Chapter 407 Chen Ling’s Confusion
"Ayan..." Chen Ling hurriedly said, "Are you real? Are you really alive?!" Chen Yan fell silent on the other side of the reflection. After a moment, he replied: "As long as my brother thinks I'm alive, then I'm alive." "Where are you?" "I'm with my brother." As soon as the voice fell, the mirror fragments surging on the river surface began to sink to the bottom of the river, and the dense ripples began to disturb the water surface between the two like puddles in the rain. In Chen Ling's vision, Chen Yan's figure suddenly blurred. He exclaimed and reached out to reach into the water... The next moment, the ripples on the water surface suddenly calmed down. The water surface did not flow at all, just so still, like a smooth mirror, reflecting Chen Ling's shadow. However, the "Chen Ling" in the reflection was not wearing the red robe, but a heavy cotton coat. The two looked at each other through the mirror. "It's you..." Chen Ling's eyes were a little complicated. "It's me." Chen Ling in cotton clothes said calmly, "I shouldn't be here... That mirror separated us."
"What do you mean?"
"I am you, you are me, from the moment you came, we have been one."
Chen Ling was silent for a moment,
"I thought you would blame me for taking away what should belong to you."
"If it weren't for you, I would have died, and so would A Yan... You continued his life and carried my memories, why would I blame you?"
"Since we are one, why are you here?"
"Because you are confused." Chen Ling in cotton clothes said, "Your confusion is too strong, even the mirror can't completely solve it, so we can only split our memories and ask and answer questions here."
"... Ask and answer questions?"
"Yes, I said, I am you, you are me... It's just that we represent different memories, and the conversation between us is your self-questioning and self-answering."
Chen Ling looked at himself in the reflection, and then thought of the scene just now in front of the mirror, split into three.
"I seem to understand the relationship between us..."
Chen Ling has never been just Chen Ling. He is Chen Yan, District 3 Chen Ling, and the time traveler Chen Ling... One body, two memories, created the current [Heart 6] full of contradictions and confusion.
"But I don't understand." Chen Ling frowned, "They all said that I was confused. Where did the confusion come from?"
Since the relationship between the three of them was known through the [True Self Mirror], the confusion should have been eliminated, but why was the mirror shattered by him in the end?
In the reflection, Chen Ling in cotton clothes shook his head slowly,
"Your confusion is not about us... but yourself."
"Myself??"
Chen Ling couldn't understand what he meant. Although they were originally one, under the effect of the [True Self Mirror], the memories of the two were completely separated into independent individuals. In other words, Chen Ling is now asking questions to another subconscious self...
He is waiting for himself to give an answer.
"Chen Ling, the time traveler." Chen Ling in cotton clothes narrowed his eyes slightly, and his pupils flashing with purple light seemed to see through Chen Ling completely. "Are you really a time traveler? Do you really believe in the existence of time travel? Who... are you?" When the last five words sounded, Chen Ling only felt a thunderbolt exploding in his ears, and the picture in front of him shattered inch by inch, and the cotton-coated Chen Ling in the reflection disappeared in the shaking ripples! Chen Ling was like a corpse falling into the abyss of the void, falling continuously in the endless darkness, and his pupils shrank like pinholes! Time traveler... Time traveler... Chen Ling finally realized where the endless confusion in the depths of his subconscious came from. Before this, Chen Ling often questioned himself. He thought that this question came from whether he was "Chen Ling" or "Chen Yan", but now it seems that this question actually came from the subconscious "self". After being killed by the chandelier, the consciousness suddenly traveled through hundreds of years and came to a boy with the same name as himself? Moreover, this young man also has a younger brother who is extremely talented in acting. He happened to die with his brother, giving him the opportunity to become "Chen Ling", resulting in a "three-in-one" situation with a probability of less than one in a billion?
With a little thought, one can detect that something is wrong. This is not a "coincidence" at all, but more like a "game" carefully designed by someone.
In other words, the "crossing" he thought of might not be what he thought at all...
It was as if an invisible big hand restrained his thoughts, making him subconsciously ignore this problem, and never doubted the authenticity of "crossing", but when the cotton-coated Chen Ling said that, he was like a dreamer awakened, with dense cold sweat oozing from his back!
If even crossing is fake... then what else is real around him? ?
Chen Ling, who was falling in the abyss, seemed to have sensed something, and looked down at the bottom of the abyss... In the endless darkness, a giant as huge as a star was crawling there. In front of its size, Chen Ling was like a grain of sand floating by, small and fragile.
Chen Ling knew that it was the "confusion" in her subconscious mind, and it was also the "delusion" that even the [True Self Mirror] could not break.
What kind of secrets are hidden in such a huge "confusion"?
Chen Ling's figure continued to fall towards the giant shadow, as if he would soon be completely swallowed up by it. At this moment, a fragment of the mirror fell out of his body...
In the reflection of the mirror, Chen Ling in cotton-padded clothes was falling with him, and a hand seemed to want to reach through the mirror and reach out to Chen Ling.
"No matter who you were, we are all Chen Ling now..."
"Ayan is our younger brother, protect him."
Chen Ling was flying in the abyss in a red opera robe. He was stunned for a moment, and then he also stretched out his hand and touched "Chen Ling" reflected in the mirror...
When the two hands touched each other again through the lenses, the figure of Chen Ling in cotton clothes once again turned into a ball of light and shadow, blending into Chen Ling's body!
The next moment, the abyss around Chen Ling turned into endless purple light, drowning her like a surging tsunami!
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On the soft and white bed, Chen Ling, covered in blood and scabs, suddenly opened her eyes!
He sat up from the bed in an instant, big beads of sweat rolled down his forehead, and his face turned pale, as if he had just experienced a nightmare.
"Is it a dream... or..."
The last scene where Chen Ling in cotton-padded clothes touched him appeared in Chen Ling's mind, and she was thoughtful.
A breeze blew through the open window, and the gauzy curtains danced dreamily,
Chen Ling was like a sculpture, sitting on the bed in a daze, as if trying to remember something... After an unknown amount of time, he scratched his head and murmured to himself,
"strangeness……"
"My confusion...what is it?"
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In the void behind Chen Ling, a pair of scarlet eyes gradually appeared with a smile...