I got up from the coffin and was taken back to the nest by the dragon

"So...according to this logic, does it mean that life has achieved immortality?"

Su Bai looked up at Ji Xiaqing in astonishment, frowned, "How is that possible!"

But then she was stunned, smacked her lips, and thought for a while, "But it seems that it can be established theoretically."

"We already have the best example," Ji Xiaqing said with a serious expression, and tapped the ground with his slender fingers, "The fifth person has lived for nearly 1 years, if it hadn't been changing bodies and copying memories, How did he survive?"

Years often erode the material form in an irreversible way. As one of the masters of the material world, human beings, the myths in their history or the ultimate proposition of ambition, can never escape the topic of "immortality", so that In their superficial awareness, they always use "how long they have lived" to judge a person's success or failure, and even use it to measure their contributions and achievements.From the first emperor to the monkey in the underworld, there are always people who dream of escaping the confinement of three-dimensional creatures, escaping the erosion of time, and roaming in the long river of time.

It just never worked out.

"He seems to have succeeded." Ji Xiaqing murmured to himself, with a look of sadness and joy, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

She has never felt that immortality is a good thing.

"Are you so pessimistic? I don't think so," Su Bai put together a piece of parts, looking quite relaxed, "Ah Qing, the soul also has a loss rate."

She rummaged through the file boxes piled up next to her, found a document from it, and handed it to Ji Xiaqing, "Aren't there many sacrificed dragons 'reborn' this time? Ethical clinical trial materials, so I did some data testing and summarization when I 'resurrected' them. A few days ago, the research institute just proposed the theory of soul weakness, which is a fresh and hot research result."

Ji Xiaqing took the document, briefly looked at the abstract, then skipped the numerous assumptions in the middle, the various constants introduced to eliminate errors, the empirical formulas fitted by the computer and the experimental data, and directly turned to the last page to read in conclusion.

"I can't understand it, even the final conclusion." Su Bai sighed, and installed a small piece of parts on the metal shell with force, "What about the half-life of radiation, and the loss of excited state transitions?" Calculations...the last sentence is understandable."

"The soul cannot last forever." Ji Xiaqing read the last sentence word by word.

The only sound left in the room was the sound of Su Bai assembling the parts, occasionally accompanied by the rustling sound of Ji Xia Qing flipping the pages.

"Ah Qing, do you understand?" Seeing that Ji Xia Qing hadn't spoken for a long time, Su Bai leaned over in surprise, glanced at the things on the paper, then pursed his mouth, rubbed his eyes, and muttered softly, "You can understand this thing, as expected of Ah Qing."

"It's not very difficult, it just looks complicated," Ji Xiaqing said softly, "After all, it's just a basic research induction and empirical formula."

"Then explain it to me." Xiaolong said coquettishly.

"It probably means: due to the unique physical and chemical properties of the soul, in the case of a carrier, it is difficult to lose due to time. The soul also has a lifespan. The lifespan of each person's soul is different but conforms to the normal distribution. The strength of the soul of the group—— It is one of the primary manifestations of the lifespan of the soul, which has an average value. The soul needs a carrier in order to exist stably, and every time the soul leaves the carrier—generally speaking, the body, it will accelerate the passage of life. This multiplier varies from person to person. But the currently observed magnification can even reach a thousand times. The strength of the soul will not be restored after returning to the body, that is, the 'irreversibility of the weakening of the soul strength'." Ji Xiaqing briefly explained.

Su Bai was silent for a while, his eyes were strange, "Ah Qing, do you think I understand?"

Ji Xiaqing was choked, and then laughed, "Explain roughly: the soul, like the body, also has an expiry date, but every time the body dies, the soul will also be injured, and it won't heal."

Su Bai suddenly realized, and said with emotion, "This is what people say."

"I saw my soul data." Ji Xiaqing pointed to the most prominent point that existed in several pictures, "Although the name of the data provider is hidden, it is quite obvious in comparison. .”

Su Bai took another look, then pursed his lips.

She still knows how to look at the picture and talk: the point Ah Qing pointed to has a spirit strength several orders of magnitude lower than the others, which is obviously abnormal.

"I have existed in the form of a soul for so long, but now I am only a fragment of the core soul, of course the strength is very low." Ji Xiaqing explained softly.

"Then...Ah Qing, your time," Su Bai said suddenly with dry mouth and hoarse voice, and suddenly changed the subject, "The dragon race is a long-lived species, with an average lifespan of more than a thousand years."

