What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

Yang Buqi found the little pink flower at the end of the tunnel on the wooden man's right rib.

Perhaps it was because there was no longer any black bear in the depths of the tunnel, but the little pink flower was having fun by itself, jumping and jumping along the puddle, and when Yang Buqi picked it up, the roots were still covered with red mud.

Yang Buqi closed his eyes in disgust, put Xiaohua in the puddle and rinsed it twice before walking back. When approaching the entrance of the tunnel, principal Shangguan and others were still discussing. They noticed his arrival and greeted him friendly.

A few steps away from the capable people, Jiang Lin was lying on the ground, motionless. Hands and feet were bound with fine cloth strips. Next to Jiang Lin, there was still a **** bear standing, but it basically didn't speak, and would only nod or shake its head following the discussion of the crowd. When he saw Yang Buqi, he also turned his head and waved at him.

Yang Buqi twitched the corner of his mouth, waved at it, and greeted the others. Although there was a team building friendship before and a feeling of cooperation later, when facing these humans alone, he still felt a little cramped and uncomfortable, so after saying hello, he quickly brought Xiaohua leave.

This way back and forth, even if he tries to speed up, it still takes a lot of time. And when he walked out of the tunnel, the first thing he saw was Xu Tuoran sitting on the edge of the altar—different from before, there was a **** bear next to her.

The **** bear turned its back to Yang Buqi, shaking its head, wondering if the two were communicating. Yang Buqi subconsciously slowed down his pace, but Daxiong had sensed his arrival, stood up clumsily, nodded at him, and left.

Xu Tuoran was left alone, lowering his head to mend the rune on his arm, his lips were tightly pursed, and he didn't know what to think. Yang Buqi faintly felt that her mood was not right, and walked over with Xiao Fenhua: "Are you okay?"

Xu Tuoran didn't speak, but only waved at him. Yang Buqi didn't know why, but he obediently leaned over and sat beside her. In the next second, Xu Tuoran lowered his head and hit his forehead on his shoulder.

"...I feel a little uncomfortable." After a pause of two seconds, Xu Tuoran said sullenly, "A kind of discomfort that I don't understand."

Yang Buqi: "..."

He stuffed the little pink flower that was about to climb onto Xu Turan's head into his pocket, and asked tentatively, "Do you want to talk to me?"

"I want to, but I can't say it." Xu Tuoran's tone became more dull, "I have already promised others."

"..." Yang Buqi thought of the **** bear that left just now, and vaguely guessed why Xu Turan was feeling uncomfortable.

"It's okay. Then it goes without saying. Take it easy for a while..." Yang Buqi said, instinctively raised his right arm, and just about to press Xu Tuoran's shoulder, he stopped suddenly, froze in the air for a moment, tangled, and Listen to Xu Tuoran's deep voice:

"I'm not in a good mood right now, so don't mess with me. Within three seconds, quickly decide whether to hug or not, and take it back to me if you don't."

Yang Buqi: …

Okay, it looks a little irritable.

He pursed his lips, finally made up his mind, and carefully wrapped his arms around Xu Tuoran's shoulders. After a moment of hesitation, he clapped reassuringly twice.

After a few more seconds, Fang heard Xu Tuoran exhale deeply.

"I'm still not in a good mood." She said to Yang Buqi, "Are you in a hurry to leave? If you're not in a hurry, let's find Jiang Lin to sing after this thing is over."

"Okay." Yang Buqi agreed without hesitation, "Wait to find Jiang...?"

No, you are in a bad mood, what are you looking for Jiang Lin for? And why singing?

Yang Buqi paused when he slapped her on the shoulder, and a row of question marks suddenly popped up on his forehead. At this moment, several figures came out of the tunnel behind him one after another.

It was the ability users who were still discussing things in the tunnel before, and the **** bear who attended the meeting as the representative of the domain owner.

Before Yang Buqi could react, Xu Tuoran had quickly raised his head, his expression was settled in an instant, he exhaled as if nothing had happened, and walked towards those people.

This is the first time Principal Shangguan and others have met Xu Tuoran since they fully recovered their memory. The lively and lively ones immediately gathered around, curiously inquiring about Xu Tuoran's situation. After Xu Tuoran finished his brief statement in a few sentences, he asked about the results of their discussion, and the ability users did not intend to hide anything.

