Returning from the abyss

Chapter 357 Tomorrow's Galaxy - End of Intermission
One morning, Lu Ning and Ning Yeyi knocked on the door of the room that Si Fangle said Cheng Wuling lived in.

About 30 seconds later, the door was opened. Cheng Wuling obviously just woke up, her hair was not combed, but she was wearing a white shirt. Ning Yeyi blurted out and asked, "Are you sleeping in a shirt?"

"Just put it on, come in and sit?"

This familiar brevity.

When the two walked into Cheng Wuling's room, it felt like old friends who had been separated for a while were meeting again, and even the superficial politeness was omitted.

Soon, Cheng Wuling brought over three cups of hot drinks.

"Coffee, vanilla tea, oolong tea...you still remember our preferences." Ning Yeyi was a little surprised.

"It's as if you noticed some of my privacy from the little information I revealed." Cheng Wuling picked up the coffee, sat on a chair and took a sip, "Where are the others?"

"Someone will come over later."

"Ah."

The response was lukewarm.

"It seems that Cheng Yurun has already told you about our coming."

Two days after moving in, Cheng Yurun also visited Lu Ning and Ning Yeyi, and seeing Cheng Wuling again obviously made him a lot happy, but Cheng Wuling's expression was obviously not that happy.

"That's right, I think he will find a way to use your ways to build relationships in a short time."

"You are real brothers and sisters, right?" Ning Yeyi almost spat out his drink.

"Internal situation, if you want to know, go investigate it yourself."

This was obviously meant to avoid, and Lu Ning would not continue to make fun of this, and immediately changed the topic.

"I have a request."

Cheng Wuling put down the teacup and nodded at her.

"I want to be in the same scene with you again."

"Now? Don't you think about accumulating?"

"No, at least my biggest gain in the second stage is that I have accumulated self-confidence, instead of being a little timid before. This time I want to see how my final growth is, and whether I have really caught up with you. "Looking at Cheng Wuling, Lu Ning said in her most formal manner.

"it is good."

Then got a decisive answer.

"Thank you."

"No, after seven days, I will go with you when I receive the task."

After Cheng Wuling complied with this request, Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief, then stood up, suddenly remembered something, and added: "You won't run away again, will you?"

"Don't worry, I will stay at the third level for a long time... This is a scheduled item." Cheng Wuling knew Lu Ning's concerns, "There will be no deviation from the scheduled plan."

Then she glanced at Ning Yeyi.

"I won't participate in your questions. Anyway, this time, Lu Ning wants to ask you to verify how she has grown all the time, so she doesn't care what the scene is. I can't do it. I normally arrange my own task frequency. Good." Ning Yeyi said with a smile.

"Alright, your plan is quite clear and there is no need for any changes." Cheng Wuling nodded, "I welcome you here anytime."

"Please smile when you say welcome next time!" Ning Yeyi muttered loudly, then waved his hand, and ended the short visit with Lu Ning.

When the two of them went downstairs, Lu Ning looked at Ning Yeyi, and asked the question she was worried about: "You... what's on your mind recently?"

"nothing much."

"I remember that at the end of the scene, Zhengshu showed some bad emotions? At that time, everyone was in a state of tension. I don't believe that you will be disappointed or hopeless at that time, so what is the problem?"

"Ah, that..." Ning Yeyi thought for a while, "I've already figured it out."

"Huh?" Lu Ning was speechless.

"You really don't know how to read people, Lu Ning." She smiled, "Actually, it was accidental. I once said that my ideal was to be a policeman, which was influenced by my family. Especially me My uncle, he is the reason for my desire to become a policeman, and because of this, I am very close to my aunt's family. But at that time I couldn't see, the darkness stimulated people's thoughts, and it also reminded me of the past..."

She looked at Lu Ning, her smile unchanged.

"I can't remember what my uncle looked like."

"Is it... a side effect of the treatment?"

"It must be, because the time we have actually passed is not long, how could we forget it so quickly? I was very panicked at the time, as if a part of my life was missing, so I had that emotion. But immediately afterwards When I acted, I temporarily put my emotions aside."

