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"It flashed again." Lei Yu stood behind the black iron bunker, looking in the direction of the main city.
The brightness of the sunlight was not much different from before, and the light thorns still allowed the main city buildings to be clearly seen at this distance.
But the flicker after each interval of sunlight was unprecedented, not a flash, and it was unknown whether it brought any changes to the main city.
"I checked the time," Chun San stood beside him, "I'm almost certain it started when I left the liaison room."
"Did you hear anything else besides that sentence?" Lei Yu asked.
"No," Chun San shook his head, "Even that sentence is very vague. Even if the communication system is damaged, the backup device can ensure that the communication with the administrator is absolutely smooth, so... I suspect..."
Lei Yu turned his head and looked at her.
"It's just my speculation," Chun San frowned, "I suspect that it wasn't a signal sent by the administrator, but something, consciousness, mental power, that invaded the administrator, or just happened to connect to the administrator's channel."
"It is possible to do this... poet, Qi Hang, e," Lei Yu paused, "Chuan?"
"Even if a poet wakes up occasionally, he doesn't have such a strong ability," Chun San also paused, "As for Chuan, it's probably not the same. Even if the signal is very poor, I can still recognize his voice. Besides, if Chuan could do it, he would have done it long ago... He has countless chances."
Neither of them spoke again.
Countless opportunities refer to countless matching trainings and countless secret experiments. Every time, Lian Chuan would be stimulated to unleash powerful mental strength because of the extreme pain.
But there was never a single time when I was able to get through to the administrator.
"It's very regular," the old traveler who followed Ning Gu and Lian Chuan said behind them, "It's like some kind of signal. Travelers will use whistles to convey information. The combination of long and short sounds has different meanings."
The old man looked very old and could not walk, but he was in good spirits. Although he did not follow everyone to the parking lot, he did not hide in the Lost Valley and just sat there.
"It does look like some kind of password," Lei Yu said. "Has the main city ever used any password?"
"There are two sets that have been used, but the algorithms are different, so they don't match," Chun San said, "There are no more records for reference in the database. If there are any and you need to check, you can only go to the library's classics library."
There aren’t too many paper books left from the previous main city, and they are all collected in the library. The main city doesn’t pay much attention to paper information, but is more concerned with technological information that can be put into use immediately.
"The library is below the City Affairs Office," Lei Yu said. "It's not easy to get in, especially now that all the guards are concentrated there."
"Do you think this is some kind of hint?" Chun San asked, "or a warning?"
"I don't know. At this time, anything is possible." Lei Yu glanced into the distance. "There is also a crack over there at the parking spot. If we go a little further, the track will be cut off, and there will be no connection with the ghost town."
"What's the situation in the ghost town..." Chun San asked.
"Some bats have entered the main city to pass on the news. They can communicate better with the travelers. I'll go over when they come back," Lei Yu said. "Talk to the leader. Now everyone has no idea what to do, where to go, and what to do next..."
"Yeah." Chun San nodded.
"Is this a real brain?" Ning Gu asked softly in Lian Chuan's ear, "or is it a simulated image?"
"What we see should only be something in the consciousness space," Lian Chuan also whispered, "but the brain should have been seen by someone before, and it really existed, but we don't know who it belonged to."
"Yes." said a robotic male voice.
This is one of Little Green and Little Blue.
"Whose memory is this?" Ning Gu asked.
"Nine-winged," Lian Chuan said, looking at the three brains in front of him, "right?"
"Not sure," Xiaohong said, "He's not the only one who has seen the brain."
"Who else?" Lian Chuan asked.
"The enter of each generation's main city." Xiaohong said.
"What is enter?" Ning Gu asked.
"You." Xiaohong replied.
"That's the savior." Ning Gu said.
Little Red didn't say anything. All three brains were silent. After a while, one of Little Green and Little Blue spoke up: "There is no such word."
This answer surprised Ning Gu and made him quite depressed.
"If you say there is no, then there is no. Who do you think you are?" He raised his voice suddenly with an unhappy tone.
Lian Chuan held his hand to comfort him and reminded him to stay calm: "Who else?"
"Ye Xi." Xiao Hong replied.
"Ye Xi is not enter," Lian Chuan said, "right?"
"Yes." Xiaohong replied.
"Who is Ye Xi?" Lian Chuan asked immediately.
"Everything." said Xiaohong.
This answer is the same as what Ye Xi said himself.
There are two possibilities, Ye Xi is everything, or Ye Xi's level... Lian Chuan couldn't find a suitable description and could only use this word. If Ye Xi's level is above the three administrators, he can let the administrators give such an answer.
And every generation of the main city's "Ninggu" has seen these three brains...
According to this logic, Ning Gu is indeed the most special.
