Chapter 23: Time Passed Forward
(Foreword)
The truth you don't know,
When it's time to reveal, it will always be revealed.
(Text)
At 2:55 p.m. on May 31, 2050, in the waters away from China.
I slowly opened my eyes, calmly looked at my hands, and looked at the small boat-----s around me that were seeping water from time to time, and the six people who seemed to be negative, everything was the same as before.
I'm back on June 1st.
Yes, I'm back here and can live again.
I breathed a sigh of relief, smiled happily, and put my hand on the side of the boat, looking out at the sea.
This scene......
The boundless sea, and not even a shadow of the island, was very different from the previous ones.
Don't...... Are we still in the middle of the ocean?
No, none of this is right!
I grabbed Arthur next to me and anxiously asked her, "Arthur, Arthur, what time is it?" ”
She looked at my face in amazement, stunned for two seconds, and then said, "Today...... It should be May 31. ”
"May 31st?"
My brain was booming, and my cognition was starting to crumble.
The time of each previous reincarnation obviously started on June 1st, but why is the time different from the previous ones this time, and it has been moved forward?
I died a few hours early this time......
Could it be that the time to go back is not a fixed start time of June 1, but a fixed time range?
In order to confirm my suspicions, I pushed Arthur on the side and quietly asked her, "Arthur, let me ask you, do you remember the events of the previous world?" ”
"What happened in the last world? You...... What are you talking about? She looked at me blankly, not looking like she was pretending.
She...... I don't know.
She...... It's not Arthur, the Arthur who has been through several worlds with me.
If my inference is correct, Arthur of the last world and Xiaoyu of the previous world should still be on the ship I made at this time, and they are not dead yet, so the Arthur in front of me is just the Arthur of this world, and Xiaoyu on the same ship should also be Xiaoyu of this world.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but put my hands on the board and laugh out loud.
Great, the two of them aren't dead, it's just me.
I stopped, looked up at the hot sun, it was so dazzling, but for some reason I only felt that it was gentle.
I looked around again, into the face of Arthur, who stared at my face in confusion, her lips quivering, feeling like she wanted to ask something, but swallowed back.
I frowned,
No, even if it's Arthur and Xiaoyu in this world, how can I watch them die.
I will save them, and I will save myself.
Since the time has made me a few hours early, it means that everything is still unknown and everything is possible.
They hadn't discovered the island yet, and if they had changed course now, they might have been able to avoid the disaster that followed.
Thinking of this, I suddenly stood up, pulled off a plank from the side of the boat with all my might, and pushed desperately to the left.
They were all as dead as ashes, and they didn't have the slightest bit of anger, they didn't look at me at all, and naturally they didn't care what I did.
I grabbed the plank and paddled desperately, desperately trying to reverse the direction of the boat and lead it in another trajectory.
But the endless sea was like the Buddha, trapping me in Wuzhi Mountain with wave after wave, unable to move, and let it be slaughtered. It still propelled the boat forward with its brute force as before, and sent it to the far land of death, and to the beginning of all nightmares, without listening to my call or resisting me.
June 1, 2050
I, collapsed on the ship, exhausted, unable to move anymore. Wave after wave, crashing, drenching the men and women on board.
The rest of the plot is the same as before, the tiger shark attacked, they found the uninhabited island, jumped off the boat like hungry wolves, and pounced on the island.
It's just that when Arthur got off the boat, she suddenly became dazed. She stood on the shore and closed her eyes, two lines of tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Char, I'm back again."
She kept her head down, looking very depressed.
I knew she was back, and I knew she was still dead. I gently patted her on the shoulder and said softly, "Welcome back." ”
She nodded and rested her head on my shoulder.
Xiaoyu poked her head out and looked at me, she also choked up and couldn't help but "whine".
I hugged both of them and secretly cried.
They're still dead, dead in the last world, and they're back here.
