The battle didn't last too long.
The main city probably didn't expect that there would be an army of ghost towns in the car. To be precise, it probably didn't expect that travelers would have such an army.
There were only two batches of EZs sent out, the city guards and the security team retained most of their strength, and the EZs were only used to deal with the travelers in the vehicles.
Compared with EZ, these teams in the car have no self-awareness and are like walking dead, but they are loaded with attack capabilities, making the entire team's attacks neat and precise with the power of one person.
Such a team is not necessarily easy to use in other battles, so what the main city has always wanted to have is an army of experimental subjects composed of single weapons with powerful combat capabilities like Betelgeuse.
But in this kind of intensive attack and hand-to-hand combat, the puppet army in the ghost city has the absolute upper hand.
When the cleaning team was broken, there were only a small amount of EZ left, and the ground was full of the torn bodies of EZ.
"Don't you know that there is such an army in the ghost city?" Chief Su looked at the screen. This is one of the last remaining surveillance cameras in the main city on the edge of the city boundary. The picture is not complete, but it is enough to see who entered the main city. What kind of team.
"I don't know." The muscles on Fade Chen's face twitched a little because of anger and shock, "I didn't even know that E was still alive. Wasn't he killed by Qi Hang?"
"The day Qi Hang entered the Valley of Lost Ways, it already proved that many of his words were lies," Chief Su sighed, "We didn't find out, so you may not be much smarter than me."
"Nine Wings refuses to cooperate further, and I have no way to obtain more information," Fade Chen said, "It doesn't make sense to talk about the beginning now, and it will be like this again."
"Now Ning Gu has the abilities of E and Qi Hang," Chief Su said, "It's a pity that Liu Dong didn't let you go and see in the command car."
Fade Chen touched his neck: "That's fine, let's do our own thing. No matter whether there is an exit or not, I should at least die in the destruction of the main city, not be murdered."
Chief Su looked at him and didn't speak.
"The people in the training department have always had the same style of work, they will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals." Fade Chen said.
"Aren't you the same person?" Chief Su sneered.
"What I want is a strong and powerful main city, an invincible whole," Chen Fei looked at him, "What Liu Dong wants is to become a god in the world, our goals are fundamentally irreconcilable."
"God for a second?" Chief Su asked.
Fade Chen didn't speak.
Chunsan stared at Lian Chuan's face for at least two minutes without saying a word.
Ning Gu stood aside, looking a little sad.
If I went to the main city just now and met the leader, I don't know what kind of scene it will be. The leader, Li Xiang and the others should be hard to describe.
But he didn't go.
Because of the person who appeared at the same time as the leader and Li Xiang.
E., who is said to be long dead.
Has the same abilities as himself.
Ning Gu frowned.
Maybe it's just because too many things have happened, the relationship between him and the leader can't go back to the past, even if the leader is still good to him, he will still miss the leader.
"Go to Jiuyi," Lian Chuan said to Chun San briefly, and then walked over, "I have something to ask him."
"I have it too," Ning Gu said, "The poet is the consciousness of Nine Wings, Nine Wings must know something, he has seen blue sky and white fog, and many green things, all very bright colors. "
"Is it something in the coffin in Lost Valley?" Lian Chuan asked.
"Well, that's it, that is the sky," Ning Gu looked at Lian Chuan, "I don't know which generation of the main city's sky, or..."
"It's a world beyond the revolving lantern," Lian Chuan said.
"Yes." Ning Gu nodded.
The two returned to the Lost Valley, and when they walked towards the vertical cave of reciting, Ning Gu took a look at Lian Chuan: "Are you surprised?"
"Not too surprised," Lian Chuan said, "I won't be too surprised what happens now."
"Are you really okay? Where did you go after falling into the water?" Ning Gu asked.
"I met a person who looks the same as you," Lian Chuan looked at him, "It's called Ye Xi, do you have any memories related to this name?"
"No." Ning Gu thought for a long time before confirming again, "No, which generation of the main city is he from?"
