The door at the end of the hallway is pushed open, revealing the world behind the door. There was nothing behind the door, no corridors, no walls, no light, no shadows, this was not the kind of darkness that ordinary people see, nor the sudden appearance of the void in their imagination, but nothing in the real sense, only nothingness, as if everything was going to be assimilated into itself, an endless void beyond the world of Yara.

"Bang", Catherine, who opened the door at the end of the corridor, closed the door slamming the door for the first time, and turned back with an ugly expression and said, "What's inside? Why do I not even know what it is, but I feel a wave of fear for no reason?"

"This is the Void World. Vivien also seemed to be a little frightened, and said with a pale face: "The first time I saw such a simple nothingness, it is very similar to the void world in the record, and this sense of fear is exactly the same as in the record, huhu, why do people be so scared even though they haven't seen it?"

"Just like the fear of darkness, it is already an instinct engraved in the soul. Pannis looked relatively calm, but his eyes, which were always lazy, had changed, his eyes were half-open and half-closed, and the void space he saw in front of him reminded him of some long-ago memories, from memories more than a hundred years ago: "I didn't expect that after being disturbed and torn apart by spatial anomalies, this place was directly connected to the Void World." ”

"It's not that it's connected to the Void World, it's that the research center is originally located in the Void World. "Seri, no, or Eva's voice rings over Pannis's shoulder. As Eva had previously stated, she couldn't enter the area around the unresponsive area due to the damage to the crystal network, so she couldn't verify what was going on in person, and she couldn't follow the five members of the party into the interior of the area. However, she did think of a solution, and put the wireless equipment that she could enter with Pannis, so that she could intuitively observe the scene in the area: "Remember what I said before, the research center was established in the void of a nascent half-plane, and part of the half-plane was erased by the spatial anomaly, and what was exposed was naturally the void. ”

"Why do people instinctively fear the void?" Lina opened the door again and looked inside, and after three seconds, the silver-haired priest closed the door with a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, and shook his head: "And this feeling is so strange, obviously so scared, but I can't help but want to take another look, like, like, yes, just like reading those horror novels, the more scared I am, the more I want to read it." ”

"Who knows, maybe it's because the Void is so terrifying that people instinctively fear it. Pannis shrugged, patted a small metal device on his shoulder, and said, "Eva, it's certain now, it's completely destroyed inside." However, your goblin technology is really powerful, and you can see that the entire building has been swallowed up by the spatial anomaly, but the shell of this building has not collapsed, I really want to know how you did it. ”

"It's them, not us. Eva corrected a sentence and said, "It seems that it is completely unrepairable, what a pity." ”

"Huh?" Pannis raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "You don't think you're a member of the goblins?"

"Of course I don't think so. Eva calmly retorted, "Is there anything wrong with this? I'm just a control center created by the goblins through their own technology, even if they have their own mind and their own body, they are also a control center, how can I think of myself as a member of the creator? Just like you made a chair, will the chair see itself as a human being?"

"You've always known what's going on out there. "We've never said we're human, and goblins and gods don't call themselves that term," Pannis said. ”

"You see, now that it's been confirmed that the area can't be restored again, there's only one way to go to the emergency shelter. Eva once again pretended not to hear anything, and when Pannis did not exist, she said to the maidens, "There is still a long way to go from here to the emergency shelter, if you wish, please go." ”

Seeing that Pannis was once again ignored, the girls had no desire to help him, but before leaving the building of Lab 9, Vivien suddenly asked softly, "Eva, although you were made, do you have a soul?"

"Soul?" Eva's calm voice was abnormal for the first time, and she seemed to be a little more confused: "I don't know, no one has told me, and I don't know if I have a soul." No one has ever told me what a soul is, and I've looked up a lot of information in the database before, but there is no information that can clearly explain what a soul is, and I thought, maybe I don't have a soul, after all, I am not a real being. ”

Even now, more than 10,000 years later, no one can say what a soul is. Lina said comfortingly, "Actually, I think every sane creature has a soul, even the beast. You can't think that you don't have a soul just because you were created by goblins, our two intelligent creatures were created by gods, but we never doubt whether we have a soul, and you, just the creator changed from a god to a goblin, but the essence has not changed. Hey, could it be that the truth of the gods' punishment is that they succeeded in creating you, or that they succeeded in creating new souls and stealing the authority of the gods, so that they would be punished by the gods?"

