Chapter 378 The Moon, Ji Minghuan's Parents (asking for monthly tickets)
"Let's go, Ji Minghuan. I'll take you to visit outside the base." The instructor said with a smile.
Ji Minghuan was stunned.
The location is the Salvation Society Base F2, Children's Playground.
The elevator door at the entrance of the park was open, and the instructor stood alone in the cabin. The cold light poured down, causing his lenses to reflect light slightly.
Hearing his words, the children in the park turned their heads and stared at him curiously.
"Can I really leave the base this time? Is the instructor just lying to me..."
Ji Minghuan sat on the swing, thinking.
"My Unit 1 avatar is already ready on the Hofs Glacier. As soon as my main body appears above the glacier, it will be discovered, and the location of the base can be determined."
Thinking of this, he took a breath imperceptibly.
"But if I really meet the mentor and his true form, do I have a chance to kill him through a surprise attack with the restraint belt incarnation? But Sun Changkong and Shang Xiaochi are all here... The probability of a successful surprise attack is very low."
At this moment, his mentor's words interrupted his thoughts.
"What are you all still standing there for?" The instructor adjusted his glasses, put his hands behind his back, and smiled warmly. "Aren't you curious about what it's like outside?"
"Okay, let's go."
Ji Minghuan muttered softly to himself, looking away from his mentor's face. He took Kong Youling's hand, got off the swing, and walked slowly towards the elevator.
"Going out and playing... It feels like the last time I went to London was a long time ago." Ji Minghuan murmured softly, curled the corners of his mouth, and turned to look at Kong Youling.
Kong Youling tilted her head and met his eyes.
Ji Minghuan raised his hand and poked her nose. "Guess the prize, stupid penguin, where do you think the Savior Society's base is?"
"……seabed?"
Kong Youling lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head.
"Could you be more imaginative?" Ji Minghuan shrugged. "If it's hidden on the seabed, there's still a chance it could be found. Aren't there underwater sonar detection devices in science fiction novels? Such a large building hidden on the seabed would be very conspicuous."
Kong Youling put his hand on his chin and thought for a while, then took out a small notebook, lowered his head and made a rough doodle: a little white rabbit was hung on a tree with a rope, its head drooping at an angle, its eyes in the shape of an X, and then a dynamic onomatopoeia of "click" was drawn on top of its head.
Then she put the notebook against her face and lowered her voice mysteriously:
"Everyone we found was silenced."
"That's possible. After all, our Salvation Society is known for its kind-hearted approach." Ji Minghuan curled his lips, "But can't you think of other possibilities?"
"volcano?"
Kong Youling's pen tip slid across the paper, drawing a small volcano that was puffing and spitting gas.
"Can you have some common sense? Building a base on a volcano, aren't you afraid of a volcanic eruption?"
Ji Minghuan shook his head. Kong Youling looked at him angrily from above the notebook, puffing up her cheeks slightly, like a little snowman with puffy cheeks.
The two chatted as they entered the elevator, keeping a distance from their mentor and leaning their backs against the cold steel wall. The cold light poured down, illuminating their complexions, and their shadows were blurred on the dark elevator wall.
The instructor looked at the two of them, smiled, and said, "Your relationship is still so good."
"None of your business." Ji Minghuan shrugged. "Stupid penguin, scold him."
Kong Youling was stunned for a moment, looked at Ji Minghuan, then looked at the tutor, and seemed to not know what to say, so he had to cover his face with a notebook and made a "cooing" sound.
Ji Minghuan chuckled, and the tutor also laughed softly.
At this moment, Kong Youling suddenly lowered her head and was silent for a while. Then, she raised her red eyes from behind the notebook and looked at Ji Minghuan.
"What's wrong?" Ji Minghuan noticed her gaze.
Kong Youling shook her head, her pale white hair swaying like snow. She said nothing, but lowered her head, drew something on the notebook with a pencil, and turned the notebook away.
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and turned his head to see that the notebook contained a bright white moon and two small figures sitting on the moon.
"The moon." Kong Youling said seriously with his lips moving.
Ji Minghuan was stunned. For some reason, a sudden sense of horror exploded from the bottom of his heart, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.
Hearing her answer, for some reason, the instructor beside her was also slightly stunned, and his expression froze. But soon, his expression returned to normal.
