Chapter 170 Doomsday Research Institute
What just happened was not a dream.
The diary had really just spoken to him, there was something intelligent in it.
What is going on?
Yu Leng remembered that they had seen this book suddenly move before, but when they asked Lu Jiamu at that time, Lu Jiamu did not give any effective explanation, and they could not see anything. But it did not seem to have much impact on them, and plus they had other things to do at the time, so they did not ask again.
But now it seems really weird.
The four of them were involved in this strange incident empty-handed, but he brought a mysterious object with him.
Although Yu Leng also knew that what the strange thing had just said was too mysterious, every word from beginning to end was ambiguous, as if it had a clear direction but also seemed to have nothing.
But I have to say, it is like those fortune-telling vendors on the street, who are very good at arousing other people's curiosity. Even if you know that they are just charlatans and may be calling you just to whet your appetite, you still can't help but wonder if he has really seen something or if there is any inside story.
Once the seeds of doubt and curiosity are planted, it will make you feel uneasy and resentful.
This prompted Yu Leng to not directly ask what the group of figures he had just seen were.
Lu Jiamu noticed his strange gaze, turned over and looked at the cover of the diary, but saw nothing.
After Yu Leng calmed down, he stood up from the sofa with difficulty: "What are you looking at?"
But when he got closer, Lu Jiamu seemed to turn the page of the diary inadvertently.
All Yu Leng could see was the same mess of messy lines and graffiti as before.
This made him a little confused: it was clearly just some messy doodles, so why did that strange thing claiming to be a diary let him see it?
And why did Lu Jiamu keep reading this book over and over again when it was obviously meaningless? Is this normal?
Yu Leng wanted to turn to the page that Lu Jiamu had read before with some curiosity: "Is it so good? Lend it to me?"
Lu Jiamu had already closed the diary, making it clear that he didn't want him to read it: "There's nothing else to do."
Yu Leng wanted to take it again, but was cleverly avoided.
Very weird.
In the past, their team always respected each other. If they knew that someone had something that they didn't want others to know, they would keep silent and not ask.
But this time, with those strange words said by that strange figure, it was impossible for Yu Lengleng not to take it seriously.
He tried to get it again, but was evaded again. He tried to get it again, but was evaded again.
There were also some cheating methods using special abilities, saying that they didn't want to share with him after they died, causing Yu Leng to almost roll over because he failed to retract his strength in time.
Yu Leng still remembered that the last time he was curious and wanted to read this book, the other party was not so resistant.
He was shocked: "Oh my god, you wouldn't do that, would you?"
Lu Jiamu gently placed the diary on his knees and raised his eyebrows. There was an inexplicable sense of provocation from a victor, as if he was deliberately teasing him out of some bad taste.
Yu Leng didn't know whether he was really so wicked as to deliberately not let others see the diary the more they wanted to see it, but even if they fought now, it was certain that not only would he not win, but he would also not be able to snatch the diary away.
Yu Leng slowly suppressed his anger.
Although Lu Jiamu didn't know what happened before, he had already noticed something unusual and asked, "Why do you have to watch it?"
Yu Leng walked back to his own sofa and decided to ask tentatively: "I just saw you keep flipping through it, and I was a little curious. What on earth is that? What's written on it that's worth you reading it so carefully? Do you understand it?"
Lu Jiamu breathed a sigh of relief: "This is the diary of my former best friend. It is also the only relic he left me."
As for whether you can understand it?
As Kouman and Wei Xiaoyan stayed in the world behind the door, Door No. 8 was closed from the inside by them. Their increased understanding of the Wheel of Time and Space, mixed with those scribbles, a large amount of messy things were refreshed into understandable text.
This time, the content was extremely dark and desperate. It was probably Fang Gu’s inner wailing at the last moment of his life. He wrote on the paper very hard over and over again: [I shouldn’t have come back, I shouldn’t have come back, I shouldn’t have come back…]
[I should have died in those games, died at night, or listened to them and stayed in the world behind the door, so that I wouldn't be in this situation today...]
[I used to be very curious. The background of each world seemed to be similar. Why did some worlds enter doomsday directly after the strange invasion, while some worlds still had the opportunity to organize a resistance organization? I think I understand the reason. It is because there is more than one round of such a cycle. Many travelers in the past would choose to stop halfway...]
[But I feel unwilling to give up. I really want to go home. I still have family and friends waiting for me. I must come back.]
[I am like a stinking rat infected with the Black Death, desperately fleeing to a safe zone...]
[I returned safely with all the letters they gave me. But no one could understand them except me. No one could understand what I said. I wanted to shout, but everyone thought I was screaming like a madman.]
[I am very scared, I want to find you, my friend, but you don't understand what I am saying, you also think I am crazy. But you are a little better than others: you don't show me that kind of contemptuous expression.]
[Because you look at me with no expression, I don’t know what you are thinking. Sometimes I even think you can understand what I am saying. This brings me the only peace.]
