(Foreword)

Inevitable encounters,

Chance acquaintance.

(Text)

June 1, 2050 at 19:58 PM

It was pitch black all around, and there was no light in the eye. Yu Bo walked ahead of us, holding a lighter in his hand, and used the light of the lighter to illuminate the road ahead for us. I held Xiaoyu and Arthur close behind him, and kept walking forward.

I've been walking this road for a month, so I'm all too familiar with it.

I kept cheering Arthur and Xiaoyu on, and although they were still tired, they still walked quickly with me with my encouragement.

"Look, cabin!"

I pointed to the spire of the wooden house looming in the distance, and said to them with feigned excitement.

They all looked in the direction of my fingers, their faces bare with joy, and they screamed vigorously.

"Oh~ Great! We were finally saved, and it looks like this island should be inhabited! ”

"Woo~woo!"

They cheered as they pulled their legs and ran towards the cabin.

"Your eyes are really sharp enough, I didn't even notice that I was walking in front, and you could see this wooden house at a glance." Yu Bo walked up to me and patted me on the shoulder, not sure if he was appreciating or questioning me.

I glanced at him, wrenched his hand off my shoulder, tossed it aside, and walked forward on my own.

"Hey! Macho! Did I provoke you somewhere? Yu Bo shouted behind me for no apparent reason.

But I just thought he was like air, and ignored it, and walked straight in the direction of the cabin without looking back.

After that, the development was like the last reincarnation, a haunted wooden house, and we felt desperate, and suddenly turned on three lights, shouting: "Ah! Hell! Arthur hurriedly blindfolded his eyes with his hands and ran away.

I look at them and feel like a spectator, knowing all the endings and where it all began.

"Arthur, that's not a ghost, it's someone we know." This time, it was Yubo yelling at Arthur while I watched.

Arthur stopped, let go of the hand covering his eyes, and slowly turned around, looking in the direction of the door, slowly breathing a sigh of relief. She wiped the sweat from her forehead with her hand, walked slowly up to them, and pushed the chest of the man standing at the front.

"Oops, I'm scared to death, why don't you pretend to be a ghost!"

Wu Han held the lamp in front of Arthur, stretched out his probe to look ahead, and said with a dark smile:

"Who scared you? It's obvious that you are cowardly! Hahahaha~~~"

"You...... Good for you, Wu Han! Arthur turned his head angrily and turned his face to me. But I'm still just watching.

"Alright, don't make a fuss." Zhou Qiuxian ran to persuade him and stood among them.

Yu Bo glanced at them, then at the wooden house behind them, and asked suspiciously:

"By the way, didn't we make an appointment to meet in the same place? Why are you here? ”

Zhou Qiuxian just wanted to answer, but he saw a glance at the corner of Zhao Xie's mouth, and replied first: "We had been walking south, and we strayed into a fierce beast area, and finally walked out. But this woman, Zhou Qiuxian, she suddenly got lost. We stumbled and bumpered to find her, and we took many detours, and then we followed the blood stains that had been shed on her body, and came to this small cabin and pushed open the door. But I saw her sleeping there like a sleeping pig......"

"Who do you say is a pig? Who do you say is a pig? Hearing this, Zhou Qiuxian vigorously pushed Zhao Xie who was standing next to her with his elbow.

Not to be outdone, Zhao Xie pointed at her nose and scolded: "It's you!" It's you! ”

"Alright, you two, it's over!" Wu Han shouted, and the two of them immediately stopped arguing and lowered their heads, like two puppies who had admitted their mistakes.

"We also found this place by mistake, but we didn't expect to meet you here. However, it is getting late now, and this island is surrounded by the sea, and we can't get out for the time being, so we might as well stay here for the night today, and talk about tomorrow's affairs. ”

Yu Bo thought for a moment, nodded, and said to us: "Then let's spend the night here today, and then explore the situation on the island tomorrow." ”

The three of us nodded one after another, and followed Wu Han into the cabin.

Familiar furnishings, familiar rooms, familiar seven, full of despair in June...... I looked around at it all, all over again, and the beast in my heart kept screaming and screaming, running wildly, dragging me into the dark abyss.

