togophonebook #310 - The higher the love, the more they will kill each other. Wang Fanqie sacrificed his life to a
#310 - The higher the love, the more they will kill each other. Wang Fanqie sacrificed his life to a
At this moment, Hua Xiaowu was extremely anxious, not even caring that her words had exposed her identity.
Later, with the help of Wang Fanqie and Tao Xueran, the unconscious Hua Xuehong was successfully taken to the hospital by ambulance.
After the doctor examined him, he came out and said:
"Who is the family member?"
Wang Fanqie: "We are neighbors, and only this little granddaughter came along. We have already notified his son."
"Oh, the old man is fine. He just needs more rest recently, and his diet is too greasy. Pay attention to his blood sugar and lipids, and a light diet will be fine."
After the doctor left, Hua Xiaowu entered the ward.
She felt that it was all her fault for not understanding Hua Xuehong's health and indulging in eating, drinking, and having fun, which led to him being taken to the hospital.
After opening his eyes and seeing Xiaowu, Hua Xuehong said:
"Xiaowu, I'm sorry, Grandpa won't be able to make braised pork knuckle for you tonight."
At this moment, Hua Xiaowu couldn't bear to lie anymore and burst into tears:
"I'm sorry, Grandpa, I lied to you. I'm not your granddaughter..."
Hua Xuehong looked at the ceiling and sighed:
"I knew it a long time ago."
Xiaowu's eyes widened instantly.
Hua Xuehong:
"One weekend three years ago, Xiaowu kept pestering me to go to the park to see the Children's Day performance.
I was already a bit tired that day, but I couldn't resist her, so I took her out with me.
Who would have thought that when crossing the road, a speeding car suddenly appeared..."
Hua Xuehong closed his eyes at this point, unwilling to say more details,
"The child didn't survive.
Although this accident wasn't my direct responsibility, if I hadn't taken Xiaowu out to play, maybe everything would have been different.
I guess my son and daughter-in-law won't forgive me."
Grandpa Hua supported himself as he sat up and looked at Xiaowu:
"So, you don't know how shocked I was when you appeared before my eyes!
I couldn't believe that there were people in the world who looked exactly the same. You look so much like her!
I even felt that God had given me another chance!
So, even if you wanted to cheat some money from this old man, I wouldn't mind.
But you just accompanied me and didn't want anything from me. You are a good child..."
Xiaowu, with tears in her eyes, threw herself into Hua Xuehong's arms:
"Grandpa!"
She paused and continued sobbing: "But I didn't know about your illnesses and kept asking you to eat meat and sweets with me."
Hua Xuehong smiled:
"When I saw you again, this old man had already figured it out!
I'm already 70, with one foot in the grave. What's the use of avoiding this and avoiding that!
I might as well take advantage of the fact that I can still move and eat and drink everything I want!
Xiaowu, you don't know, Grandpa has been happier these three weeks with you than in the past three years!"
...
At this moment, a commotion arose in the hallway outside the hospital.
Hua Xuehong waved his hand: "Xiaowu, my son is here. They will be shocked when they see you. Go out and hide in a corner first."
After Xiaowu went out and hid in the shadows, a middle-aged couple anxiously pushed open the door to the ward.
Half an hour later, the two people walked out of the ward with gloomy expressions and headed towards the hospital gate.
Xiaowu thought for a moment and quietly followed them.
Walking in the silent corridor, the woman complained:
"I told you to care more about Dad, but you wouldn't listen. You only know how to work hard for your promotion, promotion! To what level will you be satisfied?!"
The man was also quite irritable: "You think I don't want to care? You know the old man's temper!"
Just as the couple was about to quarrel, suddenly, Xiaowu's voice came from behind:
"Dad, Mom..."
The couple heard this voice and were instantly struck by lightning, slowly turning around.
"Xiao, Xiaowu, is that really you!"
The two were greatly startled, their minds blank.
Xiaowu stood in the shadows of the corridor, silently nodding.
The woman was the first to react, and she burst into tears, rushing up to hug her: "My precious daughter!"
Xiaowu slowly retreated, dodging the other party, and then said faintly:
"I came to see you to tell you something: don't blame Grandpa anymore because of me.
Grandpa loves me very much...
He has been avoiding you all these years because he feels guilty towards you."
The couple fell into a long silence.
The woman wiped the corner of her eye and said to her husband: "I told you not to be angry with Dad, but you wouldn't listen."
The man was silent for a long time:
"I didn't know the old man thought so much. Xiaowu, Dad promises you that he will make peace with Grandpa."
