parentshiftbook Chapter 121 How do you know it won't work if you don't try?
Chapter 121 How do you know it won't work if you don't try?
Blood flowed like the smallest river in the world, sliding down his temples from the back of his head and spreading into his collar.
The stains gradually turned the white shirt red, gathering at the neck.
Like a blooming red plum blossom.
His eyes held a mixture of fervor and melancholy.
With a final sigh, he fell into a deep coma in the chair.
His body was contorted in a twisted position and he could no longer move.
Li Can: [...]
too suddenly.
That little monster was too ruthless to himself with that swift and decisive strike.
He never expected that the young version of the city lord would have such a chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur) and hot-blooded period.
However, his sudden attack on himself did have the benefit of waking up the other three.
Li Can was located in the upper left part of his body, which was the first area where the pain was transmitted. The second area was where his younger sister, Li Lan, was located.
Shen Yuan and Yang Mo were on his lower body, and their sensitivity to the damage to his brain was limited, so their reactions were not very sharp, but it was still effective.
[Ouch...it hurts...] That was Li Lan's reaction at that moment.
When Li Can saw her sister's text comment finally pop up, she was almost moved to tears.
How are you? Are you alright?
I think I fell asleep because I was too sleepy, and then I lost consciousness. What just happened?
"I suspect it's related to the increased intensity of the second act of memory. This is probably the biggest test yet. Thankfully, you've woken up," Li Can explained briefly.
[Did I miss a lot of the plot? How are the others doing? Why haven't I seen them speak?]
Shen Yuan and Yang Mo showed signs of waking up after a few seconds.
Compared to Li Lan's speed, it was a little slower, but fortunately it didn't have any impact.
Yang Mo: [What happened?]
Shen Yuan: [I just had a nightmare. I dreamt that we all died... Wait, aren't we in a mirror? How did I suddenly fall asleep?]
Li Can had no choice but to patiently describe the whole story again.
Upon hearing this, everyone gasped in shock.
"Oh my god, this is too insidious. If all four of us had fallen asleep, it would have been the final death notice, and when we opened our eyes again, we would have been waiting to die." Shen Yuan was still a little scared.
Yang Mo analyzed the current situation: "Not necessarily. Xing Dazhuang is our only hope. Even the fact that the mirror can now interact with us while recalling past events might all be part of this game."
[I agree with that. After the little monster knocked me unconscious, the camera kept recording. If it can record everything we say now, then perhaps there's more we can do.] Li Lan endured the pain, and because of this pain, she became even more lucid.
Li Can watched as everyone chatted away, suddenly reviving from their slumber and starting a discussion.
Finally, it's no longer a single-player game just for me.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The huge weight that had been hanging over us was finally lifted.
Fortunately, the plot hasn't progressed too far yet and is still under control, allowing information to be transmitted quickly and exchanged effectively.
It has little impact on the final question and answer.
[We currently communicate via text comments, which is normal since we can see each other. But from an outsider's perspective, it might be sound? What Xiaoqi said might not be credible.] Yang Mo summarized based on the previous events.
Shen Yuan was still a little confused. [You mean she was lying to the little monster? But what's the point? Didn't she even give him her brother's exorcist's business card?]
Hey, Brother Xing, do you remember you used to have exorcism skills?
The topic suddenly shifted back to Li Can.
He had no idea what exorcism was, and besides, he wasn't the original owner of the body. The perfect person had already been censored countless times by the version.
[I don't remember. Yang Mo was simply implying that her words were questionable.]
Yang Mo picked up the conversation, "Yes, I just suddenly thought of something. She mentioned voice type, so it's unlikely that a random guess would match."
[Leaving that aside for now, if our text comments are actually captured as audio, will the cameras over there also capture them?]
[Let's assume everything goes smoothly for now, and the monsters will be able to contact us in this way later.]
In this situation, what should we say to him about his past... tell him that he...?
Yang Mo seemed to still be reeling from the scene of the city lord's suicide before his eyes. Thinking back to that moment, the text comments began to waver.
From his recent writings, everyone can sense the unease in his personal will.
Since he fulfilled his lifelong obsession, his mental state has begun to decline.
In the past, there was an old city lord ahead who served as a ruler, a kind of desire, a kind of perseverance, whipping people and driving them forward.
Now that Yang Mo has nothing left, he desperately needs a new will to be born to drive his actions for the rest of his life.
Li Can slowly continued, "My suggestion is... since the monsters only give us one chance to try, why not go all out? We're already here."
I couldn't make a decision while you were all unconscious, but now that you're all awake, how about we try my plan?
Li Lan knew what kind of temperament her brother had. Since the apocalypse, and especially during their time in the instance, he had become increasingly unrestrained.
Now, whenever I hear that he has a new idea, my heart skips a beat.
She only hoped that he could safely and smoothly exit the current instance, obtain the quantity of the orb, and survive.
Instead of creating unnecessary complications and getting carried away in the game within the instance, we should avoid doing so.
However, in the end she didn't say anything against it; she respected his decision.
If possible, she hoped he could do what he truly wanted to do.
"What plan?" Li Lan asked.
Shen Yuan suddenly jumped in, saying, "Wait a minute, friends, can a plan that's been spoken still be called a plan? No decent person keeps a diary; we're being filmed by his camera right now."
Now he knows everything...
Li Can replied seriously, "Yes, I didn't intend to hide anything from him. We're going to gamble openly; we'll bet on whether the person in this mirror world is real or not."
Yang Mo: [How so?]
[Two possibilities: First, the monsters and other people in the mirror world are merely puppets of memory images; whatever we do will not affect the future, only the present moment.]
After we exited the mirror, everything outside was the same as before; it had just taken a little longer.
[Secondly, we are now able to connect with people from the past. So, by using the information we have and cooperating with them, can't we change the future?]
As Li Can was speaking, her heart suddenly skipped a beat.
A strange feeling of palpitation welled up inside me.
The things he's saying now sound like things I've said before, or might say in the future, and even this scene feels so familiar...
It's so similar to my own experience on Earth...
Connect with people from the past, change the future.
Can it really be changed?
"It's all about human effort, friends. How will you know it won't work if you don't try?" Li Can said firmly, suppressing her excitement.