(Foreword)

Placing a cat in a closed box with a small amount of radioactive material will result in a 50% chance that the radioactive material will decay and release poison gas to kill the cat, and a 50% chance that the radioactive material will not decay and allow the cat to survive.

Therefore, the cat in the box will have two states: one is dead and the other is alive. But if you never open the box, the cat will always be in a state of "death and life".

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

It has opened a window for mankind to see the possibility of infinite parallel worlds from a quantum perspective.

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On June 30, 2050, the entire island exploded with a thunderous explosion that shook the sky. A deadly poisonous gas leaked out of nowhere, filling the entire island and enveloping it in death.

“THE X”

The man, with his fingernails, pinched the door that could not be opened, kept reading, could not bat for a long time, and lost his breath.

June 1, 2050, in the waters away from China.

Who am I?

And why are you here?

I...... I couldn't think of anything, but fear spread in my heart.

With fear came another pain that wrenched my heart, and it tore at my soul in my body, roasted it on the fire, and threw it into the cold cellar.

It seemed to have lost something, and it seemed to be screaming desperately, it stretched out its hand and grabbed my neck, and let go of its hand to grasp the only light, but the light was far away from it, and slowly sank into the darkness, into the abyss......

The rocking of the boat woke me up, I touched the tears in the corners of my eyes, but I couldn't remember everything before, I couldn't remember who I was, the cold sweat behind my back made me tremble, it soaked my clothes, and it soaked my black hair.

When I slowly came to my senses and looked carefully at the scene in front of me, I was already adrift on a small boat that was heading somewhere. The boat was surrounded by mist, and it was difficult to make out the direction at a glance, and it was rocked and "creaked", and from time to time water seeped in.

The little boat was extremely old, with rough timber, a narrow hull, and a worn canvas on the mast blown by the sea breeze, and it sailed aimlessly across the sea, looking around, and there was little to see on this ship except for a few broken pulps.

On top of such a boat, in addition to me, there were six faces that I was not familiar with, extremely unfamiliar.

They were three men and three women, sitting on my left and right hands from front to back.

……

"Huh"

My right and left hand?

I shook them, they seemed huge, and they were very strong to hold.

I looked at these strange hands, and I felt a panic in my heart, and then my eyes rested on my feet......

My feet, slender and slightly raised, I touched them, and there were really muscles on them.

Yes...... Muscles?

This...... Is it really my hands and feet? Why are they so unfamiliar? No matter how you look at it, it's full of disobedience, as if they shouldn't belong to me.

Damn it......

I picked up my head and tried desperately to think about the bits and pieces of my memory, but I still couldn't remember anything, only felt that my mind was blank.

The woman on the left suddenly put her hand on mine, always feeling a little familiar, I noticed her, stopped thinking, calmed down, looked at her sitting on the side, and asked, "Hey, where are we going?"

I looked at the weak, long-haired woman sitting next to me and asked her.

The woman turned her head to me, her lips and teeth open, and her expression was very shocked, whether I was asking too abruptly, or if I looked really strange, and she stared at me for a long time, staring at my face.

"Is there anything on my face?"

I scratched my head, touched my cheek, and asked embarrassedly.

The woman shook her head, calmed down, returned to normal, looked at me and said, "Char, I'm not looking at your face. It's just that you, who were exiled with us, now seem to have lost your memory, and ask this kind of knowingly asked question. ”

"Char? Exile? ”

No matter which two of these four words are combined, I feel so strange that I can't remember the slightest.

"Yes...... When this kind of thing happens, anyone will be stimulated and don't want to think about it. ”

The woman muttered to herself, sighed deeply, forced out a smile, and explained to me:

"The seven of us, for as long as I can remember, have been locked up in an underground research room as the object of realization. Originally, our lives would only die like a pack of white rats. However, because the "eighth" was killed, the "Queen" took all the blame out on us, throwing seven of us test subjects onto the boat and banishing them to this unknown sea. Perhaps, this is her punishment for us, wanting us to be in despair...... Die. ”

I, listening to the woman's explanation, did not know the truth of her words, nor could I remember the slightest thing about the past, but I vaguely looked through this layer of mist, looking at the hazy sea in front of me, which clearly seemed to be extremely calm, but its interior was turbulent, and it conveyed to me that I would probably die here.

The woman looked into the distance from afar, with a slightly pointed goose egg face, long black hair, and bright eyes. She wears a long light blue dress with a slender belt tied around her waist with a bow on it. There was a faint fragrance in the woman's hair, and this fragrance was pleasant, and I seemed to smell it somewhere.

The woman suddenly turned her head to look at me, looking me straight in the eye, her lips moving slightly, as if she wanted to say something.

At this moment, however, the boat shook violently, wave after wave, and it soaked, drenching the men and women on board, and completely wetting their clothes from the inside out. However, they did not dodge, nor moved, but just sat dumbfounded, without even raising their heads, as if they had long lost any hope.

Also, this vast sea, endless, endlessly drifting, no matter who will lose hope. I looked at them as I thought about it, forgetting for a moment that I myself was in the same boat. The ship was filled with despair, and little by little it permeated the ocean. Everyone's face was like ashes, without the slightest expression.

