(Foreword)

What you think can't be changed,

Exactly what you haven't tried.

(Text)

June 10, 2050 at 23:23 p.m

When I sneaked around the fake coral again, I found that the soil under the coral had already been renovated.

It seems that the murderer found the place where the dwarf was hiding before me, and took it, damn it!

I really wanted to smash the coral in front of me, but I was afraid that this sound would attract unnecessary attention and misunderstanding.

Thinking of this, I had no choice but to leave here first, and walked to my room like a dog.

June 15, 2050 at 10:23 a.m

For five days in a row, I secretly went to the beast area alone every day to find the unknown research room, but there was still no trace.

I lay down on the bed and flew one of my shoes out of the way, only to hear a heart-rending shout outside.

Ah, it turns out that it's already this point, and it's time for Zhou Qiuxian to find out. I walked downstairs slowly, looked at Zhou Qiuxian holding the fish in his hand, his face was pale, and he said hoarsely: "It's over, it's over, all the fish are dead, there is no one left, how should we live." ”

Hearing Zhou Qiuxian's words, Arthur and Xiaoyu fainted on the spot, while Yu Bo and Wu Han lowered their heads and said nothing, their expressions were very frightened.

For them, we are all insiders, in danger of death; But to me they are insiders, and I am a spectator. I already knew all this, the process and the end, and had stored enough food for this moment to wait for that day to come.

June 17, 2050 at 16:45 p.m

I sat in my room, my eyes slightly closed, and the face of a dwarf came to mind. Although I didn't have a deep relationship with the dwarf, and I didn't really say a few words, he was the first person besides Arthur to remind me, and there was always some gratitude in my heart.

I opened my eyes and watched the sky outside grow darker and darker, and that familiar voice rang in my ears.

"Oh no, Zhou Qiuxian, Zhou Qiuxian is gone!" Frightened, Arthur ran to the center of the living room and shouted at them.

I followed suit.

I, looking at them, they all looked at Arthur, Yu Bo stood up and faced them, and said to them, "We can't lose our partner anymore, let's go find her together!" ”

They nodded together and walked after Yu Bo towards the shore, and I walked out with them.

When they walked along the coastline to the place where they had landed, they saw Zhou Qiuxian cutting down the big tree desperately with an axe. Her hands had already been stained red with blood, and her shoes had been worn out with a large hole in her foot.

"How did you come to a place like this alone? Did you know that we are looking for you everywhere! Yu Bo walked towards Zhou Qiuxian and shouted to her through the sea breeze.

Zhou Qiuxian turned around, her expression was extremely excited, she kept waving her hand at Yu Bo, and yelled at Bo: "I want to go!" I'm going to leave this place, I don't want to be like you, I'm just going to stay here and die, I don't want to die! ”

"You're fooling around! Rushing to sea is a dead end! When Yu Bo roared red and panting, Wu Han muttered disdainfully: "Then aren't we waiting to die if we stay here now?" It's better to sit back and wait than to go to the sea and fight. ”

Wu Han's words resonated with them, and they looked at Yu Bo together, their eyes full of dissatisfaction and anger.

"I know I can't change your mind on my own, but at least let me choose which day to go to sea, so that it can be safer......" Yu Bo said this like an abandoned dog, his eyes full of loss.

They looked at Yu Bo, agreed to his request, and made a final concession, and then Wu Han walked towards Zhou Qiuxian, snatched the axe from her hand and held it in the palm of his hand. Zhou Qiuxian sat on the ground and cried vigorously, crying loudly like a child.

June 19, 2050 at 23:10 p.m

Knowing a strong call, I lay alone in bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep. For some reason, I remembered the fake coral again.

Damn, it's probably hiding important clues about the murderer, but I'm a step too late!

I got out of bed, and in order to gather my thoughts, I slowly walked to the window, and stood by the window, blowing the breeze coming from outside.

My hand accidentally touched the glass window, redirecting its original angle of refraction.

