Altar of Infinity

"Xiao Chu finished drinking so quickly? Would you like some more?"

"That's right, I'm so skinny, let my aunt cook whatever I want to eat outside, or buy some snacks, tell my dad if I don't have enough money."

"I'm full and I have enough money."

Jiang Jichu put down the bowl, pulled a tissue to wipe his mouth clean.

His parents were still keenly concerned about his recent situation, and he listened quietly, answering a few words from time to time.

After he was in a coma, the third cousin who came to play with him found out that he made a fuss and sent him back to his parents' house. A doctor was called to give him a comprehensive examination. When he woke up, the nutrient solution was still inserted in the back of his hand.

My father was constantly concerned about whether he was under too much pressure, while my mother cooked his favorite sweet soup by herself.

The third cousin is also a person who can't hide things, and the news of his coma has been known to everyone. Fortunately, Xie Ji and the third cousin have no intersection, and they haven't found it yet.

The pop-up windows on the mobile phone came one after another, and friends sent greetings from various social platforms, asking him how his health was, and wanting to ask him to go out to have fun.

Jiang Jichu glanced at the phone and put it upside down on the table.

Surrounded by love pouring in, he should have been happy - if he hadn't remembered.

When I didn’t find it, I didn’t feel it. The kindness that I was used to in the afternoon became strange and strange, like watching a movie with myself as the protagonist, so awkward that I couldn’t empathize.

When he was a child, he expected that he could have a family as complete as ordinary people, with a loving father and mother, ordinary people, plus three or five close friends.

People live forever, ethereal like a dream, he has nothing to worry about, there is no difference between reality and fantasy to him.

In just a few decades, no matter how you live, the illusion is more comfortable.

But he looked at a man and a woman in front of him, and unconsciously remembered some previous pictures in his mind.

Because he was an orphan, some classmates in the school excluded him, saying that he lost his star.

Because he was good-looking, those who looked down on him would squeeze him into the alleyway home, say the most obscene words, and touch him. He fought back, and both sides were bloody.

Then he went back to the lifeless home alone, dug out the medical kit and bandaged himself skillfully.

Back at school the next day, the troublesome parents pointed at his nose and yelled at him in the office. Compared with him as an orphan, the teacher naturally prefers those parents with parents. After all, parents are much more difficult than children.

He was not without blame, blamed his parents for leaving him.

But as he got older, he gradually accepted the reality and understood that it was a haven for others to take a step back, while he only had cold walls when he took a step back.

He learned to fight, learned to be the first in the grade test, and the better the school, the more the top students were favored. He worked hard to go up and learned to be his own support.

He wants to prove to his parents under Jiuquan that even without you, I can live well, which is mixed with secret, childish and sad pleasure of revenge.

When he grows up a bit, his mentality will become more peaceful, and the pleasure of revenge will disappear.

He inherited his father's talent and love for painting. Even though the cause of his parents' death was his father going out to sketch, he still liked painting, so there was only one thing left in his life.

Having said that, it was inevitable that false memories would have some effect on him.

Where is painting not painting...

He can completely hide his ears and steal his bell for a lifetime, and have a future that is envied by others.

But he met Xie Ji.

During the meal time, the shower outside will stop, revealing the clear sky after the rain.

Jiang Jichu pushed aside the stool and stood up: "I'll go back first."

"What do you do when you go back to this point, stay at home for one night."

"That's right, everyone in your family, what will you do if you faint again? It will be too late if something happens!"

Jiang Jichu took a long look at his "parents", and finally smiled: "Let's wait for next time."

Hugging is the etiquette of reunion and parting, just like when Xie Ji left in the afternoon.

But he rubbed his fingertips and held back.

"Xiao Chu, let's stay here today." Before he was about to leave, Mother Jiang suddenly ran over and grabbed him.

In the false memory forced into her brain, Mother Jiang would never do this.

He turned his head, and Jiang Mu's well-maintained face showed a little sadness: "Xiao Chu, just tonight."

Jiang's father also stopped at the door: "Listen to your mother, just stay for one night, you are not in good health yet."

The rain was revived and the strong wind returned to the world, weeping and howling outside the window without warning. The headlights in the living room must have not been selected properly, which made people look pale.

The phone was buzzing in his pocket, Jiang Jichu took it out and saw that it was a crazy message from a cousin, the frequency could almost catch up with the rain outside.

"Xiao Chu, I heard that you fell ill and passed out. Now you are at your aunt's house. Your sister and I will go to see you."

