no one knows better than me

Zhuang Qingliu stood in the vast expanse of white ice and snow, with his head bowed motionless. After an unknown amount of time, the snow-covered eyelashes moved slightly as if in a trance.

Many pictures emerged in her mind, she thought of Hou Yi, Bian Que, Peach Blossom Spring, the familiar and regular rising and setting of the sun, the huge radiating desert, and the unknown material used to make it. Chasing spirits, I thought of the miraculous influx of water at that moment in the secret realm, the floor that could be healed as before, and the absolutely cold and smooth metal under the altar.

The stern wind like a knife blew across her face, and she finally slowly raised her head little by little, and glanced at the boundless sky.

Mei Siji, Mei Siyu and others who came after seeing this scene turned pale with fright, Mei Siyu rushed up with trembling legs and said tremblingly: "Senior Zhuang, Duanzhu..."

Just as he made a sound, Mei Xiaohan grabbed his sleeve tightly.

Mei Siyu hurriedly bent down and lowered her head to help her with trembling hands. Before Mei Xiaohan could stand up, a figure flashed in front of her, and Zhuang Qingliu disappeared out of thin air.

As if a basin of cold water had been poured over her head, Mei Siji's whole body became cold, Mei Xiaohan opened her mouth dumbly, as if she couldn't breathe, and everyone's hearts froze.

Without a word of greeting, without giving anyone a moment to react, Zhuang Qingliu almost disappeared from the world in front of several people, and in a short while he came to the huge Peach Blossom Spring Oasis alone - a huge bronze-like ancient and mysterious altar that was still silent. Standing quietly in place, like a pair of eyes in the abyss of the dark night, silently watching all the vicissitudes and overlapping changes of this world.

Zhuang Qingliu stood quietly in the open space in front of the altar for a long time, then walked up the long steps step by step, turned around countless corridors step by step, and did not stop until he stood in the center of the hall, and suddenly rolled his eyes expressionlessly and shouted : "Uncle Master."

The changing and flickering dark green light and shadow in the Youmi Great Hall lightly fell on top of her head, and Guiyao's unmoving voice finally sounded from all directions: "Zhuer."

Zhuang Qingliu turned his head, his eyes swept over the ground, the corners, the squares, the pillars, and the dome, and finally raised his head, twitching the corners of his mouth: "Guy Yao—is that your code name?"

After sliding the light patterns on the four walls for a while, Gui Yao finally said: "Yes. You are the first person to talk to us after the Earth Era. As former compatriots, we are very happy."

"Really?" Zhuang Qingliu stood quietly on the spot for a while, and then suddenly sat down on the floor, bending one leg casually as if very tired, and said, "Since you are happy, what have you been afraid of all this time?"

Gui Yao's voice quickly said softly, "What did you say?"

Zhuang Qingliu laughed softly: "Open the skylight and speak plainly."

After about four or five seconds, Guiyao's voice sounded curiously: "You don't seem to be surprised or absurd?"

"Compatriots—I'm afraid it's not right?" Zhuang Qingliu also lightly sent out a non-response after being avoided.

This time, the other side was quiet for a long time before Wei Wei said in a steady and ordinary voice: "You are very smart." , outlines the general outline of history.”

history?

Zhuang Qingliu chuckled, unmoved at all, lowered her eyelashes and wiped the blood on the knife gently with her sleeve: "I'm not smart at all, but also very self-aware, so can I trouble you to explain it to me clearly and seriously? "

The other side was silent for a long time as if thinking about it, and said quite politely: "Sorry, there are some far-reaching questions that we can't answer."

Zhuang Qingliu nodded: "Actually, as long as I want to ask, you won't answer, right?"

"Sorry. That's pretty much it."

Zhuang Qingliu smiled inexplicably, but the smile didn't reach his eyes: "So, you have only been observing one-sidedly all this time?"

Gui Yao said softly, "You are very angry."

"Of course." Zhuang Qingliu raised his eyes without hesitation, "Someone disappeared for me, and my lover saved everyone's lives with his own life. The world I live in is a zoo, and I am a worm in the zoo. —I can't be calm, of course."

There was silence as if ignoring it.

Zhuang Qingliu said in a deep voice, "Do you have anything to say?"