I accidentally saw Zhou Qiuxian's figure in the refraction, and I took a closer look at the room she was in was Yu Bo's room.

When did the two of them get together?

Alert to Beau, I instinctively poked my head closer to the glass window to scout their movements.

Judging from their actions, it is obviously not a love affair, but a kind of discussion - Zhou Qiuxian is talking about something next to him, while Yu Bo keeps nodding in approval. When Zhou Qiuxian finished speaking, Yu Bo seemed to make some suggestions, and then Zhou Qiuxian nodded and walked out of Yu Bo's room.

Damn, nothing is heard here!

At this time, I really hated that I didn't give birth to a good ear, otherwise I would have known exactly what they said!

I closed my eyes, trying to calm myself down, and then slowly opened my eyes again and looked out into the darkness of the night.

This endless darkness is obviously so depressing, but in the darkness, there is a faint light. The brightness that I had never noticed in the past turned out to be too well occluded, but no matter how it was blocked, it still couldn't be hidden, and it was a dense light and shadow.

In the past, I have always focused my attention on Yu Bo, but I have never paid attention to Zhou Qiuxian.

Thinking about it this way, in fact, many things started by her and deduced by her - on June 1, because she was injured, the dwarf and Wu Han came to the wooden house; On June 2, she snatched a lighter in the Snake Cave, causing us to be attacked by the Giant Snake; On June 17 she ran madly to the beach and cut down trees, which led us to the sea on the 20th, and then she pushed the light rain down, causing her to ...... The death of Xiaoyu.

There is always an invisible hand behind our series of disasters, and although I can't see who these hands are, I believe that all this is by no means accidental, it must be some kind of inevitability.

Although all this may be just my guess, maybe she is really innocent, maybe she really has nothing to do with all this, she was just hatted by me, but no matter what, I will protect everyone I cherish, Arthur, Xiaoyu, in this world, I will never give up easily.

Thinking of this, I took a deep breath and lay back into my bed.

Tomorrow will be a pivotal point, and I will personally catch the real murderer who is hiding among us and killing the gnomes.

I slowly closed my eyes and waited for tomorrow to come.

June 20, 2050 at 11:50 a.m

As in the previous cycle, a small wooden boat was quickly built, and their food was left with nothing left after the last meal yesterday.

The five of them were facing the sea, and the wind was blowing in them, and I was still just watching. Arthur stood next to me and her hand trembled, I took her hand, looked at her face and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm still here." ”

Arthur smiled, the same catchy smile I had when I first met her.

June 20, 2050 at 12 noon sharp

Yu Bo looked at the watch in his hand, and then at the vast sky and the blue ocean—the sea seemed calm, with no wind or rain.

"Let's go!" Yu Bo said.

As soon as he gave the command, the five of us stood on both sides of the small wooden boat, pulled the edge of the wooden boat into the sea, and then stepped in one by one, held the paddle on the wooden boat, and rowed towards the center of the sea little by little......

Zhou Qiuxian, holding the pulp while praying, waved it carefully. Xiaoyu looked around, buried her head in Arthur's arms, and kept shaking. Yu Bo sat in the bow of the boat, while Wu Han and I sat in the middle of the boat, and the three of us faced the sea, observing its movements from three directions.

This sea is the cemetery of the living, and we can't get out.

All we can meet is the stormy seas, but in the stormy seas, I have to seize that glimmer of life.

Directly underneath the ship, a whirlpool quietly rolled up and spread out at a very rapid speed.

When the clouds suddenly obscured the sun, when the sky suddenly became overcast, and when the sea rolled up the stormy waves, they looked around with a terrified expression.

"What to do, what to do? I don't want to die here, I don't want to die here! Zhou Qiuxian grabbed her face with both hands, only looking at everything in front of her from the slit, her head was sweating, her eyes were magnified countless times, she stood up tremblingly, and she collapsed on the boat with a "bang".

