Fu Tianhe returned the terminal to Chen Ci. When Chen Ci was about to take it, Alpha quickly took his hand back. He rubbed it on his clothes and accidentally got blood on the terminal before handing it back to Chen Ci.
Chen Ci took it back to his wrist.
"You look quite experienced." Chen Ci put the terminal back on his wrist.
"What experience do I have? I just put myself in the situation from a normal person's perspective." Fu Tianhe smiled, "After all, it's a very easy situation to understand. It's clear who is right and who is wrong."
Chen Ci remained noncommittal. Even though it was difficult for him to understand the complex emotions involved, he was able to rely on his reason to determine that the fault lay entirely with Chen Nian.
Fu Tianhe continued to dismantle the huge original sawray. It had a sword-like snout with sharp teeth on the edges. The degree of mechanization made it look like the electric saw demon in the movies, which was terrifying.
Sawrays use their snouts to dig out creatures hidden on the seafloor, and they also wield them to kill fish. Fu Tianhe was sure that it could easily chop off a human's limbs if it wanted to. He and Jiu Yue had to work very hard to completely subdue it.
They had been in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for nearly half a month. At first, they stayed at Zhuomacuo's house and repaired many things for the nearby sentry station. Later, they took the supplies prepared by Zhuomacuo and traveled everywhere. They have been to many places, including forests, snowfields, glaciers, and rift valleys, as well as crowded cities.
The social situation here is completely different from that in Beacon. The class division based on wealth still exists, but unlike in Beacon where most people with low social status have to live in the underground city, everyone is allocated housing and can enjoy the most natural sunlight and rain.
Yesterday they went back to Zhuomacuo's home, prepared supplies, and arrived at the destination they had scouted in advance this morning.
This place is located more than 30 kilometers south of Zhuomacuo's home. When the two were playing nearby, they accidentally discovered an abandoned forest hut, which seemed to be left by former herders. The hut is backed by snow-capped mountains and the winding coastline is not far away.
Chen Ci discussed it with Fu Tianhe and decided to stay here for a while as he still had some experiments he wanted to do.
After dealing with Poseidon Sheila together, Fu Tianhe fully realized the difference in September. Knowing that September wanted to test the extent to which his physique could reach, he naturally gave his full support. After all, only by knowing both yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.
The abandoned hut was a bit dirty and messy, and many places needed repair. They were busy cleaning during the day, and by the evening they had finally finished cleaning. Fu Tianhe started the generator, but found that a part had temporarily malfunctioned.
It's in this desolate mountain area, and the nearest market is more than two hours away by car. Where can they get usable parts?
Chen Ci gave the answer.
He summoned a group of primitive creatures over. It can’t be said to be a summoning. The boy simply withdrew the mental power that was protecting his body. Soon, a large number of primitive creatures rushed out of the sea, rushing towards the shore.
Facing these tribes that were hostile to him, there was naturally no need for mercy. Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe attacked from both sides and soon left a pile of corpses on the shallow beach.
Then they just need to pick out the appropriate parts, which is very convenient.
In addition, Chen Ci also attracted a huge sawray. Fu Tianhe remembered that when dealing with the primordial tide before, the Sentinels tried to get the mechanical core from the crab, but it escaped. So he planned to get the mechanical core of this sawray and give it to Zhang Zhiming and others.
Anyway, it is easy for him and September to get this thing now.
Chen Ci held a lantern and squatted beside him, watching Fu Tianhe dismantle the carcass of the sawray.
He placed his hand gently on the cool skin of the marine creature and heard a constant stream of empty sounds.
The sawray was so weak that the sound could no longer form coherent sentences.
Chen Ci withdrew his hand and stopped making trouble for himself. If the sawray cried for help this time like the squid abandoned on the suburban beach, he might ask Fu Tianhe to stop.
The reason is simple, Chen Ci realized that there are primitive creatures like sea turtles who are willing to stand on the same front with him, and this is a strength he can gain.
Fu Tianhe took out the bloody and flesh-stained mechanical core, and quickly found the necessary parts from the corpses scattered on the ground.
