I don't know how long it took, Tang Shuxing finally woke up, and when he woke up, he found himself naked ** suspended in mid-air, in the corner on the other side, Gu Yan was lying on a white board suspended in the air, sleeping peacefully, and the woman was standing in front of Gu Yan, pulling her hand out of Gu Yan's forehead, and then turned to look at Tang Shuxing.

The woman then gave a strange smile, if that was a laugh.

"Tang Shuxing, hello, my name is Yiwa, and I am half the master here." The woman who called herself Ida spoke, and then waved her hand, Tang Shuxing's body slowly descended, and after his feet landed, he found that he could move, and then nodded at the woman.

Yiwa stood in front of Tang Shuxing and said, "I already know everything about you, so we don't need to play the question-and-answer game anymore, I need to ...... Hire you, hire you to escort me to Gudan. ”

Yi Wa's words suddenly came so directly that Tang Shuxing couldn't react for a long time, he shook his head and said, "I really don't understand what's going on, can you explain it?" ”

"A simple explanation is okay, but a detailed explanation is not possible, because it takes too long, I will only give you a maximum of one hour to ask questions, and do everything possible to answer all your questions." After Yiwa finished speaking, she sat down, but there was nothing under her buttocks, she just maintained a sitting position, and then Yiwa waved her hand, and a stool grew out of the ground, and Tang Shuxing sat down.

"Alright, I'll answer the first question you want to ask now, what is this place, who am I, and who is Gu Dan." Yiwa then said, there was no need for Tang Shuxing to ask, she seemed to be able to read Tang Shuxing's heart.

Tang Shuxing nodded helplessly: "Yes, that's what I want to know first." ”

"You already know most of what the man in the bracelet has told you, before we, what you call ancient humans, broke up. We were actually ready for a mass extinction, so we built this place, which we call 'Sanctuary', which of course is described in your current language. It can also be called 'Noah's Ark' as you think of it, but there is a substantial difference. "This is a prediction simulation environment, and the environment we were in at that time is no longer going back, so the simulation is what this planet will look like in the next hundreds of thousands or millions of years, and these species are not only in our time, but there are many species that we should evolve in the future using technology, but no matter how we simulate, we have not created a creature that can adapt to all environments, such as me." My ** has long ceased to exist, and now I will exist, just because of the two source cells we left behind, and these two source cells do not belong to me and Gu Dan's ontology, but can only load the original consciousness of our existence into it. My consciousness is in this heart. ”

As she spoke, Ida put her hand into her chest and pulled out the black heart, letting it float in the air for Tang Shuxing to see clearly, and said, "I can do this just because I can adapt to this space and be in charge." If I were outside of this space, I would have died instantly. Of course, if I want to regain my sense of self, I have to combine the source cells with this heart to recover, otherwise I will remain asleep forever. ”

Tang Shuxing nodded: "In other words, this heart of yours controls the four metals in the simulated environment." It's the dunes and caves that sustain the experiments, and your source cells are constantly creating all kinds of weird creatures to cooperate with the experiments, right? ”

"Yes, the first thing you saw, the sand corpse you call it, is just unconscious me. It's like a computer, but my composition is very simple, there are only three things: CPU, motherboard and hard disk, my heart is the hard disk, the embryo is the CPU, and the resulting ** is the motherboard that connects and carries the two, so you should be able to understand, right? Yiwa looked at Tang Shuxing.

Tang Shuxing nodded in understanding.

"Originally, you couldn't wake me up when you entered, but every year in October this place will start to run on its own, after the operation, this island will produce a blue spectacle, this is my explanation for another of your doubts, as for how you woke me up, because you took one of my pieces of metal, and my heart is tracking the metal, so I followed you, and then walked to the position of the cultivation tank, when the two were combined, this completely woke me up." Ida explained there with a blank face, in great detail, "After that, my consciousness began to gradually recover, and it was not until I returned to this place that I fully recovered, but until then, I already sensed in my body that you were not an enemy, and the reason was that I did not consider you an enemy because you had the cells of Gu Dan in your body. ”

"Who is Gu Dan!?" Tang Shuxing was asking, "The animals here are all male and female, and so are people, right?" ”

"Gudan is my husband." Eva smiled, "It's the one who created all this, and he also created a computer you call artificial intelligence to guard it all for convenience." At this point, Ida's face sank, "But Gu Dan is missing, gone, but I found him from your memory, and I also found the computer he created." ”

When Ida said this, Tang Shuxing shuddered, subconsciously stood up, and opened his mouth to say his speculation, but he couldn't say a word for a long time, and Ida seemed to know what he wanted to say, so he just nodded at him and said, "Yes, your speculation is correct, exactly the same as what you think." ”

Tang Shuxing sat down weakly, looked around and said: "No wonder I feel that I have been here, I am not here, I went to the strange tower in the underground Shangdu, the place called the absolute realm of Reinhardtsh, Reinhardt is your Gu Dan, and the unknown artificial intelligence earth turtle of the combined column is the thing he created, everything can be explained, which is why for so many years, Shangdu and the combined column are the only two major organizations that can contend with each other......"

