The trip was peaceful, just like all ordinary couples in the real world, three meals a day, fireworks in the world.

When the weather is good, Qi Yan will personally go to the nearby vegetable market to catch the morning market, buy the freshest ingredients, borrow the kitchen of the hotel to cook by himself, and the two people who share the sense of taste share the most special food.

079 discovers that there are far more rules in the real world than in the "Illustrated Book of Rules", except that those rules are not written in black and white, but are silently hidden in the daily activities of human beings, becoming a part of their lives.

079: "The real world is not necessarily freer than the rules book, why do almost all travelers want to return to the real world?" ”

Qi Jiu: "Probably they are the same as us, and they have people and things to worry about here." ”

"Or, they're used to their old life, and it's a kind of inertia to come back." Qi asked.

Time flies quickly, on the seventh day of coming to the real world, the place where Xiao Qi Jiu was burned by cigarette butts behind his ear has scabbed, Qi Jiu carried him to the front desk of the hotel to settle the payment, and then took a taxi in the direction of the welfare institute to leave.

As soon as the taxi stopped at the door of the welfare home, Qi Yan took out his social work card and hung it up.

Because there is a donation event to be held in the welfare home today, the door of the welfare home, which was originally closed, is open, and people with work cards come and go.

Although it was more than ten years ago, Qi Yan still had an impression of the internal structure of the welfare home, he skillfully held Xiao Qi Zheng to the registration front desk, and took the initiative to provide relevant identity certificates to the registration staff: "Hello, I am a staff member of the Xihuaishu community, some time ago we received a report of child abuse, after we verified, the poor child was indeed abused, the child's biological parents are no longer alive, we contacted the child's relevant family members, no one wants to accept the child, There are no facilities or personnel in the community to take care of the children, so the children need to be placed in welfare homes temporarily. ”

The registration staff, who was already in a hurry, didn't think about it carefully, only complained about why he hadn't made an appointment in advance to explain the situation, and then perfunctorily gave Qi Yan a registration form: "Fill in the form first, and then I'll go through the process for you." ”

After saying that, she hurried to the affairs of the donation meeting.

After Qi Yan got the registration form in his hand, he read it carefully and filled in the baby's information-

"Child's Name: Qi Jiu"

"Date of birth: February 22, xxxx"

Chapter 253: Replicants (15)

The media and staff flocked to the reception hall of the orphanage, and no one noticed the social worker sitting in the reception desk filling out the registration form and the quiet child next to him.

Qi Zhen only filled in his name and date of birth, and the rest of his parents' information and social worker's contact information were blank.

He put the completed registration form and pen on the table, then took out a photo from the inner pocket of his trench coat and stuffed it into Xiao Qi's swaddling clothes.

This photograph was taken from Miss Rossetti's drawer when Rossetti was still in an orphanage.

In the background of the photograph is the high gray walls of the orphanage, and a skinny boy with gray-green eyes stands under a dead tree, looking at the camera silently, his eyes hollow and gloomy, like a puppet at the mercy of others.

This is 079 when I was a child, and this photo will appear in the growth album prepared by Mrs. Qi for Qi in the future.

079: "You guessed it, this photo is a memento we left for 'you' who came to the real world." ”

"It's a souvenir, it's also a revelation," Qi Ji smiled thoughtfully, "Because I used to have the same photo, I decided to leave this souvenir for myself now, but it was because of my act of leaving a souvenir that I was able to have this photo when I was a child... The line between cause and effect seems to be blurred, and effect is a cause, and cause can be an effect, which is interesting to think about..."

079: "After all, whether it is cause or effect, it is your own decision. ”

Qi Yan smiled: "That's right." ”

The crowd of people coming and going passed by, and Qi Ji squatted down and said to the sleeping baby, "Qi Ji, see you in eighteen years." ”

Then he took off the social worker's work card hanging on his chest and walked out of the gate of the orphanage alone as if nothing had happened.

The snow fell again, and the bustling orphanage disappeared into the snow behind it.

When the donation is over, the staff of the orphanage will find the child and the registration form with only the name and date of birth, and they may start to look for the disappeared social worker, and they will also try to obtain information about the family of the abandoned baby, but they are destined to never find the social worker who has left and the child's biological parents.

No one could have predicted that the social worker who showed up at the orphanage would be the abandoned child himself.

When eighteen years have passed, he will come back with a baby when he grows up.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and after a brief breakfast, Qi Jiu boarded a public bus to the edge of the city.

There is a cypress forest behind the abandoned glass factory, and in winter the cypress leaves have fallen all, leaving only bare branches reaching out to the snow.

Snow has covered the polluted land, and scavengers have moved to underground passages in the city to escape the cold as winter arrives, and there are few people within a few kilometers of abandoned factories.

Qi Yan walked towards the dead forest, the gray road gradually disappeared from view, and the surroundings were extremely quiet, only the sound of snow crushing dead branches sounded from time to time.

When snow falls, the world is always quiet, and the snow wool absorbs all the sounds made by humans, and the whole world becomes silent, pure, and transparent.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Qi Yan said to 079, "It's your turn." ”

According to the previous agreement, this operation will be led by 079.

