The blue river, the magnificent buildings, the beautiful women, and the long tree-lined embankment by the river are a world full of life. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

But Zhang Yuan clearly remembered that he was still in the barren and desolate river valley a moment ago, and he hadn't had time to enter the cave discovered by Xia Xiyan, why did there suddenly appear such a change around him?

Everything around here is just so bizarre.

Could this be some kind of illusion?' Zhang Yuan thought so, and when the woman asked, he didn't answer, but stared at the other party vigorously, trying to find a flaw in the other party's demeanor.

This closer look, he found many strange details, this woman's face is very round, similar to human, but her ears are not round, but pointed, in addition, every detail of her body is almost perfect, without the slightest trace of vicissitudes, perfect not like a real person.

"What the hell are you?" Zhang Yuan raised the arm of the Angel of Death, and the crystallized kryptonite heavy sword pointed directly at the other party.

The beautiful woman didn't care about the sword blade in front of her, she smiled and said, "Guest, answer me, am I beautiful?" ”

"You're beautiful." Zhang Yuan nodded and admitted this, which is an undeniable fact.

"How beautiful is it? Is it worth sacrificing everything for it? The woman asked again.

Zhang Yuan frowned, he couldn't understand the other party's intentions, he simply said honestly: "I won't make any sacrifices for such a superficial thing!" ”

The woman pursed her lips and chuckled, and then reached out to brush the golden hair that was blown by the river breeze, her every movement was full of indescribable charm, and every expression seemed to hide a poem, which could easily trigger Zhang Yuan's mind.

Zhang Yuan sensed this, he turned his gaze away and didn't look at the other party.

"You are such a strong warrior, especially on the inside, very strong." When the woman spoke, she stretched out her hand and gently pointed to the position of her heart, Zhang Yuan followed her jade-like fingers, and saw the soft curves of her chest, as well as the scenery looming under the skirt of the fog gauze.

Zhang Yuan obviously felt that his heartbeat had accelerated, and there was a kind of kneeling under this woman's skirt in his heart, giving everything for her

The impulse, which was really a little scary, he took a deep breath and bit his tongue hard, and the sharp pain came, and he instantly regained consciousness.

"If you have something to say, say it quickly, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless!" Zhang Yuan shook the crystallized kryptonite sword in his hand and let out a clear sword sound.

The woman sighed softly, the smile on her face slowly faded, and she said softly, "Warrior, I want to make a deal with you." ”

Zhang Yuan's spirit sank: "You say." ”

"Take me out of this dead world, protect me, and help me come back to life."

"What do I get?"

The woman asked rhetorically, "Isn't it the best reward that you will get everything from me?" ”

Zhang Yuan suddenly felt that this woman was very narcissistic, but he didn't find a way to leave this place for the time being, so he said patiently: "What are you?" Technologically smart? A memory program? Or is it some kind of mess? What can you give me? ”

"I am a spirit body, a soul in your world mythology. When I possessed the flesh, I was the High Priestess of the Star Spirit Temple, and I watched the destruction of this world with my own eyes. At the last moment, I sealed my spirit into the immortal stone in the deepest part of the temple...... All these years, I have been waiting for a chance to be born again, an opportunity that will help me and my race be born again. ”

"One of my comrades-in-arms also heard your voice, why didn't you choose her?" Zhang Yuan thought of Xia Xiyan, but Xia Xiyan obviously did not enter this illusion.

"She's nowhere near as strong as you and can't afford it."

"There are also many white-skinned and red-eyed demons on this planet, and they and the kingdom they have established are very powerful, much more powerful than me, why don't you choose them?"

The woman still shook her head: "I naturally thought about this question, but in the eyes of these red-eyed foreigners, my appearance is very ugly, and this beautiful scenery is also disgusted by the other party." Obviously, the appearance of our race is completely contrary to the aesthetics of the other party, and naturally it cannot arouse their sympathy, even if it helps us to be reborn because of interests, we will become enemies in the future...... Why bother? ”

Zhang Yuan suddenly thought in his heart, no wonder this woman kept asking him if he was beautiful at the beginning, it turned out that it was not all because of narcissism, but because she was testing his aesthetics.

Thinking of this, he asked, "I need to see the practical benefits, the benefits that are good for me and my race." ”

"I'm just a priest, focused on the soul of asceticism, and I can't give you anything but myself..... However, as long as you take me away, everything in the temple is yours. ”

This condition suddenly made Zhang Yuan's heart pound, he looked around, everything around him was the same, the blue river, the dusk sun, the majestic buildings were all there, he leaned out of the mecha arm to touch the railing on the side, and the touch given by the force feedback system was exactly the same as the real thing.

"Where is this? How do I get out? ”

"You are in my sea of consciousness, and what is here is real and illusory, it only depends on your heart...... Okay, time is limited, I'll show you how to take me away. ”

Zhang Yuan hurriedly said, "Wait, I have one last question!" ”

"Huh?" The woman in the white dress looked at Zhang Yuan softly with a pair of bright eyes, waiting for him to ask.

