Void Jigsaw Puzzle

In the eyes of some people, a city is the entire space-time dimension of their lives, all their activity radius, all their memories, are all in it, while in the eyes of others, it is just a sand table placed in the corner of the room.

Next to the sand table, two people were standing side by side. Their eyes were fixed parallel to each other on the sand table without any intersection, but the air was filled with a sense of close combat.

"It seems they've discovered us."

The person who spoke was an old man with white hair and a youthful face.

He was dressed in a white robe with black stripes on the collar and cuffs. He had a slender figure, his feet off the ground, floating above the ground, and he looked calm, as if he weighed nothing at all.

Standing next to him, no, floating like the old man, was a burly adult man. His exact age could not be seen, but like the old man, he also had a head full of silver hair. However, his face was very plump, his expression was firm, and there was a ruthlessness in his eyes.

He continued the old man's words and said, "So, Patriarch, I think we should take some preventive measures."

The old man shook his head. "That's unnecessary. They pose no threat to us. Even their lives were given by us. If we wanted to destroy them, we shouldn't have given them the opportunity in the first place."

"But......"

The man wanted to speak, but the old man stopped him with a wave of his hand.

He turned around and floated away from the man.

The man did not turn around immediately, but continued to turn his back to the old man.

He stared at a spot on the sand table, his eyes becoming even darker.

The old man also frowned slightly.

......

Guo Ling drove his car steadily, his face slightly gloomy. The light from the street lamp shone on his face for a while, and was sometimes blocked by the A-pillar on the driver's side of the windshield, dancing on his face in a flickering manner.

The young man sitting in the passenger seat was Zhong Chenmu, and he also fell silent at this moment.

A woman in a red dress was leaning against the back seat.

She had combed her hair and tucked it behind her ears, so it hung smoothly and obediently past her shoulders.

She also looked out the window silently. The scenery quickly receded, but it did not stir any ripples in her eyes.

Not long ago, when she was about to commit suicide on the ancient tree on the hillside of Ma'anshan, the whole tree was suddenly cut in half. She fell heavily on the soft ground, and then two men appeared out of nowhere and rescued her.

She was very nervous at first, fearing that she would meet bad people, but after seeing the faces of the two men, she gave up the idea - she was not a little girl who had just entered society, and she had seen countless people, and the expressions that those men with bad intentions saw on her face did not appear on the faces of the two men.

Of course, their later behavior further proved that she was lucky. Not only did she get tissues in time to treat her wound, but she also got a ride home.

After getting in the car, she finally opened up and told the two of them her story.

After hearing the story, everyone fell into a brief silence.

"Fan Ting, I'm deeply sorry for what happened to you, but I assure you that not all men are like that." Guo Ling broke the silence in the car.

Fan Ting glanced in the rearview mirror and happened to meet Guo Ling's gaze inside. She smiled bitterly and said, "I know."

Zhong Chenmu wanted to interrupt: "I don't know..."

He only had a vague understanding of the matters between men and women that Fan Ting had just mentioned, and had no personal experience.

He didn't quite understand why this beautiful older sister could actually hang herself for a man.

However, he resisted the urge to speak. At this point, he should just shut up and listen and learn.

However, what Fan Ting didn't tell them was that she had already met two scumbags before this one. She was 29 years old and had been in four relationships. Only her first love, the man she met when she was 20, was a truly good man. It was a pity that she was too young and left him for the first scumbag.

When she was hurt by the scumbag for the third time, she finally understood the good of her first love, but the latter had already disappeared in the crowd.

Unable to see him and unable to get him, she missed him more and more. So, even in her heart, which was corroded by hurt, there was still a corner that had not collapsed. In despair, she returned to Ma'anshan and returned to the foot of the century-old tree.

It was under that tree that she and her first love fell in love, and it was also there that she completed her first transformation into a woman.

So, she wants to come back here and end her life.

She never considered her parents' feelings at all, because they never considered hers. They divorced very early and each went to find their own new happiness, forcing her to enter society very early and do whatever could make money.

She didn't tell the two men in front of her all of this.

She didn't think it was necessary.

Zhong Chenmu was easy to deal with, as this young man was obviously inexperienced. However, could Guo Ling, who was currently concentrating on driving, be convinced with his story that only contained part of the truth?

She wasn't sure.

After all, after just a brief contact, she felt that Guo Ling was a mature and decent man, with rich experience but still youthful, which was quite rare among middle-aged men.

Sure enough, Guo Ling's next words verified her judgment.

"To be honest, I haven't figured out why you committed suicide because your boyfriend abandoned you. Maybe there's more to it than meets the eye. I don't really care. But after tonight, I believe you'll cherish yourself even more."

Guo Ling still looked straight ahead without turning his head.

Fan Ting said "hmm" without comment, then lowered her head.

She couldn't help feeling a little guilty. After all, the two of them were her saviors, yet she chose to hide a lot.

Zhong Chenmu carefully pondered the conversation between the two, but was confused and had to give up.

The gossipy mind gave way to thinking about something more important.

He took a deep breath and carefully replayed the scene in his mind.

When he saw Fan Ting hanging on the tree, his eagerness to save her must have triggered the digital mechanism in his mind, instantly consuming the "1011" he had "accumulated" and forming an invisible force that cut the ancient tree in half and saved her.

There was no doubt that it was the same when he rescued Guo Ling by the river. It was just that it was the first time he triggered this mechanism and he was not prepared in advance, so he was knocked unconscious by the instantaneous impact.

However, this was not the most important thing, nor was it what he wanted to focus on at the moment. He was currently searching for the crack in his memory.

When the ancient tree was cut down, he still opened his eyes and looked in that direction. Apart from the fallen half of the ancient tree and Fan Ting floating in the air, he clearly saw a crack in the farther sky.

Although it was fleeting, like an eye that opened a crack and then closed again.

"When Professor Pierce first saw the crack, it happened to be when I saved Guo Ling. And this time, the crack appeared again. Could it be that it is directly related to me?"

Zhong Chenmu rubbed his head vigorously. No matter what happened tonight, it was beyond his understanding.