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With a slight "ding" sound, a corner of Jiuyi's dog-head mask was cut off by Ning Gu.
Jiu Yi stopped and stared at Ning Gu.
Ning Gu knew why he was staring at him. Jiuyi was a bug. He was once powerful enough to see more than just an administrator with a brain. Although he hid in the Lost Valley and became Jiuyi, no one knew what kind of strength he had for so many years, but he was still the irreplaceable boss of the Lost Valley.
Now that he had gotten back the poet's part, he was somewhat surprised that Ning Gu had cut off a corner of the mask.
Just like if Ning Gu cut off a bunch of Lian Chuan's hair, Lian Chuan would be surprised.
… No.
It would probably crush the larynx directly.
"Sun Yi is very beautiful." Ning Gu said.
Jiu Yi suddenly raised his head.
"Although the savior she was expecting turned out to be just a piece of erroneous code," Ning Gu's hand slowly reached into his clothes and pinched the piece of paper, "Nine Wings."
Jiu Yi didn't move, just looked at him.
Ning Gu held the paper between his fingers and shook it gently: "Jiuyi, come back. We agreed that I will give you half of the main city."
Lian Chuan didn't look at Ning Gu, his eyes were always on Jiuyi. This was a bug that chose to self-delete, and could even forcibly lock the mental power in the Lost Valley. Ning Gu's trick of "considering our old friendship" might be of no use.
"The person you said you never wanted to see again," Ning Gu said, "is Sun Yi, right?"
Lian Chuan reached out and grabbed Ning Gu by the collar, pulling him out of the cave.
At this moment, the cold light from the Nine-Winged Finger Stings filled the entire cave.
"Did I say something wrong?" Ning Gu pulled his collar forward twice. "I thought I could call out the old Jiu Yi... Is he split in two like Ye Xi?"
"The real Ye Xi stayed in that little house until the end," Lian Chuan said, "and never came out."
"Do you mean Jiuyi will not come back?" Ning Gu looked at Jiuyi standing in the cave full of silver light, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
"Let's leave here first," Lian Chuan said, "The poet has just returned to Jiu Yi's mind, give him some time to stabilize."
"What if Jiu Yi is fighting with the poet in his mind?" Ning Gu was worried, "What if he fails to defeat the poet in the end?"
"Don't underestimate Jiuyi," Lianchuan said, "Jiuyi is a bug that appeared to facilitate the exit. The poet didn't volunteer to be locked in the Lost Valley to sleep. Jiuyi forcibly severed his consciousness. The poet can't be his opponent."
Just as Lianchuan and Ninggu jumped to the next level of the 8-shaped cave, the entrance leading to the Lost Valley was suddenly blocked by silver light, just like the light net that had blocked the poet before.
Lian Chuan turned around and saw Jiu Yi standing in front of the cave entrance on the upper level, looking down at them.
"Where are we going?" Jiu Yi asked.
"Let's find something to eat." Ning Gu said.
Jiuyi laughed, and there was an almost audible danger in his laughter as it came out from behind his mask.
Lian Chuan suddenly jumped up and pounced on Jiu Yi as Jiu Yi laughed.
Ning Gu quickly followed suit and waved his arm. When several dark silver rays streaked towards Jiuyi, Lian Chuan had already knocked Jiuyi to the ground with his fingertips pressing on his throat.
But Jiuyi suddenly raised his hand and blocked Ning Gu's attack.
Then he turned sideways and grabbed Lian Chuan's shoulder, flipped up from the ground, and stabbed his fingers into Lian Chuan's shoulder.
"Betelgeuse!" Ning Gu climbed the cave wall and jumped to the upper level, "Wake up!"
When he pounced on Jiuyi and threw a heavy punch, the silver light wrapped in the wind hit Jiuyi's face at the same time.
"Got it." Lian Chuan hit Jiu Yi's back with his knee when he was knocked backward by Ning Gu.
Jiuyi's fingertip almost passed by Ning Gu's eyes.
"You're crazy!" Ning Gu yelled, "Jiu Yi! I know you don't want to choose!"
