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The so-called "owner", that is, the mummy, lay in LastShadow.

Lu Ting opened Aldebaran's belly compartment, and the three of them entered the spaceship parked in the innermost corner, and stopped in front of the half-person-high low door.As usual, Deng Mochi hung an old-fashioned brass lock on the handle, bent down and twisted it off, and entered the secret room first.

The corpse was lying by the wall facing the gate, and above the head were the two lines of bright red electroplated poems:

"When Lucifer appeared inthedawn,

"Idreamed avividdream."

"You did it?" He Zhensheng patted Deng Mochi's shoulder and said, "It's quite artistic."

"This should be their slogan back then," Lu Ting walked towards the mummy, "About two months ago, I interrogated a prisoner, the one who assassinated at Lu An's wedding. He also knew this poem."

"So it was really the rebels who did it that time?" He Zhensheng said "tsk", "Your elder brother detained me for several weeks, and didn't say anything about classmate affection."

Lu Ting put the iron box containing three green balls and a modeling model on the ground, and looked at Deng Mochi squatting beside him, "Shu Rui fished you out?"

"Yes," He Zhensheng also squatted down, "He used half of his company as a guarantee, saying that the murderer was someone else."

Lu Ting was not without surprise.Shu Rui likes He Zhensheng, he knows this, he has liked He Zhensheng for several years and there is no new progress, considering Shu Rui's prickly and stubborn temper, it is really expected, but he did not expect that He Zhensheng is making small eyes Li's status is already higher than that of SHOOOPP, which he has been managing since he was 17 years old.

He originally thought that he only needed to spend some money to get people. He also remembered that once, Shu Rui was shot several times at the airport after bidding. He still looked like he didn't care about anything, sneered and said that he watched the whole operation video and the injury didn't have much effect, and also said that the commercial warfare methods are sometimes so low-level, but as long as the bidding is won, the opponent can be pissed off.

"What happened to that prisoner?" Dun Mochi asked.

"I asked him something... when he was about to say something, his right eyeball suddenly popped."

"Hmm." Deng Mochi picked up the neckline of the mummy, the cotton thread had already become brittle, and the buttons rolled to the ground as soon as they were touched by fingers, "It's a prophet."

"Which kind of god is that prophet you are talking about?" He Zhensheng picked up the shiny silver military uniform buckle and admired it with great interest. "In terms of his degree of psychopathy, I don't think he is comparable to Mr. President."

"It's her means of controlling natural people." Deng Mochi explained self-consciously. The shirt on the chest of the mummy was firmly stuck to the skin by corpse fluid or pus and blood. Pull out the dagger, and pick off the fabric bit by bit, "The original eyeballs are cut out, and the new ones are connected to the brain. Only in this way can they join her organization."

"Wait, Xiao Deng, I remember that your eyes were different in color before, but now they are both green," He Zhensheng asked tentatively, "Did you—"

"No. I changed it myself."

Lu Ting breathed a sigh of relief.

"That man was from Angola. His parents were killed in the war, and he was taken back to be raised by the rebels..." Lu Ting recalled, his voice gradually lowered.He still remembered the black youth in the empty mountain prison called "Karbo", and suddenly realized that at that age, a child could not decide whether to join a certain "organization" or not, he just needed to be fed and raised.The price is an eyeball and a lifetime of freedom.

Deng Mochi seemed to understand what he meant, took a deep look at him, returned the dagger to him, and placed his right hand on the exposed heart of the mummy.The skin on his hand was so white, and he didn't mind it when it lay on the black corpse. kind.

Lu Ting and He Zhensheng kept their mouths shut at the same time, not even daring to breathe.

The change was not very obvious at the beginning, Lu Ting only felt a tiny air current, which was as light as his own illusion.Then, about 20 seconds later, there was a crunching sound in the iron box. It was the three balls that were vibrating lightly. Stone, gradually brightened.

When the green light was so strong that it covered the lighting in the secret room and dyed the red lines of poetry black, the vibration of the ball seemed to break through the iron box at any time, and Deng Mochi closed his eyes.

The arm that was in contact with the mummy already had blue veins. Lu Ting subconsciously supported his shoulder, and also supported his trembling. He only felt that the cloth on Deng Mochi's shoulder was astonishingly hot, but he couldn't let go, absolutely not, Lu Ting Tell yourself like this, the roasting of the palms is better than the sedative.About 30 seconds later, Deng Mochi took a deep breath. The corpse and the military uniform were shattered into pieces. The military uniform, badges, and gorgeous but old-fashioned spike embroidery were all shattered into fine powder, and the sand leaked from Deng Mochi's fingers. It slid over like that, forming a thick puddle at the corner of the wall.

The shape of the powder on the two legs is like a half-human figure.

