Chapter 137 In the World
It was a windless and moonless night. The sky was as dark as thick ink. Even the usually bright street lights and other lighting equipment were dimmed and blurred by the night.
It was already very late, and the road was quiet and deserted. Two figures walked silently across the avenue of the Central Military Academy, one in front and one behind. The one in front led the way, and the one behind lowered his head and served as a foil.
Occasionally one or two classmates passing by would greet them and they would respond.
No one noticed their abnormality, and no one asked where they were going so late at night -
Even if they asked, even if they answered that they were going to the control center, no one would doubt their purpose.
He even jokingly asked them to secretly tamper with the system while the great devil Huo was not at school, such as adjusting the difficulty or changing the points.
"OK."
The leader answered with a smile.
Then the students left happily.
Even so, no one doubted them.
They walked into the main control center building, scanned the access control cards at each floor, took the elevator downstairs, went out, turned into a deep and winding corridor, continued the next information verification, and entered the elevator on the next floor. They repeated this process. After an unknown amount of time, the elevator on the last floor finally opened.
The freezing cold air hit me in the face, and even the lights were gloomy and cold.
Water flows silently in the transparent pipes. From time to time, fluorescent fish swim by, but they do not bring any vitality. Instead, they make this space seem even more quiet and dead, like the depths of the sea.
Rows of light points flickering in the darkness look like numerous stars in the night sky.
They reached the center, and the leader shouted:
"Start self-test."
A few minutes later, countless light spots in the void condensed and finally turned into six pairs of outstretched white wings, slowly rotating around the two people.
Many eye-like cracks appeared on the wings, and they all drooped down to examine the two people who entered this area. Even if they had seen it countless times, this strange shape was still difficult to adapt to, especially the countless pairs of eyes staring at them, it was as if their minds were seen through. Even if they had done nothing wrong, they were still scared and their hearts were beating like drums.
As in the current situation, the leader was still quite shocked, but the one following behind was already pale and his legs were weak and he wanted to kneel down, but he was glared at by the leader, so he swallowed his saliva and persevered.
While slowly rotating, the wings passed through various instructions and checked all their information.
【Information verification successful】
[A routine self-check is about to begin, expected to be completed in three minutes. During this period, the system will be shut down, and only the infrastructure will be maintained. No active access to the system will be possible, and only the main observer will have interference privileges.]
The wings rotated back to their original position, all eyes closed at once, and the system's voice resounded throughout the entire area:
【——Self-test begins——】
[Warning! Abnormal——]
[Environment is normal, self-check continues, update...replace...test run...]
[——Self-test ends——]
【The system has resumed normal operation.】
The eyes on the wings opened again together. It was only a slight tremor of breath for a moment, which did not even alarm the fish swimming in the water.
However, when the eyes were darting around in all directions, the fish was still frightened, causing ripples and swimming away quickly.
[This is the imperial capital, there is actually no difference.]
Their eyes curiously looked at the surroundings, and finally they completely closed their eyes and lowered their gazes to look at the person standing alone in this space - the focus was on the person in front.
Good boy, you did a great job.
It praises like this.
He felt no joy.
The terminal screen suddenly lit up, and messages popped up one after another.
He was in no mood to read the messages, but was urged by the system in front of him - being indifferent to other people's messages is not a good habit.
So I had to take out the terminal to check.
[News]: The sudden power outage throughout the school startled me. Did you get carried away and touch the system source? If you're not a tech guy, don't mess around.
[Wen]: What's so good about Fugan District? They all ran over there. This makes me very unhappy.
【Wen】: Come out and pick me up
【Wen】: This young master is so kind that he decided to treat you, a left-behind boy, to a midnight snack. Do you feel like calling me godfather?
I feel like calling him Erque.
He stared silently at the message that popped up on the screen, without even the thought of opening the private messaging software, let alone replying to the message.
As I watched, I felt an indescribable anger in my heart.
