Chapter 163 Chaotic Block No. 13 (20) The Black Tower of Epiphyllum Ridge is actually...
The Axemen prepared a grand celebration banquet for Gao Mengtang. Wagyu beef, turkey, roast suckling pig... Oysters and scallops were piled up like a mountain, lobsters were still baring their teeth and claws when they were fished out of the water tank, and the crab shells were opened to reveal golden crab roe.
Then, Gao Mengtang held a bowl of vegetable salad.
"You can't eat meat, hiccup!" Shunfenger wiped the oil off his lips, "You will have regrets in your life."
Gao Mengtang: "It's okay."
"Burp! Not good, not good at all." Shunfenger shook his head regretfully.
After having a good meal and a good drink, they went back to sleep. The old mansion had much fewer rooms than the hospital, so they had to squeeze two or three people into one room.
Gao Mengtang and Bai Jie shared a bedroom. As night fell, the temperature dropped sharply.
He knew that Wei Xiangchen was coming.
"Chief Gao, please follow me. I will take you to the Fulin."
"Take Bai Jie with you." Gao Mengtang said.
Wei Xiangchen: "Why bring him along? Don't worry, I have no attacking skills and I have no intention of killing you."
His body turned into a cloud, dragging Gao Mengtang with him, and he climbed out of the window. He floated across the block easily and headed for the wasteland.
Looking down, the Iron Lady patrolled day and night, and screams could be heard from the alley from time to time.
"We are about to cross the gray wall," Gao Mengtang whispered, "be careful they find you."
"Don't worry, it won't happen," Wei Xiangchen said, "I am just a soul. I can be completely invisible and will not be detected."
Gao Mengtang: "But I'm not a soul!"
Wei Xiangchen: “…That makes sense.”
They were still discovered, and the security guards fired into the sky. Fortunately, Wei Xiangchen flew very fast and the bullet did not hit Gao Mengtang. It just once flew past his hairline, his cheeks were burning, and a piece of hair was singed.
"I cherish my hair very much." Gao Mengtang was dissatisfied.
Wei Xiangchen: "The Fulin is in front."
Under their feet was the place marked as "wasteland" on the map. There was only poor sandy soil here, not even a weed could grow, a truly barren land.
"Where is Fu Lin?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Wei Xiangchen: “Here.”
He landed vertically on a wasteland, pointed to the equally empty air ahead and said, "This is Fulin."
The map showed that they had reached the border of the map. There was a fog in front of them, which represented the boundary of the dungeon. There was no gray wall in sight behind them. Area 13 was at least 10 kilometers away from them.
Gao Mengtang looked at the empty wasteland and felt like he was gaining enlightenment.
"Stop telling riddles. Where is Fulin?"
"I'm very sorry," Wei Xiangchen gently lifted up one of Gao Mengtang's hands, "I'm sorry."
Then he used his long black nails to cut open Gao Mengtang's wrist. Blood dripped into the cracks in the stone. Suddenly, a cold wind blew, and the surrounding air was compressed sharply, and the high pressure made it difficult to breathe.
A narrow door appeared before them.
"Please follow me." Wei Xiang stepped one foot into the narrow door.
The appearance of the narrow gate means nothing good is going to happen.
But Gao Mengtang really wanted to know the secret of Epiphyllum Ridge, so after hesitating for a moment, he went in anyway.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw a town with complete facilities and well-built buildings. The benches at the bus stop were spotlessly clean. The street lights were on, and when I walked over the cobblestones, the induction lights embedded between the tiles would light up.
The buildings on both sides were lined up one after another, with bright and clean windows. There was a subway entrance, the escalator was running, the traffic lights at the intersection were on, and the convenience store sign was also on.
There are lights everywhere. The town is not dark, but it still gives people an inexplicable feeling of depression.
Soon, Gao Mengtang discovered the problem.
First of all, there was no one in the town.
Secondly, there are no green belts in towns.
Not only is there no green belt, there is not a single insect. The street lamps are on at night, but there are no moths around. A guess made Gao Mengtang feel empty: he and Wei Xiangchen might be the only two living creatures here.
Well, one living thing and one dead thing.
