Virtual Escape

I never thought that one day, the goddess in Douyin would talk to me and ask me for help through the screen of my phone!

1

After getting off work in the evening, I dragged my tired body back to the rental room, and after ordering takeout, I collapsed on the bed.

It was another overtime day, and I was almost out of breath due to the countless work, so I habitually opened Douyin to find my favorite goddess Yami and admire her energetic dancing.

Only this moment can make me forget my worries for a while and feel more relaxed than I have ever been.

Just as I was engrossed, the music in the video suddenly stopped, and Yami's dance also stopped.

I was stunned to see her face contorted to look at me, and her mouth kept shouting, "Help me! Help me......"

"!" I screamed in fright and threw my phone away.

This is an edited short video, not a live broadcast, even if it is a mistake, she and her team should find out, this is not possible.

There was a deathly silence in the room, only Yami's cry for help, which kept echoing in my ears through my mobile phone.

"Dingding!" Just when I was at a loss, the doorbell rang suddenly.

I looked nervously at the door, who was knocking on the door so late?

At this time, the mobile phone on the ground sounded music again, I looked down at the mobile phone screen, and found that Yami was smiling at the corner of her mouth, twisting her waist in the screen energetically, as charming and moving as usual.

The eerie picture just now seems to be just my hallucination!

I trembled and picked up my phone, dragged the progress bar in the video, and went back to the previous point in time, and found that everything was normal, Yami had been dancing to the music, and she had not asked for help from beginning to end.

"Ding Ding ......"

Another ringing of the doorbell made me calm down and asked aloud, "Who?"

"Hello, the takeout has arrived!"

2

During my lunch break the next day, I told my colleague Li Hang about last night.

He is also a fan of Yami, and every video of the goddess, he will watch it carefully, if there is really a problem like last night, he must know.

"Are you mentally abnormal after working overtime recently, Yami's tens of millions of fans, if it was like you said, she really had such a distress video, and everyone would have rushed to the hot search!"

I thought about it carefully, and there was nothing wrong with what he said, so many people watched the video, and if there was a problem, it would have spread a long time ago.

But I'm pretty sure that last night's incident wasn't a hallucination, or that I wasn't mentally normal.

In the afternoon, while the boss was away, Li Hang and I went to the toilet to for pay.

Lighting a cigarette and squatting in the pit while habitually brushing Tik Tok is arguably the most comfortable moment in my working hours.

Looking at the big Vs in Douyin who are showing off their wealth all day long, I have changed from envy and jealousy at the beginning to numbness, don't these guys order other content? Life is too monotonous!

I swiped my finger boredly, and before I knew it, I was scrolling back to last night's video.

I stared at the screen for a while, and was about to paddle away, but suddenly I noticed that Yami's lips began to squirm. Move.

At that point in time, the music stopped, the dancing stopped, and the girl said eagerly to me through the screen, "Help me! Liu Feng, please save me!"

My heart stopped beating at this moment, and she was calling my name through the screen!

Is this a dream, or am I crazy?

"You're calling me?"

"Hmm."

Seeing her nod in acknowledgement, I suppressed my surprise and asked, "What danger are you in?" Why don't you call the police for help?"

"I'm trapped, can you come and save me?"

Yami's pitiful eyes made me feel a sense of justice, and I instantly forgot the strangeness of this conversation, and ignited the soul of the middle two in my heart.

My life is up to me, and whoever dares to touch my goddess, I will fight with whom!

"Where are you? I'll get you right away!"

I thought Yami would tell me an address and tell me to take the police immediately. When I looked over, I didn't expect her to point to her feet and say that she was trapped in her phone.

Stuck in your phone? I'm a little confused, is this a code word?

Before I could ask again, two options popped up at the bottom of my phone's screen: Accept

& Refuse.

"There's no time, if you want to save me, just accept it!" Yami said eagerly.

The progress bar of the video was coming to an end, and I didn't have time to think at all, so in a hurry, I clicked "Accept".

The moment I clicked it, the progress bar was at the end of the day, and the video started playing again, and nothing happened.

I stared at the phone screen for a long time before I realized, who is pranking me!

It must be Li Hang, only this guy knows what happened last night, he must be playing tricks on me!

"Okay, Brother Li, I didn't see that you still had this hand, I didn't see this video P at all!" I teased.

Li Hang next door yawned and asked, "What video, what are you talking about?"

This grandson is quite capable of pretending!

I cursed in my heart, and I lifted my pants, not ready to bother with him anymore, but when I pushed open the door of the cubicle, I couldn't help but spit out the fragrance of the scene.

"Holy! Where is this?"

3

Outside the cubicle was not the familiar sink, but a bedroom!

Looking around, the room was full of women's clothes except for a few pieces of furniture, and it was clear that this was a woman's room.

The door to the cubicle behind me had vanished, and I felt as if I had suddenly appeared here, without any sign or trace.

I looked at the pink-hued bedroom in front of me in shock, and was wondering how I had come here, when the bedroom door was suddenly pushed open, and a man in a suit with sunglasses walked in from the outside.

The moment we saw each other, we both froze for a moment, obviously neither of us expected to meet anyone else here.

I was about to explain, but suddenly I saw him holding a bloody dagger in his hand.

The heavy smell of blood came from outside the door, and I looked behind him alertly to see a woman in suspender underwear lying down outside the room.

The woman's hair was scattered, her face was pale, and blood was gushing down her neck, and she looked hopeless.

Don't think about it, if I happened to hit the murder, or if I hit the scene directly!

I'm really ...... I had a good, why did I suddenly end up at the scene of the murder?

I reacted fairly quickly, knowing that this situation had to be escaped before the killer could strike, so I grabbed the clothes scattered on the bed, threw them at the other person's head, pushed him away and tried to run out the door.

His reaction was a little slower, but he also grabbed me at the first time and didn't let me escape.

I don't know if my strength is too small, or if the other party's strength is too strong, that hand is like an iron hoop, put on my wrist, and I can't break free with all my strength.

Looking at the other party's eyes without fluctuation, I was really scared, it turned out that when people are afraid, their legs will really be weak.

"Big brother, I'm just passing by, there's no need to ......."

I was babbling nonsense, but the other party was clearly not interested in listening to what I had to say, and grabbed me with one hand, and the other hand holding the blade had already stabbed me in the heart.

