Chapter 15: Mutual Redemption
Summer 2022. Linxiang City Variable Dimension Building.
The girl stood on the fence of the rooftop on the twenty-ninth floor, shaky.
Physically, if she tilts another fifteen degrees, she will fall to the second dimension.
But if you look closely at her, you will find that her eyes are blank and she looks very dull.
A dying person will always have emotions.
But the girl just looked confused, like a walking corpse, like some medicine boy who had been washed of his senses.
What's even stranger......
She carried two telephones. One phone was fixed to the ear, and the other was constantly voicedβ
"Hi Siri, help me call the Suicide Crisis Intervention Hotline."
Approximately once every three seconds.
When a phone is called, it will automatically dial the suicide crisis intervention hotline.
The girl came to the top of the Dimension Building, and the phone kept coming out like this.
"Hi Siri, help me call the Suicide Crisis Intervention Hotline."
Again and again, the sounds tapped lightly on the girl's eardrums, but they did not bring any change to her.
She still dragged her somewhat stiff steps, and little by little she was dead.
There have been suicide lovers who have said that there are always thirteen people in line at the suicide intervention hotline. I don't know why, so many people in this world can't think about it.
The girl's phone never went through. This is undoubtedly a very stupid approach.
If she really wants to survive, then she should tie herself up, or...... Find someone to watch over you.
But none of that makes sense.
All she could do was a blind cat to touch a dead mouse.
This is nothing more than a dying throes, hoping that this group of people in the suicide intervention center will wake themselves up......
It's like drowning, seeing a weed, but looking forward to a rope thrown by a luxury cruise ship instead of a weed.
No one can wake themselves up, except the forerunners.
Because girls ...... It is a pioneer who has failed to challenge.
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When a Precursor fails a mission and is forced to commit suicide, the non-Precursor cannot intervene.
And if the forerunner intervenes, it will be involved in a strange punishment.
The girl fails in her mission and is about to commit suicide.
If there were forerunners willing to stop this suicide at this time......
Then this pioneer will usher in an extremely bad situation in the next challenge.
It is very likely that the Precursor will usher in the era of demon flurry after 2.0.
It was an era when the survival rate was extremely low, and even third-order masters did not dare to challenge it easily.
But that's not all......
If the forerunner who saved the girl didn't complete this challenge......
Then he and the girl will eventually die, and no one can save them again.
In simple terms β
Don't save the girl, die the girl one.
Save the girl, the girl dies, and the one who saves will die.
Such a situation dooms the girl to be isolated, even if when she is alive, she is a peep through the stars.
It's even a rare second-order existence, the Celestial Eyer.
But it doesn't make sense.
If you fail the mission, you will die, and if you die, don't drag others down-
This is the consensus of almost all the pioneers.
So when it was learned that this daughter of Tianmu was about to die, some people regretted, some people grieved, and some people gloated, but no one was willing to rescue her.
Everyone thought that the forerunner of the "Gate of the Future", the number one force, would definitely die.
In the forerunner of this day, many people also left messages feeling regretful.
But for the forerunners, everything will eventually be calm.
The girl actually thinks so.
Counting on the suicide intervention center to save themselves...... That's simply the divorce of Asuka Saito and more cowardly - it's impossible.
But just when the girl stepped into the ghost gate with one foot......
The phone suddenly dialed.
There are indeed countless coincidences in this world, and it can even be said that coincidences and necessity are two sides of the same coin.
"Hello, this is the suicide crisis intervention hotline, I'm Zhou Baiyu."
As soon as the man on the phone spoke, his gentle voice seemed to be infused with some kind of magic. The girl suddenly had a strong desire to survive, and her dull eyes instantly brightened.
After a while, she began to cry, constantly muttering: "I'm sorry" and "Thank you".
Emotional, as if feeling the beauty of the world again.
But the world is not beautiful, she has always known. She wailed and cried, just because she had survived.
And I'm sorry, because she knows very well that she has affected someone.
"I ...... I'm really sorry...... Is there anything you want me to do? β
"No, you just have to live well."
The girl cried even harder.
Since this person can awaken himself, he must be a forerunner.
is obviously a pioneer, but he completely disregards his own safety...... From beginning to end, the man didn't even mention anything related to the Precursors, just kept comforting himself.
