Chapter 450 The Last Few Days

The registration for the Snow Forbidden City Rookie Battle was incredibly popular!

The reason was simple… that Bai family prodigy who overwhelmed Nagano, after returning to the clan hall, only rested for a day before leaving Nagano again.

And in this process, he only met one person.

Gu Shen.

Although no one knew what these two said or did in Qingzhong Cemetery…

But it seemed that Bai Xiu would still not participate in this year's competition.

This was a result that surprised many people.

Bai Xiu was likely waiting for Gu Shen!

Were the two S-ranks cherishing each other? Had they agreed to a decisive battle next year?

In the past few days, more and more discussion posts about the Rookie Battle appeared in the Deep Sea Zone forum… Everyone felt that the "peace" between Gu and Bai should follow such a plot… After all, Gu Shen had been practicing super-ordinarily for too short a time, and for Bai Xiu, finding a comparable opponent was too difficult.

In any case, this was a good result for the other geniuses of Nagano!

Those who had originally planned to wait another year were eager to try, and they had waited for the competition in which they were most likely to "win the championship"!

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"I heard that Bai Xiu has left Nagano again."

Gong Zi sat in the small courtyard of Chun Yu Temple. Recalling his experiences these past few days, he felt as if he was in a dream, and exclaimed, "I thought… I was definitely out of the running this year."

Gu Shen lay on the grandmaster's chair, closed his eyes to rest, and asked faintly, "Since you were so afraid of fighting him…"

"Bai Xiu didn't participate in the Rookie Battle last year… why didn't you go?"

Gong Zi shook his head.

"How could someone who wants to obtain the 'Dream of Fire Seed' be willing to be inferior to others?"

He sighed softly and said, "I'm afraid it's not just me, many people have this idea… Give me another year, and I might be able to fight Bai Xiu."

The age requirement for the Rookie Battle is a maximum of 20 years old.

The super-ordinary geniuses of the Three Schools and Five Great Families improve every year… If they measure it by their own strength, they will definitely choose the most confident time to impact the Rookie Battle.

"However, I really didn't expect… that Bai Xiu wouldn't make a move after meeting you."

Gong Zi rubbed his chin, puzzled. "That really shouldn't be… Did nothing happen between you two?"

In his original imagination.

Gu Shen and Bai Xiu, although both were equally gifted, had very different personalities, and their forces belonged to opposing camps. One was a thunderbolt, and the other was a raging fire. Once they came into contact… it would be unstoppable!

They would coexist peacefully?

"Thunderbolt and raging fire… Why does that sound so strange…"

Gu Shen frowned.

He stood up, recalling the scene in Qingzhong, and asked with a helpless smile, "Why does everyone think… that Bai Xiu and I will definitely fight?"

Gong Zi was slightly stunned.

Why would Gu Shen and Bai Xiu definitely fight… This was indeed an interesting question.

Even if this meeting did not spark any flames, the people in the Deep Sea Zone forum still believed that Gu Shen and Bai Xiu would eventually have a battle, if not this time, then in a year.

Thinking about it carefully, it was actually absurd.

These two had never even met before!

But… everyone thought so.

"Perhaps it's because everyone thinks… that S-rank is a very important thing. I need to defeat someone to prove that I deserve S-rank."

Gu Shen answered Gong Zi's question, and said casually, "It's the same for Bai Xiu… If someone with the same rating as him appears, he can only defeat that person to maintain his position."

"The problem lies here—"

"Gu Shen and Bai Xiu have few things in common, but there is one thing: neither of us cares that much about… empty fame."

Gu Shen smiled and said, "If there are no accidents, I won't participate in the war next year either…"

After speaking, he turned and left.

Shen Li, who was drinking tea in the courtyard, grumbled unhappily, "It looks like he's going to fiddle with those ghost drawing blueprints again."

These days, there were not as many challengers coming to Gu's Villa Area to seek battle.

But gathering at Chun Yu Temple had become a habit for everyone.

Not just the idle Young Master Gong.

Shen Li would also come on time every day to sit for a while, under the pretext of "dealing with" challengers, brewing a pot of freshly picked tea, and then spending a long morning sitting in the courtyard… He was a martial arts fanatic, of course he didn't really like drinking tea. The reason why he was able to insist on coming to Chun Yu Temple every day before was because "there was a fight to be had," but now that "there was no fight to be had," running here had become a habit.

