Embers Ad Infinitum

Shang Jianyao didn't seem to understand other people's faces, and asked Jacob and Hendrick:

"He seems to be very powerful, you seem to be afraid of him?\"

After a few seconds, Jacob, who had a better personality, said feebly:

"The 'Truth' is also in that tower, but He comes out every now and then."

He used the "he" in the Honghe dialect representing the gods.

"Sleeves are equivalent to holding age but not holding age?" Shang Jianyao asked along the way.

Hendrick said without hesitation:

"Every time he comes out, one or two awakened ones die."

"But to what extent His strength is, we have not experienced it ourselves, so we cannot give you an accurate answer." Jacob added.

Shang Jianyao said "oh oh" twice:

"The old people usually don't go out of the tower?"

"The sleeves can extract the consciousness of every resident here and respond to different prayers without going out of the tower." Jacob's face was in awe, and his voice was a little lower, "Of course, I have never seen or heard it. It was said that the elders would leave the tower."

"That's it." Shang Jianyao sighed, "They are not close to the people, and they don't know how to have fun with the people."

Hendrick squinted at the guy for a few seconds:

"The flock doesn't want to live with the lion either."

Shang Jianyao didn't answer this sentence, and his thinking has jumped to another place:

"If our bodies on the dusty soil are not provided with liquid food, nutrient needles and nutrient solution, will they slowly starve to death? Or can the extracted human consciousness feed back to the body and maintain the most basic biological activity?"

This is common sense among the "New World" powerhouses. Hendrick glanced at the weak Jacob and said in a deep voice:

"The body that is not replenished will rapidly decay, and your spirit will no longer be able to recover normally, and your consciousness will also be weakened.

"In this case, you can only rely on the consciousness of the surrounding humans to maintain your own mental stability. This will indeed give your body a certain feedback, allowing it to maintain the weakest biological activity, just like every cell has entered hibernation. ."

"But what if there are no humans in the surrounding area?" Shang Jianyao asked further.

"Then you can only try to acquire human consciousness here." Hendrick said coldly, "If this doesn't work, your body will die first, and your consciousness will be close to dissipating in a short time."

"Just close?" Shang Jianyao wondered.

Jacob sighed and smiled:

"Olders don't waste this awareness and let it die on its own."

I understand. "Shang Jianyao snapped his right fist and left palm, "It's just like when we find out that some food is about to expire, we will eat it quickly. "

Without waiting for Jacob and Hendrick to respond, he offered a counterexample:

"But I have a friend. There have been no humans in the surrounding area for 30 or 40 years. It is someone's battery. The body is still alive, but it is close to a mummified state."

This friend refers to Yan Hu.

"Impossible." Jacob and Hendrick denied in unison, but one was soft and weak, and the other was stressed.

"That's the truth." Shang Jian Yao spread his hands.

Hendrick said coldly:

"This can only mean that he is not someone's battery, someone is regularly providing him with human consciousness, although the frequency may be very low and the number is not large,

But it is enough to maintain his most basic survival state. "

"Why did that person do this?" Shang Jianyao expressed his confusion.

Hendrick didn't answer and said directly:

"You need to ask him not us."

"Oh." Shang Jianyao gave an expression of "I didn't expect it".

He asked again:

"At that time, I entered the place where my friend's body was sleeping, but he was hungry and sucked my consciousness without the first time, so he had to try again after a quarter of an hour, why?

"Well, we weren't friends at that time."

Jacob and Hendrick looked at this guy again, with a very strange expression, as if there was a fool in front of him.

In the end, Jacob responded:

"Because we are in the new world', separated from the dust by a layer of barrier, whether it is to sense the approach of human consciousness, or to search for positioning, lock and extract, it will take a certain amount of time."

"Is that so." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized, and then he had a counter-example, "But when I entered here before and reversely provided protection for my companions, there was no delay."

"Provide protection..." Jacob chewed the phrase twice, and asked with understanding, "Someone was extracting the consciousness of your companion?"

"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao nodded frequently.

Jacob gave the answer to the question just now:

"You don't feel the delay because someone has established the channel."

"Professional." Shang Jianyao praised.

Then, he continued to ask in the spirit of breaking the casserole to the end:

"The other thing I don't understand is that when we entered that area, why were we locked and started to extract consciousness?"

Jacob, who had been standing for too long, pulled over a high stool and sat behind the bar. Hendrick helped make a guess:

"There is no delay either because the process of sensing human consciousness, searching and locating was completed before, or the Awakened in that area just happened to return to the ashes from the 'New World'."