Why are you back so late? Everyone else has gone to Fugan District and you feel unhappy. After the mission is over, won’t you find a nice place to travel and piss them off to death?
Why come back?
Just as he was about to send a message saying he wanted to eat it himself, the wings that had not yet dispersed in the air lowered their eyes and looked at him. Their usual cold and neutral voice was also adjusted to a gentle and bewitching tone:
[Someone is looking for you, why don't you respond? This is impolite. ]
"Since you've been asked to pick him up, go ahead. The streetlights are already on full blast, so don't worry about not being able to see the road clearly."
Is there any clear way forward?
He smiled bitterly and turned away.
The remaining person looked at him, looked at the wings in the air, and quickly said goodbye and ran out.
At the entrance of the military academy, Wen Tiange, who was eating a lot, was leaning on the railing bored, and was startled by the sudden bright street lights.
Whether it was a sudden power outage across the entire school or the sudden brightening of streetlights, these were rare occurrences. For them to happen in such a short period of time overnight, the reason must be—
It turns out that Jian Yinglai was messing with the system source!
While he was angrily scolding Jian Yinglai in his heart for not knowing how to mess around, a figure slowly walked towards him from afar and appeared under the bright street light. The outline of the face gradually became clearer under the street light.
It was Jian Yinglai with a silent face.
***
On the beach in Fugan District, amidst the bustling crowd and countless envious and jealous gazes, Shao Qingbai excitedly ran towards the field, shouting as he ran:
“I hit it, I hit it!”
"We've been selected to visit the tower! Let's go quickly, before anyone else takes our place."
The Tower of Babel on the sea, it is said that the god of creation rests beneath it.
In fact, it is the location of the X system source. There are only huge and cold machines running inside, or you can walk through the glass passage to see the underwater world outside.
But there are aquariums everywhere, and there are no rare creatures. It's just that the X system has a very important position in the Fugan District. So even if there is nothing in the tower, it does not prevent the people of Fugan District from giving it all kinds of magical legends, which have been passed down for a long time, and they are proud to enter the tower for a visit.
Such an atmosphere naturally ignited the interest of outsiders, and those who were lucky enough to win a spot to watch the show during the anniversary celebration couldn't help but shout loudly.
Tian Ye was holding a bunch of things she had bought and laughing happily. She pushed through the crowd to meet him, then continued to squeeze through the crowd and walk towards the tower.
The lively celebration scene and the silent experience cabin formed a sharp contrast. The floor cover opened and the transparent glass revealed the scene inside the experience cabin below.
Even if there are more layers of glass, layer upon layer, it is still impossible to see who is lying inside.
But when you think about the troublesome number one opponent lying unconscious in the experience cabin below, it is hard to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Violet looked at the experience cabins, and countless ways to kill him emerged in her mind.
He said casually, but also with some seriousness:
"How about injecting poison gas into it? Or just shoot it. It's not all good."
"I have no objection to you opening the experience cabin, but—"
Hermes stood up and packed his things. Now that all the preliminary actions were ready, he had to rush to the imperial capital as quickly as possible to personally command the operation.
Before leaving here, I wouldn't mind giving Violet some advice:
"Do you think his reaction speed will be slower than yours after he wakes up? And Councillor Kobayashi and him are lying in the same cabin. Are you planning to poison them both with poison gas? The boss has clearly stated that Councillor Kobayashi cannot be harmed. Most importantly—"
On his way to the door, he pressed the back of the chair where Violet was lying, and said in a long voice:
"If you really do this, it will directly affect the reputation of the True Dimension World. No one will clean up this level of mess for you. Or are you ready to apologize publicly or die as a penitent? Although the two situations are similar, after all, if you apologize publicly, you will definitely... bang-"
He stretched out his hand, made a shooting gesture, pointed at Violet's head, and whispered:
"I believe you can become a news sensation with your death."
Before Violet could react, Hermes withdrew his fingers and left in a good mood.
Violet saw him push the door and leave out of the corner of her eye. She gritted her teeth and had the urge to kill him right then and there.
