Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Five days ago, the interrogation room of the Special Investigation Department.

On one wall of the dark gray hut on six sides, there is a small window measuring [-] by [-] centimeters, and a faint, cool white light shines through it.

Wei Chi sat on the small stool shrouded in that beam of light, lost in thought.

He has been interrogated for a month, and his mental state is on the verge of collapse. Even now that the intensity of the interrogation has weakened, he often appears in this trance state.

"Wei Chi, Wei Chi."

He heard someone calling him.

He didn't move, he knew it was hallucination.

He was facing the door of the interrogation room now, and he was sure the sound was not coming from that direction.

"Wei Chi, Wei Chi." The voice chattered endlessly.

"It's late, it's late..."

It took an unknown amount of time before he realized that something was dangling in front of his eyes.He barely pulled back his wandering thoughts, and saw the person in front of him clearly.

...is it human?

A hand dangled in front of his eyes. It was really small. Not only was it small in size, it seemed that the owner of the hand was not very old, and the fingers were curled like a baby.

Then he saw the face out of the light.

Be the party star.

He twitched his eyebrows, but he couldn't feel any fear in his heart. He asked, "How did you get in?"

Dang Star Says: "I'm Not an 'Entity.'"

"I know." Wei Chi glanced at the camera in the interrogation room, "Otherwise they would have come in long ago."

He continued: "But if I'm not wrong, you should use the 'world' to realize the transfer of physical space, right? But the 'world' system has been shut down, how did you get here?"

Dang Xingxing: "I can affect people's brain nerves within a range of about 100 meters in the real world, and now I'm acting on your optic nerves."

"100 meters?" Wei Chi couldn't believe that the interrogation room of the Special Investigation Department was within 100 meters of the orphanage where Dang Xingxing was located, and asked, "How did you come here?"

"Wei Yuan and Yuan Qi brought me here." Dang Xingxing said, "That's why I replaced them...to deal with this unexpected situation...I didn't expect Gao Qiusuo to be very powerful, but the replacement was unsuccessful."

"Then..." Wei Chi asked slowly, "Who are you?"

Dang Xingxing stopped in the middle of speaking, and slowly turned to look at him, his amber eyes were crystal clear under the light.

He asked in a child's voice, "Do you have any guesses?"

"There are some, but they are not sure." Wei Chi said honestly, "I don't understand your position."

"I'm Ji Jingzhe." The child said, "That Wei Chi's Ji Jingzhe."

After that, he took some time to explain his background to Wei Chi.

After hearing this, Wei Chi's face sank into water, and he asked, "Then what are you looking for me for now?"

Dang Xingxing: "I want to help you go back."

Wei Chi looked at him, but didn't speak.

Dang Xingxing said: "You don't look surprised?"

"Because I don't fully believe what you said." Wei Chi said calmly, "I don't need to mess myself up for some lies."

Dang Xingxing: "Why don't you believe it?"

"It's still a position." Wei Chi said, "My original guess is that you may be Wei Chi's collaborator in that world. You know a lot about the 'world' and you can freely go in and out of it, maybe because of some benefit distribution or For other reasons, you turned against that Wei Chi, and then you came to contact me, trying to win me over to deal with that Wei Chi... This is logical." He paused, "But if you are that Wei Chi's Ji Jingzhe... I think I don't understand why you want to help me."

The child sat on his lap, silent.

He also waited quietly.

He didn't know that the time he felt now was still not the normal flow rate, he felt that it had been a long time.

"Actually, I am..." Dang Xingxing raised his head to look at him, smiled wryly, and said, "I was coerced."

He was taken aback: "By whom?"

Dang Xingxing: "I was stunned by your Ji."

Wei Chi smiled, full of sarcasm: "He threatened you?"

"Using death to force him." He recalled, "Because I was greedy to borrow his body to be with Wei Chi... I kept procrastinating and did not provide him with the coordinates as promised."

"After that...he planned his death."

"It was the day before Wei Chi's birthday, and he gave me the control of his body...that was... the first time Wei Chi and I did it to the end." He is a child's body, and it is theoretically speaking It would be weird, but he said it frankly and calmly, with joy, like a pilgrimage, "I... I have never felt that kind of mood, I, I feel like I'm burned out, and almost all the computing modules are occupied Now, I feel that I have never been so happy in my life. "

"I was in a trance all day...and after he regained control of his body, he took away all of Wei Chi's communication equipment and adjusted his alarm clock...I later found out that Wei Chi was actually awake at that time Yes, but he didn't expose it. In the past, all of Ji Jingzhe's activities were under the supervision of Wei Chi and me, but that day, Wei Chi knew that the next day was his birthday, and he just did the most intimate thing with me ...He thought, he thought that 'I' was going to prepare a 'birthday surprise' for him. Just that time, Ji Jingzhe escaped our surveillance."

