A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

"See you tomorrow, little guys." Yabu bent down, stretched out his hand, and exchanged fists with Ifrit like good brothers, "Also, thank you, boss, don't forget our matters."

Generally speaking, everything on Rhode Island is beautiful.

"What did you say about Ifrit just now?"

After saying goodbye to the children, the two of them just carried some snacks and walked around back to the room on Rhodes Island that belonged to the doctor and Yabu.

There weren't many snacks, and they were basically all the doctor's. Yanbu didn't buy anything for himself, so even the two of them didn't have much trouble lifting them.

"It's nothing. I just want to study with Ifrit when the time comes. She will help me prepare some books to learn how to read."

"Well...I can teach you too." The doctor was sitting on the sofa chatting with Yabu, while he lowered his head and rummaged through the bag he had just placed on the table, as if he was looking for something he wanted to eat. , "I'm quite confident in teaching people. How about I go with you tomorrow?"

"Of course, Doctor."

Looking at the doctor who was rummaging through snacks beside him, Yan Bu smiled with some relief and sighed. He pursed his lips and sat there quietly watching the doctor without saying anything.

Everything is fine.

Then he can rest assured.

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*Someone has to speak up.

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Chapter 83 Yabu is gone

The sound insulation effect of the doctor's room is very good. The sound from outside can hardly be transmitted in, and the sound inside can't escape either.

No one spoke, and the only sound in the room was the sound of plastic bags as the doctor rummaged for snacks.

Until a moment later, Yabu said as if chatting with the doctor: "Rhode Island is a very good place, doctor."

"Of course, the upper management is quite good." The doctor naturally praised himself. For Yabu's recognition, the doctor felt a little proud in his heart.

"Doctor is living a good life here, I feel relieved." Yabu seemed to have let go of something in his heart, and he clasped his hands together briskly and placed them on his lap, "Then now, has Doctor achieved his goal? Like finding your own past.”

"Well, I finally found..."

and many more.

"..."

Etc., etc......

I don’t know exactly when it started. The only voice in the room became the Doctor’s own voice, which seemed extremely lonely. The well-lit room was illuminated by the setting sun outside the window, and the well-lit room with the lights on made people feel a little strange at this moment. Silence.

The doctor tightly held the bottle of drink he had found in his hand, controlled his expression, and looked up at Yabu with a calm expression.

why?

Yabu, why do you ask this question?

why......

"That's good."

"Yabu, no, I didn't pay attention just now. I thought you were saying that you found the snacks you were looking for. I didn't pay attention, Yabu. I just said the wrong thing. Yabu, my target hasn't been found yet. There's still a lot to go." Very, very far away."

"Doctor, I know..."

Why......

"No! I didn't pay attention to Yabu just now! What I said was wrong, it didn't come true!" The doctor suddenly grabbed Yabu's clothes violently and pulled him to his side, as if he was afraid that he would disappear in front of him.

千:,''寻;免.;.'费;!?小!..说;裙:'';2,!.,5":'5.:!5",""9.5.!3!:?!,0?',:0　　她眼圈有些发红的凝视着桠布，嘶吼着将喉咙里的声音打在他的身上：“还差的远！还要很久很久才能实现！听到了吗，桠布！我说错了，我刚刚只是说错了！”

Why is he so embarrassed? At this moment, it seems that because he sees the people he cares about living happily, he lets go of his obsession and accepts some irreversible fact.

All of this shouldn't be beautiful, right...

"From the beginning, I felt it vaguely."

["Ya Bu, I have not forgotten you..."]

——Why Rosemary’s words are like seeing herself for the first time.

["...You often helped them in the past..."]

——Why is it just my past self? Where am I now?

Although such small things will only make people feel slightly confused after hearing them, generally speaking, there are many reasons to explain them. For example, because they have been traveling all year round and rarely meet people on the island, such as The doctor just said that, nothing more.

Because there is no way to find any direct evidence to prove it, strange places are often quickly ignored by the brain to fill in the excuses.

but......

——Mark

Just having doubts is enough.

"I'm no longer here."

The mark has already fed back the results. There is no so-called "present Yabu". There is only one Yabu in this world, and that is the "past Yabu" sitting here now.

"...What are you talking about, Yao Bu, you are right here, aren't you? You are right here, Yao Bu, don't think about it, there aren't that many things, you just think too much, As long as you stay here well, that's all! Nothing will happen! Don't go anywhere and nothing will happen!"

She could still maintain a strong composure at the beginning of her words, but how could a doctor who knew Yabu's abilities not know that such words were completely meaningless? She was just trying her best to say it out.

But with every word she said, the doctor's emotions became more and more chaotic. In the end, her emotions were completely out of control and she could no longer control her voice. It's almost close to itself.

"... Nothing will happen. Don't think about anything. Please, Yabu, listen to me, okay?"

Just pretend it was a dream, pretend nothing happened, and just go on living your life without thinking about anything.

"PhD......"

Don't continue talking Yabu...

"Let go, Doctor."

No, go on.

"To the current Doctor, I am just a shadow of the past."

"..."

"Doctor, I am a part of your past. If you dig me out of Doctor's past, can this really be the present? I will go back after all. Doctor, don't be sad, okay? I will always exist for you. I will accompany you through the past."

