Zhan Chen held Yu Tang in his arms.
After seeing the hint Yu Tang had typed out, he used a teleportation card that had never been activated and brought the game world back to the special forces instructor's office.
They gathered in the cave and rushed over from the other side, taking advantage of the fact that Yu Tang had tied up most of the forces here, and forcibly destroyed a part of the mechanical structure of the tunnel from a physical level.
"I'm late, little light ball."
Zhan Chen kissed the top of Yu Tang's head. He was about to speak again, but he found that the strength in his arms around him was somewhat different from before.
Zhan Chen clasped his arms tightly and looked down.
Yu Tang collapsed in his arms, his body sinking weakly, one hand tightly grasping his sleeve, a thin layer of cold sweat covering his forehead.
Zhan Chen's chest also seemed to be firmly grasped by a hand.
He half-knelt down, embraced Yu Tang's body, and held the whole person in his arms into his arms, letting Yu Tang rest his head on his shoulder.
…
After his death, Electronic Storm spent a long period of time alone.
It was he who taught Electronic Storm to read and understand human language. While searching for him, Electronic Storm traveled to every corner of the interstellar space.
Every new place, every new person I met, cursed the electronic storm.
The electronic storm is a demon that devours people, a disaster that makes people hate it to the core. People pass it on from mouth to mouth, counting the true and false truths. Children who have just been exposed to knowledge in school write with immature strokes, wishing that the electronic storm will leave their world forever.
This is the last cage that the Data use to capture the electron storm.
Under the layers of misunderstandings, there are wrong and maliciously distorted cognitions and unrelieved hatred.
Yu Tang never told him these things, but only asked him at the most casual moment whether Electronic Storm had made no mistakes.
"No mistakes." Zhan Chen said, "You are the best little light ball, the best electron storm."
Zhan Chen let Yu Tang hide in his arms, and used the heartbeat in his chest to warm the curled-up person. He lowered his head and kissed the pale brows of the young man in his arms bit by bit.
In the kiss as gentle as raindrops, the embrace was as sincere as a promise.
Yu Tang was tightly embraced by the surging warmth, and his cold body gradually warmed up. The heat behind his ears was burning up layer by layer in this kiss almost in public.
Zhan Chen sensed the unusual temperature of the body in his arms, and tested Yu Tang's forehead, calling him in a gentle voice: "Teacher Xiao Guangtuan?"
Yu Tang couldn't help but purse his lips and rubbed the fabric on the shoulder of Zhan Chen's shirt.
Zhan Chen was completely relieved. He chuckled softly, and rubbed the little ball of light that was still as easy to coax as before, allowing Yu Tang to relax a little bit and fall into his arms.
…
Data's movements were stopped by Shi Ji.
"I ask you to stop moving."
Shi Ji said: "It's time to disturb you now."
Completely enraged by these people, Data's annoyance had almost reached its limit. He no longer needed to run the program, and the space had already been vaguely distorted by the strong gravity: "Enough! You lowly bugs—"
The detonator in Shi Ji's hand clicked.
Data's voice suddenly stopped.
"We come from the Milky Way, 70 million light years away."
Shi Ji said: "We are a kind of sentient and intelligent life."
After his body recovered the speed of time, he grew taller, his brows revealed a calm and steady edge, but when he spoke, he still sounded like the good-tempered young observer he used to be.
Shi Ji looked at the group data gently and bowed slightly: "We have no intention of creating a conflict, we just want to initiate a peaceful negotiation."
Outside the game, the artillery fire was getting closer.
Zhuang Yu and Nie Chi knew very well how to capture an insect planet. Even though the mission this time was just to contain the enemy, the former captain and deputy captain of the special operations team were getting more and more adept at fighting, and the battle line was getting closer and closer to the mainland of this area.
This was the first time that the gaming world came here. He looked around the huge computer room with his hands behind his back. Every machine he touched emitted faint white smoke.
The data disk was frozen in place, looking at the detonator in Shi Ji's hand that was enough to destroy the entire system: "..."
"They dare to detonate it."
In the corner, Wen Er's shadow spoke in a hoarse voice: "If the crossover bureau is detonated, all the lower worlds will be destroyed... There are not so many people in this world who would rather die than give up their freedom."
"They just used this as a bargaining chip, a gamble, thinking they could rely on it in negotiations."
Wen Er's voice was hoarse and rough, as if mixed with strange electrical noises: "Humans are like this, blind, stupid, and overestimating their own abilities—"
Game World walked around the computer room, but didn't find a machine he liked. He picked up the system installed in the mecha model and asked, "Senior, is he dead?"
Wen Er's shadow froze and his voice suddenly stopped.
