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"Pain...suffering...despair...a man with a heart becomes a man without a heart..."

A mysterious and deep voice echoed in the immaculate white room.Zhang Ye looked at everything in front of him blankly, and memories flooded his mind like a flood.

"Well……"

The recovery of memory made him have a splitting headache, but when all the scenes of the past appeared in his mind, Zhang Ye finally caught a few fragments of his missing memory.

"This is... the system space?!" Zhang couldn't help being surprised, "My system space is back? Doesn't it mean that I have changed back to myself and returned to the present world?"

Thinking of this, the excitement in Zhang Ye's heart surpassed everything else, and he didn't care about thinking about why, so he planned to leave the system space directly.

However, after calmly calling "Leave" in his heart, Zhang Ye opened his eyes, but he was still in this pure white room.

"What... what's going on?" Zhang Ye was stunned, and then his sanity finally recovered.

wrong!This is not my system space!

In my system space, there is a long-term meal ticket and... ahem, ex-girlfriend... Now, in this small room of less than ten square meters, there is nothing at all, let alone two big living people!

And what about the mysterious voice I heard earlier?It does sound like "it," but it's too vague to be sure.

Most importantly, why did I come to this strange room?
Zhang also touched his smooth chin, concentrating on his thoughts.

I saw the mysterious black-robed man in the ruins of Atreia before, he gave me the ring of ever-changing changes, and then "Abyss Hammer" began to speak inexplicably, and it seemed to have some relationship with Atreia... Immediately afterwards I just...uh... vented and attracted the sky thunder, and the sky thunder smashed a certain steeple in the imperial city, and the air wave caused me to fly... Then I came here!
"Nothing...the logic doesn't make any sense at all!"

Zhang couldn't help complaining silently, and then the scene in front of him changed——

It is still a small room of less than ten square meters, but this time it is not pure white, but a few old pieces of furniture from the 80s and [-]s of the last century. Old fashioned tungsten lamps.

"This room..." Zhang Ye frowned silently, and a picture suddenly flashed in his mind: Under the unclear surveillance, the door of Room 1301 was slowly opened, and Xu Caikun, who was wearing a vest and shorts, was holding two bags. Garbage came out of the room.And the moment he went out, he revealed the scene in his room - old decoration, worn-out furniture, old-fashioned tungsten lamps!

"How...is it possible..." Zhang Ye suddenly felt dizzy, "Obviously the decoration of Room 8, Unit 3, Building 1301, Hongguang Community we went to is modern, and the house is spotless! But... the scene in front of you and the scene in your mind What happened to the memory that suddenly appeared? In the end... which one is real?"

Just when Zhang Ye was frowning and thinking hard, the surrounding scene changed a little. A young man in a vest and shorts slowly pushed open the door of the room and walked in with great strides.

It was Xu Caikun!
"You... hello, I am..."

Zhang Ye was racking his brains to make up a reason to explain why he appeared in a stranger's house, but Xu Caikun, who was opposite, walked straight to the desk next to him as if he hadn't seen Zhang Ye.

"What are you doing... The editorial requirements at the end point are too strange, right? I wrote a fanfic of the Black Soul, why did you ask me to change my name..." Xu Caikun muttered, opening a book on the desk. This is a laptop as thick as a brick.

Looking at the unknown heavy notebook, Zhang Ye's eyelids couldn't help twitching. As the winXP system wallpaper appeared in his eyes, his mouth was already open enough to stuff a whole egg.

It took 2 minutes to boot up, and Zhang couldn't help being very curious.

Whether it's the decoration of the room or the heavy laptop in front of him, which is enough to kill a person, it seems to indicate one thing - Xu Caikun is very poor, very poor!

But even in such an environment, he still chooses online novels as his main business. I'm afraid he is either lazy or true love.

Zhang Ye silently walked to Xu Caikun's side, watched him skillfully open a folder named "My Magic Teacher Is Voldemort" on the desktop, and then quickly opened the Word document named "The Finale".

The document is blank.

At this moment, Xu Caikun's voice sounded——

"I have written 5 complete novels, but the ending of each novel is not good. Now this is my last hope and sustenance, I hope I can give it a perfect ending... Tell me, what should I do? Write?"

