"It's a little more crooked than yesterday." The King of Earth stood under the bell tower and compared a square with his hands.
The bell tower in the square frame is tilted to the left.
He came to see it three days ago, when the tip of the clock tower was facing the first knuckle of his left index finger.
Looking at it today, the tip of the building is already on the second knuckle.
At this rate, the clock tower will collapse in less than ten days.
This ghost town landmark, a landmark of the traveler's history, will end its journey before the world is destroyed.
Next it will be lost in lightning, lost in cracks, lost in time.
Maybe there will be a next-generation main city, then... Will there be another ghost town
Will the ghost towns wandering away from the main city disappear with the main city, or will they continue to return to the dead and silent land of eternal night before the arrival of the travelers.
Someone came up behind him, and the land king knew it was Li Xiang without looking back.
The man's steps were light, soft and firm.
"You come every day." Li Xiang said.
"There's nowhere to go," said the Earth King. "In the past, I dared to run to the northern border to collect things, but now I dare not go to places other than the shelter."
"It's better to stay in the shelter recently." Li Xiang handed him a cloth pocket. "This is armor, you can replace the nails. If there is chaos in the main city, he will not be easily injured with this."
"Don't nails stay in the ghost town?" said the king of land, "I won't leave, I can take care of him."
"Ning Gu won't go back to the ghost town again," Li Xiang sighed softly, "If Nail stays here, I'm afraid he won't forgive us even if the world is destroyed."
"Understood," Di Wang said, "I have a good packing belt, I can make a device to fix him, and the person who takes him away will not affect his movement."
"Okay." Li Xiang nodded.
"Are you going to have a rally in a while?" asked the land king.
"Well, there's no time left. It's time for everyone to make the final choice." Li Xiang glanced in the direction of Tongwan, and new lightning cracks kept appearing. The nearest one was already on the edge of Shelter No. 3. According to this trend Going down, the ghost town will be torn into several pieces by the electric crack.
Even if the ghost city is not left, even if the ghost city is not destroyed, the people on different plots will never see each other again.
"I still have some things in my secret treasury," said the land king. "You can take a look at it when you have time. If there is anything you can use, everyone can't care about exchanging it now."
"You can keep it," Li Xiang said, "If we don't exit, we will die, and we won't need it."
"Okay." Land King nodded, "I didn't expect that a traveler with little ability like me could survive to this day and prepare something to continue living for a while."
Li Xiang smiled.
"Old ghost!" Standing in the thick black fog, Lin Fan shouted and then blew his whistle.
The sound of tinkling iron chains slowly approached from the fog, and the tall figure of the old ghost appeared in front of him.
"Is there any movement here?" Lin Fan asked.
"No," said the old ghost's hoarse voice, "the best situation is that the ghost town is forgotten."
"Where's the old lunatic?" Lin Fan asked again.
"I don't know where I went," said the old ghost, "Maybe I found a good place to watch the fireworks. I've lived enough and seen enough."
"I want to take those materials away, they can't be destroyed here." Lin Fan said.
"They are here," said the old ghost, "is there any difference between here and the shelter?"
"There are still many travelers left in the shelter," Lin Fan said, "I want to take care of these travelers."
"Are you sure the leader and the others won't use these materials again?" The old ghost coughed twice, and his voice became hoarse.
"The army has enough people, he will take those people to the main city," Lin Fan said, "Leave a part here to protect the travelers."
"E's army?" the old ghost asked.
Lin Fan didn't speak.
"Aren't you afraid that E and Ning Gu will meet in the main city?" The old ghost laughed hoarsely.
"E's own decision," Lin Fan said, "he would have thought about this day at the beginning, but everyone can only live in the present, and don't think too much about the past and the future."
"You go back," the old ghost glanced at the direction of the border, "There was movement there yesterday, probably a new crack, this is the narrowest part of the ghost town, once there is a crack here, 90% of it will be torn in two Halfway."
"Old ghost," Lin Fan looked at him, "if he is alive."
"I'm here." The old ghost said.
"I'm here too," Lin Fan turned around, walked into the black mist, raised his hand and made a gesture of toasting, "I hope there will be a period later."
"There will be a period later." The old ghost said.
The secret that Ning Gu has never known, even if he finds the basement, the secret that he can't discover is under the bell tower.
After the travelers came to the ghost town, the first formal building built was the clock tower, not only for commemoration, but also for rebirth.
Below the bell tower, deep in the black iron, is a huge hollow.