Although I don't understand why they can follow them when they haven't been pierced through the heart with a syringe? Needless to say, Arthur was a mystery in the first place, but even Xiaoyu clearly stood in front of me with the memories of the previous world, which is really incredible.
Maybe I was wrong, my intuition was wrong, and it wasn't the syringe that could lead to the crossing.
However, I can't think of anything other than it that can cause us to cross over, to keep us reincarnating.
But although I didn't understand all this, I knew one thing clearly through talking to them - that is, the time of reincarnation is exactly one month. This month does not refer to the period from June 1 to the early morning of June 30, but to move forward in this period. Because they also died at this point in time, in the waves, I was able to be sure.
Looking at the backs of the others, the three of us quickly came to an agreement, formed a separate group, and headed south. The rest of the people took the same old road we had walked and searched north.
June 1, 2050 at 1:30 p.m
Thanks to our familiarity with the island, the three of us managed to avoid all hazards and reach the cabin.
And the rest of them are yet to come.
I stood in the doorway, looking out the door, and I was used to these scenes, but for them it was a new place, a new day.
Poisonous bee attacks in the Lost Forest, falling stone paths...... They also have to go through what we have experienced, and whether they can return safely or not depends on their creation.
Knowing that it was ringing in my ears, the sun stinging my eyes.
I'm not ruthless, and I'm not happy to see people killed. It's just that this island, these people, is too dangerous, I can't see the truth behind their masks, and I can't see the truth of everything. The only people I can see clearly are these two women beside me, although they have hidden some things from me, but they have really accompanied me through several worlds, and now they are standing by my side.
That's enough.
We played the game leisurely and waited for the remaining four to arrive.
The sun tilted little by little, slowly disappearing into the horizon, and after losing the last lustre, finally ushered in the night.
June 1, 2050 at 19:58 PM
I stood in front of the hut, counted the time, and watched them slowly come out of the dark grass.
Yu Bo carried Zhou Qiuxian on his back, and Wu Han supported the short man, they looked very embarrassed and also looked exhausted.
They walked slowly towards me, and the moment they saw the cabin, they couldn't help but cheer.
I hurriedly ran over, and although I was extremely reluctant, I still took Zhou Qiuxian from Yu Bo's back and carried her into the house, to the room where she lived in the last world.
Arthur walked over and brought the grilled fish in front of them, and they devoured them one by one, without the slightest cultivation, which reminded me of who I used to be, and also reminded her of her.
I looked at the clock hanging on the wall: 23:54.
It was almost time for me to stand up. With a wave of his hand, he said goodnight to them, and walked upstairs with Arthur, each entering his own room, waiting for her to appear.
0:00 on June 2, 2050
Outside the window, the wind blew fiercely and violently, making the window rattle. I tried to suppress the joy of reunion after a long absence, and walked to the window step by step, looking at the pair of blood-red eyes, which appeared in front of me.
She stared at me and I stared, and we looked at each other as time seemed to stop.
"Yo, Yin Ji, long time no see. This is another world. I smiled.
Yin Ji looked at me suspiciously, apparently surprised by my words.
She looked me in the eye and asked me, "...... How do you know about me? Are you from another world? ”
I nodded, and described the last two worlds in detail to her, and though she was a little surprised, she quickly accepted everything and immersed herself in my story.
"I'm sorry, I know you don't know the exact location of the lab, but I still want to check with you, what else can you remember?" I asked Yin Ji.
Yin Ji pondered for a while, her eyebrows furrowed, and she spit out the word "sea breeze" for a long time.
"Sea breeze?"
"Yes, Sea Breeze." Yin Ji looked at me and continued, "Before entering the laboratory, I seemed to hear the sound of the sea breeze, and it blew in my ears and accompanied me into the room. ”
Where there is a sea breeze......
It seems that it should be near the beach.
Yin Ji's answer brought me one step closer to the research room, but despite this, I still couldn't guess where it was, and I couldn't find where it was.
