Chapter 15: When Hope Lies Deep in the Ground
The collapse of an underground cave more than 200 meters deep is tantamount to a disaster for everyone present, and everyone is on the run.
"You, you'll use a solo flying machine, let's go together!" Qin Lan led a team, Zuo Yu was also beside him, and he shouted from a distance to You who was still standing in place.
You looked at Qin Lan, he once said that the people here can be trusted, they are family. But this family fell apart in an instant, he didn't want to blame Qin Lan, after all, he insisted on being sent to death alone, and he wanted them to live.
"Fight to the death, don't go. "More and more rocks and sand fell overhead, and the view was immediately completely obscured. You's voice was very low, and Qin Lan couldn't hear it. He woke up from a strange place, with no memory and no past, in fact, he could not care about anything and did not care about the persistence of the present. But he felt that he was doing the right thing, and he agreed with the persistence of the Fengshen Division in the past thousands of years, and he wanted to inherit it, if he was still alive.
"You!" A terrible scream resounded throughout the underground space, but it was quickly buried by the sand. At the moment before his sight disappeared, he saw the fairy in white rushing towards him desperately until the dust settled.
More than half of the entire underground city has collapsed, and only a small part remains. You dragged her injured body deeper into the city. In fact, most of the people didn't know what was going on, they just joined the battle without any defense, and then died in a daze. There are corpses everywhere on the ground, both members of the Divine Division and invading enemies.
"The life-sustaining system can last for a while, and all the people who are alive will come to the cutting-edge engineering department to gather!" The dark underground suddenly lit up, and it seemed that part of the power supply system had been restored! Then You saw people coming out of the ruins one after another to gather in one direction, and the voice seemed to be Xu Yuejin, the minister of the wood department who had just spoken!
You saw the rumored madman Xu in the crowd, his white coat was dusty, and there were some blood stains, but his eyes were shining with sharp light.
"I know many of you are confused, I can only tell you that we will remember all this that happened to the Divine Division, and we will not give up!" Xu Yuejin told everyone that he activated the semi-self-destruction device of the underground city, and now they are in a completely sealed underground, with a protective belt of earth and stone about several hundred meters thick around the Divine Division. But these are temporary, and they can only block those who have ill intentions for a short period of time, and even after seeing the great power of the immortals, these protections are actually no different from a thin piece of paper!
"I know that there are only a few hundred people left in our Noda family business, and I'm so proud that you haven't given up here, our home! The Advanced Engineering Department has all the research results of the Wood Department, and as long as it is still there, I believe that the Divine Division will have to exist. I'm a weird old man who does research, I only do research, but I hope you can listen to me, we don't have much time!" Xu Yuejin is ten decisive people, and the people around him will be more or less influenced by him. The Advanced Engineering Department is located deep underground, and most of the time Kibe researchers work here, so Kibe is the most well-preserved of the five.
The crowd at the scene began the rescue and other tasks in an organized manner. Xu Yuejin said very clearly, this is not a place to stay for a long time, even if you want to leave here, you have to rely on everyone's strength. All they have to do is take all the precious research materials and open another tunnel to transfer!
After assigning the task, Xu Yuejin was about to do his own thing, and when he turned around, he saw You covered in blood. He called two men from the rain department to bandage his wounds, and then took him to the laboratory of the advanced engineering department.
"I've read your report carefully, and while I have no way of observing the alleged source, I have some suspicions. "There are many people moving things back and forth in the laboratory, but this doesn't seem to disturb Xu Yuejin, who has entered the state, and he is really a crazy old man!
The energy that humans can see with their eyes is nothing more than fire, light, and electricity. If the source in your body is regarded as a visual energy, then it is a kind of energy that can be stored and transformed!
In the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, You depleted the source in his body, and in Xu Yuejin's opinion, You's body stored a large amount of source in advance, and this was not something that his body could recover on its own. So how can the source be replenished? Qin Shi Huang burned the souls of 300,000 Qin soldiers to obtain the source, does that mean that the soul is the source? Or is the source the carrier of the soul?
The bronze gate can absorb the source, and Xu Yuejin seems that it is the conduction of energy. The source is definitely being stored, conducted, and transformed in a special way.
Xu Yuejin has a subject in his hand that is about the soul, and the Fengshen Division is not like the outside world that cannot confirm the existence of the soul, because this place itself is where all kinds of supernatural events are handled! It's just that all the ghost souls that are caught are imprisoned in a way that they can only use but cannot understand, and those charms and the like are even passed down from the hands of immortals.
People like to attribute things they can't understand to gods and ghosts, and Xu Yuejin has always wanted to understand the internal connection between them, and You's appearance gave him an alternative way of thinking.
The soul is not ethereal, it is information and bands that are recorded on the carrier of this energy!
In the same way, wood is not fire, but you can get fire by lighting it. So since there is a source in the soul, does it mean that as long as the soul is "ignited", pure source energy can be obtained!
But the key lies in this "ignition", which is a way of using energy that humans have never mastered, and the spells that the Sealing God Division has mastered to deal with ghosts and monsters are only sealed and killed. This is equivalent to the storage and transformation of energy, but without the ability to extract and utilize. In myths and legends, demons and ghosts may be extracting source energy, but it is unrealistic to let You eat people, because the human stomach also does not have that function and mechanism!
