mechanical court

It is an isolated town surrounded by mountains, and all roads circulate inside the city.

Although there are means of transportation such as airplanes, cars, and cruise ships, the only channel for all residents to learn about the outside world is the media.No one thought of leaving here, as if everyone had been erased from the concept of 'leaving this town', and similar information would be deliberately blocked.

However, this does not mean that the residents of the town are all puppets on strings. In fact, the thinking logic of these residents is no different from that of normal people, and they are even more human than qualified people.They need three meals a day, entertainment and relaxation, as well as work and study.

These people even set up a special agency recently, trying to find out what the secrets are in the town, and why so many strange people appeared in just one day. In their eyes, people like Ivan probably mean that some abnormal human research center in the outside world has closed down. Finally, let's escape to the mentally ill here.

Talking about the end of the world all day long, and elusive, and more importantly, the identity information is blank.If it weren't for the order from above to let these people be left alone, the police station, mental hospital and special research institute would have wiped them out long ago.

After searching from half a day to late at night, Yiwen and the others ran almost all over the city, but they still didn't find any trace of the beholders.

At this time, they almost knew it in their hearts.

After all, teammates are not fools, unless there is an accident, they will definitely find a way to reunite.If you find no one in the daytime, you have either encountered an accident, or you are trapped in the future.

In desperation, they had no choice but to return to the organization where qualified people gathered.

At this time, most of the qualified people gathered in the villa, getting together in twos and threes, and discussing with each other how to survive for [-] days.

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Some people feel that it is imminent to stockpile food and water, and they must make preparations as soon as possible, even if it is a rush, they must rush to buy resources for [-] days.

Some people think that staying here is a dead end, and it is necessary to explore the outside world.Even if you can't find a way to leave here, you must at least find a favorable terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

These two points are the consensus of almost everyone, and there is nothing to dispute.

The rest are almost all bullshit topics.

Many people think that they are already dying anyway, and since they are not bound by the law in this place, let them burn, kill, loot and enjoy themselves first.

Opponents believe that all forces that can be united should be united, but no one with a normal mind wants to die, and urban residents are also a force that can be used when necessary.

On this topic, of course, the opponents gained the upper hand, and a consensus was quickly reached - if there is scum among the qualified people, everyone is obliged to eliminate it.

There are also many people who think that there must be other hidden areas here, because each team has lost personnel, and there is no trace left, which is obviously abnormal.

Opponents think that they were swallowed by this town. After all, this trial is a survival challenge mode. If the birth point is not set correctly, it is understandable that they will be instantly killed as soon as they appear.

"It is possible to be instantly killed at birth, and hidden areas also exist."

Ivan interrupted the dispute with the help of a loudspeaker, attracted their attention and explained:

"Because that's where I came back from! It's a barren ghostland, with terrifying monsters hidden, and it's infinitely close to the city we're in from the layout to the details. I don't know the exact location of that place, but it should be related to There's some kind of connected passage here, after all, that's how I appeared."

Immediately afterwards, he explained his series of encounters in the most succinct words, but concealed the speculation about the spiral of contradictions.After all, this idea is too unbelievable, and there is not enough evidence to support it, so what you say will only be laughed at by everyone.

After listening to Yiwen's speech, the qualified people decided to divide into three groups, collect resource reserves all the way, explore unknown areas outward all the way, and search for the passage connecting the barren ghost domain all the way inward.

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As the only qualified person from the barren ghost domain, Yiwen naturally joined the team to search for the passage, but he still had another idea in mind—that was to verify the conjecture of the contradictory spiral.

In order to verify the contradictory spiral, there must be a mark, and the lighthouse may be the carrier of the mark!

The lighthouse, as the most visible structure of the city, remains even after the end of the world.If a clear enough mark is engraved there, it may be preserved for sixty days.Assuming that he can reach the barren ghostland again, if there are signs left before in the lighthouse, it can prove that the spiral of contradictions does exist.

What exactly is the mark?

After Ivan White Bear and the seal arrived at the gray lighthouse, they got into a tangle, as if no matter what mark was marked, it might be accidentally obliterated.After discussing for a while, the three decided to implement covering graffiti, and they marked all the places that were secret enough and could be marked.

