For him, that day was just an ordinary day in his life.
But for this world, this day is the end of the universe and its restart.
It ended with their conversation.
Restarted billions of years ago.
——
When Huang Yi was in college, he joined a group belonging to the Paranormal Research Association, and he would chat about topics in this area every day in the group.
He was interested, but it was more of a way to collect some inspiration to complete his piece of text-heavy work that he couldn't even earn back his electricity bill.
It was at this time that he met a guy whose name was raised to the sky.
This guy is called God.
For such an arrogant guy, Huang Yi thought he would definitely be beaten!
And he found out that this guy lived next to him and was actually his schoolmate, so he decided to ask him out.
The entrance of the noisy Internet cafe.
"Hello!"
The other person is wearing a brown windbreaker, and his body proportions are very well-proportioned. If you look at him from a distance, you won't even think that he is very tall, but when you walk over, you will find that the other person is a bit too tall, giving people a sense of wonder. Pressure to back off.
His face was as sharp and angular as the plaster statues Huang Yi had seen in art classes before. His hairline was a neat line, with only a slight point in the center.
"Huang Yi, I am Yin Shen!"
His hands were stretched out, and his fingers were long and nearly perfect.
Huang Yi looked at the cold-looking guy who was over 1.9 meters tall in front of him, and he held the other person's hand at a loss.
"Wow!"
"Brother Shen, you are so tall."
Sure enough, anyone who dares to take such an arrogant name has a reason.
At the same time, Huang Yi also discovered that Yin Shen knew his name as soon as they met, and he did not have the habit of using his real name as his online name.
But he didn't ask in detail, maybe he had met him somewhere in school.
In front of the computer.
Yin Shen is reading the news, while Huang Yi is writing in the Internet cafe. How can I put it, both of them seem to be the type to take the unconventional path.
Yin Shen looked at Huang Yi and suddenly asked a question: "Why did you join the group? Do you really believe in super powers?"
Huang Yi looked at the screen very seriously, pursed his lips and said one word: "Well, I can only say that I look forward to its existence, and look forward to discovering it one day!"
Yin Shen: "What do you expect from it?"
Huang Yi: "It's not that I expect anything from it, but that I expect that the world can be extraordinary, or that I can be extraordinary."
Yin Shen asked again: "If you can know what everyone is thinking in their hearts, and you can see that you know the correct answer to this world, what do you want to do?"
Huang Yi raised his eyebrows: "You can do whatever you want!"
Yin Shen looked at Huang Yi carefully and shook his head: "No, you can't do it."
Huang Yi finally turned around: "Why?"
Yin Shen: "Your heart has boundaries, kindness, a sense of justice, expectations, and rich feelings. You can't do whatever you want."
Huang Yi let go of the keyboard and scratched his hair: "I really want to be a villain like this. I feel very handsome."
Yin Shen: "A person like that wouldn't say such things."
Huang Yi asked Yin Shen: "What about you? What will you do if you have such ability?"
Yin Shen answered with certainty, as if he really had: "Do nothing."
Huang Yi thought this answer was too strange, and became even more curious: "Why, is there any special reason?"
Yin Shen just said: "Because when you know the answer to everything, it seems that what you do loses meaning and becomes boring."
Yin Shen stared at Huang Yi, and he suddenly smiled.
"but."
"I look forward to seeing a different answer one day, maybe then everything will make sense."
"Of course, the answer may not be what I want."
Huang Yi felt that Yin Shen was looking at him with scrutiny, as if he was looking at something strange.
He was embarrassed, so he laughed along and shrugged.
"Hahaha, it sounds like superpowers really exist."
The initial meeting was very ordinary, and there was nothing special about the two of them at first glance.
Like everyone else on the street.
But Huang Yi became friends with Yin Shen in this way, and perhaps the other person's only friend.
Although sometimes he also wonders, are he and Yin Shen really friends?
Because the other person is so cold and cold, as if he doesn't need anything in this world, let alone the existence of friends.
A few years passed in the blink of an eye. Yin Shen finished enjoying his peaceful college life.
Then, on the day of graduation, he said that he had won a lottery and became rich and free.
"?"
"Are you kidding me?"
Huang Yi, who was unemployed after graduation, stood by the road confusedly with his bag on his back, looking at Yin Shen, who had started to provide for his retirement after graduation.
The other party is always so indifferent and calm, as if his life has been arranged long ago.
And Huang Yi embarked on his own path, finding a job that had nothing to do with his major, repeating boring days with no future in sight.
Perhaps, being unable to see the future is the future for ordinary people like them.
Occasionally, when he has free time, he will meet and chat with Yin Shen.
Yin Shen's home.
Huang Yi was too tired after a busy day's work to lift his head. He leaned carelessly on the brown sofa and looked up at the ceiling.
"I really envy you!"
"I know everything, I can accomplish anything, I have everything."
"You can't really be a god, why are you always so powerful?"
