Chapter 115 The Sea is an Upside-Down Sky
Everyone enter! Highlight! A projection of the [Anxi Technology] building suddenly appears on the banks of the Songhua River. Is a strange world about to invade?
[Original Poster]: [Songhua Riverbank.jpg] [Anxi Technology.jpg]
I've selected two of the most representative photos and uploaded them. Based on my experience in dungeons where my tech was completely worn out, I swear this is the Anxi Technology building!!! I'm not from Longjiang, so are there any Longjiang locals who can confirm it, ideally by being there? Many netizens have posted photos and videos, and some media outlets have even reposted them. I wonder if the authorities will impose a full internet ban soon. Brothers and sisters, the seven-day lockdown in Ghost City really is about to get serious!
[1st floor]: Damn it! With the speed at which this information is spreading online right now, it feels like it's completely unstoppable. If a player lets it slip, or someone else guesses it, the whole world will go crazy.
[2nd floor]: I am so panicked, please stop being such a pessimist!
[9th Floor]: Everyone, calm down. We can't lose our composure. If a strange dungeon really does invade, who knows how many ordinary people will be dragged in. By then, we, the veterans in real life, will be the backbone of the force.
[11th Floor]: The current situation looks more like something like "world projection". I wonder if there will be a substantial invasion.
[17th Floor]: The first one to appear was in Longjiang City. Everyone, please be alert. I think since it's appeared, there will definitely be more than just one instance. It's likely to appear across the country. Perhaps by the river or lake, or even in the sky above the city.
[26th Floor]: If we had known that a strange world could invade this day, we should have mobilized everyone to fight! We should have trained everyone! Otherwise, how many people would have died? Would so many children and the elderly have been dragged into this?
[30th Floor]: Calm down, calm down. We absolutely must stop attacking each other now. If this truly is an invasion from another world, the greatest support we can rely on for our friends and family is the country, and us! The official hotline is probably already flooded with calls, and the Special Affairs Bureau is definitely in turmoil. Something this serious must be announced nationwide.
[33rd Floor]: I'm still concerned about one thing. Is this a mirage? What's shown now is the appearance of the Parthian technology. Will there be more specific details about the dungeon later?
[39th Floor]: This is killing me! The lockdown has just ended, and something new has happened. I knew the dungeon had no good intentions at all! I wonder what's happening to my compatriots who are still in the dungeon.
[48th Floor]: Now, I want to know another thing. Are there any compatriots in the real world who have rented a house in Ghost City and become temporary residents? If you can travel back and forth between the two worlds right now, please return to Ghost City as quickly as possible. With so much change happening in our reality, I doubt there's any movement in the strange world. Can you go to Anxi Technology to check on the situation?
[60th Floor]: I just came here from a short video platform. This news was forwarded to me by my family. I won’t post the link. Now the majority of people still regard this as a "mirage", an annual wonder. Some people are making wishes below. I really want to cry.
[65th Floor]: I'm impressed too. Some people are now searching everywhere to find out which city the mirage house is in.
[71st Floor]: What the hell? Which idiot is creating social chaos? I saw a screenshot where someone said that the mirage was an invasion of a strange dungeon.
[73F]: Huh? Huh? Huh? Could it be that someone just made up a random guess?
[81st Floor]: Players are a mixed bag, with all sorts of people... Criminals, intent on creating social chaos, have always existed. Some people only care about the invasion of a strange world, thinking they can use the abilities gained from dungeons to crush everyone, prey on the locals, and become the most powerful. I'm afraid they're just hoping for chaos right now.
[88th Floor]: Tell your family and friends not to run around. It’s best to stay at home if possible.
[104th Floor]: We must believe that the vast majority of people in this world are kind. We have a country, an army, and ourselves.
[111th Floor]: Everyone, calm your family first. When things get tough, we're the first ones to calm down. If we panic and our families get scared, then ordinary people will be even more scared. If there are troublemakers stirring up trouble and stirring up public opinion, especially those who believe everything they hear, chaos will really ensue.
[135th Floor]: Exactly! Many of the fellows in the previous threads have remained calm. While everyone's usually shouting and clamoring in the strategy posts, we must remain calm in crucial moments and never let down our guard. On the bright side, even if the worst-case scenario is an invasion by a strange world, we still have the state apparatus to back us up. Don't forget, we don't have any guns or ammunition in the dungeon, and we can't bring them in. But in reality, our weapons are Blue Star T0-level!
[170th Floor]: That’s what I said, but... I don’t want my home to become a battlefield.
At the same time, in the ghost city.
The players who were going to work at Qingshan Hospital had already set off. Liu Yanran and Xiang Tianyi were preparing to go to the bun shop at the entrance of the community for breakfast.
Uncle Qin, the security guard at the gate, stood with his hands behind his back, looking energetic.
Liu Yanran exclaimed, "Hey!" The little dog that had been tied to a leash in the security room was gone.
"Uncle Qin, where is your puppy?" she asked.
"Send it away, send it away. Send it back to where it came from." Uncle Qin responded.
"I don't think I saw it yesterday." Xiang Tianyi said.
