"Luo Qingxi, what are you daydreaming about?" the boy said to her from behind.
She turned around and the boy's face became blurred, disappearing in the thick fog like the wind.
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"Luo Qingxi!! Luo Qingxi!!"
She opened her eyes. She was lying on the desk, and a girl was knocking on her desk.
"Luo Qingxi, are you sleepy again?" The girl said with a smile, "School is almost over."
She stared at the girl's familiar yet unfamiliar face, "You are...you are..."
"You really are confused after sleeping." The girl said, "I'm Fang Ziwei."
Fang Ziwei, she remembered. This was her classmate and her long-time friend...
She lowered her head and put the books into her schoolbag one by one. Fang Ziwei was mumbling what the teacher had said in the class meeting just now. They were about to take the college entrance examination, but the average score of the city-wide mock exam was lower than that of the Fourth Middle School.
"You are the worst class I have ever taught!" Fang Ziwei imitated the tone of the head teacher, "If you can't pass the entrance exam to No. 4 Middle School, your class will be a disgrace."
"But aren't we No. 4 Middle School?"
Fang Ziwei stared at her with wide eyes and put her hand on her forehead, "You really are confused after sleeping. We are No. 1 Middle School, the No. 1 Middle School."
Luo Qingxi stared at Fang Ziwei for a few seconds, then nodded.
The two girls packed their schoolbags and walked side by side on the way home from school. Fang Ziwei was a cheerful and talkative girl, chattering non-stop. "Sometimes choosing the wrong name can really bother you for the rest of your life. Don't you agree?"
Luo Qingxi was still a little dazed. She turned her head and looked at the school gate. The big words "No. 1 Middle School" came into her sight. Her unfamiliar school uniform had the words "No. 1 Middle School" written on it. She thought, I am indeed a student of No. 1 Middle School.
"That group of people in the class is really annoying." Fang Ziwei said unhappily, because her name "Ziwei" sounds the same as Ziwei, one of the heroines in the popular TV series My Fair Princess. Now she has become the target of ridicule by her classmates, who keep calling her "Gege" for no reason, which annoys Fang Ziwei. "When my mother gave me this name, there was no such thing as My Fair Princess."
"That's totally unimaginable." Luo Qingxi responded.
"My mother gave me this name because I am a son and Wei means beautiful." Fang Ziwei turned to Luo Qingxi and asked, "Luo Qingxi, what is the meaning of your name?"
"This is the name my father gave me. He hopes that I can..." Luo Qingxi said, "My heart is as clear as a stream, and my mind is as bright as a mirror."
…
Luo Qingxi stood at the intersection and thought for a long time before she remembered where her current home was.
She walked up the stairs and opened the door.
A strange woman was cooking at home. When she saw her come in, she raised her eyes and said, "You're back."
"……Who are you?"
The woman raised her eyebrows: "Have you become stupid? You can't even recognize me?" Her father came out, and the woman shouted: "Look at your daughter, she didn't even greet me when she came in, and she asked who I was?"
"Luo Qingxi, you are so rude!!" said the father with a frown.
Luo Qingxi lowered her head, turned around and walked into her room. She remembered that her parents had divorced when she was in elementary school. Her beloved mother had remarried, and now she lived with her father's new family.
"Luo Qingxi! Come out and apologize to your aunt!!" my father shouted outside.
She locked the door, locking her father and strange stepmother out.
Everything has changed, she thought.
She fell on the bed and slowly pulled the pendant out from her collar. The black wooden plaque was as shiny as a mirror and as dark as night. There was no pattern on it. Not even a flower.
Everything has changed.
But this time it will be better, she thought.
…
…
A few days later, she received the admission ticket for the provincial competition of the National Mathematical Olympiad. This was the name her class teacher had registered for her.
The head teacher told her seriously to do well in the exam, "Come on, Luo Qingxi. If you get a good score, you can get extra points in the college entrance examination."
She stared at her admission ticket in a daze. On it was written in black and white: the test location: [No. 4 Middle School].
That morning, she arrived at No. 4 Middle School early. The No. 4 Middle School in the morning mist was exactly the same as she remembered. She hesitated for a long time at the school gate, and then took a step forward.
The familiar Qiming Building, the red brick and gray tile teaching building, the lush green shrubs, and the sparkling small lake on campus, all of these seem like a world away.
A small green-winged bird flew over her head.
I just came here to take the exam today. This is no longer my school. She said to herself, yes, Luo Qingxi had never been to the Fourth Middle School.
