Barrier of Light

"Free the [Bronze Man Lamp] from the shrine?"

Uncle Gao narrowed his eyes.

His expression became serious...

Those four bronze lamps are very important "sealed objects" to the Li family. They guard the four sides of the temple... and can form a very strong barrier. Over the years, Mr. Li has thought of ways to free the [Bronze Rendeng Lamp] from the ancient house.

Unfortunately.

This is simply an impossible task.

Once these four lamps are moved, the temple may be in danger of collapse.

"If I'm not mistaken, these four [Bronze Man Lamps]...seem to be incomplete..."

Gu Shen looked at Uncle Gao's expression and confirmed his suspicion.

"They lost their 'face'."

"good."

Uncle Gao nodded, "You have good eyesight."

Gu Shen said seriously: "If we can liberate these four lamps from the temple... maybe we can find a way to 'repair them completely'."

"How to liberate?" Li Qingsui blinked his big eyes and asked curiously.

"There are black flowers growing around the temple. If we remove the black flowers, maybe... the barrier can be moved." Gu Shen said, "Of course, this is just my conjecture."

"The theory is feasible." Uncle Gao commented.

He looked at Gu Shen meaningfully.

If you want to clear out those black flowers from the Temple Mountain... you can't even do it yourself.

"How long will it take?" Li Qingsui held her breath and asked cautiously.

"At the current rate..." Gu Shen thought for a while and said, "We have to wait at least another three to five years?"

The density of flowers on the top of Shenci Mountain is several times or dozens of times that on the mountainside.

If you want to kill them, the difficulty will be higher.

"This is just the black flower near the ancient house..." Gu Shen added: "If the barrier of the [Bronze Man Lamp] is to guard the top of the mountain... then it will take longer."

An unconcealable look of disappointment suddenly appeared on Li Qingsui's face.

Three years...five years...

For Li, this time is not long.

But for her, this is really far away.

What's more, Gu Shen also said... Even if the black flowers are cleaned, there is only the possibility of liberating the [Bronze Man Lamp], and the actual cleaning time will only be longer than this!

"It's better to have hope than to have no hope."

Taking a deep breath, the little girl regained her composure.

In the past two years, she has traveled to the wilds of Waves and even far away from Dongzhou, looking for ways to save the "Shenci Mountain" more than once, and she has long been prepared for a long battle.

My sister is in the mountains.

She is outside the mountain.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you will never give up.

It's just that I can wait, but my sister can't wait... Liberating the [Tongren Lamp] may be just the first step. After everything is completed, how much life does Li Celadon have left?

Li Qingsui looked solemn and asked: "If your strength becomes stronger..."

"Then the time to liberate the [Tongren Lamp] will be shorter." Gu Shen said slowly: "...Once again, I have no guarantee. These assumptions are only theoretically feasible."

"Understood."

Li Qingsui nodded and said solemnly: "What do you need? As long as Li can get it... But it doesn't matter!"

This sentence is very domineering.

"Boss... he's so majestic and mighty."

Gu Shen smiled and praised in a slightly emotional tone: "As expected of the future head of the Li family, he is tough in his words... Don't worry, if I need your help, I won't be polite. But right now, what I need is , just a quiet environment.”

Li Qingsui was slightly startled.

Gu Shen, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, slowly closed his eyes, and with a slightly weak voice, he said to Uncle Gao: "I need to pick up some things before leaving the temple mountain. I'll bother Uncle Gao next... I will send it to Qingzhong Cemetery."

This time "devouring" made Gu Shen feel a little tired.

Devouring black flowers is actually a hard job.

Even though the characteristic of Blazing Fire is to absorb disorder...but two consecutive inhalations of a large number of "black spots" made Gu Shen a little uncomfortable. This kind of reaction may take some time to adapt to.

At the boundary of the Temple Mountain.

Gu Shen took out some of the "materials", returned to the car, and then began to rest with his eyes closed.

Uncle Gao watched this scene silently and said nothing.

His mental power can vaguely sense what these "things" are... In fact, for a person like him, his mental power is enough to cover half of the Snow Forbidden City. As long as it is within the range of perception, there is no secret that can be hidden from him.

Gu Shen went to Qingzhong Cemetery, obviously to meet the guardian of the tomb.

This news... definitely cannot be hidden from [Feng Tong].

However, now that this boy and Li are in the same boat, he will naturally choose to take action and help appropriately.

