Just like when he fell into Fu Zhe's fantasy many times before, after a dark journey, Dong Zheng's eyes suddenly flashed, and when it became clear again, he was already standing on the dark green information highway.
The firewall was broken and a large gap was created, the protective sky above the head was also cracked, black illegal data overflowed in pieces, and the security phages were flying towards the crack from all directions, repairing at the fastest speed.
[Service access rules... repaired.]
[Verification tool... repaired.]
Dong Zheng glanced over there and retracted his gaze. During these days of training, he found that in his program kernel, the self-healing function of the firewall is very powerful. If there is no large-scale breach, he does not need to participate in the repair.
Of course, damage on such a large scale has not occurred until now.
The data on the highway moved rapidly, automatically bypassing him in the middle of the road, and galloping into the distance along an unknown established track.
At the moment when Dong Zheng turned his gaze, at the end of the corner of the light, a slender figure seemed to appear, standing quietly on the other road and looking at him.
[You see it.]
Dong Zheng immediately looked over there, but when he looked closely, he found nothing.
Dong Zheng: …
"It will make the victim turn his head, pass the window, mirror, open the door and suddenly catch a glimpse of anomalous creatures, and be constantly disturbed and attacked by the anomalous creatures in his sleep..." Cui Zuojing's voice seemed to echo in his ears, Dong Zheng took a deep breath, Understand that this is probably the test Fu Zhe gave him.
Being able to implant a complete illusion in the core of his program and the world he dominates, Fu Zhe's control over his abilities is really unfathomable.
Dong Zheng closed his eyes, calmed his breathing and heartbeat, the surrounding data, security phages, reptiles, all seemed to be under his perception.
After a long time, Dong Zheng suddenly opened his eyes when he seemed to fall asleep.
The lanky humanoid was standing less than a meter in front of him, reaching out overly large hands, trying to touch him. The moment Dong Zheng opened his eyes, the fingers of this hand almost touched his throat.
It has pure white eyes and a mouth stitched together with needles and thread.
Realizing that it was discovered by Dong Zheng, the humanoid creature's brownish-yellow face showed a panicked look, it quickly retracted its hand, turned around and ran away at a very fast speed.
Dong Zheng immediately took steps to catch up, but the humanoid creature was running too fast, just like when Dong Zheng turned his head and disappeared instantly, it seemed to be lost in a blink of an eye.
In desperation, Dong Zheng grabbed the foot of a reptile beside him and thought.
[Grab it.]
The reptile turned around and chased Dong Zheng towards the slender human figure. Dong Zheng jumped onto its broad back and rode like a horse, staring at the figure in front of him.
The reptile was very fast, and soon caught up with the human figure. The thing looked back and saw that Dong Zheng was about to chase, suddenly stopped, gave up running away, and turned around and stretched out a large hand.
[It touches you.]
At the moment when the hand touched the reptile, everything, including time and space, seemed to stand still, and the human figure gave Dong Zheng an inexplicable smile and disappeared before his eyes.
The reptiles under Dong Zheng also disappeared.
[Packet filtering... repaired.]
Dong Zheng fell to the ground, he got up and looked around, only to find that he was in a completely unfamiliar place.
The cobweb-like highway was the only one left. The sky was no longer full of strange colors and strange shapes floating around, but was as pure white as the ground beneath his feet.
Clean, pure white.
He felt the wind blowing on his cheeks, only the firewall was still standing far and far away, silently guarding this side of the world.
This is still his inner core world, or in other words, the core of the inner core.
And in the middle of the pure white space, there is a very bright green.
Dong Zheng walked over and squatted beside it.
This is a small green plant, with delicate emerald green stems emerging from rosette-like basal leaves, with rice-grain-sized white flower bags at the top, which are finely divided and wrapped with yellow-green stamens.
Arabidopsis.
This kind of roadside can be seen everywhere, and the humble grass grows there quietly and blooms.
Dong Zheng stretched out his hand, his fingertips lightly touched the edge of its fluffy leaf, the grass trembled, and the leaf hugged his finger affectionately.
The feeling of connecting him and Cui Zuojing because of the blood pact reappeared with unprecedented intensity and clarity.
At this moment, he felt the panic and depression from the teenager, and it seemed that something was firmly blocking Cui Zuojing's chest, blocking all the surging emotions that were about to erupt.
Dong Zhengwu recalled Cui Zuojing's eyes as cold as embers.
Did he panic too
He hesitated, and gently touched the leaves like petting a small animal or the top of a child's hair.
The panic from Cui Zuojing was relieved almost immediately. Unlike Cui Zuojing who could see the outside world through his eyes and ears when he was in the prisoner space, Dong Zheng couldn't clearly see what was happening on Cui Zuojing's side. , can only perceive the status of the other party.
Shouldn't Cui Zuojing be waiting for him to wake up at this time, or be with other people in the castle? Why are there such strong negative emotions
Dong Zheng didn't know.
But he still used his own method to try to alleviate these emotions as much as possible. The leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana hugged his fingers, as if in the swaying wind and rain, trying to find a support.
Dong Zheng sat next to Xiaocao for a long time, staring at the only color in this pure white world, suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the void.
The small watering can appeared in his hand out of thin air, and Dong Zheng poured some water on the small plant.
He waited patiently for a while, and felt that the negative emotions from Cui Zuojing had been eased again.
If he guessed correctly, this Arabidopsis is the reflection of Cui Zuojing in his spiritual world under the blood contract. The state of the grass always reflects the state of Cui Zuojing, and he can also take good care of it by taking good care of it. method to improve Cui Zuojing's physical and mental condition.
