Two o'clock in the middle of the night is when most people are asleep.

The lights were still on in Jiang Wei's cabin.

He stood in the open space in the middle of the room, his head bowed, and rotated his body in a counterclockwise direction at a constant speed, like a planet rotating in space, never stopping......

He's been spinning in place like this for three and a half hours.

His consciousness had long since left his body, floating in the dark night sky, staring at the lighted hut below, and the body in the middle of the room with his head bowed and spinning in place like a machine.

He saw that his body was transparent, and the brain, internal organs, blood vessels, and bones could be seen clearly, just like X-rays.

As soon as his consciousness leaves his body, he can see things that others can't see.

Sometimes when he sees a beautiful woman, he will secretly use his consciousness to take a look......

The cold wind swept across the night sky, making him feel a strange breath.

He looked up at the sky, where it should have been the same dark night sky, and farther away, it should be an endless starry sky......

But he saw a city suspended in the night sky, almost transparent! It's as crystal clear and dreamlike!

The transparent city was exactly the same as the city beneath his feet, like a projection of a city on the ground in the sky.

That's the parallel space of the city.

This kind of parallel space has the characteristics of four-dimensional space, and the "mirage" that people sometimes see is this kind of four-dimensional parallel space.

He stared at the city in the sky, remembering that when he was a child, his consciousness would run to another universe, shuttling through many spaces like this, and that was his happiest time.

Jiang Wei used to be a normal child. When he was a child, he was smart, lively and loved by everyone.

At the age of six, he discovered that his consciousness could leave his body and enter a magical world.

Completely different from this boring real world, it is a magical universe with countless gorgeous spaces intertwined. He curiously shuttled back and forth between those different spaces, deeply immersed in them, and lingered......

In a beautiful space, he suddenly heard a gentle female voice speak to him:

"Are you here for me?"

He looked around curiously, but couldn't find where the nice voice came from.

"I'm not in this universe, and you can't find me yet." The woman said.

Jiang Wei asked curiously, "Do you know me?" ”

"Of course I know you!" The woman said gently.

Jiang Wei's consciousness flew through the air, looking around for the source of the sound. He noticed a beautiful rainbow of light floating above his head, and that gentle voice was from there, and she had a special sense of intimacy.

"You see me?" She seemed a little surprised, "I'm not a specific person, I'm a will." ”

"Who are you?" Jiang Wei asked at that beautiful aura.

"I am who I am! And you're me! ”

The child is confused, how can I be you?

"Because I put my genes in you, you're going to be me."

- What is a "gene"? I didn't take your stuff! Don't lie to me!

"You didn't take it, I gave it to you!"

"But I didn't get it...... When did you give it to me? ”

"Before you were born. You're my chosen one! ”

Before he could figure it out, the voice came from the aura again—

"Come to me! Come to me! Find me and you'll be me! ”

The colorful aura suddenly dissipated, turning into countless brilliant points of light, flying in all directions, and the woman's voice gradually faded away.

Jiang Wei chased after the gentle voice through one colorful space after another......

Is this playing hide and seek?

From then on, he will spend his whole life playing this game of hide and seek.

Every day, his consciousness leaves his body and travels through countless beautiful worlds in search of the woman with a nice voice and playing hide and seek with her......

At the same time, his body becomes non-verbal, noncommunicative, silent, indifferent to what is happening around him, repeats a simple and boring action for a long time, or spends a whole day alone in the corner of the room......

He became a child with autism.

After years of long treatment, all the beautiful worlds in his consciousness were gone.

He couldn't go to that good-sounding woman to play hide and seek again!

He can only stay in this boring world, and he can't go anywhere!

Luckily, his consciousness was still able to leave his body, but he could only wander quietly nearby.

He is almost eighteen years old this year, stumbling all the way, and finally reaching the third year of high school, and he is about to face the college entrance examination.

But his condition has been good and bad.

He had been thinking about that woman with a particularly nice voice, and she told me to go to her, where should I go to find her?

How can I rediscover those beautiful spaces in all their colors? Only in that world can her voice be heard again.