Deng Mochi still raised his hand, and the breathing of the three of them rose and fell one after another. After a moment of froze, he opened his eyes.

Then stood up abruptly.

Looking at the iron box again, the three balls in it turned into one at some point.After Lu Tingxin finished speaking, could it be that the other two were broken into slag like the general?But the bottom of the box was as clean as before, and there was nothing there.He wanted to pick up the small ball to see, it was only about a circle bigger than a fist, but he couldn't pick it up—it was too hot, and the skin on the heel of his palm was already torn.So Lu Ting bowed his waist, put his face close to the "survivor", and observed it carefully.

He seems to have noticed... It's not like, it's the fact that the emerald green lines in this transparent sphere are denser than any one just now, and from certain angles, it looks very familiar.

it's the same.The arrangement of these new lines coincides with the model that he spent more than a month modeling and printing. If you only look at the general direction that can be distinguished by the naked eye, they overlap each other.

A bizarre but extremely reasonable conjecture broke into Lu Ting's mind - the three balls merged together and became one.

At the same time, that is to say, their textures have also been combined, and only the overlapping parts are retained.As Deng Mochi said a long time ago, pirates will divide the information on a map into three parts, and find out the route of the hidden treasure from the overlapping parts.

He carefully picked up the iron box with both hands, and weighed it. There really wasn't much change.

Deng Mochi had already returned to his usual state, looked down at Lu Ting, and said, "This is the map."

"Then what do these lines represent?"

"Distribution zone. The distribution of that kind of green radiation." Deng Mochi sat cross-legged and returned to the ground, as if he didn't care about the heat, he picked up the ball and pointed it to Lu Ting, "This is Kathmandu .”

Lu Ting saw a piece of floc that was hard to detect on the surface of the sphere.

"Then it's still small?" Lu Ting held the bottom of the ball, and it had completely cooled down. "Not only the ground, but also the crust and the center of the earth."

"But only that one is activated." Deng Mochi also had a thoughtful expression.

He Zhensheng was confused, "What is the green radiation substance? Is it in the ore? Or the soil? Is there any use?"

"To put it simply, it is solid, or parasitic in some kind of solid, a bit like jade, which can form a circle of protective film with properties similar to radiation, and the biological environment and climatic conditions inside the film can be improved and maintained. " Lu Ting put the ball back into the iron box, next to the size model that he had printed out, and explained with bright eyes, "There is only a small piece in the ravine in Kathmandu, not as big as this secret room, but the radiation The area is so wide that a spaceship can travel through it."

"Wouldn't it be that if the whole world is activated, the earth will return to what it was before?" He Zhensheng raised his eyebrows, obviously not fully convinced.

"It's not impossible." Dun Mochi said, "I saw the memory of the corpse."

"Damn, I really don't find it strange to hear anything now." He Zhensheng's legs were numb, and he sat down, "Tell me about the internal information I got. I don't think the rebels are good birds. We all three Know yourself and know your enemy."

"It's just part of it. He's been dead for too long." Dun Mochi looked at the ashes at his feet and narrowed his eyes slightly. "Those three balls were given to him by others. There is also a floppy disk put together. Who, I can't see."

"It's understandable," He Zhensheng drew a few lines on the ashes with his index finger, "It's been dead for more than 20 years. If there is a soul, it should probably be gone."

"The LastShadow was also given by someone else." Deng Mochi continued to speak slowly as if he didn't hear his words, "Before meeting the other party, he was selling groceries in Mingyue City and had nothing."

"Then who can this 'opponent' be, the savior? He can build a combat spaceship that is not afraid of nuclear bombs and guide the world's new hope materials?" He Zhensheng has already given his nickname, "How could he fall in love with a grocery seller? .”

"Maybe it's not human." Dun Mochi sniffed.

"..." He Zhensheng was at a loss for words.

Deng Mochi looked at Lu Ting again, and there was a light in his pupils: "I also saw your father. I have a vague impression that he and this corpse... should be in a competitive relationship."

Lu Ting still listened calmly and did not overreact. The war that lasted for several years more than 20 years ago was not led by the current president. The product has an extremely fanatical obsession.If the savior also regards him... let's say as a "cultivation object" for the time being, what does he like in him?financial resources?ambition?It's all unknown.If we want to restore the situation at that time, who is left in the party?I can think of it, except that my father is a prophet, but these two are now marked with "impossible" red crosses.

It is better to focus on the known, for example, whether there is really the possibility of reshaping the ecology in those corners of the earth.

"We found that disk at the time. It was in the pocket of the corpse," Lu Ting caught Deng Mochi's gaze, and said while thinking, "After the spaceship was repaired, it was supposed to be repaired in time, but I didn't have time. I put it in Elnath inside."

