(Foreword)

Man, always in anticipation of death,

And in death there is no end to anticipation.

(Text)

I refuted Arthur's words yesterday, saying that she was stupid and that we would live for a long, long time, but now that I look at the hot lava that is coming out of the volcano and Yu Bo standing in front of me holding Arthur hostage, I know that I am the one who is stupid.

Tomorrow is out of reach, and ours can only be here in the end.

"Summer ...... Char, The X...... Go find The X, only The X can ...... Save us ......" Arthur finished his sentence with difficulty, then took a key from his pocket and threw it quickly in my direction, falling straight into my hand.

I looked at the key in my hand, and then at Yu Bo, whose face was flushed with anger and was desperately choking Arthur's neck. The impulse made me want to rush forward and beat up this madman who was in danger of being in danger, but my intellect told me that I had to do what Arthur said.

"Don't go! If you dare to leave, I'll kill her!" Yu Bo grabbed Arthur's neck with one hand, and took out a knife from his calf with the other hand and aimed it at Arthur's side face.

Arthur suddenly smiled, just as beautiful as the first day I saw her. Perhaps, this is how she said goodbye.

She pounced on Yu Bo and pressed him to the ground with the last of her strength, and the knife held in Yu Bo's hand also stabbed into her head......

The red rope was soaked in blood, and was blown by the wind and drifted into grief. It swayed in the void and mourned in fate, but it refused to admit defeat and floated towards it tenaciously.

Lava spilled out of the fire like a waterfall, rushing towards us, my heart was screaming, screaming, crying, and crashing, I wanted to go back and look at Arthur who slept with me yesterday and spent a month with me, but I couldn't, the only thing I could do was run as hard as I could, escape from here, and find The X, whom I didn't know - because Arthur told me that it was the only one that could save us, and I believed in her. This is my only hope and my only light.

We are all pawns of fate, but I want to fly out of this chessboard like that red rope, fly out of this fate, and reach the future where we can really live.

I was thinking, thinking, desperately, where The X might be hidden, where I might be able to use the key.

At that time, the only scene that came to my mind was the basement under the cabin where we lived, because I could not think of anything more suspicious than there, and the key Arthur had given me before he died reminded me of the door in the basement that would not open, and prompted me to run there.

June 29, 2050 at 22 p.m

The ground began to shake violently, and I kept running, and running, and ran, toward the hut in front of me. I don't know if the volcano erupted so violently, or for some other reason, I felt as if the whole land was about to burst and shook under my feet, twisting before my eyes.

I pushed the door open with all my might, and staggered towards the basement, my hand holding the key trembling, and my panicked heart could only pray.

The door opened. I rushed in in surprise, looking at the four white walls and the round instrument in front of me, which I had no idea what it was for.

Here, there was nothing but the instrument, and if I had to say anything, it was another door embedded in the wall behind the instrument.

There were no holes in the door, no switches, just a slight recess.

"Why! Why! Why isn't there here! Where the hell is that! Isn't it behind this door?! Sky! You tell me! What the hell is The X?! What exactly will save us! Save Arthur ......"

I slammed the door that couldn't be opened, knelt in front of the door and screamed, I pinched the door with my hands, and howled in pain.

Out of my peripheral vision, I stumbled upon the syringe hanging in the air on the round instrument.

I thought of death, I saw the scythe of death, and it was held up on my head......

"I can't find The X, but at least I can die with you."

I held up the syringe, smiled slightly, and stabbed it into my heart with tears in my eyes.

Blood flowed down my clothes, staining the ground red, as well as the red ropes on my wrists.

My vision blurred, my speech lost my ability to speak, and I reached out feebly to grasp Arthur's apparition.

But she drifted away and disappeared before my eyes.

I closed my eyes and fell silent.

In this way, I can die and come to your world and escape from this island with you.

0:00 on June 30, 2050

The sound of sky-shaking explosions rang in my ears, and I couldn't open my eyes anymore. Vaguely, I could smell an extremely unpleasant smell, perhaps some kind of poisonous gas, but I had become colder and colder, and finally I had no more breath.