Although he himself proposed this statement and it was just an idea, it was still extremely depressing to have his ideas completely rejected, and he was also a brainwashed guy.
I wondered what this guy's intentions were, but he was right.
At this time, I feel a little regretful that the quality of the experience cabin is too good——
In order to prevent accidents and provide comprehensive protection to the experiencers, the slogan used is that the experience cabin is absolutely safe.
One of the points is that once the experience cabin is closed, it cannot be opened by any forced external force.
The materials used are fireproof, waterproof and bulletproof. In short, it is impossible to break it by ordinary fire, flood, or ordinary bullet attack.
Once the experience cabin is attacked or mixed with impurities, the protective device will be automatically triggered to wake up the experiencer.
***
Huo Shizhen opened his eyes and looked at the completely unfamiliar scene in front of him. He paused for a moment, and suddenly a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Lin Guantang also opened his eyes, but after seeing the scene in front of him, a faint despair and speechlessness welled up in his heart.
They chose a two-person experience cabin. They didn't need to be summoned or invited to enter the world, and they could be together as soon as they landed.
I just chose the world randomly, but my luck was bad and I fell into the dinosaur era.
All kinds of plants that have never been seen before grow intertwined, with lush branches and leaves.
A dinosaur that was munching on grass looked up at them.
Lin Guantang could actually see a look of shock in its eyes: "What the hell is this thing? Why did it suddenly appear?"
Perhaps the new species was not as important as eating. After looking at each other curiously for a few minutes, the dinosaur lowered its head to eat grass again.
Looking at the herbivorous dinosaurs leisurely grazing on grass in front of him, Lin Guantang was still very optimistic.
At least you don't have to face carnivorous enemies as soon as you land.
Then he realized that he was too optimistic.
The strong smell of blood, accompanied by one tragic scream after another, made Lin Guantang's heart tremble involuntarily.
Then I felt the ground shaking, as if some huge beast was running towards me.
The dinosaur that was eating paused, then broke into a run, glancing at Lin Guantang and the others as it went. It wasn't clear if it was because it hadn't seen enough new species, or if it wanted to invite them to run with it...
Forget the latter.
Seeing the dinosaur running away, Lin Guantang and Huo Shizhen looked at each other. Needless to say, the moment the leaves shook slightly, they ran in the opposite direction of the sound in unison.
They were originally running side by side, but as time went on, Huo Shizhen started to pull him along, and Lin Guantang didn't care too much about where they were running.
He analyzed rationally that Huo Shizhen had far more practical experience than himself. When faced with such a dangerous situation, he must be much more accurate than himself in choosing the correct direction to escape in an emergency... right?
"Cliff, stop!"
There was a cliff in front of him. Not to mention his rationality, Lin Guantang was almost scared out of his wits. He pulled Huo Shizhen's arm and stopped running at the edge of the cliff.
But before he could feel at ease, he turned around and saw a ferocious dinosaur with sharp fangs and teeth chasing after him, pacing back and forth just a few dozen meters in front of him.
Want to challenge the fastest death time? That would be really fun.
Lin Guantang chuckled a few times and said optimistically:
"Yes, you can also choose between being eaten by a dinosaur and falling off a cliff to your death."
Huo Shizhen glanced at him and heard the dissatisfaction in his tone:
"Aren't you happy to die together?"
Who would really be happy about something like this?
Lin Guantang looked at him angrily and gave him earnest advice:
"Can you give up your idea of becoming a desperate couple?"
Huo Shizhen seemed to regret that he didn't have such an idea, so he had no choice but to give up:
"Since you don't want to die, then face it head-on."
Lin Guantang narrowed his eyes, revealing a look of doubt:
"Are you armed?"
He vaguely remembered that one of the rules of the world was that no materials beyond the world's set range could appear - especially in terms of military strength.
There were obviously no guns in the age of dinosaurs.
Even if there were no such rules, it would be difficult to cause fatal damage to a behemoth like a dinosaur with the weapons you carry with you.