[I came back, but was rejected by the whole world. Just because of the rule about "reading permissions". I'm not crazy, but everyone thinks I'm crazy. Since then, no one can understand me anymore...]
After they left the rare safe world, the diary was updated with the following content.
Lu Jiamu finished reading it silently. He couldn’t tell what he felt in his heart, just a sense of indifference.
He just vaguely remembered the last time Fang Gu lived, when he went to visit him a few times and he suddenly jumped up and threw things at him.
It's definitely not caused by mental illness.
Maybe from Fang Gu's perspective, he was not rushing over to attack him.
Before this, the diary seemed to have asked him the same question: Aren’t you curious why some worlds go straight to doomsday because of their failure to respond to the weirdness in time, while some worlds seem to be well prepared and can coordinate some response plans?
Now it told him the answer: because some people knew from the beginning that the weird would invade. They would stop in a sunny world just like Kou Man and Wei Xiaoyan.
The contents of these diaries seem to have outlined the general outline of Fang Gu's life, and only a little bit is needed to piece together his final life trajectory.
But such negative content was inexplicably similar to their current situation. After Lu Jiamu read it and digested the information, he certainly didn't want Yu Leng to see it again.
The door to the world of number eight has been closed, this retreat has disappeared, and new negative emotions will not help them in any way. And he still needs the other party's hopeful positivity to accompany him.
But Yu Leng didn't know what he was thinking.
"Can I ask how he left?"
Lu Jiamu gave a brief description: "He was killed while playing games."
Yu Leng subconsciously felt that what he said, together with the hints from that strange thing claiming to be a diary, could actually piece together a complete story.
The diary was secretly drawing symbols for Yu Leng in a corner where Lu Jiamu couldn't see it, showing its presence::D
It has always been like this, making Yu Leng feel uneasy.
Yu Leng stared at the diary, and Lu Jiamu turned it over again, but there was still nothing. The diary had erased the symbols he had written in advance.
Yu Leng wanted to ask something else, but at this moment a light "click" sound was heard in the empty field. The shadow pointer on the ground had automatically jumped to point to Gate No. 9, and the light above was gradually weakening.
The two men immediately stood up alertly.
It's time to go.
***
After entering Gate No. 9, they fell into a pitch-black environment. The sudden transition from a bright light area to a dim light area made their eyes unable to adapt in a short period of time, almost like they were blind.
There was a disgusting smell in the air, a mixture of stale mold and fishy smells.
Without vision, they can only be more cautious and try to quickly grasp environmental information through other senses.
Yu Leng vaguely felt that he was in a kneeling position, with people standing side by side with him on both sides. He didn't know what the occasion was.
A voice said briefly: "Execution!"
Following the sound, a small red dot quickly jumped onto Yu Leng's forehead, causing a buzzing sound in his head.
……gun?
Bang!
Yu Leng didn't know how many people were standing side by side with him, but he could vaguely sense that there were a few people opposite him.
At the last moment before the other party pulled the trigger, he barely controlled the people closest to him to slightly turn the direction of the gun.
There was a slight sound of breaking through the air, and Yu Leng pretended to be hit and leaned backwards, with his face resting on the hard and uneven sand.
His vision finally recovered a little at this time.
He saw a dark sky covered with thick fog above his head, and next to him were a few children who were lying on the ground pretending to be dead just like him.
Where is Lu Jiamu? What kind of world is this? He knows nothing.
Yu Leng felt someone kicking him. It was one of the people who were shooting from the opposite side. He walked over to check if they were all dead.
But he didn't check carefully. He just kicked each person twice, and when he saw that they didn't react, he walked away.
The group of people quickly withdrew as if they were carrying out official business and got into a jeep. One of them was clapping and fiddling with something.
A few seconds later, he began to shout through the loudspeaker: "Illegal residents who do not leave the institute within the specified time will be regarded as traitors and will be killed on the spot! Residents who have not received permission to stay, please leave the institute within the specified time! Repeat..."
The vehicle started moving, and someone in the car was still cursing and yelling: "Run! Run quickly, you stinky rats!"
There was a dead silence in the venue.
After a while, after making sure that the group of people had really gone far away, the group of children next to Yu Leng who were obviously not shot suddenly got up nimbly and started running around.
"What happened here?" Yu Leng also got up and tried to call out to the group of little brats, "I saved you, don't run! Tell me what happened?"
But no one paid any attention to him, and the others just glanced at him at most.
As soon as he moved, Yu Leng felt something was wrong with his body. He looked down at his hands, shocked, and murmured stupidly: "Why did I become a little kid again?"
At this time, someone came over and pulled him, and Lu Jiamu's voice came: "Don't be dazed, let's run."
When Yu Leng looked up, he saw Lu Jiamu's equally childish but calm face.
That’s great, at least my only companion is still alive.
Seeing him so calm, Yu Leng thought he was very confident: "Do you know what's going on?"
"Of course I don't know." Lu Jiamu pointed at the group of children running around, "But maybe we can run with them."
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