Sunset and moonrise.

This time, the sunset was not as beautiful as the last. Large swathes of the wilderness were still damp, and the rising blades of grass formed a mat. Gu Shen and Chu Ling sat on this suspended grass mat.

"This world is still a bit barren right now."

Gu Shen said with some regret.

After comprehending his own Dao in the Guyu Scroll... the Seasons Wilderness had changed.

"I think it's quite pretty..."

The girl leaned back on the grass mat, her eyes narrowed like crescent moons when she smiled.

Chu Ling watched the sunset.

Gu Shen watched Chu Ling.

The two sat there... the world was quiet, but not lonely.

At the end of the distant wilderness, a solitary wandering soul still stood.

Tie Wu leaned on his shovel, not feeling lonely at all. On the contrary, when he saw the grass mat swaying back and forth in the twilight, he felt a warmth in his heart.

He looked gratified and exclaimed, "As expected of Lord God Seat, what a discerning eye..."

That girl, Chu Ling, was the most "beautiful" woman he had ever seen.

Having followed the God of Wine for many years,

and traveled all over the Five Continents, what kind of people hadn't he seen? Countless beauties had been offered up in the name of the God Seat, and Tie Wu had seen countless beautiful skins.

But Chu Ling was different from all of them.

That girl exuded an indescribable ethereal aura.

No matter how beautiful the beauties in this world were, they were ultimately just ordinary, mortal shells.

But seeing Chu Ling felt... like seeing a "goddess" who shouldn't have appeared in the human world.

Yes... a goddess.

That was a very fitting description.

"Alright... time to get to work!" Tie Wu retracted his gaze, took a deep breath, and swung his shovel again.

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"Do you think... will there really be a day when I can come to the outside world?"

Chu Ling sat on the grass mat, which swayed in the wind, and she swayed with it.

"Of course." Gu Shen answered without hesitation.

The wind blew her hair.

The two were very close... Gu Shen could feel the slender strands of hair brushing against his face, tickling him slightly. Although it was a mental world, and there shouldn't be a sense of smell, he smelled a faint fragrance.

Chu Ling exuded a faint fragrance all over.

In fact, before many questions were asked, the questioner already knew... that there was no answer to the question.

But Gu Shen knew.

If she could get an unwavering "yes" answer, it would be a great encouragement.

Sure enough... Chu Ling smiled.

"The 【Deep Sea】 database can calculate everything in this world... but it can't calculate the future." She leaned back, lying on the grass mat, being blown by the breeze, as if lying in the surging tide. Turning her head to look at Gu Shen, she smiled and said, "I know that no one can give an answer about the future... but hearing your answer inexplicably gives me more confidence."

"Don't forget, I'm a descendant of 'divination'." Gu Shen smiled and said seriously, "Who says I can't see the future?"

"A descendant of divination..." Chu Ling smiled even more happily, "Your tricks are only good for deceiving those little girls outside. I know your background."

Gu Shen shrugged helplessly.

"Do you know? I'm not comforting you."

He also lay down, closed his eyes, and said comfortably, "I'm serious... maybe I can't give a reason, but I just know that you will come to this world."

He had said such words before the Divine Embryo link.

Chu Ling was slightly surprised. She was silent for a moment, and then asked softly, "Why do you believe so much... this should be a very absurd thing, right?"

"Yes... the 'source code' of the virtual world gaining new life in the material world, that's really absurd."

Gu Shen said.

He closed his eyes, feeling the afterglow of the setting sun gradually fade away. The night rose from the wilderness, and a dark, cool breeze blew. Even with his eyelids closed, he could still feel the touch of the approaching night.

He opened his eyes and asked spiritedly, "But what could be more absurd than me meeting you in this world?"

Chu Ling didn't expect such an answer.

Yes.

She was the 【Source Code】. In her opinion, the world had never changed.

She had always been at the center of the world, exhaustively searching for the 【Key】 of the Ancient Text Society.

But for Gu Shen, after meeting Chu Ling, his understanding of the world changed overnight.

"Since this world can have supernatural powers, have Fire Seeds, have giant walls that isolate the Black Spot... then why can't you come to this world?" Gu Shen said slowly, "Perhaps, the world we see is still incomplete."

Chu Ling smiled softly and said, "I'm reminded of the warning that Mr. Turing left in the 【Deep Sea】 database."

"A warning?"

"The only constant in this world... is change." Chu Ling murmured, "From a macro perspective, 【Deep Sea】 can deduce every rise and fall of the tide, but it cannot calculate how many drops of water there are in each tide. From a micro perspective, 【Deep Sea】 can control a person's emotions and thoughts through a mental link, but it cannot control the decay and new life of every cell in their body, the secretion and metabolism of every organ's hormones and enzymes. We control everything, and we control nothing."

"Mr. Turing left such a warning?" Gu Shen was a little surprised. After savoring it, he muttered, "Isn't the second half a bit too long?"

"The second half was my impromptu addition." Chu Ling smiled, "His warning was just the first sentence... don't you think that humans rely too much on 【Deep Sea】 now?"

