Bulwark of Light

Chapter 394 Balance

While talking about her dream, Chu Ling waved her hand, calling out a specific picture.

Rather than saying that this is a dream, it is better to say that this is a photo captured by [Sky Eye].

The logic of this picture is very rigorous, like a scene shot from an altitude of a thousand meters... The square city walls are mottled and faded, and there are dilapidated and simple streets and alleys inside, as well as crowded crowds.

These people are dressed in white linen robes...

And most of them wear a unified badge on their shoulders, this badge Gu Shen is very familiar with.

trident.

"Is this Nanzhou?"

Gu Shen recognized the meaning of the badge at a glance... These people are all followers of the Storm God Throne.

"Yes."

Chu Ling nodded slowly.

The guiding picture she saw in a dream last time... was a pale snowfield, without any information at all, only a piece of silver, and she needed to use a wish to find the specific location.

But this time the picture is completely different. The badge alone provides a lot of information.

In Nanzhou, the disciples of the God of Storms gathered in such a small city.

The database started running immediately... Chu Ling began to look for the location corresponding to this photo.

Gu Shen's expression was a bit complicated.

He breathed a long sigh of relief.

It’s not a waste of time to break through the iron shoes.

I was still having a headache, how to launch the ancient prose society, or how to meet the next "messy situation"... Chu Ling's dream of guidance came in time, which greatly relieved his pressure.

The reason why the "Looking for the Light" project was launched at the beginning was because Chu Ling's dreams no longer appeared.

Lost guidance.

The wishing technique also couldn't help Gu Shen find the 【Bronze Man Lamp】.

You can only rely on the stupidest method... In Chu Ling's words, exhaustive.

Not so today.

There are pictures of dreams, even if the database cannot find the answer, you can use the wish technique to pay the price and seek guidance!
soon.

In front of Gu Shen, a temporarily generated case file report and the corresponding picture simulation results were brought up, and an aerial picture with a similarity of 98% appeared in front of him. This is the same ancient city as in Chu Ling's dream, and A large number of worshipers wearing the trident insignia.

"South Continent...inland state, Tin Silver City."

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Lu Nanzhi returned to the [meeting room].

She took a deep breath, and without waiting for Gu Shen to speak, she took a step ahead and expressed the result of her meditation.

"Looking at the current situation, it is not the best choice to mobilize the members of the Ancient Chinese Society to search... the time is not ripe enough. The identities of [key] and [source code] alone are not enough to convince everyone My suggestion is to let Huazhi join the [Looking for the Lantern] plan, spread out enough banknotes, and then wait for the other party to join. The more people join, the faster the speed of finding the Lantern... It's just the final result It will also become very troublesome, what we need to plan is how to bring back the real bronze lamp among many opponents."

That's a long sentence.

It can be seen that during the time of leaving, Madam thought seriously for a long time.

After Gu Shen finished listening quietly, he pressed a photo of spiritual power on the long table and slowly pushed it over.

Lu Nanzhi was startled.

She looked at the photo that had slid in front of her... with a confused expression.

A strange city.

"The situation has changed." Gu Shen smiled wryly, and said softly, "I think... I should have found the location of the last lamp."

Lu Nanzhi squinted her eyes and looked at the photos carefully.

"This is……"

"Nanzhou, an inland state, Xiyin City." Gu Shen said, "The last lamp is here."

Madam Lu gave Gu Shen a strange look.

this kid...

It should only take half an hour to disconnect the link by myself.

I worked hard to think of a simple plan, and when I came back, I found everything... It is obvious that these plans can be declared invalid.

But how on earth was this found?
"Thanks to some indescribable mysterious power." Gu Shen said slowly: "I don't know where the thing is, but I can be sure...the thing is in Xiyin City."

Unspeakable mysterious power?

The madam knows everything, showing a meaningful expression... Divination!

Although she is in Dadu, she has been following Gu Shen's deeds in the Snow Forbidden City all the time... The news that Gu Shen was accepted as a disciple by Master Qianye and spread to Huaqi really shocked Madam.

Heir of divination.

This is an extremely remarkable status.

In the entire Wuzhou, there are only two "Masters of Divination". This number is even rarer than the so-called "S-Class".

Gu Shen could see the reason for his wife's strange expression at a glance, but he didn't explain anything.

Divination is divination.

Madam can think whatever she wants... This reason is always more believable than Chu Ling's dream.

"Okay...the plan can be reversed." Lu Nanzhi asked softly, "Are you going to leave immediately?"

"Yes."

Gu Shen thought for a while, then slowly said: "It's just... I've never been to places other than Dongzhou."

Lu Nanzhi understood.

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The propellers whirled.

The clouds floated.

Gu Shen sat on the side of the cabin, leaning against the window, looking at the cloud scene that catches his eyes, and the gradually shrinking Snow Forbidden City.

At this moment, he remembered what the second elder of the Li family said.

With his back against the huge wall, he is very majestic.

This year has been so peaceful, it was only at this moment that Gu Shen felt the beauty of "leaning against the giant wall".

If you want to leave for Nanzhou, you only need to wait for a while, and a fancy plane will come to pick you up.

