Chapter 415 Xu Jingnian
Xu Jingnian gritted his teeth and did not make any sound. He had a hunch that as long as he persisted, he would be able to reap great benefits.
I don't know how much time passed, but there was a crackling sound in his body, and a large amount of body waste and blood flowed out from his pores.
An unpleasant fishy smell suddenly appeared at the entrance of the tree hole, and Yaya inside couldn't help but turn over.
The elimination of impurities from the body made Xu Jingnian's skin as smooth as a baby's, but its toughness and strength far exceeded that of ordinary people.
Xu Jingnian slowly opened his eyes, and a golden light flashed from his eyes, then disappeared into the depths of his eyes.
The blood flowing through the body occasionally flashed a hint of golden color.
"This feeling……"
Xu Jingnian clenched his fists, and messages appeared in his mind.
Chapter 7 Mechanical Apprentice
This information all comes from the one-eyed monster that was absorbed before.
The information was fragmented, and Xu Jingnian took a long time to digest it, and then he finally clarified it a little bit.
"Mechanical Eye..."
Xu Jingnian looked at the bright moon in the sky and murmured to himself.
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The moon fell into a deep sleep, and a scorching sun rose from the distant earth.
Xu Yaya woke up from her deep sleep and woke up Xu Jingnian who had gone to bed very late.
"Are you hungry?"
Xu Jingnian looked at the sleepy Xu Yaya.
"Eat the fruit." Xu Jingnian handed the fruit he got last night to Xu Yaya.
This green fruit doesn’t look good, and actually tastes bad, but it’s good to have something to eat in this environment.
Xu Yaya didn't dislike it, she took it directly and opened her mouth to eat. Although the taste was unpleasant, the two of them had not eaten anything since they were young, so they had long been used to it.
"Eat, we'll go into the city as soon as we're done." Xu Jingnian looked at Xu Yaya and said.
"Going into town?"
Xu Yaya stiffened and looked at Xiao Ye with big eyes in confusion.
"Yeah." Xu Jingnian nodded. He couldn't stay here any longer. The only way to survive was to go to the city.
"But I..."
"It's okay. When the time comes, you can study in school, so you can skip the requirements for entering the city. And if you study well, you can also get a mechanical heart and strange substances for free."
Xu Jingnian touched Xu Yaya's head and said.
"But the tuition fee..."
Xu Jingnian interrupted Xu Yaya: "Don't worry about tuition fees. I'll find a way. Now I can find a job in the city. It's enough for you to go to school. You are still young. What can you do if you don't study?"
This was the solution that Xu Jingnian came up with after thinking about it all night. If Xu Yaya was left here, there was no way Liu Zhi and the others would let her go. They could only bring Xu Yaya into the city, and under the protection of order, She is safe.
And just as Xu Jingnian said, if you do well in school, you can get a mechanical heart
And strange substances, this is not a good idea.
"Brother, I will work hard." Xu Yaya lowered her head and said.
Xu Jingnian watched quietly as Xu Yaya finished the last green fruit.
This is the world. If you don’t have a little care, you may not have any hope of living.
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Baixia City.
Baixia First College.
Xu Jingnian took Xu Yaya through the enrollment procedures, and then said goodbye to Xu Yaya after arranging everything.
The college has dormitories, and Xu Yaya is sensible, so Xu Jingnian is not worried about her. However, because she has never received education, Xu Yaya has to learn from scratch, which may be difficult for this girl.
But Xu Jingnian believed her.
Just like Xu Yaya believed in Xu Jingnian.
Xu Yaya's half-year tuition cost most of Xu Jingnian's savings over the years.
"Studying is really a good way out." Xu Jingnian murmured in a low voice as he walked on the road.
Although he was envious, he knew that it would be impossible for him to study.
Arriving at a certain machine shop, Xu Jingnian found the boss he had contacted a long time ago.