Arthur immediately helped Zhou Qiuxian up with both hands, but Xiaoyu cried "woo~woo~". Arthur also wanted to cry, and Arthur was extremely scared, but in the face of the two people beside her, she had to play the role of protector, and rested their heads tightly on her shoulders.

Yu Bo looked around and shouted at us, "Row, row!" Let's paddle together! Paddle in the direction of the island! We've just been out to sea, and now it's our only hope to go back! ”

They were shouted by Yu Bo, and they all picked up the pulp, hurriedly turned their heads, and rowed in the direction of the island. However, driving in the opposite direction was slow and difficult, and our speed was simply not as fast as the waves were coming.

Zhou Qiuxian suddenly looked at Xiaoyu, and evil flames appeared in her eyes.

I knew she was going to reach out, and I should have stopped it, but it was my only chance, the only chance to catch the murderer. So I became the ruthless person and watched what I knew happen right in front of my eyes.

I saw Zhou Qiuxian stretch out his hand as before, pushed Xiaoyu down, and shouted loudly: "Go down!" In this way, the boat will be lighter and will be able to row faster. ”

"Are you crazy?! She's a human life! Arthur grabbed Zhou Qiuxian's clothes and raised his hand to hit her in the face. Zhou Qiuxian laughed maniacally and said to Arthur: "Hahahaha~~ She is a burden!" She can't paddle at all, staying here will only kill us! ”

"You madman!" Arthur's hand hit Zhou Qiuxian's face, Zhou Qiuxian looked at Arthur with a disgusting expression, and smiled coldly: "Don't pretend to be high, I just did something that you all want to do, but you just don't dare to do." ”

I, holding my breath, jumped into the water with a "poof", keeping my heart as calm as possible, and swam in the direction of the light rain.

"Char! Char! ”

Arthur was desperately calling my name on the boat, but the great tide could not allow them to wait any longer.

I stretched out my hand in the direction of Xiaoyu, grabbed her body that was about to fall, and held her in my arms and kept swimming forward......

I pretended to pass out on the shore as before, listening with my ears to the sounds around me, in order to find out the hidden murderer.

Xiaoyu slowly opened her eyes, walked to my side, and gently touched my head, I, no response. Then, she kissed me on the side of the cheek, and I still didn't respond. She took off the butterfly-shaped whistle around her neck, touched my cheek, and quietly put it on my neck, and sang a little song softly:

"When the wheel of time rises in reverse, when the door of fate successfully opens, the red butterfly jumps through time and space and exists in the space of the N dimension.

The 'Judge of Time' and the 'Corrector of Time' chased the world line and disappeared into human space. ”

Xiaoyu sang softly in a strange tune this ballad that I felt very familiar with, but was completely unfamiliar.

Her ballad scratched my head, and the lyrics were even more confusing.

But why did she sing this song? Isn't she unable to speak?

All of this shocked me, and it was really beyond the scope of my thinking.

Just when I was extremely confused, I only heard a sound of footsteps from far and near slowly walking here.

He/she walked over and shook the ground with a whip-like sound.

"Uh......h Woo......! ”

Xiaoyu shouted, and I opened my eyes suddenly, watching him hold a rope in his hand and put it around Xiaoyu's neck from behind, and the messenger with his left hand pulled hard......

That's right, it's him! It's Wu Han!

I suddenly got up from the ground, grabbed a handful of sand and threw it at Wu Han's face.

"Xiaoyu, go, go!"

I took the opportunity to snatch Xiaoyu over, grabbed Xiaoyu's hand, and ran desperately forward.

Wu Han slapped the sea sand off his face, stared at us viciously with red eyes, and chased after us from behind.

I touched my bag, and suddenly remembered the axe I had stuffed into my bag before, so I took it in my hand and threatened Wu Han: "If you dare to get closer, I will cut you!"

