It's only been about seven or eight days since the last time I returned to the forbidden land, but the appearance in the forbidden land has already made Yan Xiu completely unrecognizable.

Originally, the forbidden land was divided into a single room, but now, almost like the caves of many sects outside, it has been integrated into a huge space.

In this huge space, the horizontal and vertical lines were like spider webs, pulling everywhere, and countless cultivators were between these spider webs, their eyes closed, and each of them was holding something similar to a spirit stone in their hands—they all seemed to be absorbing spiritual energy.

When Yan Xiu was about to walk through the crowd, he received a lot of reminders from the Daoists around him along the way: "Be careful not to touch the line. ”

"Don't touch my plug."

"Don't get the wires knotted."

"It's full of sockets here, let's go somewhere else."

"Brother Dao, there are still vacancies here......"

"Do you understand the rules, you are not allowed to come to the charging room without a plug...... Did you rush over and now deliberately rub it? ”

Yan Xiu didn't really understand what these people meant, but he could see that it seemed that some kind of rule had been formed here—the rule of absorbing aura, that is, "charging".

The wire here, Yan Xiu knows—it is the wire used to convey spiritual energy in Mr. Wu's world. But the rest, he doesn't understand very well.

Following the route in his memory, Yan Xiu came to the main control room where Wu Xiaoqing and them used to stay, but Wu Xiaoqing was not there, compared to the vast hall before, the flow of people here was more dense - but one thing was very different, the people here were lined up in a neat queue in the air - in the Ascension Realm, except for the "marching" process of the entire sect, they would be deliberately arranged in a certain shape, and it was rare to see cultivators in a certain shape in the air.

The reason is very simple, the attitude fine-tuning during the flight is very troublesome, the state of motion is fine, and a slight adjustment can be made in motion, but in the stationary state, such an adjustment is not only a waste of aura, but also very meaningless - on the earth, because people's action interface is two-dimensional, it is easy to form congestion in some densely populated areas, and it is normal for a queuing system to appear. But in the world of flight, such a thing simply cannot exist.

But now, search and rescue teams have broken that impossibility.

Wu Xiaoqing is in the main control room, in order to facilitate work, the main control room has now made a slight change, the original automatic opening door is locked from the inside, but a small window is opened on the wall.

There was a loudspeaker on the side of the small window of the wall, and the voice of the search and rescue team was constantly heard from inside, and inside was the number spoken in the language of the Ascension Realm—every time one was shouted, a person would walk along the line to the window, and then take down a small sign on his body and put it in the window—and then come out with a long wire.

The person who got the wire habitually compared the length, and asked Wu Xiaoqing inside: "This immortal is too short, can you change it to a longer one." ”

"Next." Wu Xiaoqing looked impatient and waved his hand.

When Yan Xiu saw Wu Xiaoqing, he was about to fly towards the small window, but he didn't want a few people behind him to stop him: "This Daoist brother, it's better not to cut the line, if you want to get this plug earlier and absorb the aura, you should go to the door to get the number for the time being." ”

"Pick up the number?"

"Yes," one of them patiently pointed to the corridor at the door of the room, and one said "Pick up the number", "Just go over there, just press it with your finger, and a sign will fall, follow the number on it, come and line up." ”

Saying that, the flying man subconsciously looked at the direction of the transformed hall: "If you go now, you can still be a little ahead, about more than two thousand, but the queue is a day or two, if it is too late and delayed, I am afraid that ten days and a half months may not be able to wait for the number, and then I am afraid that I will die here because of the lack of spirits." ”

Yan Xiu shook his head gently: "Thank you Brother Dao for reminding me, I went to find Mr. Wu, but I had another important matter." ”

The main control room is not large, and it is only less than 100 meters away, including the corridor and the queuing space outside.

But the distance of 100 meters is really not simpler than the charging room with dense wires just now.

Most of the people in line had a depressed look on their faces, Yan Xiu had come back from the front-line war zone, and he had seen a lot of this kind of face - most of it was caused by the lack of aura. According to Mr. Wu, after the spiritual energy in the cultivator's body is depleted to a certain extent, their physiological functions will begin to be limited - the body will automatically turn on the low power mode.

In this mode, the cultivator's divine sense search range is greatly reduced, the body's flexibility is less responsive, and the person looks a little sluggish. If the aura continues to be consumed and not replenished, the whole person will die on the spot due to the lack of power - fortunately, in the Ascension Realm, the whole word "death" does not mean immediate death, but is similar to the setting of forced shutdown.

In the state of death, the person is completely unconscious, unresponsive, breathing and heartbeat are greatly slowed, and all physiological activities are almost stagnant.

In fact, according to the earthlings, it is more appropriate to call it hibernation.

