Chapter 167 The Sky Falls (2) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update) [VIP]
The countdown is over and the live broadcast has begun.
There are not many wild investors this time. Most of them are investors from Ningqiu who are preparing to move into the high-end space, as well as investors from [0106].
There were relatively few comments on the barrage at the beginning, most of which were from wild investors who were unaware of the operations behind this space. However, after seeing Xu Zichen and Lu Changfeng, the number of comments suddenly increased:
[Let me see what kind of space is opened this time! ]
[Modern space, this seems to be an airport. ]
[Airport? That fits the name Skyfall quite well. Is the next step to take a plane? ]
[That's not right... Look at where the exploration team members are now, it's clearly the luggage carousel. They just got off the plane.]
【What the hell! 】
[What the hell? ]
[Fuck…]
【? What the hell are you talking about. 】
【Fuck!!!】
[I started it up again. I saw the rice noodle rolls and Brother Xu Pi. I will start it up again. 】
[You in front of me didn’t show any strength! I saw that too! ]
[Fuck, it's Brother Xu Pi, you are so dedicated, you actually started working less than a month after acquiring the Gu farm! ]
[There are also rice noodle rolls, is this for team building on 0106? ]
[Eh, could this space also be 0106? ]
[Uh... not really. There are only two of them this time. Chef Fen is the nanny. It's reasonable for Brother Xu Pi to bring him out, right?]
【Too. 】
The barrage was frantically refreshing with comments about the appearance of Xu Zichen and Lu Changfeng, while on the screen, the attention of all the exploration team members was no longer on the countdown to the end of the live broadcast.
Staff... ?
Everyone's eyes couldn't help but stay on that object.
It was a cylindrical object that was almost as tall as Ye Dian, and was covered entirely with a black waterproof cloth bag. It looked completely different from the "staff" that everyone imagined.
"What's wrong?" The owner of the staff still looked surprised. "Didn't they say that this space needs exploration team members from the non-materialistic world? I'm a wizard, am I not satisfied?"
“It’s not that I’m dissatisfied…” Xu Zichen had a complicated expression, gesturing with his hands, “The staff shouldn’t be that kind, like chopsticks, very thin, very convenient to carry, and it will emit light after reciting the spell…”
Why is it so big...
"That's a magic wand." The wizard replied coldly.
Xu Zichen: “…Oh.”
"I know this! I know! This kind of big staff can be found in the myths over there!" Lu Changfeng volunteered, "Brother Ye, can you also enlarge or shrink this staff at will? Then you can just shout and it will fly over and you can even put it in your ear..."
The Master Mage also gave him a cold look: "That is the Dinghai Shenzhen."
Lu Changfeng: “…Oh.”
"As for the staff... this one is too thick, isn't it?" Ning Xiao opened his mouth slightly, "The diameter is at least ten centimeters... It's not convenient for casting spells at all. Can I hold it with one hand?"
According to his superficial understanding of the mages in the game based on his many years of gaming experience, although the staffs they hold are very long, they are generally still composed of a very thin stick as the main body of the staff, and the stick is decorated with gems that must have bonus buffs, supplemented by some decorations of different shapes, right?
This thing… this thing is so heavy that it can be seen with the naked eye, and its diameter is also very large. He can no longer deceive himself and say it is a staff! With this diameter, he would believe that it was a piece of wood cut from a tree uprooted by the roots.
The mage, who looks like a rapper, crossed his arms and said, "I like it, so you can control me."
Okay, you can see that.
This is a very temperamental mage...
The investors who were still sighing at Xu Zichen and Lu Changfeng also turned their attention over:
【Who is this? 】
[Are you from 0106? It seems like Brother Xu and the rice noodle rolls are not very familiar with him. ]
[I don’t know, but this guy is so trendy. ]
[Indeed, black nail polish is so damp... so damp that I couldn't help but turn on the dehumidifier.]
So what is he holding in his hand?
The remaining members of the exploration team didn't dare to speak again. They could only watch with complicated expressions as he unloaded from the luggage conveyor belt huge spellcasting materials that were almost the size of a person's arms, scattered personal accessories that made metallic clanging sounds when they collided, and several musical instrument cases of similar size.
Song Jirou said that everything they brought in would become luggage and appear beside them in a reasonable way, so... uh, why would a wizard carry so many violin cases with him?
Under everyone's shocked gazes, the luggage around Bai Jinshu piled up more and more, to the point where people began to wonder why he would bring so many things into an unknown space.
Normally, when exploration team members enter an unknown space, they try to carry as few items as possible. After all, it is completely unknown what situation they will face after entering. If they need to escape or transfer, too many personal belongings will instead become a burden to the team members.
