My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 334 The Way to Leave the World

Arriving at the gate of the community, Zhuang Xiao looked around carefully.

There were no signs of human passing on the ground, no shoe prints or anything like that.

But Zhuang Xiao's eyes narrowed under the helmet.

Because the dust on the ground is thinner than the surrounding area!

What does this mean?
This means someone has cleaned it!

In other words, someone must have been here and didn't want others to know that he/she had been here!

It’s a pity that the cleaning was not careful enough. If I were careless, I would indeed ignore these details, but Zhuang Xiao has never been a person who ignores details.

So he followed the thin dust and walked forward until he reached the familiar door of the unit.

It is indeed here!
Zhuang Xiao checked the pistol, confirmed that the magazine was full of bullets and the safety was on, then he carefully walked into the unit door with the gun in hand.

There was not as much dust inside the unit door as outside, so Zhuang Xiao couldn't tell where the other party went.

But it doesn't matter, he knows the other party will definitely not go up.

So the only way it can be is down!
There just happens to be an underground secret room in this unit building that leads directly to the cloning center below the school.

Zhuang Xiao quickly reached the entrance but was stuck again.

"Tsk, I remember that this door can only be opened with the blood of a specific Shudie."

He remembered that he took a few tubes of blood when he went out, and he seemed to have brought some when he came in as well.

So he fumbled around in the pockets of his vest, and he actually found a test tube!
When I took it out and looked, there was indeed blood inside!
So Zhuang Xiao successfully opened the door and entered the underground passage.

Following the long and narrow corridor to the place where the clone culture tanks were previously placed, Zhuang Xiao discovered that all of his clones in the culture tanks had disappeared without a trace, but the nutrient solution was still there.

And the glass of the culture tank was not damaged.

So, these clones seemed to have been taken away by someone, or taken away and destroyed.

The only people who can do this are probably the Shudie Alliance.

Zhuang Xiao clenched his gun and searched room by room.

After checking more than a dozen rooms in a row, when he reached the next room, as soon as he opened the door, the cold muzzle of a gun was pressed against his helmet.

But Zhuang Xiao was not surprised but happy.

Because the person in front of him was Shu Die!

I just don’t know which Shudie it is.

Her black hair just covered her shoulders, neither long nor short, and she was wearing a smart and sci-fi silver combat uniform.

After seeing Zhuang Xiao, she immediately recognized who he was even though she couldn't see his face through the helmet.

"Brother Xiao?" She put down the beam pistol in her hand.

"It's me." Zhuang Xiao didn't take off his helmet. "Which Xiaodie are you?"

He really had no impression.

This Shu Die possesses many qualities including gentleness, liveliness, composure, capability, calmness, and coldness. To be honest, he really can't tell them apart.

Or rather, unrecognizable.

After all, if he had met Shu Die, who had such a distinct temperament, it would be impossible for him not to have an impression of her.

Shudie smiled when she heard this, "Brother Xiao, there won't be so many Shudies in the future. We have become one."

Zhuang Xiao was shocked, "Who is the leader?"

"Of course it's the oldest one~" Shu Die blinked her starry eyes playfully.

Seeing that Zhuang Xiao was silent, she immediately explained, "Okay, okay, I was just kidding! In fact, we don't have a leader, we just have a unified consciousness. If I have to say it, I have all of Shudie's memories, but I haven't found the main body yet, so I temporarily introduced a leader to control my own actions."

Zhuang Xiao immediately asked the question in his heart, "What happened after I left?"

"After you left, I saw a woman who shouldn't have existed."

Shu Die gave the answer, "I met Dong Weirui, but in some of my memories, she didn't exist at all. But in some memories, she existed but died very early. But in some memories, she survived until that 'I' came to the 'shadow world'."

It’s Dong Weirui!

Zhuang Xiao immediately asked, "Did you see her in this 'shadow world'?"

"Yes, she came to see me at the same time as you, Xiao Ge. I suspect that she was the reason why you suddenly left the 'Shadow World'."

Shu Die nodded lightly, "At first I wanted to control her first, but she said she wanted to cooperate with me on something, and it was about you, Brother Xiao, so I agreed temporarily."

Zhuang Xiao immediately asked, "What's the matter?"

"I don't know either. She said she would tell me when she came back, and asked me to help take care of her. Then she fainted and has been unconscious ever since."