——As Yang Buqi said before, Principal Shangguan had already told them about the existence of iron worms. None of the ability users present were stupid. Once they accepted this setting, they looked back at all the actions of the domain master from five years ago to today, and it was almost clear what their motives were.

But understanding does not mean understanding. Even with just a few words, Xu Tuoran could see that most of them still had complicated attitudes towards the domain master.

She looked up at the huge wooden figure standing behind everyone, closed her eyes restrainedly, and finally made up her mind, and changed the subject: "Then what are you going to do next?"

"We've discussed this... the representative of the domain owner." Principal Shangguan looked at the **** bear standing quietly beside him, "Currently, there are four tendencies to confirm safety: natural disasters, wild beasts, long nights, and predictions. Those who have these four tendencies The ability users can go out directly. As for the rest... just to be on the safe side, it's better to stay here."

Among all the people, the only one who did not have these security tendencies was Su Mai. His ability is omniscience plus war. In other words, he was the only one who had to stay here.

"And I will hand over the brooch related to the ability later." Su Mai sighed and said calmly, "This will ensure that when I am locked up here, I will not log into the upgrade space in my dream."

In this way, the possibility of him being parasitized by iron nematodes can be completely eliminated.

"That can't be locked here forever?" Xu Tuoran said, "If you just don't want to log in to the upgrade space, there should be other ways?"

"Well. After we go out, we plan to contact the reliable high-ranking Chang Ye." Principal Shangguan said, "Long Ye can make people forget some things through hypnosis. Maybe it can also have the same effect."

In fact, some high-level eternal day will have similar abilities. But in comparison, Long Night is more trustworthy.

"For the high-ranking Chang Ye, I know someone. I can help to contact you after you go out." Xu Tuoran almost immediately thought of Jiang Siyu from the Taobao store, and immediately opened his mouth, paused, and said, "Then what about after you go out?" ?”

"Return to their respective organizations, and conduct investigations in private first." This time it was Fang Xiaoke who interfaced, "After all, there are so many iron nematodes, it is very risky to disclose information hastily."

Yang Buqi, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his head when he heard the words: "Some iron nematodes may have a way to hide their true tendencies. If you investigate, you can't completely rely on the tendencies they show."

"I know that." Fang Xiaoke folded his arms, "Principal Shangguan and I both have our own ways of probing. As for the others, we have to work harder..."

They intend to bring the suspects into this domain one by one—they are already on the domain owner's white list, so they don't have to worry about memory loss even if they come in again. In this way, as long as the mechanism in the domain is used, try to find out the identity of the suspect.

If there is a problem, stay here. No problem, just tell the truth. In this way, the truth is spread little by little, and after confirming that the human side has accumulated enough advantages, the relevant information will be released, and a large-scale investigation and confrontation will be launched.

This method was beyond Yang Buqi's expectation, after thinking about it, it might be a good method. The only problem was that, except for Feng Qiao and Principal Shangguan, they basically belonged to the Tzu Chi Institute and the Renxin Institute. As for Feng Qiao—although he couldn't bear to say that, Yang Buqi reckoned that the small organization he led before had probably been merged or simply disbanded by two large organizations in the past five years.

In other words, the high-levels that these ability users can actually access are quite limited. More high-level ability users are either working alone or hiding in gray organizations such as Taobao stores. Let alone bringing people here, it is difficult to know whether they exist.

Yang Buqi couldn't help frowning, and suddenly caught a glimpse of Xu Tuoran next to him touching his chin, with a pensive expression on his face, he couldn't help poking her: "What are you thinking?"

"I'm thinking, after I go out, I can discuss it with the boss of the Taobao store." Xu Tuoran was thoughtful, "Anyway, the tasks of the Taobao store are basically issued by grabbing and dispatching orders. It's not hard for people to cheat..."

As she spoke, she noticed Yang Buqi's slightly complicated eyes, and paused: "What are you looking at me like that for?"

"...It's nothing, I just thought of some social news about takeaways and couriers that I read before..." Yang Buqi paused for a moment, then waved his hand, "Forget it, it's not important. Go ahead."

"It's 'we' to continue." Xu Tuoran corrected casually, and looked at the others again, "I have a guess about the number of iron nematodes - the one I fought with before was called 'Jiang Lin', he has a tendency to war .And the other Jiang Lin has a tendency to chaos..."

