When Chu Xueying received Xu Dingjia's answer, her expression remained calm. She turned to look at Jiang Cheng and said, "Actually, he misses the time when he was asleep very much. Like a bystander, he looked at Chu Xueying so plain and yet... A happy life.”
Jiang Cheng felt ashamed in his heart. If it weren't for him, maybe Sakura could continue to sleep as before, and let Xue continue her simple and happy life. Jiang Cheng couldn't deny that because of his existence, Sakura and Xue Jie Donglai's lives had become a torment. He could just whisper: "I can't afford to make a mistake."
Chu Xueying didn't respond and looked away from Jiang Cheng.
There were no other unnecessary words, and the three of them had already reached a tacit understanding.
Xu Dingjia turned to face the stone tablet and said, "Then, they are going to open the ruins. But before that, he needs Chu Xueying's help."
Chu Xueying said calmly: "What do I need from him?"
Xu Dingjia asked: "I remember very well, did Cui Benshan do anything else when he woke me up?"
"Other things?" Chu Xueying recalled carefully, before shaking her head and saying: "There is nothing special."
Xu Dingjia was surprised and said, "Is it possible that he clearly saw in the stone tablet that the blood of a stranger is needed to open the ruins? Could he be wrong?"
Chu Xueying said: "He is not the only stranger. Maybe Cui Benshan could use Shao Fang's blood?"
"There is also that kind of cocoa." Xu Dingjia nodded and said, "No matter what, you have to try it before you know."
Chu Xueying nodded, without any hesitation, took out the knife and slashed towards the palm of her leg.
Blood flowed along the lines of the stone tablet and slowly gathered at the bottom.
Everyone finally noticed another unusual thing about the stone tablet. The blood flowed out of the dog's body, leaving no trace behind, as if the stone tablet had been exposed to the tellurium field for countless years, and its surface was still very smooth. For Jiangcheng, this is not something that goes against common sense. The only explanation is that the material of the stele itself is not stone, but a substance that does not exist in their cognition.
There was no extra time for Jiang Cheng to study the stone tablet. Soon, strange noises came from outside the mountain wall behind the stone tablet, and there was also a shaking feeling to the east of his feet.
"An earthquake?" Xu Dingjia exclaimed.
However, Jiang Cheng noticed that it was different from the feeling of an earthquake. It was like the vibration caused by the operation of some huge machine.
"Perhaps, after Zhai Ma moves, they can enter the ruins." Jiang Cheng guessed.
Sure enough, as Jiang Cheng said, the shaking quickly stopped, and everyone suddenly discovered that the mountain wall behind the stone tablet suddenly sunk eastward, revealing a three-meter-high cave.
"Is that the entrance to the ruins?" Chu Xueying murmured.
Xu Dingjia approached the cave slightly and took a look inside. When he looked back, his face became extremely ugly.
"What's going on?" Jiang Cheng noticed something strange and asked.
Xu Dingjia said solemnly: "That cave leads to the east of the earth."
"So?" Jiang Cheng didn't know what Hong Xu Dingjia meant.
At this time, Chu Xueying's expression was not very good, and she said: "If it leads to the east of the earth, then it means that they want to meet that thing again."
"What happened?" Jiang Cheng couldn't stand the riddle-like conversation between the two, so he continued to ask.
"Wrong, I don't know about that." Xu Dingjia said, "Do you remember what he told me about urban awareness?"
"Of course he knows. That city has its own consciousness for some reasons. I said that the nightmare fog is actually the dream of the city's consciousness." Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Could it be that what we are referring to is the nightmare fog? ? The posthumous title is in the red sky."
"It is a nightmare fog, but it is still related to the city consciousness." Xu Dingjia said: "That city is far more dangerous than I thought, otherwise there would not be so many ancient gods' minions gathering in that place. Moreover, even if it is not the ancient gods, The minions are not willing to easily touch things outside the city's appearance. Even with the protection of the ancient gods, things outside the city's appearance are still very dangerous for them."
"Beyond the surface of the city?" Jiang Cheng looked at the entrance of the cave, vaguely feeling the gloomy atmosphere coming from it, and felt inexplicably uneasy in his heart.
"The so-called apparent world is the city with the red sky. And other than that, the city is not a dangerous place." Xu Dingjia said: "When he told me about urban consciousness before, because of time urgency, he did not It makes me understand that he missed a very important point. And that point can exactly explain why they came to ask for the wrong things."
"What's the key point?" Jiang Cheng asked curiously.
"That point is more difficult to explain." Xu Dingjia thought for a while and suddenly asked: "I think they are currently in the physical location of the living body in the city, or are they in their spiritual consciousness?"
When Jiang Cheng heard Xu Dingjia's question, he felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he couldn't say anything for a moment. He thought seriously and asked tentatively: "Do I mean, do they live in the spiritual consciousness of the city? Could it be that all of that is just an illusion? How can that be so!"
Jiang Cheng almost screamed. Indeed, no matter how bizarre everything that happened before was, he could at least distinguish between illusion and reality. Can Ding Jia's question clearly tell him that all these things are actually illusions? Even if Jiang Cheng is determined now, he is not able to accept it for a while.
"My guess is good, they are in the spiritual consciousness of the city. But that is not an illusion, everything that happened is real." Xu Dingjia went on to explain, then he thought for a while and tried to organize his words. : "Or... the spiritual consciousness of the city is inherently unreal. It is not accurate to say that. It should be said that the city has achieved life, but the body of that life is not there. Its body exists in a place that they cannot contact. In the dimension. And the dimension in which the consciousness of that city exists is the same as the dimension in which normal people live. Therefore, the city they can see is actually the display of the spiritual consciousness of that city."
Jiang Cheng thought over Wrong Fang's words several times, and vaguely realized whether it was true or not. He couldn't believe it at the moment, so he murmured: "It's actually such a thing."
"He knew that it was a bit subversive of my previous understanding, but that was the only way he could explain what the so-called 'beyond the surface' meant." Xu Dingjia said.
Jiang Cheng finally accepted Xu Dingjia's statement and asked, "If that's not the case, does it mean that things beyond the surface are related to the level of consciousness?"