Bulwark of Light

Chapter 341
"Release [Bronze Man Lamp] from the shrine?"

Uncle Gao narrowed his eyes.

His expression became serious...

Those four bronze lamps are very important "sealed objects" to the Li family, guarding the four sides of the shrine... capable of forming a very strong barrier.Over the years, Mrs. Li has thought of ways to try to liberate the [Bronze Man Lamp] from the old house.

Unfortunately.

This is simply an impossible task.

Once these four lamps are moved, the shrine may fall into the risk of collapse.

"If I guessed correctly, these four [Bronze Man Lamps]...seem to be incomplete..."

Gu Shen looked at Uncle Gao's expression and confirmed his guess.

"They lost their 'face'."

"good."

Uncle Gao nodded, "You have good eyesight."

Gu Shen said seriously: "If these four lamps can be liberated from the shrine... Maybe we can further find a way to 'repair and complete' them."

"How to liberate?" Li Qingsui asked curiously, blinking his big eyes.

"There are black flowers growing all around the shrine. If you remove the black flowers, maybe...the barrier can be moved." Gu Shen said, "Of course, this is just my guess."

"The theory is feasible." Uncle Gao commented.

He looked at Gu Shen meaningfully.

If you want to clear those black flowers on the shrine mountain...you can't even do it yourself.

"How long?" Li Qingsui asked cautiously, holding his breath.

"According to the current speed..." Gu Shen thought for a while and said, "At least another three to five years?"

The density of flowers on the top of Shenci Mountain is several times, dozens of times that of the halfway up the mountain.

It is even more difficult to kill them.

"It's just the black flowers near the ancient house..." Gu Shen added: "If the [Bronze Man Lantern]'s enchantment is to guard the top of the mountain... then it will take longer."

An unconcealable look of disappointment appeared on Li Qingsui's face.

three years...five years...

For Li Shi, this time is not long.

But for her, this is really far away.

What's more, Gu Shen also said... Even if the black flowers are cleaned, there is only a possibility of liberating the [Bronze Man Lamp], and the real cleaning time will only be longer than this!
"It's better to have hope than no hope."

Taking a deep breath, the little girl regained her composure.

In the past two years, she has traveled far and wide, even to the East Continent, looking for a way to rescue the "Shenci Mountain" more than once, and she has already prepared for a long-term struggle.

My sister is in the mountains.

She is outside the mountain.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, never give up.

It's just that I can wait, but my sister can't... Liberating the [Bronze Man Lamp] may be just the first step. After everything is done, how much life can Li Qingci have left?

Li Qingsui asked with a dignified expression, "If your strength becomes stronger..."

"Then the time to liberate [Bronze Man Lamp] will be even shorter." Gu Shen said slowly: "...Once again, I didn't guarantee it. These assumptions are only theoretically feasible."

"understood."

Li Qingsui nodded, and said solemnly: "What do you need? As long as Mrs. Li can get it... But it doesn't matter!"

This sentence is very domineering.

"Boss... so majestic and mighty."

Gu Shen smiled, and praised with a slightly emotional tone: "As expected of the future Patriarch of the Li family, you can speak hard... Don't worry, if you need your help, I will not be polite. But at present, what I need , just a quiet environment.”

Li Qingsui was slightly taken aback.

Gu Shen, who was leaning against the back seat of the car, slowly closed his eyes, and said to Uncle Gao with a weak voice, "Before leaving the shrine mountain, I need to get some things, and I will trouble Uncle Gao... I will send it to Kiyotsuka Mausoleum."

This "swallowing" made Gu Shen feel a little tired.

Devouring black flowers is actually a hard job.

Even though the characteristic of blazing fire itself is to absorb disorder... But the inhalation of a large number of "black spots" twice in a row made Gu Shen feel a little uncomfortable. This kind of reaction may take a while to get used to.

At the boundary of the Shrine Mountain.

Gu Shen took out some "materials", returned to the car, and began to rest with his eyes closed.

Uncle Gao watched the scene silently without saying anything.

His spiritual power can vaguely perceive what these "things" are... In fact, the spiritual power of a character like him is enough to cover half of Snow Forbidden City. As long as it is within the range of perception, there is nothing that can hide his secrets.

When Gu Shen went to Qingzhong Cemetery, it was obvious that he wanted to see the guardian of the tomb.

This news... definitely cannot be hidden from 【Feng Tong】.

However, now that this kid and Mrs. Li are on the same boat, he will naturally choose to take action and give appropriate help.

