kill Qin Sheng

March 2030, 11 AD.

Ren Xingluo woke up from the dream.

He first saw half the face of a man wearing a medical mask, black hair, half a shoulder, and a gray ceiling. He recovered his hearing a little later than his eyesight. It took him a few seconds to hear the humming of the ventilator, and his heart sank. Didi's singing voice for the health of the electric monitor.

"Hospital." He muttered vaguely to himself, "Why am I in the hospital?"

"This is Central Hospital A," said the black-haired doctor, "Mr. Ren, you have been in a coma for a long time due to a car accident."

car accident?

Yes, he did have a car accident on his business trip.

But... haven't I passed away?

"Am I not dead? Where's Qin Sheng?"

"You are dying, Mr. Ren, you have been in the ICU for a long time." The doctor said, "Who is Qin Sheng?"

"I do not know."

Ren Xingluo suddenly realized that he had no idea who the real Qin Sheng was.White-haired and red-eyed Taoist priests, tears, men in military uniforms smoking cigarettes, heavy rain, bright smiles of men under the spotlight...all kinds of pasts flew by like a revolving lantern, and finally condensed into nothingness.

"...I seem to have had a very long dream."

"It's normal, you've been in a coma for half a month."

"Half a month, then my work...has my colleague been here?"

"No, your boyfriend came to take care of you almost every day. But it seems that he didn't come today." The doctor was full of regret. "It's the most romantic to wake up from a coma and see your lover. It's a pity."

"Boy friend?"

"Yes."

His first reaction was Qin Sheng, but he immediately denied it.

Ren Xingluo thought about it carefully, and it was probably one of his suitors.

However, in the hospital, this so-called boyfriend never appeared again. Only the nurses went to work hard every day to take care of Ren Xingluo, who was handicapped.Ren Xingluo asked her to talk about her employer's news.But the nurse said: "The boss said that I can't let you know."

Half a month later, Ren Xingluo went through the procedures for discharge from the hospital. When he returned home, he carefully inspected the house for any abnormalities—the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the desks, chairs, and messy desk files were all exactly as he remembered them.The only strange thing is that the cat has disappeared.

Ren Xingluo felt a little nervous in his heart, and realized that something was even more wrong.He went back to the bathroom to take a shower, but unexpectedly saw an abnormal self in the mirror.

It was only for a moment, but Ren Xingluo was sure that he was not dazzled - the person in the mirror turned out to be vertical pupil.

It's like some kind of beast.

He blinked, and the man in the mirror returned to normal.

Ren Xingluo stumbled out of the bathroom.

He suppressed the fear in his heart and pretended that what happened just now hadn't happened.While tidying up the documents on his desktop, he called the company to apologize for his car accident. His colleagues told him: "Take a good rest and don't rush to work. The boss said, 'Just treat it as a temporary suspension'."

"How do you guys know about my car accident?" Ren Xingluo asked, "I had a car accident out of town. Has the hospital contacted the company?"

"No, it was your boyfriend who called and said."

"Where did my boyfriend come from?"

"Ah...then who is he?" The colleague was very surprised, "I saved his number, why don't you call and ask."

The phone rang five times before it was connected.

Ren Xingluo asked, "Who are you?"

No one answered.

There was not even a sound of breathing on the other end of the phone, and there was complete silence. Ren Xingluo even thought that something was wrong with his cell phone. He hung up the phone and dialed again. This time the other party was connected quickly, but he Not a word was said.

"Is your mobile phone broken?" Ren Xingluo asked suspiciously, "I don't know who you are, but please send me an account number, and I will transfer the hospital money to you. Thank you. If you are free, please Would you like to have a meal?"

"The cat is here with me."

An electronically synthesized voice suddenly answered him.

The next second, the phone was hung up again.

Ren Xingluo froze in place, he suddenly thought of a word: Kidnapping.

He hurriedly called again, but the other party didn't answer.

