Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Wei Chi opened his eyes, feeling dazed for a while.

The body is relaxed for a long time, so he concludes that he has entered "that world".

But this time it was very different.

In the previous world, other phenomena were superimposed on the current physical location, but this time, he is no longer at the base of the special dispatch department.

The special investigation department activated Bai Yueguang's "quantum shielding" device, theoretically speaking, only he would be involved in this world.

Of course this is not the point...

He seems to be-

Standard, fluent, and passionate American English resounded through the huge space he was in: "Okay, now let's invite our next contestant—Wei Chi from China, to introduce his research results to us! His The title of the dissertation is: "Knocking on the World's Barriers - An Observation Report on Another World."

——This is in Los Angeles, the scene of the "World Youth Biological Programming Contest".

He went through this, when he was 15 years old.

This is a huge auditorium, and there are huge audiences in the audience—half of them are parents of teenagers and elementary and middle school students organized by the school to visit.

He stood on the experimental platform, the focus of much attention.

Lighting, sea of ​​people, sound, jury seats, equipment in front of you, everything is the same as in memory.

He wanted to go, but suddenly found that he couldn't control his body.

He is like a ghost imprisoned in this shell of the past.

He took a step forward, nodded towards the judges' seat, then bent down, and began to operate on the experimental bench.

In the past two months, he has been constantly recalling this experiment. In his world, this experiment has completely stopped when he was 15 years old. Awakening of Insects, going to college, postgraduate entrance examination, postgraduate study... a muddled life.

He has been unable to recall too many details of this experiment that was stuck ten years ago.

But at this time, everything is clearly visible, as clear as yesterday.

He nodded to the jury, and the chief judge, Kevin Skinner, former president of the National Academy of Sciences, smiled at him.

He took a breath, went through the operation process in his mind, and then started the operation.

His operation will last for nearly 10 minutes. At this time, the narrator will read the "personal information" he submitted earlier.

Sure enough, the host recited affectionately: "Wei Chi was born in a city in southern China. His mother is a doctor and his father is a field photographer. He has had an extraordinary enthusiasm for scientific research since he was a child. Today, he I came here because I want to reveal with everyone 'what my self in another world is doing'..."

Every pause, every sound transition is exactly the same as the scene in his memory.

He watched his hands operate smoothly, and the memory was revived synchronously with the movement of the body.

His body strikes the last key.

The big screen began to scroll rapidly, and the computer was searching for other "worlds" in the vast universe.

This process will last 45 minutes - the upper limit of game debriefing time.

At this time, he will step onto the podium, begin to explain his thesis, and accept the defense.

The elementary and middle school students in the audience will gradually make a little commotion of being unable to bear the loneliness, but it will be stopped by the adults around them soon.

The first judge to ask questions will be the lady on the far right, and the last one will be Kevin Skinner.

That's how it goes.

After the defense, "World Search" will stop, and a line of bright red "MISS" will pop up on the big screen behind him.

Kevin Skinner will deliver a concluding speech: "...you have genius ideas and computationally intensive experiments, and even if today's 'observations' are unsuccessful, the possibility will always exist."

Time has come to this moment.

The penultimate judge nodded to Wei Chi friendly, then turned to the host: "I'm done asking, thank you."

Kevin Skin stood up.

The "World Search" ended, and the scrolling speed of the information flow on the big screen gradually slowed down.

Kevin Skinn begins his speech: "Your experiment today is refreshing..."

The scrolling on the screen stops, and a line of green "CONNECTED" flickers slightly.

"...You have genius-like ideas and experiments with huge calculations, even today's "observations"..."

Kevin Skinn got stuck in the middle of his speech, his eyes wide open and his mouth forming an "O" shape.

Everyone present was quiet, and all activities stopped, like a still image.

Maybe some people understand what this means, and some don't, but everyone is infected by this sudden change of air, and a needle can be heard in the auditorium that accommodates thousands of people.

"...Success!" About a minute later, Kevin Skin woke up like a dream, and shouted, "You succeeded! Congratulations! Wei Chi!"

And Wei Chi stood on the podium, his heart seemed to be frozen, and he felt the great cold coming from inside.

The moment he saw the line "CONNECTED", a senseless chill swept over him, as if some bad luck had come to him out of thin air. He couldn't figure it out clearly, but he was trembling with fear.

It made him unable to tell whether the chill came from him or from his body.

This great fear stimulated his brain, and it began to spin rapidly, frantically recalling the series of operations just performed...

activation……

Enter command one...

Enter command two...

Instruction three judges YorN...

Turn around, console 980306, key [-]...

Judge YorN...

Enter [coordinate]:  …

Coordinate, coordinates, at this time, you should enter the coordinates of "another Wei Chi" after adding the "variable".

His hand hesitated for a moment on the keyboard, and then typed a string of codes.

