Chapter 21: Honkai II: Me and Freedom (No. 21) 2

"Oooh. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Ye Kexin couldn't help nodding, and she didn't know if she understood Strawberry's words.

"...... from the inside out" Ye Kexin's eyes showed a trace of pain.

"There are solutions, but they don't work immediately. Compared with the use of artificial substances, my method is much slower, just like the treatment of wind and cold using Western medicine and the use of traditional Chinese medicine. ”

"You say, you say." Ye Kexin came to the spirit.

"Come here." Strawberry beckoned to Ye Kexin, and Ye Kexin moved over.

The voice of "......" was inaudible, but Ye Kexin could hear it clearly.

His eyes widened and he looked surprised. Then he frowned, and then the dark color of thought appeared, and finally as if he had made up his mind, his eyes were full of determination.

"Okay, that's it." Ye Kexin nodded after listening, "But what if it doesn't work?" ”

"Then you're dead." Strawberry spoke unceremoniously, but after listening to it, Ye Kexin nodded again and again.

"I know, I know, but for the sake of Xiao Fengfeng, I'm willing to take this risk."

"That's you." Strawberry finally smiled, although it was very shallow, but Ye Kexin felt the appreciation from Strawberry.

With a smile, Ye Kexin got up.

"Thank you for your hospitality, I'll come back to see you when I have time."

"Pay attention to the acting to be a little more like, if it is too fake, it will have no effect."

"I see, thank you for seeing." Ye Kexin pushed the door lock that had been broken and left Strawberry's residence.

Strawberry sighed, picked up the phone on the table, and dialed a number.

"Hey, is it a lock repair company, I want to change the door lock. Yes, it's the best kind, absolutely bulletproof. ”

The body seemed to have no weight, but Ye Zifeng realized that he was quite awake, and when he opened his eyes and looked around, it was pitch black, and there was nothing, or he couldn't see anything. Ye Zifeng looked down at his hand, but found that there was a faint halo around the palm, he could see himself, but he couldn't see anything else. Where did the light come from?

Ye Zifeng thought about these boring things, his feet did not touch the ground, Ye Zifeng was suspended in the air, but he moved his arms and found that the resistance was not ordinarily large, and it was more appropriate to say that it was suspended in water.

"Where, where?" Ye Zifeng muttered in a low voice, and there was a dark space on the left and right of the upper line, extending infinitely, as if there was no boundary. The feeling of emptiness brought not only inexplicable uneasiness to Ye Zifeng, but also a touch of loneliness. Ye Zifeng frowned, he didn't like to leave here, now he was bored, he wanted to leave now, but when he thought of this, Ye Zifeng suddenly found that he didn't know how he came here, let alone how to leave.

"Damn it!" Ye Zifeng cursed in a low voice, he didn't have the energy to think about where this was, but how to get out of here. Ye Zifeng remembered that he was having a combat meeting before he woke up, and compared to exploring why this place came out, the combat meeting obviously accounted for a greater proportion in Ye Zifeng's heart.

"Welcome back, latecomer." A white light lit up in the distance, and then a deep voice sounded, shaking the entire pitch-black space. The surrounding black seemed to be dispelled by this calm sound, melting like ice and snow, and dots of light lit up around it, Ye Zifeng looked carefully, those points of light were like stars, no, that was starlight!

Ye Zifeng was shocked in his heart, and it was not too late to look at the white light in the distance, although his face seemed calm, but the muscles of his face were already tense. When I looked at it again, the white light disappeared, and it was replaced by an old man who appeared in front of him, running in white clothes and running white, I couldn't see what the fabric was, but Ye Zifeng was still quite familiar with this outfit, although he hadn't seen anyone wear it with his own eyes, but Ye Zifeng could still recognize that this was the outfit of Dr. Zhou Chaoshi, but if the jade pendant was reduced, it would seem that the price would drop.

"Welcome back? I've been here before? Ye Zifeng listened to the old man's words and was a little puzzled.

"No, you haven't been." The old man's face was full of kind smiles, his eyes were covered by long eyebrows, and Ye Zifeng couldn't see the old man's eyes.

"And what do you mean by that?"

"Someone has been here, and you're the second person here in this way." The old man stretched out three fingers at Ye Zifeng.

Ye Zifeng understood what the old man meant.

"And how did the third man come from?"

"Came in through the door." The old man smiled, "Why, don't worry about your situation once you do?" ”

"Sort of." Ye Zifeng nodded, looked up and down, left and right, and a round of green sun in the distance was shining, "Where is this?" ”

"Nine-foot starry sky." The old man said slowly, "I'm actually surprised that you can come here, it's been a long time since anyone has been able to come here like you." ”

"In what way?" Ye Zifeng didn't understand what the old man meant by the way he said.

"Spirits, or souls." The old man smiled again, "Anyone who can come here in soul form means that his soul is very strong. ”

"You mean I'm out of my body?" Ye Zifeng's eyes widened, and he patted it on himself, but fortunately, it was a solid feel that was not penetrated.

