"God's A-level memory erasure! You just want to beat me to amnesia!"
"After all, all you know are confidential matters, and you can't escape by erasing the memory..." The director threw away the holy sword of physics and took out a shiny mace from his windbreaker: "Of course if you If you don’t like the Holy Sword of Physics, I can change it for you.”
Wu Ming rolled his eyes and said angrily: "I don't want any flavor of memory erasure (physics). Compared with these, why do you have to scare me like this?"
The expression on the director's face became a little playful: "Oh? What on earth do you want to say?"
Although Wu Ming occasionally indulges in his own delusions of chuunibyou, he knows his position in the real world better than anyone else. He is definitely not the chosen one, and he has never experienced anything like heaven since he was a child. The experience of choosing a person, so he knows very well that such a good thing as pie in the sky will definitely not hit his head. Even if it hits his head, he will only rush to the hospital - check his brain. Not smashed.
"I want to say that I am not a human being... I have lost my words. I want to say that I am just an ordinary person, an ordinary person with no characteristics. If it were not for a whim, I would not be involved in the incident this time. If it were a pursuit, If you want to keep it secret, there is no need for you to show up from the beginning. You can use the deception method of creating this starry sky universe to quietly recycle the two superwomen, or you can do it even more cruelly. You can keep it secret by silence. The ultimate method. But now you are using memory erasure (physics) to scare me, you..."
Reason seemed to have locked up Wu Ming's excess emotions. When he talked about the director's ability to silence him, he calmly seemed to be talking about other people's affairs. He was very aware of the black-haired girl in front of him who looked like a literary girl. It is not easy for a woman to pinch herself to death. After all, the other person can stun two superwomen from a distance. But before he could finish his words, the director complained to him like a middle-aged uncle who was having trouble with his career. stand up.
"Because it is too troublesome to deal with the aftermath! I have to correct my life trajectory, erase my memory, and smooth out all the logical contradictions caused by the elimination of items! I don't want to increase my workload anymore..."
Wu Ming looked confused: "Huh?"
The director took out something from his windbreaker for the third time. It was a black notebook. Wu Ming, who was square and square, could vaguely see the words "Death Not..." written on it. She opened two pages and said to Wu Ming. : "Item 3 of the Lucky Ancient God Firm's Employee Code, Article 1 states: Whenever unrelated persons are accidentally involved due to work reasons and have interfered with their life trajectories, they must do the following: It is not limited to the correction of life trajectory, memory erasure, injury treatment, resurrection and other various aftermath treatments. These are the rules I have set. As the director of the office, of course I must set an example in abiding by the rules."
"As for recruiting you to join the company, in fact, about a hundred or two hundred years ago, the temporary workers who helped handle the chores in the office went crazy and suddenly quit. Because they could not find a suitable candidate, so recently the office has accumulated a lot of people. There are more and more chores. If you work with the firm, it will not only solve your aftermath problems, but also solve the mountain of chores in the firm. It is simply a good thing that kills two birds with one stone! Oh, by the way, benefits. We can also discuss the treatment. During the probation period, you may encounter many problems and even die a few times, but newcomers will become familiar with the methods to solve these problems sooner or later if they die a few times. And we have thought about it carefully this time. , decided to shorten the assessment period for newcomers appropriately..."
Because there were so many flaws, Wu Ming's old words were stuck in his throat for a long time and he didn't know where to start. It took him a while to hold back a sentence: "So if you think it's troublesome to deal with it afterwards, you're going to let me handle it myself." The aftermath?"
The director showed a sly smile: "How about it? Is my method of getting the best of both worlds perfect?"
Wu Ming suddenly became furious: "How can we not get the best of both worlds! You have completely dragged me into the water!"
Although if Wu Ming wants to investigate in detail, there will definitely be some strange things, but at least this is more perfunctory than "Just think that you have won the lottery, and I will draw you to come to our office to do a big job!" This is obviously perfunctory! is much more reliable.
So Wu Ming tentatively accepted the director's statement: "If I join, I will take the position of the temporary worker a hundred or two hundred years ago, right?"
"That's right, think about it carefully before making a choice. Should you join us and step into the unknown world? See the wonderful and vast world." The director nodded and then extended his hand to Wu Ming: "I still choose to refuse and let I will erase this memory of yours...well, don't worry, it will be painless, and then you will return to a life without any troubles, a plain and happy life for ordinary people, and just live a stable life."
This time Wu Ming did not answer immediately like before.
He hesitated. Wu Ming, who originally thought he could give the answer without thinking at all, began to waver in this choice.