He stood up and said, "Okay."
The two returned to the house and there was no need to pack up. The rising tide would carry them back to the sea early the next morning, and all their corpses and remains would become food and materials that other primitive creatures would fight over.
Fu Tianhe installed the parts and started the engine. Soon, the whole room was illuminated by the light of the electric lamp, and the darkness was driven out of the window.
Fu Tianhe stood up and took a long breath. He turned around and said to Chen Ci who was sitting beside the bed: "Are you ready to rest?"
"Okay." Chen Ci responded. He raised his head from the terminal and said, "We may have to go to the mountain tomorrow."
"Okay." Fu Tianhe agreed.
Just now, Shafley sent a message to Chen Ci, saying that he got a coordinate from solving a puzzle in the game, which happened to be somewhere on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and asked Chen Ci if it would be convenient for him to go and take a look.
Chen Ci put the coordinates on the map and found that they were among the snow-capped mountains behind the cabin.
In the past, Chen Ci might have thought it was just a coincidence, but everything became completely different after they discovered the blue water drops representing blue alum.
All the clues around them point in the same direction, as if guiding them to find something.
After Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe finished washing up, they lay on the bed. There was only one bed in the cabin, which was just what they wanted. It had become a habit for them to fall asleep by smelling each other's pheromones.
Maybe it was because he had just skinned a primitive creature, or because of the phone call, but Fu Tianhe was not sleepy at all. He whispered to Chen Ci, who was also awake, "It sounded like your two friends were arguing fiercely."
Chen Ci: "Well, I think so."
"Why are you arguing?"
Fu Tianhe didn't quite understand. He had indeed quarreled with others, but that was only when he had a dispute with other scavengers at the garbage dump. If they were friends who knew each other well or even lovers and had each other in their hearts, how could they have quarreled?
"don't know."
Even Fu Tianhe couldn't understand it, let alone Chen Ci.
Chen Ci and Shafulai have known each other for many years, and he has always known that Alpha is a very good-tempered person. He is also stable and tolerant as the eldest prince. Even if you point at his nose and curse at him, Shafulai's expression will not fluctuate.
Why did you get so angry just because Chen Nian said you were like a dog?
The two of them fell into deep thought. Neither Chen Ci nor Fu Tianhe were the type to get into a quarrel easily.
If provoked, Fu Tianhe might retort, but Chen Ci would definitely respond with his most accustomed silence.
Does it mean that... many things will change after falling in love?
Fu Tianhe recalled, was there ever a time when he and Jiu Yue might have quarreled?
It seemed to be true. Before boarding the ship to Sanshui, he was worried that something might happen and wanted to choose a safer way to travel. However, Jiu Yue insisted on his own opinion and said that if he regretted it, he could get off the ship now and he wouldn't mind.
Fu Tianhe's heart was chilled at that time. When the ship was attacked by the primitive creatures, Jiu Yue jumped off the raft alone, pushed him with the oar, and shouted at him to go back quickly.
Fortunately, he persevered.
It was also because of this that he was able to escape together with September when he encountered the Poseidon Sheila later.
It's not that Fu Tianhe is narcissistic. If Jiu Yue was the only one on the island at that time, the boy would never be able to modify the equipment in an entire cave to make noise. He even said that Sheila might just eat him directly and no longer have the plan of pretending to be Aurora and approaching her in advance.
Whether he can successfully escape from Sheila is still unknown.
Now that Fu Tianhe knew all the secrets of the young man, he also understood why he had repeatedly dissuaded him from doing so before.
It is obvious that September has a serious impairment in expression.
He always spoke briefly and to the point, calmly stating facts, without caring at all about how others might feel about what he said.
But the situation is slowly improving. The former September is like Princess Rapunzel who has lived in a high tower since birth and is ignorant of the world. He is a bystander and has a cold curiosity about the world.
The young man came to the human world on his own initiative. The ways of the world were so unfamiliar to him, but he would eventually learn it through what he saw and heard.