Never.
She walked into the campus. At first, it was the main road of the Fourth Middle School. On the left was a large lawn, behind which was the Qiming Building. On the right was the Fourth Middle School auditorium.
She was going to the experimental building around the lake in the school. She held her admission ticket tightly and left after the test. This place was just a strange school and a strange test site for Luo Qingxi.
Going around the lake, she only needed to go through a patch of greenery to reach her destination. Luo Qingxi stopped. She remembered that on this road, she could see the century-old tree, which was a small attraction on campus. She had once joined in the fun and tied a wish knot on the tree like other students.
However, it is now empty and the towering ancient tree is gone.
Luo Qingxi stared blankly. The same lake in the school, the same green plants, but the tree was gone, as if it had never existed.
"Classmate, what are you looking at?" a girl asked as she came over. She looked at Luo Qingxi and said, "You are from another school and you are here to take the exam today. Do you need any help?"
Luo Qingxi turned around and saw the girl in front of her was Bai Xiaoyu, whom she once knew. "Bai..." She swallowed her name, "I was just a little surprised to see that the old tree over there was gone."
"Trees? There aren't many old trees over there." Bai Xiaoyu turned around and asked a boy behind her, "Yan An, do you know if there are any old trees over there?"
"Ancient trees? How old? I can guarantee that the trees in our school are no more than thirty years old." Yan An replied, examining the stranger's eyes and speaking in a distant and polite tone, "Student, you are here to take the exam, right? Which teaching building are you going to?"
"Experimental building. I know the way." Luo Qingxi said softly. She took a step forward, walked past Yan An and Bai Xiaoyu, and walked forward.
"Classmate!" Yan An called her from behind.
Luo Qingxi turned his head. Yan An raised his hand and pointed in the opposite direction, "The laboratory building is over there."
…
She looked at the laboratory building in front of her. It was still the familiar red bricks and gray tiles, but the laboratory building in her past memory was not this building at all. Instead, this place was an empty lot in her past memories.
It just changed the trajectory of my life.
Why are even these changing?
There was a vague hum in the air.
A vague feeling of uneasiness welled up in my heart; this change made no sense.
That makes no sense.
Luo Qingxi clenched his admission ticket tightly.
Malevolent whispers filled the air.
All change is for the better.
She said to herself, calming her breathing.
This time I must not...
“Aa ...
Behind her came a girl's shrill scream, which became louder and louder.
“What the heck is that?!”
No.
no.
That's not the case.
All change is for the better.
Luo Qingxi slowly turned his head.
Her heart was pounding. She saw gray shadows under the scorching sun, pale flesh, bloody gray fog, an obscure monster, a nightmare.
No.
Several students froze in place, while more students fled in panic.
Bai Xiaoyu was screaming. Yan An pulled her to run. The monster sprayed bluish-white acid at them. Bai Xiaoyu fell to the ground with a dying scream, and her body was covered with smoke.
The monster lowered its head and bit her body.
Someone yelled, "Ahhhhhhhh!! It's eating her! It's eating her!!"
No.
That's not the case.
All change is for the better.
A small green-winged bird was circling in the sky.
Yan An knelt on the ground and watched all this in a daze.
Run away.
escape.
The monster gave her a weird smile, then it grabbed Yan An and crushed him.
…
…
No.
That's not the case.
It shouldn't be like this.
This is not my reality.
The green-winged bird chirped in her ear.
She clenched her pendant.
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“Xixi!! Xixi!! Luo Qingxi! Luo Qingxi!!”
She opened her eyes. Her mother was knocking on her desk. "Why did you fall asleep? Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"
This is her home. Peaceful and warm. On the bookshelf are her favorite trinkets: a glass deer, a wooden elephant, paper sculptures brought back from abroad, and a few little people sitting quietly in the Lego castle.
She was sitting at her familiar desk, having just woken up from a nightmare.
"Mom..." she whispered, then hugged her mother.
"Why are you doing this so suddenly?"
"Mom, I had a nightmare."
"What nightmare?"
"A very long nightmare." Luo Qingxi said. She let go of her hand and looked at her mother carefully. It was her mother. There were wrinkles in the corners of her eyes and a few silver threads in her black hair.
"What kind of nightmare did you have? Look how scared you were." Mom smiled.
"I had a strange dream..." Luo Qingxi swallowed his words, "I dreamed that you and Dad got divorced, and Dad formed a new family with a woman I didn't know."
"..." Her mother looked at her and sighed, "Silly child, you were indeed confused in your sleep. Your father died in a car accident six years ago."
