The "Emperor" shell really lives up to its name of "encryption".
After the dismantling of the "Emperor", the silver shell is like the pieces of a puzzle, rotating around like a satellite ring on the surface of the planet. The thin fragments have sharp edges and corners, and even the splitting trajectory is full of... Mysterious, faintly revealing an obscure and mysterious silver glow.
How many fragments are there?
Zheng Xiu glanced at it and roughly counted, the number of fragments exceeded one hundred thousand, not to mention the sum of the sequence generated after rearrangement and combination.
Anne almost gave up.
But when she saw Zheng Xiu flying up, she hesitated for a moment, and not to be outdone, she lazily and reluctantly flew to Zheng Xiu's side.
Zheng Xiu stared at the rotating "code". After staring for a long time, ignoring the collapse of the world around her, Annie couldn't help but ask: "What are you looking at?"
"Look, did you write that?"
Zheng Xiu pointed to one of the fragments.
Annie looked along Zheng Xiu's fingertips and was stunned. The surface of the fragment looked like a crack at first. But looking closer, this is not the case. It was the most unpretentious stroke, which seemed to be "one" and "1".
"ah???"
After a moment of astonishment, Lady Anne shook her head vigorously.
"Don't look at it." Anne couldn't help but sneered when she saw that Zheng Xiu hadn't given up yet, and said sarcastically: "I don't know the encryption I made myself? I was hacked and the key was stolen. I don't have the key. 'Diplomat' For outsiders, the Bund is a burial place. Not to mention that you have not yet become a god, even if you are a master, when I am in my heyday, you have to scrape off the layers before leaving."
Zheng Xiu looked away from the word "1" and glanced at Annie with some pity.
The orange cat stared: "Stupid human, what do you mean by that look in your eyes?"
"I haven't seen other gods, but I believe them when they say their home is safe. You... I can't say."
Zheng Xiu finally understood now that the so-called "master" simply meant "specialization in the art" and the ultimate "elegance", but in other places, it was worthless.
Isn’t it normal that there are many and big loopholes in “elegance”?
Zheng Xiu raised an index finger. Above his fingertips, the light and shadow were distorted and the void collapsed.
Anne held her breath for a moment. She was also very curious now about what kind of authority Zheng Xiu was born after "breaking the rules".
On Zheng Xiu's fingertips, where the void collapsed, a shapeless black shadow was twisting there, changing into various shapes at a terrifying speed. Anne just glanced at it and saw the " "Things", like a kaleidoscope, changed hundreds of shapes, thousands of numbers flashed on it, and the illusion of flowers, birds, fish, insects, sun, moon, mountains and rivers also flashed.
But in the blink of an eye, the "thing" on Zheng Xiu's fingertips seemed to be still a black mass, moving like quicksand, with no shape or number. Annie stared hard at the cat's eyes, trying to see "clearly".
In other words, she was trying to decipher the structure of "Zheng Xiu's authority" and wanted to figure out why it was this strange "thing" that made her authority take the shape of Zheng Xiu.
"Is this...thing?"
Anne wanted to say "just this crap", but when she thought of the row of neatly pinched "feet" on her "throne", she held it back.
"wrong."
After a moment, Anne reacted and shook her head hard: "This is impossible. 'Authority' is a rule and a concept. It is extremely condensed. Such a loose structure is contrary to the nature of 'authority'. It is not that I have never seen this type before." Rather, I suspect that this is not your 'authority' at all. What on earth is this?"
As she spoke, Anne showed her tattered "throne" and raised her arrogant and elegant little chin: "The throne is authority! This is authority! This! It is! It is!"
"hehe."
Zheng Xiu stared at the rows of jade feet and smiled. This strange laughter made Anne shiver inexplicably, and she quickly hid her "elegance" and clapped her chest with her paws to hide it tightly.
"To be honest, in that special moment, I figured out a lot of things, but I also had a lot of questions." Zheng Xiu stretched out his two hands, and his fingers stretched and flattened the "authority" like plasticine, like noodles. Zheng Xiu changed shapes in his hands. This scene stunned Annie, and she almost fell from the air and fell into the turbulent black ocean.
After playing for a while, Zheng Xiu clenched his fist, and a mist as black as quicksand actually covered Zheng Xiu's surface, making Zheng Xiu's right hand look like he was wearing a pair of black gauze gloves.
Zheng Xiu's right hand was completely black. It was like a black hole, sucking in all the surrounding light.
"But that's probably how it's used."
Zheng Xiu ignored Annie and pressed his dark palm towards the silver celestial body.
In an instant, Zheng Xiu's whole demeanor changed drastically, as if he was a different person, his eyes were cold, empty, and emotionless. In the depths of his eyes, a dark stream of data flowed downward like a waterfall.
"'Retrieve'."
