My girlfriend died in the past

Chapter 316: People Who Should Not Exist (Thanks to the Reader for the helmsman, the name is too long!)

"I'm not sure either. This is also the news I got from An Lan."

Shu Die smiled and asked him, "How do you feel about your life now?"

"It's fine." Zhuang Xiao said, "Originally I was just an ordinary office worker. Now I have a rich life and no worries. The only thing that bothers me is that you and An Lan take turns to cause trouble for me."

"This is our fault." Shu Die still smiled kindly, "But it doesn't matter, I'm about to die, let me be willful for once. And after I die, everything will return to normal. It's just that the Shu Die at that time will live with the memories of Shu Die in all timelines, but will not have my memories."

Zhuang Xiao was silent for a moment and simply skipped the topic. "So this is why you didn't let me inform them? In this way, you won't kill Xiaodie?"

"I killed her just to lure you here. Now that you're here, there's no need to do that again."

Shu Die said gently: "But there is actually another reason why I don't let you tell them about what happened here."

Zhuang Xiao asked, "What's the reason?"

Isn’t it just so that Shudie can live a normal life after things are over?
It would be troublesome if Dong Zeyu and the others knew about this, but she didn't want to get into any more trouble, nor did she want the "shadow world" to be disturbed.

Isn't this the only reason?
In other words, there were other reasons why she didn't want Dong Zeyu and the others to know about the "Shadow World".

Because of what?
Are you afraid that Gu Shiyue will not do something?
It can't be that he is afraid that they will look at Shu Die strangely in the future.

"This is something I only confirmed after seeing An Lan again."

Shu Die started talking about something inexplicable, "Do you know how the 'shadow world' was formed?"

"Because the time machine caused the timeline to be disrupted, the fragments left after the world was shattered formed the 'shadow world'." Zhuang Xiao said: "This was what Yueyue and I guessed at the beginning, but later we found that there was only you in the 'shadow world', and it seemed to only be part of Luoyang, so we felt it was hard to say."

"Gu Shiyue, she is indeed the smartest one." Shu Die showed a nostalgic smile on her face, "She is a coward. The world did not end after An Lan left. I always thought that her behavior was strange during that time, but my mind was on An Lan and you at that time, so I ignored her.

"But now that I think about it, she should have noticed something at the beginning, but she probably gave up in the end."

Zhuang Xiao frowned slightly, "What on earth are you trying to say? I hate the Riddler the most."

"I hate it too, but there has to be some preparation." Shu Die smiled gently, "I, an old man with not much time left, can still talk patiently. You are so young now, you can't be even more impatient than me."

Zhuang Xiao retorted, "Maybe it's because you're older that you become more patient? At least the Shu Die I know doesn't have a very good patience."

He did not forget that this incident was caused by the old woman in front of him.

Shu Die smiled, "Maybe if I change to a younger body to communicate with you, you will be more patient, right? Greedy Xiao brother?"

Zhuang Xiao fell silent.

Although he wanted to refute, he knew that what the other party said was true.

"Alas, if I didn't want to see you in person, I would have changed my body to see you." Shu Die pretended to be sad.

Why is the old woman acting like a virgin?
Zhuang Xiao couldn't hold back a bit, he said unhappily: "You want to hurt my heart, right? Are you trying to make me feel even worse?"

He raised his hand and pointed at the screens around him. "You could have watched these different experiences of Shudie by yourself with the VR headset, but you insisted on putting them on the screens, just to show me, right?"

But you know what, he really falls for it.

Shu Die smiled and didn't continue the topic, but pulled the conversation back, "When An Lan ran away, the time machine disappeared with her. Gu Shiyue and I thought history had been changed, but we soon discovered that this was not the case, because our past memories had not changed.

"So either An Lan failed, or she went to a different timeline."

Zhuang Xiao nodded. "That's true. Then what? When did the world start to go wrong?"

"There's nothing wrong with the world, there's something wrong with me."

