The shell of the "emperor" really lives up to the name of "encryption".

After dismantling, the silver shell of the "emperor" is like a piece of a puzzle, revolving around, like a satellite ring on the surface of the planet, the thin fragments are angular and angular, bent and twisted, and even the split trajectory is full of mystery, faintly revealing an obscure and mysterious silver glow.

How many fragments are there?

Zheng Xiu swept it at a glance, and roughly counted it, the number of fragments exceeded the number of 100,000, not to mention the sum of the sequences generated after rearranging and combining.

Anne could almost say she gave up.

But when she saw Zheng Xiu flying up, she hesitated slightly, not to be outdone, and flew to Zheng Xiu's side lazily and reluctantly.

Zheng Xiu stared intently at the spinning "codon". After staring at it for a while, ignoring the collapse of the surrounding world, Anne couldn't help but ask, "What are you looking at?" ”

"Look, did you write that?"

Zheng Xiu pointed to one of the fragments.

Anne looked at Zheng Xiu's fingertips and was stunned. The surface of the shard, at first, looked like a crack. But on closer inspection, this is not the case. It is the most unpretentious stroke, which seems to be "one" and "one".

"Ah???h

After a moment of consternation, Mistress Anne shook her head vigorously.

"Don't look at it." Seeing that Zheng Xiu still hadn't given up, Anne couldn't help but sneer and mocked, "I don't know the encryption I made myself?" I have been hacked, the key has been stolen, and without the key, the 'Bund' of the 'diplomat' is a place of burial for outsiders. Don't say that you haven't become a god, even if you are the master, when I am in my heyday, I have to scrape the layers and then leave. ”

Zheng Xiu looked away from the word "1" and glanced at Annie with a little pity.

The orange cat's eyes glared: "Stupid human, what do you mean by your eyes?" ”

"I have never seen other gods, but other gods say that their homes are safe, I believe you...... I can't say. ”

Zheng Xiu finally understands now that the so-called "master" is purely "specialization in the art industry", the ultimate "elegance", but in other places, it is worthless.

Isn't it normal for "elegant" to have so many and big holes?

Zheng Xiu raised an index finger, and above the fingertips, the light and shadow distorted, and the void collapsed.

Anne held her breath for an instant, and she was now very curious about what the authority that Zheng Xiu had born after "breaking the rules".

I saw that on Zheng Xiu's fingertips, where the void collapsed, a shapeless black shadow was twisting there, changing various shapes at a terrifying speed, Anne just glanced at it, and saw with her own eyes that the "thing", like a kaleidoscope, changed hundreds of shapes, flashed thousands of numbers on it, and flashed the illusion of flowers, birds, fish and insects, the sun, the moon, mountains and rivers.

But in the blink of an eye, the "thing" on Zheng Xiu's fingertips seemed to be still a black black mass, moving like quicksand, where did it come from any shape and number. Anne glared hard at the cat's eyes, trying to see something "clearer".

In other words, she is trying to decipher the structure of "Zheng Xiu's authority", trying to figure out why it is this strange "thing" that makes her authority become the shape of Zheng Xiu.

"That's it...... Plaything? ”

Anne wanted to say, "That's it," but when she remembered the neatly pinched row of "jade feet" on her "throne", she forcibly held back.

"That's not right."

After a moment, Anne reacted and shook her head vigorously: "This can't be. 'Authority' is a rule, a concept, the ultimate condensation, such a loose structure, contrary to the essence of 'authority', not so much that I have never seen this type of 'authority', but rather that I suspect that you are not 'authority' at all, what are you? ”

As she spoke, Anne showed her tattered "throne" and raised her proud and graceful little chin: "The throne is authority!" That's authority! This! Just! Be! ”

"Huh."

Zheng Xiu stared at the rows of jade feet and smiled. This strange laughter made Anne shiver inexplicably, and she quickly hid her "elegance", and slapped her chest with her paws, hiding it tightly.

"To be honest, in the exceptional moment, I figured out a lot of things, but also a lot of questions." Zheng Xiu stretched out his two hands, and his fingers stretched and flattened the "authority" like plasticine, changing shape between Zheng Xiu's hands like a noodle. This scene directly stunned Anne, and she almost fell from mid-air and fell into the raging black sea.

After playing for a while, Zheng Xiu clenched his fist, and the black fog like quicksand actually covered the surface of Zheng Xiu, making Zheng Xiu's right hand look like he was wearing a pair of black gauze gloves.

Zheng Xiu's right hand was completely blackened, and that hand was like a black hole, sucking in all the light around it.

"But that's probably how it works."

Zheng Xiu ignored Annie again, and his pitch-black palm pressed towards the silver celestial body through the air.

In an instant, Zheng Xiu's temperament changed greatly, as if he had changed people, his eyes were cold, empty, and emotionless. In the depths of his eyes, the jet-black stream of data flowed down like a waterfall.

