(Foreword)

Survive in death,

Despair in hope.

(Text)

Yu Bo pondered for a while and said to himself: "August 1st...... There were eight bodies...... In the vicinity of the volcano......" he suddenly thought of something and said excitedly: "That's it, so it's so!" ”

They looked at him with wide eyes and inexplicable expressions, completely unaware of what he meant.

He immediately explained to them: "August 1st, now only June 28th, this is a piece of news from the future. Of the eight corpses, there were only seven of us, indicating that there was an eighth person on the island that we didn't know existed. But how exactly did this eighth man stay alive? And why can't we find him even though we've searched the whole island? I think the key lies in that volcano. ”

"The volcano?" Arthur asked.

Yu Bo nodded and continued, "Yes, that volcano. You think, there are three of us and there is only one person, and there is only one person who has clearly stated in the news that there is an accident at the site of the volcano, so it can't be us but him. But why did he go over? I think there's only one reason, and that's that there's food there to keep us alive, and that if we make it until August 1st, which is the time of the news, we'll be rescued and get out of the island. ”

Yu Bo's words were so good that they couldn't refute them at all.

Yu Bo glanced at us, knowing that we had agreed with his idea from the bottom of our hearts, and then he said his thoughts: "In this case, I think that in order to survive, we must find the hidden food and take it before the eighth man. Then the problem is, even if we know that the food is near the volcano, but the probability that the three of us can find it is extremely low because the volcano is so big, so we have to find him and take the food before him. ”

"But how can we find him and take the food before him?" Arthur asked, puzzled.

Yu Bo smiled and wrote down the time broadcast in the news just now on the paper: 22 o'clock on June 29

In other words, he will definitely come to this volcano at 22 o'clock on June 29. And we're going to get there one o'clock before that, lie in ambush around the volcano and flee before 10 p.m. ”

"Why do we have to flee before 10 p.m.?" Arthur asked, confused.

Yu Bo glanced at Arthur and replied, "Because he will die at 22 o'clock, and we don't know what will happen at 22 o'clock." ”

"Hmm. What you say makes a lot of sense, so let's do as you say, we are ambushed near the extinct volcano before 22 o'clock. ”

"What about your opinion? Char. Yu Bo looked at me.

"I, no comment." I bowed my head, clenched my palms tightly, and replied as before.

"Okay, since that's the case, it's decided, tomorrow night at 21 o'clock we will ambush here on time." Yu Bo pointed to the volcano symbol he had drawn improvised on the paper, and said to us like a commander.

We nodded in agreement, and he went back to his room.

I stopped Arthur and Xiaoyu, and out of caution, I looked at the door first, and after confirming that Yu Bo had gone away, I whispered to them, "Don't believe Yu Bo's words. Arthur, you've been through it once, and I'm sure you're doing what I thought by now. Xiaoyu, as long as you follow your brother, you believe in your brother, and your brother will definitely protect you. ”

Xiaoyu nodded, stretched out a pair of small hands, and pulled me tightly. I smiled and stroked her head and held her firmly in my arms.

I'm going to save you this time.

June 29, 2050 at 0:00 AM

Me, Arthur, and Xiaoyu quietly came to the basement. Arthur put her key into my hand, and I pushed open the mirror and opened the door.

Four white walls, a round instrument that doesn't know what to use at all, and sure enough, everything here is exactly the same as before.

"Arthur, you can tell me now, what is the use of this key you threw me at that time?"

When I asked Arthur about this, her expression was obviously unexpected, but it was reasonable.

She looked around, and one of them muttered to herself, "It's not this key, so where is that key?" ”

"What key?" I asked Arthur about it, but she walked out alone and came to the key shelf.

"Real Door One"

She stared at the line under the key with her fingernails, and suddenly exclaimed, "So the door, it's really not here!" ”

Xiaoyu and I immediately ran out, and she explained to us: "You see there is a line here that says 'real door one', but this is not actually 'one' but the upper horizontal of 'no'. The people who carved here want to tell us that the real door is not here, but somewhere else. So my key opened the door, but this wasn't the place we were looking for. ”

"But there's a real key to open the door."