“…”
Luo Qingxi looked at her mother. She remembered that her father had died in a car accident six years ago. Her mother raised her alone. During that time, a man had shown interest in her mother, but that man started to make advances towards Luo Qingxi not long after they started living together. Her mother drove the man away in anger, and since then, they have been an orphan and a widow relying on each other.
Everything has changed.
"What are you thinking about, Xixi?" Mom said worriedly, "You will take the college entrance examination in less than a year. Why do you look so mentally unwell?"
Luo Qingxi shook her head and comforted her mother.
Everything has changed.
All change is for the better.
But there was a little voice in her heart: Really? Even Daddy is gone, is this really a change for the better?
She pulled the pendant out from her collar. The black wooden plaque was as shiny as a mirror and as dark as night. There was no pattern on it. Not even a single flower.
There are no flowers at all.
…
dad.
Dad. After her mother left the room, she covered her face and cried uncontrollably.
She put on a school uniform with the words "No. 13 Middle School" written on it.
The 13th Middle School is located in the southern corner of the city, far away from the 4th Middle School in the north of the city.
All change is for the better.
She said to herself .
The days that followed were peaceful and normal.
Get up, have breakfast, go to school, go home after school.
The life of a high school student that goes from point A to point B.
One exercise after another, one test paper after another, and one mock exam after another, this is her stable high school life.
Without her father, her mother took on the responsibility of supporting the family, and she suddenly aged ten years. In her memory, her mother was a person who loved to take care of herself. Her face had wrinkles, and her skin was almost the same as that of a girl in her twenties or thirties. But now the hard work has left ruthless marks on her face. Her mother is still graceful, but the best cosmetics can't cover up the vicissitudes and sagging on her face.
I must study hard and get into a good university, she thought.
This is the only way to live up to my mother's expectations.
All changes will be for the better, she told herself.
Her life will continue to be peaceful.
Her former classmates and friends gradually turned into blurry faces in her dreams.
That's good.
That's good.
This is my reality.
She whispered to herself.
A little green-winged bird was hopping around her window, chirping.
"I will live a good life." She said loudly to the bird and closed the window.
…
"Luo Qingxi, your overall score has risen to seventh in the grade," the head teacher said to her, "Aren't you going to participate in the provincial Mathematical Olympiad? If you can get a good ranking, you'll have a chance to get extra points in the college entrance examination."
When Luo Qingxi heard about the provincial Mathematical Olympiad competition, his heart began to beat fast.
"You really won't participate?"
She shook her head firmly.
Everything will change for the better, she told herself. Avoiding everything might lead to...
Her heart was pounding.
It was just a confused and blurry nightmare, and she had to avoid everything that might lead to...
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This time she was very careful. She and her mother stayed away from her familiar life circle. This time...
There will definitely be a better future this time.
She put on her schoolbag and walked home along the unfamiliar road.
Now that her family has moved to Shinan, she has become accustomed to this new journey home.
All change is for the better.
She walked into the community, came to the downstairs of her house, and walked into the corridor. The lights in the corridor kept flickering, and there was a heart-pounding buzzing sound in the air. The light was shaking, like a film with a failed exposure.
Mother.
She walked up the stairs and opened the door. The buzzing noise in the air suddenly became sharp and pierced her brain.
That's not a natural sound. That's not a human sound.
Mother.
She couldn't think of anything.
They staggered out from the dark corners. They were horrible white bones made of malice, they were the eyes of the devil hidden in the darkness. Heavy and strange sounds floated in the air, and the gray smoke twisted and transformed into hateful flesh and blood.
Mother.
She wondered where was her mother.
The monster hissed and laughed like a madman, spewing out gray mist with a fishy smell.
Mom. Where is Mom?
She turned her head, the monster's crazy screams echoing in her ears, and within her sight, she saw her mother.
Mom was lying on the floor in a funny position, her back facing upwards, her head twisted 180 degrees, her blank, lifeless eyes staring straight at the ceiling.
She took a step back.
The monster's crazy laughter was whistling in my ears.
Mother.
It shouldn't be like this.
It shouldn't be like this.
The world began to spin.
This is not my reality.
Her vision became blurry and her breathing became difficult. Mom. She felt as if she was in an endless abyss, and she was the only one falling. This is not my reality, she thought.
The green-winged bird banged against the window and screamed at her.
It says:
■■Immutable, ■■irreversible.
No, this is not my reality.
Everything can change.
