268: In the clouds
At this time, the Yunjian Mountain Gate thousands of miles away from the exit of the crack.
The reason why this place is called Yunjian is because on the top of the clouds, there is a sinking mountain stream, and there is only one person living alone in the entire mountain gate, and it is an elder of their mountain gate.
And this elder has been in retreat since 100 years ago, and has never stepped out of a mountain stream in these 100 years. At this time, it was clear that it was night, but the mountain stream was full of glow, and there were white cranes flying in the sky.
In the distance, a little disciple rang the bell and drum: "Elder Lu is out of the customs!" ”
Lu Xingzhi opened his eyes in this series of sounds, walked out of the cave where he lived, and looked up at the vast starry sky.
He hadn't been back for a long time, and he couldn't say that, after all, his body and main divine consciousness had been asleep for the past hundred years, and he had just gone to the other world in his doppelganger.
The iQue is only a hundred years old, but I don't know why, Lu Xingzhi always feels that this world is not the same as what he knows, but he can't tell what is different.
Lu Xingzhi flew away from the mountain stream, he could feel that his "baby" apprentice had left the gap, and he would have a lot of dreams at night, so it was better to bring it back early for the apprenticeship.
After all, Lu Xingzhi is an elder in the clouds, and since he has appeared, he must always come out, and he should also notify the sect to prepare for the apprenticeship ceremony.
His seniority is high enough, and all the way through, there are "disciples" who bow their heads and bow down, calling him "Uncle Ancestor".
Lu Xingzhi stopped in front of the mountain gate hall, and he suddenly understood that something was wrong. The voices of the disciples were high, and the sound of kneeling around them was also clear, but other than that, there was not the slightest sound of breathing.
He pressed his forehead, wondering if he had been distracted for too long, so he had some abnormal hallucinations. When he looked around, he could see many disciples kneeling on the ground and saluting him to greet him at the end of his retreat......
But...... Why are these disciples so eye-catching? Or maybe he can't remember the faces of these people at all?
Lu Xingzhi's expression gradually became confused, this is not right, why are these people not angry, they all look like fakes? He reached out and pinched one of the people's shoulders, and the disciple looked up at him, seemingly stunned.
After a hundred years of soul separation, coupled with special skills, Lu Xingzhi is most familiar with everyone's soul. But this disciple ...... There is no soul.
Lu Xingzhi quietly stretched out his hand, and then put it on the top of the other person's head. This is still a soulless man.
How so?
After all, the Cloud Mountain Gate was Lu Xingzhi's ancestor, and it was impossible for him not to care. After Lu Xingzhi tested a few people, his eyes were even more angry, and he walked directly into the main hall with his sleeves flicked up.
Now the sect master of the Yunjian Mountain Gate is named Chu Xichen, and he is now hundreds of years old, and he looks like a white-haired old immortal from the outside.
The moment he saw Lu Xingzhi, Chu Xichen bowed down and bowed, "Uncle Shi." ”
Lu Xingzhi looked at Chu Xichen and stretched out his hand to help the person up, in the short touch he could be sure that Chu Xichen had an independent soul.
Lu Xingzhi's expression was slightly relaxed, and then he sank again: "Chu Xichen, where is the disciple's soul?" ”
Chu Xichen didn't seem to expect Lu Xingyi to open his mouth with such a question, so he asked rhetorically for some reason: "Uncle Shi, what does this mean?" ”
Lu Xingzhi's expression was even more unkind: "All the disciples outside the hall only have bodies and no souls!" ”
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Song Yu and Nanshi walked down the cliff, and when they came to the nearest town, it was already completely night. The deserted town suddenly lit up at night.
Song Yu subconsciously stopped, even though the lights were bright, the town was still empty and there was no one in the town. Only...... It's kind of like a ghost town.
Although Song Yu had seen all kinds of weirdness in this game, he still felt strange in his heart when he encountered such a city, he subconsciously leaned towards Xie Nanshi, and asked without words: "What does your Heavenly Dao look like?" ”
Xie Nanshi glanced sideways at Song Yu, the two originally walked forward side by side, but at this moment, Xie Nanshi deliberately took half a step forward, and habitually protected Song Yu behind him: "I don't know...... I don't remember. ”
Although this answer was expected by Song Yu, he couldn't help but show a mask of pain, and he couldn't help but even overpower the fear just now: "Is there any scope then?" Don't you know what it is? ”
Xie Nanshi shook his head innocently.
What horror story is this? These are two worlds, looking for a heavenly dao that I don't know what it looks like, and letting it run again, looking for a needle in a haystack is more likely than this.
Since it is the "Heavenly Dao", that is, the wisdom brain born in the game, it must have its own differences, and it should even have given birth to its own will and thoughts.
Honestly out of this world
The degree of freedom of the PC is very high, and the sense of realism is too strong, so it's not easy to find a special existence......