And I'm only in my 20s.

"Yes," Ji Xiaqing smiled and patted her little head, "I must have left before you."

Su Bai's eyes turned red, and he pursed his lips tightly.

"But it shouldn't be a problem to boil your dragon body to death," Ji Xiaqing laughed narrowly, "It's only a thousand years at most."

Su Bai was startled, and the mist in the dragon's eyes slowly dissipated.

Yes, there is still that long. If we only look at the lifespan of this body, it will only be more than 2000 years.

"Just don't think I'm bothering you when the time comes." Ji Xiaqing rubbed her head, which feels so good, her voice became softer and softer, "After all, it's been more than 1000 years."

"How could it be?" Xiaolong rubbed his head against Ji Xia Qing, and then he just lay in her arms, feeling the soft body, whispering softly, his voice gradually weakened, "How could I find you annoying."

"That is to say, although this technology will not make creatures live forever, it can easily turn a short-lived species into a long-lived species." Ji Xiaqing didn't care about the beauty in his arms, narrowed his eyes, made a final decision, and said loudly And he made a judgment with dignity.

Su Bai, nestled in her arms, grinded his teeth, sat up straight with a snap, and gnashed his teeth to put together a piece of parts.

Why didn't Ah Qing look so blank before?

Just now such a good opportunity, such a great atmosphere, kissed down, and then entangled with each other in a reasonable way... Even if nothing happens in the end, just a kiss is still very pleasant.

Su Bai sighed, exerted force on his hands, and another part was inserted into the interface with a bang.

"Xiaolong? What's wrong?" Ji Xiaqing looked at her blankly.

"...It's okay." Su Bai put down the parts in his hand, looked at the time, "Ah Qing, let's rest."

Ji Xiaqing looked at the clock following her gaze, and muttered softly, "It's only ten o'clock, do you usually go to bed so early?"

"Yes," said nonsense expressionlessly under the main pavilion of the pagoda, which was usually busy until the early hours of the morning, "I'm tired, Ah Qing, please sleep with me."

"Then these parts?" Ji Xiaqing looked at the things scattered on the ground and asked hesitantly.

"It's the same if you fight again in the future." Su Bai said confidently, directly ignoring Fit's typed [Protest! ! ! 】 Two characters.

Ji Xiaqing blinked, thought for a while, and nodded in agreement.

At the beginning of ten o'clock at night, Su Bai huddled in Ji Xiaqing's arms, sniffing the cold fragrance on the woman's body, sighed, and tightened his arms around the woman's slender waist.

Still comfortable to hold.

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Sufficient official business may be able to distort time, so that a long day of waiting will pass quietly.With Ji Xiaqing's help, Su Bai handled a lot of official affairs the next day—but there were more things that he didn't handle.

"After signing these reports, you can go home and rest." Ji Xiaqing handed over a thick stack of documents with "S-level top secret" printed on the cover, saying that he had already reviewed them.

"No problem?" Su Bai asked casually, picked up the pen, signed his name on it without looking at the content.

"No, there are some minor issues that need to be confirmed: you can sign the first three copies as 'Zuan Guderian for reading'; the thickest one in the middle is signed as 'Zuan Zhong Jiqiu minister read'; the two not so thick ones in the middle One sign 'Submit the bill for discussion at the Friday regular meeting'; the two behind it sign 'Submit the bill for discussion at the Friday regular meeting'; the last ten are not a big problem, just sign it directly, but I recommend the last report You can ask the person in charge to come in and let her learn to speak human language next time, don't keep using those professional terms and proper nouns, this is a publicity material, not a research project opening report of the institute." Ji Xiaqing quickly reported the document like a machine gun criticism program.

Su Bai's signing hand stopped suddenly, and when he raised his head, his long eyes fixed on Ji Xiaqing.

"What?" Ji Xiaqing looked at her blankly, "Didn't you hear clearly, I'll do it again. The first three copies..."

"No, no, I heard it clearly!" Su Bai quickly interrupted Ji Xiaqing's "casting spell" again, sighed, and while signing the content of Ji Xiaqing's report, looked up at the light blue floating in the air with a wry smile. "Taiyi, do you think there will be problems with the sudden change in the work habits of the tower master's office?"