"This is Fulin." Wei Xiangchen said.
They walked slowly in the middle of the road, and Wei Xiangchen introduced slowly.
The narrow gate at the entrance of the Fulin needs the blood of moon creatures to awaken. The Fulin was built hundreds of years ago.
"Built hundreds of years ago?" Gao Mengtang's eyes widened. "But these buildings are clearly modern in style."
Wei Xiangchen: "This is not the world you understand. The buildings here will change, except for that one."
He took Gao Mengtang into a double-decker bus. There was no driver, and the steering wheel turned by itself. There was no one around, so they could follow their free will and act however they wanted.
Like climbing onto the roof of a double-decker bus.
"See?" Wei Xiangchen pointed to the north. "You are very familiar with this kind of building."
It looks so familiar, that’s [Black Tower Zero].
It is much cleaner than Black Tower Zero and has not been corroded by the blood of the Dead Born.
Gao Mengtang hesitated and asked, "So, we are in... the other world?"
"Yes, and not entirely," Wei Xiangchen said, "Have you heard of Biosphere II?"
Biosphere II, a miniature artificial ecological circulation system, is a completely enclosed space built with white painted steel and glass. The interior imitates the structure of the biosphere and has residential areas, agricultural areas, rainforests, swamps, deserts and other environments.
In short, a miniature Earth.
"Fulin is a miniature inner world." Wei Xiangchen sighed sadly, "If the inner world had not been destroyed, then it would be what we see now. But there would be many beautiful moon creatures wandering around here."
That black tower is not the real Black Tower Zero, but the Black Tower Zero that was restored and rebuilt 1:1.
Gao Mengtang: "So, why did the architecture here change? Why was it built hundreds of years ago but is in modern style?"
"Don't be anxious. I have been exploring the secret for more than 600 years, and I will tell you all of it tonight." Wei Xiangchen sat on the roof of a double-decker bus, looking at the clean, beautiful yet empty streets.
When the double-decker bus pulled up to the station, Wei Xiangchen pointed to two identical street lamps on the roadside and said, "Look at those two street lamps. Are they the same?"
Gao Mengtang: "Is it...right?"
"Please follow me out of the car and take a look." Wei Xiangchen jumped down and observed the street lamp with the meticulousness and patience of an archaeologist observing a coffin. Finally, he squatted down and scratched the lamp holder with his long black nails. "This street lamp has three scratches, but the street lamp next to it has none. They are different."
Wei Xiangchen went to great lengths to find him and bring him to the simulated world, definitely not to find something different. He had something else to say. Gao Mengtang listened patiently.
"People look at street lamps and feel that every one of them is the same. Street lamps have no uniqueness." Wei Xiangchen stood up. The double-decker bus had already left the station. In the distance, another bus was approaching.
"People look at snakes, insects, and other small animals with the same view. They all look similar, so when they're hungry, they eat, and when they're tired, they sleep."
"When we walk into a pet store, we feel like, it's okay to buy a Sisson or a shorthair."
The second bus came and they got on again.
"So, how do people look at other people?"
"When we look at people of other races, we think they look similar, speak a foreign language, and use similar intonations. Even when we look at other people of our own race, we often think they look similar and we can't tell them apart."
There are no two leaves in the world that are exactly the same. But that doesn't stop people from classifying two leaves, dozens of leaves, or even a whole forest of leaves, as one.
Because the difference in appearance is often not important. Unless a leaf is particularly beautiful, so beautiful that artists will praise it endlessly, so beautiful that people will praise it as a masterpiece of the Creator, and so beautiful that it will be collected in a museum for future generations to admire. In this case, this beautiful leaf is unique.
Most leaves are, at their core, just leaves.
After Wei Xiangchen finished speaking, he turned and looked at him, "Now, Chief Gao, do you still think that you are unique?"
Gao Mengtang immediately replied: "Yes!"
Wei Xiangchen:?
"So confident?"
"It's just an objective evaluation," Gao Mengtang said. "In the forest, I am just that special and beautiful leaf."
Wei Xiangchen looked at him in surprise: "Are you sure? Even if you search the whole world, there is no one else as beautiful as you?"