Fu Tianhe suddenly thought of his confession to Jiu Yue on the raft, and he has never received a serious response so far.
"Do you like me?" he asked softly.
"What is love?"
Chen Ci paused, then slowly said: "If I don't mind your touch, and am willing to hug you, kiss you, and do other things with you, then I should like you."
Fu Tianhe's nose suddenly felt sore.
It seems that not all of his sincerity has been in vain. The cold and indifferent September has indeed been warmed by him and is slowly melting.
"Yes, this is love, but that's not all it means." Fu Tianhe turned over and held Chen Ci in his arms, "Go to sleep."
He raised his head and rubbed the boy's soft head with his chin, and suddenly felt indescribable happiness.
He was in the little land left after the flood, living in a quiet cabin in the forest, surrounded by the unchanging snow-capped mountains and the ebb and flow of the coast. He hid in the warm quilt under the gaze of the starry sky and fell asleep with his beloved in his arms.
It would be better if... my right eye, which has been peaceful for so long, didn't feel itchy anymore.
The boundless purple appeared again in Fu Tianhe's dream.
It was a thick, piercing liquid that spread like a sea over the entire land.
People cried, screamed, and dodged everywhere, but because of the contamination of their clothes and shoes, the disease was brought to more and more places, spreading endlessly.
The purple color clung to things like life; once it got on, it could never be removed. It seeped into the skin, melting the flesh and bones, engulfing everyone and melting them into a pool of purple-red blood, from which it grew and spread even more vigorously.
In the end, he was the only one left in the vast world.
He saw a metallic object floating on the purple waves. He reached out to grab it in a daze, but it slipped through his fingers.
Fu Tianhe recognized that it was the ring that once wore on his mother's slender hand.
When I woke up, I was sweating all over. I couldn't tell whether it was because of the shock of the scenes or the piercing pain in my eyes.
Chen Ci's eyes were tightly closed, and he seemed not to be awake yet. Fu Tianhe quietly raised his hand from under the quilt, put his index finger and middle finger together, and pressed hard on the golden eyeball on the right side.
Press down.
Faintly I could hear the sound of hard objects breaking and then being crushed into a sticky consistency.
It hurts, but there's also a kind of self-torturing pleasure in it.
Fu Tianhe thought he had done it secretly, but Chen Ci in his arms suddenly opened his eyes and looked up.
Alpha immediately retracted his hand, and almost hit Chen Ci's head in his panic.
"What's wrong?" Chen Ci asked.
"It's okay, it's just that the prosthetic eye is a little off. I'll adjust it." Fu Tianhe answered casually.
Chen Ci: "Don't you need to clean this thing regularly?"
Fu Tianhe: "Prosthetic eyes do need to be cleaned regularly, but mine is implanted directly into the eye socket, so it is not convenient to remove."
Chen Ci nodded to show that he understood.
He stood up, and the quilt slipped off his shoulders: "I have to go out today."
"Then get up." Fu Tianhe reached out to take the clothes folded beside him. His eyes still hurt, but he had to do it while Jiuyue wasn't paying attention.
Similar pains began to appear slowly when they were still on the Huanhai Platform. Fu Tianhe knew that it was a sign of worsening situation, but after they escaped from the island, they lived in peace for a long time for some reason, and only reappeared recently.
He has been injected with gene correctors on a regular basis, but the effect of the drugs seems not to be enough to completely suppress it.
Fu Tianhe was thinking with a heavy heart, and he found that Chen Ci was staring at a certain place on him.
As a young Alpha with overflowing hormones and pheromones, it was normal for something to happen every morning.
Fu Tianhe immediately pulled the quilt over him, and then he heard Chen Ci ask him, "Don't you want to take care of it?"
How to deal with it? No matter how you deal with it, it will be very embarrassing!
Fortunately, similar things happened more and more, and he gradually became immune to them. Fu Tianhe's face thickened exponentially, and now he can respond without blushing or beating his heart: "It's okay, it will be fine in a while."
"Isn't it uncomfortable?"
