Neverland

Before leaving, Xu Muzhou couldn't hold it back, and turned around to ask Song Yan if she had anything to say or something to bring to Qin Wei for her.

"No need." Song Yan smiled and waved at him.

"This relationship is life and death for me, and death for her. There is no room for either." Song Yan said.

"It hurts more if you talk too much." Song Yan said, "That's it."

Xu Muzhou hesitated to speak, but finally said nothing.

Zhong Lu was so overwhelmed by this timeline that she wished she could send Yan Cen and Xu Muzhou together immediately, and the materials were delivered very quickly.

The curtains in the bedroom of Room 317 were drawn tightly. Xu Muzhou sat cross-legged on the bed with a bag of potato chips in his hand, watching Yan Cen insert a small chip into the projection machine on the bedside table.

The red light on the projector flickered twice and turned into different colors of blue and green. Yan Cen let go of his hand, and the video data in the chip was projected onto the white wall opposite the bed.

Yan Cen rolled onto the bed, took two chips from Xu Muzhou's bag of potato chips and walked away.

Xu Muzhou looked at him sideways, then moved towards Yan Cen with the bag of potato chips in his arms, finding a position that was convenient to rely on, as if he was watching a movie with his boyfriend behind the curtain on a weekend night.

The fluorescent blue transparent screen was projected on the wall. It was the first time Xu Muzhou saw that this screen had functions other than posting missions, and he thought it was very fresh.

The video images on the screen fluctuate frequently, which should be caused by unstable signals.

Xu Muzhou carefully identified the video image distorted by the waveform, and found that the video angle was quite strange, similar to the personal Vlogs he had seen before, and it was a fixed subjective shooting angle.

It wasn't until the video was played for about 30 seconds that the picture barely became more eye-catching.

"Compared with other timelines, the technology and communication technology of the New Era is closer to Neverland." Yan Cen bent his legs and manually zoomed in on the video, explaining: "This timeline is closer to the present." There are 'boundaries', so the shooting frequency will fluctuate."

"What is a boundary?" Xu Muzhou chewed on potato chips, and said, "Is there also an end of time in the world line?"

"Time is endless." Yan Cen said: "But the sphere of influence of Neverland has a boundary... It's just that as time goes by, this boundary is constantly extending outward, so most of the time it can be ignored."

"Hmm..." Xu Muzhou pondered for a while, and said, "That is to say, there is a quota for the maximum number of simultaneous existences in the timeline, and Neverland has a limit to the range of future radiation, but as the time of Neverland Moving forward, this boundary is also constantly moving into the future, right?"

"Yes." Yan Cen touched his hair and said: "Actually, Neverland divides all world lines into different module networks, and then calculates their respective overall emotional indexes and balances them. Time continues While moving forward, new timelines are constantly being created. These brand new worlds have not yet formed a large-scale connection network, no matter which way they go, it is correct, so there is no need for Neverland to intervene.”

Xu Muzhou probably understood what Yan Cen meant.

In fact, even if Yan Cen didn't say anything, Xu Muzhou had thought about what "Neverland" was.This place has no time constraints and is independent of any society, a single forward timeline is an intertwined web to them.No matter from which angle you look at it, it looks like a higher-dimensional world.

Just like the "myths" in history, the Chinese have written about heaven and earth, and overseas have also written about gods, and human society has mentioned another world without exception.

Even though Xu Muzhou is an engineering student, he has heard many common sense stories, such as one day in the sky and one year on the ground, immortals come and go without a trace, teach people the way of life and how to deal with things, and so on.

Xu Muzhou didn't quite know whether these had something to do with Neverland, but he suddenly discovered that as long as it is in human society, there are indeed these "rules" that transcend society.

——Superior above human society, possessing the absolute right to speak.

However, whether it is "heaven" or "god", it is a symbol for human beings to beautify legends.In the final analysis, Xu Muzhou didn't have the courage to really ask Yan Cen, what is the place of Neverland, who are these staff, and why did they come to Neverland.

As Yan Cen said, human beings are creatures that are good at avoiding danger, just like Xu Muzhou deliberately did not think about what he and Yan Cen should do after the mission is over, this question is just as dangerous to Xu Muzhou.

Xu Muzhou forced himself to suspend his thoughts, turned his attention back to the video in front of him, and asked, "Then, is the world line Qin Wei is on the same as the world line closest to Neverland?"

"In a sense." Yan Cen's words were still cautious: "Yes."

The clarity of the video finally returned to normal, and Xu Muzhou discovered that the location where the video data was shot was indoors.The world opposite the camera is based on blue and white, and the building materials are similar to matte metal.

