chapter 10
At the moment when the strong light swept over her, Jiang Xiaoyuan's fear reached its peak with the help of guilt, and quickly declined to its peak.
She took a risk and crossed her heart, thinking, "Anyway, I can't escape. I might as well fight that sissy and maybe even save someone
Mingguang's little white face actually plans to give her Li Daitaojiao. For a so-called "legal identity", he is a big man who would like to spend three hours every day dressing up. He focuses on updating fashion information once a season, and is thinking about the day when he brings Christmas limited edition powder blusher and sanitary napkins from abroad every day?
This is not a pervert, what is it!
Jiang Xiaoyuan harbored a strong hatred towards the gallbladder. Despite the strong light sweeping her out of sight, she didn't close her eyes and tightly gripped the remote control like phone in her hand. While secretly praying that this miscellaneous brand thing could smash walnuts and block bullets like the big Nokia back then, she also prepared for a guest action scene.
At this moment, her messy old phone suddenly emitted a soft white light, gradually expanding around her like a soap bubble enveloping her. Looking out from inside the bubble, the sweeping strong light seemed to have been dimmed a few degrees, becoming less glaring.
She saw Mingguang's panicked face clearly, as well as the lighthouse assistant's seemingly inorganic eyes... as if he had already known she was there.
The bubbles wrapped around her suddenly began to stir like water waves. Jiang Xiaoyuan felt like she was surrounded by a handful of cool water, and her ears were filled with chaotic murmurs, as if a thousand people were chanting a tight spell in her ear at the same time. She couldn't move at all, and suddenly a sharp stabbing sensation hit her brain, like a cone piercing through her temple, pouring into her mind like a strange tide of memories.
Jiang Xiaoyuan saw a young athlete who was playing table tennis.
When he held the racket slightly with his chest in his hand, it was like holding the hand of the whole world. The figure of the ball running around on the table was like taking small steps. Jiang Xiaoyuan's dull gaze was about to lose seven or eight times a minute, but the young man seemed to be able to empathize with the ball. He grasped every angle, every force, and even the landing point with such precision.
After a practice session, the sweating young man picked up his sports shirt and wiped his sweat, then turned back to Jiang Xiaoyuan with a bright and sunny smile, vivid and colorful.
If Jiang Xiaoyuan suddenly felt something, she lifted her head and gazed into the distance. At the end of the world behind the boy, the lighthouse assistant's eyes, devoid of sadness or joy, seemed to be staring at her from afar.
Jiang Xiaoyuan wants to ask, "Is this child you
But she couldn't say or move, she could only watch with her eyes open.
Looking at it, Jiang Xiaoyuan realized that this young table tennis player was actually from the national team. Small ball sport has always been a strong point of countrymen people. It is conceivable how fierce the competition is. Apart from talent, this child has suffered a lot from childhood to adulthood, which is beyond the imagination of Jiang Xiaoyuan, who rarely gets up before noon.
I don't know if it was because the lighthouse assistant directly implanted these memories into her brain, but Jiang Xiaoyuan's feeling was particularly immersive. As someone who could only pass the high school physical fitness test by inviting teachers to dinner, she could actually feel the pure dream of a professional athlete.
Before her blood could boil, she encountered an accident with the boy.
After all, a half grown child lacks a bit of stability. One night, while sneaking out with his teammates to find a late night snack, he encountered a knife wielding robber who had just stabbed someone in a narrow alley. The bloodstains on the blade had not yet dried.
When the knife stabbed into the boy's body, Jiang Xiaoyuan was so scared that she forgot to scream. Her mind went blank, just like the moment she drove into a tree. Then, she and the young athlete felt the familiar time and space vibration together.
It turned out that he, like her, had been to this lighthouse where time and space overlapped, heard the same rhetoric, made the same choice of life or death, and finally signed the same unequal treaty to seek refuge in another parallel space, waiting for the so-called "passage" to be built.
Time and space have transformed Jiang Xiaoyuan from a wealthy woman who spends money like water to a poor working girl, and from a promising professional athlete to a disabled person sitting in a wheelchair.
Jiang Xiaoyuan felt increasingly cold as she looked at it. She discovered how the time and space transition had selected the victims - they were of different ages, genders, and identities, but they could not let go of their original lives in time and space.
Professional athletes are like eagles with folded wings, without legs, their lives will only be shattered with their dreams, and they will not live long.
Jiang Xiaoyuan is exactly the opposite. She is like a precious domesticated pet, born with a purebred genetic defect. She has been wearing clothes and eating food since childhood, and does not have the ability to survive in the wild.
If they cannot return to their original time and space, it may be a dead end - in this regard, they are the same.
The boy was forced to sign a contract and when he arrived in parallel time and space, he clearly doubted Mingguang. At first, he did not reply to any messages from Mingguang and dragged his disabled body through immense pain and endless doubt for fifty days. Starting from the 51st day, every day, he will receive a message from Mingguang: "The passage is ready, are you ready to depart
At first, it was a text message. If he turned off his phone, the message would be sent to his computer, TV... or even the billboard at his doorstep, like a curse chasing his life, appearing around him all the time. As long as he felt a little relaxed and fragile in his heart, he would immediately enter the void and lure him to choose the fatal "yes".
