Chapter 327 The City (Double Period)
495th floor, Area B, room 196.
After listening to the hourly news, Shang Jianyao leaned back on the pillow and raised his hand to pinch his temples on both sides.
His consciousness quickly entered the "Sea of Origin" with a shimmering light, and he swam in any direction.
Swimming and swimming, the junction of "sea and sky" is once again filled with a faint yellow-green mist, and in the mist, a magnificent old world city looms.
Shang Jianyao immediately adjusted his direction and swam to the target with all his might.
But no matter how hard he tried, the yellow-green mist only got a little closer to him, and it kept changing its position, and it seemed that it would never reach it.
Shang Jianyao stopped, and according to the predetermined plan, he divided his body into nine parts.
The nine merchants set off separately, heading towards different places, as if they were about to weave a net of heaven and earth, leaving the faint yellow-green mist with nowhere to escape.
In the vast "Sea of Origin", Shang Jianyao and the others could see targets appear in front of them from time to time, but this would soon change.
I don't know how long it took, but the nine merchants saw that Yao had reached the maximum distance they could separate from each other and had to stop.
The yellow-green mist was still at the junction of the "sea and sky", and it seemed that it had never been far away.
The nine merchants took a breath at the same time, and their figures gathered together.
He sat cross-legged in the shimmering "Sea of Origin" and entered a state of contemplation.
That is, a minute or two later, Shang Jianyao made a black strip of cloth and completely covered his eyes.
Immediately afterwards, he took out two balls of cotton and stuffed them into his ears.
As a result, Shang Jianyao entered a state of "seeing" and "hearing".
He just swam around casually, not knowing what was ahead or where it would lead.
When he was almost exhausted, Shang Jianyao stopped, took out the cotton in his ear, and took off the black cloth in front of him.
The first thing that caught his eye was the pale and thin yellow-green mist.
It's close at hand, within reach!
Shang Jianyao smiled, held his right fist in his left hand, and bowed to the yellow-green mist:
"If the supreme person has no self, the new world is right in front of him."
After completing this ceremony, Shang Jianyao set his sights on the mirage-like old world city of the yellow-green mist Neihai City.
There, buildings tens or hundreds of meters high stood up, forming a magnificent architectural forest.
Their surface was bathed in reddish sunlight, so quiet that no sound came out.
Shang Jianyao did not rush through the fog and enter inside, but swam around the periphery and quickly swam around.
The phantom city revealed itself from different angles.
After a while, Shang Jianyao suddenly saw an arched tunnel exit, thousands of glass curtain walls reflecting sunlight, and a street with dilapidated signs on both sides.
Shang Jianyao stopped, letting his eyes penetrate the faint yellow-green mist and fall on the street ahead.
The words "second sister", "barbecue", "convenience", "hot pot", "foot bath", "supermarket" and other words came into his eyes.
The shops corresponding to these signs are either dilapidated or covered with dust, and the common point is that they are all empty.
Shang Jianyao looked back and forth several times, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.
He shouted loudly:
"Xiao Chong! Xiao Chong!"
The image in this fog was too familiar to him, it was the ruins of Swamp No. 1, the place where they were taken by Qiao Chu, the mysterious city where they met Nightmare Horse and Xiao Chong!
The only difference is that this is not as broken as Shang Jianyao's memory.
The phantom city echoed with his voice, but there was no additional reaction.
Shang Jianyao swam forward a few meters, passing through the faint yellow-green mist.
During this process, he didn't feel anything unusual.
The city ahead no longer feels like a mirage, just like the islands of the soul.
Shang Jianyao found an unlocked bicycle on the street, rode it, and headed deep into the city.
In the afterglow of the sunset, it didn't take long for him to arrive at a high-rise building with its own courtyard, and he didn't meet a single person on the way, nor did he meet a "heartless person", and the whole city was dead or dead.
Shang Jianyao turned over and got out of the car, setting his sights on the black marble plaque lying in front of the courtyard.
On the plaque, the golden characters form a name:
"Urban Intelligent Network Control Center"
This was exactly the same as what Shang Jianyao and the others had seen in the ruins of Swamp No. 1.
Shang Jianyao ran up, as if he was racing against someone, through the courtyard at high speed, and entered the building where the "Urban Intelligent Network Control Center" was located.
He skillfully descended layer by layer along the safe passage and came to the underground computer room.
Then, with a flashlight, he ran wildly through the dark corridor and found the room where he met Xiao Chong.
While pushing the door, Shang Jianyao shone the light of the flashlight into it and shouted loudly:
"Xiao Chong! Xiao Chong!"
The tables and chairs in the room were still there, and there were no people, so it was extremely quiet.
Shang Jianyao showed a disappointed expression.
At this moment, everything around him slowly began to fade and gradually become transparent.
In less than ten seconds, the city disappeared like a dream bubble, and the faint yellow-green mist surrounding it also disappeared, just like the last time it ended.
Shang Jianyao returned to the "Sea of Origin".
He immediately felt a strong sense of exhaustion and had to withdraw from the spiritual world.
