In the darkness of the night, the hour hand slowly points to ten o'clock.
The test interval data is important, but people are not made of steel. High-intensity concentrated work is mentally draining. Yin Ren urged everyone to go back and rest early many times in advance - working soberly the next day is much better than working in a daze.
But Yin Ren did not go back with everyone else, and stayed in the abandoned building alone.
In order to facilitate movement, Fu Tianyi simply moved into Ward 9. After the midnight snack, everyone was a little tired, except for Fu Tianyi who fell asleep as soon as he touched the bed, the three people from Group 9 gathered around a table in the ward.
Lu Xiaohe said worriedly, "I counted. Yin Ren drank a bowl of porridge this morning, had a boiled egg at noon, and had nothing at night. Now that he is not under our eyes, we don't know how long he has slept... He can't go on like this. How about we buy something and send it to him?"
She scrolled through the food delivery platform interface.
Huang Jin laughed dryly in his heart. As a genuine evil creature, Yin Ren could theoretically survive without eating. There are so many evil creatures in the world, and I have never heard of anyone dying of hunger.
But he also couldn't understand why Yin Ren was so serious.
"They say he's broken down, but he doesn't seem to be emotionally broken or crazy." Huang Jin muttered, "It's just that he's scary. I don't understand what he's thinking..."
He watched Yin Ren's arm explode all day long, and he was in a daze.
[Wan Liang: I have a new idea for the creation of the Heart Purification Mantra. Simply suppressing it may not be considered "strong", I should use a simpler method to deal with it... It is better to release it than to block it.]
Ge Tingting was really curious this time: "Isn't it bad to be remembered?"
"Yin Ren asked us for help, so I went to help. Yin Ren is sad, so as teammates we have to find a solution. Why do you have to make simple things so complicated?"
Huang Jin's expression suddenly changed.
Lu Xiaohe said nothing. The words "It doesn't matter if I'm remembered" flashed through her mind. She seemed relieved.
"No, the so-called wishes of the Sunken Society are usually fulfilled immediately. Money, power, special abilities... are all contracted and delivered. But if it is something that cannot be realized immediately, the wisher will definitely be remembered."
"Adults have to consider a lot of things!" He coughed twice and wiped his nose vigorously, "Unlike some of the little kids nowadays, who are hurt by love at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and think they have seen through the world at the age of sixteen or seventeen... Lu Xiaohe, you should also say something to her!"
Huang Jin opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
"Don't you have no girlfriend?" Ge Tingting wrinkled his nose. "I don't know who is still afraid to confess to Sister Ding."
"Anyway, that's it. Even if you believe in Yin Ren, if you really want to make a wish, you must make a normal wish."
Huang Jin choked instantly.
"Yin Ren is very powerful, and his previous performance was flawless. Such a strong man would not show his true nature in front of a small person." Unless he has ulterior motives, he thought.
"Or do you think that 'little characters' like us are not worthy of helping the powerful Yin Ren? Huang Jin, who is the one who thinks he has seen through the world?"
Lu Xiaohe probably thought it was some kind of metaphysical stunt, and Ge Tingting only thought that Yin Ren was amazing, after all, he took it all on himself.
[万两: @耳人 What I just said was a little inappropriate, I'll think about it.]
Lu Xiaohe's expression froze for a moment.
Huang Jin's expression became serious and he tapped the table with his fingertips.
She was silent for a moment.
As soon as AI finished speaking, two messages suddenly popped up in Zhian’s WeChat group.
She turned her head stiffly: "Sister Xiaohe, he won't run out and cry, will he?"
"You can't know a person's heart by his face. It's not right to trust someone you've only known for a few months."
"After all, you don't believe Yin Ren." Ge Tingting concluded.
"What do you mean?" Ge Tingting chased Huang Jin, "After all, they are in a relationship. It's a bit too much to even pick on their sad expressions."
Ge Tingting typed away, and the AI voice kept saying, "But if Yin Ren doesn't believe us, there's no need to show your sadness, right?"