Taiyi pondered for a while expressionlessly, "Your Excellency, Tower Master, I think the various departments will be surprised for a while at most, but His Majesty's method is still very efficient, and a rough estimate can increase the efficiency by at least 15%."

"That was our model at that time." Ji Xiaqing sorted out the scattered documents on the table and put them away, glanced at the setting sun outside the window, and chuckled, "The old man's experience is still very useful."

"Ah Qing, how can you say that you are old!" Su Bai quickly finished signing, covered the pen, stood up and stretched, muttering, "Go home!"

Ji Xiaqing handed her her hand, and she took advantage of the situation to lead her, and was happily led away by Ji Xiaqing.

"Your Excellency the Tower Master, Your Majesty, let me say good night in advance." Taiyi bowed slightly to their backs.

Su Bai turned around suddenly, narrowing his eyes treacherously, "As long as you don't bother us tonight, you should be fine."

Taiyi was choked by the hidden meaning in these words, looked at Ji Xiaqing whose earlobe was red, and sighed, "Then say it again."

She bowed slightly again, with a solemn and emotional tone, "Your Excellency, Your Majesty, Tower Master, good night."

She watched the two leave without hearing what she meant, turned around, and continued to sort out the files on the desktop silently, with a lonely back.

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"Ah Qing, when are we going to leave?" Su Bai nestled on the sofa with great interest, watching Ji Xiaqing who was pacing back and forth in the room, shaking his head left and right following her direction, "It's almost nine o'clock It's over."

"I always feel that something is wrong, and Taiyi's reaction is too flat." Ji Xiaqing sighed, suppressed the doubts in his heart, turned to look at Su Bai, "Let's go now?"

Su Bai shrugged, "I can do it."

More than 30 minutes later, in the valley on the outskirts of the Babel Tower, a huge black dragon elegantly cut through the air with its wings, and disappeared into the dark sky. It seemed that there was a person sitting on the dragon's back.

"You seem to have grown up a bit?" Ji Xiaqing sat cross-legged on the dragon's head, tapped his fingers on the dragon's head, which was harder than steel, and measured Su Bai's length thoughtfully, "It's bigger than before. It's a circle."

"Well, the period of early adulthood is the fastest growth period of the dragon body of the dragon clan." Su Bai patted the dragon wings gracefully, and swiftly flew towards the direction of the gray mist. Go to the Dragon Clan Fertility Base to soak in the nutrient solution, and after soaking, it will grow a lot in a short period of time. I went to soak in the week you were away, and recently repaired the dragon wings a little to make it adapt to the current dragon body."

As Su Bai spoke, the dragon's tail stood up, hovering skillfully in the air, and proudly cocked its neck, showing Ji Xiaqing her beautiful, steel-like dragon wings. With a cold and hard light, "Look, does it look good?"

Ji Xiaqing turned his head to look left and right, nodded, and asked, "Soak in nutrient solution?"

"Yes," Su Bai showed the refitted dragon wings, stretched his body and continued to fly forward, "The whole dragon body is soaked in the jar on the third floor, and it will be fine after a night of sleep."

"Ah," Ji Xiaqing raised his eyebrows slightly, "it fits my guess."

"Huh? Ah Qing? What guess?" Su Bai asked in confusion.

"We still need some evidence to confirm," Ji Xiaqing stared at Su Bai's fluttering dragon wings, looked at the roots of the dragon wings that had been disassembled but are now meshed so well that no gaps can be seen, and muttered to himself, "Why didn't I think of it at the time? Cyberron."

Su Bai thought for a while, and didn't ask any more questions: Anyway, Ah Qing will tell her when she comes to a conclusion.

She trusted Ji Xiaqing.

So Su Bai continued to flap the dragon wings, and flew steadily into the gray mist. Just before submerging in the gray mist, she danced her dragon claws while flying, and simply drew some models of forbidden techniques.A light and warm shield shrouded the dragon's body, isolating the gray mist that contained a little radiation and destruction.

"Ah Qing, the human camp is ahead."

As an adult Su Bai, who is the master of a tower, naturally he will not make the low-level mistake of flapping the dragon's wings at the wrong frequency so that he cannot control the flight as he did a long time ago when he was not an adult, but he is more serious than ordinary dragons. The powerful dragon body allowed her to easily surpass the average flying speed of the dark dragon, and her flying speed was even close to that of the wind dragon when she went all out.