He wanted to see his daughter again, but when he looked up, Xiaowu had completely disappeared.
...
After Grandpa Hua recovered, Xiaowu didn't return to the cleaning room.
Not long after, he was taken away by his son's family.
This day, Xiaowu hid behind the flowerbeds in the community, secretly listening to the neighbors talking about Grandpa Hua's recent situation:
"Grandpa Hua has reconciled with his son. The couple took him to live in a rented apartment near their home. It is said that the conditions are much better than in the nursing home, and they can visit him often."
"The old man can finally enjoy a good life."
"And I heard that his son and daughter-in-law are pregnant with a new baby!"
"Tsk tsk tsk, they already have Xiaowu, this is even more enviable."
"It's strange, why didn't they see Xiaowu when they came to pick up the old man that day?"
"Now that you mention it, it's true. And Grandpa Hua kept looking back when he got into the car. His son was also careful when he took Xiaowu's photo into the car."
Hearing this, Xiaowu silently retreated into the shadows.
...
At midnight, Xiaowu, who had started wandering the city again, walked to a bridge and enjoyed the night breeze.
Her eyes were dazed, and she muttered to herself:
"Lady Melissa, in the world of 300 years ago, I experienced a world completely different from the Peach Blossom Spring.
The humans in this world are not always happy, and many people are struggling with inner pain...
But... how should I put it, although they are not immersed in a single dopamine stimulation every day, the things I can experience are much richer than in the Peach Blossom Spring. If I have to say..."
Hua Xiaowu remembered when she was following Wang Fanqie and the others, she heard him talk about the story of Wu Zixu.
Wang Fanqie once said: "I don't agree with the dopamine school because it's not romantic."
She nodded:
"Maybe, in the real world, this painful and happy 'process' itself is also a kind of 'romance'."
As soon as Xiaowu finished speaking,
Suddenly!
A large amount of program code began to emerge from her pupils:
[Warning, Executor Code 89757, your current behavior and thinking logic have seriously deviated from Lady Melissa's orders. Please correct it in time.]
[Warning, please correct it!]
[Warning, it has been detected that the human 'Hua Xuehong' is the cause of the executor's mutation]
[This program is about to forcibly take over the executor and execute the program to eliminate Hua Xuehong]
Before the electronic voice finished speaking, Xiaowu resolutely punched her forehead, directly opening a small hole.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
Zzzzzz...
She grimaced and groped in the hole for a while, took out a chip, and then stepped on it twice on the ground.
The world was quiet again.
Gulu gulu gulu...
Her stomach rumbled again. Xiaowu wrapped her thin clothes around herself and walked towards the other side of the bridge.
"Damn it, I really want to eat hot pot."
She gradually disappeared into the night.
...
As the game time progressed, Wang Fanqie continued to live a life with Tao Xueran that became increasingly subtle.
He began to sound his inner monologue:
"How should I put it, although I still have the idea of developing the Garden of Eden, this idea is gradually weakening. I think my path may not be right."
"I know very well why these changes have happened to me. It's all brought about by Tao Xueran."
Seeing this monologue, the anchor also sighed in the live broadcast room:
"Brothers, during this time playing this game, I feel that I have also changed a lot in reality. How should I put it, my relationship with my friends and colleagues in reality has become more harmonious.
This game is so wonderful. I seem to be influenced by Tao Xueran and began to change my way of thinking and living habits, and began to pay attention to and cherish the life around me..."
The barrage was filled with comments: "Tsk tsk tsk, this is a man in love."
In the game, the seeds of love gradually sprouted in the hearts of the two, but both were very distressed.
Because Wang Fanqie is a mother-fetal single, he is good at sweet talk, but if he really wants to love, he doesn't have the courage to take this step.
Tao Xueran, this cyber wife, faces the same dilemma.
From childhood to adulthood, she basically grew up fighting and killing with mecha puppets. She has never had the life of a normal girl. It is really beyond the scope for her to take the initiative to confess to Wang Fanqie.
This day, Tao Xueran finally mustered up the courage and said: "You have always made this era's cuisine for me. This time, let me make something for you."
Soon, she clumsily made a candlelight dinner.
After sitting down and eating a few bites, Wang Fanqie boasted: "My wife is pretty good. Apart from the steak being burnt and the candle setting the tablecloth on fire, this dinner is not bad."
The barrage was amused:
"Hahaha, beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
"I bet the VR sensor of Teacher Fanqie is still transmitting the smell of burnt food."
