(Foreword)

The first meeting was a predestined reincarnation.

(Text)

0:00 on June 8, 2050

She couldn't sleep in bed.

The strong wind blew up, and the wooden windows "creaked", making people feel panicked. When a thunderclap flashed in the sky, she reappeared in front of Arthur.

Her face felt extremely pale today, like a blank piece of paper, which looked terrifying and terrifying.

Arthur stood up and walked over to her, clutching the wooden window frame, staring at her blood-red eyes, smiling sadly, and asked her, "Yin Ji, tell me, who should I trust under this roof now?" Or should no one believe ......"

Yin Ji didn't answer her, but sweated on her forehead from time to time, grabbed Arthur's shoulder with her cold hand, and urged: "Hurry up, go find 'The X', I'm dying, I won't have much time to support, otherwise you will all die." ”

“‘The X’？ What exactly is 'The X'? Yin Ji, you answer me, I don't know, how do you ask me to find it! ”

Yin Ji smiled miserably, pointing to the beast area, blood flowing from the corner of her mouth.

As soon as the wind stopped, she disappeared again in front of Arthur's eyes, as if she had never been.

Arthur woke up and looked out the window—there was nothing, not even a shadow.

Arthur fell into a deep sleep in deep thought, and when he woke up again it was 10 a.m.

June 10, 2050 at 10:48 a.m

"......

It was raining heavily outside the window, and Arthur sat cross-legged in front of the fireplace, looking at the flames burning inside, and sat alone in a daze.

The weather has been so dreary these days, and it has been raining constantly, which makes people feel annoying.

Xiaoyu walked over and blew the short whistle in her neck hard, but there was no sound, and then pointed at the fake coral in front of the door of the dwarf's room.

"Okay, Xiaoyu, I'm not in the mood to pour that fake thing."

Arthur touched Xiaoyu's head and sent her aside. Xiaoyu pursed her lips and sat on the wooden chair with an angry "hum".

"Oh no, no! Something big is wrong, something is wrong! ”

The queen ran in in a panic, holding a purple orange in her hand, and her expression was very frightened.

"What's wrong? So flustered? Char happened to come over and look at her in horror and immediately asked.

"Animals outside...... All...... All poisoned! ”

"What?! Poisoned?!" Char's eyes widened, and her hands and feet trembled and she collapsed to the ground.

"yes, yes. You see, the wild oranges they eat seem to be poisonous. ”

The queen said, holding up the purple orange to show them.

"Shall we ...... Didn't you eat at all? Char said, tears streaming down her face.

"No, we can still make a living from fishing, and the fish in the sea should still be edible." Arthur said.

"Yes, don't panic, let's go to the beach to confirm the situation first." Yu Bo walked down the stairs and stood in front of them.

They looked at Yu Bo and calmed down.

"What about Wu Han? Where is Wu Han? Call him along. Yu Bo added.

The queen said "um", and then she quickly ran to Wu Han's room and called him out as well.

In this way, the six of them walked together towards the sea, and when they confirmed that there was no problem with the fish in the sea, they breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the cabin.

However, at that time, they did not know that the moment they turned around, a fish suddenly flipped over its belly, stared at the fish's eyes, and died there.

Its death is only the beginning, just like a dwarf can trigger a succession of deaths.

But at that time, they did not know and did not understand the cruelty of fate.

June 10, 2050 at 22:10 p.m

Arthur was tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep at all, and his mind was recalling dreams about Yin Ji.

She annoyed, got up from the bed, and knocked on the door of Char's room, next to her.

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

"Let's go, let's go inside." She walked into Char's room, sat down on a chair in his room, looked at his face seriously, and didn't know where to speak.

"Okay, can you talk about it now?" Char smiled slightly, looked into its eyes, and asked her.

"I want to ...... I would like to 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. Char's eyes flashed as she said this.

"You ......" Arthur swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked into his face, and asked cautiously, "You know...... What is 'The X'? ”

At that moment, she saw Char's brows furrow slightly, but he quickly covered it up, and he 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? Arthur leaned his head over Char and asked her.

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

"The Eighth Man"?

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

Char smiled and shook his head.

"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?"

Char looked at Arthur, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The research room is the actual place where the 'Ark' plan is actually carried out, and we are the eight people who have been selected to conduct experiments in different rooms 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?"

Char gestured with both hands in a circle, then replied, "I remember being taken to a huge room with an egg-shaped metal container by a man in a white coat every time. 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 carefully, and so on, and that's it. ”

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

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

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

"Wait a minute." Char stopped her from behind.

Arthur looked back at him, his eyes looking 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."

Char smiled, laughing so painfully, as if she had endured a hundred years of suffering, which impressed her.

Arthur didn't say anything, didn't know what to say, just closed the door softly and walked back to her room.

0:00 on June 11, 2050

It's finally this point in time.

Arthur hadn't fallen asleep since he returned from Char's room, tossing and turning, his heart frizzy, waiting for Yin Ji to appear.

She 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.

June 15, 2050 at 10:23 a.m

Arthur wandered around the room, unknowingly entering the secret basement. The lights around her began to flicker, and it seemed to encourage her, as if to tempt her, and walked towards the row of keys step by step.

Arthur looked at the key and couldn't help but frown. She counted the number of keys, looked at the cells on either side, and suddenly woke up, 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.