But Jiuyi and myself are obviously outside this rule, so why can we see it
"Is Jiuyi a bug?" Lian Chuan asked, "The other bug Ye Xi mentioned, is that him?"
"Yes." One of Little Blue and Little Green answered.
Lian Chuan felt that his mind was working very fast. He didn't know how long he could stay here, so he had to quickly identify the key issues.
"Enter why did I see you guys?" he asked.
"Choice." Xiaohong said, "This is the only thing we can do for you."
"Choose destruction, or a dark world?" Ning Gu asked immediately.
"Yes." Xiaohong replied.
"The woman who was talking to Jiu Yi," Ning Gu looked at the three brains in front of him, not knowing which one was which, "was it you?"
"Yes," Xiaohong said, "and no."
"Speak human language." Ning Gu said, "Don't beat around the bush!"
"It's the me of the past," Xiaohong said, "the me that no longer exists."
"So now all you have left is your brain?" Ning Gu said.
"Not now." Xiaohong said.
"Ah—" Ning Gu shouted, "I think your brain is not half as good as Jiuyi's. You can't even speak clearly!"
"Choose." A mechanical male voice sounded.
"The countdown for the scavenger to start is in progress," Xiaohong said, "Choose."
"What to choose? How to choose?" Ning Gu asked.
The three brains did not answer his question again, and just hung quietly in the darkness.
When Ning Gu was about to rush over and punch him in the head, the surroundings suddenly seemed to be illuminated by countless strong lights and instantly turned into a dazzling white.
Ning Gu and Lian Chuan subconsciously grabbed each other's hands at the same time.
"Same as I did last time!" Ning Gu shouted.
But there was no sound.
Lian Chuan couldn't clearly calculate how long it took for the strong light to slowly dissipate. The sudden appearance of the light gave him a sharp pain in the head.
He could hardly breathe when the long-lost pain came over him.
If Ning Gu hadn't groped his way to support him, he would have already fallen to his knees.
When the white light around him gradually faded, Lian Chuan vaguely saw a black column in front of him, and he stretched out his hand to support it.
The touch in the palm of my hand was rough, but I could feel that it was a fixed object and there was no danger of attack.
He supported himself on the pillar, lowered his head and slowly adjusted his breathing.
The severe pain in my brain slowly disappeared along with the white light.
He saw clearly what was beneath his feet.
The ground is brown and black, not very flat, but very solid.
There were also green strips on the ground. Based on the few artificial plants and animals that Chun San had taken him to see when he was a child, he could tell that these things were green grass.
He slowly raised his eyes and looked forward, all he saw was green.
They were standing next to a large green meadow, and he was holding onto an irregular pillar with his hands. Looking up, it was also green.
It's a tree.
Lian Chuan stared at the shaking leaves and couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
"I've been here before," Ning Gu whispered beside him, "It's in Lost Valley. This is the world that Jiu Yi has seen in his memory."
Lian Chuan turned his head and saw Ning Gu standing beside him in a trance, with golden spots swaying on his face and body, and their hands were still tightly clasped together.
"But..." Ning Gu slowly turned his head and looked around, "The little kid I saw is no longer here. He was holding a yellow bubble."
"This is the destruction that the administrator asked us to choose," Lian Chuan pinched his brows, "Why is this destruction?"
"Did you have a headache just now?" Ning Gu asked.
"Yeah," Lian Chuan responded, "It's fine now."
"What is that?" Ning Gu asked, "Water? Is it the same place as the one we jumped into, with lots of water?"
Lian Chuan followed his gaze and saw a large expanse of shimmering water just on the other side of the green grass.
"I want to go over and take a look." Ning Gu said.
"Let's go." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu lowered his head and carefully stepped on the green grass: "It's a little soft, much more comfortable than the ground in the ghost town and the main city."
"These green ones are grass," said Lian Chuan.
"Is it a plant?" Ning Gu asked.
"Yes." Lian Chuan replied.
"Plants are alive, right?" Ning Gu squatted down and touched the grass with his hands. "Yes, they are alive, but they are harder than they look. I thought they were as soft as the boss's hair."
"Have you ever touched the boss's hair?" Lian Chuan was stunned.
"I touched it quietly," Ning Gu raised his index finger, "I just touched it with one finger, and it almost hit me."
Lian Chuan smiled and said nothing.
"If we step on the grass, will they die?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know," Lian Chuan looked around, "There's a road over there, but no grass."
"Then let's go that way," Ning Gu said, "I don't know if these blades of grass represent one life each, or one piece of grass represents one life..."
There was a path that went through the green grass and led to the water. The path was made of stones, which they rarely saw, and was laid on the ground in small pieces.
Walking along the path to the water's edge, Ning Gu stared at the water for a long time.