"Then?"

"Afterwards, all the memories came back to me. I still couldn't recall the appearance of my uncle, and the memory of many experiences became blurred. But if I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that my uncle was just a symbol. He was the most important thing to me. The important thing is never his appearance, but the ideals and goals he gave me. As long as I can go back, I can remember the forgotten people, but if I lose the goal, we may not be able to go back.”

Ning Yeyi patted Lu Ning on the shoulder: "Your situation is milder than mine. If you can't accept it, you can find a way to leave a picture. The person we want to see the most is also the person we don't want to see here People, so I can only pray that I won’t meet each other, and at the same time keep a memory that belongs to me.”

Leave images—this is what a painter should do.

Lu Ning contacted Cang Su, planning to find a time to ask her to help draw a portrait.Of course, this is not the point for her. After all, the accumulation of her soul damage is not as serious as Ning Yeyi's, and the side effects will definitely appear later.

She walked to the headquarters of the Rosary Cross, intending to read more about the analysis and summary of various types of scenes in the third order. Although the significance of these references is greater than the actual significance, they are still valuable experience.After all, she is currently not fully sure about the fight with Cheng Wuling.

It happened that Qu Tingchan was also in the headquarters today, and Du Xieyi had already entered the scene, so Lu Ning simply asked Qu Tingchan for advice.

"Your improvement in a certain ability is no longer enough to support you to defeat such an opponent."

Although Lu Ning omitted a lot of processes, Qu Tingchan quickly understood what she meant and gave her own suggestions.

"As a member of Sea Serpent, you must be good at analyzing and destroying work, and I don't ask which type you specialize in. But if you want to improve your strength in this area, it is recommended to start with some peripheral skills, such as Mapping, tactical environments, quick tools, exploration, those kinds of things. They don’t directly help you a lot in combat, but they allow you to find more problem-solving methods that the environment allows.”

"How long would it take to learn these?"

"That depends on how smart you are." Qu Tingchan pointed to the direction of the Rosary Cross library, "It is recommended to omit part of the pure theory and focus on examples. If your ability to understand by analogy is good, It really doesn’t take much time.”

"Understood, thank you."

"wish you success."

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The light of the artificial sun gradually faded away, releasing the brilliance of the sea of ​​stars in the sky again.Lu Ning stood on the steps outside the information center, looking up at the stars that would not twinkle in the sky.

"looking at what?"

"Do you think those stars are real? It's a ship, but it doesn't pass any stars at close range, does it? All the stars seem so far away."

"Maybe it's moving in the subspace, or maybe it won't move at all."

Cheng Wuling said casually.

"Have you experienced an interstellar type of scene, how did it feel?"

"The map is bigger, so time is even tighter." Cheng Wuling said, "Keep walking, and you will definitely encounter it."

"Maybe it's a scene I'm not good at at all. Forget it, let's go take the task."

After Lu Ning finished speaking, she walked towards the gate of the information center.

In fact, there are not many people who come to take the task at this time, and the two of them also chose this time on purpose to avoid being divided into two scenes.

Everything in the information center is still familiar, except for the location, there is no change. The two of them each picked a machine and applied for the role this time.

However, when they got the envelope this time, both of them paused.

"This one……"

Lu Ning glanced at the envelope, the silver-gray envelope was sealed with wax, a six-leaf badge was printed on the lower left corner of the front of the envelope, and there was a line of golden signatures.

"I don't remember that the previous envelope was like this? Is there such a change in the third level?" Lu Ning asked Cheng Wuling.

"No, the usual envelopes are also normal." Cheng Wuling shook the envelope twice, and then opened the seal.

[Dear visitor:

Your test site application has been approved, now please follow the instructions and go to the next location to receive the content of this test site.

·Please take this envelope immediately to the second floor of the Information Center and enter Room 2714.

·After entering the room, please follow the guidance of the waiter in the room to receive the task instructions.

·No weapons or props are allowed in this mission.