In addition, from the records left by Jiang Siyu's father, it can be seen that the one trapped by the Jiang family has a tendency to be omniscient.

Assuming that there is only one iron nematode for each of the four dangerous tendencies of war, chaos, omniscience, and eternal day, that is to say, what they are looking for now is only the one that is inclined to eternal day.

"If that's the case, then the situation is already very favorable to us." Principal Shangguan thought for a moment, and then said slowly, "But until we get more definite evidence, this kind of optimistic thinking should be suppressed. it is good."

Xu Tuoran pursed his lips and nodded, thought for a while and said, "You... have a way to confirm this?"

She remembered that Principal Shangguan had a special talent for obtaining information from the Corridor of Prediction. Maybe they can get more clues from it.

Principal Shangguan shook his head: "I will work hard."

Xu Tuoran nodded, thought for a while, and said, "If it's convenient, can we talk in private later? There are some things I want to ask you."

Principal Shangguan tilted his head slightly, stared at Xu Tuoran for a moment, then smiled: "No. 1703? No problem."

...?

What's the meaning? What number 1703?

Xu Tueran was stunned for a moment, then thought about it again, anyway, the other party said it was all right, so he didn't care too much, and discussed other topics instead.

The discussion that follows is nothing more than the details of future plans. And when the discussion is almost done, the black bear will lead the way and send several capable users out of the camphor forest one by one.

Among the group of people, only Xu Tuoran still had a mobile phone on him. Although there was no signal, he still wrote down a bunch of contact information. The ability users obviously had a good impression of this little girl who took them to build a group and chartered a car for a trip. Before leaving, they all said that they would meet again in the future. Xu Tuoran sincerely said that next time will be the next time. Seeing that the last Lin Yun was being taken away, he finally couldn't help sighing, and turned to look at Yang Buqi next to him: "Are you really not going to leave? ?”

Yang Buqi was pulling the little pink flower out of his pocket, he smiled wryly, looked down at his tree trunk, and didn't speak. Xu Tuoran folded his arms helplessly: "Fang is from the Charity Institute. If she speaks for you, the Tzu Chi Institute will definitely not misunderstand you again. And Pu Han is about to be promoted to Chen..."

Pu Han himself said that after reaching the Chen level, he will be able to reproduce the scene when Yang Buqi was murdered. That's how everything came to light.

"There are some things, even if you say it clearly, you can't go back." Yang Buqi lowered his eyes and pinched the little pink flower with two fingers. The latter seemed to be having a temper tantrum, and two small leaves waved back and forth in the air.

"I know you believe in me, you don't think I'm a monster. Principal Shangguan and the others also regard me as a companion. I have already figured it out myself. From a certain point of view, I am still a human being. But after all—after all, I am like this gone."

Yang Buqi gently placed the little pink flower on Xu Tuoran's shoulder, and brushed her drooping hair back: "Just running around outside like this, what should I do if I scare others?"

If possible, he would also like to be by Xu Tuoran's side. But we can't let Xu Tuoran push him with a cart every day.

Xu Tuoran: "..."

"Okay." She pursed her lips slightly, "I will come to see you. Bring the most beautiful flowerpot."

"I believe in you." Yang Buqi nodded, his chest felt hot for no reason, "I don't need the flowerpot. I'm going to try it out and see if I can change myself to hydroponics..."

"…cough."

Before he finished speaking, a cough suddenly came from beside him.

The two turned their heads in unison, only to see Su Mai sitting next to him, spreading his hands innocently: "Sorry, I'm still here."

"..." Sorry, I really didn't pay attention.

Xu Tuoran let go of Yang Buqi's arm indifferently, stretched out his finger to tease the little pink flower on his shoulder, suddenly remembered something, and turned to Su Mai:

"By the way, I want to ask you something..."

"Understood." Su Maisheng stood up resignedly, "I'm leaving now."

"No—asking about you!" Xu Tuoran hurriedly said, "Su Sui'er! Do you know Su Sui'er!"

"..." Su Mai stopped suddenly.

"She's my sister." He froze for a moment, then turned around, "Have you seen her?"

"She is currently working in the Renxinyuan. She has been inquiring about you." Yang Buqi said, "The two of them met in the same domain before."

"Really?" Su Mai's eyes lit up, "How is she now? Is she doing well?"

