Graduates with thirty years of work experience
When they arrived at the human base in the other dimension, Wei Qianqiu took Ji Yunding away.
"This is the warehouse, where non-perishable vacuum food and sealed drinking water are stored. There are also canned fruits for vitamin supplements. You can come here to pick up supplies according to the schedule."
After returning from the group mission, Wei Qianqiu was now much more relaxed when talking to Ji Yunding, and could even speak long sentences.
"If nothing unexpected happens, you must stay in the alternate dimension for at least half a year, waiting for the next Jiliuxing to open the alternate dimension channel. However, investigators above a certain level can travel back and forth frequently according to the schedule."
People like Ji Yunding can apply to come here for a short period of time for special matters.
"A certain level, probably?"
“I don’t understand.”
Wei Qianqiu said coldly - of course she didn't know that she had been the highest-level investigator in the country since she joined the team.
“There are a lot of foreigners here.”
Ji Yunding looked around curiously and accidentally bumped into a foreigner's shoulder.
"Um... sorry?" "I'm sorry."
The two exchanged apologies in not-so-standard foreign dialects and then passed each other.
Because every spot in the alternate dimension is very precious, humans in the settlement will never use humans if machines can replace them. Compared to the real world, it is more like a technologically advanced metropolis.
Ji Yunding looked around for a while and then went to the destination of this trip to the other dimension - the Bailizhong human settlement branch.
"Number 37, long time no see."
"Theoretically, you should be more familiar with Zero. However, considering that we are a collective of consciousness, you are not wrong to say so."
The non-human creature with small wings covering its eyes answered like this. Ji Yunding looked at its exposed ribs, curious about how it ate.
"It's been a long time since we last met. Your name has become well known among us recently."
"I know, it has caused me a lot of trouble." Ji Yunding replied bluntly.
"Are you interested in selling information about yourself? This store can provide all the items and information you want in exchange."
"I want three things now." Ji Yunding raised his finger and said, "A way to save the world, a way to stop people online and in real life from arguing about me, and a way to save the team leader."
"You don't need any method to defeat Mr. Ji Liuxing."
Number 37 thought about it, tilted his head and smiled.
"Have you found this method, or is Mr. Ji Liuxing about to die? I guess it's both."
"I won't respond to your speculation. Let's follow today's process."
Ji Yunding did not respond to the other party's temptation, but talked about the arrangements on his own.
"As promised, take me to the Rongku Cemetery."
Judging from what happened before, the people in Rongku Cemetery knew about her relationship with Xueyu before she did. From this, it can be inferred that there must be information about the restart of the world here.
Apart from anything else, the real world was very generous in allocating funds to the research group, so much so that Ji Yunding had hardly spent any of his own money since joining the group, and even the useless brass knuckles he had bought at the graveyard market were reimbursed.
Including the price of hiring Baili Zhong this time, Ji Yunding took a look and just wanted to sigh - if he spent his own money to use it once, just considering the monthly salary and the cross-dimensional exchange rate, it would be like losing money to work.
This time, Ji Yunding had just walked to the gate of Rongku Cemetery, but found that the Mouth of Truth had disappeared.
The roses that were in bloom, withered, and budding, entwined around the iron fence and the petals that were scattered on the ground, suddenly changed. The budding roses bloomed, the blooming roses withered, and the withered roses died.
Ji Yunding looked down and saw that the petals that had been scattered seemed to have sunk into the soil and disappeared without a trace.
The iron gate slowly opened, and a piece of paper automatically appeared next to it for Ji Yunding to read.
【Welcome to the main hall of Rongku Cemetery, this is a place to record the passage of time, please abide by the following rules
1. Don’t interfere with the established past.
2. Don’t believe in a future that doesn’t exist.
3. Time always moves forward. You exist and should only exist in the present.
4. If you are not a determined person, please do not read yourself easily. 】
Ji Yunding walked into the gate and looked around, only to find that there was only a mountain cemetery that stretched as far as the eye could see, filled with crooked graves.
I had never seen any members or books I had heard of before.
Ji Yunding squatted down blankly, looking at the grave closest to her, but her attention was attracted by the unclear inscriptions on it.
——"Wei Qianqiu, 67"
"Sister Qianqiu?"
Ji Yunding reached out to touch the grave, and then his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.
The dark room, the piercing sound of noise from the old TV, and the smell of blood.
Ji Yunding's perspective was changing as if in a first-person game. She looked in the direction she was looking, only to see the room filled with corpses.
The stinking, rotten, disemboweled corpses were in a miserable state of death... They filled the entire room, leaving no place to stand.
The old TV kept replaying the same video - a person was tortured/killed to death in a brutal manner. There were no censoring like in the civilized world, and it was clear and very shocking.
Through the vague reflection of the TV screen, Ji Yunding saw himself clearly - or rather, this person's face.
She sat there quietly, seemingly numb to her surroundings, not caring at all whether she pressed on someone's stomach or pancreas.
The undeveloped facial features gave Ji Yunding a sense of familiarity. In fact, Ji Yunding was a bit face-blind, and if he hadn't seen the inscription, he might not have recognized who it was.
Ji Yunding suddenly withdrew his hand, looked at the tombstone in front of him, then raised his head and looked around blankly.
Is this the so-called "book"? Then the team leader should have reminded her before coming.
Many people have visited the Rongku Cemetery - many of human society's advanced research results were obtained from here, and it seems that there is future knowledge here that comes from nowhere.