She said that as long as I could find her, I would be her. But she's a woman!

Will I become a woman? - He felt weird in his heart!

Over the years, Jiang Wei has found a lot of information on "genes" and studied them carefully, and initially understood the concept of genes. He guessed that the mysterious woman said, "I put my genes in you, so you will be me", which means that she somehow implanted her genes into my genes, so simply put, I am actually her offspring!

But who is she?

His consciousness slowly flew higher, gradually approaching the city in the sky.

There seemed to be a thin curtain of light enveloping the city that hung high in the air, but Jiang Wei's consciousness passed through the light curtain like a puff of light smoke without hindrance and entered the city in the sky.

Surrounded by familiar streets and buildings, this is the city where Jiang Wei has lived for eighteen years. The only difference is that everything in this city in the sky is transparent, just like the whole city is built out of transparent crystal.

He looked down, and through the transparent ground of the city, he could clearly see that the city on the earth was sleeping quietly in the night.

Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a dark figure running silently down the transparent street. He turned his head and was surprised to find a human-like monster crawling down the street.

The monster's head and body resemble that of a human, with a large bald head, a hideous face, a mouth full of fangs, blood-red eyes, a muscular body and limbs, and it should be able to stand up more than two meters, but crawl underground like an ape.

Is this an ape-man? But it had no long hair on its body, only a dirty, scruffy gray-black skin.

The monster's movements were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, it had passed by. Jiang Wei's clairvoyance can even see the blood rushing and the beating heart in his body.

Jiang Wei's consciousness floated in the air, like a faint cloud of smoke, and the monster didn't notice him.

A monster had just run past, followed by four other monsters of the same kind, looking exactly like the bald monster in front of them, and crawling through the ground with their strong limbs, as if they were in a hurry to do something.

When Jiang Wei saw this strange creature for the first time, he was curious for a moment, and immediately followed these monsters closely, wanting to see what they were going to do.

His consciousness flew effortlessly through the air, and after following the monsters around two streets, he came to the fountain square in the center of the city.

He was amazed to see that there were thousands of similar humanoid monsters gathered in the square, in addition to the bald monster he had just seen, there was also a kind of humanoid monster with a huge head, two toad eyes bulging high, a huge toad mouth, a green oily skin, a fat body, and a slime-stained body, which also crawled on the ground and walked on all fours, and its four paws were like toad claws;

There is also a humanoid monster with a small pointed head, protruding red eyes, and a very small mouth, with only nostrils and no nose. This monster has slender limbs and three long legs, so it must have a strong ability to bounce. They have a long, stout tail, a green body that is more than two meters tall, and resembles bugs like praying mantis or grasshoppers.

In the center of the square, stands a small black pyramid. The pyramid was about three meters tall and was covered in black crystal.

Monsters from all corners of this city in the sky converge on the square, surrounding the Dark Crystal Pyramid, as if waiting for something.

A grasshopper with a pointed head walks towards the Dark Crystal Pyramid, clutching a black stone in his paws. The monsters next to it were all staring at it.

Jiang Wei curiously floated over to see what the monster was going to do.

The grasshopper reached for the pyramid with its slender claws and carefully placed the black stone on the top of the pyramid.

The top of the black crystal pyramid was originally flat, and this black stone was placed on it, which happened to become the spire of the pyramid.

A layer of mysterious black light immediately appeared on the tower of the Black Crystal Pyramid, and the black light swirled around the tower. When the black light converged on the spire, a thick cylindrical black light suddenly emitted from the spire, rushing straight into the sky.

All the monsters roared together, the bald monster made a sound like a roar, the toad man like a toad, and the grasshopper man made a high-pitched, piercing sound...... They danced like they were celebrating a victory.

Jiang Wei's gaze passed through the transparent ground, and suddenly found that the dark earth below was trembling violently, bursts of fire appeared in all corners of the city, and there seemed to be some buildings collapsed in the darkness......

He suddenly reacted, and there was an earthquake in the city below!

These monsters create earthquakes in this parallel space?

That's how earthquakes were created!

