Chapter 737 Past Events in the Ending World (VII) The Butterfly Effect

The family took action.

Lin Xue looked through all the photos in the pet store, looking for the pictures they had taken together.

However, in all the photos and videos where Mu You was supposed to appear, his figure disappeared as if he had evaporated from the earth. Other people and the surrounding scenery were slightly adjusted to perfectly replace his position in the photos, without any abnormality.

The traces on the items disappeared seamlessly, and Lin Xue could only look for people. She found Fuya and Gargamel in the Star Spirit Realm, and Mu You’s former colleagues in the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, members of the association, etc. on Earth...

From dusk to morning, then to noon, afternoon... until a whole day passed, several people almost asked all of Mu You’s acquaintances, but still got nothing.

Now everyone was desperate.

Only Lin Xue was still insisting on looking. After asking all the acquaintances, she asked passers-by.

Lin Xue caught passers-by on the street and asked them if they had heard of the name Mu You. She was like a madman, from one hundred to one thousand, and then to tens of thousands... until the nearby pedestrians thought she was crazy, and still no one responded to her.

The answer was that they didn't know and didn't know.

Finally, at dusk that day, Lin Xue sat down dejectedly on a bench in the park near her home, her eyes blank. Many onlookers around were pointing at her.

"Xiaoxue!"

"Sister Xue!"

...

Xiaoya, Lin Hai, Lu Yao and other relatives and friends hurried over. They had been following Lin Xue all day today because they couldn't stop her, so they had to follow her all the time.

"What are you looking at! Get out of here..."

Lu Yao cursed at the onlookers and malicious passers-by on the street, dispersed the crowd around, and then walked to Lin Xue and looked at her worriedly: "Xiaoxue, are you...are you okay?"

Lin Xue didn't answer, and sat on the bench in a daze. This location is where she and Mu You often come in Zhijie.

"Sister... Let's go back first. No matter what happens, we can look for it tomorrow, okay?"

Lin Hai looked at Lin Xue with the same worry. At this moment, Lin Xue's eyes were dull, as if she had lost all her energy and spirit at once, which made him anxious.

"... As for the person you mentioned, let's ask more people to help you find it tomorrow, okay? That person, that... um, what's his name?"

Lin Xue finally responded, suddenly turned her head to look at Lin Hai, and said angrily: "Why did you forget it again? He is also a very important person to you. It turns out that you admire him so much. At least remember his name. His name is Mu... Mu..."

Lin Xue suddenly stopped talking because she was shocked to find that she couldn't remember the next word of his name.

"Mu... Mu... Mu You!"

Lin Xue held her dizzy head. Although she was in great pain, she still tried her best to recall it and finally called out the name again.

"Yes, Mu You! It's Mu You!"

"I am the last person in the world who remembers him. My memory is the last thing he left in this world. What if I forget him?"

Feeling the new memories still pouring into her mind, Lin Xue couldn't help but shed tears. She wiped them away quickly, gritted her teeth, and began to repeat them in the same place.

"Mu You, Mu You, Mu You..."

"No problem, the person I remember and must never forget is Mu You! Mu You! Mu You! Even if everyone forgets you, I will never forget the most important person to me, called..."

Lin Xue suddenly stopped.

"Called..."

Her body began to tremble violently, but she couldn't remember the name no matter what.

"What is your name?"

Lin Xue knelt down on the ground in a daze, and her tears finally began to fall in large drops, falling on the soil on the ground, and soon wet a large area.

"Who are you... Why can't I remember... Obviously... You are someone I absolutely cannot forget... Why... I..."

"Sister Xue, are you okay?"

Just when Lin Xue was in pain, someone suddenly grabbed her shoulder. She turned back in surprise. Behind her, Xiaoya and others were all looking at her with a smile.

"Xiaoxue, what are you doing here? Go home and have dinner. We're waiting for you!"

Lin Xue looked at the few people in a daze. She was obviously in pain just now, but looking at the smiles on their faces, she always felt that all the unhappiness was gradually gone with the wind.

"Hey... Why are you... Here... Why am I here..." Lin Xue looked at the unfamiliar environment around her, her eyes were blank, and she couldn't remember how she got here.

"What are you talking about? Just now, everyone was chatting together, but you suddenly ran out shouting and scared us all. Didn't everyone come to find you?" Lu Yao rolled her eyes.

Mianmian tapped her chin and said, "You must have had a nightmare, right? I often sleepwalk like this when I have a nightmare."

"Ah, is... is that so? Sorry, I can't remember it..." Lin Xue murmured in astonishment.

Xiao Ya also stepped forward at this time, holding Lin Xue's hand and said distressedly, "You must have been under too much pressure during this period. Sister Xue, we will not be open for the next few days. We will talk about it when you recover."

