Squid Who Loves Diving
Chapter 907 Dream
The entire room suddenly became as if cast from steel.
"Am I locked up?" The rash Shang Jianyao was a little dumbfounded.
The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao was extremely angry, pounding on the wall as he laughed loudly:
"Does that even need asking?
"I knew that letting you, a single-celled organism, and a few low-intelligence guys dominate the body would definitely cause problems, but I didn't expect retribution to come so quickly!
"You dare to enter such a obviously strange room so carelessly!"
"Theoretically speaking, we are all 'New World' powerhouses, and no one can easily lock us up. Moreover, what's the point of locking us up? Even if they want to absorb our consciousness and spirit, wouldn't they still have to fight us?" The honest Shang Jianyao muttered a few words.
The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao "heh"ed:
"How deep and murky the waters of the 'New World' are, don't you have a clue?"
"Alright, alright, everyone, stop arguing." The calm and rational Shang Jianyao stopped the infighting, "The most important thing now is to find a way out. Although we don't have to worry about mental exhaustion for a while, being trapped here will seriously affect our progress in exploring the 'New World'."
Speaking of this, he looked up at the fluorescent lamp, which was brighter than before, and said:
"That person doesn't seem to have left yet..."
Relying on just him, a 'New World' powerhouse, shouldn't be able to support such brightness.
"Maybe he's hiding in a corner of the room, waiting for us to make a mistake and give us a backstab," the honest Shang Jianyao said.
The rash Shang Jianyao expressed dissatisfaction:
"How is that possible? I just used a broom to check every place here."
"What's the point of that kind of check?" The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao jumped a few times in place, "Easy to dodge."
What he meant was that the owner of the room could completely avoid the touch of the broom by jumping rope.
"One five six, one five seven, one eight one nine twenty one..." The novelty-seeking Shang Jianyao began to perform with great interest, completely unaware that he was trapped.
Inside "Pangu Biology," hopscotch, hide-and-seek, and other projects with minimal requirements were the children's favorite games, followed by activities like jump rope that only used a small amount of materials.
The most sentimental and youngest Shang Jianyao asked worriedly:
"Then how can we check without leaving anything out?"
"That's simple." Pudu Chan Shi Shang Jianyao smiled, "Concentrate your mind, forcibly materialize a bomb, and then detonate it directly in the room, creating indiscriminate damage. That way, no matter who is hiding here, they can't silently withstand it."
"Indiscriminate damage..." The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao frowned.
The honest Shang Jianyao then asked:
"What about ourselves?"
"We will also be hurt." Pudu Chan Shi raised his right palm and proclaimed a Buddhist prayer, "If I don't go to hell, who will?"
Before some colleagues could scold him, he added:
"This is a mental bomb derived from ourselves, and we are standing at the center of the storm, so the damage we receive will definitely be the least."
The calm and rational Shang Jianyao thought for a moment and said:
"What if the person who was invisible before has already left, but stayed outside the door?"
Because the distance is very close, the corresponding light will not be reflected in the corridor, but will remain in the room.
If this is the case, the mental bomb will not have much effect.
All the Shang Jianyaos fell silent.
After a long while, the rash Shang Jianyao said urgently:
"We can't just sit and wait for death!"
"Then what do you want to do?" The sinister and vicious Shang Jianyao now found this guy even more annoying than the calm and rational one.
"Find a way to break out of the door." The rash Shang Jianyao replied, "We are all 'New World' powerhouses, there is no reason he can trap us so easily."
The calm and rational Shang Jianyao smiled:
"The buildings here are derived from the construction of the Life Rituals, so the walls and doors themselves must be extremely strong. We can only consider starting from the connections and weak points.
"But before making such an attempt, I have a suggestion."
"What suggestion?" The honest Shang Jianyao asked whenever he had a question.
The calm and rational Shang Jianyao replied with incomparable enthusiasm:
"Ask Da Bai if he has any good ideas."
"Yes, yes." The agreeing Shang Jianyao immediately agreed.
The remaining Shang Jianyaos had no objections to this.
............
In order to maintain her spirit, Jiang Baimian forced herself to fall asleep.
This was thanks to her becoming an Awakened.
In a daze, she seemed to return to the company and live safely with her parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, and others.
Suddenly one day, the people around her turned into "Heartless" one after another.
She finally escaped from the underground building, only to find that the entire Grey Soil had become a paradise for the "Heartless," and human civilization had been completely destroyed.
