Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Skull: "I've changed beyond recognition, Wei Chi, I didn't want to meet you like this."

Wei Chi shook his head and said, "You should have come to see me earlier."

The skeleton was silent for a while, and said: "The original plan was that after I experienced the feeling of falling in love with you on this boulevard... I would guide you and find that I am the 'exit' of this world, kill me, You can leave now."

"Let's not mention whether I will follow your plan..." Wei Chi said, "But you mentioned 'original'? What happened?"

The skeleton turned his head and glanced at the end of the boulevard: "Because 'they' found you."

Wei Chi also looked over and saw his young self in school uniform, and Ji Jingzhe beside him.

He just discovered that the world around him was completely still, and those walking and laughing students stopped and condensed into a still-framed sculpture. He took it for granted that the pair of Wei Chi and Ji Jingzhe were also still, but at this moment, he took a closer look , but found no.

They are different from this stagnant, cool-toned world, they are alive, they stand there, just because they are standing there, waiting, not being stopped.

He turned back to the skeleton: "...what do you mean?"

"I can only control the NPCs set by my program. The most I can do is to influence these outsiders through these NPCs, making them think that they are also NPCs and live the life set in this world... But once If they are aware of this 'truth', they may break free, and that is beyond my control..." The skeleton said, "Simply speaking, 'death' is the condition for the conversion of the two worlds, and they are aware of all this , you can... to complete the conversion."

Wei Chi: "So he just wanted to kill me before?"

He suddenly figured it out: in order to fulfill his wish, the god of death created a new world based on Ji Jingzhe's memory. In this new world, the pair of Ji Jingzhe and Wei Chi grew up again, and then went to the fork in the world—— In the experiment when he was 15 years old, Death brought his soul to replace Ji Jingzhe and Wei Chi in another world. The high school life they lived in school belonged to another world.

At this time, the replaced souls of Ji Jingzhe and Wei Chi were naturally replaced into their bodies, becoming the adult Wei Chi and Death God.

So, the god of death who wanted to kill him was...another Ji Jingzhe.

The skeleton confirmed: "He wants to kill you, and directly complete the conversion between you and that Wei Chi."

Wei Chi looked at his young self 20 meters away, thinking that this should be the case.

"But I don't agree," said the skeleton.

Wei Chi: "Why?"

The skeleton looked at him, the two dark eye sockets were nothing but black, but Wei Chi could see the creepiness in them.

He asked: "Why?"

The skeleton was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "Because I have another plan - I think, let you... kill me with your own hands."

Wei Chi's heart ached, and he blurted out: "What?"

"Listen to me first." The skeleton said, "I created this world. If I die, this world will end immediately, and everyone can go out. But if any of you die, it will only be the one who will be transformed." people……"

Wei Chi interrupted: "But that Ji Jingzhe disagrees?"

The skull's mouth moved, but no sound came out.

Wei Chi: "If he agrees, he won't chase me and kill me like this..."

The skeleton whispered: "He really doesn't want... I will die by your hands again."

"No, that's not right..." Wei Chi said while thinking, his eyes gradually widened, "If according to his logic, he killed me and completed the transformation of 'Wei Chi', what about the transformation of 'Ji Jingzhe'? He either kills you or commits suicide... No, no..." He raised his head abruptly, "Yes... What's the problem? What's the problem with your transformation?"

He was suddenly enlightened, and broke out in a cold sweat in an instant: "Are you...can't go back?"

"After you 'die', you can't go back, can you?"

The skeleton was silent for a while, thinking about it: "...Wei Chi, my body is gone."

Wei Chi began to tremble again, falling into a state of extreme panic, but his brain was running fast.Thinking about it, his abdomen suddenly twitched, and he retched while covering his mouth.

The skeleton supported him with one hand and patted his back with the other. After a while, he slowly calmed down.

He was almost hanging on the skeleton's arm, and asked: "The system, the system has been permanently shut down...then, that...what are you using to 'run' now?"

"Human brain." The skeleton looked at him silently for a while, and said, "I borrowed a child's body, but this is not a long-term solution..."

Wei Chi was taken aback: "Is this possible?" He said while thinking: The concept of "brain-like computing" has emerged, which is a new direction for breakthroughs in the field of AI, and "Reaper" uniquely integrates human consciousness. ...

"Not everyone can, but that kid just happened to succeed." The skeleton said, "But the load caused by this calculation is too great, I have to leave, otherwise it will cause irreversible damage to his brain nerves."

"No, no." After a brief shock, Wei Chi straightened up suddenly, with a crazy light in his eyes, "Don't be so arbitrary, the matter hasn't reached the point of no return, you go back first... go back to his brain first Li, now that technology is advancing with each passing day, even if some damage is caused, I can still save it... You go back first, and I will go out and create a body for you..."

The skeleton grabbed his shoulder and let out a roar that shook the world: "Wei Chi! Wake up!"

Wei Chi was stunned and stared blankly at it.

It said sadly: "Wei Chi...don't say any more...you are not such a person."

"But...but..." Wei Chi said in a daze, tears streaming down unconsciously, "——I can't lose you anymore."

"But you have already lost me." The skeleton said firmly, "It was very early... ten years ago."

Wei Chi looked at him steadfastly: "But, but...you are clearly still here."

Skull: "I'm already dead, Wei Chi, you know that."

Wei Chi still looked at him like that: "You didn't, you didn't...you're still here."

"Wei Chi!"

