Return to the Mountains
When the formation was activated, a bamboo umbrella floated in front of him, and Ding Can saw his inner elixir from the umbrella handle.
"First, you need to let the inner elixir return to your body, and then completely dissipate the magic power. This process will be somewhat painful."
Liang Guan formed seals with his hands, and the moment he pushed his palms forward, the emerald green inner elixir was close to her eyebrows.
As the surging demonic power raged around him, Ding Can realized that this was what it felt like when all the demonic power returned to his body.
It's like a full balloon that is still being blown into. It starts to feel full of magical power, but as time goes on, it seems like too much is worse than not enough.
She felt like she was being roasted on a fire. Enduring the pain, she opened her eyes and saw Liang Guanzheng looking at her expectantly amidst the swirling bamboo leaves. "Changing your affiliation is inherently difficult. If you want to stop, there's still time."
"I can get through it." Ding Can shook his head and almost squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
Liang Guan stood up and walked over. The strong wind surging around him did not lift even a corner of his clothes, as if he had crossed time and space.
Ding Can heard his heartbeat nearly jumping out of his chest and felt that he might really be torn into pieces in the next second, but he still gritted his teeth and controlled his trembling body.
Liang Guan tucked her slightly messy hair behind her ears and said, "Everything you have now is innate. You are the one who created the world, yet you still dream of colluding with those humans."
"What do you mean?" Ding Can took a breath and found that he could not quite understand what he was saying.
"Haven't you already realized that you didn't come to the training camp through the same route as the other students? You even suspected your possible identity along with that other piece of data?"
There was anger in Liang Guan's tone, and at this moment, something seemed to be communicating with him through his eyes.
Data... Ding Can realized that he was probably referring to Yu Fu. This matter was something only the two of them had discussed privately, and they didn't dare mention it to other companions.
But if it was just an NPC in the dungeon, there was no way he would know this: "Who are you?"
"We are one, and we all built this system together. When you return, we will give you another chance to choose. We hope you can find your place and realize what is the right thing to do."
Ding Can felt such piercing pain that he could hardly straighten his back. His face turned pale in an instant. The entire Fukong Mountain was shaking violently, as if it would collapse completely in the next second.
All the demonic powers finally returned to his body, and then gradually dissipated to the outside world. Every time they penetrated a small part of his skin, it was like a knife cutting him.
"So the reason I entered the training camp was actually my own will, right? You're treating me like this now because you're desperate and have truly harmed your interests."
Liang Guan laughed twice. "Don't be too confident. No matter where you go, you're always within our sight. The escape you once hoped for is just another form of escaping. You'll eventually return to us."
"Don't go!" Signs of blurring began to appear at the edge of his vision. Ding Can raised his hand to grab him, but found that the skin on his arm began to crack in large areas, and then broke like porcelain, revealing the flesh inside.
The next second, his body fell uncontrollably from the spot.
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Ding Can suddenly sat up from the bed, gasping for breath. The quick movement of getting up made her vision a little black. She covered her head for a while before she finally recovered.
It turned out that the previous guess was not wrong. From the very beginning, I was different from other students. I was really a part of the system, or a piece of data. It was just that the internal mechanism of the system deprived me of my previous memories when I came in.
Although she knew nothing about the inside story, she still vaguely felt that something was wrong. And from what "Liang Guan" said just now, it seemed that she and Yu Fu had awakened and suspected trends, which had been detected by the system a long time ago.
However, the system did not directly eliminate them. I don’t know whether it was because it didn’t want to or because there were other restrictions.
Ding Can closed his eyes, and many past scenes flashed through his mind. Multiple data made up the copies of the students' experiences, including this training camp building, which were not real.
And those people who are active in the building are just extracted carriers.
But she has no memory of where her real body is. It seems the system is still hiding something from her.
When she opened her eyes again, a few characters flickered in her pupils, as if she had opened her eyes to see through things, and everything in front of her became more transparent.
She looked further ahead, taking in the entire training camp building.
Going further outside, one can see countless similar buildings. The system can accommodate many students at a time. There are many buildings where they live, and these are also covered in a shell, dotted like stars, as if one is in the Milky Way.
A chain of countless data pieces surrounds it completely.
As she explored, a sense of familiarity came over her, as if to prove to her once again that they should be in the same camp.