[Ear Man: This is an apology, Senior, please forgive me. ]
"Making a wish is a very dangerous thing. If you are not careful, you will be doomed... There is a saying in Night Walker, 'Don't make a wish that cannot be fulfilled immediately.'"
"If you make a wish that is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people, you have to think carefully about what you want to remember." Huang Jin said in a low voice, "None of the three of us seem to have accumulated merit, so we can't bear it. It’s better to be careful.”
Dahuang and Xiaoge turned to look at her in surprise.
Lu Xiaohe drank a sip of hot water and looked at the two people with interest.
"Because Shen Mang would love to make promises and cheat people." Ge Tingting saw the opportunity and took advantage of it.
Ge Tingting: “?!”
"What? I haven't said anything about it." Lu Xiaohe said calmly, "We in the science department are very practical. We don't talk about things we haven't experienced."
He stood up suddenly and rushed out.
"It's not surprising, is it? I don't want to talk about it. Besides, my mother has been ill for a long time." Lu Xiaohe shrugged his shoulders. "As long as I tell her about my family situation, even the most enthusiastic suitors will run away."
"Doesn't that prove that his sadness is real? He even asked the 'little character' to make a wish, so he must need help." Ge Tingting frowned, "According to you, he has to suppress his emotions, ignore us completely, and deal with the problem Zhong Cheng mentioned by himself... Only in this way can he be worthy of his strength?"
"How old are you? What do you understand?"
"I don't understand what you've been through. I've certainly never seen the world. But I wanted to say this when I saw the corpse cage. You always look down on others and judge them. You say a lot of nasty things, and then you just stand by and watch coldly! Is it so great to be able to see what people are thinking?"
"...Yin Ren said that if we find Xiao Zhong successfully, each of us can make a wish." Lu Xiaohe looked away, "Do you think he is serious?"
Forget about merits and virtues, it’s almost as if he had done bad things in his previous life, he sighed pessimistically.
"You haven't had much exposure to the real world of secular metaphysics, so it's normal that you don't understand."
"Yes." Huang Jin answered almost immediately, "But I personally don't recommend you make a wish."
[Man Liang: ... [Goodbye]]
He didn't reply.
Ge Tingting fiddled with her phone for a while and said, "Sister Xiaohe, I'm going to sleep first. I have to get up early tomorrow."
"Go ahead." said Lu Xiaohe.
The two younger generations calmed down, and Lu Xiaohe stretched and decided to wash her face. But just as she stood up, something strange suddenly entered her mind - Huang Jin could see people's thoughts. She had read the case report of Bai Yongji, and Huang Jin could even see Fu Xingchuan's thoughts - even if Minister Fu could hide sensitive information through quick thinking, the simple attitude of whether he had malicious intentions would never escape Huang Jin's eyes.
Why is he so wary of Yin Ren
Lu Xiaohe pondered for a few seconds and sat down in front of the wall of machines. She logged into her account with expanded permissions and began to search the employee database for Yin Ren's identity details - if Yin Ren was really a very powerful practitioner, Shi An would definitely add follow-up information. Even if that information would not be open to her, with Lu Xiaohe's current permissions, she could at least see the index.
She opened the maze-like associations layer by layer, and quickly wrote down the time when each task supplemented the data.
no.
There is nothing in the security system about Yin Ren's identity.
Lu Xiaohe stopped moving, the fluorescent light from the screen was reflected in her eyes, which did not blink.
Regardless of who Yin Ren is, even if Yin Ren is the biological father of the leader of the Shenmian Society, Shi An will enter the information into the system truthfully.
Why is there nothing
Thinking about it this way, the Fu family's corpse cage was just something that the Fu family could activate. The one who actually constructed the inner space technique was the ancient Charon Fu Wuya.
Yin Ren, however, asked Fu Tianyi to keep the cage running, trying to analyze the space magic.
Can you learn space magic just by wanting to? If not, why does Yin Ren have the ability to get close to Charon
But before she could come to a conclusion, another reminder sound rang out.
The progress of cracking the hamster device that Zhong Cheng mentioned finally reached 100%.
Lu Xiaohe jumped up from her chair, tucked the laptop on the table under her arm, and ran into the night in her slippers.
