The murder began when the sound of breaking the air sounded. Those strong protective layers were like eggshells that broke at the touch of a finger, shattering before the sound of wind stopped.
The fragmentation occurs instantly. First, there are the digital elders on the ceiling. Skulls and green will-o'-wisps flow out from the damaged cracks. The digital torrent that flickers on and off is like a flickering waterfall;
Then came the screens on the wall, which stopped one after another. The howling wind stopped playing and the bright screens turned into dim candles.
The soul of the last digital person dissipated three seconds later, and the wandering figure stood alone in the conference room, flickering on and off.
He slowly slowed down from his mental rage and tried to breathe evenly.
But with every breath, he would re-enter the acceleration of being separated from the world.
He felt like his brain had been hit hard by a million-ton sledgehammer, and his brain had been stirred up during the mental rampage.
This is not surprising, after all, he is just a superman in the incarnation stage who has just taken the first step in spiritual cultivation, and even his body functions have not been able to keep up with the transformation of his mind.
"I'm going to die, maybe in a few minutes, maybe just a minute."
Zhou You was sure of what was going to happen.
His speed was so fast that he completed the sweep of the entire Digital Miracle Elders Conference Room in a matter of seconds. Such efficiency seemed like time was stopped, but in fact it was the time he had that accelerated at that moment. Tens of thousands times.
But this caused consequences. His throat was squeezed until he could not speak; his brain was squeezed like a puddle of paste, and his internal organs were shocked as if he went from the ground to the ground in an instant. The deep sea moved from the deep sea to the vacuum again, and the explosion was just the simplest thing that happened after that.
Pain, severe pain.
Pain surrounded Zhou You.
But the pain was silent, and his vocal cords were also crushed by the previous acceleration.
Zhou You raised his hand, intending to give himself a fatal blow to his temple or neck.
But just as he raised his hand halfway, he lowered it.
he died.
The familiar void surrounded him again.
Then comes the drifting of consciousness.
But this time, perhaps because the pain caused by the previous pain was too profound, even if he drifted with the tide in that void, Zhou You could still retain a little bit of sanity.
He realizes that he is in a zone outside of reality.
When he is in this area, it means he is dead.
After an unknown amount of time, a beam of light will penetrate from the void.
This beam of light draws it around to an exit, and that exit is suddenly born in the void, like a stone that is out of place in the void, and like the only meaning in all the meaninglessness.
…
Zhou You opened his eyes again.
He began to breathe heavily to satisfy the morbid greed that preceded his last death, and then gradually stopped after a minute.
An idea suddenly popped into his head.
"It's like a function call."
"Call the declared one from an undeclared function library, and I am the declared one."
It is obviously too abrupt to explain this phenomenon with the knowledge of software engineering, but whether it is the memory left by Xie Zhi or the remaining impression after his last death, Zhou You can echo this point of view.
So here comes the question, if you can find the line of code that calls the function and hold that line of code firmly in your hands, will you be able to resurrect whenever you want in the future?
Heavenly Court stole the cycle authority issued to the cycler by the will of the world, and used the secondary agent of the cycle authority to construct a new cycle process. Under such a cycle process, he, as the isomer in Xie Zhi's time-travel event, The body has passively traveled from another world, and it also has the ability to be passively resurrected in the cycle. However, because of the inability to grasp the cycle events, the specific resurrection time of such a resurrection cannot be determined.
But in this case, if you can find the button that calls the local cycle in the sky, you can passively resurrect yourself after death because any cycle is opened, plus the cycle button that can start a local cycle anytime and anywhere... …
That way, resurrection can be controlled.
Zhou You's eyes gradually became clearer.
He looked around and found that he was still sitting on the floor of the conference room, but his position when he died was near the middle, and now he was near the wall.
He recalled that during that mental rampage, although only three seconds had passed in real time, despite the tens of thousands of times acceleration of action, Zhou You still encountered someone who could forcibly stay awake amidst such suppression of action speed. Digital Man Elder.
The movement speeds of the opponent and myself were thousands of times different, but even in such an extremely different life-and-death situation, the opponent still burst out the last power of life - it pressed a certain switch the moment after its own death.
This switch caused a certain force field to be instantly generated in the entire Miracle Elder Conference Room. It was the same force field that was encountered at the bottom of the ghost ship before. This force field can interfere with the location where the Heavenly Court Cycle Officers are resurrected, allowing the Heavenly Court Cycle Officers to Every time the cycle button is pressed, the cycle command is intercepted by the force field and resurrected directly within the range of the force field instead of escaping through the cycle.