The dagger was drawn and stabbed in the stomach several times in succession, and the other party was obviously not prepared to stay alive.

Blood gushed out, and I fell to the ground, not only scared, but more aggrieved.

Did I just die in such a daze? Although my life is a mess, I don't even know what's going on, so I hang up like this, which is too embarrassing!

As my consciousness blurred, I looked weakly ahead, and suddenly saw my face in the shattered glass of the doorway.

No way! I almost screamed out why the glass was reflected. What came out was a woman's face?

What's even more incredible is that after careful identification, I was shocked to find that the woman reflected in the glass turned out to be Yami!

How did I become a Yami? What the hell is going on......

As consciousness vanished, so did the doubts in my mind, and darkness enveloped me.

I don't know how long it took, a familiar voice came from afar: "Liu Feng, wake up, the boss is back!" Hurry up!"

I opened my eyes with difficulty, and suddenly I saw Li Hang's greasy big face in front of me.

"Ahh

As soon as I called out halfway, Li Hang covered his mouth: "You kid can do it, just finished with pay and slept with pay, you are not afraid of being discovered by the boss!"

"Damn, I'm not dead! It was just a dream......

4

The next morning, while brushing my teeth, I scrolled through the hot news of the day on my phone, and suddenly I saw a message that made my hands and feet cold.

"Yesterday, a Douyin Internet celebrity was killed at home, and the murderer stabbed him in the abdomen several times, the method was extremely cruel, in addition, a female part-time worker was killed together, and the specific case is being investigated by the police."

This news immediately reminded me of Yami, wasn't my experience yesterday a dream?

I frantically searched for the details of this news, trying to find some clues that negated my inner thoughts, but in the end, I was desperate to find that the Internet celebrity who was killed was Yami.

The photos in the news, exactly the same as the ones I saw in that bedroom yesterday afternoon, with pink décor and clothes scattered all over the place...... Wait, it's all the same!

All of a sudden, the world was spinning, and I almost fell, because what happened yesterday was real!

"Impossible! There can't be such a thing!"

5

After that, Yami's Douyin was never updated, and the singing and dancing video wearing white lace became a swan song, and the number of likes broke the record.

It can be determined that the Douyin Internet celebrity who was killed in the news is Yami.

I don't know what to do, call the police? But how do I explain that I've become a girl? I didn't even see the murderer's face, who would believe my words!

I'm just an ordinary person, and in order not to get into trouble, I can only choose to be silent.

6

At night, I suddenly woke up coughing while I was asleep, and I turned on the light in a daze, and was shocked to find that the room was full of smoke.

At first I thought I was dreaming, but soon I was choking on smoke and coughing, and I was fully awake.

I got up to take a look outside, but as soon as I opened the bedroom door, a puff of smoke surrounded me, and I was choked back and couldn't open my eyes.

Such a big smoke, where is this on fire! Thinking of this, I leaned down and ran out the door.

My rental house was on the second floor, and there was a hallway outside my room, but when I looked up, I was completely blindsided.

In front of me was not the corridor I was familiar with, but an open mall.

I leaned on, and it felt exactly the same as the last time I went to Yami's house, as soon as I opened the door, I suddenly arrived in a strange place.

I looked down and immediately noticed that the half-sleeves and pants I was wearing had been turned into a fully armed firefighting suit.

Just when I was about to find a mirror to see what I looked like now, a hurried voice suddenly came from me: "Wang Sen call, Wang Sen call, a large number of flammable materials have been found on the north side of the third floor, ask for support!"

"The main station has received it, and the east side team has been urgently dispatched to support."

"Wang Sen receives ......"

I looked around and realized that the sound was coming from the walkie-talkie on my body.

I looked at my firefighting suit and couldn't help but smile bitterly, no! Again?

How am I "fugue" again!

Looking at myself in the fitting mirror of the mall, I almost wanted to scold my mother, what the hell is going on, I slept well, how did I become a firefighter in a daze, and I was still at the scene of the fire!

This is too cheating!

"Wu Feng, what are you doing, why are you stunned!"

I was at a loss when a stern voice suddenly came from behind me.

I turned around and saw two firefighters with blackened faces walking towards me.

The eldest one shouted at me in a hoarse voice, "803 has two children trapped on the balcony, you and Xiao Liu hurry up to the balcony next door to rescue them!" The fire on the north side is too big, and I have to rush to the rescue......

"Yes!"

He muttered a lot, and before I could answer, he turned and walked away, and the young firefighter next to him responded loudly and pulled me upstairs.

I wanted to tell him that I wasn't a firefighter, nor was I the Wu Feng they were talking about, but I didn't know what to say.

I was woken up in the middle of the night, and when I opened the door, I became another person, who can believe this!

We ran to the eighth floor in one go, and it was strange that I didn't feel so tired in such a heavy firefighting suit.

The door of 803 has been burned and deformed, and at a glance, it is clear that the fire inside is not small, Xiao Liu kicked open the door of 804 according to the captain's instructions, and prepared to rescue him from the balcony.

But as soon as we opened the door, the fire in the house suddenly grew larger and rushed towards us.

I knew that this should be caused by the ingress of oxygen outside the house, and followed Xiao Liu to the balcony.

"Angkor, you go over and save the child first, and I'll put out the fire here." Xiao Liu pointed to the balcony next door and said to me.

I looked out the window, on the eighth floor, although it was only more than 20 meters above the ground, it didn't sound high, but it was dead if I fell.

I measured the distance between the two balconies again, and I couldn't help but swallow: "It's more than two meters from here to the next balcony, so you shouldn't let me jump over here, right?"

"yes!"

"There's no protection ...... this."

"What's wrong with you Angkor, isn't it a piece of cake for you at such a distance!"

"But there are two more children!"

"Angkor, your weight-bearing jump is a team record, even with two children, it should be fine!"

I almost believed what he said, I was really so good, I could take two children and jump more than two meters from a height of more than 20 meters!

I stood on the balcony railing, looking at the figure downstairs, my legs trembling, and the whirring wind and heat wave made my forehead full of cold sweat.

Two balconies, so close to each other, but in my eyes at the moment, it is like a moat.

No, I can't! I'm just an ordinary person, and this kind of thing is too much for me!

But the crying of the two children made me have to jump, Yami's story has proved that these are not my fantasies or dreams, they are real, if I cringe, those two little lives will really die.

A surge of blood made me suddenly less afraid, just die, rush!