When the boss of this shop went out of town a long time ago, he owed Xu Jingnian a small favor. Xu Jingnian never used it until now. He was behind everything including Xu Yaya's study. .
Otherwise, with the identities of Xu Jingnian and Xu Yaya, it would be impossible for Xu Yaya to enter the academy.
Xu Jingnian didn't tell anyone about the camp. In order to prevent Xu Yaya from being discovered by others, he had already disguised Xu Yaya.
It was a kind of contact lens that could hide the eyes. The price was not too expensive. After Xu Yaya put it on, she finally hid the specialness of her eyes.
Although Xu Jingnian didn't know what was going on with Xu Yaya's eyes, his intuition told him that it must not be a simple matter.
After running out of favors, Xu Jingnian successfully got a job as a mechanical apprentice in a machine shop.
Although the salary of this job is not high, it is enough for Xu Yaya's tuition and living expenses. As for Xu Jingnian, it is not too much.
More importantly, here you can learn the mechanical manufacturing methods that Xu Jingnian has always wanted to learn.
In this world, mechanical products combined with strange energy will slowly replace key human parts, such as hands, feet, eyes, and the brain...
The materials used in mechanical products are special and combined with strange energy, so that the manufactured products can be almost 100% integrated with the human body without any rejection, as if they were born.
As a mechanical apprentice, Xu Jingnian is actually a handyman. He moves wherever there is need, and the apprentice does all the tiring and hard work.
This was a normal thing, and Xu Jingnian didn't pay too much attention to it. It was good for him to get a salary that could support himself and Xu Yaya.
And as an apprentice, although it is very hard and tiring, you can also be exposed to some mechanical manufacturing methods.
Xu Jingnian's purpose was exactly this.
He is very interested in mechanical production. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get started. A month has passed. Xu Jingnian has studied seriously for so long before he can barely get started, but he can only make some simple mechanical items. , I don’t know how many worlds are away from making mechanical products related to the human body.
Over at the camp, Xu Jingnian thought that as he and Xu Yaya left, Liu Zhi and others would put the matter down, but he obviously underestimated this group of people. During this time, some people were already inquiring about Xu Yaya's whereabouts.
The boss of the machinery factory told Xu Jingnian this news.
The other party also found out accidentally.
Xu Jingnian contacted Xu Yaya and told her not to leave the school at will. As long as Xu Yaya stayed in the school, it would be the safest. Even if Liu Zhi and others were daring, they would not dare to do anything in the school.
"Can't wait any longer."
Xu Jingnian rubbed his eyes, feeling a hidden power sleeping inside. However, without corresponding mechanical items to activate this power, it could only sleep deep in his eyes.
The appearance of Liu Zhi and others gave Xu Jingnian a sense of crisis. He understood that if he waited until he could create the mechanical eye, it would probably take him an unknown amount of time. But now, what he lacked most was time.
Others will not give him this time.
In a month, Xu Jingnian frugally saved thousands of strange coins. Although these strange items could not buy regular mechanical eyes, they were enough to buy some defective or worn-out items.
Only by activating the power in his eyes and solving the trouble caused by the camp can Xu Jingnian be able to feel at ease.
In this world, people always respond to everything in a hurry.
Xu Jingnian sighed and asked for a leave from the machinery factory.
When Xu Jingnian left the machine shop, it was already evening.
This is because he failed to get his leave, so he could only leave at night. There was not much to do in the machine shop, but as an apprentice, Xu Jingnian was not qualified to ask for leave at will.
This is why it was not approved.
As soon as he left the machine shop, Xu Jingnian subconsciously wrapped his clothes tightly.
Waves of coolness hit out of nowhere, and waves of thick fog poured in from the street entrance in the distance. The machine shop behind him was also obscured by the thick fog at this moment.
This machine shop is in a relatively sparsely populated area, and few people usually come.
Xu Jingnian encountered this situation several times, but each time the thick fog dissipated quickly.