Jiu Yi leaped up, turned over and hung upside down on the top of the cave.
"There will be an exit!" Ning Gu looked up at him, "I am the exit! You know! Sun Yi must have told you!"
"No one can decide whether those people live or disappear," Jiu Yi said, "There is no need to choose."
"I don't choose!" Ning Gu roared.
Jiuyi's fingertips emitted a cold light, like a net covering the sky and pressing down.
Lian Chuan pulled Ning Gu to the corner of the cave, and jumped up to the top of the cave in the cold light. Black spikes suddenly pierced his arm when he swung his arm. When Jiu Yi raised his hand to block, the spikes pierced his arm.
"Ning Gu," Lian Chuan said, "Control."
I can't control it, I can't use it in Lost Valley...
No, the poet has returned to Jiuyi's body, and Qi Hang has also been temporarily dispersed.
Jiuyi grabbed Lianchuan and suddenly lifted him up. Lianchuan was swung to the top of the cave, but at the same time, the second spike shot out from Lianchuan's palm and pierced into Jiuyi's shoulder.
Two spikes nailed Jiu Yi to the top of the cave.
Ning Gu lowered his head, took a breath, and raised his left hand.
The golden light that exploded from the fingertips spread along the cave wall to the top of the cave like fire, dyeing the entire cave golden.
When Lianchuan landed, Jiuyi, who was pushed against the top of the cave, suddenly retracted his arm and peeled his arm off the vertebral thorn, followed by his shoulder.
Before Lian Chuan could stand up, Jiu Yi had already accelerated to the ground, and the metal under his feet hit Lian Chuan's back heavily.
Ning Gu didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he felt like he heard a clicking sound on Lian Chuan’s body.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Lian Chuan and put down his raised hand.
His control has no effect on Jiu Yi!
Jiu Yi injured Betelgeuse!
My eyes were burning from the sound of "click".
When Ning Gu gritted his teeth and prepared to pounce down and fight to the death with Jiuyi, Lian Chuan suddenly looked up.
"control."
The voice was calm and firm. Ning Gu's eyes instantly flashed to the Betelgeuse that nailed ez all over the carriage in the ghost town. His sanity, which was about to be lost, was pulled back.
"Control." Lian Chuan repeated.
“Who can—” Jiuyi roared, and the roar with a metallic sound seemed to come from deep underground. When he kicked the ground, the entire cave began to shake.
Then a crack appeared on the top of the cave, which quickly expanded and the collapsed black iron kept hitting the ground.
"Me." Ning Gu said.
The golden light at the fingertips burst out again, as if a hole had been blown open at the bottom of the golden lake, and the light poured out and rushed towards Jiu Yi.
"Lost Valley?" Lei Yu jumped out from behind the cover, rushed to the entrance of the Lost Valley, and pressed his hand on the ground.
"It's down there." Long Biao also knelt on the ground.
The caracal walked back and forth outside the entrance anxiously, breathing heavily from its nose.
Everyone was stunned when golden light suddenly burst out from the ground.
Above the entire Lost Valley, golden light was pouring out from the cracks in the Black Iron Wasteland, as if a tortuous map was drawn in the darkness.
The caracal rushed into the entrance.
"Boss!" Lei Yu shouted.
"The boss shouldn't be affected," Haruzo frowned, "What happened?"
"Be alert." Lei Yu looked at Long Biao, and in just a few seconds, his voice became hoarse.
"He'll be fine." Long Biao glanced at him, "He's the strongest in the main city."
Without waiting for his answer, Long Biao stood up and walked away: "Clean-up team, alert! Divide into small groups to deploy defenses!"
The Nine-Winged being wrapped in golden light stood motionless, like a human-shaped firework.
Lian Chuan raised his hand and pierced two spikes into Jiuyi's shoulders, nailing him to the wall of the cave. Then two spikes were nailed into his legs.
After the golden light slowly disappeared, Ning Gu jumped down from the upper level.
"Where are you hurt?" He rushed to Lian Chuan.
"It's okay." Lian Chuan looked normal.
