(Foreword)

Known is not terrible,

What is terrible is knowing nothing.

(Text)

On the way back, I told them about my food storage. They all cheered, and with the despair on their faces swept away, they ran excitedly towards the hut.

However, when I turned the candlesticks around the basement again, everything in front of us completely collapsed.

The fish, all gone.

Yes, the fish is gone, not a single one is left.

Things went in the most unexpected direction, and for the first time I felt fear and despair in my heart.

I don't know who stole the fish, maybe it was Wu Han, because he was the only one who wasn't here. But I knew that our hope of survival had been dashed again, because of the disappearance of the fish, because of the impending starvation and poison gas.

"Nope! No!!! ”

Zhou Qiuxian went crazy, she held her head and ran out screaming loudly. We followed her closely and went around the back of the cabin with her, and ran straight ahead.

"Zhou Qiuxian! Zhou Qiuxian! ”

I tried desperately to call her name behind her back, but she kept running forward as if she were deaf, and she couldn't hear me at all.

"Ah!!h She screamed suddenly, and rolled all the way down. Yu Bo and I ran at the front, and saw her tumbling figure disappear in front of us, falling into the dark hole.

Yu Bo frowned, looking at the hole, the hole was pitch black from afar, there was no light at all, just below the slope she rolled down, covered by some weeds, if she didn't roll down right now, it was indeed difficult to find.

I saw him slowly approach the hole, picked up a small stone around him, and threw it down with a "pop". The stone echoed, and he frowned slightly.

"I don't know what is down here, I'll go down first, you take care of Xiaoyu and Arthur." Yu Bo glanced at Xiaoyu and Arthur, who were running behind me and were panting, and said to me.

I nodded, watched him jump off with a "poof", and after making sure he was okay, I also helped Xiaoyu and Arthur to walk down cautiously.

The lamp was lit, and the faint green flame faintly illuminated the place, and also illuminated each other.

With the help of flickering lights, it can be roughly seen that this is an old military passage. The passage was extremely hot and sweltering, and it seemed to be impermeable, and the walls of the passage were covered with black round insects. The bugs were red-eyed, but they didn't like to move, they just watched us as if they were watching.

I, looking ahead, the passage went straight ahead, leading to a distance I didn't know.

"Click."

I felt as if I had stepped on some glass, and I lowered my head to look at the broken glass bottles at my feet, only to notice that on both sides of the passage, there were some bottles and cans of the same shape, neatly arranged, and these bottles and cans were marked with some "specialized" words.

I didn't understand the words, but I always had a feeling that it was most likely related to Yin Ji.

Although I desperately wanted to find out, time did not allow me to make further guesses, so I could only take Xiaoyu with my left hand and Arthur with my right hand, walk step by step on this old passage, swallow a mouthful of saliva, and walk straight forward.

"......Oooo

There was a knocking sound in my ears, and it slowly approached me, and I stopped.

Xiaoyu was frightened to the ground, she cried out with a "wow", and touched the ground next to her, there was a hard board. She looked at it, there were vague traces of blood on it, and through the bloodstains, she could still vaguely make out the words written on it: No Wang Cun Ri.

"Ahhh!!hhh

Xiaoyu screamed and threw it out, right at my feet, I picked it up and looked at it carefully.

"Not a king."

It's a strange name, if you read it backwards, it spells it together as "time ring".

"Time Ring"?

Time surrounds?

I looked around, smelling the strange but familiar smell.

I seem to have smelled this smell somewhere...... Where is it? Where exactly? Damn it! Can't think of anything!

Just as I was trying to think about the source of the nearby smell, the sound of "poof, poof" stopped in my ears, and I turned my head to see that the person standing behind me with a blank face was Yu Bo.

"Yo, man, why are you staring at me in such horror? I'll take something to defend myself. ”

Yu Bo held an axe, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and suddenly laughed and said to me.

And I was just shocked into a cold sweat, and I couldn't laugh at all, and looked at his face tremblingly - after all, the memories of the previous world still lingered in my mind, he was the murderer, the murderer who killed Arthur.

"You ......"

I looked at Yubo's face, but he looked in the direction of my hand.

"Man, what's this one you're holding?"

I handed the board to Yu Bo, he flipped it back and forth in his hand, and finally stopped his gaze on these words: "Not the king?" What do these words mean? The name of this military passage? ”

I shook my head, pretended to have no clue, walked over to Xiaoyu's side, and helped her up.