"There are fresh strawberries on the road. I bought some for you. Is there anything else you want to eat?"

"I just came back from City S, and I brought you a very beautiful painting set, you will definitely like it!"

"I'm downstairs, are you surprised, are you surprised?"

Jiang Jichu didn't care, and gently and forcefully took Jiang's mother's hand off.

Jiang Jichu: "I want to go home."

Mother Jiang: "This is your home."

Jiang Jichu calmly said, "Not here."

It is nothing without thank you mail.

The door was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and the fourth cousin walked into the room in big pockets, followed by the eccentric sixth cousin.

"Xiao Chu, what are you doing standing at the door? Let's go and play chess with my brother."

A certain word touched Jiang Jichu's nerves, his eyes froze suddenly, and he said coldly: "I still have something to do, so I'm leaving first."

The fourth cousin and the sixth cousin blocked the door tightly, but they were tolerant and pampering when they spoke.

"Why do you have to leave as soon as we come, do you not like fourth cousin?"

"That's right, brother Jichu, if you don't like him, you have to like me, I'm your cutest sixth cousin!"

Father Jiang also said behind him: "Your cousins ​​are here, what does it look like to walk now, sit down quickly."

Mother Jiang: "That's right, what urgent matter do you have to do now, can't you delay it for a day?"

Jiang Jichu became calmer after one sentence after another of persuasion.

They passed the True Altar on the seventh floor, and the space they are currently in is most likely an additional level on the seventh floor that the queen forcibly created for them.

Yang Yuan was supposed to be the one who fell into the water with Xie Ji when he was young. Although he survived by luck but his whereabouts are unknown, he is now keeping in touch with Xie Ji. Xie Ji did not travel around because of the psychological shadow caused by Yang Yuan. He returned to China to take over as soon as he graduated. Xie Shi.

In other words, this level is to make up for the shortcomings of each of them, and to promote the theoretically most possible world three years later based on the "data" of the real world.

But the person formed by these data was uncharacteristically, almost anxious not to let him leave.

Queen……

It was the Queen who wouldn't let him go.

Staying here tonight is a start, if there is a first time, there will be a second time, and if there is a second time, there will be a third time.

The queen wanted to boil the frog in lukewarm water to wear down his will.

Jiang Jichu pressed the fourth cousin's shoulder, and with a little strength in his hand, he pushed the person away forcefully, and at the same time moved to the side, avoiding the sixth cousin's grasping hand. Unclear, he came to the door in just three or two steps.

"It's not a day, I can't wait for a minute."

Regardless of everyone's obstruction, Jiang Jichu drove to Xie Ji's residence.

When Xie Ji came in the afternoon, he said that he would take him to a place.

This place refers to reality, and it also refers to the true altar.

Only when they enter the real altar again can they find the connection point between the real altar and the altar, and return to the altar to return to reality.

When Xie Ji said it, he must have felt very uncomfortable...

I just attended his birthday party a few days ago, and saw how happy he was at the birthday party, but Xie Ji had to break all this with his own hands, break his false but happy dream.

With Xie Ji's ability, he can leave the checkpoint without him, but Xie Ji still made a choice.

Xie Ji will not abandon him.

The night wind whistled into the car, but it couldn't quench the enthusiasm in Jiang Jichu's heart.

He is going to find Xie Ji.

He really wanted to see Xie Ji.

The smooth black body of the model galloped in the rainy night, and stopped before the traffic lights at a certain intersection.

Jiang Jichu glanced at the wristwatch that Xie sent him, tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, and his eyes showed a rare impatience.

three.

two.

One.

zero.

The signal light finally turned green, and Jiang Jichu stepped on the accelerator and steadily increased the speed.

Just when he was halfway through the intersection, a heavy and large truck slammed into him straight up, ignoring the red light, as if the brakes had failed.

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"Brother! I found it! Is it this one?" Xie Quan carefully walked towards Xie Ji holding an ancient book that was about to fall apart.

In the study room, extra tables, chairs and benches were temporarily added, and stacks of materials were piled up on them. The four of them were making intensive preparations for their final departure.

Xie Ji pushed his glasses, and took the book that Xie Quan brought.

He turned a few pages: "Yes, this is it, Yin Lin, are everything ready?"

Yin Lin looked up from the pile of books on his desk: "Five sets of equipment, ready to go at any time."

Xie Ji shook the mouse and searched for the place name in the browser. He read it carefully and quickly built a road map in his mind.

