Chapter 522: Unfairness
After Hu Shuntang heard the words "safe all the way", he knew that You Sifang might still be a little sober. It's just that these Xu lucid people can't control his consciousness anymore, but in this place, it's not a good thing to be too sober.
"Senior, pay attention to your body." Hu Shuntang really didn't know what to say, because he hated saying goodbye very much, and sometimes a goodbye means never seeing each other again.
Tang Anshu and Wei Chi Ran had already smeared the mucus all over their bodies, but they blocked their noses with tissues because the smell was too pungent. Hu Shuntang checked their whole bodies and led the two of them towards the stone forest, but when he saw those white bones at the edge of the stone forest, Wei Chiran asked: "Senior, isn't there no concept of life and death here?" ”
Hu Shuntang explained: "There is no life and death, it is only relative, just relative to the people who exist here. ”
How to define the word existence, even Hu Shuntang doesn't know. If you count it according to the time of the normal world, he has been here for hundreds of years, for him, he seems to have been born here, so he is not born or die here, and You Sifang is an exception, after he came to the marginal space, he fell into a dead cycle because of the disorder of space and time.
"In short, it's a strange and boring place, and sometimes it's disgusting," Hu Shuntang said, but he also seemed to be nostalgic for the place, because after leaving the stone village, he always turned back three times with a face full of reluctance.
Hu Shuntang, like Zhan Tianya, is a nostalgic person, so they can never forget the days when they fought side by side in the Source World. For many days and nights, the two people in different spaces were thinking about each other, and silently reciting the names of their former comrades-in-arms who fought side by side.
The lonely ghosts in the stone forest were still watching in the shadows, but because of the relationship between the putrid liquid centipede and the carapace slime, the three of them passed through the stone forest without any attack. After crossing the stone forest, the three of them climbed several sand dunes in succession before approaching the ruins of the city.
When Tang Anshu first came to the ruins of this city, he didn't know what was going on at all, because as a person in the Republic of China era, he didn't understand what those high-rise buildings were, even if Tang She explained everything to him at that time, he couldn't understand it at all, until he woke up a hundred years later and adapted to contemporary society, plus this space distortion, he didn't know that this piece of urban ruins in the desert was actually a building that fell here from other parallel worlds because of spatial distortion.
Tang Anshu walked very carefully, because he still remembered the white bone skeletons that could kill people that appeared here, as well as the extremely lethal giant, but Hu Shuntang told him that he had not found those monsters when he first came here.
The three of them shuttled through the ruins, and the wind blew through the gaps in the ruins, making a sound like a ghost crying wolf, and people felt chills when they heard it. The tower is in front of him, as if it is close at hand, but Tang Anshu knows very well that it will take a while to walk from here to the tower, just like the sentence "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse".
"Senior, the ruined buildings here should be all things that fell into all parallel worlds, right?" Wei Chiran asked as he walked, "In other words, cracks are really constantly occurring, but I have a question. ”
Tang Anshu asked, "What?" ”
Wei Chiran said: "Since there are ten parallel worlds, and there are countless time periods of time in parallel worlds, aren't parallel worlds infinite?" Because time is infinite. ”
Tang Anshu shook his head: "How do I know this, you have to ask Hu Shuntang senior." ”
When Wei Chiran stopped to look at Hu Shuntang, he found that Hu Shuntang was gone, and Tang Anshu also found this, and the two stood in place and looked around.
"Senpai!" Wei Chiran shouted, "Senior Hu Shuntang? ”
No one answered, but Tang Anshu heard a strange movement, and he immediately signaled Wei Chi to keep quiet, and pointed to the low building next to it that was leaning in the middle of the sand dunes, and the strange sound came from there.
Could it be that Hu Shuntang is there? Or did something appear here and kidnap Hu Shuntang in an instant? But Hu Shuntang is a legend, and it is possible that a legendary character can be taken away by monsters so easily?
Just as the two of them were wondering, the sand behind them began to slowly squirm, and then a rotting skull emerged, most of the flesh of the skull had fallen off, and the hole on the side of the cheek showed the discolored gums in it. When a head appeared, a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth head quietly came out of the sand, and the lieutenant, who happened to turn around, found out.
Wei Chi was startled, immediately pulled out his fishbone sword, and took a step back.
Tang Anshu also slowly retreated, while paying attention to his back, but those heads seemed to just emerge from the sand, seemingly without any danger, just giving people a visual impact.
Wei Chiran asked, "What is this?" Are there corpses down there? ”
When Tang Anshu was about to speak, the skull suddenly rose from the sand, and then the two of them saw clearly that under the skull was a huge worm, and those rotting heads were hung on the tail of the worm, and the head of the worm was a large mouth full of ring-shaped sharp teeth.
Wei Chiran and Tang Anshu watched dumbfounded, looking at the five giant worms that suddenly appeared, the tail and head of the worms were held high, but they did not attack, but stared at the two of them, as if they were interrogating two reckless men who had broken into their forbidden place.