Lu Nanzhi also thoughtfully gave her an assistant.

Cui Zhongzhong turned the pages of the book quietly, and said softly: "Madam told me about finding the lamp...she thinks you may need a helper. If you don't think you need it, after you land in Nanzhou, I will fly alone go back."

"That's so embarrassing..."

"It's already here," Gu Shen smiled, without refusing: "The matter of Nanzhou, I'm afraid you need to worry a lot."

I don't know Nanzhou myself.

But he knows Cui Zhongzhong, among other things, this flamboyant second-in-command is quite reliable in "doing things".

In this matter, one more helper will save a lot of effort.

Acquaintances meet, but there are not many pleasantries.

The two sat quietly on the plane, waiting for takeoff and final landing.

Gu Shen watched the skylight from the plane window fall on Cui Zhongzhong's face, and then realized...the two hadn't seen each other for a year.

Last time, the transaction was successfully completed at the entrance of the shrine mountain boundary on National Highway 447.

A year passed, and the years seemed to have stopped growing on this man's face. There was an indescribable elegance about him, ancient but not decayed, swaying but not ostentatious.

Hours passed.

After Cui Zhongzhong finished reading the book, he took out the notebook full of words and spoke softly, breaking the calm.

"South Continent is the most chaotic place among the five continents... [Deep Sea] spends a lot of computing power every year to 'balance' information processing on Nan Continent."

"Balance?" Gu Shen closed his eyes and slowly opened them.

"People live in the [deep sea] link, what they see and hear...is all processed information. To let a person know how bad the world is, you only need to replace his query results and change his Searching the page, constantly throwing negative news at him, trying to make a person think that this world is extremely beautiful...just the other way around." Cui Zhongzhong said indifferently: "This is 'balancing', [Deep Sea] was doing this when it was born things, to change people's impression of the world on a macro level, and finally maintain a balance point."

Gu Shen narrowed his eyes.

Sounds good... macro changes?
In fact, this is playing with people's hearts.

He suddenly realized... With [Deep Sea], for ordinary people, it doesn't really broaden their cognition, on the contrary, they can no longer see the "real" world.

Everything you see is shrouded in a veil of nothingness.

And it can never be torn apart.

If you don't have enough authority, you can only live in "false" forever, at most you can only raise weak doubts that cannot change the world, and then start to question yourself bit by bit amidst the doubts of others.

"Because this place in Nanzhou...is too bad, all kinds of bad supernatural events emerge in endlessly, and there is no limited control." Cui Zhongcheng said in a low voice: "So that [Deep Sea] needs to spend more and more computing power, To balance, the central federation has decided to take further measures."

"for example?"

"For example... change the first test site of the awakening plan to Nanzhou instead of Dongzhou." Cui Zhongcheng said calmly: "It's just that this may cause uncontrollable situations...Because there are many local believers in Nanzhou, they Believe in your own 'god' more than the federal government."

Gu Shen frowned and said, "The God of Storms?"

Cui Zhongzhong shook his head.

"It's an illusory 'God', not a real 'God'." He asked with a smile: "For ordinary people, if God really appeared in their world, would they still believe in and follow it?"

Gu Shen fell silent.

Cui Zhongzhong took out the photo and said slowly: "Actually... Although Nanzhou is chaotic, it is not easy for people from other continents to enter Xiyin City. This is a trading city that is purely open to believers. If Not a believer, without a sustainable identity, will be discovered soon."

Yes.

Think back to the scene of Xiyin City seen in the photos, the streets and alleys are full of priests in various colors of linen robes.

"But...don't worry about your identity, I've already taken care of it before you come."

Cui Zhongzhong said calmly: "After landing in Nanzhou, your spare name is 'Amir', your passport and identity certificate are all behind the seat, and you also have a set of priest's robes from the 'Crescent Church' and a book of doctrine, Remember to take a look in advance, so as not to reveal the truth."

"Wait a minute... are we going to enter Tin Silver City in this way?"

Gu Shen was startled.

"No...not us."

Cui Zhongzhong frowned, and corrected him righteously: "Only you. You entered Xiyin City alone."

"how about you?"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just on the way... This time I landed in Nanzhou because I wanted to discuss cooperation with a local general." Cui Zhongzhong spread out his notebook lightly and said, "I will assist you all the way, but in Xi'an Outside Silver City."

"..."

Gu Shen dug out the big white robe and fell into a long silence.

The plane roared down.

Cui Zhongzhong closed the notebook, stretched out a hand, looked directly into Gu Shen's eyes, and said earnestly, "I wish you a good harvest."

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Siyin City has the opposite climate from Nagano.

It is located in the tropics, extremely hot, and the big white robes worn by passers-by are actually used to keep out the heat... However, the extreme climate has no effect on the transcendent, just need to run the breath of spring, and you will feel a burst of coolness all over your body.

Gu Shen used the identity of "Amir" to successfully enter Xiyin City, and Cui Zhongzhong prepared a "luxury hotel" for him in advance. Judging from Chu Ling's overhead picture, the environment in this old city of Nanzhou is very bad. It should be something like a slum.