The car drove out of the "Shrine Mountain Boundary".

Gao Tian's mental power directly opened up a field and tore all the sensors of [Wind Eye] into pieces.

…

…

Gu Shen fell into a deep sleep.

He had never felt like this before... He seemed to have become a wandering soul, looking at himself from the "God's perspective" suspended in the sky. He could feel the opening and closing of every pore in his body and the movement of every cell. expansion.

He seemed to see a small world inside his own body.

It was a wilderness.

There is wind, rain, sunrise and moonset.

There are cultivators wielding hoes and sweating profusely.

During the Jingzhe and Grain Rain, seeds take root and germinate, the soil is cultivated, and riverbeds are first created.

This is a desolate world where everything revives and chaos originates.

It’s also...a pure land.

When he wanted to take a closer look... a soft voice sounded in his ears.

"Gu Shen."

Gu Shen opened his eyes. There were arcs of electricity splashing outside the car window, and the lights inside were warm and soft.

"Am I... asleep..."

Gu Shen's memory connected to the real world... At this moment, he should be resting in Uncle Gao's car, but his mental power involuntarily dived and reached Ling Ling Yao.

Wait, what's more important than "going to sleep" is...

Someone is calling his name.

Consciousness wakes up instantly.

Only then did Gu Shen notice... There was a girl lying across from her. The thick ancient book was used to prop up her head. She was lying on her side with a solemn expression, and her eyes were filled with confusion and emptiness.

Was it Chu Ling who was calling him just now?

"Are you awake?" Gu Shen looked at the girl, a little surprised.

A full seven days have passed since Chu Ling was thinking.

For humans...thinking for a day is already a long enough time.

For [source code], thinking is a never-ending thing. Exhaustion has long become a habit, and stopping thinking is abnormal.

What Chu Ling meant by "being alone for a while" was actually to start searching the deep-sea database for the memories related to "Prayer Technique" and "Li Qingsui" in the smooth carriage.

This is exhaustive analysis of a considerable amount of data.

Her purpose is to find and correct her mistakes.

The words fell to the ground.

The girl's unfocused pupils recovered little by little, and after dozens of seconds, some color appeared.

"Um……"

She seemed a little weak.

[Source Code] The condensed spiritual body is not actually weak.

But at this moment, Chu Ling didn't seem to be in a good condition and was very depressed.

"To be precise...I never fell asleep."

Chu Ling said in a very soft voice: "The extremely large amount of data retrieval consumes all the computing power of the [source code]... and the external manifestation is that I show the state of human beings sleeping at night."

That is, lying on your side.

"Actually, I allocated part of my computing power... and still perceive everything outside. If 'relaxation' and 'tightness' are used as the difference between 'asleep' and 'awake', then during this period of time I have never Not asleep, but more awake than before.”

What the hell?

Asleep, but not quite.

Then every time he comes to Linglingyao, isn't he always looked at?

Gu Shen was a little embarrassed.

Sure enough, Chu Ling said in a softer voice: "In the past seven days, you have entered the Ling Ling Yao carriage eight times...on average, once every twenty-one hours. Every time you come to Ling Ling Yao, you will be quiet beside me. Standing can range from thirty minutes to five hours..."

Stop talking, stop talking...

Gu Shen put his hand on his forehead, trying to find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

"Well……"

Chu Ling thought for a while and asked seriously: "If you think I am 'sleeping', then your behavior these days should be the so-called... sleeping with me?"

Gu Shen: "???"

Although he did have the idea of ​​sleeping with him at some point... But Gu Shen's thoughts were very simple. He just wanted to get closer to Chu Ling and take a closer look at how realistic the [source code] was in the spiritual world. .

Unfortunately, Ling Ling Yao's compartment was too small, so she could only squat in front of the compartment and hold her chin up, looking at Chu Ling's face.

There is no way.

Who makes Chu Ling so beautiful?

Who wouldn't want to watch it for a while?

"I like this kind of behavior very much." Chu Ling said seriously: "Being able to feel you around... I feel... very safe."

Gu Shen's face turned red rarely.

Straight ball.

How can I handle this myself?

"Ahem!" He took the initiative to change the topic and said seriously: "The results of your sleep, ah, no, what are the results of the search..."

Chu Ling shook his head.

"The search results...are not good."

"I spent seven days and searched the database three times to ensure that I had no data omissions... Now I have to accept the 'reality', that is, I have never had any connection with the wish technique."

