Ge Xiu was slightly startled.
In fact, since entering this world, he has never wanted to hide the difference between himself and Iris.
Because in his opinion, this is just a virtual world, everything here is a carefully created data kingdom, and it will disappear after he is pulled away, and those characters have no ability to exceed their established goals. Programmatically, it is not very likely to notice that he is different.
Moreover, even if it is found that it is not the original owner, it does not matter, Ge Xiu is confident that he has the ability to escape unscathed in the roundup and strangulation.
The big deal is to overthrow another regime.
It's not that he didn't do it.
Ge Xiu was too lazy and disdain to live a more comfortable life in this world, never changing his character and forcibly fitting the original owner's character.
And Hines is the only one among all the people who has never been in contact with the original owner. He was able to realize so quickly that he was not Iris - if Ge Xiu was not surprised, it would be false.
Hines silently surveyed the changes in Geshuu's expression.
His question didn't need an answer.
—Because he already knew the answer.
Hines's voice was low: "May I have the honor to know your real name?"
Ge Xiu narrowed his eyes: "Why are you asking this?"
Hines let out a low laugh, gently rubbed the young man's delicate palm with his fingertips, and shook his head casually:
"What I love is the soul contained in this body. It doesn't matter whether your name is Iris or any other name - as long as it is you, it is enough."
He bowed his head slightly, gently cupped Ge Xiu's hand beside the bed, lowered his head and branded a kiss on his pale and cold knuckles.
Hines stared at the boy in front of him rightly, his eyes were deep, and the metallic azure blue flashed in the depths of the dark pupils.
The corners of his lips curled slightly: "I just want to be able to call you the way you like."
"… "
Ge Xiu frowned, looked away, and replied:
"... Gossiu."
The curvature of Hines' lips deepened slightly: "Look, do we know each other better now?"
Ge Xiu pursed his lips and did not answer.
His fingers moved slightly, trying to pull his hand out of the opponent's palm.
Hines let go of his hand calmly.
Ge Xiu moved his slightly warm fingers, and then raised his eyes to look at Hines who was sitting beside him. He asked, "You said you found a way to save me, what do you mean?"
His topic shifted a little bluntly.
But Hines didn't mind.
He replied: "Do you remember that you wanted to study the mecha's mental link system? After I saw the mecha transformation plan you designed, I started to find someone to collect information on this aspect - after all, it is a federal secret. , so it took a while to find."
Hines stood up and walked to the side of the bed, leaned down, rested one hand on the support behind the bed, and reached over with the other hand, pressing it skillfully on the personal terminal that Gexiu had placed on his lap. .
This posture is a bit too ambiguous, as if he was half-held in the other's arms.
Ge Xiu's back tightened, he withdrew slightly to the side, trying to open the distance between the two.
But the next second, he was caught by something popping up on his personal terminal.
Hines explained: "At present, human beings have not fully researched spiritual power, but only know that it is a kind of spiritual energy released by the brain. The powerful can even affect the external environment, and the role of the spiritual link is to connect This energy is collected and augmented to a certain extent, so that humans can be able to drive and manipulate mechas weighing hundreds of tons."
Ge Xiu asked thoughtfully:
"So... Under the action of the mental linker, it is not the driver who is driving the mecha, but is he using the amplified mental power to control the machine's activities?"
"Yes." Hines nodded slightly and continued:
"The value detected by your mental power is 0, but you can still drive the mecha, and even drive it very well—this only means that the mental power detection device cannot capture your mental power, but it does not mean that it does not exist. So I did some research."
he said lightly.
But Ge Xiu flipped through the complicated experimental data and theoretical announcements on the terminal in front of him page by page, feeling a little frightened - he clearly knew that the efforts and attempts hidden behind the huge number of digital mazes were definitely not a simple sentence " Doing some research" can sum it up.
Hines' head drooped lower.
His breath was warm, with a faint aroma of rum, causing Ge Xiu to shrink his shoulders subconsciously.
The man's deep voice sounded in his ears, causing a faint tremor in the air: "I guess the failure of your organs has nothing to do with your physical condition, but rather your mental power."
- This sentence actually touches the truth to some extent.
Ge Xiu turned to look at Hines:
"So what are you going to do?"
"An experimental project."
Hines replied.
