original owner?"

Xiao Shi was silent for a while, then replied: "It's the time."

Shijin... which Shijin?This time, or that time?Or the same time?

Shi Jin had these thoughts in his mind, looked out the window at the cathedral gradually coming into view, moved his eyes upwards, looked at the cross on the steeple of the church, leaned sideways on the window rail, swallowed these questions as if evading, and changed the question Asked: "Then what are you? Are you really a mysterious system, and I am the chosen one chosen by the system?"

"I did choose you." Xiao Shi's tone became hesitant, "And I... I am... I don't know."

Shi Jin mentioned that half of his heart was stuck halfway, and he asked in disbelief, "You don't know?"

"Well...but I can vaguely feel it a little bit." Xiaosi replied hesitantly, as if he didn't know how to explain, stuttered for a while, and suddenly said, "Jinjin, you know the progress bar between you and baby Why is one 999 and one 1000?"

Shi Jin was really curious about this, and hurriedly replied, "Why?"

"Because there are still 1 to 998 ahead, each progress bar has an owner. They are all people who will die tragically in their original life trajectory, and then have the opportunity to change their destiny."

Shi Jin was surprised, and asked: "There are so many progress bars? Then have you ever worked on the system for those progress bar owners? Who selected these people? How is the maximum value of each person's progress bar determined?" distributed?"

"Yes, I have done it. They are chosen by the progress bar. As for the maximum value..." Xiaosi organized his words and replied, "The maximum value of the progress bar represents the possibility of the progress bar owners to change their lives. The higher the sex, the more difficult and dangerous it is to change fate, but on the contrary, the error tolerance rate when changing fate will be higher. The value of each person is not assigned by others, but determined by their own conditions."

Shi Jin digested the information, and Chi asked: "Then the 998 people in front of me, have the progress bars disappeared?"

"No, one progress bar affects the other. If one disappears, the following progress bars will not appear at all." Xiaosi replied in a low voice.

"The one who didn't clear the progress bar..."

"They should all be dead."

Shi Jin felt that the word "should" was used a little strangely, and asked, "Should?"

Xiao Shi's voice became lower and lower, and he could hardly hear clearly: "Well... Actually, I don't remember much. Every time I leave a host, my memory will be cleared once, and only some basic information will be kept. According to common sense, If the progress bar of the host has not been eliminated, I must stay until the host dies before leaving."

bang.

Shi Jin tilted his arm, bumped his head against the glass of the car, and sat up abruptly.

Xiao Shi was taken aback, and hurriedly added: "But you are different from the baby, even if I leave you, I will remember you, because you successfully changed the destiny and disappeared the progress bar!"

Shi Jin was a little furious: "How can you guarantee that you can remember, you have forgotten 998 people!"

"I will really remember, my intuition tells me, I will remember." Xiaoshi promised.

"You are so sure about this matter only relying on your intuition?" Shi Jin couldn't believe it, his emotions were on the verge of collapse, "What if your intuition deceived you! Then wouldn't you forget me too?"

"It's okay, if I forget about you, correspondingly, you will also lose the memory about me." Xiao Shi hurriedly comforted him.

Shi Jin only felt that a bucket of hot oil was poured on his head, and then someone handed over a torch, laughed angrily, and said: "If you dare to touch my memory and make me forget you, I will... just... ..."

what?What can he do if his memory is really taken away?I guess I'll just be like a fool and live happily ever after.

His high spirits slowly receded, and he sat softly on the chair for a long time, then compromised and said, "Xiao Si, I believe in you, please don't forget me... Don't you always say that you are the father of me and Lianjun?" , how can a father forget his child."

"No, I will never forget you!" Xiao Shi reassured, and even made a poisonous oath.

Shi Jin felt that the tone of its swearing was a bit funny, but because of the pressure in his heart, he really couldn't laugh. Seeing that the time had passed eleven o'clock, he simply picked up his backpack and looked at the mentally ill people around him. , Randomly found a crowded street and got off the car.

Improving my mood with delicious food, and then bought some gadgets for Shi Weichong as gifts. At 12:30, Shijin boarded a sightseeing bus to the town again. I asked in my heart: "So you are actually a system dedicated to helping others change their destiny?"

"No." Xiaoshi replied, and after considering his words, he said, "My ultimate goal is not this, but to achieve my ultimate goal, I must first help you change your destiny so that you can live a good life."

Shi Jin was puzzled and asked, "Then what is your ultimate goal?"

Xiao Shi's tone suddenly became serious, and he replied with a straight voice: "Save the world!"