Ning Gu grabbed his hand and squeezed it. His hand was warm. "Nine Wings is so strong?"
"Well," Lian Chuan looked at Jiu Yi, "he..."
"Ning Gu!" Fulu's voice came from the cave entrance, "What did you do to the boss?"
"Boss—" Suki also rushed in.
"Don't get close to him," Lianchuan said, "Just get it under control."
"Didn't I tell you to wait in the old nest?" Ning Gu said.
"Black Ring said that the caracal has entered the Lost Valley," Fulu pointed at the cave entrance while staring at Jiuyi, "Let's bring the caracal here."
"Boss?" Lian Chuan turned his head and saw the caracal standing at the entrance of the cave.
"Boss?" Suki also turned his head, perhaps a little shocked that Lianzhong called the caracal this, but he quickly turned his head back, "What did you do!"
"He's fine," Ning Gu said, "He'll wake up soon. Otherwise, we can't negotiate. The poet didn't even give us a chance to speak. He came right up to kill us."
"Is the poet still here?" asked Fulu.
"I don't know either." Ning Gu walked towards the cave entrance and wanted to say hello to the caracal, but found that it had already left.
“Just came to see what happened,” Lianchuan said. “The cleanup team can feel it up there.”
Ning Gu raised his head and found that a huge hole had collapsed on the top of the cave, and it was dark outside.
“The outside of these caves and passages in Lost Valley,” he whispered, “is not solid.”
"It seems like there is a huge hole outside," said Lian Chuan.
"That coffin," Ning Gu looked at the blue sky and white clouds still floating in the darkness, a little absent-minded, "I know why Jiuyi doesn't want to come here."
"I saw something beautiful that will never come back," Lian Chuan said. "It must be very painful."
"So he just wants to forget." Ning Gu sighed softly.
"I don't just want to forget it," Jiu Yi, who had been nailed to the cave wall with his head down, suddenly said, "I'm also afraid of remembering it."
Ning Gu turned his head suddenly: "Jiu Yi? Jiu Yi! Is that you!"
Jiu Yi slowly raised his head and stared at him. After a long while, he said, "Guess."
"Boss!" Fulu pounced over and hugged one of Jiuyi's legs.
"Boss!" Suki also rushed over and hugged Jiuyi's other leg.
"Let go!" Jiuyi squeezed out two words from between his teeth.
"Hurry up and put our boss down!" Fulu turned around and shouted at Lianchuan.
"No." Lian Chuan looked at Jiu Yi, "Ask him if he wants to come down."
"Let's leave it at this for now." Jiu Yi said.
"Does it hurt?" Fulukushouxi did not ask why he didn't want to come down.
"No feeling." Jiuyi said, "You two ask Black Ring to pay attention to the surroundings and tell the cleanup team that the savior has returned. The scavengers will definitely move. Travelers in the main city should be careful."
Fulu, Shouxi rushed out quickly.
"How do you know?" Ning Gu looked at Jiuyi.
"I was in that cave," Jiu Yi said. "I don't know how long I stayed there. I saw it from birth to death."
"Why are you afraid to remember it?" Lian Chuan asked, "What are you afraid of?"
"People who have nothing are most likely to despair and fall to the bottom," Jiu Yi said, "I'm afraid that I will question the meaning of my life. After all, I just want to live, and it doesn't matter how I live."
Ning Gu turned and looked at Lian Chuan.
"You are afraid that you will choose to end it." Lian Chuan said.
"Yes," Jiu Yi narrowed his eyes, "I won't allow anyone to choose to end it either."
"We didn't choose to end it!" Ning Gu was speechless, "You didn't even give me a chance to speak, and you didn't listen to what I said!"
"Before the poet comes back, I will believe you," Jiu Yi said, "Now I don't believe anyone."
"What's wrong with you?" Ning Gu said.
"The poet is the part of himself that has been shaken by despair," Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu frowned, and reluctantly understood: "Can you throw it out again?"
"We can throw it and we can't throw it," Lian Chuan said, "We need the strongest Nine Wings to help."