The skeleton suddenly lifted him up, and after a moment of sudden weightlessness, his back rested on the tree trunk by the side of the street. The skeleton stood in front of him, covering him like a cloud.

"You know that," it said. "You've always known that."

"Even, even when he was first captured, even when there was no rift between you...you knew it."

Wei Chi wanted to push it away, but its power was unshakable, and he cried even harder: "I didn't—"

"Then why is there only my photo in your photo frame!"

It was another deafening questioning, Wei Chi was startled and suddenly sober.

"Did you love him?" the skeleton was still saying, "Did you love him? You didn't love him at all...You only have my picture in your frame!"

"You know full well—I'm dead, without me, and never again."

As soon as it raised its hand, a huge black sickle suddenly appeared in its hand. It took his hand and stuffed the sickle into his palm.

"Wei Chi, I'm already dead."

"You killed me."

"But that's okay, I'm the unlucky one and the luckiest one."

"This is... a sacrifice."

It gently stroked his pale face with the other hand: "Wei Chi, open your eyes and see, I died at your hands, I don't blame you, and you don't want to."

Wei Chi's body bent down, as if some unbearable pain exploded in his body, he trembled and sweated profusely, but the skeleton didn't allow him to bend down, it was devoid of flesh and blood, with a heart of stone, and pulled him straight , tightly hooped to the tree.

Wei Chi trembled for a while, now anyone who came to see him would feel that this person was about to collapse, but after a while, he suddenly stopped shaking, slowly raised his head, looked at the monster in front of him, his face was pale and almost transparent, A pair of black eyes are amazingly bright.His lips were also trembling, but his voice was very clear: "Why? Why... must I do it myself?"

The skeleton suddenly leaned over and approached him. The distance between their faces was less than five centimeters. At this distance, the pale skeleton face looked very terrifying, like a concrete image of hell.

Its voice is low, but powerful: "Because I want you to kill me! I want you to watch me die! I want you to always remember who I am! Love me forever! Never find someone else to replace me! I want you to be my widow forever!"

For a moment, a wave of air spread around it, the leaves made a huge rustling sound, the world suddenly darkened, thunder and lightning, flying sand and rocks, like falling into an ice cave.

After a flash of snow-white lightning, it asked, "...is that what you wanted to hear?"

Wei Chi was not afraid, and his face was calm. In the darkness and lightning, his pale face was strangely covered, leaving only his handsome bones.

"Okay." He said, and then looked sideways at the huge scythe in his hand, "What should I do? Is it enough to cut it?"

The wind and thunder gradually stopped, and the sun broke through the clouds again.

The skeleton stared at him for a long time, tilted his head, and said, "Do you want to die?"

"You don't care." Wei Chi's face was exposed to the sun again, more gray than before, but his face was calm, as if frozen.He raised the sickle with both hands to test the weight, and at the same time commanded, "Come on, you stand up."

"boom--"

Wei Chi only felt a roar around him, and his whole body was dizzy for a while. When he woke up, he found that his mandible was pinched against the tree trunk.

The skeleton's hand was cold and hard, and it hurt his forehead bone. It was difficult for him to speak, but he could still breathe.

"You dare to die? Wei Chi."

The skeleton let out a deafening growl in his ear.

"You must live on, and live on with me." The skeleton leaned in front of him again, his eyes met, he could only see a deep darkness, "Wei Chi, you are the only successful one, if the universe There is really a god in the world, and you are the chosen lamp holder. If there is really a competition in the universe, then you have the responsibility to lead our world out of the encirclement and survive."

"Wei Chi, if my death is the beginning of the world's 'survival', then I am a sacrifice, the cornerstone of this glorious cause, otherwise, I am just the source of this disaster."

"This is what you owe me." It pressed him firmly, saying every word, "You have already deprived me of my life, you can no longer deprive me of my value."

"You're going to make me proud."

Wei Chi stared at the darkness, as if staring at this deep starry sky.

Ji Jingzhe suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, a Ji Jingzhe who grew up safely, did not die in a car accident at the age of 15, and did not suffer the accident of being caught in another world, what kind of person would he be?

The skeleton moved closer, almost touching his forehead: "I want you to kill me with your own hands, I want you to know that I died at your hands, you can't find someone to replace me, you have to live like this, you Make me proud."

It let go of him: "Do you understand?"

Wei Chi was pinched on the tree by the skeleton, but when it let go, Wei Chi lacked support and almost fell to his knees.

But it didn't help him anymore, he took a few steps back, stood still, and opened his hands, "Now, come on."

Wei Chi supported the sickle and stood upright against the tree trunk. Out of the corner of his vision, he saw Ji Jingzhe not far away moved, as if he wanted to come over, but was held back by that Wei Chi.

He looked at the skeleton again, his nervous expression gradually faded, and gradually became peaceful, solemn, and quiet.

He traced his lover's skeleton carefully for the last time with his eyes, and found that when the sunlight fell on the pale bones, a translucent texture with warm light would be blurred at the edges.

In a trance, the astonishing and terrifying appearance of the skeleton transformed into a lively 16-year-old Ji Jingzhe, smiling calmly at him on this sunny avenue, Hu The platinum pupils are radiant and curved into the shape of crescent moons.

He twitched the corners of his stiff mouth, then raised the sickle in his hand.

The skeleton said: "Wei Chi, although you can't see it now, you can imagine that I am smiling."

The author has something to say:

Alright, say goodbye to Daji~

Go home in the next chapter!