The sawing process lasted for three months, during which the boy tried countless times to create miracles with his disabled body, but failed time and time again. Finally, one day, reality exhausted his persistence, and he surrendered to Mingguang with luck.
There's no suspense afterwards, lucky hopes will never be satisfied.
The boy was crushed by two opposing parallel time and space, and the lighthouse owner successfully replaced his identity in the original time and space, becoming the young athlete who was stabbed by the criminal. After being sent to the hospital for rescue, he luckily "survived" and replaced his life.
As for the young man himself... he was lucky that just as his brainwaves were about to dissipate, a robot in the lighthouse malfunctioned, allowing him to take advantage of the situation and live on top of the robot, becoming a lighthouse assistant who sometimes resembled humans and sometimes didn't.
Jiang Xiaoyuan suddenly understood why the lighthouse assistant had to send her back to the scene of the terrible car accident without hesitation when she first entered the lighthouse. If she didn't go back, she still had a glimmer of hope that she wouldn't die.
As memories gradually faded away, Jiang Xiaoyuan saw Mingguang rushing towards her, and her stunning face twisted due to its ferocity. The protective film covering her body bounced back.
After realizing that she was fearless, Jiang Xiaoyuan quickly lifted her head to look at the lighthouse assistant and found that he had already lowered his head, and the lights on the exposed sensor that she didn't know what to do were all off.
Jiang Xiaoyuan was startled and thought to herself, "He won't die, will he
Just as she was anxious, she suddenly heard someone say in her ear, "Don't look, I'm here
It's the calm and mechanical voice of a lighthouse assistant.
Jiang Xiaoyuan searched around, but didn't see anyone. She felt the sound lingering on her side, as if it was everywhere.
I cheated and extradited you here, "said the lighthouse assistant." Even Mingguang wouldn't be able to do it before you and that time and space accepted each other
Jiang Xiaoyuan: "He... that Mingguang, do you know you're not a robot
He? So arrogant, how could he pay attention to an inconspicuous robot? He keeps using time and space to search for victims like us, "said the lighthouse assistant
Jiang Xiaoyuan: "What does it mean that it's over? What exactly is Mingguang
You can understand him as a virus, like a computer Trojan, "the lighthouse assistant said calmly
Jiang Xiaoyuan could hear a rare sense of joy in his voice, but she couldn't follow suit and said, "What about you? What about me
The lighthouse assistant fell silent for a moment and replied, "You will live well in the new time and space
Jiang Xiaoyuan: "Where is my original time and space? Did it stop moving when I was hit by a car
The lighthouse assistant smiled and said, "I've explained it to you before. When you stand at an intersection, every direction is a parallel space. The moment you collide is like an intersection, and the next second there will be countless parallel spaces starting from this point and branching off. Some spaces have you dead, some spaces have you saved, and the whole world except for you will continue to walk along the timeline of different spaces in an orderly manner - only you end here
A person's life is a unique trajectory of time, "he said." Your trajectory has come here and has nothing to do with that place ever since
Jiang Xiaoyuan inexplicably felt that her illegal immigration was a bit tragic.
Lighthouse assistant: "Don't cry
She only then realized that she had already burst into tears.
I'm here to see you off, "said the lighthouse assistant." I also want to give you my memories and dreams, so that you can live with me in the future
Jiang Xiaoyuan couldn't help but let herself choke up for a moment and said, "How could I possibly fulfill your dream? I have to run over seven tenths of an eight hundred meters, and I'm not as good as your legless one
Lighthouse Assistant: "I know, I didn't let you fulfill my dream. You have your own, I just gave you the legs that can reach there... Mingguang chose us because he felt that we were all fragile and needed to rely on each other to survive. Actually, it's not true. Even the most fragile people have a strong side, right
Jiang Xiaoyuan cried and thought to herself, "Don't dream, I didn't
She only spends money to ruin her family, and slacking off is her norm. Even with her legs, which path can she take? She has neither dreams nor knows where she can excel.
But before she could object, the lighthouse assistant spoke up first and said, "It's time, let's go
Jiang Xiaoyuan: "Wait
A flurry of light and shadow flickered before her eyes, and she could no longer hear any fragments of the mechanical and cold male voice. Only a strange emotion surged into her heart, not very intense, but resilient and long-lasting.
Jiang Xiaoyuan had a momentary illusion that she was truly about to break through and reach any other shore.
She knew that this kind of emotion didn't belong to her, it belonged to someone much stronger than her, but she couldn't help but be infected and made a resounding decision halfway through——
Jiang Xiaoyuan thought, "I will live well in this world
Even if I can never go back.
In the next moment, Jiang Xiaoyuan felt herself being gently pushed by someone. She opened her eyes and her pupils were suddenly shaken by the light, immediately shedding physiological tears.
With teary eyes, she saw a circle of people surrounding her. A somewhat familiar person crouched in front of her and carefully helped her up, saying, "Are you okay? Just left the hospital and went in again? Are you suffering from low blood sugar or something
Qilian?
Jiang Xiaoyuan hasn't fully recovered from the final aftermath of the lighthouse assistant's life yet, and she's lost in thought, "Why do we always run into him every time we're unlucky? What kind of fate