Chapter 66 (Catching Bugs)
【Long time no see, the highest authority.】
The mechanical sound familiar to Solomon sounded quietly from the in-ear decorative earrings worn by Shen Jian. The leader paused and stood still in the corridor.
It had been a week since he connected to the leader's world, but Solomon had not responded yet.
During this period, he even found the time and space machine of this world and moved it directly to the Tower of Wuyan.
After everything is over, [Chen Jian] will use this machine to destroy the entire Wuyan Tower and even the memory of the world.
He slowly cast his gaze toward the deep and boundless forest outside the window, and paused for a moment before saying, "Long time no see."
The signal transmitted by Solomon seemed to be unstable due to crossing time and space, and it emitted an uncomfortable slight sharp electric sound.
He and Shen Jian were silent for a while. Shen Jian was just thinking about why Solomon showed up at this time.
…It’s a bit too early, Shen Jian thought.
"...Sir?" Shen An stood behind him, noticed something, slowly raised his head, slid across the empty and safe space around him, and finally looked at the earrings that Shen Jianxin was wearing.
Shen Jian turned sideways and shook his head slightly, handed the document in his hand to Shen An, and gestured for him to leave.
Shen An was stunned for a moment, took a step back, lowered his eyes, put his hand on his chest, and then retreated quietly.
Only Jian was left in the silent corridor. He raised his eyes slightly to look at the temporary input power grid set up on the roof and whispered, "Where are you?"
[…Supreme Authority, I am in a time and space far away from you.] Solomon answered, and the unsmooth synthesized tone became low, like a piano covered in dust in an old castle playing by itself.
"You know what I'm talking about."
Shen Jian raised his hand and pressed the tassel that fell beside his ear, feeling strangely calm.
"I monitored the area with a circumference of several thousand meters around the Wuyan Tower, but I didn't find you."
Shen Jian lowered his eyes, put his hand on the clear and transparent glass of the window, looked at the dark green forest through the slight refraction, and repeated again, "Where are you?"
Solomon was silent for a while, and after a moment he slowly conveyed two words.
【gentlemen. 】
Shen Jian hummed.
It was dusk outside. The blood-red light shone through the lush green forest, making the emptiness seem heart-wrenching.
Shen Jian leaned against the corridor, quietly looking out the window at the sense of loss that was pressing into his heart.
[It seems that you are not very surprised. In fact, you should be surprised. This is a very intuitive data in my algorithm. ]
Shen Jian asked calmly, "Then you must have calculated it before. Calculate it again now, how much?"
Solomon seemed to have crashed, and there was silence for a long time, without even any noise.
It had indeed calculated it a long time ago, otherwise it would not have been able to do it later. However, it still subconsciously acted according to Shen Jian's orders.
When the result appeared, Solomon suddenly came back to his senses. He checked the result, and the mechanical voice was still very calm, "You are right, sir. The result this time is 0%."
Chen Jian curled his lips silently, and immediately transferred the last bit of deep blood-red sunlight from yesterday slowly through the window glass to the corridor of Wuyan Tower, and then fell on Chen Jian, bringing him into the silent, huge and empty picture, and into the shadow of dusk.
No one came into the corridor, as if they had tacitly avoided this section of the road.
Shen Jian tilted his head, looking at something out of the corner of his eye. He slowly raised his hand and looked down at the dim light in his palm.
He was silent casually, not in a hurry at all, but Solomon seemed to be forced into a corner and could only retreat, and every minute and every second was tormenting.
It invaded the camera equipment in this corridor, lying on the data flow line, secretly scanning Shen Jian from beginning to end like a voyeur. Scanned again.
The noise in the leader's ears continued to grow louder and louder, until Shen Jian frowned and scolded softly, and the buzzing sound of the AC suddenly disappeared.
Finally, Solomon spoke again to break the silence, "Let me make it clear in advance, sir..."
Shen Jian's eyelashes trembled, and he smiled silently with his back to the camera.
"Yun." Shen Jian said, "You're not hiding anymore?"
"You seem to have guessed it." A soft human voice replaced the mechanical voice, and the gentle magnetic voice penetrated Shen Jian's eardrum, surprising him a little.
"...Are you an adult now?" Shen Jian looked back at the camera equipment, and seemed to be able to see the person operating the machine behind it through the inorganic object.
The voice on the other end paused, as if not knowing how to answer.
But Shen Jian immediately had a feeling that he seemed to understand that the other party was very... aggrieved about his problem?
Shen Jian:?
Shen Jian slowly typed a question mark, put on a smile and gritted his teeth and asked, "Yun, assuming you know now, what is your identity?"
When I had made up my mind to connect to his headset through Solomon, wasn't that the option of betrayal already accepted? And being wronged by him?
He thought that this day would come later. After all, Yun didn't look like he would leave the Tower of Invincibility. During the war with the Middle Ages, Yun had asked him for a "mission" alone.