"Where is her body?"

"follow me."

Shu Die took Zhuang Xiao through many twists and turns and came to a room.

As soon as he entered the house, Zhuang Xiao felt something was wrong.

"Is this a constant temperature and humidity room?"

He glanced at the pretty figure lying on the bed, and the slight insecurity in his heart disappeared without a trace the moment he saw her.

Dong Weirui really exists!
But at this moment she just lay there without any reaction.

"Yes, although I don't know if it will be useful, but at least it can give me some comfort."

Shu Die walked to the bedside of Dong Weirui, who seemed to be asleep, put her hand under her nose and paused for a moment, then put her index and middle fingers together and pressed lightly on her carotid artery.

After a moment, she released her hand, "The temperature, heartbeat, etc. are all normal, and the breathing is normal."

She turned around and looked up, "Brother Xiao, do you still remember those things in that pit?"

Zhuang Xiao nodded, "It's hard to forget something that left such a deep impression."

"Well, her body is similar to those things now." Shu Die poked Dong Weirui's cheek with her green jade finger, "Xiao Ge, do you still remember the movie "Death" that we watched when we were young?"

"The comic by Kubo Tite? Of course you have read it. I was the one who took you to read it at that time." Zhuang Xiao suddenly realized, "You mean 'artificial corpse'?"

The so-called "artificial bodies" can be simply put as if the Grim Reaper from the comic "Bleach" appeared in the real world. Ordinary people would not be able to see them, after all, they are in a soul state.

The "artificial corpse" is like a "suit" for them to walk in the human world. It looks the same as themselves, and they can enter it so that mortals can see them and communicate and interact with them normally.

"Yes, the details are different, but the general meaning should be similar." Shu Die leaned over with her hands behind her back to look at Dong Weirui's delicate eyebrows and eyes. "I didn't know what those things were at first, I just thought they were really weird, and I thought they were garbage thrown from the real world into the 'shadow world'." "But the four people you killed, Brother Xiao, crawled out of that pit."

Zhuang Xiao raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure?"

"Of course I am sure!" Shu Die rolled her eyes at him. "Although I am hiding here, I still have the surveillance of the entire city! It's just that after Dong Weirui fell into a coma, something went wrong in the 'shadow world'. It seems that all the 'shadow worlds' overlapped together, and all of me have merged into one. Oh, except for the one in the real world."

After a pause, she became curious, "Brother Xiao, do you know something?"

"I guess so. Do you know if we can still go to the real world through the 'channel' now?" Zhuang Xiao asked her back.

"I tried it, but the 'channel' is closed." Shu Die looked Zhuang Xiao up and down, "So I'm also curious, Brother Xiao, how did you get here?"

"I don't know. Maybe I'm just lucky. To be honest, I'm quite confused."

Zhuang Xiao took Shu Die by the hand and told her everything he had experienced, the clues, and even his own analysis and reasoning.

This Shu Die is not an ordinary Shu Die, she is the Shu Die who combines the strengths of hundreds of schools!

After listening to it, Shu Die thought for a moment and then suddenly realized something.

"So An Lan's discovery is that she understands the truth of the world?" Shu Die thought thoughtfully.

Zhuang Xiao nodded, "That's probably it."

Then he was a little curious, "Xiaodie, you are not shocked at all?"

Shu Die listened to his chatter patiently, and her emotions didn't change at all.

"Because I had guessed it a long time ago, so I was mentally prepared." Shu Die suddenly smiled, and her delicate face revealed a complex temperament that combined boldness, gentleness, and kindness. "This is what happens after a lot of experience. I am a little worried that you, Xiaoge, can't accept it.

"I just think that at least our experiences, our past, and our memories are real. Brother Xiao, you are the proof that I existed, and that is enough."

Zhuang Xiao also laughed.

Then he took off his helmet, "I thought so too."

The two smiled at each other, and a tacit understanding that had grown up between them emerged naturally.

After silently enjoying the warm and slightly ambiguous atmosphere, Shu Die turned her head to look at Dong Weirui lying on the bed, "Then I know where she went."

"Outside?" Zhuang Xiao also understood this.

"Yes, she should have returned, and something happened after she returned, which led to the fusion of the 'Shadow World' and me."

Shu Die tapped her chin with her jade finger, "Well, I think I understand what she did."

