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"Why didn't I feel that the ground of Lost Valley was so hard before?" Ning Gu was lying in a small cave in the Nine Wings' Lair, looking at the ceiling of the cave.
"Have you ever slept in the Lost Valley?" Jiuyi sat next to him, leaning against the wall of the cave and looking at him.
"He slept before," Ning Gu thought for a moment, "He sat and he lay down before. Lian Chuan also slept before... No, he fainted. There was still a bed."
"You want me to find you a bed right now?" Jiu Yi said, "Who are you?"
"Savior." Ning Gu glanced at him.
"Don't look at me," Jiu Yi said, "Go to sleep quickly. Look at me before you fall asleep. I'm afraid you'll dream about me when you fall asleep."
"Then you think too highly of yourself," Ning Gu said.
"Do you want to sleep?" Jiuyi said.
"How can I sleep!" Ning Gu got angry and sat up suddenly. "I don't know what's happening with Lian Chuan now, and I don't know what's happening with Aunt Chun and Long Biao! I'm lying here sleeping, do you think I can sleep? Can you sleep?"
"I can sleep well," Jiuyi smiled, "I don't care about those people."
"Blow it." Ning Gu sat on the ground, lowered his head and sighed.
"Drink some water, calm down," Jiuyi stood up and went to get him a glass of water. "If that doesn't work, I'll get you some sleeping pills."
"No," Ning Gu took the water and took a sip, "I'm afraid you'll take this opportunity to change me..."
Jiu Yi punched Ning Gu on the temple.
Ning Gu fell to the ground.
Jiuyi caught the cup in his hand before he fell to the ground and handed it back to him.
Fulu, who had been sticking his head out of the cave, ran over and took the cup: "Boss, did you kill him?"
"Get lost," Jiu Yi glanced at him, "I think you might as well modify your head, it's empty anyway!"
"Fainted." Fulu jumped over and probed under Ning Gu's nose.
"Get out of here!" Jiu Yi said.
Fulu put the cup back in its place, turned around and ran out of the cave.
"Savior," Jiuyi helped Ning Gu lie down straight, "Don't bother me after you wake up. I don't have that much time to coax the child to sleep. If it's too late, I'm afraid you can't save Lianchuan and you will fight with me..."
Ning Gu closed his eyes and looked to be in good condition. He didn't look like he was knocked unconscious, but rather like he was asleep.
Jiuyi picked up a blanket and put it under his head, then sat back in the corner, leaning against the wall and continued to look at him: "I always thought that having nothing to worry about is an advantage, but now it seems that having something to worry about is the key to success... It's up to you."
There's no time.
Ning Gu ran forward along a metallic white corridor, with walls on both sides that he had seen before. It was the corridor where he had seen four portraits of "Ning Gu".
If he wants to find Lianchuan, it shouldn't be here, because this is not where Lianchuan is now.
But he didn't know how to leave here.
"Lianchuan!" he shouted as he ran.
Then he felt the ground beneath his feet suddenly become empty, and he suddenly fell down and sank into another corridor.
He was also familiar with this corridor as he and Lian Chuan had walked through it when they went to the warehouse of the City Affairs Office to get thermal insulation clothing.
"Lianchuan!" he roared again.
Then he stopped.
But the ground did not change.
…It doesn’t look like it’s voice-activated.
I can only keep running and find Lianchuan first.
The corridor was very long and after running through countless turns, he saw a door. Without caring where it was, Ning Gu rushed over and pushed the door open.
It was a room with an experimental cabin similar to the one Haruzo had taken him to before.
There is someone inside.
He saw Liu Dong, Chen Fei, and Lei Yu.
The three of them were looking at the experimental cabin in front of them.
Ning Gu turned his head.
Saw a child.
He looked about ten years old, wearing simple short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and his body and face were covered with black scars, some new and some old.
Ning Gu felt a little nervous when he saw these scars.
This is Lianchuan.
"Kill it and you can get out." Liu Dong said.
It can be seen that Xiao Lianchuan in the experimental cabin has lost strength in his left leg. He is kneeling on one knee on the ground, but is still trying to stand up by supporting himself with his hands.
"Stand up," Liu Dong said, "You are now a compatible person. If you can't kill it, you are useless."
Xiao Lianchuan raised his head and glanced at the people outside the cabin.
