I'm not Yingjie

"Why do you have to stay with us because of your identity as a 'future person'?"

"you guessed right."

Raven also wanted to ask Lin directly if there was any way to leave, just like Mei, but every time she tried to talk to him, Lin would avoid her and ignore her. Over time, she was forced to follow them and act as a ghost, oppressing Kevin and Lin with her eyes.

Facts proved that the operation was effective, and Lin Lai took the initiative to talk.

"I don't want to disturb you, alas..."

In the future, so far away that they don't know if they can remember this happy time, both of them have forgotten to smile and carried the suffering on their shoulders. "

This also made Raven feel a little empathetic. Her childhood experiences and herself as an adult made her not want to destroy their youthful past.

if you can.

"Lin, if you..."

"If I still exist in some form in the so-called future 50,000 years from now, what would I think now?"

"..."

Raven first looked at Lin in silence, then touched her smooth thin lips, wondering if she had spoken inadvertently just now. After confirming that it was Lin who spoke first, she looked at him with suspicion again.

"I can't read minds." Lin pointed out her thoughts. He crossed his arms, and this posture was exactly the same as his future self. "You followed Kevin and me alone, which means you knew us from the beginning. Combined with what you said about the 'future', this is not difficult to guess."

"No, you really underestimate yourself." Raven complained.

Can anyone really make such a bold guess?

"You are trapped in some kind of predicament now, and you come to seek my help because of something that will happen in the future?"

"No... this matter is a bit... complicated." Raven was at a loss for explanation. She couldn't just say that you are a memory and your friends are also memories, and what you are doing now is just reproducing the memories of your own bodies.

Lin lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, then raised his head and said, "I am data, Kevin is also data, and this space is also made up of data. You are a living person, trapped here."

"…You can read minds?"

"The only way I can think of to preserve memories for 50,000 years is to use data to store them."

“It’s not the only one.”

"Is Kevin alive?" Lin's eccentric way of asking the question brought the topic to a new level.

“…I don’t know if I am alive.”

After seeing the current Kevin, Raven could not connect him with the Lord outside. The World Serpent Lord still looked like Kevin on the outside, but perhaps he had already become another person on the inside.

Is it considered living if I kill myself to fight against the collapse?

"That's good." Lin was not too surprised by this answer. He said to Raven, "Ask whatever you want to ask, but I may not be able to help you. No matter what I will be like in the future, I am just a student now. I still have things to do after you ask me."

Raven was surprised at his nonchalant attitude: "Don't you find it hard to accept that you are just a piece of virtual data?"

"By analyzing the underlying logic of a thing, you can improve your ability to accept it."

"I really lost to you."

After that, Raven explained the situation in detail, telling Lin about the paradise of the past, the thirteen heroes, the memory forest, the mysterious staircase, etc.

"You lost your original equipment after entering here, so this is probably not another dimension in the true sense. This kind of situation similar to the game setting of 'entering a certain area will cause changes in rules and equipment restrictions', according to what you said, will not happen in the paradise of the past."

"But you are sure that this is still the paradise of the past, which means that something has changed your cognition, rather than actually letting you enter a certain area."

After listening to what Raven said, Lin quickly analyzed the key to the problem.

"Change cognition..." Raven thought of something, and that thing really happened to exist in the paradise of the past.

Could it be...

At this moment, the alarm suddenly sounded like a death knell.

Chapter 19 Projection

The dark sky, where one cannot see the future, runs through Lin’s life.

He covered the gash on his head and stood up with trembling legs, and the stones on his body fell down.

Ruins, corpses, blood... and my miserable self.

After listening to Raven's words, he was not surprised by the current situation. He just wiped the blood and accepted it all with a calm look.

Disaster and death will accompany his future until the end of his life.

"This is... a large-scale collapse? No, how could a large-scale collapse happen during this period of time?" Raven also stood up to take a breath. According to the records of the collapse in the last century, the first collapse had already ended at this time, and the second collapse was far from coming. How could a large-scale collapse suddenly occur?

"Maybe it's the consciousness of the subject of this space." The blood still didn't stop flowing. Lin stood up dizzy and held on to the wall and said in a deep voice, "If this is really a space made up of memories, then this should be a small paradise of the past, which will change with the changes of the subject of memory."

"Are you okay..." Raven didn't ask. Lin didn't look like he was okay.

However, Lin said calmly: "I'm fine. I am fake to you, you don't have to worry about me."

In the final analysis, this is just a memory. Even if this Lin dies, it will not affect the real Lin.

He dragged his wounded body forward, drops of blood glaringly sliding down his body.

"Where are you going?" Raven grabbed him, and he was staggering as if he would fall down at any moment.

Lin took a breath and gradually straightened his back. He pulled Raven's hand away and said, "Go find out if there are any survivors."

"You..." Raven's face twitched, and she asked in surprise, "Don't you know that you and these people are fake?"

