(Foreword)

The shadow in your heart, the one who can't be found,

Not in your present, but in your past.

(Text)

Midnight on May 7, 2050

I woke up screaming, drenched in sweat. I touched the hands next to me, and I couldn't help but look at her with a small and immature look - lying next to me was Xiaoyu, who was very familiar and asleep.

I looked at the four walls—they were all white, without any patterns or decorations. In this room, apart from me and Xiaoyu, all that was left was this bed.

I lifted the covers, got out of bed, pushed open the white door, and walked forward step by step.

There was no one outside, it was scary, and all I could hear was my heartbeat except for my wheezing.

I kept walking along the passage, and in this passage there were many rooms, but each room was locked, and I could not enter the room, nor knew if there was anyone inside, so I could only walk straight forward, and walk, until I finally came to the door.

That door was noticeably different from the others, with its own defense system, and it felt very intelligent. Somehow, however, it suddenly opened, revealing a slit, as if waiting for someone to pass.

I swallowed, curiosity tempting me to push open the door, and I slowly walked inside.

I saw that in such a large and empty room, the only thing left was the white milky "egg" placed in it.

I approached the egg, expertly pressed the button, and the egg turned on automatically, revealing her lying in the egg. Her hair was waist-length, and her face was as pale as a doll.

Is she real or fake?

I involuntarily touched her eyelashes. The eyelashes are very soft.

At that moment she suddenly opened her eyes, crawled out of herself, jumped to the ground on one foot, and looked back at me suspiciously.

"Who are you? Why is it here? She asked, tilting her head.

"Me? I'm Char, and somehow I got to this place. I answered the woman's words, but she woke me up. Indeed, I ended up in the laboratory in the Giant Serpent Cave, and I was supposed to be with Yin Ji, but why did I come to this place? Where is Yin Ji? Where is Arthur? And where am I now?

I, I don't know, but maybe the woman in front of me does.

Thinking of this, I continued to ask the woman, "Do you know where this is?" ”

"You don't know? This is the 'Ark'. The woman replied.

"'The Ark'?" I took a step back.

This is actually the "Ark", the last paradise of mankind mentioned by Wu Han.

The woman looked at me, startled, then relieved, laughed slowly, stared into my eyes, and asked, "Do you know Schrödinger's cat?" ”

"Schrödinger's cat?" I asked, confused.

The woman walked up to me in response to my question: "Yes, it's a hypothetical experiment. The content of this experiment is to put a cat in a closed box with a small amount of radioactive material, there is a 50% probability that the radioactive material will decay and release poison gas to kill the cat, and there is also a 50% probability that the radioactive material will not decay and the cat will survive.

When we don't open the box, the cat in the box will have two states: one is dead and the other is alive. If you never open the box, the cat will always be in a state of "death and survival".

This is the "superposition of life and death of cats", also known as "Schrödinger's cat".

It allows human beings to see the possibility of infinite parallel worlds from a quantum perspective. And now humanity will gradually turn it into reality. ”

Speaking of this, the woman paused, frowned slightly, touched her hand on my face, and continued: "Look, this world, do you think there is only one timeline? Do you think that all time flows from the past to the future? No, you are wrong, there is no beginning or end in the infinitely parallel universe. ”

"I ...... Don't understand...... What are you talking about? "I took the woman's hand off my face.

The woman smiled slightly, looked at me and said, "You've been looking for me, haven't you?" My name is Qiu Xinyu, and I am the eighth person you are looking for. ”

"What?! You're the eighth? So are you The X? I asked anxiously.

Qiu Xinyu shook his head with a smile and continued: "No, I'm not The X, I'm an experimental product like you, not a 'mother product'. If I had to say the difference between me and you, it would be that I am currently the only one who is fully compatible with The X and can accept her blood, but unfortunately my life is coming to an end, and you can change the world and save the fate of this world in my place. ”

Qiu Xin was halfway through his words, and suddenly he fell into my arms in front of me.

"It hurts."

I suddenly felt a tingling sensation and realized that she was actually holding a syringe in her hand, and the syringe was connected to the "egg" behind her.

"What is this?" I hugged her body and asked her.

However, she just smiled and touched my face with the last of her strength, and said to me, "This is a continuation, connecting the past and the future." ”

"Continuation?"

I didn't understand what she was saying.