["Do you know the "superposition of life and death of cats"? It exists in both a state of death and a state of survival, and we are like the cat in the box, countless states, countless you, countless mes, living in this parallel world. Although they are completely different, as long as you hold that key, the key that can allow you to override all dimensions, you can grasp the laws of time and space, change its vertical trajectory, and reach another world line......"]

Who? Talking in my ear?

The voice...... So familiar.

June 1, 2050, in the waters away from China

I woke up suddenly, gasping for breath and looking at my hands in disbelief, how warm they were.

I...... Still alive?

I immediately looked around: the boats that seeped water from time to time, and the six people who seemed to be negative. They and me, exactly seven people, this state, this kind of scene, is clearly the scene when we first drifted to an uninhabited island.

How can it be! How can it be! Everyone is dead, I'm dead, but everything is back to the beginning, back to the beginning, back to the beginning, back to the beginning, back to the beginning, everything is gone.

Am I crazy? Or is the world crazy?

My brain can't think, but my heart is roaring.

I picked up my head and pinched my head with my hand and yelled and burst into tears. I trembled and laughed, laughed and cried, cried and hugged myself.

Arthur leaned over to me and patted me on the back slowly.

I, looking at Arthur, looking at Arthur, who was still alive so gently and distinctly, hugged her body tightly in my arms, and kept sobbing. Her name was called out over and over again in her ear:

Arthur ...... Arthur ......"

Arthur...... Great, you're alive and you're all alive. Did God hear my prayers? Let you all come alive.

Arthur was startled at first, and his hands and feet became stiff, but then he immediately slowed down, gently stroked my back, and said to me: "Char, I know that anyone will be stimulated when this kind of thing happens, so you can hug me and cry, so that you will feel better." ”

She obviously misunderstood me, but her reassurance calmed me down a little.

Although I don't know why I'm still alive or why time is turned back, one thing is for sure, since God has given me another chance, I will change history to avoid our total annihilation.

Thinking of this, I suddenly stood up and shouted at everyone, "We can't go to the island in front, we'll die if we go there!" ”

They didn't respond, they just sat there one by one, maybe they thought I had a nervous problem, and they were talking nonsense here.

However, at this moment, the boat suddenly shook violently, wave after wave, and it "banged" and drenched them on board, and completely wet their clothes from the inside out. However, they did not dodge, nor moved, but sat as before, without even raising their heads.

The waves are getting louder and louder in my ears.

The dark black thing slowly approached the boat in the water, like a sharp blade scraping open the water. I know it's a tiger shark......

"What's that?" The people on the boat suddenly shouted.

"It's a tiger shark, give me the pulp, even if it doesn't eat us, it's enough to tear this wooden boat apart, !! quickly" Yu Bo shouted.

He took the oars handed to him and slapped them in the water.

I kept scolding something.

"It looks like we're in front!!" The gnome quickly rushed to the bow of the boat and looked at the bottom of the water, the huge waves seemed to be suddenly much calmer, and the water surface did not even have a single wrinkle, but it was uncomfortably quiet.

Beads of sweat from the dwarf's forehead dripped down the bridge of his nose into the water, making a small splash, and he held the wooden beam of the bow of the boat with his hand, bringing his head close to the water.

In an instant, a huge tiger shark jumped out of the water along his cheek, and he seemed to feel the shark's cold body temperature.

Frightened, he sat on the boat.

The tiger shark's tail coiled high and slammed into the bow of the ship.

The boat shook violently, it was a dilapidated boat, and the bottom of the boat began to seep water non-stop, and at this time Wu Han kept splashing the water in the boat with his hands, "No, I can't just fall here, I want to live, no." ”

"Who wants to die here, I..."

Arthur still hugged Xiaoyu as before, hiding in a corner of the ship.

"See how long you can swim?" Hubo was still lapping the water.

But the tiger shark had no intention of retreating, but was about to knock the boat apart.

It wasn't long before the shark leaped out of the water again, its huge, dark gray tail with obvious scars snapping the boat's mast with a single flick.

"Oh my God, it broke the mast, who can think of a way."

"If it goes on like this, the ship will sink, and whoever stops it."

"Whoever can make it stop, or abandon ship."

"You're crazy, we're all going to die."

"What then! So what to do! ”

The people on board began to point fingers at each other.