Shu Die looked at Zhuang Xiao, "When people get older, they sleep more. One night, I fell asleep and had a dream. I dreamed that I returned to my youth. At the same time, many non-existent memories appeared in my mind.

"But in the dream, I was like watching a long-missed movie from a first-person perspective. I found myself returning to Luoyang from the capital, and after seeing you, I had a car accident."

Zhuang Xiao's heart moved, "Were you there at that time?"

He was referring to the day Shu Die died.

That is October 2024, 9!
"Yes, I was there every time and every timeline afterwards." Shu Die's kind face actually showed a hint of sarcasm, "The genius scientist An Lan is also quite interesting. She used to be just Gu Shiyue's assistant, but she is good at controlling people's hearts. I didn't expect that even I was fooled by her."

Zhuang Xiao frowned, "Why didn't you remind me at that time?"

"Because I couldn't do it, I felt like I was watching a first-person movie. I even thought it was just a dream at first, until... I discovered something that shouldn't exist."

"People can't imagine what they don't know, even association can't do it." Zhuang Xiao thought, "So what did you find that you haven't seen before?"

As he said, it is impossible for people to dream about things they don’t know about, even if they associate them in dreams.

So Shu Die confirmed that it was not just her dream because she saw something she had never seen or knew about?
Zhuang Xiao tried hard to recall, but still couldn't figure it out.

"Could it be Luo Wei, Liu Lang and the others?"

According to the timeline starting with "1", Shu Die would indeed not know those people.

"Close, but not them. They are just strangers to me." Shu Die smiled. "In fact, the thing that shouldn't exist also appeared in my new memory."

After a pause, she told the truth, "In my past life, Dong Zeyu was an only child."

Zhuang Xiao's pupils shrank suddenly, "What do you mean, you said there's something wrong with Wei Rui?"

"I don't know." Shu Die still smiled gently, "But in my past memories, there has never been a person named Dong Weirui. I guess An Lan also thought that there was something wrong with her, so she chose to kill her first."

"No, the first person she killed was Yueyue." Zhuang Xiao immediately retorted.

"But didn't you find the problem?" Shu Die looked at him and said calmly, "Gu Shiyue's death was an accident. She died when she mistakenly entered the timeline switch."

Zhuang Xiao was stunned, and countless fragments of memories from the past reappeared in his mind.

There was indeed something strange about Gu Shiyue's death.

When was Gu Shiyue's body first discovered?
It was in the timeline starting with "3" that the police found it in the basement secret room of the Logistics Department's office in the administrative building of Dongfang No. Middle School.

And that ancient Yue died from the timeline starting with "2".

Now think about it, if An Lan wanted to kill her from the beginning, why would she adopt her personally and train her so hard?
Even if he handed the timeline detector to her at noon, would he kill her in the afternoon? If it was just to pass the timeline detector to himself, then An Lan had a thousand ways to quietly get the timeline detector through "accidents" and "coincidences", so there was no need to specifically ask Gu Shiyue to pass it to him.

And I accidentally met Gu Shiyue when I went to the administrative building to explore!

I used to think that this was all planned by An Lan, and An Lan never explained this matter afterwards.

Is this really just an accident?
Looking back now, it seems to be true.

After all, it's hard to say when I'll get there, and Gu Shiyue has very little time to act. What kind of calculation would allow me to meet Gu Shiyue at that time?

I always thought that An Lan was too horrible for calculating people's hearts, but I never thought that it might just be an accident.

If we follow this line of thought, the first person An Lan planned to kill was actually Dong Weirui!

"why?"

"Because no matter what, An Lan has been friends with us for decades, and we used to be like-minded partners." The smile in Shu Die's eyes gradually faded, "And after killing the first person, she completely let go, and from then on she wanted to kill me, because she knew that if I grew up, she would have no chance again."

Zhuang Xiao looked like he wanted to laugh but didn't.

Shu Die was curious, "You don't believe it?"

"I believe it." Zhuang Xiao's face was full of sincerity. "I also believe what she said about never taking you seriously."