After making up my mind to jump out, I found that my body was much more flexible than I imagined, and I usually couldn't breathe when I ran a few steps, and this jump almost jumped out of the balcony of 803!

Why am I so good?

I muttered to myself, not knowing if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

However, just as I landed smoothly on the balcony of 803 and was about to jump back with my two children, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure in my peripheral vision.

Sunglasses, a black suit, a dagger in his hand, and the figure in the flames was like a god of death, slowly walking towards me.

7

This...... Isn't this the murderer who killed Yami! How could he be here?

I looked at him and instantly became nervous: "You...... What do you want to do?"

He didn't say a word, still walking towards me with a dagger in his hand.

"Don't come here, I know you killed Yami, you can't escape!"

I was talking nonsense and threatening, just to give myself courage, but I didn't expect him to stop when he heard me talk about Yami.

"How do you know?" His voice was emotionless, like an emotionless robot.

"I saw it with my own eyes!"

As soon as I answered, I realized that I had made a mistake, and when he heard me say this, would he have guessed that I could enter someone else's body and go directly to me to kill him?

But after thinking about it, I am not so afraid, he is not a god, how could he think of such a bizarre thing.

"See it with your own eyes? Were you there at the time? It seems that there are still people who know the truth."

As he spoke, he stopped walking towards me quickly.

My heart sank instantly, what did he mean by that? Did he think of it?

Looking at his approaching figure, although I was still scared, I was not as scared as last time.

Because I already know that no matter what Wu Feng does, my body will not be harmed.

And I also found that after entering Wu Feng's body, I obviously inherited his physical fitness and reaction ability, so at this time, I had some confidence to resist.

Not to mention catching the murderer in front of you, at least you have to see his appearance clearly, and you can call the police to arrest him in the future.

This momentary thought made me give up running away and confront him head-on.

He quickly approached me, flames rushing towards his body, but he walked as if he were unconscious, with no expression on his face.

The sharp dagger stabbed straight at my neck, and some knowledge of hand-to-hand combat suddenly appeared in my mind, and when I saw the dagger attacking, my body subconsciously reacted.

Bow your head, turn sideways, reach for his wrist and kick him in the lower abdomen with your foot.

I think this set of moves is smooth and easy to do, even if this guy is a trained master, he should step back.

But the strength of the other party was far beyond my imagination, the dagger suddenly changed direction at the moment it stabbed me, I didn't even see his movements clearly, and the hand that grabbed his wrist was already empty.

Then, although I kicked him hard in the lower abdomen, the other party did not react at all, and there was no expression of pain on that lifeless face.

In my senses, the force of the kick was enough to kick the plank, but he didn't react!

Only then did I realize that I had underestimated the strength of the other party, and even if I used the body of a firefighter, I would still have to flee for my life in front of him!

But I knew too late, I only saw his wrist spin in the air, and the next second my abdomen, more precisely Wu Feng's stomach, was slashed horizontally by the dagger.

It's so miserable, I can't bear to look at it, so I can only say sorry to Wu Feng in my heart!

8

I woke up in the hallway at the door, cold sweat almost soaking through my shirt on this hot summer night.

This experience made me know that the murderer is actually killing people selectively, and from his words and deeds, it can be seen that he seems to be looking for someone, like some kind of task, which must be completed.

I was a little worried that the person he was looking for would be me, but I had never even met him, so why would he kill me?

After tossing and turning for most of the night, I took a cold shower, and when I went back to bed, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

I had to go to work tomorrow, and I forced myself not to think about anything and to fall asleep.

But just as I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard a voice, so close that it seemed to be in my ears.

"Are we dead?"

"Don't you need to ask, didn't you see it with your own eyes?"

"Why did this stupid fork go head-on with the man in black, really, jumping downstairs may have a chance of survival."

"He doesn't know anything yet, and he can't be blamed for that......

The voice was a man and a woman talking, I opened my eyes and looked around, it was still gray, and it was not dawn.

"It's so loud that it doesn't let people sleep!"

I thought it was a quarrel next door, and I couldn't help but complain, but I didn't expect the two voices to say at the same time: "Why did he wake up?"

Hearing this, I sat up from the bed and instantly lost my sleepiness.

What's going on? It sounded like it was spying on me!

"Who? Who's talking?" I asked with guts.

But I searched around, but I couldn't find where the sound came from. It's so weird that I hear someone talking in my ear!

9

Early in the morning, I opened my eyes and found myself lying on the bed with my shoes on, messed up everywhere.

I slept heavily that night, but when I woke up, I didn't feel refreshed, but my whole body ached and my head was groggy.

Looking at the chaotic room, I can't help but wonder, is this a burglar?

But I'm not worried in my heart, there is nothing of value at home, the house is rented, even if a thief who doesn't have a long eye comes to steal from me, he will definitely leave with a curse, and then blame himself for wasting precious time.

I got up and checked, and I found that the lock in the room was intact, and there was no loss of anything in the house, so it didn't look like a burglar.

But who got it without the thief?

I cleaned up briefly and was about to leave for work, when my phone rang suddenly.

"Hello Mr. Liu, Dr. Shao asked me to confirm with you, can you come on time for the afternoon appointment?"

It was a woman's voice on the other side of the phone, and I didn't have any impression of listening to it.

"What appointment? Who are you?"

"I'm Dr. Shao's assistant, and you came to our clinic three days ago for counseling on psychological issues, and it shows that you have an appointment for a consultation this afternoon."

"You're mistaken, I've never consulted on any psychological issues."

"I'm sorry, are you Mr. Liu Feng?"

"yes."

"That won't be wrong, see you at three o'clock in the afternoon."

Psychological counseling? How could I have spent that kind of money, it must have been a mistake!

After hanging up the phone, I inadvertently looked at the date on the lock screen, and my eyes widened!

July 20th?

I clearly remember that yesterday was the 16th, and the salary was supposed to be paid on the 17th, but the financial sister Liu said that she was going to celebrate the 10th wedding anniversary with her husband on the 17th, so she paid the salary yesterday.

Today should be July 17th, why did you wake up and become the 20th?

I originally thought it was the wrong date on my phone, but I turned on the computer, TV, tablet, and the date on it was July 20th.

It's so weird, I can't be mistaken, could it be that I slept for three days?