It has to be said that Aldebaran's belly compartment is spacious enough, and neither Elnath nor LastShadow can be called small, but it is more than enough to park inside at a staggered angle.When Deng Mochi returned to his former studio, he felt unfamiliar. He learned from Lu Ting that these equipments were purchased temporarily and then combined, and that they accompanied the two of them on the open sea for 51 days. Send the sunken battleship back into the sky.

But he couldn't recall any details.He doesn't remember sitting here while he fixes solder joints at the console and plugs the still-defective disk into the computer.

I can't even remember sewing a wedding dress on a countertop piled high with metal parts.That seemed like something too soft.

However, the remaining information on the disk is quite exciting, and it is very short. After a few hours of restoration, only one location coordinate was obtained, but the longitude and latitude were astonishingly accurate: north latitude 18.73667°, west longitude 88.38716°.

"Should be in...Mexico?" Lu Ting leaned closer to the display screen.

"You guessed it, this site is located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from the ancient buildings of Chichen Itza, which is the famous Mayan civilization ruins. However, the Yucatan Peninsula was designated by the Life Sciences Committee directly under the Federation in 2089. It is designated as an uninhabitable quarantine area," Lucy broadcast the analysis results, "to be exact, this is the coordinates of a crater named Chicxulub, 'Chicxulub', elliptical, with a maximum diameter of about 300 kilometers, the inner The ring has an average diameter of 180 kilometers and was formed when a meteorite with a diameter of about 10 kilometers hit the earth in the late Cretaceous period. After the impact, the meteorite completely evaporated and released about 5.0×10^23 joules of energy, which is equivalent to more than 90 The simultaneous explosion of trillion tons of TNT explosives, tsunamis, and a large amount of dust pouring into the atmosphere are enough to change the global climate and cause a nuclear winter. The scientific community has widely judged that this impact and several other meteorites in the same period were the main reasons for the extinction of dinosaurs, but It's not universally recognized."

"What's the situation over there now?" Lu Ting asked.

Lucy played the local video data on the Internet. It was shot at the end of October 2089. The rainforest had disappeared long ago. What came into view were some mountains with thousands of ravines and some fossil-like dead trees.Judging from the enlarged satellite map, the place is yellow and flat.

After 2089, all local information is blank.

"This crater was first discovered by an oil company and confirmed to exist in 1996," Lucy added. "Because it is covered under a clay layer with a very high iridium content and is invisible to the surface, it has always been very mysterious."

"Then let's now..." Lu Ting looked at the two beside him.

"What now, let's go and see!" He Zhensheng was already excited, "This matter has something to do with alien planets, maybe we can find some way to activate the little green bars all over the world after we go there , Then why go to Mars? The earth is enough for the remaining 1 million people to live, and we will really become the saviors."

Deng Mochi stopped staring at the sky in a daze, looked at the coordinate points on the satellite map, and said, "Why do you want to be the savior?"

"OK, this is just a rhetoric, meaning to do something good," He Zhensheng tapped on the table, "There is already a reminder, are you really going to pretend not to see it? Now the earth is in such a horrible state, and everyone can only live to be 50 years old on average. The two of us They are all old people at this age, only student Xiao Lu can barely be considered a young adult."

Deng Mochi pursed his lips slightly, formatted the disk without saying a word, and then unplugged it.

"Boss," Lu Ting thought for a while, and said, "I think these three balls and this disk are hidden by the rebels. There must be something they haven't done. If we go by the coordinates, we can really find some Clues... the world is in such a mess right now, maybe we can give everyone a little hope."

"Yeah, either waiting to die on the earth, or being sent to heaven to die, protesting, and being arrested." He Zhensheng teased.

"And I'm still thinking, maybe I can give you some other hints, your zeroth element, the 'connection' you mentioned, where did you come from," Lu Ting paused, and looked at Deng Mochi attentively. , "And you asked me, what is integrity, what is truth, can we find it together. I think the prophet must be lying."

Deng Mochi stood up, turned around and walked towards the cabin door of the studio.

"What are you going to do?" He Zhensheng asked.

"Sleep." Deng Mochi didn't look back.

Lu Ting chased after him. The bedrooms of Aldebaran had not been used for many days. He tidied up the master bedroom, placed Deng Mochi on his own sponge bed, and dealt with the palms under Deng Mochi's supervision. The root is scalded.As soon as he went out, he saw that He Zhensheng also chose a second bed to stay, with an expression of letting him go, as if preparing to recharge his energy, Lu Ting felt that he was not tired, so he went to the long-lost vegetable garden to check the situation.

