Su Mingan was lying on the bed, staring at Xiko who had the phone turned off on his wrist.
He was still thinking about what Xiko had just said.
[11 Human beings need to have enough awareness to survive in the apocalypse that is enough to exterminate them. 】
"The end of the world that is enough to exterminate them"...the world game should be considered.
But it seems that there are very few people who have enough "awareness". Even the world chat is full of arguments such as "arrest Su Ming'an".
He rolled over, hitting his shoulder against the wall, and suddenly realized something was wrong.
...The sound seems a bit hollow.
He raised his hand and pressed on the wall, realizing that there seemed to be something hidden behind it.
...This is the home of Xiaomei and Dong Anan. It is an ordinary house. Why is there an empty space behind the wall?
He held his breath and concentrated, and the red circle of the clue insight skill gradually appeared in front of his eyes. He sat on the wheelchair and patted the bulge in the corner with his hand.
"Click one by one"
After a slight sound, a secret passage appeared.
In the secret passage, the stairs are descending, with unlit lamps on both sides. This is a secret passage leading to an unknown place.
Su Ming'an didn't think that Xiao Mei, an ordinary girl, could build such a tunnel. This should be the fault of the night version of Dong An'an.
He does not have a Dawn chip on his body, and Xiko is also in a dormant state. No one can monitor him now. This is the best time to investigate.
He drove all the way into the secret passage. After about ten minutes of movement, there was a faint light coming from above. This should be the end point.
He raised his hand and there was a crisp "click" sound. He lifted the wooden board and the wheelchair rose into the air and landed in the room above.
The walls of this house are made of red bricks, and a brass chandelier with slightly black patches hangs from the roof. Under the wooden railing with green vines hanging down, a candle burned faintly.
When Su Ming'an came up, the flames in the fireplace on the wall made a "pibo" sound, and the warm air filtered through the cold night, drying his wet clothes.
The decoration style of this house is very humanistic and does not look like the mechanical style of the city of measurement.
This should be the residence of one of the three major organizations, [Temple]. Unlike the mechanical army [Hawk Dog] and the android organization [Garden of Eden], the Holy Church advocates nature and opposes the integration of humans and machines.
But why...the tunnel of Dong An'an's house can lead to the [Temple]?
At this time, he saw a red-haired young man sitting elegantly and wearing a robe, with his back facing the direction of the tunnel, reading the book in his hand:
"Hierarchical thinking, as well as some elitism, have a specific scope of application. For a small group, it is one person; for a collective, it is a small collective leader; and the upper level must be worthy of trust, and virtue should be matched."
The red-haired young man chanted softly. After hearing the movement in the tunnel, he turned his head and met Su Ming'an's eyes.
As soon as Su Mingan heard this, he knew what this person was reading.
Isn’t this familiar statement the lighthouse theory?
"You can't be Su Lin." Su Mingan looked directly at the leaning red-haired young man.
What a coincidence, he could see Su Lin just walking through any tunnel.
"..." Su Lin said nothing.
"What are you doing reading the lighthouse theory?"
Su Ming'an remembered that Su Lin had said personally that the lighthouse theory was a "nihilistic theory that deceives others" and was dismissive of it. Unexpectedly, he happened to catch Su Lin reading this today.
"Don't get me wrong, I just like all thoughtful words." Su Lin said.
Su Lin reached into his arms, took out a dark blue pendant, and threw it to Su Ming'an.
"Delivered by express delivery." Su Lin said: "This pendant is the dawn code. I don't know what it is used for, but it should be what you want."
Su Mingan took the pendant.
[Obtain the second Dawn password. ][Syllable: "can be plugged"][This syllable can be deciphered to obtain semantic meaning. 】【You have obtained the right to "return directly to Central City without the help of A Xiko". 】
...It turns out to be this password pattern.
Su Mingan originally thought that the five dawn codes were either letters or numbers, but now he saw that they were syllables.
Moreover, he can now teleport back to Central City immediately, which is good news.
"It's stuffable." He muttered. The syllable sounded a bit like a function, which reminded him of painful memories of doing trigonometric functions in high school.
"What did you see on the pendant?" Su Lin said.
Su Mingan raised the pendant, its blue inner lines surging like ocean waves: "Can't you see the words on the pendant?"