"It's not of any generation," Lian Chuan said, "He has always been outside all the worlds, and he doesn't belong to any of the revolving lanterns."
Ning Gu stopped in his tracks: "Isn't it the world that Jiuyi has seen? That world should not belong to any grid, because that person asked Jiuyi whether to choose to disappear or return to darkness of the world... and..."
Ning Gu raised his head: "There is no option to go to that world, only the world of disappearance and darkness, is that a place we can't go to?"
"We'll have to ask Nine Wings about that," Lian Chuan said.
The two continued to walk in. Both Bat and Black Ring were moving supplies outside, preparing to strengthen defense with the cleaning team to deal with possible attacks on the main city.
Looking at the bats and the black ring running around, Ning Gu felt an indescribable intimacy.
"I'm very afraid that you won't come back," Ning Gu said, "You've been lying in the poet's hole, and Nine Wings sealed the hole to prevent the poet from coming out..."
"I shouldn't be able to come back by myself. Ye Xi said that no one can go there, and I can't come back after I go there," Lian Chuan said, "If you didn't pull me, I might stay there. Time doesn't exist. place."
"Time doesn't exist?" Ning Gu looked at him, "What do you mean?"
"Everything is just a thought," Lian Chuan said, "I haven't figured out what it means, but I have one thing I can be sure of."
"What?" Ning Gu asked immediately.
"You are the savior," Lian Chuan said, "you are a variable in all established procedures."
"I'm not surprised at all," Ning Gu raised his eyebrows, "I was originally."
"Yeah." Lian Chuan smiled.
"Are you mocking?" Ning Gu asked.
"No," Lian Chuan said, "just smile normally."
"Smile more," Ning Gu sighed, "The frequency of your laughter now is not normal every time. Seeing you laugh once is more surprising than hearing that I am really the savior."
"En." Lian Chuan responded, and after walking a few steps, he said, "Thank you."
"Thank you?" Ning Gu was stunned.
"Pull me back." Lian Chuan said.
"I don't need to thank you for this," Ning Gu thought for a while, "We don't need to thank you, it's too strange, I pulled you back because... because..."
Lian Chuan didn't speak, waiting for him to think.
"It's because..." Ning Gu thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what to say, "In short, it's agreed, I can't leave you alone, and you won't abandon me."
"Yeah." Lian Chuan nodded.
There was no black ring when returning to the vertical cave of chanting, and Lian Chuan pulled Ning Gu and jumped directly to the bottom of the cave, landing next to Jianzhui.
Before Ning Gu could stand still, he first saw Fu Lu Shou Xi sitting on the side of the poet's cave, with a sad face and no words.
When he saw the entrance of the cave for the second time, he straightened his body suddenly, and his whole body became tense.
The silver of the nine wings sealing the hole has disappeared.
"Where's Nine Wings?" Lian Chuan asked Fu Lu.
"Out," said Flow, "probably back to the lair."
Ning Gu rushed into the poet's cave.
There was nothing in the cave, only a hollow, and two passages leading to nowhere, the black mist, and the tumbling red light wrapped in the black mist disappeared.
"Where is the poet!" Ning Gu rushed back to the entrance of the cave and shouted at Shouxi.
"The poet came out," Shouxi whispered, "The poet came out, the poet came out..."
"What do you mean by coming out?" Ning Gu stared at him, "Have you returned to Jiuyi's body?"
"Yes." Shouxi raised his head, "We can't keep up with him, the last sentence the boss said was to let us wait here for you... and then ran away..."
"When did it happen?" Ning Gu asked.
"Just now." Shouxi's voice was filled with tears.
Ning Gu turned his head and looked at Lian Chuan: "Maybe it's me... Nine Wings said he wouldn't let me in... He wouldn't let me enter his memory, and I entered too..."
"It's not because of you," Lian Chuan interrupted him, "it's not something you need to think about now."
"The poet has returned to Jiu Yi's body," Ning Gu lowered his voice, "Jiu Yi is not Jiu Yi anymore."