She squeezed her pendant.
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"Luo Qingxi! Luo Qingxi!!"
She opened her eyes. The teacher was glaring at her in class.
"Are you confused again?"
This time her parents were both there. But her father's business suffered a heavy blow, his partner went to jail, and his company went bankrupt. Their family was heavily in debt, and creditors came to collect debts every day.
Creditors were sitting in the living room every day. "When will you pay me back?" The creditors asked the same question every day.
"We will pay it back. We will pay it back. We will find a way to pay it back." Her parents murmured with pale faces.
"My family has to repay the bank loan every month, and we run a small business. If you don't pay me back, you will push me into a dead end," said a middle-aged woman among the creditors, who burst into tears.
"We will pay it back as long as we can!" her parents begged humbly.
Luo Qingxi locked herself in the room. She pulled the pendant out of her collar. There was no pattern on the small wooden plaque.
It's going to be okay, she whispered to herself.
But another little voice inside her whispered, Really? This reality really won't...
Her parents sent her to her uncle's house in another city to avoid the harassing creditors.
She transferred to another school and became a boarding student from another place.
One day on her way home from school, she was dragged into an alley by a creditor who had come to look for her. He put a knife to her neck and forced her to call her parents.
Then, the monster arrived silently.
They devoured the creditor who attacked her in front of her, and when she fled to her uncle's house, only their dismembered body parts were left.
…
So, the cycle begins again.
Her time seemed to have stopped forever in her second year of high school.
With each reincarnation, her world becomes stranger.
No. 4 Middle School, Ding Muli, Bai Xiaoyu, Wei Hongzhuo, Yan An, before we knew it, the familiar school and familiar friends were becoming more and more distant.
But those monsters are always there.
No matter how strange the world is, its end is bound to be madness.
In the first few times, Yan An died over and over again.
When she was away from her former school, they became her parents, her relatives, and even passers-by.
Why……
Why is this happening?
Or was it just a long nightmare from which she had not yet woken up.
This must just be a nightmare, she told herself.
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"Luo Qingxi! Luo Qingxi!!"
She opened her eyes.
She sat in the familiar yet strange classroom again, surrounded by classmates she had never seen before, but she knew their names.
"Luo Qingxi! What are you daydreaming about again?" The teacher at the podium looked at her impatiently.
She picked up her schoolbag and rushed out of the classroom. "Luo Qingxi! Where are you going!" the teacher shouted behind her.
…
I've had enough. I've had enough of this.
No matter how I try to escape, those things, those products of nightmare, they... they will come...
You will all die.
Everyone will die.
A small green-winged bird flew past her, perched on a branch and chirped at her.
"What should I do?" she said to the bird. "How can I wake up from this nightmare?"
The bird said: “■■■■■■■■——”
"What should I do?" She held her pendant tightly, and whispered, "How can I wake up from this dream?"
A passing student turned and said, “You know.”
Another student paused and said, “You know.”
A chill surged through her body, and she said blankly, "You are..."
“You knew it all along,” one student said.
"Poor Luo Qingxi, he has been trying to reverse cause and effect." said a girl.
"But she's only going to make it worse," one boy said.
The expressionless students slowly approached her and surrounded her. The sky suddenly became dark and cloudy. They looked at her with expressionless faces and made the same sound.
"Luo Qingxi, poor Luo Qingxi." said a boy.
"She got a power that she shouldn't have..." A girl approached her.
"She got power that she shouldn't have, but she doesn't know the limit." Another girl whispered in agreement.
"You, who are you?" Luo Qingxi shouted, "What do you want to say?"
"sad."
"Pathetic monkey." A girl chuckled, and other students followed suit and laughed.
"What do you want to say??"
"There is only one way." A boy smiled.
"There is only one way to save this poor monkey." The other students whispered softly.
"What?" Luo Qingxi asked tremblingly, "What method?"
A girl stretched out her hand to Luo Qingxi and said with a smile, "Come on."
"Come on. Come on."
They all reached out their hands to Luo Qingxi. The students who formed a circle dragged her with their hands, and she screamed.
Green-winged birds circled above them.
…
…
Luo Qingxi felt like he was being dragged into a dark and chaotic space. There was endless darkness before his eyes, his brain tissue was sizzling as if it was being burned, and ghostly whispers were spreading in the space.
Her consciousness was stagnant because of the irrational scene change, her heart was beating wildly because of this unbelievable reality, and her body was as heavy as a stone.
She opened her mouth and made a hissing sound.