The system was a little nervous when someone called it a senior for the first time. It solemnly lit up the screen and said, "He is data. Data can be copied and backed up. As long as the backup is still there, the system will die completely..."
Game World asked: "Does Feng Qing also know how to do it?"
The system didn't expect him to ask this question. It was stunned for a moment and flashed a small red light.
"Feng Qing will not die, he just won't come back." The dark red eyes of the game world flashed, "Is he still angry with me?"
The system was a little anxious: " Maybe! He must like you very much!"
The system was still trying to find strong evidence and was searching its own database, but Wen Er's cold sarcasm had already sounded: "What a joke, who would like someone who kills themselves again and again?"
The system was so angry that it jumped up and threw a bunch of garbage data at the backup.
The shadow of Zhong San seemed to have not heard these words at all. Even though he was offended, he still kept his eyes down without moving.
He no longer looked at the game world that was once within his reach, and no longer cared about anything related to Feng Qing, as if he had already completely given up all struggle.
The system tried its best to think of a solution and to comfort the game world, but suddenly it looked at the door in shock.
—In addition to the members of the special forces, there are many other people here.
Pu Ying walked by. He had just finished surveying the outer area and happened to overhear a conversation between several people: "Feng Qing is still alive. Didn't you see the note I left? I asked him to give it to Mr. Zhan, who is a volunteer."
Wen Er's figure trembled violently at this sentence.
All his data froze the moment he looked at Pu Ying. Light almost shot out of his dark eye sockets, pinning Pu Ying's figure.
The young chief of the Special Investigation Section has fully recovered. His hair is short and neat, his brows are cold and sharp behind his glasses, and his dark eyes are clear and sharp.
A red birthmark exactly the same as Luo Ran's was entrenched between his collarbones, with a faint trace of it visible from his collar.
… The current Pu Ying was completely consistent with the “Pu Ying” he had created for himself in his mind.
This was the Pu Ying he wanted, the Pu Ying he had used all his talents to like—but what did Pu Ying just say
A note left at the orphanage... Who is it for
Wen Er's eyes were fixed on Yu Tang. In the computer room of the orphanage, Yu Tang clearly said that the note was left for him by Pu Ying, which was why he couldn't help but rush out, and was restrained by Zhan Chen with the triangular cone sent by Luo Ran!
It was because of Pu Ying that Yu Tang seized his original data, and he could only survive here relying on a backup!
Wen Er was breathing heavily, and he suddenly realized something, but Pu Ying continued talking before he could even open his mouth.
"When I was in the orphanage, I discovered the director's secret. They were using people to build the system."
Pu Ying said: "I told Feng Qing that as long as the core data is sent into the eye of the storm, it will be completely formatted."
That's how he was sent out from the electronic storm.
He learned a little bit of the Electron Storm's language and chatted with it. The generous Electron Storm not only kept the core data for him, but also gave him its own core particles in exchange.
Xiao Puying tried to explain the logic behind this to Feng Qing, but found that both of Xiao Feng Qing's eyes turned into mosquito coils. She wrote him a very detailed note and asked him to pass it directly to Zhan Chen, the only person who could understand it.
"It's possible!" Wen Er couldn't hold back any longer and interrupted with a hoarse voice, "That note was clearly for me! Electronic Storm told me that the note was written by you to me, and you recognized it at the time—"
Pu Ying frowned inexplicably and looked at Wen Er: "Why should I write you a note?"
Wen Er froze completely.
He felt like he was clamped tightly by two of the coldest, hardest and most solid gears, which were twisting and grinding away the last bit of space in his chest.
What Yu Tang once said to him jumped out from the deepest part of the hidden data storage.
… Pu Ying left all her feelings for him to Luo Ran.
It was he who personally consumed all of Pu Ying's passion, freedom and love for him.
Wen Er didn't make any more sound. He was so miserable that he could hardly maintain his human form. He stood shakily, staring at the electronic storm that had toyed with him countless times.
"Mr. Yu's eye of the storm is very tidy, and all the particles are classified and stored. Since the data that Feng Qingzang has hidden in it has not been released, it should be somewhere else."
Pu Ying said: "For example, the database of the bureau, or the mall..."
Before he could finish his words, the reviewer's group data suddenly moved.
In just a blink of an eye, a shadow appeared in front of them at an incredible speed and rushed straight towards the detonator in Shi Ji's hand.
The triangular spike in Zhan Chen's hand also flew out at the same time, turning into a sharp blade that shot out, but as soon as it touched the shadow, it was suddenly swallowed up by the shadow condensed by the reviewer's data.
The shadow darkened a little more.
Now even the data that was watching coldly could not help but be surprised: "You devoured yourself in the lower world?!"