"So to speak." The old man nodded, "I'll give you a detailed explanation, but it shouldn't be appropriate to stand here." ”

"Don't bother, I'll leave later." Although Ye Zifeng was curious in his heart, he was still worried about the combat meeting.

"Don't worry, the soul is not disturbed by time, the nine-foot starry sky you are in is outside the universe, and the time here is macrocosm, so the time in your physical body is still here."

"I don't understand."

"Normal, do you want to hear an explanation?"

"You say."

"It's actually very simple, it's a relative problem, let's say you have a leather ball in your hand, and when time in the universe moves forward, your time is passing, and the time of the ball is also passing." The old man waved his hand, and the scene of the surrounding space immediately distorted, first moving back to the previous darkness, and then gradually brightening, Ye Zifeng and the old man appeared in a rather luxurious hall. Resplendent with gold, there are a large number of paintings hanging on the walls irregularly, including stick figures, sketches, oil paintings, comics and ink paintings, but each painting has the shadow of Ye Zifeng. The flowers are constantly swimming on the walls and look a little dreamy.

"Sit down first." The old man pointed to the sofa behind Ye Zifeng, and then he did it himself. After Ye Zifeng sat down, the old man pointed to two cups of steaming coffee, which was not the instant coffee that Ye Zifeng often drank, it was a bit like bitter coffee without milk.

The old man took a sip of his coffee cup, and then let out a long breath. Dressed in the costume of a scholar, the coffee looked a little nondescript in Ye Zifeng's eyes, but now was not the time to discuss these image issues.

"Alright, let's move on to the previous conversation, we've just talked about it."

"Relatively still time."

"Oh, yes, relatively still time, am I an example of the ball?"

"Hmm." Ye Zifeng held the coffee cup and nodded.

"That ball is equivalent to your body, you are equivalent to your soul, the time of the two is the same, but the soul is always higher than the body, so when you are in, or the soul is out of a space without time, the body will also stop aging, this stop is not relative, but absolute, that is, now I feel that time is being lost, but what about the facts? This is just an illusion, there is no time in the condensed space, and only in the condensed space can you feel the passage of time. ”

The old man said a lot of inexplicable words, and then with a wave of his hand, a huge black sphere appeared on the white jade coffee table, and countless points of light lit up in the sphere.

"This is the space your physical body is in, and now it's still because you're looking at it."

"I don't understand." Ye Zifeng shook his head. Ye Zifeng thought that his comprehension ability was good, but the old man's words still had a certain depth, but it was rather illogical at all.

"I don't understand normal, let's put it this way, when you studied the motion of objects in high school, did you see objects as particles?" The old man waved his hand again, and the black sphere disappeared.

"Well, it's just to rule out internal factors."

"That's right, outside of the universe, the universe you are in is a particle, and the particle's point is not affected by any factors except the force." The old man smiled slightly, and Ye Zifeng nodded slightly.

"I have a clue when you say that." Ye Zifeng sighed, "But now is not the time to explore high school physics, I just want to know how to go back." ”

"When you come to the miracle, you are the only one who is in a hurry to go back. Didn't I say that even if you go back now, it's only the point in time when you fainted, and you can live here for a year. The old man sighed, "It's been a long time since there's no one to accompany me, so you can't stay here a little longer." ”

"......" Ye Zifeng didn't speak, just nodded silently, "What was the last person I came here like." ”

"It's a girl, about your age, who came here and talked to me a lot."

"And how did she get here?"

"Came in through the door." The old man sighed a little, "It's really perseverance, although it is not difficult to dive to a depth of more than 10,000 meters in ancient times, but I really didn't expect that human beings have such technology just redeveloped for thousands of years." ”

"Antiquity, re-development?" Ye Zifeng repeated with some surprise, "Who are you and where is this?" ”

"Here, the last time I came, I was told that this is a place called the Mariana Trench, and the depth is about 10,800 meters. But don't worry, that's just the outside, in fact, when you enter the door, the inside is the outside of the universe. The old man explained carefully, and Ye Zifeng listened more carefully, "As for me." ”

The old man hesitated.

"My name is the Eye of Wisdom, a bottom-up artificial intelligence developed by the Twenty-Second Academy of Sciences of the Empire."

"......" Ye Zifeng was shocked, Ye Zifeng guessed something from the old man's words just now, but he was still shocked when he heard the old man admit it himself.

"So you mean that you're from the past, and you're from antiquity?" Ye Zifeng asked suspiciously, "What time is it?" ”

"According to your dating method, it is about 650,000 years BC, but there is something wrong with what you just said, I am not from the past, but from the past to the present." The old man explained.

"The ancients have lived to the present, ......" Ye Zifeng's brain was a little overheated, and his thinking was a little frustrated, "Are the ancient humans the same as us?" ”

"I'm an artificial intelligence based on ancient humans."