"I see." Ji Xiaqing stared at the light element protective cover with a thick and familiar aura hidden in the gray mist in the distance.

The moment she saw it, she already understood some of her choices at that time, and sighed softly, "This protective cover is my selfishness at the time."

She should have put all her energy into the core energy of the second protective cover of the ether spacecraft to last longer, so she resolutely chose to split part of the energy to build this protective cover for the human camp.

Perhaps her sacrifice could have extended the lives of the Aether and the Tower of Babel for 1 years, but now, due to the existence of this protective shield in the gray mist, there may only be 9000 years left.

"I can understand, it's okay," Su Bai chuckled, flapping his dragon wings to slow down and glide in the air, "Ah Qing, this time you can write a textbook on the content and basic framework of the forbidden art, maybe we can find it in the future." There would be no such sad sacrifices in the way of engraving forbidden spells on a machine."

In the time 1 years ago, the Four Emperors had just discovered the danger, and the protective shields that would stop working in 20 years or 50 years forced them to use this extremely inefficient way to make up for energy loss; while 1 Years later, due to wars, disputes, and the loss of the Talismantic System, Ji Xiaqing was the only one who could make it to the top.

However, fortunately, there is time for relaxation this time.

"This kind of sacrifice will never happen again," Ji Xiaqing murmured, looking at the protective shield ahead.

Su Bai nodded, then suddenly spread his dragon wings and raised his tail to hover in the air, raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at the protective cover that began to fluctuate violently, "Ah Qing, the people inside don't seem to welcome us."

"Indeed." Ji Xiaqing sighed.

Years of war instincts made it clear to her—she was being targeted by the weapons inside.

"Ah Qing, what should I do? In the eyes of humans, the dragons probably look similar. They probably haven't recognized me yet. Do we want to reveal my identity directly?" Su Bai patted the dragon's wings and asked softly.

"Let's just reveal your identity and show your intention." Ji Xiaqing shook his head, "We don't have that much time to waste."

"I was afraid. I said I was the owner of the Tower of Babel. Before I could explain why I came, they came here with a cannonball." Su Bai complained, and the dragon wings slowly approached the protective shield while the dragon wings were beating, which provoked the protective shield. fluctuations are more severe.

"You don't need to reveal your identity," Ji Xiaqing took a step, stood on the dragon's head, and gently touched the protective cover with his fingers, "I'll just come."

In addition to the ordinary ability to block the gray fog, it was also engraved with a protective cover of forbidden offensive techniques, and just like that, a hole just enough for a giant dragon to fly in was melted in her hands.

"Wow!" Su Bai sighed sincerely, "Ah Qing is really amazing."

"The energy of the light system has the same root as mine, so of course I can control it." Ji Xiaqing smiled, passed through the protective shield, stood in the air, looked at the human camp that had pulled out all the things on emergency alert, and spoke softly.

The resounding voice that had been amplified instantly resounded throughout the human camp.

"It's me, Ji Xiaqing."

Su Bai poked a dragon's head in through the opening, and watched the human troops on guard start buzzing, as if they were arguing about something, and there was even a tendency to intensify—but before Ji Xia Qing casually threw out a miniature protective cover After that, the argument stopped.

The old acquaintance of the two came out with Sanzhuo with complex expressions, looked at Ji Xiaqing who had fallen on the ground and Su Bai who had turned into a human form beside her, deliberately ignored the latter, and bowed slightly towards Ji Xiaqing, "Your Majesty , you... are not dead?"

"To be precise, he died once, but he came back again." Ji Xiaqing looked at Three Claws curiously. She didn't have this person in her memory, and her impression of him came from Xiaolong's description.

Thin as a monkey, with three hands growing on the abdomen, cunning, treacherous and shameless, but quite responsible.

This is Su Bai's evaluation of Three Claws.

"Congratulations," Sanzhuo said sincerely, and then looked at Ji Xiaqing with some hesitation, "Your Majesty, are you here this time...?"

He changed the subject, "The human camp suffered heavy losses last time, and we still want to recuperate for a while."

It is a rejection inside and outside the words.

Ji Xiaqing shook his head with a gentle voice, "I'm not here this time to ask human beings to do anything, but I just want to ask you a few questions."

Three Claws hesitated for a while, then nodded, "Ask, I'll tell you everything."

"But let's go inside and talk." He led Ji Xiaqing to the spacious room in the middle, ignored Su Bai who was following her, just poured Ji Xiaqing a glass of water, and sat upright.

