Cheng Ye stood up slowly.
He walked to the living room, relaxed and sat on the sofa, and looked sideways at the blue sky outside the floor-to-ceiling window.
This building has the best street view in the neighborhood.
On the 32nd floor, you can overlook most of the city.
Although there are several higher buildings, they are all out of sight.
Cheng Ye stared at the open landscape and said softly: "Let's talk. I think you should be able to hear me."
After he finished speaking, he sat there quietly.
His posture did not change, his body leaned forward slightly, and he stared at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window.
He seemed very sure that the other party would answer.
After a while, the childish voice rang: "You, can you hear me?"
The voice was small and filled with disbelief.
Cheng Ye smiled: "Yes, this is the third time I heard you speak."
The voice seemed surprised, and he said happily: "It's great. It's been three months since I came to this world, and this is the first time someone can hear my voice."
"Has no one heard you speak before?" Cheng Ye asked.
The child said aggrievedly: "No, not one. I was very happy when I first came here. I haven't seen the blue sky and white clouds for a long time."
"I was excited to play and run around, trying to talk to people passing by, but no one stopped to pay attention to me... Later I found out that they couldn't hear me..."
"Over time, I gave up."
It's a child.
Cheng Ye closed his eyes and recalled the sound he heard while running in the temporary hospital yesterday.
"Dad, I will try my best."
"We...we will meet..."
He came here to see his father.
Cheng Yezi felt a little sad.
This child also carries a story.
But, this is an opportunity.
He couldn't muster any more sympathy to take care of this child.
This is his only chance.
Among all Cheng Ye's previous speculations, there is one very important point, that is -
They are also victims.
They are the first batch of experimenters of this plan.
Therefore, it is the most dangerous, the easiest to get into trouble, and the one that is not taken seriously...
Professor Guo and the others should have arranged for many, many such pioneers to help them find their way first.
For Professor Guo and others, they are just indispensable victims on the road to this plan.
Then, he has a chance.
Since they are victims and test subjects, they will not know the core truth about this plan at all.
And this is his chance.
They are not intentional.
They have the opportunity to instigate rebellion.
Maybe they signed a confidentiality agreement, maybe they have various restrictions.
However, their voices seem to be heard only by themselves.
This is the opportunity.
Cheng Ye lowered his head and smiled slowly.
He should have thought of it, should have guessed it the first time he heard the extra sound.
The game doesn't give out weird things.
Those things that come out of the blue and surprise people are the clues to survival.
Cheng Ye slowed down his voice to sound more friendly: "Kid, how did you get here?"
(For the convenience of distinction, people in the other world still use it instead.)
It doesn't look like it's afraid at all. Professor Guo and the others probably weave a fairy tale dream for them.
In their minds, this may be a great thing.
Not only can you save yourself, but you can also save more people.
The child smiled sweetly and said cheerfully: "Brother, we came here after entering a crusher."
"grinder?"
"Yes, a big white machine. When a person lies on it, he will be slowly pushed in... They say this machine can separate people into atoms and store them." The child answered matter-of-factly.
Cheng Ye frowned.
If you break it down into atoms and then put it back together, will it still be your original self?
"Our physical body is stored, and the conscious body comes here..."
"...After we complete our mission, we will go back and reassemble our bodies."
The child continued.
"Does it hurt?" Cheng Ye lowered his eyes.
Living people are disintegrated while they are conscious.
It must be painful...
The living room at this moment formed an extremely strange but inexplicably harmonious landscape.
Cheng Ye's body was slightly bent, and there was a huge black mist on his back.
The black mist on the face begins to give a rough outline of facial features. If you look carefully, you can see what seems to be curved eyebrows.
The child raised his huge palm and touched his head, as if recalling the pain that day, and shouted: "It hurts, it hurts. My whole body was torn apart and crushed into powder, but I was always awake..." …”
"I wanted to close my eyes, but I seemed to be separated from my body. I couldn't close my eyes. I yelled and roared, trying to give up..."
"I'm telling you." The trembling black mist suddenly calmed down. It lowered its hands naturally and said calmly: "I almost gave up and almost shouted out, but, I Hold it in...this is the only way I can see my dad.”
"Why?" Cheng Zhizi raised his eyebrows, but his face was expressionless and he was still following the instructions.
The child was innocent: "Because... my father is dead."
"You may not know that our world has changed. The whole world is surrounded by darkness, and the air is filled with gray-white powder. If you breathe fast, you will choke."
"At that time, there was a war going on all over the world. It was the Fourth World War. But this time it was different from every other time."
The black shadow lowered his head and pressed it lonely against Cheng Ye's back, as if he could seek some faint comfort in this way.
It said softly: "The technological level of our world has developed to a very advanced level. When I first came here, I felt that it was fun to go back to the past mentioned in the textbook..."
"...Due to the level of science and technology, this war was extremely brutal. All kinds of biological and chemical weapons were released indiscriminately. My parents were very worried at the time, fearing that the war would spread to the country... But Fortunately, our country has always maintained internal peace and stability."
"However, no one can escape from the world war. One day, a biological and chemical weapon hit our city. At first, there was nothing strange..."
"None of us took it seriously. We thought it was a beautiful stone. Many of my friends took the stone home and hung it up, thinking it was a gift from God."
Speaking of this, Black Shadow's body trembled slightly.
It seemed to have returned to that time, and seemed to feel the tragedy that was about to come next.
Cheng Ye's dark pupils trembled slightly.
I imagined such a miserable scene in my mind.
That picture is even more terrifying and tragic than the experiments currently being conducted on Earth.