"'Retrieval'."

"Bug found."

"'Amendment'."

"'Restore.'"

In an instant, the decomposed "emperor", each piece of fragments, was put back together along the trajectory of the split. Turning back into the original "crypto shell", hundreds of thousands of delicate parts reformed into a massive silver celestial body.

The orange cat opens its mouth.

The pink mucous membranes inside shook violently.

"Ah???h

She felt that since entering the "Seven Hearts Town", "Ah??? That's what she said the most.

Zheng Xiu remembered the small mirror.

The mirror itself doesn't matter.

That mirror was really an ordinary little mirror.

It couldn't be more ordinary.

What is important is the imagery of the "mirror", which is a "hint".

A "hint" that only Zheng Xiu can understand.

In the final analysis, the mystery in front of her is not for Anne to solve, but for Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu was puzzled, he remembered all the things he had come here. But if there is a single step in the pool, it will not evolve into the current scene. Is there really someone, no, to be precise, there really is such an existence, an existence like Anne, who can calculate everything in every detail and accurately, and accurately calculate that Zheng Xiu can awaken [Correction] when he breaks the exception, stand in front of this puzzle, and make a solution?

For a moment, an indescribable sense of fear enveloped Zheng Xiu, and he couldn't imagine what kind of purpose was behind such a mystery left by such an existence.

Omniscient? Omnipotent?

In Anne's words, this is contrary to the very definition of "authority" itself.

There is no such authority.

If there really is such a terrible "existence", does time, space, past, and future have any meaning to this being? Zheng Xiu just imagined it a little, he just imagined this feeling of omnipotence a little bit from his heart, and what brought Zheng Xiu was not longing and expectation, but gave birth to an inexplicable sadness and fear.

If it were me, would I want to die, wouldn't I?

No, maybe you can't even die if you want to.

It's miserable.

Zheng Xiu inexplicably felt sad for "Him" for an existence that he didn't even know existed.

Zheng Xiu shook his head, didn't dare to think about it, and quickly returned his attention to the "puzzle solving" itself.

Time is running out.

"Seriously, when I used to play games, I hated solving puzzles very much, and if I couldn't solve it, I would go to jail for pure innocence, so it was better to hang it directly."

Zheng Xiu ignored Annie's "ahhhh The previously discovered "1" on the rotating celestial body was particularly eye-catching, like a conspicuous mark, guiding Zheng Xiu's next step.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with your 'encryption' itself."

Zheng Xiu affirmed: "There is no problem with the contents inside. ”

"Your ship has nothing to do with it except that there are too many holes."

Anne was furious, copied the small mirror from nowhere, and smashed it on Zheng Xiu's head.

Boom, Zheng Xiu's head was crooked, but he ignored it, as if he was in deep thought, and continued to say to himself: "It's the wrong way to open it." ”

"yes, it's not the right way to open it."

"In short, your password...... was changed. ”

Annie: "Ah??? ”

Zheng Xiu's eyes flashed, recalling the "password" that had only appeared once.

The "password" he had known for a long time.

……

[Please turn to page 13,674 of the rule book.] 】

[See the penultimate line.] 】

……

"Thirteen thousand six hundred seventy-four."

Zheng Xiu's body floated on the surface of the sphere, starting with "1", and quickly found the corresponding "fragment".

The pitch-black hand covers the surface, and the "correction" is activated. The "Thirteenth Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy-Four" cube was slightly raised, and the delicate arc made the piece look like a knob.

Make five counterclockwise rotations.

Click.

There was a click, and there was a sound like a delicate gear snapping into it. The "Emperor" peels off layer by layer, and the outermost layer decomposes with it, revealing the second layer inside.

Anne's eyes straightened: "Huh? ”

"Sure enough," Zheng Xiu smiled: "Next is ......"

Seven thousand four hundred fifty-six.

Make four counterclockwise rotations.

"Emperor" unraveled another layer.

In fact, when Zheng Xiu recalled a little and found that the string of "numbers" was imprinted in his memory at all, he knew that this must be the "password". Otherwise, he wouldn't have remembered the information that had only appeared once.

From the very beginning, someone handed over the "password" that could be useful at this moment, at this moment, here, and here, into Zheng Xiu's hands.

Generous!

Great Terror!

Layer 3 encryption.

Twenty-one thousand and twenty.

Make three counterclockwise turns.

Annie: "Huh?? ”

Fourth floor.

Three hundred and twenty-five.

Make two counterclockwise rotations.

Annie: "Ah??? ”

Nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.

"Counterclockwise ......"

Zheng Xiu entered the depths of "encryption" layer by layer, and in a trance, his action made him inadvertently think of the process of "candle" finding the scorching sun and entering the "scorching sun".

Zheng Xiu's hand was on the last knob, and at the end of the last, he suddenly felt a sense in his heart and looked back.

