Barrier of Light

Speaking of Chu Ling.

Jing Shanyan's withered and aging face could not help but show a look of pride, like a child who had not grown up. This was the most important thing he had ever done in his life.

He kept this secret for twenty years.

Nagano, Xuelong, Handang... In the past twenty years, countless forces and countless people have been exploring, and they all want to know how valuable this first-generation Grand Inquisitor who has climbed to the top of the world is willing to pay the price of his life to protect. What a huge truth can be implicated in a secret.

But they would never imagine it.

Jing Shanyan's secret will be this...

"You, have a good rest."

Gu Shen couldn't bear to let Jingshan Yan talk any more.

After saying so many words in one breath, the old man's breath became urgent again. His life was passing quickly. Gu Shen started counting down from the moment he entered the frozen lake, but now is the real countdown.

Jing Shanyan probably only has the last few minutes of his life left.

anyway.

He didn't even have the chance to leave this icy lake and look at the sunshine above.

At the last moment, Gu Shen wanted to make the old man's life more comfortable, so he tried his best to unfold the "Fire of Life" and opened up a warm realm in the 500-meter cold pool of the frozen lake, with eight floors and three floors. The "Fire Realm" of the Extraordinary Realm is only an embryo now, but it is more than enough to cover the old and young people who rely closely on each other.

Jing Shanyan had endured a lifetime of severe cold and torture, and finally felt the warmth in the final stage. The expression on his face became relaxed and comfortable, but his voice did not stop.

"Let me... go on..."

He wanted to go on.

As people get older, they become more stubborn.

For the past twenty years, he stubbornly said nothing.

And now.

He stubbornly wanted to say everything.

Gu Shen's lips moved, but he hesitated to speak. Finally, he hummed softly from his nose.

"The Star Project... is just a cover."

Jing Shanyan murmured: "Those idiots in the Federation... they will never know what we want to do..."

He smiled mockingly.

these years.

The exploration and torture of him by various forces all revolved around the "Star Project".

But the truth... is actually far simpler than they imagined.

This is a scam.

"As you know, the evolution of the deep sea requires a lot of computing power, and [source code] is no exception. If you want to restart it, just having Turing's array box as hardware support is not enough..."

Jing Shanyan said softly: "If Chu Ling's consciousness wants to submerge in the deep water area and iterate silently, it always needs a part of independent computing power for startup. If that massacre had not happened, we would have had more time to prepare. , we could have done without sacrifice.”

Gu Shen was stunned.

We could have done without the sacrifice.

"It all happened so suddenly."

Jing Shanyan recalled the scene from twenty years ago. Perhaps it was because the scene twenty years ago was too heart-wrenching, or perhaps because this long life was about to come to an end. The old man's eyes began to become blurred, and his voice gradually became muddy: "The [Deep Sea] main system's methods are chilling. Its vision of selecting 'teammates' is extremely ruthless. After being approved by the parliament, the secret order to annihilate the ancient literary society was directly sent to the hands of Gu Lushen and Zhao Xilai. These two young men It wasn’t famous at that time…”

Gu Lushen, Zhao Xilai.

These two names, twenty years later, represented the peaks of the two major factions of Dongzhou, Jiangbei and Jiangnan respectively.

"The killing mission was launched in Nagano and Dadu. Zhao and Gu completed the [Deep Sea] dispatch mission in a very short period of time... nearly a hundred suspected criminals were captured and detained."

"Because the main system has absolute authority, except for high-level members who have independent database registrations, the grassroots level of Dongzhou Classical Literature Society was uprooted almost overnight. In the past few days, we also held an online meeting , discuss how to restore the [source code] operation..."

Jing Shanyan's voice was bitter: "It wasn't until the end of the killing mission that I, as the chief judge, learned that a big operation had taken place. [Deep Sea] planned everything. It selectively carried out operations on unidentified 'suspicious characters' In order to conceal it, the relevant information about the 'Suppression of Ancient Literature Society' was tightly concealed. That night, only those on the whitelist who were absolutely safe were eligible to participate in the parliamentary vote."

When Gu Shen heard this, he was completely silent.