I wish you a pleasant journey! 】

"Is it the same content?" Cheng Wuling asked.

"It's the same except for the room number." Lu Ning also took out her letter. She is in room 2536, which seems to be far away from the number alone.

"At least make sure that the two of us are in the same scene, otherwise the mission description will not be so similar." Cheng Wuling said, "But from the point of view of not being together, the team formation in the scene is more likely, of course , perhaps confrontation."

"Either way is fine, there is nothing more to study in this letter."

The two quickly reached an agreement, walked up to the second floor together, and each found the room they should go to.

This is a very narrow small room, which even looks like a prison cell. Lu Ning can't help but suspect that the first goal of this mission is to escape from prison again.However, the waiter standing in the room was not as indifferent as last time, and still let Lu Ning into the room with a polite attitude.

"Miss Lu Ning, I will guide you on the task this time." The waiter with a top hat on his head bowed slightly to Lu Ning, and then turned on the lights in the room.

Under the white light, there was only one single bed leaning against the corner in the entire room.

"At the beginning of this mission, you only need to lie on the bed, and you don't need to do too many actions. And the mission-related information will be communicated in a dream, and you will remember it."

"This time the envelope is very special."

"This envelope will accompany you into the scene, and the information on the inside will change accordingly. It is recommended that you read the contents of the envelope first after entering the scene." Top Hat said.

"Got it, what else?"

"If you are ready, please sit on the bed and I will read you the second message of this mission."

Lu Ning nodded, looked around, and saw that there was really nothing else, so she sat on the bed.

The top hat pulled out a roll of parchment from the inside pocket, unfolded it and read:
[Visitor Lu Ning:
This trip is "Four Seasons Garden", please read the updated content in the envelope for more information when you wake up.There is no time limit for returning to this scene, and you can return to the distribution center after completing the task and meeting the requirements.

This reminder:

[-]. This task is a single-player confrontation scene. Visitors can choose to go alone or form an alliance to gain an advantage in the scene, but the performance bonus of allies will not be considered when calculating the score.

[-]. There is no necessary performance requirement for tourists in this task, please be good at using the props and characters in the scene.

5. After entering the scene, all visitors will be given [-] minutes to prepare for reading and thinking about the scene plan.However, if the range is limited, if you voluntarily leave the range, the preparation time will expire in advance.

Fourth, pay special attention, do not underestimate the strength of the characters in this scene.

I wish you a pleasant journey! 】

"Single-player confrontation scene?"

Lu Ning glanced at the waiter.

"Yes, single-player confrontation scenes, that is, all tourists in the scene are regarded as 'hostile' parties. Of course, this is only the judgment criterion of the distribution center, in order to prevent someone from clearing the level and earning a lot of points by forming alliances with powerful people. Simply put, how many points you can get depends entirely on your own performance."

"It's exactly what I want." Lu Ning nodded, "Is there any special reminder?"

"No more, I have explained everything that can be explained, so if you are ready, I will leave."

"Just lie down, right?"

"Yes, you will have a dream of comfort, and all your fatigue will be taken away."

After the top hat finished speaking, he bowed and left the room.

Lu Ning took a deep breath, then fell on the bed with her head up. In an instant, the lights went out, and the surroundings fell into darkness.

"Comfortable dreams? Huh..."

Obviously this is just rhetoric.

Lu Ning, who gradually fell into a deep sleep, experienced a fragmented dream.

The sky is smeared black by pollution, and the "alleys" composed of dirty and narrow alleys.The rotten breath that can be felt in the life-threatening running and breathing, garbage and corpses floating in the uncovered ditch...

The pain, the death of his companions, the successful escape, the hateful eyes that he didn't notice for a moment.

—“Why didn’t you die?”

——"If you can't use one arm, you won't be able to bring any value in these three months."

【Aren't we companions! 】

The "salesman" in a blue uniform stood in front of him who had no power to resist, raising his black gloved hand.

"Little girl, if you have a chance to live, remember this sentence."

Within the alley, sheep cannot survive, but lone wolves can.

(End of this chapter)