What's more, for most team members, especially high-end ones, many necessities can be found in the foundation's temporary mall.
There is no need to carry around things that can be purchased with points.
Although as a mage, the Foundation Mall may not have the necessities he needs, so he must carry some spellcasting items with him.
But this... isn't it a bit too much?
He is not just traveling with luggage, it's like he is moving his entire home here!
Ye Dian explained: "The space is too low-level. It didn't determine that the things I carried were in the carry-on space, so they all became luggage."
Compared to the possibility that he really moved his entire home into an unknown space, the above option obviously better fits everyone's imagination of a wizard.
Ye Dian's image suddenly changed from a rapper moving around in a foundation back to a serious wizard.
The members of the exploration team all expressed their understanding and said they understood very much.
In order not to attract other people's attention, the remaining members of the exploration team, who didn't have much stuff with them and didn't need to take too much luggage from the baggage check-in, all stepped forward to help him unload his things, trying to make others think that these things were the luggage of all of them combined, and not Ye Dian's alone.
When Bai Jinshu finished counting and finally said, "Okay, we've taken it all," everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
These things he called "spellcasting materials", "magic staffs", "personal accessories", and "musical instruments" were all packed in black waterproof cloth bags. They were all very heavy, so heavy that Yin Liantao, who had walked forward without any psychological expectations at the beginning, staggered and almost fell in front of the turntable.
It was a girl next to her who was also picking up her luggage who helped her, and she finally managed to lift the violin case down with great effort.
"Thank you..." She took down the violin case and let out a long sigh, "If you hadn't helped me just now, I would have fallen on the turntable."
"It's okay." The person who supported her was a girl who looked about the same age. She had a blue tag on her chest with her ID photo with a blue background on it and her name written in pinyin below the photo.
——[Ren Zhiling].
It looks like an access card to some kind of laboratory or research room.
This blue tag is pinned on her left breast pocket, and some light yellow marks can be vaguely seen on the surrounding white fabric, indicating that this tag is often pinned in this position.
"Hey, you are the security guard this time, right?" Ren Zhiling saw her looking at the name tag on her chest and took the initiative to ask, "I just saw you chatting with Sister Song from the security team?"
The person Sister Song was talking about must be Song Jirou.
During the few hours on the plane, she quickly established a good relationship with the indigenous people.
"Yes, I'm Yin Liantao," Yin Liantao nodded and introduced himself according to Song Jirou's instructions, "We are the security guards in Team Song's squad, and we are responsible for your personal safety during the meeting."
"I see. Although you probably already know my name, let me introduce myself anyway. I'm Ren Zhiling, a researcher attending this conference." Ren Zhiling extended her hand. "Please take care of me in the next few days!"
Her suitcase was a very special laser green color. It had been taken off the luggage carousel and placed at her feet. After Ren Zhiling got to know her, she pushed the suitcase back to her classmates and colleagues.
Ren Zhiling must be very popular. When she pushed her luggage into the crowd, several researchers came over to talk to her. Yin Liantao couldn't hear what they were saying because they were too far away. She could only see Ren Zhiling pointing in her direction, and then the researchers nodded.
He was probably talking about being a security guard.
By the time everyone had gotten what they wanted, the vehicles sent to pick up the participants had arrived.
Before the exploration officially began, Song Jirou sent a list in the group.
Song Jirou: [This is a list of all the participants who need protection. The photos and names correspond one to one. The information has been sent out before all the security personnel set out. You'd better memorize them and recognize the people.]
Xu Zichen: [OK]
Fu Yandong: [I understand.]
Ning Xiao: [Okay.]
As security personnel, it is natural for them to recite the information of the people who need to be protected. Song Jirou, who appeared in front of the natives as soon as he logged in, did not reveal his identity. There is no reason for them who got the information later not to recite it.
After everyone replied that they understood, they opened the document one after another.
At this moment, a message suddenly popped up in the group:
AKA-From Afar-Mage: [The number of people in this data seems to be a little inconsistent. 】
Ning Xiao: [What number of people doesn't match? ]
Ning Xiao: [Wait, who are you? ]
What's up with this name???
Isn't this the Foundation's temporary group chat? Why did someone suddenly appear?
AKA-From Afar-Mage: [Yedian, is there a problem? ]
Ning Xiao's pupils trembled: [...No.]
Bro, are you serious?
You're not really a rapper, are you?
The calm and composed image of the wizard just now collapsed in an instant.
He raised his head and glanced silently in Ye Dian's direction, then silently opened the document.
Along with it was sent out a document, at the top of which was the name of Xi Enze, the academic giant attending the conference, and below that there was a lot of other information.