"How did your people come to fruition?"

"Because of artificial intelligence. Our people have highly developed artificial intelligence, they have freed us from all labor, and we live carefree, just like the legendary gods..... But the good times didn't last long, the internal logic of artificial intelligence mutated, and they got out of control. ”

As she spoke, the woman sighed lightly, and her face showed sadness: "Do you know? Technology is not always a well-being, it is a black box, and every scientific and technological achievement is a ball in a black box. There are white balls, there are red balls, and there are black balls. Touching the white ball can help us live better; When you find a red ball, you must use it with caution. Spot the black ball...... That's what we are now. ”

After speaking, she looked up at Zhang Yuan: "Latecomers, come here, time is running out." ”

"I haven't agreed yet....."

"Your heart has agreed." The woman smiled, and after speaking, her fingers lightly pointed at Zhang Yuan, and a little white light flew out of her fingertips, and instantly drilled into Zhang Yuan's mind.

"Bang~~~" Zhang Yuan felt as if his head had been smashed by something, buzzing, and then he felt that many clear pictures appeared in his mind, these pictures were very clear, and every detail of them was clear

"I look forward to your success, latecomer." The woman in white said one last word, and then disappeared.

Immediately after, Zhang Yuan found that the world around him began to fade and dissipate, and in a flash, his eyes once again became a desolate river valley filled with white sand, and his teammates appeared on the screen again, and the hole in front of him flashed with a rare light, and in front of him was the back of the black cat queen who was leaving.

Zhang Yuan looked at the time and was surprised to find that only a second had passed, and his teammates did not notice anything unusual.

There was still a female voice humming desolate in his mind, Zhang Yuan carefully distinguished, and found that this voice was actually the priestess in the previous wonderful situation, and the tune she hummed was the most famous requiem in her Eternal Empire, "The Voice of the Heart".

This song is the best reflection of the heart, and if the heart is desolate, the tone sung is gloomy and bleak, and it is clear that the heart of the priestess who has waited for countless years must be filled with despair.

The information he got in his mind was very rich, covering all aspects of the Eternal Empire, which not only told him how to enter the temple, how to avoid traps, how to open the mechanism, and obtain the Immortal Stone, but also infused all aspects of the empire with customs and cultural crystals.

Through this information, Zhang Yuan seemed to have traveled more than 30 million years to the ancient eternal interstellar empire, observing everything in this empire from a bird's-eye perspective.

He was stunned for a moment.

"Master, you should keep up." When the black cat queen saw Zhang Yuan stunned on the ground, she urged loudly.

"Oh, here we are." Zhang Yuan walked a few steps quickly, controlled the Angel of Death to follow, and walked all the way into the cave that suddenly appeared.

The Eternal Empire is extremely technologically advanced, and their buildings are not only built on the surface, but also have extremely developed building complexes underground.

When the AI-induced catastrophe struck, almost all of the buildings on the ground were razed to the ground, but some of the buildings underground were still preserved.

The passage in front of you is one of the entrances to the underground complex.

After walking all the way to the passage, after walking for about 50 meters, a very spacious hall appeared in front, the hall was about 30 meters in circumference, the four walls were smooth, and it seemed that it was already the end of the passage.

Xia Xiyan looked back at him: "Zhang Yuan, there is no road ahead." ”

"No, there's a way."

Zhang Yuan continued to walk forward until he reached the end of the hall, where he controlled the Angel of Death to grope around the wall, and soon found a very hidden bump in the wall.

"There are secret doors in the walls, and when opened, new passages will appear behind the walls, and we will travel 200 kilometers underground to reach the temple in the center of the gray plains. Along the way, we will encounter many challenges, and everyone will be spirited. ”

"Challenge? Captain, how do you know? Xia Guanhai said.

Zhang Yuan looked at Xia Xiyan and asked, "Can you still hear that singing?" ”

"I can't hear you." Xia Xiyan looked puzzled.

"I can still hear this voice, it has a master, and it contacted me just now and told me many things."

As he spoke, Zhang Yuan pressed the depression in the wall.

"Bang dang ~ bang dang ~ bang dang ~" A 20-meter-high and 15-meter-wide gate suddenly appeared on the wall, and after the door retreated 3 meters, it turned into a white point of light and disappeared into the air, and a dark passage appeared behind the door.

Almost at the same time, an eerie laugh erupted from the pitch-black tunnel.

"Hey, hey, hey~hahaha~~" The laughter chattered, and the trance sounded in people's ears, making people feel creepy when they heard it.

Xia Guanhai's lava troll almost jumped up, "it!" What the hell! ”

"What's the situation?" Wang Shiyan, who has always been calm, is not calm anymore.

Xia Xiyan directly picked up the high-energy railcannon, and the black cat queen shrank back and hid behind Zhang Yuan's Angel of Death.

"This is the first challenge we'll encounter: the Terror Guard!"