Chapter 5 A fork in the road in life

"Class-A amnestics! You just want to beat me to amnesia! ”

"After all, what you know is a matter of secrecy, and amnestics will definitely not escape......" The director threw the Physics Sword in his hand, and took out a shiny mace from his trench coat: "Of course, if you don't like the Physics Sword, I can give you a different taste." ”

Wu Ming rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I don't want any flavor of amnestics (physics), compared to these, why do you have to scare me like this?" ”

The expression on the director's face became a little playful: "Oh? What exactly are you trying to say? ”

Although Wu Ming is occasionally immersed in his delusions of middle two diseases, he knows better than anyone else his position in the real world, he is definitely not the chosen one, and he has never experienced the experience of a similar chosen person since he was a child, so he knows very well that such a good thing as pie falling from the sky will definitely not hit his head, even if he smashes his head, he will only rush to the hospital to check whether his brain has been smashed.

"I want to say I'm not human...... String words, I want to say that I'm just an ordinary person, an ordinary person with no characteristics, this time if it weren't for a whim, I wouldn't have been involved in the incident, if it was the pursuit of secrecy, you didn't have to show up from the beginning, you could use the trick of creating this starry universe to quietly recover the two superwomen, or do it even better, you can completely extinguish it as the ultimate means of keeping secrets. But now you're using amnestics to scare me, you're ......."

Reason seems to lock Wu Ming's superfluous emotions, when talking about the director's ability to kill himself, he calmly seems to be talking about other people's affairs, he knows very well that the black-haired woman in front of him, who looks like a literary girl, wants to pinch herself to death It is not too easy, after all, the other party can stun the existence of the two superwomen in the air, but before he finished speaking, the director complained to him like a middle-aged uncle with a bad career.

"Because it's too much trouble to deal with it afterwards! It is necessary to correct the trajectory of life, to erase memories, and to smooth out the various logical contradictions that arise from the elimination of matters! I don't want to add to the workload......"

Wu Ming looked confused: "Huh? ”

The director took out something from his trench coat for the third time, it was a black notebook, and the square Wu Ming could vaguely see that it said Death Not...... She turned two pages and said to Wu Ming: "The first article of the third item of the Lucky Gushen Office Staff Code clearly states: If you accidentally involve unrelated people for work reasons and have interfered with their life trajectory, you must do a good job of dealing with the aftermath including but not limited to life trajectory correction, amnestics, treatment of injuries and resurrection, etc., this is the rule I have set, and I must be a good example of abiding by the rules as the director of the firm." ”

"As for pulling you in, in fact, about one or two hundred years ago, the temporary workers who helped the firm to deal with those chores didn't know what was crazy and suddenly quit their jobs, because they haven't found a suitable candidate, so recently all kinds of chores piled up in the firm have become more and more, if you follow the firm, it not only solves your aftermath problem, but also solves the mountain of chores in the office, which is simply a good thing to kill two birds with one stone! Oh yes, we also have a good discussion on the welfare side, you may encounter a lot of problems and even die a few times during the probationary period, but the newcomer will be familiar with the solution to these problems sooner or later, and this time we have thought about it carefully, and decided to shorten the newcomer assessment period a little bit......"

Because there were too many slots, Wu Ming was stuck in his throat for a long time and didn't know where to start, and only after a while did he hold back a sentence: "So you think it's troublesome to deal with afterwards, so you're ready to let me deal with the aftermath by myself?" ”

The director showed a sly smile: "How is it?" Isn't my best of both worlds a must? ”

Wu Ming suddenly burst into flames: "Where is the best of both worlds!" You're just dragging me into the water! ”

Although if Wu Ming wants to investigate carefully, there will definitely be some strange places, but at least this is better than "You will win the lottery, I will draw you to come to our office to do a great career!" This obviously perfunctory statement is much more reliable.

So Wu Ming accepted the director's statement: "If I join, I will be in the position of the temporary worker one or two hundred years ago?" ”

"That's right, think about it and then make a choice, in the end, join us to step into the unknown world and see the wonderful and vast world." The director nodded and then stretched out his hand towards Wu Ming: "I still choose to refuse, let me clear this memory of yours...... Well, don't worry, it's painless, and then you will return to a dull and happy life without any waves, just like this. ”

This time, Wu Ming did not answer immediately as before.

He hesitated, and Wu Ming, who originally thought that he would be able to give an answer without thinking at all, began to waver in this choice.