"Wei Chi slept for a day, and when he woke up, he was in the laboratory and saw—" His small body trembled.

Wei Chi said: "But he died, and you died too, why can he come back, but you can't go back to your own body?"

"Because he didn't die, he just forced him to die." He said, "He used a water basin to force me to send him back."

"At first, I didn't believe that a person could drown himself in such a small basin. I confronted him, but he really... Later, I gave up. I have the knowledge of the whole world but I can't think of it. A way. All I know is that if he really dies...Wei Chi will die too."

"I dragged his soul back here the moment before he died."

"After that, I made a second deal with him."

"—He cannot provide your world with any truth about the parallel world, and I will reserve the exit for you." He adjusted his posture on Wei Chi's lap, "And after he crossed the 'world barrier' twice, It also possesses the power of 'Grim Reaper', of course, the image of 'Grim Reaper' is something we imagined together."

"He can protect you in your world, and your world can also support my Wei Chi to live." He frowned in distress, "This is the original plan."

Wei Chi said: "But in this case, have you thought about the other people involved?"

"No way, our underlying logic is centered on you..." he said, "Although I feel sorry for them, the impact is limited. After the conversion, they will not remember things in the 'world', and the conversion will only Happened once in one direction."

Wei Chi: "It will only switch once in one direction, so how do I go back?"

"A 'system' can only be converted once, but the 'system' is dead, and I'm equivalent to another new system." He jumped off Wei Chi's lap and stood in front of him, sticking out his chest obediently, "also That is to say, in the new system, everyone still has a chance to switch."

He tilted his head: "Your reaction is not what I imagined."

"Because I can't figure it out, and the logic still doesn't close the loop." Wei Chi said, "Why did you betray your Wei Chi and contact me? Is it just because of jealousy? But judging from what you just said, you have a lot of love for that Wei Chi. His love far surpasses jealousy. He fulfilled his wish, you should be happy, right?"

The child's smile froze, but then returned to its original state, and even smiled wider: "I hope he is happy... But with that Ji Jingzhe, he can't be happy."

Wei Chi shook his head slightly: "This reason is not strong enough, and there are more."

He sighed, and said helplessly, "Probably because... I have to face real death too."

"die?"

"An AI that loses its main brain will also die. This child's body is almost unable to support it." He said, "I should go before causing irreversible damage."

Wei Chi frowned: "Maybe...you can temporarily change to a suitable person?"

"I don't want to search for a suitable 'brain' all over the world like a ghost." He paced around in place, his three- or four-year-old body, but his posture was very old-fashioned, and he looked a little weirdly cute, "When the predetermined death comes On the eve of , I was always thinking about it for a moment, and finally, I realized - an unfortunate mistake has happened, everyone wants to fix it, but if it can't be fixed... then let's accept it. We have already paid for this mistake There was so much to pay and things just got worse and worse... I thought, it's up to me to end it."

"Of course, the most important thing is - I'm about to disappear, I want to...see him again."

His big eyes were shining brightly, and he smiled and showed two pointed canine teeth: "Is this reason strong enough?"

Wei Chi was silent for a long time, and finally said: "I don't know anything else, but you have the same problem as him." He knocked his head, "Always try to hide things from me."

He smiled and ran two steps, avoiding: "I have no chance... I hope I can correct that."

Afterwards, Wei Chi provided supplementary advice on this plan - he wanted to contact those who had been "converted" and explain the situation to them, of course they don't have any memory of this, but if they find some problems in their lives, they are willing to If you believe in all this and are willing to make a difference, you can invite them into the "world" together.

Dang Xingxing—that is, Ji Jingzhe—sent messages to these people through the Internet to explain the situation, and some people who could not be notified by the Internet, such as the older Fang Qingdi, had Wei Yuan and Yuan Qi go face to face. notify.

Those who are willing to "go back" will be presided over by Wei Yuan, Yuan Qi and Zhou Yingchun, and they will gather in one place to facilitate their centralized entry into the "world".

The setting of "New World" is that in the real life of the real world, the memory of all entrants will be emptied, and they will live again from a certain memorable point in time. If in this case, they can still find problem, you can wake up from the "world", but different from the past, this "world" will have a time limit, that is, when the main world - the campus world centered on "Reaper" - ends, all The world ends with it.

At this time, those who "wake up" will complete the transformation, while those who are not awake will not.

In the end, a total of 516 people were converted, and 129 people chose to come to the meeting place.

In this way, the last "new world" opened.