The woman looked at the sea and grabbed my hand tightly, and I took her hand tightly and patted it lightly.

Due to the impact of the waves, the wrecked boat became more difficult to resist the influx of the sea, and I am afraid that it will not last long before it breaks, and we all fall into the sea and die in this unknown sea.

The waves are getting louder and louder in my ears.

A dark black triangular thing slowly approached the boat in the water. Like a sharp blade scraping open the surface of the water, it seems that it is difficult to feel its presence under the effect of the sound of the waves.

I saw it getting closer and closer to the boat.

"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" The tall, muscular man on the boat 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!!" A short man on the boat quickly rushed to the bow of the boat to look at the bottom of the water, the previous huge waves seemed to be suddenly much calmer, and the surface of the water did not even have a little wrinkle, but it was uncomfortably quiet.

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

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 then another thin man kept splashing the water out of the boat with his hands, "No, I can't just fall here, I want to live, no." ”

"Who wants to die here, I..." The woman who spoke looked to be in her thirties, but it was obvious that the years of youth had not yet left her, and the long black curly hair with a shawl made people look like they were in their twenties.

The woman I had been talking to was hiding in a corner of the boat with a little girl in her arms.

"See how long you can swim?" The sturdy man 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.

Just then, a wave crashed against me, and the biting waters made me close my eyes.

"Look ahead! You almost fell off, you know? The tall, muscular man took my arm and shouted.

He wasn't lying, and half of my body was almost out of the boat.

"Thank you, thank you......" I got back into the boat, but the sound of the violent collision reminded me that this was not the time to relax.

"Quick, where is it?" The curly-haired woman pointed to the back of the boat.

The tall and muscular man was about to run over, but suddenly he 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! The emaciated man shouted at him.

"I didn't mean to, what is it?" The tall, muscular man picked up a ball-like object 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 moment, the little girl rushed over like crazy and snatched the ball from his hand.

"It's probably something important to her." I speculated.

"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. The curly-haired woman looked at me and said.

What to do, my mind kept thinking of all possible solutions, but in the end it all ended in failure.

"What to do? Of course, it is to deal with this tiger shark, you know, it will not leave easily. The tall, muscular man picked up another oar from the side.

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

Tiger shark... My mind began to think again, and I looked at the broken mast and seemed to understand something.

"Quick, give me the oars! It's too late! Fast! I yelled at him.

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 gnome-looking man 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?"

The tall, muscular man 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 short man picked up the oars and rowed.

I paddled the oars hard.

The boat began to move forward.

"Quick, it might be." The emaciated man 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 black and gray figures in the area in front of me, biting at each other.

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

I knew in my heart that when they decided the winner, they would tear us apart first.

Once the bait is thrown, few people will take it back.

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?" The curly-haired woman leaned against the board.

"It's so far away, it's okay." The short man threw the oar aside and gasped.

"You seem to be hurt, it's okay." The little girl looked at the thin man.

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

Yes, after what happened just now, everyone on the boat was very tired, and I sat on the board, sweat slowly dripping from my forehead.

"Thank you, if it weren't for you, we wouldn't be alive now. By the way, my name is Arthur. "The woman who was sitting next to me and talking to me just now held out her right hand to me.

"It's fine." I reached out and took her hand and stood up, suddenly with an indescribable sensation that I had just waited for this moment, as if a century was long. The sun pierced through the heavy clouds and shone like a spotlight on the small boat, everything seemed to stand still, and my thoughts stopped.

"What's wrong with you?" Arthur's left hand shook in front of my eyes.

I came back to my senses, "No... Maybe a little tired. ”

The tense nerves of the people on the boat relaxed. The boat came to a halt on the surface of the sea, and because the mast was broken, it could only sway on the sea with the microwaves, and remained quietly on the water like a leaf.

I looked out at the sea in the distance, so quiet that I almost forgot the tension I had had, and I couldn't see it because of the mist around me, but I could still feel that something was approaching us.

No way, we've been paddling for a long time, and it stands to reason that sharks should have a hard time finding us again, unless...

Something suddenly occurred to me and I glanced at the thin man. This was followed by another headache. "Quick, we need to get out of here."

"Why, we didn't just get here, I think it's safe here." The curly-haired woman didn't listen to my advice at all.

"Paddle quickly, or none of us will be able to get out of this sea." My voice was deep and powerful. It's like issuing a military order in the face of a general with thousands of troops.

"He's probably right, let's get out of this area quickly." The tall and muscular man's expression suddenly became solemn.

Everyone on board became quiet, but suddenly the calm sea became irritable again, and the rolling waves rushed towards the boat.

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

"What's wrong?" Arthur looked at me.

"The storm is coming." I'm not lying. A real storm is slowly beginning for us.

"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.

I felt like I was about to be thrown out by the waves.

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

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

"I don't know when it's going to stop, but I know the real storm isn't here yet."