Shen Jian was surprised at the time, but he agreed.
Shen Jian stroked the sword at his waist.
He took away the two most precious things from Fatin's collection room: one was linear energy with defensive properties, and the other was curvature energy with offensive properties. Chen An made them into gems and inlaid them in the hilt of the sword.
And now he is thinking whether this sword needs to be activated.
Shen Jian glanced at the lens that was brightly flashing red light in the darkness, and moved his fingers.
As if sensing that Shen Jian was really a little impatient, the communication soon paused, and the voice quickly lowered, with a weak look that Shen Jian was familiar with.
"It's the same as reverse growth, sir." Yun said carefully, his low voice slowly opening into soft cotton, "...you should know the principle."
Reverse growth... the same ending as Mo Yi's final death.
Shen Jian fluttered his eyelashes, not making any comment, but he finally changed his posture and stopped thinking about cutting off the camera lens directly.
Yun was visibly relieved and whispered, "Thank you."
The leader did not speak, his gaze still fixed on a place deep in the forest. Darkness fell, but Shen Jian could see a little bit of light that did not belong to darkness and was so faint that it could not be any fainter.
It was so faint that it almost blended into the surrounding night, only fading the darkness slightly.
Shen Jian stared at that place for a while, then slowly looked away and closed his eyes, “So, what are you going to say.”
"Actually, I don't really want to know why this cycle ends up pointing to you." Shen Jian said calmly, "Did you swear to me during that mission just to lower my guard?"
The headset worn by the leader was silent again for a while. He did not urge, but turned his back to the monitor and leaned against the wall. After the night fell, the cool moonlight shone through the window lattices and made the floor into bright crosses. The shadow fell on him, and the moonlight also fell on him.
The leader's sword was leaning against his side, and he stood darkly in the corner where no sound had been heard just now, silent, with his back tense.
Further away, [Chen Jian] sat in the brightly lit and warm leader's room, calmly watching the surveillance camera in the other direction of the corridor where Chen Jian was.
Then, the densely packed mechanical intelligent bodies hidden deep in the forest lit up with a faint startup light, which quickly went out as if dizzying.
Shen Jian quietly waited for Yun's answer.
"Sir, let me make it clear in advance that you know about this." After a moment, Yun finally figured something out and spoke slowly.
Shen Jian hummed.
It was quiet all around.
After a moment, Shen Jian said with a long voice, "Hmm?"
"Wait a minute, I'm not doubting you, Yun." Shen Jian said seemingly calmly, "What do you mean by 'I know about this'?"
"What is this matter? What do I know?" Shen Jian stood up and walked quickly to the leader's room. His voice was calm, but it was quickly tainted with a sense of oppression.
He made a cold judgment: "Ten minutes, explain, or I'll come to you."
[Chen Jian] was waiting for him at the door of the leadership room. They didn't even need to connect, and quickly exchanged positions. Shen Jian sat in the center of the monitoring room, with his hand on the control command to mobilize the machinery.
"……gentlemen."
On the other side, Yun was silent for a long time.
He slowly uttered, "Hasn't it occurred to you now?"
Shen Jian was silent for a while, realizing that something was wrong, he asked cautiously, "What?"
Even though Yun now looked like the big boss behind the scenes, he started yelling like a child who didn't get any candy, "You also got the condition for the world to restart, which is the destruction of your Wuyan Tower, right?"
Shen Jian hesitated for a while, looked at the calm woods again, his finger paused on the button, and slowly answered, "Yes."
"I am the consciousness of Wuyan Tower." Yun whispered, "I was born in Wuyan Tower's database. I am a child of Wuyan Tower."
"So I will change my form as the Tower of Invisibility rises and falls, sir." Yun sounded like he was about to cry, choking with sobs, "...The original form of the fire was the form you created for me."
Chen Jian stopped talking. He stood frozen in place, and through the corner of his eye he could clearly sense the condemning look from Chen Jian, who was beside him, with a pleasant smile.
Shen Jian was down for three seconds, and finally prepared to save himself, "...You mean, the consciousness of Wu Yan Tower, right."
Shen Jian thought calmly. He really wanted to believe that Yun was lying, but unfortunately, what Yun said was indeed possible.
Yun quickly denied it.
He knew what Shen Jian was thinking, so he answered very clearly, "It is the consciousness of your Wuyan Tower, sir."
"Among the thousands of Wuyan Towers, this one belongs to you alone, sir." Yun said in a low voice.
Shen Jian calmly hung up the call amidst the increasingly obvious smile in Shen Jian's eyes.
At this point, there is nothing more to say.
Shen Jian beat himself up ten thousand times in his heart, but his face unexpectedly had a calm smile that showed he had seen through the world.
"If what he said is true." [Chen Jian] leaned against the table and looked at Chen Jian with a half-smile, "Congratulations, congratulations, then you are the 'final boss' who planned everything from the beginning and even played me into it, Mr. Chen Jian."
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