Shang Jianyao has a lot of experience in group discussions, and immediately shook his head:

"The first one I don't think is so coincidental, we just opened the door.

"Why do we have to finish that action, sooner or later, to lock our consciousness and start extracting?

"The second possibility is too coincidental. I think that no matter at any time, a few days in advance, a few months, or a few days or a few months later, as long as you enter that area, you will become an 'unintentional person', um, This can be confirmed in the future.”

Seeing that he was very assertive, Jacob did not persuade him, but made a joke:

"There is also a situation where there is no delay, that is, Zhi Sui was the one who extracted your consciousness at that time."

"That's not right either." Shang Jianyao denied again, "If it really is Zhi Sui, the protection I provided should be easily broken down, and it won't have any effect."

Jacob did not answer his words, changed the subject, and asked a little curiously:

"Did you discover the door to the new world long ago, and waited until you were in danger to push it in?"

"Yes." Shang Jianyao did not deny it.

"It's so cool," Jacob sighed. "I can't do it."

After chatting for a few more words, Hendrick, who seemed very energetic after drinking the lemon margarita, walked to a set of sofas, took out a saxophone from the corner, and played to himself.

The soothing music with a little sadness in the deep calm slowly reverberated in this small bar.

Shang Jianyao listened quietly for a while, and seemed to be immersed in such an atmosphere. At least he didn't suggest that Hendrick choose the erhu as the main instrument because Hendrick was always squinting.

After an unknown amount of time, Shang Jianyao stood up, said goodbye to Jacob, and walked outside.

The street lights on the street followed him out and turned on again.

"It turns out that it will take a certain amount of time to lock and extract... No wonder you have time to open the door of the 'New World', and I can support you to provide protection." In the evening, outside the Eighth Research Institute, in the jeep, after listening to the business meeting Jiang Baimian, who received Yao's feedback, suddenly realized.

On some sensitive words, Shang Jianyao is referred to by pre-agreed code words.

Shang Jian Yao agrees:

"Yeah yeah."

"It seems that it was not Zhi Sui at that time." Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully.

Ageing will not be delayed.

Jiang Baimian still had some action at night. He didn't want to consume too much energy now. After a few simple exchanges, he said to Shang:

"I'll give you a nutritional injection later, don't rush to the tower, and don't rush to deal with the vice president's people, get in touch with friendly people like Jacob and Flora, and learn more In this situation, seek more help, um, don’t be brave when you encounter those unfriendly people, avoid them if you can.”

"I understand that it is necessary to unite a part of people who are worthy of unity and gather the strength of the public." Shang Jianyao has always taken the "Salvation Army" as the benchmark for his behavior model.

Jiang Baimian ended the topic and finally concluded:

"We communicate once a day, morning, noon and night, and each time is brief.

"Well, if there is an emergency, I will immediately contact your consciousness with my spirit."

What if there is an emergency here? "Shang Jianyao asked rhetorically.

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"Although you can't control what your body does, you seem to be able to maintain a certain instinct, at least so far without incontinence.

"If there is an emergency later, you just let yourself wet your pants, and I can see what's going on at a glance.

"If there is just no urine~www.readwn.com~, I can only use locking consciousness and try to stimulate me by extracting, but there will be a lot of delay."

"No problem." Shang Jianyao agreed without hesitation.

Then he said with a smile:

I want to go to the toilet now, big and small. "

The smile on Jiang Baimian's face solidified for a second:

"Wait a minute, I'll help you move outside, get your poses, and take your pants off."

When he was done with this matter, Jiang Baimian was not in a hurry to explore the real "new world" at night, and planned to wait for a few more hours until it got darker.

"Pangaeon", inside the underground building.

After chatting with their parents for a while, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen returned to their homes.

They had just sat down, and before they had time to speak, the slightly childish and familiar voice sounded on the radio outside:

Hello everyone, I'm Hou Yi, the news announcer on the hour, it's exactly 8 o'clock in the evening...

"This morning, the board of directors reviewed the work report of the previous quarter, and praised the steady growth of the birth population and the increasingly diverse trend of material production...

"The results of the new year's unified marriage will be announced soon..."

"'A new round of border clashes broke out between Primal City and the Salvation Army...

"Order Supervision Department" declared last month as "No Vicious Incident Month"...

"The Recreation Department is preparing to hold table tennis competitions in the activity centers on each floor.

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