Chapter 532 Life is short
Yu Sheng was not sure about the origin of this "doll" in front of him that looked very much like Irene - his first reaction was naturally the "Goddess of Bad Omens", but when the doll spoke, he could indeed sense Irene's breath from the other party, and that sense of familiarity was unmistakable.
She might still be some kind of "hybrid", a hybrid with the "Goddess of Omen" as the main body but without a complete personality. Considering the complexity of the little doll, he decided not to pursue these details for the time being.
After realizing that the shadowy figure seemed somewhat dazed, Yu Sheng decided to follow up on the other party's question and ask, "What is a shelter?"
"Shelter... it's a shelter," the puppet spoke slowly, in stark contrast to its usual rapid chatter. "They say I can build a city or something else from the ashes, and that civilization can last for thousands of years. They say... as long as we're alive, there's hope, even though the end will surely come..."
Yu Sheng was a little confused for a moment: "They let the symbol of 'bad omen' bear the responsibility of continuing civilization?"
The puppet stared at him intently. After a long moment, it slowly lowered its head and stared at the notebook, motionless. "The omen is their fear, and also their perception and understanding of the world. They have no choice."
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, then tentatively asked, "There's something called 'Boundary Bridge'... Do you remember it?"
The puppet thought slowly, and after a long while, it shook its head gently: "I don't remember."
"What about the border area? There's also a blonde doll named 'Irene'..."
"I don't remember either."
"That 'Black Star'..."
It seems that no matter what you ask, the puppet doesn't remember.
After trying several questions repeatedly, Yu Sheng realized that this doll, which looked very similar to Irene, seemed to only remember a doomsday that she herself could not understand, and a mission to calculate the "starting equation" for some kind of "shelter". She was endlessly looping in this task and forgetting everything else.
"Then what do you remember?" Yu Sheng couldn't help but ask.
The shadowy puppet began to think slowly again, its scarlet eyes flickering in the darkness, and then it finally moved again - the puppet lowered its head and wrote two crooked words on the notebook with a pencil.
"Yu Sheng"
"Yu-sheng," she said slowly, a hint of a smile on her face in the hazy shadows, "everything will be fine if you return home."
Yu Sheng: “……?”
He was a little confused for a moment, and then he saw the doll suddenly remember something and slowly continued to write in the notebook -
"Silly fox... When the weather gets cold, she becomes furry. C-shaped buckle is a sweeping machine. The sun is warm. Children are noisy. The leaves are... green. The river flows through the valley and into the dark forest. The wind... the wind can't catch you, but the wind will catch me."
She raised her head and smiled happily, but when Yu Sheng was distracted for a moment, the vivid and clear expression faded from the doll's face, and her face was once again shrouded in hazy shadows, leaving only a pair of scarlet eyes flashing in the darkness.
"Do you want to go over?" She suddenly raised her hand and pointed to the door leading to the laboratory next to her.
"...What's on the other side of that door?" Yu Sheng's heart moved, and he asked this question for some reason.
"The way home." The puppet looked into Yu Sheng's eyes and said.
The aura similar to Irene's was gradually fading from her.
Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, turned around and put his hand on the gate - the door opened silently.
"What are you going to do next..."
He turned around to look at the place where the puppet had just been squatting, and stopped talking before he finished.
The place was empty, the doll had long since disappeared - as if she had never existed in the first place.
Yu Sheng stood there for two seconds, frowning as he thought about many questions, and then finally turned around and walked into the hall.
It was still the familiar "Black Spot Laboratory", but it was no longer the brightly lit place in the impression. A dim texture as if shrouded in black gauze covered the vision. A dark mass with an irregular surface shape floated in the center of the hall, constantly expanding and shrinking and wriggling in mid-air. Countless black spider silks extended from the dark mass, crisscrossing the entire hall, turning into a spider web that covered everything.
And under this darkness and spider web, there are many human-shaped shadows. The projections from the real world are swaying blindly in the cracks of this dimension, making all kinds of buzzing and rumbling noises. The noises resonate with each other, as if they are going to drill into people's brains and make endless noises.
That was the sound of the astronomical scholars thinking—deviant knowledge roared and vibrated in their thoughts, impacting the fragile boundaries of reality here, trying to become a substance in the observable universe.
But there is one shadow that is special.
The shadow stood next to the dark mass in the center of the hall, looking tall and slender. It was more solid than all the phantoms around it, and even shone with a certain... strong sense of presence in Yu Sheng's spiritual intuition.
It made no noise but was simply listening and thinking, as if communicating with the dark mass.
