"What kind of wall is this?" Ning Gu looked at the white wall in front of him.
"It should be..." Lian Chuan changed the automatic driving to manual, and slowly approached the white wall, "I don't know how long ago the old city boundary of the main city was."
The main city is constantly collapsing.
This is a fact that almost everyone knows or even no longer knows how to know, and the destruction will definitely come is also based on this fact.
But until now, Lian Chuan has truly felt the scale of the collapse.
The ruins on the Black Iron Wasteland as far as they can see are nothing but traces of these years, the past that most people still remember.
And the earlier past, the earlier collapse, and the earlier main city are probably just records that are no longer checked in the main city system.
And beyond this wall, it may be the endless black iron wasteland that the main city has explored.
"Was the former main city so big?" Ning Gu climbed out of the skylight, climbed to the roof and stood there, "Can we go all the way here?"
"It should be like this in theory," Lian Chuan looked at the screen, waiting for the scan results, to see if there is a gap nearby to reach the other side of the wall, "It's just that when the main city was this big, we didn't exist, it was a long time ago It's over."
Especially after the population clearing began, no one knew about the past.
"Speaking of which," Ning Gu said, "the so-called destruction actually started a long time ago. It started when the main city started shrinking and retreating a little bit, right?"
"Yes," Lian Chuan said, "We have already stood before the end of the destruction, not from the cracks we thought."
"It's really slow." Ning Gu said.
"It's not all dull," Lian Chuan said, "Didn't you show up?"
"You also appeared." Ning Gu said.
The scanning result is similar to what Lian Chuan judged. A distance to the left, where the crack passed before, there is a gap in the white wall that was torn open by the crack.
The car turned around and drove over there.
Ning Gu stood on the roof of the car, looking at the mountain-like wall that kept sweeping back in front of him.
"Why is there such a wall?" he asked, "If it's just to declare sovereignty, there's no need for it to be so high, right?"
"There are no creatures over there," Lian Chuan said.
"Can you feel it?" Ning Gu asked.
"Well," Lian Chuan said, "When you first came to the main city, you hid next to the iron box behind the broken wall, I felt it."
Ning Gu looked down at him: "As expected of the strongest hyena."
It didn't take long before they saw the gap.
A breach opened tens of meters, and the wall above was still connected together, like a huge empty doorway.
When the car passed through the gap, Ning Gu raised his head and looked up.
The wall is very thick, much thicker than the current boundary wall of the main city.
“It took so much energy to build the wall,” he lamented.
"It's impossible to do it in the main city now," Lian Chuan said. "At that time, the resources should be enough to afford large-scale equipment to do such a large-scale thing."
On the other side of the white wall is still the Black Iron Wasteland.
Ning Gu looked around at the same scene as before, and was a little disappointed: "I thought there would be something different here."
"Three months of energy and supplies," Lian Chuan said, "Maybe we have been driving for three months without returning, and it's still something like this."
"Really." Ning Gu sighed softly.
"I saw the main city in Ye Xi's sealed room," Lian Chuan said, "I can only see the current part of the main city. If that is some kind of hint, the location we are in itself is Already a place in the system that no longer exists, forever, endlessly."
"When you first came out with me, you thought it might be like this, didn't you?" Ning Gu lay on the carriage, poking his head into the car.
"Well, I've thought about it." Lian Chuan said.
"Then why didn't you tell me," Ning Gu asked, "why did you come out with me?"
"You want to go," Lian Chuan said, "and, what if you don't."
Ning Gu was stunned: "Is it that simple?"
"Otherwise." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu didn't speak, just smiled, reached out and scratched the top of Lian Chuan's head.
The car drove for a long time.
In the middle, Lianchuan made two rations of new flavors, one is a mixture of meat and dairy products, and the other is a mixture of eggs and apples that Lianchuan said.
Ning Gu couldn't describe it in words, but Lian Chuan thought it was delicious.
"I'll try it next time." Ning Gu said.
"Do you think it's not delicious?" Lian Chuan asked.
"No." Ning Gu replied very simply.
"Okay," Lian Chuan said, "then you can do it next time."
"Also called me childish." Ning Gu said, "Listen to your questions yourself."
"I think it's okay," Lian Chuan glanced at him, "but I know you find it unpalatable."
Ning Gu laughed: "Did you say that you are miserable, no one can deceive you, no one can hide from you, you will always see the truth."
"I don't pay attention to others," Lian Chuan said, "Listen to your truth, look at your truth, there is no problem, and if you say it is unpalatable, it will not hurt me."
"Really?" Ning Gu looked at him.