Huff... Jiang Baimian opened her eyes and woke up.
The nightmare from just now still swirled in her mind.
She stared blankly for a while and muttered to herself:
"The reason I want to investigate the cause of the Old World's destruction and the origin of the 'Heartless Disease' is because I hope that our next generation and the generation after that will no longer have such a sword hanging over their heads, and that the tragedy of the Old World's destruction will never happen again..."
When she was a child, she heard her father tell her too much about the destruction of the Old World, the horror of the "Heartless Disease," and the tragic experiences of humans, which slowly gave rise to the idea of investigating the cause of the Old World's destruction and the origin of the "Heartless Disease."
When she came into contact with the civilization of the old humans more widely, this idea was truly deepened into a dream or ideal.
She didn't want future generations to be afraid anymore, and she didn't want those brilliant civilizations to be cut off.
She called herself a semi-folklorist, and she had to experience the local customs and culture everywhere she went, which was also based on her love for human civilization.
The vast majority of humans she had never met were indeed unfamiliar to her and had no specific concept, but the children around her, the poems and songs on books that were either bold, graceful, or full of ideal brilliance, and the scientific knowledge that embodied human wisdom, all had clear images in Jiang Baimian's mind.
Jiang Baimian breathed a sigh of relief again.
She stood up and stretched her body.
Then, she communicated with Shang Jianyao at the agreed time, helped him find a place to take a morning pee, and gave him an injection of nutrients.
After doing all this, Jiang Baimian simply dealt with a meal with compressed biscuits and energy bars.
In the process, she sighed with some emotion and some confusion, muttering to herself silently:
"You think about it during the day, you dream about it at night...
"This dream came at the right time, helping me strengthen some ideas.
"But, isn't it a little too coincidental?"
As the thought turned, Jiang Baimian turned her gaze to the tightly closed dark black door and considered the problems she would explore later:
Since only one-tenth of the "Heartless" are out at night, what kind of scene will it be during the day?
Jiang Baimian felt that by hiding her human consciousness and relying on military exoskeletons and other equipment, she still had hope of sneaking into that small city in broad daylight.
Just then, her head throbbed a few times.
This was the familiar precursor to the "Heartless Disease."
Fortunately, the throbbing quickly subsided.
Jiang Baimian immediately woke up and realized that Shang Jianyao was looking for her.
She quickly walked back to Shang Jianyao's side, kneeled on one knee, and extended her spirit.
Soon, she "saw" Shang Jianyao.
"I'm locked up!" Shang Jianyao cut to the chase.
The corners of Jiang Baimian's mouth twitched slightly:
"Tell me the details."
Hearing Shang Jianyao say that he had rashly entered the target building and that strange room, she almost raised her hand to cover her face.
After calming down, she said thoughtfully:
"Your situation is a bit like Yan Hu's encounter..."
Being restricted to a certain place in the "New World" and unable to move freely.
"That's different. I can still return to the Grey Soil as long as I choose the right object of prayer." Shang Jianyao did not agree with Jiang Baimian's statement.
Jiang Baimian chuckled:
"You haven't tried it yet, how can you be so sure?
"What if the Life Rituals ignore you?"
"They abandon me after flirting!" Shang Jianyao's thinking jumped to somewhere else, "Moreover, Yan Hu was a self-taught person back then who called himself a god. He probably didn't even know that praying to the Life Rituals could temporarily return to the Grey Soil."
"Then who is 'giving him blood transfusions' to maintain his consciousness?" Jiang Baimian chuckled.
Before Shang Jianyao could argue any further, she nodded:
"Don't act rashly for the time being. When night comes, I'll find a chance to get close to the building corresponding to it in reality and give it a few grenades to see what changes will happen."
The building corresponding to the place where Shang Jianyao was trapped in reality was the light on the outermost edge of the tower.
Although Jiang Baimian could not reach it yet, the remaining distance would not affect her remote attacks at all.
"That's very dangerous." Shang Jianyao cared.
"You know that too? Don't be so rash in the future!" Jiang Baimian instructed and then said, "After bombing that building, I will evacuate immediately. With the help of the military exoskeleton, those 'Heartless' shouldn't be able to catch up with me if I go in a straight line."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shang Jianyao suddenly felt that the light in the room had dimmed a lot.
That fluorescent lamp was no longer as bright as before!