Chapter 63 Chapter Thirteen

I slowly approached the wall and tried to put my palm on it.That untouched touch was there again.No matter how hard I push, there is no touch, no matter how much I stroke and scratch, there is no touch.Mandatory plane pantomime. Why does the end of the world appear in such a place? This is the third time I have bumped into a "wall" that has no feel or touch. The first time was in the small bedroom of Room 1201 in the Princeton Hotel, which was the scene of Shao's abuse, but the "wall" at that time "It's not white.The scene on the other side can be seen through the wall.

The second collision was at the end of the universe, the "barrier" of the dividing line that folds time and space in half. The "barrier" at that time was the same as the current one, which was white. How did this "barrier" of whiteness and non-whiteness come about? The conclusion I drew at the Princeton Hotel is that the difference in time flow creates a "barrier". From this perspective, when the speed of time flow is different, the "barrier" will be transparent; Next, the "Barrier" will be white. That is to say, inside this distorted Pineapple House, on the other side of this "barrier", is there a space where time flows backwards?

I left the "barrier", turned around from the door of No. 9, and ran along the corridor past No. 10 and No. 11.With the mood of walking through the ups and downs of the pipeline, I rushed past the door of No. 1 room, then rushed through No. 5, No. 6, and No. 7 rooms, and ran to the front of No. 8 room. A white "barrier".It stands to reason that the other side should be connected to the roof of Room No. 9 on the first floor... In front of the door of Room No. 9 just now, the other end of the "barrier" must also be connected to the roof of Room No. 8 on the first floor, and that place should now be under my feet.

I climbed over the handrail of the corridor and went down to the first floor, but probably because this behavior violated the principle of smoothness, I seemed to be unable to walk on the back of the corridor, which is the roof of the first floor, but fell onto the ground that was originally the ground of the first floor. Facing the white "barrier" in front of him, he was helpless.Instead of running around the first floor, I will run from room 8 to room 7 along the corridor on the first floor, and then run through room 6... But after passing rooms 11 and 10 , I really saw that "barrier" again.This is really the end of the world.

When I turned Pineapple House into Naijinchuan Villa, there was no such white "barrier".I found the ladder hidden on the side wall of the Natsugawa Villa and the bow spear used as the murder weapon without any hindrance, and I saw the forest in the distance. But now here is the end of the world.I should have just twisted the corridor and reconnected room 8 and room 9. There should be nothing between this white "wall" and "wall".But the "Barrier" appeared here... This means that a time-countercurrent world is compressed into a plane with zero thickness, and it really exists on the opposite side of the "Barrier".

In that countercurrent world, will there be anyone? There should be, I thought. And that was the man who led me here. I've gotten this far on the tip of the "Hanged Man" tip.Now there is one last step left.There should be what I'm looking for on the other side of the world. Is that the children I hid? Did I really hide the children in the world of Upstream? I don't know what the truth is.But if my guess is correct, then the "future me" should be on the other side of this wall, even if not, there must be my "future partner" over there, or at least some people who know me people.

I yelled, "I'm Disco Wednesday! I'm right here!" Then I slammed the white "bulwark", but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't feel any impact. "Here I am! Let me in!" I yelled, knowing it was useless.On the other side is a countercurrent world.All the sounds and vibrations from my side can only stay on the surface of the "barrier" and cannot be transmitted to that side at all. But I've gotten here, and there's really only one last step left.Think fast!Come up with a way to fool yourself! Am I missing any element?Am I missing something in order to get to the elements on the other side of this "barrier" in front of me? !

I put my forehead against the end of the world, trying to sort out the information in my head, but all I felt was confusion, and I couldn't recall anything at all.There was no way to sort it out, no way to classify it, and I couldn't figure out what was what... I felt extremely distressed, and kept twisting my head against the "barrier" while turning my face to the right.The white "wall" extends from the No. 9 room on the first floor where I am standing now to the "center of the world". It seems to disappear at the junction of the ambiguously shaped floor and the skylight, and it seems to be sandwiched between the floor and the skylight. In the middle, all the way to the invisible place...

Walking along this "barrier" all the way, will I get to the exit to the other side? I tried to think like this, but I still knew very well that it was impossible.If this "barrier" has an end, it must be closed by the floor and the skylight, and there is no gap. If the "barrier" extends all the way, it must be extended to infinity. Sighing, I moved my eyes to my feet, and then turned my face to observe the left side of the "barrier". There was a curled wall with wallpaper and a door next to it. Behind the door is a room with windows.And, in addition to the window deep in the room with the view outside, there is another window.