079, who gained control of his body, pulled out the pistol hidden in the pocket of his trench coat, and he stood under the dead tree where the snow was falling: "This gun should have been in the hands of the bride." ”

The sound of the pistol being loaded was infinitely amplified by the silence, and the muzzle of the gun was once again aimed at the position of the heart, "The bride used it to kill her newlywed groom." ”

Death is the only way for the living to access the Rulesbook.

"Qi Jiu, close your eyes, don't be afraid, I won't let you feel pain."

"I'm not afraid."

With all the risks and pain taken on by the other party, what else is he afraid of?

079's finger pressed on the trigger and smiled, "I'll see you later." ”

The moment the gunshots rang out, the frightened crows flew over the dead forest on the edge of the city and toward the lead-gray skyline.

As 079 had promised, Qi Jiu, who had been pierced through his heart by a bullet, felt no pain, and he lay on the cold but soft ground, so quiet that he could hear the sound of blood spurting from his heart.

The snow is dyed red and warm.

Qi Yan closed his eyes, and the falling snow quickly covered his trembling eyelashes.

"079, I'll see you later."

*

The next process, Qi Yan was very familiar with, and the system voice that made him miss sounded-

[Unfortunately, the system has detected that you have entered the state of death]

[Cause of death: Death by gunshot]

Qi Yan couldn't help laughing in his heart, even the cause of death was the same as last time.

Obviously, not too much time has passed, and when he logs in to the "Rules Illustrated" in this way again, Qi Zhen has the illusion of being in a different world.

Because Qi Yan copied 079's genetic data, his existence was 100% in line with the "matching" recognized by the system, and he was naturally pulled into the "Rules Illustrated Book".

[Although you are dead, you have been selected by the "Rules Book" system......

"Once selected by the system, you will have a chance to regain your life through the dungeon level, would you like to accept the next challenge?" Qi Zhen intercepted the system's lines, imitated the system's mechanical tone and said, "Teacher System, that's what you're going to read next, right?" ”

System:......

I don't know what happened to the system, and the newcomer standing in front of it was like a bug, causing its program to run out of order for a while.

Qi Jiu: "System teacher, you don't need to introduce me to these basic rules, I know what to do, please help me open my personal system, and by the way, see what my initial start-up capital is." ”

【Please wait...】

[The initial starting capital is loaded, the system is notified, and in addition to the initial funds allocated by the system, you have also received a property gift from Dying City]

[The total amount of Survival Coins you have at the moment is: 790... 10,000 Survival Coins】

The system was obviously stuck, and even a system without any emotional ups and downs was shocked by this huge deposit at the moment.

After all, the unit is "10,000".

Qi Zhen laughed, it seems that the guy lied, his deposit was not put into the canteen meal card of the Rose Fish Factory, and was transferred to the Dying City for reasonable safekeeping.

Of course, a large part of this huge amount of money is 079's assets.

"079, thank you for your sponsorship, then I'll take it all." Qi asked.

079: "What's that?" After the marriage, these are the joint property of the two of them, unless you do not recognize the wedding. ”

Qi Ji sighed: "It's just that I feel like I've taken advantage of you." ”

"Although taking advantage of you is not a day or two." Qi Jiu's tone was a little mischievous.

Long ago, because of the contract, he has been using 079's money to hire time-limited NPCs to work.

Now it's good that the other party directly handed over his "deposit".

Qi Yan turned to the system and said, "In this way, can I choose not to enter the dungeon?" ”

【… Yes, all Death Travelers have the right not to enter the dungeon if they are in order.

[However, it is not excluded that there will be accidents, and the system does not guarantee this]

Qi Yan smiled: "I know, Teacher System, thank you very much all the time." ”

*

Now he has successfully sent his childhood Qi Yan to the real world, completing the starting point of the cycle "birth".

Then what they have to do next is to complete the most critical step in the closed loop: killing themselves after eighteen years.

Only by doing this step can you send your grown self back to the world of the "Rule Illustrated Book" and achieve the "encounter" between Qi Ji and 079.

In order to kill the eighteen-year-old Qi Jiu, it is necessary to find a way to complete the following two points:

First, you must travel back in time again and go back to eighteen years later, that is, in the real world, the days before Qi Yan's eighteenth birthday;

Second, it needs to go through the pollutant release port again and return to the real world 18 years later from the "rules guide";

The quickest and easiest way to complete the quest to travel back in time is to go back to the quest Year.

Because in the plot of this dungeon, 079 is set up as an omnipotent being, and his character can easily travel through time in the dungeon and meet all the needs of humanity, just like the last time Qi Ji prayed with the evil spirit in room 501 to go back to nineteen years ago.

Therefore, the "year" can be regarded as a coordinate point that can travel through time, and it can also be simply understood as a time channel that belongs to them.

079 found the coordinates of the copy "Year", and directly teleported Qi Yan to the "Year" on this timeline from the connection between the City of the Lingering City and the system.

【Warning! An error was detected in your login]

[Due to some force majeure reasons, the quest line has been suspended for travelers, which will cause travelers who log in to this coordinate to be unable to complete the mission normally, do you choose to log out immediately?] Yes / No]

Qi Ji did not hesitate to click [no]

【……】

Qi Jiu: "Teacher System, thank you for the reminder, but I have my own plans. ”

The system has done its duty, seeing that this new traveler is obsessed and still chooses to continue, for the traveler who does not hit the south wall and does not look back, the system has always had no choice, and let them go.