under one roof

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An uninhabited land like Nalingrad is far away from any modern civilization. The only light in the dark night is the Milky Way seen from the head up, and the refraction of the stars reflected in the water.The dangerous plateau canyon at an altitude of more than 4000 meters is very quiet shrouded in darkness.The vast galaxy is brilliant, and there is a speck of dust breathing quietly among the ruins with a holy and unknown gleam.

It dripped into the cracks in the rocks of the land, melted and disappeared instantly like water.But in the blink of an eye, a little light blue shimmer appeared in the gap, and the shimmer flowed downward, which was a honeycomb-shaped hemisphere buried under the surface.It seems to be a gentle egg, pregnant with something.

"Ugh..."

The moment Yu Chen opened his eyes, he felt dizzy, and after closing his eyes for a long time, he was very sensitive to the stimulation of light.Enduring the headache, he pressed his hands to cover his eyes for a while, and when he opened them, he was stunned by the sight in front of him.

The last image he had in his memory was the whole palace collapsing and sinking, and he knew he was going to be buried alive, knocked unconscious by the falling stones.But after waking up, there was a protective barrier at half a person's height above his head, which was incredible.

"Yang Jian!" Yu Chen looked back, Yang Jian was still nailed to the ground by Zhenxian Pagoda, he moved over and pulled out the steel nail pressing on the joint with force, and shouted, "Yang Jian, wake up!"

They all guessed that the recovery of Yang Jian's ability was related to that piece of jade, but no one could tell what the source of that piece of jade was.But Yu was taken away by Zhou Jue, how could Yang Jian be okay?Yu Chen fell into deep panic.He sat on the ground, hugged Yang Jian into his arms, held his hand and said softly, "Can you do it? It's not so easy for superheroes to rush to the street. Tell me how much you have rushed since I met you!" What's wrong? People like you really can't survive three seconds in a movie... You're not as good as me, it doesn't make sense that the mission of saving history will finally fall on my shoulders, hey, I said..."

He was complaining and complaining to himself, when the person in his arms opened his eyes "swish", which startled Yu Chen.Yu Chen pushed Yang Jian to one side, hurriedly climbed to the other side, stared at Yang Jian and said, "You...you're lying!"

"Are you annoying?" Yang Jian rubbed his head, because the arched barrier was really not high, so he could only sit.

Yu Chen asked: "When did you wake up?"

Yang Jian said, "When you dismantled Zhenxian Pagoda."

"Didn't you wake up early?" Yu Chen's voice suddenly rose, "Are you playing with me? I rely on you to know how desperate I am!"

Yang Jian said, "I don't know."

"Oh."

Yang Jian rubbed his neck, looked up at the honeycomb translucent barrier emitting light blue shimmer, and said, "What is this?"

"I don't know." Yu Chen casually touched it with his hand, "Maybe he's lazy."

The moment his hand touched the barrier, a blue light flickered, Yu Chen thought for some reason that it was about to collapse, and crawled towards Yang Jian with hands and feet.Yang Jian said: "Don't be afraid." He also quietly observed the situation.

The nearly translucent surface of the barrier began to have textures similar to transistors and electronic circuits, spreading from the top, with strange text symbols interspersed in the middle.When these astonishing pictures filled the hemisphere, there was a human-like, mechanically cold voice.

"Hello, Xiaoyu."

"I'm sub-Ao..." Yu Chen was dumbfounded, he and Yang Jian looked at each other but couldn't utter a word.It was Yang Jian who patted him before he stammered, "You... who are you?"

"I'm a fourth-generation web ecosystem."

"What?" Yu Chen and Yang Jian said in unison, Yu Chen almost choked on his own saliva in a hurry.

The voice repeated itself again.

"No, why can you talk?" Yu Chen twitched his face, "You have human consciousness and you can talk, what the hell am I asking! I mean... you lost it ? Why are you here? What happened? You...you..."

Yang Jian said to Yu Chen: "Don't get excited, speak slowly."

"How could I not be excited!" Yu Chen stood up abruptly, but forgot the height of the dome and went straight up.He yelled and sat back on the ground, covering his head and said, "Can you understand the pain of a [-]-year-old father who lost his son?"

Yang Jian's expression was a bit indescribable, and he said, "You better stop talking."

Yu Chen didn't want to talk to him, put his palm on his head, continued to raise his head and said, "Can you tell me about it? What happened?"

