Volume 7: Frost Chapter 21 Hostility
After Jiang You and Guan Qingtong left, Lin Yu walked out from behind the counter.
After walking into the yard and stretching his body, he stood in the middle of the yard and did a set of punches. After sweating a little, he heard the sound of the window opening.
Looking up, I saw Jiang Mo lying on the windowsill.
"Jiang Mo?" Lin Yu shouted.
Jiang Mo glanced at him, then hooked his finger at Jiujiu who was standing on top of the bird's nest.
Jiujiu flew past Lin Yu and landed in Jiang Mo's hand. After stopping for a moment, it spread its wings and flew into the sky, flying away and soon disappeared from Lin Yu's sight.
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Sun Yu hung up the phone and handed the phone back to Chang Lizhang.
Chang Lizhang took the phone and said, "Xiao Lin took a big risk by inviting you to visit this time."
"I understand what he means, but our department is also short of people. He should apply for support from above."
"It's not that simple," Chang Lizhang shook his head. He said, "But personally, I don't agree with them building a laboratory in a small world."
"Why?" Sun Yu asked.
"There have been problems before, otherwise it wouldn't have taken so many years to restart this project," Chang Lizhang glanced at Sun Yu and said, "Xiao Lin's ideas were even more radical before, but I convinced him. Our understanding of the small world is very shallow, and our understanding of the main world we live in is also very shallow. Now, we can say that we basically use our understanding of our world to fit the small world, and I think many of the conclusions we have drawn are questionable."
Sun Yu thought about his experience and said, "Isn't the mountain a small world?"
"It's different. Legend has it that the mountain is the cave of ancient immortals. Immortals are also human beings, but their cultivation level is higher. Therefore, the place opened up by immortals for living and cultivation must be relatively stable and safe. But that 'yard', although there were people living there before," Chang Lizhang shook his head, "In the past, at the Academy of Sciences, everything had to be approved by various levels. After independence... Director Wang is semi-retired. Teacher Ji has enough experience, but she has always focused on research. Deputy Director Jia is too young and is eager to get credit. I'm just talking about this, you can just listen."
"I know, but I don't know how the section chief is doing in there. By the way," Sun Yu suddenly remembered something and asked, "Is Jin Cheng still in Tangjiang now?"
"I'm back to school."
"Did he still dream later?" Sun Yu asked.
Chang Lizhang said: "I still have it. It's just a repetition of the previous dreams. There's nothing new."
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The dead branches' attack stopped.
Tang Butian looked around cautiously. There were deep cracks on the floor, walls, and ceiling.
She stared at a crack in the door.
Danger.
There was danger lurking behind the cracks, watching her, examining her.
She gripped the wooden sword tightly.
The back of my hand is hot.
The hostility was directed at her, at the scar on the back of her hand. She heard the rustling sound again, like insects crawling, or something growing.
Grow out...
She saw a spot of green growing on the edge of the crack, and she saw its segmented body and sharp teeth in its open mouth.
The cracks all around were twisting, and the ground, walls, and ceiling were gradually becoming blurred and empty.
Click .
She looked in the direction where the sound came from, and she saw a black shadow crawling on the ceiling. At this moment, she suddenly felt a chill on her back. She subconsciously dodged to the side and swung the wooden sword forward.
She seemed to cut into a ball of air.
Flip your wrist.
A dark light floated on the blade, she jumped up, and then stabbed directly into the crack in the door.
The door broke open.
The room shattered.
Dead branches, stones, and dust floated around her.
And a little green grew on the wooden sword.
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Monitoring room.
On the screen, Tang Butian was standing still in mid-air, maintaining a posture of swinging a knife forward.
Dead branches were scattered around the room.
Gradually it wrapped around her body.
Guan Nuo paced back and forth in the monitoring room anxiously.
Hearing his footsteps, Lin Shunan turned around and said to him: "The situation is still stable now."
Guan Nuo stopped and pointed at the screen. "She has been like this for more than ten minutes. What is going on?"
Hearing this, Ji Xiaozhen stood up, walked up to Guan Nuo and said softly, "Xiao Nuo, there's no point in being anxious."
"Then we have to do something, right?"
Ji Xiaozhen said: "If we go to save Section Chief Tang now, we might end up hurting her instead."
"Why?" Guan Nuo asked.
"Come with me," Ji Xiaozhen took Guan Nuo's hand and led him to the monitoring screen. "All the materials in this room are isolated from spiritual power. Not only are our spiritual power isolated, but the spiritual power of the small world is also isolated."
"Then what?"
"This isolation ability has a limit..."
"Then cut off the connection quickly!" Guan Nuo interrupted Ji Xiaozhen.
"Listen to me," Ji Xiaozhen said with a stronger tone, "This small world itself is incomplete. A large part of its stored energy is used to resist the erosion of the outside world, and it can only mobilize a small amount of energy. Now, the mark on the back of Section Chief Tang's hand, or something else on her body, makes the small world feel threatened."
"The data being monitored are currently very stable." Lin Shunan interjected.
Ji Xiaozhen nodded. "If we forcibly cut it off now, or use other means, it is very likely to stimulate the operating system of the small world. It may disregard its own integrity and counterattack with all its strength. Once this happens," she paused, "the consequences are unimaginable. By then, not only Section Chief Tang, but all of us, and even this entire mountain, will disappear along with the small world."
"Then why do we still need to study the small world?" Guan Nuo asked again.
Ji Xiaozhen looked somewhat helpless. She said, "This is just the worst- case scenario . Your mother will probably be here soon..."
At this moment, Tang Butian's hand on the screen loosened.
The wooden sword fell downwards.
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Something green, moss-like, covered the surface of the wooden sword, as well as her hand that gripped the handle.
Moss spreads to the scar.
A tiny flash of lightning flashed on the back of her hand, the moss shrank back, and then began to multiply as if crazy, and soon her hand was completely covered, with densely packed, sharp little mouths gnawing at her hand.
She lost the sense of her opponent.
Very hot.
She just felt hot.
My whole body started to feel hot.
Her vision became blurry and she bit her lip, but she still couldn't stay awake.
The wooden sword fell from her hand.
In the dizziness, she saw a little light, a little light in the darkness, and she walked towards that light with a wooden sword in her hand.