"Nope. Eva denied: "The cause of the catastrophe is not so simple. ”

"Do you know the reason for the demise of the goblins?" Not only Vivien, but everyone stared in surprise at the small metal device on Pannis's shoulder, including Pannis himself, and Catherine asked, "Can you tell us the reason?"

Eva was silent again, and after thirty seconds she said in a deep voice, "Not yet, don't worry, you'll know, it's just not yet time for you to know." ”

"Hey, the difference in treatment is too big. Pannis suddenly shouted dissatisfied: "If I ask any question you don't want to answer, you will directly ignore me and pretend not to hear, why do they also ask questions you don't want to answer, you are so patient to explain to them, you are obviously discriminating." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, the scope of the Fifth Sector is very large, the surface area of the buildings alone is fifty square kilometers, and the total area of the underground and upper floors is at least five hundred square kilometers, and there are hundreds of laboratories in it, and various research topics are being carried out simultaneously. Again, it was clear that Eva completely ignored Pannis's protests and diverted her attention with the simplest of topics: "Now the authorities may not be in the mood, but when the treatment is over, I will show you around the various areas where there are responses." ”

"Hey, you're ignoring me again, aren't you? Pannis twisted his head and quarreled with the small device on his shoulder very strangely: "So, I didn't do anything to offend you, you have been targeting me, don't go too far." ”

"Alright, stop arguing. Catherine covered her mouth and laughed for a long time. Although the girls had already been mentally prepared to be unable to use it here, and pinned their hopes on the underground emergency shelter in advance, when they verified their conjectures with their own eyes, it was still difficult to avoid a wave of nervousness, what if the emergency shelter was like here? What if the healing equipment of the emergency shelter was broken? What if something happened in the middle? Except for Vivian, who had already thought about it thoroughly, these pessimistic speculations could not control the girls' hearts, making their hearts gradually tense. But the quarrel between Pannis and Eva diluted this invisible tension, and everyone could laugh out loud again, Catherine shook her head and said: "Pannis, you are really, Eva is also a girl, you have to quarrel with her, it's really bad." ”

"That's right. Lina shook her silver hair and nodded vigorously, and said coaxingly, "It's the worst." ”

"I'm the victim, okay, how to say that in the end it became my worst. Pannis looked aggrieved and muttered, "Forget it, don't argue with you women, women are really the most terrible creatures in the world." ”

"Well?" the girls raised their eyebrows at the same time, and Catherine said with a smirk, "What were you talking about, dear Mr. Pannis?" I think you seem to have forgotten that now that you are in the car, it seems that there is nowhere to escape. ”

"Hahaha, it's a perfect environment. Pannis laughed dryly, stealing Eva's unique way, and pretended not to hear, and said, "The goblins are very powerful, they can transform the half-plane into an environment that people can easily live in in the void, and I don't know how they do it." ”

Catherine gave Pannis, a pretty white eye, and no longer paying attention to the troublemaker, asked the little device on his shoulder, "Eva, I listened to your explanation just now, it seems that you know something about what has happened over the years, right?"

"Only before the spatial anomaly occurs. Eva was silent for a moment, did not change the topic, and replied directly: "After the spatial anomaly occurred, the vast majority of crystal energy networks collapsed, and more than ninety-nine percent of the control terminals in the outside world lost contact, and the only remaining control terminals were buried deep underground, and there were only one or two control terminals that could be observed again, and the location was also very remote, so I basically couldn't understand the situation of the outside world again." ”

"Is it because the world is collapsing?" Catherine nodded thoughtfully, "I see." But I think it's a little strange that from the beginning, you hid the fact that you were sane, but other than that, it seemed like you had little psychological defense against us. I hope you don't use permission to be perfunctory, Freya just told me that since you have a sanity, although you are controlled by permission, you can also have your own choices to a certain extent. ”

"Actually, I've seen you. Eva was silent longer this time, and her words were more powerful. (To be continued.) )