Water, endless.
Roaring and rushing, the sound of dense bubbles reached the ears of Zhou You.
Like water being boiled on a stove fire.
Loud, noisy.
The sharp whistle became louder and louder, like a flute blown by the strong wind, and the steam was pushing the pot lid open.
Zhou You opened his eyes.
All sounds disappeared.
He found himself sinking in the water.
He breathed subconsciously, and endless water poured into his nose.
He opened his mouth in surprise, and the salty seawater swallowed his stomach in large gulps.
This made Zhou You realize that he was in the sea.
The instinct to survive began to make him flutter.
Upstream.
But soon, his head hit the hard wall.
Only then did he notice that he was trapped in a room.
Concrete walls, security windows, and wooden furniture float beside themselves, while the steel refrigerator and coffee table sink into the house.
Everything around you feels familiar.
Whether it's those wooden cabinets that have been soaked or furniture that's been submerged in the water.
The surroundings were dark, with only a faint light projected from the distant sea surface to the water, and then penetrated into the sealed security window through thick water waves.
Zhou Yu tried to see everything under the water through the weak light.
But muscle spasms soon followed, and syncope and shock followed.
Zhouyou died.
…
When Zhou You opened his eyes again, he found himself sinking in the water again.
The memory of drowning is continuous, but there are obvious gaps in the middle.
Zhou You realized that he was in a coma, maybe for a long time.
Being knocked unconscious in deep water is obviously a fatal thing.
But why didn't he die?
Why can I survive in this boundless sea water?
No, I didn't survive.
The feeling of drowning comes again.
Zhou You realized that he had just come back to life again after a long coma.
I will still drown in the seawater where I don't know where I am.
Concrete walls and security windows were blocked from all directions. No matter which direction he went, he could not break through. He was firmly locked in this room filled with sea water.
The light was very weak, making everything around him dark and indistinguishable.
I vaguely felt that everything around me was so familiar, but this sense of familiarity was very strange, and I didn't have time to think about it more.
Because the muscle spasms and fainting sensation came again, Zhou You drowned in deep water again.
…
Zhou You opened his eyes for the third time.
He finally realized that he was in a cycle-like environment.
Whenever he dies, he will faint, and then after an unknown amount of time, he will be resurrected when everything starts again, and he will experience the drowning he experienced before.
cycle……
This is Xie Zhi's ability.
How is Xie Zhi?
Zhou You suddenly remembered the rotten flat peach that he had eaten in one bite.
The smell of decay instantly filled Zhou You's mind, like a piece of meat that had been lying there for thousands of years.
The feeling of vomiting also followed one after another, gastric juice was spit out from Zhou You's mouth, and the yellowish viscous liquid spread in the deep water, spreading around Zhou You's face.
The fainting sensation returned.
Zhou You knew that he was about to fall into death again.
But Zhou You also understood the current situation from the memories that Xie Zhi fought so hard to protect.
In the last paragraph of memory, the plan of Pantao Society and Tianting is clearly revealed.
Xie Zhi told Zhou You that the so-called time travel was a scam from beginning to end.
I was deceived into thinking that time travel could terminate the cycle.
, allowing himself to escape from the huge moon world, but he did not expect that the time-travel plan was actually a trap carefully planned by the powerful men of heaven.
"Oh, the so-called Heavenly Court is the mediation court led by the Dragon City Heavenly Emperor."
"After tens of thousands of cycles, they gradually realized the fact that they were in a cycle, and since then they have been frantically trying to influence the power of this cycle. It's ridiculous that I was in the game without knowing it. In the end, I changed from a chess player to a chess piece. Became a victim of the struggle."
Xie Zhi said that before the time travel, his identity was the son of the plane and the master of the cyclic authority. However, after the time travel, the Emperor of Dragon City used extremely special means to deprive himself of this cyclic authority. The reason is , Virtue does not match.
If virtue does not match the position, the position must be passed on to other virtuous people.
This is why circular authority disappears.
"But our struggle is not completely lost."
"I'm sorry to involve you in this fight, but we still have a chance of winning."
"Because Heaven is also not the virtuous one."
"Heaven obtained the authority of circulation from me, but that authority was taken by them because they jumped in line, so it is incomplete."