"Why should I help you?" Jiuyi said.
"You are nailed to the wall now." Ning Gu said.
"I can stay here until the world ends," Jiu Yi said, "and continue to live in my own head."
"Then try it!" Ning Gu said viciously.
Jiu Yi said nothing and closed his eyes.
"What should we do?" Ning Gu asked Lian Chuan.
"Let's go to the main city," Lian Chuan said, "and find the captain. Jiu Yi was not lying. We have to get ahead of the scavengers and not be passive."
"Where is Jiuyi?" Ning Gu glanced at the motionless Jiuyi.
"It's up to him." Lian Chuan turned and walked out of the cave.
"Why can Jiuyi split himself into two?" Ning Gu followed and the two walked towards the exit together.
"Maybe a certain Ning Gu got inspiration from Ye Xi," Lian Chuan said, "I don't know what kind of bug will work, so I try everything."
"Now I have to fight with myself." Ning Gu sighed.
"It's a good thing that he was able to split the other half of the conflict," Lian Chuan said, "otherwise we might not have had the opportunity to get to this point."
The cleanup team is patrolling around the Lost Valley.
When they saw Lian Chuan coming out, the team members all walked over and wanted to say something, but in the end they just patted him on the shoulders.
In the final countdown without direction, any expression has lost its meaning.
"This is the first time I see you clearly from such a close distance." Chun San looked at Ning Gu.
"sh..." Ning Gu opened his mouth and was interrupted by Lian Chuan before he could even finish a word.
"This is Aunt Chun." Lian Chuan said.
It must be Aunt Chun.
This is what Ning Gu wanted to say, but he was sure Lian Chuan thought he wanted to say "handsome, right?"
I don’t know why he is such a fool in Lianchuan’s eyes.
"Auntie Chun." Ning Gu said.
Chun San suddenly raised his eyes and looked at him: "It's you."
"Huh?" Ning Gu was stunned.
"Who dares to say that I don't exist..." Chun San said, "It's your voice."
Li Xiang counted the supplies, mainly food and water. In addition to what they brought with them, there were also some collected from the ruins of the main city, plus some carried by bats. They would have no problem holding out here for ten days or half a month.
There has been no change in Dewzhu. The troops from the main city have surrounded Dewzhu tightly. The team of travelers they sent over is lurking on the outskirts and will send back news regularly.
The flickering sunlight also did not change, always maintaining its frequency.
The difference between light and dark is particularly frightening.
What has been changing all the time are the cracks on the Black Iron Wasteland, two of which have cut into the boundaries of the main city.
The area occupied by the travelers was once a shopping mall in Zone C. There is enough space above and below the ground to accommodate the army of travelers from Zone E in the warehouse.
Many residents of the main city also entered the mall. In the past, these people either hid or called the police when they saw travelers, but now they stayed in the same space peacefully.
The devil-like travelers now act like a cleaning team, bringing them the greatest comfort.
Although travelers do not share food, having a safe place to stay is enough.
"The golden light over there," the team leader came over and whispered, "is not Qi Hang, but Ning Gu. The traveler from Lost Valley has been identified."
"Already..." Li Xiang was a little surprised, "Is it so strong?"
"Why exactly did you take him to the ghost town?" The captain looked at E, who was standing on the edge of the rooftop with his back to them. "I never understood why. Was it just because he was the most suitable place to store Qi Hang's fragments? I'm afraid it's not that simple."
e moved and turned around: "He must leave the main city. This is the only thing I know."
A traveler ran over and whispered to the leader: "Ning Gu is coming this way, with Lian Chuan."
"Is it safe?" Li Xiang asked in a low voice.
"No one is following them," the traveler said. "Lian Chuan is very fast and no one can catch up with him."
"Well," the leader nodded and turned to E, "Do you want to avoid it or... meet it?"
e said nothing and walked towards the stairs.
Before he had taken two steps, two dark shadows leaped up from the edge of the roof and landed beside him.
When he turned his head, Ning Gu stood up.
Perhaps he didn't expect to meet like this, Ning Gu just stood there in a daze.