After hearing the last sentence, Zhang Ye's hairs immediately rose, and he looked at Xu Caikun in astonishment.

"you--"

"Hello, outsider." Xu Caikun nodded with a smile, and said casually like an old friend talking: "You can find this place, which means that you are here to investigate me? I think you already know me, then I won't introduce myself."

"call--"

After taking a long breath, Zhang Ye said, "Xu Caikun, why did you...disappear?"

"Disappear?" Xu Caikun tilted his head slightly, and said with some doubts: "I have always been there, why do you say 'disappear'?"

"Huh?" Zhang couldn't help being a little puzzled, pointing to the surroundings, and said, "Is this your home?"

"This is my room." Xu Caikun said.

Home and room are two completely different titles, and their meanings are even more different.In Xu Caikun's eyes, this is just a dilapidated room, where he can create and rest, but there is no way to give him the warmth of "home".

Zhang Ye nodded silently, knowing that the other party was a person with a story, so he changed the question.

"Do you know 'Ghost Story'?"

"Strange... talk?" Xu Caikun frowned suspiciously, "Are you talking about urban weird talks like 'Gap Girl' and 'Frog Man'?"

what's the situation?Xu Caikun didn't know the existence of "strange talk"?Didn't he disappear because of "strange talk"?
Although Zhang Ye was extremely puzzled, he still nodded in agreement.

"The term 'Urban Strange Talk' comes from Dongying, right?" Xu Caikun smiled, "This is a good creative direction, maybe I can use them in my next novel."

and many more!

Next novel?Hasn't Xu Caikun already created a strange novel?If not, where did Lian Li and Xiao Hei come from?
Seeing Zhang Ye's puzzled look, Xu Caikun shook his head and said, "Okay, we've talked enough. Please help me bring a sentence to the person who asked you to investigate me, just say: I don't Knowing the origin of that thing, please don't send anyone to trouble me again."

"Wait... wait, I think you misunderstood something..."

"I've finished what I have to say. Now, please leave my house." Xu Caikun's attitude suddenly turned cold.

I……

What the hell does this happen?Could it be... This is Xu Caikun from the past?So what is it that I'm going through?Dream?No... it should be a dream within a dream?
It's just that since the owner has issued the order to evict the guests, Zhang can't say anything more.Anyway, this strange world still needs to be explored and explored.

Thinking of this, Zhang Ye nodded to Xu Caikun and said, "In that case, I'm leaving."

After finishing speaking, he walked to the door in a few steps, stretched out his hand and opened the door...
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There was another familiar whirl, and when Zhang Ye opened his eyes, he found that he was lying on the endless sand dunes, half of his body had been buried in the sand.

"I went... and came back again?"

Zhang Ye struggled to get out of the sand, but saw that his right hand was still holding the "Yuan Biting Hammer" tightly.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Ye tentatively opened his mouth: "Yuanzhu Heavy Hammer? Are you still there?"

"My lord... you finally summoned me again..."

I go!

This shit is not a dream!My hammer is really fucking talking!
"Uh, what do you... mean? You've been waiting for me?"

"...Yes... I have waited for a long time, in order to continue to serve you, my lord!"

Uh...my hammer seems to be working fine for me...

"Then...what do I need to do?" Zhang couldn't help asking.

"...Listen to my advice..."

"What suggestion? Tell me about it." Zhang also became interested.

"...the spiritual energy in this world is exhausted, and it should have stepped into the path of annihilation early, but someone created inferior spiritual energy to delay the 'lifespan' of this world..."

Uh... so... what are you talking about?

"Man-made spiritual energy? What's going on?" Zhang Ye could only follow its words and asked.

However, the "Yuan Biting Hammer" did not respond immediately, but the silver handle of the hammer turned white.

After a while, the deep voice of "Yuanyan Heavy Hammer" came again——

"...I'm sure that this world has been tampered with... But this power is hidden very deeply, and I can't easily find out. If you want to find out everything, you must stop the people behind the scenes..."

ε=(ο｀*))) Sigh, after working for a long time, I still have to finish the task of the blood test...

"Okay! I understand, you continue to rest, I will find out all this." Zhang Ye had no choice but to say.

