[“Butterfly, butterfly, why did you die?”]
[“Are you a wing that was born from a broken wing, a firefly that flew into the fire in order to be burned to death?”]
[“Is it a tentacles that heal due to bleeding, or a head that grows for decapitation?”]
[“You succumbed to the darkness that already existed.”]
[“You surrender to a dawn that does not yet exist.”]
…
I opened my eyes.
There was a rosin-like smell floating in the air. I was very familiar with this smell. It was the smell of formalin.
I have kept formalin in my cupboard and have also experimented with formalin.
...Hmm? No.
I did hide formalin in the cabinet. Yueyue and I got it. But I have never done any experiment on formalin. Why would I have such an idea?
After thinking for a while, I realized that this was the influence of the "possession state" on me. The thoughts of this body would affect me, but it was harmless and helped me think about the identity and temperament of this body.
I looked around and it was pitch black. It was a completely dark room with only the ticking sound of a clock.
…The young man said he would teleport me to a safe place, so where is this?
I quickly touched the light switch on the wall, and the room lit up. The brain, eyeballs, heart, stomach and other organs were floating in jars of green liquid. It looked like a room for storing human organs.
……but.
I frowned, the sense of déjà vu in my mind becoming stronger and stronger.
...Why does this scene look so familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before...
I captured the tiny fragments of light and shadow in my mind until a shout came from outside the door -
"--PhD!"
A young girl in a white coat pushed the door open. She had beautiful emerald eyes and a name tag on her chest. She was about seventeen or eighteen years old.
At that moment, I felt as if the images in my mind had overlapped in some way. I stared at her face without blinking, and almost thought I was dreaming.
The girl smiled at me and said, "Doctor Li, the gods have begun to act, and a large number of old god books have been burned. Fortunately, you escaped here. We are the safest here."
I followed the girl out of the room.
Walking through the long corridor, I saw a group of children sitting in a classroom reading. Outside the window was an icy white scene, white clouds, white ground, white buildings, the setting sun was slanting down, and the wall was reflecting the color of the burning clouds. The children were reading poems with bright eyes:
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old men should burn and cry out to the setting sun,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light..."
I turned my head to look at the girl and couldn't help asking:
"Is your name... Xiaohan?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, and pointed at the name tag on her chest: "I am the android No. 2024 of the 'Ark Project'. My mission is to assist you in the Millennium Project. When I was born, the name my maker gave me was indeed 'Xiaohan'. Doctor, how could you forget this?"
"Who made you?"
"Old God." said the girl.
The sense of wonder in my heart grew stronger and stronger. I had never met the Old Gods, and I only knew about them in the classics. I knew nothing about the Old Gods' temperaments or what they had done. I always thought that the Old Gods were characters living in the background, just like the long-dead Asa Ak-To.
But what the android Xiaohan said made me feel that the old god was more like me. Only I would remember that there was a girl named "Xiaohan".
Will I ever go back to ancient times and become an old god myself?
This is unlikely. The Ouroboros of Time in the Ruins World is because the entire world is between virtual dimensions, but the Tower of the Old World cannot change the history of thousands of years ago. So... why do the Old Gods look so much like me?
At this moment, the reading in the classroom suddenly stopped. A boy put down his book, ran out of the classroom, and walked in front of me. The boy was wearing an ultra-modern uniform, with narrow and lifeless eyes, looking up at me.
I vaguely guessed who he was. This look in his eyes... looks so much like the same person.
After staring at each other for a moment, the boy spoke:
"My identity is a saint, I don't have any special skills."
I called out who he was: "Lü Shu."
It seems that Lu Shu has possessed a child. That's good. We are reunited.
…
I learned a lot of things.
The place where I am is called "Life Hard Drive Central Experimental City", which is currently the safest and most secretive place in the world - its mission is to store life hard drives, collect negative emotions for thousands of years and convert them into energy. When the old gods wake up after a thousand years, they can take over the life hard drives and build an ideal country.
This is also the main content of the Millennium Plan.
The experimental city where I live should be called "Jiuyou" a thousand years later.
At present, the Millennium Project has not yet started. This place is equivalent to an empty shell, serving only as a shelter, accommodating many talented children.
In a hall full of surveillance screens, I met a man in his twenties.
The man has an elegant temperament, a handsome appearance, and wears a brown round hat. His name is Xia Jiawen, and he is the fifth person in charge of the Millennium Project. He is stationed here, waiting for the day when the Millennium Project will be officially launched.
As for the person I possessed, his name was Li Mingyue, the fourth person in charge. He looked exactly the same as he did a thousand years later, but I remembered that Li Mingyue should have white hair, but I had black hair at this time. My clothes did not have any trace of the church, but were instead a white coat of a scientific researcher.
This strikes me as wrong.
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