Gao Mengtang was suddenly a little shaken, but he quickly remembered that he was the twelfth virtuous king, or at least had a relationship with the twelfth virtuous king.
Thinking of this, he puffed out his chest proudly and said, "I am the twelfth wise king, so I am unique."
Wei Xiangchen: “…” That makes sense.
"Okay, I won't use you as an example." Wei Xiangchen admitted defeat, "But the vast majority of people in this world are essentially the same, and there is not much difference in appearance."
"When you get 650 points on the college entrance exam, there are thousands of people with the same score. You get a job, but someone else can do it without you."
“Even if you are the top scorer, there will be another top scorer next year.”
"You may feel that you are irreplaceable to your parents, but if it was another pair of fertilized eggs that developed into a baby, the parents would give him the same love. They love whoever is their child, and it has nothing to do with you."
Even if a great man is enshrined in the temple, when another person of the same period obtains the same conditions as the great man, chooses the same path as him, and has the same qualities as him, the one enshrined in the temple will be the unknown person.
The complexity of human society can cause a group of very similar people to take different paths.
Wei Xiangchen: "If they live in a simple environment, for example, two cats with beautiful fur, cheerful and outgoing, both hunt and sleep. They look no different. But in human society, one will become a boxing star, and the other will just be a gangster."
Two people who are essentially the same are like two linen canvases of the same price. One is bought by the artist and painted carefully, while the other is not sold and gathers dust in the warehouse.
But they are both linen canvases, the difference is the oil paint attached to their surface.
Gao Mengtang hugged his legs, the night wind blowing through his hair.
A bus going in the opposite direction passed by them.
"You know that Wei Wei values money very much," Wei Xiangchen said, "but he didn't show this trait when he was a teenager. Because his parents were still alive and his family was well-off, he would recite poems and write couplets, appreciate flowers and raise birds every day."
"If his parents were alive, Wei Wei would still be a leisurely young man, and even do charity. If he was born in a poor family, he might be a swindler or a black-hearted businessman now."
"Young Master, Chief Meng, Swindler. They are all 'Wei Wei'."
Wei Xiangchen looked at the street lights and said, "In the final analysis, they are all just people."
"So, the other world?" Gao Mengtang asked softly.
"When the inner world first appeared, it represented the essence of human beings..." Wei Xiangchen said, "I still don't know when the inner world was born, and maybe I will never know. But I guess that when the first intelligent life thought about 'who am I', the inner world existed."
Before the birth of moon creatures and shadow creatures, there was only one kind of creature in the inner world: the Immortals.
Each immortal represents a group of people with the same "essence". They are immortal because this group of people will always exist.
Among the immortals, there is a group of outliers, they represent the "exquisite leaf", when this leaf withers, we have to wait for the next miracle to appear. Therefore, this kind of immortals sleep regularly.
Immortals are also living creatures, they cannot float in the sky and sleep. Therefore, the other world also has materials for them to use, such as buildings, furniture, etc.
Moreover, the architecture of the other world changes at the same time as the architecture of human society. When the cottages are demolished, tall buildings are built.
The other world is like a large open playground, where every immortal can try different possibilities in his endless life.
Wei Xiangchen: "Until the Supreme Order appeared. Similarly, I still don't know how the Supreme Order appeared. Perhaps, when the first person firmly believed that 'God does not exist', the Supreme Order appeared."
"From now on, the inner world is not completely equal to the essential world, but an orderly world ruled by the supreme order."
"The Immortals became extinct, and were replaced by Moon Creatures and Shadow Creatures. The Black Tower then appeared."
Gao Mengtang: "The Supreme Order, is it the throne?"
"That's right," Wei Xiangchen smiled, "Now, the only protagonist in the other world is that chair. We're here."
Wei Xiangchen got off the car. In front of them was a large building complex. The plaque on the archway was inscribed with a string of otherworldly characters.
"What does the small words on the plaque mean?" Gao Mengtang asked.
Wei Xiangchen: "The Lord heard my sorrow and led me into the City of Separation. I cut through nightmares and dreams and was reborn in the gap."
