Embers Ad Infinitum

Long Yuehong sat up slowly, wiping the sweat from her forehead and picking up the water bag next to her.

During this process, he used the thin moonlight shining through the window to see Shang Jianyao, who was on duty at night, looking at him.

"Are you scared to wake up?" Shang Jianyao asked with a smile.

Long Yuehong was shocked and asked:

"Did you have that nightmare too?"

As soon as she finished speaking, Long Yuehong realized something was wrong:

Hey, this guy is obviously still on night watch and hasn't slept at all. How could he be dreaming?

Sure enough, as he expected, Shang Jianyao laughed:

"What exactly did you have a nightmare about?"

The conversation between the two attracted the attention of another night watcher, Bai Chen, and even Jiang Baimian slowly woke up from his sleep.

In the whole room, only "Garibaldi" Giuseppe, who had exhausted his energy fighting addiction, was still sleeping soundly.

Long Yuehong thought about it and said:

"I dreamed of the chief who passed away and returned to silence.

"I dreamed that when his body was carried into the incineration tower, he showed a ferocious expression, and then screamed."

After briefly describing it, Long Yuehong looked at Jiang Baimian:

"Team leader, have you had similar nightmares?"

Jiang Baimian shook his head:

"I slept very well."

Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief and began to analyze herself with a little disappointment:

"Perhaps the scene of the chief committing suicide by jumping off a building was so shocking that it impressed me so much that I combined it with the death ceremony to scare myself."

"Now it seems that this may not be the case." Shang Jianyao raised his hand and touched his chin, "Since you said so, it's probably not the reason."

"Hey." Long Yuehong was a little helpless to stop this guy from talking nonsense.

Jiang Baimian yawned, picked up the water bag, took a sip and said:

"Go to sleep. Anyway, the chief has turned into ashes, uh, relics. Even if there is any problem, there will be no problem."

"There are ghosts in this world..." Shang Jianyao lowered his voice and said lightly.

Just as Long Yuehong was about to refute, Shang Jianyao had already given an example:

"DiMarco."

Jiang Baimian and others were at a loss for words.

After Dimarco's body was destroyed by the "Old Tune Team", he did exist in a "ghost" state for a while.

He is an awakened person in the realm of "Bodhi", and so is the chief, otherwise he would not have mastered the "clairvoyance".

In other words, there is a high probability that the chief consciousness can survive outside the body for a period of time.

In a colloquial sense, this is what a "ghost" is.

After a few seconds, Jiang Baimian breathed out and said:

“DiMarco can’t survive long without a physical body.

"The chief died last night, uh, and entered a new world."

"He is definitely better than Di Marco." Shang Jianyao retorted.

"But it is impossible for such a big qualitative change to occur, unless he can still move around on the dust after entering the 'new world'." Jiang Baimian turned sideways and looked at the night outside the window, "Sleep, sleep, big brother What ghosts are you discussing in the middle of the night?”

Shang Jianyao stopped continuing this topic and said instead:

"I was thinking..."

"Don't think about it." Jiang Baimian responded in disgust.

However, her attitude is not too tough and there is a lot of humor in it.

"I'm wondering if Master Zenaga needs to sleep..." Shang Jianyao seemed to be facing an eternal problem.

The translation of his question is how much sleep the awakened people at the "soul corridor" level need.

Bai Chen, who was near the door, immediately replied:

"Probably, at least DiMarco will."

If not, the "Old Tune Team" would have had no chance of destroying Di Marco's body.

Shang Jianyao then said:

"Is Master Nazenaga sleeping now?

"I don't think he is the kind of person who has day and night reversed."

Uh... if Zen Naga Master is sleeping now, then he can't use "other minds" to monitor us and prevent us from escaping? After hearing Shang Jianyao's question, Long Yuehong flashed these thoughts instantly.

The same goes for Jiang Baimian and Bai Chen.

This is what Shang Jianyao wants to express.

"Zen Master, have you slept?" Shang Jianyao asked the question to the air in front of him.

No one answered him.

Bai Chen saw this and said after careful consideration:

"You want to propose running away now?"

"Master Zen Naga is not looking at us, which does not mean that there are no other monks looking at us." Jiang Baimian shook his head, "This is the headquarters of the 'Crystal Consciousness Sect', and there are so many powerful people."

"Yes, yes." Long Yuehong agreed deeply.

If it hadn't been for a series of strange events and wonderful coincidences that had happened from last night to now, he would have thought that staying at Xikaluo Temple would be the best choice.

Anyway, the plan of the "old tune team" is to wait for the unrest in the First City, so where should we wait instead of waiting?

And within ten days, there will really be turmoil in the First City, and the "Crystal Consciousness Cult" should have no one to watch them.

"How will you know if you don't try?" Shang Jianyao encouraged his companion.

"You will die if you try?" Jiang Baimian reflexively used a sentence learned from the entertainment materials of the old world.

She then said:

"Moreover, Master Zenaga is good at 'prophecy'. Maybe there is a prophecy that we will not be able to escape from here tonight, so we can go to bed with confidence."