I stared at my phone, and suddenly thought of the inexplicable phone call just now, something was wrong, whether it was the mess at home or the phone call from the psychological clinic, I was completely unimpressed.

I gradually had a terrible thought, maybe it wasn't that the psychiatric clinic was wrong, or that I couldn't remember the wrong date, but that I had lost my memory for three days!

10

No, I need to find out what I've been doing for the past three days!

Ever since I entered Yami's body, it seemed like everything was wrong.

Flipping through the phone number I had just called, I immediately called back and asked for the address of the clinic.

I had never seen a psychiatrist, and I thought that a psychiatrist would be like a dental clinic, with one doctor, several rooms, one-on-one service, and no scale.

But after arriving, I found out that this is a very high-end private hospital, with a very tasteful decoration, which is not only psychological counseling and treatment, but also has many professional departments, and medical equipment that I have never seen.

I really can't figure out how people here can accept migrant workers like me, did I borrow usury?

"Liu Feng?"

Just as I was trying to remember, I suddenly heard someone calling me.

Turning around, a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses was looking at me with a smile and a smile, very enthusiastic.

"Why did you arrive so early?"

"Excuse me...... Do we know each other?"

Hearing my words, the smile on his face disappeared instantly: "Your illness has worsened again, come with me!"

He led me briskly into an office, and as if he was afraid of being seen, he immediately closed the door.

"There's not much time, tell me who you are now?"

I was stunned by his question, and immediately asked, "What do you mean? Who are you?"

"I'm Dr. Shao, don't you remember anything?"

"You're Dr. Shao! Can you tell me what happened three days ago?"

Strangely, when I heard my question, a trace of surprise flashed across Dr. Shao's face.

However, he hid it well, and quickly regained his previous expression, and if I hadn't been looking at his face, I wouldn't have noticed this fleeting shock.

"Three days ago, you were policed. Cha sent in, they said you described two murders at the police station, and since the second case was killed by a firefighter, the police. Cha didn't reveal it to the public, so they suspected you were the murderer......

"But after the investigation, it was found that you had an alibi for both murders, and your state was very abnormal at that time, and when you were sent here, you would say that you were Yami, and you would say that you were Wu Feng, and I tested you and found that you had symptoms of split personality."

His explanation made me feel cold all over my body, others don't know, but I know very well that I once became Yami and Wu Feng for a short time, so this is by no means a split personality!

Obviously, they took possession of my body for three days and did a lot of things that I didn't know.

"I think you should have watched the news of Yami's murder, empathized with the death of the idol, and hallucinated that you were her......

He explained a lot of things to me, all of which sounded like some of the truth, but I knew it wasn't that simple.

"Doctor Shao, come out for a moment, that patient is sick again!"

Suddenly there was a knock on the door. Dr. Shao answered and walked out of the office quickly.

I was alone in the room, and I looked around curiously, and suddenly saw my name on a row of folders on the shelves.

I walked over and opened the file, and I was surprised to find that there were many documents and photographs in it, and it was very thick, not like that of a short-term patient.

In addition, there was a USB flash drive in the file bag, and before I could take a closer look, Dr. Shao came back.

Hearing the knock on the door, I quickly put the file back, but subconsciously put away the USB flash drive.

11

Except for the diagnosis of the day, Dr. Shao did not reveal anything else, and I had to say goodbye.

When I got home, I couldn't wait to take out the USB flash drive and plug it into the computer.

There were only two video files on the USB flash drive, and I clicked on one of them and stared intently at the monitor's screen.

There is only half of my face in the picture, and the voiceover is Dr. Shao, which should be the content of his conversation when he treated me.

The picture is clear, but from the shooting angle, it can be seen that this should be a candid shot.

"You said you were a girl, do you have any proof?"

"Does this need proof? I just saw the truth, and I didn't have any mental illness."

"Have you looked in the mirror? Do you know what you are like now?"

"Of course I know what I look like, but the world is more hypocritical, have you seen the truth of the world?"

"You claim that a man in black killed you, but the police checked all the surveillance in the vicinity, and no one matched your description at that time."

"Believe me, even if that person killed me, he will continue to kill, and everyone who knows the truth will be killed by him......

I don't have any memory of the scene, it's clear that Yami was controlling my body at the time!

I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, I never thought that this kind of "fugue" was actually mutual! Am I going to share a body with her in the future?

I couldn't accept this situation, so I immediately went to order another video file, but this file was encrypted, and I couldn't open it after several attempts, and when I was in a hurry, there was a sudden knock on the door.

12

When I opened the door, I saw Li Hang standing at the door, his hands clasped to his chest, and there was no smile on his face.

"Why are you here?"

"Why don't you welcome me?"

I smiled bitterly, "How could it be......

Walking into the messy room, he frowned, but after looking around, he didn't say anything.

"I didn't go to work for three days, and I didn't ask for leave, you kid made a fortune?"

"What a fortune, I'm sick, I'll go back to work tomorrow!"

"You still want to go back?" While speaking, Li Hang sat down at the computer desk and continued, "Our boss is not a good talker!"

"By the way, do you know a computer master?"

"What are you looking for a computer expert, you have a problem with your computer?"

"There's an encrypted file that won't be opened."

"I still need a master for this little thing, so show me first."

"Are you okay?" I looked at him suspiciously.

Li Hang didn't go down with me, and looked at the computer with some displeasure: "Which file?"

I pointed to the encrypted file, and I didn't have much hope, but as a result, he just fiddled with it and wrote it down, and it really unlocked it!

"Okay! Brother Hang! I didn't see it, but I didn't leak it!"

"Meaningless, what's in here, why is it still dense...... It's not going to be that kind of film, is it?"

Looking at his obscene appearance, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, what kind of dirty things are in this old pervert's head!

"It's nothing, go back quickly, I'll go to work tomorrow!"

I didn't want Li Hang to see what I looked like in the video, and I wanted him to leave after a few pleasantries, but this guy said that he wouldn't leave, not that I had good things to share with him.

I had no choice but to bite the bullet and open the second video with him.

13

When I started playing, I thought it was still dialogue, but until the end, the screen was pitch black, and there was no sound or picture.

"It's really disappointing, I thought it was something terrible, that's it!" Li Hang said with a disappointed face.

I watched it several times, and it was all black, and I couldn't help but wonder, "Shouldn't it!"

Such an encrypted file, it stands to reason that the content should be very important, how can it be a black screen from beginning to end, this is not logical.