I lifted my hand over the keys and explained to them, "You see, there is a spare key in each key ring here, but in the penultimate key ring there are two spare keys, one of which is not numbered. Not only that, but in the center of the key, there is no key in a yellow keyring, and every other key ring can be numbered exactly like a cell. If Arthur says that the key in your hand is the one missing from the yellow key ring, then the unnumbered key is added to the penultimate key ring, it should be the key from another place, and this place should be the place we are looking for. ”

"I see, you have a point." Arthur nodded in agreement as he pondered where the extra key would go.

But no matter what she thought, no matter how much we remembered, we still couldn't find the real door, and I didn't know where I should flee.

I still remember an hour ago, when I finally made up my mind to tell Arthur and Xiaoyu everything that happened in the previous world, worried that they would have some special ideas, they accepted my story calmly and without any doubts.

At the end of my story, I died in a hidden room in the basement, and the key was given to me by Arthur from the previous world.

ARTHUR WAS SLIGHTLY SUSPICIOUS OF THIS, AND TOLD ME THAT THERE USED TO BE A RESEARCH LAB ON THIS ISLAND, AND THAT PLACE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE X.

So the three of us quietly came to this place, verified the tragic experience of my last world, and finally found the true key.

BUT NOW, WHEN I THINK BACK TO AN HOUR AGO, I SUDDENLY REACT: ARTHUR, SHE SAID AN HOUR AGO THAT THERE WAS A RESEARCH LAB ON THIS ISLAND, AND THAT PLACE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE X. She, like me, was supposed to be visiting the island for the first time, but why did she know that there was a research room on the island? How do you know that this lab is related to THE X?

I suddenly remembered what she had said at the time: "Really? In the last world, maybe we have gone through more than one world, and have been killed by different people and died for different things in countless worlds, but as long as you are there, I believe that the end of endless death will come one day. ”

Could it be that she has experienced countless worlds more than the previous world? And in one of those worlds, she learned about the existence of a research room?

She's an enigma, a mystery I can't understand. But in fact, it's not just her, how many other people do I really understand?

Although there are too many mysteries that I don't understand, at least I understand one thing, and I have found the key point, that is, this key, this key that can really open the door of a certain laboratory, and I finally found it.

Arthur suddenly fainted, his lips turned white, and his whole body trembled. She covered her hand desperately, and I wrenched it away.

I saw that there was obviously a piece of meat missing from her hands, showing a concave appearance. I covered my face, gritted my teeth, held back the tears of self-blame that wanted to cry, and hugged her in my arms.

I remembered that in the last world, in the early hours of June 29th, she lay down next to me and spent the last night with me; On the evening of June 28, she told me that she would protect me.

We have spent two worlds together, she is by my side in each world, and she warms me in each world.

But I, who had never trusted her before, and who I had never been grateful to her since, had always kept a certain distance from her, and had always been just a bystander.

I picked Arthur up and walked outside, pushing open the door of the cabin and sitting down on the plank in the doorway.

"Arthur, look, the starry sky is so beautiful tonight."

"You lie, there are no stars today."

"No, it does." I took Arthur's hand, put her hand on my chest, and said to her, "It's here, beating in my heart." ”

Arthur smiled, I kissed her softly, and she hugged me tightly.

"If we could see the sun on July 1st, what would you like to do then?" I asked in her ear.

She looked at me, then at the dark void, and smiled at me, "I want to do everything I haven't done before; I want to travel all over the world, take a picture of every country and hang it in my room; I want to laugh wantonly in the sun, pull you, pull the light rain to eat all the delicacies; But I want to live in a world where I can live naturally until I am seventy or eighty years old and then die peacefully......"

When she said this, she suddenly lowered her head and remained silent.