He quickly turned his gaze to his hut, only to see that the body in the hut was still slowly spinning in place, as if unaware of the earthquake.

He lives in a bungalow, and if the magnitude of the earthquake is not too large, it should not collapse for the time being.

At this time, above the heads of these monsters, wisps of black smoke began to fall like snow, and the monsters all tilted their heads, greedily sucked those black smoke into their mouths, and showed extremely comfortable expressions, like a group of addicts......

Jiang Wei was very surprised, he flew in the air, grabbed a wisp of black smoke, and immediately felt that this wisp of black smoke contained a heart-rending sorrow, just like watching his dearest and beloved relatives die in front of his eyes, but he was powerless to save him. He was startled and hurriedly threw it away.

He grabbed another wisp, and this wisp of black smoke contained a kind of pain and fear, like being pressed by a heavy object, unable to escape, facing the feeling of death.

He threw away the wisp of black smoke and grabbed another wisp, this time feeling panic and fear, and he saw that there were panicked people everywhere in front of him, and he didn't know where to escape.

He grabbed the black smoke and threw it away, only to find that a lot of black ash was stained on his consciousness, like the black ash in the chimney, dirty and sloppy, which made him extremely uncomfortable.

He understood that the black smoke was coming from the citizens of the city below, and he felt in the black smoke the mood of people when they experienced an earthquake...... Are these the souls of those who died in the earthquake?

He stared at the black smoke falling from the air in confusion, and now the smoke was getting more and more, if it seemed like light snow just now, it had now become a heavy snowfall! He was secretly frightened, could it be that the earthquake had already killed so many people!

The monsters seemed to be having a carnival party, all of them tilting their heads to meet the large amount of black smoke falling from the sky, and inhaling it in large gulps, as if swallowing a great tonic.

A slender grasshopper stared at Jiang Wei's consciousness with two red eyes. Just now when he was floating in the air, the grasshopper noticed him. It bent its legs and lunged at Jiang Wei with a slam of its face......

Jiang Wei spotted a green figure lunging towards him, and he dodged it lightly in the air. Unexpectedly, the grasshopper had already stared at him, and he pounced again and again, chasing after him.

The grasshopper had thought that Jiang Wei's consciousness was also a wisp of those black smokes, and it felt that this wisp of consciousness was more replenished than the other black smokes. Unexpectedly, he pounced but grabbed a void, this wisp of consciousness still knows how to dodge?

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

There's something wrong with this wisp of consciousness! It had even felt a palpable hostility......

Jiang Wei was chased by the grasshopper and fled in all directions, he dodged several times in a row, and appeared next to the black crystal pyramid, just now the grasshopper man put the black stone on the tip of the pyramid, and there was an earthquake in the real world below, it seems that this black stone is the key to creating an earthquake.

He flew to the top of the black pyramid and grabbed the black stone in his hand!

The black pillar of light emitted from the top of the pyramid disappeared at once, and the mysterious black light hovering over the pyramid quickly dissipated......

The monsters who were reveling suddenly stopped and stared at the black stone in Jiang Wei's hand together. At this time, Jiang Wei is an enemy in the eyes of this group of monsters!

The earthquake on the ground below immediately stopped, and the black smoke falling above the monsters' heads quickly decreased......

Seeing the large group of monsters roaring in unison, they pounced on him. Jiang Wei smiled, held the black stone tightly, and disappeared suddenly.

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[Notes: (1)] The method used by the monsters in this chapter to create earthquakes is a serious violation of scientific common sense.

According to the alien, "Every planet is a living organism, and so is Earth. It has countless nerves scattered throughout its body, and if one part of it is stimulated with energy fluctuations, some of its 'muscles' will tremble, and an earthquake will occur. ”

[Notes: (2)] The black smoke absorbed by the monster is the negative emotion that people produce during the earthquake, that is, negative energy. The reptiles absorb a lot of the negative energy of humans to evolve themselves.

[Note: (3)] The city in the sky is a parallel space of the city on the ground, with the characteristics of a four-dimensional space, and the direction and time of this space are different from the city on the ground, which will be described further later.