In the wall of Room No. 9, there is a small square hole leading to Room No. 8. That is the trace left by the bay window on the side wall of the Nazugawa Villa. I reached for the doorknob and tried to turn it, but it didn't lock.I slowly opened the door. This room used to be the study of Saburo Mitamura. When the Fengliju incident happened, the floor was full of various books, but those books have probably been recycled or discarded now, and they have long since disappeared. There are very few books left on the bookshelf, the tabletop has been tidied up, and the chairs have been put under the table. Although it is full of dust, it is still very tidy on the whole. It is on the wall connecting with Room 8 The cave has been re-hidden with a new wallpaper.

Judging from the appearance of this study and the tidy appearance of Fengli Residence, no one else took over the place after the incident.But, who deliberately reposted the wallpaper here?Would anyone really throw the whole house away after such a fix? Or was the completely deserted appearance on the outside of the house just a deliberate disguise to avoid strangers approaching? The window of Room 9 is covered with weeds as high as my eyes, and a little farther away, the dark grass in the forest is quietly approaching. What will happen to the scene in front of me when I walk up to the ceiling?The idea crosses my mind, but that just needs to be confirmed when I actually see it. I stood in front of the wall that hides the bay window on the side wall of Natsugawa Villa, and was about to reach out, but stopped again. Even if this layer of wallpaper is torn off, what appears inside is just the same white wall as the outside.I had expected this.Of course, the discontinuity caused by the distorted space also exists in that window hole. Moreover, it is precisely because I have such an understanding and prediction that I should not easily tear off the wallpaper on this wall for confirmation.Because once I really see that white wall, I can no longer move forward half a step. This window was my last chance, and the sense of victory and defeat in my heart told me that.My sixth sense, honed by countless crises, was kicking and kicking above my lumbar spine. I must succeed in fooling myself.If I did see the white "wall" behind this wallpaper, I would lose the opportunity, but as long as I don't look, the possibility is always there.After all, I'm a detective, and I live on my suspicions. The clues to the truth, and the ways to deceive yourself, come from facts and experience.Just like I've been walking on the floor, but almost across the entire ceiling, the feeling of moving the body is much stronger than the theoretical predictions of the working mind. So I have to exercise my body.I want to jump to the other side of the wallpaper without tearing it, that's easy.I still clearly remember the hole in the wall of Fengli House hidden behind the wallpaper, and as long as I know the exact location, even a closed space can be easily entered. The inside of the wall was dark, and I slightly stretched my elbow. "Click", as if it touched something.The surface of that thing is rough and elastic, so it must not be the "wall" at the end of the world. It must be the wallpaper on the side of Room 8.There is no end of the world here. The wallpaper on one side of Room 8 has also been re-pasted.There is no sign of being torn off or vandalized, or a small hole shot through by a bow or spear.I sat in a dark square concrete window and recalled that when Diekong Temple played around at the end of the reasoning speech, tore through the wallpaper to find this hidden window, and found the body of Mitamura Saburo who was stolen from the hospital. "Ninety-Ninety-Nine" deduced that it was placed there by "Big Laugh" to hide the blood stains left when he moved the corpse, but that was a wrong reasoning.This fact was forgotten by everyone in the tense reasoning contest later, but what happened?If there hadn't been a dead body moving by using "Stairway to Heaven"... If it was really done by "Ninety Nine" = "Hilarious Curry" = "Sakai Yoshitoshi", what is the meaning behind it? ?Thinking of this, I changed my mind again, could it be that, like "The Hanged Man", it was actually some kind of message sent to me?Was that really meant to imply that I would come here again, sitting like that corpse between wallpaper and wallpaper?The naked, pierced by arrows, with metal devices implanted in the chest and back, covered in blood, but with a calm expression almost smiling, the dead Mitamura Saburo. Was his smile at that time intended to convey to me the correctness of my action? I don't know if that's true, but I'm now convinced that I've taken another step in the right direction, and the feeling runs down the back of my neck.His whole body was about to tremble, but the numbness of his shoulders suppressed this feeling. Then, sitting with my arms around my knees in this dark little space between wallpaper and wallpaper, I began to think about what my time flow would become.The reason why there is no "barrier" here is probably because the direction of time flow has not changed.Will the other side of this wallpaper only be turned upside down, with the bed and furniture placed on the ceiling in Room 8, instead of entering the space compressed into an extremely thin plane by that white "wall"? No, just now I firmly believed that there would still be white walls inside the wallpaper.But now I find that the "barrier" does not exist, because I have truly achieved self-doubt and self-deception. If there is any mistake, I may be blocked by that white "barrier" again, because things should be like this .I got out of that “wall” by doubting my own understanding of my own will. So next, should I land on the roof of Room 8 on the second floor? Standing on that roof, will I be able to make some new discoveries? Probably not, I think.As I just considered in