Doomsday Wonderland

The blue sky with floating sunlight, the Arab city made of stone bricks, the half-broken minaret... all in an instant, turned into a vortex of colorful pieces mixed together; they retreated and shrunk rapidly before our eyes, Like a kaleidoscope that goes further and further away, the gray pipe walls are finally revealed again.

More than one data body connected to form a huge "pool" flowing with light golden light, reflecting the soft gold in the pipeline.

The dissipation of her right shoulder seemed to speed up the melting of Lin Sanjiu; in the blink of an eye after Ji Shanqing disappeared, the billowing smoke quickly swallowed up the lower half of her face. After the Queen of Soul screamed "Lin Sanjiu!" in shock, she heard nothing - the last thing left in her field of vision was the black shadow of the puppet master rushing towards the data objects. ; The shadow was eroded by the golden light and flickered, as if it would disappear at any time.

As if falling into a bottomless abyss, Lin Sanjiu lost consciousness.

Years after the incident, she still sometimes couldn't help but think back to that moment when she fell into darkness like death. What was it like around her at that time, and what happened?

Of course, it's not that she doesn't know the answer - she just doesn't know if that answer is true.

It seemed as if she had been floating on the deep seabed for an unknown amount of time before she was finally lifted up to the surface by gentle waves. What revived her senses was a familiar and soothing voice: "Sister, sister?"

Lin Sanjiu slowly opened her eyes, as if she had just woken up from a long dream, and was still stunned for a while.

The first thing that caught her eye was Ji Shanqing's always fair and fresh face. As soon as their eyes met, his watery eyes immediately flashed with joy: "Sister, are you awake?"

"I...where am I?" Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes hard, feeling that her consciousness was intermittent, like a receiver with a poor signal. "What just happened?"

"It's okay, sister," Libao approached her gently, his long hair floating around her neck, and a breeze-like breath in the hair gently rubbed against her skin. He stretched out a cool hand and grabbed Lin Sanjiu's wrist: "I'm here."

"What happened?" she asked again, her thoughts gradually becoming clearer again. She looked down and saw that her hands, feet and body were back, intact. She raised her head in confusion, and Lin Sanjiu glanced around.

Although she could see everything clearly, she couldn't understand what she saw.

Who has ever seen a transparent space?

In the everyday world, air is naturally transparent, as are glass and many other things; but when a person's eyes pass through these transparent things, they will eventually fall on an opaque object - the earth, trees, and buildings.

However, at this time, the surrounding space is filled with some kind of colorless transparent "wave flow"; there is only this kind of wave flow. Looking through it, there is no place to land on the empty ground, because every part is transparent.

This "wave" flowed past her full and densely, as if it was weightless and extremely dense and viscous. She was lifted up by the waves and floated leisurely in mid-air, unable to tell where she was.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously and found that this time, even the Supreme God's "glasses" could not help her clear her mind.

"Where is this place?" Lin Sanjiu was a little anxious, "Where are the puppet master and the Queen of Souls?"

Ji Shanqing let out a long breath. He glanced at her and his eyes curved like crescent moons: "Sister, you were just turned into a set of information in their information database by the data body."

Lin Sanjiu was stunned for half a second and looked at her body again involuntarily. "Is this an information database? But how...how am I still conscious?"

"I broke up my data, interspersed it with your data, and came in with you." Ji Shanqing explained softly, "After I came in, my sisters all came in too. What I just had to do was very complicated. Simple, it just reactivates your sense of self.”

"Break up?" Lin Sanjiu was startled by these words. She didn't take the rest of the words seriously and looked him up and down hurriedly. "Are you alright?"

"It's fine."

"How are the puppet masters and the others doing?"

Ji Shanqing paused, and his smile bloomed like a peach blossom again: "I think they should still be in the light outside. Sister, don't worry, once they lose, they will also be sent here. Then I will All we need to do is activate their consciousness. To be honest, this might actually be better."

This was indeed true. Lin Sanjiu nodded, feeling a little more at ease.

"Did you come with me to save me?" she asked, looking around - even though she looked around in vain. "Why is it better for them to come in?"

"Saving you is one reason," Ji Shanqing said softly. "The other reason is that it is more beneficial for us if I come in. Didn't I say that even though I have become a data body and have their abilities, But the information I have stored is too little, so there is too little I can do - it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. If they also come in, it means that the data body is probably not suspicious."

Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but suddenly realized: "You want to enter their information database and steal their information!"

"Stealing doesn't sound good," said Li Bao, slightly pouting his red lips, and his little face looked as if he had been kissed by a flower. "Reading, it's reading."