"found mistake."
"'Correction'."
"'reduction'."
In an instant, every fragment of the decomposed "Emperor" was put back together along the trajectory of the split. Transformed back into the original "encrypted shell", hundreds of thousands of precision parts reassembled into a huge silver celestial body.
The orange cat opened its mouth.
The pink mucous membrane inside shook violently.
"ah???"
She felt that since entering "Seven Hearts Town", "Huh???" was the sentence she said the most.
Zheng Xiu thought of the small mirror.
The mirror itself is not important.
That mirror is really an ordinary small mirror.
Nothing could be more ordinary.
What is important is the image of the "mirror," which is a "hint."
A "hint" that only Zheng Xiu can understand.
After all, the mystery in front of her was not for Anne to solve, but for Zheng Xiu.
Zheng Xiu was confused. He thought of all the things that brought him here. If there was even one mistake, it would not turn into the current scene. There is really someone, no, to be precise, there really is such a being, a being like Anne, who can calculate everything in detail and accurately, and accurately calculate that Zheng Xiuneng will awaken when he breaks the rules [Correction] ], stand in front of this puzzle and answer it?
For a moment, an indescribable feeling of fear enveloped Zheng Xiu. He could not imagine the purpose behind such a mystery left by such an existence for him.
Omniscient and omnipotent? omnipotent?
In Anne's words, this goes against the definition of "authority" itself.
There is no such authority.
If there really is such a terrible "existence", do time, space, past, and future have any meaning to this existence? Zheng Xiu just imagined a little bit, he just imagined this omnipotent feeling a little more empathetically. What it brought to Zheng Xiu was not longing and expectation, but instead gave rise to an inexplicable sadness and fear.
If it were me, would I want to die?
No, maybe I can’t even die if I want to.
How miserable.
Zheng Xiu inexplicably felt sad for "him" for a being that he didn't even know existed.
Zheng Xiu shook his head, not daring to think too much, and quickly returned his attention to "solving the puzzle" itself.
time is limited.
"To be honest, when I used to play games, I hated solving puzzles. If I couldn't solve them, I would just go to jail. It would be better to just cheat."
Zheng Xiu ignored Annie's "Ahhhh" and his eyes wandered. The "1" previously discovered on the rotating celestial body is particularly eye-catching, like a conspicuous sign, guiding Zheng Xiu's next step.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with your 'encryption' itself."
Zheng Xiu affirmed: "There is nothing wrong with the things inside."
"There is nothing wrong with your ship except that it has too many holes."
Annie got angry, copied the small mirror from somewhere, and hit Zheng Xiu on the head.
Boom, Zheng Xiu's head tilted, but he ignored it, as if he was deep in thought, and continued to mutter to himself: "It's the wrong way to open it."
"Yes, the way to open it is wrong."
"To put it simply, your password...has been changed."
Annie: "Huh???"
Zheng Xiu's eyes flashed, recalling the "password" that only appeared once.
It turned out that he already knew the "password".
…
[Please turn to page 13674 of the rule book. 】
[Please see the fifth line from the bottom. 】
…
"Thirteen thousand six hundred and seventy-four."
Zheng Xiu's body floated on the surface of the sphere. Starting with "1", he quickly found the corresponding "piece".
A dark hand covered the surface, and the "correction" was activated. The "13674" square has a slight bulge, and the delicate arc makes the fragment look like a knob.
Make five turns counterclockwise.
Click.
There was a click, and a sound like the sound of precise gears being engaged came from inside. The "Emperor" peels off the layers, and the outermost layer decomposes, revealing the second layer inside.
Annie's eyes went straight: "Huh?"
"Sure enough," Zheng Xiu smiled: "The next step is..."
Seven thousand four hundred and fifty six.
Make four turns counterclockwise.
"Emperor" unlocks another layer.
In fact, when Zheng Xiu recalled a little and found that the string of "numbers" was exactly imprinted in his memory, he knew that it must be a "password". Otherwise, he will not remember information that appears only once so clearly.
From the very beginning, someone had given Zheng Xiu a "password" that could be useful at this moment, here, and here.
Big deal!
Great horror!
The third layer of encryption.
Number two thousand and twenty.
Make three turns counterclockwise.
Annie: "Huh??"
The fourth floor.
Three hundred and twenty-five.
Make two turns counterclockwise.
Annie: "Huh???"
Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.
"Counterclockwise..."
Zheng Xiu entered the depths of "encryption" layer by layer. In a daze, his actions reminded him of the process of "Candle" finding the blazing sun and entering the "scorching sun".
Zheng Xiu's hand covered the last knob. At the last moment, he suddenly felt something in his heart and looked back.