The absolutely rational [Deep Sea] main system, after it determined that the "Ancient Literature Society" had betrayed mankind, all its reactions... were terrifying. This is an invincible opponent that can control everyone within the five continents. things.

It can control tens of millions of eyes at the same time.

Also has billions of arms.

The most terrifying thing is...it seems that since its second evolution, it has begun to understand "human nature" and control "human nature".

"Due to the 'Stars Project', I have obtained the supreme authority specially approved by the Supreme Council. The [Deep Sea] has just completed its second upgrade. There is no way to refuse the mission order I performed."

Jingshan said: "I took the secret mission order of the 'Stars' and with the highest authority, forcibly interfered with the arrangements of [Deep Sea]. The main system originally wanted to arrange for Gu Qilin to be responsible for mental torture... I was in the tundra area. These people all took it.”

"You should know what happens next."

Many people know what happened next——

Twenty years ago, Jing Shanyan took away the captured members of the Ancient Literature Society in Dongzhou and temporarily imprisoned them in the experimental cabin on the grounds of the need of the "Stars Project"... As the chief judge of the prison, He conducted simulated experiments on these death row inmates.

But unexpectedly, something went wrong in the experiment.

All the "suspects" who were originally going to be interrogated "died" in this experiment.

thereafter.

Jingshan Yan remained silent about what happened.

No one knows... what a tragic and heroic light burned in the ground that night.

[Deep Sea] has launched a massacre. It successfully drove Turing out of the five continents, and also successfully uprooted the Ancient Chinese Society from the "eyesight" of this land.

If you want to revive [Source Code] Chu Ling, this is the last and only chance.

The first night of massacre destroyed the exposed foundation of the Gu Wen Society.

The subsequent massacre lasted for several years.

The pillars that once supported the ancient literature society have also fallen one after another in the long liquidation game in [Deep Sea], such as Lu Cheng in Dadu...

Jing Shanyan didn't know how long his position as "Grand Judge" could last in this harsh and ruthless massacre.

But what he knew was.

He was excluded from the "big killing" meeting, which means that [Deep Sea] has included him in the list of suspects.

"I should have made the right choice. Even if I could hold back at that time, I wouldn't be able to hold on for long in the future."

Jing Shanyan said softly: "It has begun to doubt me..."

About those comrades who were arrested.

He has never doubted the "determination" of these people. It's just that [Deep Sea]'s methods are not something normal people can resist.

The federal government has ten thousand ways to deal with low-level extraordinary beings.

The simplest and crudest is the high-level mental system, which directly performs hypnosis and forcibly extracts information.

Trying to keep a secret, only determination, is useless.

You also need to have strength.

then……

"That night, there were a total of seventy-three members of Dongzhou Jiangbei, Jiangnan, and Ancient Literature Society. They decided to carry out the real 'Stars Project'."

Jing Shanyan lowered his eyebrows and said with a smile: "After connecting to the spiritual network of the array box, these seventy-three extraordinary people sat in the link cabin. They willingly carried out spiritual transportation. After uploading their consciousness, they burned their own Soul, as the starting computing power of [source code]... That day, Chu Ling re-awakened in the deep water network. If you want to see the light in the darkness, you often only need a small ray of fire, and these people are The first ray of the beginning.”

Gu Shen listened quietly.

"So... what Han Dang did was actually stupid, right?"

Jing Shanyan said with a smile: "He thought this was some great plan, the last home for mankind to fight against the ultimate disaster... In fact, these were all lies I made up to the federal government..."

"So, there is no 'spiritual oasis' or 'barrier'..."

Gu Shen murmured softly: "The consciousness of these people is not directly 'ascended', but uploaded to the closed network of the array box..."

Han Dang forcibly captured Jing Shanyan's spirit in the realm of [Truth].

The big shots in Dongzhou have already tried this method.

It's just that they all failed. With a title of Jingshanyan's level, even the [Apostle] with a token may not be able to read the effective messages in the spiritual sea when his will is extremely firm.

Or, Jing Shanyan cannot be hypnotized.

Or, the information obtained is confusing.

The information Han Dang got was a lie...

He is a madman.

He made up a nothingness that he believed in, and used [truth] to make it come true.

