In a hidden bush outside the New Territories, the most inconspicuous pile of rubble has been removed, and there is a black tunnel under the rubble, but most of the tunnel has been buried after the explosion.

Xu Rui and Helen, who had escaped, sat by the entrance of the tunnel, looking at the flames of the New Territories City and were silent for a long time.

"It's been a long time since I've seen an explosion like this, right?"

Helen asked faintly, the light of the fire shining her pale face in a flicker, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Let's go."

Xu Rui glanced at Helen and silently picked her up.

Helen let Xu Rui do it, a trace of pain flashed on her face, she gritted her teeth, and didn't say a word.

But her appearance did not escape Xu Rui's eyes, he carried her slowly in the direction of the west of the city, and asked, "Look at your appearance is a little bad, how long can your body last?" ”

A trace of gloom flashed in Helen's eyes, and she shook her head: "I don't know, although the genetic medicine inhibits cancer, it also destroys my last chance of life, maybe I can live until next month, maybe I can't see the sun tomorrow, it depends on when God calls me." ”

Xu Rui was silent.

Helen suddenly frowned and said, "Hey, my men are in the north of the city, where are you going?" ”

Xu Rui said: "My companion is in the west of the city. ”

"Are your people reliable?"

A hint of caution flashed across Helen's face.

Xu Rui rolled his eyes: "No matter what, it's better than those subordinates who have been wanting your life." ”

Helen subconsciously wanted to refute when she heard this, but she looked at the firelight of New Territories City and finally closed her mouth with a sneering expression.

Xu Rui suddenly felt a little blocked in his heart, looked at the New Territories City behind him, which had become a hell on earth, and changed the subject: "It's a pity, the New Territories City you created was destroyed like this." ”

Helen shook her head indifferently: "It's not a pity, it's just a place to grab time, but it's all fleeting, and if it's ruined, it's ruined." ”

When Xu Rui heard this, a trace of inexplicable emotion flashed in his heart, and he couldn't help but say, "Isn't this world worthless at all?" In order to return to Earth, you can treat everything here as a mustard? ”

Helen was slightly stunned, and said after a moment: "If you go out on an adventure and accidentally fall on a desert island, will you take into account the ecological environment of the desert island, or will you grab all the resources that can be used and return to your world as soon as possible?" ”

Xu Rui was silent, Helen's words made him unable to refute, but in his heart he felt that this analogy was not appropriate, or that the problem was not Helen, but himself.

He suddenly realized that once upon a time he had the same thoughts as hers, but now, he seemed to call this desert island home.

Maybe it's for the little bit of warmth that this world has given me, but it seems that because the reality is too cruel, so I have been escaping in an illusory dream, is this right or wrong?

Xu Rui couldn't think of an answer, so he sighed and asked, "What did you experience after you crossed over?" ”

Helen thought for a while and said, "You should be clear about the previous things after watching "Crossing Log", at that time, my condition was already in danger, so Han Qi would take the risk to trade with those organizations, wanting to exchange a glimmer of life for me, but in the end he died in your hands." ”

Thinking of Han Qi, Xu Rui was a little puzzled: "Since you know that I killed Han Qi, why didn't you kill me as soon as possible to avenge him?" ”

"Revenge?"

Helen shook her head: "Because you are the only one of my kind, although Han Qi treats me like a sister, but he and I are not from the same world after all."

To me, he is like a beast close to me on a desert island, a companion when needed, but even he must not hesitate to abandon it if necessary.

You don't have to say that I am ruthless, the interests of all mankind are above all else, and I cannot just because he is good to me and watch my compatriots, friends and relatives ruined. ”

Xu Rui was shocked, as a commander, in order to defeat the enemy and achieve victory, he not only ordered the destruction of the planet controlled by alien civilizations, killing billions of innocent alien civilians, and even did not hesitate to sacrifice most of the human fleet in exchange for the victory of the entire battle.

I am obviously the same person as Helen, but when did I become so kind to a woman?