"Well," Lian Chuan nodded, "What you make will only taste worse."
In fact, it is not easy to feel hungry when driving all the way to the end of the unknown place.
Sitting in the car, looking at the changing but not changing scenery around, chatting a few words from time to time, it is very relaxing and not exhausting.
Even Ning Gu, who is so hungry easily, doesn't feel like eating.
They don't even pay much attention to the time.
Time does not exist.
Right now.
Such a boring and relaxing journey with a purpose but not necessarily arriving.
"There is something in the front right." Lian Chuan sat up straight.
Ning Gu, who had been half lying beside him, jumped up, squatted on the passenger seat and looked out.
In the blurred light, he saw a square thing in the front right.
"Artificial?" he asked.
"Sure," Lian Chuan said, and drove the car over there, "It looks like some kind of building."
"Whose hut?" Ning Gu asked.
"That's not a 'small' house," Lian Chuan glanced at him, "That thing is two kilometers away from us."
"Oh." Ning Gu looked over there, "That's huge."
"Hmm." Lian Chuan looked at the building that gradually became clear on the screen.
It is roughly a cube, nothing special can be seen, there are no guardrails, no walls, and it just stands alone on the wasteland.
"Can you feel anything?" Ning Gu asked, "Is there anything alive?"
"I didn't feel it," Lian Chuan said. "There should be no living body here. We haven't found any trace for so long."
"This can only be left over from before the main city collapsed." Ning Gu looked at the square black shadow in the distance, "I don't know what it is. The previous ruins nearby have all collapsed into disrepair."
"It may be a relatively important place," Lian Chuan said, "The laboratories of Chunsan can also be preserved intact for a long time."
Ning Gu glanced at him: "Don't scare me, I don't want to meet any experimental subjects again."
The receiver on the car beeped.
Real-time information received is displayed on the screen.
"What information?" Ning Gu was a little nervous, stood on the chair, leaned out of the car roof and looked around, a small golden light glowed from his fingertips.
"The information from the same system as ours," Lian Chuan said, "is from the main city."
"Main city? Didn't it mean that it's impossible to reach such a distance in real time?" Ning Gu said, "Even if it's an ordinary message, it should be received by the receiver. How could it be received by the system on the car?"
"It's the old... information about the main city." Lian Chuan didn't know what to say.
"Can you hear what it is?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know." Lian Chuan took the connect button.
- You have entered the range of the main city defense system, please confirm your identity
A line of words flashed silently on the screen.
"You need to confirm your identity," Lian Chuan said.
"How to confirm?" Ning Gu asked.
"... I don't know," Lian Chuan said, "The information can be received, but the system is no longer the same, and there is no way to interact."
Ning Gu didn't speak, and the golden light rolled out from under his feet, spreading out of the entire car in an instant.
There were a few flashes of light on the ground in front of him, very bright, and the flashing time was very short, leaving almost only an afterimage of a light spot in front of his eyes.
"We have weapons." Lian Chuan said.
"No attack?" Ning Gu looked over there vigilantly.
"The weapon has expired," Lian Chuan said, "There is no trace of the weapon in the scan."
"Oh." Ning Gu suddenly felt a little disappointed.
The car slowly approached the square building, and they could gradually see the overall structure of the building.
It used to be a building complex, with walls and gates, and some traces can be seen on the ground. This building is the main body, not very high, about the same height as the third floor of the city affairs hall, but it occupies a larger area much.
Lian Chuan got out of the car and checked the place that had been shining before.
It is a pedestal where a large weapon was once installed.
But the part above the base was destroyed, and it was completely impossible to see what kind of weapon it was.
The gate of this building is facing them, and when you approach, you can still see the mottled and scarred walls with dense windows.
The window frames and other things are gone, only the neatly arranged hollows all over the wall, like eyes watching them.
The door was locked, and Ning Gu raised his hand twice before opening the door.
The door is very thick and big. According to the traditional thinking of the main city, there must be secrets hidden in such a building that cannot be known to the common people.
Just like the underground parts of the three major buildings in the core area of Area A.
But this building has no secrets anymore. Although the door is still intact, the broken windows mean that there will no longer be any secrets inside.
But it is indeed like what Ning Gu said, this building is very strong, when they walked into the gate, lights lit up on the surrounding walls, and clusters of halos came from outside to inside, from bottom to top, and soon spread throughout the building.
Everything in the building is instantly visible.
This is a huge overall space. It can be seen that there are no floors, only countless criss-crossing metal arms, and iron cages suspended one by one under the metal arms.
There are also shelves lined up from the ground to the top, and huge glass bottles on the shelves.
