In the mourning hall on a quiet night in late autumn, Damon Xing stood beside the transparent coffin, his five fingers firmly clasped on the edge of the coffin. His entire right hand was frozen blue by the cold air, but he was unaware of it.
He stared at the face in the coffin. It looked 50% like Damon, but with a touch of gentleness compared to his usually cold and hard self.
Appearance reflects the heart. Leo Xing is just like his appearance, a gentle person who is very tolerant in dealing with others.
He is Damon's younger brother, five years younger than Damon. He is only twenty-four this year, but he is already lying in this cold coffin. In the empty mourning hall, Damon is the only one keeping vigil.
Since their parents died unexpectedly nine years ago, Leo and Damon have depended on each other and are each other's only family.
And now, Leo has also left him.
When hearing the news of Leo's death, Damon, who was abroad, could not believe that his young and healthy brother had pa55ed away in this way.
He immediately handed the work to his subordinates, and after returning home, he requested an investigation into Leo's death as the only relative of the deceased. However, both the police and the hospital gave only one answer - sudden cardiac death.
Leo is currently preparing for his master's thesis at Peking University. He spends every day in the library and has never made enemies. The comprehensive autopsy report by the forensic doctor also ruled out drug factors, and the cause of death was indeed acute myocardial infarction.
"Many people who died suddenly were usually very healthy and had no abnormalities. Mr. Damon, I understand how you feel, but Leo's death was indeed caused by illness, and there was no human factor involved."
The police's answer echoed in Damon's mind. He stretched out his frozen hand and gently touched Leo's face. Under the skillful hands of the facial reconstructionist, Leo smiled as he did when he was alive, as if he was having a very beautiful dream.
Damon turned his face away and looked up at the stars outside the window, fearing that his tears would fall on his brother's body.
From now on, he is alone.
The stars never know the suffering of the world. No matter how sad humans are, they still shine brightly. Damon looked at it for a while and felt dazzled. He wrapped himself tightly in his expensive coat and sat on the chair prepared in the mourning hall.
The rustling sound of the fallen leaves in the autumn wind made Damon, who had not slept for three days, feel heavy and gradually fell asleep.
In the dream, I vaguely returned to the last time I met Leo. At that time, Damon was about to go abroad, and Leo called him with his mobile phone: "Brother..."
Damon, who was standing in front of the door, looked back at him.
Leo's phone screen was on, and he smiled as usual: "Have a nice trip."
"I hope your master's thesis will have been pa55ed when I come back." Damon maintained his majestic and powerful image in front of his brother as always. After giving him instructions on his studies, he hurried away.
After this departure, we will be separated from each other forever.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and Damon suddenly opened his eyes. The watch showed that it was 01:30.
He seldom dreams, and even if he did, he couldn't remember the content. But the dream just now seemed to be replayed, and every little movement of Leo in the dream was vivid in his mind.
In the dream, Leo's left hand was gently scratching his trouser line. Damon, who was in a hurry to go out, did not notice it, and the scene happened again in his dream.
Since childhood, Leo would make such little movements whenever he wanted to discuss something with him but didn't dare to speak.
At that time, Leo didn't want to say goodbye to me, but he had something to say, but I was in a hurry to leave and he was hesitant, so he didn't mention it. Damon thought secretly, carefully recalling every scene.
He was wearing a dark grey sweater and black casual pants. He was scratching his pants with his left hand and holding a cell phone in his right hand. The screen was lit and the picture was...
A black and white QR code!
Recalling this scene, Damon realized that Leo had clicked on the QR code image on his mobile phone to discuss something with him.
He immediately took out the briefcase casually thrown in the corner, took out the notebook where he usually recorded important work, and took out the usual signing pen from his pocket, and traced the QR code in his memory bit by bit.
Damon has a basic foundation in drawing. The pages of the notebook are small squares. As long as the corresponding squares are blackened according to the proportion, the QR code can be restored.
Damon has had an excellent memory since childhood and even took a shorthand cla55 in college. Even if he can't remember everything he sees, he's pretty close.
After carefully applying the last stroke, Damon closed his eyes and recalled for a moment, making sure that the QR code he had drawn was consistent with his memory. He then took out his mobile phone, clicked on the scan function, and scanned the QR code.
With a beep, a black and white page that had never been seen before appeared on the phone screen. There was a dialog box in the interface: Player Leo invites you to participate in a game that challenges fate. Do you accept? Yes
Leo was still playing mobile games during the critical period of preparing his master's thesis? It's unlikely, and he wouldn't discuss a game with me.
The so-called "game that challenges fate" must not be a simple game, and there is a deeper meaning in it. But there is no risk without risk, so Damon did not hesitate and clicked "Yes" directly.
The moment his finger touched the screen, Damon was surprised to find that his arm turned black and white, and was no longer three-dimensional with a sense of space, but became a flat pattern.