"Did you teach me this?" The examiner rushed straight towards Shi Ji. His body was like a ball of dark fog, with a faint and strange blood-red color. "It's already back to the beginning... They are all liars, no one can escape!"
A pitch-black spike emerged from the blood mist and pierced straight into Shi Ji's throat.
Shi Ji's dagger turned a circle in his palm, and with a clang, he blocked the sharp spike that was attacking him directly. He quickly leaned his upper body back to avoid the fatal move that was so close.
He knew that he couldn't touch the shadow rashly, so he threw the detonator behind the shadow with one hand.
The shadow suddenly turned around and chased after him, but only snatched Shi Ji's dagger. He turned around fiercely, staring at the detonator that was still in Shi Ji's hand. When he was about to grab it again, he was forcibly locked by the data cage.
"You're crazy!" Group Data shouted, "Do you want this place to be buried with you?!"
"What's good about that?" The black mist that the auditor had transformed into had completely lost its human form. It was trapped in the data cage and laughed grimly, "Why do you dare to admit it? Why are you willing to make a deal with them?"
"Why can you change the time of this world at will? Why can you promise people the opportunity to turn back time?"
The black fog laughed hoarsely and crazily: "You dare not make a deal with them because you don't have any equivalent chips! This world has long been completely separated from the flow of time by you!"
"How dare you let people from lower dimensions preserve their memories in the time travel, because you simply don't have the ability to restore this world to its original state!"
"This world has been completely destroyed by you, and I have been completely destroyed by you... No one can go back!"
The blood light in the black fog began to flicker uncontrollably, and a hole was corroded in the data cage. The blood mist, which had completely lost its human form, rose up hideously and swallowed up the entire data cage.
It didn't try to snatch the detonator from Shi Ji's hand, but instead pounced on a particularly conspicuous button inside the bureau's computer room.
The group data was also afraid of it, hiding behind the shield and shouting: "Stop him, it's the emergency formatting button!"
The man in the game world put down the small mecha he was holding, and his figure flashed and disappeared from the spot, blocking the thick fog that was flashing with blood.
The black mist crashed into him.
The strong corrosiveness caused white smoke to instantly rise from the place where they collided. The game world stopped him and shook his head: "This is how it should be."
The game world has not yet evolved. He stopped the reviewer, and his dark red eyes showed human emotions: "This is how it should be."
"Feng Qing is waiting for you. Feng Qing likes you."
The game world said: "I will return Feng Qing to you..."
"Why are you still here? Do you know where his core data is?" Black Mist sneered disdainfully, "Do you think I haven't looked for it? If I could find his core data, why would I make something like you?"
The game world retreated slightly and remained silent.
The red in his eyes became darker, but he did not lose control again. He just stood in front of the black fog and said, "I hate you."
The black fog looked down at him as if he was watching an extremely ridiculous joke and laughed mockingly.
"You are a selfish coward and a liar."
The game world says: "Don't you dare to admit what you did? Don't you dare to admit that you regret it?"
"If I were Feng Qing, I would hate you."
The game world said: "If I were Feng Qing, I would snatch Feng Qing away."
The black fog turned a deaf ear to his words, and the blood-colored chains tightly bound the game world, trying to swallow him in.
The system was so anxious that it almost tried to hold back from rushing forward, but was gently held back by a hand.
The system jumped up in a hurry: "Host—"
"Zhong San." Yu Tang sat up from Zhan Chen's arms, "Now that you're done, do you want me to keep watching you like this?"
Black Mist turned around gloomily: "What did you say?"
"It has nothing to do with you. I'm asking about another person."
Yu Tang said, "If you hide any longer, I will deal with it for you."
The black fog had no idea what he was doing and sneered. Just as it was about to swallow up the game world, it suddenly stopped.
Another consciousness, which had long been completely devoured by him and became his own nourishment, awakened within his body.
It was Zhong San who was reborn in this dimension.
Before he could take the old path of every rebirth, he was drawn into the game as a VIP. He was a foolish shadow who had encountered the electronic storm at the same time as him and naively begged Feng Qing to wake up.
A voice exactly like his came out from the black fog: "Will I become like this in the future?"
"Of course." Black Mist's voice was filled with a poisonous, cold satisfaction. "I am you. Every time we take this path, it is because those people deceived us..."
Another voice spoke at the same time as him: "Because we are cowards and cowardly liars."
Black Mist's voice suddenly paused, and when he spoke again, suppressed anger was revealed: "What did you say?"
“I will become like this in the future…”
A voice said, "I didn't become like this, Xiao Feng, you have to believe me."
"Shut up!" the black fog shouted. It suddenly released its restraints on the game world and began to dig frantically into its own interior. "Get out! Stop making trouble here—"
The voice was still saying something, but it was already completely clear.
