Chapter 19: My World
Fang Xiaoling was lying on the bed, tossing and turning and unable to fall asleep, and the light of the living room came through the crack in the door, which was her mother waiting for her husband who had not yet returned home.
She could vaguely hear her mother muttering alone, "Why can't I get through on the phone, what time is it, where did I go?" β
Suddenly, Fang Xiaoling felt a huge grief, she clutched her chest, and there was a strong resistance in her lungs, making her feel difficult to breathe.
For some reason, she was angry with a feeling of pity, and it was this pity that made her not want to do anything against the sad emotion.
Tears silently soaked the pillowcase, and she rolled over and lay flat, staring blankly at the wall of the shed, letting the emotion unfold in her heart in the not entirely dark darkness.
In a trance of complete emptiness, she seemed to feel that the darkness in front of her was not a single piece, but composed of countless extremely tiny black dots, and she knew that all this was not an illusion, so she immediately got up and got out of bed and turned on the light in her room.
At first, there was nothing abnormal, after the retina adapted to the light, everything in the room became clear and bright, but Fang Xiaoling was surprised to find that when she only focused on looking at a certain object or wall, she could see countless points of light filling the air, and then looking closely, those lights were colored, and not a plane, but filled the air in the entire space, densely and compactly next to each other, when she realized this, she began to understand that it was not these points that filled the air, Rather, it's these myriad dots that make up the air.
She remembered what she had learned in junior high school physics class, that water was made up of countless water molecules, and she guessed that what she saw was the molecules of air. She focused all her attention on a certain point, the tiny point of light that would never be visible to the normal naked eye, becoming more and more obvious in her eyes, and transforming the absorbed light into a colorful light.
This is really amazing, she couldn't help but reach out and wanted to touch the point of light with her fingertips, but the moment she touched it, the point of light suddenly generated a strong gravitational force, sucking her entire arm into it, like a black hole in the universe, Fang Xiaoling didn't even have a chance to pull back, and the whole person was sucked into a completely dark space.
It was so quiet that she couldn't hear her heartbeat or breathing, and though she couldn't see anything but the darkness, she could feel that it was a big, vast universe without any planets, not even the slightest dust.
Fang Xiaoling thought, "If only there was light." β
And so, there was light.
The light centered on Fang Xiaoling's location, rapidly dispelling the darkness around her until there was no end in sight.
It's white, and I still can't see anything clearly. Fang Xiaoling could feel that the intensity of this light was like countless searchlights shining on her eyeballs at the same time, she wanted to close her eyes, but she couldn't. But when she wanted to make her surroundings less bright, the luminosity instantly decreased.
It was as if she could control everything in this infinite space, but she couldn't control herself.
Just when she wanted to know where she was, she suddenly saw the room in her home again, and she was still in the same place, as if nothing had happened just now.
She wanted to scratch her head with her fingers, but was surprised to find that she didn't have her hands to control it. A strong sense of fear enveloped her in an instant, and it was then that she truly realized that her legs were also gone, everything was gone, and it seemed that only consciousness was left.
At this time, Fang Xiaoling felt as if she didn't exist, but she did exist as a non-entity.
Just when she was confused, she suddenly found herself moving, pacing back and forth in the room, she could not control herself, she was forced to accept the image that the retina saw, she saw a hand open the door, and she saw her mother sitting on the couch constantly dialing a number, even if she couldn't get through every time, her mother kept dialing.
"Mom, I'm home."
Fang Xiaoling didn't speak, but her voice seemed to come from all directions, and then the voice said, "Don't wait for my dad any longer, he will never come back." β
This sentence hit the most fearful point in her mother's heart, Fang Xiaoling saw her mother suddenly stand up and slap her fiercely.
She felt the pain in her face, but she couldn't feel where her face was, it was a strange feeling, hard to describe in words.
At this moment, her mother's mobile phone rang, it was an unfamiliar number, she trembled and clicked the answer button, after a few simple questions, she began to question the other party constantly, and then, she stayed where she was, and said nothing.
Time seemed to stand still, and Fang Xiaoling saw her mother standing unmoved for a long time, and finally collapsed on the ground, wailing in grief.
It wasn't until she seemed to faint and lay on the ground and convulsed for a while that her mother, who collapsed, choked up and said, "Xiaoling, your dad is ...... He ......"