"There are always errors and ambiguities in things like 'prophecy.'" Shang Jianyao relied on his rich reserve of old-world entertainment materials to give examples. "Perhaps, the real meaning of 'prophecy' is that we will not escape from the door. But we can climb through the windows and climb down layer by layer."

"This is a bit dangerous." Long Yuehong said truthfully.

He was referring mainly to himself.

Shang Jianyao's genetic improvement effect is very good, and his balance ability is extremely strong, not much worse than that of apes. When the red stone is gathered, he can walk on the collapsed building as if on the ground.

Zenaga, however, was extremely concerned about taking care of the "Old Tune Group", but still did not allow them to bring military exoskeleton devices into the room, and only allowed them to carry light weapons.

"It's also possible that Master Chan Naga hasn't slept at all, and has been watching us secretly, trying to figure out our escape plan and find out what abilities we have hidden." Jiang Baimian urged him angrily, "Go to sleep, go to sleep."

"Other minds" are not omnipotent. If several members of the "Old Tune Group" have never thought about a certain ability, Nachanaga will not know about it.

Seeing that the team leader was as motionless as a mountain, Shang Jianyao let out a slightly disappointed "Hey".

Long Yuehong had already calmed down the bad mood caused by the bad nightmare, lay down again, pulled up the quilt, and prepared to continue sleeping.

At this moment, a "dong" sound came from the door of their room.

It seemed like someone was knocking on the door outside.

"Boom!"

Another knock on the door echoed, and Jiang Baimian's expression became extremely serious before he lay down.

Shang Jianyao turned around and looked at the wooden door, and said grimly:

"The ghost is coming..."

Bai Chen originally wanted to open the door to see who came to see her and others in the middle of the night, but as she glanced around, she noticed the unusual reactions of Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao.

"What the hell..." Long Yuehong muttered and sat up.

At this time, Jiang Baimian asked Shang Jianyao in a deep voice:

"Is there no one?"

No one... Long Yuehong's expression froze immediately.

"There is no human consciousness outside." Shang Jianyao no longer used the tone of telling ghost stories, but answered seriously - with the "interaction" of knocking on the door, even the awakened ones who can hide their consciousness can no longer hide their consciousness. Hidden from his senses.

This made Long Yuehong and Bai Chen even more frightened and nervous.

They saw from Jiang Baimian's reaction and questions that the team leader also thought there was no one outside!

The next second, there was another "dong" sound.

"Open the door and take a look." Jiang Baimian pulled out the "Ice Moss" pistol with his backhand.

Shang Jianyao had wanted to do this for a long time, so he suddenly reached out and opened the door.

The corridor outside was dark and clean, with street lamps far apart, and the hot night wind passed through without any hindrance.

Indeed no one exists.

Long Yue turned red and got out of bed, picking up the pistol.

"There's no one there." Shang Jianyao leaned his upper body into the corridor, glanced left and right, and said in a long tone, "Who's knocking on the door?"

No one answered him.

This psychological quality... Long Yuehong finally managed to calm down his excessive emotions, and thought with a bit of envy.

"Wait a moment." Jiang Baimian ordered Shang Jianyao.

She wasn't too nervous, after all, this was the headquarters of the "Crystal Consciousness Sect", and Zenaga was a compassionate monk.

As long as this Zen master didn't go dark on his own, the probability of the problem being serious wouldn't be high.

The "Old Tune Team" waited for a while, but no more "dong" sound was heard.

"It's boring..." Shang Jianyao shook his head and closed the door.

"Boom!"

Just as Shang Jianyao closed the door, there was another knock.

This scared Long Yuehong to the point where she almost jumped up.

Jiang Baimian thought for a moment:

"Let's see how long 'he' keeps knocking."

"Okay!" Shang Jianyao became enthusiastic again.

The sound of "dong" sounded from time to time, but it didn't appear for a long time until the end of the seventh track.

This made Giuseppe wake up in a daze.

"Knocked on the door seven times." Jiang Baimian concluded.

She looked at Bai Chen and others, pondered for a moment and said:

"What do you think is going on?"

Shang Jianyao had already prepared a draft and answered directly:

"Returning to the Soul Night! Chief's Returning to the Soul Night!"

"Then why did he knock on our door?" Long Yuehong asked in slight horror.

"Because he left the note to us!" At this time, Shang Jianyao's logic is always very clear.

"Then why seven strokes, no more, no less?" Long Yuehong asked again.

Shang Jianyao laughed:

"Seventh level pagoda!

"Seven is the lucky number of the Crystal Consciousness Cult."

"But nothing happened after we opened the door..." Long Yuehong struggled to his death.

"Nothing will happen until you open the door after seven rings." Shang Jianyao said, "If you don't believe me, I will open the door for you now."

At this time, Jiang Baimian cleared his throat and said:

"I remember that awakened people in the 'Bodhi' realm can interfere with matter after entering the 'soul corridor'. Could it be that someone manipulated the air, changed the wind pressure, and made a noise similar to knocking on the door just now?"

As soon as she finished speaking, another voice came from the door:

"Boom!"