"Here it is, here comes the grilled fish."

Zhou Qiuxian walked up to us with seven grilled fish in his hand, and said to us with the same happy face as before: "This is the fish that the three of us caught in front of us." Since we are in the same boat, we are partners in the same calamity. Come, eat fish! ”

I, looking at the grilled fish in her hands, their eyes rolling, they were skewered on top of the sticks, their charred bodies, their strong fishy smell......

Somehow, I suddenly felt a wave of nausea, but out of politeness, I reluctantly took it, said "thank you", and ate it with my scalp back.

At 11:54 p.m., I stared at the clock on the wall, and even the time was the same as before, was it a joke by God? Or have I long been frozen in the chessboard, no matter how I go, I can't escape from this chessboard, and I can't escape the constraints of time.

"You're tired all day today, so let's go and rest early." Yu Bo said with concern.

I didn't answer, but stood up and walked towards my room.

"When it's time, I'm going to sleep too."

Arthur and I walked upstairs together. I chose the innermost room on the second floor, and Arthur chose the room next to me. We got to the door and she stopped suddenly.

"Night, if there is any sound......"

"Don't worry, I'm sleeping soundly and won't hear anything."

I interrupted Arthur with a smile and walked straight into the room, waiting for her to appear.

I, standing at the window, thought about everything that had happened during the day—the man who didn't know who it was, the poisonous bee in the Mysterious Forest, the blood-red beast, the brother Xiaoyu said, the stone path that fell, and the key that Arthur picked up......

“The X”

What came to my mind was this word, the only one that could save us in the last reincarnation, but I never found it, maybe only Yin Ji could solve it, and only she would be willing to give me the answer.

Thinking like this, I felt that a minute was as long as a year, and I couldn't help but pick at the windowsill with my fingers and wait anxiously.

0:00 on June 2, 2050

Suddenly a strong wind hung outside the window, and the window "gurgle" loudly. I, staring out the window, watched as those blood-red eyes appeared in front of me.

"Yin Ji, long time no see, I finally see you again." I smiled and said hello to Yin Ji generously.

Yin Ji was stunned for a few seconds, then smiled like me and asked me, "You, aren't you from this world?" It's from the last world. ”

I nodded, looked her in the eye and said, "Sure enough, only you know the ins and outs of all this." I'd like to ask you a few questions, and I'd like to ask you to answer them for me. ”

"Okay."

"One, is the beast that appeared in the Mysterious Forest today just you? It has blood-red eyes, just like you. Second, I had a sense of déjà vu in the previous world, that is, unknown abilities, did I have a similar memory before the previous world? I...... In fact, have experienced more than one world? Three, I was indeed dead in the last world, but why am I still alive now? And again from June 1st? Fourth, who am I, and why are you all asking me to look for The X? What is The X? and why are you asking me to find it? ”

In the face of my sudden series of questions, Yin Ji first paused for two seconds, and then answered one by one: "The person who appeared in the Mysterious Forest today is indeed me, because it is very dangerous there, in order to keep you away from danger, to avoid being bitten by poisonous bees, falling into the swamp, I possessed the body of a beast, and wanted to expel you from there through it, but I didn't expect that another man who was traveling with you actually lit a branch and pointed it at me, I was most afraid of fire, so I had to flee first."

You said that you had a sense of déjà vu, or foresight, in the previous world. I don't think it's a sense of déjà vu, it's not a sense of foresight, it's a memory of something that you did experience, something that happened in another world, but you just forgot about it.

As for you saying that you did die in the last world and did a new side in this world, I think it must have something to do with The X. I don't know who you are, but I can feel the breath of The X in you. The X is the person I have been looking for for many years, who has memories of all the worlds, who can travel to the distant past and to the future of humanity, and the "quantum crystal" in her body is another dimension that exists above all dimensions, controlling the key to open time. To avoid the tragedy of this world, you need to find The X, or control the power of The X, so that you can truly reach the future and truly change the past. ”

I never thought The X would be a person, I always thought that The X that Yin Ji and Arthur had asked me to find was something that could change the fate of all of us. But only now do I really understand why they keep asking me to find it, and why only I can find it.