"We're sorry." The other side still said gently and politely, "My condolences."

"Hahahahaha." Zhuang Qingliu suddenly touched the edge of the blade with his fingertips and laughed briskly, and said very calmly, "Send her back to me—otherwise, what she threatened you with at that time, I am exactly the same."

All the lights and shadows flowing slowly in the altar seemed to have stopped for an instant, and this time the opposite side really fell into silence.

Without raising her head, Zhuang Qing flipped the blade of the Spirit Chaser in front of her eyes: "You should have had a precise calculation and evaluation of her at that time, right?——Now, why don't you also test me?"

As he spoke, he slowly raised his eyes, lifting his sharp and thin eyelids.

After about 2 minutes, the sly mechanical panel finally rang again, as if sighing: "You and her are both very respectable people." This time the voice did not have various stories. As a gesture, very sincere and candid.

Zhuang Qingliu still just smiled politely, and said: "People like me and her should have been sent away by you through thunder robbery in the past, right? It's really not a compliment."

"Those are also worthy of respect," Gui Yao said seriously, "it is a sincere and objective evaluation."

"Oh," Zhuang Qingliu nodded, "but I don't care about comments or not, anyway, there is no bonus, I only care about what I say?"

Over there this time, he said gently and straightforwardly: "Like you, we will issue an order for Guiyao to save her, but she will have to stay in the medical cabin we left for a long time first, and the follow-up treatment will take time, you probably know."

"I don't know." Zhuang Qingliu opened his mouth and asked for prices, "I can't even hear the number of 20 years—two months."

"..." The person on the other side seemed to be speechless for a while, and then said after a while, "It can be done here, but there is no such condition in your place."

Zhuang Qingliu nodded quickly, and said easily, "That's two years. Up to two years."

"...Let's do our best."

"Thank you." Zhuang Qingliu looked up at the endless void seriously and solemnly, and then said, "Now let's talk about another thing."

Guiyao said: "Please tell me."

Zhuang Qingliu said word by word: "Leave, open, here, in."

Opposite silence.

"Whether it's paying attention or observing, I'm beyond my reach," Zhuang Qingliu said in a very deep voice, "But there is no need for manipulation here, and there can be no manipulation."

The opposite side said gently: "Please believe us, the 'spiritual power' that can circulate infinitely in the altar is a gift we sincerely left when we left, and it is to make your life better."

"I believe." Zhuang Qingliu nodded and said, "But this is a place abandoned by you, so what's there to be grandiose? Tell me—would you like to be watched by a pair of eyes in the sky and manipulated by a pair of hands behind your back?"

The other side said frankly: "Any civilization is unwilling, but—"

"You seem to have forgotten that after the condition of your lover's return is activated, your willingness to threaten and actual execution have been greatly reduced. At this moment, you have lost the initiative between us."

The plain and straightforward voice is steady and solid.

Zhuang Qingliu's finger caressing the blade seemed to have paused for a moment, and after a moment of silence, she closed her eyelids and said, "Yes. I want to live a peaceful life with her, and I don't want to worry about other things. "

The opposite party replied quite politely: "I wish you happiness."

Zhuang Qingliu suddenly laughed, blinked, and said more habitually, "Xiao Xie, we will—but when we live happily ever after, that is when this world will be destroyed."

The other side suddenly fell into silence again.

Zhuang Qingliu laughed more and more mischievously: "What's the matter? Didn't you think that I could do it before I die? And the length of my life is simply not worth mentioning."

The other side is still silent.

Zhuang Qingliu became a little lively, and propped up one leg and said: "My active position is back, isn't it?"

This time there was a long period of silence, Zhuang Qingliu suddenly climbed up from the ground slowly holding a knife, and said steadily: "Now, you can also calculate and evaluate me."

The voice finally sounded: "Please wait a moment, it may take a long time this time."

Of course, Zhuang Qingliu knew that the evaluation would not take a long time, so she nodded with interest and asked, "Do you want to have a meeting to discuss?"

"Yes," the person in charge of the dialogue over there still chatted with her gently, "We think this is a major event between the two worlds, and similarly, your side shouldn't be decided by you alone."

He used "two worlds", not two civilizations.

Zhuang Qingliu actually agreed, but in a world of such a level of civilization, he just smiled, nodded and replied: "I can decide whether to destroy the world alone."

