C32 Did You Open the Door?
43 walked over to me at a leisurely pace. "The memory you see in your dream is the memory of me before I was chosen by God — I am stronger now than I was then. It's just that my split personality — his personality — determines that he can't compete with me. "
He came over and took the gun from my trembling hand.
"I already told you not to play any tricks on me, the moment you shoot, I will let this woman block my bullets."
"Ugh …" Lina seemed to have gotten a breath of air as she groaned and fell onto my body.
"I really can't get your memories by controlling my brain, but I have a thousand ways to make you say — you don't want to see her suffer, do you?"
"I'm sorry we can't be a family anymore. "There's still some time left. Before you die, let's have a good talk. I'll ask you!" 43 winked mischievously.
"Answer my question well. I'll make your death easier, and I'll also make this woman easier — I'll give her a beautiful dream of never waking up, and let her live at the moment when she feels the happiest. "On the other hand —"
His gaze instantly turned cold, and the moment he looked at Lina, Lina's eased body abruptly started twitching, suddenly using one hand to grab onto the two fingers of the other hand, and broke it — —
In the blink of an eye, both his fingers were broken into pieces!
AHH!" Lina fell into my arms while wailing.
"No!" I screamed in despair.
"— — Don't lie to me, otherwise, I will make her suffer a lot before forcefully invading her brain, making her live a life worse than death, like Maria!
"Don't hurt her! Ask! I'll tell you anything, I'll tell you anything! "If you're lying, you'll be struck by lightning." I roared in despair.
"Very good."
43 smiled and nodded.
Lina's body went limp as she trembled in my arms. The pain from the side effects of the invasion made Lina so uncomfortable that she couldn't say a word. I could feel her struggling against her consciousness.
"You are also 'chosen by the gods' … You're the first person I've ever seen besides myself... You're from Tibet? "
43 With every word said, Lina's mouth would form the same line. "The veins in her head bulged and she was sweating profusely.
"My ancestors came from Tibet... They once said that they are the direct descendants of God and that they shed the blood of God … " I held Lina tightly in my embrace.
"Very good, very good. I can tell from your expression that you are telling the truth — "43 was very pleased." Then your ancestors must have used some method to preserve the relatively pure quality of their genes over hundreds of years of reproduction. "
"Our family has been engaged to another family for hundreds of years."
"Marry close relatives? It was indeed a good way to maintain the primal bloodlines. "So you are also the eldest son?"
I nodded.
I suddenly felt that Lina, who was hiding in my embrace, was using her unbroken hand to write something on my chest.
"J... "0 …" Lina seemed to have used all of her body's strength to write every word she had.
Lina and I used to write love letters when we were dating in Philadelphia, but at that time, Lina had a roommate who liked to gossip.
There were several times that I wanted to get angry at her, but Lina was a person with a good temper. She blinked her eyes and said, "Since she wants to see us, then let her see us, but if she can't understand, then don't blame us!"
Lina took out a piece of thousand character language written by Wang Xizhi from her < Ancient History of China >. After compiling a set of simple replacement codes, Lina only needed to master the writing rules of the first 40 words of the thousand character language, and she will be able to decipher them.
Very soon, we used this method to encrypt the love letter. The roommate looked at the nonsense, unable to do anything about it, and couldn't help blushing.
Lina is using her thousand word password to transmit some message to me!
She must have heard my analysis of Mind Reading, too, so she wanted to tell me in encrypted Chinese!
"4 …" Lina wrote with great difficulty.
J04, I tried my best to recall the words for this number. After we got married, we never used it again.
It seemed to be the word "pink" in the words "Kung Yen Yanyan"?
Pink? Pink what?
43 It seemed as if it didn't notice that Lina was doing something in my arms, so it continued to ask me:
"Have you ever seen my younger brother in your clan … Have you seen a mutated monster after being injected with the Spring of Life? "
I shook my head. "No."
"Then why are you so afraid of giving birth to a monster?"
"According to the history of my clan, whenever the children are married to outsiders, they become infertile or give birth to freaks. I'm very afraid that Lina and I will have similar children in the future …"
I said it slowly, to buy time --
I need to give Lina time to finish her work!
"Looks like when high purity genes are combined with normal human genes, it's easy to produce this kind of weirdo. Whether it is your ancestors or my younger brother, they both mutated because they accepted the primordial genes of God …" 43 frowned, "But why is that …"
"Perhaps —" I was about to continue to push the donkey along the slope, but I was interrupted by 43.
"— Why it doesn't matter anymore. Other than me, everyone else has turned to dust."
"Did you see that door?" 43 asked lightly.
I did see a door as the blue liquid plunged into me.
Something behind that door seemed to summon me.
"P..." 2... 7 … " Lina finished writing another set. Flipping it over was the word "brush" on the "calligraphy paper".
Pen? I racked my brain to think back quickly, as if I had never seen chalk since I moved in.
Could it be that I remembered the sequence of the decoding?
But I don't have the time to think about that --
"Door? Oh! "I saw it …" I quickly composed myself.
"Then what did it take as a 'sacrifice'?" 43 He tilted his head and looked me up and down.
"What do you mean?" I don't understand.
"Don't you know? Don't you have a memory of God? " Alpha revealed an expression of doubt: "You must contribute something in order to reach the 'door'. "Look at me …"
43 slowly opened his arms. His expression was one of neither joy nor sadness:
"It took my time."
Time?
He pulled back his sleeves. They were covered with wounds, some of which were already very faint, some of which looked as though they had just been sewn together and were bleeding.
"Before I arrived at the door, it showed me all the time of my life — from growing up to getting old to dying. "Since I returned from the 'door', the time in my body has stopped."
"I will never grow old again, and I will never feel the passage of time. My body will forever be frozen at a certain moment in the past — from the moment the Spring of Life farm is destroyed, my body will never grow up, and the wounds on my body will never scab."
"What did you see before you reached the door?"
I think back to those few seconds --
I saw a drop of blood, a drop that was infinitely enlarged and eventually turned into a universe.
"I think I saw a drop of blood. But I don't know what that means. And no one — did you get a part of your memory of God when you were injected? "
"Yes, it told me its name." 43 smiled.
"Then its name is …"
"Well, one last question," 43 interrupted, clearly not wanting to answer either. He opened the bolt skillfully and asked:
"Have you opened the door?"
In the silence, there was only the sound of the gun being loaded.
After I answer this question, my head will explode the next second.
"I …"
"Forget it, I actually don't care about what's behind the door at all —" Alpha laughed as he raised his spear, "I ah, other than this world, I don't want to go anywhere else … I am a monster created by this world. "
Almost at the same time, I translated the last two sets of passwords written by Lina:
The word "other" and the word "to be able to forget".
Peter.
Peter, that's a familiar name. Was it the blind kitten that survived?
Lina exerted all her might to tell me these two words, chalk, Peter.
Where did I see chalk?
and my brain was working so fast, I thought about all the people I'd ever seen --
My home, Lina — Alpha — Maria — Johnson — Real — Dream — 608 — 610 — Corridor — —
Why is chalk the key — chalk — in class — drawing when you were a kid — drawing!
Put the gun on my head.
I closed my eyes.