Shi Jin plucked his ears: "...what?"

"My ultimate goal is to save the world!" Xiaoshi repeated it emphatically.

Shi Jin bowed his head deeply, thought for 10 minutes, then raised his head and snapped his fingers, and said, "I'm probably a little delirious due to jet lag, and I just had auditory hallucinations. Come on, let's change the question."

"Enter, you don't believe me." Xiaosheng's tone became aggrieved.

Shi Jin choked, then rubbed his face collapsed, turned his head to look at the exotic beauty outside and washed his brain, and said: "It's not that I don't believe you, I just... just need a little time to digest, I'm actually a materialist ,Do you believe it?"

Xiao Si groaned aggrievedly.

"Well, actually, I don't believe it either." Shi Jin looked away expressionlessly, feeling that he was still too unsteady.Up to now, he has accepted such mysterious things as rebirth and having an extra system in his mind, and there is no fuss about that system shouting to save the world.

He seriously and carefully digested the words "save the world", and did a good job of mental construction. He didn't ask again until he thought that he was so strong that he could calmly accept whatever Xiao Shi said next. : "So is every one of your hosts reborn after death like me? If I also fail to change my fate, and then you are bound to Lian Jun, will he also have a chance to be reborn? Or His body will be taken by another soul...etc."

He suddenly realized something was wrong, and said with a frown: "Didn't you say that one progress bar affects the other, and if one disappears, then the progress bar behind it will not be generated at all. Pushing it the other way around, the progress bar is The elimination of this one failed, and the next one will be created after the owner of the progress bar dies, right?"

Xiao Si didn't expect him to be so sensitive, and replied: "It's like this under normal circumstances, but baby is different."

"What's the difference?"

"He is the last one, and the most critical one." Xiaoshi replied, his tone became heavy, "The progress bar is an opportunity, and my chances are only a thousand times. He appeared too early, and I couldn't even immediately Determine his identity and location, because there is another you in front of him."

Shi Jin frowned deeply: "You mean, after you failed to save 998 times, two progress bars that needed to be eliminated suddenly popped up in front of you?"

"It's basically like this."

"Then if Lian-jun and I both fail..."

"I will disappear completely, and the rescue mission will fail."

Shi Jin still felt that saving the world was too unreal, and said: "How come Lianjun and I have become the key to saving the world? He's also very smart, if he wants to be the overlord of the underworld with all his heart, and stir up troubles in various countries, no one can stop him, but me? I'm an ordinary..."

"Jinjin, you and baby are both important. Baby's influence lies in himself, and your influence lies in your family background. You may not be good, but you can influence five other people who are good enough."

Shi Jin stopped talking, and after pondering for a while, he had to admit that there was actually some kind of causal logic in the seemingly completely unreal words Xiao Shi said.

"Xiao Si, I want to know, in the original fate, what happened to everyone after Lianjun and I died? I mean the five brothers of the Shi family, Heguayi and the others. Also, if I don't appear in Lianjun By your side, you haven't had time to bind to Lian Jun, where will he die?"

Xiao Shi was silent for a while, and replied: "Those are things that didn't happen, your fate has all changed, I can't give an answer."

Shi Jin leaned back on the chair, sighed lowly: "Forget it, I don't need you to answer." He can figure out the answer to this question by himself.

If the fate hadn't changed, he hadn't been reborn, and the original owner would have died, then with Xu Jie's temperament, after finishing off the original owner, she would definitely reach out to the other brothers of the Shi family.The other brothers of the Shi family are not easy to get along with, the relationship between the last few brothers will definitely become a mess, and there is a possibility of becoming enemies and killing each other.And the more outstanding the person, the greater the impact of the fight. The five brothers of the Shi family stand at the top of various industries. Once they get serious, the turmoil caused will only be big.

And Lianjun, if Lianjun dies, Gua Yi and the others will definitely be trapped to death in the dark world, unable to get out.They may inherit Lianjun's will and find ways to cleanse the extermination, but without Lianjun's guidance, it is hard to say what the outcome will be.

And where will Lianjun die... If he doesn't show up, Lianjun will be crushed to death by a chandelier in the orchard.

He was in a daze for a while, and his thoughts slowly became a little cornered, and he asked: "I still don't quite understand, since you are going to save the world, it proves that there must be a big problem in the world, right, but how can there be a problem in the world?" What? Even if human beings are extinct, the earth is still the earth, and the world is still the world, so why do they need to be saved? Could it be that what you actually want to save is human beings? But even if the world is in chaos and a war breaks out, human beings are unlikely to become extinct, right? If it is not extinct, human beings will definitely be able to slow down on their own, and there is no need to save it."