Half an hour later, Ren Xingluo received a text message: Five days later at 9:[-] p.m., let's meet at the coffee shop downstairs from your apartment, and I'll return the cat to you.

Ren Xingluo replied: Don't mistreat Mimi, I can give you any money.

——Its name is Mimi?

Yes.

—I don't want your money.

what do you want?

The other party was silent.

Ren Xingluo anxiously held his mobile phone and waited for 5 minutes before the text message from the other party arrived.

--you.

? ? ? ?

— Let’s talk about the specific meeting.

Five days later at night, Ren Xingluo was sitting in the coffee shop shivering in a down jacket.He had just recovered from a serious illness, and his body was so weak that he seemed to be Kang Wang himself in his dream.In the afternoon, he had just had the thread removed in the hospital, and when he walked from the fifth floor to the first floor, he was so tired that his eyes were staring and he was sweating coldly.It was half an hour before nine o'clock, and Ren Xingluo couldn't help but glance at the time change on his phone every now and then—how did the time pass so slowly?he thinks.

He couldn't help but sent a text message to the other party: I've arrived.

The other party replied in seconds: Got it.

Ren Xingluo was holding the phone in a daze.He flipped through their text messages, and suddenly felt that "you." This text message looked familiar.It seems that in a dream, Qin Sheng from another world also sent such a text message.

A bizarre dream.Ren Xingluo thought to himself.

Ren Xingluo sat closest to the gate, and the wind chime at the gate with his back turned swayed and rang.Ren Xingluo heard the reputation, and suddenly saw a familiar figure.

The man was wearing a long black coat, tall, with handsome features but a haggard complexion.

Ren Xingluo's heart skipped a beat suddenly, he stood up abruptly, and shouted, "Qin Sheng?!"

Qin Sheng was carrying a cage.The tabby cat was lying on its stomach properly, squinting its eyes and yawning.He smiled distantly across a sofa: "It's me."

Ren Xingluo's heart almost jumped out.That long, long dream was not just a dream, there really was a Qin Sheng in the real world!His eyes darkened for a while, and he couldn't help but fell down on the sofa again.Qin Sheng put the cage at his feet, and sat opposite him.

"Do you still remember me?" Ren Xingluo suddenly became vigilant, "Are the stories that happened in those worlds true? Qin Sheng."

"real."

"what is the problem?"

"Maybe it's better if you don't know?" Qin Sheng stared at Ren Xingluo's face for a while before saying, "I wasn't on Earth a few days ago, so I didn't know you woke up."

"Earth……?"

"Yes." Qin Sheng nodded, "I am not from Earth. To be precise, neither are you. This is why you appear in my conscious world. For the truth of everything, you can refer to the first world, and System prompt."

"Earthlings? What? And a system?" Ren Xingluo almost cried out, "It's too outrageous."

"The things in my dreams are outrageous. But they are real, and so am I."

Qin Sheng spoke slowly. He also seemed to have suffered a serious illness, and became much thinner and haggard.Ren Xingluo felt pain in his heart, and quickly suppressed it, and asked sharply, "Who is the system?"

"He is also one of the 'Qin Sheng', the 'Qin Sheng' who wanders with you in various worlds due to the overlapping of parallel worlds."

"What?" Ren Xingluo was very surprised, "I didn't kill him. Isn't he within the scope of my mission?"

"This matter..." Qin Sheng lowered his head and smiled self-deprecatingly, "It was his own will, or my will. After the fourth world, he committed suicide."

"Why commit suicide?"

"He is the last Qin Sheng, as long as he dies, everything will be over."

"What does that have to do with his suicide?"

"I mean, he wanted you to be free, not imprisoned in the conscious world, so he died."

"Sounds romantic, but I don't understand what you're talking about."

"It's a long story..."

Star A has a complex race, interbreeding during years of war and intermarriage, so Qin Sheng has the blood of beasts, and even inherited a certain incurable disease.Qin Sheng's parents were devastated by this, and they needed someone with the same animal bloodline to establish a spiritual link to cure Qin Sheng's genetic disease.