The camera shot seems to be fixed on someone's body, the camera shakes slightly, and keeps moving forward with the movement of walking.

The photographer was in a long corridor, and the surveillance camera on the ceiling flashed red lights, constantly adjusting the angle, and making the tooth-piercing sound of mechanical gears.

With just such a short scene, Xu Muzhou already felt like he was watching a science fiction movie.

The world opposite the camera was something he had never seen before. People in neat uniforms passed by on both sides of the camera. From time to time, some people stopped and nodded, as if they were greeting the photographer.

Most of these people were wearing dark blue uniforms with belts tied tightly around their waists, and most of them were carrying guns. It looked like a military base.

But it wasn't just soldiers, Xu Muzhou also saw two women in white coats passing by in such a short period of time.

"Stop for a moment." Xu Muzhou said suddenly.

Yan Cen stopped the video and turned to look at Xu Muzhou.

Xu Muzhou threw the bag of potato chips in his hand on the bedside table, got up and made his way to the bed, squinting his eyes to identify the badge of the person in the camera.

"Area C... the second special scientific research group." Xu Muzhou said, "It's scientific research personnel, let's continue."

Unlike Xu Muzhou, Yan Cen focused all his attention on the video.Most of the time, he uses three things in one mind. While flipping through the documents and materials in his hand, he adds or subtracts clauses on the identity application form, and only occasionally looks up at the video content once or twice.

The video screen started to play again, and the photographer turned a corner and was blocked by a cold mechanical iron door.

【Warning——】

[Advanced area ahead, please verify your identity information card. 】

The cold mechanical sound drove the corresponding cameras by the door, and these machines shifted their angles one by one following the sound, focusing on the photographer.

On the right side of the gate is a display screen about the size of an adult man's palm, with dangerous red writing flashing on it.

"Is this the army?" Xu Muzhou muttered in a low voice.

Song Yan told them before that in the New Era, there are only three types of human society, and this is probably the legendary "advanced area."

——From the perspective of style, it is indeed quite high-end.

[Please verify your identity information card. 】

The mechanical sound reminded again, and the photographer took half a step back for some reason.Xu Muzhou was wondering, when he saw the angle of view of the camera suddenly moved up, focusing on a corner on the right side of the ceiling.

It was only then that Xu Muzhou discovered that following the mechanical notification sound, it was not only the camera, but also a terrifying machine gun.

Xu Muzhou: "..."

"What kind of hierarchical society is this?" Xu Muzhou was shocked, "Is it so dangerous?"

Before he finished speaking, the camera angle had moved back.A slightly fair hand appeared from the camera, holding a thumb-length metal card, and pasted it on the display.

[Identity information confirmed——]

[Doctor, you have 15 minutes to meet. 】

The mechanical door slid open in front of her lightly, and inside was a narrow space of one meter square. The four walls were gray metal, and there were security-like instruments fixed on the walls on both sides, releasing red beams of light.

The photographer stepped in, and the focus of the red beam of light was locked instantly.

[Validation passed——]

As the notification sounded, another mechanical door opened in front of the camera.

Opposite the door is the same corridor as before, but the distance is very short. After about 2 minutes, the camera stops in front of a door carved with crows.

The camera moved down slightly, and Xu Muzhou saw the photographer's hands clenched into fists.

Xu Muzhou probably guessed who was behind the door.

As Song Yan said, it was still too early for her to leave the quest line. At that time, Qin Wei was only a 19-year-old girl, she hadn't completely left the slums, and she had nothing to do with "influencing the world" for the time being.

But four years later, in the mission information that Xu Muzhou received, it was not written like this.

Xu Muzhou didn't tell Song Yan that in the information he and Yan Cen got, there was a new description of Qin Wei in the task object column.

After the new era, human society was reorganized, and the global domain was divided into six regions based on various forces. Xu Muzhou turned his head to look at the information in Yan Cen's hand. The last page of information.

The crow pattern drawn on that page is exactly the same as the pattern in the video, Yan Cen raised his hand and held the page next to the video.

"Crow." Yan Cen said: "...This is Qin Wei's jurisdiction."

During the four years since Song Yan left Qin Wei, Xu Muzhou didn't know what she had experienced.

It's just that the photographer of the camera finally made up his mind and reached out to ring the visitor bell by the door.

The door in front of the camera slid left and right, the originally stable camera suddenly trembled, and the dynamic picture also stopped abruptly as the photographer stepped into the door.

Before the video screen completely turned into a snowflake, Xu Muzhou only saw a thin silhouette in military uniform.

——Major General Qin Wei in District C of the New Era.