I knew very well that I was not alarmist. This little bit of wind and waves is just a snack before a meal. I looked at the sea in the distance, "Here, everyone get ready." ”

"What?" The short man asked, looking at me suspiciously.

Suddenly, a black figure jumped out of the sea and bit the plank on the stern of the boat.

"It's it again, why is it here again." The emaciated man picked up the plank at his feet and slapped the shark on the head. "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." The curly-haired woman shouted.

With a bang, no matter who it is, it is clear that the boat must have hit something?

"Oh my God, it's a reef." A large hole was punched at the short man's feet, and the water kept pouring into the boat.

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

My head was starting to ache violently again, and I don't know why it was at this time. I put my hand on my forehead. I felt like the water was going to flood my shoes.

No, I didn't want to die here for no reason, I looked around, "Listen, everyone, I have a solution, but I need each and 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 short man clings to the mast with both hands.

"Now you say what are we going to do. We listen to you. The curly-haired woman asked me.

"You take the oars, wait and watch the reef, and control the direction of the boat." As I spoke, I threw the pulp at the short man on the side of the mast.

"Control the direction, aren't you crazy, it's impossible to row a boat away in this situation." The short man 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 called out to the tall man.

"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. ”

I know in my heart that success or failure is a matter of success or failure, and any mistake will keep us under this deep sea forever.

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 short man asked the curly-haired woman curiously.

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

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

"Quick, now, come on!" I threw one end of the rope to the tall man.

"Man, what's the use of holding a rope?" The tall man 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 short man exclaimed.

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

To be honest, I never thought the sea was so cold, the biting cold almost made me forget why I jumped into the sea, but the only thing to be thankful for was that I didn't have a headache this time.

I couldn't open my eyes in the sea, I had to rely on my sense of direction. 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." The tall man took the rope from my hand and handed me the rope at the other end.

"It's a lot harder than tying your shoes." I sank headlong into the water again.

I swam as slowly as I could, so that the shark could not notice me, or it would let go of the stern.

We're really done. 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."

The tall man stretched out his right hand and pulled me out of the sea to the boat.

"Are you ready?" I glanced at the tall man next to 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 short man sighed, "To be honest, I thought you guys had come up with some great 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 looked back and 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 short man couldn't believe his 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? The curly-haired woman looked at the sky and 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 short man picked up the oars as he spoke, "And you said earlier that I have the oars, 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 short man was a little unconvinced.

"I'll do it." The tall man recommended himself.

I nodded, picked up a plank from the boat, and struck it the shark's head.

"All the personnel on board are ready, the shipwreck, the direction of the north latitude does not know how much, and the southern latitude does not know how much. 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.

Where we don't know, I always feel like I know.

It may sound strange, but maybe it is.

The prologue of this story is also beginning to unfold before our eyes.

The sun broke through the thick clouds again.

"Oh my God, that's... That... What's that, oh my God!! The short man 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. ”

The curly-haired woman was overjoyed.

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." The weak man urged.

The little girl looked at us with a wink holding the ball in her hand.

The tall man took the oar in the short man's hand in one hand and paddled hard.

The island is getting closer and closer. But my head started to hurt more and more.

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

The waves crashed against the beach and slowly receded, as if the fierce waters did not dare to set foot on this unknown island. But for us, this is our faint hope.

The people in the small boat scrambled to get ashore, as if they would be abandoned in the sea if they were half a beat slower, and everyone went ashore. I untied the rope from the broken mast,

"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 breathed a sigh of relief. Finally left the sea.

But soon I'll feel stupid for my childish idea, but that's another story.

Why are we on the sea, and where are we going? There were so many doubts flooding my brain. One of the most critical issues, however, is ...... Who the hell am I.

The familiar sound of the waves came to my ears again.

Arthur suddenly took my hands, put his mouth to my ear, and whispered, "Your hands are still warm, although you have lost your memory for a while, you can't forget me." Either way, please remember that I'm Arthur, the only person you can trust. ”

The only person I can trust? What exactly does this mean?

I inadvertently glanced at the curly-haired woman, and wait, I suddenly realized something. Earrings, yes, earrings, the earring in her right ear is missing.

I couldn't help but ask, "The earring in your right ear seems to be missing?" ”

The curly-haired woman looked surprised, "What, these earrings I bought with great difficulty, they are very expensive." ”

I watched her keep looking on the beach, what a coincidence, sharks in the deep sea are easily attracted to shiny things.

We had already escaped from the sharks, but the sharks found us.

I glanced again at the bandages on the frail man's hands.

I vaguely remember his hands paddling when he was escaping from the sharks.

The tall man, who was so good at it, slid the oars into the sea.

And the ball that the little girl had been holding appeared so coincidentally at the feet of the tall man.

Arthur's incomprehensible words.

What the hell is going on with all this.

I looked at this unknown island.

It's like a huge chessboard. And we're like tiny pawns.

It seems that this game has already begun.

The wind suddenly blew the little girl's ball directly into the sea, and she glanced at the ball flying towards the sea, and then walked towards the front......

"Let's go, Char, what are you doing?" The short man waved at me.

No matter how much it is. I followed them and set out on this unknown island.