"The Heavenly Emperor of Dragon City shared the incomplete authority with the immortals in heaven, not because he really wanted to do so, but because only if more people have this incomplete authority can the cycle authority be obtained, which is enough to calculate the cycle conditions Yes, that kind of computing function.”
"Yes, you heard that right."
"The realization of circular authority is based on a worldwide calculation of heaven, earth, and all things."
"When the authority of the cycle is in my hands, the ability to calculate and realize is in my hands. But the authority obtained by Heaven at this moment is not complete. It only realizes the second half of the cycle, but does not have the anchor point and cycle path of the first half. calculation."
"Therefore, the Heavenly Emperor of Dragon City sent many immortal officials down to earth. Each immortal official serves as an indispensable anchor point in the process of realizing the cyclic function."
"That's why we still have hope."
Xie Zhi's memories were endless, but Zhou You rolled his eyes.
At this moment, he didn't understand the meaning behind these words. He only understood that he was going to drown in deep water again, and these memories left by Xie Zhi, these "sincere words left by Xie Zhi before the destruction of the last world" , and there is no way to solve the problem of "infinite drowning" in front of him.
Consciousness is disconnected again.
Zhou You is sleeping in nothingness.
Time is the least valuable thing here. One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand years are just a moment.
The next moment Zhou You woke up again.
As his eyes adapted to the weak light, Zhou Yu was finally able to carefully observe his surroundings underwater.
Yes, no wonder I am so familiar with it.
Refrigerator, coffee table, kitchen, bathroom...
This is room 2805 of Tianguang Building.
I just don’t know why, the Tianguang Building sank in the sea, and I also sank in the boundless sea water.
The next moment, Zhou You knew the reason from Xie Zhi's remaining memories.
Because Dragon City ascended to heaven. The Emperor of Heaven flew into the sky with the seven dragon cities on the dragon's back, truly becoming the Heavenly Palace.
In the process of heaven becoming heaven, more than half of the buildings on the dragon's back were thrown off and thrown into the deep pit where the dragon originally lay.
And that deep pit is the bottom of the sea where Zhou You is now.
The cycle of heaven reconstructs the whole world, and everyone in this world will naturally be reborn at the corresponding coordinate nodes.
And Zhou You's rebirth point is exactly the Skylight Building where he woke up when he first came to this world.
This is the reason why Zhou You is now awake in the deep water.
Zhou You understood the cause of the phenomenon, but after all, Xie Zhi in his mind was only a part of the memory left after death. Even if he allowed himself to browse through these memories at will, he would not be able to find a way to break the situation from these memories in a short time.
How to escape from this underwater building
go?
Zhou You fainted again.
…
Zhou You opened his eyes again.
Maybe the fourth time, maybe the fifth time, maybe the tenth time?
None of this matters.
Zhou You realized that he had to judge the time on this seabed where nothing could be done.
At least, determine how much time you have until you die again.
Knowing the time remaining makes it possible to try other things.
This time, Zhou You didn't move, he just floated quietly in the water, listening to his own heartbeat for a few seconds, waiting for death to come.
This time, Zhou You finally knew when he would feel faint.
From the first second when you open your eyes to when the scenery in front of you begins to mold into a lake, 200 heartbeats take about three minutes.
…
What can you do with three minutes of life?
If we were on land, maybe we could still do something in these three minutes.
But at the bottom of the sea, Zhou You held his breath and walked around room 2805. Half of the three minutes had passed.
In this minute and a half, Zhou You discovered that this underwater building was actually tilted, like a leaning tower. The ceiling was not above his head. The dim light from the sea faintly squeezed into the bathroom window, which was perpendicular to the sea. place.
But all the doors and windows could not be opened. Zhou You pulled the handles of the doors and windows underwater, but both the anti-theft doors and the windows were firmly locked by the water pressure, and could not open even a small gap.
Zhou You can only face the end of his life again with regret.
…
Zhou You tried again and again.
Opening his eyes for the fifteenth time, Zhou You tried to use the kitchen pot and kitchen knife to break open the window, but he was too weak to swim in the sea. Zhou You took the back of the kitchen knife and smashed the glass window dozens of times, only to find that the window was open. There were shallow marks on it.