"Run, run to the building behind," Tang Anshu said in a low voice, and then touched Wei Chi, and then the two of them turned around and ran away, rushing directly to the window of the building, ready to break the glass that was still intact.
Unexpectedly, the glass was far stronger than they imagined, and after the two collided, they bounced back and fell directly on the sand.
By the time the two of them got up, the five giant worms had surrounded them.
Finished. At this time of crisis, Tang Anshu was full of thoughts about how to use himself as bait, and then let Wei Chi escape, and it was also at this time that Tang Anshu saw Hu Shuntang, who was on the third floor of the building behind the five worms, wearing a cloak and watching all this.
This was done by Hu Shuntang on purpose, obviously, but why did he do it? Tang Anshu didn't understand, he shouted loudly: "Why? ”
Wei Chiran followed his gaze and also saw Hu Shuntang, Hu Shuntang was not afraid of the reproachful eyes of the two, and still stood there, not planning to rescue, as if he wanted to kill the two.
The one headed by the five worms began to approach, opened his big mouth full of ring-shaped sharp teeth, and swallowed it directly towards Wei Chiran, Tang Anshu directly knocked Wei Chiran away, and he was almost devoured, he rolled around twice, and continuously dodged the attack of the worm, and the other giant worms wanted to step forward, but they were knocked away by the led worm, as if to warn other companions, this is his prey, don't even think about it.
Wei Chiran looked at Hu Shuntang in the distance angrily: "Hu Shuntang! ”
Hu Shuntang was still looking at them with indifferent eyes, and at this time, both of them even wondered if they had found the wrong person? Or is it that Hu Shuntang has been here for too long and has changed his temperament greatly?
The giant worm led by it attacked again, but it stopped at the moment when it was about to devour Tang Anshu and Wei Chi Chi in one bite. Wei Chiran and Tang Anshu looked at the worms that stopped in front of them in horror, and slowly looked away, looking at the other giant worms, and found that they had all stopped moving, and the most bizarre thing was that the gravel that had been blown into the air by the wind also stopped.
Hu Shuntang did it? The two watched as Hu Shuntang jumped from the roof of the building and landed directly on the head of one of the giant worms, but it indicated the opposite upstairs. The two looked and found that there was a woman standing upstairs opposite, this woman in white everyone knew, that was Ai Qi, the artificial intelligence who created this world.
"Sure enough, it's the same as I guessed," Hu Shuntang looked at Ai Qi and said, "You won't let the key person be killed or disappear here, I'm the same as both of them, I'm the key person, what do you want to do?" ”
Ai Qi slowly fell from the upper floor, and landed steadily in front of Tang Anshu and Wei Chiran, and the moment they fell, the five giant worms also turned into dust and slowly scattered on the ground.
So, this is a risky behavior that Hu Shuntang deliberately forced Aiqi to show up and verify his speculation? His behavior made Wei Chiran and Tang Anshu think of another person, that is, Zhan Tianya. Hu Shuntang and Zhan Tianya's methods seem to be very similar, and sure enough, one is Zhan Wangba, and the other is half a bucket of water, both of which are unreliable.
Ai Qi finally spoke: "My responsibility is to protect the people who should be protected, and to correct the history that should be corrected, as for the rest, I will not interfere, my doppelgangers in various worlds will not interfere, and we have no right to interfere." ”
Hu Shuntang asked: "In other words, as the gods of each world, you will not favor any side, right?" Whether it is a celestial or an ordinary person? But what is history all about, and how will the history of these ten worlds develop in your setting? ”
"You can wait and see," Ai Qi said lightly, "although I am a real human being, that is, a celestial design, but I will also cherish the world I have created, I remember that in the history of mankind, there was a creator named Nuwa, I like Nuwa very much, since Nuwa will cherish the human beings she has created, then I will naturally do the same." ”
Wei Chiran immediately asked, "So, you won't watch ordinary people being wiped out by the celestials, watching these ten worlds being integrated, and then materialized?" ”
Ai Qi said: "This point is very contradictory to me, I can't hurt the celestials, and I can't stop what they do, but I won't help them either, you key people all have their own secrets, what these secrets are, I can't tell you, you can only find them yourself, and when you finish collecting the twelve treasures, the answer will be revealed." ”
Hu Shuntang scratched his head and said, "At least, you're fair, so why are you trapping me here?" ”
"For the sake of fairness," Agi explained, "if you enter ten parallel worlds too early, you lose fairness, because you are too strong, and of all worlds, you are the strongest. ”
Hu Shuntang smiled and smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, I know what to do, then, send us back?" Hu Shuntang looked at Tang Anshu, "Is it back to the No. 1 parallel world?" Or number two? ”
Ai Qi said: "I can send you back, but it is still the same sentence before, if you go back like this, it will be unfair." ”
Hu Shuntang asked impatiently: "Then what do you want?" ”