"Quick, where is it?" Zhou Qiuxian pointed to the back of the boat.

Yu Bo was about to run over, but suddenly slipped and fell heavily on the plank, and the wood pulp in his hand slid to the bottom of the sea.

"How did you throw the oars, you don't want to live, I think. Damn it! Wu Han shouted at him.

"I didn't mean to, what is this?" Yu Bo picked up a ball-like thing on the ground, "It's because of this thing that I fell." "When he had finished speaking, he was going to throw it into the sea.

At this time, Xiaoyu rushed over like crazy and snatched the ball from his hand.

"Something important, it's just her toy! But now it was good, the oar fell off, and the mast was broken. What are we going to do. Zhou Qiuxian looked at me and said.

"We've got to deal with this tiger shark, it's not going to leave easily!" Yu Bo picked up another oar from the side.

The boat kept shaking, and the water seepage was getting worse and worse.

I am reminded of the plot of the previous world...... At this time I should ......

"Quick, give me the oars! It's too late! Fast! I suddenly shouted at Yu Bo.

Everyone was shocked. Surprised to see as I snatched the oars.

"Quick, don't be stunned, row, quick!" I paddled the oars hard.

"What's the matter, we can't outrun the sharks." The dwarf asked.

"The shark's tail has obvious scars, indicating that it has been through many fights, and it is easy to bite the plank with its teeth, but why just break the mast?"

I swallowed: "It's simple, it's just waiting for a companion. ”

"Companions, you mean shark companions, but they're not social creatures, right?"

Yu Bo gave me a disdainful look.

The big people in the boat also nodded.

"We're just its bait, it's waiting for more sharks. It's too late to explain too much. "I see the waves in the distance getting bigger and bigger.

"What he said was true, it wasn't the waves, it was a school of sharks." The gnome picked up the oars and rowed.

I paddled the oars hard.

The boat began to move forward.

"Quick, it might be." Wu Han also paddled in the water with his hands.

Soon most of the people on board joined the bandwagon. The speed of the boat is getting faster and faster.

I only saw a large number of tiger sharks in the previous area, biting each other.

"Quick, let's get this area out of here before it's really safe."

As the seconds passed, the boat moved quickly in the mist, and the sea area before it was getting farther and farther away from us.

"They're not going to chase after them, are they?" Zhou Qiuxian leaned on the plank.

"It's so far away, it's okay." The dwarf tossed the oars aside and gasped.

"You seem to be hurt, it's okay." Xiaoyu looked at Wu Han.

"It's fine." Wu Han looked at his right hand, "It's just a small injury, damn shark." ”

"Thank you, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be alive now. By the way, my name is Arthur. Arthur was about to stretch out his right hand to me, but I stood up sharply and shouted to the crowd:

"Quick, quick! We've got to get out of here! ”

"Why, we didn't just get here, I think it's safe here." Zhou Qiuxian didn't seem to listen to my advice at all.

Anger burned my whole body, and I put the oar directly on her neck, and roared, "Paddle quickly, or you'll die!" ”

"He's probably right, let's get out of this area quickly." Yu Bo's expression suddenly became solemn.

The originally clear sky suddenly became cloudy. From time to time, a few bolts of lightning flashed, followed by a few roars.

"The storm is coming." I looked at the sky.

"Quick, everyone, grab the board." Yu Bo shouted from the bow of the boat.

The violent waves of the sea slammed the boat like a ferocious lion, shaking the boat incessantly.

"Everyone, hurry up, if you fall into the sea, it'll be over." Before Yu Bo could finish speaking, a huge wave hit him in the face, almost pushing him out of the boat.

"When will this abominable wind and waves stop, I really can't catch it." The gnome clutched the broken mast.

I looked at the ocean in the distance and said, "Here, everyone get ready!" ”

"What?" The dwarf asked, looking at me suspiciously.

The tiger shark suddenly leapt out of the sea and bit the plank at the stern of the boat.

"It's it again, why is it here again." Wu Han picked up the plank at his feet and slapped the shark's head hard. "Get out of here, you nasty guy."

The shark let go of the boat in pain, turned its head and sank into the sea.