But this time, things seem to be a little different.
His ankles felt cold, and Xu Jingnian felt like something was grabbing his feet.
Lowering his head, Xu Jingnian was horrified to find that there seemed to be an additional figure in his shadow.
A figure that looked like a child overlapped with his own shadow.
"what happened?"
Xu Jingnian's heart tightened. Although he had encountered this kind of fog during this period, the shadows of other people appearing in this shadow were something he had never encountered before, not to mention that his feet seemed to be covered by something. Caught the same.
In other words, that shadow is not owned by humans at all.
"boom!"
Just when Xu Jingnian was hesitating, the thick fog around him suddenly surged crazily and enveloped him, swallowing him up instantly.
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"Come... follow... come here quickly."
Vaguely, Xu Jingnian seemed to hear something calling. He opened his eyes with difficulty, only to find that his eyes were as if they were hung with heavy weights. No matter how hard he tried, he could only narrow his eyes to a narrow gap.
Ahead, a blurry white figure seemed to be leading him forward. The figure seemed to be floating, sometimes closer and sometimes further away.
Xu Jingnian's mind was slow, and his brain seemed to be blocked by something, unable to think. However, he also knew that it would be unlucky if things continued like this, so he tried desperately to break free from this restraint.
Like a drowning person, he struggled upwards to break free, trying to get out of the water. However, the more he struggled, the more powerless he felt. The consciousness in his mind became increasingly blurred, and it seemed that Xu Jingnian was constantly surrendering to himself.
The light in his heart dissipated little by little, and the endless darkness swallowed Xu Jingnian. His consciousness slowly sank, as if he was about to fall into eternal darkness.
"Ding--"
At this moment, the spirit of the black whale emerged from Xu Jingnian's mechanical heart and erupted with a long cry, pulling Xu Jingnian out of the darkness.
"Whirring whirring!"
Xu Jingnian suddenly opened his eyes, breathing heavily, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and his body was shaking involuntarily.
"Is it a dream?"
Xu Jingnian looked around in horror. There was no fog, no strange woman in white, and his own shadow was normal.
"It seems like it really was a dream."
Xu Jingnian breathed a sigh of relief, moved his body, and suddenly froze, and there was a sharp pain in his chest. After he lifted his shirt, he was horrified to find that there was actually...a pair of clothes left on his chest. Black handprint!
The handprint is slender and slender, and it is not difficult to tell that it is a woman's hand.
Xiao Ye Shitou thought of something again, lowered his head, his face became very ugly, and there were a pair of small black handprints on his ankles.
If there is no accident, these small handprints were left by the child in his shadow.
"The weirdness can trap people in the strange realm. Why did I suddenly break free?"
Based on the situation he encountered, Xu Jingnian instantly understood that he was almost pulled into the strange realm by the weird, and from the looks of it, he was being targeted by two different kinds of weird.
What he didn't understand was how he got out of the treacherous realm.
"Could it be...?"
Recalling the whale cry that he vaguely heard, Xu Jingnian put his consciousness into the mechanical heart.
In the deepest part of the mechanical heart, the spirit of the black whale has fallen into a deep sleep, no longer as agile as before.
Seeing this scene, Xu Jingnian squinted his eyes. If he guessed correctly, it was indeed the spirit of the black whale that pulled him out of the treacherous realm, but it also exhausted all its power.
The black handprints on his chest and ankles slowly faded away until they were no longer visible from the outside, but Xu Jingnian could still feel their presence.
"This matter is still not over. The next time the mysterious realm comes, I will still be pulled into it again." Xu Jingnian frowned and turned back to the machine shop.
Only now did he understand why the masters and apprentices in the machine shops rarely came out at night. There must be something special in the machine shop that could prevent the advent of the mysterious realm.
Xu Jingnian felt the handprints and got the next arrival time of these two mysterious realms, one in three days and the other in five days.