I still have a lot of questions to ask Yin Ji, and there are still many questions that are not clear, but she suddenly looked around nervously, and said in a sweat, "My time is coming, I'll go first." ”

She dropped these words and disappeared in front of me like a wisp of smoke, leaving no trace.

I poked my head out and kept looking around, trying to find a trace of Yin Ji, but I found nothing, and I don't know where she went. I don't know where she is.

"Hey......"

I sighed and collapsed on the bed.

Is déjà vu a memory that you have actually experienced? So I may have experienced it once, or more than once, before I went to the last world......

I had a splitting headache, and every nerve felt like it was going to explode.

I don't want to think about it, I don't want to remember, I don't want to know.

I don't want to know every time I die, and I don't want to remember how they died in front of me every time.

That kind of picture is too cruel, once, it's enough.

I slowly closed my eyes.

"Brother......

In my sleep, I seemed to hear the voice of Xiaoyu, who was calling my brother in my ear.

Tomorrow, I'll ask her more about it.

Thinking like this, I fell asleep at some point and slept until the morning of June 2nd.

June 2, 2050 at 8:11 a.m

I woke up early, knowing that at 10:34 in the previous world Arthur would come to my room, press on top of me, drag me up, and go with them to the Serpent's Cave.

So I'm going to ask Xiaoyu before 10:34 anyway, so I don't waste the whole day.

Thinking of this, I quickly got up and walked to the room on the second floor, and gently knocked on Xiaoyu's door.

Xiaoyu slowly opened the door and looked at my face suspiciously.

Before she could speak, I asked her, "Can I come in and sit down?" I have some questions for you. ”

"Woo~" Xiaoyu nodded, opened the door halfway, and welcomed me in.

I looked around—so clean and tidy that it was oppressive, not reminiscent of a little girl's room.

I casually found a chair and sat down, stared into Xiaoyu's eyes, and then asked: "Xiaoyu, I had some amnesia some time ago, and I can't remember some things, I hope you can help me remember, and answer me truthfully if you know anything, okay?"

Xiaoyu nodded, and I continued to ask: "I remember that when you were in the forest, you called me brother in my ear, and I did confirm with you that we are blood brothers and sisters, so do you remember what happened to us before?" Are there any clues as to why I am having amnesia? ”

Xiaoyu glanced at me, her eyes revealed a certain sadness, and then she took out a few pieces of paper and a pen from under the bed, and wrote crookedly on the paper with her immature little hands:

Dad, a bad person, married 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.

I bumped into her? Who is she? How did I get locked up? What's going on? I was confused.

"Xiaoyu, who is she? Why am I being locked up? I grabbed Xiaoyu's shoulder and wanted to ask further, but she suddenly cried so hard that she couldn't answer my question at all.

"Xiaoyu, I'm sorry, it's my brother's mistake, my brother won't ask anymore." I hugged Xiaoyu's arm and hugged her into my arms, touching her young head until she gradually stopped crying.

June 2, 2050 at 10:34 a.m

I lay on the bed and slept with my eyes open for more than two hours, and I couldn't close my eyes, and what echoed in my mind was Xiaoyu's crying figure and the words she had written on the paper:

Dad, a bad person, married 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.

I ran into her, so I was locked up. It seems that this "she" is a key figure, who is "she"? Is it The X? Or is it some other hidden secret in the lab?

I don't know, I don't know anything, the only thing I know is that I'm a special being, a special existence that controls everyone's destiny, because I met "her" and was going to be locked up.

However, such a me, such a person who controls the fate of everyone, I just lost my memory, I can't remember anything, I can't remember "her", and I can't remember myself.

What is my past like? And what about "she"?

My head ached more and more, and it was dark in front of me, as if someone was standing in my way, blocking my way of thinking.

Just as I was in the whirlpool of thoughts, and cold sweat broke out on my head, Arthur quietly opened the door, pressed heavily on my body, and exposed half of his white shoulders, and then raised his mouth and smiled, stretched his head over, and shouted in my ear:

"Char, wake up! How long are you going to sleep?!"

I immediately covered my ears with my hands, but the deafening sound still pierced my eardrum and hit my brain like a cannonball.

