Zhou Jinru's scalp was numb. He did not immediately break away from Belinda's embrace and looked at the citizens who were collapsed together. The music was still playing in his ears, but the current situation was beyond his expectation.
"What's wrong with you?"
He pulled Belinda's arm hard and found that the other party's strength was very strong and she was not willing to leave at all.
Her eyes were blurred, and she whispered: "There is a saying in your Yan country that moths fly into flames."
She is now the moth flying into the flames.
Zhou Jinru ignored her at all. This woman had lost her mind. He must find a way to find Seria now.
"return."
Thinking of these two people silently in his mind, his body immediately sank. Because his consciousness of autonomy was extremely strong, it only took a very short time to wake up from the bed.
Drowsily, he reached out and patted his forehead. He entered the dreamland again and appeared in the square ten meters away from Belinda. At his feet were the citizens who collapsed on the ground. The music was still the same melody, and the time between them could almost be ignored. .
"Now listen to me, I don't have time to play games with you!"
He turned to leave, but Belinda's call came from behind: "You want to find the Diamond Queen, do you know where she is?"
The voice was extremely cold, no longer ambiguous as before. Belinda's expression was calm, and the look she looked at Zhou Jinru didn't have the burning happiness.
"lead the way."
I don't know what happened during his absence, but at least he can speak normally. Zhou Jinru will not refuse the other party's request. He is still confused until now.
"It seems you know nothing about our situation."
Belinda's fingers holding the car door handle were trembling. She seemed calm, but there was a trembling tone in her words.
Zhou Jinru sat in the back row and looked anxiously at the people lying on the ground everywhere. They seemed to have no worries about what was about to happen.
There is no future. Could it be that the real meaning of this sentence is that their dungeon is coming to its final moments?
"You can tell me, maybe I can do something."
Belinda slowly started the car and shook her head slightly: "There is no way, even the Diamond Queen is helpless, no one can save us."
Zhou Jinru frowned and said, "Seraya's?"
"The Queen of Diamonds went out in the dark for a while. She would rest for a while every time she came back, but this time she rested for two whole days and brought back desperate news."
Belinda used the calmest tone to say the most desperate words. Zhou Jinru heard this in disbelief, but he could also feel the fear in her heart.
This underground city is the only one within the limits of what they can explore. Apart from the people living here, there is no other sound.
"Yours is real. Are there other underground cities that exist further away?"
"I don't know, that's what the Queen of Diamonds meant, she told us everything, maybe not, but certainly the part we could know."
Zhou Jinru nodded and pointed at the people outside the car window: "Are they all dead?"
"Not yet, but at least I can have one last sweet dream."
There were tears in the corners of Belinda's eyes, and she couldn't help wiping her cheeks several times.
"I'm ready, all of us are ready."
The vehicle stopped outside the executive office. Zhou Jinru quickly got out of the car and rushed inside without encountering any obstruction along the way. There were even guards opening the door for him, as if someone had already ordered him to do so.
He stepped into Seria's office and saw the Diamond Queen wrapped in a black cloak standing in front of Ai Rao's portrait. Even though the portrait had been cut open and had not been repaired, she still stretched out her hand. His fingers gently caressed her face, with infinite tenderness in his eyes.
"You came."
"I need a Ming, one of your subordinates. There is no future here. You can tell me and we can find a solution together."
Ceria's fingers stayed on the corners of Hemo's mouth, as if she could still feel the other person's body temperature.
"Do you remember those escapees?"
Seria said something that Zhou Jinru couldn't understand. He had indeed come into contact with the escapees, so he had no choice but to nod.
"I also talked to them and they have great respect for the Diamond Queen."
Seria said calmly: "The nearest settlement here is 450 kilometers away. It is a place with only tens of thousands of inhabitants, but it is an important passage connecting the original Leitania and Syracuse. More importantly, its The original site was a scrapped mobile city.”
"I am listening."