Apart from Xi Enze, the others are some researchers. The qualifications of these people are not as detailed as Xi Enze's, but it can be seen that they are also very important talents.
The entire document was not long, and a dozen people in total quickly finished reading it, but the strange thing was that there were at least dozens of researchers who followed him this time.
[Oh, that,] Song Jirou answered very naturally, [The experts on this document have received formal invitations to attend the conference. Most of the rest are students and researchers they brought with them. They were brought here to gain experience or to get experience. These people are not on the list.]
This is so true.
Everyone started to take notes before getting on the bus. It didn't matter whether they could remember the rest of the information, but they had to match the faces and names first.
In addition to Xi Enze, there were fifteen other experts who received invitations, nine men and six women, with an average age of over 40 or 50. Only one of them, named Ren Zhiling, was particularly conspicuous. He was just in his early 29s, which was a very young age among the expert group.
She looks younger than her actual age and can blend in with a group of students and researchers without any pressure.
Time was running out, so everyone hurriedly matched their appearances and names, and then got on the pick-up vehicle outside the airport.
The team that Song Jirou belongs to is responsible for the safety of the experts. Due to the declaration of the extremist organization, the expert group that originally planned to arrive in New York a few days before the meeting changed its schedule to arrive the day before the meeting and leave immediately after the meeting, trying to shorten the time they stay in the local area to minimize the danger.
The meeting will start at 3:30 p.m. local time tomorrow afternoon. The car is now heading towards the hotel. The closer we get to the hotel, the more guards there are outside the car windows.
There were also a number of reporters whose lights flashed as their vehicles passed by.
"All the people staying in the hotel are experts attending the conference," Song Jirou said in a low voice, "These guards should be local police dispatched by the conference organizers. It seems that ordinary people can't go in further inside. I guess the road is closed."
"Closing the road?" Lu Changfeng was shocked. "Isn't it just a meeting? Is it that serious?"
Is it really so exaggerated to close the road for an academic conference?
"It's hard to say," Bai Jinshu shook his head as the car drove into the road closure area. "We have Xi Enze attending this meeting alone, and we don't know who will come from other countries."
Now, regarding the matter of rules, everyone only has one clue from this meeting, and can only analyze it from this. Since the extremist organization prevented the meeting from continuing and wanted to attack the experts attending the meeting, there must be a reason.
The existence of these experts may be the focus of this rule.
"Anyway, be careful tomorrow," Song Jirou glanced at the rearview mirror, "If the space rules this time are related to these experts, then if anything happens to any of them, our exploration will be in trouble."
This is indeed true, and the exploration team members in the car nodded in agreement.
There were no outsiders in the car now, and everyone spoke more directly. Fu Yandong opened his phone directly: "Let me search what this meeting is about. Why are so many experts willing to come..."
His voice became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared altogether.
"What's wrong?" Lu Changfeng leaned over to take a look, "Could it be that they can't find it?"
If you can't find relevant information on the Internet, then there must be something seriously wrong with this meeting.
"Not really..." Fu Yandong covered his forehead and said in a weak voice, "I just don't understand it."
He forgot that this was a foreign country. Although his phone could connect to the Internet normally, the web pages he searched for were all in English...
Lu Changfeng also started to have a headache when he heard this: "My English is not good either."
"How about changing to [Elementary English Proficiency]?" he suggested without any hope.
"This kind of academic long and difficult words are probably not included in [Elementary English Mastery]..." Xu Zichen leaned over to take a look, and tried to translate it with a headache. "I changed it, but I can only barely understand a little bit. Most of these pages are talking about the extremist organization. A small part is about the meeting discussing the future of mankind and... hope or something. It's all nonsense. As for the remaining key long words, I can't understand them either."
"Song Jirou?" He looked up in the direction of Song Jirou.
"Don't ask me. I don't know either. I only know that the theme of this conference is related to some controversial ethical topics in biology," Song Jirou said. "Not to mention English. I sat next to a bunch of experts on the plane today, and I couldn't understand the relevant terms even if they were spoken in Chinese."
This reasoning has entered an endless loop.
As security personnel, they did not need to know much about the meeting itself, which resulted in the information Song Jirou obtained not containing any relevant content.
Everyone in the car fell into deep thought for a moment.
The information they have access to now is too little, and missing any one of them may result in missing out on key information.
There are a few comments floating on the barrage:
[Does anyone know these words? ]
【I don’t know him.】
[Just as Brother Xu Pi said, this kind of technical term is difficult for people who are not in this field to understand.]
