A Silent Confession

Background setting of "Silent Confession" [World View: Grammatical Totalitarian City] Seventh year after "First Person Purge" This city was once like all cities, people said "I'm hungry", "I miss you", "I'm scared". Until the Language Administration promulgated the "Unperson Grammar Act" - the first person "I" was identified as a "pathogen of social loneliness" and all were removed. Today, cities operate under a new grammar: - When crying, you cannot say "I am sad", you must say "You are sad" (to the mirror) or "He is sad" (to others) - You cannot say "I love you" when confessing, only "You are loved" or "He is attracted to you" - There is no "I'm gone" in death, only "You're lost" or "He's canceled" Consequences: People gradually lose their ability to identify themselves. When "I" becomes a taboo word, individuals are like mercury beads that cannot be aggregated, and "we" also disintegrate. The city operates efficiently on the surface, but in fact it is full of grammatical cracks - those suppressed "Is" have not disappeared, but have just fallen into the ground and become dust with negative mass. --- [Core Organization: Crack Express] "We don't deliver packages, we deliver subjects." An underground network of monatomic couriers dedicated to transporting the deleted "I". The goods are usually: - Negation of negation: self-consciousness that is double-negated has negative quality and can float above the cracks. - Retrograde cartridge case: It carries the memory of "the last person who pulled the trigger" and will release retrograde gunfire when burned. - Split film: a film composed of two chips, so thin that it can transmit heartbeats. It is a certificate of "joint shipping" Rules: All express delivery is "pay on collection" - when the recipient signs for receipt, he must sign himself out and become the next sender. --- Key location ▌Intersection without red lights The only legal crack in the city, the rectangular gap where the pavement has been torn away. This is "my" cemetery and "our" delivery room. When goods with negative mass are put in, the crack will temporarily close, leaving a shadow gap - the recipient will lose part of his shadow from now on, and the shape will be exactly that grain of dust. ▌Abandoned Cinema "Nobody" The underground screening room plays the "negative film of the future" - everything that has not yet happened is exposed in advance here, but the colors are reversed. The pictures on the screen will crawl into the audience's pupils and complete the preview in the retina. ▌The thirty-seventh mirror The loopholes in the city mirror system are connected to countless "previous me" cache areas. Every Shen Yan is backed up here, and every Lin Ye is previewed here. --- Double male protagonist file Shen Yan·No.: Monoatomic-07 - Former grammar auditor of the Language Authority, personally deleted 127 "I"s - The pupil of the left eye was exchanged with Lin Ye during the seventh delivery, and now the two halves of the vision gap are symbiotic. - Carry a black leather notebook with you to record the last words of neon lights and the Morse language - Core obsession: Prove that "we" are not plural, but "singular cracks" Linye · Number: Monoatomic-12 - The first case of successfully transforming from "I" to "we" without disintegrating - There are scars left by retrograde bullets on the left chest, and the temperature fluctuates with syntax. - There is a tiny red light stuck behind the ear, which is the "subject earring" given by Shen Yan. - Core Fear: When he says "I", which echo of the crack is he referring to? Relationship anchor: They never really "met." Shen Yan is the projection of Lin Ye's past in the future perfect tense, and Lin Ye is the palindrome of Shen Yan's negative film in the developer. When the two people's heartbeats become one, the frequency is exactly the Morse code's "We are divided, therefore we are light". --- Core puzzle > "If 'I' is banned, 'we' will automatically disband. But why—— When two 'I's crack at the same time, the resulting gap happens to be the shape of 'us'? " This is the variable that the language authority failed to calculate: the multiplication of singular cracks. It's not "I + I = us", but "I am broken × you are broken = we are light". Intention: intention: The death of "I" and the rebirth of "we" - in the ruins of grammar, two lonely singular numbers confirm each other through the cracks, using the body as a stamp and the heartbeat as a postmark, completing an ultimate delivery about existence and connection.