The grass got enough water and let go of Dong Zheng's fingers.
At this time, the feeling of being watched again reappeared.
Dong Zheng's originally relaxed eyebrows became solemn again. He put down the watering can in his hand, stood up, and when he turned his head, he caught a glimpse of a slender figure passing by.
Dong Zheng chased after him.
Fu Zhe's test is far from over.
…
Cui Zuojing hurriedly turned into the alley, carrying a black schoolbag on his back, walking towards home as he always did many times.
Today is his sixteenth birthday, and his parents specially told him to go home early to celebrate his birthday.
So he took a leave of absence for self-study at night. As the teacher's most beloved good student, this leave naturally passed smoothly.
The streetlights in the alley, presumably dying, kept flashing, leaving a dim and bright scene on the retina.
Cui Zuojing was a little scared, he quickened his pace, intending to use the fastest speed to pass this section of the road.
The lights flickered erratically twice, then dimmed again, and at the end of the alley, a slender figure was staring at him silently.
Cui Zuojing: ? ! ? ! ? ! ? !
At the moment when Cui Zuojing saw it, the figure turned around and ran away quickly.
The young man stopped stiffly. He was absolutely sure. Just now, a person with a strange figure suddenly appeared at the end of the alley and was still looking at him!
It was quiet all around, the whistle of the car on the main road was distant and indistinct, and the fear was spreading, making Cui Zuojing unable to restrain his breathing.
Don't be afraid, it may just be wrong, how can there be people who grow up like that in this world
He tried his best to convince himself, forcing his mind, thinking of his family's instructions before he went to school, and took another step forward.
The moment he fell, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out from behind him, covering his mouth and nose tightly, the blade of the blade sank into the body, and the sharp pain whipped from the back along the nerves all the way into the brain, which also made the heart panic. reached the extreme.
The knife was drawn out mercilessly, bringing out a large stream of blood, and then stabbed in again.
It was only then that Cui Zuojing realized that in the real extreme pain, people can't make any screams at all.
The vision gradually blurred, and the slender shadow appeared in front of him again. It stood there without making any sound, watching Cui Zuojing being stabbed again and again.
Stop, stop!
He tried to make some resistance, but his body kept calling.
Just when Cui Zuojing thought he would die like this, all the fear, panic and deep despair seemed to be erased by a pair of invisible hands, making him suddenly clear again.
He struggled to break the man's hand apart to break free, shouted loudly, and turned around in the interval when the knife was stabbed again—
There is nothing behind him.
There was no murderer with a knife, the light of the street lamp was as always, and there was no sign of breaking, and there were no dozens of deep wounds and no blood on his body.
Cui Zuojing took a deep breath. He closed his eyes, took two steps back, and leaned his back against the wall. It seemed that this was the only way to prevent him from falling.
No matter how much he experienced and struggled in the pure white world, what frightened him the most was the moment he was killed on the night of his sixteenth birthday.
Fu Zhe's bell brought him into the deepest part of his heart, where he was most afraid.
He leaned on quietly for a while, and somehow, the negative and chaotic emotions that should have appeared did not become strong.
Although he left his feelings to the clown for safekeeping, he still had emotions.
It shouldn't.
Cui Zuojing frowned and looked towards the end of the alley, where the slender figure stood as expected.
As long as you catch up with it, you can get out of here, right
[Apply Gateway Repair 98/100…]
[The application gateway has been repaired.]
The last line of defense of the firewall finally recovered successfully. Under Dong Zheng's watch, the slender human-shaped body started from the feet and gradually turned into a series of black 0s and 1s, floating in the air and gradually fading.
The illusion created by Fu Zhe was finally cracked under the defense of Dong Zheng's program kernel.
The dark blue protective force field is as smooth as ever, and everything in the core runs in an orderly manner, maintaining the rules and balance of this world, which seems to be no different from before.
But Dong Zheng knew that in this exploration, he found the core of the inner world, the pure white space completely controlled by him, and the Arabidopsis thaliana in the center that might represent Cui Zuojing.
He stretched out his hand, and the surface of the firewall he touched caused a series of data ripples, gradually becoming translucent, revealing a channel that only he could safely pass through.
He went out.
Dong Zheng opened his eyes, and was squinted by the bright white light.
His chest was so heavy that it made him a little breathless. He lowered his head, Cui Zuojing was lying there motionless, half of his body was on his chest, the earphone was dropped, and the bell fell on the bed, telling him What happened to Dong Zheng.
Dong Zheng raised his hand and pinched his eyebrows, and lay down for a while before getting up and hugging Cui Zuojing, who was still immersed in the illusion, and let the boy lie down on the bed.
He himself took Cui Zuojing's earphones and put them on, carefully sealed the bell's tongue with tape during the music, and put it into the box.
After doing this, Dong Zheng took out his mobile phone again and sat beside the bed to continue reading Fu Zhe's information.
…
"Um… "
The boy's moan pulled Dong Zheng back from Cthulhu's worldview. Dong Zheng turned his head, and Cui Zuojing was squinting at his back. The expression on his face seemed to have some indescribable sadness in addition to doubts. .
"How long have you been awake?" Cui Zuojing's voice was very soft.
Dong Zheng glanced at the time: "It's almost an hour."
Cui Zuojing raised his hand to cover his eyes, and sighed sincerely: "As expected of a brain developer, I've only been awakened for a month, and I can't keep up with you."
Dong Zheng smiled. He thought of the emotions conveyed to him by Arabidopsis in the core. Some wanted to ask Cui Zuojing what he experienced in the fantasy, but he didn't speak.
It seems that the blood contract can bring them far more than what they have seen.