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“Xiao’an, don’t panic!”
Ji Dong shouted towards his panicked teammate.
Ji Dong’s lower limbs were trapped by the chair’s deformed back. He couldn’t feel his legs at all.
Ji Dong was a professional athlete. Of course, he was also familiar with sports injuries, and he suspected the absence of sensation in his legs indicated that his spine had been injured.
The carriage was collapsing at this point, and he had lost feeling from the waist down; he was in a hazardous predicament but couldn’t move. It would be too late for him by the time rescuers arrived at the scene.
His situation was very bad, but Ji Dong felt that his little teammate could still be rescued.
“Xiao’an, don’t cry, don’t panic!”
He took a deep breath, endured the sharp pain in his waist, and shouted to his teammate again.
The boy with the nickname Xiao’an choked up and looked up at his captain in tears.
“There, the window next to me, do you see it?”
Ji Dong raised his finger to the rail car window next to him.
The window frame had changed form due to the collision just now, and the glass had been reduced to shards. The window was now nothing more than a gaping hole, “I’ll pull you up in a bit, and you’ll move towards the window…”
He took a laborious breath. “Then find a way to climb out through it.”
“But, but…”
In the blink of an eye, Xiao’an’s tears fell, “I’m really afraid…”
“Silly boy!”
Ji Dong was covered in a cold sweat and felt that he was about to faint, but he still kept his spirits up and explained to the little team member. “This carriage is about to fall. If you don’t fight for your life now, you can only wait to die, do you understand me?”
Xiao’an looked down at the blue sea more than ten meters below his feet, shivered, and tears came out uncontrollably.
But now his life was on the line, and he couldn’t help but summon up the courage to fight.
He cried, nodded, and then reached out a hand to his captain.
Ji Dong pushed back the deformed part of the chair with one hand and stretched forward with the other hand towards Xiao’an’s hand.
He felt like a big mouse stuck in an iron clip: as long as he struggled with even the slightest force, he would feel the pain of his body being cut in half.
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——Come on, Ji Dong, you can!
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Xiao’an took the opportunity to break free of the strap holding his shoulder. His free arm clawed at empty air as he desperately struggled to climb the seat next to Ji Dong’s.
The cold sweat dripped down like a waterfall, flowing into Ji Dong’s eyes, making him even more delirious from the pain.
“Okay. Now, crawl over…”
He forced his voice to sound as calm as possible, “Hurry up… The carriage won’t hold its balance for much longer…”
“But, but…”
Xiao’an realized that his captain’s body was trapped by the back of the chair, and that his body, from the waist down, was soaked in blood. He hadn’t realized how seriously Ji Dong had been injured.
“Stop thinking about me!”
Ji Dong wiped the sweat from his eyes, raised his hand, and patted the little teammate, “Get out now! Go!”
As soon as the sound of his voice receded, the carriage began to sink with a “creak, creak” noise. It rattled, and dipped into a 30 degrees position towards the sea before stilling once more.
Xao’an knew he couldn’t hesitate any longer.
He grabbed at any fixed object he could grasp with his hands and feet, climbed past Ji Dong in tears, climbed out of what was left of the window, and jumped two meters away. He fell upside down, his arm barely managing to hook around a lamp box that had been deformed from the accident.
“Go up… Climb to a higher place!”
Ji Dong only had time to urge Xiao’an to hurry before the carriage began to shake again violently.
The next second, the last two metal railings that kept the balance of the carriage completely gave way. With the sharp sound of metal scraping against metal, the maglev rail car plunged into the blue sea.
…… ……
……
At the end of the memory, Ji Dong looked blankly at the muscular man beside him, “So you were in the car?”
“Yes.”
Mo Tiangen nodded, “I was sitting by the window near the back of the car. I was thrown out when the car overturned.”
He made a semi-circle gesture with his hand. “I only remember falling into the sea. I don’t know anything from then.”
Ji Dong showed an understanding expression.
Indeed, if you were to fall into the sea from a bridge more than ten meters in height, it’d be no different from falling onto an iron plate if you didn’t adjust your posture. It would not be unexpected for you to have either become crippled, or died from the impact.
Mo Tiangen shrugged and sighed helplessly, “Alas, I just went to S city to visit an old classmate. I was unlucky to encounter such a rare accident. It’s really bad luck!”
“But, even if I had fallen to death or drowned at that time, I shouldn’t be like this…”
Mo Tiangen looked at his body, “Like this, with no injuries… not even a single scratch….”
Ji Dong felt the same way.
He was very sure that he was close to losing the bottom half of his body after being sandwiched by the back of the damn chair; his lumbar spine and legs had clearly been severely wounded. Even if he did survive, he shouldn’t be able to stand here and walk around properly.
The two were silent.
They could see the same confusion reflected in each other’s eyes.
“Hey, do you think we’re just ‘crossing’?”
After a moment of silence, Mo Tiangen grabbed at his short stubble hair and said in a tone that was difficult to tell whether he was joking or serious, “Wasn’t that kind of online novel once very popular? After someone dies, his soul crosses time and space and goes to another world…” He said, raising his left hand, “When I woke up, I found this watch on my hand.”