E said that this should be a lava cave left by the previous generation. The lava had been erupted completely, leaving a huge main cave and seven or eight sub-cavities.
They built a bell tower over the hollow to commemorate the day they came to the ghost town, the day they lost their morning and evening.
It is also the day when they will regain their strength, regain the main city, and go to the new life.
The light in the cave was not too bright, and the cold light bottles on the wall were almost extinguished.
No need to order any more.
The team lined up in darkness in this cave is the army of the ghost town.
As long as the car arrives, a large part of the army will get on the car with the regiment leader and go to the main city.
No one knows what is going on in the main city now, but the ghost city has reached its final juncture, and it is a foregone conclusion whether to go or stay.
There are already countless cracks in the electric light. The ghost town is brighter than ever before. Everywhere is illuminated by electric fire, but it is also darker than ever before. The black mist has continuously invaded, and the shelter is gradually submerged in the black mist.
Li Xiang stood at the entrance of the clock tower, saw Lin Fan approaching, turned around and walked into the entrance with him, and opened a door under the upward stairs.
Inside the door was a downward staircase, and the two went down in silence.
When you smell the remnants of the growing molten fire, you're in place.
The head of the group stood on the high platform in the cave, looking at the silent army of travelers in front of him.
"Is E awake?" Lin Fan asked.
"Wake up." The captain said.
Because the experiment was seriously damaged, E needs to rely on long-term low-temperature sleep to maintain his functions. This trip to the main city, no matter whether there is a way out, for him, is the last journey with no return.
Footsteps came from the depths of the cave, and several people turned to the direction of the sound, and the leader jumped off the high platform.
A person with a hat covering half of his face slowly passed through the frozen travelers and walked in front of them.
"Long time no see," E said, "Companions."
"Long time no see." said the captain.
"Where's the old ghost?" E turned to Lin Fan.
"He's staying at the northern boundary," Lin Fan said, "The old lunatic is also there, but he doesn't have a specific location."
"What about you?" E asked.
"I stay in the shelter," Lin Fan said, "Someone needs to take the lead here."
"Well," E lifted his hat, "we still persisted in our original insistence."
"This is for you." Lin Fan took out an old goggle and handed it to E, "Ning Gu's."
E took the goggles and looked down for a long time: "How is he?"
"Very good," Lin Fan said, "very cute."
"Cute?" E asked.
"It's very cute." The head said.
E laughed: "Can you still raise cute people?"
"We are also very cute." Li Xiang said with a smile.
"He went to the main city," said the captain, "if there is a chance..."
"No," E clenched the goggles tightly, "That's it, I didn't plan to see you when I made the decision."
Several people were silent for a while, and the head of the group said: "The car is estimated to be two days away, are you ready?"
E slowly raised his hand, his fingertips glowed with a dark silver light, all the travelers in the lava cave behind him raised their hands in the silence, and the black circle around their necks glowed with the same dark silver light .
"To survive." E said.
A deep voice sounded in the cave at the same time, shaking the ground under his feet.
"To survive."
"I want to go back to the main city." Lian Chuan sat on the sofa and looked at Ye Xi.
Ye Xi could sit motionless in a chair for hours without blinking his eyes, like a lifeless puppet.
"Is it not good here?" Ye Xi asked.
"I still have things to do," Lian Chuan said, "I can't waste time here."
"There is no time," Ye Xi said, "There is no time here."
"What are you doing here?" Lian Chuan said.
"I don't know," Ye Xi slowly turned his head, "I don't care either, my mission is to stay here in a non-existent form."
"Mission," Lian Chuan paused for a while, stood up, and walked in front of him, "Everyone has their own mission, right?"
"Well," Ye Xi nodded, "There are no bugs, so they need bugs, especially for you."
"Each generation of the main city will actually have remnants of the previous generation, some are deliberately preserved, and some cannot be eliminated during the change, and the scavenger cannot guarantee that everything will be removed," Lian Chuan said, "so the system will give the cleaning of redundancy and BUG instructions, those who repeat the same as the main city of the previous generation, or those who are always repeated between the main cities like Crazy Uncle.”
Ye Xi didn't speak, just looked at him.
"Why is there Ninggu in every generation of the main city? The person who looks like you will appear in every generation of the main city, and will appear outside the gate of the administrator," Lian Chuan slowly approached Ye Xi, "They are some Some kind of existence that cannot be eliminated, or... some kind of existence that must appear, right?"
Ye Xi smiled.
