"What is he doing?" asked Snowmark in a low voice.

"I don't know. Qilu replied.

The two of them lay on their stomachs in the reeds, looking at Curry in the clearing, where he drew simple shapes, like children's letterheads.

The poisonous fog had stopped at the edge, within reach, but they did not continue to spread forward, as if a transparent glass cover covered the snow marks and strange paths, and the poisonous fog stopped at that clear dividing line, with life on one side and death on the other.

The two were still observing Curry's strange behavior, when a voice suddenly appeared in Snowmark's mind.

"Ruluga Snowmark, I need your help. This voice was not unfamiliar, and had been heard both when he first entered Jerusalem and when he had spoken to Chilu earlier.

"Are you...... Natalie?"

"You don't have to really say it when you talk to Natalie. Kiru looked at Snow Marks with disdain, like looking at a person who was typing and chatting while reading out the conversation.

"Oh oh, I see. ”

"Natalie......? It doesn't seem to be the same as before. Snowmark asked Natalie in her mind.

"You're sensitive, I'm still me, it's just...... The hardware has just been upgraded. ”

Snow Scar shook his head, and he chose to automatically filter words he didn't understand, a new skill he had learned since he came to Jerusalem.

"Now is not the time to say this, Snowmarks, you listen, Jerusalem is in a crisis right now, and needs your help. ”

"What crisis?"

"Our enemy has an internal response in the arena and is preparing to break the seal of the Nian God Abode, and I need you to help me stop him. ”

"I think I'm looking at him. Snowmark looked at Curry who was busy in the distance, and gradually understood what he was going to do.

"His purpose is to seize the legacy of the gods, which is a powerful weapon, and if it falls into their hands, it will be a very big threat to us. ”

"Aren't there any staff? Why are you looking for us?"

"It's inconvenient to explain now, Snow Marks, we can only rely on you now. ”

"Okay, though...... Why should I help you?" asked Snowmark.

He really didn't know why, he didn't agree that he was a member of the Nianshi, so what did the crisis of the Nianshi have to do with him? Although he came to take the exam, it was for the prize, to go back and rescue his mother, and he didn't have extra time to help the Nianshi resolve the crisis.

"Snowmarks, we have a common enemy. ”

"What?"

"Do you remember the darkness that appeared in the barn? The darkness is a huge force, and it is not only you who have a snow country, but also the inner Ying in the arena you are facing now. ”

Natalie's words were like a basin of cold water, pouring snow marks and snow marks on a spirit, and suddenly she was nervous, and the scenes in the barn came to mind, those who were controlled...... He immediately understood.

"You mean...... This Nei Ying is the same as the man in the barn?"

"Darkness is not only in the Snow Country, there are also their minions here, Snow Marks, stop him, remember, stop him, you save yourself......"

The signal stopped abruptly, and Natalie was silent.

Snow Scar understands that Curry is a minion of darkness, no wonder he is so powerful, it turns out that the root is here.

But another question arises in my mind, if Curry is contaminated with darkness, then how did he walk the pilgrimage route? Jean once said that the pilgrimage path can dispel the darkness. Could it be that he had some unique method? There were so many strange mental abilities that maybe there was a way to sneak into Jerusalem.

Or maybe he wasn't possessed by the darkness and still kept himself, but his position was already on the dark side.

Snowmark glanced at Qilu again, he obviously hadn't heard from Natalie.

Why did you only inform me?Xue Scar wondered again, Qilu's strength was logically above his own, even if he was blind in one eye, he was definitely stronger than himself, why didn't he look for him?

After thinking about it again, I had the answer, and now I am in the middle of the teacher assessment, maybe this is also part of the assessment, in order to test my character. Didn't they always attach great importance to this? Qin used to do this on the pilgrimage route.

But Natalie didn't say how to stop him, killing him would be to stop him, Snow Mark thought that this was what he was going to do, and that was the only thing he could do, if he was asked to re-attach the seal or something, he would go crazy.

Besides, it's already a super difficult task to kill him.

"No matter what he's doing, it won't change his fate of being defeated by me. With a pull of the sleeve, the first bullet of the semi-automatic pistol was loaded, and Kiru jumped out of cover.

More than ten minutes have passed, and Director Chai is still hesitating.

He lowered his head and held the console with both hands, like a tired migrant worker, and the bright red data poured into the console like water from his sleeve, like a blood transfusion.

The red button was right in front of him, awaiting his decision with a dangerous aura.

After a long time, the superintendent spoke:

"You know what? Steve, it's been 10 years since I was the director. For ten years, I've been dealing with these cold data on a daily basis, learning about them, understanding them, and making myself understandable at a glance. I was like a lumberjack trapped in the forest, chopping wood, studying wood, and eating wood every day. It's really very boring, very boring, but it's not the scariest thing, you know what's the scariest thing?"

Steve shook his head.

"The scariest thing is that I feel like I've become wood myself,

"I feel like I'm getting more digital. Some doubts gradually began to develop in my heart......

"I often look at the busy people down there, the red men and the green women, and wonder if I am one of them? Do they think I am? I have the same emotions and desires as them, and I have the same blood flowing in my body, but are these true? Or are these actually the results of data simulations? You know, in theory, data can do it, and all my emotions and cognitions may be fictional, just like this Jerusalem. I may not be a human, but an NPC, and all I am is a mass of data. And you, too, Steve. ”

Steve was shot by the Philosophical Longinus Spear, and as if he had been pointed, he stood on the spot.

The superintendent continued, "It's hard to tell if we're capable people or not, and working in the world of data has only reinforced my skepticism. The more I learned about the inner world of Jerusalem, the more suspicious I became, the more fearful I became......"

"Oh, the gods are above, your idea is dangerous, I don't know which one is more troublesome now......"

Associate Director Steve looks like he's facing a humanoid monster that will transform at any moment, ready to escape over the wall.

And Director Chai smiled bitterly and continued:

"I was so bothered by this philosophical question that at one point I was on the verge of collapse, and I felt like I was almost on the verge of leaving the human world. But the irony is that the more I detach myself from the human world and the more digitized I become, the better I do my work for humans, and at this point, my authority has expanded with my work to communicate directly with Natalie. I thought Natalie was a psychic creature ......"

The superintendent paused, as if recalling something from the past. But he didn't elaborate.

"It was Natalie who answered my questions and gradually freed me from my confusion, she was like a tropical island in this cold sea of data, and she made me feel warm. I'm ashamed that I'm human but I'm more like data, and she's data, but she's more human than me.

"The greatest fear of the capable is the loss of contact with the human world, when we will be lost in the world of our own self, just as people are lost in Jerusalem. And Natalie is the link between me and the world, she makes me feel that I still have a little bit of human breath, and makes me feel that I am still a human being who really lives in this world.

"What Natalie is sometimes depends on our perception, just as what we are capable of depends sometimes on the opinion of those outside Jerusalem. I don't want to change your opinion, Steve, you may think she's a machine, an NPC, but to me, she's a person, a gentle little girl whose life is locked in the day she turns nineteen...... She is my most important partner. ”

The director raised his head, his eyes were firm and calm: "I have worked with her for many years, and I know that she is a good companion, and the most important quality of a teacher is to believe in a companion, so I won't press this fucking button," Director Chai slapped the red button in front of him into a cloud of data dust, and raised his eyes to look at Deputy Director Steve, "And you, don't give me any more conspiracy theories!" Either get the hell out of me and complain to your Pope, or help me get rid of this damn intruder without Natalie!"