He straightened up, raised his hand and gently brushed Ge Xiu's forehead hair away from his eyes, his fingertips rested on his icy cheeks for a moment, and then continued:
"Maybe it can keep your mental power in your body, and slow down or even stop the failure of your internal organs."
Ah, so.
So that's your purpose
Ge Xiu stared at the man in front of him, his eyes dark and dark, his emotions unpredictable.
For four whole worlds, you've been by my side non-stop - each time in the form of a strong, handsome, affectionate male.
In the last world, I discovered your existence.
In this world, can I figure out your intentions
Are you acting so hard and weaving gentle traps just to imprison my spirit in my body, so that I can stay in this virtual world completely
"Would you like to try?"
Hines asked nervously.
Ge Xiu raised the corners of his lips, revealing a beautiful and harmless smile:
"OK."
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This is a huge closed metal hall, filled with countless complicated instruments, and dozens of researchers in white clothes rush through it.
In the center of the hall, there are two metal chairs, and countless wires of different colors are connected to them.
In this world, Ge Xiu's body is deteriorating much faster than he imagined, and it is even difficult to walk on the ground now.
Sitting in a maglev wheelchair, his legs covered with thick blankets, he looked pale and weak.
But his eyes were dark and heavy, and cold eyes shot out from under the half-closed eyelids, with a kind of aggression that chilled in the heart.
Hines walked beside him.
Avery and Joseph were already waiting in the hall. The moment they saw them, they hurried up to meet them: "Captain! The equipment has been debugged, are you ready to start?"
Gossi nodded calmly.
Instead, Hines hesitated for a moment. He turned his head to look at Ghosh: "If this experiment really succeeds... You will always be Iris Drist, are you sure?"
Ge Xiu laughed: "That's what you expected at this time, wasn't it?"
Yes.
This is what I expected.
But for some reason, Hines always had a sense of unease in his heart, like... he would lose something important forever.
Ge Xiu took the lead in controlling the wheelchair and slowly slid to one of the seats.
He frowned. "Why are there two chairs?"
Hines threw away the vague thoughts in his mind, and then walked forward quickly and walked to Gexiu's side:
"Yes, because another chair wants me to sit."
Ge Xiu raised his eyebrows and looked at Hines suspiciously.
Hines smiled: "Remember the pheromone match test we two conducted? The test results came out."
Ge Xiu turned his head to look at the chair and said indifferently, "Really?"
"The matching degree is 99.97%." Hines stared at the teenager with his back turned to him, and continued: "This value not only shows that we must be together, but also shows that you and I have a surprisingly high degree of mental power matching - so , the experiment had to include two people."
He bent down and picked Gexiu out of his wheelchair.
Ge Xiu's arm naturally wrapped around Hines' neck, his eyes drooped slightly, his long eyelashes left a light gray shadow on his face, and his dark eyes were hidden under them, deep and almost transparent. Does not let in light.
Hines' voice came from overhead:
"In short, this experiment is to use my spiritual power as an anchor to stabilize your spiritual power."
He bent down and carefully placed Gorshu in the seat, the spinal connectors covering his back in sections.
The faint smell of rum on Hines' body was diffused in the air.
He turned and sat on another seat.
The researchers on the side stepped forward, adjusted the circuit on the instrument step by step, then turned to look at Hines, and said, "Mr. Estero, everything is ready."
Hines turned his head and glanced at Ghosh.
The pale boy's eyes were tightly closed, and his expression was calm.
He turned his eyes to look at the researcher who was waiting for instructions, and ordered, "Let's start."
The switch is pressed.
The entire metal hall seemed to be shaken by the huge energy released by the instrument, and the humming beeps were flowing in the air.
Ge Xiu only felt the earth shake, the sky was spinning, and there was a tingling sensation from the connector connected to the spine, and something like an electric current ran through his body, flowing along the bones and blood to the whole body.
He gritted his teeth.
A feeling hit him.
It was as if the thousands of nightmares he had done before were suddenly condensed and compressed, and then shoved into his brain.
Dark, pitch-black, hopeless, gloomy, like the dark silt under a river, exuding a damp vicious aura, they were swept up together, scrambling to squeeze into his body.
outside the world.
The whole institute sounded a fierce and piercing alarm, and the red symbol of danger lit up.