Wu Ming has long fantasized about his life becoming more bizarre and exciting, imagining that there might be wonderful creatures from various urban legends active in the darkness of the world. On the one hand, he hopes that the world he lives in can It’s more interesting. I hope that this world will be filled with all kinds of weird and unreasonable things to enrich this world. But on the other hand, I deny these ideas: this world is objective and regular, just like a precise machine. Likewise, the extraordinary things he hoped would never happen. Wu Ming has been living every day in such a contradictory state - longing for an extraordinary life, but denying the existence of such a life because of rationality.
Of course, this is not because Wu Ming is dissatisfied with his stable life. Maybe he does have a trace of longing for this kind of life in his heart, but more of it is just a simple daydream of free money, so really When it came time to choose, he hesitated.
Before Wu Ming were two completely different paths, representing two different lives.
If he refuses, Wu Ming will forget everything about today as the director said, and then continue to live an ordinary life every day as a teacher of an amateur class. Maybe he will also recruit a few dancers after he has accumulated enough experience and funds. The teacher opened a dance training base to give dance classes to preschool children and art candidates for the high school and college entrance examinations. Then he would get married and have children step by step, and raise the children to adults. After he got married and started a business, he would start to enjoy his own retirement life without any serious illness. What kind of sins had he suffered? After sending away his wife who had been with him for decades, he met his death peacefully in a rocking chair. This was the stable life of an ordinary person that Wu Ming could imagine.
But if he agrees to join the gang, Wu Ming may be able to get in touch with those weird things and see a world that is far broader and more interesting than before. He may also die because of encountering some shocking events. Or several times. Of course, the difference between dying once and dying several times depends entirely on whether the director and the Lucky Ancient God Agency can reliably rescue him. If they are not reliable enough, Wu Ming thinks it will be spectacular. As soon as life has begun, it will fall apart in the middle.
In the long silence, the director just watched Wu Ming think quietly, which made Wu Ming, who was hesitating, feel a little emotional in his heart: when she didn't speak, she really looked like a quiet and beautiful literary girl, but it was a pity that she said this when she spoke. The image will be destroyed by 70% to 80%.
Finally, thinking about what he had experienced in less than half a day today, the wonderful changes in the development of events were like watching a movie with ups and downs. Wu Ming already had the answer in his heart.
In other words, the answer has been there from the beginning, but Wu Ming, who has been idle for a long time, finally dares to take this step.
"When I was a child, I always thought that the world was vast, interesting, and colorful. Everyone could see the vast world, and all kinds of weird things and weird fantasies coexisted under this vast sky. I thought this world existed With infinite possibilities, I believe that as long as I work hard, I will be rewarded. Everything has a reason and an answer. I believe that good and evil will be rewarded..."
Taking this step means saying goodbye to the ordinary life of the past. The mechanical repetitive life will be forced to become a thing of the past. Wu Ming may be disturbed by all kinds of inexplicable things every day. It was once a miracle. A smooth routine day after day will become a precious rest time in various events in the future.
"Later I felt like I was wrong. The world is complex and narrow. Everyone is bound to their own narrow life circle and common sense. Impossible things just can't happen without a reason. It's common for hard work not to be rewarded. Sometimes, evil people just can't be punished. Fantasy is a privilege only children have. The world is reasonable but unreasonable..."
As long as he takes this step, it means that he has chosen the future trajectory of his life. Everything will change. Regardless of whether he joins the firm or not, he will leave his familiar environment and head for a broader and new sky. He no longer wants to continue to be confused like a robot. The earth is alive.
"As a result, what happened today made me realize that the world has always been vast, interesting and colorful. I trapped myself in my own life circle and common sense, so it became more and more boring and ended up being limiting. What lives me is my own perception..."
Wu Ming has long been aware of the problem in his heart, but he has been unwilling to face it. He keeps deceiving himself and uses the saying that the world is complicated, narrow and unreasonable to persuade himself to give up. If it hadn't been for what happened today, he might have In the future, I will continue to convince myself and deceive myself, and live a mechanical life step by step like a living corpse, or I will wake up one day in the future due to an opportunity and regret that I have wasted too much time...
"I want to go to a wider world, experience more weird and interesting things, meet more people, listen to more touching stories, and witness more unknowns..."
Somehow, Wu Ming suddenly thought of something.
If you hear the Tao in the morning, will you die in the evening?
Wu Ming's answer was already very clear.
"Okay!"
Then he took hold of the delicate hand extended by the director.