It turned out that in the process of his "decryption", the collapse of "Seven Hearts Town" accelerated, and only a small piece of barely standing was left under everyone's feet. The people standing on the cracked island, as Zheng Xiu unscrewed every layer of encryption, the clothes, demeanor, and age on their bodies changed rapidly as if they had been swept by time.

"We ......"

The people in shock suddenly realized in their hearts.

Xi'er smiled: "It seems to ...... I'm going back. ”

Jun Bu smiled: "My shop!" ”

The old doctor was paralyzed on the ground, and he burst into tears with excitement: "The old man's waist! ”

Qing 13 and Ji Hongrong glanced at each other, and the hand that was still holding in the last second quietly separated. "Lao Pei, borrow a fire." Qing 13 scraped a flint on Pei Gaoya's face, lit a dry smoke, and took a deep breath.

The strange white-haired little Lori sat on the ground with her ass.

Zheng Xiu's gaze swept over everyone's faces one by one, and seeing this, he was finally convinced. His "red dot world" is the world line that has made the biggest mistake and should not exist because of his willfulness.

Every time it is decrypted, it rotates counterclockwise, which means ...... He's turning back time, he's "fixing" the mistakes he's made.

Can Fengbei come back?

No.

Even if he corrected everything, Fengbei would not be able to come back. Because, Fengbei is truly "detached".

Zheng Xiu's tail finger trembled slightly, all this was also expected by "that one"?

In the end, Zheng Xiu's gaze fell on the figure standing alone in the corner, looming and disappearing at any time, and it seemed so out of place with other people. At the end of Zheng Xiu's vision at this moment, it was the gray hair, the face full of wind and frost, and finally, the relieved and kind gaze.

"I ......"

In an instant, a thousand words came out of Zheng Xiu's heart, as if he had a lot to say. But when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say a word, and he was speechless.

"Resurrect a man...... Is it hard? ”

Zheng Xiu asked Anne with a wide open mouth in an empty tone.

"It's not hard." Although Anne was stunned for a long time, she still maintained the most basic elegance and immediately replied: "But you have also seen the consequences, to 'resurrect' a person will produce a series of logical errors. But it is very simple to recreate an 'identical' 'Zheng Haoran'. Anne had been by Zheng Xiu's side for so long, and when Zheng Xiu asked this question, she understood Zheng Xiu's thoughts, she looked at Zheng Haoran who was about to disappear, and wanted to say that "stupid human beings can't even abandon such a weak human nature", but when she saw Zheng Xiu's brows that were tightly twisted in pain, she couldn't speak.

Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black. I have been near humans for too long, and I have become weak.

Anne thought sullenly.

Anne patted Zheng Xiu on the shoulder: "When I regain the key and take back everything, I can easily create 'Zheng Haoran' with the same memory, the same appearance, and the same personality." But he is only 'Zheng Haoran', not your 'father'. ”

Seeing that Zheng Xiu was silent, Anne comforted again: "Of course, it's okay. Big deal, it's a whole 'red point' again. ”

Zheng Xiu ignored Anne and looked at Zheng Haoran.

Father and son, looking at each other in the air.

Both of them had a thousand words, but they looked at each other without words.

Zheng Haoran suddenly smiled, and slowly raised his calloused fist towards Zheng Xiu.

"Hoo ......"

Zheng Haoran's actions made Zheng Xiu's heart feel as if a boulder had landed.

"You've been worried all these years, Dad."

"Who made you our son?"

Zheng Xiuyao stretched out his fist.

He vaguely felt something hit his fist.

Rumble.

The terrifying twist collapsed and squeezed the space, and the monk folded his hands, his body glowing with white light, and he grinned and was drowned in the black sea.

"Quick!"

"Reboot! They can't get in there, and there's no need, so I'll get in with you! ”

Anne urged.

Zheng Xiu unscrewed the last codon, and a dazzling light suddenly lit up in the originally empty encryption core, and a door faintly appeared in the whirlpool of light.

Anne hurriedly grabbed Zheng Xiu into the whirlpool. As soon as she passed through the whirlpool, Anne changed her normal routine and let out a bitter laugh, transforming into a bewitching and elegant catwoman, her arms outstretched, as if waiting for something.

Before Zheng Xiu could familiarize himself with the place behind the whirlpool, behind him, huge ripples swayed silently in the void, and from the ripples, the end of the thick pipe with seven-colored sharp interfaces was inserted into Zheng Xiu's back without warning.

In the blink of an eye, Zheng Xiu's back was full of tubes, and severe pain hit, and a massive amount of information poured into Zheng Xiu's brain.

On the contrary, Anne's side was quite quiet.

Lord Anne looked at the pipes behind her in a daze, and the illusory tubes flowed into Zheng Xiu's body in various colors.

I was stunned for a while.

The great Lord Anne tilted her neck and showed a look of disbelief: "Ah???? ”