Lian Chuan quickly glanced around and found that there was no one in sight. The blue sky, the mist-like things that should be clouds, the green trees and grass, the clusters of red, yellow and purple flowers, and the mountains in the distance, these things that he only vaguely knew about were now clearly presented before his eyes.
A bright world full of colors, the wind is light and the air is warm.
"I want to touch this water." Ning Gu said.
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded. Ning Gu was still very cautious and told him specifically, probably because he was afraid of any unexpected situation.
Ning Gu squatted by the water, slowly put his hand into the water, then slowly pulled it out, looking at his wet hand: "It's cold."
"Don't lick it." Lian Chuan reminded.
Ning Gu turned his head and laughed: "How do you know I want to lick it?"
"You look like you want to lick it." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu smiled and reached his hand into the water again, paddling it twice. Ripples formed on the water surface, spreading out in circles.
"This," Ning Gu stared at the ripples, "is it similar to my ability?"
"Yeah." Lian Chuan squatted down beside him and reached into the water to poke around a few times.
Ning Gu raised his hand.
But the light at the fingertips did not appear.
"It's useless." Ning Gu said.
"Yes," Lian Chuan responded, "I found out that there must be some special reason why all the abilities and special physiques disappeared."
"You too?" Ning Gu asked.
Lian Chuan nodded.
"Let's go look somewhere else," Ning Gu stood up, "The brains must have asked us to come here for a reason."
Lian Chuan also stood up and walked back along the path with him.
"Just now the female brain said that the scavenger has started the countdown," Ning Gu turned his head and looked at him, "Could it be that the scavenger has already started while we are still here?"
"Probably not." Lian Chuan said, "There is no time, everything is just a thought."
"What do you mean?" Ning Gu asked.
"I think..." Lian Chuan thought for a moment, "Ye Xi has always emphasized non-existence. Everything does not exist. There is no present, no future, no time, no beginning, no end... We may really be outside of time. We are here, but perhaps we are not occupying time."
Ning Gu didn't say anything. After a while, he spoke up: "Then we don't exist anymore?"
"In the eyes of a third person, maybe," Lianchuan said, "but we know that we exist, what we have experienced, and what we feel, right?"
"Hmm," Ning Gu looked into the distance, "What's that over there? A mountain?"
"Yes." Lian Chuan said.
"Uncle Feng said that a valley is a mountain valley," Ning Gu said, "the place between mountains is a valley. He said my name means a quiet valley. I have never really understood what it means. If there are mountains over there, then the valley must be a very large place."
"Yes." Lian Chuan said.
"Where is Chuan?" Ning Gu asked.
"Waterway." Lian Chuan said, "Aunt Chun told me, but she didn't really understand what it meant."
For people in the main city, a name is just a mark, one of the symbols that distinguish them from other people in the system. For newborns, the system sometimes randomly assigns a name, and no one has ever thought about the meaning of the name.
It is rare to find travelers born in the ghost town with a name similar to the main city like Ninggu. Most of their names are related to things they can see around them, and they all have meaning...
After walking out of the green grass, the ground turned into a flat black. Lian Chuan touched it and could feel the obvious temperature in the sunlight.
"What does that sign say? Where does it point to?" Ning Gu pointed to a road sign on the side of the road.
This road sign is very common in the main city, with a round sign on a pole.
"The east gate of the park." Lian Chuan said.
"Is this a park?" Ning Gu was a little surprised.
"It depends on the intention." Lian Chuan looked around again.
"How about Biguangci Park?" Ning Gu asked.
"If you compare it this way..." Lianchuan said, "Guangci Park is nothing."
Ning Gu was silent for a while before asking, "This world is not a revolving lantern, right?"
"Yeah." Lian Chuan responded.
"Let's go to the east gate of the park and take a look," Ning Gu said, "There's no one here. Is there no one in this world?"
Not long after walking along the road, they saw several road signs, amusement parks, a 5D cinema, a food court...
"I haven't seen any of them." Ning Gu said softly.
"Me neither." Lian Chuan said.
"This world is very interesting." Ning Gu said.
Lian Chuan didn't say anything. According to Ye Xi, everything doesn't exist. Does that mean this world doesn't exist either
At the end of the road they saw a big gate in the middle of many trees.
It looks somewhat similar to the gate of Guangci Park, but the gate of Guangci Park is made of metal, while this gate is made of stone.
Outside the door was a horizontal road, very wide, but also very quiet, with no one and no means of transportation.
When Lian Chuan and Ning Gu walked towards the gate, a person turned in from the right side of the gate.
The two people stopped at the same time.
"Welcome." The man stood in the middle of the gate, opened his arms and said with a smile.
"This is..." Ning Gu looked at the face that looked exactly like his own and stood there in shock.
"Ye Xi." Lian Chuan said.
"Welcome to my world." Ye Xi said.