She smiled and continued to say to me, "After all these years, I have really become emaciated. One of my companions who were sent to the lab with me died one after another, and even he died in front of me. For fifteen years, I was finally left alone in this place, with no friends, no lovers, not even someone to talk to. But fortunately, you are finally here, you can see the world for me, and you can live tomorrow for me. ”

Qiu Xinyu kept coughing up blood as she said this, and she leaned her head against me and pressed her forehead against my face.

"Hey, you don't want to die, you don't want to die, I finally found you, you tell me where The X is first? Tell me what I can do to get everyone out of this tragic fate? ”

I kept shaking her body, but her eyes became more and more hollow, her hands and feet became colder, her forehead began to glow, and for a while, I felt something enter my mind.

Ah, that's a memory of her life, coming alone, leaving alone. watched the people around her die in front of her one after another, and watched the only man who cared for her endure a painful experiment for her in order to protect her.

She used to despise life, but when she met him, she felt that she had to live no matter what, and this belief supported her, supported her to survive the cruel experiment, and supported her to live now.

She became the only human who held the key to the gate of time and space, and the only human who witnessed the future and the past.

However, such a woman will take her last breath before she can change the trajectory of the world; She smiled and stretched out her hand to caress my cheek, waiting for me to come.

She slowly closed her eyes and sang 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. ”

When the last word came out of her mouth, she fell down and died in front of me. I hugged her body and shouted, but she couldn't hear it anymore.

"Woo......"

I turned my head and saw Xiaoyu standing in the doorway, looking at me sadly with tears in her eyes.

I was about to step forward, but suddenly a group of armed men came running from behind me, holding guns and pointing them at my head.

I looked at Xiaoyu and then at the executioners behind me.

I knew I couldn't escape, and I knew it wasn't her business.

I took off the short whistle hanging around my neck, hung it on her neck, and said to her with a hard smile: "Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu, you listen to me, my brother is going to leave first, but my brother will definitely come back, and he will definitely come to you again, before that, you have to pretend that you don't know your brother, only when your brother takes the initiative to recognize you, you can recognize your brother, okay?" ”

Xiaoyu nodded slowly, and then I pushed her out, locked the door, picked up the syringe on the ground and shouted at them.

One of the armed men in the lead knocked me to the ground with a punch, I was foaming at the mouth, my mind was blurred, and I vaguely felt them tie my hands and feet and carry me out.

When I woke up, I was lying in an "egg", and standing next to me was a woman in a white coat with her back to me. The woman was holding a map in her hand, and that map was very familiar to me, not somewhere else, but the uninhabited island where I had been reincarnated several times and had been experiencing death.

"Qiu Xinyu is dead, but he, Char has inherited Qiu Xinyu's memory and Qiu Xinyu's blood, maybe he can, he can fuse with The X again and be able to save the world."

The woman didn't know who she was talking to, and from my point of view, this perspective confined to the "egg", and I couldn't see the man's face.

The woman handed the map to the man beside her, and discussed something in his ear, and the man nodded, habitually touching the knife tied to his leg.

Wait a minute, knife?

This knife seems familiar to me...... No, it's familiar!

Isn't it Yu Bo's knife?

Could this person ...... He is Yu Bo.

My brain couldn't think all of a sudden, and too much information confused me: Yu Bo and the woman are standing here, Yu Bo is trying to harm us on the island, so the person who instructed Yu Bo is this woman? Or is it himself? If it's a woman, why should a woman harm me? If it was Yu Bo himself, then for what reason?

I don't know. I don't know.

All I knew was that I was swept away by sleepiness and slowly closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I was sealed in a sealed container like a white mouse.

In that container, time walked or didn't go away, it didn't make any difference to me, I just looked at the top cover every day and spent time day after day until that day came.

May 25, 2050 at 5:30 a.m

"The time was adjusted to a month, starting on June 1st, and the conditions for determining the success of the test were based on his discovery of the island's secrets." I felt a little conscious, and there was a faint conversation between the woman and Yu Bo in my ears.

Yu Bo let out an "um".

The woman continued: "For the smooth implementation of the plan, I have already developed a detailed script. Rest assured, everything will go according to my plan, and in order to ensure that the plan is perfect, I will also go with you, mixed with the few of you. ”

"You are mixed in with us, won't they suspect it?" Yu Bo asked.

The woman smiled and replied confidently, "Have you forgotten that these seven people have been separated and isolated for experiments before, and they can only talk to each other through the sound transmission device in the room?" ”

Yu Bo suddenly realized, and the woman continued: "They haven't really seen each other before, and it's not difficult to drop the bag. ”

"You are a woman who can calculate people more than her appearance, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to see it when the time comes."

