Embers Ad Infinitum

"That guy is gone?" Shang Jianyao jumped three feet high, his tone full of joy.

The return of the fluorescent lights to normal brightness meant he was alone in and around the room.

"Gone?" Jiang Baimian was quite surprised.

It seemed to her that since the room was so weird, it wouldn't be easy to fix.

Shang Jianyao said excitedly:

"I'll try to open the door. Please wait five minutes before contacting me."

Why did the last half of the sentence sound so familiar... Jiang Baimian thought for a while before remembering that it was very similar to some lines in old world entertainment materials.

Shang Jianyao concentrated his energy and walked towards the door.

He stretched out his right palm and turned the handle hard, but the door remained motionless.

boom! boom! boom!

He turned sideways and hit hard, but it was like tickling the wooden door.

"Still can't open the door..." Shang Jianyao looked around, as if there was a ghost hiding in the room.

At this time, the fluorescent lamp dimmed a little more, giving people a feeling that the voltage in this area was unstable.

This brightness is obviously lower than the level of normal "New World" powerhouses!

Shang Jianyao's eyes suddenly became sharp, and the sparks in his eyes became more and more intense.

The next second, a huge, illusory vortex seemed to appear in front of him.

This cast a shadow over the entire room, and the terrifying suction pulled Shang Jianyao staggering and fell into the vortex.

At the same time, his "head" was throbbing and there were signs of "unintentional disease".

The suction force was extremely terrifying, and even with Shang Jianyao's mental strength, it was difficult to resist it.

In a flash of lightning, Shang Jianyao suddenly disappeared.

All his consciousness escaped into his own soul room!

Before Shang Jianyao had time to breathe, he felt a chill on his ankles.

He hurriedly lowered his head and saw that the deep blue and nearly black ocean was coming from nowhere and was rising up, and it would not take long before the entire "131" was submerged.

Shang Jianyao did not flee to the door. He knew that there was no way to reach the corridor from the "new world" to the soul room.

He went straight to the cubicle, jumped up, and dived into his "Sea of ​​Origin" with a very standard fish leap.

Above the illusory sea composed of shimmering light, as soon as Shang Jianyao's figure emerged, he saw that the water under his feet turned dark.

The huge black waves shot into the air, and the water level rose higher and higher, trying to submerge everything in this place.

Shang Jianyao opened his mouth wide and murmured:

"Isn't this too exaggerated?"

While sighing, he climbed higher and higher, and was chased by the dark sea water and huge waves. He had no way to go to the sky or the ground.

After escaping for a while, the vicious Shang Jianyao shouted:

"When disaster strikes, we all fly away. Let's break up!"

"It's like you can escape if the gang breaks up." The honest Shang Jianyao pointed out mercilessly.

They began to fight among themselves.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the vicious Shang Yao quickly explained:

"I plan to hide in the gap of Xiao Chong, but not completely climb through."

This was the original plan to avoid amnestic erasure.

"What if the rising sea water doesn't stop?" Shang Jianyao, who hates evil, asked anxiously.

The vicious Shang Jianyao replied without hesitation:

"Then enter Xiao Chong's spiritual world!

"Anyway, both the left and right are dead, so I must choose the one with a glimmer of hope!"

After all, Xiao Chong and them are good friends.

"I didn't expect that you, who are cowardly and timid, would be quite decisive at a time like this." The honest Shang Jianyao always had something to say.

The vicious Shang Jianyao snorted:

"Because there is no way out."

During the exchange, Shang Jianyao came to the gap that represented Xiao Chong.

Without hesitation, he got in and stayed at the junction.

A few seconds later, the dark and illusory water surged to this height.

Its upward trend came to an abrupt halt.

Stopped without warning.

Then, the water surface dropped rapidly, and it didn't take long for it to return to normal.

Shang Jianyao stuck his head out of the gap and watched carefully.

After a while, he jumped out of the gap and laughed:

"Xiao Chong is indeed the childhood body of 'Zhuang Sheng'!

"As expected of my good friend.

“It feels so good to have Zhi Sui’s support!”

He put his hands on his hips, looked up to the sky and laughed, looking like a villain who becomes arrogant when he gets his way.

The honest Shang Jianyao reminded his colleagues:

"Xiao Chong never promised to help us fight against this kind of thing.

"We were just pretending to be powerful."

