Survivorship Bias - Chapter 136

    Shen Ti has been pretending to be a human who can empathize with them.

      He was just relying on his experience to make a fairly normal reaction.

    At this moment, in the face of Wu You, who has become a pollutant and still doesn’t know that Nanshan is dead, Shen Ti feels it.

    Wu You didn’t even feel the pain, because he didn’t know it yet, but Shen Ti felt it.

    “He…” Shen Ti clenched the spell in his hand, “He’s going to help Wu Gui.”

    This is the most difficult lie Shen Ti has told since he became a human.

    He saw Wu You supporting his body with his long tentacles, probably trying to get out of the car, Shen Ti took the initiative to help Nan Shan up and let him stay away from Wu You as much as possible.

    [But I feel like he’s there. ]

    Wu You’s voice came from Shen Ti’s mind.

    “He is indeed nearby.” Shen Ti’s tone was firm, although he still hadn’t figured it out, leaving Wu You, what should be done next.

    Wu You, who has been polluted, will suddenly cut off his contact with him, or will he go crazy and attack others, he has no way of judging.

    Shen Ti only knew that if An Wujiu was here, he would definitely not want to kill Wu You.

    “I want to tell you something first.” Shen Ti closed the door on Nanshan’s side and walked around the front of the car to the other side. They also retreated as they moved. They didn’t seem to plan to leave, nor did they dare to approach easily. A kind of animal instinct from the same kind made them stop here and observe Shen Ti’s every move.

    Shen Ti opened the door on Wu You’s side and tried to let him out. He honestly told Wu You, “You have been contaminated, so you can’t see.”

    [How could it be…]

    Wu You couldn’t accept this, he tried to recall what happened before the coma, but his mind was blank.

    [But I can still talk to you. ]

    “So you are different from them.” Shen Ti unfastened the seat belt that trapped him, “so you also remember this.”

    Wu You suddenly understood something. Having lost his vision, the sensitivity of his other senses has greatly increased, and the sound of Shen Ti, the breathing and gasping of the pollutants around him, everything is extremely clear.

    He tried to reach out and touch his face, but at this time he found that it was not human hands that reached out and touched his cheeks, but many smooth tentacles.

    Shen Ti looked at him and knew that he was obviously frightened by himself.

    “Don’t think about it, you’ll change back, it’s only temporary.”

    Shen Ti used another lie to temporarily appease Wu You.

    Not far away, he saw An Wu Jiu who was killed, his face was bloody, and the bamboo leaves in his hands were covered with the monster’s mucus.

    At the same time, he also saw An Wujiu’s stunned expression after finding Wu You.

    Shen Ti withdrew the gun, the last bullet was useless after all. There was a wind in the lonely wilderness, and the dust was blowing in his face. He saw that the pollutants left here in unison. When he looked around, he could no longer see the masked man. It seemed that he was under the cover of these chess pieces. left.

    “Wu You…”

    Shen Ti saw An Wujiu’s frown after discovering Nanshan, the sadness and remorse lingering in his eyes, as if everything in front of him was his fault, he caused it all.

    Zhong Yirou didn’t recognize Wu You at first, only saw a tall “monster” standing beside Shen Ti, those tentacles made her scalp numb, so she didn’t notice the monster’s head at all, etc. She calmed down, and after looking carefully, she realized that it was Wu You.

    She doesn’t understand. She didn’t understand what happened that night, and she couldn’t accept it.

    “Wu You’s Sanity has been reset to zero? Is that right?”

    Shen Ti nodded.

    “The Southern Cedar…”

    Shen Ti shook his head at her and motioned her not to say anything.

    An Wu Jiu lowered his eyes, his eyes were dry.

    He didn’t understand why things turned out like this, could it be that his decision was wrong this time.

    So what exactly is right?

    [Brother Wu? ]

    Suddenly hearing Wu You’s voice, An Wu Jiu raised his head in surprise, looked over in disbelief, and walked towards the contaminated Wu You in front of him.

    “Wu You? Can you hear my voice?”