Of course the glass has been broken, but the metal fixing frame is still there, and Lian Chuan can recognize it at a glance. Such an experimental cabin is still in use.
"This is really a laboratory." Ning Gu's tone was full of disgust and disgust.
"The laboratory can do a lot of things, but without the laboratory, it is impossible." Lian Chuan patted him on the back lightly, "It depends on what to do."
Ning Gu glanced at him: "Anyway, I don't have a good impression of the laboratory, what do you think this laboratory does?"
"I can't see it," Lian Chuan walked to a fixed frame and saw a thick layer of black at the bottom, "This is a bit like..."
He stretched out his hand and pressed it, then pinched some and rubbed it in his hand.
"What does it look like?" Ning Gu also reached out and touched it, "Like dirt?"
Lian Chuan glanced at him: "Yes."
"Ye Xi's world is full of things." Ning Gu said.
"Now there are also in the main city laboratory, very few," Lian Chuan said, "to cultivate a small number of plants."
"This scale..." Ning Gu looked around, "Does the former main city still want green trees, grass, and flowers?"
"Probably," Lian Chuan suddenly felt a little emotional, "At the beginning, no one thought that we would even turn off the artificial starry sky in the end."
"Someone!" Ning Gu walked around behind a shelf and suddenly shouted.
Lian Chuan was already beside him when he yelled the first word, and then he was surrounded by Ning Gu's golden light.
"Wrap yourself." Lian Chuan said.
He saw the direction of Ning Gu's gaze, there was a table with a large chair behind the table.
There is a person on the chair.
To be precise, it should be a body.
Lian Chuan determined that this "person" was not alive.
"Hello!" The silver light beam under Ning Gu's feet began to extend towards the table, and he greeted the "person" behind the table confidently.
Lian Chuan walked over.
After getting closer, he could see that this might not even be called a body.
This is a very old protective suit, but it seems to be complete.
It contained... a man who had shriveled and turned black, and most of it was broken into slag.
"Dead?" Ning Gu followed.
"I've been dead for a long time." Lian Chuan walked over, hesitated, and reached out to take off the helmet of the protective suit.
As the helmet was removed, a gas that had been sealed for an unknown amount of time vacated from the neckline wrapped in black ash.
"Ah—" Ning Gu took two steps back, fanning his hands desperately.
The person in the protective suit, who was almost shattered, turned into black powder in an instant.
"I seem to have sucked his ashes." Ning Gu frowned, "Who is this unlucky guy..."
Lian Chuan didn't speak. He saw a pointed metal strip on the glove of the protective suit, so he reached out and touched the table.
Under the thick dust, he felt the writing on the table.
"What did you write?" Ning Gu approached curiously.
The two of them ignored the dust and swept away the floating dust on the table with their arms.
In the rising dust, they saw two lines of writing on the table.
"I don't know who will see me, but at least you are still alive," Lian Chuan touched the two lines of words with his hands. The words were deeply engraved, and the table was made of metal. To engrave with such strength, this person Probably not an ordinary person, it should be an experimental subject, "I was born after everyone disappeared..."
"What do you mean?" Ning Gu asked.
"The laboratory should still be in operation when we evacuated. This is an experimental subject that was 'produced' after the evacuation," Lian Chuan made a simple guess, and looked at the words behind, "The information I received can no longer Passing on, destruction is the inevitable end, long and hopeless."
After Lian Chuan finished reading, he glanced at Ning Gu.
"No more?" Ning Gu asked.
"It's gone." Lian Chuan said.
"Why can't he pass it on?" Ning Gu said, "The main city didn't retreat to its current position from the beginning, can it be walked over?"
"He may have some defects." Lian Chuan looked at the protective clothing. "The meaning of being unable to convey may be that he will not live long at all. Normal experimental subjects do not need protective clothing."
"It's a pity," Ning Gu sighed after a long time, "He will never know that the world is not destroyed... It's terrible to die with despair."
Lian Chuan didn't speak, just opened his arms.
"Huh?" Ning Gu looked at him.
Lian Chuan still didn't speak.
Ning Gu didn't ask any more questions, and went to hug him: "Don't be afraid."
"I'm not afraid." Lian Chuan said.
"Then you want to comfort me?" Ning Gu turned to look at him.
"I just want to hug you," Lian Chuan said, "When can you stop talking so much?"
"My lips are not soft enough, talk more to moisturize them." Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan laughed: "Too vengeful."
"The king tricked me into taking a button when I was young, and I remember it to this day." Ning Gu said, "If he wants to be in front of me, I can still beat him for the button."
Lian Chuan looked at him, moved forward, and kissed him on the lips.