A string of... codes that were quite unfamiliar to him ten years later from another world.

That... that is not, not his own "coordinates", nor, that he just analyzed, the coordinates of another Wei Chi.Not the coordinates of Zhou Yingchun, Yuan Qi, Yutu... any of them.

Whose is that?Whose is that?

He heard a "buzz" in his mind, and the last trace of memory came to him.

- Those are the coordinates of Ji Jingzhe.

He changed his mind at the last, last moment... He gave up "observing" himself, and chose to "observe" Ji Jingzhe.

But what's the problem?

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"Whoa-"

He scooped water up to his face.

He supported the sink for a while, then raised his head to look at himself in the environment.

He felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.

He returned to the conference room temporarily vacated for the preparation of the contestants. The contestants were watching him intentionally or unintentionally, and some people came to strike up a conversation with him, but he didn't respond at all.

He had just won the championship trophy, but he acted like a lost ghost.

His body was packing his things quickly, as if he was in a hurry.

The chill in his heart didn't fade away—the heartbeat was very fast, very fast, from a kind of metaphysical panic. He didn't receive any news, and there was nothing wrong with receiving the award, but he was just panic.

He packed half of his things, took out his mobile phone and rebooked the ticket back home.

When he packed up his things and went out, Kevin Skink walked in and asked him if he would like to go to the school where he teaches now as his student.

Everyone in the conference room looked at him, and there were even small exclamations from around.

But he was already in a state of extreme panic. He almost didn't understand what Kevin Skinner was talking about, so he refused and left in a panic.

An hour later, he boarded the plane.

Thirteen hours later, he returned to City C, and it was four o'clock in the morning when he arrived home.

The family courtyard was very quiet. When he returned home, he went to Zhou Yingchun's room to take a look, but there was no one there.

He thought about it, took out his phone and sent his mother a text message: [I'm back]

If Zhou Yingchun was on the night shift, he would take the time to sleep for a while, and if it was not urgent, he would usually text her first.

Within half a minute, Zhou Yingchun called back and he picked it up.

"Hey, Mom."

Zhou Yingchun: "Little Chi? Where are you?"

He said, "Home."

Zhou Yingchun: "Why are you back at this time? It's hard to go to the United States, don't you want to play there for a week?"

"I want to come back." He said, "I miss home."

"Oh, pig..." Zhou Yingchun was silent for a while, and the sound of gentle breathing came through the receiver. After a while, she said, "Then go to sleep, mom will try to come back in the morning and cook noodles for you."

Wei Chi: "Yes."

Zhou Yingchun thought of something: "Then are you going to school tomorrow?"

He thought for a while and said, "Since you're back, let's go."

"So hard..."

There was a murmur over there, and there seemed to be a lot of people.

"Another emergency call, let's not talk about it." A "boo" came from the receiver, "Good night, Wei Xiaozhu."

Wei Chi nodded in the dark: "Good night, Mom."

After hanging up the phone, he stood in the dark for a while.

Nothing seemed to happen.

He stood in the familiar home, smelling the familiar smell, the darkness no longer looked scary but safe, and the panic in his heart seemed to gradually disappear.

Only then did he feel tired.

I was so tired that I didn't even want to take a shower, so I fell directly on the bed.

He was woken up by a long-lost English song.

He pressed the alarm clock and checked the time. It was 6:45, um, normal school time.

He got up, moved his body habitually, dressed and washed.When standing in front of the mirror and brushing his teeth, he saw himself in the mirror, and still felt strange, but he still didn't know what was so strange.

He walked out of the bedroom and found that there was no one at home. It seemed that Zhou Yingchun didn't come back from get off work on time.

He started making breakfast for himself.

While waiting for the water to boil, he was a little distracted, and for some reason, he suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.

His sense of panic returned, and intensified.

He turned around and ran out, knocked on Ji Jingzhe's door next door, but no one came to open it after knocking for a long time.

He ran back home in a panic. He had just boiled the water, but the overflowing water extinguished the fire, and the gas had already begun to leak.He turned off the gas valve, and found the key of Ji Jingzhe's house from under the cabinet - Ji Jingzhe gave it to him before, but he didn't use it much.

When he was looking for the key, he almost knocked over the trophy on the cabinet. He was too tired yesterday, so he put it here and didn't have time to collect it.

He ran to Ji Jingzhe's house again, and opened the door with the spare key.

The door opened, and a house with exactly the same layout as his own house was displayed in front of him. However, at that moment, everything in the room seemed to turn gray and become a dried relief.

A stale wind blew head-on from the room, chilling his heart, and an ominous feeling rose up like a cloud, occupying everything.

Standing there, he felt like a dry, cold stone sculpture.

A voice came from behind: "That was the most desperate moment of my life."

He was horrified and numb from the back of his head to his tailbone.

A person always feels strange when he hears his own voice.

He turned around slowly and saw another self.

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