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"Sister Li Qing, my brother is... really okay?"
Zhou Xin sat on a chair, looked not far away, and asked Li Qing beside her without turning her head.
At this time, the two of them were in a pavilion in the community, looking at the spacious activity area between the buildings not far away, including green plants, rockeries, fountains, and fitness equipment.
Of course, the focus is on Zhou Qi, who is standing quietly in a small open space with the sun in front of him.
"It should be... okay." Li Qing replied reluctantly.
"How could it be okay? It's been like this for several days..." Zhou Xin was a little depressed, her voice was not loud and it seemed like she was mumbling to herself,
But soon she looked up at Li Qing and asked: "Sister Li Qing, I know you are not what you seem on the surface. You must have many secrets. Just tell me a little. I am really worried..."
"..." Li Qing looked at her complicatedly, the corners of his mouth twitching, but in the end he said nothing and sighed softly.
(How to tell her that the person who is wrong is herself...)
Li Qing was really in trouble.
In fact, from her perspective, everything around her was no longer normal a few days ago.
First, on the day after the college entrance examination, the whole family had a "celebration banquet" at home. Let's not go into the details. The point is that Li Qing clearly remembered that at that time, his sister Zhou Xin mentioned that she wanted to go with Zhou Qi and Li Qing during the holiday. Check out China Overseas University, because she also wants to take the exam there and wants to get familiar with it in advance...
But the next day, Zhou Xin seemed to have completely forgotten about it and didn't mention it at all. Even Zhou's father and mother didn't remember it at all. Instead, a few people began to discuss whether to work during the summer vacation? Do you want to go somewhere to have fun?
If it was just like this, forget it. The key point is that after several people discussed it, it was still as if nothing had happened, and they still did what they should do, with no intention of taking action at all...
Li Qing originally thought that Zhou Xing was just too excited after finishing the college entrance examination. She wanted to do everything but couldn't make up her mind, so the family let her make troubles. Later, they gradually realized that this was beyond common sense. It was obviously Zhou Qi who had done something strange. thing...
"Don't worry, Xin'er, your brother will be fine for sure. He may be thinking about some issues... So have you thought about the next arrangements?" Li Qing knew that he had no choice, so he could only try to change the subject.
"Hey," Zhou Xin sighed gloomily: "I don't know why, even though the college entrance examination is over, I still can't relax and feel confused... Sister Li Qing, do you have any suggestions?"
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while and answered seriously: "I suggest you go first..."
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"..."
"Team Leader Chen, what should we do? The entire community is starting to act abnormally. Is the blockade still useful?"
Not far away, someone beside Chen Bolin asked helplessly.
Chen Bolin looked at the two girls sitting in the pavilion not far away, and also felt deeply powerless. In fact, they had been doing the same things over and over again in the past few days, and having the same conversations.
In fact, the whole community is very strange. The people and things here always seem to be repeating similar things. For example, what an old lady said when she and her grandson were walking along the path not long ago were repeated again when they walked through a forest. I have said it again, yesterday some children fell while fighting, and today they fell again in a similar place...
In addition, people in the entire community are becoming more and more numb and indifferent, as if there is a terrifying demon entrenched in the darkness, sucking everyone's sanity day and night.
He sighed: "It's probably useless."
It turns out that all these abnormalities were not caused by a virus, but by Zhou Qi. It was unknown whether it was hallucination or hypnosis.
And their officials, no matter which faction they belong to, can't stop Zhou Qi from going anywhere or doing anything. They can only compromise again and again. Even if Zhou Qi does something to his relatives and friends now, and even makes himself "lived" "The place turned into such a weird scene, and they were helpless.
For example, two and a half days have passed since the last time Zhou Qi said, "I will return to Zhonghai to resolve everything in three days at most." However, Zhou Qi still has no intention of leaving and is still doing some magic in this community. Strange things.
Everything in Zhonghai City is accelerating. The multi-faceted blockade of the entire city has placed an unimaginable burden on the country, but they still can only wait here without any solution.
However, Chen Bolin knew that he couldn't do nothing. At least Zhou Qi could still communicate and move, so he had to do his part.
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Fortunately, Chen Bolin quickly found an opportunity to talk to Zhou Qi alone.
In the afternoon, Zhou Qi appeared on the rooftop of a certain building in the community at some unknown time, quietly looking at the people below.
After Chen Bolin climbed up, he did not disturb Zhou Qi immediately, nor did he ask his men to follow him. Instead, he watched quietly for a while at the top of the stairs.
Almost ten minutes later, he straightened his clothes and walked to Zhou Qi alone.
He cleared his throat slightly and asked:
"Looking at the scenery?"
"..."
Zhou Qi's figure did not move, and his gaze kept looking downward without any change. After a few seconds, he spoke softly:
"I feel like I'm in a dream."
"?"
Chen Bolin was stunned for a moment.
Zhou Qi's incomprehensible answer almost made him lose track of his brain. He had no idea what kind of medicine Zhou Qi was selling in his gourd.