He then hit the window with a vase on the coffee table in the living room. The vase broke, but the glass window remained intact.
…
Opening his eyes for the twentieth time, Zhou You unexpectedly recalled the "Mask of Satisfaction" he had seen before in Tianguang Building. He vaguely remembered that although this mask of satisfaction was a replica of a real mask, it could still inspire the inner feelings of the wearer. Desire and power.
Zhou Youyou went to the bedroom in room 2805 and found a replica of Satisfaction Mask from under the bed. But the moment he got close to the mask, Zhou You's heart skipped a beat.
[In view of the general environment,
He realized that he had made a wrong decision.
The power of the mask controlled Zhou You's mind, causing Zhou You to fall into a daze.
Zhou You completely forgot about saving himself at this moment, and only the thought of "I want to own this mask" remained in his mind.
He rushed desperately to the replica of the Mask of Satisfaction, and then showed a satisfied smile the moment he put on the mask.
The sea water also poured into his throat with this smile.
…
Opening his eyes for the thirty-second time, Zhou You finally found a way to fight against the Satisfaction Mask.
That is to apply an external stimulus to yourself that is enough to wake you up.
For example, letting fragments of a vase scratch your skin.
This time Zhou You finally woke up and put on the mask of satisfaction. The negative emotions accumulated in the mask were conveyed to Zhou You's heart through the contact between the mask and the skin.
Zhou You finally reestablished contact with his soul palace through the power of Satisfaction Mask Replica.
But it wasn't until this moment that Zhou You found that there was an emptiness deep in his heart.
Or rather, a ruin.
There is no mood palace, nor those long tables and chairs, nor the incarnations of emotions sitting on the long table, whether it is the Crazy Scissors, the Crimson Oath, or the two destiny lottery machines that can give you "special abilities".
Zhou You knows this
Everything is harmful.
Crazy Scissors comes from Xie Zhi. When Xie Zhi traveled to the earth, Crazy Scissors never wanted to completely annihilate himself on a material basis so that Xie Zhi's time travel plan would be seamless.
The Crimson Oath comes from the original sect. The church hopes to occupy its own life through a "distributed trustor". Whether from the perspective of an "exclusive liaison" or from the perspective of the incarnation of the Crimson Oath, it can make itself favorable towards the church. , and eventually transform such good feelings into surrender and attachment.
The Destiny Lottery Machine comes from digital miracles. They hope to use the special abilities provided by the Destiny Lottery Machine to turn their real selves into digital bodies bit by bit. By replacing parts again and again, slowly but quickly Turn "travelling as a time traveler" into "traveling as a digital human", thereby plundering the possibilities within yourself.
Through the last memory of the previous life, Zhou You knows these contents.
But at this moment, Zhou You hopes that any of them still exist. After all, although they will actually damage his long-term interests, from the perspective of short-term improvement, whether it is Crazy Scissors or Crimson Oath, there is no doubt that You can help yourself by breaking the window in room 2805.
Even if it is a destiny lottery machine, if a digital drill is drawn out, I can escape from the current death cycle.
Unfortunately, such an idea can only be a beautiful fantasy.
After the final battle in the old world, nothing exists anymore.
Crazy Scissors was swallowed up by the great flood summoned by the Human Scales. The clone of Crimson Oath was also buried in that great flood, and the Destiny Lottery Machine was destroyed by the Death Bird before that.
There are only ruins left in the wandering soul palace.
And the only thing left on the ruins was a black ball.
It was a black water polo, pitch black, with black bulges and depressions on its surface from time to time, like waves on a calm sea.
Zhou You knew that it was the "legacy" left for him by the human balance, the "boiling blood" brought about by the wrong evolutionary formula, and it was also the final battle in the old world that allowed him to successfully transform from "an nothing ant" The key to becoming "a chess piece worthy of being on the chessboard".
"Boiling blood..."
From Xie Zhi's remaining memories, Zhou You knew that he lost all reason after transforming into a flood giant, and finally transformed into a flood giant tens of millions of feet tall, sending a final elegy to the curtain call of the old world.
Can I transform myself again with the help of boiling blood?
