I am invincible after I can read the file

Jiang Huai still saw the chaotic color blocks in front of him, but he quickly played back that scene in his mind——

When he found something abnormal and went to the tall buildings of the company, he quickly looked up while running: the sky sank, but it only covered the surrounding tall buildings, and did not extend its cloud-like tentacles to others.

Take, for example, the advertising hot air balloon that settles with the cloud, which happens to be a little lower than the dangerous fog.

And until he ran upstairs, the height of the hot air balloon gradually decreased, and it was not engulfed.

In every subsequent file load, the hot air balloon has never been swallowed.

"But...those passers-by looked like they didn't notice the abnormality above their heads, just like the employees working on the top floor of the company, they didn't respond at all."

Otherwise, when their figures were covered by clouds and mist, they should have shouted long ago, and the restaurant on the first floor of that small cruise ship simply cannot accommodate so many people, Jianghuai tends that the clouds and mist are more like teleportation props or can change people Props for the selected state.

But since "not noticeable", the only hot air balloon that seems to change altitude with the state of the overhead is very strange.

He doesn't feel that he has been teleported, but tends to be "coherent".

Associating that Jianghuai will arrive at the "cruise deck" no matter where he runs, he feels... "cruise deck" and "Paradise City" may be on the same floor, and they may even exist at the same time and their states are superimposed.

When acquiring the coherence ability, Jiang Huai realized that both people and objects have frequencies. His current state is at the same frequency as Paradise City, but after being disturbed by the so-called "cloud" or other special existence, his frequency will be the same as that of Paradise City. The "deck and restaurant" are the same, and the restaurant on the ferry appeared in front of his eyes.

And he was able to "return" to Paradise City from the restaurant because he released the attunement with the cruise ship through the act of "climbing down the gangway".

However, he entered that frequency through the "movie theater", and when he left that frequency, he was located "on the stairs on the second floor of the company".

Let's roughly think that "hot air balloon" does not want to be converted to frequency.

He decided to check it out first.

As Jiang Huai approached, the automatic door opened, and Jiang Huai ran out, while asking Hans to guide him——

"Take me to those places where the light is dim or where you can hide your body for a short time, that is, those corners of the city that will not be found even if you disappear."

Although Hans is confused, he will not refuse Jianghuai's request.

The first stop of Jianghuai is the tram tunnel.

When he entered the tunnel, the tram had just passed by, and his empty eyes could see a faint bright color, and then the tram finally drove to the end. Jiang Huai walked seven or eight meters in the tunnel where he could not see his shadow, and suddenly a familiar figure appeared under his feet. texture.

—He went to the restaurant of the cruise ship for the third time.

This time, Hans only needed to point to the direction of the door, and he deduced the stairs leading to the next floor, and then pushed aside the crew room next door.

The moment he entered the crew room, the familiar voice of welcome from the narrator on the hot air balloon appeared again.

He did not enter the crew room, but returned to Paradise City, and this time he was not on the company stairs, but at the entrance of the tram stop in the west of the city, and blocked the way of other ghost passengers—why did the ghost give way to pass , can't they just float over?

Well, at least it can be confirmed that Paradise City and the cruise ship are indeed on the same level in the "conceptual sense".

The so-called entering the lower deck from the upper deck of the cruise ship does not mean going to the lower deck, but just a way to escape there. Jianghuai went to the crew room, which is clearly on the same floor as the restaurant deck, and he also left the cruise ship and returned to Paradise City, right?

Jiang Huai took a deep breath, and under the guidance of Hans, he went to the nearest place where homeless people gathered in Paradise City.

They have countless ways to get jobs, but they choose to become homeless. As a city with at least a normal structure on the surface, Paradise City has an underground drainage system, and they live there, or use it as an underground base.

It is said that they still have some deal with the ghosts, but Jiang Huai is not here to solve the class struggle this time. He turns around and estimates the direction and range in his mind. When he turns into another corner, there seems to be nothing. The sound of running water disappeared, and Jiang Huai stepped onto the floor of the restaurant of the cruise ship again.

But Hans in his consciousness said hesitantly: [Just now, there seems to be a figure in the groundwater. ]

Jiang Huai was very calm: "Maybe what you see is my reflection."

[No, there may be a reflection of you, but I think it's not just that...I seem to see many people...]

Thanks to Jianghuai's excellent physical fitness and matching eyesight, Hans seemed to see countless faces crowded and floating along the groundwater to the distance at that glance, but other faces were still continuously discharged from the drain. The most consistent feature of these faces is that they all look in the direction of Jianghuai.

Jiang Huai was very calm when he heard this, he just told Hans: "They have more ways to approach me."

Hans: […]

what are theyWhy are you so proficient?How many times have you experienced such weird things?