Looking at the moon on the paper, Ji Minghuan was silent for a long time.
At this moment, a scene suddenly flashed through his mind where he and Restricted 1001 were sitting on the moon and looking at the earth. The image of the restraints swallowing the earth was still lingering in his mind.
"Maybe the base of the Savior Society is really the moon..." He said, shook his head, and looked up at the interior of the children's playground.
"Let's go, Mario. Didn't you hear? The instructor said he would take us out to play!" Sun Changkong put on his baseball cap and said as he flew slowly to Mario's side on his somersault cloud.
At this moment, Mario was sitting on a carousel and playing the red and blue Switch game console.
"I'm not going."
As he said this, he got off the carousel, found a corner and sat down by himself. Without even looking up, he said, "If you want to go, go by yourselves. Don't bother me."
Sun Changkong was startled, raised his fiery red eyebrows, and flew over on his somersault cloud. "Cat Leo, aren't you curious about what it looks like outside?"
"I wasn't interested in the first place."
"Why are you not interested?" Sun Changkong asked.
"It was my own choice to stay in the Salvation Society. What's the point of knowing what the outside world looks like?" said Mario.
He lowered his head to play the game console, the fluorescent light of the screen reflected in his pupils.
"No, stop playing games here." Sun Changkong frowned. "Everyone is going, how can you not go? Do you want to be a otaku for the rest of your life?"
"You just learned a word and you're already using it?" Mario asked without even looking up. "Did you learn it from Ji Minghuan?"
"What else?" Sun Changkong snorted coldly, "Otaku, otaku, otaku."
"Country bumpkin." Mario said lightly.
"Homebody."
Sun Changkong lowered her baseball cap, blinked her eyes, and remained unmoved, as if "country bumpkin" was not an embarrassing word to her.
She knew she was a country bumpkin.
"Stinky garbage collector." Mario continued.
"Huh?" Sun Changkong got furious at that moment, gritting his teeth, his little fangs trembling with anger.
Mario said coldly, "Don't bother me, you stinky garbage collector. I hear you..."
However, before he could finish his words, Sun Changkong grabbed Mario's sleeve, pulled him onto the somersault cloud, spun him more than ten times in the air, and then threw him back to the ground.
Mario was dazed, but his fingers continued to poke at the screen, his face expressionless.
"Is the game console your life?" Sun Changkong asked almost word by word, relieved.
"It's my life." Mario rubbed his forehead. "Only games won't betray me." He paused. "Friends will leave, family will leave, everything is temporary... but games will always be there."
"Huh? You are Shang Xiaochi too?" Sun Changkong hugged his shoulders and stared at him with narrowed eyes.
Shang Xiaochi happened to have her hands behind her back as she passed by the two men. She glanced at them and snorted coldly.
She said, "Haha...People who have never experienced betrayal are not worthy of understanding me. Don't compare yourself to me."
Mario and Sun Changkong turned their heads at the same time, looked at her speechlessly, and then looked at each other.
"Let's go."
"knew."
Mario said impatiently.
As if he knew that Sun Changkong would not let him go, he sighed, paused the game he was playing, and stood up.
He tilted his head and glanced casually at the elevator car at the entrance.
At this time, several other people were already in the elevator, and Firion was the most active among them.
When Firion heard that he could go out and play, he immediately lay on the ground and ran over on all fours, his gray-white wolf tail sweeping back and forth, his eyes shining.
Mario was the only one who was still moving slowly, looking reluctant. Sun Changkong, like an overseer, flew behind Mario on his Somersault Cloud, slapping him hard on the back, urging him forward and not giving him any chance to stay in the base.
Soon, the children of the rescue team entered the elevator one after another, and the cold elevator door closed.
The elevator was silent.
No one looked at Ji Minghuan. They all turned their eyes away and lowered their heads.
They were all still concerned about what happened two days ago, and their instructor also told them not to provoke Ji Minghuan for the time being.
For a moment, the atmosphere was a little frozen.
Fortunately, the instructor had already pressed the button on the operation panel and then withdrew his right hand.
Then, a buzzing sound came from the elevator, and it began to vibrate like a giant mountain flapping its wings.
However, the elevator did not go up immediately, but returned to the first floor where it was originally located.
A moment later, the elevator door opened and the strong light from the corridor poured in again, covering the children's faces.
