"No -" Qin Zhilu took a deep breath, "Something happened to the ocean too. Satellite images showed that a bait city disappeared for more than half, suddenly appeared on the ocean, solidified with the ocean currents, and rolled into a huge whirlpool. Shen Yang has decided to take the entire ocean system lawful people there, but there are not many people in this chain, and Shen Yang is relatively weak among the top management. If it is the same chaotic reaction as the swamp, she will not be able to deal with it at all."
"Swamp, sky, ocean..." An Yu felt cold in his heart, but his golden eyes became more focused and calm.
Qin Zhilu suddenly looked at him and looked at him from head to toe.
"You are very mature." Qin Zhilu said, "In the swamp, when there is no communication, you can use prediction to assist Lumen and Mian. You have-"
An Yu didn't wait for him to finish, he nodded and said: "Understood, you and I will act separately. I -" he paused, "I will go to Cangqiong, Xide will be my training teacher, and An Hening will be my teacher." With assistance, I’ll bring them back.”
Qin Zhilu nodded, "Okay."
"But you, sir." An Yu pursed his lower lip and stared into those black eyes, "Please come back from the ocean as soon as possible."
He softened his tone and whispered: "I will wait for you. When you come back, I hope to chat with you."
Chapter 100 World Line·100
The Sea of Kisses was once a high seas frequented by pirates. It was named because the strait is shaped like two lips. After the disaster arrived, there was no trace of anyone there until more than ten years ago, when humans accidentally detected the ruins of a ruined temple on the seabed, which seemed to have existed for thousands of years.
The vortex formed by the chaotic reaction of the ocean is just above the temple. The bait city that was involved was hundreds of kilometers away from it. No one knows how the city appeared on the sea in an instant. No distorted signals were detected there, so much as there was The super-abnormality is manipulating chaotic reactions, which is more like a purely mysterious event.
The brief mission information made An Yu even more uneasy. He decided to go to the church to ask Dian about his premonition, but as soon as he opened the door, he saw Dian standing in front of the corridor window.
An Yu greeted in surprise, "Have you had a premonition that I'm looking for you?"
"Huh?" Dian turned back and smiled at him, "No, I just wanted to come and see you."
"I'm going to the Pole when the plane is ready. Xide needs support." An Yu said and paused, "Look at me?"
Dian didn't reply. The midnight light was dim. He stood in the shadow of the window and stared at An Yu quietly, holding the thick notebook in his hand.
An Yu suddenly realized that he had been unconsciously comparing classics and poets from the first time they met. The poet always has a pessimistic and mysterious tone, but he is gentle and honest. His gentleness makes him glow, making those who are close to him feel soothed, as if surrounded by gentle light.
By some strange coincidence, he suddenly called softly: "Shui Gumo."
Dian was dazed for a moment, lowered his eyes and smiled lightly, "I haven't heard anyone call my name for a long time, and you still remember it."
"My memory has always been very good. Maybe this is also - that thing, given to me in order to survive." An Yu said, "You are right, I have no self, everything I have comes from His intervention, my The desire to survive, timidity and fear, all my survival skills come from Him..."
Dian interrupted him, "But you already have a self now, An Yu. God has been living in humans for too long, and humanity has grown on top of divinity. What do you want to do with me?"
"Sir, I'm about to leave for the Sea of Kisses. I have a bad premonition." An Yu told the truth, "Although my premonition has always been inaccurate, but..."
Dian nodded and understood. He put his palm on the note and meditated for a while. He hesitated a little, but finally said: "Lü shouldn't encounter any danger in the Sea of Kisses. At least I don't have any relevant knowledge."
An Yu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, but then asked, "What were you hesitating about just now?"
"It's not hesitation, it's just that the connection between the Sea of Kisses and him is too weak, so weak that I can barely detect it. So I thought maybe the storm there would calm down before he arrives." Dian said, tilting his head. He glanced out the window and saw that the main city was silent in the dark night. He looked out the window in a daze. After a while, he whispered softly: "An Yu, maybe this is the last time I will see you like this."
"The last time?" An Yu was startled, "What is this like? Where are you going?"
"The separation between me and my eyes has caused us to lose the perfect perspective, but I always feel that the truth is very close to me. I can no longer wait passively, it will not come while waiting." Dian said to himself, replying He turned around and smiled at An Yu, "It doesn't matter, I know you will need me from time to time. Please remember that the notebook and I are one, and every page of it carries my spirit, so you know where to find me." "
An Yu was confused. When he wanted to ask more questions, his earphones suddenly automatically connected to the Black Tower channel.
"Corner, the plane to Cangqiong is ready. Xi De is still missing. Please go immediately."
"Copy that." An Yu immediately calmed down, "Where's the sir? He didn't reply to my message."
The climber asked him to wait, and after a moment said: "Shen Yang has already gone ahead, and Lu is still making preparations before departure. The situation in the Sea of Kisses is more complicated, and he probably doesn't care to say goodbye to you. "
"Okay, then please tell me that he must come back safely." An Yu strode into the elevator and looked up at the window.