The picture suddenly turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and quickly moved to the kitchen, one hand took a bone cleaver from the knife rack, Fang Xiaoling felt the soreness of her muscles, as if the knife was indeed carried in her hand, but she couldn't feel the existence of the whole hand.
Seeing this, her mother cried and shouted, "Mengling, what are you carrying a knife for?" I beg you don't scare Mommy, I can't take any more blows......"
"Mom, I know who the murderer is, I want revenge!"
Women are weak, but mothers are strong. Hearing Li Mengling say this, the mother thought that her daughter couldn't stand the blow, so she quickly wiped her tears and said, "Listen to me Mengling, just now the police staff told me in person that the taxi your father took when he came home had an accident on the road. β
"Mom, it's really hard to explain all this, but you believe me, the tragedy of our family was caused by Roland, and she is the culprit who killed my father!"
Hearing this, Fang Xiaoling finally understood who was talking at this time, and during the whole process, she had similar conjectures, but she originally thought that if Li Mengling's soul was controlling her body, then Fang Xiaoling's own soul should naturally return to her true body.
But obviously, everything was not as simple as she thought, and at this time, Fang Xiaoling was trapped somewhere in a soul state. As for where this place was, although she didn't want to guess like this, she had to suspect that this was where Li Mengli's soul was in the past two days.
Now, the soul's control over the body has been exchanged. No matter what Li Mengli did, Fang Xiaoling could only watch and could not make any effective intervention.
"Maybe that's what it feels like to watch a VR movie." As soon as Fang Xiaoling had this thought, the picture in front of her suddenly switched to the previous white, a giant VR device fell from the sky, it was the latest model she had imagined just now, and all the accessories she imagined next appeared in this white space.
"These are all things I've dreamed of, can I have what I want in this space?" Fang Xiaoling felt pleasantly surprised, and muttered to herself, "Can you really use it to watch movies?" It's a pity that I don't have hands, how can I get this? β
Suddenly, a hand appeared in the space, suspended in the white vastness, which looked very strange.
Fang Xiaoling was as surprised as if she had discovered a new continent, and she hurriedly thought: I want a head, I want a body, I want legs, and I want to be a physical human being......
Everything happened as she thought, her whole body was hanging in the white space, the VR equipment was in front of her eyes, she reached for it, but her arms were not long enough, she paddled her body like swimming, but she still did not move forward in the same position.
"There has to be ground!"
An imaginary infinite expanse of grassland appeared, but Fang Xiaoling was still suspended in mid-air.
"Uh...... Lack of gravity? β
Suddenly, she began to fall at a rapid speed, falling heavily on the ground, and the VR device also "banged" and fell to the ground.
"Whewβit's amazing, it should hurt a normal person to fall from such a height, right?" As soon as she thought about the pain, she felt a sharp pain in her body.
"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt if you fall!" She kept repeating it, as if trying to deceive herself, and it turned out that she really didn't hurt much.
Fang Xiaoling stood up, looked up at the vast white expanse, and muttered, "The sky is pink." β
The pink sky is like an oil painting painted by a brush, which is what Fang Xiaoling imagined.
"Oh my God......" Fang Xiaoling was shocked and excited, "Everything here is transferred by my will, I am the creator of this world, here, is my ...... world"
Step by step, she walked towards the VR gear, "In other words, I can watch any movie I want, and I can feel like I'm there." β
"That's right!" She suddenly stopped, and remembered something, "Now is not the time to study VR movies!" I need to know what's going on over there with Li Mengling! β
The moment she finished speaking, she returned to Li Mengling's perspective, and saw the buildings and scattered pedestrians on the street outside the car window quickly retreating.
"Master driver, please drive faster." Li Mengling's tone was very calm.
Fang Xiaoling had no body in this state, only the consciousness of the soul, but she still felt the cold bone cleaver in her arms.
Li Mengling's eyes focused on the car window, she looked at herself reflected in the window, squeezed out a smile as hard as if she was rehearsing, and kept repeating a sentence, "Hello Roland, I'm Fang Xiaoling." β
After saying it more than a dozen times, she adjusted her tone again, "Sister, I'm Xiaoling." β
Just when Fang Xiaoling felt extremely frightened and finally realized what the other party wanted to do, the other party's eyes suddenly became cold, looking at the face looming in the glass window, as if she was looking at another person.
Even without any explanation, Fang Xiaoling knew that Li Mengling was talking to her at this time, "You just wait to watch the show, I know where Roland's home is." β