Compared with Mr. Bu, who likes to wander around, although the Wang Jiji Group is well-known, Wang Jiji himself, who controls it, is extremely mysterious and has never shown his face.
Now 606 finally knew that the other party was neither mysterious nor a homebody—just simply busy.
"I work in the workshop 24 hours a day, and I hardly know what's going on in the university town." Wang Jiji explained.
She skillfully took off her labor gloves and put them on her shoulders, and said bluntly: "It shouldn't be me who is standing here now, but there is something wrong with Abu. He put part of his memory and cognition into this copy, In the end, you cleared the level and forced him to recall it again. To put it simply, his glass heart is broken, and he may be crying in a corner now. So I can only temporarily transfer from the workshop to do a simple welcome for you .”
The four digested the amount of information in Wang Jiji's words until the last sentence:
"Welcome to the job?"
"Yes." Wang Jiji nodded: "From now on, we are colleagues. It may take some time for you to transform, and the University City can provide..."
"Feel sorry."
Tang Xinjue interrupted her.
"The rules of the game say that after passing the graduation exam, we can leave the game and return to the real world. Excuse me, are the rules still valid?"
How can people be converted from fixed-term imprisonment to life-long labor
Wang Jiji was taken aback, and frowned: "Of course the rules are valid. But... oh, I forgot to introduce the meaning of this invitation to you."
She raised her hand and waved it lightly in the air, and the four walls of the dormitory suddenly began to fade layer by layer until it was completely transparent. Afterwards, a cold and strange city unfolded in the eyes of several people.
It's hard to describe what kind of picture this is. Every building and road is stacked up and down in this boundless space. It obviously doesn't conform to their spatial cognition, but they can clearly "see" every road. , to feel the regularity of their transformation.
Like... a giant, breathing organ.
This is University City.
"Initially it was nothingness, you can think of it as a blank point, but this point is located at the junction of the underground and the ground, so we used it as a fulcrum to create the University City."
Listening to Wang Jiji's introduction, Guo Guo couldn't help asking, "What is [underground]?"
The black mist comes from the ground, the ghosts come from the ground, and the deadly miasma like a pollution source also comes from the ground—what kind of place is the ground
Is it a cyber hell dedicated to housing their college students
Wang Jiji looked at her with a little surprise, and then suddenly realized: "Oh, I forgot again, you are still on this backward timeline, so you can't understand."
She waved her hand again, and a transparent electronic clock appeared in the air. With a snap of the fingers, the numbers representing the date began to jump forward crazily:
"From this timeline, um, about 50 years later. Natural disasters, energy depletion, bottlenecks in technological evolution, wars..." The date paused for a moment, and then continued to move forward: "People thought of all kinds of things. In the end, they simply divided the world into two parts. The opposite of the above-ground world is the shady underground—searched from various timelines, those who died at the age when the spiritual magnetic field was the strongest, thus leaving behind The shadowy people are gathered in the center of the earth, waiting for the day when civilization develops enough to bring them back to the world."
"As you can see, they failed. [Underground] was out of control, and the remaining spiritual bodies were left alone, devouring each other below, and finally evolved into the life form you see now."
"Later, that dilapidated timeline completely disappeared, and the [underground] that no one cared about escaped instead. We reopened its entrance and exit, and used the remaining energy inside to create this university city. What happened later, You should know that too."
When telling this information, Wang Jiji's tone was as simple and natural as drinking water, and he didn't seem to feel the impact of the information at all.
But for the listener, it is not so easy to digest.
606 was silent for a few seconds, Guo Guo hesitated and opened his mouth: "If I heard correctly, what you just said includes the end of the world, human experimentation, destruction of civilization, time and space travel..."
Can this be said so casually?
Wang Jiji said straightforwardly: "Yes, otherwise? You don't have to feel incredible, this is just something that happens anytime and anywhere in the multiverse. In terms of the essence of life, no matter how many time, space and dimension gaps separate us, as long as we see From this moment on, there is no difference between us."
After she finished speaking, she nodded in agreement with herself, but after scanning the expressions of the four in 606: "You didn't understand."
606: "Thank you, I really didn't understand."
Wang Jiji: "... Forget it, it's not important. Anyway, the knowledge and history of our timeline have died out. Maybe in a few years, my remaining spiritual body will have no memory. You can also treat it as a nonsense story. All in all Getting to the point, we don’t want the university town to be wiped out, so we started the [screening] system. That’s why you’re here.”
Having said that, she looked serious and solemn:
"As long as you pass the screening process, you can gain the power of the university town, enter the vacant 12 founder seats, and become a member of the managers. This is the first and last rule."
Therefore, the appearance of Wang Jiji is not to break the last hurdle for them, but an invitation.
As long as 606 agrees, their survival test will draw the final prelude here, and then jump from the prey to the top of the food chain.
"But what if we disagree?"
This time it was Zhang You who spoke.
Wang Jiji didn't expect to be rejected for the second time. She scanned the faces of the four people one by one, but they all got the same answer.
"Are you sure you want to leave here?" She reminded in a deep voice: "After leaving the game, you will lose all the abilities you got here, and your five senses, limbs, thinking and reaction speed will degenerate back to the state of ordinary people. The props will also disappear - look at the power you have now, can you return to the ordinary life before?"
Tang Xinjue nodded: "Sorry, you mean that waking up after eight o'clock is not life-threatening, that you will not meet more than ten murderers on average every day, that you will not die if you fail the exam, that you have free barbecue hot pot, that you have parents and relatives you can contact, and that you can do activities. Ordinary life whose scope is countless times larger than the dormitory? It does sound boring, but it is not completely unacceptable."
Wang Jiji: "..."
"I think that the peaceful life in the real world and the status of a manager in a university town should not be able to have both, right?"
The founder with braids didn't stay silent for too long, and soon said openly: "Yes, you can't have both, it seems that you have made up your mind."
Guo Guo let out a breath and scratched his head: "I believe you will find someone who is willing to stay here, but I'm sorry, that's not us. What's more, you have so many college students in, and there are only 10 managers. There is not enough time."
Wang Jiji chuckled: "You're wrong, there are 12 seats, first come, first served."
Guo Guo was startled: "Then you and Mr. Bu...?"
"We are still here because the mission is not yet over. When the complete reconstruction of the University City's order is completed, it is also time for us to leave. To be precise, we have been gone a long, long time ago, and the only ones staying here now are It’s just two afterimages that took advantage of the time loophole to linger.” Wang Jiji shrugged and put on his gloves again: “I don’t have much time left, and you still have one last chance to change your mind—do you really choose to leave?”
Tang Xinjue asked another question:
"After leaving, will we be the first people to return to the real world?"