It turned out that during the process of his "decryption", the collapse of "Seven Hearts Town" accelerated, leaving only a small piece barely able to stand under everyone's feet. For the people standing on the crumbling island, as Zheng Xiu unscrewed each layer of encryption, their clothing, expressions, and ages were rapidly changing as if swept by time.
"us……"
Everyone in the astonishment suddenly came to a realization.
Xi'er smiled: "It seems... I'm going back."
Jun Buxiao: "My shop!"
The old miracle doctor was paralyzed on the ground and his lower body was so excited that he burst into tears: "My waist!"
Qing Shisan and Ji Hongou looked at each other, and the hands they were holding a second ago quietly separated. "Old Pei, lend me a fire." Qing Shisan scratched Pei Gaoya's face with a flint, lit the dry smoke, and took a deep breath.
The unfamiliar little white-haired loli sat on the ground.
Zheng Xiu's eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one. Seeing this, he was finally convinced. His "red dot world" is the biggest mistake and the world line that should not exist because of his willfulness.
Every decryption is a counterclockwise rotation, which means... he is reversing time, and he is "correcting" the mistakes he made.
Can Fengbei come back?
No.
Even if he corrects everything, Feng Bei can't come back. Because Fengbei is truly "detached".
Zheng Xiu's little finger trembled slightly. Was all this expected by "that one"?
Finally, Zheng Xiu's eyes fell on the looming figure standing alone in the corner, as if it would disappear at any time, and seemed so out of place with the others. The last thing that remained in Zheng Xiu's field of vision at this moment was the gray hair, the weathered face, and finally, the gratifying and kind eyes.
"I……"
In an instant, Zheng Xiu had a thousand words in his mind, as if he had many things to say. But when the words came to his lips, no words came out, and he was speechless and choked.
"Is it difficult to resurrect a person?"
Zheng Xiu asked Annie, who had her mouth wide open, in a hollow tone.
"It's not difficult." Although Anne hesitated for a long time, she still maintained the most basic elegance and immediately replied: "But you have also seen the consequences. To 'resurrect' a person will produce a series of logical errors. But recreating It's very simple to create an 'identical' Zheng Haoran." Anne had been following Zheng Xiu for so long. When Zheng Xiu asked this question, she understood Zheng Xiu's thoughts and looked at Zheng Haoran who was about to disappear. , she wanted to say, "Stupid humans can't even abandon such weak humanity," but when she saw Zheng Xiu's brows furrowed in pain, she couldn't say anything.
Those who are close to vermilion are red; those who are close to ink are black. I have become weak because I have been close to humans for too long.
Annie thought dully.
Annie patted Zheng Xiu on the shoulder: "When I regain the key and everything, I can easily create 'Zheng Haoran' with the same memory, the same appearance, and the same personality. But he is just 'Zheng Haoran', Not your 'father'."
Seeing that Zheng Xiu was silent, Annie comforted her: "Of course, it doesn't matter. The worst thing is, I'll have to fix the 'red spots' again."
Zheng Xiu ignored Annie and looked at Zheng Haoran.
The father and son looked at each other from afar.
Both of them had a thousand words to say, but they looked at each other speechlessly.
Zheng Haoran suddenly smiled and slowly raised his calloused fist towards Zheng Xiu.
"call……"
Zheng Haoran's movements made Zheng Xiu feel as if a huge boulder had fallen to the ground.
"I've let you worry about me all these years, Dad."
"Who made you our son?"
Zheng Xiu stretched out his fist from afar.
He vaguely felt something touch his fist.
boom.
Terrible distortion and collapse squeezed the space. The monk clasped his hands together, his body glowing with white light, and he was drowned by the black ocean with a smile.
"quick!"
"Restart! They can't get in there, and there's no need. You and I will go in quickly!"
Anne urged.
Zheng Xiu unscrewed the last code, and the originally empty encryption core suddenly lit up with a dazzling light, and a door faintly emerged from the whirlpool of light.
Annie grabbed Zheng Xiu into the whirlpool in a hurry. Just after passing through the whirlpool, Annie changed from her normal state, let out a bitter laugh, and transformed into a voluptuous and elegant catwoman, with her arms spread out as if waiting for something.
Before Zheng Xiu had time to familiarize himself with what was behind the whirlpool, behind him, huge ripples appeared in the void. From the ripples, thick pipes with colorful sharp interfaces at the end were inserted into Zheng Xiu's body without any warning. Behind Xiu.
In the blink of an eye, Zheng Xiu's back was filled with tubes, severe pain hit him, and a massive flow of information poured into Zheng Xiu's mind.
On the contrary, Anne was quite quiet here.
Lady Anne stared blankly at the tubes inserted behind her back. In the illusory tubes, light of various colors flowed into Zheng Xiu's body.
I was stunned for a while.
The great Lady Anne tilted her neck and showed an expression of disbelief: "Ah????"