While brewing tea, Shen Li would carefully observe Gu Shen.

A martial arts fanatic can be defeated, but not conquered.

He had already begun to "brew" for the third duel… and this time, he decided to slowly accumulate strength, know himself and his enemy, and win every battle.

Shen Li wanted to see how Gu Shen, this freak, cultivated.

But every time he came to the courtyard.

Gu Shen was either sleeping on his back… or looking at a bunch of messy, scribbled blueprints in the courtyard. He tried to cautiously move closer to take a look, but Gu Shen didn't hide anything at all, and instead generously gave him a part of the blueprints, saying that if he could understand them, he was welcome to exchange ideas together.

Shen Li knew at a glance that this was probably Gu Shen's trick… The ancient texts engraved on the blueprints were extremely hypnotic, and looking at them for a few more eyes made people want to sleep!

How could he understand them!

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Gu Shen returned to the inner room.

This time, he did not study the array pattern blueprints of Qingzhong.

Because he sensed Chu Ling's call—

During this time, Chu Ling had been very quiet.

Why would she suddenly call him?

Gu Shen found a quiet environment, closed his eyes, and breathed steadily, trying to hypnotize himself.

A "ding" sound in his mind.

The mental link was established.

The rustling sound of a train running gradually sounded around him.

Wrapped in white noise, Gu Shen opened his eyes again.

Chu Ling sat in the seat opposite the train. She looked solemn and said, "Just now… I had a dream."

Gu Shen was stunned.

Anyone can dream… In a sense, dreams are a collection and flow of a large amount of information in the brain.

Some people think this is a disordered mental dissipation.

But in fact… sometimes the "order" of dreams is more powerful than people imagine.

But can the [Source Code], which is a data collection, also dream?

"There is a lot of invalid and cumbersome information in the [Source Code]'s database, and it is actually cleaned up every day…" Chu Ling's expression became serious. "If I have to make an analogy, the process of releasing invalid information is somewhat similar to human 'sleep.' I see a lot of fleeting images. It's just that these images don't stay, and they don't repeat."

Flash by—

That's how they are released.

"But this time the data information is different. I dreamed of a snowfield…" Chu Ling murmured, "I don't know when the Eye of Heaven captured this image, but it can't be deleted. In the process of releasing it, it appeared in my mind more than once, so I saved this dream memory."

As soon as she finished speaking.

An image immediately appeared in front of Gu Shen.

He was like a soaring bird, flying in the high altitude of the snowfield for thousands of meters. The biting wind blew past, and the image of the snowfield was blurred. Looking down at the ground, there were undulating snow mountains.

"This picture… is too big…"

Gu Shen broke away from the dream. He rubbed his forehead and pondered, "Is this the first time this has happened?"

"The first time."

Chu Ling was very certain, and then her tone became puzzled: "I always feel that there are some… problems with my spirit recently."

After thinking about it.

She used the word "problem" to describe her mental state.

"I can still easily perform millions of calculations in a second, I can still select matching items from the central database, and I can still simulate and calculate the possibilities of various events and different response plans, but…"

Chu Ling was silent for a while, and said, "I feel… tired."

"Tired?"

This was beyond Gu Shen's comprehension.

How could a [Source Code] feel tired?

"Since meeting you, my permissions have been recovering bit by bit… [Deep Sea] is self-upgrading, and the stagnant [Source Code] has also begun to upgrade…"

Chu Ling said blankly, "Perhaps it's because you are the [Key]? I don't know why, but I can feel that my power is getting stronger and stronger, and at the same time, I also have more and more obvious periods of weakness… I will stop calculating and fall into blankness at a certain moment. Perhaps it will only appear for a short 1 millisecond in 24 hours. But that 1 millisecond is real."

One millisecond of stopped calculation.

Perhaps people won't notice anything… but for [Deep Sea], even a 1 millisecond error should not occur.

What does this mean?

Chu Ling didn't know…

But after listening to Gu Shen, his expression became complicated.

He tentatively opened his mouth and asked slowly, "Perhaps… this kind of performance is not a bad thing?"

Chu Ling looked at Gu Shen's hesitant expression and seemed to understand something, "Are you trying to say… that I am gradually becoming like a… person?"

Yes.

Person.

This was the word Gu Shen wanted to say but didn't dare to say.

Machines don't need to rest.

