So dark.

When Ji Xiaqing regained the ability to think, she was at a loss to perceive the chaotic world around her.

It can't be described as "seeing", because the surroundings are pitch black, and nothing can be seen, so she can only tell her with something similar to intuition—she is not dead yet.

Head throbbing pain.

Ji Xiaqing had a severe headache, but his thoughts kept wandering.

I remembered the coconut shell I saw in my previous life. The machete with a cold light pried open the brown coconut shell a few times, poured out the water inside, and then pulled out the coconut meat little by little. Rub the coconut shell vigorously, and there is no white coconut meat left.

Well, she feels like she's that poor coconut now.

"Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, did I get fired?" Ji Xiaqing muttered, thinking of Zhong Boyang and Lu Renjia who were poisoned by his own steel bars, and frowned—if there is something wrong with her current form of existence... For eyebrows, "Why does it hurt so much?"

Brains buzzing.

Time passed slowly, and she slowly remembered what happened before.

"Did I faint?" She recalled the last picture in her memory in confusion: the transparent sky made of data, and Xiaolong's anxious and frightened face.

"I really fainted." She checked her own state and sighed, "I guess Xiaobai is worried to death."

She tried to break through the chaos, but no matter how hard she tried, the darkness was still darkness, useless.

"Ah, how do I get out here?" Ji Xiaqing was tired, panted for a while, and heard a sound in the distance.

Several people seemed to be arguing, and some were crying.

"Xiaobai?!" Her ears were sharp, and she quickly realized that the young woman who was crying was her girlfriend and her lover.

"...It seems that I'm not in a good condition." She was silent for a while, took a breath, and then let it out slowly, speaking with a half-smile.

"Hurry up, wake up quickly." She clenched her fists tightly.

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"Teacher, save her." Xiaolong cried until Lihua rained, holding Ji Xiaqing who had fallen into a coma in his arms, looking at the old man with a cold expression in front of him, "Please."

This is the old man's office, Manstein and others are standing beside her, and Taiyi is scanning Ji Xiaqing's physical condition up and down with many seemingly expensive equipment.

The device in Taiyi's hand beeped twice, she glanced at the result, walked slowly back to the old man, and said in a low voice, "It's possible, it didn't hurt the root cause, it's just that the data stream is impacted and the nerves are tense. It’s hard to make such a beautiful decision.”

"Is this coma?" The old tower owner sneered, "This is not what she can bear."

"There is another reason." Taiyi hesitated for a while, and handed over the result, "more than three months ago, her soul experienced a huge shock, and the non-original part of the soul was torn apart, and it was already relatively weak. , but soon the soul experienced another major tonic, in this case, she is actually very weak from the very beginning."

"Three months ago...?" Xiaolong quickly thought about what happened three months ago, "That exploration? The crack that appeared inexplicably? Ah Qing lost his right hand in it, and got back a broken mechanical arm."

At that time, the woman pretended to be relaxed and said that there was no problem, but now it seems that it still has some influence.

"Teacher," Su Bai sniffed heavily, looking at the woman sleeping peacefully in his arms, "help her."

A sarcastic smile appeared on the lips of the tower owner's old man, and he sat down slowly behind the large desk, folded his hands on his chest, and said with a half-smile, "Why?"

"I didn't want to do anything to you at all. That hidden mission was just a test for Manstein. The weirdness in his memory would not erupt. There would only be an illusion aimed at him. This is my original plan. plan."

"And her, what did she come up with? She almost endowed that machine with that mass of data intelligence!" The old man's expression darkened instantly, and he knocked on the table, "She's so confident that those garbage data streams can explode That machine? What if it doesn't exist? All of you will be buried in it!"

The corners of Taiyi's lips twitched, and he muttered, "No way, the insurance mechanism will be blown at that time, except for her who may not be able to get out, everyone else will be fine."

The old tower owner glanced at her, "You talk a lot."

Taiyi silently closed his mouth.

"It's not such a complicated thing, but she just wants to make it complicated," the old tower owner hummed angrily, "Give me a reason, why?"

Rommel couldn't help but look at the silent man in a black robe and hood beside him, and said cautiously, "Teacher, your test of Manstein... Indeed, there is a little bit that may or may not be quite right. ……"appropriate.

"Rommel!" The old tower owner glared at him, pointing to the gate, "Go prepare the plan and pick out all the people who performed well this time. Team Zhou and your team leader, Zhong Jiqiu and Zhong Boyang will also join in. By the way, there is also Lu Renjia who is outstanding in this competition, he is also the captain of the exploration team. Multiple teams march from different directions and routes, and set off in a day."

Rommel glanced at Manstein, who was bowing his head, and Su Bai, who was hiccupping from crying, pursed his lips, and nodded, "Okay."