Li Mo also said this. At that time, Gao Mengtang took the black tower to the surface world, and Li Mo protected him from attack. When he was in a trance, Li Mo muttered this sentence.
Gao Mengtang looked up, trying to remember the circle-shaped words: "What does this sentence mean?"
"The origin of the black tower." Wei Xiangchen said, "All the black towers in the other world are gathered in the same area. The name of the black tower forest is the City of Separation."
"Why is it called the City of Separation?"
"I don't know."
Gao Mengtang walked in and looked around. At this time, Wei Xiangchen laughed softly: "Chief Gao, why don't you ask what this place is?"
"..." Gao Mengtang stared at him expressionlessly, and the look in his eyes meant: I'll give you a chance, you speak for yourself.
Wei Xiangchen: "The Black Tower Laboratory at Epiphyllum Ridge."
*
"Your Honor, we have thoroughly checked all of Chief Meng's personal belongings and found no evidence that he was collaborating with the enemy." The investigator took a stack of materials and placed them on An Ning's desk.
Li Ren stood up anxiously: "Go check my adjutant Xu Tianhe, his death is not normal!"
"After checking, we found no energy fluctuations from the Black Tower, and no traces of fire magic. It was just an ordinary self-immolation." said the investigator.
"No, no," Li Ren muttered, shaking his head, "Let the forensic doctor examine Xu Tianhe's body. He must have been killed first, and then someone set fire to his body. Let's determine the time of his death!"
The investigator looked apologetic and said, "We don't have a forensic doctor. That's backward technology from the old world. After the Black Tower game was launched, we only had energy detectors. We used the residual energy concentration to determine the time of death. Besides, he was doused with gasoline and burned into a mass of charred flesh. Even if we had a forensic doctor, I'm afraid he wouldn't be able to determine the time of death."
The person who set the fire was Hei Yi, who was not even a public beta player, so there would be no energy fluctuations. When Wei Wei killed Xu Tianhe, he did not use many skills, and most of the energy remained on Xu Tianhe, but Xu Tianhe had been burned beyond recognition.
A huge fire burned over, and the remaining energy fluctuations in the room were also burned away.
Li Ren slammed the table and said, "Something is wrong! It's definitely not right! Where's the surveillance? Who entered Xu Tianhe's room?"
"Surveillance is also a product of a backward rule of law society," the investigator spread his hands helplessly, "We only have the Law and the Iron Lady here. Surveillance is rarely used. This villa is newly built and has no surveillance."
"Handwriting! Handwriting identification!" Li Ren shouted as if grasping a life-saving straw, "Let the experts identify the handwriting of Tianhe's "Confession Letter"!"
An Ning said impatiently: "It has been identified and it is Xu Tianhe's handwriting."
Every road was blocked, and great despair came over Li Ren. He neurotically repeated "No" and "Definitely Not Right", pacing back and forth in An Ning's office.
"Stop shaking, it makes me dizzy." An Ning pinched the bridge of her nose, "Let me ask you again, before Xu Tianhe committed suicide, did he tell you that Meng Fei was colluding with the enemy?"
Li Ren almost shouted, "I'm sure!"
"Then why didn't you tell me right away?" An Ning asked.
"Xu Tianhe saw the enemy's intelligence on Meng Fei's mobile phone. The Axe Man will break out from the southeast gate. I want to guard the gate first, capture the Axe Man, and then settle accounts with Meng Fei." Li Ren said.
"Excuse me," An Ning opened his eyes, "From my perspective, Meng Fei advised you to focus on guarding the southwest gate, but you didn't listen and insisted on taking away almost all the troops to guard the southeast gate."
"After making such a big mistake, you said that Meng Fei was collaborating with the enemy."
"No matter how you look at it, this seems like an attempt to evade responsibility..." An Ning crossed her fingers, placed them on the table, and uttered the final verdict: "-frame-up."
Li Ren's head buzzed and he instantly lost all his strength. He took two steps back and fell onto the sofa, repeating "No" "No" over and over again...
"I still have a lot of things to do," An Ning pointed at the open door of the office with his palm, "I won't see you off. Let me remind you that you are still suspected of collaborating with the enemy."