Or more precisely, knowledge from the past?
In fact, after the outbreak of ghost stories, the speed of human technological progress has accelerated unprecedentedly - leaving aside the results of research and transformation related to ghost stories, the knowledge gained from the Rongku Cemetery and Baili Tomb alone has enabled the development of science and technology to advance by leaps and bounds.
Human society is like a seedling that is being forced to grow, growing at an abnormal pace.
Ji Yunding looked back, but found that the door he had come from was gone. A gust of wind blew, rolling up the dry grass on the ground. The dry grass ran forward two steps along the wind, and then stopped weakly.
"So, I am special. I am the only one who came to this place."
Ji Yunding stood up, looked around, and decided to count the composition of the tombstones first.
"From least to most, Sister Qianqiu has eight, Senior Ji Changsheng has eleven, Senior Guan Ningyue has fourteen, and Jiang Chengyue has seventeen..."
Ji Yunding was writing down the correct characters with a dry branch on the open ground, muttering to himself as he read.
"I have two, the team leader has five... it's an arithmetic progression with three as the common difference."
The conclusion is not difficult to guess. It is nothing more than a special individual who died in the past. However, Ji Yunding looked at this area, thought for a while, took out the talisman paper for timing, and used a dead branch to write the word "time" on the ground to record the current time.
After doing all this, she walked to the tombstone of Wei Qianqiu and touched it again.
The scene was still the same house, but Ji Yunding felt that Wei Qianqiu seemed a little taller.
A blinding light came from the right, as if someone had opened a door. Ji Yunding followed Wei Qianqiu's perspective and saw nothing but a blur.
Afterwards, Ji Yunding heard screams, dripping blood and the sound of a body being torn apart. After Wei Qianqiu's vision was restored, Ji Yunding saw a human head that had just been torn off and was being held in Wei Qianqiu's hand.
Out of control.
Murderous intent filled Wei Qianqiu's mind, and Ji Yunding was watching Wei Qianqiu's actions as if through a transparent glass barrier.
What would happen if this layer of glass disappeared?
Ji Yunding had this idea for no reason, and then he saw Wei Qianqiu seemed to have found a sharp weapon, thought about it, and threw it away.
She sat there helplessly, looking up at the sky and muttering to herself.
“…Should I not come down from the tower?”
The story that Wei Qianqiu told Ji Yunding about the long-haired princess who couldn't control her power and eventually destroyed the world.
Unexpectedly, Wei Qianqiu was not punished, but was released and sent to deal with ghost stories.
The research group in this world does not seem to be that strong, and the gap between the various families is huge. Lin Shu just looked at Wei Qianqiu from a distance, and seemed a little scared and wanted to go forward to care about her, but in the end he did not speak.
Wei Qianqiu has always been a loner, and no one is willing to go on missions with her in case she might lose control.
Fortunately, she is strong enough. In this world, Wei Qianqiu is the strongest. She has solved countless ghost stories alone, and is the first person to solve a fixed ghost story - in the 27th year of the new calendar, which is five years from now.
Ji Yunding looked at Wei Qianqiu sitting on the rooftop of the building where ghost stories were often told. There were countless corpses piled around him, and the stairs leading downstairs were filled with a tide of students, whose movements were stiff and strange.
Wei Qianqiu looked at the sky for a long time, finally shook his head, sighed, and took out the amulet from his backpack to prevent humans from turning into monsters.
Ji Yunding instinctively took two steps forward to stop her, but found that although she could not feel her own body, the glass in front of her melted a little like ice as she thought.
She felt a little pain in her body, so she stopped and looked at Wei Qianqiu carefully - the place where she felt pain was exactly where Wei Qianqiu was injured.
You can't interfere with the past. Everyone here is dead. If you really go into the past, you will definitely die.
Ji Yunding removed his fingers from the tombstone and stood up, feeling a little dazed and dizzy.
"time……"
Ji Yunding lowered his head and saw the words he had written before. Then he remembered something and reached out to touch the talisman paper used for timing. Then his expression became a little strange.
Only five seconds had passed.
"That is to say, as long as my spirit can hold on..."
Ji Yunding stood up, looked around, and remembered an inappropriate joke.
Graduates with thirty years of work experience.
Ji Yunding shook her head, feeling that her hands and feet were becoming somewhat out of control. She let out a long breath and closed her eyes, but it was still Wei Qianqiu's perspective.
"Read them all."
Ji Yunding said this, tilted his head and thought for a while, then drew a line with a dead branch.
"The tolerance is three, and there is no grave of the head of the family. So the last item is sixty-eight, and the first item is two... That means there are a total of twenty-three items, eight hundred and five graves.
If we go a little faster, and take into account the rest time... three days should be enough. The tombstones at the front - according to the head of the family, it should be relatively easy - and the tombstones at the back can be visited alternately so that we can rest less."
If you read all of this, it won't be a matter of thirty years of work experience. Judging from Wei Qianqiu's tombstone just now, it will take about five or six years to summarize this person's life.
According to Ji Yunding's speculation, the images she could see were probably useful images that impressed the person - because in fact some clips had no practical effect.
If we take Wei Qianqiu's tombstone as a reference, Ji Yunding's consciousness would have to spend about four thousand years here, which is terrifying enough just by sounding like it.
However, Ji Yunding's idea was simple.
"I can do it, but first I have to know how to get out of here."
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