time for sysyphus

When Lin Si opened his eyes again, he still saw the familiar moss and wall dust.

The musty smell of decay and fresh air flowed into his nostrils, he took a deep breath, "Hoo—" he sat up from the ground like a dead body.

He looked around in amazement at everything around him—

Under the body is a nest made of various picked up rags and rotten cotton quilts, on the table there are only a few bites of vegetarian steamed stuffed buns, and in the corners are piled up waste bottles that are usually picked up and sold for money.The dilapidated light bulb was hung on the wall by a wire, the light was flickering, and there was a nostalgic Fenggang Star calendar with several pages missing on the wall...

This is, poverty, people, caves? !

He was stunned, and looked down at himself. There were no signs of abuse or beating on his body, but the clothes he was wearing were a bit worn out. It was a thin, loose white vest and a pair of cotton and linen wide-leg shorts, which was very cool. .

This scene is too familiar, like the scene when he went back in time for the first time.

"What's going on..." Lin Si was confused for a moment, and there was a moment of blankness in his mind, did he live it all over again?

He felt his vigorous heartbeat and surging pulse, which was clearly a symbol of a person living in this world.

However, death seemed to have happened just a few seconds ago. The pain of being pierced in the heart and Ji Zhongnian's roaring voice kept interlacing in his skull, bringing out bursts of terrible stinging pain, which was so confusing that he couldn't think.

Lin Si clutched his aching temples and suddenly remembered something. He put his hands on the ground, staggered to his feet, and rushed to the wall in a panic to check the calendar hanging on it.

——It is now XX47 years.It was XX50 years when he died.

This is the second time Rings has woken up from this point in time, exactly three years before he was killed.This shows that time has gone backwards again, no, to be precise...he is once again trapped in the time loop from ×047 to ×050.

If he hadn't been able to clearly feel the pain after pinching himself, Lin Si would have thought he was dreaming.

Everything that is happening now is so unbelievable, just like what he has seen in sci-fi movies, it cannot be explained by any common sense.

Staring at the calendar in astonishment for a moment, he opened the door of the house in a daze, looked up at the sky, and it was late at night like splashing ink.

In front of you is a slum, shrouded in a drowsy black veil, and the low bungalows are flickering with lights.

"Daner——! Damn kid! Come back to eat quickly, your dad bought some good food today!"

"Smelly bitch! You want to cheat me, ah bah, give me the money!"

"Hey, I heard that Ah Qiang from the neighbor's family was arrested for smuggling coal, and he can't get any money..."

People in the slums are noisy, familiar sounds are like boiling ingredients in a hot pot, there are noisy and cursing sounds of residents, there are also stray dogs barking and poultry crowing.

There are all kinds of tents, houses built of wood, bamboo, and mud and stones, and there is an atmosphere of decadence and despair everywhere.

All of this is like God rewinding the video tape back to the beginning point, and then watching it perform the established plot again, episode by episode, waiting for the same ending at the end.

After being slightly stunned, Lin Si crazily rushed towards the alley.

He wants to confirm his conjecture!

After running for more than ten minutes, he ran into a dilapidated bungalow area.

The street lights here are sparse, there are few people, all kinds of small roads and lanes are intertwined, and another 200 meters is the intersection connecting Dongcheng.

Lin Si found the dark alley in his memory, and he squatted at the corner of the alley, and even with the half shadow behind him, he began to wait patiently like a man waiting for a rabbit.

If there is no accident, according to the past timeline, wait a little longer, and that person will appear in front of him running with blood stains and scars all over his body, becoming the opening protagonist of this time reversal.

After waiting for less than 10 minutes, sure enough, there was a burst of intensive footsteps not far away, as well as the voices of men cursing, breaking the silence like a hoarding torrential rain.

Lin Si tensed his nerves and listened to the noise that was gradually approaching.

"Quick! Don't let him run away!"

"He was beaten like that by us, he must not go far!"

"I've got all the guys! You must not let him go, or you won't be able to explain it when you go back!"

Soon, an embarrassing, slender figure appeared in Lin Si's field of vision, running towards this side.

The man seemed to be escaping a dangerous chase, his gait was staggering, and he ran unsteadily, obviously with severe injuries on his body.

——It's Ji Zhongnian!

The idea was verified at this moment, and Lin Si's heart thumped heavily.

He's completely frozen in place, as this is the third time he's witnessed this scene, which means he's indeed stuck in a time loop again.

Lin Si's first reaction was undoubtedly panic. He had never felt so panic. He felt like a bird trapped in a cage, so humble that he couldn't compete with time and fate.

He doesn't know how to end this terrible cycle, and doesn't know if there is a possibility of escaping from the end of death. He may only be trapped in it forever, constantly experiencing the time from XX47 to XX50 years.

While Lin Si was still complaining, Ji Zhongnian had already run to the entrance of the alley, and as soon as he turned the corner, he bumped into Lin Si who was squatting in the dark.

The node of this first encounter was turned on again, and the two of them collided head-on before they could react, overlapped each other, and fell heavily to the ground.

"Ah!" Lin Si exclaimed in pain, and Ji Zhongnian immediately covered his mouth.

The smell of the palm was still familiar, with a faint smell of men's incense and sweat, which made Lin Si's eyes wet in an instant, and his whole body was shocked.

Ji Zhongnian pressed weakly on Lin Si, gasping for breath, lingering in the bloody smell.

Before he fell into a coma, desperately desperate, he weakly called out to the unknown person in front of him for help——

"help me."

Lin Si choked immediately, and said softly but firmly, "I will definitely save you."

Without any hesitation, he turned over and hugged Ji Zhongnian in his arms, hooked the man's waist and arms with both hands, and dragged him into the dark place of the alley, his movements were quite neat, with a feeling of practice makes perfect.

There was a tall trash can next to it, which was used by Lin Si as a good cover. They hid quietly in this huge shadow to avoid the search of those black-clothed thugs.

Those people quickly chased up to this point, each with a knife, stick and weapon in their hands, searching outside like a hunting beast. Lin Si hugged the unconscious Ji Zhongnian tightly, too scared to breathe.

"Damn it, I didn't even see a shadow!" a thug scolded Sang.

"Fuck, I clearly saw him running over, go over there and have a look!" another thug said.

"Hurry up! He's injured and can't run far!"

Hearing the sound of those people's footsteps fade away, Lin Si dared to breathe a sigh of relief.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, then lowered his head again, looking at Ji Zhongnian's comatose face, his mood was unprecedentedly complicated.

time loop...

If his time is a horizontal axis, then the day he met Ji Zhongnian is the beginning, and the day he was killed by Ji Xiao is the end. Can't get out.

Lin Si couldn't help thinking, when he was stuck in the time loop... what about Ji Zhongnian?

In the world after his death, what kind of pain did Ji Zhongnian experience?There is nothing more sad than farewell. I died twice. Will Ji Zhongnian have to experience the same pain twice?

The more he thought about it, the more sad he became, Lin Si gritted his teeth, not letting himself cry at this moment.

After a while, he calmed down a bit, wiped away the tears on his eyelids, stroked Ji Zhongnian's face gently with his hands, and wiped off the blood on his face.

I don't know why, although I know that my situation is a dead end, and I know that I have been put in a cage made by God, but as long as I can look at Ji Zhongnian like this, all the fear and panic in Lin Si can be reduced a lot.

Suddenly there was a kind of peace that grew naturally in his heart, he bowed his head, and kissed his relative Ji Zhongnian's thin red lips with great care and love, giving his lover a light kiss of reunion.

"Ji Zhongnian, you are the starting point of every cycle of my life, it is really... a blessing among misfortunes."