Yu Sheng saw strands of black spider silk extending from the dark mass, entwined solely on the tall and slender figure. There was also a blurry little shadow lying on the back of the tall figure, staying close to the latter's head like a ghost, poking the other's head with its fingers while swaying from side to side and making many uncivilized noises.
Amidst the whispers, many people's immediate family members rose into the sky, blossomed brilliantly, and then scattered like fireworks.
Yu Sheng was completely stunned, feeling that the change in atmosphere had caught him off guard. Before he could react, he saw the blurry, phantom-like shadow of the little man suddenly turn his head towards him. Almost instantly, the shadow solidified a little, and then let out a happy and surprised sound: "Ah - Yu Sheng?!"
The next second, the little thing jumped down from the tall figure's shoulder, and quickly crawled towards Yu Sheng along several spider silks using both hands and feet. When it was halfway and still two or three meters away, it pounced like a short person: "Yu Sheng, you're finally alive! You won't be dead for a long time this time..."
Yu Sheng felt something hit his chest hard, and then he felt dizzy. A chill that penetrated into his bones and a dizziness that was like a tidal wave suddenly hit him, as if he was thrown into a whirlpool in the Arctic Ocean and spun for three hours and then thrown directly into the stratosphere to start free falling. He almost wanted to die again on the spot - and this feeling was not unfamiliar to him.
It’s “Jerk Awake”, Irene’s unique wake-up technique.
The next second, the dark dimension covered by spider webs collapsed silently, and the vivid colors and sounds of the real world came flooding in. Yu Sheng's body shook, and the colorful snowflakes in front of his eyes quickly turned into a clear vision.
A familiar-looking pretty blonde elf sister was standing not far away, staring at this side in amazement. There were several metal limbs connected to her back, and wheel-shaped mechanical limbs outside the hem of her skirt.
There was also a large group of obviously frightened technicians and elite fighters who looked like guards standing nearby.
Yu Sheng reacted for a moment and finally remembered why the blond elf opposite him gave him a familiar feeling - it was the elf Jiyou who he had seen a long time ago when he was testing the door-opening ability!
She actually appeared here?!
Before Yu Sheng could even think about it, the blonde elf across from him clearly recognized the intruder. Her eyes widened instantly, and then she gasped, pointing her finger at Yu Sheng, almost gritting her teeth as she spoke each word: "Why the hell is it you again?! How the hell did you get in?!"
"Hey, look at what's happened." Yu Sheng was still feeling the effects of his sudden awakening. He was dizzy and could only wave his hands while trying to maintain his balance. He spoke without thinking, "If I had known it was you across from me, why would I have bothered so much..."
Before he could finish his words, the surrounding security personnel rushed over - the people in the laboratory did not remember that they had killed the intruder in front of them, but it was obvious that this mysterious individual who suddenly appeared in the core area was a huge threat to the laboratory.
All the cameras and guns were pointed at Yu Sheng's face.
"Catch him alive!" the blond elf shouted quickly.
An intruder who can repeatedly "break" into her secret base cannot be killed in a confused manner - this is definitely a rare research subject!
"Don't say that, you really shouldn't say that," Yu Sheng couldn't help laughing when he heard what the other party said, "This time it's feasible..."
But the next moment, he opened a door beside him and took out a mace that looked full of justice and reason.
"But unfortunately, I have something to do and have to go back first," he grinned and strode forward. "Don't worry, everything will be fine soon - we will meet again."
Under the astonished gaze of the security personnel and the blond elf, the intruder seemed to ignore the threat of the deadly weapons around him. After a few carelessly accelerated steps, the man holding the strange and hideous weapon suddenly kicked the ground, jumped up, and rushed straight to the Zolda Black Stone in the center of the laboratory.
It appeared out of nowhere, with extremely fast speed and great strength, and even stepped out a deep pit in the reinforced alloy floor of the laboratory - it was not a human!
The soldiers made a split-second judgment and decisively pulled the trigger, having originally intended to capture the intruder using non-lethal means.
Yu Sheng’s idea is very simple.
He knew that it was impossible for him to rush to the blond elf or the "black stone" under the close protection of so many people, at least he could not rush there alive.
But the distance is not far, so he can just rush in.
Anyway, there is no loss if you can't rush through - death will take its own price.
The God of War takes off.
Ares sleeps.
"Erin..." A voice crossed the distant time and space and sounded in the spiritual connection.
"What?"
"This life is so short."
"...Huh?! Wait, Yusheng, why the hell are you dead again? You were alive just two minutes ago!"
“…”
(End of this chapter)
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