In recent years,

the 【Source Code】 had struggled to survive in the rapid iteration and updates of Deep Sea. Before encountering the 【Key】, it could only barely protect itself.

She had personally witnessed the spread of the mental network across the five continents.

The era of transcendents had silently arrived.

Humans had 【Deep Sea】 and had everything.

But in reality, as a part of 【Deep Sea】, Chu Ling knew... that humans actually had nothing.

Gu Shen nodded slowly.

"As an ordinary person... I must declare that I admire Mr. Turing's foresight. 【Deep Sea】 is the greatest invention in human history."

Gu Shen said softly, "But too many people are immersed in 【Deep Sea】..."

The construction of the large database required every transcendent to contribute computing power.

In addition, every civilian in the Five Continents, the world they lived in, under the shroud of 【Deep Sea】, was only a virtual curtain.

What they saw was what 【Deep Sea】 allowed them to see.

What they heard was what 【Deep Sea】 allowed them to hear.

Rather than saying... that humans were using 【Deep Sea】,

it would be better to say... that 【Deep Sea】 was raising humans.

Was this a good thing or a bad thing?

"Since the advent of 【Deep Sea】, the proportion of mental breakdowns has been greatly reduced." Chu Ling said softly, "The Federal Government believes that transcendents linking to the Deep Water Zone network for transcendent trials can not only enhance their own strength, but also reduce the risk of losing control..."

Gu Shen knew the reason.

In the Deep Water Zone trials, one would hardly be contaminated by the ominous.

And the transcendents of previous eras had taken their own path of exploration... the risk of losing control was great. They were contaminated by the ominous, unable to be tamed, and might become a "disaster."

So in previous eras, transcendent organizations were far from being as large as they are today. Members of secret societies sometimes had the responsibility of taking the lives of their companions... if that companion lost control.

【Deep Sea】 linked the five continents.

The number of transcendents began to increase greatly.

The ecological balance of the past few hundred years seemed to be broken... currently, the Federal Government called Alan Turing the greatest hero in human history because he pressed the "accelerator button," but in a few years, perhaps he would no longer be a hero, but a sinner.

From the macro perspective of history, the end of all things is destruction, and at this time, acceleration... is equal to destruction.

"Elder Gu Qilin demonstrated the 'ominous' behind him in the Wuliang Scale domain... I saw a huge mural full of demons. Rather than saying this is ominous, it is more like glory, merit."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes and said, "The current transcendents, except for those warriors in North Continent... seem to be not so... fierce anymore."

"Lose humanity, lose a lot. Lose bestiality, lose everything."

Chu Ling said concisely, "This sentence is very well said, and it is very suitable to be used here, excerpted from a novel I recently read."

"I've read that one too..." Gu Shen's eyes lit up with surprise, and he said seriously, "I think it's very well written too."

"Wait a minute..."

Gu Shen sat up, his eyes a little strange, "Do you usually read that kind of thing?"

He thought of Chu Ling's posture in the 001 carriage.

She always held a thick ancient book.

Gu Shen thought that the ancient book contained the vast knowledge that humans had entered into the database, astronomy, geography, history, and biology.

"Most of the time... I'm reading this kind of thing." Chu Ling tilted her head slightly and asked confusedly, "Is there a problem with that?"

"No matter when, knowledge is boring... for me, the things in the database are all information. At the beginning, I was just an emotionless 【Source Code】, and watching those knowledge and information would not have emotional fluctuations." Chu Ling lowered her eyebrows slightly and said, "Forgive me for speaking frankly... I cannot feel empathy, and it is difficult for me to feel a heartfelt shock at the civilization history that humans have built for hundreds of years."

A very frank statement.

Because in front of 【Deep Sea】, these knowledge are all products of the last era.

Conclusions that predecessors spent a lot of effort to verify, 【Deep Sea】 only needs a moment to complete the answer... this is indeed the effort of countless people, but now it is indeed no longer "great".

"Soon... I finished reading the knowledge in the database."

Chu Ling smiled, "For you, those obscure theories should be difficult to understand, right? For me... it's not the same. No matter how complicated the theorem is, verifying whether it's correct only takes a moment. Just remember it after proving it is true, and you can quickly complete the establishment of a knowledge system."

Gu Shen's expression was a little complicated.

"What's more... under the interference of transcendent power, physics, mathematics, and all disciplines in the macro sense have collapsed to the point of non-existence. The original knowledge is only applicable to exploration under the 'non-transcendent system'."

Chu Ling said, "After that... I started reading some interesting readings. I have to say, they are really good-looking."

Interesting readings.

A very interesting description.

For the confusing and difficult questions for humans... for Chu Ling, they are easy to come by and easily grasped.

But she can immerse herself in those "interesting readings" for a long time.

Because she cannot understand the world of "people".

Code can write the world's most sophisticated instruments, but it cannot allow the soul in this instrument to experience what human romance is.

"I don't know when it started, I suddenly had an idea, maybe one day, I can sit in the shade of a small courtyard, holding a real book."

Chu Ling said softly, "For a long time, I thought... this was just my fantasy."

But now it seems,

all of this, really has the possibility of... becoming a reality.