Xiaoyu whimpered and trembled in my arms, Arthur gently patted her on the back, and then she slowly eased up and walked to my side.

I let Yu Bo walk in the front and lead us forward, while I held their hands tightly, constantly watching Yu Bo's movements. My mind continued to wonder where the smell was coming from.

We made a few detours, hit a few walls, and finally saw a dark red door at the end of the passage.

The door was about two meters high, glowing with a faint reddish glow, as if it was made of some special metal, and it also had the same "specialized" text on it. On such a door, there is a long handle, slightly tilted, as if someone has touched it.

"This door...... The handle is broken. Yu Bo stretched out his hand, pulled the handle, and gently pushed it in.

He walked in first, and we followed him and walked in slowly.

It was pitch black inside, but listening to the empty response, I could roughly tell that it should be a large space.

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva again, held the hands of Arthur and Xiaoyu beside me tightly, and followed Yu Bo to observe his movements every inch.

Yu Bo took out a lighter from his pocket, and with a light touch, the scene in front of him suddenly brightened. He held the lighter in front of his eyes again, revealing them standing in front of us.

"You've found it."

Through the firelight, I clearly saw that in front of another huge door, Wu Han pinched Zhou Qiuxian's neck with his pale left hand and smiled coldly: "The game is over here, and this farce should be over." Just like her, you're all going to die, you're all going to die here. Hehehehe~~ No one can escape, including you, including everyone here, who let you go to the Arctic glacier! It was you who caused the war, it was you who caused the destruction of the world! I'm going to end her here for the world, and I'm going to end you! Hehehehe~~~"

"Wu Han, you're crazy! What nonsense are you talking about? Hurry up and let go of Zhou Qiuxian! Yu Bo was furious and shouted at Wu Han, but Wu Han laughed and pinched Zhou Qiuxian's neck as if he couldn't hear Yu Bo's words, opened a passage next to him, and ran out quickly. We followed Wu Han closely, ran to the ground with him, and watched him stand on the seaside.

"Wu Han, don't be excited, let Zhou Qiuxian go first, and then we can talk about the rest." Yu Bo persuaded him.

"Talk slowly?" Wu Han smiled disdainfully, gently stroked Zhou Qiuxian's neck with his hand, and then looked at us again and said:

"What to talk about? Talking about death? Talking about the world? Or do you want to talk about Zhou Qiuxian who is pinched in my hand? No, we don't have much to talk about, because I'm not like you, and I'm looking forward to your death here, while you're looking forward to the new life you can get. ”

"Wu Han, what are you talking about? What exactly do you mean by that? Yu Bo was sweating profusely, his hands clenched into fists, and asked him.

But he only shook his head slightly, stared into our eyes with puzzled eyes, and asked suspiciously:

"Why should you be afraid of death? Are you scared too? But the real murderer is obviously you! You are the ones who have caused everything, and I am here to save all mankind, to save the world. ”

After Wu Han finished speaking, he closed his eyes, leaned back, pulled Zhou Qiuxian and jumped down together, sinking into the sea, never to be seen again.

Although we also wanted to jump down to save it, but this fierce wave was like the roaring beast, its eyes could not tolerate half a grain of sand rice, and its mouth contained drops of blood.

I stood on the edge of the road, letting the waves roar in front of me, letting the fierce wind mess with my hair. I, clenching my fists tightly, couldn't calm down, and the face of a dwarf appeared in front of me.

Someone died again, in front of me, alive in front of me, and I couldn't stop it.

Is this fate, a correction of time? Xiaoyu didn't die, but they took her place, died today, died in time......

No, it won't be like this, it must not be like this!

Tears flowed from my eyes, and through the tears I looked at the world vaguely.

Wu Han's words before he died clearly echoed in my ears.

Are we the ones who caused the war? Is it we who are destroying the world?

No matter what he said, no matter how I thought about it, I couldn't think of a reason, I didn't know anything about the outside world, and my own memory was also in a chaotic abyss.

The fish on the beach have long been floating in the sea in front of them, they can avoid the reef, but they still can't escape the poisonous attack.

They are dead, they are dead, whether we destroy the world, or the world destroys us, in this place, in this end, everything will come to naught, all will end here.