Compared with the things here, the project in the Human Remains Research Society, which is called "Fat Tian" on the surface and is actually called "Training the Dragon", is a little more important. Although he wants to help Manstein now, the organization's plan is not enough. Lost.

In the early stage, he played a double-agent trick to hide from the old man, sent a false information and lied that he found that there was still a burning furnace in the extremely strange place, so as to transfer all the main dragons away. Now this plan has been completed. One half, he must personally take care of the other half.

The old man of the tower owner nodded, very satisfied with Rommel's obedience.

Rommel glanced at Manstein again, turned around and was about to leave.

A hand grasped his wrist.

It was Manstein.

This young dragon slowly took off his hood with the other hand, revealing his true body in front of everyone very rarely.

I have to say that before that incident, Manstein must have been considered handsome.The face is like a crown jade, the nose is like a gall, a pair of peach blossom eyes are full of affection, but not frivolous.

However, further down, there is a horrifying and frightening picture of a child crying—the huge and rough steel jaw is connected to the flesh/body in an extremely violent way, and the skin at the connection is torn and deformed.

Manstein raised his head, and his peach blossom eyes stared at the old man's eyes.

"I'll go too." The words were not pleading for Ji Xiaqing.

He slowly let go of the hand holding Rommel's wrist, with a firm yet sarcastic expression, "Don't you just want me to cheer up? Don't you just want me to participate in this bullshit power struggle, as you said willing."

The old tower owner didn't feel offended at all, he just chuckled and looked at Manstein, "What about your conditions?"

Manstein pointed to the woman in Ibusuki Shiro's arms, "cure her."

"Not enough." The old tower owner smiled and shook his head, looked at Su Bai whose eyes had gradually changed, and pointed, "Xiao Bai, express your opinion."

He joined Xiaobai, who wanted to escape the power struggle all the time.

Rommel's eyes towards Su Bai also became complicated, his fists were slowly clenched, and suddenly he let out a sigh of relief, as if he had figured something out, he slowly let go.

With a blank expression on his face, Manstein took half a step forward, blocking the bewildered little dragon behind him, with a serious expression, "I am alone, that's enough."

His voice was cold, like the real King of Hades, "Xiaobai is No.1 in this competition. According to the regulations, there are 15 credit points to reward. I will also give her the credit points I saved, plus her own The savings are enough to open the soul restoration instrument."

The old tower owner narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "She took advantage of the loopholes in the rules. With real combat power, which one of you can she defeat?"

"You can change the rules next time first, but this time, you must admit that she is the number one." Manstein calmly negotiated with the old tower owner.

Rommel also stepped forward silently, opened his terminal, and recorded the transfer page, "I can do it too."

The old tower owner was choked up, looked at Xiaolong who was guarded by the two senior brothers, and smiled instead of anger, "You two have a good relationship."

He stood up and carefully looked at the three apprentices in front of him. After a while, he nodded slowly, "Okay, I promise you."

"Xiaobai," he motioned Taiyi to turn on the antique instrument, while looking at Xiaolong who was about to cheer happily, "This time it was your brothers who blocked it for you. Next time, next time if you still Ask me, you know my price."

Xiaolong smiled wantonly, "No."

As long as Ah Qing returns to his prime, what else can he ask for from the teacher?

Su Bai thinks that he has few weaknesses, and Ah Qing must be one.

The old tower owner turned around with a strange smile on his face, "I hope so."

In fact, this day will not be very far away.

"Why are you two still standing there?" The old man looked at the two people with gratified smiles on their faces, and shook his head, "Get ready!"

"Okay." The two said in unison.

When he walked out of the tower master's office, Manstein suddenly narrowed his eyes under the glare of the sunlight outside, and subconsciously pulled up his hood.

He paused for a moment with the hand holding the hood, then slowly let go, raised his head, and stared at the sun.

"How long has it been since you looked at the sun with these eyes?" Rommel smiled and looked at the senior brother beside him.

"It's been a long time," Manstein's voice was ethereal, "it's like a dream."

"are you awake?"

"...Maybe he woke up."

Rommel held out a hand to him with a gentle smile.Although Manstein's participation in this quest would make his lies more difficult to embellish and make his plan much more difficult, he was nonetheless relieved.

"Welcome back, brother."

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"We need to rest for a while," Taiyi carefully put Ji Xiaqing into a container full of expensive-looking nutrient solution, closed the hatch, and patiently explained to Su Bai, who looked worried, "Humans are now The situation of the soul is not stable, the situation of the soul should be stabilized first, and then the recovery and repair of the soul will be carried out."

"I understand." Su Bai picked up the transparent glass, staring blankly at the sleeping woman inside, "Why hasn't she woke up yet?"