Wu Han suddenly laughed, as if he had heard a big joke, and walked towards me and said, "Char, Char, do you know how many people I, Wu Han, have killed in my life?" I'm afraid I can't count these two pairs of hands, and you want to threaten me with this? Wait until you've killed someone! ”

"So, you really killed Zhao Xie!" Wu Han didn't answer, but pounced directly at me.

Just as he was about to make a move, he saw that the knife suddenly flew from behind Wu Han and went straight towards his arm......

Instinctively, he dodged the knife and quickly turned his head to look at the group of people running towards him—the one who led the way was Yu Bo.

He frowned, gave me a vicious look, and then fled from my presence like a cunning rabbit, and disappeared completely.

"Are you alright? What was the situation just now? Yu Bo ran up to me and asked me.

I didn't want to deal with him, but he saved me and Xiaoyu today.

Thinking of this, I said to him truthfully: "I was lying here in front, Wu Han mistakenly thought that I had fainted, and he wanted to take the opportunity to kill Xiaoyu, but I found out and stopped him, and wanted to kill the two of us." ”

"Kill Xiaoyu? Why did Wu Han kill Xiaoyu? Yu Bo asked puzzled.

I looked into Yu Bo's eyes and told him my suspicions: "According to my deduce, Zhao Xie's death was caused by Wu Han, and Xiaoyu found a clue that Zhao Xie was hiding in the fake coral, so he wanted to kill him." ”

"What?! Zhao Xie was killed by Wu Han? He...... Didn't he die from being eaten by a serpent? Zhou Qiuxian interjected.

"No, how could a snake nibble? Snakes always swallow food whole!" I said excitedly.

"Indeed, the serpent is swallowed." Yu Botuo lowered his chin in agreement with my words, and then continued to ask: "But based on this alone, how can you deduce that Wu Han is the murderer of Zhao Xie?" ”

I can't answer, because Wu Han lied in the last world, because Xiaoyu in the last world was dead, he was strangled to death, and the murderer used his left hand. But none of this is happening in this world, so my basis is not based at all, and how can I prove it.

Therefore, I made a nonsense reason: "Because...... Because Zhao Xie gave me a dream, he said that Wu Han was the real murderer who killed him. ”

I lowered my head, clenched my fist, gritted my teeth and thought: I actually told such a lie!

Zhou Qiuxian sighed, patted me on the shoulder with one hand, and said to me: "It's not that I don't believe in the dreams of dead people, but after all, we all live in the 21st century, and we should still believe in science." ”

"However, it is true that he killed Xiaoyu and killed you, and from the current stage, he is the most suspicious." Yu Bo said to us.

Arthur had been beside him and did not speak, but after we all discussed and came to a conclusion, she grabbed Zhou Qiuxian's hand and said to us: "This person's account, shouldn't we also settle it?" She had pushed a little girl into the water just now, if Char hadn't saved her, then she would be the same as Zhao Xie now! ”

"Indeed, it should be calculated." Arthur and I stood on a united front and stood together in front of Zhou Qiuxian to challenge her.

I looked at Zhou Qiuxian, and then at Yu Bo, I want to see if these two people are really a nest of snakes and rats, performing in front of our eyes. Or was it really me who thought too much and wronged her.

Yu Bo coughed twice and walked in front of Zhou Qiuxian: "Zhou Qiuxian, since everyone said so, should you also express it?" I, Yu Bo, have never beaten women, but you have also violated my bottom line. Do you say that today, will you jump into the sea by yourself to sober your mind, or will I beat you up and press your head to sober you up? ”

Yu Bo approached aggressively, so frightened that Zhou Qiuxian retreated to the beach one by one, and jumped into the sea by himself and drank a few sips of seawater.

Although their performance is also very real, I still feel that they are just acting, acting in front of me and others, in order to cover up the truth they want to hide.

I pretended to be like Arthur Xiaoyu, looked at Zhou Qiuxian's gaffe, and laughed.

But there was a voice in my heart, always reminding me of the two people in front of me, and behind their masks, there was a face that I didn't know.