"Sorry," Zhou Jinru sat on the floor and crossed his legs, "I can't do anything, and I may need your help."
"Please say."
He patted the metal sphere next to him: "I'm going to find a place to throw this big guy away. Do you understand what I mean? It's about to explode. As long as I release the time lock, it will explode and destroy everything around it." Explode to the sky.”
"Does it have energy?"
"I think so. What do you want to do?"
A line of words quickly jumped on the screen: "Maybe I have a good idea."
Zhou Jinru's eyes lit up: "Really?"
"Really, the survivor base can withstand a very exaggerated explosion yield, and in the past, we also used micro-explosions to provide energy. I also have a functional energy room. Put this big guy in it, and it should be able to draw a considerable amount of energy. of energy.”
Suddenly a solution was found. Zhou Jinru felt like he was dreaming. He blinked and realized that everything was not false.
"Where is the energy room?"
"I'm... I'm sorry. I can't move now. The door hasn't been opened for a long time. It's stuck. I'll try again..."
The metal door made an unpleasant squeaking sound, and finally slowly opened a gap. Compared with the metal sphere, it was too small.
Zhou Jinru stood up: "It doesn't matter, as long as there is a path."
He turned into light again, and the light floated outward like flowing water, together with the metal ball.
There are some sundries placed in the silent corridor. No one has touched them for many years. Because the space is closed, not much dust has fallen.
Zhou Jinru was moving very slowly. He saw some paintings hanging on the walls along the way, including landscapes, graffiti, and a few colorful strokes by children.
He had no idea of the current time, so he couldn't tell when these paintings were made.
But according to the medical car, the survivor base was built a long time ago, and there are no living people here.
"Go this way."
Synthetic sounds came from the speakers and electronic signs lit up.
Zhou Jinru flew in the direction directed by the other party, and soon came to a quite empty room. He put down the metal sphere and went out at the moment when the time blockade was released. The heavy door was closed. He didn't know what was going on inside. Seconds later, the entire corridor was shaking, and it lasted for half a minute before stopping.
"Medical cart?"
"...Doctor, what exactly did you bring? The energy is quite sufficient. It should be able to last for a while."
Lights were turned on one after another, the entire corridor was illuminated, and a phantom was projected. It was a Carters girl, wearing a black coat, looking at him quietly.
"This is……"
"This is the identity I created for myself."
Zhou Jinru looked familiar. Miss Carter's appearance was somewhat similar to Amiya's, but they were generally different.
"Let me take you a little way."
Carters Projection walked in front, and the two walked one behind the other. They walked to the archives room, and the girl turned around: "Do you want to take a look?"
Zhou Jinru gently touched the door with his hand, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, but shook his head and said: "It still doesn't work. I know what the final result will be. There is no need to watch after it happened. If this is our ending, I want to work harder, maybe in the future It can be changed, and since I appear here, it means that everything has changed."
"That would be really great. If it were you, I think you can do it."
"By the way, what will happen to me in the future?"
Miss Carters was silent, and after a long time, she spoke: "You are a strong person. Even after being forced to abandon the ship, you still led the rebels to fight against those monsters, but there is a price to pay for fighting against twisted monsters in the dark. Yes, I only know that you were looking for one thing in the end, took people away from the base, and never came back."
"what?"
"A typewriter, you say, that typewriter will save the world."
Zhou Jinru pursed his lips with complicated eyes. If the typewriter mentioned by the medical cart was the Lexington typewriter, then this thing has been returned to his hands.
He smiled bitterly: "Even I have enemies that I can't fight against."
He thought of Zhou Fu, of the Diamond Queen, and of many, many people who resisted fate and never bowed their heads, even if they were shattered to pieces, they would die on the way to charge.
"I see you already have a light form, which is a good thing because here, you never turned into light."
"Yeah?"
"There is only one person I know who has achieved the light form, and you are the second one now."
Zhou Jinru subconsciously asked: "Who was the last person?"
"Ifrit, she has received the defender inheritance. Before she leaves, the survivor base will be guarded by her."
Zhou Fu...
So this is where Zhou Fu started?
Zhou Jinru suddenly remembered something and took out a nameplate from the lining pocket of his coat: "This is her nameplate. If we know the same person, then she has already appeared in my time."
The scarred nameplate was engraved with some traces. Zhou Jinru didn't understand the meaning, and Zhou Fu refused to say it. When they got here, Carters projected and stared at the nameplate in his hand.
"So that's it...it turns out that everything is true."
"What?"
"...Doctor, please allow me to call you this. Doctor, there is a sentence that Dr. Kelsey asked me to bring to you."
Zhou Jinru looked at Carters' projection without saying a word.
"Dr. Kelsey said that if the sun goes out, then no new defenders will be born. Unless there is the inheritance of the light seed, no one can turn into light by their own power. After the lighthouse goes out, the distortion will not be able to avoid."
"Damn, why are you still the Riddler at this time?"
Zhou Jinru raised his fist in anger and wanted to smash the wall, but when he thought that his power might smash through the wall that was in disrepair, he had to give up the act of venting.
Kelsey's words were explaining two facts to him:
First, the sun will go out. The sun and the defenders are closely related. Without the sun, the defenders cannot appear.
Second, the existence of the lighthouse is to combat distortion. The lighthouse can be extinguished, and has been extinguished before.
No wonder the Diamond Queen of the Underground City has the power of a defender, but cannot turn into light, because the sun has gone out by that time and she can no longer turn into light form.
And the lighthouse...
Many people have expressed to him overtly and covertly that he is a lighthouse and the meaning of its existence.
"Under what circumstances did Dr. Kelsey say these words?"
"After you went out to find the typewriter, as soon as you were done talking, she disappeared and was never seen again."