"To find him," Lian Chuan said, "this may not be a good thing for us."
"Huh?" Ning Gu glanced at him.
"The poet is the part of Nine Wings that is unwilling to face, and the part that knows the truth." Lian Chuan said.
"Go to his lair first." Ning Gu said.
"He's not in his lair," Lian Chuan said. "There's nothing in Nine Wing's lair. It's just a resting place for Nine Wings. Poets won't go there."
"Where will that be?" Ning Gu asked.
"You two don't stay here anymore," Lian Chuan looked at Fu Lu Shou Xi, "If Jiu Yi comes back, it's not safe here, you go to Lei Yu."
"Is the boss still there?" Fu Lu asked.
"Yes," Ning Gu said, "he must be there. He can do this for the sake of living and existence. Even if the poet returns, he must still be here."
"Go up there and wait for him." After Lian Chuan finished speaking, he pulled Ning Gu up onto the cave wall.
After leaving the chanting shaft, Ning Gu noticed a change.
Many of the dark red lights in the gaps in the cave walls of Lost Valley have disappeared, turning into the color of molten fire.
"Is this the original color of Lost Valley?" Ning Gu whispered.
"It should be," Lian Chuan said, "The poet has returned to Jiuyi's body, and the Lost Valley is no longer the carrier of his spiritual power."
"Are you going to the coffin?" Ning Gu saw the direction Lian Chuan was running.
"It's not that you don't know the way at all." Lian Chuan said.
"You pulled my foot here," Ning Gu said, "I remember it clearly."
I can't remember the way ahead clearly, but Ning Gu can still recognize the fat 8-shaped hole.
It can only be seen from outside the cave, and the cave is filled with golden light.
"It's Qi Hang," Lian Chuan said, "Nine Wings are here."
"Exactly." Ning Gu raised his hand.
Followed by a blade-like dark silver light across the air.
With just one knife, Jin Guang was split into a "scar" that could no longer be closed.
Ning Gu raised his hand again, and the light from his fingertips poured down from top to bottom like a stream of water, enveloping him and Lian Chuan behind him.
The two walked into the split golden light.
A huge bat suddenly flew out from above the cave and hovered in front of them. The top hat squatted on the bat's back, looking at them with empty eyes.
Sure enough, wherever the poet is, Qi Hang and his spare body will be there.
"Get out of the way." Ning Gu said.
The top hat didn't speak, but suddenly raised his head.
The golden light in the hole began to flow following his movement, rushing towards the top hat from both sides.
"Qi Hang wants to use this body." Before Lian Chuan finished speaking, he had rushed to the top hat.
Ning Gu didn't see it clearly, but when the top hat fell to the ground, the black wound on his chest was clearly visible.
The strongest hyena that hasn't been seen for a long time is fatal with one move.
The bat was frightened, made a sharp sound, fluttered its wings and flew out of the hole, landed on the ground, and struggled away.
Flooding from both sides to the middle, the golden light that was about to enter the top hat's body finally collided together, creating a spark-like fragment of light.
The top hat that should be dead isn't dead.
Like a real body, it began to struggle to stand up.
Ning Gu didn't give these golden lights a chance to flock to the top hat again, the light surrounding him seemed to burst out suddenly, and the countless dark silver rays of light burst into the golden light in an instant.
The golden light in the hole suddenly seemed to be stirred up by invisible hands, torn apart, and turned into small balls one by one.
Lian Chuan looked at Ning Gu.
Ning Gu withdrew his raised hand and looked at him: "I'll try it, handsome?"
"Go up." Lian Chuan grabbed his hand and jumped to the upper level of the cave, "Don't give the poet too much time."
When rushing into the hole where the coffin could be seen, Ning Gu asked persistently, "Are you handsome?"
"... handsome." Lian Chuan said.
When the word fell to the ground, they saw the nine wings standing under the opening on the side of the cave.
Nine Wings didn't look any different, still wearing a dog-head mask, looking up with his fingertips tapping on the mask.