Slowly stood up.
"Let's stop here today." Chen Fei said in a low voice.
"Let go." Liu Dong ignored Chen Fei's words.
The door on the top of the experimental cabin opened, and a pale humanoid experimental subject slowly climbed into the cabin upside down.
"I'm going outside," Lei Yu turned around, "to smoke a cigarette."
He brushed past Ning Gu, pushed the door open and walked out.
Ning Gu stared at Xiao Lianchuan in the cabin. When the experimental subject suddenly broke away from the cabin roof and fell on Xiao Lianchuan's head, he rushed forward two steps: "Be careful!"
But the subject's figure in the air suddenly stopped.
Xiao Lianchuan actually used his left leg, which had lost its strength just now, to kick hard, flipped backwards, and kicked the experimental subject in the air with his right calf. A black thorn in his right calf directly pierced its head.
The thorns of Betelgeuse.
However, the vertebrae were smaller than the ones Ning Gu had seen before.
After Xiao Lianchuan landed, the experimental subject fell to the ground and stopped moving.
Liu Dong clapped his hands a few times and turned to look at Fade Chen: "Did you see that?"
"Yeah." Fade Chen nodded.
"How do you feel?" Liu Dong asked Xiao Lianchuan in a gentle tone, "Does it hurt?"
Xiao Lianchuan stood up and looked at him: "It's okay."
The childish and cold voice made Ning Gu feel uncomfortable.
Before Ning Gu could take a closer look at Xiao Lianchuan's injuries, he slipped off the ground and fell into another corridor.
Ning Gu ran forward, and when he saw the door again, he already knew what he would see.
Behind the door is still the experimental cabin.
The teenage Lian Chuan kept jumping up, getting hit, falling down, and getting injured, but every time, no matter how badly injured he looked, he would stand up again and kill.
"You have to prove that you are irreplaceable. You have to kill all threats, even if they are just 'possible'. You are irreplaceable only if you are alive."
Ning Gu fell into the next corridor again.
He didn't know why he got into such a track.
Different corridors, different experimental chambers, different experimental subjects, and different training.
The only thing that remains unchanged is Lian Chuan, who is always fighting, from a child, to a teenager, to a young man.
The number of injuries is getting less and less, the speed is getting faster and faster, and the time to kill is getting shorter and shorter.
His eyes became increasingly cold.
Ning Gu had never heard any sound from him due to his injury, no crying, no asking for help, not even a hum.
Whether attacking or taking an attack, he was always as quiet and silent as if he had no life.
—I'm just a weapon.
Ning Gu didn't know when Lian Chuan understood this, was it at the beginning or in constant pain. He had imagined what kind of pain and darkness Lian Chuan had experienced, but it had never been as real as it was now. He could even feel himself as a bystander, his hands trembling with despair and fear.
How much anger and hatred Lianchuan has hidden in his heart.
Once a hole is opened in this darkness, it will be enough for Lianchuan to become the source of hatred that exists to destroy everything.
And Lianchuan made great efforts to pull himself back from the cycle of destroying countless worlds with the scavengers.
All the darkness was once again suppressed and sealed away by him.
Lianchuan is indeed an irreplaceable powerful bug.
Ning Gu fell again.
I saw a black column of water.
He was already very familiar with this water column cabin. It had been a part of Lian Chuan's life for more than 20 years and would appear from time to time.
But now the liquid in this water column tank is black.
It was no longer the transparent liquid that could show Lianchuan's scarred body.
"Lianchuan." Ning Gu walked to the water column cabin and reached out to touch the hard shell.
"Jiu Yi!" Lei Yu's anxious voice came from the intercom.
"Here." Jiuyi stood up.
"Go check on E," Lei Yu said, "There's a gap in the black iron barrier. The scavengers are here but can't contact E. I wonder if he has any problems."
"I'll go and take a look. But it's useless even if I find him. No one can control the puppet except Ning Gu." Jiuyi said as he quickly walked out of the cave. He raised his hand and a net woven with cold light sealed the cave entrance.
Then he jumped onto the cave wall, his fingertips made a ringing sound, and several black rings appeared from the darkness.
"Guard Ninggu," Jiuyi said, "If he's not in the right state, no matter how many people die, we must block him in the cave."