Because the puppy barked from time to time and would rush towards people even though it was on a leash. The security guard had locked it in the house before, and Liu Yanran didn't pay attention to it every day.
In the entire Ping'an Home, there are only a handful of residents who keep pets, so she has always been particularly impressed by the unique-looking puppy raised by the security guard.
"Sent it back to its hometown?" After listening to Uncle Qin's words, Liu Yanran asked again. She remembered that the puppy seemed to be a stray dog?
There are very few stray animals in the ghost city, and I don’t remember seeing any.
"Yes, I asked someone to send them back to their hometown together." Uncle Qin walked into the security room with his hands behind his back, as if he didn't want to continue talking about this topic.
The two walked to the bun shop at the entrance of the community. At this moment, Mo Fei was squatting at the door and eating beef buns.
Seeing the two of them, he nodded and said, "There are no seats inside. There are too many people now."
It’s not too early at this time, but it can only be said that more and more players are moving into Ping’an Home now. A new batch of players moved in last night. Those who have no belongings either eat dry food or go to breakfast shops, bun shops, and convenience stores for breakfast.
After Xiang Tianyi and Liu Yanran bought buns and soy milk, they squatted on the steps with Mo Fei.
"What are your plans for today?" Murphy asked.
"I'm going to Happy Amusement Park, and Sister Xiao Liu still has to look after the store. This is the bad thing about running a store, you have to look after it every day." Xiang Tianyi said.
"I may not be in the store these two days." Liu Yanran said.
Since she started working, Liu Yanran has not had any vacation in all these days, except for the seven days when Guicheng was under lockdown.
Last night, because she had exchanged information about the "red uniform" with Mo Fei, Liu Yanran, who had not returned to reality for too long, was eager to go back.
Especially in Ping An Real Estate, there are very few players coming in the morning, and most of those who come to rent a house on their own initiative come in the afternoon.
In addition, her brother-in-law has returned, so Liu Yanran is wondering whether to ask for half a day off today or tomorrow.
"Look!"
Murphy swallowed the last bite of bun and looked up at the sky.
Above the sky of the ghost city, a hazy city scene suddenly appeared.
"Damn, what's going on?" Xiang Tianyi almost dropped the soy milk in her hand, and she stood up directly.
The three people squatting on the steps stood up at this moment. Not only them, but also other players in the bun shop rushed out after hearing the shouting. The indigenous clerks walking on the street and working in convenience stores came out one by one and looked at the sky.
However, compared to the players' astonishment, the expressions of the natives, although surprised, were calmer.
Their eyes and emotions as they looked up at the sky were very complicated. Some of them stopped and looked up for a while, then continued on their way.
Some came out to take pictures with their mobile phones, looked at them for a while and then returned to their work.
"You say, that, can't be reality?" Xiang Tianyi spoke after a moment of silence.
The projection of the city in the sky is not very clear, as if looking down at a city from an angle.
Players' mobile groups were already sending messages frantically, and Xiang Tianyi jumped up: "I'll go back to reality."
"Since this thing has appeared in Ghost City, perhaps there are new changes in reality."
Murphy looked at the group message on his phone: "Yueye and the others just got out of the subway and went to Happy Amusement Park. They said they could see the situation in the sky too. They sent photos."
"The natives seem to know what's going on, but they're also a little surprised." Liu Yanran spoke slowly.
When Luo Qing and Yan Fufeng walked out of their home, they saw this scene of residents in the community collectively looking up at the sky.
Standing downstairs in the community, the two stopped and looked up at the sky.
"Honey, where is this? I don't think it's Shanghai. I can't see the Oriental Pearl Tower." Luo Qing asked.
"It's hard to see clearly. Big cities seem to be the same. They are hard to recognize without obvious landmark buildings." Yan Fufeng said.
There was a hint of melancholy in the eyes of both husband and wife. After looking at each other for a while, they continued to walk out.
Before they arrived at Ping An Real Estate, they saw a group of tenants who looked like frightened kittens.
"What are you looking at? It's just a mirage. It will disappear soon." Luo Qing greeted.
Everyone listened to her. A mirage? A mirage could appear in a ghost city? Sister, you are lying so perfunctorily now.
Yan Fufeng took the key and opened the shop door. Luo Qing stood at the door and Liu Yanran walked over quickly.
"Sister, I wanted to..."
"Rest, right?" Luo Qing looked at her and blinked.
"Of course, you can take a break anytime. Your brother-in-law is back anyway, so just let him stay in the store."
Liu Yanran was stunned for a moment, and then she saw Luo Qing looking up and squinting at the image of the city in the sky.
Luo Qing's tone was leisurely:
"I once heard someone say something very interesting, and the words in that sentence were also very beautiful."
“The sea is the upside-down sky.”
"You said the sea and the sky, who is the projection of whom?"
"Go and have a rest." She patted Liu Yanran's shoulder.
Liu Yanran's pupils constricted. The sea and the sky were compared to reality and the strange world, but the sea and the sky in reality did not affect each other.
So, what Luo Qing meant was that the existence above the sky was just a projection, and the strange domain would not actually invade?
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