    [Hearing. ]

    Wu You stretched out her long tentacles and touched An Wujiu’s shoulder.

    [Brother Wu Jiu, where did Nan Shan go? I can not find him. What about Miss Rou? And Miss Erci…]

    “Yirou is by our side.” An Wujiu saw Shen Ti’s eyes and understood what he meant, “Nanshan and Erci, they have split up.”

    [Why separate? What are they going to do? ]

    Wu You didn’t believe it at first, but suddenly, he thought of his current appearance and was afraid of being seen by Nan Shan.

    He is already a monster, Nanshan is a Taoist priest, isn’t his duty to get rid of monsters like him?

    [Then he… when will he turn with us? ]

    “Tomorrow,” An Wujiu held one of his tentacles, “Tomorrow at noon.”

    At this time, Zhong Yirou found that An Wujiu seemed to be talking to Wu You, who had become a pollutant, and she could only hear what An Wujiu said. Judging from the reaction, Wu You seemed to be able to communicate with him.

    This place has been discovered by masked people and cannot be regarded as a safe area. Although they don’t know why the masked people escaped, they still plan to get in the car and leave first, but they don’t know the destination for the time being. Away from the city, go to remote places.

    Shen Ti sat in the driver’s seat, looking through the rearview mirror while driving.

    An Wujiu’s arm was injured, blood was dripping down, and his face was not good. Zhong Yirou carried the gun on her back, buried her head and shook her hands and opened the medical box she brought from home.

    “I’ll give you an injection to relieve pain first.” Zhong Yirou picked up an ampoule and was about to break it when she heard An Wujiu say no.

    “Don’t waste it.” An Wujiu told her, “Just help me sew it up, I’m not afraid of pain.”

    Shen Ti’s hand on the steering wheel tightened.

    Zhong Yirou had to agree, put back the analgesic, disinfected and sutured him.

    “Sorry.”

    In the quiet compartment, An Wujiu spoke in a low voice.

    “Why are you apologizing?” Zhong Yirou checked the wound, Yang Erci’s face lingered in front of her, but she comforted An Wujiu, “It’s not your fault.”

    Shen Ti could vaguely feel something, An Wujiu may be different from them, starting from the vending machine, An Wujiu’s eyes showed a different kind of emotion, like a Pessimistic prophet.

    An Wujiu looked out the window, struggling for a while, but decided to tell them about his reincarnation.

    He sorted out his emotions and recounted everything he had experienced.

    After listening to this, Zhong Yirou frowned, “That is to say, you were killed by a monster that suddenly appeared because of the expiration of the time in the last round, but you did not die, but returned to before. But why? Only you have this ability?”

    An Wujiu shook his head, “I don’t know.”

    [Then… can this ability still be used? ]

    Wu You asked, what An Wujiu said ignited a glimmer of hope in his dead heart.

    He really didn’t want to be a monster.

    “I’m not sure.” An Wujiu told them truthfully, “But I still have a Time Back Card, which may be my last hole card.”

    He has already thought about it, even if he drains his life to the last point, he will use up this card, he can’t let Nan Shan and Yang Erci disappear like this.

      slammed into the human chest.

    “Let’s not talk about this card for now.” Shen Ti directly skipped what An Wujiu said, and cut off his risky thoughts, “I felt something was wrong before, you I feel that I also have some memories of the things you said, such as your arm being corroded, and Wu You, whose throat was cut, including that factory, I have an impression.”

    He wanted to know if other people felt the same way, so maybe they all had backtracking, but An Wugui had the clearest memory.

    But the result of the discussion was that neither Wu You nor Zhong Yirou had any memory of the “last time”, not at all.

    “This is strange.” Zhong Yirou thought about it and told them, “It’s not just about this, after Wu You was polluted, I couldn’t hear his voice at all, but it seems like you and Wu Jiu can still communicate with him. I guess Wu You can’t hear me either.”

    After verification, they found this to be the case.

    These phenomena undoubtedly point to the fact that An Wujiu and Shen Ti are special.