Lin Xue was still a little confused, but in the worried eyes of everyone, she could only nod and squeeze out a smile: "Well, okay..."

"Okay, as long as you are okay, let's go, we go home..."

"Well..."

Xiaoya helped Lin Xue up, and they walked towards the pet shop together.

For Lin Xue, the following days seemed to be calm.

Although she still felt empty in the first few days, with the company of Xiaoya, Lu Yao and others, she finally let go of her worries and became cheerful again. Finally, she slowly forgot about it and returned to her normal life.

In a flash, a month passed...

In the kitchen at night, Lin Xue finished her work for the day, turned on the coffee machine, and skillfully made a cup of coffee, but took another cup and turned around and smiled and handed it to the side: "Here, yours."

However, the imagined response did not sound, and when she turned around, there was nothing beside her.

Lin Xue paused, and her hand holding the cup hovered in the air, feeling lost.

For some reason, she always felt that there should be someone around her at this moment...

Just then, Lu Yao passed by the kitchen door with a towel wrapped around her head. Seeing Lin Xue holding a cup and offering it to her, she was stunned: "Ah? For me?"

"Hmm..." Lin Xue was embarrassed for a moment and had to nod.

"Thank you! I'm really thirsty." Lu Yao smiled, took the cup casually, and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking, Lu Yao suddenly asked: "By the way, Xiaoxue, do you remember what happened that day?"

"What happened that day? What happened?"

"That afternoon, when you ran out crying."

"That day..."

Lin Xue thought about it and shook her head: "My memory of that day is a bit vague, I can't remember it, what did I say that day?"

"Not really, in fact, I don't remember it very clearly, but I vaguely remember that you seemed to have been looking for someone or something, and you looked very anxious..."

"Really..."

Lin Xue frowned slightly and was about to continue asking.

When she looked up, she saw Lu Yao standing there in front of her, motionless.

At first, Lin Xue thought she was playing some kind of wooden man game, but soon she found something wrong. The liquid splashing from the edge of the cup in Lu Yao's hand also hung in the air with her.

Not only that, the surroundings suddenly became extremely quiet at this moment, and all the noise disappeared without a trace, leaving only her own breathing and heartbeat.

Lin Xue was stunned for a moment. In a trance, she saw a faint blue butterfly flapping its wings, quietly floating outside the door, passing by her side, and flying out of the window, but when it was about to approach the window, it suddenly disappeared.

And the originally static world also resumed operation with the disappearance of the butterfly.

"Forget it, don't think about these. Tomorrow is the weekend. I should think about where to go to play..." Lu Yao's hearty laughter continued to come.

Lin Xue was still staring at the place where the blue butterfly disappeared, her eyes blank.

"What's wrong, Xiaoxue?" Lu Yao saw her abnormality.

"Nothing... Maybe it's an illusion..."

...

At night, Lin Xue lay in bed. Her tired body reminded her that she should go to bed as soon as possible, but she couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard she tried.

The scene of the blue butterfly fluttering in the evening kept replaying in her mind.

An inexplicable sense of panic hovered in her heart, as if reminding her of something.

Lin Xue couldn't sleep anyway, so she had to get up and swallow some sleeping pills.

Lying down again, under the effect of the medicine, she finally felt sleepy.

Lin Xue gradually fell into a light sleep...

In a daze, Lin Xue felt as if she had come to somewhere.

This is a desolate world, with yellow sand all over the sky, no plants or animals can be seen, and all the places you can see are sand and soil blown up by the wind.

Lin Xue wore thin clothes and stepped barefoot on the land here. It should be very painful to step on such a ground, but Lin Xue seemed to have no feeling. She walked step by step without feeling any discomfort, and the violent wind around her could not blow on her.

In this seemingly boundless world, all you can see is endless yellow sand, as if it were a real desert.

Fortunately, this kind of scenery did not last forever. After walking for a long time, Lin Xue finally saw a scenery other than sand.

It was a mountain made purely of stones, and its height reached almost hundreds of meters.

Lin Xue walked over curiously, looked up from a distance, and found a vague figure on the top of the stone mountain.

In such a lonely environment, Lin Xue unconsciously took steps, and climbed up the stone mountain with her hands and feet.

Soon, Lin Xue reached the top of the mountain.

As she got closer, she could finally see the figure on the top of the mountain: this was a man in ragged clothes, with a beard on his face and hair that had grown to his waist.

The man lowered his head, and the hair hanging on his forehead slightly covered his face, so his face could not be seen clearly.

The man was holding a handful of sand in his hand at this time, pressing it continuously. After compacting it, he would continue to grab another handful from the side, cover it again on the compacted sand, and then continue to press.

At this time, the man seemed to have discovered Lin Xue, and his movements paused slightly, and he looked up.

As he raised his head, Lin Xue finally had the chance to see his face clearly.