I sat here alone, looking at this sea, although I still have too many unknowns, I still have too many mysteries, but at this point in time, I just want to make myself vulnerable for a while, and my mind will be silent in this lonely sea.

June 20, 2050 at 23:35 p.m

The sound of the sea roared in my ears, and I sat down on a stone and looked at the dark night scene, with no stars, no moon, only endless despair and fear for the future.

"Grunt~" I touched my stomach, it had already turned over the river and the sea, wantonly eroding my stomach wall, stirring me in pain.

"Damn! If I had hid those fish a little better......"

I punched myself in the leg, and remorse and pain filled my heart.

At this moment, I heard a "popping" footsteps from behind, and I looked back and saw that the person was Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu walked over to me, sat down next to me, handed a painting in his hand to my hand, opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end he still didn't make a sound, just pointed to the painting, and then pointed to himself.

Her painting depicts the four of us—me, Arthur, and Yu Bo—sitting at the table, holding a knife and fork and looking at the light rain on the table.

This scene seems similar to me, and it reminds me of the scene in the last world when I peeled off the soil and looked at Xiaoyu's corpse......

I hugged her tightly, thinking about my sins, tears unconsciously flowed down my eyes, and I shouted in her ear: "Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, you believe me, I won't let you be hurt in any way." I will protect you, I will always protect you, even if I die, I will still protect you. ”

She was stunned for two seconds, momentarily overwhelmed by my sudden hug, she slowly pushed me away with her little hands, pointed at herself again, and then at me, and finally struggled to piece together some words: "This time...... Let...... Light rain...... Protection...... Brother. I...... Unimportant...... No...... Food...... OK...... Eat me. ”

I slapped Xiaoyu in the face, panting in annoyance, "What kind of bastard are you talking about!" How could I possibly eat you? Will you let someone else eat you? We will live, four of us together, alive to see the sun on July 1st, alive to leave this island. ”

Xiaoyu cried with me, I touched her head, and said to myself in my heart: I can't die, I can't let the people around me die, I can't repeat the tragedy of the last world, until the last moment, I definitely can't give up so easily!

The light rain calmed down and slowly stopped crying, the waves rolled in our ears, and the waves rushed before our eyes. I looked at Xiaoyu and then at the sea, and couldn't help but ask her, "Xiaoyu, I remember that you wrote on a piece of paper before, 'Dad, a bad person, married to a stepmother. My stepmother killed my mother, I ran away, and my brother went to look for me. But I couldn't find my brother, who is said to have touched her. Then, the elder brother was locked up. 'You have 'stepmother' and 'mother' written on the paper, do we have two mothers?' And who is 'she'? ”

She lowered her head, her eyes sad and sad. I know it's cruel for me to ask, but I always have a feeling that some of the answers are hidden in her answers.

She took the painting back from my hand and turned it upside down and drew two women on it: one with curly hair and one with long hair. The curly-haired woman was wearing a short straitjacket with a crown painted on her head, looking like a queen; The long-haired woman was wearing a white lab coat and looked like a scholar.

I saw her mark my name next to the curly-haired woman, and her own name next to the long-haired woman, and then said intermittently, "This is ...... I...... Mom, this is ...... You...... Mom, we ...... Distinct...... Mom. ”

"I'm not the same person as your mom?" I looked at Xiaoyu in surprise, opened my mouth wide and didn't know how to react for a moment.

She nodded, and then drew a woman on the paper, but the woman was very strange, lying in a round egg-shaped object, and she pointed at the drawing and then at me, and then replied intermittently, "She is 'she'." ”

Looking at the woman in the painting, I suddenly remembered Arthur's words: "I remember that every time I was taken by a man in a white lab coat to a huge room with an egg-shaped metal container. He would click the button on the egg and insert the pinhole attached to the egg into my skin. Every once in a while, maybe two weeks or so, they would bring me over, and then they would look at the data on the monitor and take notes, and so on, and that's it. ”

Could it be that the "she" in Xiaoyu's mouth is also an experimental subject? She was lying in an egg-shaped metal container, and I met her at that time and place, and I was locked up.

Arthur once told me that there was an "eighth man" besides us, and if "she" was not among the seven of us, who else would she be besides the "eighth man"?

I felt like I was one step closer to the truth, but I was still in a thick fog, unable to see where I was going or where I was going.