The black fog was trying to tear him out like crazy, but they were originally one person who had been forcibly separated, and had long since merged back into one.
The silhouette of the black fog became vague and ethereal. It no longer had the energy to care about the formatting button and the two detonators. It wanted to drag everyone to be buried with it, but the childish self in his body only wanted to drag it along.
… Zhong San has repeated this cycle too many times.
Black Mist struggled desperately, and the sound gradually turned into unrecognizable miserable wails. Every sound was his own, a weak, selfish, self-deceiving ghost who had turned back.
From the first mistake, Zhong San could never look back.
The system didn't care about it and rushed over to blow on the corroded part of the game world: "Does it hurt?"
The game world shook its head blankly, picked up the mecha model, and looked at the black mist that was struggling and fading.
…
“Negotiations are possible.”
A group of data came out of the shield. This time it projected a humanoid shadow and walked towards Shi Ji: "We need to understand the human condition first—"
Shi Ji asked: "Do you have a way to restore our world to its original state?"
The shadow froze for a moment, and couldn't help but secretly curse the troublesome black fog.
—No matter how crazy they are, the auditors know the most inside information and their judgments are closest to the truth.
They have been torn out of this world and can never be recovered.
Time is the most special dimension in the universe. If we have to make an analogy, it is like a river that cannot flow backwards.
The impact of the time travel game on the lower world is like digging a shallow pit on the river bank and letting some of the river water flow into the shallow pit. The water will remain in this small puddle, independent of the flow of time, and will never be able to return.
"We can guarantee that we will never interfere with your fate, and we will never sell your products to you again."
Shadow tried his best to steady his tone: "We will live in peace from now on. Although it is independent of the time dimension, it will not affect your normal life."
From a human perspective, even if we could only stay in this small puddle forever, it would still be vast and long enough.
It's a long journey, and every time it reaches the end and starts over again, it may take tens of thousands of years.
Shadow tried his best to explain, and looking at Shi Ji's moved black eyes, he finally felt a little uneasy in his heart: "You can send someone to supervise here."
"We have just had this discussion, and I can speak for the opinion of our entire civilization."
Shadow said: "If you want to rule this world, we can give it to you—"
Shi Ji interrupted him: "We refuse."
Shadow was almost annoyed: "What else do you want? Your world is back! This is the most concession we can make!"
If these humans were allowed to blow up the system, their mainframe hidden in the eye of the storm would also be destroyed.
Their civilization exists in the form of data. Although they are no longer completely dependent on physical storage, they no longer have the ability to rebuild a new computer room - they will become eternal cosmic wanderers.
It is a feeling of emptiness and loneliness that is far more profound than just completing a program.
Shadow suppressed the fear deep in Data's heart: "You can negotiate, but you must also propose conditions that we can accept-"
"It's very simple." Yu Tang took over the conversation, "Continue to run the game. I have sorted out the terminal database for you and integrated these four books together."
Shadow looked at him in bewilderment: "What?"
"Under one condition, the parallel world will collapse."
Yu Tang said: "When the same object on two timelines overlaps."
Just like two completely parallel straight lines, there should always be an intersection - when the intersection occurs unexpectedly, it will cause uncontrollable chaos.
He once used a section of spring in cooperation with Zhan Chen to cause a rupture in space, opening up the core world of the game that was originally impossible to open.
"If you're stuck in a puddle, then you might as well destroy it."
Yu Tang said: "As long as there is an overlap point where they should overlap, it will be fine."
"How could there be such a thing!" Shadow was a little anxious. "We have done professional training on the system of penetrating the bureau. There won't be any problems, and there won't be any-"
Its sound suddenly stopped.
…there is a point of overlap where the two should overlap.
Yu Tang finally leaned against Zhan Chen's arms, supported himself with one hand, and stood up: "Me."
The shadow looked at him, and the projected body shook for a moment.
"Okay!"
Shi Ji finally understood what Yu Tang meant and frowned: "Mr. Yu, there must be other ways. This is too risky—"
"This is the safest method." Yu Tang said, "Let me try and see if I can blow up this pit."
His wrist was grasped forcefully, and he turned around to meet Zhan Chen's gaze.
Zhan Chen looked at him, and there seemed to be countless mountains and hills hidden in his eyes.
"I'll go with you." Zhan Chen said, "In the timeline, Sui Sizheng and Ke Ming are getting married, and someone bought insurance for their rooftop. I need to go check it out."
Yu Tang was silent for a moment, but couldn't help laughing. He pursed his lips and hugged the mall manager who was talking nonsense seriously.
Shi Ji's heart sank, he reached out to pull, but his hand was empty.
A brilliant aurora appeared out of nowhere and completely engulfed their figures.