The idea of this digital man elder is easy to understand. No matter how strong the circulation officer from heaven is, there is always a possibility of victory among the more than 4,000 large and small digital man elders in the entire conference room. Since a painful victory is an inevitable result, Since your own sacrifice is an inevitable result, you must maximize the benefits of the sacrifice and create more favorable conditions for those who come after you.
For example, through the chain reaction after death, the force field in the conference room is changed, turning the conference room into a cage for the circulation of cyclists. After that, by continuously replenishing the number of digital elders guarding the cage, the cage monitors the circulation officer of the heaven. The number of eyes is always maintained at a high level to achieve the mind-reading effect as much as possible. In this way, the sacrifices of thousands of digital elders can be exchanged for a future that can stably interrogate the heavenly circulation officer.
Unfortunately, his plan failed after all.
If he were a real Heavenly Circulation Officer, he might really have to be subdued by this trick, but not Zhou You. Zhou You's power comes from the mental rampage that even he himself doesn't know the principle of. The mental rampage brought Zhou You to a higher dimension. In terms of the power system, force directly defeated skill and broke the entire chess game.
The only problem is that the final outcome of such a mental rampage must be to die together, and to travel around for a life to break the situation.
Although Zhou You can be resurrected, the time of resurrection is not fixed, and the place of resurrection is too fixed and too easy to be targeted. This puts himself back from a stable situation into an unpredictable one.
This is why Zhou You breathed a long sigh of relief after waking up again this time.
"It's finally good news. This resurrection was not interrupted by another sudden enemy."
But at the same time, there is still a problem to be solved, which is to figure out how long it took from death to resurrection.
All the display screens in the conference room were broken by the tour. The whole room was dim and it was difficult to see whether there were clocks around.
To travel around, you can only walk back from the conference room, exit the mechanical door and go down the stairs.
Along the way, all the light tubes were extinguished, as if the entire ghost ship had really become a ghost ship, and it could no longer supply even a little bit of electricity.
How much time has passed?
Zhou You couldn't help but murmur in his heart.
It’s just that none of the digital people are missing. Could it be that the entire ship’s backup power supply has been used up?
All the cabins seemed to have been carefully searched, and they were clean. There was not even a trace of food or supplies left. It was not until he walked around to the lowest cabin that he finally found it in this ghost ship. acquaintance.
More precisely, the remains of an acquaintance.
Zhou You knew those people. He Shuiqing was pierced through the heart with a rusty iron knife. Lao Rongxiu was cut in half by a curved bone hook ax. Wang Kai and Qiao Ke were not spared either. He was lying on the ground on his right side, his clothes were in rags, his bones were deeply visible from the wounds, and his bones were already turning white.
In other words, there were a total of five people on the Qingshui search and rescue ship, and four of them except He Xiaoyu died in this cabin.
Zhou You is not a forensic doctor and cannot determine the specific time of death of these people. However, when he squatted down and tried to further examine the bodies, he discovered that even if he was really a forensic doctor, he could not know the specific time of their death from their bodies - ―
——The four remains in front of me are all covered with a thin pink transparent film. The film is close to the body of the remains, like a vacuum packaging bag for sealing food.
Zhou You tried to stretch out his fingers towards the pink films, but before he touched them, he felt a strange suction.
The last time he felt such a suction was in the spiritual space, when he was close to the black ball formed by boiling blood.
"Special gravitational changes lead to changes in the development speed of things, and by slowing down the action speed of microorganisms in the film, the film can achieve the effect of preserving remains."
Zhou You made a judgment on the things in front of him.
"After my death, the war between the remaining digital forces on the ghost ship and the crew of the Qingshui search and rescue ship ended quickly. He Xiaoyu survived, and the other four crew members died in the battle, including He Xiaoyu's brother, Qingshui. The captain of the ship is He Shuiqing."
"But there is still no way to explain why these four corpses have strange pink films used to preserve the corpses."
"It can't be plastic wrap, right?"
A thought appeared in Zhou You's mind. It was terrifying. Zhou You shuddered and shook the thought away.
But after a while he picked up the idea again.
Don't tell me, it's really possible.
Zhou You pinched the knuckles of his fists to relieve his personal anxiety.
In the past world, he encountered this color similar to red more than once.
This pink hue has appeared many times behind the conspiracies he encountered.
For example... the Crimson Demon.
A demonic consciousness that feeds on the negative emotions of dying people to strengthen itself. From the memory bank left by Xie Zhi, Zhou You found more data about the Crimson Demon - it is difficult to tell whether the other party is human or not. The Crimson Demon More like an ethereal parasite, she parasitizes into the other person's mental space through the subconscious mind of the human brain, and continuously induces the host to awaken in the process of taking root, until the host's physical and mental functions perfectly match the hatching of the "Crimson Demon" environment.