"Nine Wings." Ning Gu called him.
Jiu Yi slowly withdrew his gaze and looked at Ning Gu: "You are Ning Gu."
Ning Gu didn't speak, just stared at him.
"Sure enough, it's still the same face," Jiu Yi said, "it will never change."
"Where's Nine Wings?" Ning Gu asked.
"I am Nine Wings." Nine Wings looked at him.
"You are a poet." Ning Gu said.
Nine Wings laughed, and the laughter had the same sharp metallic sound as before, but it didn't sound like the madness that Nine Wings only had, it was a little more cold.
"What's in the coffin?" Lian Chuan asked, interrupting his laughter.
"A coffin?" Jiu Yi stopped laughing, and his eyes fell on Lian Chuan's face, "That's not a coffin, what's in it is despair."
"Is it your despair?" Lian Chuan said.
"It's mine, and it's yours too," Jiuyi's voice sank little by little, and then burst out again, "Everyone's! Everyone's despair!"
"It's not from Nine Wings," Lian Chuan said, "If he was as desperate as you, he wouldn't have sealed the poet in the Valley of Lost Path forever. It's you who are desperate, not him."
Nine Wings tilted his head and looked at him.
"It's not mine either," Lian Chuan said, "I've never been desperate."
"Didn't you?" Nine Wings stared at him, "During the days when you became Betelgeuse, didn't you despair? You were desperate every day, a precursor test subject, you have always been desperate."
"Shut up!" Ning Gu roared, raised his hand, and three dark silver rays of light slashed towards Nine Wings.
Nine Wings jumped back almost at the same time, dodging Ning Gu's attack at almost the same speed as Lian Chuan, leaving three long and deep grooves on the black iron floor in the cave.
Ning Gu only felt that his eyes were burning hot, and he was about to rush over.
Lian Chuan grabbed his hand and looked at Jiuyi: "It's the emotion of facing endless pain, not a question of existence. I have never despaired of my existence. I don't have any emotions, any emotions. People can make me give up living."
Jiu Yi stared at him, and after looking at him for a long time, he suddenly raised his face and looked at the hollow above: "Is that so, then you go and experience what real despair is."
"Don't go." Jiu Yi suddenly changed his tone and said another sentence.
"Nine Wings!" Ning Gu suddenly reacted and shouted.
"Some things don't need to be understood." Jiu Yi said, and then laughed again, his tone returned to coldness again, "Lian Chuan, do you have a lot of questions and want to ask the administrator?"
Lian Chuan didn't speak.
Nine Wings raised his hand violently, and the hole above made a loud cracking sound.
Lian Chuan pulled Ning Gu back to the corner, avoiding the black iron fragments falling from the collapsed cave roof.
After a burst of debris splashed, the entire roof of the cave disappeared, revealing a huge black space. Except for the blue sky hanging in the air, everything around seemed to disappear.
It felt like being in Ye Xi's room.
They seem to be standing on an isolated island.
An island in the boundless darkness.
"Lianchuan." A mechanical male voice sounded.
It looked extraordinarily monotonous in the empty darkness.
And with the sound of "Lianchuan", the outline of the "coffin" gradually faded, and finally disappeared into the darkness.
Lian Chuan squeezed Ning Gu's hand tightly.
Ning Gu also shook him back, indicating that he was still there.
"Lianchuan." A mechanical female voice repeated.
This time Lian Chuan clearly judged that the voice came from behind.
He turned his head.
Ning Gu looked behind him, and after a few seconds, he opened his mouth with a trembling voice: "What is this?"
In the darkness, there are three halos of things, with a little yellowish white, like a ration that has not been cut and typed, or a ball of white clay squeezed out by a child.
"The administrator starts." The female voice said, as if answering Ning Gu's question.
"This is..." Lian Chuan looked at the thing in front of him, "The brain."
In the dark, three naked brains.
The three administrators who have managed the main city for an unknown number of years, issued countless instructions to the system, never showed up, and even their voices were only the mechanical sound of the system.
It's three brains.