All the hands, all the students disappeared like floating souls.
Where am I. Where is this place?
Could this be another new nightmare?
A shadow appeared.
Luo Qingxi felt that his brain had a strange reaction, and every cell in his brain seemed to be clamoring.
Something is coming. Something terrible.
It was a shapeless mass of black mist at first, then coalesced into a giant with a mask of a human face on its head, and its eyes reminded her of fragments of the night sky.
Its sound was far away but it seemed to be right next to her ear.
"Finally, I finally located you. Luo Qingxi."
"Who are you?" Luo Qingxi asked, and she found that she could make sounds. "Where is this place?"
The mask stared at her. Luo Qingxi felt like she could hardly breathe.
"One dimension. One observation point." It said, "I know you, Luo Qingxi. You crave redemption."
"Yes." Luo Qingxi shouted, "Why on earth is this happening?"
"Because you have obtained power that does not belong to you." The mask replied, its eyes fixed on her chest. "You know it better than anyone else."
Luo Qingxi held the pendant in front of her chest, her heart pounding. "I... I don't know."
"You were only supposed to get four chances."
"Four times..."
“It should have only been four.”
Luo Qingxi opened her eyes wide, and she remembered the four times from the beginning.
A prayer for the bird's life.
Once praying for Tan Yun's arrival.
Bai Xiaoyu's serious illness was reversed in one go.
The last time...
"Everything could have ended." The mask said, "But you messed up the lifeline between time and time." It stretched out its hand, a slender and pale hand, with countless rays of light circling above its palm, like the star map routes in the Milky Way.
"I messed up...my lifeline?"
“That’s why you can’t get out of this timeline.”
Four times, she whispered. And then she said: "Four times is still many times, and every time there is something, those monsters..."
"It's a vicious circle. You're just struggling in a vicious circle."
"What should I do then?" she asked it.
The mask chuckled.
Luo Qingxi stared at the inhuman being in front of her. She heard countless buzzing whispers and the breath that tried to touch her body. She said, "What do you want from me?"
"I have come to grant you salvation."
"No, you want to get something from me." Luo Qingxi said, holding the pendant on her chest, "You want my wooden pendant."
"This wooden sign is of no use to you."
“But I can still change again and again.”
"It's just a vicious cycle." The mask laughed, "Give it to me. You will be redeemed and get the relief you crave."
"..." Luo Qingxi remained silent.
"Give it to me," the mask whispered softly.
“…”
"Give it to me," the mask said, "and you will have everything you have ever dreamed of."
"everything?"
The mask smiled, the space around it began to distort, and all whispers fell silent. A little girl appeared from the void, her eyes sparkling, her skin slightly brown. She recognized her, she was the pain of her youth, she was the other half of her soul during her teenage years, she was Ding Muli.
"On this lifeline, your good friend, Ding Muli, will escape the unfortunate fate of disappearance."
A middle-aged man and woman appeared in front of her, arm in arm. They were her beloved parents.
"With this lifeline, your parents will have a successful career and a harmonious relationship. They will care about you, respect you, and love you, rather than just treating you as their property."
A group of students stood in front of her. Those faces that were already blurred in her memory appeared one by one, Bai Xiaoyu, Wei Hongzhuo...
"On this lifeline, your old classmates and friends will be around you. No one will die suddenly due to an accident."
The boy stood in front of her, looking at her with a smile with the expression she was most familiar with, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned.
Yan An, she thought.
"This is the most perfect lifeline among millions of lifelines." The mask chuckled, "Don't you want to get it?"
Don't you want to get it?
Get rid of that nightmare cycle from now on.
Don’t you want to get the most perfect destiny line?
She clutched the pendant at her chest.
"Give it to me." The mask's breath was as sweet as honey.
"Give it to me." The mask's whisper was as mellow as wine.
I……
I……
She clutched the pendant at her chest.
I, should..., she took a step forward.
The mask's pale hand reached out for the pendant in her hand.
Bang!!
With a flash of lightning, a small green-winged bird rushed in.
Its wings cut through space, and its roar echoed throughout the universe.
"Lies!! Lies!!!" the bird screamed.
"The past cannot be changed, and cause and effect cannot be reversed." It shouted, "Look at those fate lines!!!"
All the sweetness vanished. The bird's wings scratched her face.
The mask stretched out its blade-like fingers and grabbed the bird in its hand. Feathers flew and blood spurted out. It threw the bird's body to the ground.
"... Look at those lifelines!!" It whimpered weakly. The masked giant stepped on it and crushed the bird.