Two people helped Li Ren walk out. As soon as he stepped out of the door, Li Ren suddenly came to his senses and shouted with all his strength, "I understand! I understand everything!"
He pushed the person who was supporting him away and rushed to An Ning's desk, resting his hands on it, shaking with excitement: "Meng Fei can mimic! He can mimic!"
"What do you mean?" An Ning frowned.
"The person who came to see me yesterday was not Xu Tianhe at all, but Meng Fei in disguise. He framed me! Go check him out!" Li Ren was so excited as if he had come back to life. "At 4 a.m. the day before yesterday, Meng Fei disguised himself as me and walked out of the office!"
An Ning: "The eyewitness said that when Xu Tianhe and you were having a secret conversation, Meng Fei was sitting in the lounge waiting for the meeting to start. When you walked out at four in the morning the day before yesterday, Meng Fei was talking to Zheng Yan."
Li Ren's flushed face suddenly turned pale.
"Also, you and Xu Tianhe have known each other for more than 10 years, but you haven't noticed any difference in his appearance. If it is really a mimicry, do you know how difficult it is to create a mimicry that is so realistic? How many people can do it?" An Ning's heart skipped a beat as he spoke.
Your Majesty can do it.
His octopus can mimic the shape of others and can make two people present at the same time.
"You can go back and accept the investigation." An Ning said, "Show me away."
As soon as the office door was closed, An Ning turned on the computer and pulled up Meng Fei's information. She read it from beginning to end, not missing a single word, for a long, long time.
Is it another coincidence...
Li Ren was brought back to the observation room, where he sat against the wall, dazed and motionless, like a sculpture.
Knock, knock. There was a knock on the door, and the security guard said, "Chief Li, your son is here to visit."
Li Ren finally came to his senses and staggered out with the security guard. Through a glass, he saw his son Li Jian with a furious face.
"Dad, I believe you! I know what kind of person you are. How could you possibly collaborate with the enemy!" Li Jian shouted loudly, deliberately letting everyone hear his indirect criticism. "You are a person with a strong sense of justice. You would rather break than bend. That's why you are targeted by villains!"
Hearing this, Li Ren's grievances burst out instantly. His eyes were hot, but he managed to hold it back. He smiled at his son through the glass: "Well, you are the only one who understands Dad. How are you doing recently?"
"I'm fine." Li Jian said.
Li Ren glanced at the side and lowered his voice: "Did Fu Yi cause any trouble for you and your mother?"
Fu Yi is the owner of an underground clinic and a partner of Guangming Pharmaceutical in District 13. He mainly sells blockers of Tongxinteng parasitism.
However, Li Ren did a good job in preventing and controlling Tong Xin Teng, and few people were infected.
After Blocker No. 04 was launched on the market, Fu Yi used threats and inducements to make Li Ren relax his control over Tong Xin Teng and allow Tong Xin Teng to parasitize the citizens in order to increase the sales of Blocker No. 04.
After several discussions, Li Ren still disagreed, and the two sides had a very unhappy argument.
Fu Yi is also a ruthless person. If he tells An Ning about this, he will be forced to do something desperate, and Li Ren's family will suffer. Li Ren has no choice but to keep dragging it out.
"He didn't cause me any trouble. I scolded him every time he came. He doesn't dare to provoke me." Li Jian raised his voice again, "These villains can only sneak around and use shady tricks. What's there to be afraid of?"
Li Ren slammed the table and said, "As expected of my son, he has guts!"
After the visiting hours, Li Ren returned to the special observation room and stayed awake all night.
When breakfast was served, he picked up the steamed bun and started to eat it. After chewing it for a while, he spat out a ball of paper from his mouth.
When I unfolded it, I found it was a text message written by Fu Yi.
Hello, Director Li.
I heard about the gatekeeper incident. I personally think that Meng Fei framed me. I'm sure you have the same guess as me.
Meng Fei is still nominally the Minister-General of the Ministry of Epidemic Prevention. If a small accident occurs during his tenure, he will suffer a terrible fall.
For example: blasting the sewer pipes in a certain area to allow the Tongxin vine to spread.
What do you think?
I will try to contact you again. Your sincere partner: Fuyi.
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