Returning from the abyss

So far, apart from chasing, those gray people have not done anything else that would make people feel threatening, such as attacking or blocking vehicles. However, Lu Ning intuitively believed that these things must be bad. If she was really caught up, something she didn't want to see would happen.

The biggest problem was that only she could see the pursuit. From the team members' point of view, they were just following Lu Ning's orders and running around in the forest without knowing what they were facing.

Lu Ning had to concentrate on directing the direction to prevent Ruidi from running into those gray people. She also tried to restore her observation state, but it was obvious that those things would continue to be tracked even if Lu Ning stopped looking at them.

How to get rid of them?

Lu Ning had no intention of figuring out their identities right now. There are more and safer ways to research, she just needs to confirm that they exist. But now, tracking the other party is also a thorny issue. Lu Ning is already considering whether to release the big one he prepared to see if it will be useful to these guys.

At this moment, the sound appeared again.

Lu Ning originally planned to ignore all these voices from unknown sources, but this time, the voice said so.

[You seem to be in a little trouble? Need some help? 】

She felt that to rule out the possibility that there was something wrong with her brain, that was because Christine left something with her when she left Lingri.

"Christine?"

[It's me, it's me. I'm sorry that I can't fully observe your situation now. Could you please tell me what you are encountering now? I'm interested in what happened to you. 】

"Answer my question, what are the conversion constants for the third, sixth, and seventh modifiers in the mathematical cognitive modification formula that Christine studied?"

[33.6273 and 819.9921, there is no seventh modifier at all, and this formula is just...]

"Okay, I get it." Lu Ning interrupted the other party, "I can't remember it either, and I have to use something like this that I can't even remember to determine whether you are real."

[Are you also encountering cognitive problems? 】

"Let me describe it to you."

Lu Ning used the fastest speed to describe to Christine what she was currently encountering and the situation. To be honest, she was not very optimistic about whether Christine could help her. While describing, she also He took out a silver cylindrical metal rod from his arms.

[You are really brave. If you dare to do this to yourself mentally, I would have to prepare a series of precision instruments to do so. 】

"Just think of it as a matter of personal style. Now do you know what's going on?"

[The things you see are remnants of the past era. They are trapped in a world beyond recognition, so they continue to chase things that can recognize them. To use an analogy, a little light suddenly appears in the darkness, and everything naturally gathers together. 】

"Forget it, just give me an idea."

[Light more fire. 】

"How to do?"

[Cognition is existence, recording is proof. In addition, what they are chasing is your cognition. As long as the relationship between your cognition and theirs does not change, then they will show the same characteristics as teleportation. 】

"understood."

Lu Ning doesn't need too many reminders about combat. She opened a box on the vehicle, grabbed a handful of recording crystals from it, and poured everything she saw, knew, and felt about these guys into these crystals as quickly as possible.

"Garuda!"

"Yes, Captain."

"It's time for the wind to rise!"

She raised her arms and opened the skylight. Garuda whistled, and a strong wind rolled up from the ground and rushed into the sky. Lu Ning scattered all the crystals, and as the wind pillar rushed into the sky, they exploded into the forest like fireworks. in all directions.

At that moment, Lu Ning saw some double images of the gray figures.

Their constant pursuit finally stopped, and they didn't even know which direction they should go in for a while. Then, they all disappeared, leaving only the cracks in the space.

"It works quite well."

[Of course, a little light in the dark will attract a crazy chase, but if there are many light sources, it will cause confusion. ] Christine said.

"How did you establish a connection with me? How come I didn't feel any magical means? And you can still connect to me from such a long distance?"

[As you have seen, I am not using magic to communicate. This is just a pilot. 】

"Your skills are really good."

【Who do you think I am? If it weren't for the fact that the explosion of technology takes time, I would be right next to you to solve your problem. Closer to home, since you have developed the method of observing the brane world unstablely through the spiritual sea, then...]

"No, please wait." Lu Ning quickly interrupted Christine, "Membrane World? Can our information be synchronized?"

Christine was silent for a moment this time.

[So you tampered with your own spiritual world without even understanding this? You are very courageous! 】

"Nonsense, why don't I dare to try it if I have confidence in my spiritual power?"

[You are too reckless, what if you penetrate not the membrane world but the inner world or...]

"I just said, can you explain the problem to me clearly before you get too excited?"

While Lu Ning was talking to Christine in her head, she reminded the team members that it was safe and they could just drive normally.

Christine obviously didn't care much about sharing the results of her research. She briefly explained to Lu Ning what she just mentioned.

[From the perspective of doomsday, we have obtained information and already know that many doomsdays in the past were caused by problems caused by connecting to different worlds. 】

"Yes." Lu Ning looked out the window with vigilance.

[So this world itself has been wrapped in multiple layers of worlds. The outside world is dangerous, and this is not just an empty statement in this world. I have introduced to you before that in order to survive, the aboriginal people here cut off all their own advantages, and they also cut off another part, that is, they cut off part of the world they live in and the parts infected by other worlds. Cut out. 】

"Then their original technical level is really high."

[After all, there are already people who fly to the stars. It is possible that they were even more clever in the distant past. The core problem is that they cut their living space into smaller and smaller pieces, and the parts that are cut out become what you see. 】

"How many are there? Have you observed them all?" [I found the frequency bands of those worlds and temporarily named them based on the feedback information. If we take the world we are in as the origin, then the outward layers are respectively It is "ruins", "membrane world", "lens surface", "inner world", "deep space", "old world", "past". 】

"so much?"

