At this time, the Yunjian Mountain Gate is thousands of miles away from the exit of the crack.
The reason why this place is named Yunjian is because on the top of the clouds, there is a sinking mountain stream, and there is only one person living alone in the mountain stream in the entire mountain gate, and it is an elder of their mountain gate.
And this elder has been in seclusion a hundred years ago, and has never stepped out of the mountain stream in these hundred years. At this time, it was clearly night, but the mountain stream was full of glow, and white cranes were flying in the sky.
A young disciple in the distance rang the bell and drum: "Elder Lu has come out of seclusion!"
Lu Mingzhi opened his eyes amidst this series of sounds, walked out of the cave where he was living, and looked up at the vast starry sky.
He hasn't come back for a long time. Actually, you can't say that. After all, his body and main consciousness have been sleeping in the past hundred years, and he just went to another world in his avatar.
The fugue has only lasted a hundred years, but for some reason, Lu Mingzhi always feels that this world is different from what he knows, but he can't explain why.
Lu Mingzhi flew away from the mountain stream. He could feel that his "baby" apprentice had left the gap. It would be a long night and many dreams, so it would be better to bring him back as soon as possible to perform the apprenticeship ceremony.
After all, Lu Mingzhi was the elder of Yunjian. Since he showed up, he always had to come out. He should also inform the sect to prepare for the apprenticeship ceremony.
His seniority was high enough. Along the way, there were "disciples" who bowed their heads and worshiped him, calling him "Master-Uncle".
Lu Mingzhi stopped in front of the main hall of the mountain gate, and he suddenly understood something was wrong. The voices of the disciples were very high, and the sounds of kneeling and worshiping all around were very clear. However, other than that, there was no sound of breathing at all.
He pressed his forehead, wondering if he had been distracted for too long and had some abnormal hallucinations. He raised his eyes and looked around, and could see many disciples kneeling on the ground to salute him and welcome him to end his retreat...
But...why are these disciples so unfamiliar? Or maybe he couldn't remember these people's faces at all?
Lu Mingzhi's expression gradually became confused. Something was wrong. Why weren't these people angry? They all seemed fake. He reached out and pinched the shoulder of one of them. The disciple seemed a little stunned and raised his head to look at him.
After hundreds of years of soul separation, coupled with special skills, what Lu Mingzhi is most familiar with is everyone's soul. But this disciple...has no soul.
Lu Mingzhi calmly stretched out his hand and then placed it on the other person's head. This is still a soulless man.
How could this be?
After all, Yunjian Mountain Gate is Lu Mingzhi's sect, so it's impossible for him not to care. After testing several people, Lu Mingzhi's eyes became even more angry, and he walked directly into the hall with his sleeves rolled up.
The current sect leader of Yunjian Mountain Sect is named Chu Xichen. Shouyuan is now hundreds of years old. From the appearance, he looks like a white-haired old immortal.
The moment he saw Lu Mingzhi, Chu Xichen bowed and said, "Uncle."
Lu Mingzhi looked at Chu Xichen and reached out to help him up. In the brief touch, he could confirm that Chu Xichen had an independent soul.
Lu Mingzhi's expression relaxed slightly, and then he sank again: "Chu Xichen, where have all the disciples' souls gone?"
Chu Xichen seemed not to have expected that one of Lu Ming would ask such a question, and asked without knowing why, "Uncle Master, what does this mean?"
Lu Mingzhi's expression became even more sinister: "All the disciples outside the hall have only bodies and no souls!"
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Song Yu and Xie Nanshi walked off the cliff and arrived at the nearest town. It was already dark. The deserted town suddenly lit up with thousands of lights as night fell.
Song Yu subconsciously stopped. Even though the lights were brightly lit, there was still no one in the town. It's... quite like a ghost town.
Although Song Yu had seen all kinds of weird things in this game, he still felt strange when encountering such a city. He subconsciously moved closer to Jie Nanshi and asked as if he had nothing to say: "What does your heaven look like?"
Xie Nanshi glanced sideways at Song Yu. The two of them were walking forward side by side, but now Xie Nanshi deliberately took half a step forward, habitually protecting Song Yu behind him: "I don't know... I don't remembered."
Although this answer was within Song Yu's expectation, he still couldn't help but reveal a mask of pain. His helplessness even overcame the fear just now: "Is there any category? Don't you know what it is?"
Xie Nanshi shook his head innocently.
What kind of horror story is this? These are two worlds. Looking for an unknown way of heaven to make it run again is more likely than finding a needle in a haystack.
Since it is the "Tiandao", which is the brain born in the game, it must be unique, and it should even have its own will and thoughts.
To be honest, this world
PCs have a high degree of freedom and a strong sense of reality. It is not easy to find a special existence...
Song Yu thought of a person, the nameless person he met at the Demon Suppressing Cave. He was undoubtedly special and should have been written off
PC, but it exists in that form.
