The claws of the empire have infiltrated those wavering organizations. Just like what happened to day and night before, perhaps a certain amiable old man walking on the street is a ruthless dark chess piece that has been lurking for many years.

Most of the main forces of the Red Lotus Pavilion were summoned to the conference room, and the day and night who sat on the innermost side of the round table crossed his plaster legs, holding the drips that were hanging, staring at the battle map spread out in front of him with a serious face. It is said that it is a combat map, but in fact it is just the distribution of the empire's buildings, and their main purpose is to find out the experimental records of those mutated creatures and make them public, so that the masses of the people who are intoxicated by the propaganda media can sober up. Let them see clearly: their country is bullying, inhumane and unscrupulous.

"The Night King, Captain, Xiaoying, Yan Huang, Changkong, Kai, Dongguo, Chahuo, Rookie, Qiao He, Xia Ling, are you absent?"

No one was absent.

"Ahem, then I'll talk about the plan directly. There are three known testing grounds in the Empire, and we split into three teams to find out information and avoid fighting as much as possible. As the conductor, Changkong and I are always updated on the situation. The plan is scheduled to be executed tomorrow at noon, so please be careful. ”

Everyone said in their own ways that they understood, as if it was a table of wine, and the atmosphere on the field was not solemn. They talked to each other, still talking and laughing.

The black pipe waved his hand and spoke: "Amaterasu was not invited to this plan, isn't it planned to involve him?"

Blackpipe was also invited to the round table day and night, but he was not mentioned by name, purely because day and night really didn't like this person.

"Amaterasu can't go, he can't even pay attention, and his only role is to be captured as a hostage. This is a life-saving task, not a trip to a big country. ”

Blackpipe took a deep breath and brewed his emotions: "He should have told you about the follow-up of the Dragon King Whale mission." What he wants is the truth, a close-up exploration, not a fantasy without action. He's going to put his life on it, he's that kind of person. I know you don't like me, but if you can, give him a chance. ”

"If that's his will, no problem. "But you have to keep him safe, and we don't necessarily have the spare strength to take care of him." ”

"Let's not talk about Amaterasu for now. Qiao He, who has always been silent, interrupted the conversation, he has always played the role of a wise man, although he is silent, but what he says is incisive.

"You seem to be overly emotional, day and night. Weighing the pros and cons, even a child knows that he can't stand up at this time. Qiao He said in a low voice. He didn't agree with the practice of day and night, the current situation was correct to choose Mingzhe to protect himself, and the decision of day and night was the behavior of a madman, but the Red Lotus Pavilion happened to have no shortage of madmen who would give up on me.

"I know exactly what I'm doing. "Day and night without giving in.

Qiao He regained his silence, not so much that he intended to admonish Day and Night, but rather that he was confirming Day and Night's thoughts. And the answer of day and night is a positive confirmation of his unshakable will.

However, the atmosphere did become a little tense, but it was better to say that the normal atmosphere should have been tense. Those present may have the idea of temporary wavering, but they can't put their faces aside and stand up first. At this time, the Night King, who was sitting on the right side of Day and Night, cleared his throat, and everyone waited for his statement.

"I'm going to stay. The Night King's statement was unexpected, "There's no particular reason, it's just that he's not good at sneaking in." ”

"That's right. Day and Night replied crisply, "It doesn't take many people to infiltrate." The more people who go, the more likely it is to obtain useful information, but the risk also increases with the number of people. ”

"Then Qiao He and I won't go. The rookie raised his hand, "There is still a difference, we are not very confident in ourselves." ”

Dong Guo also raised his hand after looking around: "It seems that I am the last." I just happened to have some things to attend to lately. ”

Day and Night nodded, and crossed their names off the paper, there were still seven people left who participated in the project. "Anyone else?"

"You may all have heard of it, but I feel compelled to talk about it. Changkong got up and interrupted, "In the last few days, we have some new members. Amaterasu, Temi, and Shen Yijing. Putting aside Amaterasu for the time being, Shen Yijing's addition is something we didn't expect. She calculates the future and shows us the most suitable path. ”

Kai leaned his body to the side of Yan Huang and whispered: "What did Changkong suddenly talk about? ”

"Without context, points will be deducted." ”

Changkong paused for a moment, as if he didn't know what to say next, and after a while, he sighed helplessly and sat down.