"Really? Then you can remember, from today I will be one of you, my name is Zhou Qiuxian. ”

What the?! Zhou Qiuxian!

She's actually the "Queen"?!

I couldn't believe my ears, and I even thought I was having auditory hallucinations and mistaking dreams for reality.

But it was all so real, word by word, it pierced into my head.

The memories of the previous worlds wandered away in front of my eyes, and I caught the shadows of Zhou Qiuxian and Yu Bo, and slowly recognized the facts.

Yes, I heard her right, she is obviously the "queen", sneaked into Yu Bo's room, talked with him secretly, and harmed our "queen" again and again.

I wanted to listen to it any longer, but sleepiness swept over my body, robbed me of consciousness, and left me in a deep sleep.

May 26, 2050 at 4 o'clock sharp

Early in the morning I was taken by the armed men to a boat by the seashore, where there were six other faces with whom I knew very well.

It's them......

I breathed a sigh of relief, but I immediately began to mourn myself.

Is this fate?

Still let me get on this boat......

No, I can't give in!

I jerked to my feet and rushed towards the armed men, who easily subdued me, tied my hands and feet, and threw me in the boat.

"Why! Why do you want me to go back! Why continue the fate of eternal death! God, tell me, how long will you torture me before you are satisfied! ”

I shouted to the sky, laughed madly, and crawled to the side of the boat, looking at myself in the sea.

"Kill you, kill you, if you die, it's all over."

I laughed and jumped out of the sea, slowly sinking into an icy blue, grabbing me with both hands and dragging me up.

I woke up to the point of being floating in the universe, standing in front of a giant door. I turned my head and saw that the person pulling me was Yin Ji, and she was looking at me and I was looking at her.

She breathed a sigh of relief and said to me with a smile: "You have been asleep for a long time after the explosion, did you dream about something?" Shouting all the time. ”

I'm back here, back here.

I looked at my hand and shook it, strong and strong.

I shook my head, and Qiu Xinyu's words came to my mind: "Look, in this world, do you think there is only one timeline? Do you think that all time flows from the past to the future? No, you are wrong, there is no beginning or end in the infinitely parallel universe. ”

So that's it......

It turns out that time really doesn't just flow from the past to the future, but also from the future to the past.

I suddenly understood the cause and effect of everything, and why Yin Ji and Arthur said that only I could find "The X", but I still couldn't find it.

- Just because the ability of "The X" can only be mastered by Qiu Xinyu, and I have inherited Qiu Xinyu's ability, not in the present, but in the past.

"You...... See 'The X'? Yin Ji seemed to see through everything, she looked at my cheek and asked me.

"Nope." I shook it again, and then said, "But I inherited her abilities. ”

"Really? I see. ”

Yin Ji smiled slightly, and the door in front of me opened slightly.

"So are you going to go? To the past, to the future, to other worlds, to change everything about humanity. ”

I nodded, tightened Yinhime's hand, and joined her to open the giant door and return to the laboratory in the Serpent's Cave.

June 6, 2050 at 23:59 PM

When Yin Ji and I opened our eyes, we were already surrounded by a sea of fire.

The scorching breath, the collapsed beams, and the deep pain coming from behind me all reminded me of the danger of this place.

However, we who were surrounded by fire and "eggs" obviously had no way out, so we could only hold each other together and wait for the verdict of the end of the world.

Suddenly, a gust of wind drifted from nowhere, and this gust of wind was mixed with the familiar musty smell. This musty smell...... I seem to smell it somewhere......

I tried desperately to think about the source of the musty smell, and at the same time I groped for the smell, and finally stopped at the floor under the "egg".

A picture flashed through my mind: there were bottles and cans, and it was eerie and dark.

It's there! That's right, there it is!

I remembered the hole that Zhou Qiuxian fell into in the previous world, I had smelled this musty smell in that hole, and now I have smelled the smell of snakes in this giant snake cave......

If there is a connection between here and there......

I stood up and used all my strength to remove the "egg", and desperately moved the square floor below.

I saw that under the square floor, there seemed to be a pitch-black passage that extended straight down.

There was a slight wind coming from the mouth of the passage, mixed with the smell.

I turned my head and smiled and reached out to Yin Ji, who took my hand. We jumped into the passage together before the last explosion and exited the serpent's cave.