There is no need to worry about it. Maybe before Lin finds any survivors, the time and place of the space will change again, and he will be safe and sound.

Given Lin's rationality, he would not do such a meaningless thing.

After taking a short break, Lin walked forward again: "I know."

"You know what's wrong, but you still do stupid things?"

"Yes."

"you--"

"Whether it's fake or not is not what determines my behavior."

"..."

Lin walked forward slowly, intending to first confirm Kevin's safety and then start looking for survivors.

"Hmm..." Raven scratched his hair in annoyance, and finally could only sigh and laugh at himself, "Forget it, what right do I have to say anything about you."

"You're coming to help me?"

"I'm a mercenary. I'm willing to help you as long as the price is right, but the prerequisite is that you have something worth showing off." Raven grabbed Lin's shoulders to prevent him from losing balance and falling.

Lin asked, "What do you want?"

"Well... why not just show me your face?" Raven said half-jokingly. After all, the most mysterious thing about Lin is his appearance, which is more tightly wrapped than Qianjie.

"it is good."

"…It's that simple. Never mind. It's a deal. Let's go find Kevin."

"No, you should go."

"what?"

Lin broke free from Raven's hand and pointed in a direction. Raven looked in the direction of his finger and saw...

"Meow~"

Can squatted on the railing of the stairs, licked his paws, and called lazily to the raven.

"That cat!" Raven remembered that the cat just came down the stairs when she came in, which means...

It knows how to get out!

Raven waved hesitantly, "Are you here to see me?"

"Meow~" Can understood what she said and called out.

"You should go," Lin repeated.

"What about you?" Raven asked back. She didn't look happy about being able to go out.

"Don't worry about me. This place will probably disappear or repeat itself after you leave."

Since Lin said so, she didn't refuse and walked quickly to Cantou's side. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the stairs under Cantou's feet.

Although I still don’t understand what is going on here, at least I’m out of trouble.

Since the cat doesn't belong here either, the key to breaking the deadlock lies not inside the game but outside it?

She turned around and was about to say goodbye to Lin when her eyes suddenly widened.

"despair."

Thick red wine-like body fluids dripped from the sharp tip of the knife and spread on the soles of the feet.

Lin Moran looked down at the black knife that pierced his chest.

The black ninja warrior stood behind him and slowly pulled the knife out of his body.

"Pfft."

Lin fell to the ground, scarlet spreading from under his body.

"Hey! Lin!"

"Meow!"

Raven anxiously wanted to go forward, and Can also anxiously roared to remind her.

After finding the next target, the assassin raised his double swords and made a charging posture. Raven was very familiar with this posture. Normally, she could easily dodge it with the speed of the Shunnin assassin, but now her physique could not react so quickly.

"Snapped."

A bloody hand grabbed the Shunnin warrior's leg, causing it to pause and not chop off.

"It's time for you to go."

A hoarse voice came from the pale face of the man who raised his head.

He grabbed the Shunnin warrior's legs with both hands. After finding that he was stopped, the Shunnin warrior turned his head and saw that the human on the ground was still alive, so he raised his knife and pointed the tip of the knife at his head.

"...This is fake." Raven stared at him, still not understanding why this man did this.

That person gave the same reply.

"I know."

The tip of the knife fell, leaving only a lingering sound.

……

"Meow~"

After giving the bag of dried fish to the can and touching its head, the man in the helmet stood up, folded his arms and looked at the two people who were looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Why are you here?" His tone was colder than ever.

The sound was like an iceberg hitting the Titanic, instantly waking up the two guys who had not yet recovered from their previous experience.

Mei was still thinking about Kobayashi, while Raven was thinking about Lin during his student days. Now, the energetic Lin was standing in front of them. The contrast almost made them think they were dreaming.

"You...I...she..." Raven looked at Mei and Lin in surprise. She lowered her head and saw that all her equipment and clothes had been returned, but her mind was still groggy.

Mei was more sober than her: "What is that place? Why didn't you...? And last time..."

"This is the memory that Yu Duchen sealed away. After a slight adjustment, it becomes a place similar to a storage room." Lin said calmly.

"what?"

Then Lin said, "Don't go in again," and turned and left without any explanation.

……

After hearing what Mei said, Raven frowned and said, "Does that mean you encountered it too?"

"Yu Duchen? That's not right. Why would Lin seal his own memory? He shouldn't have hyperamnesia like Hua." Mei thought about what Lin had just said and found a big loophole.

"But changing our consciousness does seem to be Yu Duchen's ability."

"That's the only thing I can think of... And the Lin you mentioned as a student is a little different from the Lin I saw as a child..." Mei thought of Xiaolin and clenched her fists, "Did anything happen to him in between?"

Xiao Lin is even less emotional than Lin was when he was a student, and some of the characteristics of student Lin are also extremely suspicious.