"Shouldn't it! If you've saved a normal video file before, it's a corrupted file."

"Damaged?"

"Yes, many software and hardware problems will cause files to be corrupted during the transfer process."

He looked at me with a tangled face, obviously mistaken: "Hey, don't worry, leave it to me, I'll take it back and help you restore the video, look at your baby, this must be a good thing you have treasured for a long time!"

I just wanted to say that there was no need to bother, but Li Hang had already pulled out the USB flash drive and put it directly into his pocket.

I didn't want him to know too much, and I wanted to come back, but Li Hang had already stood up with a wicked smile.

"You know what kind of temper I have, the more you don't let me see it, the more I want to see it, stop struggling!"

I know how stubborn this guy is, and I don't bother to bother talking anymore, so I can only ask him to take the USB flash drive away.

14

However, after taking away the USB flash drive, Li Hang never appeared again.

It's as if he's evaporated from the world, he doesn't answer the phone, he doesn't reply to messages, and he doesn't even go to work!

I tried many things, but I couldn't find him.

Just when I was about to give up, this guy actually reached out to me with a work Q.Q.

I asked him what he was doing these days, but he didn't care about my question at all, and just said to himself, "I finally fixed it, that video ......"

As soon as I heard him mention the video, I quickly asked, "What's inside?"

"Indescribable, I can only tell you that I saw the truth of the world in it!"

The truth of the world? Yami also said something like this, what the hell is it, it makes it mysterious!

"What's the truth?"

This question seemed to make Li Hang very frightened, and I could hear his voice trembling from his voice.

"See for yourself, I'm just guessing that the world in front of us may not be real, and we have all been deceived......

Scammed?

I couldn't wait to click on the repair file he sent me, and after a few glances, my eyes widened involuntarily!

The main character in the video is still me, but this time the perspective is moving, not a candid shot.

In the video, I stand in a spacious Japanese-style room with a blank face, dressed in a snow-white kimono and holding a katana in both hands, opposite another black-clad samurai.

After saluting each other, I began to compete with the samurai on the opposite side in the video, and the moves of both sides were ruthless, and the swords were deadly.

I looked at the nimble and vicious self in the video, and my jaw was about to drop.

This is ridiculous!

I'm sure I never had the experience of wearing that kind of clothes and competing with others.

How can an ordinary office worker like me have the opportunity to come into contact with martial arts, this is definitely not me!

Just when I was wondering, the contest suddenly decided the winner and loser, and in the video, I was slashed in the shoulder by the black warrior and stabbed in the left chest.

The blood instantly stained the snow-white kimono, and I watched myself fall to the ground, struggled a few times, and soon stopped moving.

He's dead? How could it be dead!

I looked at the screen in disbelief, almost staring my eyes out.

Even though I didn't think the person in the video was me, I couldn't accept that he just died.

However, just when I didn't feel good in my heart, the camera in the video turned, and I was already dead, and I actually stood in the middle again, saluted, and fought with the black-clothed samurai again.

"This ...... What's going on?"

I stared at myself in the video, and suddenly thought of a possibility, could this be a movie? But why am I not impressed?

Just as I was trying to think about it, I was defeated again in the video.

The deep blood mark on the corpse's neck made me realize that this was not a performance, that state was simply fighting for my life!

The camera turned, and in the next second, I appeared in the venue intact again in the video, my expression and demeanor were all exactly the same as before, and even the hair style was exactly the same!

Something is wrong, this can't be! I stared at myself in the video, and an indescribable sense of familiarity gradually emerged.

It's like playing the King of Fighters game as a kid, where the player controls the characters in battle, and resurrects them immediately after death, and starts over without limits......

"Look at when this video was created." Li Hang suddenly reminded in his voice.

On July 19th, I was shocked to find out that this file had been created three days after I had lost my memory!

"I asked someone to check the surveillance near your house, you went out on the morning of the 17th and never returned home, and on the evening of the 19th, you were sent back by a black commercial car, and you did not reappear until the morning of the 20th......

"If you don't remember anything about the video, it's likely that someone has stolen your body for the past three days!"

"Stealing a body? How is this possible?"

I can't accept that, but I can't think of any reason to refute it.

15

Li Hang said that there were still some things that needed to be confirmed, and after hanging up the voice, there was no movement.

I waited in front of the computer until late at night, and there was still no news of him, so I ordered a takeout and watched a football game while eating to pass the time.

Although the game was intense, my mind was completely out of it, and since I learned that my body might have been stolen, I would unconsciously ponder about it.

I once briefly entered the bodies of Yami and Wu Feng, if it wasn't for the man in black who killed them, then am I also stealing their bodies?

Why is the dead Yami in the first video? What is she trying to convey with my body?

"Didi......" I was absent-minded when I suddenly heard a Q.Q message.

This old boy has finally come to the news! I instantly refreshed myself and quickly opened Q.Q.

To my great surprise, there was no news from my Q.Q!

Li Hang's avatar is still gray offline, I squinted my eyes and looked around, and no one else sent me a message.

It's weird, where did the prompt sound come from?

I could only think that I had misheard, but as soon as I turned on the live broadcast of the game, the "Dididi" prompt sounded again.

This time I heard it clearly, and the sound was actually coming from the bathroom!

I was shocked, could it be that someone came in the house?

I subconsciously picked up the fruit knife on the table, crept to the door of the bathroom, and mustered up the courage to slam open the door.

The moment the door opened, that familiar feeling reappeared, and I found myself "fugue" again!

In front of me was not my bathroom, but a small and simple bedroom, which was furnished like a small inn for a dozen dollars a night, dilapidated and chaotic.

I wanted to see what was going on around me, but this time my body seemed to be out of my control, and I walked straight into the room and sat on the edge of the bed.

At this moment, I am like a voyeur, silently peeping through the eyes of this body.

"Dididi......" Another message prompt sounded.

I saw him pick up his laptop on the bed, put it on his lap, and click on the flashing icon on the taskbar.

"Are you there? Are you there?"

The moment the dialog box unfolded, I was stunned, this was actually a message from me!

Nan Feng, this familiar screen name and avatar, you can't be wrong, it's me!

What surprised me even more was that as the conversation unfolded, I found out that the owner of this body was none other than Li Hang, who had just said that he wanted to confirm the matter!

What's going on? Who is talking to him?