They squinted their eyes, raised their arms to cover their foreheads, and looked forward through the gaps, only to see the outlines of the experimenters squeezed in from the strong light.
The experimenters placed something heavy in the children's hands and then withdrew.
With a rumbling sound, the elevator door closed again. The children lowered their heads, opened their eyes, and looked at the kits in their hands with curiosity and suspicion.
"Teacher, what is this?" Sun Changkong was the first to ask.
"You're blocking me from playing the video game console and just stuffing all sorts of stuff into my hands," Mario also said.
Shang Xiaochi and Firio looked at each other.
"What is that?" Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and looked down at the helmet and the snow-white suit that seemed to be inflated. "Uh... a space suit?" That's right, what came into view at this moment was a children's-sized space suit.
"No... What's up, Instructor?" He stared at the suit, then glanced up at his instructor, thinking to himself, "Why would we need space suits to leave a base? Are they worried we'll freeze?"
"Children, don't have any questions yet. This is necessary preparation."
The instructor spoke calmly as he took a well-fitting space suit from the experimenter. He did not take off the clothes underneath, but put it on directly.
The children looked at each other, then put on their space suits, and then with the help of the experimenters, put on the round transparent oxygen supply helmets.
They turned their heads through their round helmets, looking at each other curiously, holding their stomachs and raising their fingers to laugh at each other, with Firion being the one who was laughed at the most.
Firion's wolf tail stretched out from the back of the space suit, and his wolf ears were pressed inside the helmet and could not move. He was the most uncomfortable among the few people.
After a while, the experimenters walked out of the elevator car, waved to them, and then the elevator door closed and went up.
Then, the instructor suddenly pulled an ID card from his spacesuit pocket and swiped it into the elevator's card slot. Suddenly, a new floor number—"3"—popped up on the elevator's control panel.
Ji Minghuan's heart moved slightly. This was a floor he had never been to. Before, he had only been to the second and first floors. The second floor was the children's playground, and the first floor was the dormitory floor. The children's dormitories were all distributed on this corridor.
He was curious whether this third floor was the exit of the Savior Society base.
But logically speaking, their base can't be that small, after all, there are a lot of research sites... I guess there are one underground floor and one underground floor below the dormitory floor.
It’s just not displayed on the operation panel. This is the secret place of the Salvation Society.
While he was lost in thought, the elevator was humming upwards. Shang Xiaochi stared at the floor number on the panel with a nervous and dull look, his heart pounding.
She hadn't left the base for a long time. Unlike others, she had been to London before, so she unconsciously reached out and pinched the corner of Ji Minghuan's clothes.
Ji Minghuan was slightly stunned, then turned his head to look at her and silently said with his lips: "It's okay."
When Sun Changkong saw this scene, she was stunned for a moment. Then she thought about it and reached out to pinch Firion's tail. It seemed that the touch of the big dog's tail made her feel at ease.
A moment later, the elevator stopped at the third floor. The moment the elevator doors opened, Ji Minghuan looked up and froze in place. The other children had similar reactions.
Even though he was wearing a helmet and protective clothing, Ji Minghuan could still feel a huge, overwhelming chill blowing towards him, striking the deepest part of his soul.
"This is..." His lips moved slightly.
What came into view at this moment was a huge star with a bright white surface and many pits, and the entire elevator was standing on the top of this desolate planet.
Looking out, what came into view was an endless expanse of pitch black, dotted with twinkling stars. It was undoubtedly the universe.
"No way... is it really the moon?"
Ji Minghuan stared at the huge star through his helmet, and a picture suddenly flashed through his mind. Just now, Kong Youling picked up a notebook and drew the shape of the moon on the paper.
He pondered secretly, "Then how did Kong Youling guess it? Was it just a coincidence... or did she know because she had left the Salvation Society base?"
The instructor turned around and smiled at the children in the elevator, then gently nudged their backs.
The moment Ji Minghuan was pushed out of the elevator, he felt a strong sense of weightlessness. His body seemed to have become several times lighter, and he floated towards the moon like a frog jumping on the water.
"Wait, don't tell me... the Salvation Society base is really on the moon?" He thought, glancing at the distant blue planet. "Even if this environment is fake, how do you explain the feeling of weightlessness?"
At this moment, Ji Minghuan was completely stunned.