Zhuang Xiao immediately asked, "What did she do?"

"If the 'Shadow World' is the 'recycling bin' at the edge of the world as you said, Brother Xiao, then she should have closed the 'channel' between the world and the 'recycling bin', and also changed the 'channel' for outsiders. If they want to enter the so-called 'Zhuang Xiao World' now, they can only come here."

Shu Die smiled sweetly, "Brother Xiao, don't worry, she is on your side."

The girl stroked her fair chin and teased Zhuang Xiao, "Do you think she has become a traitor for a fictional character?"

"My buddy is real, maybe he's doing pretty well out there, otherwise how could I be the protagonist of this world?"

Zhuang Xiaole took out a one-dollar coin and threw it to her, "Come on, test it."

Shu Die simply tossed the coin ten times, two came up heads and eight came up tails.

Zhuang Xiao chuckled, "Native NPC?"

Shu Die rolled her eyes at him and threw the coin back to him.

Zhuang Xiao also tossed it ten times, and all ten times were heads.

"It seems that it is really an anchor to tell herself not to get lost." Shu Die thought thoughtfully, "No wonder she tossed the coin ten times before she fell into a coma."

Zhuang Xiao said: "The problem now is how to get out. I tried their method and ended up here."

"I doubt I can get out now." Shu Die analyzed, stroking his chin.

Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

"Look, Brother Xiao, Dong Weirui's operation has caused the 'shadow world' to become a de facto buffer zone. People coming in from the outside will be trapped here, and conversely, people leaving from inside will also be trapped here. Your appearance proves this. Dong Weirui probably wants to prevent people from outside from interfering with the normal operation of the inner world before solving the problem. At the same time, if someone goes in, they can't get out, so there won't be more variables."

Shu Die began to analyze according to her own thoughts, "I even suspect that Dong Weirui knew that you, Xiao Ge, were definitely planning to go out, so she also eliminated the possibility of you going out. She was probably afraid that you would be in danger.

"Was this woman a teacher or a police officer in the past?"

Zhuang Xiao curled his lips, "Really? At least when she was in there, she was a police officer, and the captain of the criminal police brigade."

"That's right. You can tell from her personality that she is the type who takes on too much responsibility. She is used to doing things on her own and then excludes others to protect them. She also doesn't care what others think." Shu Die snapped her fingers.

Zhuang Xiao frowned slightly, "So I can't go out?"

"Not necessarily, there must be other ways." Shu Die was a little disappointed, "I may not be able to get out, but you must have a way to get out. After all, you must have a body outside, but I may not.

"Personally, I am more curious about the result of An Lan's attempt. Does she have a body or not outside? How did she find out, and how did she solve this problem?"

This helped her a lot in getting out.

She didn't really want to go out, but she wanted to solve the problem.

"I thought you didn't want me to go out." Zhuang Xiao looked at her happily, "If it were you back then, you definitely wouldn't want me to go out."

"I don't want to go out now, but I have no reason to stop you. If I kneel down and hug your thighs and beg you, will you not go out?"

Shu Die rolled her eyes. "Besides, according to your speculation, Xiao Ge, our world is on the verge of collapse and destruction. Rather than leaving the task of saving the world to someone I am not familiar with, Dong Weirui, I trust you more."

In fact, if she could go out, she would prefer to solve the problem herself.

But she couldn't go out for the time being, so she simply trusted Zhuang Xiao, the person she trusted the most.

Zhuang Xiao tilted his head, "You trust me so much?"

"Because you are my brother Xiao." Shu Die responded with a sweet smile, even a little kind.

"But Brother Xiao, whom you trust, can't think of a way out now." Zhuang Xiao shrugged and spread his hands.

"In fact, we can seek experience from our 'predecessors.'" Shu Die looked at Zhuang Xiao with a smile.

"Predecessors? Where did the predecessors come from?"

Zhuang Xiao frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his eyes, "No. You mean An Lan? You want me to imitate her and commit suicide."

"No, it's just what you told me about the incident on your way here, Xiao Ge. I think it's very interesting." Shu Die narrowed her starry eyes and smiled, "After you left last time, I left surveillance at the warehouse. I can be sure that there is no drivable car there."

After a pause, she added, "Also, there won't be any cars downstairs of that building. When those four people climbed out of the pit, they were walking."

(End of this chapter)