"It's not bad."
Chen Ci said "oh", it seemed that Fu Tianhe didn't need his help for the time being.
Chen Ci put on his clothes, got out of bed and washed up. Fu Tianhe lifted the quilt and looked down, then closed his eyes and tried to calm himself down so that he could calm down as soon as possible.
If... he meant if, if he made the request, how would September help him solve it?
Half an hour later, the two had a simple breakfast at the table, packed up their equipment and headed for the snow mountain.
They left Dacongming in the house to watch over him, as the beagle's physical condition was not suitable for climbing the snowy mountains.
The coordinates of Shafulaifa should be somewhere on the top of the mountain. He thought that Chen Ci was in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and might have time to go over and take a look. If it was not convenient, he would post the coordinates on the forum and many players living nearby would go over to check it out.
Climbing the snow-capped mountains is very strenuous and requires skills, but Chen Ci unexpectedly discovered a long-opened path at the foot of the mountain, with a convenient cable car next to it for direct access.
Fu Tianhe checked for a while and determined that these things were discarded more than ten years ago. Logically, they could still be used with luck, but he was quick to notice some signs of human damage.
Perhaps the small house where they stayed temporarily was once occupied by the local manager.
The cable car was very long, and Fu Tianhe could not perform the entire maintenance on his own. They did not dare to ride it, as it would be disastrous if it got stuck halfway.
They still had to walk, but fortunately there was a path for them to take.
Both Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe have very good physical strength, especially Fu Tianhe, who is like a tireless machine. Every time Chen Ci wants to know how he can stay so energetic.
They set out very early and successfully reached the top of the mountain before noon. Chen Ci used the terminal to check the coordinates to find the exact location.
...It seems that there is no need to search inch by inch.
He raised his head and looked at the buildings and facilities covered with white snow not far away. On the steep and uneven top of the snowy mountain, there were actually traces of human construction.
The blue water drop that Chen Ci had been carrying with him poked its head out of his pocket. It made a "biu" sound of joy, quickly slid down Chen Ci's clothes to the ground, and in the blink of an eye it sank into the snow and disappeared.
Chen Ci was not nervous. After all, this thing would come back eventually. With coercion and inducement, he and Fu Tianhe had successfully tamed it.
Beacon sent out water droplets to ambush nearby, probably to monitor his movements. Now that he carries it directly with him, it saves a lot of trouble. Why not do it?
Fu Tianhe walked to the building before Chen Ci did. After a brief inspection, he turned around and said to Chen Ci who had caught up with him, "It's a place like a signal source."
"Are there any cell towers nearby?"
"No, not really." Fu Tianhe studied the shape of the building. It was a bit too low, as if more of the structure was hidden underground. This mountain might have a cavity like the previous island.
It doesn't matter what he is doing here, Chen Ci is here to help Shafley find clues.
He briefly explained the situation to Fu Tianhe. When Fu Tianhe heard that it was an out-of-game decryption of the Fantasy Kingdom of God, he became excited. The two of them split up and searched nearby.
The blue water drop popped up again, twisting left and right, trying to attract Fu Tianhe's attention.
Fu Tianhe looked in the direction and swept away the snow, and found a gap on the top cover that was obviously forcibly broken. Snow had fallen into it, and some equipment might have been frozen.
Fu Tianhe: "Do you want me to fix it?"
The blue water droplets swayed back and forth, as if nodding vigorously.
Fu Tianhe: "But I can't see the specific situation."
The blue water drop thought for two seconds, then disappeared with a whoosh. Soon it emerged from the side wall, guiding Fu Tianhe to follow it.
Fu Tianhe followed all the way and suddenly saw a very narrow door hidden below, which was obviously locked tightly from the inside.
The blue water drops sank into the wall, and soon, Fu Tianhe heard a slight click. He reached out and pushed the door, and it opened.
A dark vertical passage lay before him, like a stairway leading to the heart of Hell.
On the other hand, Chen Ci did not miss any corner and used his mental power as an aid. He soon found a piece of paper on an inconspicuous pillar.