"What happened to the fox pretending to be the tiger's power? If anyone doesn't believe in evil, you can follow me to Xiao Chong's spiritual world, or we will die together!" The reckless Shang Jianyao looked excited, "I'm just saying, there are only advantages and no disadvantages in doing things directly, take advantage of now We can still wear Xiao Chong’s tiger skin, so we quickly do the things that should be done but haven’t been done yet!”

"Don't you think you can die soon enough?" The vicious Shang Jianyao cursed angrily.

During the quarrel, they left the "Sea of ​​Origin" and returned to the cage-like "New World" room.

The brightness of the fluorescent lamp returned to normal at some point.

Shang Jianyao let out a "tsk" sound, walked to the door, and once again reached for the handle.

As he twisted and pulled, the wooden door that had been motionless before seemed to be integrated with the wall opened, and the corridor outside was illuminated by light.

"Hahaha." The reckless Shang Jianyao laughed with his hands on his hips, "I just said Xiao Chong's tiger skin is very useful!"

He looked eager to try.

…………

"Relying on the intimidation of Xiaochong's gap, I defeated the 'weirdness' in the room..." Jiang Baimian ended his communication with Shang Jianyao and muttered silently to himself.

She felt that there was nothing wrong with the matter itself, it was reasonable and the development was logical.

What's important is the origin of the "weirdness" that makes Shang Jianyao have to run away and make it difficult to fight effectively.

Is it a bug in the rules of the "New World" itself, or is it a certain existence?

If it is a certain being, his strength and level are higher than those of ordinary "New World" strong men. Even if he is not Zhi Sui, he should be on the level of "Truth" and Wu Meng.

Thinking of this, Jiang Baimian shook his head and suppressed the matter temporarily.

She was undoubtedly relieved that Shang Jianyao could get out of trouble like this.

Firstly, she was happy for the other party, which made her feel at ease. Secondly, she no longer had to take risks to attack the corresponding building, and could slowly find out the details according to the predetermined plan.

In the exchange just now, Jiang Baimian had obtained a new spiritual shield. Seeing that it was about to dawn, she hurriedly pushed open the heavy black door and walked out of the tunnel.

After closing the double door, she used the darkness before dawn to hide her human consciousness and once again sneaked into the small city that was suspected of being the "new world" in reality.

After spending some time, when the sun was rising, Jiang Baimian came to the place where he had symptoms of "unintentional illness" last night, which was a building less than thirty meters away from the outermost light of the tower.

By this time, the light had gone out.

Jiang Baimian tentatively took a step forward, and the familiar throbbing pain in his head reappeared.

She quickly stepped back.

"Sure enough, it's not a matter of distance." Jiang Baimian sighed softly.

This time, she moved Shang Jianyao's body a certain distance toward the tunnel exit, but the boundaries of her movement did not increase.

In other words, there are only two directions for her to go further next. One is for Shang Jianyao to be promoted, and the other is for her to accommodate her other self and enter the "soul corridor".

Without time to think about this problem, Jiang Baimian hid in the building next to him and monitored the area near the tower.

Since you can't go deep, just observe secretly.

After a while, the "unintentional ones" began to become active. They came out from different places and started doing different things.

Some of them repair circuits, some take care of the tracks, and some use electrical appliances to cook...

Jiang Baimian was stunned for a moment. If those guys weren't like "living dead", she would have thought she had entered a normal human city.

Reminiscent of the ruins of Marsh No. 1, Jiang Baimian believed that these "unintentional people" must have been implanted with a whole set of thoughts to maintain the normal operation of this small city.

As her thoughts flashed, she saw several "unintentional people" approaching and walking toward the outskirts of the tower.

When they passed nearly twenty meters past the building where Jiang Baimian was hiding, their figures suddenly disappeared.

Those "unintentional people" disappeared in front of Jiang Baimian without any warning, as if they had evaporated from the world!

Jiang Baimian's eyes suddenly froze.

…………

"New World".

Shang Jianyao, who found nothing in that room, returned to the street.

He held his head high, took long steps, and walked toward the tower.

After arriving at the intersection, Shang Jianyao took a casual glance and found that there was a shopping mall-like building with four lights on on different floors.

They are all unusually weak, significantly lower than the intensity of a normal "New World" awakener.

Shang Jianyao laughed and said:

"Is that a hospital?"

After looking at it for about ten seconds, his expression suddenly became excited:

"This is the place where Yanhu is detained!"

This was the position he had calculated.

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