"But that person doesn't exist."

"Then I..."

"Artificial humans are taboo. My parents searched for suitable genes on other planets without telling me, and spent a sum of money to create an artificial baby of animal blood. He is 16 years younger than me."

"This story is somewhat familiar." Ren Xingluo frowned, "Taoist Qin Sheng also had a similar experience." He suddenly thought that the system in the first world once told him: this world is the one most similar to the original world.Is that so?

Qin Sheng said: "Star A cares about human rights very much, and so do I. I don't want you to grow up with the burden of being born for someone, so I refused. You were sent to Earth alone and adopted by human adoptive parents. "

"So the spiritual link was established without my knowledge?" Ren Xingluo was a little annoyed, "You also caused my car accident?"

"...I'm sorry." Qin Sheng sighed, "I didn't know I would hurt you."

Ren Xingluo turned his eyes away, "Is your illness a split personality?"

"No, it's a bit complicated to say specifically. But you can also understand it this way. Because I am a hybrid monster, the monster imagined many selves, and some want to destroy others, such as the system Qin Sheng. The results of the doctor's examination Yes, the world backgrounds, identities, and ages of these Qin Sheng are different. The only thing they have in common is that in the world of consciousness they live in, there is a person named Ren Xingluo. The doctor and I both think that you should be a special person , may be able to completely solve my problem."

Through verification, Qin Sheng confirmed that this mysterious young man was the baby of the man-made man.It's just that when he went to look for the artificial man Ren Xingluo on the earth, he was already unconscious due to a car accident.

"Attempted murder." Qin Sheng concluded the coffin like this, "But you don't have to worry, this matter has been resolved before I came."

"No, why do you have me in your mind?"

"It's genetically determined."

What Qin Sheng didn't say is that he sometimes dreamed about some fragments of Ren Xingluo's life: Ren Xingluo lost his parents when he was 14 years old, was notified to be sent to C University in his third year of high school, graduated in his early 20s and went to the company to apply for a job... The last time he dreamed He, Ren Xingluo, slid down the transparent elevator in the office building and disappeared into the billowing red dust.

"Is it genetically determined that I will fall in love with you?" Ren Xingluo stared at him wearily, "I feel sad every world because I killed you, and I even killed myself a few times because of you. I don't want to owe you. It was a joke in the end."

"No." Qin Sheng denied, "Love cannot be set."

Thinking of how sad he was when he fell in love with Qin Sheng in the past, worrying about gains and losses, the pain of jumping off a building and committing suicide by swallowing medicine, Ren Xingluo said in his heart that he was originally a person made according to Qin Sheng's preferences, and went round and round. Still unable to get rid of fate, it became an item for his treatment of diseases.Isn't this kind of self ridiculous and pitiful?Annoyed, he grabbed the cat cage, turned and walked out of the coffee shop.

Qin Sheng chased after him and apologized, "I'm sorry."

Ren Xingluo stopped in his tracks, gritted his teeth, and was about to say something heartless and breaking, when Qin Sheng behind him suddenly hugged him.

Qin Sheng's voice trembled, and even his Chinese revealed a little foreign accent: "Why don't you believe me?"

Ren Xingluo's eyes turned red, but then a fear overwhelmed his urge to turn around and hug Qin Sheng.He gritted his teeth and said, "If it's what you said...you're not sure how many selves you have. So, isn't this really the fifth world? The system is dead, and there are no more instructions. Who are you? Are you Qin Sheng, or a part of Qin Sheng?"

He pushed Qin Sheng away and ran towards the stairs.

Passers-by glanced strangely at the handsome man standing at the door of the coffee shop.

"What is this man doing standing at the door?"

"He was kicked out by his girlfriend. Look at his pale face."

Qin Sheng turned on the phone amidst the whispers of the coffee shop waiter.

In fact, he is not sure if this is another conscious world, maybe the whole world is fake, maybe only the "I love you" thing is the only real thing.

He called Ren Xingluo.