"How can this be, storm, shark, is there anything more troublesome than this." Zhou Qiuxian shouted.

Boom.

"Oh my God, it's a reef." A large hole was knocked out of the gnome's feet, and the water kept pouring into the boat.

"Hurry up and find a way, or the boat will sink soon."

I looked around and immediately shouted to everyone, "Listen, I have a solution, but I need every one of you." My voice was muffled again. If you don't want to stay here forever, listen to me once. ”

"If you have any way to save it, say it, I'm small, I really don't have the strength to catch it anymore." The gnome clasped the mast tightly with both hands.

"Now you say what are we going to do. We listen to you. Zhou Qiuxian said to me.

"You take the oars, wait and watch the reef, and control the direction of the boat." As I spoke, I threw the pulp around me to the gnome by the mast.

"Control the direction, aren't you crazy, it's impossible to row a boat away in this situation." The gnome picks up the oars.

"Arthur, take the sails and ropes off the broken mast, quick!" I shouted.

Arthur turned and walked over to the mast, and the water on the ship was getting worse. She struggled to untie the rope from the mast, "I've untied it, and then what?" ”

"Give me the rope and plug that hole with a canvas, I believe in you, you can do it."

I took the rope with one hand, and Yu Bo called out.

"Of course, man, I can help you at any time, just say anything directly."

"Can you come to the stern of the boat, then?" I picked up a bundle of rope from the boat.

"There are the rest of the people who are trying to get the water out of the boat and buy us precious time. Please, everybody. ”

The shark leaped high again. The splash hit me in the face, and it hurt slightly, so I picked up a small piece of wood and threw it at it.

"Are you sure he really has a way to get us out alive?" The dwarf asked Zhou Qiuxian curiously.

"Whoever knows, believe him once, and hope we are right." Zhou Qiuxian kept splashing the water from the boat out of the boat.

As expected, the shark once again bit heavily on the plank in the stern.

"Quick, now, come on!" I threw the end of the rope to Yubo.

"Man, what's the use of holding a rope?" Yu Bo asked puzzled.

Before I could explain to him, I jumped into the water with the other end of the rope.

"Oh my God, he's not going to run away." The gnome exclaimed.

"No, it won't, if he wants to escape, he can run away before." Arthur said.

I swam in the sea for a while before I came to the surface, and sure enough, I swam from one side of the boat to the other.

"Take it... Rope... Rope, give the other end of the rope... Give me. "The biting waters made my voice tremble.

"Yes, man, you can think of this way." Yu Bo took the rope from my hand with understanding, and at the same time handed me the rope at the other end.

I sank headlong into the water again.

I swam as slowly as I could, so that the shark couldn't notice me, or we'd be done as soon as it let go of the stern. Now is not the time to think about this, I interrupted my thoughts.

After a while, it appeared on the other end. This was repeated several times.

"Come on man, it's time to tighten up, or I'll come, at this time, it can't be solved by your clever brain."

Yu Bo stretched out his right hand and pulled me out of the sea to the boat.

"Are you ready?" I glanced at Yu Bo beside me.

"Yo, man, are you nervous? Let's go. One of us grabbed the end of the rope, "Good fellow, it's time to tie your shoes." ”

The rope swiped over the shark's body.

"You want to trap the shark's mouth, it can't be, its skin is too slippery for a normal rope to tie it up. The gnome sighed, "To be honest, I thought you guys had some good idea. ”

I knew in my heart that maybe he was right, but..., the rope was tightening, and my heart was tense at the same time. As the clock ticked by, the shark seemed to realize something, and was about to let go of the plank it had bitten.

"Now, come on." I really did what I said I had.

Just when I felt like I couldn't hold the rope myself. A pair of hands held my hand tightly, and a force was transmitted on the rope. I knew it was Arthur.

"Come on, it's not time to give up." Arthur looked at me with a smile.

For a moment, everyone on the boat held the ropes at both ends.

The rope was quickly tightened, and the shark was firmly tied to the stern of the boat.

"It's a miracle, isn't it? It's incredible. "The gnomes couldn't believe their eyes.

"Shark skin is indeed slippery, but you're ignoring an important factor, look here."