It was a weather-beaten face, with cracks of all sizes all over his cheeks, as if he had been ravaged countless times by the strong winds here, and it was almost impossible to tell what he originally looked like.

However, when Lin Xue saw this face, he felt it was unusually familiar, as if he had seen this person more than once in the depths of his memory.

The man had been looking at Lin Xue blankly, but there was no sparkle in his eyes, just like an empty shell with his soul hollowed out.

Lin Xue couldn't help but tilted her head and asked, "Who are you? What...are you doing here?"

This time the man finally reacted. He looked at Lin Xue's face. His chapped, petrified lips wriggled hard, and a hoarse voice came out of his throat.

"who I am?"

The man couldn't help but look down at the sand in his hand.

After a while, until Lin Xue was a little impatient with the waiting, she continued to speak: "...I...don't know..."

"have no idea?"

Lin Xue frowned and asked: "Then, when did you come here and why did you come here?"

The man stared straight at Lin Xue, and then said after a while: "I don't remember how long I have been here, including my identity, name... I don't remember anything... I only remember that I was waiting for someone... "

"Who are you waiting for?"

"...I forgot, but I still remembered it a long time ago. It was a very important person to me. I read that name every day, afraid that I would forget... However, the time here is too long, so long that All my memories gradually disappeared in infinite time...In the end, I couldn't even remember who I was, and this person's name also disappeared in time..."

"Oh? How long is it?"

"How long..."

The man couldn't help but glance at the rocky mountain at his feet.

"...In this world, a ruined city will be created every year. After I destroy all the ruined cities, the ruined city will turn into a grain of sand...This is how all the sand in this world comes from. …”

Lin Xue covered her mouth in surprise. If each grain of sand represents a year, how much sand is there here?

I'm afraid it's worth hundreds of millions...

After such a long time, it's no wonder that his memory has completely disappeared.

"Then, what are you doing now?" Lin Xue asked, looking at the sand in his hand.

"Is this..."

The man looked down at the sand block.

"I want to leave here, but I can't find the exit, because this place is endless. The only exit I can think of is..."

The man said, pointing his finger at the sky.

"So, I will solidify the sand into stone, and then use the stones to pile up an infinitely high mountain, and try to see if I can escape..."

"Ah? How is it possible to do something like that... How long are you going to pile it up so high in the sky? Why are you so stupid? Why don't you want to think of other ways?" Lin Xue felt the same for a moment and became anxious for him.

"Because... there is nothing here, only sand, you can only use sand..."

Lin Xue was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, there was really nothing else she could do in this situation.

The man suddenly looked at Lin Xue: "Who are you? Why...are you here?"

"I?"

Lin Xue shook her head in confusion: "Who am I...I don't remember either..."

"...Go back."

The man sighed, ignored Lin Xue, and continued to sit on the top of the mountain, pinching his sand: "...This is not the place you should come."

"but……"

Lin Xue couldn't help but stretched out her hand. For some reason, looking at the man's vicissitudes of life, she always felt a little distressed.

"I always feel like I've seen you before!"

This sentence finally made the man freeze for a moment, and he slowly raised his head again.

"You...have seen me?"

"Well, really, absolutely! I must have seen you!"

The more Lin Xue looked at that face, the more familiar it became. Those memories that had been sealed in the depths of her mind were pouring out bit by bit. She couldn't help but said excitedly: "Although I can't remember the specific details, but in the distance, We must have met in the past... Then, I... I seem to have been looking for someone, someone who is very important to me... Please tell me, is that person you? "

The man looked at Lin Xue blankly and shook his head: "I don't know... I don't even know my own name, how can I know these things... Since you said you have seen me, then, can you tell me my name?" ”

"Name? Yes, name...the most important name is..."

Lin Xue hurriedly covered her head and frantically searched for memories.

But at this time, she felt that her body was getting lighter and lighter, and finally it floated directly from the ground like a balloon.

"ah!"

Lin Xue was startled, and subconsciously reached out to grab the man on the ground, but she was rising faster and faster, so she missed the opportunity.

Realizing that she was destined to leave here, Lin Xue couldn't care less about struggling. Below, the man was still looking at her quietly, waiting for her answer.

Lin Xue hurriedly continued to think about it, racking her brains to recall those familiar scenes.

"Name...your name is...is..."

As the severe pain hit, Lin Xue groaned and covered her head. She felt that her mind was cloudy, and all kinds of chaotic memories came one after another, making her almost collapse.

"Hold on a little longer, and you can remember...that name, that...the most important name to me...your name...is..."

Lin Xue flew higher and higher, and soon no one on the ground could be seen.

"Your name is Mu...Mu..."

"Muyou!"

Lin Xue suddenly sat up from the bed, her whole body soaked in cold sweat... (End of Chapter)