Mo Tiangen wore a black watch on his wrist, which was exactly the same as the one on Ji Dong’s hand. “According to my sixth sense, I would say I’m 90% sure that this thing will end up having a very important role to play in what we will encounter.”
Ji Dong also looked down at his watch.
He was surprised to find that the image on the LCD screen was different from that when he had just woken up.
The little, triangular arrow that appeared like a progress bar had moved to the right at some point and was now hovering around one-third of the screen, blinking once every second.
The same change had taken place on Mo Tiangen ‘s dial.
He put forward another hypothesis, “Xiao’niao, do you have a feeling…”
With that, he clicked the LCD dial, “We seem to be playing an online game now. This is our game progress bar.”
Ji Dong glanced at Mo Tiangen and startled in his heart at the sudden address; that brother Dagen had quickly become familiar with him: after knowing him for only a short time, he was already calling him “Xiao’niao” and “Xiao’niao”.
He raised a very rational question, “However, has the current technology advanced enough to enable seriously injured people to experience such a real holographic game?”
“Who knows?”
Mo Tiangen was also very confused. “Maybe, it’s like what the brats in school used to say. The world is about to end, so all kinds of evil spirits, ghosts, and monsters have come out!”
Actually, not only in China, but in the last two or three years, there had been many accidents all over the world that used to sound particularly unbelievable.
For example, in a ship accident in a neighboring country about three months ago, a cruise ship with nearly 100 passengers hit a reef in a very calm sea area, capsized, sank, and nearly half of the passengers drowned. Later, the cause of the accident was investigated. It turned out that the three crew members in charge of driving at that time had all suddenly become ill and had fallen into a coma prior to the accident.
In addition to these seemingly illogical accidents, there were more eyewitness reports of various incredible events on the Internet than in previous decades.
Including sightings of UFOs and unidentified voyages in certain places, unidentified creatures that were difficult to describe, and urban legends that were becoming more mysterious. There could be three to five new topics quietly posted on hot searches every month.
Ji Dong was in the sports department and was obsessed with training. Although he occasionally kept up with social media, he didn’t really care about these things and wouldn’t often bother to click on these types of news.
However, he had heard a lot of talk about how ‘The end of the world is coming’.
In his opinion, the “doomsday theory” was like Halley’s comet… No, more accurately, it would be popular every other year, just like seasonal flu, and even all the aunties would be talking about it. Many would pull out the theoretical basis, from special astrological phenomena to ancient documents.
But, whether they were accurate or not…
Regardless, even though the world had not been destroyed, this uncertainty would not affect the incitement of the next prediction.
“By the way, after hearing what you said, I remembered one thing.”
Ji Dong turned his head to look at Teacher Mo.
“You know, I’m an athlete. I just competed abroad a few days ago…”
Mo Tiangen nodded solemnly, indicating that he was listening.
“Before returning home, I went to a movie with my teammates.” Ji Dong paused, “Before the film began, trailers for other films were played… Now that I think about it, the scene in the trailer is very similar to what we are facing now!”
This time, Mo Tiangen was surprised.
So Ji Dong briefly described the trailer he saw.
Nowadays, four-dimensional holographic projection had become the general trend in the development of audio-visual technology, and the changes in the movie industry were naturally inevitable, especially in some big box office countries, holographic movies had become the standard configuration of blockbusters.
Ji Dong and his teammates were naturally very happy to win the team division of the World Youth Championship tournament, so before returning home, they played around the place and watched a movie.
This group of boys chose, of course, the action film about heroes saving the world, with shocking scenes and gorgeous special effects.
However, before the movie started, Ji Dong saw a strange film trailer.
He was wearing holographic glasses at the time. In that short thirty second clip, he appeared to be wandering through ruins. The sky was very dark and grimy. Everything in his field of vision was very blurry. Faint red clouds were floating in the distant sky, and everything around him seemed to have sunk into a deep sea of ashes; it was lifeless, strange, and unpredictable.
He remembered hearing a breath in his ear as if someone was breathing next to him.
Then the video shook irregularly. Ji Dong felt as if he was running and avoiding something lethal—all of this made him feel flustered for no reason and a trace of indescribable fear crept into his heart.
Ji Dong couldn’t stand it. He took off his holographic glasses.
As a result, he didn’t get to see the conclusion of the bizarre trailer, and he had no idea which movie it belonged to.
Afterward, when he remembered this later and asked the team members who went to the movies with him what they had thought of it… Everyone had given him a blank look, saying that they didn’t remember ever seeing such an inexplicable movie trailer.
The PerpetualMreow’s Rambling Corner:
I want a senior like Ji Dong~ and I hope Xiao’an made it!
Thank you for the chapter!
Did xiao an survive?? And gah! I have fallen into another unlimited flow pit
Thank you for the chapter!!!
I hope Xiao’an is oké 😣 thought I have to say I only like Ji Dong even more 😊 he’s amazing
Thank you for the chapter ❤️❤️❤️
Wow, that trailer really made me curious~