"Maybe she can already perceive our words, but she just doesn't have the ability to control the soul yet," Taiyi said softly, "I probably won't be able to wake up in this situation now, but after using the instrument, she will definitely be able to wake up." ,

"Sure?"

Taiyi, as an artificial intelligence that pays attention to the reality of data probability, nodded slowly, with a quite positive tone:

"Definitely."

There was a hint of a smile on Su Bai's lips, his eyes were only filled with the woman lying in the nutrient solution, her face was leaning against the cold hatch, whispering softly, as if she was talking to the people inside.

"Ah Qing, why are you so stupid." She said softly, "Why do you have to work so hard? Why do you always hide it from me?"

Taiyi lowered his head, gently exited the room, and closed the door for Xiaolong.

"If it hadn't happened this time, I would have thought that you lost your right hand that time. You still told me that 'the soul is intangible and ever-changing'. I shouldn't have believed your nonsense!" Su Bai muttered, as if He was a little angry, so he knocked on the glass with his slender fingers, but he was not willing to do it too hard, it was more like asking and caressing.

"Don't tell me if it hurts, or if it really hurts." Her fingers helplessly scratched at the smooth glass, "You can tell me everything."

Her lover, there was no one she could trust at that time, and she had such a big responsibility on her shoulders. What kind of playful attitude did she have when dealing with this world.

"Well, maybe I haven't confessed to you at that time." She thought about it, and quickly found a reason for herself, smiling tolerantly with tears in her eyes, "In the future, you will never be allowed to do this again, understand? ?”

"Tell me that no matter what you do, I will support you unconditionally, I promise!"

"Ah Qing, you must get better... You just made me some dumplings. I haven't even eaten the delicious ones you mentioned." A tear fell on the transparent glass, splashing .

There was a little ripple in the nutrient solution in the container, probably because there was an extra tear of the soul in the liquid circulation.

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"How is Xiaobai?" The old man, the tower owner, standing in front of the map, heard the sound of the door being pushed in, and asked softly without turning his head.

"The mood has stabilized," Taiyi replied softly, and then showed a rare humane confusion on his face, "I don't quite understand why you let Xiaobai and the other three brothers and sisters kill each other?"

"They both have such a good relationship, and they are both so excellent," Taiyi was silent for a while, then whispered, "Even if one of them becomes the tower master, the other two will be fine."

The old man didn't answer right away, but looked at the map again, shook his head, turned around, and looked at Taiyi with a smile, "First of all, it was never a competition between heirs."

He sat down behind the desk and tapped his fingers on the table, "The next tower master of Babita will only be Su Bai, only Su Bai."

"Whether it's Rommel or Manstein, or even my great apprentice Guderian, who is far away in the extreme, are just stepping stones for Xiaobai."

Taiyi opened his mouth and tilted his head in confusion, "I don't understand."

She can be regarded as the most trusted person of the man in front of him, no, the most trusted artificial intelligence, not one of them.

But some of the things he did, some of the decisions, still made her unable to understand.

He is the existence that she can't analyze with all her computing power and data analysis.

"You don't need to understand," the Tower Master smiled, and then his expression was sad, "I hate spoilers."

"However, I don't have much time left, so let's just backfire, it's better than completely destroying the entire ether."

"...spoiler?" Taiyi chewed on the word in confusion.

"Yes, spoiler." The old man slowly closed his eyes.

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"Our preparation time is only one day. We have to pick the best of the [-] participating dragons to form this exploration team," Rommel took a sip of water to moisten his somewhat thirsty throat, and then continued to speak hastily. He said, "It's best to select based on the final ranking of credit points. I have a list here."

Team Zhou raised his head and looked left and right, "Where's Xiaobai? She ranks first in credit points, so I have to go."

Manstein and Rommel looked at each other, and the latter shook his head, "She'll forget it this time."

Xiaolong is probably still waiting for the woman to wake up.

"When everyone can use talismans, Xiaobai's real combat power is actually not that high." Manstein added, "After all, she has just come of age."

"What about that woman?" Team Zhou recalled the woman with a wanton smile, with respect and emotion on her face, "She is very strong, very strong."

"His Majesty Qingdi's number one hidden guard back then," Manstein smiled, "it's really powerful."

"What about you?" Captain Zhou looked at Manstein, pointed to his face, and gestured cautiously, "Your body...doesn't have a hood?"

Manstein was silent for a while, his eyes fixed on the list in his hand, but his eyes did not move.

After a long time, he shook his head stiffly, but his tone was firm, "I won't wear it anymore."

Team Zhou nodded with a gratified smile on his face, "Zhong Boyang will be very happy when he finds out."

"What about others?" Manstein scratched his head, "I probably owe him an apology."

