Nomenclature of Night

Lin Xiaoxiao asked, "If you can resist the nightmare, why should you come in? After five minutes without sleeping, you will naturally get rid of the nightmare call."

"I thought you had something to say, so I came," Qing Chen said, "What do you want to test this time?"

"From today onwards, it's not a test, but the boss wants me to take you some distance," Lin Xiaoxiao replied.

"Take me some way?" Qing Chen wondered: "What do you mean."

"Using nightmare to evolve your humanity, let you experience some suffering," Lin Xiaoxiao said: "but you resist the nightmare so easily now, it seems that the nightmare will be useless in the future, the boss will take you personally."

Qing Chen thoughtfully.

This nightmare is different from last time, but more like a lesson arranged by the teacher for the students.

But at this time Lin Xiaoxiao said, "Don't think about it, the boss still just admires you now. In the future, you can become a student of the boss, I'm not sure."

"You envy me," Qing Chen said.

"Envy," Lin Xiaoxiao admitted frankly: "Not everyone can be a student of the boss, at least I and Ye Wan can't."

"Why?" Qing Chen puzzled.

"Because neither of us passed the first pass," Lin Xiaoxiao said, "but the boss thinks that you should be able to survive."

"Stop it?" Qing Chen was stunned for a moment.

Lin Xiaoxiao smiled mysteriously: "That's a road to death. Every time you improve yourself, you need to go through a desperate situation and feel a pain."

"Then why me?"

"Because the boss said you have the courage to put it to death and live."

"Since it is so painful, why do you still envy it?" Qing Chen asked.

"Because that is a path of practice with unlimited potential, and the upper limit of Ye Wan and I have long been destined," Lin Xiaoxiao said with a little yearning, "Although that path is painful, you must understand that you have experienced a painful life. , Will be higher."

Qing Chen didn't struggle with this question anymore, but asked other doubts: "How old is Mr. Li Shutong."

"Why are you asking this?" Lin Xiaoxiao asked strangely.

"It's okay, just ask," Qing Chen said.

He asked this because: if he came to the inner world, the time of the surface world was still relative to him, then in other words, he would be older and faster than ordinary people.

It is not that his body functions are aging fast, but that he divides his life equally between the two worlds.

By the time his peers were forty years old, he was already more than sixty years old in appearance and physical functions.

So he wanted to know whether Li Shutong's ability to transcend the commonplace could extend people's life.

Lin Xiaoxiao glanced at him: "Guess what? The age of the boss is hard to guess."

Qing Chen thought for a while and said, "40 years old?"

"Speaking of small," Lin Xiaoxiao said.

"60 years old?"

"wrong."

"120 years old?"

"Stop, stop, don't guess, guess the boss again," Lin Xiaoxiao said: "The boss is 52 years old this year."

Qing Chen was shocked at once, knowing that Li Shutong's appearance didn't look like a 35-six-year-old.

"Look at the way you have never seen the world. It is not surprising that people like the boss live to be over a hundred years old," Lin Xiaoxiao said, "We followed him when we were very young. I haven't seen him change."

"Why are you following him?" Qing Chen asked.

"There is no reason, I, Ye Wan, and many others are orphans." Lin Xiaoxiao lay on the hot sand. He put his arms under his head and looked up at the sky. The sky suddenly became dark and the air was not so hot anymore. : "You were born in the Qing family, so you don't understand how tragic the life outside is. Being an orphan is a very simple thing."

"Maybe your parents just met members of the community while walking on the road, and there was a quarrel. Maybe you just paid your salary and were targeted by someone. Maybe it was a leaked chemical material in a factory. Maybe it was a hacker attack when using a nerve to connect a virtual network. Anyway, everyone just died so casually."

"Then you can't pay the property tax, and the insurance company refuses to pay, and the bank takes your house away and drove you to the street. No one will care about your life or death."

"At that time, your life was bleak, and the community wanted to arrest you as a drug mule to transport drugs, and to abuse you more viciously and then shoot a video to make a virtual life to sell money."

"At this time, someone appears in front of you and says,'Follow me, I will give you a new life.'"

"No matter who he is, you will follow him."

Qing Chen looked at Lin Xiaoxiao quietly. Only at this moment did he understand that compared with the other's life, it turned out that his own life was nothing compared to the other's life.

"Why did he adopt you?" Qing Chen asked curiously.

"Because we are usable people," Lin Xiaoxiao said: "He can't do what he has to do alone."

Qing Chen was stunned for a moment. He still doesn't know what the goals of the so-called Knights Organization and the Spades Organization are, or what the behemoth the Spades is fighting against, is it the Big Five, or something else?

However, Li Shutong adopted Lin Xiaoxiao and Ye Wan, obviously he was thinking of using them, but Lin Xiaoxiao and the others didn't seem to mind.

Having said this, Lin Xiao laughed and stood up: "Okay, let's rest early."

The nightmare dissipated, and Qing Chen was still lying on the icy bed in the dim prison cell.

Now that he has seen Li Shutong's mysterious level, is the Canon in his hand enough to exchange for this opportunity to open the door to a new world?

Qing Chen wasn't sure whether Canon had enough weight, and he couldn't explain the source of Canon.

Wait a minute.

Waiting and hope, all human wisdom is contained in these two words.

...

Countdown 24:00:00.

In a corner of prison number 18.

"Is anyone? Let me out, why shut me here!" Someone slapped the alloy gate vigorously, shouting loudly.

Liu Dezhu, a traverser from Los Angeles, is being held in a separate cell. Unlike the cells of ordinary prisoners, there is actually a surveillance camera in this room staring at the detainees.

After he found Li Shutong for the task, he was locked in this hidden corner and no one cared about it anymore.

There is no concept of time here, and no sunrise or sunset can be seen. Liu Dezhu can only rely on the robot's meal delivery time to judge what time it is outside.

He slapped the alloy gate less and less until he didn't have any strength and his voice became a little dumb.

The prison seemed to be only himself, no one responded to his request and anger.

Liu Dezhu couldn't understand it, other people's life in the inner world is very popular, and they are mechanical limbs and members of the society. How did it become like this when he came to himself?

And before I came, I had just bragged to my classmates, saying that I was a traverser.

Waiting 24 hours to return to the watch world, what should I tell my classmates?

The students asked, what is your status in the inner world?

How should I speak?

Say that you have an iron rice bowl in an administrative unit in the world. You don't have to do anything and you have food every day?

Say you have successfully transferred? Prisoner transfer?