"The tower is solid! There's no door at all!" Liu Ke reported to Xi Xi as if he had encountered something strange.
The tower's structure was quite peculiar; the edges of the bricks had long been eroded and rounded by the sea, with barnacles and dark coral reefs clinging to it.
The top of the tower had long since collapsed, leaving only a tilted platform, but there wasn't a single door leading inside. The style of that platform was strangely familiar, like the dilapidated altar in a desert cave...
Absolutely right!
The shape, lines, and details of that tower are exactly the same as the logo of Grandma Yu's convenience store, the totem on the treasure chest, and even the tower in the mural that can upgrade the magic pen!
However, Li Jinshao and Shaliman then searched around the tower again, but still found nothing.
Xi Xi looked up at the dark sea, a strange feeling welling up inside her, as if the sea was a dark and deep curtain, obscuring the truth.
She pondered for a moment, then finally said in a deep voice, "Let's go up and take a look."
Although everyone was surprised by Xi Xi's decision, they all trusted her prediction.
Without hesitation, Xi Xi put away the puppet manatee and the extra submarines, and directed all the vehicles and ships to move upwards together.
It was a long and tense process. Xi Xi had forgotten the specific details, but the only thing she remembered was that when the RV finally leaped out of the sea, a dazzling white light suddenly flashed, followed by a series of server-wide announcements.
[Congratulations to license plate number CHN887XX11 for clearing the level and achieving No. 1 on the overall speed ranking in Dongli...]
When Xi Xi opened her eyes again, she felt as if she had lost all weight, her body floating lightly in mid-air. She looked around and was surprised to find that there was no one around, only an endless void.
After a brief moment of panic, Xi Xi realized that this seemed to be in the clouds. Beyond the clouds, her gaze was drawn to the sea in the distance.
In the distance, on the other side of the sea, she saw a city-state that looked exactly like the underwater ruins!
The towering tower, reaching into the clouds, is clearly visible.
That city-state was not a ruin, but a real and prosperous city!
What's going on?!
Did she complete the game, or did she die? She looked down at her light, floating body, feeling that everything was so unreal.
Just then, a voice suddenly rang in Xi Xi's ears, as if it came from the depths of the void.
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"Stop!" Xi Xi interrupted the familiar game system voice. She frowned and asked suspiciously, "Where is this? And who are you?" Why are you doing after-sales service now?
Upon hearing this question, the mechanical voice on the other end suddenly became less "mechanical," replaced by a pleasant and skilled female voice that patiently and gently spoke to Xi Xi:
"Hello, adventurer Xi Xi. I am the executive officer in charge of the racing game 'Eastern Dawn'. You can call me 'Xiao Ji'."
"According to the naming conventions of your planet Blue, this is Bleuazur-717d, with a redshift (z) of 14.1 and a distance of approximately 37.8 billion light-years (co-motion distance) from Blue."
"As I remember, this is an interstellar planet called 'Dongli,' a name derived from a proposal made by 208 regional leaders after the 62nd World War..."
Aliens?! Xi Xi was shocked. Could their so-called "game" actually be a real-life scene from another planet?!
She pondered for a moment and couldn't help but ask, "Physical bodies...you...changed physical bodies for us?"
Otherwise, how could they have broken through the limitations of the speed of light and cosmic rays to reach a planet more than 30 billion light-years away, given the continuous expansion of the universe?!
Before Xi Xi could think about it further, she heard the executive officer, as if he had seen through her suspicions, continue:
Yes and no.
"Your planet, Blue Star, was destroyed in 2039 AD in the Blue Star calendar. By the time we arrived, it was too late. Therefore, we used the negative time compression backtracking technology to travel back to before the apocalypse in 2031."
“However, we did not bring you new physical bodies, but rather extracted your human consciousness and rescued you in the form of ‘souls’.”
2039?! If this is true, it means that less than two years after her death in her previous life, the entire planet Earth was wiped out?! Xi Xi was filled with immense shock.
"Why?" But she didn't show it; instead, she asked very warily.
Xi Xi did not believe this was a simple "rescue"; otherwise, why would such a harsh survival environment be set up for the Blue Star people?
Without pausing, the executive continued, "As you can see, there are traces of unnatural architecture everywhere in Dongli. Yes, but these are all historical relics."
"In fact, the living environment in Dongli today is not as good as that of the early days of Earth. Frequent natural disasters and ocean currents have forced us to live a 'migratory' life similar to that of the nomadic peoples of Earth."
"I'm sure you've already seen the skyscrapers on the other side, but unfortunately, those aren't residential buildings like those on Earth. They're just our temporary 'vehicles' for migration. We're just stopping here for now."
"Of course, congratulations on joining our migration group! Please choose a parking spot within three days!"
"Now you should understand, right? 'Eastern Dawn' is just a realistic racing game, not a virtual one. All natural disasters in Eastern Dawn are ongoing. You are constantly chasing and competing with natural disasters. This is the law of survival in Eastern Dawn. Those who fall behind will inevitably be eliminated by the ecosystem."
"We are not saviors, and we have no obligation to save all living beings. We have only given humanity another chance to survive. Whether you can seize this opportunity is up to you."
"You humans?" Xi Xi seemed to have grasped something, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "You've been talking, but I can't see you. Are you carbon-based life forms? Why don't you want to show yourself?"
Xi Xi couldn't fathom what these aliens were up to.
However, judging from the understanding of Blue Star culture in "Dongli Zhijian" and the proficiency of this "alien comrade" in Chinese, Xi Xi felt that the Dongli people had obviously regarded them as their own, and would probably not be afraid of meeting face to face.
“I’m sorry, I don’t have a physical form.” Executive Officer Xiao Ji paused for two seconds before saying, “I am an evolved intelligent entity, belonging to the Dongli Artificial Intelligence Squadron 251, and I am an executive AI.”
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