"The Ancient Human Empire ......"

"It's extinguished." The old man spoke briefly, but he couldn't stop the loneliness in his heart, and his eyes were a little dim.

“......”

The scene was a little embarrassing for a moment, Ye Zifeng didn't know what he was talking about, he could only hold the coffee and keep taking small sips, the coffee tasted good, the old man didn't have a smile on his face, sighed and shook his head slightly.

"That." Ye Zifeng was the first to speak, breaking the silence, "I think it's better for me to go back." ”

"It's fine." The old man didn't stop this time, and nodded, "Go out and turn left at the second door." ”

"Thank you." Ye Zifeng drank all the coffee in the cup, got up and bowed to the old man.

"Here's for you." The old man took out a piece of metal from his sleeve and threw it to Ye Zifeng.

"What is this?"

"Key, if you want to come, you can find a door, but it's not the safest." The old man also got up and smiled slightly, "Let me give you a piece of advice at the end, the strength of the soul is the real strength, but the strong soul will also follow the plans of others, if you want to stay free, you have to judge everything for yourself, not just the matter of turning left to right, but things that will make you regret." ”

"I'll go back and think about it, thank you anyway." Ye Zifeng nodded, pushed the door and left, finding the exit that the old man said and returning to the "Sword of Sorrow".

"Another interesting young man, it seems that ......" the old man shook his head and did not continue, "everything depends on the arrangement of fate, even if you are strong, you can't get rid of fate, but it seems that some people don't want to think so." ”

"Ahh Ye Zifeng exhaled softly, sat up from the bed with a shock to his body, and gasped for breath.

"It looks like a dream." Ye Zifeng chuckled and raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, but Ye Zifeng suddenly found that he had something more in his hand.

"Okay." Ye Zifeng looked at the key in his hand and shook his head helplessly, "This is not a dream. ”

From the bed to the ground, Ye Zifeng looked around, it looked like a simple field hospital, but except for the bed where Ye Zifeng was, the beds were all vacant, and Ye Zifeng didn't see the medical staff. There was nothing noteworthy here, Ye Zifeng lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent.

"You're awake." Ye Zifeng heard a voice, turned around and looked in the direction where the voice came from, and a figure he had just seen appeared in front of him.

"Are you ......" Ye Zifeng thought for a moment, "Feng Fengxiang, sir?" ”

"It's okay to call me Feng Fengxiang, don't add Mr. or anything." Feng Fengxiang walked over, followed by Admiralty soldiers in white combat uniforms to guard.

"Don't come along." Feng Fengxiang turned his head and instructed the motorized infantry behind him, and the two motorized soldiers saluted Feng Fengxiang at the same time and turned to leave, and then Feng Fengxiang looked at Ye Zifeng, "Come with me, you will act as my escort during this time." ”

"Huh?" Ye Zifeng was surprised, "I, why?" ”

"Because you're more powerful, I've looked at your previous mission records, and you've done every task well, better than any 'outside' member." Feng Fengxiang remembered to go, and Ye Zifeng followed.

"However, I'm just an 'outsider' freshman, so is there really no problem for me to take on such a task?" Ye Zifeng was not confident in himself, mainly because he wanted to find an opportunity to go to the "Stalingrad", he felt that there was something there, and he had to go.

"Do you think you've made so many contributions, and you're still an 'outsider' freshman?" Feng Fengxiang turned around with a smile and handed a badge to Ye Zifeng.

"Now I formally inform you that the Admiralty has specially recruited you as the commander of ground operations, and all ground operations are approved by you, including plan formulation, operational surveillance, and emergency response, as long as all the Admiralty's operations on the ground are all undertaken by you, but this is regional, Shanghai and its surrounding towns."

As soon as he made a move, he was a high position, but Ye Zifeng always felt that the jurisdiction of the Admiralty was not on the ground but in space, Saber said to himself that he was a member of the Admiralty, but Ye Zifeng felt that it was more like an "outside".

"Isn't this position a bit high, I just performed a few small tasks......" Ye Zifeng wanted to defend himself, but speaking of this, Ye Zifeng himself felt that he was a bit arrogant, not to mention that in addition to the operation in the "Longinus" base, whether it was the assassination of Colonel O'Sullivan or the "Sword of the Sky" operation, Ye Zifeng's role in it was not ordinary. He was the one who blew up the "Longinus" base, and he was the one who destroyed the "Devout Inquirer", killing O'Sullivan. Colonel Burke is him, and he is the one who kills the mask, Ye Zifeng has helped the Admiralty to do so much, it is not too much to really seal an official first. However, Ye Zifeng was still unwilling to accept it, he felt that something was wrong, the Admiralty seemed to be paying attention to him, I don't know why, everyone who appeared around him during this time Ye Zifeng had some impressions, although it was vague, but Ye Zifeng did feel that trace of memory, but no matter how hard Ye Zifeng tried, he just couldn't recall a little bit about these people.

(To be continued)