Su Bai pouted, but didn't say anything.

The dragons and humans still have bloody feuds, new and old, and if Three Claws comes to her office, she won't give Three Claws tea.

What's more, last time, this short-sighted person sent himself an elegiac couplet to Ah Qing.

"I am indeed back," Ji Xiaqing sipped his saliva, pondered for a while, as if he was wondering where to start, "but I lost some memories, these memories may be important or have no information, but I still want to find it."

"You want to know what you did during those few days in the human camp?" Three Claws was only a little stunned by the fact that "His Majesty Qingdi has lost his memory", and then accepted it frankly, and even rushed to answer in advance by inferring other cases from one instance.

"Yes." Ji Xiaqing glanced at him in surprise and nodded, "What did I do and my reaction at that time, the more detailed the better."

"You are not in the human camp most of the time, I can only repeat what I saw for you," Three Claws took a deep breath, and said slowly, "You arrived at the human camp by yourself, let me prepare a room for you The house, you basically stay in the house when you are in the human camp."

"By the way," he hesitated for a while, before repeating, "Occasionally in the room...you are talking to yourself alone, but I can hear from the sporadic sentences that it seems to be talking to another person .”

The situation at that time really frightened Three Claws, and even made him think carefully for a while about the possibility of "His Majesty Qingdi is crazy" and the countermeasures.

"Well, that's Xiaobai and I talking long distance." Ji Xiaqing thought about the memory that Su Bai had filled for himself, and quickly found the corresponding fragment.

"Oh, that's good," Three Claws let out a long breath, and continued to recall the details, "You went out early the next morning, but I had a conversation with you before going out, you asked me to help you find For the historical records of the dragon race, look for information on the oldest dragon."

Ji Xiaqing suddenly sat up straight.

She really thought of it at the time!

"Where's the information? Have I read the information? What was your reaction?" She asked.

"You didn't read it... No, I don't know if you read it or not," Three Claws explained, "You went out after you explained to me, and I will give you the information when you come back, but you seemed quite depressed at the time, and let me Put it on the table first."

"Besides, if you don't have the problem of 'the documents you read must be in the same order and stacked neatly', I guess you haven't read that stack of documents," Three Claws carefully made a judgment, " Because the data doesn't seem to have been tampered with."

"It should be Ah Qing, you thought this was a virtual world." Su Bai compared the time with his own memory, and then said softly, "At that time, Ah Qing, you probably thought the world was hopeless, so those materials were gone. Let's see."

"Virtual world?" Three Claws repeated the word strangely.

"It's just a clumsy conjecture that has already been denied." Ji Xia's green eyes were full of regret, "Is there any more?"

"Well, then you seem to have some reason..." Three Claws racked his brains to recall, "It seems that you pressed a few marks on the table, and then you suddenly ran out."

Ji Xiaqing:? ? ?

Why didn't she know what was going on in her mind at that time?

"You seemed to have said the word 'fingerprint' at that time," Three Claws tried to recall, repeating it a little bit, "When you come back, you already have a body."

"Then it seems that because of my fingerprints and fingerprints, I suddenly want to go back to my final resting place?" Ji Xiaqing murmured.

"By the way, there is another thing," Three Claws suddenly remembered a detail, and hastily added, "At that time, you seemed to feel that someone was spying on you."

"Someone is spying on me?" Ji Xiaqing felt even more troubled, "Fifth Persecution? He shouldn't be able to do it."

"Give me the stack of documents that were on my desk at that time." She thought hard for a while, but she couldn't find the result, so she could only sigh and looked at Three Claws with some hope in her eyes, "Is it still there?"

"Yes," Three Claws nodded hastily, "We didn't move your house."

He gave orders, and soon someone came over with a stack of documents.

Ji Xiaqing took the stack of materials with a little dust on it, and slowly flipped through them.

"It turns out that the truth of the past has already been placed on my table."

After a long silence, Ji Xiaqing sighed and spoke softly.

"Ah Qing? What do you mean?" Su Bai frowned blankly and asked.

"The origin of the dragon race, the historical record of the oldest dragon." Ji Xiaqing closed the documents and stared at Su Bai.

"There were no dragons on the ancient earth, and the dragons were not interstellar creatures colonizing the Ether."

"Then the question is, where did the Dragon Clan come from?"