I pointed to the shark's scars with my left hand, "You forgot that it had gone through a big battle before, and I guess it didn't have much strength anymore, and these scars just increased the friction of the rope, and I jumped into the water to increase the toughness of the rope." In other words, the rope is now like a chain. ”

"But don't think too well, you see, we don't have a mast, and the hole in the bottom of the ship is blocked, but the water is still seeping. There was only one oar, and the sky was still cloudy. Wind, lightning, thunder, and reefs everywhere, how can we get out of this abominable sea? Zhou Qiuxian looked at the sky and became worried.

"Yes, we're all exhausted now, and we're running out of food and water. With only one oar, when can we row out? The dwarf said and picked up the oar, "And you said earlier that I have the oar, and I am small and have no strength, but I can't row far." ”

I laughed, "When did I say I let you row, I just let you use the oars to control the direction." ”

"Then who will row, anyway, I don't row, I'm small." The dwarf was a little unconvinced.

"Alright, no one is going to row, come, Yu Bo, tie the rope to the broken mast and we're going to sail!" I picked up a plank from the boat and struck it the shark's head.

I frowned, I knew what was ahead of me me, but I didn't want to die here before the story even began.

If this is the call of death, then let me do everything in my power to change that tragic outcome.

Thinking of this, I shouted to everyone: "All the personnel on the ship are ready, the shipwreck, I don't know how much in the direction of the north latitude, and I don't know how much in the south latitude." The weather may not be good. Set sail!!! ”

I struck the shark on the head a few more times, and the boat began to sail forward.

"Oh my God, that's... That... What's that, oh my God!! The dwarf exclaimed.

Everyone on the ship looked in the direction of his gaze.

"It's hard to believe it's like an island. I read that right, it's an island, it's an island. Zhou Qiuxian was very happy.

The boat headed straight for the island, and the mist gradually dissipated, and a beam of golden sunlight shone there.

"Hurry, hurry, we can go up and find some food, and water." Wu Han urged.

Xiaoyu held the ball in her hand and looked at us with winks.

Yu Bo took the oar in the short man's hand in one hand and rowed hard.

The boat finally left the abominable sea and ran aground on this unknown island.

"Either way, we wouldn't have been able to find this island without you. Thank you for that, well, you can go back to where you should be. I muttered to myself with the shark. I slowly loosened the rope from the shark. Quickly ran to the shore.

It loosened the plank at the stern of the boat, turned around and jumped into the sea, disappearing from my sight.

I looked at the sky and clenched my fists.

One by one, they scrambled to jump from the boat like hungry wolves and pounced on the island.

When I was the last to step down from the boat, a huge wave rolled in and tore the boat floating on the shore in half.

I looked back at the boat that had broken from it, shattered so completely, like our fate.

An unspeakable despair engulfed me, and I couldn't help but take a step back.

A bright light shone on my face, and I looked up at the scorched sun.

No, everything is just the beginning, now that I know the process and the end, I can change our fate, I can let us all live!

In order to survive on the island, the six of them began to discuss the matter of exploring in groups.

I, looking at them, saw Yu Bo standing in the center of them, clenching my fists tightly.

Yu Bo! No! No matter what, you can't be in a group with this person!

But......

I suddenly remembered what had happened on the first day: the poisonous bee attack in the Lost Forest, the falling stone path, the wreckage of the helicopter near the extinct volcano......

Arthur! That's right! Arthur!

She had picked up something from the ground at that time, and if she had picked it up, it would have been the key she had thrown to me on the night of June 29th...... And the reason why I was able to go back in time was because I pierced my heart with the syringe on that instrument......

That means that if I don't follow them to the vicinity of the extinct volcano as I did at this time, and make sure Arthur picks up the key, it won't happen again. Even if a volcano erupts, even if the poisonous gas is pervasive, we can only die here, forever here......

While all of this may have been just speculation on my part, for some reason, I felt that it was not unfounded, and in the back of my mind, it seemed that there was always a voice he/she was warning me, he/she was reminding me that it was all true.

Thinking of this, I couldn't care about my grievances and hatred with Yu Bo anymore, so I insisted on joining Yu Bo's team as if I recommended myself, watching the other team go away, waiting to step into the beginning of this tragedy with them.