The Diamond Queen nodded with satisfaction and continued:
"It's gone."
Missing?
"It disappeared?"
"Yes, it disappeared. It disappeared completely."
Seeing the confusion on Zhou Jinru's face, Seria turned around and took out a piece of white paper from the desk, and drew two dots in the middle of the paper.
"This is our place."
Ceria used a marker pen to mark one of the dots, and drew a triangle on the other dot.
"This is the nearest dungeon to us"
Stab.
Seria drew her index finger between two points, splitting the entire paper into two. She held the half of the paper representing the underground city beneath her feet and placed it in front of Zhou Jinru.
"It's gone."
Zhou Jinru's mind went blank. Seria's metaphor was very vivid. What she meant was just like the paper in her hand. The underground city 450 kilometers away was not destroyed or moved away, but simply disappeared!
"I didn't even reach the underground city. The straight line was cut off. It was a force I couldn't understand. It tried to suck me into it. I used all my strength to barely escape."
This time Zhou Jinru understood it completely. No wonder he failed to see Seria the first few times he entered the underground city. She was not here at all. But when they met for the first time, he saw an exhausted Seria.
He thought she was going to fight, but he didn't expect to face such a desperate situation.
"What about the other directions?"
"No, nothing Sakura"
Ceria tore apart the papers in her hand one by one, until only an isolated island remained.
"The fault zone has been in a static state, but I can confirm that it is impossible to enter it with strength alone. It can kill everyone."
Having said this, Zhou Jinru had no choice. This was no longer a problem that could be solved by manpower.
"Those escapees..."
"They did come from that underground city, but their cognitions were biased to varying degrees. No one could agree on the details of their escape."
Zhou Jinru said in disbelief: "I thought I was listening to a story."
"This is just the beginning, look at this."
Seria handed him a document and flipped through the first page. It recorded a text message sent from another underground city. It seemed that a caravan was arriving on its way to Zheng.
"Now they'll never come?"
Zhou Jinru looked complicated, put down the document, and rubbed his face vigorously.
"Yes, they disappeared into the fault zone, but the text messages can still be sent out, each repeating the same message, as if..."
"The cassette is on."
Zhou Jinru exhaled a breath, stopped his movements, and said hesitantly: "Is there really nothing we can do?"
Ceria showed a rare smile and turned to look at Hemo's portrait: "It's just one morning and one night."
"I still want to struggle a little more."
"Go ahead and do it. I will let them cooperate with all your actions, but only in the underground city. The darkness on the surface is not something you can bear. You are not enough now."
Zhou Jinru raised his head and looked directly at the Diamond Queen: "Everyone is with me, I am a lighthouse, a lighthouse guiding the way forward."
"Lighthouses can only guide those travelers who are lost in the darkness. Do you feel that others rely on you? What really dispels darkness is the sunshine that illuminates the world, the sun on which all things survive. You are just a lighthouse, not the sun."
Ceria paused and continued: "I have sensed the restlessness of the Originium veins. It will soon enter a violent state. I can't guarantee that I can suppress it this time. If you really want to do something, you might as well try it. Stop those swarms of Originium Insects."
After watching Zhou Jinru leave, Ceria still stayed where she was, her eyes always staying on Hemo's face.
But all this is undoubtedly extremely difficult for Zhou Jinru. The information provided by Seria points to an ending. This underground city is trapped and dead in place.
It has become an isolated island. When the tide surges, all life on the island will be drowned in the tide.
He couldn't help but feel extremely anxious and lost his normal mind. Even Fu could not calm down his emotions.
The pain in his heart stems from the fact that he can't do anything. He has no power to save the lives that are dying here.
At this time, Belinda had been waiting outside for a long time. When she saw him coming out, she walked up quickly and noticed the man's gloomy expression. She had already guessed it, so she showed a pretty sweet smile in this urgent moment.
"No one is asking you to do it, and no one is going to blame you."
