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Chapter 116 Snowfield, 05:56 am
Although she didn't want to see it, Rosie couldn't help but sneak a glance. The statue stood quietly in the blizzard, surrounded by torches, and the vast wilderness stretched infinitely around.
It was the god-like Deng Huailing in Rosie's mind, and the bronze statue was covered with snow.The warm light of the torch reflected on Luoxi's pale cheeks. Among the dancing flames, memory after memory emerged in the void, carrying the common memories of Rosie and Deng Huailing, but some of them could be vaguely identified as belonging to him: heLying on his side in the lover's hotel, he carefully stroked Deng Huailing's eyebrows; under the strong coercion of the spider tank, Deng Huailing protected him behind him, and did not retreat even if he was seriously injured.
Like the light of a match in a little girl's hand, Rosie stared obsessively at those phantoms, her eyes full of nostalgia.Sensing his inner thoughts, a piece of snow in front of him melted, and the deep black sea water condensed and rose, converging into the appearance of a person.
The sea water slipped down the man's face, and he saw a familiar young man wearing a windbreaker and a dark ring on his ring finger.Rosie almost took a step back in shock, and then realized that this was the "creation" function of the Magic Sea system.
The system screened out what he desires most in his heart, and faithfully presented it.Rosie gathered herself together and looked carefully at this virtual, silent Deng Huailing. The other party looked at him lightly, as if breathing and beating, just like a real person.
He hesitated for a moment, stretched his arms around the illusion in front of him, and boldly put his head on the other's shoulder.The phantom hugged him according to his will, and slowly tightened his arms around his waist, with his left hand powerfully moving up the spine, stroking his back.
It's so warm... He closed his eyes and hugged Deng Huailing, feeling the other's heartbeat and body temperature, his whole body felt light for a moment.As if far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, on this pure snowfield, they can be together forever, without having to care about the disputes and tricks of "skills", or the city that is about to be overthrown. Rosie suddenly felt that those responsibilities should not be left to her.He will bear it.
"I miss you," Deng Huailing breathed into his ears, and he whispered, "I miss you so much that I am not alone anymore. Let's go, get out of Cesina's barrier,Go out of the border of the second district, to the uninhabited area full of radiation..."
Rosie was talking dreamily, her voice gradually getting quieter and finally disappearing completely.His eyelashes trembled slightly, and he opened his eyes, filled with regret.
He gently pushed Deng Huailing away, but he was greedy for the temperature of his fingertips as he stroked Deng Huailing's clothes.Now he understands why Cecina, from the elite class to the slums, is inseparable from the phantom sea system - the more she loses in the real world, the more she desires to be compensated in the illusory, when the boundary between reality and virtualityIt is becoming clearer, who has the courage to live in reality?
The illusion disintegrated, flying away in glowing flakes at Rosie's fingertips.He still has things to do and can't waste his time here.
With him as the center, a large expanse of snow shattered and melted into the surging sea water, with a sharp contrast between black and white.Rosie took a deep breath, let herself sink into the water without thinking, her long hair brushed her cheeks with the disturbance of the sea water.
The bottom of the water is a quiet world, and he has seen it many times through Rosie's vision.The echo from the depths of the ocean tapped on his eardrums. He looked at the translucent ice floes and snow on the water surface, and let his body fall slowly.
The feeling of lack of oxygen is not good, especially after falling to a certain depth, the surroundings are plunged into total darkness and unpredictable darkness. There is no difference in time, distance, and temperature. There is only endless loneliness.Even the mechanism of perception of loneliness has been swallowed by darkness.
Rosie glanced at the white glowing bracelet on his wrist, and the technician programmed him for an emergency ejection, so that he could return to reality with a single thought.The option to quit comes so easily that so many fail, in an environment where only the strongest will can overcome claustrophobia.
He has almost nothing to fear, and Rosie just wanders across the sea, just thinking about the chores that need to be done.As soon as the layout of the Magic Sea system was changed, hundreds of millions of tons of sea water instantly turned into the sky. Under the sky, a transparent anti-radiation barrier wrapped around the city, reflecting the afterglow of the setting sun.
This is Cesina von Richthofen's treasure trove, where the lock of the brain is hidden.Just like Mary's Magic Sea system that Rosie and Deng Huailing had visited, this place is also constructed by Cesina's memories.
The admirable scientist lived eighty years ago, so Rosie guessed that the city he was seeing at this moment was the city of Cesina eighty years ago.In the early days of the city's construction, most of the houses had not yet been built, and there were huge construction sites everywhere in the city, with cranes like cacti growing abruptly in the desert.
Rosie fell from the sky, observing the scene of the city with all his attention, but the magic sea system did not allow him to take a closer look, the sound of the wind suddenly disappeared, his figure flickered, and then he was refreshed in a building.
"F..." The concrete floor made a loud noise, and Rosie hit the ground in a very embarrassed posture, and it took a lot of effort to hold back the F word.
He landed head first, suspecting that he was almost thrown into a concussion. Cesina treats the explorers who enter her fantasy sea system so mercilessly, no matter who it is, let's talk about it.
Rosie got up, rubbing her forehead, and looked around.He seemed to be in an unfinished building. The gray concrete floor covered the entire floor without an outer wall. If he walked a few steps forward, he would fall down the building.
This floor was extremely empty, the wind blew his hair, and the golden sunset slanted in, it was already dusk here.He stood on the edge and looked towards the city. Under the setting sun, the slender skeletons of the buildings under construction dragged their slender shadows, giving him a sense of desolation; but the center of the city was lit with blue and purple lights.Take shape.