Xu Yuejin has no shortage of "materials" in his hands, and the cutting-edge engineering department stores some of the evil ghosts and geists brought back from outside, but the existing knowledge reserves cannot find a way out for his problem.
Yu's body was recovering rapidly, but he was a human after all, and the gunshot wound in the shoulder temporarily paralyzed his left hand. But compared to the physical pain, the confusion in his heart made him feel helpless.
Qin Lan said that the Fengshen Division would be his home, but this place was always unfamiliar to him, and he looked at these people in front of him like an outsider.
He's a warrior, that's what he knows when he wakes up. Not a memory but deeply imprinted in the depths of his soul, fighting is his instinct, but not faith. He fought, did not give up, but what did he fight for?
The rest of the people were in a hurry, but they were not flustered, they all knew what they had to do, and then they were loyal to their duties, what should he do?
"Maybe I can hope to help you recover!" Xu Yuejin suddenly appeared in front of You with his messy hair, looking very excited, but he only saw a person with blank eyes.
"Euphoria, it's a pity that we don't have more time to spend together, you and I don't know each other. But as an older person, at least I have a longer memory than you. Xu Yuejin obviously realized that he was an "old man" in his 2,000s: "You are like a child now, I can see that you like it here, but the defensive psychology can't make you fully integrate into a strange environment, in fact, I can see that you are very lonely." ”
You raised his head and looked at this strange old man called "Madman", his back was dirty because of the long hours of work, and the white coat on his body was dirty, but his eyes seemed to glow, making the surroundings suddenly brighten.
"We voted once for your disposition, you are a completely incomprehensible existence in our eyes, and we are afraid of you. Xu Yuejin said frankly: "The reason why I decided to let you live was only because of your value, although it was not me who was the deciding factor in the end. ”
You is not a fool, he just has no experience, Xu Yuejin's words are not suitable for him to know in many cases, anyway, this secret is only known to Xu Yuejin now, isn't he afraid that he will hate him if he says it now?
"You don't have to tell me that. "You're curious to know why this weird old man did this.
"You should know that because your value is not owned by a certain person, some person, or an organization, you are you, and you belong only to you, but you are also a person, worthy of being loved by others, and you should learn to love others! Xu Yuejin was also relieved when he said this, he was really not suitable for this work of enlightening children.
"Family?" seemed to ask Xu Yuejin, as if he was asking himself.
"Yes, it's not just the Divine Division, every human race is a family, we fight for them! The most important thing now is to restore your combat effectiveness, the Divine Tribulation is gone, we can only rely on ourselves!"
"I need your blood to do a test, maybe there is a residual source in your blood, if you can use it as an ignition source, maybe you can ......" But before Xu Yuejin finished speaking, the whole ground suddenly shook, and it seemed that even this place was about to collapse!
"Look!" a member of the Kibe suddenly pointed outside, and that scene might be their last scene.
Countless ruins and rubble slowly rose from the ground, as if gravity had been reversed! Not only that, but the speed of those rubble rose faster and faster, and the ruin barrier hundreds of meters thick actually rose into the air as a whole! The dungeon that did not see the light of day could even see the dawn of dawn, but it was more like the glimmer of light before hell was about to close!
A white figure appeared in the center of this strange scene, her white clothes were still stained with blood, but this still couldn't stop her from being strong!
"It's too late, if faith can be used as strength, then I don't think it will be worse than those Qin soldiers, especially if you have to live!" Xu Yuejin is about to run away, as long as he has a little more time...... Be sure to succeed, even at the expense of everything!
Xu Yuejin put his hand on the wound where You was soaked in blood, if faith is the key, then what he believes will not die! The blood is warm, but it seems that what is warmer is what exists in You blood. He seemed to feel the presence of many spirits in Yuu's body, beating vigorously in Yuu's blood, and he felt that he was one of them.
In fact, when Xu Yuejin's heart touched You's blood with excitement, his body was constantly bursting with golden points of light, although rare, but it really existed, life is salary, faith is fire!
You want to get out of this state, because he saw the fate of those Qin soldiers, he can still fight, and he must not lose his "family" again, but he can't do it! His body absorbs those golden points of light like a bottomless pit, and his body gradually glows with bursts of golden light.
Those panicked researchers stopped when they saw the scene in front of them, the research results were naturally not owned by Xu Yuejin alone, they all knew what was going on, they really wanted to live, but it was better than dying in humiliation like ants!
More and more people joined Xu Yuejin and You's golden whirlpool, and they resolutely turned into golden points of light and disappeared forever.
The fairy in white noticed this scene, the familiar person in her memory, she couldn't let him go! all the gravel in the air made way for her, but it seemed a little too late.
A golden wheel of light suddenly appeared in You's chest, and those golden points of light were continuously sucked into You's body, and then converged on the golden wheel of light, but it only appeared as a phantom, as if these energies were simply not enough for it to appear.
In the blink of an eye, the fairy in white came to the place where You was standing, but in the blink of an eye, the runes on the golden light wheel lit up, and You disappeared!
The fairy in white stood still, the gravel in the air no longer under her control, and fell from the sky, and this place that had existed for thousands of years no longer existed!