In addition to this, they have also left their image in the city's newspapers and magazines through methods such as extreme sports.In this way, as long as you find the old newspaper of the day in the barren ghost domain, you can determine whether the spiral of contradictions exists or not.

The interviews and speeches of the three are also secret, because long before the fourth stage of the trial, they expected to encounter a possible loss of contact.Therefore, a set of Morse code was specially made, and only the members of the team knew how to decrypt it.

If the beholders could see the old newspapers, they would be able to read the information that the three really wanted to reveal through deciphering—the spiral beam of light emitted through the lighthouse, which is the way to the past.

Before sending out this message, Yiwen and the others were also extremely entangled in their hearts.After all, they still haven't been able to determine at what point in time the three beholders will appear after passing through the spiral tunnel.However, considering that it is impossible for Sherlock to create so many timelines, the possibility of the reunion of the six is ​​not low.

After doing this, they began to wait for the most critical thing: Will the lighthouse emit a spiral beam of light tonight?If it can be emitted, can the beam of light lead to the future?

However, the facts made the three of them very frustrated. At two o'clock in the evening that night, the lighthouse emitted not an orange spiral beam of light, but a normal light.

The beholders and the others did not appear in front of him.

one-one-one-one

Chapter 100 Honkai

Unknown town, dusk of the next day.

The sky at sunset is shining with the afterglow of the setting sun from a distance, and the mountains surrounding the city are casting shadows in the twilight. The two merge into a fuzzy abstract painting.The sky full of sunset glow gradually faded, and as the sun gradually sank into the horizon, it quickly lost its color.

In the room on the third floor of the main building of the Eastern Suburb Manor, after taking the medicine, Ivan sat quietly on the bed with his eyes closed, breathing silently with his hands on his knees.

After practicing penetrating energy, even if he loses mental power, he can observe the injury in detail, and can use internal energy to eliminate congestion and lumps.

However, his current body does not have the ability to regenerate super fast, and he must rest patiently if he wants to heal his internal injuries.In addition to avoiding strenuous exercise as much as possible, promoting blood circulation and accelerating metabolism is also an indispensable step.

Although his physique is still that of a normal person, with the help of penetrating energy, Yiwen's development of body functions far exceeds that of ordinary people.Even though the lungs were injured, the breath was still long and long. At first it was just an ordinary breath, but gradually it became lighter and thinner, and finally it became a sound similar to that of a snake spitting out a letter.

This way of breathing can't help him reduce the burden on his lungs, and it also has the effect of calming the nerves and nourishing the qi, which is most suitable for adjusting his mentality before a big battle.

"Hs...hs..."

Yiwen's mind was empty, and his whole body sank into a state of cultivation like fetal breathing, but his consciousness was very clear.No matter the ups and downs of dust in the air or the change of light outside the window, they can be seen clearly and sensitively in the 'eyes'.

After a while, his energy recovered a lot, and at this moment, everything suddenly became noisy.

At that moment, I felt very strange, as if I stepped into the abyss, my mind went blank, and my consciousness kept falling towards the depths of darkness.When Ivan woke up, he felt an inexplicable panic in his heart, as if a heavy boulder was pressing on his chest.

"Is there something strange... coming!?"

He opened his eyes suddenly, ran to the window instinctively, and opened the originally closed window.

Waves of cool and cold air flowed towards the face. Since Ivan had a keen sense of changes in the dryness and humidity in the air, the moment he opened the window, he immediately felt a moist air flow approaching the town from the other side of the mountains.

Gulu... Gululu...

A strange sound like boiling water suddenly came from the sky, and he instinctively told him that something terrible was approaching the town.

And it was so fast that Yiwen didn't even have time to inform everyone that a misty white light suddenly appeared horizontally at the part where the sky and the mountains in the distance meet.

The sky was divided into two along the infinitely extending white light, while maintaining the original night sky, but all the scenery including the clouds shrunk in proportion.The other side is bent and tilted like paper, and the interior quickly collapses to form a rotating starry sky, as if it is a huge space tunnel, linking the distant and unknown depths of the universe.

The rotating starry sky is covered with dark clouds, and the lightning is densely distributed layer by layer, like layers of infinitely inward rotating corridors.The center of the cloud is hollowed out, and you can see the distant and deep starry sky inside.

Whoa-!