Ida nodded: "Yes, now it seems that it should be the Earth Turtle who betrayed Gu Dan, or there was some kind of disagreement between them, I don't understand, because you know very little about them in your memory, especially about the Earth Turtle, all you know is his name, and other things can be said to be almost nothing." But I am sure of another thing, that so-called Reinhardt is not a Gudan, but a parasite of Gudan. ”

Tang Shuxing stared at Yi Wa, shook his head and said, "Actually, everything happens for a reason. Just like you and Gu Dan, Gu Dan and Eva, there are Adam and Eve in the Bible, and there are also Adan and Ava in the ancient Lan Sutra, and even Nuwa in Eastern mythology, which may be a kind of memory of ancient humans left in the human subconscious. ”

"Maybe." Ida said calmly, "But I'm not interested in any of that, the only thing I want to do right now is to find Gu Dan and bring him back." Otherwise he will die. ”

"He's going to die!?" Tang Shuxing stood up suddenly, "He's going to die!?" Do you know how many people he killed? I can't even calculate, seven years ago plus these seven years, he killed at least hundreds of millions of people, those are people. It's not any other animal creature, it's all conscious and emotional people, and what you want is not to stop him, but to bring him back and save him, it's ridiculous! ”

Facing Tang Shuxing, Yiwa looked very calm: "The next mass extinction is coming. In my calculations, there will be no more than a million humans surviving, and very few other animals will survive, and the environment of the earth will be completely changed, and the orbit of this planet will also be changed, as for what it will become. I don't know, I can't predict, no matter how advanced our technology is, we still can't study and understand the mysteries of the universe. ”

Tang Shuxing saw that Yi Wa said this, so he had to sit down again.

Ida shook her head, "As for why Gu Dan did those things. I don't know, I can't stop him, because he is smarter than me, and I don't know how he left this place safely, because if we want to leave this place, we can only use a stand-in, that is, to completely seal our consciousness in another body, awaken the original consciousness of that creature, and under the guidance of someone who knows the purpose, to find the other party, and then explain the situation, so that the other party can wake up the person in his body in the right environment. ”

Tang Shuxing shook his head and said, "So, you want me to escort you to Reinhate, that is, your Gu Dan, right?" Let me be a bodyguard. ”

"Yes." Ida nodded, "But I'm only responsible for retrieving him, not for stopping him." ”

"You don't know how to negotiate." Tang Shuxing shook his head, "Do you think I will agree?" Even if you said you were going to kill me here, or trap me forever, I wouldn't do that. ”

Ida smiled, "You're sometimes dumber than I thought, don't you understand?" As long as I get Gu Dan back, who do you think can stop you from doing what you want to do next, and if I get Gu Dan back, won't Shang fall apart? If I find Gu Dan and Gu Dan is willing to come back with me, in the same way, he will also find a way to destroy the Earth Turtle or bring him back, then won't all the obstacles in front of you be cleared? ”

Tang Shuxing looked at Yi Wa and wanted to nod but felt that it was a ploy, just hesitating there.

Ida put away her smile: "You can think about it, but the longer you think about it, the closer you are to the time of mass extinction, and the slimmer your hope becomes." ”

Tang Shuxing shook his head: "You don't know how terrible the outside world is, and how weak my strength alone is." ”

"You're very powerful, at least as far as I know, if Gu Dan doesn't create other creatures like you, you should be the most powerful creature of the same size in this world." Ida shook her head, "There are a lot of other things mixed in your body, and the source of your power is also complicated, I hope you can think about it quickly, otherwise it will be too late." ”

Tang Shuxing thought for a while and asked, "But you said that if you go out, you must close your mind, right?" So what do you look for instead? ”

Ida said calmly, "There are countless species here, I can find any one. ”

"No way, you can only find someone!" Tang Shu said, "And it is a healthy and sound person, preferably a person with strength and brains, and who can protect himself." ”

"Nope." Ida shook her head, "The closest thing you can get to here is the creatures you call aliens. ”

"No, no, no, they can't." Tang Shuxing shook his head, and suddenly he remembered, and looked at Yi Wadao, "In the tunnel outside, there is a woman in a certain ice block, a woman who looks exactly like you!" You can use her, if you can bring her back to life! ”

"Nope." Eva's face sank, "Anyone can do it, but she can't!" ”