It is possible that the attack will even arouse more anger in the opponent, which would be counterproductive.
Huo Shizhen didn't show any signs of worrying about this. He chuckled and said casually:
“In the virtual world, you can’t have whatever you want.”
Isn't it true that if you want something, you can create it?
Lin Guantang looked at Huo Shizhen, and seeing that he looked calm and composed, his gaze gradually became one of admiration.
Huo Shizhen raised his hand confidently, and a tiny square of light flashed in the air. Then, in his hand, something unexpected appeared...
A stone.
It is still a bumpy and bumpy stone.
Lin Guantang:?
"It's okay. Mistakes are human nature."
Lin Guantang patted his arm to comfort him, thought about it, and felt that this might be a little idea of his.
So I asked tentatively:
"Or are you planning to smash that herbivorous dinosaur and let them kill each other while we take the opportunity to run away?"
I always feel that the result will be that the two dinosaurs will chase after them and deal with the two bipeds first.
"No."
Huo Shizhen shook the stone in his hand and asked him a question with a smile:
Do you know how the dinosaurs became extinct?
"There's no definitive answer to this."
Lin Guantang felt that this was not a good time for small talk, but since the question had been asked, it would be okay to answer it.
Although he didn't know the correct answer, he just casually recalled the factors spread online:
"Is it a major climate change, or a glacier? Or maybe it's the receding sea level, a volcanic eruption, or even an asteroid impact... Wait, it can't be what I'm thinking."
Lin Guantang suddenly thought of a possibility and looked at the bumpy stone in Huo Shizhen's hand with a serious look.
The more I look at this stone, the more it looks like a meteorite or a planet... I wonder if it can get bigger and eventually become an asteroid.
As they looked at each other, Lin Guantang already understood that his guess was correct.
But there is absolutely no way to be happy about the telepathic guess at this time.
"And so we will—"
Before Lin Guantang could say a word, Huo Shizhen hugged him in his arms, threw the stone with all his strength, and then jumped off the cliff with Lin Guantang in his arms.
Almost at the moment of jumping down, a huge roar and impact force came from behind, as if shattering their internal organs and pushing them down rapidly.
Lin Guantang looked back with difficulty in his arms.
At the end of his sight, he saw the entire sky, filled with fiery red light and flying stones.
Countless sounds of running and wailing rang out from all directions, and the mountains, rivers, and grass collapsed.
The sky collapsed, the earth sank, the mountains collapsed and the rocks cracked. That was the end of the world.
Groups of dinosaurs running over stood on the cliff, looking down at their falling figures, wondering if they misunderstood the meaning of their fall and thought that they would have a chance to be saved by jumping down.
After the final roar, countless dinosaurs followed suit and jumped down from the high and low cliffs.
Collapse and death filled every inch of the world and continued to expand. Eventually, the entire world was completely shattered, and heaven and earth fell into complete nothingness and darkness.
The fastest time of death for an individual may not be ranked, but the fastest speed of destruction in the world will probably top the list.
When Lin Guantang regained consciousness again, he was already in an unfamiliar village.
But he looked around and did not see Huo Shizhen.
Could it be that I was randomly teleported to another world because I destroyed the previous world?
If this is the case, then we have no choice but to act separately.
But before taking action, he looked at the bustling streets in front of him and the various vendors hawking their wares on both sides of the street, then touched his empty pockets and thought it would be better to get some money first.
If you can really get whatever you want in the virtual world, then it’s just a matter of convenience.
Lin Guantang stretched out his hand and clenched his fist, then raised his arm, closed his eyes, and made a wish very solemnly:
"Gold Coin, Change!"
After waiting for a moment, he lowered his arm, slowly opened one eye, and looked towards his palm with hope.
My hands are empty.
What's up, Fat Si?!
He opened both of his eyes and raised his hands to look at the sunlight over and over again. Except for an ancestral ring on his finger, it was still empty.