NO.4 said: "It's a long story, after Rong Gong woke me up, I was brought here by Ye Zhifeng. They didn't implant me into any electronic system, but they wanted to compress my core— — that is to say, to compress the energy to provide a powerful energy field and battery life for their secret weapon."

"Is it a weapon that looks like a sword?" Yu Chen asked.

NO.4 said: "Yes."

Yu Chen asked: "Did you participate in the whole process of making that weapon? They used you to search for a lot of data."

"Yes." NO.4 said, "Because using me to do search work can completely escape the sight of heaven. After all, no god will control human search activities. It's just that I was just a tool at that time, and I was not awakened. For this reason, Ronggong has made a lot of efforts and implanted many real people's thinking into my system."

Yu Chen sighed: "Yes, he also killed many innocent people. The people who replaced them are also models derived from your database, right?"

NO.4 approved his statement and said: "But this is not a long-term solution. There is no way to copy human beings to fully use ordinary human emotions, and when necessary, they will go west to Nalingrad —to make a final contribution to the success of that secret weapon.”

After he said this, both Yu Chen and Yang Jian understood why Xiao Tiangou met Li Lingyuan here.Maybe the real one was indeed buried in the valley, and the fake one, that is to say, the data replicant, came to Nalingrad under certain conditions.Yu Chen thought for a while, it seemed that the dead uncle who sent them the news asked them if they were going to the west for no reason.That uncle is a living person, and he may have known some secrets, or had some ideological intersection with his own clone, so after being tortured, he still had a secret signal of "going to the west" in his subconscious.

"So that secret weapon..." Yang Jian asked, "Is it Chitian?"

"Yes." NO.4 said, "No."

Yu Chen asked Yang Jian: "What is Chitian?"

Yang Jian said: "Chitian is an ancient artifact. According to legend, it was infused with colorful stones left by Nuwa to mend the sky. It was entrusted by an immortal in the Three Realms War thousands of years ago, and it shocked and killed countless demons. But later, Both Chitian and the Shangxian were destroyed in the last battle. At that time, Sun Wukong told me his doubts that Chitian could indeed be made of dead souls. To make it function, the sword soul is necessary. "

Yu Chen said: "So they couldn't find the soul of the sword, so they used No.4 as the soul of the sword?"

NO.4 said: "Most of what you said is correct, but there is one thing that is wrong. They found the soul of the sword later. And because I have no use, I was disassembled and abandoned after the function."

"Why did you abandon you!" Yu Chen was so excited that he almost stood up again, but he finally remembered the pain, and he retracted his knee just after using half of his strength, "You...you obviously..." He couldn't tell what he was What kind of mood, after all, NO.4 has a part of his hard work and hard work, which is the result of his labor, but it was discarded every minute after being used by others, Yu Chen felt very unbalanced.

At this moment, Yang Jian frowned and said, "Don't you think his voice is familiar?"

"Is there?"

"Like Rong Pu."

Yu Chen was taken aback for a moment, after digesting the information, he didn't know where to look in a daze.

NO.4 said: "This is what I'm going to tell you next. After I was dismantled for most of my functions, I was imprisoned in their underground isolation layer. They know how capable I am, even if I disassembled Don’t worry. Moreover, some of Rong Gong’s unnatural abilities came from them during the transformation of me, so it also made it difficult for me to be completely destroyed. I thought I was finished, and I would be strangled within a few days of awakening Dropped, deprived of consciousness... You know, I am the most powerful only with ideology. Then I found out that I woke up, because you came, and by chance, your computer was connected to the network here. "

Yu Chen asked unresponsively: "So... so..."

NO.4 laughed - as an artificial intelligence, he can indeed have emotions like a real human being.He said: "After you stole and entered the network, your computer established contact with me. There is no such tool here, which is why they can destroy me wantonly. Rong Gong gave you a chip before he died, the chip Not only his dev diary, but also my backup in a hidden file, it's a pity you didn't unlock the secret. I copied that backup completely over the network - and I came back to life. Of course, except for the In addition to the backup, there are some private content of Rong Gong. I think it may be because of this reason that my voice sounds like Rong Gong. He is a genius madman. He has exchanged with the devil, but he is not stupid. He knew he was going to die one day, so he shared memories with me."

Yu Chen asked: "What do you mean?"