"...my lord...be careful in everything!"

The sound of Yuan Yan's heavy hammer fell silent again, and Zhang also tried to put it away, but this time it really succeeded.But his mood was even more depressed.

Going around, still can't avoid it.

But no matter how you look at it, I always feel that there is a black hand behind all this, otherwise how could it be such a coincidence?Moreover, who was the person who was sent back by the ever-changing ring just now?What is his purpose?What role am I playing in this?
Rubbing his head with some headache, Zhang also sighed softly.

"Since there is no other way, it is better to continue the journey."

In any case, it all seemed inevitable.
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In the next period of time, Zhang Ye did not encounter any attacks or obstacles.

After turning over the tall sand dunes, the majestic temple roof that I first saw appeared in front of my eyes.It was an overturned cylindrical building that, judging by the glass windows and wooden portals above, should have been the top of a tall tower.It's just that due to the "bombing" of the previous sky thunder, the spire has collapsed, and the surrounding area is also full of rubble and ruins.

But coincidentally, at the position where the high tower borders the sand dunes, there is a broken stone pillar, which can just lead to a wooden door at the top of the high tower.

"If I didn't know in advance that this is the Atreya King's City, I would have thought it was the game background of a 3A masterpiece..."

Silently complaining, Zhang also came to the broken stone pillar.

The stone pillars are extremely thick enough for two or three people to climb at the same time.

Zhang Ye looked around, pulled out the "Aqi Long Sword" and held it in his hand, and then stepped onto the stone pillar.

As the angle of view gradually increases, tall and low tower-shaped buildings gradually appear in front of Zhang Ye.

Looking at the scattered houses half buried in the yellow sand in the distance, Zhang couldn't help sighing, "This is what a royal city should look like!"

"Tap-"

Zhang also quickly reached the top of the stone pillar.Standing in front of the tall wooden door, Zhang Ye hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and pushed the wooden door open.

"Squeak-"

The wooden door was slowly pushed open, and a long spiral staircase appeared in front of Zhang Ye.

"Huh? The entire imperial city was half buried under the yellow sand. I didn't expect that there was no yellow sand inside the tower..." Looking at the clean spiral staircase, Zhang Ye's eyes were full of surprise.

Tightening the "Aqi Long Sword" in his hand, Zhang also stepped onto the spiral staircase.

Suddenly, there was a low roar from the bottom of the stairs, which surprised him.

"Could it be... there are living things in here?"

Looking down the dark stairs, Zhang Ye frowned deeply.

In the face of the unknown darkness, few people can keep calm, but although Zhang Ye is vigilant, he is not afraid. On the one hand, he has to thank his parents, who did not have the emotion of "fear" when he was born. On the other hand, I would also like to thank the Museum of Rare Treasures. Although I can occasionally feel the existence of "fear" after repeated missions and traveling through strange worlds, I have become more tenacious because of many experiences.

Cautiously walking down the spiral staircase, Zhang also deliberately slowed down his steps while using the "staring technique" to look around.Although this method is extremely exhausting, it is probably Zhang Ye's best preventive method for the unknown below.

The further you go down, the darker the surroundings become. Zhang also thought about it, and slowly condensed the [Thunder Gun] with his left hand.

As a "miracle" with extremely high damage effects, [Thunder Gun] cannot condense for too long, otherwise it will be out of control because of its power, and the most likely result will be a direct explosion in Zhang Ye's hands!
Even if Zhang also has the god-defying skill of [King's Will], it is absolutely impossible for him to survive.After all, [King's Will] only provides resilience against the sky, so that you won't be repelled or knocked down by the enemy's attack, but you still have to bear the damage you should bear.

"His-"

With a flash of yellow lightning, Zhang Ye threw the "thunder gun" with his left hand that was as thick as an arm into the depths of the stairs - this is the limit of Zhang Ye's current concentration.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of an explosion came from the depths, and there was a moment of bright light shining in the entire tower.Zhang Ye also took advantage of the moment when the thunder light exploded to take a rough look at the situation in the depths.

At the end of the spiral staircase is a sloping ground covered with broken stone pillars and all kinds of rubble. In the dark corners, there seems to be some unknown creatures lurking.