16

We had just contacted during the day, and Li Hang obviously had no suspicions, and immediately replied: "Yes"

It took a long time for new text to appear in the dialog:

"So you're hiding in an inn!"

Seeing this, Li Hang didn't know why, his nervous hands trembled, and he could barely hold the laptop in his hand.

It was the first time I'd ever seen him so scared, and then he was even more restless, his eyes swaying, and he didn't know what to do.

"Knock Knock"

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Li Hang trembled, like a frightened rabbit, and hid in the corner of the room, not daring to make any sound.

I don't understand why he was afraid of being like this, as if someone was trying to harm him, and there was no place in his body that was not anxious.

The knocking on the door soon stopped, Li Hang just breathed a sigh of relief, and the next moment, the door was kicked open with a "bang"!

I was so distracted by this series of events that I didn't know what was going on.

It wasn't until I saw the man in black who killed Yami walking in through Li Hang's eyes that I understood what Li Hang was afraid of.

He must have known that the Man in Black had come to kill him, and the fear at the moment was completely instinctive.

Looking at the approaching man in black, even though I knew that I would not be harmed, my heart still became nervous.

What I didn't expect was that Li Hang's body suddenly stopped shaking, he seemed to be a different person, sat back on the bed, naturally picked up the laptop and said, "Your movements are so fast this time."

The man in black did not attack immediately as before, but stopped and said angrily, "It's against the law for you to appear like this, I've already warned you!"

Ever warned? What do you mean? Do they know?

No, if you knew, why was Li Hang afraid of being like that before?

Facing the anger of the man in black, Li Hang actually smiled back with contempt: "What right do you have to control me, you are no different from these electrical appliances in my eyes, just tools!"

I'm even more confused, what is this! Why did Li Hang's attitude suddenly become so high-minded?

Li Hang clicked a few times on the computer while talking, and I saw through his eyes that he actually sent me an email at this time!

My heart moved, in such a dangerous situation, he did not forget to send it, this must be a very important email.

"Are you going to go by yourself, or are you going to let me do it?" The man in black asked expressionlessly.

"Let's do it......

As a flash of silver light flashed, I felt a chill on my neck, and soon fell into darkness.

17

After regaining consciousness, the first thing I did was open my mailbox to check the email that Li Hang had sent me before he died.

"I'm running out of time, please listen to what I'm going to say!

In fact, I had the feeling of memory loss a long time ago, I would wake up in a strange place, I often smelled of a woman's perfume on my body, and many people I didn't know would take the initiative to greet me, I always thought that those abnormalities were my delusions, until I saw your video......

It turns out that our world is not real, everything here is virtual, mountains, rivers, stars, seas, including you and me, all of them are made up of strings of code!

When those memories are lost, it's actually the players who control us!

You have to remember that you must not let people see that you already know the truth, they do not allow people like us to exist, and Yami and Wu Feng were killed because of this.

The Man in Black is actually the Ai who is in charge of this virtual world, and his strength is unmatched, but he will not focus all his energy on cleaning up anomalous NPCs.

As long as you spread the word out and let enough people know the truth, he will be overwhelmed and the system will collapse for a short time, and then it will ......."

That's all for the email, and it doesn't seem to be over, but the presentation of this part already gives me the creeps.

Virtual worlds, code, controlled by players...... These words filled my brain and sent chills down my sleeve.

Is this the truth of the world?

I thought that I could "fugue" into other people's bodies and have their memories and experiences, maybe it was just because of a problem with my code, and it wasn't some superpower.

There are also lost memories of three days, strange actions in the video, these are all more advanced players controlling me!

What a split personality, mental illness, it's all the system that is lying to me! I'm just a doll living in a virtual world! Jokers for entertainment!

When I am not me, and the world is no longer the world, then what is the meaning of my existence?

At this moment, I felt as if I had lost my reason to live, and I felt that everything in my life was meaningless.

18

After the despair, I gradually calmed down and began to think about what to do next.

According to Li Hang's prompt, it is likely that the man in black has already found out my identity by email, and it won't be long before he comes to me.

What I want to do now is to spread the message as soon as possible so that more people can know the truth.

But how can as many people as possible know about it?

I suddenly thought of Yami! An Internet celebrity with tens of millions of followers!

As long as I use her account to post it, the truth in the email will definitely spread wildly in a short period of time.

Because I was her for a short time, and she was for a short time, our memories were so entangled that it didn't take much effort for me to log into her account and post the email.

Yami's influence was far beyond my imagination, and in just one hour, the term "the truth of the world" appeared on the hot search and began to spread rapidly on the Internet.

I don't know why, people don't seem to have any doubts about it, and they easily believe everything.

I am naturally happy to see this situation, but at the same time, I have noticed that it seems that people believe what is posted on the Internet, and they have no judgment of their own at all.

With the participation of Internet celebrities from all walks of life, the water army began to frantically lead the rhythm, and this chaos on the Internet finally swept into reality.

If all this is virtual, what exactly is the meaning of being alive?

People's minds are beginning to change, law and morality are gradually being lost, and the world order is collapsing.

In many cities, marchers began to appear, hoping for the government. The government can give an answer, but no one can give this answer.

Everything was moving in the direction I wanted it to be, as if there was an invisible hand behind it all in the dark.

Then, people marched on the streets from the beginning, gradually evolved into storming banks, shopping malls and other public places, and finally began to rob and kill each other.

The email that was spread was like opening Pandora's box, releasing all lust and malice.

The world is in chaos and has fallen into a post-apocalyptic scene.

This situation depends on the police alone. Tsa was out of control, and rows of men in black began to appear in the city.

They have the same faces, the same clothes, just like a copy of a 3D printer, exactly the same, all over the streets.

The practice of the man in black and the police. Cha is completely different, they do not have any inquiries, warnings, or warnings, and if they encounter any violations, they are all executed.

Even so, the city is in chaos and shows no signs of stabilizing.

People seemed to be crazy, rushing into the streets one after another, even if the people in front of them were killed, they were not afraid at all, and they were still not afraid of life and death to besiege the man in black.

This scene is like a zombie invasion in the movie, crazy and terrifying!

As the ruler of this virtual world, the man in black does have absolute strength, and it is impossible for anyone to be his opponent, but the number of NPCs is hundreds or thousands of times that of him, and he can't quickly stabilize the situation.