I slapped her on the head, hooked her neck, and said to her, "Yes, this day will come, I promise you." ”

"Really? Then I'll trust you. She said to me with a smile.

She lay in my arms and fell asleep sweetly, and Xiaoyu also leaned her head over and leaned on me, looking into the night with me.

June 29, 2050 at 5:47 a.m

I carried Arthur in my arms, carried the light rain on my back, and came to the beach alone. I know the sea is unforgiving, but the volcanoes and poisonous gases are even more violent. I secretly put the two of them in the boat I had made earlier, cut off a large piece of flesh from my own leg, and placed it beside Arthur, watching them drift off into the distance.

They probably won't wake up in a short time, I looked at the hypnotic gas bottle in my hand, smiled palely, and threw it into the sea, sinking into the abyss.

June 29, 2050 at 10:10 a.m

I stood alone in front of the cabin, and Yu Bo hurried out, looking at my face inexplicably.

"Where did the two of them go? Why haven't you seen them early this morning? ”

"Don't pretend!" I took out an axe from my bag and yelled at Yu Bo, "You murderer, I know you actually want to lure us to the crater, kill Arthur, and you steal my fish!" ”

I ran to Yu Bo in a rage, trying to die with him, but I suddenly fell to the ground, and by the time I reacted, there was already a pool of blood on the ground.

I, looking back, but I saw an incredible scene, standing behind me with a knife was a man who was exactly the same as Yu Bochang.

The man looked at me coldly, chuckled, and suddenly rushed at Yu Bo in front of him, slashing him in the neck and killing him.

"You...... Who exactly? Why do you look exactly the same as Yu Bo? ”

"I ...... Who exactly? The man chuckled twice, touched the knife in his hand and said, "I am Yu Bo." ”

"You are Yu Bo......" I kept reading, and suddenly remembered the news on the radio: 8 bodies were found on an uninhabited island far from Chinese mainland on August 1, 2050. One of the bodies is believed to have died at exactly 22 o'clock on June 29, 2050, near the island's volcano......

8 corpses, the last one to die, could it be said that that person is this Yu Bo in front of him?! Impossible, absolutely impossible! We have never found an eighth person on the island in the past month, let alone lived on it for a month......

But isn't there a research room on this island? If he lives in a research lab, that's a different story.

"Yo, man, are you surprised why there are two of me on this island? And how did I come back to life? I don't think you understand this, but it's just a passing time for me anyway, so I'll tell you. Actually, I am not from your world, but from the future of other worlds and the past of your last world. ”

"The past of the last world?" I didn't understand what he said.

"Yes, it's you in the last world. I was the one who killed Arthur in the last world. ”

"It's you!" I struggled and roared, but he looked at me coldly and said, "If you find The X, maybe the world will change and lead to an irreversible future......"

Before he could finish his sentence, a knife suddenly flew over and plunged directly into his neck, and he fell to the ground on the spot, dying of exhaustion.

I turned my head and looked at Yu Bo who was dying in this world on the other side, I originally thought he was dead, but I didn't expect him to use his last strength to solve the enemy in front of me for me.

Should I thank him? Or hate him? I don't know.

However, there are many things that are not clear, and on this island, my six companions, including myself and The X, I know little about them, and I am in a fog.

But now I had no strength, and even the shouts were so pale and weak, and I just lay so quietly in front of the hut, slowly waiting for death.

"Nope! I can't just die, at least crawl there! ”

I suddenly remembered that at the end of the previous world, I inserted the syringe into my heart. But if this syringe was the trigger for me to go to the next world, then if I don't insert it now, won't I be able to go to the next world?

I don't know, but I have to.

June 29, 2050 at 2:55 p.m

With great difficulty, I moved step by step to the secret room in the basement, and with my last breath, inserted the syringe from the round instrument into my heart.

The world swirled before my eyes, and when I finally fell to the ground, it was as if I saw a woman in a white lab coat standing beside me......