"His head still hurts, and he was hit by a steel bar from that human. If he didn't know what happened next, the first thing he would do when he woke up would be to settle accounts with humans."

Rommel lowered his head, flipped through the thick list in his hands, and interrupted the chat between the two, "Let's quickly determine the candidate, time is running out."

"Okay." Captain Zhou and Manstein nodded, and began to flip through the documents in their hands. Manstein remembered something, and suddenly frowned, "How many people are in our exploration team this time?"

Rommel tightened his fingers, and said calmly, "Fifty exploration teams, each team is equipped with ten people according to the standard, so there are 500 people in total."

"This is a huge team," Team Zhou clicked his tongue. "There are only so many elites. Is it not good to transfer all the elites away from the Tower of Babel? Let's keep a few."

"Indeed, we need to keep a few." Rommel nodded, looked at the list in his hand, and carefully checked the names according to the list specially approved by the head of the Human Remains Research Society.

The dragon in the club is the dragon in the Tower of Babel. If all the elites are transferred from the Tower of Babel by him, who will be in charge of the task of "cutting the sky"?

He crossed out the list of members of the action team that the team leader gave him to be in charge of this mission one by one in his hand, and catered to the two of them nonchalantly, "I don't think all the dragons of the light department can go, Manstein and Zhong Boyang twin stars, plus For you, the three of you with the top combat power of the light department are basically enough, so is it better for Ji Qiu to stay behind this time?"

Team Zhou didn't notice the direction of his words, and nodded, "It makes sense, Ji Qiu stays behind."

Manstein frowned slightly, and secretly glanced at Rommel.

He was all too familiar with Rommel.

Why, this little junior, does it feel like he's following the rhythm?

On the second day, the teams carefully selected by the three were reorganized into 50 exploration teams, and each team had experienced veteran explorers.Team Zhou, Rommel, Manstein, Zhong Boyang, and Lu Renjia, who didn't know why he got in, formed the headquarters.

"Why am I here?" The thin and irritable Fire Dragon was still irritable at this moment, looking at the four great gods in front of him in fear, wanting to cry, "Why did I get in here?"

"You were requested by the teacher." Manstein seemed to be in a good mood, patted him on the shoulder, and said kindly, "...don't underestimate yourself, we all think highly of you."

Lu Renjia tremblingly looked at the idol in front of him who was not wearing a hood, his lips trembled slightly, and met Manstein's affectionate peach blossom eyes, and said cautiously, "Man, can I Shall I give you a hug?"

Idol!

Manstein was stunned for a moment, then nodded, even with an iron chin, he still smiled brightly, "Of course."

Lu Renjia hugged him excitedly, his hands and feet trembling.

Zhong Boyang pursed his lips angrily, ran over with his short legs, and tapped Lu Renjia's knee hard, with a serious expression, "He is here to perform a mission, not to chase stars."

Manstein confronted him subconsciously, "There's no delay, what's the rush?"

Zhong Boyang was really taken aback.

This Manstein who can bicker with himself, really, I haven't seen it for more than ten years.

He also took off the hood, showing off his somewhat terrifying true face to others.

He lowered his head, but didn't turn back. He walked away silently on his short legs, with a gratified smile on his lips.

Manstein let go of Lu Renjia and slapped his head angrily, "Look at my mouth."

He hurriedly chased after him, "Zhong Boyang, I have something to tell you..."

He hasn't had time to apologize yet.

Anyway, the first day of exploration passed with such seriousness and joy.

On the second day of exploration, the prudent Manstein tried hard to persuade others to choose a steady and steady strategy.

On the seventh day of exploration, Rommel overturned Manstein's steady and steady strategy by looking at the marching route and estimated use time.In the vote by show of hands, apart from Zhong Boyang who abstained, even Manstein's little fan Lu Renjia couldn't resist voting for it.

On the same day, Ji Xiaqing, whose soul was finally stable, was sent into the preheated soul restoration instrument.

On the tenth day of exploration, Team Zhou looked at the map in bewilderment and muttered, "According to information, the burning furnace is here. It should be quite obvious, why is there nothing?"

At the same time, Ji Xiaqing's strength gradually recovered while lying in the soul recovery cabin, and his face changed quietly.

The author has something to say: Tomorrow I will fall off the horse!Don't lose my horse, I'm a puppy!

By the way, this book was supposed to be a sub-CP, but when writing Manstein's plot line, I somehow wrote the feeling of Shura field...

I love the characterization of these three guys! (serious face) (only on behalf of myself) (no text)

感谢在2021-03-2523:33:03~2021-03-2623:40:14期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 40 bottles of language yuyan; 30 bottles of wooden pigeons; . . . . . . . . 5 bottles; Long Island Iced Tea, isn't it intoxicating? 3 bottles;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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