gentle collapse

This is the first time I have faced the written destiny head-on.It's so naked, undisguised, so simple that people can't stand it.This is a very common answer, that is, there is another world besides the one I live in, and that world writes everything here.

I rested my forehead on the simple and smooth bookshelf, clutching the book with me as the main character in my hand, and closed my eyes.

Something cold brushes my instep, alive.In the muddy and shallow water, a fish was swimming.I had no desire to survive, so I just froze in place, indifferent to everything.Living so hard is nothing but a few scraps of paper.What's the point of the author portraying me as a character?Everyone is the protagonist in a book, so what's the fun of the story?After all, most people's lives are boring.

Wait, everyone is the protagonist, and the content in the book is a person's complete life.Then there will be records of where they traveled.These books are what I was looking for.So what about waste paper, as long as the important people in our lives can come back.

Then the method for me to go back should also be in it. I looked at this book hesitantly, and I was a little bit at a loss.The content inside is full of a sense of delusion to me. My story written in the third person also contains psychological descriptions of other characters. I want to read it, but I am inexplicably resistant.I turned to the table of contents page and found the approximate location according to the chapter name.

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page 241:

Lin An thought that the book in his hand should contain detailed records on how to escape from here. He hesitated for a moment, but he opened the book anyway. According to the reminder on the catalog page, he turned to page 241.The last paragraph on page 241 reads: "Lin An thought that the book in his hand should record in detail how to escape from here. As a reminder, he turned to page 241. After browsing some of the narratives he had previously turned to this page, he in the book looked to the right, where there was a table..."

The right side of page 241 has obvious signs of being torn, and pages 242 to 245 are missing.

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I quickly looked to the right, and there was a missing page at the back, and the content jumped directly to page 246, which said: "Lin An heard a strange sound, before he could react, the floor he was standing on disappeared suddenly, and the book and his They fell together. The darkness poured into his eyes, and when it dissipated, he was already in another place."

I sighed, temporarily put the book on the shelf, looked to the right, and saw a low desk.I stepped over the clutter at my feet and got there.There is an open comic book on it, with the narration and a few words, I probably understand its story.The character at the beginning of the story is potbellied, with a small flat head, no neck, no hands and feet.He was by a river, leaned over to look at his reflection in the mirror, and said, "I found you."

Reflection smiled happily, trying to use the strength of the fish to jump up and kiss the person he loved, but unexpectedly was swallowed by the fish.The fish took him downstream, the riverbed disappeared, and there was an abyss. When it reached the bottom, the fish was broken into pieces, and a fishbone pierced Reflection's belly, so that he could only walk upside down with his head.

Reflection wanted to find the character who appeared at the beginning, his IQ seemed not enough to understand his situation, he only found a piece of broken glass with silver nitrate on the back, he said to himself in the mirror: "I found you. "

The title of the last page is called the answer, and the reflection stands sideways in a blank space, asking: "Who am I now, who was I before, where did I come from, and where am I going?" Conspicuously, I traced his profile with my fingers. He looks like half a sugar ball stuck to an ice cream stick. The simplified image is like... a lowercase letter q. I quickly turned to the first Page, yes, the shape of the strange thing that appeared at the beginning is b.

The reflection of b in the water is d, and the reverse of d is q, and q looks in the mirror, and the letter in the mirror is p.

The reflection is originally d, he evolved from b, he originally went to find b, but found p because he was not aware of his own inversion (q). Therefore, the answer to the riddle is:

"Who am I now?"→q

"Who used to be?"→d

"Where am I from?"→b

"Where are you going?"→p

I looked back and looked at the rows of bookshelves named by letters. There are so many books on the four rows of QDBP, do you want to find them one by one?And what is the specific information I need to find?I'm at a loss.

The four letters in the answer appear in order. I went to the Q row first, walked inside, and found that the shelves and floors were also marked with letters.

Row Q, shelf D, floor B... what does this P mean?I try to convert it to number: 16.

The corresponding book is called: "Darkness"

I pulled it out, didn't hold it steady, there was a gurgling sound, a small eddy appeared on the floor, the water under my feet slowly receded, my right foot slammed into the air, and the book fell with me.I knew that the hole that would allow me to go to another place had appeared.

The slow, throbbing sound of blood vessels sounded in my ears, like a special kind of tinnitus.The black not only occupied the vision, but even poured into the nasal cavity, making me smell it.The process of falling is light, fast, long and difficult because there is no resistance.

My feet finally touched the ground, and I walked forward in chaos.The soles of the feet are the ground compacted by machines, the smell of soil is not diminished, it is wet, cold, and the lights are dim.Xiao Zhang buried his head down and dozed off, everything was the same as before I jumped off.I looked at the watch on my left hand, went in and out, it was less than three hours.

It's early October 2020, a year before the invention of the time-traveling machine.The books inside are manually retrieved one by one, and I don't know how much time it will take.

"I want to see the top leadership of this program."

The leader stood beside the bookshelf with me and closed the book he was holding: "I will block this news, completely block it, do you understand what I mean?"

I said, "That's what I thought too. It's bad news not to let other people know that I'm just a character in a book."

"But it is still necessary to set up a special team to complete the retrieval of these books in order to correct the chaotic traversal situation. I want to appoint you as the person in charge, and you will choose the other members."

"Will you let us live after we've done this?" They can trade the normal lives of a few for the peace of the majority, or they can turn that sacrifice into actual death.

"Knowing the truth, I think many people have killed themselves in their hearts. I apologize for this, and I will not treat these team members badly."

"I see."