Seeing Belinda's smile, he could not be infected at all. He just said: "I have heard similar words. She was once a Sakota person."
"It seems that you have really provoked a lot of girls."
Zhou Jinru shook his head slightly and whispered: "I will be back soon."
Get out of the dream.
Zhou Jinru suddenly sat up from the bed and turned on the desk lamp. With the orange light, he noticed that it was three o'clock in the morning.
"Time is running out."
He put on his clothes and ran to the control center, where he saw Amiya resting in front of the desk.
"I'm sorry, Amiya."
Zhou Jinru pressed the emergency call button. All he could do at this time was brainstorming. His action woke up Amiya, and Rabbit looked at him in surprise.
"Doctor, you are not in a wheelchair?"
Zhou Jinru was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he ran directly over and didn't feel anything strange. The wheelchair had long been forgotten.
"There is no time. Convene an emergency meeting immediately. I will wait for you in the conference room."
Watching Zhou Jinru leave in a hurry, Amiya silently packed up the scattered documents on the desktop. She found that the doctor's mind was already confused. It was difficult to concentrate on thinking in this state.
Sitting in the empty conference room, Zhou Jinru closed his eyes and recalled his panicked behavior before. He was facing a life and death situation of 500,000 people, and it was still a dead end at which he was helpless!
No matter how powerful Seria is, she chose to tell her men the truth. There is no solution to this situation. We have finished our last sweet dream and bid farewell to this world with dignity.
The emergency call from the control center brought all the core members of Rhode Island to the scene. Except for Amiya and Kelsey, Warfarin was wearing a nightcap and yawning, Xiu San was wearing pajamas, and even Doberman was wearing cotton slippers. coming.
When Zhou Jinru saw that everyone had arrived, he didn't say any polite words. He went straight to the point and explained the details, and finally asked everyone for help.
"Can I ask a question first?"
Xiu San wiped the corners of his eyes, his voice buzzing, as if he hadn't woken up yet.
Zhou Jinru looked at the temporary head of the equipment department: "What's the problem?"
"Doctor, just now, it seems that those people are all in the same archive?"
"That's okay."
"Since they are archives, they are not real, they are just a bunch of data. Do you understand what I mean?"
Xiu San opened his eyes, glanced at everyone, and finally fell on Zhou Jinru's not so good-looking face: "I once played a game with multiple endings. It was the first time I saw it. I had no strategy and no experience. I just played by feeling. In the end It only produced a mediocre ending.”
“I don’t know if anyone has heard of it. It’s a text adventure game produced by Longmen. Fourteen Years of Love in the College Entrance Examination. After I finished the first ending, I thought about what the ending would be like if the protagonist made other choices. So I tried my best to play it a second time and a third time, until I got the perfect ending for one of the heroines, but my heart felt empty. Even if the characters in the game got a happy ending, so what? , Guan Lingnao, they are just a bunch of data, not real."
"A carrot and a pit, doctor, the archive is just an archive. You should clearly distinguish reality from illusion."
Do you clearly distinguish between reality and illusion...
Is it like Wei Na at that time?
Zhou Jinru shook his head and said, "I stick to my opinion."
Amiya nodded solemnly: "I support Doctor."
Warfarin was completely sleepless and stared with red eyes: "Doctor is now the same as Sister Wei Na?"
"Can I express my opinion?"
The scavenger, who rarely spoke in meetings, put down her pen, and her voice echoed in the conference room.
"Speaking."
The scavenger pinched the pen with his fingers and said calmly: "Since the doctor believes that those are the truth, he chooses to try his best, and I choose to support his decision. Sometimes hesitation can lead to greater tragedies, so I try my best, even if If you don’t succeed, you can tell yourself that I tried my best and don’t have to regret it afterwards.”
"Thanks."
Zhou Jinru expressed his gratitude to the scavenger.
The cold scavenger pursed his lips: "Doctor, I just want you to sleep peacefully in the coming years and not regret the decision you made today in your sleep."