At this time, the spider woman named Crimson Demon will appear in the illusion of the host's dying consciousness.
She will feed on the revolving memory of the host before death. To be more precise, she will feed on the emotions contained in those memories until all the memories are drained with the arrival of death.
"So... is the pink film in front of you the work of the Crimson Demon?"
I'm afraid so.
Zhou You found a similar description from Xie Zhi's memory bank.
In Xie Zhi's limited understanding of the original church, the blessing of the Crimson Devil is both a gift and a curse. Every original believer who chooses the Crimson Devil, while gaining increased abilities, must also bear the responsibility of feeding back the Crimson Devil as nourishment after death. Obligations of the Demon Matrix.
The Crimson Demon loves to eat, and she needs an injection of emotional energy at every stage of her existence to keep her full in order to seek a host that survives without attacking her. But at the same time, because the Crimson Devil is a community of consciousness, if at the same time, part of the child body can exist in the child body split from the mother body, providing a source of emotional energy that can satiate the mother body, the mother body's emotions It will also be stable.
However, as the saying goes, death is like a lamp going out. After death, the remaining emotional energy in the body will quickly dissipate. Therefore, on this basis, the Original Church developed a secret called the "eating barrier". Technique, this secret technique can extend the retention time of human emotions after death as much as possible...
In other words, it’s a way of preserving food.
It is an emotional energy wrap specially made for the Crimson Devil.
The memory bank data in his mind and the current scene gradually overlapped, and Zhou You gradually determined what he was seeing right now - this was the Crimson Devil's dining table.
The Crimson Demon's mother body will continuously draw energy from these four preserved remains until all the emotional energy in the remains is exhausted and the remains will be reduced to dust.
Zhou You took a deep breath and tried to wrap himself up with the power of the tide of longing.
The Tide of Longing cannot currently be summoned as an explicit emotional entity, but Zhou You has found ways to use the existence of the Tide of Longing to strengthen his basic physiological functions, such as making his footsteps lighter and his eyesight seeing farther.
The blue tide gushes out from the spiritual space, like Li Ren's arm, caressing Zhou You's eyes. Through the tide, Zhou You sees the crystalline threads everywhere.
Those threads stretched out from the void on the ceiling of the cabin. Tens of thousands of threads stretched out to the four remains wrapped in pink film, and among the countless threads, there was a thick, red-haired The solid tubes of black, emotional energy are transported in all the threads and tubes.
This scene was very weird. From Zhou You's perspective, it was like a cup of milk tea with dozens of straws inserted into it.
Behind each small straw is a small crimson demon mother sucking juice, and behind the larger straw is the original extra-large demon mother.
The remains provide nutrients for the small mother bodies, and the small mother bodies and the remains jointly continue to transport the large and extra-large mother bodies.
Subconsciously, Zhou You was told that if he interfered with the eating of the crimson demons, he would pay a price more terrible than his life.
So Zhou You paid attention to the silk threads under his feet, and slowly retreated back up the stairs until all the pink silk threads disappeared.
"Finally leaving the Crimson Devil's feeding ground."
Zhou You breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. Although he didn't know who set up the eating barrier, he finally walked out with all his beards and tail.
Returned from the stairs to the conference room that was smashed by him, then went up the small stairs on the inside of the conference room, and found another passage out of the ghost ship.
It was a ladder. Climbing from the ladder to the upper level, opening the closed safety door, Zhou You found that he was in the captain's cabin.
"Finally... finally found a way to the deck."
Zhou You climbed out of the safety door, supported his knees to stand up, and then looked around.
"There is no power supply just like the bottom of the ship. It seems that even the backup power supply has been exhausted."
The only good news is that it's still daytime and the sun is setting, casting an orange glow from the west.
The sun before sunset shone a little scorchingly, and Zhou You felt that the half of his face that was close to the afterglow of the setting sun was a little warm under the afterglow.
The light and shadow of the setting sun dance, bringing warmth to the entire sea, just like candlelight.
"etc……"
Zhou You was stunned.
"candlelight?"
Zhou You suddenly turned his head towards the "place where the sunset sets" and saw that there was no sunset anywhere!
That's fire!
Fire came from the deck, and on the deck, a huge totem pole was burning!
Zhou You looked further toward the totem pole against the light of the fire, only to realize that the compound eye of a spider carved on the top of the totem pole was the symbol of the crimson devil!
Under the carvings of eight compound eyes and the spider's head hangs another old acquaintance who travels around!
"It's He Xiaoyu! She's tied to the totem pole!"
"She's burning!"
Zhou You's pupils suddenly contracted.
How much time passed between his death and his resurrection, and what exactly happened? !