【Just a moment, has anyone checked? 】
【Not found.】
[This word should be a new word in the biological world of this space, and it cannot be found anywhere. ]
…
"What ethically controversial topics can there be in biology?" Xu Zichen changed his thinking direction, "It has to be about the future and hope of mankind..."
Lu Changfeng: "Test-tube baby?"
"It's possible, but it doesn't seem likely," Song Jirou replied while driving. "Unless this technology has just appeared in this world and is not yet mature, there is no need to hold another meeting to discuss it, right?"
Ning Xiao: "Organ transplant?"
“If organ transplantation requires a meeting to discuss and threats to kill experts are required, then the tolerance of these extremist organizations is too low,” Fu Yandong denied.
Bai Jinshu: "Euthanasia?"
The remaining exploration team members:?
【Grass. 】
【How to kill the conversation. 】
[You know how to guess.]
"Euthanasia... shouldn't be necessary yet," Xu Zichen said with a complicated expression.
"Then what else?" Ning Xiao frowned and thought about it.
These people know nothing about this profession, so what can they analyze from just a few sentences?
"Parthenogenesis? Artificial embryos?" Yin Liantao guessed two in a row. "If it is in this direction, it is normal that foreign extremist organizations cannot accept it. They have religious beliefs. To them, this kind of research is an attempt by humans to interfere with the creation authority of God?"
"If we keep guessing like this, there will be so many things involved," Xu Zichen rubbed his brows worriedly, "The two you guessed are possible, but what does this have to do with the fall of the sky?"
After all, living things and Skyfall have nothing to do with each other.
"It does matter." Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke.
"What's the relationship?" Xu Zichen looked over curiously.
"God." The wizard sitting by the window uttered an extremely mysterious word.
"If there really are gods here, and if gods think that humans' attempt to create life by bypassing normal means is a challenge to them, then they may indeed bring down natural disasters on humans..." Bai Jinshu's voice subtly rose as the vehicle passed through checkpoints. "If that's the case, do you think any of the researchers in this world know that they are challenging gods?"
“Could it be that the guards at these checkpoints are not actually guarding against any extremist organizations?”
"Hiss..." Ning Xiao took a breath, "If that's the case, should we stop the meeting from being held?"
Otherwise, isn't this a challenge to God?
"Brother Ye, are there gods in your world?" Lu Changfeng asked quickly.
If the rules of this world are of this difficulty, then having one more person who understands life forms like God means more hope for survival.
The natural punishment in those myths is either a flood or a volcanic eruption. The name of this space is the collapse of the sky. If a natural disaster really comes, he, as a wet nurse, may not be able to take care of everyone.
Lu Changfeng suddenly became nervous.
"No." The wizard, who had just made a frightening guess, leaned back in his chair and answered.
Lu Changfeng:?
"Then... then Brother Ye, you still say God..."
Isn't it because you understand that you say this?
"I made it up." The wizard answered very smoothly.
Everyone in the car: ...
It can be seen that Ye Dian only says what he wants to say, and as for the content he doesn't want to say, he will blatantly fool everyone in the face.
You know clearly that he is fooling you, but there is nothing you can do.
"Then... Brother Ye, do you have any magic that can see the content of this meeting? The kind that can see in advance what will happen tomorrow?" Lu Changfeng said unwillingly.
Knowing in advance means avoiding problems in advance. Lu Changfeng looked in Ye Dian's direction with hope.
Bai Jin, who received the gaze, said:
Who does this fat guy think he is?
Is it a god?
The immortal glanced at Lu Changfeng quietly: "You also know that I know magic?"
Lu Changfeng: “Ah?”
Bai Jin said: "Instead of magic."
"How would I know what will happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?" When the car arrived at the back door of the hotel, he opened the door speechlessly and jumped out. He took out the sky-high "staff" from the trunk with one hand and said calmly, "Anyway, it doesn't matter what happens. The name is called "Sky Fall", which means that this thing will happen sooner or later, otherwise the Foundation would not name it that way."
There was a kind of aloofness in his speech.
Under the gaze of the exploration team members and investors, Bai Jinshu calmly weighed the "staff" in his hand and showed a sincere expression: "Anyway, we will know what this meeting is all about then. If there are members of the extremist organization who come to disrupt it, we will kill them, and if they want to know what is going on, we will keep them alive. If they use professional terms that we don't understand, we will beat them until they say they understand."
"Leave."
Bai Jinshu walked away in a cool manner, leaving only the team members inside and outside the car with shocked expressions.
Although this is the truth...
But...but is it really okay to just say it out loud like this?
"This member of yours..." Song Jirou looked at Xu Zichen tactfully, "What did he do before?"