People who are targeted by the Strange Realm have only two endings, either they die in the Strange Realm or they break out of the Strange Realm.
Weird Realm is a higher-level existence than Weirdness. Logically speaking, it is impossible for such an existence to target ordinary people like Xu Jingnian, but today's scene broke Xu Jingnian's cognition.
The city can resist the arrival of the strange, but the strange realm is not subject to this restriction. Even if Xiao Ye hides in the machine shop and has the mark of the strange realm, it may be difficult for him to escape the tracking of the strange realm.
"Only three days..." Xu Jingnian clenched his fists as he returned to the machine shop.
The situation in the Strange Territory can only be faced by himself. Xu Jingnian cannot seek external help. In the Strange Territory three days later, he can only rely on himself.
Everything was business as usual in the machine shop, and the strange realm outside didn't seem to affect everything inside.
But when Xu Jingnian stepped into the corridor of the machine shop, an elderly mechanic suddenly frowned and gave Xu Jingnian a faint look.
"I told you that there is no need to go out at night. Try not to go out. If you don't listen to the advice, you deserve to encounter such bad luck."
He seemed to see something strange about Xu Jingnian.
Xu Jingnian was shocked, and quickly walked to his side and asked in a low voice: "Master Li, can you see something abnormal about me?"
"I know what you want to ask." Master Li shook his head and said expressionlessly: "You can't escape if you are targeted by the Strange Domain. Although I don't know how you escaped temporarily, they will not give up. of."
"You, wish yourself well!"
"I've been working here for so long, and every year I encounter several stupid young people like you who don't listen to advice, alas..."
He sighed, patted Xu Jingnian's shoulder, and left the corridor alone.
"Is there really no other way?"
Although Xu Jingnian was frightened by Master Li's words, he recalled the black whale shadow in his body and felt a little calmer.
The Black Whale Phantom can help him escape from the treacherous realm this time, and maybe next time.
The next day, Xu Jingnian received a dismissal letter from the machine shop. As compensation, the machine shop gave him ten years' salary and a place to live.
In their opinion, Xu Jingnian was already a dead man after being targeted by the Guiyu.
As for why Xu Jingnian was fired, it was because he was afraid that Xu Jingnian would lead Guiyu to the machine shop.
No one knows when the Strange Realm will come, so dismissing Xu Jingnian as soon as possible is the most important thing.
The contract between the two parties was breached by the machine shop. Due to humanitarian considerations, Xu Jingnian received this generous compensation.
Xu Jingnian didn't say anything and packed his things silently. Then he glanced at the machine shop where he had been staying for a while, sighed and shook his head.
"It's a pity that the mechanical manufacturing technology was not learned."
The residence that the machine shop compensated Xu Jingnian for is a relatively remote yard. There are many such yards in the city. Because they are located in remote areas, they can easily attract strange things, so most of them are abandoned or abandoned. How could Xu Jingnian be compensated for a place like this in a city with so little land?
However, although these places are deserted or abandoned, no one really dares to live in them. Being targeted by strange people is no joke.
Xu Jingnian knows this!
But he didn't care. Master Li told him that now he was marked strangely, and no store would accept him anymore, and no hotel would dare to keep him.
The machine shop compensated Xu Jingnian for the house, firstly to see how pitiful he was, and secondly to bet that he would not live long, and the house would still belong to the machine shop.
This abacus can be said to be very good.
Xu Jingnian took the compensation but didn't say anything more. He knew his situation, and he also knew the concerns of the machine shop. He didn't have any resentment towards the machine shop, it was just human nature.
After leaving the machine shop, Xu Jingnian went to Xu Yaya's school and handed over the remaining few years of tuition and living expenses to the school.
If he couldn't come back alive from the strange realm, the money would be enough for Xu Yaya to read the rest of the book and grow up, then she would have to rely on herself.
There wasn't much money left, but it was enough for Xu Jingnian to buy a pair of mechanical eyes of decent quality.