Indeed, his tomatoes were shriveled on the branches, but the pumpkins were growing well, with rounded and smooth tails hanging down. Other vegetables and fruits were also different, but overall they were better than he had imagined.The two bodhi branches that I pinched in the Blood Cube at the beginning grew listlessly, and of course they did not turn yellow. On the contrary, a new crop of roses bloomed, and they were fragrant, dyeing the entire planting cabin full of vitality.

Lu Ting spent more than an hour sorting out his plant friends, chatted with them silly for a while, and spent another 10 minutes breaking off a few roses, paired with a few windmills and sage plants that he planted casually, and tied them together. A bouquet of some strange flowers.

On his way back to the master bedroom with a bouquet of flowers in one hand and a plate of sandwiches in the other, Lucy popped up, "Mr. Cosmic Powerful Monster, the world's most beautiful lady requests a call, may I connect you?"

Lu Ting faltered.elder sister.he thinks.Lu Zhi's tearful face appeared in front of him. For some reason, during the days when he was fleeing, when he thought of Lu Zhi, he would always see her crying.

I don't know how many times Lu Zhi dialed into Aldebaran's communication line.

"Don't refuse, and don't connect," Lu Ting said, and raised his steps again, "Just pretend I didn't see it."

"It's an urgent call. Are you sure you won't connect?"

"No." Lu Ting said, walking quickly through the corridor.He really wanted to hear Lu Zhi's voice, talk to her about the current situation, and reassure her not to be sad, but he couldn't connect the signal channel so that she might know where she was and what she was doing.

When he returned to the bedroom, his expression was still not quite right.Deng Mochi didn't sleep either, he just came out of the shower, changed into Lu Ting's clothes, sat on the edge of the bed, and silently rolled the towel around his hands.

Hearing Lu Ting enter the room, he raised his eyes and looked at him strangely.

"What's wrong?" Lu Ting put down the food and flowers, took off the towel, and helped Deng Mochi wipe his wet hair.

"Actually, you can pick it up." Dun Mochi obediently raised his neck, letting the broken hair on his forehead hang down.

"Have you heard it all?" Lu Ting smiled. Indeed, with Deng Mochi's hearing ability, the corridor is just outside the door, so it's not that far away.

"En." Dun Mochi lowered his eyelashes.

"I don't want to pick it up." Lu Ting shook his head, "A string is stretched there, I'm afraid that when I hear her talk, I won't be able to hold it any longer." Taking a breath, he continued, "And what if it's my dad on the other side? ? So forget it."

"I have a feeling about the crater," Deng Mochi suddenly changed the subject, "It's very dangerous there."

"I know." Lu Ting rubbed the hair on the back of his neck.

"you know?"

"Yes, I know, I know when I see you hesitate," Lu Ting said softly, "But we are also in danger now, I don't know when my dad will kill me, I don't know where to go, what changes should be made The current muddy situation. If we go, we have advanced equipment and many exploration methods, and we are still together, but we will face another danger together.”

"If you find the answer." Deng Mochi said again, and then remained silent for a while, "I can't be sure it's what I want."

"So you decide, whether to go or not," Lu Ting lay down on his upper body, resting his chin on his shoulder, and wrapped his hands around his body, "I'll listen to you, boss."

Deng Mochi calmed down again, Lu Ting touched his face, packed up a change of clothes and went to shower.Two days without a bath is his limit.In that bathroom filled with the smell of rust, Deng Mochi was inevitably on his mind.How rare is that person's hesitation, but how easy to understand, they have been looking for the truth, and finally, have found an answer about the whereabouts of millions of people. Can't confirm right or wrong.

So Deng Mochi doubted the meaning of the answer.

Lu Ting had a lot of doubts, how could he ask others to be sure for him.

When he wiped his body, especially the heels of his legs, and came out of the bathroom, the lights in the bedroom had been turned off, only the night light on the baseboard was thoughtfully kept, and the M83 nebula was floating in front of the bed, shining delicately.

Deng Mochi ate the sandwich, stood up the bouquet against the wall behind the bedside table, still did not sleep, sat on the bedside, looking at the ball of light.

"You sent me." Lu Ting climbed onto the other side of the big bed, lifted the quilt to get in, and leaned against Dun Mochi's side, "I sorted out all the codes you wrote wrong before, and assembled this galaxy together. You Said to wait for the day when it is complete, maybe it will do what I want to do."

Dun Mochi nodded.

"Sleep?" Lu Ting had put his arms around his waist, and the back of his neck was just resting on his shoulder, "I'm not too sleepy, but I want to lie down."

The four words left unsaid are "with you".

"Go to sleep." Deng Mochi also lay down, and let him hug him very naturally, with his hands behind his back, and patted him lightly.Just when Lu Ting closed his eyes and was about to immerse himself in the familiar silence, he heard him say again: "Take a good rest and leave tomorrow."