(Foreword)

The road ahead was thorny and bumpy, but there was no turning back.

(Text)

June 3, 2022 at 01:15 AM

Xia Cheng sorted out the current situation, and suddenly a noisy volume appeared in my ears, as if the sound of a system error, a little harsh, and I couldn't help but cover my ears with my hands.

"Cui Li, Cui Li, Cui Li......?" I tried to call Cui Li's name, but there was no response.

Are our voices blocked again?

"Xia Cheng, Lin Yun, Zhao Yuyu, can anyone hear my voice? Can you hear me? ”

No one responded.

It seems that no one can hear me, and I can't hear anyone.

Now what the hell am I going to do? I couldn't help but worry again, helpless and clueless, not knowing how to proceed. I looked at everything in front of me and lost its direction.

Just when I was at a loss, suddenly another voice appeared in my ears.

"Cheng Yin, Cheng Yin?"

Suddenly, I heard Lin Yun's shout again.

"I'm here, why didn't I have your voice all of a sudden?"

For me at this time, Lin Yun was like a light that was lit again after it went out, allowing me to see hope again.

"yes, I was about to tell you the answer, why are you suddenly silent again?" Lin Yun's words made me alert again.

I quickly realized that this Lin Yun had transformed into the same Lin Yun who recorded the information for me before.

I tentatively asked, "You want to tell me the answer?" How many information squares did you just record? ”

"How many? Isn't it 20? Why did you forget it so quickly?"

Now I'm stupid, which Lin Yun is real? But even if Lin Yun said the answers to those 20 information squares now, I had no way of verifying the authenticity of the answers.

I couldn't remember the information in that square for a long time, and if she told me that there was only one slight mistake in the answer, I would have failed.

As a result, I had no direction, like a spaceship that had lost its coordinates, and I didn't know where to dock. So what should I do, should I believe in the current Lin Yun or should I believe in the previous Lin Yun?

Just when I was having trouble distinguishing the authenticity, the screeching noise suddenly appeared in my ears again.

After the noise, my surroundings became quiet again, even the air became extremely quiet, and even the sound of feathers on the ground could be heard.

I looked at the electronic screen in front of me without any images, as if my brain was short-circuited, and I couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, and I couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, so I fell into a state of confusion. I just want to be quiet for a while so that my brain can have some time to relax. A little more sound would make me break down.

I looked at the start button in front of me, and above the button was an LCD screen with a number "2" on the screen, probably to tell me that I had two more opportunities left to observe, and these two opportunities were so precious that they should not be wasted.

Suddenly, there was a burst of music, and the electronic voice rang out again, "Challenger on test bench 2 failed, repeated, challenger on test bench 2 failed......"

What the? Has someone already failed the challenge? Is that Cui Li or Zhang Han? I can't accept the reality that either of them is a lost chance for us to succeed.

"Cui Li, is that you? Didn't you tell you to be careful not to use the rest of the testing opportunities? Why don't you listen? I shouted loudly, hoping that someone would answer me, but no one answered me except the sound of electronic music, and I seemed to ignore me as if I was talking to myself.

What the hell am I going to do now? There was no answer in my heart, contradictions and fears filled my heart, and I felt that there were two forces fighting, either to continue the challenge or to give up. But no matter what the choice, no one will tell me the right answer, and now I am like a small sailboat sailing in the endless sea, with no one on board except me, lonely, helpless, hesitant, desperate...... Buried deep in my heart, weaving my soul, like that sailboat, it was hit by the waves again and again, as if the next time it would be shattered and sink to the bottom of the sea.

Now I am like standing on the top of a high mountain, there is no one around, even if I shout into the air, I can't even hear the echo, this loneliness is indescribable, but even if there is the voice of Cui Li, Xia Cheng, or Lin Yun, I can't tell the truth from the fake. When I needed help, there was no one to help me.

"Thousands of years have passed, and I have never forgotten each other's vows..."

"The years have passed in a hurry, but you are still looking at me, and you have not forgotten our tomorrow..."

"When I remember, when you forget. The memory of this fate. ”

"I still remember our vows, memories that will never be forgotten."

"Standing quietly in the place where you have forgotten, watching the seasons change, I am thinking about you again at this time."

Suddenly, the familiar singing voice played in my ears, and I turned around and saw Murong Feng appear beside me.

"Do you know now? The so-called team spirit can only be a stumbling block to your success in the end, and you have no way of knowing whether your so-called teammates are real or false. In the end, all you can rely on is yourself. ”

"I don't believe it, it's all deliberately created by you to interfere with my judgment."

I looked at Murong Feng, and every word he said was a blow to my self-confidence, so that I would fall into infinite despair.

"Childish, you're so naïve. What can you do with the team you are talking about? How can you know that someone else is willing to give up their lives to save you? Believe it or not, if I open a door out of the labyrinth next to them, they will not hesitate to abandon you and leave here, and you can only stay in the labyrinth forever like a loser, waiting for the hope that will never happen. ”

"Impossible, impossible. If they had left me alone and left the labyrinth, they wouldn't have chosen to walk with me in the first place. So, what you're talking about is absolutely not going to happen. ”

"Won't happen? How can you be so sure? Remember that everyone is for themselves, and no one lives for others, including you, so when there is a choice in front of people, they will always put their own interests first, understand? Murong Feng's emotions seemed very excited when he spoke, as if there was something about my previous words that touched him. He had always maintained a very calm attitude, but this time he seemed so excited.

