The robot flying in the direction of the space corridor seemed to drag the entire night, driving the last rays of twilight out of the distance.

Zhong Ming stared intently at the place where the last bit of light had disappeared, until the weeping young man and woman left with the chirping children, and the night completely occupied the sky, so that he could no longer make out the direction, and then he sighed and fell down on the grassy slope; In the scented night, he closed his eyes.

The strange things that happened in this park had nothing to do with him, but they made Zhong Ming anxious, and he wanted to know what kind of punishment the old man who killed the goose would suffer; Curious about the secrets hidden in the spiritual wellness center; I wonder what kind of organization group the Guardians of Harmony and Beauty are. However, all these problems are fundamentally unsolvable for Zhong Ming, who is a beginner professional. To figure out these things is like trying to find the girl who left her lip print in this megacity of more than 100 million people, which is simply impossible.

Immersed in the overwhelming darkness, as the birdsong weakened and the insects began to chirping, the bell began to feel a weak despair gradually swallowing itself. In this complicated world, he is so small, so helpless, so useless. How he wished he was in a dream. But when he struggled to open his eyes, the crimson sky that greeted his eyes was so real, so terrifying. In a trance, he began to wonder if he really existed. Can't help but apprehensively put his hands into the air, trying to grab the air. However, this move made him unconsciously see the time on his wrist that kept changing and the life points that had not changed on their own.

"Existence? Do you exist? Where is it? Where the hell are you? All. For what? He didn't say to himself.

"I'm here. I've always been there for you. ”

The female voice that suddenly poured into his ears made Zhong Ming sit up nervously. But when I looked around, I found nothing.

"Are you there? Where are you? Who are you? Who are you? ”

"Who are you? Who are you? The female voice calmly repeated Zhong Ming's excited question.

"Me. I'm Zhong Ming. ”

"Nope. You're not. You are the number ZM2046. ”

"You? Who are you? ”

"You? Who are you? The female voice repeated Zhong Ming's words again.

"I'm number ZM2046."

"Nope. You're not. You are Zhong Ming. ”

"What is such a conversation? Who are you? Where the hell are you? ”

"Haven't you been looking for me? I've always been where you want to look. ”

"Why can't I see you?"

"Because you haven't found me yet."

"Where are you?"

"I'm where you've always wanted to look."

"Me? What is that place? ”

"It's where it all begins, and where it all ends."

"What? Who are you? ”

"I'm the kiss mark you wiped away."

"You?"

"I'm the memory you're looking for."

"You? Where are you? ”

"Where it all began, it all ended."

"Where everything begins and ends?" Zhong Ming silently recited these words, and suddenly woke up in a bone-chilling chill.

After shuddering and sitting up from the ground, Zhong Ming found from his watch that there were only two hours left until midnight. He couldn't remember how he had fallen asleep, and he couldn't clearly recall the dream that had suddenly begun and ended abruptly. But none of that matters for now. The most important thing for him at this moment is that after two hours, his life points will begin to diminish over time, just like the unemployed.

"Where everything begins and ends?" Thinking of this whisper that came into his ears in his dream, Zhong Ming suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and then got up like crazy and ran. Guided by the thought that popped into his mind, he prepared to go straight to the nearest MRT station to take the bus back to the factory. However, after a wild run, he rushed out of the woods, only to see the traffic-filled carriageway separating the entire city forest from the surrounding skyscrapers.

After running desperately along the wall next to the road for about ten minutes, Zhong Ming found an underground passage entrance to the dungeon. With the help of the subway station service robot, Zhong Ming finally stepped on the MRT train to the industrial area where the service robot factory where Zhong Ming worked after transferring to the city subway three times, just before the door closed.

The carriages of this midnight train were a little empty. Especially when the train leaves the city and enters the agricultural area between the factory area and the city, there is no light on the black earth. Zhong Ming can only be accompanied by himself reflected in the car window, and the atmosphere is very eerily quiet.

"Where everything begins and ends?" Zhong Ming, who was alone, couldn't help but recall this sentence, but she never couldn't think of what she looked like when she said this. I can't figure out if she's the owner of the red lip print.

"Where everything begins and ends?" He felt a pair of eyes lock on him from the dark world, but he couldn't make out his expression, he didn't know if the dark shadow had a similar fear to him, or a hideous smile.

He couldn't help but get to his feet, and fled to the next car with faster and faster steps. In this way, he ran from car to carriage until he finally reached the last carriage where there was no way out, and then turned around and walked to the other end of the train.

After repeating this run many times, Zhong Ming was sure that the entire train was empty except for himself, and not even a single robot could be seen. He was born in fear, and feared the loneliness of all four people; fear of the word that does not know its source; Fear is just an illusory dream; Fear of a journey that doesn't know where to begin, and how it will end; and his life, who also doesn't know the beginning, let alone the end.

Thankfully, the train running at an average speed close to the speed of sound quickly delivered the bell to its destination. Zhong Ming was able to draw his attention back to his body before he had a nervous breakdown, and jumped out of the carriage at a speed like running for his life, and ran to the factory gate as fast as he could.

However, when Zhong Ming rushed to the factory gate, he could not take the last step into the factory.

"Where everything begins and ends?" Zhong Ming repeated the sentence again, and turned in a circle in front of the gate in anticipation.

I don't know how long it took to babble like this, Zhong Ming still didn't see her appear, but he felt the warm liquid gradually blur his vision.

"Where everything begins and ends?"

Emotions were on the verge of getting out of control, and the bell stopped wandering, but facing the metal gate of the factory, he still couldn't take the last step.

After one step, he will forget about the short-haired girl on the train; the demolished underground red-light district, the down-and-out violinist, the angry girl; The panicked children, the crazy wild geese, and the old man who was sent to the spiritual rehabilitation center after killing the goose. All memories of his departure from the factory are erased.

However, he still did not completely forget her, and he would not forget the kiss marks that had disappeared from his cheeks, but were deeply embedded in his memory. You can't act as if nothing happened. Everything will start again, but everything can't really end. And this is not what he wants.

But as a junior professional who will have to worry about his life when he leaves the factory, what choice does he have? What can you choose?

Just as the bell was ringing hesitantly, the lights of the maglev train were faintly heard in the distance. That was the last train of the night from the factory area to Wamei Shengdu. When it passed the platform in the factory area, Zhong Ming's hesitation could be completely over, because after it left, Zhong Ming would have no place for him to stay within a radius of several hundred kilometers except to return to the factory where he worked.

Seeing the lights approaching rapidly, Zhong Ming, who had been hesitant, suddenly ran up, facing the lights of the train, towards the MRT station far away from the factory, and jumped onto the last train bound for Wamei Shengdu before the train doors closed.

At the same moment as boarding the train, Zhong Ming's life points began to beat at the same speed along with the second movement on his watch.