"What's wrong with him?" asked Yan Huang as he turned sideways in the direction of the captain on the other side. The captain shrugged in response.

Day and night he knocked on the table with a plaster leg to interrupt the whispers of the crowd: "Above. If there is anything else to add, you will be notified privately, and your itinerary and map will be sent to you privately, and now, the meeting is over. ”

The members dispersed in twos and threes, calling out to Changkong day and night: "Wait a minute, help me, it's not convenient for me to walk." ”

"Oh, okay, okay. ”

On the way back, Changkong confessed that he was thinking about other things. He felt that there were many invisible threads behind this matter. Everything was like a game, and there was something manipulating behind it, and although it was only a hazy intuition, it still made him feel uneasy.

"Then don't interrupt me. I'm fine, it's embarrassing to look at you. ”

"I thought it was strange myself. When he reacted, he was already standing and finishing. ”

Day and night stared straight at the road ahead: "You can't be attacked by the reason of disorder...... To be honest, I've been wandering around in the middle of the night these days. ”

"Do you think there would be spies in that table just now?" Changkong forcibly changed the subject.

"Exclude me first. Then the captain was excluded, because he was the first to present this hypothesis to me. ”

"Speech is no exception, how can a child with such a naïve psychology be ready to die. Changkong smiled and said, "Last time he won the game against Xiaoying who released water, but he was angry for several weeks!"

"Don't go too far, you're also the object of suspicion, so where the hell did you wander around in the middle of the night?"

"And that black pipe, who looks so cheerful but uses this kind of screen name, and is very active in currying favor with Amaterasu, I'm afraid it's ill-intentioned. ”

"Yes, yes, I agree. I saw that he was unhappy. "Day and night echo.

"But when it comes to spies, Amaterasu can also be ruled out. ”

Talking about this, the two of them fell into deep thought in unison, and their expressions were unanimously shocked.

"Uh... Day and night, I didn't tell you before, and now it may be too late. Amaterasu receives a strange letter and goes to meet a strange person. Well, now this Amaterasu is already ...... After being dropped. ”

Moreover, his own words and deeds are far from the Internet.

There are also some strange actions that are often made in life......

The empire looked for him, and Shen Yijing also looked for him. Having said that, when I first went to look for him, the geographical location of the earth was still given by Shen Yijing, and if before they arrived, the empire would have taken him captive and let his subordinates play him and make a play......

This Amaterasu today...... Is it really credible?

Amaterasu, who had no idea about the meeting and his suspicions, was lying on the edge of the balcony, looking out the window at the bleak trees in a daze, and it was getting late.

Soon after she left in a hurry, three other roommates returned one after another. Maybe she just didn't want to be bumped into and avoid unnecessary conversations, he thought as he put his hand out of the balcony.

He could feel that this was a real world, and that there was a thriving ecosystem, but it had no geographical connection to the place where he had lived, as if it were two different maps—the map of the world and the map of the beginning.

Surprisingly, he was able to connect to the Internet, see the updates of his former classmates, and share the joys and sorrows of life, but he could no longer do it. Even if you put a screenshot of the scenery here on your account, it will fail to upload.

The bubble-like barrier that separates the two worlds accepts data from Earth, but intercepts all the data that comes back to it. Only those who know how to travel back and forth between the two worlds can ignore its obstacles and achieve communication with the people of the earth.

Shen Yijing asked him to think more before leaving.

But he felt that he had thought enough, and at one time he had reached a state of uncontrollability. Insomnia caused by brain excitement often plagued his life, and once he fell asleep, nightmares followed.

He remembered that at three o'clock in the morning, he sat alone on the rooftop and looked at the stars. He asked Semi beside him.

"You say we...... Could it be just a character from a novel?"

Temi just smiled and shook her head.

"Could that be a brain in a vat? Our brains are forced to receive false information. ”

Amaterasu began to understand that he was just trying to escape from the real world. People's minds are never free, they are just faithful to reality.

He ended up opting for networking. It was a virtual world where people were communicating with each other wearing masks. He met them day and night, and founded the Red Lotus Pavilion, and eventually, his soul belonged.