"I won't believe anything you say, and no matter how complicated the maze you design, I'll solve it, it's only a matter of time."

"Unravel? I'm afraid you're joking, right? How do you solve my mystery as you are? Don't forget, you've wasted a chance. You have to remember 50 information squares in 120 seconds, unless you are talented, or you have an excellent memory, otherwise ordinary people can't do it at all, I really don't know where you get your confidence. If you're not a genius, you're naïve, no, stupid, stupid! I would like to point you out, but no matter how necessary it seems now, you will never be able to solve my riddle as you are. Murong Feng said with a smug smile, as if he had seen the result that we couldn't leave here, but I firmly believed in the fact that we would leave here, and I was willing to pay all the price for this.

"Whatever you want, people like you are useless even if I say more, stupid, stubborn, stubborn!"

In this way, Murong Feng disappeared from my sight.

I returned my mind to the mystery in front of me, obviously all this was carefully designed by Murong Feng, he deliberately created an environment that allowed me to communicate with Xia Cheng and them, making me think that this was a mistake in design, but this was exactly what he did on purpose, because my vision was completely blocked by these lights, I couldn't see anyone at all, so that the only sound that could distinguish Xia Cheng was left, and at this time, if there were two or more voices at the same time, I couldn't tell at all. And different voices will also produce contradictions in the same way, which puts me in a difficult situation. I finally realized that it was more difficult to distinguish the voices of my companions than the 50 information squares in this mystery. But what if I could find the real Xia Cheng Lin Yun among the many voices? Then the mystery in front of me will become uncomplicated.

"Cheng Yin, can you hear me? Why is your voice always choppy? ”

It was at this moment that I heard Xia Cheng's shout.

Xia Cheng, is this voice really Xia Cheng? I don't know. Until I have conclusive evidence to discern the real Summer City, I have to be careful. After all, there are only 2 opportunities left for me to observe, and if I lose another opportunity to observe, then I really have no way to get out of here.

"Xia Cheng, are you Xia Cheng?" I asked tentatively.

"That's right, it's me, what's wrong with you? Lin Yun was going to tell you the answer just now, why did you lose your voice again in the middle of the process? ”

I have to figure out if this person is really Xia Cheng.

"Xia Cheng, why haven't you come to the research room to participate in everyone's research recently?"

"Cheng Yin, what are you talking about? Have you forgotten that I told Zhang Xinran that I would highlight the research of the research group, and you were there at that time, how could you ask such a strange question?"

Xia Cheng thought for a while when answering the question, and he didn't know if my voice was a little lagging behind for him, so he didn't answer the question so quickly. But in any case, there is no doubt about the content of his answer, and the order and tone of his voice seem very natural, without deliberate imitation or artificiality, is he really true?

But not long ago, I was still doubting that Lin Yun who was with him was not real, so my heart became extremely conflicted.

"Cheng Yin, don't worry about it so much, you record the answer first." Lin Yun urged.

If Xia Cheng, who answered my question just now, is true, then Lin Yun, who was with him, should also be true, this is good news for me, and the answer to the 20 information squares I said before has been found by me again.

"Lin Yun, you can tell me those answers one by one now, and I will record those answers on the touch screen."

After Lin Yun confirmed, he began to say the previous answers in turn.

I recorded the answer that Lin Yun said on the touch screen in turn, but now I have no way to know the authenticity of this answer, so I can only record it like this first.

Just when I recorded the 20th information square, suddenly there was that harsh sound again, and soon Lin Yun and Xia Cheng's voices disappeared like this.

It looks like the other people's voices disappear as soon as I hear the harsh sound.

Knowing this, I realized that it was like a converter of sound to me, and as soon as I heard the shrill siren, it meant that the person I was talking to had changed. I don't know whose voice came after that, so I just waited quietly.

It was quiet again, but it seemed that I had gradually gotten used to the quiet, and now I was a little calmer than I had been restless at first.

"Cheng Yin, are you still there? Cheng Yin. What kind of mechanism, you can hear a sound for a while, and you can't hear a sound for a while. "I suddenly heard Cui Li's complaint again, and it seems that this time it was Cui Li.

"Cui Li, is that you? Have you used up all your testing opportunities? I confirmed.

I remember that the electronic voice just now only broadcast the failure of the contestant on test bench 2, but I am not sure that person is Cui Li.

"But no, didn't you and Xia Cheng let me use it just now? Why, forgot so quickly? "Cui Li seems to blame Xia Cheng and me for running out of use.

"Cui Li, what the hell are you talking about? Didn't I remind you again and again not to use up the rest of the testing opportunities? Why is it the other way around now that I let you use it? "Cui Li's words are inconsistent with what I know.

"Cheng Yin, when did you tell me not to use the observation opportunity?" Cui Li asked suspiciously.

"Cui Li, why did you forget, I didn't tell you, no matter what anyone says, don't believe it, now you have lost the qualification to challenge, and I have also lost a chance to observe, the situation is getting more and more difficult for us." I said.

(End of chapter)