The paper was glued on with glue. Chen Ci reached out and touched it, confirming that it was pasted there not long ago.
Has anyone been here before? Maybe the footprints were covered by the snow.
Just as he was about to go forward and take a closer look at what was written on the paper, he heard Fu Tianhe shouting not far away: "Jiuyue, come and look at this!"
Chen Ci looked up at Fu Tianhe. He took a picture of the pillar with the paper stuck on it, carefully tore off the paper and put it in his pocket, then went to Fu Tianhe's side.
A slightly rusted staircase leads to the interior of the mountain.
The water droplets were stirring, constantly inviting them to come down.
Fu Tianhe: "I'm going to go down and take a look. Do you want to come with me?"
Chen Ci: "Okay."
Most of the door was buried under the snow. Fu Tianhe and Chen Ci worked together to dig out a path wide enough for one person to pass through. Fu Tianhe put on a headlamp and went down first to check the way.
Chen Ci squatted at the door, listening to his gradual movements, while using his mental power to protect Fu Tianhe.
After a few minutes, Chen Ci heard Fu Tianhe's voice coming from far away as if he was at the center of the earth: Come down, it's quite big in there, but there's a section of the ladder in the middle that's broken, so be careful.
Only then did Chen Ci climb down.
After climbing down the vertical well for about twenty meters, the area below becomes noticeably wider. This is a small base built inside the mountain.
Seeing Chen's speech went smoothly, Fu Tianhe began to study the surroundings. Although he had never seen it before, he could recognize that these rows of large black cabinets with power plugs were server units.
Fu Tianhe was puzzled: "Why is there a server built here? It would be difficult to maintain it."
Chen Ci: "It must be the cloud."
Fu Tianhe: "Clouds?"
Chen Ci nodded. He had heard this from Shafulai before. Shafulai had been in charge of the maintenance of Cinnabar's core program since he was sixteen years old. When Alpha was free, he also told him some things about cyberspace.
The core programs of the beacons are actually personified and even have different personalities. The six beacons exchange information through the cloud to complete the intercommunication of computing data.
The blue drop couldn't wait to appear in front of a machine, waiting for Fu Tianhe to catch up.
"Are these things broken?" Fu Tianhe asked it, apologetically saying, "This requires computer knowledge, which I don't have."
Upon hearing this, the blue water drop drooped in frustration.
Chen Ci suddenly had an idea: "I know a friend who is good at computers. Why not ask him if he can control it remotely?"
The blue water drop stood up again instantly and leaned against Chen Ci expectantly.
"Wait a moment." Chen Ci sent a message to Shafley and took a photo of the paper he found on the pillar and sent it to him.
Chen Ci: [I found this on a pillar. There is also a cavity built inside the mountain. There are many server units inside. It seems that there is a problem. Can you help take a look remotely? ]
The message was sent, but there was no response from Shafley.
Chen Ci: "He may be busy now, let's wait for a while."
The terminal on his wrist vibrated, but Shaflet didn't even bother to check. The rich scent of tuberose filled his nose, almost as sweet as honey. Shaflet trembled and prayed for mercy. He had to try his best to barely avoid falling into it.
Chen Nian curled up in the quilt, his consciousness was not particularly clear at all. The heat was torturing him, from the inside out.
He longed for the Alpha's touch and tighter, deeper relief, but was left aside. Yes, they were still in the cold war, and it was good enough that Shafla was willing to hug him.
As soon as he discovered something was wrong, Shaflay contacted the palace and asked them to send inhibitors over as soon as possible.
The doorbell rang soon, and Shafulai was about to go over to get something. As soon as he tried to pull himself away, he was grabbed forcefully by Chen Nian.
“Don’t go…”
"I'm going to get something and I'll be right back."
The boy didn't know whether he understood or not, and still held his sleeve tightly.
Shafulai couldn't help but sigh. He hardened his heart and pried open Chen Nian's fingers one by one. When he finally stood up, he heard a tiny whimper like a wounded small animal coming from the Omega's throat.