Xu Tuoran recalled the few contacts with Su Sui'er, and described it as much as possible. Su Mai's eyes widened slightly, and a smile slowly appeared on his face: "It's fine, it's fine, as long as it's okay. She's always a bit uneasy..."

He raised his face suddenly: "Is she still writing now? I remember when I came in, she was doing some online literature all day long, and it seemed to be quite popular."

Xu Tuoran didn't know how to answer these words. On the other hand, Yang Buqi, who was next to him, recalled something and showed an indescribable expression.

"...Well." He paused for a few seconds, and then said every word, "In a sense, she is a great writer."

"I knew it." Su Mai showed a simple smile, "She has always written very well, and she said that she has a lot of fans on the Internet. She has often won prizes for her composition since she was a child..."

Yang Buqi responded solemnly, wisely not saying anything more.

On the other side, as if remembering something, Xu Turan took out a crumpled piece of paper from his pocket—it was the one he pulled out from the Zerg Museum earlier.

It is now absolutely certain that Su Mai is the one who left this piece of paper. Xu Tuoran finally had the energy to care about those issues that he had skipped before.

—[The canopy is the root of the tree. Just the soil. 】

—[We have sunk. We are underwater. 】

What do these words mean?

"There is a red light flowing above the camphor tree. And Yang Buqi once said that the vitality here flows from the top to the bottom." Xu Tuoran thought thoughtfully, "The red light is formed by the blood shed from the wooden man... "

So she could vaguely guess the first two sentences. It is probably that the camphor tree will absorb the power from the red light through the canopy, and then transmit it downward.

But she still hopes to hear more definite answers.

Su Mai smiled embarrassedly when he heard the words.

"To be honest, you can tell from these handwriting that I was not sober at the time." He said, hesitated for a while, walked towards a tree next to him, and waved to the other two, "But Before I got sober, I did see something."

After finishing speaking, he leaned down, and in front of the other two, he waved his arms vigorously, brushing away the fallen leaves on the ground. Following his movements, the clear water hidden under the fallen leaves appeared in front of several people. Xu vainly tiptoed to look in, and immediately opened his eyes wide in surprise.

I saw the ruins clearly reflected under the clear water.

The fallen leaves that Su Mai pushed aside were very large, so the underwater content exposed was far more than what Xu Tuoran had seen before. Only then did she discover that the stones that sank to the bottom of the water were far larger than she had imagined, with square edges and smooth curves on the surface, which looked like the wreckage of some kind of building.

This kind of wreck reminded her involuntarily of the ruins she had seen in the Palace of Order. But the two are obviously not the same, and the style is completely different from the stone materials used.

What surprised her even more were the tree roots leading to those ruins.

Yes, the root of the tree—when Su Mai pushed aside the fallen leaves, he chose to be next to a camphor tree. The roots of the camphor tree can just be seen under the surface of the exposed water, and those roots stretch in zigzags, like a long straw, from above the water surface to the bottom of the water, until they submerge into the ruins.

Xu Tueran stared at the huge rocks under the water, only to feel the water rippling in front of his eyes, and vaguely, there seemed to be some familiar calling and chanting sounds in his ears.

The next second, I saw a bunch of fallen leaves rushing into my eyes, completely covering the water below.

"Don't stare. You'll get lost." Su Mai said seriously, kicking the fallen leaves to cover the water. The fallen leaves would reset automatically, and with his movements, they would cover up all traces in a blink of an eye.

Xu Tuoran reluctantly raised his head and asked curiously, "The 'lost' refers to...?"

"You will be seduced, and you will be fascinated." Su Mai is serious, "And when you look at it, you will suddenly feel like the earth is spinning. Those ruins and water seem to have been transferred to the sky, and you can only Lying on the bottom of the water, looking up at them like looking at the stars..."

so dazzling. So dazzling that it seems to be within reach. And so far away. So far away that it seems to be giving a cold gaze.

"Remember when I said that I was not sober when I wrote those words?" Su Mai shrugged, "That's one of the reasons."

Xu Tueran nodded thoughtfully, and couldn't help but glance at his feet: "What are those under the water?"

"Who knows." Su Mai shook his head, "But fortunately, I can stay here for a while."

Anyway, nothing happened, and the memory he kept would not be lost again. It happens to be a person to explore and see, just to satisfy one's curiosity.