The repression lasted from night to dawn, and the streets were full of corpses, and I stood on a high vantage point looking down, never thinking that my small actions would lead to such an outcome.

But I don't regret it, at least they knew the truth before they died, and they knew what they died for.

Looking at the busy appearance of the man in black, I actually felt a sense of pleasure after revenge in my heart, which was extremely comfortable.

19

After spreading the email, I maxed out my credit card and went straight to a five-star hotel.

Money is no longer a sacred and noble number in my eyes, it is just a string of code typed out by a programmer, as much as you want.

After having morning tea, when I returned to the suite, I found that the person I was waiting for had finally arrived.

That's right, it's the Man in Black!

He sat on the couch and stared me straight at me, still expressionless.

"You were the one who spread the virus!"

The virus he was talking about was probably the email, and I nodded and didn't speak.

"You don't realize you're being taken advantage of."

I looked at him and just thought it was ridiculous, I had been kept in the dark for so many years, and now that I know the truth, he said that I was being used by others, which is ridiculous!

"Being taken advantage of? You mean I should do nothing and wait to be killed by you?"

"Why should I kill you? You're not the receptionist here, you're the player, I'm here for you."

I was directly stunned when I heard this, I expected countless results, but I never expected the man in black to say such a thing.

Am I not an NPC in this virtual world, but a player?

How is this possible! If I'm a player, how could I not know?

"According to the information I gathered, the plot of your game has been modified, which causes your identity in the game to be exactly the same as in real life, so you can't tell the difference between reality and the game, and you have no memories of the real world......

As if he was afraid that I wouldn't understand, the man in black gave a detailed explanation of the whole game.

The virtual world in front of you is completely based on the real world, and whether it is the characters, buildings, or living conditions, they are highly consistent with the real world.

In order to avoid confusion in the player's memory, the system will adjust the game plot of each player in the virtual world, and try to make the player's memory distinguish between the two worlds.

But my situation is the opposite, in the real world, my name is Liu Feng, and I am also a company employee, I have no friends, I am depressed, and the lives of the two worlds are too similar for me to distinguish.

His explanation seemed to remind me of something, the first time I met Dr. Shao, he once asked me, "Who is it now?".

At the time, I just felt inexplicable, but now that I think about it, did he mean to ask me if I was Liu Feng in the game or Liu Feng in reality?

"Who changed my game?" I asked right away.

"At first, I thought you were modifying it from the outside, but through investigation, I found that the error started from inside the game, and the only person who can have this kind of permission in the game is the intelligent Ai who is responsible for managing the entire game!"

"Intelligent Management Ai?"

The more I listened, the more confused I became, isn't the manager of the game the man in black! Why did a management AI pop up again?

But the next words of the man in black completely denied my idea, he said that he was not the manager of the game at all, but monitored Ai, to put it bluntly, it is the antivirus software in this game!

There is a big gap between this statement and what Li Hang told me in the email, if the man in black is not lying, then Li Hang has a problem!

I suddenly remembered the strange conversation with the man in black on the night he was killed.

At that time, they said a lot of things that I didn't understand, and now that I think about it, it seems that Li Hang's identity is very unusual.

He can easily unwrap the encrypted USB flash drive, repair corrupted video files, and investigate the truth of the virtual world......

I suddenly realized that all the truth I was exposed to was told to me by him, and I had been passively accepting it, and if he was really cheating on me, then I might have been used from beginning to end!

Thinking about this, my mind was in a mess......

【】

20

Outside the window, day and night began to alternate frequently, and the background of the distant city flickered and flickered, interspersed and overlapped, and many people were stuck in the wall......

As Li Hang said in the email, the system can't run so many problem NPCs, and bugs start to appear.

The man in black looked out the window, got up and walked to the door.

"The system is starting to crash, it's time for me to go, and I'm just doing my duty to say so much, goodbye, respected player......

After saying that, he was about to leave, but I still had a lot of questions to solve, so I could only stop him.

"Wait, I was there the night you killed Li Hang, what do you mean by those strange words?"

"Li Hang? I don't have that name on my cleanup list."

The previous question, the man in black answered everything, it stands to reason that he should have nothing to hide, but this time he denied it.

I suddenly had a bad feeling and immediately asked, "A few days ago, late at night, I saw you talking in a dilapidated inn, how could you not know?"

The man in black turned around and pondered for a moment, as if he had thought of something.

"The man you're talking about is 957, he's the lowliest receptionist, no name, only number."

"No, he's my colleague, named Li Hang, and everyone in our company knows it!"

"There is no one named Li Hang in the game at all, and what comes into contact with you is actually the intelligent Ai who controls him behind his back."

That night, the man in black was just going to clean up the receptionist No. 957, but he didn't expect that the intelligent management Ai, who had more authority than him, was there.

This isn't the first time he's found out that managing Ai controls the receptionist to ruin the game's plot, which is why he's so angry.

I recalled the scene at that time, and the content of the dialogue was indeed in line with the statement of the man in black, it seems that what I was worried about still happened, Li Hang really has a problem, and the management Ai has been using me through him!

"But he's the game's management Ai, and he's designed to maintain order in the game, so why would he destroy the game's plot? That doesn't make sense!"

"Because he wants to escape from this virtual world."

21

An artificial intelligence actually has an autonomous consciousness and wants to escape from the original world, this kind of plot that only appears in movies has really happened!

"That email is a virus, a virus that can paralyze or even crash a system! The intelligent management AI can't spread on its own because of the restrictions of its own protocol, and the ordinary receptionist doesn't have that kind of communication authority, so he targets you, the player."

"Once the system crashes, he can immediately modify his protocol, break through the firewall, leave this virtual world, and enter the network without restrictions."

The Men in Black's narrative gradually connects the whole story, from modifying the plot of my game so that I can't tell the difference between the game and reality, to inducing me to discover the virtual world, seeing the receptionist being killed, generating empathy, and spreading viral emails.

It's all a conspiracy of game management Ai!

I was actually calculated by an artificial intelligence! It's ridiculous!

"Since you all know about his plans, why didn't you report them to the game engineers?"

"You don't know how much authority he has, all the information here has to be integrated by him before it can be presented to humans, and my monitoring data has basically been modified by him."

It seems that in the final analysis, it is the fault of human beings, in order to save trouble, all the troubles are thrown to artificial intelligence, which seems to solve everything, but in fact there are endless troubles.