And now, ironically, he really managed to escape from reality and come to the beginning. This is the virtual world he wants, or rather, he just comes back to reality from the virtual world.

It doesn't matter what you say, it's like a dream, there is no pressure of reality, only superpowers that can't be explored. He withdrew his hand and walked across the dormitory to the rooftop. Although the roof of the dormitory is not as high as at home, the view is much wider than at home.

The sky has darkened, and the snow-white stars are gradually set off with the thick night, and after he has precipitated and thought, he often walks up to the rooftop unconsciously with his heart, watching the bright moon and the sky, and relaxes himself. He found a suitable place to sit down, which was the position of the entire roof in front of the left, with an arm's arm on the left and in front to prevent accidental falls, and the right position was reserved for Semi. But now that his Temi had a physical body, he could no longer summon her out of his mind as he had done before.

Then no one would be able to find him, and if he had been able to locate him like the sky, he still felt someone tap on the ground and sit quietly to his right like snow falling. But that's just an illusion after all.

"Late? Three seconds. ”

He turned his head and saw that there was indeed a person sitting next to him. Shen Yijing added an extra coat to her loose white top, and her pockets looked bulging.

"Late, did you guess I'd be here, so wait for me here?"

"To be precise, it's not guessing, it's calculated, it's reasonable, but it's a bit off. It seems that you have come into contact with some people or things that I don't know. Let's put this topic aside for a moment. Shen Yijing took out a prop that looked like a headset from her pocket, and dragged a strangely twisted long data cable, which was knotted in the middle, as if something was tied, "Here you go!"

"What's this?"

Amakasu was sure he had never seen such an electrical device. I can only vaguely speculate from the appearance that this thing is a slipper.

"This is a consciousness amplification controller that is used to amplify the effects of certain rationales, which we collectively refer to as rationale. ”

"Rationale can't be an extension of the term stationery......"

"That's right! The play of science also requires the cooperation of tools, like the fantasy novels written in a single thought, which can not be done with only the small brain of human beings. ”

Amaterasu fiddles with the high-tech variant headphones in his hand, but where should this cable be plugged in, and is it grounded?

"I'll teach you how to use it, but before then, I have something to know—that child, Semi, I've just met... It's your fictitious friend, where did her physical body come from?"

Amaterasu said bluntly, and there were two people who suddenly came to the door and said that they were giving him a "gift", and they couldn't guess what their intentions were. Amaterasu reminisced and narrated, but his language skills were so bad that it took him a long time to roughly restore what he had experienced.

"The one you said...... Yan Huang? I haven't seen it. Shen Qijing was thoughtful, Amaterasu could see some thoughts from her expression, and it was estimated that she was planning to go to the so-called Yanhuang and incorporate it into the calculation steps of the future principle. But Shen Yijing just shook his head and sighed.

"Actually, there's something about you, about your fate, maybe you want to know, but I dare not say. ”

Don't dare to say? Amaterasu was a little puzzled. But Shen Yijing specially brought him to this world maybe for this matter, no matter what kind of fate it is, he must know.

"Uh, I want to know!" he knew that his language skills were weak, so he didn't beat around the bush and expressed his intentions very directly.

It seemed that this was a heavy topic, and he could still hear Shen Yijing taking slow deep breaths to regulate his emotions. An airplane abruptly cut through the clouds high in the sky, the roar of the wind-breaking engine drowned out the sound of breathing. Moonlight poured down from the cracks that had been cut.

"Since I was a child, you began to refute my theory of fate, and you made a serious bet with me that if you wanted to break your predestined fate, as long as you did it, I would not have to worry about fate. She talked about the past.

"You're getting weird about that. Doing something unexpected, whether it's inexplicably disrupting the rhythm of your breathing or bursting out crying while laughing, you'll do your best to rebel against the future you're destined to experience. ”

"Only your future, I don't want to see it the most, but everything around me is giving foreshadowing. For this reason I call you, and I ask you to do what you want, according to your own heart. ”

Hearing this, Amaterasu was a little touched. Indeed, he worked against God from an early age. God has laid out the trajectory of everyone's life, but He is always trying to derail. This time he can finally see the true face of this track, but does he have the ability to resist?

In an almost suffocating pause, she spoke her fate.

"In two years, in April 2036, you will die. ”