Siyou leaned over and took a look: "It's more troublesome to go there. You have to take a plane first, then get on a bus, and you have to climb a mountain and pass through two villages. Can your body hold it?"

Yin Lin: "It's been less than a month since I came in, and it's not like I didn't exercise during the period."

Xie Ji: "It's not that troublesome, I'll contact the helicopter, and we'll airdrop directly to the nearest place. But the location of the real altar is not clear enough, we have to //search// search again after we go down."

After finishing speaking, he pulled out the list of equipment that Yin Lin bought, and added a few more equipment names according to the terrain and climate: "Add some more things, I will ask the secretary to buy them tomorrow."

Xie Quan: "Brother, I found everything like the compass left by my cousin."

Xie Ji: "How did you read the book?"

Xie Quan scratched his head: "It's a bit difficult."

Yang Yuan in this world left them a batch of things before his death, but they were all used by celestial masters. Ordinary people use them like pressing the remote control without batteries, no matter how you press it, there will be no response.

Considering that only Xie Quan has the so-called "spiritual power" among the few of them, Xie Ji found a master to teach Xie Quan a class, temporarily hugging his feet, so that he can help a little at that time.

Xie Ji: "It's okay, don't force it, according to the information left by Yang Yuan, we will definitely find it."

Yin Lin put down the book in hand: "How about Xiao Chu? Can you guarantee it?"

Xie Ji paused, ctrl+s to save the list: "He's fine. The Queen focused on sealing my memory and his, but the memory can be triggered. As long as we lead him to find the real altar, he has a high probability of remembering it. .”

Yin Lin: "We really only need to find the real altar, and don't need to go in?"

Xie Ji's eyes darkened: "I don't think it is necessary."

If he guessed correctly, the key to this level is Jiang Jichu. As long as Jiang Jichu recovers his memory, they will not be far away.

Xie Quan: "Siyou, can you still feel the situation of the checkpoint?"

Si You spread her hands: "No, we don't even have a book of life and death now, and the abilities of 'wine' and 'arrogance' have been sealed together, even if the memory comes back, it's useless."

Yin Lin sighed: "Oh, why did you just catch Xiao Chu's sheep and pluck the wool? It's not a thing!"

Xie Ji said coldly: "Sooner or later she will be the same as 'Kill'."

The dark computer screen reflected Xie Ji's face, the usual gentle and elegant smile disappeared, revealing a bit of unstoppable sharpness.

Xie Ji: "Everyone had better be mentally prepared. If there is no accident, once we leave this world, it will be equivalent to passing the seventh floor, and the Queen will also appear..."

Through the seventh floor, you can make a wish to the queen and leave the altar.

In the worst case, they need to pass through the real altar again, and the ghosts will definitely consume them to a certain extent. The queen will not let this opportunity go, taking advantage of the sickness to kill people, and catching them by surprise before they have adjusted.

Until then, it will be the final battle.

Several people felt Xie Ji's subtext, and the atmosphere became tense for a while.

After a while, Siyou smiled freely: "Haven't we been preparing for that moment?"

Two adventures, nearly eight years of dormancy, countless trials in crises, all for that moment.

Yin Lin closed the book in his hand, as if he was back in his school days, put his index finger against the middle of the cover of the book, and turned it leisurely twice: "Si You is right, it has come now, and this awareness should be there."

Xie Quan picked up a box, and smiled at Xie Ji: "I will work hard with everyone."

Looking at his teammates who have traveled together so far, Xie Ji was completely relieved, and his eyebrows stretched: "We will be the winners."

The crisis was imminent, but everyone laughed heartily.

Xie Ji: "I ordered supper, everyone rest for a while, let's eat something first."

Everyone was a little tired from the busy work, and they left the study room one by one, stretching their waists.

Xie Ji took out his mobile phone and wanted to make a call to Jiang Jichu.

"The number you dialed is currently unavailable, please try again later."

He frowned, Jiang Jichu's phone calls have never failed.

In the living room, Xie Quan turned on the TV, holding a glass of orange juice from the refrigerator to refresh himself.

The evening news was broadcast on the screen, and the well-made hostess grabbed a press release.

"Insert the latest news, there is a car accident on Jianshe Road..."

Xie Ji sensed something, stopped walking outside, and looked back at the TV.

The picture above just switched to the scene of the accident. Even though he typed the code, he still recognized the scrapped black car in the middle of the road at a glance.

That was Jiang Jichu's car.