"She is still so naive." Shu Die smiled and continued the conversation, "When you were away, Dong Weirui once came to me privately. I felt that she was testing me, but I was not sure.

"Then I saw that An Lan's plan was successful."

Zhuang Xiao's mind moved, "Is this the reason why you didn't stop her in the 'shadow world'? So is she dead or not?"

"Probably not dead." Shu Die gave the answer, "She probably discovered something, maybe even more than me, but I don't know what it is."

After a pause, she continued, "I haven't had any dreams since then. Although the time machine disappeared with An Lan, Gu Shiyue was building a new time machine with my investment, and then she disappeared."

"Missing?" Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, I sent people to look for her, but they couldn't find her. And on that day, the anomaly appeared."

"What's abnormal?"

"This world is not normal anymore." Shu Die said, "One day when I woke up and washed up, I saw two of me in the mirror."

Zhuang Xiao immediately sat up straight.

Shu Die went on to say, "To be precise, it was like conjoined twins, or like overlapping layers. She appeared on me, like two of me superimposed on each other. I was washing, and she was also washing, but she couldn't see me, and she was very young.

“This situation doesn’t happen often, it only happens once every ten days or half a month, but everyone else turns a blind eye to it, even in front of me.

"At this time, I thought of the Dong Weirui who shouldn't exist in the new memory, so I sent someone to investigate Dong Zeyu's family situation, and then found something interesting."

Shu Die raised the corner of her mouth slightly, "Dong Zeyu's father died of old age."

"What?!" Zhuang Xiao was stunned, "This is impossible!"

In fact, he had thought about whether there was any problem with the death of Dong Zeyu and Dong Weirui's father, and whether An Lan might have done it.

But there were no such clues, and they were all too young at the time, and he had never had time to go back to that time.

In addition, the clues and diary left by An Lan did not mention this incident, so he thought that Uncle Dong had died of natural causes.

Is there a problem now?

"Did An Lan do it?"

"I don't know, but it doesn't seem like An Lan did it. But An Lan would target Dong Weirui, probably because she discovered something wrong, and she should have done that thing in the end."

Zhuang Xiao was puzzled. "What's the matter? Can you stop being a riddle teller?"

"I can't say, not because I don't want to, but because I can't." Shu Die explained with a smile, "When I first noticed the problem, an accident happened. I found that Luoyang seemed to have become an 'isolated island'. Others could still enter and exit normally, but I couldn't. Moreover, someone died in front of me, but he appeared normally the next day, as if nothing had happened.

"I tried to leave Luoyang, and just as I got on the plane and it took off, I arrived at the 'shadow world'."

"Wait a minute!" Zhuang Xiao interrupted her, "Didn't the 'Shadow World' start with you?"

"Not at the beginning. There was nothing here at the beginning. It was just a wasteland."

Shu Die thought for a moment, "No, not really. There are a lot of ruins here, and a lot of people, a lot of dead people, or rather, 'dead people' who can breathe.

"Like... a garbage dump."

"Garbage dump?" Zhuang Xiao imagined the scene.

Countless people like puppets are piled up like a mountain, looking at you with their eyes open. There are ruined buildings and vehicles all around, and other than that, there is silence and only darkness.

Just thinking about it makes people shudder.

"That's too hard to handle."

"I felt scared too, but after I came here, everything around me changed." Shu Die made a metaphor, "Just like the movie Inception, everything around me was rebuilt like building blocks, and then 'Luoyang' appeared, the Luoyang of 2077 that I was familiar with.

“Even the supplies and technology inside have appeared, including my stuff, the shuttles.

"Then I wondered if the other parts of me in my extra memories also existed. So I tried to find them.

“It was only after that that it developed to its current size.”

Zhuang Xiao raised his eyebrows. "So the actual purpose of sending people to other 'shadow worlds' is not to find supplies, but to investigate the truth?"

"Supplies are of course important too." Shu Die asked, "Do you want to see the garbage dump?"

Zhuang Xiao took a deep breath and said, "Come on, show me around."

He needs more clues!
(End of this chapter)