He couldn't imagine how he could lead the troops here if the Salvation Society's base was really built on the moon. It was completely impossible, at least the Lake Hunter and the Demon Army would be stuck.
"Ji Minghuan, this must be an illusion. The Salvation Society base is definitely north of the Hofs Glacier. Don't let it interfere."
At this moment, the voice of Restricted Level 1001 came from his mind, and his tone was still so indifferent. His words were like a shot of cardiotonic, piercing Ji Minghuan's chest.
He took a deep breath and thought, "That's right. Urushihara Ruri and Restricted 1001 were both certain that the Salvation Society's base was in Hofsjokull in Iceland. Given the situation these two dying people were in, there was no reason for them to lie to me."
Then, Ji Minghuan asked in his heart:
"By the way, how did you find out where the Salvation Society's base is?"
"Me and my..." Restricted 1001 corrected himself, "No, I talked to your parents."
"Huh? With my parents?" Ji Minghuan was stunned. "Which timeline are you referring to?"
"In the timeline where I destroyed the world, I never met my parents."
"Oh, so those are my parents?"
Ji Minghuan said in his heart.
He hadn't heard about his parents for a while. The last time he heard about them was when his mentor told him that the Salvation Army had found their bodies in Arabia.
But he knew that this was definitely done by the Salvation Society. How could other people be involved with his parents?
Restricted 1001 said softly, "Back to the topic, your parents are members of the Salvation Society, so they naturally know where the Salvation Society base is. I learned the specific location from them."
"What's going on?"
"That was shortly after you were born, before your parents abandoned you. I found them while they were out on a mission, and then communicated with them as a prophet. I learned a lot about the Salvation Society."
Restricted 1001 paused, "By the way... it was at that time that I left a monitor in your spiritual world when you were still a baby. After you grew up, I adjusted it to look like Kong Youling."
Ji Minghuan was silent for a moment, then asked in his heart, "How do you usually contact the Salvation Society?"
"I usually leave letters at their bases elsewhere." Restricted Level 1001 said.
"Anyway, my parents also said the Savior Society base is on the Hofs Glacier?"
"Yes, if you're interested, you can come to the library afterwards and look through my memories of chatting with them."
"But there's still no evidence. Neither their claims nor Urushihara Ruri's are necessarily correct." Ji Minghuan shook his head and thought to himself, "If the Salvation Society's base is really on the moon, then we're in big trouble."
Restricted 1001 remained silent. "The probability is very low."
"Very low, but not zero..." Ji Minghuan replied in his mind. He thought for a moment, "But if the Salvation Society's base is on the Hofs Glacier, then what would this thing in front of me be? Could it be... an environmental simulation space?"
"It's possible. I don't know much about the methods of the Salvation Society." Restricted 1001 said.
"This old scoundrel, the mentor, just likes to stir up trouble." Ji Minghuan complained in his heart while secretly squinting his eyes and looking at the mentor in the car through the transparent helmet.
At this time, the children who were pushed out of the car and staring at the huge blue star in a daze also came to their senses.
They were just locked up, not without common sense. They had more or less seen pictures of the moon and the blue planet in books and on TV before.
But seeing it with your own eyes, the feeling of shock is naturally different, as if all the internal organs are impacted, and everyone's pupils shrink slightly.
Kong Youling's pencil almost fell out of the sketchbook.
Mario raised an eyebrow, looked up from the game screen, and looked around silently.
"The moon?" Firion's ears, which had been pressed down, stood up abruptly inside his helmet.
Shang Xiaochi was speechless. She raised her head from the helmet, the sea of stars in the universe reflected in her pupils. At that moment, the huge blue star occupied half of her vision.
"Teacher, our base is built on the moon?" Sun Changkong was stunned, revealing his little fangs in shock.
The mentor put his hands behind his back and smiled faintly. He didn't comment, but simply raised his head and looked at the universe above him.
At this moment, Sun Changkong leaped forward and summoned the somersault cloud at the top of the moon.
"It's the universe!"
A red light flashed in her heart, and clouds descended from the sky, rolling in hastily. She stood up and jumped, lightly riding on the cloud, and was about to fly into the universe, chasing the flying meteor.
The instructor was suddenly startled, and then called her name sharply:
"Changkong! Stop!"
(End of this chapter)
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