"..."

Exist in the past, stay with me...

Stay with me, [me]?That past me?

Facing Yao Bu's persuasion, the doctor just stared at him silently, his eyes kept open, without anger or sadness.

Except for the redness around the eyes that has not subsided, everything else seemed to have been cleared by pressing a button suddenly, and all the impulses disappeared.

There was no emotion on her face, but perhaps she kept her eyes open because she was afraid that the cloth would disappear if she closed her eyes.

But then even this feeling of reluctance slowly faded away, until the doctor let go of the cloth, turned around and sat upright, supporting the elbows of his hands on his knees, as if he were a dead thing, and all the emotions were gone. Disappear.

"I'm sorry, Yabu, let me calm down."

The sudden roar just now caused some damage to the doctor's throat, and her voice became a little hoarse, and the originally gentle voice seemed to have a little more burrs.

"Um......"

Seeing Yabu's agreement, the doctor said nothing more. He clasped the bottle of drink in his hands and looked forward. Maybe it was covered by his hair, or maybe the light wasn't shining on him. His eyes were dim as if they were dead.

But without looking at her eyes, she seemed to have really calmed down in such a short period of time. Like a dynamite explosion, after making a loud noise for a lifetime, she ushered in a silence that could be heard by a needle drop.

"I've been lying to you since you got here. I'm really...sorry."

"It's okay, doctor. I can understand that you are thinking about me too. It's okay."

"...I just apologized, and you forgive me? Do you know what I planned to do to you before?" The doctor did not turn his head, but still maintained the look of holding a soda drink, and looked towards There was nothing in front of him, "You can be easily deceived if you keep indulging others, Zhibu."

"But that doesn't apply to the Doctor."

If friends are still on guard against each other, it would be too tiring.

And the doctor can definitely be trusted.

"..."

In the quiet room, there were inexplicably a few slight sounds of plastic bottles being pushed back.

But the doctor still looked like that, with no emotional fluctuations visible. He looked ahead like a machine, looking at the nothing ahead like her future, not letting himself look at Yabu.

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*The Doctor has calmed down.

*......

*Have you really calmed down?

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Chapter 84 It’s so easy to lie

There are only two ways to go back. Although Dalia's matter can be delayed by not letting the other party see the oasis, the pendant must be returned to Yabu.

After all, if it is not returned, it will take a long time. Even with the doctor's guarantee, Yabu will definitely become suspicious and do something because of it.

If you can't return it, and you can't keep it in your hands for too long, then...

"You know, Yabu...I may not be as good as you think, and I even have a lot of bad intentions."

...Then it would be better if the pendant was "robbed".

"I originally planned to have a group of people pretend to make some noise in Rhode Island tomorrow, and let your pendant and some supplies be taken away by those people." The doctor took out the new type of cloth from his chest pocket. The pendant was placed on the table in front of Yabu.

"After that, I will tell you that Rhode Island was invaded and many things were taken away, including your pendant."

In this way, Yabu can lose the means to use the pendant to go back. Even if he chases those people with the mark, the doctor can find a reason to accompany Yabu and secretly let people continue to run with the pendant. Road, and will not be suspected by Yabu.

"...I actually have a lot of extremely outrageous ideas. Even if they are so outrageous, don't you feel disgusted with me?"

The pendant was placed in front of Yabu, and he could get it by stretching out his hand.

The correct and sensible approach is probably to get the pendant first, just to be on the safe side, and then consider other things.

But Yabu did not reach out to touch the pendant. Instead, he moved slightly closer to the doctor, reached out and patted the doctor's thin back a few times as if to comfort him.

"The doctor wants to save me in this way, right?"

The doctor who was touched seemed to regain his color for a moment, and trembled imperceptibly.

But then whatever was trying to leak out from the crack was immediately blocked, just like a device that responded to the outside world. He didn't say anything to Yabu's question, and just nodded in response.

"So, Doctor is trying to save me, maybe the method is wrong, but the essence is that Doctor is doing good for me. At most, I will tell Doctor that what you are doing is wrong, but I will not feel disgusted with you, Doctor. "

"Is it wrong to do this? Isn't it okay if you don't go back? Isn't it good now, Yabu? If you go back, the only outcome waiting for you is death, but as long as you hide here and don't go back, you might be able to survive. This Tell me what's wrong?"

"PhD......"

Still... I said it.

Although he had understood it with the mark, when he heard it from others, he still felt some indescribable feelings all over his body.

My future self is already dead...

If we change the main perspective, the Yabu talking here is a silhouette that is still alive only in the past.

Once you think about it this way, you will have a sense of dislocation that is both true and false due to the intersection of time, which makes people feel a little self-doubt.

But before he had time to savor this feeling, he was thrown away by Yabu. In his opinion, there was someone who needed more care and help than himself sitting next to him.

"Why don't you try to communicate with me, Doctor? Maybe after I go back to the past, I can change my future death? Why do you have to prevent me from going back... Oh... "

"..."

Faced with Yabu's words, the doctor didn't make any reply. She just sat there, exuding exhaustion and silence as if the lamp had run out.

"Can't it change...?"

For whatever reason, the ending cannot be changed.

In other words, it is the kind of thing that even if Yabu knew about it, he would not avoid it, but would definitely face it for some reason.