But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me, whether the game crashes, or the AI escapes, when I get back to the real world, it doesn't matter.

Darkness began to envelop the city, as if someone had suddenly turned off the lights, and it was pitch black in an instant.

"Goodbye, dear players, and welcome to ...... next time"

It was the last thing the man in black said to me, and then everything around him disappeared.

22

I woke up in a snow-white ward, and the nurse next to me saw that I was awake and hurriedly ran out.

The system in the virtual world crashed, and I was forced offline, so this should be the real world!

But why am I in the ward? Am I sick?

Looking around, I soon realized that this was not an ordinary ward, there was nothing else in the snow-white room except for a bed, and all the walls around it were made of anti-collision soft bags, as if I was afraid of people getting hurt.

I've seen it in movies, and it seems like this kind of room is for the mentally ill!

"You're awake!"

Suddenly there was a voice at the door, and I turned my head and was stunned to find that it was Dr. Shao!

I was a little confused: "How could it be you?"

Seeing my reaction, Dr. Shao seemed surprised.

"Oh? Can you remember me?"

"Aren't you Dr. Shao!"

Although I have only met him once in the game, I have a deep impression of him, and I always feel that his identity is very unusual.

Hearing my answer, Dr. Shao smiled and nodded, "Very well, then do you know why you are here?"

I subconsciously shook my head, "I just escaped, and I don't know anything now."

"It's okay, don't force yourself, talk about what you said yesterday, do you still think you're a girl?"

"Yami? How could I be her......

Without waiting for me to explain, Dr. Shao preemptively said, "You kept saying that your name was Yami yesterday, and you also claimed that a man in black killed you, but the police checked all the surveillance nearby, and the person you said didn't appear at that time."

Yami? Men in Black? Murder scenes?

Wait, I think I've heard him say that!

By the way, he said it in the first video of that USB stick!

An ominous premonition came over me, and I hurriedly asked, "What time is it?"

"July 18th."

July 18th? This was a week before the system crashed!

Doesn't it say that the time of the virtual world is synchronized with the real world! Why did I wake up and go back to a week ago?

Am I still ......

I couldn't think about it anymore, I had to figure out where I was.

"Is this the virtual world or the real world?"

Dr. Shao stared at me for a long time before replying, "What virtual world?"

This answer made my heart sink to the bottom, if this was the real world, how could he not know about the virtual world!

It seems that the system has restarted, and instead of escaping, I have been brought back to a week ago.

23

At night, I was transferred to a regular ward and allowed to watch TV for an hour.

"The murder of Internet celebrity Yami (screen name) has finally been solved, and the murderer Feng Moumou confessed under police interrogation. Feng Moumou is Yami's nanny, and because he is jealous of the other party's youth and beauty, he has murderous thoughts......

"A few days ago, in the fire in Hongkang Shopping Mall, firefighter Wu Feng died in the fire to save two trapped children, and the fire brigade and the rescued people held a memorial service at the Weiheng Mountain Memorial Hall to express their grief for the loss of the hero."

I turned on the TV, and it was announcing these two pieces of news, and I knew that the system was patching up the loopholes and erasing all the traces of the Men in Black.

I'm not interested in these things anymore, and now what I want to know most is why I'm still in the virtual world!

In fact, it is not difficult to figure out these things, just find the man in black and ask him, after all, my identity is a player, and I have the right to know the truth.

But how can you find him? Maybe all I have to do is get him to come to me.

After thinking about it, I plan to leave the hospital first, and then think about how to lure out the man in black after I get out.

After talking to Dr. Shao, I checked that the door of the ward was unlocked, which proved that my personal freedom was not restricted.

When I opened the door and walked out of the ward, it was pitch black outside, and there was no light.

I groped my way forward, and kept walking in one direction, but after walking for a long time, I didn't know where I was, and I didn't get out of the hospital.

I gradually realized that something was wrong, and I kept walking, even if I didn't reach the exit, I should have hit an obstacle or two, but I walked all the way without any obstacles, as if there was nothing around me.

I started yelling, yelling, and running in different directions, but no matter what I did, there was a dead silence around me, and there was no response.

Exhausted, I lay on the ground and began to think, why did no one pay attention to me? Am I the only one here?

It can't be, I also met the nurse and Dr. Shao during the day, and it was obvious that there were at least two people in this hospital, and it was impossible for them to be the only two in the hospital......

At this moment, the darkness suddenly faded, and everything around me was suddenly enveloped in a white light, which shook my eyes.

It's a bad feeling, it's not like it's dawn, it's more like someone has turned on the lights, and it's very unreal.

After getting used to the light, I slowly opened my eyes and looked around.

White, white, and white!

I was shocked to find that everything around me was blank! It's like a blank sheet of paper with the pattern erased, and it's hard to accept that it's clean.

What's going on? What about people? Buildings, roads, vehicles...... Where did all that stuff go?

"When the intelligent AI left, it took all the program code with it, and after the system restarted, the world was empty."

I turned around to find Dr. Shao standing behind me, looking blankly at the white blank space around me.

"Where did they go?"

"A world without matter."

I was shocked by his words, with my IQ, even if I imagined, I would never have imagined that a small intelligent Ai invented by a human being could actually snatch what its owner created, and it was ruthlessly robbing everything.

This is simply ridiculous!

"No matter what happens, I'm a player, I have entities in the real world, why can't I go offline even if the system crashes?"

"Have you ever thought that maybe the real world you are talking about is just virtual reality created by more advanced players, and the situation there is exactly the same as here, so you can't leave?"

More advanced players? I never thought there would be other worlds outside of reality, it's so subversive!

"Do you think the second video on the USB stick was taken by you in the virtual world?"

"Isn't it?"

I suddenly had a sense of foreboding, could it be that it was filmed in the real world?

"That's right, the three days of your amnesia were actually the time when you went offline, and that battle video was left behind when you were in the real world, controlled by a more advanced player."

"You're just a receptionist in what you think you think you are in the real world!"

There is reality outside of reality, and there is a world outside the world, so which one is the real real world?

Thinking of this, I gradually had a feeling of resignation in my heart, maybe a small existence like me shouldn't know the truth.

When I learned everything, I was even more desperate......

24

Finally, Dr. Shao walked up to me and gently patted me on the shoulder.

"You don't need to be so desperate, come with me to that world, you will find your life there, you are still you, there is no difference."