the undistorted Pinnacle, one should not try to actually hang upside down from the ceiling, but rather think deeply about this behavior.I finally got to this point after practicing my own deep thinking. Now the latest discovery is the white "barrier" at the end of the world. What I should go to is not the No. 8 room on the opposite side, but the space that is sandwiched by that "barrier" and compressed into a plane. Now of course I can jump to the roof of Room 8 on the second floor, and I can clearly imagine the scenery I will see then, and I feel that I have roughly grasped it.Moreover, even if I can go to and from the dividing line between Room 8 and Room 9, this behavior is the same as walking on the twisted roof countless times.Therefore, if you simply jump to the roof of Room 8 on the second floor, you will not be able to discover anything new. On the contrary, there must be something on the other side of that world's end.That's something I don't know and can't imagine.And there should be many more. Then, of course, I should go there most. I let my body float in that dark space.Move your elbows away from the wallpaper, hug your knees, and arch your back to keep your body from touching anything. As soon as I finished this move, I couldn't tell where the front, back, left, and right were... Maybe I'm already floating in the air and turning over?I can't judge where I am facing, whether it is horizontal or vertical, or with my head down.Obviously, the head and buttocks have grown, but there is no sense of up and down. I tried to stretch my elbows out to the sides, but I couldn't feel the wallpaper just now.I suddenly became a little uneasy, let go of my right hand that was holding my knee, and stretched out, but I still couldn't touch the wallpaper. Darkness is expanding. By the way, I am a person who can reverse time and space, but also an ordinary human being who cannot control himself.It is very likely that I have expanded the space of this window hole unconsciously, and it is also possible that I have shrunk my body. Maybe I will really disappear into this darkness without a sound, disappearing from the world alone. I started to feel really panic, but I still suppressed my feeling. be calm.nothing will happen. I can freely travel through time and space.Whenever, wherever, I can go back.If I shrink in size, it's just a matter of going back to where someone is and adjusting. I retracted my outstretched right hand, resumed the posture of wrapping my hands around my knees, curled up in the darkness, took a slow breath, and then let it out. Like a baby, I thought suddenly.What do fetuses floating in the amniotic fluid think in the dark womb of their mothers?Will he quietly spend the time waiting for himself to grow slowly enough to set foot in the outside world? However, my body is no longer growing.In that sense, my time has stopped.So, has this dark "womb" in which I live also entered static time? No, I'm thinking right now, so time should still be flowing inside me.And in this darkness that only contains one person, there should be the same time flowing... But I am the one who imagined this, and I don't even know how big the darkness I am in. Could it be that I am very clear about the flow of time in the external world? Besides, my thinking is not really continuous. Could it be just an intermittent process with a momentary pause somewhere?Could this thought pause happen more than once, very frequently in my thought process?And, when that temporarily stopped thought begins to flow again, how can I tell that the direction of its time flow has not changed?How can I tell if I'm not thinking in upstream time? Could it be that the reason why human thinking and imagination come and go, advance and retreat like written descriptions, is actually because the time flow of thinking itself has actually gone forward and backward in a real sense, and is constantly repeating randomly? How can I prove that the thinking I am going through now is in the same time flow as the thinking I just had standing in Room 9? No, at the end of the day, does the flow of time in the human mind really have to match the flow of time outside? Those are two completely different spaces, aren't they? In the external world there are many others, and these others are still influencing each other?If there is another person thinking about the same problem at the same time as me, the time flow in our body may achieve a certain degree of unity.But now I am alone in this darkness, and this darkness is in the walls of buildings on top of a hill in the country where no one comes near.Although this expression is not very clear, is it really possible to synchronize the thoughts and thoughts in my mind floating in mid-air in such a place with a certain person and a certain time? It's so whimsical. But I am free. And I know it. If you don't know which direction the time of your body is flowing, and you don't know how fast that time is, you just need to decide a direction and speed yourself. In this way, even in the world where time flows backwards, I can freely enter and exit. Then I realized.This darkness is set up for this purpose. This is the same reason as the decompression device, it is a transitional space prepared for entering and exiting a space with a different time flow. That's right.This place does not belong to any of the worlds at the two ends of the white "barrier", this is a place where there is nowhere. My sense of time has begun to blur, and I can go to any world according to my choice. Of course, what I'm going to is the other end of the white "wall" where the pineapple is. In the dark, I let go of my knees with my hands, straightened my back and legs, and jumped. I passed through the "barrier" at the end of the world, but I still didn't feel anything.That "barrier" was obviously so hard before, but when it was finally able to pass through, I felt that it was no