Lifeline…she thought.
"What is this bird?" she asked the mask.
"An irrelevant observation." The mask replied coldly, and it stretched out its hand. "Give it to me, and then accept your new destiny. This is your best destination."
Luo Qingxi took a step back.
"I guess you can't take it from me."
“…”
It seems I guessed right.
"My pendant, it keeps changing my fate line." She said, "I have a question, what happens to the people who died in the fate line?"
"Dead is dead. But you can find someone better."
"Dead? Doesn't the pendant change past destiny?"
The mask's tone was a little impatient: "It just takes you to a different destiny, not a change."
The blood in my body seemed to be stagnant. Ah, so that's why.
So that's how it is.
It turns out to be like this.
How many people were killed because of her stupidity?
"Give it to me."
"I understand now. It turns out that I just entered different world lines from beginning to end." Luo Qingxi said softly, "My original destiny has never changed."
"So I'll give you the best lifeline. Give it to me."
"So what will happen to the original 'Luo Qingxi' in these world lines?"
The mask said, "You will replace her and inherit her memories." It said it lightly, as if it was saying something insignificant.
She raised her head and saw her own reflection in the eyes of the mask, so fragile and ridiculous. But I understand something now. She straightened her body and asked loudly: "One last question, those monsters, those murderers who killed my classmates in different world lines and my parents in different world lines, were they sent by you?"
"..." The mask fell silent. But a cold and terrifying aura emanated from his body. She heard the buzzing hateful whispers again, and those twisted monsters appeared from the shadows, the black fire eyes glanced at her, and the weird laughter echoed in the space.
"Give it to me, you can have a better place to go."
do not be afraid.
It cannot be taken by force.
"I am Luo Qingxi." She looked at the mask and said, the monsters around it changed shape like gray fog. Don't be afraid. They can't take it away by force. What else do you have to lose? "Even if there are countless world lines, even if there are countless Luo Qingxi, there is only one 'me'."
The heart is like a clear stream and the mind is like a bright mirror.
If she accepted this perfect world line, would everything end? She didn't know. But the world lines that she messed up could never be restored. And the lives that were lost... The monster in the shadows breathed a foul smell at her. She took the pendant off her neck. The mask yelled at her, "Give it to me! Give it to me now!!"
She opened her mouth, swallowed the pendant into her mouth, and bit it hard.
"What are you doing!!!" the mask roared.
"I won't let you hurt people from other world lines again." Luo Qingxi said. "I don't have the right to replace the 'Luo Qingxi' of any world." She bit it into pieces and swallowed it. In an instant, heat spread in her body and fire burned in her body.
Ding Muli covered his mouth and looked at her in surprise. She was just like the one she remembered. But she was not the Ding Muli she knew, not her soulmate in junior high school. In her world line, Ding Muli had disappeared for many years without a trace.
I am burning, she thought, and she heard the sound of her blood vessels bursting, she heard the remnant of her body gradually collapsing.
The couple pointed at her and screamed. They might be better parents, as the mask said, parents who understood her thoughts and respected her more. However, the father she knew was more authoritarian and tough, and her mother was a little vain and irritable, but they were her real parents, her irreplaceable beloved parents, carrying her deepest love and attachment, and no one could replace them.
Their world line has their own "Luo Qingxi", who is not themselves, just as they are not her "parents".
Her body was crumbling, blue flames licking and kissing her. The mask yelled, "You're crazy!!"
Yan An looked at her sadly.
He was her classmate, he was her junior high school rival, he was her high school role model, he was the star in the sky, he was a glimmer of longing hidden deep in her soul. But you are not him.
The Yan An she knew had died in a car accident.
It can't be undone, it can't be reversed.
Even if there are thousands of world lines, even if you look similar, you are not that person.
She heard the monsters screaming. Several heat waves burst out from her body. Not only her body, but also the space was shattering and cracking, with thunder rumbling. The mask led the monsters to flee in all directions.
collapse.
combustion.
She was engulfed in a blue flash.
No longer would they have to chase her and mess up world lines.
All the people she knew disappeared.
…
Her body disintegrated into scattered light particles, and her consciousness was gradually dissipating. White light flashed in front of her eyes, and she saw the stars spinning. It was flowing starlight, dancing around a vortex, like a fountain of stars.
How beautiful, she thought.
…
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[Time: Unknown world line unknown]
"A time knot," it said. "This is beyond the dimension and time it should be in."
Another voice sounded: "This is exactly why I came here."