Yin Shen organized a whole wall of bookshelves: "You feel unhappy."
Huang Yi opened his mouth as if he wanted to spit out his soul: "Because, I can't see the future!"
He didn't know why, but when he said these words, Yin Shen actually showed envious eyes.
Yin Shen did not comfort Huang Yi, nor did he say anything meaningful.
He just said: "That's it!"
Yin Shen opened the refrigerator and got him a bottle of drink, "Are you still writing?"
Huang Yi knew that Yin Shen was talking about his hobby: "Yeah!"
Yin Shen: "Is anyone watching? How are the results?"
Huang Yi finally straightened up and touched the back of his neck lazily, as if to cover up his embarrassment.
"After several years of writing, I finally signed the contract reluctantly."
He pursed his lips and let out a somewhat self-deprecating smile, while speaking.
"I don't have any talent. What is easy for others is like reaching the sky for me!"
Yin Shen: "Then why do you insist?"
Huang Yi finally sat up straight, his expression and eyes becoming serious.
"I like an extraordinary life, even if I am just an ordinary person, even though I go to and from work day after day with no end in sight."
"But when I was sitting in front of the computer, my mind flew to another wonderful world."
"I'll think about it."
"Would I be different in another world?"
The smile he showed with pursed lips was not bright, but it was extremely relaxed and free. Perhaps he was happiest only at this time.
Huang Yi took a sip of the ice drink: "Why are you friends with me?"
"Yin Shen, you and I are not from the same world at all. You can easily do anything, as long as you want."
"And I can't do anything. I feel like a loser compared to you."
Yin Shen said calmly: "Because you have no future."
Huang Yi thought Yin Shen was joking: "Huh?"
Yin Shen nodded and continued.
"You are completely extraordinary because I can't see through you."
Yin Shen looked directly at Huang Yi and spoke in a calm tone.
"I often wonder."
"Huang Yi, what kind of existence are you?"
"I can't find the answer, but that's why it's worth looking forward to."
"A lot of things become more interesting when you're around."
"I like a life that is calm and full of expectations. My life is as plain as water, but your future is full of uncertainty."
"When I look at you, it's like you're sitting on the sofa watching a movie with an unpredictable ending."
Huang Yi's mouth opened wide for a long time.
Then, he patted Yin Shen on the back, turned his face to the other side and shook his head gently.
"What the hell are you talking about!"
What this guy said was always hard to understand, and Huang Yi was used to it.
Huang Yi's cell phone rang suddenly. He glanced at it and hurriedly stood up, picked up his bag and walked outside.
"Manager Dog asked me to go back and work overtime again. Let's talk next time."
When Huang Yi opened the door and left, Yin Shen suddenly said something.
"Huang Yi, you are my friend."
"Only friend."
Huang Yi stood outside the door and looked at Yin Shen, smiled and waved his hand.
"I see."
"It's so pretentious for a grown man to say this!"
——
This day was like every Sunday before.
In the morning, Huang Yi had just finished playing basketball in a yellow vest. He returned to the rental house and rubbed his face and short hair under the faucet.
Suddenly there was a message on his mobile phone, Huang Yi picked it up and read it.
It was Yin Shen who made an appointment with him.
The other party made a reservation at a tea restaurant near his home and asked him to have tea in the afternoon.
Huang Yi packed up his things, changed into a set of clean clothes and was about to go out.
At this time, suddenly another phone call came.
"Hello, your express delivery has arrived."
Huang Yi hurried down and got an express package.
Huang Yi originally didn't remember what he bought, but when he saw the box after opening it, he understood what it was.
It was a trilobite fossil he bought.
Huang Yi opened the box and took out the fossil, holding it up to look at in the sunlight.
Across time, the trilobites from hundreds of millions of years ago still look so lifelike, as if they are still living inside this stone, which is amazing.
"nice!"
Huang Yi thought about the meeting later. He never asked for any gifts when visiting Yin Shen, and he never discussed money when treating himself to dinner.
Sending gifts and talking to friends who have been friends for many years seems a bit foreign to them.
However, this fossil was not worth much and was very special. Huang Yi thought about it and decided to take it with him.
"Better bring it with you!"
Because this stone is so beautiful.
He wanted his friends to take a look too.
Huang Yi put the box in his bag, got on his bicycle and ran towards the distance.
And he didn't know.
What is he doing at this moment, and what will all this lead to.
The location is near Yinshen Community. The location is very quiet. Vehicles come and go but it doesn't seem too noisy.
Huang Yi has been here several times before. The sweet wine here is very good and the food is also very unique.
When we arrived in front of the restaurant, another thing happened.
"boom!"
Huang Yi pushed his bicycle across the road. A dilapidated small trailer truck passed quickly behind him, knocking down the railings on the roadside and scattering a lot of metal garbage and debris. It should be from the car. fell off.
Huang Yi put down his bicycle and watched the car leave.
"Forehead?"
"Just leaving?"
Some people also ran out on the roadside and watched the scene.
