From doomsday survival to fast-forward daily life

The sound of car horns could be heard. It should be the noise coming from outside my old neighborhood. At night, there were always some cars that parked on the roadside to save money and drove away early in the morning.

Tian Yu took a deep breath. This winter in Linhai was still not very cold as usual. Her hand was still on the door handle. Looking back, the house still looked like Tian Lei's safe house.

She walked out without hesitation.

This is Linhai City. Linhai has not experienced the test of the severe cold. Everything here seems to be almost unchanged from that year. Even this building that once experienced a gunfight is no different from before the disaster.

Tian Yu walked up the steps she hadn't returned to for a long time, passing by the old concrete floors and the stairs covered with marks. Finally, she stood downstairs of her home. The car was still parked there and had not been blown up by her own hands.

She walked out of the old iron gate. There were more fallen leaves on the street this season. The yellow ones were piled on both sides of the road. A path was cleared in the middle. Tian Yu walked on it, as if she was passing through the spring, summer, autumn and winter of her own world. Finally, she stood at the door of a convenience store. When she was in junior high school, she would take away a bottle of fresh milk from here every day.

This time when she came back, she seemed to have nothing. Everything looked so familiar, yet had nothing to do with her.

She walked into the store, and when the clerk saw Tian Yu, he suddenly greeted her eagerly: "Are you still awake? I haven't seen you for a long time."

"Yeah, I can't sleep." Tian Yu nodded.

"Still the same old three things today?"

"No," Tian Yu shook his head, "I can't eat today. What time is it now? I need to sleep because there is a power outage at home."

"Let me see," the clerk looked at the computer at the cash register, "It's 12:15, it's already the 20th."

"Thank you." Tian Yu nodded to the clerk and then walked out of the convenience store.

Late at night, Tian Yu knocked on the neighbor's door: "Uncle Wang, there is a power outage at my house. Is there a circuit breaker in the community?"

Uncle Wang, the neighbor, always goes to bed late: "No, I haven't seen you for a long time. Are you traveling? I'll check the electricity meter for you!"

Tian Yu shook his head: "No, thank you Uncle Wang, I'll stay in the hotel for one night."

Tian Yu walked out of the community with an expressionless face. When the disaster struck, she had already moved to a new home. Judging from the reactions of her acquaintances, they must have not seen her for a long time. This means that although no copy has descended on this world, she has indeed disappeared.

Her figure gradually disappeared around the corner of the street.

Tian Yu was watching the video footage recorded by the surveillance camera at the entrance of the community after he left.

The time she left was the day she received the number, and from that day on, she never appeared in the surveillance again.

Tian Yu looked down at the diary in his hand. This thing was the existence that connected the world.

Tian Yu was not idle that night. She started walking towards the police station where Lao Lu worked.

When the sky brightened, Tian Yu was sitting on the street in a daze.

Without Lao Lu in this world, it’s as if he had evaporated from the face of the earth.

Assuming that every date recorded in this diary is a node, then based on these, the world line will develop and change according to the content at that node. Then, will the non-existent Lao Lu disappear because he became a player?

After returning to his own world, why did Lao Lu discover that the timeline had stagnated?

Tian Yu picked up his pen and continued to write a new chapter in his diary.

......

Lao Lu's wife went out to work, and he got up as usual and cleaned the house, then prepared to go out to see a psychologist. He walked out of the unit door. Everything was normal today, and no suspicious incidents occurred.

Then, he saw the back of a woman sitting beside the flower bed, and a strange feeling rose in his heart, as if he should be very familiar with the person in front of him.

Endless anticipation and surprise began to surge in his heart. He walked quickly to the woman. At this moment, his hands were shaking.

Tian Yu was sitting beside the flower bed and saw a pair of old sneakers standing in front of him.

She stopped thinking and looked up at the person who came.

"I'm hungry, please treat me to some noodles." Tian Yu stood up.

Old Lu was a little at a loss. Tian Yu appeared here so suddenly. He rubbed his hands on both sides of his pants to wipe off the sweat stains caused by excitement.

"Let's go," he followed Tian Yu's steps, "eat noodles, eat noodles."

A silly smile appeared on Lao Lu's face. The moment he saw Tian Yu, his first thought was - there is salvation.

Tian Yu was concentrating on eating the noodles in front of her. Lao Lu was looking at her intently, but she ignored him.

After eating a bowl of noodles, she stood up and burped: "Let's go."

The two walked out one after the other.

"Is there any difference?" Tian Yu asked.

"No, everything remains the same." Old Lu shook his head.

Tian Yu seemed to be thinking about something, and finally the two of them sat down in a secluded corner of the park. Energy spread out around them to form a shield to ensure that no one would disturb them.

"I went there first on November 20th, but I didn't find you." Tian Yu said straight to the point.

"You seem to have completely disappeared from the world. There is no trace of you."

Old Lu's expression froze. He didn't expect that Tian Yu's first sentence would be a bolt from the blue.

"Then I calculated the date again and again." Tian Yu thought of every time she went home that she wrote in her diary. She was afraid that the diary would be finished, so she wrote every word in very small size.

"Only today did I see you." Tian Yu looked at Lao Lu. She knew that the other party needed to digest it.

Lao Lu's voice trembled a little: "What's going on?"

"E1999 is a foundation that has spawned millions of possible worlds. We all come from E1999, but in the game, I know that you are the only one who comes from the same world as me."

"This foundation cannot be reversed. No matter how powerful you are, even gods cannot detect the existence of this world."

"I don't know what's going on." Tian Yu himself had many doubts in his mind.

"But I can be sure that what you brought back is not the real E1999."

"You know very well that there is no such thing as stagnation in any world." This sentence seemed to shatter Lao Lu's last attempt to hide his guilt, causing his shoulders to collapse at the speed of light.

He understood very well that in the real world, how could time stand still?

"Then where is this place?" Old Lu smiled bitterly.

"I don't know," Tian Yu still shook his head, "but we can go back."

Old Lu raised his head and looked at Tian Yu, a glimmer of hope blooming in his eyes again: "What do you mean?"

Tian Yu took out the diary and turned to the first page: "Go back, back to the beginning."