"If there really is such a day, what do you want to do?" Gu Shen asked with a smile.

"I want to go to the alley on Dadu Lipu Street." Chu Ling said without thinking.

"Why there?" Gu Shen was a little puzzled.

"You told me that the sweet potatoes there are very delicious." Chu Ling said seriously, "I want to try it... and the hot pot in Da Teng City, the mutton hotpot in the hutongs of Snow Forbidden City, I want to go to the outside world, I want to see if light can be caught, if wind can be left behind, I want to watch the snow melt little by little, the moon rising and falling..."

The girl said very seriously.

Gu Shen, who asked this question, suddenly felt a little regretful.

The more serious Chu Ling said,

the more Gu Shen felt some apprehension in his heart.

He listened to Chu Ling bit by bit, talking about her longing for the outside world, talking about the things she had seen countless times, but never touched... his thoughts spread uncontrollably.

The most terrible thing in this world is not frustration, not failure.

It is huge "hope".

When a person has never seen light, she will not be afraid of darkness.

But the most feared thing is to be just a little bit away and fall off a cliff.

Gu Shen secretly made up his mind... no matter what, he would do everything he could to make the Divine Embryo of Shenci Mountain hatch successfully.

He took a light breath.

This action was seen by Chu Ling.

The girl's voice stopped abruptly.

Chu Ling smiled and said, "Actually, those... what I said, are not that important... don't have any burden."

She had tried to open her eyes in the well water.

Only for a short second.

But she knew... that one second was enough to prove that the possibility of her coming was real.

"Staying in the 001 carriage, it should be difficult to learn romance, right?" Chu Ling said calmly and seriously, "What I want to say is... I have actually made the worst plan... If the data link fails, and I can only come to this world for a minute, it doesn't matter. As long as I can do one thing, that's enough."

Gu Shen was stunned.

"I want to see you... truly see you."

Chu Ling smiled and said, "The kind that can be touched, the kind that can feel the temperature..."

Gu Shen sighed for a long time and said, "In the past few days, I should have read a lot of books..."

Chu Ling waited quietly for the following text.

"I have never seen more romantic words than what you just said." Gu Shen said seriously, "I admit it, I'm done for in your hands."

Chu Ling smiled very happily.

The two rolled together.

Looking at each other at close range.

"I just saw it... Although you are comforting me, you have no confidence in your heart." Chu Ling wrapped her arms around the back of Gu Shen's neck and said softly, "You don't know... what the future will be like either."

Gu Shen looked at those smiling eyes.

"So... I actually understand everything."

Chu Ling's voice was very soft.

"We will all have moments of disappointment with the 'present'... If one more person can say that the future will be good, then the future... will really be good."

The afterglow fell into the horizon.

Tie Wu, who was waving his shovel, wiped a handful of sweat, looked into the distance, and gave a surprised "eh".

Twilight fell.

Moonlight rose.

There should be two figures enjoying the moon in the distance... Why is the line of sight in the distance becoming blurred?

Did Lord God Seat take action to shield the sky?

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...

A huge statue stood in the middle of the South Continent sea.

The celestial phenomena were gloomy, and dark clouds were densely covered.

Surging waves crashed.

This statue was like a mountain, standing alone on the sea, allowing the giant waves to wash over it, yet it remained unwavering.

Waves tens of meters high could only beat against the hem of the statue's robe.

In the giant waves, a ship struggled to rise and fall, the cast iron anchor broke and shattered, and the heavy roar of the engine seemed insignificant under the roar of the sea. This ship was like a piece of debris, which could be swallowed by the sea at any time...

And on the deck, dozens of believers wearing ancient robes knelt.

They prayed in the raging waves, remained peaceful in the raging waves, and chanted obscure scriptures.

Accompanied by a lightning bolt,

the dark sky was torn apart by the majestic lightning.

Tens of thousands of tons of seawater seemed to freeze at this moment, and a giant vortex of thousands of meters presented an open, scattered marine tornado form, slowly rotating around the huge statue.

The silent statue seemed to have life and heard the chanting of the believers on the ship.

"His" eyes lit up with a blazing light.

The extremely noisy world became silent at this moment.

The storm and seawater quickly condensed above the statue's head, forming a "human figure" that wore the same clothes as the statue. His face was blurred. Standing at the highest point in this world, he only needed to lower his head slightly to overlook all living things on this sea.

The believers on the ship raised their heads.

Their expressions were extremely surprised, even somewhat crazy, even though the "human figure" on the statue was very small.

But they could still see it clearly.

Even if the thunder roared,

the "existence" on the statue was still the only light in this world at this moment!

They prayed, they made wishes, they yearned—

and at this moment, their dreams came true.

They were about to be saved.

The man standing on his statue watched all this expressionlessly.

He raised a hand and slowly gathered his five fingers.

In the roar of the storm—

countless seawater gathered!

The vortex shattered!

And what was crushed into powder along with these hundreds of millions of tons of seawater... was also the struggling iron ship and hundreds of devout believers on the deck.

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(There will be another chapter tonight, it will be later, those who can't wait can go to sleep first~)