Because that is a real person on a planet.
The child's voice continued.
It seemed that no one had talked to it for a long time. When the chat box opened, it couldn't help but want to tell everything.
I don't know if it's to vent the depression in my heart, or because someone suddenly started chatting after months of no one talking and I couldn't hold it back.
It chirped, telling everything that happened on that planet.
"The change occurred suddenly about a month ago."
"I remember very clearly that everyone seemed to be having a really rough time, forgetting things, not doing their jobs well, making mistakes out of nowhere."
"Everyone thinks it may be because of the worries caused by the war, which makes everyone confused and unable to work well."
"But we children know that this is not the case. We don't pay that much attention to the war, but I have also become strange. When I go to the toilet, I can inexplicably lock myself in the toilet..."
"Later, people began to die inexplicably without any warning..."
"More and more people are dying. They will fall down and die while walking on the road."
The child paused, then straightened up suddenly. His faint facial features seemed to be covered with a layer of sadness: "My father died at that time."
"You may not know what kind of weapon it is. In fact, experts don't know either. It was originally a powerful radioactive weapon that could cause the collective death of all living things within the range, but it mutated..."
"Just like people are always worried that robots will give birth to intelligence, beautiful stones will give birth to bad luck..."
The child became serious: "Each of us was surrounded by bad luck, but no one knew it... Later, amid the piling up of deaths, the government department finally noticed the abnormality."
"That's how my father died. He was exposed to the air full of radioactive substances because he went to work every day, and was plagued by bad luck. When he went out again, he was killed by a vase that fell from upstairs."
Black Mist began to tremble and seemed to want to cry, but because he had not fully transformed into a human being, he could only make a slightly sad expression.
"Just, die like this."
It repeated itself mechanically.
"I miss him so much."
"I miss my dad so much."
Cheng Ye didn't reply for a long time.
He maintained his posture and let it vent his emotions a little.
It is not easy for such an older child to reach this stage.
After a long time.
Cheng Yecai asked in a slow voice: "What happened next..."
Heiwu raised his head, as if remembering, and his voice became longer:
"Later the government told us that there was poisonous gas floating everywhere on the streets. This poisonous gas would bring bad luck to us, so we should try not to go out."
"My mother and I obediently followed the last surviving people and lived underground in temporary structures."
"We have been hiding underground for a long, long, long time... It was okay at the beginning, the supplies were normal, people also believed in the government, and there were no riots."
"But without seeing the sun all day long, it is difficult to dispel the darkness in the heart. The underground city was temporarily built. Everyone sleeps on the floor, without privacy, and is crowded together. More and more people commit suicide because they lose confidence... Some impatient people also began to become irritable and deliberately cause trouble. My mother said that they were trying to find a sense of being alive."
"We rely on the three meals a day provided by the government department to determine how many days have passed..."
"So many days have passed..." A group of black mist lowered its head lonely, and its voice became much lower: "The government department suddenly issued an announcement..."
"...The latest research says that it will allow us to restore our previous lives, and it will take a thousand volunteers."
"Are you going to participate?" Cheng Ye asked softly.
The child shook his head and then nodded: "I didn't want to go at first, but then I heard that I could save dad..."
His voice became even more lonely: "I really want to save my dad, so I made up my mind. If I can save my dad, I will definitely participate."
"I didn't tell my mother about this. I left a note and ran over secretly."
"Not many people participated because it took too long. In my mother's words, people have lost confidence and don't think this can really save everyone."
"I'm different. I just want to save my dad. As long as there is a one in ten thousand chance, I want to save my dad."
The child's voice began to choke: "Uncle, you don't know, I actually see my mother crying often."
"My mother hides and wipes her tears every time. She cries secretly. After crying, she pretends nothing happened and comes back to wash my clothes."
"She thought I didn't know, but actually I knew everything."
"My father is dead. She is sadder than anyone else. I don't want my father to die. I want to save him. I want to save him!"
“So I snuck over and attended the event.”
Hearing this, Cheng Ye frowned and his heart gradually lifted.
His voice became stern: "They told you that they could save your father?"
This is not a scam! ?
Can people be resurrected from the dead?
This is so fucking heartless!
A mother has lost her husband and wants to take her child away too! ?
Use lies to gather these one thousand volunteers! ?
Cheng Ye was angry.
He clenched his fists, and the veins on his forehead popped out.
Black fog trembled. It felt Cheng Ye's emotions, but it didn't understand why he was angry.
It thought for a while and said cautiously: "I asked specifically when I signed up. They said that as long as I succeed, my father will come back."
"I confirmed it."
As if to convince himself of this, the child repeated it again.
Cheng Ye closed his eyes and felt empty in his heart.
He wanted to say something, but felt that nothing he could say was powerless.
The deal is done, what else can be said?
The child saw that Cheng Ye ignored it for a long time, and his hand like black mist touched Cheng Ye's shoulder.
I only heard its clean and clear voice whispering:
"Uncle, you may not believe it, but I believe it."
"Look, they can send me here."
I don't know whether it was to comfort Cheng Ye or because he was afraid that Cheng Ye would be worried.
Cheng Ye smiled bitterly.
Going from one world to another is not particularly difficult in theory.
But let a person who has disappeared come back to life.
He was real and I didn’t know how to believe it.
Cheng Ye turned his face sideways, and the glass reflected the black mist.
Perhaps the two people were almost completely fused together, and Cheng Ye could faintly see what it looked like.
Very absurd, very weird.
Cheng Ye calmed down and continued to ask: "What did you do in this world to save your father?"
Please forgive him for continuing to test...