Isn't a mage who can't rap a good godslayer?
Lu Changfeng: “…I don’t know either.”
As expected, the person was found by Chao Yougan.
The train of thought of both of them is damn similar, doesn't the mage have any way to force the other party to tell the truth?
Is it necessary to fight?
If someone really wants to attack the experts tomorrow... let's just hope that no one is hurt.
The exploration team members walked into the hotel with sympathy for the members of the extremist organization tomorrow.
*
The hotel rooms are arranged so that security personnel and experts live on the same floor.
Students and other researchers are spread out on other floors.
After a simple distribution of room cards, everyone carried their luggage to their own rooms.
The plane landed almost in the evening, and after all the hassle, it was time to go to bed. Everyone was trying to adjust to the jet lag, and everyone went to bed, whether they were sleepy or not.
The two female members of the exploration team were assigned to share a room with the two female experts. After one night, when they met in the hotel restaurant in the morning, they briefly reviewed what happened last night.
"Nothing happened," Ning Xiao, who lived in a room next to the elevator, spoke first, "No one went upstairs after dark last night."
"There's no one here either," Yin Liantao shook his head. "We seem to be the last group of experts to arrive here. No one checked in after us."
The rest of the people also said that nothing happened and last night was Christmas Eve.
Since nothing happened in the evening, the extremist organization's interference with the meeting could only have occurred on the day of the meeting.
The exploration team members were fully alert and boarded the vehicle heading to the meeting venue.
The sixteen experts who received the invitation this time were divided into four groups, each protected by four different teams of security personnel.
Bai Jinshu and his group were assigned to Xi Enze's group.
Following the participants through layers of security to the conference venue, everyone received a conference badge with their name printed on it and then stood behind the experts to be responsible for security.
The experts attending the conference took turns to speak on stage. At the beginning, the exploration team members tried hard to understand the theme of the meeting from their speeches. As a result, there were too many incomprehensible words in their speeches. In the middle and late stages, everyone gave up.
Even the barrage has decreased a lot.
[Why are you still talking about the heavenly book...]
[I have woken up from a nap and am still talking. ]
【What happened? 】
[No, everything is normal.]
[What are you talking about? Someone who understands can tell me! ]
[Speaking of human embryo synthesis, no wonder there are ethical issues. 】
[The exploration team members stood here for an entire afternoon? ]
【yes. 】
The first day of the meeting was coming to an end, and no accidents occurred. Xi Enze, who had been looking a little serious, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart. He smiled softly at the exploration team members who had been seriously and responsibly on guard, and said, "Xiaosong, you have worked hard today."
"Our work..." Song Jirou stopped talking halfway, and suddenly hugged Xi Enze, who hadn't reacted yet, and rolled to the side.
A loud bang came from beside them.
The originally orderly conference hall was suddenly filled with screams, followed by the sounds of many participants near the exits opening the doors and running outside.
This time everyone understood what they shouted.
Someone was screaming, "Shooting! It's a shooting!"
And everyone who was near here knew that this could never have been a shooting.
Song Jirou raised her head and looked in the direction where the loud noise came from.
That was where Xi Enze had been sitting before. Now his stool had disappeared and turned into a pile of ashes. Where the stool should have been, there was a huge hole that seemed to lead to the downstairs. Around the hole was bursts of white smoke from the burning, and around the edge of the hole were circles of strange blue arcs of light.
Song Jirou broke out in a cold sweat on her back. These were definitely not the marks of impact that could be caused by the hot weapons in this world.
The person who launched the attack seemed to have seen that his attack missed and immediately ran away. The meeting place was in chaos. In the confusion, Bai Jinshu lowered his head and looked through the hole that had been punched through the floor, and met the sight of a face wearing a metal mask.
The next second, the man in silver-white clothes and a metal mask suddenly disappeared from his sight.
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Changed the cover of Ye Mowang! The big picture is at @月渡寒塘含糖
Ahhh it's too late, the first 20+ will get a random 20 red envelope
When I started to outline the human embryo synthesis, it was not yet available. I didn't expect that scientific development would backstab me. Just a few days before the opening of this instance, someone actually synthesized it:
On June 15, a research team from the California Institute of Technology and the University of Cambridge in the UK said that they had created a synthetic human embryo-like structure without eggs and sperm from stem cells for the first time.
According to The Guardian, these structures are equivalent to the earliest stages of human development, without a beating heart or brain, but with cells that can later form the placenta, yolk sac and embryo itself. Researchers say this achievement may help advance understanding of genetic diseases or causes of miscarriage. But at the same time, this research has sparked legal and ethical controversy because laboratory-grown entities are not within the scope of current legislation.
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