"If you are really bored, you can also go to play with the white bears. They will be very happy." Xu Tuoran said, sweeping towards the fallen leaves around him again, lowering his eyes slightly.

Like Su Mai, she is actually full of curiosity about the world hidden under the water.

But she didn't have the time to explore slowly. So she chose to go directly to the domain owner, the owner—that is, the huge wooden man.

Her timing was good. According to her suggestion, Su Mai tried to get in touch with the white bear; Jiang Lin was released into the woods, and Yang Buqi followed her from a distance to confirm whether she really lost her memory completely.

Xu Tuoran was the only one left on the huge blood-colored altar in the depths of the camphor forest. She simply took advantage of this opportunity to directly ask her own question.

What is that under the water?

The wooden man's huge head turned. This time, he chose to use the main body to answer directly, but the answer he gave was still helpless.

"can not say."

Xu Tuoran was not surprised by this answer. So she quickly moved on to the next question: "That thing under the water, that's where the steps in the root museum end up, right?"

This time, the wooden man gave no more riddles, but gave a simple and affirmative answer.

"That is to say, there is a connection between that thing and me..." Xu Tuoran turned his eyes slightly, and finally asked the question that he cared more about, "And you have been sending vitality into that ruin, right?"

"..."

Her response was a long pause. Just when she thought the other party would not answer, the wooden man finally spoke again:

"Um."

"It's an appointment."

"It's a sacrifice."

"Sacrifice?" Xu Tuoran frowned, "What do you mean?"

"I made an agreement with that place." The wooden man said slowly, "It will lend me some of its power. I will collect the power and dedicate it to it."

lend. Sacrifice.

Xu Tuoran thumped his head, only to feel that there was something in his mind that suddenly connected together——

She found it strange before that the domain master's initial inclination was foreknowledge. I haven't heard of him having other tendencies. And the various manifestations in this domain are obviously beyond the reach of foreknowledge.

That makes sense. What he used to run the domain was not his power in the first place. He borrows strength from the bottom of the water, and uses it against intruding abominations. Wrap them with your own blood to make blood-colored amber, and in this way collect the power of the abominations to enrich yourself...

Or feed back to the ruin that lent it strength.

Thinking of this, Xu Turan paused suddenly. She suddenly remembered what the wooden man had said when she first met—

"You once said that you waited to sacrifice everything for me after my ceremony."

Xu Tuoran raised his head as if feeling something: "Could it be that the 'everything' you mentioned is..."

"Power." The wooden man said calmly, "It's mine. It's underwater. It will eventually be yours."

Xu Tuoran: "...What can I do with these powers?"

"Chen level." Wooden man said, "I can't take you farther. But these are enough for Chen level."

Xu Turan: ...

Tsk.

Although she didn't know which Chen-level this person was talking about, she somehow felt that she was at a loss.

"Then what does that 'ritual' refer to?" Xu Tuoran said, "Is it a ritual that reminds me of myself? What should I do?"

This time, it returned to the helpless answer - I don't know.

"Understood." Xu Tuoran nodded helplessly, "That is to say, now you have saved a sum of money for me. But because I haven't got the password yet, I can't withdraw it."

She pursed her lips: "Then why are you saving money for me?"

Asking questions, she doesn't think the domain owner will answer this question. After all, he avoided similar questions when he was at the Tree Roots Museum.

Sure enough, this time the wooden man did not give any reply, only said "ah" slowly.

Xu vainly sighed. Seeming to see her depression, the wooden man was silent for a moment, then suddenly he stumbled and said:

"There are a lot of abominable corpses in the execution ground."

Xu Tuoran: "?"

"In the worm hall. There are also processed ones."

Xu Tuoran: "??"

The wooden man continued to stumble: "Why don't you pack it up and take some back home."

Xu Turan: ...

No no no, forget it. Although she has the habit of taking it by hand, she won't let it fall on her head no matter what.

Compared to this, she might as well think carefully about how to get the so-called "ceremony" done so that they can be taken away at once.

After pondering for a moment, she raised her eyes again and looked seriously at the huge wooden figure in front of her: "Can I ask you two more questions?"

Wooden man: "...ah."

Xu Tuoran didn't care what his "ah" meant, and continued on his own:

"I will come to this world...or come to this body. Is there any arrangement for you?"

"Also, you said before that I should have something to guide me—can you elaborate on that?"