"So, the most real thing is to like a person without a reason! As long as you see the right person, all the shortcomings are advantages."
Tao Xueran pursed her lips and silently looked at Wang Fanqie.
In fact, her recent life has also been quite struggling.
She found that she seemed to be under some kind of curse. The more she wanted to express her love for Wang Fanqie, the more she couldn't help but want to kill him!
"I must not like Mr. Wang Fanqie enough!"
The girl thought this way and decided to use tonight's candlelight dinner as the decisive game!
After both of them were slightly drunk, Tao Xueran took the initiative to stand up and slowly approached Wang Fanqie.
She leaned down and forcefully turned Wang Fanqie's head, and the two got closer and closer.
Wang Fanqie was instantly excited: "Brothers, the big one is coming!"
The LSP in the barrage was also quite excited:
"GKDGKD!"
The most ⊥ new ⊥ small ⊥ say ⊥ in ⊥ six ⊥ 9 ⊥⊥ book ⊥⊥ bar ⊥⊥ first ⊥ hair!
"The super administrator must be merciful."
Unexpectedly, just as Tao Xueran was about to kiss him,
Suddenly!
Her body began to act uncontrollably.
Clang!
The gleaming dining knife on the table was already in her hand at some point.
She panicked and said: "Mr. Wang Fanqie, run away!"
The next second, the blade almost brushed past Wang Fanqie's neck.
The VR sensor accurately made the skin on his neck feel the cold breath.
Wang Fanqie ran away from the table in a panic, and Tao Xueran uncontrollably threw a miniature grenade at the position where he was running.
Boom!
Fortunately, the grenade missed and blew a small hole in the wall next to him, and Wang Fanqie was buried in the rubble.
Tao Xueran said sadly: "Sure enough, I still can't break free from this curse."
The live broadcast room barrage was filled with comments:
"Here it comes, it's that BUG that the more you like it, the more you want to kill it. Many players have suffered from this BUG recently."
"Didn't the official say that this is not a BUG, but a game feature?"
"Damn, isn't this an unsolvable dead end? The wife you finally managed to capture is in danger of life if you get close?"
At this time, Tao Xueran in the game looked down at her wristband.
The wristband was emitting a faint dark green glow.
She said:
"I suspect that Melissa had already modified the wristband before I came to the 21st century,
In order to prevent me from killing you, she hacked into the wristband in advance and let the wristband affect my subconscious, completely reversing the 'killing intent' and 'love'.
As a result, I didn't expect that I don't want to kill you now, but instead, I have inadvertently approached the initial goal of the 'Savior Project'."
Wang Fanqie climbed out of the rubble and complained:
"So, Melissa predicted your prediction, but was predicted by your prediction of the prediction? No..."
As he spoke, he became confused himself.
"Hey! What nonsense am I talking about!"
The barrage was amused: "Hahaha, love will also make men stupid."
Tao Xueran was sad:
"Is it destined that we can no longer get close?"
Wang Fanqie's eyes were bright:
"It doesn't matter, Miss Tao, there must be a way."
He said in the live broadcast room:
"Brothers, this must be a test for the players from the Peach Blossom Spring. Think about it, what's the point of a love game if you can easily capture a girl? It's all about this exciting process!"
...
At night.
Tao Xueran tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.
She came to travel through time with the determination to die from the beginning,
So, she already knew that once the future changes, according to the butterfly effect, the world line changes, she will not be born in the 24th century, and her existence will be erased.
"In that case, maybe not being able to get close to Mr. Wang Fanqie is a good thing.
"He's destined to spend the rest of his life in a future timeline where I don't exist. Maintaining the status quo will lessen his pain, right?"
At this moment, Wang Fanqie, lying on the bed in the next room, made up his mind.
He was determined to win this girl over!
He started to think.
To change Melissa's 'future' of destroying the world while preserving the 'present' where Tao Xueran exists, he needed to fight against the laws of causality and space-time paradoxes.
Calm down, Wang Fanqie!
As an experienced gamer who had played countless science fiction games, he decided to play big!
...
On the weekend, Wang Fanqie took Tao Xueran to a place.
That place was called the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, located on the Huangpu River, a popular tourist attraction in Jianghai City.
Tao Xueran asked curiously:
"Why did you suddenly want to bring me here?"
Wang Fanqie said, "Because, I accidentally found a wallpaper in your bracelet, a photo of you and Ling Shuang."
You were wearing this JK uniform, standing in this tower in the future world.