Dian was still standing there, and the elevator door slowly closed. He stroked the notebook, smiled, bowed, and mouthed: Come back soon.
An Yu nodded slightly, and the rapidly descending elevator glass door reflected those golden eyes that were gradually condensing.
Will do. he thinks.
He will come back with Xide, An Ning and Bo.
When walking through the hall, An Yu stopped for a while in front of the Oath of the Order. Several researchers wearing brain protection suits happened to enter from the side door, ten meters apart. They stopped and nodded to An Yu, who also responded politely. .
The pilot escorting An Yu to the Pole this time was Billy. Because the mission was unpredictable, Black Tower chose An Yu's acquaintance among the lawful ones with better flying skills to try to make him relax.
As the plane climbed higher, An Yu looked at the minaret on the ground and said, "This is the first time I've seen a brain on a minaret."
"It's true that those super brains don't come often, but it's not like they never come. Sometimes there will be a transitional observation period for newly added lawful people. During the observation period, researchers may come to do physical examinations on the lawful people." Billy chewed gum, "These guys are particularly afraid of being infected by aberrations, and they wrap themselves up tightly every time they come here. I seemed to have seen Siena's researchers inside just now. I guess Siena's genetic testing is about to end. We will officially join the Spire next.”
An Yu nodded, "That's good, she will be a powerful companion."
"Who says it's not the case? The second Qin Zhilu, tsk tsk." Billy steadily raised the flight altitude until the spire was no longer visible. "Maybe she will directly fill the vacancy on the 198th floor when she comes. There is no one on the 198th floor. ...What a pity for Jin Xuyan. Apart from Lu, he is the most powerful and reliable high-level executive. And Lumen, no, still, if he retains his distortion and practices, he might really be able to become a high-level executive, but he seems to You don’t have much loyalty to begin with?”
An Yu didn't comment. He curled up in the passenger seat, feeling a little dizzy.
For some reason, he always felt that the Black Tower, the Brain, and the Spire were calm on the surface, but in fact they were undercurrents. But he has no basis. These are all from his intuition, just like a small animal suspecting that the surrounding environment is not safe enough.
"Let's go back quickly." An Yu said: "If everything goes well, we can go to the Sea of Kisses to support the commander and Shen Yang."
Billy smiled and said, "Then you have to switch to Master Xide or Bo Lai to fly the plane. I am terrible at flying. You will definitely drown in the sea by me."
Although it was a joke, An Yu didn't see the slightest smile in those eyes. The indicator lights on the dashboard kept flashing in a dizzying way. He turned to look at the chaotic clouds outside the window and sighed deeply.
Qin Zhilu always told him to sleep as much as possible before arriving at the mission, thinking that it could relieve stress reactions. Although An Yu felt that this method was useless, he still developed this habit during missions with his superiors. He fell into a long sleep during the flight. When he woke up, the plane was turbulent. He tried to sit up straight in the spinning world. Suddenly, he remembered the last words Dian had just said.
——"The handbook and I are one, and every page of it carries my spirit, so you know where to find me."
Something flashed in his mind. A few months ago, the senior management held a party to welcome Dian and Lumen. Early the next morning, a hungover Dian complained to him that one of his pages had been messed up and torn by Zhu Tao. Lost.
"It is part of my consciousness. My body will not be harmed, but my spirit will be damaged. Some of my beautiful qualities..." Nian Dian explained to him this way, and then went back to look for that person in annoyance. One page.
Everything about that morning suddenly came back to An Yu's mind. He remembered that the diary was very strange. After going around for a while, he said he had found it, but it was An Yu who told him not to put the found page in the book. It falls easily, so it’s better to find a place to hide it.
An Yu was very wronged, and the memories of people around him always seemed to be confused. Ling Qiu was like this, and Dian was like this, always blaming him for things he didn't do.
He took a deep breath and clicked on Hedian's chat box.
-You're not talking about the page that was torn off by Grape, are you? Alas, you were not thinking clearly that day. I was not the one who accompanied you to collect that page. I don’t know where you hid it...
After typing, he felt that the focus was off, so he simply deleted it and asked instead: Where are you going? Don't play missing like an eye.
The bubble box kept rotating. An Yu held the terminal and waited patiently for half a minute until the rotating icon turned into a red exclamation mark. He poked the little octopus man, and the little octopus man responded with a classic disconnected reaction - "What's the matter?"
"The signal was lost?" An Yu looked at Billy in confusion, but saw that Billy was frowning and his eyes were wandering between the dashboards.
An Yu's heart suddenly trembled and he turned to look out the window.
He realized later that the dizziness he felt when he woke up was not caused by the bumps.
"We seem to have crashed into a space that we can't get out of. The radar signals are circulating, but our flight trajectories should not be repeated." Billy frowned and said: "It's too weird. It shouldn't be like this, but I can't contact you." Even if you go to the Black Tower, you won’t be able to contact people in the polar regions.”
An Yu stared at the dark clouds outside the window and whispered: "It's not that you flew by mistake, the space here is chaotic... very chaotic."