NO.4 said: "I mean, I am NO.4, and I am also Rong Gong—Xiao Yu." He called Yu Chen's name at the end almost the same as Rong Pu.After hearing the call, Rong Pu's pupils shrank slightly, and the fingertips resting on his legs couldn't help trembling.Then he shook his head vigorously as if trying to keep himself awake, and said, "No, he's dead."

Yang Jian said to NO.4: "The sword soul they got is the piece of jade I brought?"

NO.4 said: "Yes."

"Then do you know their purpose?" Yang Jian asked again.

NO.4 said: "I don't know."

"What purpose can there be? It's all about destroying the world and killing gods and demons!" Yu Chen said, "The purpose must be to destroy the whole world and rebuild a new order!" He said to NO. 4 said, "Is there any way you can get us out of here?"

"Yes." NO.4 said, "but I have one condition."

Yu Chen just wanted to say that you can make any condition as long as we are released, but he still had a good look at Yang Jian first.I saw Yang Jian said: "Just ask, I will try my best to do what I can."

This topic seems a bit difficult to talk about. Even the AI ​​like NO.4 has a bit of shyness in his tone. He said: "I don't have a body, I can only exist in the system. So you can find me a body and bring me a body." Want to fuck me?"

"Yes, yes." Yu Chen hurriedly touched himself to see if there were any electronic products, but they were all broken by the shock just now.He was a little annoyed, but Yang Jian said, "I can promise you the first condition, but how can I trust you for the latter?"

They were all cheated by Luo Bai once, and they were very worried about it.

"I..." NO.4 was also in trouble, he was quiet for a while, and seemed to have made a final decision, "My password is 1230, if I deceive you, you can use this password to delete me completely. Back then When Gong Gong wrote this program, he wrote it very deeply, and no one knew about it except himself—it was also the last retreat he left for himself.”

After hearing that number, Yu Chen didn't care about the words after No.4, he lowered his head as if he was very lost, and couldn't help covering his eyes with one hand.Yang Jian asked: "What's wrong?"

"...that's my birthday." Yu Chen's voice trembled, and he couldn't control himself, "I... I don't understand."

Yang Jian said, "Maybe he cares about you more than you think."

"It's useless to talk about it now." Yu Chen straightened up and said, "NO.4, tell me how you want to take us away?"

NO.4 said: "Please protect your important parts."

The sound of metal texture fell, and the lines on the honeycomb barrier began to spread three-dimensionally. They were inserted into the surrounding rocky soil, as if they had been injected with a blue liquid.An intertwined network bloomed on the pitch-black ground, and the blue light became brighter and brighter, from which there was infinite power to slowly lift the huge stones until the barrier inside was exposed.

The blue light was released to the maximum, and then gathered together in a huge buzzing sound, the barrier broke through the ground, and brought Yu Chen and Yang Jian out.

"Ah—fuck me!" Yu Chen gasped and lay on the ground, "I'm suffocating."

Yang Jian was more respectable than him, looked around, and said to Yu Chen: "Don't lie down, it's not safe here."

After the blue light gathered just now, it turned into a halo. He floated onto Yu Chen and said, "I have fulfilled my promise."

"This is NO.4?" Yu Chen said in surprise, "It's just such a small group?"

Yang Jian said: "Do you think it is a giant? Otherwise, how could it be regarded as the soul of the sword?"

"But, what are you going to find to hold your soul that has no place to rest?" Yu Chen was a little worried.He searched around and found the dead body of a gray rabbit. He moved his eyes, grabbed the ball of light and pressed it up, "Or just this one! It's quite cute!"

"Hey you!" Yang Jian felt that Yu Chen was too reckless, how could such an intelligent thing be stuffed into the body.He wanted to stop Yu Chen, but as soon as he grabbed Yu Chen's hand, the ball of light disappeared. "How do you remember what is what?" he said.

"There is nothing else around there." Yu Chen said, "Didn't he want a body? Since his thinking is all biologically modified, he should be able to fuse with this ordinary body... right." He hesitated at the end Yes, because the behavior just now was indeed a brain twitch, and I wanted to make a joke about the rest of my life with NO.4.

The gray rabbit whose cause of death was unknown was originally lying flat on the ground, when Yu Chen and Yang Jian were reviewing their mistakes, its ears suddenly moved, its eyes opened, and it got up from the ground.

Yu Chen said in shock: "No way!"

"Xiao Yu?" The rabbit jumped onto Yu Chen's lap.