Fifteen minutes ago, abandoned building.
Yin Ren was forced to close the gap once again.
Space itself was too solid, and he was like an ant trying to pry open a mountain. Even if he could learn from Fu Wuya's magic, the time Fu Tianyi provided to activate the zombie cage was not enough to support him to fully analyze the space magic.
But even if he didn't succeed, he didn't want to stop and rest.
He was like an angry prisoner, banging his head against the solid cell door again and again.
It would help, he thought. At least in these eight or nine hours of the night, he might be able to push the door a little looser, a little looser, which was better than doing nothing.
The piercing sound of space being torn and closed, and the sticky sound of flesh exploding, are always better than the silence of being alone.
Snap!
The gap was torn open for the umpteenth time, and this time it stayed open half a second longer than before.
There was no path leading directly to another world in that gap. Instead, it was all grey and black, with countless huge translucent cavities faintly visible, like a pomegranate magnified countless times.
Each cavity was blurry, revealing different afterimages of scenery. Those afterimages kept twisting and squeezing each other, and the colors they revealed were mixed together. They were incompatible with each other, and together they formed a dark compound eye that made people nauseous.
The immature gap, on the other side is a strange space that is close to the human world, but absolutely deserted.
No one knows where the gap between maturity will lead to, and no one will survive if they mistakenly enter.
At this moment, Yin Ren only has this gap that is about to die. It is even more "shallow" than the gap that has not grown. The countless groups of colors are like countless "passages" that have not been opened. And the other side may have already been in a deeper and more untouchable place.
Even if we can open up a road, where should we lead Mr. Qiu
Yin Ren thought numbly amid the excruciating pain of his flesh and blood exploding.
What would he do if Mr. Qiu's body was damaged like Qi Xin's, and the damage was not enough to make him survive? He had to think of the worst-case scenario, and he had to choose a battlefield that was rarely visited by people...
Not far away, Lu Xiaohe's equipment suddenly emitted a series of pleasant beeping sounds.
It’s the hamster device hack that Zhong Cheng mentioned!
Yin Ren stopped thinking instantly and hurried to Lu Xiaohe's equipment. Unfortunately, the equipment was too complicated. He fumbled with his fingers anxiously, not knowing how to start it. He wanted to press buttons randomly, but he was afraid that he would operate it improperly and destroy the hard-earned data.
Fortunately, within three minutes, Lu Xiaohe, with disheveled hair and a dirty face, rushed in holding a computer.
"Get out of the way!" she yelled with the unique vigor of a science graduate, and rushed to the screen like a cannonball, her fingers almost leaving an afterimage.
Countless obscure data instantly popped up all over the screen. Lu Xiaohe's eyes moved rapidly, and the screen slid down piece by piece. Yin Ren stared at Lu Xiaohe's expression nervously, and was at a loss for a moment.
Lu Xiaohe's expression was excited at first, then gradually turned into doubt, and finally, they both sank into "worry".
Yin Ren's red eyes, which were full of hope, dimmed and he said nothing.
"… The positioning result is indeed out." Lu Xiaohe coughed twice, "But the coordinates are very strange… I calculated them several times, and they are coordinates that should not exist in the world. There must be an extra correction parameter… Sorry, this explanation is hard to understand, right?"
She thought for a moment.
"To put it simply, if Zhong Cheng's algorithm is correct, the hamster is hanging in a space that does not exist in the human world."
"The algorithm Zhong Cheng mentioned cannot go wrong."
Yin Ren answered very firmly.
"His algorithm is especially infallible on this one."
etc.
A space that does not exist.
The other shore is a space that does not exist in this world. According to Shian's information, dead things cannot enter the other shore. In other words, the hamster is hanging in a place between "this world" and "the other shore".
It neither exists in the world nor is it really the other side... For example, it is in the gap between immaturity and decay.
Yin Ren stared at the huge gap that had closed with a burning gaze. His eyes pierced through the darkness and saw the countless blurry images that appeared when it was opened.
"very good."
He said.
"I know where our battleground should be."
(End of this chapter)