Jiang Huai pushed open the door of the captain's cabin.

No matter what direction you go to the deck, it will be considered as NE leaving the copy, so Jiang Huai chose another direction every time. When he opened the door of the captain’s room this time, he found that he still did not go to the company after leaving, but arrived at Bai The back door of the tower.

This time Hans told him with a trembling voice——

In the picture reflected by the glass, some expressionless citizens have already grabbed Jiang Huai's hand in the glass, and some are holding his feet. Someone is behind and can only extend his arms and try to reach him.

"It sounds like I've become the most wanted criminal in the city. As long as I'm caught, something good will happen."

Hans: [What the hell is that? ]

It was clear that he was from the ship, and he knew that they were the citizens he was familiar with, but seeing the calm and distorted faces at this moment, he was not sure, and began to ask Jianghuai, the person outside the ship.

"I guess..." someone whose vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste were all reduced to the disabled standard said, "It may be nothing, just an intention, or an expression."

"Show—I'm looking at you."

[So... what's the point?Just watching?They've captured your reflection in the mirror, what's next? ]

Jiang Huai gathered his clothes and simply sat on the bench.

That's where his first CD sat, of course Hans doesn't remember.

Facing the glass curtain wall in front of him, his eyes did not fall on one point, but diverged.

"I don't know either." He said with a smile.

"However, to be honest, 'I'm looking at you' can cause psychological pressure on ordinary people, and it may break their inner defenses, but it doesn't work for me..." He thought thoughtfully, "I always feel that there is such a thing behind the scenes. The person who did it didn't necessarily want to scare me, but just for fun."

Hans: [? ]

The strange boy outside the ship said frankly: "It's fun to see your reaction."

Hans was silent for a while: [Before I recover my memory, I won't be scared. ]

At that time, he was like a walking dead, facing the dead body without changing his face, never thinking that there is anything wrong with this glamorous city full of blood, living in the same world with crazy ghosts, and not knowing the meaning of survival , still alive but don't know how to die.

[Because, at that time, I didn’t seem to have the concept of suicide in my mind at all. We seemed to know from the beginning that we couldn’t die, so the ghosts lived in such a way. ]

"So, if you are freed from this place, is there anything you want to do?"

The other party spoke calmly as if they were chatting, although Hans didn't really believe his words, because in his opinion, the boy had been running around in a daze, and no one had ever seen the "advertising hot air balloon" land, so all Everyone thinks it's just an amplifier connected to it... This guy seems to want to go on a hot air balloon, why doesn't he just go to Paradise City Broadcasting Company?

However, following his thoughts, Hans didn't mind talking to him.

[If I can get out of here, I will find a place I like and commit suicide. ]

Jiang Huai: "...Huh?"

Hans imitated the boy's calm tone: [And, I think, other people think the same as me]

Jiang Huai: "Because you lost the desire to survive? It's like the devil's bottle, because the rescue came too late, so the devil decided to curse the person who released it after 300 years?"

Hans denied this guess: [No. ]

[I think it's because "I haven't tried it". Paradise City is a city where wishes can come true. I have seen people pray for a house made of gold and diamonds, and I have seen people say that they want to become the richest person ...But the wishes here are not worth keeping. Look at those buildings, high-rises, and companies. In fact, Paradise City doesn’t need it at all. It used to be a bare city, but the benevolent God will try its best to satisfy everyone’s wishes, as long as they wish No one else is involved because all are equal. ]

[I complain about my job and my boss every day, but in fact, as long as I want, I can become the boss of a new company myself, as long as I pray, but being satisfied without restraint is a very boring thing. ]

[And... the ridiculous thing is that our desire to "leave this ship" is as artificially erased as our desire to "suicide", and life here becomes less and less interesting. The only interesting thing is uncertainty After all, even a god cannot make a dice show six numbers at the same time. ]

Jiang Huai said softly: "Although it can control the outcome, it cannot change the established rules. It is itself bound by the rules."

[You actually used "it"...] Hans' voice was low as a whisper, [Shouldn't it be "he"? ]

[So, even though I have recovered my memory now, I know what it looks like outside, but I feel very tired. Even if I come back to reality alive, can I still have a normal life?I have experienced everything in life, and I just want to try what is death. Is death really like what those literary books describe?Eternal peace, black sleep, that is what I can't get even if I make countless wishes, what I long for. ]

[I should have no regrets if I die for my desire. ]

Jiang Huai on the glass curtain wall was still sitting where he was, but on the screen, countless people crowded around him, and their figures almost covered the motionless boy.