The researcher's voice panicked: "The instrument is malfunctioning! The criminal's brain cannot be disconnected! Emergency extraction failed!"
"And... and the Pandora Volatility Index is falling rapidly!"
All previous progress was wasted.
The director roared: "Disconnect me! It must be disconnected! If you don't disconnect now, you will never be able to get away again, you know! I don't care if forcibly disconnecting will turn criminals into idiots or lunatics, Pandora can't do anything!"
"But... there is no way to disconnect, the extraction program has failed!"
The director said gloomily: "Then cut off the power!"
The researcher shuddered and straightened his back abruptly: "...Yes!"
within the world.
Just hear a buzzing sound.
It was as if all sounds disappeared quickly, time stopped flowing, and the light solidified, and everything around him quickly turned into smoke and melted into the air.
Machines no longer roar, electricity no longer flows.
Ge Xiu took a deep breath and recovered a little from the pain of being attacked by the nightmare just now.
The light and shadow around him dissipated, disillusioned.
Everything is collapsing quickly,
The current scene, he had experienced once.
In the second world, the moment he had a godhead, the same change occurred in the world.
Ge Xiu slightly raised the corners of his lips.
Once this happens, it means that he has touched the area that the group of people outside doesn't want him to touch to some extent, so he has to be forcibly removed from the virtual world.
However, this time the feeling was completely different from the last time.
The last time he lost consciousness shortly after the virtual world began to deconstruct, and when he woke up again, he returned directly to the real world.
However, this time, even though it was not a short time, Ge Xiu still felt extremely sober and calm, there was no sign of losing consciousness at all, and it seemed that he would not be directly removed from this world.
He clenched his fingers, and felt that his presence was as solid as the seat under him, instead of shattering and disappearing from his fingers like foam like the previous one.
So... the experiment worked
Just then, Ge Xiu heard a voice coming from not far away.
"This is… "
Ge Xiu was stunned, and suddenly looked in the direction from which the voice came.
I saw Hines slowly stand up from the chair.
He looked around at the completely unreasonable scene in front of him, his eyes trembled, as if he didn't expect such a thing to happen.
Hines looked in the direction of Ge Xiu.
At the moment when the eyes of the two met, Hines showed a stunned expression: "So it's like this..."
Ge Xiu's heart tensed.
He got up from his seat, stepped on the broken ground, and tried to walk in Hines's direction, shouting, "What are you talking about?"
Hines stared at him fixedly.
His expression was very calm, and his dark blue eyes were like still water flowing deep, hiding extremely complicated emotions in the bottom of his eyes—
He didn't seem to be himself, but it was as if this was what he was supposed to be.
"You are not Iris Drest."
Hines's attitude was firm, as if he was just stating a given fact.
The corners of his lips curled slightly:
"It turns out I'm not Hines Estero either."
Ge Xiu's heart trembled.
The shock of that moment made him forget to move, and he could only stare at the tall man standing in the void in front of him. He opened his mouth and seemed to want to say something, but he couldn't spit out a word, as if there was something It was choked deep in his throat, making him unable to pronounce half a syllable.
Hines calmly looked around at the broken and scattered world around him, and sighed softly:
"Look, the experiment was successful."
"You were finally successfully kept by me - stay by my side, and no one can take you away."
He turned his gaze, and his eyes fell on Ge Xiu again.
The man's eyes are deep and secluded, like a dark lake under the moonlight, and it seems to contain the sadness of the whole world:
"As long as my [anchor] is still there, you can't leave... We can be together forever in this world."
A fleeting smile crossed his lips.
Ge Xiu was startled, and an ominous premonition suddenly appeared in his heart: "What are you going to do?"
His voice was hoarse and broken, and the moment he left it almost startled him.
Hines gave him a deep look, then reached out to his waist and took out the gun he was carrying with him.
He stroked the cold gun body with his fingers nostalgically, then turned his fingers over and pressed the black muzzle against his chin.
Ge Xiu shouted in a voice: "No! Wait! Stop! Let's..."
"Remember, you are the strongest existence in this world."
After leaving the words of unknown meaning, Hines evoked a smile. The deep and handsome facial features were diluted by this almost gentle smile. He said in a relaxed tone: "See you in the next world."
"Gosh."
In this world, this was the first time he called Ge Xiu by his real name.
The next second, gunshots rang out.