"Whoosh—"
Everything returned to calm.
Jiang Cheng slowly closed his eyes, but could not feel any energy surging around him.
It seemed that everything that had just happened was just a dream.
"Something's not right..."
Jiang Cheng had barely uttered half a sentence when he was suddenly pulled up by a powerful suction force and dragged back into another pure white space.
"Ugh!"
Jiang Cheng shifted his shoulder blades slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable. Looking at the empty white space in front of him, he stood barefoot on the semi-transparent white floor.
The moment his toes touched the ground, a bone-chilling coldness entered from the soles of his feet, then turned into intense heat, finally settling on his chest.
It seemed as if a small nuclear power plant had settled in his heart.
This "little energy station" kept spinning, pouring comforting warmth into Jiangcheng's body. Once all the energy had gathered, it finally turned into light particles and disappeared onto the surrounding walls.
But perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe this disappearance as "integration".
Jiang Cheng felt the warmth flowing through his body, comfortably squinted his eyes, and then let out a long sigh, expelling all the stale air from his lungs: "Ah... what a wonderful feeling..."
Gu Qingwan's slightly mechanical voice appeared in his mind, sweetly congratulating Jiang Cheng on his achievement: "Boss, you succeeded. You found the projection and successfully merged with it. Congratulations, our first step has been completed smoothly."
Gu Qingwan's words were undoubtedly a reminder to Jiang Cheng that all his previous memories, all his interactions with Zhao Xuerou, and all those fabricated past events were nothing but a dream.
He opened his eyes suddenly, looking at the boundless white expanse in his field of vision, and a strange expression appeared on his face.
"Boss, don't overthink it."
Gu Qingwan's voice appeared at just the right moment, interrupting Jiang Cheng's memories and thoughts of Zhao Xuerou.
Jiang Cheng forced a smile, lowered his head, and pursed his lips: "No. I... I won't say anything more. By the way, why does your voice sound like this now?"
The first thing Gu Qingwan said after he entered this strange white space was like an emotionless electronic prompt. Although her tone and rhythm were exactly the same as before, there was a sense of unfamiliarity about her.
It seems that it's that strange electronic frequency band that's causing the problem.
Gu Qingwan understood Jiang Cheng's doubts, and smiled gently. She then conjured a semi-transparent entity that stood quietly in front of Jiang Cheng: "Boss, I am not actually present in this space. You can think of me as a holographic projection or a central control computer. In short, I am not here, so my voice will definitely be altered to some extent. However, boss, you can rest assured that no medium can interrupt our communication. We are eternally symbiotic."
"Um."
After hearing Gu Qingwan's explanation, Jiang Cheng didn't take it to heart. He simply nodded slightly and raised his right hand, slowly turning it left and right.
I don't know if it was just his imagination.
In this white space, his skin appeared somewhat pale, even... translucent, as if it were a cross-linked network structure formed by polyvinyl alcohol and sodium borate through complexation, with water molecules gathered within the network. It seemed that if he clenched his fist, the water molecules in his skin would be squeezed out. But if he didn't clench his fist, his skin was too rigid, exhibiting extremely poor elasticity and brittleness, and would easily break apart.
Gu Qingwan seemed to notice Jiang Cheng's worry as well, and she turned her gaze to him, carefully examining his entire body.
After a long while, Gu Qingwan slowly said, "Boss, you have indeed changed. You can try it and feel all the changes in your body."
"Yeah?"
In fact, from the very beginning until now, Jiang Cheng has only felt a warm sensation throughout his body, which is very comfortable, and there have been no other changes.
With Gu Qingwan's prompting, Jiang Cheng began to try using the energy within his body.
He first closed his eyes, carefully sensing everything inside his body, and then slightly turned his wrist upwards.
Instantly, a powerful energy surged from the heart to the wrist, then abruptly turned back at the fingertips, ultimately forming a perfect closed loop at the heart.
Jiang Cheng opened his eyes with a hint of surprise and turned to look at Gu Qingwan: "Is this... is this the result of me merging with the projection?"
"That's right."
Gu Qingwan also sensed the change in Jiang Cheng and smiled as she reached out her hand to him.
Their fingers touched together in mid-air.
Gu Qingwan seemed to be affected by the energy in Jiang Cheng's body. Her transparent body gradually became much more vibrant, and finally returned to her original form, slowly falling from mid-air and standing in front of Jiang Cheng.
"boss."
When Gu Qingwan spoke again, the electronic tone in her voice had completely disappeared.
It seems she has become the person she always was.
Jiang Cheng's joy became more and more obvious, and he smiled as he grasped Gu Qingwan's shoulder.
Feeling the flesh and blood of Gu Qingwan under his touch, Jiang Cheng nodded in satisfaction: "So, this so-called fusion energy has this effect?"
Gu Qingwan shook her head first, then curiously looked around herself: "Boss, this is the first time I've ever heard of such a thing happening..."
As if she had just thought of something, she looked up at Jiang Cheng and said, "Boss, feel whether your ability to withstand the Heart of the Universe has improved."
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