Black Ring silently jumped to the bottom of the cave and stood guard in front of the cave entrance.
The gap has always been there, but because it is guarded by the puppets, the scavenger cannot break through without the control center.
However, when Jiu Yi came out of the Lost Valley and went not far into the Black Iron Wasteland, he saw groups of scavengers being suppressed by the firepower of the cleanup team. Black Ring and some of the travelers who stayed there were constantly being killed in the flames.
Jiuyi leaped into the air, his finger piercing with a large amount of cold light, pressing towards the scavenger.
After clearing an area, he continued to move forward, and the cleaning team on the ground also followed forward, trying to force the scavengers back and repair the gap.
Jiu Yi quickly crossed two cracked fire walls and several partition areas, but did not see e.
But now the situation in the Black Iron Wasteland shows that something must have happened to E.
Without control and command, the puppets' fighting power was greatly reduced. More than half of the puppets trapped in several gaps were killed or injured, and the stationed travelers were exhausted from the continuous fighting.
“Savior, savior,” Nine Wings circled in the air, his fingertips occasionally piercing the darkness, scavengers were cut into pieces, but with only him like this, as long as the number of scavengers in the final sprint was enough, it would only be a matter of time for them to rush into the Lost Valley. “Savior, what are you doing?”
A dark silver light flashed in front, as if causing ripples, and a dark silver light spread out radiatingly. The puppet recovered its combat power the moment the light flashed.
Jiu Yi breathed a sigh of relief and landed behind a large piece of black iron.
e was sitting next to the black iron, his face pale.
"How long can it last?" Jiuyi asked.
"Not sure," E said, "Where's Ning Gu?"
"In my dream, I was walking hand in hand with Lian Chuan," Jiu Yi squatted down and scratched E's throat with his fingertips a few times, "I don't know how long it will take... Do you want me to hold on for a while?"
"Not now." E glanced at him.
"It will be too late if you die," Jiu Yi said, "I can't modify the dead."
"I'll call you before I die." said E.
"No, you have to leave some time. I'm not a magician who can change it in a second." Jiu Yi said.
"Got it." E said and coughed twice at the beginning.
"Hold on for a while," Jiuyi raised his head and looked towards the main city, "I have a hunch."
"Dewdrop is about to make a move," E said. "It can sense the fluctuations of the Scavengers. If a large number of Scavengers break through the gap, it may seize this opportunity."
"You can read my mind?" Jiu Yi said.
"Go quickly." said E.
"Maybe we're going to die," Jiuyi spread his wings, "Why rush?"
"The readings have changed!" the technician's voice came from the monitor.
"Is it starting to come over?" Liu Dong looked at the water column cabin on the screen. It was still pitch black and no changes could be seen.
"Yes, the display information is starting to be transmitted." The technician replied, looking back at the water column cabin behind him, and then stood up in fear, "There is a crack in the water column cabin!"
"Repair." Liu Dong gave a simple order and turned to look at the people around him, "The experimental chamber is closed."
In the picture, you can see that metal walls are starting to fall around the experimental cabin. After a few seconds, the experimental cabin will become a sealed metal box.
There is oxygen supply in the water column chamber, and as long as nothing unexpected happens, the connection with the dew will continue.
As for the technicians still inside, they were not within his consideration.
"Captain Liu," the technician rushed to the monitor, "Open the door! Let me out!"
"Calm down!" Liu Dong raised his voice. "If nothing goes wrong, you can get out of the cabin alive! If something goes wrong, we will all die. There is no difference between inside and outside!"
"But I don't want to die like this..." the technician's voice trembled.
"Calm down and monitor the data changes," Liu Dong stood up, "I'm going to the communication cabin now. You are the hero who will help us usher in a new world."
Ning Gu reached his hand into the black water column and his fingertips touched something.
He moved his fingers gently and touched... probably Lian Chuan's lower abdomen, and a few scars on it.
"Lian Chuan," Ning Gu reached to the side and grabbed Lian Chuan's hand, "I'm here to win every bet."
Lian Chuan's hand moved.
"Lian Chuan!" Ning Gu raised his voice.
Lian Chuan grabbed his hand.
Ning Gu breathed a sigh of relief, then pulled Lian Chuan out of the black water column with great force.
Before Ning Gu could see Lianchuan's situation clearly, Liu Dong's voice came from behind: "Hello, friend from the new world."