"I thought it might be your projection," Lian Chuan stared at him, "but you keep saying that you don't exist, and you are everything...so maybe you are just someone's projection, and you are not even as good as those 'Ning Gu' ', they exist in each generation of the main city, they know their mission, only you, you accept the fact that you do not exist... you are just a shadow of nothingness, maybe just a meaningless recorder."
Lian Chuan looked at him: "The biggest bug may be you."
The smile on Ye Xi's face disappeared: "Maybe."
"My big BUG, why did I come here?" Lian Chuan said, "Because I am a precursor experiment, the information retained by the main city of the previous generation, I have some kind of connection with Ninggu, maybe it is the foreshadowing laid by the main city of the previous generation , maybe it was an accident, but the fact that I came here already shows that something different happened."
"Ning Gu should be born in the main city and should be summoned," Ye Xi said, "He has his own mission."
"What mission?" Lian Chuan said, "to ensure that there will be no exit from the main city?"
Ye Xi was silent.
"But before he was born, or when he was just born, he was taken to the ghost town," Lian Chuan said. "The system can't find him. Where is the ghost town?"
"There are no ghost towns," Ye Xi said, "never have."
"That's right, the ghost town doesn't have an exact location, and there's no exact connection time." Lian Chuan stood up straight, "The main city's records about the ghost city are only one generation, and there is no previous generation of ghost towns. All the records of the main city about the ghost city are Starting from this generation, ghost towns have never appeared before. Those aborigines are real aborigines, and there will be no accidents in the previous 'Ninggu', but this time, Ninggu grew up in a ghost town. "
"The ghost city will be cleared if it is exposed," Ye Xi said, "It has already started."
"But Ninggu has become a variable," Lian Chuan said, "He is not wrong, he is the savior, and he is the savior left by the main city of the previous generation."
Ye Xi looked up at him: "You think a lot."
"I just want to live." Lian Chuan said.
"Lian Chuan!"
Lian Chuan and Ye Xi stopped talking at the same time.
The voice was very low and floating, and it didn't even sound like it was heard by the ears, but more like it came from the consciousness, memory, or somewhere that didn't exist.
And Ye Xi suddenly flashed.
Very subtle, like the flash of the main city, but faster and shorter than the flash.
Lian Chuan grabbed Ye Xi's hand.
"I'm not an image." Ye Xi understood what he meant and smiled.
"He's calling me," Lian Chuan said, "Did you hear that?"
"I heard." Ye Xi said.
"He can't get here," Lian Chuan said, "but he can take me back."
"He broke the balance." Ye Xi said.
"Your balance," Lian Chuan said, "is not ours."
"Lian Chuan! Lian Dog!"
Ning Gu's voice came again, still distant and erratic, without real feeling, but every sound could be heard by Lian Chuan.
"Betelgeuse!"
"Maybe we will meet again," Ye Xi said, "I hope that I will not be me at that time, and you will still be you."
Lian Chuan looked at him, not understanding what he meant.
"Everything about him is variable," Ye Xi said, "Everything is just a thought."
"wake!"
"You're crazy!" Nine Wings waved his arms outside the entrance of the cave, and the cold light of his fingers made scratches in the air, "Did you hear that! The car is coming soon! It's going to be a scuffle! Come out!"
"Come out! Ning Gu, come out!" Fu Lu jumped back and forth outside the entrance of the cave.
"Ning Gu! The car is coming! Come out!" Shouxi hung upside down above the cave entrance, "Don't fight the poet at this time!"
"He didn't fight the poet." Fu Lu reminded him.
"Don't mess with the poet at this time!" Shouxi changed his sentence, "If the poet is released, our boss will get hurt!"
"The boss is injured!" Fu Lu shouted, "Come out Ning Gu!"
The red light in the black mist in the cave twirled crazily and passed through Ning Gu's body continuously.
All Ning Gu's attention is focused on Lian Chuan, he can't relax a little bit, he doesn't have the strong mental power of Lian Chuan, he can fight against poets, his only way is to focus.
"Ning Gu! The savior is alright!" Jiu Yi spun around the entrance of the cave, "What did you see just now? Did I remember someone who sold poison? Did you eat it?"
"Take poison!" Shouxi shouted.
"Shut up!" Jiu Yi roared, and rushed to the entrance of the cave again, "Ning Gu, if you let the poet out, I'll eat you right away."
Ning Gu knelt beside Lian Chuan with his back facing the entrance of the cave. Except for the red light constantly penetrating his body, he was completely motionless.
"Betelgeuse, wake up."
"receive."