Click, click, click, click......

Ye Qingxuan heard a crisp voice echoing in the void.

The rainbow light flows, like countless mirrors colliding with each other, shattering, refracting the scattered neon, and the world seems to have become a kaleidoscope, so gorgeous that people can't look at it directly.

It's uncomfortably lonely again.

"Are you awake?"

He heard a calm voice.

Looking up blankly, he could only see a blurry back, hidden in the scattered light.

"Where is this?"

"The division of the central core, independent of the part outside of the Three Sages. It is a primitive silicon crystal server created by humans, and its name is 'Neanderthals', which means the boundary between man and beast. ”

The man turned his head, looked at him, and smiled, "You are Lan Zhou's child, I know you, and you should know me." ”

That face, Ye Qingxuan has seen countless times.

When the door of the musician is opened.

At the time of lighting the Yip's scepter.

In dreams.

Ye Qingxuan suddenly said, "You are...... Ye Xuan?"

"Let's not. ”

The figure responded ambiguously, got up, and walked towards Ye Qingxuan.

As if there was no distance, a few short steps appeared in front of him.

It's Ye Huo, that's right.

As in memory, dressed in black, with white hair like snow, with a familiar silhouette, and a kind of ...... Indelible loneliness.

In his hand, he held a strange object that looked like a three-ring nested lock, which kept spinning with the movement of his fingers.

"You're still alive?"

Ye Qingxuan looked at him, and then, his brows furrowed: "No, you turned yourself into a natural disaster?"

"Hmm...... Are you saying that creating a fixed sound field to program the ether and upload consciousness?" Ye Huo shook his head after thinking for a long time, "It can be regarded as a compromise solution. ”

"I reproduced my memories in the Neanderthal database, and then folded up my personality patterns and implanted them in my blood as cues," he said...... When the two coincide, I was able to wake up temporarily. Or rather, created temporarily—

That's probably the reserve captain's only prerogative?"

"You've chosen to run away from death, in this unseemly way. ”

"I just chose to wait. ”

Ye Huo's response was calm, and he didn't try to explain anything.

In the silence, there was only the sound of him bowing his head and turning the lock.

Scratch, scratch, scratch, tick......

Ye Qingxuan frowned: "What are you doing?"

"Do things in vain. ”

Ye Huo let go of his hand, looked at the stubbornly reset 'lock' in his hand, and couldn't help but shake his head: "Sure enough, no matter how emergency it stopped, there was no response."

No matter how carefully and carefully human beings use their intelligence, they can break away from the center and become a natural disaster, and they are no longer bound by all treaties. ”

With a roar, the sky of the kaleidoscope shattered into a tragic gap.

It was as if an invisible behemoth was crushing down, countless knives and axes were chopping and chiseling, and cracks appeared in the firewall of the 'Neanderthals'. The shattered mirror fell to the ground, bursting with a crisp sound, and finally dissolving into the rainbow light.

Behind the crack, a faint sign emerged, like eyes, looking at where they were.

Compared to the small consciousness of human beings, the behemoth of countless logics is like an irresistible god. At this moment, the firewall is shattered piece by piece, and it brings a suffocating sense of despair.

"That's ...... What?"

"The Princes of the East. ”

Ye Huo threw away the meaningless lock in his hand and let it dissipate in the halo: "If I guessed correctly, it should be Bai Heng who is cutting off the connection between him and the emperor."

He had no way to retreat now, he could only forcibly capture the central core before Bai Heng succeeded, and then transform the Great Yuan...... Don't worry, He's just passing by.

The Neanderthals were originally a closed system made to prevent the Three Sages from getting out of control, and it couldn't get in. ”

Ye Qingxuan was stunned.

He didn't expect that Bai Heng's guy would force the Eastern Princes to such a position as a prisoner outside?

And even to this extent, He still refuses to give up......

Even if it's a lonely bet.

"What exactly does he want to do?"

"It's simple, save humanity. ”

Ye Huo thought for a while and said: "If you use dystopian routines as an example, then he is the kind of villain intelligence that will make human beings better even if all human beings are removed from the white matter of the brain, right?"

Even if you have the will, you are not willing to change, and it is clear that the mission has no meaning, but you are still loyal to the mission. ”

He sighed softly, "No wonder Hermes hates him, the two sides are completely polar compared to each other." ”

"What's going on?"

Ye Qingxuan looked at him: "Why did human beings become what they are now?"

"It happened...... A lot of things, like 'war'. ”

Ye Huo shrugged his shoulders, "As a result, human beings have gained the earth and the future as they wished, but at the cost of losing the past and the sky.

It's ridiculous, isn't it? There is an infinite universe that can demonstrate the pride of human free will, but in the end, human beings choose to burrow into a box that makes them feel at ease. ”

Speaking of this, he withdrew his gaze from the sky dome and stretched out his hand towards Ye Qingxuan: "Is there any smoke?"

Ye Qingxuan spread his hands, his hands empty.

He didn't even know if it was his own brain or the central core here, so naturally it was impossible for him to bring in a pack of cigarettes.