The car drove out of the "shrine mountain boundary".

Gao Tian's mental power directly opened up a field, tearing up all the senses of [Wind Pupil].

……

……

Gu Shen fell into a deep sleep.

He has never felt like this before... The whole person seems to have become a wandering soul, looking at himself from the "God's perspective" suspended in the sky, he can feel the opening and closing of every pore, the opening and closing of every cell. expansion.

He seemed to see his own body, a small world.

It was a wilderness.

There is wind, there is rain, there is sunrise, there is moonset.

There are cultivators wielding hoes and sweating profusely.

Waking of Insects, Grain Rain, Seeds Take Root and Germinate, Soil Reclamation, and Riverbeds Beginning.

This is a barren world where everything is revived and chaos originated.

Also... a piece of pure land.

When he wanted to take a closer look... a soft voice rang beside his ears.

"Gu Shen."

Gu Shen opened his eyes, and there were electric arcs splashing outside the car window, and the lights inside Linglingyao were warm and soft.

"Am I... asleep..."

Gu Shen's memory connects to the real world... At this moment, he should be resting in Uncle Gao's car, but his mental power submerged involuntarily, and he came to Linglingyao.

Wait, more important than my "going to sleep" is...

Someone is calling their name.

Consciousness instantly wakes up.

It was only then that Gu Shen noticed... a young girl was lying on the opposite seat, and the thick ancient book was used by her to prop her head up. She was lying on her side like this, with a solemn expression, and her eyes were full of bewilderment and emptiness.

Was Chu Ling calling himself just now?
"Are you awake?" Gu Shen looked at the girl in surprise.

Chu Ling's thinking has passed for seven days.

For humans... thinking about a day is long enough.

But for [source code], thinking is an endless thing, exhaustion has already become a habit, and it is abnormal to stop thinking.

Chu Ling's so-called "being alone for a while" actually started to search the deep-sea database for the related memories of "Praying Technique" and "Li Qingsui" in the stable carriage.

This is exhaustive for a considerable amount of data.

Her purpose is to find and correct her mistakes.

The voice fell.

The girl's unfocused pupils recovered bit by bit, and after tens of seconds, some colors appeared.

"Um……"

She seemed a little weak.

[Source code] The condensed spiritual body is not actually weak.

It's just that Chu Ling at the moment doesn't seem to be in a good state and is very depressed.

"To be precise... I haven't fallen asleep."

Chu Ling said in a very soft voice: "The super large amount of data retrieval consumes all the computing power of [source code]... and the external performance is that I show the state of human beings sleeping at night."

That is, lying on your side.

"Actually, I allocated part of the computing power...still perceiving everything outside. If 'relaxed' and 'tight' are used as the difference between 'sleeping' and 'awake', then during this period I have never Instead of falling asleep, I was more awake than before."

What the hell?

Asleep, but not quite asleep.

Then every time I come to Zero Lingyao, don't I always get noticed?
Gu Shen was a little embarrassed.

Sure enough, Chu Ling said in a softer voice: "In the past seven days, you have entered the Lingyao carriage eight times... on average, once every 21 hours, and every time you come to Lingyao, you will stand beside me for three From 10 minutes to five hours..."

stop talking stop talking...

Gu Shen stretched out his hand to rest his forehead, trying to find a hole in the ground to drill down.

"Well……"

Chu Ling thought for a while and asked seriously: "If you think I'm 'sleeping', then your behavior these days should be the so-called... sleeping with me?"

Gu Shen: "???"

Although I did have the idea of ​​sleeping with him at a certain moment... It's just that Gu Shen's mind is very simple, he just wants to get closer to Chu Ling, and take a closer look at the fidelity of the [source code] in the spiritual world .

It's a pity that Linglingyao's compartment is too small, so he can only squat in front of the compartment and look at Chu Ling's face with his chin resting.

No way.

Who made Chu Ling so good-looking?
Who wouldn't want to watch a little longer?
"I like this kind of behavior very much." Chu Ling said solemnly: "I can feel you by my side...I feel... very safe."

Gu Shen rarely blushed.

Straight ball.

How can I handle this myself?
"Ahem!" He took the initiative to change the subject, and said solemnly: "The result of your sleep, ah no, how about the search result..."

Chu Ling shook his head.

"The search results... are not good."

"I spent seven days searching the database three times to make sure I had no missing data... Now I have to accept a 'reality', that is, I have never had any contact with the wishing technique."