"..." The other side agreed quite calmly and politely, "You are a very dangerous person."

Zhuang Qingliu blinked and asked, "So what's your assessment for me? Is there any assessment?"

"Out of ten, it's eight."

Zhuang Qingliu seemed a little surprised: "Only eight?"

"Above six means that the behavior is uncontrollable. If it reaches eight, it is already very dangerous."

Zhuang Qingliu felt quite interesting and asked curiously: "What about my lover?"

There seemed to be silence for a while, and the precise report: "Nine nine."

It seems that when talking about plum blossoms, the corners of Zhuang Qingliu's eyes and brows became naturally gentle, and he said humorously to the opposite side: "The nine o'clock in the past was probably held back by me, and the zero o'clock was probably lost because of me—say Get up, my master should be ten, right?"

Unexpectedly, Guiyao's voice said: "No. She is Jiu."

"..." Zhuang Huang is nine, and has already begun to destroy the world and people; and Mei Hualan has reached nine point nine.

Zhuang Qingliu lowered his head and raised his hand to touch his eyebrows, and stopped talking.

It was faster than expected, and the result of the negotiation on the opposite side soon came. This time, it was no longer the almost human-like mechanical voice of Guiyao, but a real human voice said: "Hello, Ms. Zhuang, I represent our All human beings extend friendly greetings to you." To my surprise, this rather representative voice is a female voice with a mid-range pitch.

"...To be honest, I'm just a little outrageous and absurd right now." Zhuang Qingliu stood up straighter, and said politely, "Hi, you all."

There was no intention of exchanging pleasantries there, and they went straight to the point: "We have received the wish you put forward on behalf of that world. Is there any room for further discussion?"

Zhuang Qingliu said seriously: "I don't think this question needs to be answered."

"Okay. Then I think it is necessary for us to mention and reiterate that we have no hostility towards you." The female voice solemnly said, "We are different fires of the same civilization, just like siblings and relatives. should keep in touch.

"I believe that we have been treated like brothers and sisters in terms of not being exterminated." Zhuang Qingliu raised his eyes and said, "But we have always restricted this world to a non-threatening low-civilized level. Brothers and brothers who fought for family property in ancient times may not Acting like this, not to mention you are now standing up and down."

There was silence for a while, and the female voice said without anger: "To be honest, we have traveled far away from the old planet on behalf of the ancient earth civilization, and the mutual threat between us has become very small."

"I guessed it," Zhuang Qingliu said calmly, "Otherwise, it would be no more difficult for you to deal with me than a bug."

"When we left, we didn't expect that the old planet could survive all kinds of overlapping disasters, and that civilization could bloom again. According to our assessment at that time, the probability was very, very low." The female voice probably consulted her. After the consultant next to him, he said in an analogy, "Probably equivalent to the fact that Mars at that time could develop human civilization-so we only left the tricky line there, which is actually just a very low-level AI that can do things. Very limited."

"There is a feeling of being shown off." Zhuang Qingliu deliberately said funny, "The more I talk, the more I don't know where I am."

The female voice seemed to laugh as expected, and the voice was a little more humane than before: "We are very happy to have a conversation with you today, and we are really happy that civilization has grown again in the hometown of the earth. Since your will is firm, then we formally accepted."

Zhuang Qingliu had a very strange feeling in her heart, she seemed to feel a little straightforward, but also felt that it should be so, and most of all - fate favored her once again.

"On behalf of another kind of fire derived from the earth civilization, I would like to express my heartfelt blessings and best wishes to you, and hope that you all go well in the future—"

The voice from afar finally said softly, "Goodbye."

After the voice fell, the cyan altar named Guiyao suddenly disappeared in place, and Zhuang Qingliu stood in the wilderness of the world and the boundless wind.

"—Zhuang Zhu!"

A hoarse and familiar voice suddenly sounded from behind at this moment, bringing a hasty landing sound, as if Zhu Heng had come looking for him in a panic.

But Zhuang Qingliu didn't have time to see her face, and she didn't have time to turn around. The exhausted support from her back was finally released, and she fell headfirst to the ground.

The author has something to say: This chapter was supposed to end, but it was too long after reading it, so it became the ending, Sao Ao Rui).