Ning Gu turned around in shock and saw a blurry figure of Liu Dong sitting on a golden chair: "Liu Dong?"
"Who are you?" Lian Chuan asked.
Ning Gu turned back in shock again and saw that the person standing in front of him was indeed Lian Chuan. There was even a small flash of light on the back of his hand.
"I am the master of this old world which has no hope," Liu Dong replied.
"Bullshit!" Ning Gu turned around and cursed, "The masters of this world are still fighting outside!"
But Liu Dong didn't seem to notice his presence and his eyes were only on Lian Chuan.
"What do you want?" Lian Chuan asked.
Ning Gu felt like his head was about to be twisted off in shock. Has Lian Chuan's consciousness been swallowed up by the person in the dewdrops
"I'm a candid person. Time is short, so I'll just summarize it briefly," Liu Dong said. "I want to work with you to clean up this world. After the scavengers are done, we can share this world."
No, that's not right.
If Lian Chuan's consciousness was devoured, Ning Gu was staring at Lian Chuan, he couldn't still be here, he was still in Lian Chuan's consciousness, and the fact that Liu Dong couldn't see him was proof of that.
"How to share?" Lian Chuan asked.
"First of all, I need to know the conditions and methods for you to come out," Liu Dong said, "In addition, I also want to tell you the first condition of our cooperation."
"Speak." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu still stared at Lian Chuan.
This way of speaking is exactly the same as Lian Chuan's. He is too familiar with Lian Chuan. He knows how Lian Chuan speaks when he is a hyena, how he speaks when he is angry, how he speaks when he is happy, how he speaks when he doesn't want to pay attention to people, how he speaks when he is mocking... Although most of the time it sounds no different.
But he could tell the difference.
This is Lianchuan.
This is not the man in the dew.
"You have to help us clean up the scum who are still struggling outside," Liu Dong said, "the useless old leader and his colleagues, the travelers who ignore the rules, the crazy bats. Of course, if you think it is necessary, we can leave some mutants behind. Their abilities may be able to help us."
"Okay." Lian Chuan replied.
"Now please tell me how you came out of the dewdrop," Liu Dong said, "I need to make arrangements according to the situation."
"How can I tell," Lian Chuan said, "whether you are telling the truth?"
"You have been here for a while," Liu Dong said, "and you have some understanding of this world. Your savior should have passed on some information to you. It should be clear what kind of person I am and what I want to do."
"You want to be the God of this world." Lian Chuan said.
Liu Dong laughed.
"Why should we live under your rule?" Lian Chuan said.
Liu Dong stopped smiling and said, "Who said there is only one God? This can be a world with many gods."
"Your farts are so strong that they can make eight dewdrops," Ning Gu said angrily, pointing at Liu Dong. "Do you really want to deceive people from another world just to achieve your goal? Do you really think that everyone is just a tool to achieve your goal?"
"We don't have much time," Liu Dong said, "We need to attack before the scum outside are having the hardest time dealing with the scavengers. Please tell me how you are going to get out."
"Like this." Lian Chuan slowly raised his hand.
A small transparent dewdrop slowly floated out from his palm, and gradually grew from the size of a fingertip to the size of a palm.
"Lian Chuan?" Ning Gu was stunned.
He originally thought that Lian Chuan was still conscious, but now when he saw this little dewdrop he suddenly became scared.
"What is this?" Liu Dong stood up from his big golden chair with some excitement and took two steps forward.
"This is," Lian Chuan looked at Xiao Luzhu, "the person you are waiting for, the world you want."
"Hmm?" Liu Dong looked at him.
"Commander Liu," Lian Chuan said, "Have I ever told you that you don't know me well enough?"
Liu Dong suddenly froze.
"You don't know," Lian Chuan said, "how much I hate you."
"Who are you?" Liu Dong shouted in horror, turning his head to the side, "Are the readings in the experimental chamber normal?"
"Lian Chuan?" Ning Gu also yelled, "Are you Lian Gou?"
"The readings are normal," Lian Chuan said. "Everything is normal."
"Who are you?" Liu Dong's voice trembled.
"I'm here to destroy your 'temple,'" Lian Chuan pulled his hand back abruptly, crushing the small dewdrop in his palm like a water splash, "My name is Lian Chuan."