Along the way, Gu Shen refused the requests of many children who wanted to carry bags. He walked around Xiyin City alone, passing the streets and alleys, and saw many beggars in scantily clad clothes. These people crowded under the bridge, There is a mat.

Perhaps this is their home.

Is there a "hotel" in such a place?

Unexpectedly, just across the river, the city center of Xiyin is very prosperous, with high-rise buildings rising from the ground, and passers-by wearing gold and silver jewelry.

There are really hotels here, and they are very luxurious.

After nightfall, Gu Shen stood on the top floor overlooking the scene outside the window... On the side of the Xihe River, there is prosperity and prosperity, with dim lights, while on the other side of the river, it is gloomy and muddy, struggling with poverty.

He remembered the "balance" that Cui Zhongzhong said...Before today, I was in Dongzhou, and I didn't know that Nanzhou looked like this. The real life of Xiyin City may have been uploaded to the [Deep Sea] network [-] hits, but not even one is actually passed on effectively.

And the scariest thing is——

At both ends of the message, one end thinks that he has really sent it out, and the other end thinks that he has really received it.

Everyone lives in their own "ideal hometown".

Mr. Alan Turing's original intention of creating [Deep Sea] was to create a perfect "Utopia", and [Deep Sea] is using another way to reach the end...

If Utopia does not exist.

Can't make it either.

Then it only needs to change people's perception of it... and the purpose can be accomplished.

"Sorry...Actually, I only learned about 'balancing' today."

Chu Ling's voice came from his mind.

There was apology in her voice.

"Why do you have to apologize to me?" Gu Shen smiled.

Standing in front of the huge French windows, looking at the unfamiliar Xiyin City, he knew that this scene had also entered Chu Ling's eyes at this moment.

The two of them share "one pair of eyes".

"The operating logic of [Deep Sea] is very complicated, and [Source Code] is only one part of it... That's why I can only use part of the authority." Chu Ling said softly: "About the processing, transmission, and presentation of information, in the In the beginning, it wasn't that complicated... It may be that the so-called 'balance' appeared with the upgrade and evolution."

The meaning of balance is to protect the information equality in the world.

The means of protection is essentially deception.

It's like... No one would think that the real meaning of [Deep Sea] is to connect the supernatural to build a pure spiritual world [Deep Water Area].

"This choice may have a very bad impact on the human world..." Chu Ling said slowly.

"It's all the same." Gu Shen interrupted her.

He said calmly: "The things that extraordinary people do... are also deceptions. Perhaps there has never been a 'true' or a 'false'. What we see, what we believe, and what is real... are three things."

Chu Ling was stunned.

"To believe is to exist, to exist is to believe...or, to not exist at all."

Gu Shen closed the curtains again.

He stopped looking at the outside world, and said softly: "At least... the balance provides a possibility for the world."

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It is not an easy task to find an ordinary antique that does not contain extraordinary power in Xiyin City.

Nanzhou has seven territories, 22 states, and one central jurisdiction, and Xiyin is one of the top three "trading cities", with hundreds of thousands of goods circulating here every day.

Antiques... maybe not that many, but they are countless.

Gu Shen knows that the object he is looking for may not necessarily appear in the bustling central area, but it is also very likely to appear in the muddy slums at the other end of the Xihe River. Most importantly, based on the experience of the last snow field.

According to the guidelines, rush to Xiyin City as soon as possible. At this time, it is basically guaranteed that the [object] is still in the city.

But after a while...you can't say for sure.

【Lamp of Rage】There is a possibility of being taken away.

Gu Shen must act quickly.

Under such circumstances, if you want to find an "ancient object", you will inevitably use the [Money Ability], which is the fastest and best method, there is no one... Gu Shen paid a small amount of advance payment, I found [-] children and young people in the slums, asked them to carefully search for relevant information on similar lamps, and promised follow-up rewards.

For the residents of these slums, Gu Shen's "advance payment" has been quite fruitful.

Obviously, this is a big-spending boss!

It's just that Gu Shen's conditions for paying the follow-up remuneration are very strict, requiring that the news not be spread outside, and that the search for antique lamps can only be done by themselves, because he will only pay the remuneration to one person in the end... The possibility of mass delivery of messages.

These twenty people thought they were the lucky ones, and after receiving the advance payment, they desperately searched for news about the lamp.

After finishing all this, Gu Shen came to an auction house in the central area of ​​Xiyin City... According to the information provided by Cui Zhongzhong, this sacred elephant auction house is the largest and most authoritative auction place in Xiyin City, and it is also the auction house in Xiyin City. A favorite place for many rich people to spend a lot of money.

The second clue to find the "lamp" is related to this auction house.

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(PS: 1 The content of this chapter has been replaced before 12 o'clock. Those who have subscribed don't have to worry about money, and there is no waste. 2. Let me explain that the reason for the duplication of chapter names in the two chapters is not because I am anti-theft. But because of the review system of the starting point, the chapters I sent at ten o’clock did not respond. This is the first time I encountered such a situation, so I was anxious to send it again, but there was still no response. I didn’t expect both to be released after an hour. Because of this incident, I was so flustered and speechless that I will revisit these two chapters tomorrow.)
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