(Foreword)

Humanity's ignorance is half-understood,

Far more ignorant than ignorance.

(Text)

June 10, 2050 at 22:10 p.m

I lay in bed tossing and turning, unable to sleep, thinking about my dreams about Yin Ji. I disturbed my head.

No, I can't go on like this, I have to take action.

Yin Ji, Yin Ji She kept telling me to look for 'The X', but what is 'The X'? With it can we be saved?

I don't know, but even though I don't, I have to take a gamble!

With that in mind, I got up from my bed and knocked on the door of Arthur's room, the room next to me.

"What's the matter, Char, is there something going on?" Arthur looked at me quizzically.

"Let's go, let's go inside." I walked into Arthur's room, sat down on a chair in her room, and looked at her face gravely.

"Okay, can you talk about it now?" Arthur smiled slightly, looked me in the eye, and asked me.

"I want to ...... If I ask you something, please tell me in detail. ”

"Ask, what's the matter? Anything I know, I'll tell you everything, unless I don't want to. As Arthur said this, a twinkle flashed in his eyes.

"You ......" I swallowed, looked into her face, and cautiously asked, "You know...... What is 'The X'? ”

At that moment, I saw Arthur's brow furrow slightly, but she quickly covered it up, and she smiled again:

"You know, isn't there the letter 'The X' on the door of the lab all the time? Especially that door. ”

"The door? What is the door? I leaned my head over Arthur and asked her.

"It's the door to the 'Eighth Man.'"

"The Eighth Man"?

I remember the first day on the boat, Arthur and I also mentioned him/her.

A drop of sweat ran down my cheek, and I continued, "'The Eighth Man'...... Who exactly? ”

Arthur laughed and shook his head.

What does she mean by shaking her head? Don't know? Still don't want to tell me?

"Then let me change the question, what exactly is being studied in that laboratory? Why are we being confined to that lab as test subjects?"

She looked at me, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "The research room is the actual place where the 'Ark' project is actually carried out, and we are the eight people who have been selected to be locked in different rooms for experiments since childhood. I don't know why they chose us and who our parents were. All I know is that I've been in the lab for as long as I can remember, and I've never been outside. ”

"What exactly is the purpose of the experiment?"

Arthur gestured with his hands in a circle, then replied, "I remember being taken to a huge room by a man in a white coat with an egg-shaped metal container. He would click the button on the egg and insert the pinhole attached to the egg into my skin. Every once in a while, maybe two weeks or so, they would bring me over, and then they would look at the data on the monitor and take notes, and so on, and that's it. ”

"Then what is the 'Ark' plan you are talking about, what is the 'Ark' plan?"

She shook her head again and added, "I just keep hearing the words 'Ark' in their mouths, and I don't know what this plan is and how it is implemented. ”

I lowered my head and crossed my hands over each other.

After listening to so much, it turned out that there was still not a single piece of information related to 'The X'.

"Thank you, Arthur. Then I'll go back first. I said goodbye to Arthur and walked to the door.

"Wait a minute." Arthur stopped me from behind.

I looked back at her, and her eyes looked sad and sad.

"'The X' is only something you can find, not anyone but you."

"Why?"

"There's no why, you just have to remember."

She laughed, laughing so painfully.

I, without saying anything, just closed the door softly and walked back to my room.

0:00 on June 11, 2050

It's finally this point in time.

I hadn't fallen asleep since I got back from Arthur's room, tossing and turning, waiting for Yin Ji to show up.

Arthur refused to tell me, and I couldn't trust the others, and now my only hope was in the presence of this girl who suddenly appeared and left.

I waited quietly from zero o'clock until three o'clock in the evening, but Yin Ji never came out, and no strong wind blew again.

Did she just disappear? After saying the last sentence of the last time, he disappeared from my world......

No, it won't be like this!

I kept waiting, waiting, waiting...... She didn't reappear until the sun rose into the sky the next day.

It seems that I am left on my own, on my own strength to find 'The X'.

June 15, 2050 at 10:23 a.m

I hadn't seen Yin Ji for five days, and now I was even starting to wonder if I had actually met her, or if I had really dreamed of her. Maybe she's just a dream of my own making; Maybe she's a memory lurking in my heart; Or maybe she was nothing at all, but it was because of the confusion of my overly bound nerves that such a person appeared in front of me.

But the only thing I knew was that I had to look for "The X". In the dark, I always had the feeling that "The X" was the key to solving all the mysteries, and the only key that could open the "door" that would save the six of us from this uninhabited island. Moreover, this is evident from Arthur's last words to me that night.

- "The X" is only for you, not anyone but you.

I am the only one who holds this key, the key that is hidden by everyone, that I cannot see.

So I plan to act independently, without relying on anyone or anything, but simply relying on my most primitive instincts to find the way I should go.

I wandered around the room, and before I knew it, I had entered the secret basement. The lights around me began to flicker, and it seemed to stir me up, as if to tempt me, and walk towards the row of keys step by step.

I looked at the key and couldn't help but frown. I counted the number of keys and looked at the cells on either side. I woke up suddenly, understood what it meant, and checked the keys hanging on the wall one by one.

It turns out that there is a spare key in each key ring, and in the fourth-to-last key ring there are two spare keys, one of which is not numbered. Not only that, but in the center of the key, there is no key in a yellow keyring, and every other key ring can be numbered exactly like a cell.

"What's going on? Maybe this key is the key. With this in mind, I began to scrutinize every corner of this basement, and finally I found a door behind a huge mirror.

"Is this the door?"

I inserted the key, but I couldn't turn it, obviously it didn't belong to the door, so where did the extra key belong? And where is the real key to this door? I have no way of knowing.

Just when I was at a loss and felt that this room was worthless, I heard a heart-rending shout from outside.

I quickly slipped the key into my pocket and rushed out, running in the direction of the sound.

The five people, except for me, formed a semicircle and stood at the door of the cabin, looking at the fish held in Zhou Qiuxian's hand. I saw that Zhou Qiuxian's face was extremely pale, but her hands kept trembling, she threw the fish on the ground with a "snap", raised her head and looked at the faces of the six of us in despair, and said hoarsely: "It's over, it's over, the fish are all dead, there is no one left, we have nothing to eat, how should we live!"

Hearing Zhou Qiuxian's words, Arthur and Xiaoyu fainted on the spot, while Yu Bo and Wu Han lowered their heads and said nothing, their expressions were very terrifying.

In this case, no matter who you are, you should not be able to accept it and lose your cool. I don't know why, I should be hopeless, but my heart is extremely calm, as if I already knew.