"Go and get ready, everyone else is up, we're leaving."

"It's all ready, just waiting for you to call me."

"You...... How do you know? Arthur looked at my face quizzically, lifted me up from the bed with one hand, and I smiled without answering her words.

I followed Arthur downstairs, and before I left, I looked at the clock: 10:45. Time and the same as last time.

"Everyone's ready, right? There are still a lot of dangers out there that we don't know about, so it's better to bring something that comes in handy. Yu Bo looked at us, put his hands on his waist, and said to us.

We looked at each other, checked our bags again, made sure we hadn't forgotten anything, and followed Yu Bo out of the cabin.

Hypnotic gas and serum.

I brought these two things with me as I did last time.

I looked at the two things, stroked them gently, and muttered, "It's up to you to save your life." Then, he followed the team in front of him all the way forward.

The sun, as always, burned like fire on each of our faces, making us sweat profusely. We walked and walked and walked without stopping, rounding the beast area, crossing a bridge and heading towards the coast.

June 2, 2050 at 12:09 p.m

As we walked south along the shore, the sound of the waves became weaker and weaker, but the seagulls in the sky and the fish in the water disappeared without a trace, leaving only a deathly silence.

"So, what is it?"

I drank the water from the thermos flask as I followed the direction of Yu Bo's finger and looked in front of me at a rock blocked by a tree branch.

The Giant Serpent's Cave is this place again.

I wiped the sweat from my body and watched coldly as they looked excited in the direction of Yu Bo's finger.

"What's that?"

"It can't be a secret army base, right?"

"How is that possible! How could the secret base of the army be located on such a deserted and populated island! ”

……

The few people standing in front of me looked in the same way as before, discussing the black hole.

And I continued to drink my water, watching the seagulls that flew towards me, no matter how much they fought, but in the end they were still swallowed by the sea one by one......

"Okay, let's not talk about it, if we want to survive, we have to use all the resources at our disposal and find a way to leave." Yu Bo said, took out a knife from his pocket, held it in front of his eyes, and cautiously walked towards the cave in the rock.

They followed him step by step into the cave. I followed unhurriedly.

"Drip, drip, drip......"

The hole was out of sight, and it was pitch black as far as the eye could see, except for the sound of water droplets.

"Ah!!!!!!!!!h

Zhou Qiuxian suddenly screamed, hugged Arthur's thighs, closed his eyes firmly, and his lips kept trembling.

Arthur was really startled by Zhou Qiuxian's call, but she still touched the thing wrapped around her feet along Zhou Qiuxian's feet, and then relaxed and relieved: "Oh, you're scared to death, it's just a branch, what's all the fuss, look at you scared like this." ”

"Tree ...... Twig? ”

Zhou Qiuxian slowly opened his eyes and looked carefully at his feet, although the hole was pitch black, but closer to it, he could still distinguish it clearly.

"It turned out to be a tree branch, it scared me to death." Zhou Qiuxian patted his chest and shouted at Yu Bo: "Hey, don't you have a lighter?" It's so dark in the cave, why don't you use it, I'm scared half to death! ”

"Ah, yes, I'm sorry, I forgot." Zhou Qiuxian's words reminded Yu Bo.

Yu Bo just wanted to take out a lighter from his pocket and light the branch, but I pressed it down with one hand. I pointed to the side and whispered to him, "There are snakes here." ”

However, Zhou Qiuxian, a fool, snatched the lighter from Yu Bo's hand and lit it.

The light, brightened, was illuminated by two huge golden eyes. It swayed from side to side in front of our eyes, opening its bloody mouth and dripping with saliva.

"Ahh!!!!h

The six of them screamed together, looking at the giant serpent in front of them.

I quickly threw the hypnotic gas and threw them to the ground, shouting at them, "Hold your breath!" Come on! ”

The serpent inhaled the gas, screamed, fell to the ground with a bang, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

"Why did you carry this with you?" Zhou Qiuxian looked at me in surprise and asked me.

But I just smiled slightly, didn't give her an answer, picked up Xiaoyu and Arthur on the side, and walked out slowly.