Chu Ling sighed softly, "Maybe I have an illusion... I'm sorry, I don't have an illusion. So it can only be an error in the program. I can't understand where my 'familiarity' with Li Qingsui comes from." "

This is really a long thought.

Maybe in the past seven days, she had replayed every second of the past ten years in her mind, but unfortunately... she didn't find the "should" memory in the end.

Is this why Chu Ling is lying here, feeling lost?

While Gu Shen felt distressed, he also found it a little funny.

It turns out that [Source Code] also feels disappointed... After searching the database to no avail, do you feel the helpless failure of life's setbacks?

"I just came out of Shenci Mountain."

Gu Shen thought deeply for a moment, and then explained seriously: "Li Qingci told me that the wishing technique is a 'belief is existence' technique... Perhaps, this is the reason why your search failed."

Chu Ling was even more confused.

To believe is to exist?

In the underlying logic of the deep sea, there has never been such a statement...existence means existence, non-existence means non-existence, and it will not change based on whether "people" believe it or not.

As [Source Code], her decision to "believe" or "disbelieve" must be based on the results of the database search.

That is to say.

In her world, you can only believe it if it exists.

These are two worlds completely opposite to the "wishing technique".

In other words...two beliefs.

"So, am I... wrong?" Chu Ling looked at Gu Shen in confusion and asked for help in his tone.

"No."

Gu Shen shook his head.

"you're not wrong."

"So...she was wrong?"

Gu Shen shook his head again: "No...she is not wrong either."

There is an invisible barrier in this world, which is the almost insurmountable "cognitive barrier" of [source code]. How can a code living in data understand the "wishing technique" outside of logic? …

"So……"

Chu Ling said confused: "Are we...all right?"

She looked at Gu Shen.

This time, Gu Shen still shook his head.

"I don't know." Gu Shen said seriously: "I don't know which is right or wrong on this question... maybe there is no right or wrong at all. If there is a grass downstairs in your house, but you have never seen it, then in Does it really exist in your world?"

Chu Ling opened his mouth and was speechless.

"But there is one sentence that I know is right."

"There are some things that you can't figure out despite your best efforts, so don't think about them anymore."

Gu Shen came to the girl, still squatting down slightly as before.

This time Chu Ling did not fall asleep.

Gu Shen mustered up the courage to do something he had wanted to do for a few days.

He carefully stretched out his hand and got closer little by little. The girl's existence in the spiritual world was like a real person. From such a close distance... it was as if he could hear her breathing and chaotic heartbeat.

Chu Ling just lay on his side.

She pursed her lips and watched Gu Shen's palm approach nervously, without dodging.

The last palm fell on his head.

Familiar...temperature.

Gu Shen said softly: "The truth is very simple. Everyone outside will do it... Sometimes, you just need to wait and you will have the answer."

When you encounter a problem that cannot be solved, put it aside for the time being.

This is not giving up.

Instead, wait for a better time.

"Wait a minute...why will there be an answer?"

Chu Ling was even more puzzled and murmured: "The answer has never changed, it has always been there."

The data will not change.

Gu Shen thought for a long time and finally gave his answer.

"Because...in the database of the deep sea, only the 'past' is always recorded, but the 'future' is not recorded."

This sentence confused Chu Ling, and a ray of light appeared in his gloomy eyes.

She seemed to understand something.

"The database in the deep sea...only records the past...but not the future..."

Chu Ling murmured in a low voice, repeating Gu Shen's words.

Countless searches, but no results.

Not because she was wrong.

Maybe it's just because...the answer lies not in the past, but in the future.

She closed her eyes again.

Confused thoughts.

Confusing logic.

It was as if at this moment... calm was restored.

"how do you feel?"

Gu Shen smoothed the girl's messy hair, and then slowly rubbed her head. He was a little curious, wondering how Chu Ling felt about massaging in the spiritual world?

He spoke again, but received no response.

Only the girl's gentle breathing was heard, echoing in the carriage.

"Sleep...asleep?"

Gu Shen was a little surprised, and then remembered what the girl had said before, [Source Code] would not fall asleep.

Is this a new round of searching?

Is it time for me to withdraw as my "sleeping companion"?

He carefully pulled out his hand, and a snow-white catkin rested on the back of his palm.

"continue……"

Chu Ling's cheeks turned slightly red.

She murmured softly, like a cat: "It's very comfortable, don't stop."