    This is not logically reasonable, An Wujiu knows exactly who Shen Ti is, and his abilities must be higher than his own.

    “There seems to be a farm in front.” Shen Ti said to everyone, “Would you like to stop there and take a rest.”

    The lights on the farm were off, it was dark, and it seemed very silent. Shen Ti parked the car on the side of the road, “I’ll go down and have a look first.”

    The door was closed, An Wujiu sat in the car, holding the handle of the knife.

    Shen Ti left for about ten minutes, and came back with a new one in his hand.

    “There’s no one inside, get out of the car and come to the house first.”

    They got out of the car together, Wu You managed to put herself in the co-pilot, and it is very inconvenient to get out now. He felt like a squid in a can, with no room to breathe.

    With the flashlight, Shen Ti walked at the front, An Wujiu was at the back, they entered the house and found a room that was convenient for escape.

    “Do you still have enough time?” Shen Ti said to Zhong Yirou.

    “I can make it through tonight.” Zhong Yirou gave him a look, and the inside of her wrist showed that there were 8 hours left, “It was the blameless who took me to kill a lot of pollutants with a gun, and that accumulated so much. a lot of time.”

    But also because the battle had to face those monsters, Zhong Yirou’s sanity was only half left, she had slight dizziness and hallucinations, but didn’t tell them.

    An Wu Jiu glanced at his wrist, there are twelve hours left.

    [I probably don’t need time. ]

    “Yeah.” Shen Ti also smiled, “You are like a bug now, although there is still human consciousness, but there is no time limit, and there is no need to worry about the reduction of Sanity.”

    “I still have 4 hours.” Shen Ti said.

    His time is clearly not enough.

    “What should we do then?” Zhong Yirou said to him, “Otherwise, we will only rest for two hours and then go back to the city.”

    “No need.” Shen Ti stood up, checked the bullets in the sniper rifle’s chamber, and put the sniper rifle on his back, “There’s not much oil in the car, we just came here. Passing a gas station, no matter what, I always go to the city to kill some pollutants on the way to make up for the time.”

    An Wujiu also stood up, grabbed Shen Ti’s wrist, “I’ll go.”

    Shen Ti turned around, raised his hand and touched his face, “You stay to protect them, I’ll be back soon.”

    His voice was very gentle, with a little warm smile, “You are waiting for me here, okay?”

    An Wujiu can only compromise, for everyone’s survival, he cannot be selfish.

    “Good.”

    He stood by the window, watching Shen Ti leave the farm alone, drove the broken truck away from here, and drove to the road where he came.

    Wu You’s body became much larger than before, and he could only rest against the wall. He was under a lot of load and was very tired, so he fell asleep just leaning on it.

    An Wujiu let Zhong Yirou sleep on the bed and leaned beside Wu You. He found a green light insecticidal lamp that farmers used to disperse pests in the room, so he turned off the flashlight and put the lamp in front of him as the only light source.

    He said he was going to sleep, but he didn’t intend to close his eyes at all.

    Everything happened too fast, not without life and death at the altar, but not once in reality, not once in a time that made him confused and out of control.

    Out of control means that there is a terrifying unknown behind it all.

    Those are things that he may not understand as a normal human being.

     Everything above is in order, as Nanshan said, it is destiny.

    His father, mother, all living beings, probably are like this.

    An Wujiu thought, maybe they are the turkey thinking in Russell’s mouth, because they saw the farmer who raised them come to feed at nine every morning, no matter the weather, no matter what happened, this incident will come, so the turkeys concluded a “rule” – every day at nine o’clock someone will feed them.

    They believe that this pattern will work and will continue in the future.

    But in the eyes of the farmer, it is only a temporary feeding. One day, these turkeys who think they know the law will be caught, their heads will be cut off, and they will become the dinner table. delicacies.

    That day was the day when the logical beliefs of the turkeys collapsed.

    What could be more terrifying than breaking all one knows?

    For example, fish should live in the sky, and seabirds are native creatures. 1 plus 1 does not equal 2. Humans feed on soil and live in the crust of the earth. The growth cycle is from old age to Infancy, to be killed by creatures from another world, to be made into special delicacies to celebrate festivals, and all the impossible and counterintuitive facts.