different from a concrete wall, wooden door or paper door.Just go through it with ease. However, my boring thoughts were immediately blown away by the shock waiting on the other side of the "wall". The opposite side of that darkness is not the roof of No. 8 Room on the second floor, or even the interior of Fengli House.I also can't imagine it being part of a particular venue at all. What appeared in front of my eyes was a huge clip art-like world.Looking far away, all kinds of spaces are filled with all kinds of messy things. I am now standing on a sunny savannah, but in the distance on the right stands a stone mountain abruptly, and on the left a piece of ground protrudes unnaturally. When I look closely, it turns out to be a beach and the sea. However, the blue sea cut obliquely towards the sky.The top of the sea presents a hemispherical shape, probably because it was blown by a strong wind at high altitude, and the dome of the sea is covered with white waves.Just as I was staring blankly at the sea like the Himalayas, a few clouds seemed to have just risen from the other end. They crossed the blue peaks of the sea and descended along the sloping sea surface. Only then did I discover that the sea surface It was still, and did not flow down. But when I moved my eyes to the front, in the high sky between the stone mountain and the sea, another thing that surprised me came out of the towering cumulonimbus cloud.The thing looked like a giant ball made of tropical rainforest.The thing floated in the air and appeared in front of me through the clouds.Immediately afterwards, I found that there were more than one "tropical rainball" as big as the moon, two, three, four... one after another came out of the clouds and floated towards me.The round shadow of the nearest tropical rainball on the grassland gradually approached me, and a shadow of the same size also fell on the hard ground of the nearby rocky mountain.At this time, I finally discovered that there is more than one sun.Two... no, three as far as I can see.I looked at my feet again, and there were seven shadows. "Well, excuse me." A creature with a Japanese accent greeted me. I was startled, and quickly looked up, and there were two cheetahs about two meters away from me. The cheetah with darker spots on the right said "Morning" to my stiff body, and then lowered its head.The cheetah on the left with a few tufts of hair on top of its head also said "Morning", and then made a gesture of lowering its head, but just raised its chin, but the two cheetahs probably wanted to nod to say hello. . "Good morning..." I responded to them reflexively, but my voice was hoarse.I quickly cleared my throat and said, "Good morning, both of you." "Are you human?" said Thick Spot.It seemed to feel that the two meatballs around its mouth were in the way, so it bared its teeth non-stop, but its pronunciation was still very accurate. "Ah, yes." "Huh? Where did your companion go?" "What, companion?" "Your dear brother." "Ok?" "Oh, are you alone?" How should I answer this question? "……Ok." "Liar! How come...then can I eat it?" "Ah, what to eat?" "You." "No……" The "Cockscomb Head" next to it suddenly said: "Hey, don't be like this, idiot." After finishing speaking, he smacked his lips impatiently. "Ahaha, I'm sorry, I lied to you. By the way, cheetahs don't hurt people." Thick spots laughed, but I still couldn't calm down.So the thick spots stared at me and continued, "Your skin is very fair, and your appearance is a little different... Even if you are human, you should be a different kind of person, right? Is it another kind?" "Ah, compared to Zhun?" "Ichiro and Jiro. They should be here soon... Ah, here they come." After listening to it, I also looked in the direction where the thick spots turned, and found that there were two human beings walking towards this side of the stone mountain. Ichiro and Jiro? "Hey, let's go." After Cockscomb finished, Thick Spots turned to look at me again. "By the way, what's your name?" "Ah, disco..." "Ah Disco?" "No, my name is Disco Wednesday." "Hmph, what a weird name." Why even the cheetah said that. "My name is Lightweight, and this guy is Middleweight." After introducing himself and his companions, he ran towards the sea, "Please take care of me, Disco. Goodbye!" After speaking, the two cheetahs sped up speed.They moved away from me at an astonishing speed. At the same time, the grassland under my feet started to move after the figures of the two cheetahs. I was startled and jumped up quickly.The golden ground quickly eroded the beach in the distance, and at that moment, I saw a concrete road.The road surface was white and dry, and it was smooth, but it made people feel extremely sharp. I am very familiar with this feeling.Even if I don't really feel that I have seen it somewhere, I know it very well.That's my old home, beautiful San Diego, an alleyway I've walked countless times.Although I don't know which street or avenue this alley belongs to, or which block or corner it belongs to, it is indeed my hometown.However, the alley that even exuded the smell of the sea tide was immediately covered by a piece of green lawn and disappeared in front of me. Walking over with this piece of green lawn are two Japanese teenagers. "Hello, Mr. Disco. Long time no see." "Yes. Ah, but this is also the first meeting." "yes?" "Ok." While talking, the two smiled and extended their right hands to me. I didn't know how to respond, so I shook hands with them one by one without saying a word, and then they each reported their names. "I'm Ichiro Mitamura." "I'm Jiro Mitamura." However, the two faces in front of me are completely different from Saburo Mitamura. On the contrary, they look a lot like Hilarious Curry, that is, the Sakai Yoshitoshi who appeared under the name "Ninety-Ninety-Nine".Although I haven't had time to say it, I know very well that another big mystery in my heart has been solved.