After Hans had finished expressing his inner feelings, he paid more attention to the glass curtain wall for some reason. He stared at the reflection, with a long-lost worry in his heart... In order for the latecomers to climb to the former's Those people tore off their faces and stacked them on the boy's body. He remained motionless, as upright as the sitting posture outside the curtain wall, which made Hans suspect that what happened in the picture would not actually affect the reality. The skin slipped from the top of the boy's head, and Hans saw those dark eyes full of anxiety and cowardice...

"Then I won't persuade you," Jiang Huai said, "It's just that you may not be dead, but you may not be alive either."

As for suicide, Jiang Huai does not approve of it at all, but he knows that he cannot empathize with people who have experienced Hans. They are like veterans who have left the invisible battlefield and suffered PTSD, and Jiang Huai is not sure whether they can reintegrate into society, or even Not sure if they're actually alive either... They may have been good and bad, just normal people, but looking at "changing bodies at will" and "taking people for fun" these days, their perceptions have been distorted.

Hans can communicate normally, not necessarily because he is normal, but in all the occasions where Jianghuai and him communicate normally, Jianghuai is the superior person who signed a contract with him.

"Hans?"

The boy inside the glass curtain wall is still staring straight ahead, but jet-black blood is flowing from the seven orifices, and it seems that the blood is actually bright red, but because the glass in front is backlit, it appears pitch-black, and his expression is mixed with horror and fear. Unwilling, but also with deep regret.

Hans understood.

The person in the glass reflection is not Jiang Huai, but him.

The pupils of the people reflected on the curtain wall were trembling crazily, and Hans said in a trembling voice: [I...]

[I don't want to... die. ]

I'm trash, I'm rubbish, I don't have parents or family and no one thinks highly of me, I'm living on a boat with my wits, I used to think I'd want to die because I messed up my life...but...

More and more people were approaching the "boy" in the glass reflection, and Hans felt his heart seemed to be clenched, and his entire soul expanded and contracted at times, as if it was on the verge of exploding.

"Hans?"

Someone called him that.

"You can," said the voice, "tell me what happened now, and I will go back and save you."

It clearly sounds like a joke, but it seems to have a convincing force when it comes out of this mouth.

He said: [You in the reflection...is me. ]

The one chased by those expressionless people, the one watched by everyone, the one approached and bitten by them, and the one buried at the bottom by the mountain of human faces... is him.

It was him hidden in the boy's body.

He felt like he was going to die.

The soul is being pulled, but because of the fixed contract with Jianghuai, like a solid anchor, he feels the long-lost pain, the pulling force is getting stronger and stronger, he knows where it is going, into the reflection .

He thought: If I enter the reflection, what will I become?

But that anchor point is stronger than the pulling feeling coming from all directions, like a deep rock fixed in the sea, and the deeper and more stable parts are all hidden below.

[Inside the reflection...my, your blood...is black. ]

The pulling force and the anchoring force are rising together as if in a competition. Hans's mental strength can no longer support him. He thought, which one of you can win...

Jiang Huai stood up.

He took a step forward, and heard footsteps approaching around him, and a pair of warm hands stretched out towards him, and they seemed to be calling for something.

Jiang Huai closed his eyes and sighed.

With little effort, he pushed everyone away and walked towards the main entrance of the White Tower.

He was half-blind right now, so he couldn't see it naturally. The self in the reflection also stood up, and the human skins on his body fell off one by one. covered his face.

It was Hans' face, and Jiang Huai in the reflection seemed to be wearing a low-quality underwear, so obvious that anyone could see it, because the edge of the underwear was peeled.

Jiang Huai touched the side of his face as if he felt it, and walked into the bottom of the White Tower.

At the moment of entering, the surrounding noises were less, but a picture suddenly skipped in his mind, that is, after a few seconds, he canceled the current state of self-repression, turned his head, and saw those who were once normal The human was lying on the glass, staring at his back expressionlessly, opening and closing his mouth, calling his name.

So after Jianghuai determined the goal, he went straight forward.

This is the last "corner of the city that will not be found even if it disappears" that he and Hans guessed before. It is the top floor of the White Tower. If someone goes missing here, no one will find it.

The first time he entered here, everything around him became a phantom and shattered. The elevator in the center disappeared, and there was no top floor at all. When he left here, he saw the scene that happened to Hans on the cruise ship.

This time, Jiang Huai fumbled close to where the elevator was, stretched out his hand, and there was nothing in front of him.

He took a step forward and stepped into the area where the original elevator was.

If the elevator is still there, it will rise by itself without giving a floor height, stop at the appropriate level, let the corresponding person leave, and then continue to rise until the top floor.

Jiang Huai turned around slowly after taking a step, counting the time silently in his head.

The glass began to creak, and the trams that circled the city roared, making repeated circular motions.

A little bit more...