    What if these were the real world?

    In the beginning, what caused my father to collapse was probably not the true face of God, but the moment when the tower of science that I believed in completely collapsed.

    They have the courage and ability to explore the unknown, but they accidentally touched the world that should have been forbidden, and witnessed the absolute gap between humans and unknown gods in all directions, so they fell into madness.

    No, the turkey analogy is even overkill.

    They may just exist on a plane, and they are lines that cannot cross the dimension to look at the “God”.

    What rules are there?

    An Wujiu stared at the light in front of him, easily accepting that he was just a speck of dust in the vast unknown.

    He grew up in a small experimental prison, the product of scientific intervention, and even his breathing was measured. He is not a normal human being and does not believe in anything.

    So An Wujiu is not afraid of anything.

    Only Shen Ti.

    He is the only certain unknown in An Wu Jiu’s tiny life.

     is his God.

    Zhong Yirou woke up in the middle of the night, she seemed to have a nightmare. An Wu Jiu looked up in concern and saw that she sat up from the bed and covered her face.

    An Wujiu held the lamp and brought her a small glass of water found in the house.

    “Are you all right?”

    Zhong Yirou raised her head, her face full of tears.

    “Can you really go back in time?”

    An Wu Jiu was stung by her words for a moment.

    Zhong Yirou wiped her tears and said with a smile, “If there is another time, can you help me tell her that I… I actually like her very much.”

    She held the cup tightly, her fingertips turning white.

    “I haven’t had time to say…”

    Zhong Yirou closed her eyes, and all she saw was Yang Erci’s blood-stained face, a picture of her body becoming cold and stiff in his arms.

    Even if she spends all her life’s learning, she can’t get her heartbeat back.

    An Wujiu suddenly thought of Yang Erci standing on the rooftop, he knew the news of his father’s death, he had to rely on smoking to relieve it, but he still remembered that Zhong Yirou hated the smell of cigarettes.

    “How can I help with this kind of thing.” He sat beside the bed and said to Zhong Yirou softly, “If there is a next time, you have to say it yourself.”

    Zhong Yirou raised her eyes to look at him, “But… if there is a next time, I won’t remember.”

    ”

    I will remind you. An Wujiu gave her a smile, “I will supervise you, you have to confess to her yourself. “

    Speaking, he stretched out his hand and made a pull hook gesture.

    “An Wu Jiu, I’m not a little girl.” Zhong Yirou sniffed, pushed An Wu Jiu’s hand away, and laughed.

    An Wujiu also smiled, “The big sister, rest for a while.”

    “Sleep a bit too, don’t watch the night.” Zhong Yirou pointed to his arm, “If you don’t sleep, you won’t recover well.”

    An Wujiu nodded and returned to the position just now.

    Even if Zhong Yirou said this, Shen Ti would not come back, and An Wujiu would not be able to sleep.

    He stared at the green light in front of him for a long time, and his eyes became a little blurry, so he had to close his eyes temporarily.

    Something shook before his eyes.

    Suddenly, some hallucinations emerged from his mind and appeared in front of An Wujiu. He seemed to have changed back to a child, very small, lying in a white room with the long beep of the heart rate monitor stopping in his ears.

    A long beep.

    The cry was isolated from the wall, as if it was a mother.

    Soon, a clear voice appeared in An Wujiao’s ear.

    [No fault. ]

    An Wujiu wanted to open his eyes and wanted to break free, but he couldn’t.

    Those hallucinations freeze and become incoherent fragments, and even the sound in the hallucination is broken.

    He could only hear fragmented fragments.

    [Of course…we will…]

    The voice was interrupted, when it disappeared, An Wujiu was sure that it was Shen Ti’s voice.

    He opened his eyes, and there was a sound from the door in front of him.

    An Wujiu woke up instantly, raised the gun in his hand at the fastest speed, and lowered his head to aim.

    The one who pushed the door in the next second was Shen Ti covered in blood.