"The railing was knocked down."
"Running so fast."
"It's a private truck transporting construction waste."
Finally, he dragged the railing that had fallen in the middle of the road aside.
He swept the large pieces of debris off the floor with his feet, moved them aside and left.
However, he did not see a sharp metal fragment left in the middle of the road not far away.
When Huang Yi entered the restaurant, he heard someone calling him.
"At this!"
The tall man looked at Huang Yi from the second floor, with an expression that seemed indifferent to everything as usual.
Huang Yi pushed the bag on his back and walked towards the stairs.
"coming!"
The two of them were still chatting while eating, talking about some irrelevant things.
But this time, Yin Shen assumed a setting in which he could have an out-of-body experience, and Huang Yi, an unreliable amateur writer, once again made some unreliable and irresponsible remarks.
He said that if the soul is not counted as matter and energy, Yin Shen will become a being that transcends everything.
Neither time nor space can bind him. Only by finding an anchor point can he become an observer free from the universe and time.
Yin Shen seemed to believe it, or maybe he didn't care at all, because just talking to each other was enough for friends, and it no longer mattered what they were talking about.
He just sat quietly and listened, occasionally saying a few words.
And Huang Yi was so happy that he danced with joy.
Just like the fantasy he likes, the extraordinary world he likes and expects.
Suddenly, Yin Shen seemed to feel something, and he looked downstairs.
"Um?"
He seemed to vaguely see a fog, and some things could no longer be seen clearly.
Yin Shen was a little confused, and there were some changes in his mood.
Watching Huang Yi finish eating, Yin Shen drank all the plum wine in the cup.
Stand up and prepare to leave.
However, Huang Yi stopped him and mysteriously took out the box from his backpack and gave it to him.
Yin Shen took the box Huang Yi gave him and opened it. Inside was an irregular stone with an exquisite insect pattern on it.
"What is this? A fossil?"
Huang Yi: "Laidlichia, a type of trilobite."
"Although this fossil is not worth much, but when you think about being able to see creatures hundreds of millions of years ago vividly appearing in front of you, you feel that no amount of money can buy such a shock."
“Take it back and display it at home, and let’s imagine and feel the vicissitudes of the ancient earth hundreds of millions of years ago and the vicissitudes of these ancient creatures!”
He never accepted gifts from Huang Yi, but for some reason he accepted them directly this time.
"Thank you, Huang Yi!"
"We had a great time chatting today!"
He opened the box and took the fossil in his hand.
As he walked down the stairs, he rubbed the marks on the fossil with his fingers, feeling a sense of intimacy in his heart for no apparent reason.
However, as soon as he reached the lobby, a car tire on the road rolled over sharp debris at high speed, making a loud noise.
Suddenly, he lost control and crashed into the glass door of the hall from the street outside at a speed of more than a hundred yards, crushing Yin Shen with layers of glass fragments.
Yin Shen held the fossil in his hand and raised his head to look.
The body was knocked out like a piece of rag.
everything.
Everything has changed.
On the second floor of the restaurant, Huang Yi looked at his friend in a pool of blood in disbelief, and then rushed down.
He didn't notice that in the moment he was running down, the whole world and everything was falling apart.
Everything is being annihilated, everything is being reorganized, and time is about to flow backward to a certain stage 500 million years ago.
Time begins to slow down.
He rushed towards his friend and made a sound from his mouth.
The sound was continuously elongated.
"Yin...Shen..."
The moment it was all destroyed and everything started again.
He called out the name that towered over the universe throughout the years, the name that even God King Lederiki could not call out.
From this point on, that name is no longer a mortal.
But the name of the Creator.
Wow.
In an instant, the whole world shattered.
It's like a movie is halfway through and someone pulls the progress bar to the beginning.
But then instead of replaying, filming starts over.
Everything that has ever happened is gone and everything starts over again.
Everything that ever happened is erased.
Huang Yi's mind went blank. He felt his body dissipating, but his consciousness was pulled out of his body and dragged to a place he could not imagine by a powerful attraction.
He was following a certain figure upstream of time, but his speed was much slower.
At this moment, many pictures appeared before his eyes like a revolving lantern.
"Hello, Huang Yi, I am Yin Shen!"
"Because I can't see the future!"
"Huang Yi, what kind of existence are you?"
"I like an extraordinary life, even if I am just an ordinary person. Although I go to and from work day after day with no end in sight. But when I sit in front of the computer, my heart flies to another wonderful place. world."
"Would I be different in another world?"
"Hello, your express delivery has arrived."
"boom!"
"The railing was knocked down."
"Lately, when I wake up in the middle of the night every day, I always feel that another me suddenly crawls out of my body."
Everything.
The final scene was fixed on the scene where Huang Yi handed the fossil to Yin Shen.
Yin Shen took the box from his hand: "What is this? Fossils?"
Huang Yi smiled and nodded: "Leidlichia, a type of trilobite."
(End of chapter)
