Old World, also known as Focus of Infection.
Yi Chen had read an introduction to the old world in the basic collection area of the Great Library. This matter was not kept as a secret, but was fully disclosed to the organization.
This has been confirmed through extensive investigations and after so many years of organization and the sacrifice of countless outstanding gentlemen.
All diseases are not generated by the world itself, but are directly or indirectly transmitted from the old world, which is the source of disease and the gathering place of the roots of all diseases.
On the title page of the book there is a message left by the founder of the organization, as well as a picture.
“We are not ill, it’s found us”
The attached drawings are divided into three parts:
1. It outlines a planet representing human life, with the central region and the five continents clearly marked on it. It is completely normal and has no problems.
2. In addition to our planet, there is also a living planet on the right, which is oozing pus, festering, and even growing tentacles that can float in space, but the entire planet is pierced by a giant sword.
3. This sick planet successfully approached the human planet by floating its tentacles, and stuck to the back of the human planet like a tumor. Then, it formed small holes in this world through the drilling of the tentacles, and spread the diseases it carried through these small holes, gradually assimilating.
This sick planet represents the old world, and the small hole represents the passage.
certainly,
This is just a greatly simplified illustration that is easier for most people to understand. The real situation needs to be correctly expressed through high-dimensional drawing.
According to the book, the old world, which is the focus of the disease, has been completely locked down for some reason, including the continuity of time and the expansion of space.
There is no normal air to breathe,
The simple exothermic chemical reaction corresponding to the kerosene lamp cannot occur.
This completely locked world is like a human being nailed to a bed, with all organs removed, all blood vessels tied, all muscles severed, and even a scalpel inserted through the brain.
Should have died immediately.
However, the old world is like a zombie. Not only is it not dead, but germs are still constantly breeding in its body. The sources of the disease hidden deep inside are still staying alive in some way.
Or by swimming with the aid of tentacles,
or ejecting large amounts of metabolites,
Such a diseased world can still wander between dimensions even when it is locked, randomly attaching itself to a normal world, absorbing nutrients from it and transmitting the disease to it.
The above is the basic information that Yi Chen read in the books.
However, there is no mention of the structure of the old world, the living conditions in the old world, the distribution of power, etc., so you need to explore it on your own.
"Lorian, when will you separate from me?"
In response to Yi Chen's question, he waited for a minute before hearing a reply:
"What a disappointment... It's extremely disappointing. I didn't expect the origin of the disease would be a place of death. There is no hope at all.
That giant sword that came from nowhere must have killed this world countless epochs ago. No wonder it is attached to the back of the human world and connected by a passage.
I am not in a hurry to go out and feel this dead silence. I will stay in your body for a while. When you have a chance to separate from your teammates or are forced to separate, I will peel myself out of your body.
This is also for your consideration. After all, once I peel off, it means that your right half of the body will be missing instantly.
Losing half of your body in such a dead world is very dangerous. As a small reward for bringing me here, I will give you a small operation when we part. 』
"OK."
Outside the temple is endless gray desert, which belongs to the surface of the old world.
Many newcomers who first come to the Old World are like a headless fly. They are afraid of losing the location of the passage and leave due to time constraints without doing much exploration.
According to Zion’s internal statistics, only 8.1% of newcomers who first arrived in the Old World to explore for relics were able to bring back relics.
Not to mention that some of them are just ordinary relics, which are not as good as the black umbilical cord in Yi Chen's hand.
Some of them involve some luck, for example, when wandering in the desert for a while, you kick up a hard object and pick it up to find a relatively complete relic.
In other words, if there is no clear exploration goal, a day will pass quickly. Hesitation or subjective confusion in individual consciousness may even accelerate the flow of time, making it feel like several hours have passed in the blink of an eye.
Just as Yi Chen was communicating with Lorian in his body,
“This way!”
"There's a sense of induction here~"
"This way... cluck!"
At the same time, three voices sounded in the team.
A voice came from Reagan. He touched the sand in his hand and tried to release the electrical energy. The current that should have dispersed disorderly actually spread in a certain direction.
A voice came from Jin,
As soon as she came up, she started digging in the sand, stretching her arms as deep into the sand as possible, and then reaching deeper to dig out the roots of the red lotus.
The red lotus, which was a "pathological characteristic", actually produced a response, and a red lotus grew on the surface of the sand not far away, serving as a special signpost for moving forward.
The third voice came from Xiao Pei on Jin's body. As an animal patient, it jumped to the ground and made a gesture of hatching eggs as soon as it arrived in the Old World.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Pei really hatched the egg, but it was a gray egg.
Since everything in the old world was blocked, including 'reproduction'... therefore the newly hatched egg was doomed to die.
Hard, grey, like a round stone.
This dead egg did not sink into the sand when it landed, but rolled among the undulating sand dunes, and rolled in a certain direction.
Even if you pick up the dead egg and put it down again, it will still roll in a fixed direction.
but,
The direction of the electric current, the direction of the red lotus' growth, and the route of the dead egg's rolling are completely different, which creates a multiple-choice question.
Time is limited and a decision must be made immediately.
While Yi Chen was thinking quickly, Reagan pinched the fat on his face with two fingers and gave his thoughts:
“William, the fact that you were able to overcome the risk of polyphthalmia by yourself is enough to prove that you are capable of conducting relic exploration on your own.
Moreover, as the monitor said, this time we are contacting a brand new, superficial, and least dangerous channel.
It seems to me that we are all capable of searching for relics on our own.
Since we can find three meaningful routes at the beginning, we might as well split up and act separately.
I will take the current induction side, and you and Miss Jin will each choose a path... Calculate the time and we will meet at the temple in one day.
We strive to obtain a relic that belongs to us and matches us at once."
Jin immediately raised his right hand to show his approval: "That's it~ Since this is the lowest difficulty Old World exploration, we must strive for the greatest gains."
Yi Chen looked at his two teammates and affirmed the proposal.
"We will meet at the temple in one day! Remember, you must pay attention to the time..."
When Yi Chen said this, he immediately moved closer to Jin, gave her a hug and whispered in her ear:
"Jin, remember, one day!"
Jin reached out and gently lifted a corner of the mask, revealing her pink thin lips, then turned her head and pressed her lips against Yi Chen's earlobe.
"I said before that I would be restrained in this completely unknown and risky area. I would also try my best to survive. It would not be fun if I died... But William, don't play too hard and forget the time."
Between words,
Jin quickly reached into Yi Chen's shirt and placed his hand on the right side of his chest.
"I felt it from the beginning... The rhythm of your right half of the body is different from usual. Although I don't know why you hid it from us, I still believe you.
Don't mess around, and remember to meet on time one day later."
(End of this chapter)