"How, how to read?"

"Sister, just wait here for me." Ji Shanqing smiled at her, blooming bright red and white.

The way the data body behaves may be completely beyond the scope of human understanding; seeing that he didn't explain it, Lin Sanjiu didn't ask any more questions. She watched the gift bag float away for a few steps, just stretching out her hands in the waves. It seemed ordinary and nothing special. After looking at it for a while, she suddenly subconsciously touched her forehead and found that her eyebrows were actually Is tightly wrinkled.

Since entering the data flow library, almost everything she has seen and heard is in a category that is difficult for her to understand; what's more, things are changing one after another, and she doesn't even have a chance to think. When she was under overload, her brain seemed to be creaking when she turned around. She vaguely felt that she was still full of doubts, but she couldn't even ask a suitable question.

This feeling is unbearable.

Ji Shanqing gently placed his hands in the air, and was pushed by invisible waves from time to time. Lin Sanjiu looked at him for a while, half confused and half doubtful. She was in this weird space and didn't know how much time had passed. But she didn't see the puppet master and the soul queen coming in for such a long time. She couldn't help but feel a little worried. .

Not daring to disturb the gift bag, she quietly turned around, chose a direction and took a few steps. Everything was transparent, and it made no difference whether she walked or not. If there was a place that was even a little darker, maybe she could try to activate [Eureka]... Lin Sanjiu thought of this and touched it back. On the back of his head, his fingers fell on the short hair without any hindrance.

Eh?

She touched up and down - but the back of her head was empty, nothing.

Was it lost during the chaos of war just now?

"Teacher Yi," she tried to call out, "Where is my [Eureka]?"

Teacher Yi responded quickly: "After you lost consciousness, I also fell into a deep sleep... I don't know where it went."

Maybe it was lost when facing the data body...? Lin Sanjiu thought of this and turned around to look around the space.

The Puppet Master and the Queen of Soul still haven't shown up.

The longer time passed, the higher her heart became. It stands to reason that a person who has been analyzed and a fleshworm whose combat ability has been seen through long ago cannot last long; it is not a good sign that they have not appeared for a long time. Lin Sanjiu waited patiently for a while, and finally couldn't bear it anymore and approached the gift bag.

"Sister," he called immediately without turning his eyes. "What's the matter?"

"How long does this reading... take?"

"The amount of information they contain is almost endless, and you can't read it all in a lifetime." Ji Shanqing looked at his hands without blinking, as if above them, the most complex information in the world was flowing. thing. "I'm working as quickly as possible to pick out useful information that will help us find weaknesses in the data body."

"I'm worried that the puppet masters and the others won't be able to hold on and something will happen to them."

"Sister," Li Bao suddenly laughed without looking back, with a clear voice: "You were too anxious. It was only one point seven seconds after you woke up."

"One, seven seconds?" Lin Sanjiu was surprised. She felt that at least ten minutes had passed.

"The speed of information exchange here is astonishingly fast." Ji Shanqing explained in a light tone: "Maybe some legends about 'one day in the sky, thousands of years in the world' refer to this situation. Woolen cloth."

"What about now? How long has it been?"

"It's not even one o'clock seventy-one seconds yet." Ji Shanqing smiled with a hint of helplessness and a hint of coquettishness.

Lin Sanjiu scratched his short hair in embarrassment.

"By the way, where is the Supreme God?" Perhaps because she was thinking of the Puppet Master and the Queen of Souls, she asked while frowning: "What's going on between you and him? Did you take advantage of him?"

"Sister," even though Ji Shanqing didn't look back, you could tell from the subtle movements on his side that he pouted again. "I let him take the lead all the time, let him write paper cranes, let him find you, let him get beaten, and also monitored the movements of the data body in his body... Can I do it without his consent? I have to get it How can I convince him so that he can walk into this series of traps without any doubt!"

"Then you made an agreement a long time ago?" Lin Sanjiu's eyes lit up when she heard this - she didn't have a good impression of the Supreme God, but since they decided to fight together, she couldn't bear to stab him in the back again. "You didn't frame him?"

"Of course not. When he was on the White Tower, he was controlled by the data set; if he hadn't been in contact with me at that time, I wouldn't have been able to find his data set; let alone the reflection through his body. We've gone back." Libao let out an aggrieved sound from his nose, "He opened [Undesired Love] to attack the data body, which is also a step in our plan."

In short, the gift package and the Supreme God have been fishing for law enforcement. The bait in this plan, if you think about it carefully, there is indeed no more suitable candidate than the Supreme God.

So... where does this uneasiness and doubt come from?