Seeing that Xu Rui didn't speak, Helen said to herself: "After Han Qi left, I had a premonition that I would never be able to wait for him to come back, and it happened that I had the coordinates of a ruin at that time, so I went on the road alone, wanting to see if I could find something to return to Earth or cure cancer in the ruins." ”

"And so you're here?"

Xu Rui asked.

Helen nodded, then shook her head again, "I'm here, to be exact, but not here." ”

"What do you mean?"

Xu Rui was puzzled.

Helen said: "The coordinates of the ruins in my hand are not in the Gobi of the Eight Hundred Miles of Hanhai, but in the mountains near the Gobi.

When I went to the coordinates of the ruins, I didn't find any ruins, time is the most terrible force, it erased all traces of the ruins' existence, so I can't tell whether the ruins never existed at all, or if they have been lost in the long years. ”

"And how did you find here?"

Xu Rui asked again.

Helen said: "At that time, I was in poor health, and the ruins were the last straw, and not finding the ruins meant that everything was over, but just when I was desperate and dying, I met a man who claimed to be a caretaker. ”

"Caretaker? Yin Ji! ”

Xu Rui suddenly exclaimed when he heard this.

Helen shook her head: "I haven't heard of the name of Yin Ji, he said that his name is Turbidity, he is a tiger-headed man, he saw the identity of my traverser at a glance, so he took me to a ruin in the Gobi of the Eight Hundred Miles Hanhai."

He temporarily helped me suppress my cancer with a potion that I had never seen before, but just when I had a glimmer of hope, he regretfully told me that the most effective medicine had been used up, and that my cancer could not be completely cured, and that it was only possible to escape the catastrophe by fully awakening and becoming his companion. ”

"He thinks you're his companion too?"

Xu Rui remembered that Yin Ji had said almost the same thing to himself, and couldn't help frowning and asking.

Helen nodded: "He said that I am some kind of awakened caretaker, and let me fulfill some bullshit mission with him." ”

Xu Rui said, "But you didn't agree?" ”

Helen shook her head again: "No, I agreed, but I lied to them, just like I lied to Long Tu and Hanhai Horse Bandits this time, saying that there is an immortal elixir in the Gobi treasure, I must use their power to complete my goal."

At first, I found that although they were different, and even controlled the power of some of the ruins, they were still natives of this world.

Second, I told you before that I found a star map in the ruins, and deduced that the earth was in danger, and I was in a hurry to return to the earth, so I could only make a false deal with them.

In the process of getting along with them, I found that they are inextricably linked with these ruins, which seems to be related to the origin and meaning of existence of this world, and I want to extract some information from them. ”

"It's a pity you didn't succeed."

Xu Rui said.

"How do you know?"

Helen asked, surprised.

Xu Rui said: "It's very simple, if you have successfully mastered such a major secret, and now you have either been wiped out by them, or you have completely become one of them, how can you be a famous ghost-faced demon god?" ”

Helen laughed when she heard this: "You are right, they have a holy book that records a lot of secrets, but the corresponding secrecy procedures are also perfect, and my condition is still deteriorating, so I don't have so much time to spend there.

So I had to take advantage of the fact that they were not looking, dismantling the usable parts from dozens of alloy armors, reluctantly repairing one of them, and escaping from the ascension with this armor. ”

"You lost such an important thing, and they didn't come after you?"

Xu Rui asked in surprise.

Helen shook her head: "I also wonder, in order to deal with a possible attack, I even made a lot of preparations, but they never chased after me, as if the world had evaporated." ”

Xu Rui thought about it, and with his knowledge of the guards, it was naturally impossible to draw conclusions, so he had to ask the most critical question.

"You said the treasure in the desert is actually a ruin, what else is hidden in it besides genetic potions?"

Speaking of the so-called treasure, Helen suddenly became excited, and her eyes lit up and said, "Hope! There is still hope for returning to Earth! ”

"What?!"

Xu Rui suddenly lost his voice when he heard this.