Chu Ling sighed softly, "Maybe I had an illusion... Sorry, I don't have the term illusion. So it can only be an error in the program. I can't understand where the 'familiarity' I have with Li Qingsui comes from. "

That's a long thought.

Maybe during the past seven days, she reproduced every second of the past ten years in her mind, but it's a pity... In the end, she didn't find the "should" memory.

Is this why Chu Ling is lying here, feeling lost?

While Gu Shen felt distressed, he also found it a little funny.

It turns out that [source code] will also feel lost... after the database search was fruitless, did you experience the powerless sense of failure in life's setbacks?

"I just came out of Shrine Mountain."

Gu Shen thought for a moment, and then seriously explained: "Li Qingci told me that the wishing technique is a technique of 'believing is existing'... Maybe this is the reason why your search failed."

Chu Ling was even more at a loss.

Believe that it exists?
In the underlying logic of the deep sea, there has never been such a saying... Existence is existence, non-existence is non-existence, and will not change because of whether "people" believe it or not.

And as [source code], she made a choice of "believe" or "don't believe" based on the results of the database search.

In other words.

In her world, only when she exists can she believe it.

These are two worlds that are diametrically opposed to the "wish technique".

Or... two beliefs.

"So, am I... wrong?" Chu Ling looked at Gu Shen in a daze, with a tone of asking for help.

"Do not."

Gu Shen shook his head.

"you're not wrong."

"So... was she wrong?"

Gu Shen shook his head again: "No...she's not wrong either."

There is an invisible barrier in this world, which is the almost insurmountable "cognitive barrier" of [source code]. How can a code living in data understand the "wish technique" beyond logic? ...

"So……"

Chu Ling was confused: "Are we... all right?"

She looked at Gu Shen.

This time, Gu Shen still shook his head.

"I don't know." Gu Shen said seriously: "I don't know who is right or wrong about this question... Maybe there is no right or wrong at all. If there is a grass downstairs in your house, but you have never seen it before, then it will Does it really exist in your world?"

Chu Ling opened his mouth, speechless.

"But there is one sentence that I know is true."

"There are some things that you can't even think about after trying your best, so don't think about them anymore."

When Gu Shen came in front of the girl, he squatted down slightly as before.

This time Chu Ling didn't fall asleep.

But Gu Shen summoned up his courage and did something that he had always wanted to do a few days ago.

He stretched out his hand cautiously, and approached bit by bit. The girl's existence in the spiritual world was like a real person. At such a close distance... it seemed as if she could hear her breathing and her chaotic heartbeat.

Chu Ling was lying on his side like this.

She pursed her lips and looked nervously at Gu Shen's palm approaching without dodging.

In the end, the palm landed on his head.

The familiar... temperature.

Gu Shen softly said: "The reason is very simple, everyone outside will do this... Sometimes, you just need to wait, and you will have the answer."

When encountering a problem that cannot be solved, put it aside for a while.

This is not giving up.

Instead wait for better times.

"Wait a minute... why is there an answer?"

Chu Ling was even more puzzled, and murmured: "The answer has never changed, it has always been there."

Data will not change.

Gu Shen thought for a long time, and finally gave his own answer.

"Because... in the database of the deep sea, only the 'past' is always recorded, but the 'future' is not recorded."

This sentence confused Chu Ling, and a ray of light appeared in his sad eyes.

She seemed to understand something.

"The database in the deep sea...only records the past...but not the future..."

Chu Ling muttered in a low voice, repeating Gu Shen's words.

Numerous searches have yielded no results.

Not because she was wrong.

Maybe it's just because... the answer is not in the past, but in the future.

She closed her eyes again.

confused thoughts.

Confused logic.

It seemed that at this moment... calm was restored.

"how do you feel?"

Gu Shen straightened the girl's messy hair, and then slowly kneaded her head. He was a little curious, not knowing how to massage in the spiritual world... How does Chu Ling feel?
He spoke again, but got no response.

Only the sound of the girl's gentle breathing was heard, echoing in the carriage.

"Sleep...asleep?"

Gu Shen was a little surprised, and then remembered what the girl said earlier, that 【Source Code】would never fall asleep.

Is this a new round of searching?
Should I get out of my "accompanying sleeper"?

He drew his hand cautiously, and a snow-white catkin rested on the back of his palm.

"continue……"

Chu Ling's cheeks flushed slightly.

She murmured softly, like a cat: "It's very comfortable, don't stop."

(End of this chapter)