Song Yu thought of a person, the nameless one he met in the Demon Cave. He was undoubtedly special and should have been erased
PC, but it exists in that form.
Thinking of this, Song Yu's footsteps paused slightly, and he asked with some hesitation: "Is it possible that your Heavenly Dao is a person?" ”
Xie Nanshi was stunned for a moment, and didn't seem to expect such an option, but after thinking for a while, he still gave an affirmative answer: "It's possible." ”
The Heavenly Dao in his impression was indeed a creature that could communicate and had its own thoughts.
"Okay." The confusion about the road ahead has overridden the fear of the unknown. In short, when walking on the empty and brightly lit streets, Song Yu could already be calm in his heart.
After all, this is the hometown of the "strange ghost", and the two have just arrived, although there doesn't seem to be a living person here, but for the sake of prudence, neither of them plans to continue to explore at night, but find an inn to live in. In fact, they had thought about living outside the town at first, but Song Yu felt that the lifeless outside of the town was not safer than in the town, and since they wanted to explore the world, it was a matter of time before they entered the city.
The stay was proposed by Song Yu, and it was best to live according to common sense until you figured out the rules and tasks of this world.
Not to mention, except for the absence of a shopkeeper and a shopkeeper, this inn is no different from an ordinary inn. The room was equipped with brand new bedding and even boiling hot water in the kettle.
This was really thoughtful, which made Song Yu feel creepy, as if there was someone serving here, and he even suspected that he was asking the shopkeeper to bring a basin of bath water at this time, and after a while, there would be an extra basin of bath water in the room.
Song Yu thought seriously: "I don't know if the daily consumption here is a silver ......."
It should be used, even if there are spirit stones in the cultivation realm, it is impossible to use them to the point that they are needed in every store. He decided to leave more room at the counter when he "checked out" tomorrow. Although the system space is gone, Xie Nanshi has lost a lot of strange beasts in the gaps, and he has picked up a lot along the way, so fortunately, he is here. No matter how you look at it, it's enough to pay for this room.
Thankfully, the gap had torn their bodies and their storage bags, but some sturdy items had been left inside, such as gold and silver.
Maybe another person will feel that no one is watching anyway, and there is no need to pay for the room. But Song Yu remembered that in the world on the other side of "Seeing the Gods", if you eat white food, you will be arrested and sent to the government, and I don't know if a similar punishment will be triggered on this side. He didn't want to turn back and suddenly be teleported to an empty prison.
It was different from Song Yu's doubts. Xie Nanshi carefully inspected the surroundings as soon as he entered the house. After all, after changing his body, Xie Nanshi is now the most basic level like Song Yu, without any cultivation. For the sake of safety, Xie Nanshi set up another defensive array after making sure that there was no abnormality in the room.
Song Yu Insight Nanshi combined the divine consciousness cultivated in "iQue" with the basic spell formation, and silently gave a thumbs up.
To be on the safe side, the two decided to take turns keeping vigil.
"I'll keep watch for the first half of the night, and you keep watch for the second half of the night." Song Yu is not sleepy at this time, and is ready to communicate with customer service about the situation.
Xie Nanshi nodded, sat cross-legged on the bed, and still replaced sleep with cultivation. It's just that this time it's "iQue" that is cultivating.
Song Yu sat by the window, poured himself a cup of tea, and harassed Ye Jiao while drinking tea: Since it is the core of the system, you can't locate it at all from reality?
Ye Jiao: ...... In fact, before that, our company didn't know that there was a brain in this game.
After all, if this kind of super AI really exists, it is a core secret for any company, and I am afraid that only a very small number of people in the team who are involved in the development know about it. No...... Maybe only Xie Nanshi alone knows.
Song Yu turned the teacup, he was used to the "uselessness" of Anshi Technology, but he didn't believe that he really couldn't find any useful value: the smart brain you developed yourself, the people in your own company don't know? Can't find any traces from the outside?
Ye Jiao: Is there a possibility? Before the coma, the brain was not fully developed, but as far as I understand, the brain should be able to grow on its own. The reason why Mr. Xie insisted on looking for the brain at this time may be that he subconsciously felt that the brain should have grown to the point where it could drive the normal operation of the game world.
Song Yu: Since it exists, there must be traces, as for how to find it, that's your problem.
Ye Jiao paused for a moment before replying: Now most of the employees that Mr. An can mobilize are maintaining the normal operation of the game, and they can only take the time to track down, and there is no guarantee that they can be accurately located, and they will try to give you an area range. In addition, the technical department has rushed to restore the ratio of in-game and out-of-game time. You still have three months left, and if you haven't found the core, you can always be forced to quit the game if you reconcile.
Song Yu: No problem!
Song Yu originally planned to count on how much help the outside world could provide, and his harassment of customer service was nothing more than a little benefit. It's better to have a range than for them to run around in two worlds. The better news, of course, is that the time scale has been restored, and you can finally not worry about the world falling apart in the next moment.