Chapter 900 delayed
Shang Jianyao seemed to be unable to understand other people's faces, and asked Jacob and Hendrick:
"He seems to be very powerful, you seem to be afraid of him?"
After a few seconds, Jacob, who had a relatively better personality, said weakly:
"The 'truth' is also in that tower, but He comes out from time to time."
He used the "He" that represents the gods in the Red River language.
"He is equivalent to a year of detention or not?" Shang Jianyao asked.
Hendrick said with a sullen expression:
"Every time He comes out, he will be accompanied by the death of one or two awakened people."
"But we have not personally experienced how powerful He is, so we cannot give you an accurate answer." Jacob added.
Shang Jianyao said "oh" twice:
"Elderly people generally don't go out of the tower?"
"They don't need to leave the tower to draw the consciousness of every resident here and answer different prayers." Jacob's face showed awe, and his voice was a little lower, "Of course, I have indeed never seen or heard of the elders leaving the tower."
"That's right." Shang Jianyao sighed, "They are not close enough to the people and do not know how to enjoy with the people."
Hendrick squinted at the guy for a few seconds:
"The sheep don't want to be with lions either."
Shang Jianyao didn't answer this sentence, and his thinking had already jumped to another place:
"If our bodies on the gray soil do not provide liquid food, nutritional injections, and nutrient solutions, will we slowly starve to death? Or can the extracted human consciousness feed back the body and maintain the most basic biological activities?"
This belongs to the common sense among the strong in the "New World", Hendrick glanced at the weak Jacob and said in a deep voice:
"A body without replenishment will accelerate decay, and it will no longer be able to allow your spirit to recover normally, and your consciousness will also weaken.
"In such a situation, you can only rely on sucking the consciousness of the people around you to maintain your own spiritual stability. This will really give your body a certain feedback, allowing it to maintain its weakest biological activity, just like every cell has gone into hibernation."
"But what if there are no humans in the surrounding area?" Shang Jianyao asked further.
"Then you can only try to gain human consciousness here." Hendrick said coldly, "If this doesn't work, your body will die first, and your consciousness will soon be close to dissipating."
"Just close?" Suspicion of Shang Jianyao.
Jacob sighed and laughed:
"The elders will not waste such consciousness and let it die on its own."
"I understand." Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and left palm and said, "It's the same as when we find out that some food is about to expire and eat it quickly."
Without waiting for Jacob and Hendrick to respond, he offered a counterexample:
"But I have a friend who has not existed in the surrounding area for thirty or forty years, and he is a battery of someone, and his body is still alive, but he is close to a dry corpse."
This friend refers to Yan Hu.
"Impossible." Jacob and Hendrick said in unison, but one was soft and had little strength, and the other was accented.
"That's the truth." Shang Jianyao spread his hands.
Hendrick said coldly:
"This only shows that he is not a certain person's battery, someone is providing him with human consciousness on a regular basis, although it may be very frequent and not in large quantities, but it is enough to maintain his most basic state of existence."
"Why did he do that?" Shang Jianyao expressed confusion.
Hendrick didn't answer, but said directly:
"You need to ask him, not us."
"Oh." Shang Jianyao looked like "Why didn't I expect it".
He asked again:
"At that time, I entered the place where my friend's body was sleeping, but he didn't suck my consciousness impatiently at the first time, and I had to try again after a quarter of an hour, why?
"Well, we weren't friends at that time."
Jacob and Hendrick looked at the guy again, their expressions were very strange, as if they were a fool in front of them.
In the end, Jacob answered:
"Because we are in the 'new world', there is a barrier from the gray soil, whether it is sensing the approach of human consciousness, or searching and locating, locking and extracting, it takes a certain amount of time."
"That's right." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized at first, and then there was a counterexample, "But when I entered here before and provided protection for my companions in reverse, there was no delay."
"Provide protection......" Jacob chewed the phrase twice and asked with understanding, "Was someone extracting the consciousness of your companion?"
"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao nodded frequently.
James gave the answer to the question just now:
"You don't feel the delay because someone has already set up the channel."
"Professional." Shang Jianyao praised.
Then, he continued to ask in the spirit of breaking the casserole and asking to the end:
"Another thing I don't understand is that when we first entered that area, why were we locked and began to extract consciousness?"
Jacob, who had been standing for too long, pulled a high stool and sat down at the bar, and Hendrick helped to speculate:
"There was no delay, either because the process of searching and locating human consciousness was completed before, or the awakened people in that area just returned to the ashes from the 'New World'."