After buying the mechanical eyes, Xu Jingnian went directly to the machine shop to compensate him for his residence without stopping too much.
This is a three-story flat house, and there are many similar houses around it, but it seems that many of them are no longer occupied.
Xu Jingnian walked into the corridor. The corridor was already covered with dense spider webs. Xu Jingnian spent a lot of effort to completely clean up these spider webs.
The cobwebs were cleared away, and Xu Jingnian came to the third floor. Because it had been unoccupied for too long, as soon as he opened the door, a musty smell came from inside.
Xu Jingnian pinched his nose, walked to the window, opened it, and let the wind completely flow in to dispel the musty smell inside.
There wasn't much furniture inside, not even a bed, which showed how much the previous owner wanted to leave this place completely.
Xu Jingnian sighed and didn't care. After cleaning the house thoroughly, he put the things he brought into the room.
After finishing everything, he nodded with satisfaction. If he could come back alive from the strange realm, then this place would become his first home in the sense of the word.
Home is such a distant word. In this world, it is difficult for many people to even have a house that they can live in. It is not because there is none, but because weirdness is rampant. Places that are too remote where people live are easily susceptible to weirdness.
Therefore, humans have to huddle together for warmth.
As night fell, Xu Jingnian sat cross-legged in the room, holding the mechanical eyes he bought during the day in his hands, recalling the intermittent inherited knowledge in his mind.
"The mechanical eyes are integrated into the eyes, and combined with the power in the eyes, new gifted eyes will be born. The capabilities of the gifted eyes are unknown!"
"Although this inheritance method is not dangerous, the success rate is extremely low. It will be difficult to succeed without dozens or hundreds of times."
Without any hesitation, Xiao Ye slowly brought the mechanical eyes close to his own, and then silently recited some strange language to communicate the hidden power in his eyes.
The mechanical eyes slowly integrated into Xu Jingnian's eyes. This process was extremely smooth. As the inheritance said, there was no danger.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
However, Xu Jingnian's fusion process is not over yet. The strange power in his eyes is merging with the mechanical eyes that Xu Jingnian has merged into, completely transforming into Xu Jingnian's eyes.
At this moment, a coldness suddenly burst out from the air, completely covering Xu Jingnian. Xu Jingnian realized something was wrong and wanted to open his eyes and stand up, but found that his body seemed to be pressed. Like a big mountain, extremely heavy.
At his feet, the cold feeling was even more serious.
At this moment, an even stronger chill erupted, completely covering the space, and Xu Jingnian's chest was completely enveloped in coldness.
The strangeness that originally arrived five days later also came at this moment.
Although Xu Jingnian was able to realize this, he had no way of doing it. Ordinary people were really powerless against Weirdness.
After a while, the thick fog dissipated, and Xu Jingnian's figure had completely disappeared from the room.
Xu Jingnian didn't know that he was no longer in the original place. He fainted completely. The fusion in his eyes continued, but the moment Xu Jingnian disappeared, the fusion was suddenly interrupted. The machine The eyes turned from liquid to solid, slowly sliding down from Xu Jingnian's eyes.
At this moment, the black whale spirit that had been silent all of a sudden started to move. A strange force burst out from its body and merged into Xu Jingnian's eyes, forcefully closing the mechanical eyes that were about to slip. Forced back.
The fusion continued again, but this time with the addition of the power of the Black Whale Spirit. Not only that, his eyes were also slowly absorbing the strange power in the thick surrounding fog.
I don't know how long this process lasted, but it wasn't until Xu Jingnian's eyes were fused that the scene ended completely.
When Xu Jingnian woke up, he felt his eyes were heavy, as if there was a big mountain pressing down on him, and he couldn't open them at all.
"what on earth is it?"
Xu Jingnian groped around, feeling like he was in a certain room!
But this room gave him a very bad feeling!