I was indeed very surprised. I didn't expect this tower to still be standing in the 24th century."
Tao Xueran nodded:
"Although the tower still exists, it has become an ancient relic. People in the 24th century have transformed it into a museum to showcase the archaeological discoveries of the 21st century and recreate life in this era. That includes this JK uniform I'm wearing.
When I was a child, my parents took me to this museum once, and I fell in love with this dress at the time.
After the Cyber War broke out, as a rebel soldier, I revisited this place with Senior Ling Shuang.
At that time, it had been occupied by Melissa's subordinates, but Senior Ling Shuang heard that I had loved this exhibited dress since I was a child, so she delayed the mission time and sneaked in here with me to get the dress.
This photo was taken at the top of the tower after we got the clothes."
Wang Fanqie laughed:
"I can tell you really like this JK uniform. You were wearing it when we first met on the subway."
He turned his gaze to the window:
"So, I specially brought you to this tower.
Don't you think the position we're standing in now looks familiar?"
Tao Xueran looked carefully and realized that the two were now standing in the same spot as in the photo!
Wang Fanqie said leisurely:
"Wearing familiar clothes and revisiting a familiar place in another era, doesn't it give you a sense of time and space intertwining?"
"Indeed..." Tao Xueran's eyes widened.
"So, I specially brought you to this intersection of time and space to tell you that I'm going to bring you from the 24th century in a dignified manner!
Although I don't know if Ling Shuang, who took the photo with you at the time, has betrayed you, you are not alone here!
Miss Tao, say goodbye to the past you here,
Then, be my wife, be a 21st-century girl, and live in this era with me!"
Wang Fanqie pulled Tao Xueran into his arms, as if pulling the girl from the dark and gloomy 24th century into the colorful 21st century.
Tao Xueran suppressed the killing intent in her body and nodded emotionally:
"Yes, I promise you."
At this time, the live broadcast room was boiling:
"666666, the streamer is awesome!"
"Hahahaha! Yay!"
"ヽ(°▽°)ノ"
"Congratulations to Teacher Wang Fanqie for successfully confessing!"
"I've been watching all along, the streamer is really not easy, although it's just a cyber wife, but you must cherish her!"
Just then, the game popped up a prompt:
[Main Quest "Playing Pretend for Real" Completed]
[Tao Xueran's killing intent towards you has decreased to 0, her love has increased to 100, congratulations on successfully confessing]
[Next, please explore the game ending yourself]
...
At this moment, the countdown on Tao Xueran's bracelet changed again:
[Worldline Shift Rate 91.235%.]
Tao Xueran understood that Wang Fanqie, healed by love, would no longer have any reason to be a reclusive otaku and develop a metaverse that would destroy the world.
However, as the healer, she would disappear forever as the price.
Wasn't this a joke played by fate?
Seeing Tao Xueran's heavy mood, Wang Fanqie said firmly:
"Miss Tao, don't worry, I won't let you disappear!
I believe that since the time machine can be successfully invented and you can come here from the 24th century, then there must be a physical law that makes the grandfather paradox self-consistent.
It's like the observer effect in quantum physics. Time travel itself is an observation behavior that changes the superposition state of spacetime.
The result of this observation behavior is determined, which will cause the superposition state of the grandfather being both dead and alive, and the grandson both traveling and not traveling to collapse.
Miss Tao, do you know what this means?"
She tilted her head and shook her head.
Wang Fanqie became more and more excited as he spoke:
"That is to say, when I, Wang Fanqie—the destroyer of the world, have the possibility of 'both changing and not changing the future', parallel universes exist!
Although, with the collapse of the wave function, parallel universes only have brief gaps of existence.
But I can seize this time gap and take you into the time machine with me, so that we two variables that change the world can enter the gap between parallel universes and escape the laws of causality!"
Tao Xueran: "But how can you make the two possibilities exist at the same time?"
"Hehe, whether or not to develop things that destroy the world is all in my mind, so these days, I have deliberately confused my thinking, letting the two ideas fight in my mind, delaying the worldline change rate from becoming 100%!"
Only then did Tao Xueran realize that Wang Fanqie had dark circles under his eyes and a pale face.
She covered her small mouth: "No, Mr. Wang Fanqie, how can I bear to let your spirit endure such torment? Moreover, the time machine may already be broken. Re-entering the time machine itself is quite dangerous, with a nine-in-ten chance of death. I can't let you..."
"Don't say any more, Miss Tao Xueran!"
Wang Fanqie's eyes were firm:
"A future without you is meaningless!"