[Compared to the number of times this world has encountered apocalyptic disasters, it has been very few. 】

"Okay, so explain? Why would I be more in danger if I saw outside the membrane world?"

[The ruins are relatively safe and contain quite a few relics of pre-civilizations. The membrane world is a layer of protection wrapped around the ruins. I haven't yet analyzed which civilization's technology this is. If you see the membrane world, it is equivalent to looking at the existence outside the world through that membrane. This cognitive convergence is a significant manifestation of the membrane world. 】

"So if I go one step further, to the next level, I'll actually be in contact with those outside beings?"

[Perhaps, but I have not observed them. At least so far, there is only pollution left in the outer world. 】

Lu Ning was a little surprised by this.

"The things that destroyed the world are not left behind?"

[The things left behind have been transformed and become a normal part of the world, but I haven’t traced the root cause. Strange, right? 】

"I roughly understand...Okay, what do you need my help with?"

[You are now crossing the equator in the Smoker's Forest towards the south of the mainland, right? Then help me find a sample. 】

"sample?"

[According to my monitoring readings, a violent energy fluctuation occurred in deep space recently. Its power blasted through the multi-layer world barrier, and a little leaked to the world we live in. 】

"Oh, so how am I supposed to confirm that it's coming from deep space?"

[It’s very simple. The internal world will have different mapping forms in the external world, but the external world will not change when it enters the internal world. Use your method of peering into two worlds. If something doesn't change in your eyes, that's what I'm looking for. 】

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Underground in Kane Fortress, Kukash walked into a corridor. On both sides of the corridor were narrow rooms. These rooms were like prisons. Except for a palm-sized ventilation hole on the door, there was no contact with the outside world. Connected places. The interior of the room is only about three square meters in size.

Constantine followed, a little dissatisfied with the environment here.

"You asked me to transform this place into this, and I hope that what you promised will also be valuable."

"Of course, Your Excellency Constantine." Kukash smiled and took out an iron-fingered tiger sleeve from his pocket and put it on his right hand, "It is precisely because today is the harvest day that I let you come to see the results... No Everyone can embark on the path, after all, not everyone can understand what we are after.”

"Humph."

Kukash opened a door.

A demi-human wearing only thin rags sat among the hay in the room. The stench emanated from the room, but he didn't pay attention at all. Some white green fungi grew on his body, and the ends of his scattered hair seemed to grow together.

Kukash stepped in, and the demi-human jumped up almost instantly. His arm stretched unnaturally and turned into a sharp long knife, slashing at Kukash.

But Kukash was faster. He took a step forward, and before the long knife fell, his right fist hit the opponent's face firmly.

"Gaha!"

The demi-human tilted his head and fell, but his body immediately twisted, his waist twisted half a circle, and his head hit Kukash's waist. Kukash immediately gave the subhuman an elbow and hit his head hard to the ground.

"Experiment one, two, two, you still didn't hear the sound?" Kukash asked.

The demi-human let out an inarticulate roar.

Kukash roughly pulled him up from the ground and said with regret, "What a pity. You thought this was a scam until your death."

Before the sub-human could react, he poked his fingers into the sub-human's eyes.

There was no blood, just some thick gray-black substance flowing out of the eye socket.

"Kukash, did you just ask me to witness your murder? I have no interest in this. Although he opposes my plan, I hope his death will be more valuable." Constantine said.

"Of course, Your Excellency. The great thing about our Lord is that even those who are completely unbelievers will play his due role. After all, His voice can reach everyone's ears, regardless of belief or question. Origin. This is the justice that is most different from the false gods in the world."

Kukash dragged the demi-human out of the room.

"And this man has been remade. You see, even if he objects, his body has still become our harvest from the history of the world. A man who has returned from death, a man who has been engraved with the mark of doom. Returners.”

"Huh?" Constantine then carefully looked at the demi-human.

"How? Your Excellency, Lord?"

"I thought they would all be the same as the people you brought."

"They are only the results of the initial stage. The identity of the Redemptor allows them to afford the damage of the Doomsday Curse Carving Ceremony, but because the Redemptor is blessed by the Lord, they cannot obtain the full power of the Doomsday."

"I really didn't expect that your Lord didn't give us any protection, but let us fight the doomsday with the doomsday." Constantine sneered, "But, if he can't even defeat you, how can he use it to deal with the doomsday? "

"Your Excellency, his value does not lie in himself, but in the complete doomsday seal he obtained from the ceremony."

After Kukash finished speaking, he suddenly punched down, cracking the demi-human's head into two pieces. Then he took off his finger tiger, reached out and touched the other person's brain a few times, and pulled out a bone that was still stained with brains and blood.

"Look, the doomsday elements of the return of the dead are now in our hands."

"Yes, Kukash. But there are only more than 300 people in Kane Fortress who are really secretly resisting me, and I have used them all for you. At the same time, there are as many as 300,000 people here who are pursuing the ultimate survival. You How do you plan to let us all gain this power?”

Kukash grinned and showed a bloody smile.

He pointed at the twitching demi-human on the ground: "Lord Constantine, who said that a material can only be used once? Besides, there is no such thing inside the fortress, and there are many people outside the fortress who are unwilling to work hard and fall into laziness."

Constantine looked at the demihuman on the ground and couldn't help laughing.

"Ai Siqi and Delos will like your idea, Kukash. But they are both young, and there is nothing wrong with being radical. But I, I am not satisfied with this, you know? I support your idea, and I support you in preaching your Lord, but you have to give me more! What I want is not just to defeat a doomsday, what I want is survival - survival at all costs! These are not enough!"

"I choose you precisely because of your will. I will do what you wish, my dear lord."