Immediately afterwards, Damon's whole body and even the entire space he was in turned into a flat picture. After a dizzying spin, he came out of the mourning hall and into a space with only black and white.
The entire space seems to have no boundaries, yet there seems to be only an activity area of less than ten square meters. The black and white squares are crowded together to form a space that is very uncomfortable to the eyes. They continue to extend into the unknown distance, and there is no end in sight.
However, the area where Damon could move was very small. He tried to walk to the end of black and white, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.
"Welcome to the two-dimensional world, the three-dimensional intelligent creature Damon." A black and white third-order Rubik's Cube flew out from somewhere and floated in the air. It had no mouth, but was able to make sounds to Damon. The voice, which sounded like his younger brother Leo, echoed in the space.
Damon looked at the black and white Rubik's Cube quietly, without panic, surprise or asking questions.
"You are very calm," the nine squares on the left side of the black and white Rubik's Cube rotated 90 degrees, "heart rate 68, blood pressure 75-116, you are really not scared or afraid, not pretending to be calm."
"Now that we are here, let's make the best of it." Damon spoke slowly.
"You can't be without curiosity, right?" The black and white Rubik's Cube turned rapidly. "There are many people who don't feel fear, but they also have other emotions, such as excitement, surprise, delusion... many, many other emotions, unlike you."
"Maybe I am so disheartened that I have no interest in anything. This space is indeed beyond my understanding of the real world, but so what?" Can Leo be brought back to life? Damon thought to himself.
"Oh? Really?" The black and white Rubik's Cube stopped spinning, and the pattern on one side that froze in front of Damon looked like a mouth smiling maliciously. "I still noticed that you were trying your best to suppress an emotion called 'sadness'. Is it because of this person?"
The black and white wall began to change, slowly turning into a face, which was Leo outlined with black lines.
Damon took a deep breath and kept his voice calm: "I was able to enter this world by scanning the QR code in his phone."
He did not ask whether Leo's death was related to this strange black and white space. Damon knew very well that during negotiations, one must not reveal one's weaknesses to avoid being caught by the other party and having his emotions manipulated.
He knows nothing about the world now and must remain calm as much as possible so that he can observe, collect and analyze with a normal mind.
The black and white Rubik's Cube circled around Damon several times, and the pattern on the front kept showing Damon's physical data, including heartbeat, blood pressure, breathing, and emotional fluctuations. Damon observed it expressionlessly, unmoved by its detection capabilities.
"What a foolproof person." After saying this, the Black and White Cube stopped spinning, and its voice changed from the refreshing male voice similar to that of a college student to the mature and deep ba55 of Damon.
"Player Damon, ID x8205, scan ID s7903 player Leo's personal information to enter the QR code world. Please choose a camp according to the regulations." As the black and white cube spoke, two options appeared on its front:
a. People favored by fate
b. People who fight against fate
Damon did not choose immediately. He was still confused about this. Instead, he asked: "Don't you have an explanation for the newcomers? Don't players have the right to know?"
"As a human being, do you have the right to choose your parents? As a human being, do you have the right to choose whether you are a boy or a girl? At the end of your life, do you have the right to control your death?" Black and White Cube said in Damon's voice, "You clicked on the option to participate in the game on your phone, just like a baby falling to the ground. Even if the road ahead is full of thorns, you must keep going, right?"
"That's right." Damon nodded, "I should have thought when I entered this space that this is beyond the scope of human cognition and is not bound by existing laws and morals."
He looked up at the two options for a while, unable to make out any clues from the content. From a literal sense, being favored by fate should be relatively easy.
Unfortunately, he has never been favored by fate since he was born.
Damon's mind flashed back to his brother's peaceful face in the coffin: "Choose B."
"Once you make a choice, you cannot regret it. Are you sure?" asked the Black and White Cube.
"Sure." Damon said without hesitation.
A line of words appeared on the black Rubik's Cube:
Player x8205 joins the Fate-Defying Camp
Fixed attribute of the camp: Luck value 1%
Personal initial skills: Eye of Impression, Pen of Redrawing (generated according to the player's initial attributes, not unlocked)
Personal initial points: 100
Initial World: Rewrite the Ending
The line of text quickly turned into a black and white QR code, which also appeared on Damon's mobile phone.
Only then did Damon realize that the silver-gray body of his mobile phone had turned half black and half white, with clear divisions like the Chu River and Han River.
"Friendly reminder, option a's luck value is 99%," said the black and white cube, "If you roll the dice to compare the size, the people in the "fate-obedient" camp will roll to 6 99 times out of 100, while the "fate-obedient" camp will only have one chance. Fate will always favor those who are in "k" camp. Will you regret it later?"
"There is no need to regret. Once you have made your choice, you must keep going forward with determination and not turn back until you hit a wall."
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