After seeing through the [truth], Jingshanyan decided to use the same method to deal with Handang, so...Handang, guided by Jingshanyan's "lies", committed a crazy act of uploading everyone.

"I am... the Grand Judge of Nagano..."

A sly smile appeared in Jing Shanyan's eyes again: "You can decide whether to 'destroy' or 'keep' the spirit in the array box... As long as the physical body is still there, they still have a chance to go back... That box, I’m buried in…an interesting place.”

He leaned close to Gu Shen's ear and slowly told the location.

"...cough cough cough!"

The old man was ready to continue talking.

But then, there was another violent cough.

He coughed out scarlet bloodshot threads, which spread in the cold water wrapped in the fire of life, like little snakes swimming around.

"senior……"

Gu Shen summoned the jet-black flame between his eyebrows.

Jing Shanyan handed over the biggest secret in his life to him.

And this moment.

Gu Shen no longer hid.

This wisp of black fire was very tiny, only a strand as thick as a hair... But after it appeared, the frozen lake with a radius of 100 meters became "trembling". After the [Children] attack, there was no life here. , but after all, there were nearly a hundred extraordinary beings stored in the [Jade King Realm], and [Children] turned them all into powder.

As for the power of "Underworld Fire" to attract life, even if the bodies of these "undead" are only powder, they will still be deterred.

"This is……"

Huge shock appeared on Jing Shanyan's old cheeks, and he looked at Gu Shen absentmindedly.

"Underworld Fire..."

"yes."

Gu Shen said softly: "The Pluto from twenty years ago is dead, and now the fire is in my hands."

The phrase "in my hands" is actually not appropriate.

Because the main body of "Underworld Fire" is still hidden in the cemetery, and is secretly guarded by Mr. Bai Shu.

Gu Shen has not yet cultivated to the point where he can blend with the "underworld fire".

However, Jingshanyan's time was running out and he could not allow Gu Shen to explain too much.

In the past twenty years, too many things have happened in the world outside [Xuelong]...

This simple sentence is enough to make the old man understand many things.

"Your body cannot leave the frozen lake, but I can keep your spirit..." Gu Shen said sincerely: "Perhaps your life journey can continue."

"..."

Jing Shanyan looked at Gu Shen with extremely complicated eyes.

The way he looked at Gu Shen before was not like this. He just seemed to be looking at an outstanding junior, with affection and appreciation in his eyes.

After seeing "Underworld Fire".

He recalled more past events, which flashed back to countless "Turing"-related fragments.

"The underworld chose the key..."

Jing Shanyan smiled in a low voice and said, "No wonder Zhou Jiren told me that you will become a great person..."

He stretched out his palm, his old fingertips, trying to touch the flame.

Gu Shen did not avoid it.

He took off the Hell Fire. Surrounded by the blazing flames, this flame looked particularly strange.

"The Star Project... is actually not all fake. When I proposed the proposal to the federation, the words and ideas I wrote were all true..."

Jing Shanyan's fingertips hovered in front of the underworld fire.

He murmured in a dream: "If we are going to face the destruction like six hundred years ago, what should we do to preserve the fire of civilization... At that time, I felt that if I stuff my body into the ground and let my thoughts turn into stars, It’s the best way…”

At that time, everyone in Nagano felt that Kageyama Yan was a genius.

"It's just that later, I didn't think so anymore."

Jingshan Yan said with a smile: "During the twenty years in [Xue Cong], wasn't this how I lived? There are only ideal human beings left, not real human beings. Real human beings should live in the real world." So if I had to do it over again... I don't want to choose this kind of life again. Living like this is really... very tiring."

"This time, I don't want to hide underground where I can't see the light. I want to rush into the storm, even if the final fate is only destruction."

In the end, the old man did not touch the underworld fire.

He opened his arms and hugged Gu Shen slowly. His body was very thin, like a ball of dry fluff that would dissipate at any time.

Gu Shen also gently hugged the old man.

He heard Jingshan Yan speak in a slow tone, as if he was asleep.

"Let me... just end it like this..."

The deep bottom of the frozen lake is cold and lightless.

Only a flickering fire remained.

"thanks, thanks……"