There were several heavy knocks on the door, and Ding Can came back to his senses. He had just gotten out of bed and had not yet walked over when the person outside saw that there was no answer and pushed the door open first.
If they failed to come out of the copy, the door of this room would disappear directly in the corridor. Therefore, they felt even more strange when they did not see Ding Can come out earlier.
Originally, everyone had agreed that after completing the dungeon, they must gather together to make sure each other was safe.
"Sister Can is in the room. Why didn't she say anything just now? We were so worried." Gao Wenwen was relieved when he saw that she was not in danger.
Ding Can didn't answer him immediately, but pushed his arm away. Her room was small and couldn't accommodate so many people at once. Yu Fu didn't squeeze in and was now staying in the corridor.
"You're okay..." Yu Fu had just opened his mouth when he saw the other party coming over and grabbing his wrist.
A ring of blue light surrounded the wrists of the two people. He was startled for a moment, and his eyes also lit up like crystals. A series of characters spread in the space, and a lot of information appeared in his mind.
Shi Yan hesitated and said, "We are not still in the dungeon, are we?"
"That shouldn't be the case. Could it be a series of events? Then you are all in the same situation as I have seen." Gao Wenwen rubbed his eyes and looked at others with some suspicion.
"No, it should be something that Xiao Ding encountered in the dungeon. It's news related to the two of them."
Xia Jialian was sure that it was now the rest time in the training camp, and Ding Can's lack of response in the room just now was probably because of this.
Yu Fu's expression finally changed slightly, from his original calm state to one that became even more shocked, and even had some suppressed emotions: "We...we were originally together."
These words were really confusing. Gao Wenwen waited anxiously by the side, anxious to know what had happened, but both of them looked so sad that they didn't want to talk.
Although I know that their relationship is indeed pretty good, when did they become so many secrets?
Ding Can hadn't intended to hide it from them in the first place. He had been unsure before, but now that he knew the truth, he became even more open-minded. "Do you know why you were brought to the training camp?"
In a certain time and space outside the world where the students live, humans have become extinct due to natural selection, and the world has become controlled by cold and monotonous mechanical data.
They have experienced too many lonely events and want to master human emotions, so they travel through time to another time and space, randomly select humans, extract their consciousness, and want to supplement these poor databases.
With each training camp held, regardless of success or failure in the training, the students' emotions are constantly filling the size of the database during the experience. This existence wants to build individuals that are closer to human consciousness.
And in the huge system, the first to awaken is one of the original data, Yu Fu.
He was the first to be able to empathize with those humans, feel their joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and even used a loophole to save one of the humans while watching a copy.
As expected, this matter was discovered by the system, and the system punished him by turning him into an ordinary employee in the training camp.
I thought that after seeing it for a long time, I would feel numb inside, and no longer have any emotions, and I could return to the system to serve again.
But unexpectedly, another unexpected change occurred.
Among the data belonging to the same creator, another section of code was also affected. Unlike the previous one, it was not affected by humans, and its normal function was not even observation, so it had no access to any external information.
But stringing the code like this gives rise to human emotions, and we not only cooperate with all the data around us, but also treat them as friends.
Knowing that one of my friends was being punished and it might take a long time, I wanted to come over and take him back.
But it was not easy to hide from the system's detection. She used the data flow to slowly investigate and during a certain human screening process, she made up an identity for herself and mixed in with the students.
She hoped to wake Yu Fu up again and return him to the original database where the system was created, but she was also affected.
I completely remembered the identity information I set for myself, accepted the new role, but forgot what my original purpose was.
"I've actually thought about this before. Maybe no matter what the outcome is, we can't go back." Gao Wenwen had a bitter smile on his face.
Since all humans were captured through the space-time connection, these people fell asleep in a certain area in the space-time rift.
But in fact, the flow rate of the original time and space has not changed, and relatives and friends are no longer with us. Even if we go back, we may face a very unfamiliar world, and it will take a long time to fully adapt.
"No," Ding Can raised his eyes, and the gloomy expression on his face was completely gone. "Actually, there is another way we can try."
Yu Fu understood what she meant: "The system can travel through time and space, so it can naturally be traced back. However, first we need to disrupt the main control equipment in order to have an opportunity."
As long as they succeed, these people will be able to return to the world they originally lived in.
Xia Jialian interrupted, "But what you said seems impossible to accomplish just by a few of us.
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