Thinking of this, Song Yu paused slightly and asked hesitantly: "Is it possible that your Heavenly Dao is a person?"
Xie Nanshi was stunned for a moment, as if he didn't expect such an option, but after thinking for a moment, he still gave a positive answer: "It's possible."
The Tiandao in his impression is indeed a creature that can communicate and has its own thoughts.
"Okay." The confusion about the way forward has overcome the fear of the unknown. In short, when walking on the empty and brightly lit streets, Song Yu could already feel calm in his heart.
After all, this is the hometown of the "White Walkers". The two of them have just arrived. Although there seems to be no living person here, for the sake of caution, they do not intend to continue exploring at night. Instead, they find an inn and stay in it. In fact, they thought about living outside the town at first, but Song Yu felt that the lifeless outside of the town was no safer than the inside of the town, and since they wanted to explore the world, it was only a matter of time before they entered the city.
Staying in the hotel was suggested by Song Yu. Before you understand the rules and tasks of this world, it is best to live according to common sense.
Needless to say, except for the lack of a shopkeeper and a waiter, this inn is no different from an ordinary inn. Brand new beddings were prepared in the room, and even the kettle was equipped with boiling hot water.
This was so thoughtful that it made Song Yu's hair stand on end, as if someone was serving him here. He even suspected that he was just asking the waiter to bring a basin of bath water. After a while, there would be an extra basin of bath water in the room.
Song Yu thought seriously: "I don't know if silver is used for daily consumption here..."
It should be used. Even if there are spiritual stones in the world of cultivation, they are not so common that they are needed to stay in a shop. He decided to leave some extra room fee at the counter when he "checked out" tomorrow. Although the system space is gone, Xie Nanshi has lost a lot of strange beasts in the gaps, and he has picked up a lot along the way, which is good news. No matter how you look at it, it’s enough to pay for the room.
Fortunately, although the gap tore their bodies and storage bags, some solid items inside still remained, such as gold and silver.
Maybe another person would think that no one is watching anyway, so there is no need to pay the room fee. But Song Yu remembered that in the world on the other side of "Meeting the Gods", if you were freeloading, you would be caught and sent to the government. He didn't know if similar punishment would be triggered on this side. He didn't want to turn around and be suddenly transported to an empty prison.
It is different from Song Yu’s doubts. Xie Nanshi carefully checked the surroundings as soon as he entered the house. After all, after changing his body, Xie Nanshi is now at the most basic level like Song Yu, without any cultivation. For safety reasons, Xie Nanshi set up a defensive formation after confirming that there was no abnormality in the room.
Song Yu saw that Nanshi combined the spiritual consciousness cultivated in "Shenyou" with the basic spell formation, and silently gave a thumbs up.
For safety reasons, the two decided to take turns keeping vigil.
"I'll keep watch for half the night, and you'll keep watch for the rest of the night." Song Yu was not sleepy at the moment and was ready to discuss the situation with the customer service.
Jie Nanshi nodded and sat cross-legged on the bed, still replacing sleep with practice. It's just that this time I'm practicing "Wandering of the Gods".
Song Yu sat by the window and poured himself a cup of tea. While drinking tea, he harassed Ye Jiao: Since it is the core of the system, are you completely unable to locate it in reality?
Ye Jiao: ...In fact, before this, our company did not know that there was an intelligent brain in this game.
After all, if a super AI like Zhi Nao really exists, it is a core secret for any company. I am afraid that only a very small part of the team involved in the development will know about it. No... maybe only Xie Nanshi knows.
Song Yu twirled the tea cup. He was used to the "uselessness" of Anshi Technology, but he didn't believe that there was really no useful value at all: Even the people in your own company don't know about the smart brain you developed yourself? No traces can be found from the outside?
Ye Jiao: Is there a possibility? Before Mr. Jie's coma, the intellectual brain was not fully developed, but from my understanding, the intellectual brain should be able to grow on its own. The reason why Mr. Xie insists on looking for Zhi Nao at this time may be that he subconsciously feels that Zhi Nao should have grown to the point where it can drive the normal operation of this game world.
Song Yu: Since it exists, there must be traces. As for how to find it, that is your problem.
Ye Jiao paused for a moment before replying: Now most of the employees that Mr. An can mobilize are maintaining the normal operation of the game, so we can only find time to track it down. We cannot guarantee whether we can accurately locate it. We will try our best to give you an area. In addition, the technical department repaired and restored the ratio of in-game and outside time. You still have three months. If you haven't found the core yet, you can only force quit the game if you reconcile.
Song Yu: No problem!
Song Yu originally planned to rely on the outside world for help, and he was just asking for some benefits by harassing the customer service. Having a range is better than having two worlds running around. The better news is of course that the time ratio has been restored, and you don’t have to worry about the world collapsing next moment.