Su Lin's eyes narrowed. In his eyes, this was just a smooth and ordinary blue stone.
"Only you can see this text." Su Lin said: "According to my current observations... the person you possess, Asa Akto, is like a pure idealist. He has spiritual mysophobia, rationality, and Extremely idealistic and likes to pursue some impossible visions.
From this point of view... for the greatest fairness, Akto cannot have the power to directly modify the Dawn system. So, this password is supposed to do something you can't do, like... shut down or destroy the Dawn system?
There are two things that make you different from others - you are the only Dawn personality in existence, and the only pure human being. This gives you the ability to see text. "
Listening to Su Lin's basically correct analysis, Su Mingan suddenly realized something.
"Su Lin, you should have a Dawn chip on your body," Su Mingan said.
He himself is the only pure human being in the City of Measurement who has not been implanted with the dawn chip.
But no matter who Su Lin is possessing, there must be a dawn chip on his body. Then their conversation must have been exposed under the eyes of the Dawn System.
"Don't worry about this." Su Lin said, "I don't have a chip on my body."
"No chip?"
"You and I are the only people in Measurement City who don't have Dawn Chips. Whatever you want to say, you can say it here. This is the only place without surveillance." Su Lin said.
Su Mingan's heart suddenly relaxed.
From the beginning of the dungeon, he has been under the surveillance of the peeping tom of Dawn System. Now...he could finally relax.
"I took out the Dawn chip from this body." Su Lin said, "I don't like the feeling of being watched."
Su Mingan was surprised.
Can this thing be taken out?
"Open the back of the neck, remove the chip, stop the bleeding, and sew it up, mainly relying on life-support energy." Su Lin said, "My vitality is relatively strong, so taking it out is not a problem."
Although Su Lin said it lightly, Su Mingan knew that taking out the Dawn chip would definitely be very painful.
The Dawn Chip cannot control a person's actions, but it can emit painful currents when a person tries to escape from the chip.
Despite the pain, cutting open the neck to remove the chip without medical conditions is no different from committing suicide. It was hard for him to imagine how Su Lin could cut open the back of her neck and then sew it up alone.
"The chip has been taken out. I deliberately caused a riot before, but the Dawn system ignored me and issued a hunt order for you." Su Lin said: "It is a reasonable guess that it is in trouble. For example, it was also invaded by another dimension." ?"
"Very smart." Su Mingan praised.
"When are you planning to counterattack?" Su Lin asked suddenly and abruptly.
"You are not someone who just sits back and waits to die. Waiting to be rounded up by the whole city cannot be your plan." Su Lin opened the book again: "You should want to break into Central City, right? It's like pulling the gods down from the clouds."
"After tonight, I will negotiate with the Liming system." Su Mingan said: "There must be a certain balance between me, Liming, and Tawei."
He made a decision that even Danmaku didn't expect - to negotiate with Li Ming.
"Negotiation." Su Lin said: "Lingming System is not a little girl who likes you. Are you going to use your words to tame a data god who rules the city-state?"
"Enough is enough of the ridicule."
"You actually heard it." Su Lin said.
"I think the reason why the Dawn system issued a red alert for me was not that my action of collecting Dawn passwords was exposed, but that it wanted to push me into the [danger zone]." Su Mingan said suddenly.
He had already thought of a very simple logic.
If the Dawn system does not issue a pursuit order for him, he will return to Central City sooner or later. There is no need for Dawn to mobilize the entire city to capture him and bring him back.
Therefore, the purpose of the Dawn System must not be to capture him directly, but to have other motives.
For example, in one episode, the power of the whole city forced him to passively escape, escape from the city of measurement, and enter the "danger zone" to achieve some of its goals.
This can also explain why Dawn never launched a large-scale army to encircle and suppress him, because its purpose was not to capture him at all.
—Then there is the possibility of negotiation.
"Anyway, thank you for bringing the dawn code." Su Mingan stuffed the pendant into his backpack.
"If you thank me, you can take me back to Praia a few times if you have the chance." Su Lin suddenly said.
Su Mingan noticed that on the windowsill next to Su Lin was a wooden sculpture of a girl holding daisies.
——That’s what Garder looked like when he was young.
That was when the young captain said goodbye to the young girl bringing old rice wine by the river.