But in the Ascension Realm, generally speaking, as long as a person dies, it is usually difficult for him to have a chance to wake up again - because a cultivator obtains spiritual energy, he must have an active consciousness to absorb it, and in the state of death, the active consciousness disappears, which means that the body actively cuts off the only energy source entry channel.

For most flyers, entering a state of death is actually the worst outcome - because death is not real death, and naturally there is no rebirth. This state can last for hundreds of years at most—and rebirth is only two or three months.

Therefore, reasonable people will take the initiative to commit suicide before the state of death comes.

In the outside world, many flying people who lack aura in their bodies and enter the low power mode will begin to actively seek ways to commit suicide, or forcibly participate in the battle, and make a last fight with the last bit of aura.

But in the forbidden land, Yan Xiu saw a lot of people queuing along the way, in fact, they were already in low power mode, and there were even a few people in the queue who were obviously in a state of death, but the people around them didn't seem to be panicked at all, just lined up little by little as a blind eye.

In addition, for those who are unconscious, people nearby will take them along as the team moves forward.

The attitude of these people made Yan Xiu unconsciously slow down.

After coming to the window, Yan Xiu knocked lightly on the window, and Wu Xiaoqing didn't raise his head inside: "You can't cut the queue here, go to the back row." ”

"Mr. Wu, it's me, Yan Xiu."

Wu Xiaoqing raised his head and reacted for a second or two before laughing in surprise: "You're back so soon?" ”

Then Wu Xiaoqing suddenly pulled down the wooden board in the small window, and at this time, an announcement came from the loudspeaker: "The window is suspended, and the people behind are waiting patiently." ”

"Paused again...... Mortals are trouble...... Didn't you eat half an hour ago? ”

"I went to the toilet an hour ago, maybe again."

"What a trouble for mortals...... Eat and drink water toilets...... And sleep. ”

"Shut up, the immortals act, how can you allow your generation to speculate!"

"Be louder, otherwise the immortal won't hear it, he doesn't have divine sense!"

Wu Xiaoqing came out of the room, obviously hearing a lot of calls, but he was used to it, and said to Yan Xiu: "You take me to fly, go to the fitness area." ”

The fitness area is near where Wu Xiaoqing sleeps, because it comes with a small simulated gravity system, when several of them live in the space station, they have to come here every day to run and exercise the muscles of the body - living in a gravity-free environment for a long time can easily lead to mild calcium deficiency and atrophy of the bone and muscle system.

The distance is not close, if Wu Xiaoqing and the others "jump" on the wall as usual, it will take about ten minutes. But if it's Yan Xiu who flies with him, it will only take a minute or two to arrive.

This journey was very fast, and along the way, Yan Xiu could see that the space station was full of cultivators walking around. The people here were different from those in the charging room, and they seemed to be in much better spirits, and many of them were holding a new version of the Soul Eater Array in their hands - they seemed to be familiar with the use of this magic weapon.

For the appearance of Yan Xiu and Wu Xiaoqing, they all focused their attention, and soon someone recognized his identity from Yan Xiu's flying sword - if he can fly with a flying sword in the spirit zone, the entire Ascension Realm is Yan Xiu.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't seem to be in good spirits, and as soon as he entered the fitness area, he couldn't wait to find a bed to lie down - in a gravity-free environment, theoretically, in any way, there seems to be no essential difference between standing and lying down. But not really, especially if you have to do some work – people are more likely to get tired in a gravity-free environment.

Wu Xiaoqing took out a bottle of chilled Coke from the refrigerator, poured it for himself, and then drank a big sip of it, while burping and asking Yan Xiu: "Why did you come back so quickly?" Isn't it still over? ”

"The search and rescue team told me that they had mastered the tactics and that they didn't need me anymore," Yan Xiu said, "and let me come back for the next mission." ”

Wu Xiaoqing let out a long sigh: "I thought you would come back a few days later...... Now there is no good life. ”

Yan Xiu smiled lightly: "The soldiers are fast. ”

"You can even use idioms...... Wu Xiaoqing said, "Of course your speed is simple, bring a flying sword...... Ay...... Look at me here, I have to deal with thousands of people every day...... It's annoying. ”

Since the first batch of refugees entered the space station, Wu Xiaoqing has become a full-time teller. Because Xu Yan and Wang Youquan are all responsible for the charging stations on the earth, the work here is all overwhelmed on his head. Although this work is simple and labor-intensive, it is very simple and repetitive - a maximum of five or six thousand special charging plugs must be issued every day.

"Can't you let them take it themselves?" Yan Xiu almost subconsciously had questions.

Before the nuclear bomb exploded, Yan Xiu had attended their meeting, and naturally understood the various measures taken when formulating the relief policy - in the earliest plan, it was indeed a fully automated relief strategy, and it was simple to think at that time - since it was just to recharge, then there is a plug here, and you can just come in and rush.

But......

In front of Yan Xiu, Wu Xiaoqing smiled bitterly: "Of course not." ”