"Just imagine it. Ye Huo asked, "Which brand are you used to drawing?"

Snap.

An iron box appeared out of thin air in Ye Qingxuan's hands.

Ye Huo smiled.

"Thank you. ”

Just took the box from Ye Qingxuan's hand, couldn't wait to open it, lit it, took a deep breath, and smiled bitterly:

"After such a long time, have you forgotten the smell of cigarettes? Or do I remember the wrong impression, I always feel weird when I smoke it?

Having said that, even if you are dead, you can't give up this bit of trust in nicotine, which is really sad, right?

By the way, you know Hermes well. ”

Ye Huo flicked the cigarette ash and suddenly asked, "Was he in pain when he died?"

"No, it's a smile. ”

Ye Qingxuan replied: "The smile is enviable. ”

"Really?"

Ye Huo sighed and shrugged: "After that guy became a natural disaster, it can be said that he is the most deviant one." Before I uploaded it, I met him once, and I was completely shocked that I couldn't recognize him at all.

- Categorically rejecting everything in the past, and then following his so-called aesthetics to start a new career, that kind of going his own way...... It's like a human being.

He was so happy, and Peter was so miserable, so I was negligent, right?"

Ye Qingxuan was silent.

"What's wrong?

As if to penetrate the anxiety and uneasiness in his heart, Ye Huo flicked off the ashes of his cigarette and asked softly: "Do you have anything to say?" Don't worry, whether it is questioning or complaining, I will not be angry.

In any case, it is only natural that the descendants of the descendants will complain about an irresponsible ancestor like me. Rest assured, as compensation, I can answer any question you may have. ”

In silence, Ye Qingxuan shook his head.

"It's time for me to go. ”

He took a step back and looked at Ye Huo in front of him: "I'm sorry, I know this is the last celestial inheritance or something—but I can't stay here any longer." ”

"I still have important things to do," he said. ”

Ye Huo was stunned.

As a faint streamer flashed from his eyes, his expression became abrupt.

"I see. ”

He bowed his head: "I see." ”

As he spoke, Ye Huo pointed behind Ye Qingxuan.

There, the outline of a door emerges abruptly.

"But before that, Ye Qingxuan, there is one thing I need to remind you,"

Ye Huo re-lit a cigarette and repeated this meaningless action in the world of nothingness, as if he could regain the real feeling of being a human being, smiling happily.

In other words, there is a certain bad taste for seeing people suffer.

So familiar.

"It looks like the real world, but it's a virtual sandbox. In other words, you're essentially running as a piece of code, in the data layer of the central core.

Once you've passed through there, you'll be able to enter the true logic layer of the central core, and now the central core and the Great Source are connected in one place—Bai Xi's consciousness should be there.

However, the speed of the Eastern Princes is faster than yours, and if you want to catch up with him, you have to take a shortcut.

Shortcuts are not safe.

I don't know how much computing power and authority the Eastern Princes have reclaimed, but if the firewall is also broken, I'm afraid that the moment you enter, you will be killed by the autonomic program as a virus.

At the same time, all your brain cells will be forcibly formatted, and the brain will burn into a pot of porridge. ”

He looked at Ye Qingxuan and looked at it:

"-Even if that's the case, are you going to go back to Shirai?"

Ye Qingxuan smiled and pointed to his head: "Since you can read my memory, then don't ask meaningless questions." ”

"That's good. ”

Ye Huo smoked a cigarette and laughed softly: "You have completed your mission very well, Ye Qingxuan." Anyway, the mission of each generation of the Ye family is to come in and chat with me. ”

As he spoke, he took something off his neck and threw it at Ye Qingxuan.

"Go ahead. ”

He said, "Do what you have to do." ”

Ye Qingxuan subconsciously saw the thing in his hand, was stunned for a moment, and then turned around and ran towards the door.

It's just that at the moment of pushing open the door, he hesitated for a moment and looked back at Ye Huo.

Ye Huo was still standing there.

With his back to him, he looked up in silence at the flowing sky.

For hundreds of years, he stayed here, waiting for each generation of inheritors to come in and leave.

It's like waiting until the end of time and the future.

From beginning to end, it was a person.

It's as if the whole world has abandoned him.

"Hey, Ye Huo!"

He stopped and shouted to the back, "What happened to you and the eldest grandson?"

That's his only problem.

Not then, not once, just in the corner of the grand drama of the past, the silent woman, who once desperately pushed him into the liftoff capsule.

She likes you, you know.

But where did she go?

Why would you stay here alone?

What's going on?

"Nothing happened, Ye Qingxuan. ”

Ye Huo turned his back to him, hiding his expression where he couldn't see, and just lowered his head, "I was seriously injured when the migrant boat fell, and I slept for forty years. ”

He said, "She waited for me for a long time, but she didn't wait for that day." ”

Ye Qingxuan was silent.

One last glance at him, remembering the lonely back.

The door closed.

In the silent world, Ye Huo raised his head and sighed softly: "Go, Ye Qingxuan, don't let her wait too long." ”

"Don't be ...... like me"