There was a thick layer of frost on the plane glass. They were not far from the Pole. The chaotic reaction in the sky was obviously far beyond expectation, and even the nearby high altitude began to distort.
"Maybe -" An Yu pointed somewhere in the clouds, "There is an exit there. Sorry, I can't give you its coordinates, but you can move closer slowly, and I will remind you how to adjust."
"Understood." Billy immediately changed direction, "I hope it's not too late."
*
polar.
The sky lost its original color. Glaciers and ocean currents stirred into the sky, and huge vortices swirled between the sky and the earth. The vortex grew stronger and stronger, expanding outwards unstoppably. The city's steel and concrete, high-rise buildings and people are all mixed into it. No one knew which unlucky bait city it was this time, let alone how it was sucked into the vortex.
The aurora refracted on the vortex, and beyond the strange light, there was an endless black tide of abnormality - not only the abnormal species in the sky, but also the creatures that should have been running on the land suddenly appeared in the sky, being stirred into the chaotic whirlpool, and again He stuck his head out and screamed wildly at the edge of the whirlpool.
The cold air cut one after another on the wings, and a drop of half-solidified blood fell from Bao's eyelids. He put away his wings that were shaking with pain, slowly raised his eyelids, and looked up at the whirlpool in the sky.
The roar of chaotic reactions, the roar of abnormal tides, and the wails deep in the reaction, weaved into the only sound between heaven and earth, and it was about to tear his eardrums to pieces.
With another violent collision, the vortex expanded again, and in a distant place, humans lost another piece of bait city.
In response, a sound of ice cracking erupted in the chaotic vortex, and the addition of new "fuel" allowed it to engulf everything more unscrupulously.
The fluttering Morpho butterflies were extinguished one after another at the edge of the vortex. An Hening's face was as white as paper, sweat dripping down his face. A black, monstrous bird rushed down and bit An's shoulder viciously. In an instant, he was dead. A large piece of skin and flesh was torn away, and blood flowed profusely. However, the white Morpho butterflies only weakly circled the owner's wound twice before dissipating in the cold air.
An didn't even care that he was injured. He knelt on the ground, closed his eyes and put his hands on his chest, exuding waves of white morpho butterflies. The butterfly flew high into the sky hard, until it flew near the pair of golden wings.
The sky wiped down streams of fire, like falling meteorites, and those were the feathers scattered by Xi De.
"An..." Bo murmured hoarsely to An: "You are almost exhausted..."
An didn't respond, and his fan-like eyelashes trembled violently. He completely cut off his perception of the outside world and only tried to protect Xi De at all costs.
It seems that only in this way can he hold on for one more second, and then another second...
until death.
Another gust of biting cold wind howled, and the chaotic vortex stirred and grew rapidly again. The frost instantly frosted Bo's newly unfolded wings. When the strong wind howled, Bo could almost feel the pain of broken wings.
However, the expected pain did not come, and a blazing wind roared down from the top of his head. Xi De stretched his wings high in the sky, and washed away the cold wind as cold as a knife.
Bo knelt down on one knee, looked up at that proud figure, and murmured: "Sir..."
Xi De glanced down at him from high in the sky, and the golden wings of the fire twisted again, shrouding the peace and tranquility on the ground under the fire light, and finally prevented them from being swept into the vortex by the howling polar wind.
But the stream of fire in the air became increasingly thinner and thinner. Holding his increasingly heavy eyelids, Bo whispered: "You are about to burn out..."
The earphone channel was completely empty. He had lost his sense of time. He only knew that they had never received a response from the main city. The coldness seemed to be endless. The vortex of chaos was getting bigger and bigger, and the abnormal tide in the sky was also crazy. Spreading, the bait city they originally guarded had long been sucked into the whirlpool, and he no longer knew what he was still resisting.
But he knew that if he didn't resist, even he would be swallowed up by that terrible power.
Temperature is obviously not a substance and has no entity, but it seems to be integrated with these substances.
At this moment, Bocai finally understood why the commander hated the cold so much. Because the cold can indeed eat bones, trample people's will and spirit under their feet, and crush people coldly and roughly.
His heart suddenly trembled, and he looked harder into the sky——
But even in this extreme area that Xi De hated the most, the gentleman didn't even flinch. The flaming phoenix's golden wings flapped and circled high in the sky, seemingly tireless from the beginning of the chaotic vortex to the present. The figure fought and soared high in the sky. Even though it was scarred, it never landed at all.
Not only the terrifying whirlpool of chaos, but also thousands of ferocious deformities were all blocked by that man alone behind his wings.
When the whirlpool of chaos grew again, the roar of the abnormal tide became more violent, as if it was shouting arrogantly between heaven and earth.
The temperature continued to drop, and those abnormal creatures were wrapped in ice. The venom and saliva sprayed towards Xi De condensed into ice prisms in the air.
Bo struggled to hold himself up and shouted hoarsely: "Sir, I'll do it--"
"No need."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xi De retracted his wings backwards, tightened his shoulder blades to the extreme, and then used all his strength to flap his wings forward. A heat wave swept across, and countless firelights were instantly wiped out in the air, melting the ice edges.