Shang Jianyao had a lot of experience in group discussions, and immediately shook his head:
"The first one I don't think it's so coincidental, we just opened the door.
"Why do we have to complete that action, sooner or later, to lock our consciousness and start extracting?
"The second possibility is also too coincidental, I think no matter at any time, a few days in advance, a few months in advance, or a few days later, as long as you enter that area, you will become a 'heartless person', well, this can be confirmed later."
Seeing that he was very assertive, Jacob did not persuade him and joked:
"There is another situation that has not been delayed, that is, it was the year that drew your consciousness at that time."
"That's not right." Shang Jianyao once again denied, "If I really take office, the protection I provide should be easily broken through and will have no effect."
Jacob didn't answer his question, changed the subject, and asked with a little curiosity:
"Did you find out about the door to enter the 'New World' a long time ago, and only pushed the door open when you encountered danger?"
"Yes." Shang Jianyao did not deny it.
"It's really calm." Jacob sighed, "I can't do it."
After chatting for a few more words, Hendrick, who seemed very energetic after drinking the lemon margarita, walked to a set of sofas, took out a saxophone from the corner, and started playing it by himself.
Deep and calm, with a little sadness, soothing music slowly echoed in this small bar.
Shang Jianyao listened quietly for a while, seemingly immersed in such an atmosphere, at least he didn't suggest that he choose the erhu as the main instrument because Hendrick always squinted his eyes.
I don't know how long it took, but Shang Jianyao stood up, waved goodbye to Jacob, and walked outside.
The street lights on the street lit up again as he went out.
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"It turns out that it still takes a certain amount of time to lock and extract...... No wonder you have time to open the door of the 'new world', and I can hold on until you provide protection." In the evening, outside the Eighth Research Institute, in the jeep, Jiang Baimian, who had listened to Shang Jianyao's feedback, suddenly realized.
In some sensitive words, Shang Jianyao is referred to by a code word agreed in advance.
Shang Jianyao echoed:
"Yes, yes."
"From this point of view, it was indeed not the year of the year." Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully.
There will be no delay in the year.
Jiang Baimian still had action at night, and he didn't want to consume too much energy now, so he said to Shang Jianyao after a few simple exchanges:
"I'll inject you with nutritional injections later, don't rush to the tower next, and don't rush to deal with people like the 'Vice Dean', contact more friendly people like Jacob and Flora, grasp more situations, and seek more helpers.
"I understand that we must unite a part of the people worthy of unity and gather the strength of the people." Shang Jianyao has always regarded the "Salvation Army" as a benchmark for his behavior model.
Jiang Baimian ended the topic and finally concluded:
"We communicate regularly in the morning, noon and evening every day, each time is short.
"Well, if there is an emergency, I will immediately use my spirit to touch your consciousness."
"What if there is an emergency on my side?" Shang Jianyao asked rhetorically.
Jiang Baimian smiled:
"Although you can't control what your body does, it seems that you can still maintain a certain instinct, at least so far you have not had incontinence.
"If there is an emergency in the future, you can just let yourself pee your pants, and I will understand what is going on at a glance.
"If there happens to be no urine, you can only stimulate me by locking my consciousness and trying to extract it, but this will be delayed."
"No problem." Shang Jianyao agreed without hesitation.
Then, he said with a smile:
"I want to go to the toilet now, both big and small."
The smile on Jiang Baimian's face froze for a second:
"Wait a minute, I'll help you move outside, pose yourself, and take off your pants."
After finishing this matter, Jiang Baimian was not in a hurry to explore the real "new world" at night, and planned to wait a few more hours until it got darker.
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"Pangu Bio", in the underground building.
Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, who had been chatting with their parents for a while, returned to their homes.
They had just sat down, and before they could speak, the slightly childish familiar voice sounded on the radio outside:
"Hello everyone, I'm Hou Yi, the hourly newsannouncer, and it's 8 o'clock in the evening......
"This morning, the board of directors reviewed the work report of the previous quarter and praised the trend of steady growth in the birth population and the increasing diversification of material production......
"The results of the unified marriage in the new year will be announced soon......"
"A new round of border conflict broke out between the 'First City' and the 'Salvation Army'......
"The 'Order Supervision Department' declared last month as 'No Malignant Incident Month'......
"The 'Entertainment Department' is preparing to hold table tennis competitions in the activity centers on each floor......"
(End of this chapter)