Li Liang clearly remembers that "Introduction to Taoism" mentioned that in the spiritual world, a man named Dododisar proposed the "Tian Ling Conjecture", that is, there are four stages of existence of Tian Ling creatures, zero consciousness, enlightenment, closed loop, and return. zero.
But he never expected to hear "Closed Loop" in this way again.
There was silence in the room.
Everyone's eyes met, with different expressions.
K put on his sunglasses and slowly leaned back in his chair. Mizuno straightened his body and stared at the screen. Brother Shui was silent, lowering his eyelids and looking at the ground. Old Tang beside him swallowed and stopped talking.
"Li Liang" in the video seemed relieved after reciting the poem, smiled and was about to speak, when the screen suddenly jumped and the scene changed.
The new scene is obviously a party. It seems to be at night. The scene is a lawn full of people. They gather in twos and threes to chat. They are all dressed in formal attire and holding wine glasses. Many waiters carrying wine trays shuttle among them. The sound is noisy and very lively. .
The video seemed to be shot with a handheld device. The camera was shaking so much that you could hear someone next to you saying something unknown, causing a burst of laughter.
Li Liang returned his attention to the video. Cake and flowers could be vaguely seen in the scene. The background music was a piano, and the music played was usually played at weddings.
A wedding venue?
Suddenly, everyone in the picture became quiet and turned in one direction at the same time.
The camera then rotates.
The next moment, the screen jumped again.
"Li Liang" appeared again, but everyone immediately discovered that this time "Li Liang" was different.
In the picture, "Li Liang" seems to be forty or fifty years older than before, turning into an old man in his late thirties, with white hair, huddled in a chair, and depressed.
The lens is stable but slightly skewed. It is obviously not debugged and seems to be a fixed shooting equipment set up by "Li Liang" alone.
The scene is no longer that white room, but... shelves standing in a radiating shape, with milky white eggs vaguely placed on them.
Weapons base... Li Liang clenched his fists tightly, his joints turning white.
"Closed-loop stage, the 3750th record." "Billy" is no longer here, and this time "Li Liang" speaks this sentence alone. Then, he moves his mouth and reads out the poem again. "Don't go gentle into that good night, the day is drawing to a close, and the old age should still burn and roar..."
Different from when he was "young", "Li Liang"'s voice at this moment was vague and his head was shaking unconsciously.
What's even more heart-stopping is that his eyes keep moving, and the focus of his eyes keeps wandering in the air, as if something is appearing and disappearing one after another in front of his eyes.
The voice was intermittent. Several times, "Li Liang" seemed to have forgotten the following sentence and hesitated for a while before continuing.
till the end.
"...Don't go gentle into that good night and rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light."
The screen jumped again, and the video changed to the wedding scene just now.
The camera shakes, showing that the person controlling the camera is walking quickly towards a villa. The camera passes countless people, passes through the crowded living room, goes straight to the second floor, and arrives at the door of a room.
The door was ajar.
The camera shot through the crack of the door, and it happened to capture a woman in a wedding dress sitting sideways in front of the mirror. There were many women surrounding her, some holding makeup with small brushes, some holding the back of the wedding dress for her, and others Keep talking on the phone and dancing around.
But the woman was in a daze, with a calm expression, holding a bouquet of flowers in her right hand and placing it on her lap, letting the makeup artist apply powder on her face.
For a moment, the woman seemed to feel something, and suddenly turned her head to look at the camera, then smiled, stuck out her tongue, pointed her finger at the camera, pursed her lips and wrinkled her nose playfully.
The women standing around her looked over at the same time and laughed together.
The music was soft and accompanied by noisy voices in the background, everything showed that this was a warm wedding.
Li Liang stared blankly at the girl making faces in the camera.
This girl is the girl in the half-photo he found at the drone maintenance base. At this moment, the photo is placed in the backpack at his feet.
who is she? Who did you marry?
K obviously noticed this and turned to glance at Li Liang.
At this time.
The screen jumps again.
"Li Liang" appears again.
Everyone gasped at the same time.
This time, "Li Liang" has become extremely old, his white hair has almost fallen out, he is as thin as a skeleton, his pale skin is covered with age spots, he is leaning on a chair, looking at the camera quietly, his eyes are cloudy and unfocused.
"Closed loop, four thousand three...thirty-seven."
He licked his lips with difficulty, and it seemed that because he had lost all his teeth, he spoke with a weak breath, "Don't go into that good night gently, the day is almost over, and the old age should still burn..."
Suddenly, he got stuck.
I seem to have forgotten what the next sentence is.
The next moment, "Li Liang" raised his right hand and pointed a short revolver at his temple.
Wow.
Li Liang stumbled to his feet and lay in front of the screen, his chest heaving and breathing heavily.
That gun!
In the picture, "Li Liang"'s eyes trembled, and he took a small breath with difficulty. After a moment, he slowly said, "You should still burn and roar in your old age, rage, rage, rage at the disappearance of the light..." As he said, he slowly put down the gun. .
Until the end of the poem, "Li Liang" raised his gun four times in total.
Everyone has seen that the entire video shows a trend. "Li Liang" seems to be losing his memory, and the long poem is the tool he uses to detect his memory.
And once he forgets, "Li Liang" will shoot himself.
"...Don't go gentle into that good night and rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light."
As this sentence ended, the screen went black.
It seems like the video ends here.
Li Liang stared at the screen and slowly backed away until his back hit the wall.
Others finally breathed a sigh of relief.
In just over ten minutes, it was as difficult as hell for them.
Sudden.
Mizuno said, "The video is not over yet!"
Sure enough, the screen lit up, and then something flashed past, and then the video returned to the original freeze frame and finished playing.
"Quick," K leaned forward, "What passed by?"
Li Liang approached stiffly, pressed the Enter key again, then pressed the "right" key, fast forwarded to the last moment, and pressed Enter again.
The video freezes, and the picture shows Li Liang's face, very close to the camera, as if he is back in his twenties, with fair skin, black hair, and a gloomy look in his eyes.
The corners of his mouth were raised in a smile.
"Fuck..." Old Tang murmured tremblingly.
K and Mizuno stood up at the same time.
Only Brother Shui still lowered his head, took out a cigarette and lighter from his pocket, and tried to light it. He pressed it several times but could not light it.
Li Liang looks at "himself" in the freeze frame.
Long years apart.