As the inventor of the underlying algorithm of the Magic Sea system, Cecina's own Magic Sea system can be said to be impressive.She accurately reproduced the entire city, even including vegetation, birds and pedestrians. To maintain the harmonious operation of all these, the amount of calculation required is unimaginable.
However, Piper told him that, except for a few specific locations, the time of the Lost City always stays on the same day, and what he saw was just a repetition of the same data.
Rosie looked away, and was about to turn around and go downstairs to find the stronghold established by Piper and Parisa in the city, when a hoarse voice suddenly sounded from behind: "Hands up."
The sound of guns being loaded was heard, and Rosie instantly recognized that there were five people on the other side, all of whom were holding automatic pistols.Without looking back, he stood calmly on the edge of the floor and said with a smile: "You don't need to raise your hand. Everyone knows that the Huanhai system cannot enter with weapons. As you can see, I have just arrived in this city.Time to find a gun?"
As he spoke, he scanned the surrounding ground with his peripheral vision.It's a pity that the ground is empty, not even a steel bar.
The people behind them whispered to each other, Rosie vaguely caught his name in their whispers.The previous hoarse voice said again: "Turn around and let me see your face."
"I can't just look at my face," Rosie smiled, looking at the scenery outside the building leisurely, "it's very expensive."
The man yelled impatiently: "Fuck, turn around as soon as I tell you to, where's the useless..."
"Cough er—talk." The voice was interrupted here, the speaker's eyeballs protruded, he kicked his legs desperately, grabbed his neck, and tried to break away the hands that were choking his neck.But before he raised his arms, his neck was wrenched off with terrifying force, his head was tilted to one side, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
No one noticed when Rosie did it, and the rest of the companions looked over belatedly, only to see the pair of sharp eyes behind the corpse, which disappeared in a flash—the same as the photo of Rosie that Victor provided themIn line, this is their former leader.
The bullets whizzed towards Rosie in an instant, and he held the corpse in front of him, and quickly moved to the side bunker.A few concrete pillars stood between the bare floors, just enough to block the width of one and a half people. He moved to the back of the bunker, and heard several bullets hitting the concrete, and gray stones rustling down.
The remaining four stopped shooting, and silently outflanked his position.
The moment she started, Rosie had already seen the white armbands on their arms. It was the army of "Surgery", but it was not led by Piper or Parisa, but Victor.The other party expected that he was going to enter the lost city, so they insidiously set up sentries at all the refresh points.He just came to this city, and was deprived of his weapon by the Huanhai system, so he could only sit and wait for death.
It has to be said that Victor's method has produced results, at least the current situation has given Rosie some headaches.Without any weapons, and the black ring had failed, he faced four soldiers with guns alone. Although he was not incapable of dealing with it, he could not guarantee that he would retreat unscathed.
After the sudden attack just now, those soldiers have raised their guard and can no longer repeat the old tricks.Rosie was thinking about tactics, and groped in the dead body's arms, but couldn't find anything like a dagger, and the man's gun slipped away during the fight and couldn't get it back.
At worst, he might get hurt a little, and let's deal with these people... He thought helplessly, just as he was about to turn out from behind the concrete pillar, there was a sudden sound of a knife piercing through flesh and blood, and hot blood sprayed on the ground not far away.
"Rosie!" someone yelled, and the familiar voice made Rosie freeze in place as if struck by lightning.
He was only surprised for half a second before dodging out, tumbling to avoid a barrage of bullets, kicking down the soldier closest to him, punching the soldier hard in the face, grabbing the pistol, and exploding on that man's templesnod.The other two soldiers were pinned down by Deng Huailing, and one was already lying in a pool of blood.
Without hesitation, Rosie fired at one of the remaining two and the bullet hit.The last person rolled and wrestled with Deng Huailing on the ground, trying to point the gun at Deng Huailing with all his strength, and the situation was extremely chaotic for a while.
"Don't move, Huai Ling!" Rosie yelled anxiously.He aimed at the soldier, but he didn't dare to shoot rashly considering the change of position of the other party and Deng Huailing.
Deng Huailing tightly clasped the inside of the opponent's wrist to prevent the gun from being pointed at him, but when the soldier heard the call, he suddenly swung the gun outwards and pointed at Rosie on the side.
When Deng Huailing noticed the smug look in the man's eyes, it was already too late, the other's finger was on the trigger, he didn't have time to look up, and he didn't know if Rosie had noticed, the instinctive reaction made him bow down desperatelybody, and pressed the muzzle of the gun with his shoulder——
Two gunshots sounded almost at the same time, the bullet pierced Deng Huailing's shoulder, and the blood flowed profusely; fortunately, he did not block Rosie's bullet trajectory, and the soldier's forehead was also pierced, and his brain sprayed on Deng Huailing's shoulder.Huai Ling cheek side.
He felt severe pain, like a broken sharp knife piercing the wound, the fragments flowed in the blood, and even the nerves all over his body began to ache sharply.In a daze, he heard Rosie calling his name, but the world was spinning and blurred, making it difficult for him to tell the direction.
Deng Huailing struggled to raise his blood-stained hand, hugged the person who rushed towards him tightly, and stroked it from the waistline to the back.Rosie was trembling in his arms, screaming in sentences he couldn't understand, wondering if she was crying.
All he knew was to bite Rosie's earlobe and say the words that lingered in his mind day and night: "I miss you so much."