The origin of the ring is quite cliché and classic——
Before coming to Fugan District, Lin Guantang visited Huo Shizhen's mother again for the matters concerning his dream home.
When she was about to leave, she gave Lin Guantang this ring, saying that she had modified the ring to fit his finger.
The legendary lady's ring that is passed down from generation to generation in wealthy families actually exists.
But that's not the point.
The point is that you can have whatever you want.
Is it because the wishing posture is wrong?
He tried it several times, not believing it, but there was no response and passersby looked at him as if he was crazy.
In the end, I had no choice but to give up, looking at my empty palm and muttering to myself:
"My thinking power is useless."
Why treat them differently...
After all, I am the suspected descendant of the electronic ghost that is suspected to be residing in the X system. Even if there is a difference in treatment, shouldn't it be towards me? How can the electronic ghost also turn its elbow outward?
Forget it, I'd better be self-reliant.
Lin Guantang clapped his hands and walked towards the village.
As I walked, I observed the surrounding environment and couldn't help but compare it with the real world.
The real-dimensional world, should we say that it is indeed the product of the original system? It is even more realistic than the virtual space of the real world.
No matter how much I tell myself that all this is virtual, I still feel like I am walking in the real world.
Fortunately, Lin Guantang still remembered that this was a virtual world, and still remembered the purpose of his coming to the real world -
Looking for the electronic ghost that "may exist or may not exist".
Now that he is here, maybe the other party will come to him on their own initiative without him having to wait for them to come.
Lin Guantang had made all the mental preparations to face the electronic ghost, but in the end he gained nothing.
He talked to every resident, and finally received the response from them: "It's pitiful that a stranger wandered here, and he looks so neat. It makes people sad to hear it and cry. I'll give you a cake/steamed bun/candied haws..."
In short, apart from receiving a bunch of gifts, I didn't get any clues about the electronic ghost.
Since the civilized way doesn’t work, we can only use the barbaric way.
Lin Guantang took a deep breath, entered an inn, ordered the most expensive meal, and then ran away with a red face - it was his first time to dine and free, even if it was a virtual world, even if he had to do it, it was too much of a shame and made him feel ashamed.
But since the lower limit has been broken, let's just keep going.
He ate for free in the town, overturned stalls, and even wrote "I was here" on the wall. He put aside his sense of shame and tossed around, doing countless "evil things", but the electronic ghost always hid.
He had clearly risked exposing himself to wake me up from a distance before, but now that I have been invited here, he hides himself instead.
Could it be that electronic ghosts also become more timid when they are close to home, or maybe there are no such things as electronic ghosts at all, and the nightmare he had last time was just a coincidence.
The latter idea was wiped out the moment it emerged. To this day, Lin Guantang would never classify it as a coincidence, but he did try every possible means, but gained nothing except being chased by a group of villagers.
So he went back to apologize, offered to do some work to pay off his debts, and scratched out the words written on the white wall with a wooden stick. How could he not have enjoyed the experience to the fullest? However, by the end of the experience, he had not found any clues related to the electronic ghost. He could only say goodbye to Hermes and the others and leave with regret.
After he finished and left the venue, it was already very late and there were few pedestrians on the street. He strolled along the long street, casually looking at the shops on both sides of the street, silently reciting the names of the shops in his mind, and observing the behavior of the shop assistants in the shops, wondering whether they were talking or packing up to close the shops for practice.
Very casually, he passed by a restaurant.
There was only one waiter left in the restaurant - given the small size of the restaurant, it might be the owner himself.
Lin Guantang stopped and felt that the boss looked familiar, but because of the curtain, the boss was looking down at the terminal, so he couldn't see what he looked like.
Perhaps feeling someone was looking at him, the boss looked up. After seeing the boss's face, Lin Guantang was even more surprised.
Ge Xihe?
How could he be here?
Lin Guantang thought he had seen it wrong, but the other party greeted him and the voice was exactly the same as the person in his memory.
He paused, and finally decided to lift the curtain and walk in.
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