Xiao Shi seemed to be stopped by his question, and after a while he said: "Jinjin, do you know about rebirth?"

Shi Jin couldn't keep up with its topic, so he replied: "Of course I know, I'm just reborn...... Do you want to say that this is actually fake? Or are you saying that I'm crazy, you don't exist at all, and everything is My imagination after going crazy?" He frightened himself as he spoke, quickly looked around at the people around him, and pinched himself, trying to make sure that what he was experiencing now was real.

Xiao Shi said: "Of course your rebirth is real, and the rebirth of many people in this world is real."

Shi Jin was stunned, and then his eyes widened: "Rebirth of many people? What do you mean?"

"Not only rebirth, but also transmigration, soul swapping... and all unnatural phenomena, these all happen frequently in this world." Xiao Shi's tone became heavy again, with a trace of helplessness, "All creatures are Appearing, living, and perishing according to a certain law, they together constitute the world and promote the development of the world. Then one day, a small accident occurred in this law in human society. A soul that does not belong to this world came Here, the body of a native human is occupied, and then the butterfly flaps its wings, and the course of the world changes."

Shi Jin slowly frowned, listening to it attentively.

"If there is only one such accident, then the rules still have a way to slowly digest the impact it caused. But when there is a second or third accident of this kind...even when native humans also appear to break the law People... there must be something wrong, there are loopholes in the rules, if you continue to let it go, no one knows what will happen. In order to make up for the loopholes and eliminate the impact of various accidents, a progress bar appeared..."

Following Xiao Shi's narration, a world that Shi Jin could not comprehend unfolded before his eyes.

In Little Death's narration, the world of modern survival has become a container that must operate according to the law in order to exist in a healthy way. Then one day, an outsider squeezed in somehow, and he used knowledge that does not belong to this world to disturb the world. Making wind and rain changed the fate of many, many people, destroyed the container's own operation mode, and caused cracks to appear on the container.

After the cracks were formed, more and more outsiders squeezed in, and gradually, people inside the container also had problems.The operation of the container becomes a mess, and if this vicious cycle continues, the container will be damaged sooner or later.The container finally realized that something was wrong, and she began to try her best to use the rules to save herself, but this method was too slow to take effect, and more and more outsiders and mutants were in high positions, exerting great influence and changing the world, and could not be obliterated at will In such a situation, she thought of a quicker self-help method that can directly approach the source of the problem, and this method is the progress bar.

To save itself, the fissures must be erased.To eliminate the cracks, we must first eliminate the influence of those outsiders and mutants, and bring the operation of the container back to the right track.Therefore, the most fundamental solution to the problem is to eliminate the influence of those outsiders and mutants.

The progress bar selects those who are most affected by outsiders and mutants, binds them, and guides the progress of the world by helping them change their fate.

"Violent organizations shouldn't have appeared in the first place. Shi Xingrui is an old man, and his fate has been dragged down by his relatives." Xiao Shi finally ended his story with a sentence that shocked Shi's mind blank, "But Because of the impetus of an outsider and a certain change, the violent organization became a legal existence in Huaguo, Shi Xingrui established Ruixing, gave birth to six sons, and the fate of you and your baby was changed virtually."

Shi Jin was completely speechless.

"Jinjin, you have asked me many times why it was you." Xiao Si paused and said with difficulty, "I have never told you the truth in the past... because it can only be you, that is your life, and you can only It's up to you to change."

Shi Jin only felt a humming in his ears, and his heart sank down as if he had lost its support.

"I failed 998 times, and only you and my baby are left. I have nothing to do, so I did what I least wanted to do, and used the greatest strength I could." Xiaoshi's voice was very dry, with Deep guilt, "I need a psychologically strong and optimistic host, but you in the past can't do it, you are too fragile, and your heart is full of hatred... I can almost foresee my 999th failure. The premature appearance of the baby, let I had to go the wrong way."

"What did you do?" Shi Jin asked.

"I made you a mutant too, reversed your time, brought you back to the time when you had time to save everything, then stripped your memories and emotions, sent you to other places, and made you look like Like those outsiders who come here, go to another place to live another completely different life, and then before you can have an impact on another world, bring you back in the form of cruel death, let you live in the way of others From your perspective, to save your real life. Your previous life, in this world, was actually just a dream when your soul was out of your body for a short time.” Xiao Shi’s voice slowly became crying, “Jin Jin, I’m sorry, I lied to you from the beginning."