The sound of knocking on the door became louder, and Jiang Huai's ears began to buzz again, as if Hans was talking or someone else.

Jiang Huai counted by silently counting his own heartbeat.

When he couldn't see anything, couldn't hear clearly, and when his sense of touch was blunted, he still had the only thing he wouldn't betray...his heartbeat.

bang-bang-

Jiang Huai suddenly said silently in his heart: "The contract between me and Hans Reilly Guderian is terminated."

Then, at the same time, he took a step forward.

His feet shook suddenly.

It's not that Jianghuai is standing unsteadily, but that the "ground" is shaking.

With the wind blowing his hair, Jiang Huai's slightly lowered head finally lifted up, his blunted spirituality revived, and he opened his eyes, like a blind person finally seeing the light, so he blinked, a drop of physiological tears Swipe down from the corner of the eye.

[The main task "climbing to the top" has been completed]

[You can choose to exit the copy at any time]

[Your next behavior will determine how your copy process changes]

—He is maintaining a sitting posture, sitting on a hot air balloon.

With his hands on his knees and a straight posture, he looks like a good student.

And opposite him, sat another person.

He was wearing a mask with the face of "Hans" on it... The edges were peeled off, and anyone could tell that it was just a mask.

If Jiang Huai was an ordinary person who broke into the field by mistake, he probably would not know how happy he was to be able to get out of the dungeon.

But he's not, he's here to...

"Don't be too greedy."

The person who copied his posture in the same way suddenly spoke.

Jiang Huai glanced at him and ignored him.

He turned around, supported the edge of the hot air balloon, and looked down.

They were floating above the clouds and mist, and directly below was a huge pitch-black ship. Behind the iceberg in the distance, a shadowy icebreaker with a corner could be seen, but there was no such thing on the sea or ice farther away. Compared with the icebreaker and the black ghost ship, this cruise ship is much smaller.

This hot air balloon is also much simpler than the ones in Paradise City. To be honest, the hot air balloon advertised in Paradise City is garish and doesn't look like a human being, but this one really looks like a manned balloon.

When Jiang Huai was moving around, the person opposite was still sitting upright, but his light brown eyes moved with his movements.

JAC has indeed successfully reached its destination - the "top floor".

But normal people only think that the deck is the top floor on a ship. Who would have thought that there is an invisible hot air balloon directly above?

However, with so many reminders, it's not that he didn't think of a way to reach the top, and even if this method only has a 20% success rate, for Jianghuai who has the ability to read files, it is 100%.

Because as long as he has the right direction, he can always try to come out.

——For example, he tried to find out how many places in the whole city can be synchronized with the building and "teleport" to the place where the cruise ship is, and then determined four: theaters, company high-rises, tunnels, and sewers.

And the cruise ship is obviously a false ending. If he is a game producer, he should hide a true ending in the false ending that makes people go around in circles.

He discovered the commonality of these four locations. Not far from the location, hot air balloons can always be seen flying.

Then, connect the four locations, read the files and record the data again and again, and add the ability of "recording the map you walked" that seems to be useless after entering the copy of Jianghuai. It can be found that the crossing lines of the four points There is an intersection, which is the White Tower.

This was a meaningless result for Jianghuai at the time, because of course he knew that there was a problem with the White Tower, and because the four locations were all on the edge of the city, as long as there is an intersection, it must fall near the White Tower, and the White Tower occupies The land is not small.

After zooming in on the map, the location of the intersection point is very clear—the center of the White Tower, the location of the elevator.

The hot air balloon will move along the line from the theater to the company, then through the White Tower to the tunnel, from the tunnel to the sewer, and then through the White Tower to the theater.

It stands to reason that the height of the hot air balloon is lower than the clouds, and the highest point of the White Tower is higher than the clouds, so it will not pass through the middle.

However, this is where Jianghuai found something wrong——

After the hot air balloon arrives around the White Tower, it will stay still for a while, and then suddenly reach the opposite side of the tower, passing through, rather than teleporting.

He once thought that according to the situation that the hot air balloon must be lower than the clouds and mist, the sky will sink after resetting and force the hot air balloon to reach the bottom, and Jiang Huai will jump in himself to confirm whether the hot air balloon is related to the top floor.

But after discovering this rule, Jianghuai realized...

"It's not four locations, it's five locations."

When they ascended in the elevator, they were not actually "ascending" at all, because the White Tower only had one floor, but they were adjusted to different frequencies in the elevator, and people with different frequencies saw different worlds.

Then, the so-called "elevator", like other places, is actually just a coherent tool. What JAC needs to do is to find the right "time" and access it at the right time.

A hand suddenly reached out and pinched his face, with slightly long nails.

He turned his eyes away and stared at the long nails.