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The next day, 647th floor, room 14.
When Shang Jianyao arrived, Jiang Baimian was the only one there.
"Xiaohong is not with you?" Jiang Baimian looked up and asked with a smile.
Shang Jianyao sighed and said in a serious tone:
"Old world entertainment data is harmful."
"Was he addicted last night?" Jiang Baimian was a little funny.
Although she also felt that Long Yuehong's self-control was not so strong, she also thought that the other party would not be like this on the first day.
Shang Jianyao shook his head:
"His parents, his younger siblings, his neighbors were addicted."
Hearing this, Jiang Baimian couldn't help but raise his hand, pressed his mouth, and laughed.
Shang Jianyao further said:
"It shouldn't be after that."
"Why?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
Shang Jianyao explained:
"When I passed by their house this morning, I heard his dad wailing there: 'Why is it using so much electricity? This month's energy quota is almost gone!'
"Fucking also made a little gaffe, as if she was saying to Xiaohong: 'Son, what the hell are you getting back? This is so harmful!'
"Xiaohong comforted them: 'I am D5, and my energy quota is similar to the two of you combined, so it will not be a problem to last until the end of this month."
Shang Jianyao imitated the tone of the three members of the Long family vividly, and Jiang Baimian was overjoyed.
"So, you didn't wait for him?" Jiang Baimian calmed down and asked in a guessing tone.
Shang Jianyao nodded:
"I think they won't be able to finish talking for a while.
"I still have something to look for you."
"What's the matter?" Jiang Baimian sat up straight, "Yellow-green fog thing?"
At this time, Bai Chen also entered the office and happened to hear the last half of the sentence.
She looked at Shang Jianyao with slight surprise:
"You solved it so quickly?"
Shang Jianyao shook his head:
"I found it, but it didn't solve it."
"Tell me specifically." Jiang Baimian broke away from the state of listening to gossip and jokes, and his expression became very focused.
Shang Jianyao described how he found the yellow-green mist, how he entered it, and what he found.
The more Jiang Baimian listened, the bigger his eyes became:
"Are you sure you met the ruins of the city where Xiao Chong came along?"
"Unless there is a layout exactly the same in other places." Shang Jianyao replied quite calmly.
Jiang Baimian's brows furrowed:
"This feels very scary, and it's very complicated and mysterious......"
Her tone gradually became a little more excited.
"What are you discussing?" Long Yuehong walked into the office and glanced left and right suspiciously.
When Jiang Baimian repeated the matter simply, Long Yuehong blurted out:
"How could it be?"
The little influence left by the "coward" turned out to be the "Swamp No. 1 Ruins" that he and others had visited?
He immediately had an explanation, looked at Shang Jianyao and said:
"Could it be that part of your own memory is combined with the yellow-green mist?"
"Why not other memories?" Shang Jianyao asked rhetorically.
Coincidentally...... Long Yuehong was embarrassed to say this.
Shang Jianyao continued:
"I have a 'fate' and can be sure that it is not my memory."
Did you say it earlier...... Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.
Jiang Baimian sat in his seat, his thoughts were spinning, and he said thoughtfully:
"The yellow-green mist comes from an Awakened person who explores the depths of the 'Mind Corridor', a little breath left by him......
"This is most likely obtained by Enhu when he explored a certain room in the 'Mind Corridor'......
"Warning Song said that each room corresponds to a spiritual world, and only those belonging to the 'Spiritual Corridor' level awakeners can open normally......
"What appeared in those rooms may be the original owner's dreams, or some of the fear islands he has broken through, well, according to this logic, it may also be scenes intertwined with some of his memories......"
Speaking of this, Jiang Baimian naturally gave a guess:
"The image of the ruins of that city comes from a certain memory, a dream carried by the yellow-green mist?"
Bai Chen's eyes narrowed slightly:
"The original owner of 'Coward' has been to the ruins of Swamp No. 1?"
"Maybe he started his journey from there." Jiang Baimian gave another possibility.
It is even more creepy to Long Yuehong.
Shang Jianyao touched his chin and said:
"If that's the case, finding 'him' in the dream city should completely eliminate the remnants of the influence......"
"Yes, the dream master is the most special in this kind of scene." Long Yuehong thought for a few seconds and agreed,
He then asked a question:
"Where are you going to find it? Where will he be in that dream city?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian replied in unison:
"That laboratory!"
The mysterious laboratory that Qiao Chu destroyed!
Jiang Baimian immediately smiled at Shang Jianyao, which meant that everyone really had a tacit understanding.
The next second, she saw Shang Jianyao extending his right hand to her.
Jiang Baimian's smile froze for a second, his cheeks puffed out slightly, and he also stretched out his right palm and slapped Shang Jianyao.
After withdrawing her hand, she quickly asked another question:
"How did you think of blindfolding to find the yellow-green mist?"
Shang Jianyao explained quite seriously:
"Since I am an awakened person in the realm of 'Zhuangsheng', I should try to go with the flow."
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(End of this chapter)