... Even though the young and energetic captain later became the god of Yunshang City who watches over his homeland.
In the final analysis, it was because he forcibly pulled Su Lin out of his hometown and into a completely unfamiliar place in order to pass the customs that it became like this.
But Su Lin not only didn't hate him, but also helped him twice.
Su Ming'an was silent for a moment: "Okay. When my leader advances, maybe I can bring someone with me to return to the world we have experienced before."
"Waiting for you to advance." Su Lin said.
He slowly turned the pages of the book on his knees, his bright red hair hanging down the side of his face. Even with such an unconventional bright red hair color, there was nothing weird about him.
Su Mingan wanted to say a few more words, but the night meeting suddenly started.
A strange wave passed by, and he opened his eyes and saw a long table where eight other people were sitting.
"Then, tonight's meeting has officially begun. Let's start reporting." The woman in silver clothes No. 3 said.
Su Ming'an listened quietly to their respective reports on the resolutions of the City of Measurement. When all matters were handled by the eight people, Su Ming'an spoke.
"Everyone, I am wanted by the Dawn System," he said.
As soon as he said this, everyone else looked shocked.
Seeing their expressions, Su Mingan became more and more confused.
…strangeness.
Aren’t these people in charge of the supreme decision-making of the City of Measurement? Why didn't they know that the city lord was wanted?
The eyes of the eight people gathered for a moment, and then the woman with long beige hair on the second floor shook her head.
"I'm sorry, doctor, we can't intervene in this matter." She said: "[The Dawn System is absolutely correct], we can't help you. You can take the initiative to go back to Central City to talk to it. After all, you are its Transformer.”
"Do you want me to take the initiative to accept arrest?" Su Mingan frowned.
When they met his gaze, everyone looked away.
"Doctor, isn't this your philosophy?" Number Two said: "[Maintaining the absolute correctness of the Dawn System]. Even if you are issued an arrest warrant, you should not resist."
"What if Dawn is invaded by Tawei? It falls into chaos and disorder! Do you want me to just surrender?" Su Mingan did not expect that his request for help would receive such a response.
Once he had been hiding for a long time, the night meeting was his few hope.
"Dawn will not be invaded by the other dimensions." The woman in silver suit No. 3 said: "You have to believe in the dawn, it is the strongest force against the invasion of the other dimensions...
...This group of people has been completely brainwashed.
Su Ming'an should have thought long ago that the most severely brainwashed people are not those who insist on resisting the lower class, but the upper class who have become the biggest vested interests...such as these people.
Of course, the Dawn system may not have been invaded by Tavite, but its choice to arrest itself has shown that its attitude is not friendly.
"I understand." He took a breath: "End the meeting."
He tried the Power Man skill.
The skills to forcibly increase the favorability are ineffective with this group of people.
…What should he do?
Can we only negotiate with Li Ming?
Is his capital and his current information enough?
After the night meeting, there was a flash of white light, and Su Mingan returned to his original position with a heavy heart.
He suddenly saw Su Lin sitting at the table, playing with a puppet.
…Wait a minute, Su Lin is playing with a puppet?
Su Lin seemed to be performing a play by himself. Several puppets with different shapes were pulled by the threads in his hands and acted in accordance with his soliloquy:
"Sherrod, I told you this, do you think you can still escape?"
"Princess, if this is your wish, I can die for you."
"Don't say that, Sherrod, you are my most optimistic knight of light. I still hope that you can do it for Praia's future."
Suddenly, Su Lin, who was talking to herself, closed her mouth.
He raised his head a little stiffly and saw Su Ming'an suddenly appeared:
"Didn't you teleport away just now?"
Su Lin never expected that Su Ming'an could reappear in the room without making a sound, even though Su Ming'an was suddenly teleported away by white light just now.
"You used to play like this in Yunshang City?" Su Ming'an said.
... Come to think of it, there is nothing in that cloud city. One of the few entertainment activities is probably to act out plays with yourself and imitate the puppet shows played by people in Playa.
Thinking about it this way, Su Lin is quite pitiful. She can act in a script with herself... how boring this must be.
"" Su Lin put away the puppet in his hand and quietly changed the subject, as if nothing had happened:
"Su Ming'an, I will take you to meet the people from [Temple]."
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