"It's time for me to go." Yin Ji turned and left.
"Wait a minute!" I stopped her.
She looked back at me, and I clenched my hand and let it go again. My heart was full of mixed feelings, memories were wandering in front of me, and I had too many words to say, but in the end, to sum it up, I only said to her: "Thank you, Yin Ji." ”
She froze for two seconds, her body floating slightly in the air, her hair messy with the wind. However, she immediately became calm again, and replied to me:
"Fool, I'm not the one you know in the last few worlds."
I laughed, laughed comfortably, I knew all this for a long time, but even if I knew, it was because of her.
I replied, "But I can still meet you in every world, and you are the only one in every world who has no reservations about me at all, and let me survive." I stared straight into her eyes and couldn't help but pour out my inner words.
Yin Ji smiled, the first time I saw her smiling like this, very gentle, and very cute.
She retorted to me, "Wrong, it's not just me who made you survive, but also the people around you, isn't it?" ”
yes, indeed. What made me survive was not only Yin Ji, but also them, Arthur, and Xiaoyu.
Arthur and Yin Ji, like air and water, one of them is my lover, while the other silently listens to my fears, supports my heart, and encourages me to live in this horrible world. Confidante? Maybe it's her.
In this masked and terrifying place, it was only at this moment of meeting her that I could completely unguard myself without thinking about the truth behind others or guessing what he/she was hiding.
Thinking of this, I continued to reply, "Yes, it is. ”
Yin Ji smiled slightly, and disappeared in front of me with a gust of wind, as if she had never been here at all.
June 2, 2050 at 10:34 a.m
Today is the most critical day for me, because I always have a feeling that the clue to solving all the mysteries is in the dwarf, and the key reason why the dwarf trusts me is because I saved him today.
In order to find the final life-saving straw in the world of endless death, I specially asked Arthur to trick hypnotic gas and serum from Yu Bo, who took volcanic objects. With these two things, plus my knowledge of the Giant Serpent Cave, I am not afraid that I will not be able to save the dwarf today, so that he and I will stand aside.
"Char, are you awake?" Arthur knocked twice on the door, pushed it and walked in.
"I'm awake, I'm all set, let's go."
"Okay."
I walked downstairs after Arthur and looked at the clock: 10:45, the same time as before.
The next thing, with the cooperation of Arthur and I, I went through the previous world mode again - followed them to the Giant Serpent Cave, the dwarf collapsed on the ground, Yu Bo went to save him, I threw out the hypnotic gas, and injected the serum into their bodies.
I played all this perfectly, I was completely myself in the last world, saving the dwarf, and also mastering the key to him.
In the days that followed, the three of us didn't do anything extra. And the plot did follow its original direction - the wild orange incident at 16:54 pm on June 2, the discovery of the basement at 10:45 am on June 3, and the can kicking game at 11:17 am on June 3...... And I finally ushered in the arrival of the gnome at 1:50 p.m. on June 6th.
This is the moment.
He came towards me, and I, like the last world, leaned my head on the log table feebly, and looked at the flames burning in the fireplace, and I was alone in a daze.
The dwarf sat next to me, looked at my face and said:
"Don't believe anyone but me, it's not safe here."
Yes, that's it, it seems that he does believe me now.
I took this opportunity to quickly ask the dwarf, "Zhao Xie." Why do you say that, is there something going on? ”
The dwarf looked left and right, his expression was particularly nervous, he put his mouth to my ear, and whispered: "You don't care, anyway, you can remember it, you saved my life, I won't harm you." ”
You won't hurt me, but some people want to hurt you!
I stared into the gnome's eyes, took a deep breath, and analyzed myself: the dwarf is not like us, he has no memory of the previous world, so even if I explain it to him, he probably won't believe it.
But......
One thing I can be sure of is that he only trusts me now. Because of this trust, I had to gamble that he would give me his life.