But people do.

[Source Code] should not feel temperature, should not feel happiness, should not feel the emotions of the world, and of course should not feel… fatigue.

She is becoming more and more perfect.

And it is becoming more and more imperfect.

If Chu Ling really starts upgrading with [Deep Sea], then she will be able to mobilize the data of the entire Five Continents world, and be able to see thousands of faces and read thousands of documents in an instant… She will become a true "god."

And if the price of this upgrade is to give her "fatigue."

Then she will also fall from the so-called altar.

The closer to perfection, the more perfect it must be kept.

If she becomes the [Deep Sea] that can gather the entire Five Continents database, even if there is a 1 millisecond blank crash, it is not as good as the unevolved [Source Code].

"Back to the original question, will this snowfield be a very meaningful place? Or… is this just an invalid picture image?" Gu Shen narrowed his eyes, and he began to think about Chu Ling's dream.

"I've tried image comparison, and the central database has given too many search results."

Chu Ling smiled bitterly and said, "Because this picture doesn't have any information… There are tens of thousands of pictures from different regions with more than 80% similarity, and there are thousands of snowfields in North Continent and a large number in East Continent that meet the image's landform characteristics."

With the blessing of huge computing power, the central database's search is a powerful tool.

But even so… there are times when it is beyond reach.

"In this case, the central database… may not be so useful."

Gu Shen smiled. He thought for a while and had a countermeasure, saying, "Wait for me… Maybe, I can find the answer."

Chu Ling was slightly stunned.

She really couldn't figure it out… the location of her dream could not even be confirmed to exist. This was a coordinate that even the central database could not find. What would Gu Shen rely on to find it?

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Gu Shen left Chun Yu Temple and went directly to Qingzhong.

This was his method.

Simple, crude, and straightforward.

If you want to find the truth of "dreams", you can't rely on the [Deep Sea] that only believes in objective facts. In this regard, the mysterious "divination" and "prayer" can provide incredible hints!

The tomb keeper restrained her aura and was meditating with her eyes closed.

She sensed the movement outside the fog, and the eyes under the cat mask were a little surprised.

According to her estimation, it would take Gu Shen several days to enter Qingzhong again after comprehending the array patterns last time… No matter how talented this kid is, he shouldn't be able to comprehend so quickly, right?

"Master Qianye… This disciple has a request."

Although he had never practiced divination, learning ancient texts with Master Qianye could be regarded as a "teacher-student relationship." Gu Shen now addressed her as a disciple.

After arriving at the inner tomb, he went straight to the point and sincerely asked for advice: "This disciple suddenly dreamed a dream last night… My thoughts are entangled and I cannot calm down. I hope that the teacher can take a look and give me some guidance."

After speaking.

He used his spiritual power to transmit the image of the snowfield that Chu Ling had dreamed of…

The tomb keeper glanced at the snowfield image, and frowned slightly before taking a closer look.

It wasn't that she disliked Gu Shen for disturbing her peace, but that she felt that this matter was slightly strange.

This dream didn't seem intense.

Based on her understanding of Gu Shen… this kid shouldn't deliberately enter the tomb and ask for help for an ordinary dream.

And without using divination, after watching it once, she just felt that this image was really nothing special.

The snow was heavy.

The mountains were white.

Other than that… there was no other meaning.

"What do you want me to point out?" Master Qianye said.

"This disciple wants to know… can divination be used to divine the location in a dream." Gu Shen cautiously opened his mouth. He knew that this might be a little offensive… after all, every divination required a price to be paid.

"Is this very important to you?"

The tomb keeper smiled, and she became more and more certain… that this kid was hiding something from her.

Gu Shen smiled awkwardly.

Master Qianye narrowed her eyes, and her fingers gently pressed down within her sleeve. A wisp of flowing cloud in the sky seemed to be pinched like a piano string, turning into a golden divination thread.

The cat mask looked at the dream again.

After watching it, the tomb keeper asked softly, "This dream… isn't yours, is it?"

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(ps: 1 Those familiar with Panda know that I am not really a person who updates explosively. These consecutive updates of 10,000 words a day are really the peak of my career. I encountered a situation of being stuck with the text tonight. The first chapter took a long time to write. There will be another update later. Those who don’t stay up late should not wait. I will try to write another big chapter. 2 I’m asking for the votes in everyone’s hands)