Of course, there is also a possibility that the man did not realize that he saved a forerunner who failed to challenge.
But in any case, it made the girl feel a strong sense of guilt.
The guilt made the girl cry more and more fiercely, and listening to the man's tender concern, she could only cry and say:
"Mr. Zhou Baiyu, my name is Ling Hanshu, I will definitely ...... Live well. I hope...... We'll see you again one day. I want you to ...... too There will be no unsolvable difficulties! β
Immediately, Ling Hanshu took the initiative to hang up the phone. If she didn't hang up, she was worried that she would be overwhelmed with guilt.
At 2 minutes and 25 seconds, the call ended.
Zhou Baiyu on the other end of the phone was a little puzzled, when he answered the phone, he heard the rapid breathing of the drowning person when he came ashore.
It was as if I had suddenly woken up.
What puzzled him even more was that there was something wrong with the process of this phone call.
In the past, the suicidal person talked to him for a long time, and finally hung up the phone reluctantly.
But this time...... The girl voluntarily hung up the phone.
It's like some kind of renunciation.
The final goodbye is not like the words of a suicidal person to save a suicidal person.
But Zhou Baiyu couldn't think too much, and the problems in front of him made him have to leave his post early.
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It doesn't end there.
Xu was because he survived the mortal situation, and Ling Hanshu forgot one thing.
"Oops...... I shouldn't have hung up the phone so recklessly, Mr. Zhou Baiyu saved me, but it doesn't mean that I can really survive. β
"He's going to have a very difficult version of saving me...... If he doesn't survive, then neither can I. β
Syllable!
Ling Han was so angry that he slapped himself.
As an advanced form of the Peeping One, the god behind her is the god of knowledge and wisdom, and she naturally has the power to obtain information.
"I can ...... Try to help him, maybe I can provide some information. β
"But I couldn't stand the guilt and hung up."
Coming back to her senses, Ling Hanshu quickly adjusted her mood, and looking at the endless stream of scenery under her feet, she made a decisive call to go back.
But the one who answered the phone was not Zhou Baiyu, but a woman:
"Are you looking for Brother Zhou...... Unfortunately, he just left. Where to stay? We don't know, it looks like he recently rented a new house......"
Ling Hanshu hung up the phone, she didn't ask for the message she wanted to ask.
She began to get anxious:
"Calm down, calm down, Ling Hanshu, the most important thing now is to find Zhou Baiyu before he enters the next version of the challenge."
"Provide him with enough information so that he can survive, although the chances are slim, but since it has begun, it cannot be given up."
If Zhou Baiyu dies, he will still die. If you help Zhou Baiyu survive......
Then he and Zhou Baiyu are probably the first people who can "get rid of the rules of death".
The first time of anything, it is groundbreaking, and it is bound to cause a sensation.
Maybe in the future, everyone will not be so indifferent to rescuing other pioneers.
But right now, there is a question in front of Ling Hanshu-
"I'm alive now, and I won't die until Zhou Baiyu dies. I'm going to find Zhou Baiyu and ask him about the version he went to and provide him with information support......"
"The only resource I can use is guild resources, mobilize them to use the influence of reality, and I will definitely be able to find Zhou Baiyu quickly......"
"But then ...... Mr. Zhou Baiyu's real identity was exposed. That would be very dangerous. β
In the early version, Ling Hanshu's ID was called Snow Demon.
Her initial identity is an agent, and her first career is a voyeur, which can be said to be the beginning of the Heavens.
It is also the Tianmu who many forces are vying to win over, and most of the time, it serves the first force among the pioneers - the "Gate of the Future".
But right now, Ling Hanshu can't take revenge......
There are too many examples of the real identity of the forerunners being exposed, and there are many tragic disasters.
So Ling Hanshu was in a dilemma, she could only decisively start searching for the address of the "suicide intervention center". Go to that place and find Zhou Baiyu.
This day is destined to be extremely busy for Ling Hanshu. She was filled with apologies and a sense of mission.
Because in her opinion, this is a two-way redemption between herself and Mr. Zhou Baiyu!
Without his own help, Mr. Zhou Baiyu -
There is absolutely no way to survive.