Wu Ming has long fantasized that his life can become more bizarre and exciting, fantasizing that there may be all kinds of wonderful creatures in urban legends active in the dark parts of the world, on the one hand, he hopes that the world he lives in can be more interesting, and hopes that this world can be full of all kinds of strange and unreasonable things to enrich the world, but on the other hand, he is denying these ideas: this world is objective and regular, just like a precision machine, The things he wanted to happen that were out of the ordinary could not have happened. Wu Ming has always been in such a contradictory state and lives every day - longing for an extraordinary life, but denying the existence of this life because of rationality.

Of course, this is not because Wu Ming is dissatisfied with his stable life, maybe there is indeed a trace of yearning for this kind of life in his heart, but more of it is just a simple daydream of not wanting money, so when it came time to choose, he hesitated.

In front of Wu Ming are two completely different paths, representing two different lives.

If he refuses, Wu Ming will forget everything today as the director said, and then continue to live every day as an amateur teacher, maybe after accumulating enough experience and funds, he will also recruit a few dance teachers to open a dance training base, specializing in dance lessons for preschool children and art candidates in the middle and high school entrance examinations, and then get married and have children step by step, raise the child to adulthood, and begin to enjoy his retirement life after he starts a family, without any serious illness and no crime, After sending off his wife who had been with him for decades, he ushered in his death safely in a rocking chair, this is the stable life of ordinary people that Wu Ming can imagine.

But if he agrees to join the gang, Wu Ming may be able to get in touch with those strange things as he wishes, and can see a world that is far broader and more interesting than in the past, and may also die once or several times because of some shocking and exciting events, of course, the difference between dying once and dying a few times depends entirely on whether the director and the lucky ancient god firm can reliably save him back, if they are not reliable enough, it is estimated that Wu Ming thinks that his magnificent life will just start a prelude and will collapse in the middle of the road.

In the long silence, the director just quietly watched Wu Ming think, which made Wu Ming, who was hesitating, still have a trace of emotion in his heart: when she didn't speak, she really looked like a quiet literary beautiful girl, but unfortunately as soon as she opened her mouth, this image had to collapse.

Finally, thinking about what he has experienced in less than half a day today, the wonderful changes in the development of events are like watching a movie with ups and downs, and Wu Ming already has the answer in his heart.

Or the answer has been there from the beginning, but Wu Ming, who has been comfortable and slack for a long time, finally dares to take this step now.

"When I was a child, I always thought that the world was vast, interesting, and colorful, everyone could see the vast world, and all kinds of anecdotes, strange fantasies coexisted under this vast sky, I thought that there were infinite possibilities in this world, I thought that as long as I worked hard, I could be rewarded, everything has a reason and an answer, and I believe that good and evil are rewarded......"

Taking this step means saying goodbye to the ordinary life of the past, and the repetitive cycle of life like a machine will be forced to become a thing of the past, Wu Ming may be made by all kinds of inexplicable things every day, and the once miraculously stable daily life will become a precious rest time in various events in the future.

"Then I felt like I was wrong. The world is complex and narrow, everyone is bound to their own narrow circle of life and common sense, what is impossible to happen is impossible to happen without a reason, it is common for hard work to not be rewarded, the wicked sometimes he just can't be punished, fantasy is a privilege that only children have, the world is reasonable and unreasonable......"

As long as he takes this step, it means that he has chosen the future trajectory of his life, everything will change, whether he joins the firm or not, he will step out of his familiar environment and go to a broader and new sky, he no longer wants to continue to live like a robot.

"As a result, what happened today made me realize that the world has always been vast, interesting, and colorful, and I trapped myself in my own life circle and common sense, so it became more and more boring, and in the end, it was my own cognition that limited me......"

Wu Ming has long been aware of the problem in his heart, but he has always refused to face it, constantly deceiving himself, and using the complex and narrow and unreasonable arguments of the world to persuade himself to give up, if it weren't for these things that happened today, maybe he would still have been self-persuading and self-deception in the future, living a mechanical life step by step like a living corpse, or he would wake up one day in the future because of an opportunity and regret that he had wasted too much time......

"I want to go to a wider world, I want to experience more strange and interesting things, I want to meet more people, I want to hear more moving stories, I want to witness more unknown ......"

Somehow, Wu Ming suddenly thought of a sentence.

Chaowen said, can you die at night?

Wu Ming's answer is already very clear.

"That's it!"

Then he took the director's outstretched hand.