But his expression soon recovered. After all, after being in contact with Zhou Qi for so long, he had already adapted to Zhou Qi's thinking, and what the other party said was not difficult to understand.
So he thought about it for a while and asked: "You mean, you feel that everything you have experienced is a dream? Including the end of the world and countless reincarnations?"
"That's right." Zhou Qi replied. Without waiting for Chen Bolin to say anything, he asked a new question:
"Do you think the probability of one in infinite is meaningful?" He turned to look at Chen Bolin.
"..." Chen Bolin's meticulous face twitched slightly.
Zhou Qi's thinking was too twisted. In just two sentences, he was under pressure instantly.
However, this question is not difficult to understand. He thought for a while and replied: "Yes. At least in mathematical theory, it is an indispensable part."
Zhou Qi shook his head: "What about reality? It is infinitely close to 0, which is an impossible probability and a meaningless decimal."
Chen Bolin probably understood what Zhou Qi wanted to express. He thought for a moment and solemnly said: "As long as it exists, it is meaningful. No matter how small the probability is, as long as it happens, it is 100%."
"That's right." Zhou Qi nodded slightly.
It seemed that he got a qualified answer, his mind became more active, and the expression on his face also changed. Although his eyes were indifferent, the corners of his mouth were raised in a strange smile.
He turned his head, continued to look at the community below, and said seriously: "I think I am dreaming.
"Imagine that you suddenly fell into a difficult situation one day, such as falling into a narrow crevice in a deserted valley and getting stuck."
"You can't use any tools, and you can't use your hands or feet. After working hard for a long time and trying various methods, you finally find that you can't climb up no matter what. An antelope is also stuck in the crack a few meters away. Bones will be your future fate..."
"..."
Seeing that Zhou Qi started telling stories without saying a word, Chen Bolin didn't know how to respond and could only listen patiently.
The desperate picture Zhou Qi painted was quickly outlined in his mind.
"...But you still escaped, because when you were about to die of thirst, starvation, dizziness, or just couldn't hold on anymore, it started to rain, and as the rain washed away, you suddenly found that your body was stuck The stones in a certain part are a little loose, and that's where you can use your strength, so you are ecstatic, take your last breath, and start working hard..."
"The obsession to survive made you escape successfully, and the great joy of surviving the disaster enveloped you. Although you were hungry and had no strength left, you still ran to a place with people with strong willpower, and returned home after wandering all the way. …”
"And as time goes by, this incident has become a strong mark in your memory, a story you brag about with others, and a capital for you to persuade others..."
"You get married and have children, have a successful career, and have a smooth journey. Decades have passed by in a hurry, and your family is harmonious and full of children and grandchildren. In your later years, you lie in the hospital bed and look at the relatives and friends surrounding you who are either crying or reluctant to leave. I think of you who was stuck in the hospital many years ago. The experience in the crevices of the rocks made me sigh silently in my heart about the uncertainty of fate, then I smiled and slowly closed my eyes..."
Having said this, Zhou Qi turned around, faced Chen Bolin, and concluded the story:
"But soon, you opened your eyes again, and you found that the oppressive crack in the stone was still in front of you. The place where you were stuck was still in unbearable pain. The turbid air kept getting into your mouth and nose, and you were struck by waves of dizziness... ...Yes, you are still stuck there, that happy life is just a dream..."
Chen Bolin: "..."
The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence.
Zhou Qi looked at Chen Bolin with his deep eyes and said nothing. In this atmosphere, Chen Bolin felt more and more pressure.
The story told by Zhou Qi can indeed make people feel desperate, but he cannot just answer by saying "the story is good", he must think about the meaning behind the story.
Fortunately, the story is not difficult to understand either.
First of all, in accordance with the usual practice, the setting of Zhou Qi "reborn countless times in the doomsday" was established. In his world view, the end of the world will always come as promised. Based on what he said, everything in the doomsday is uncertain. The law, "the end will come", is the only unchanging iron law...
But this time, the end didn't come.
Coupled with the "one in infinite" problem they just discussed... it is obvious that Zhou Qi believes that it is impossible for that kind of probability event to be infinitely close to zero, and the end of the world cannot not come. He may think that , maybe he himself was still in the last apocalypse, or even the first apocalypse, and then fell into a desperate situation where he couldn't die, and everything after that was just a dream he had when he came back...
However, what do people do when they "know" that they are dreaming?
That means...
The corner of Chen Bolin's eyes suddenly jumped, and he asked with a somewhat uncontrollable expression: "That's why you made the whole world a mess and brought about the doomsday just to test whether you were in a dream? Or, do you want to wake yourself up? ?”
"..."
Zhou Qi did not answer.
He just smiled slightly, then passed by Chen Bolin naturally, and then walked slowly towards the rooftop stairs.
It wasn't until he went downstairs under the confused looks of several officials that Chen Bolin, who was still there, finally reacted.
With a gloomy look on his face, he took out his communication device.
After wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, he said to the screen:
"Get through to the command center immediately. I have Zhou Qi's latest situation to report..."
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(End of chapter)
