Bulwark of Light

Chapter 743 The Icy Lake
Speaking of Chu Ling.

On Jing Shanyan's withered and aging face, a look of pride appeared involuntarily, like a child who has not grown up. This is the most important thing he has ever done in his life.

He kept the secret for 20 years.

Nagano, Xuelong, Han Dang... In the past 20 years, countless people from countless forces have been exploring, and they all want to know how precious this first-generation chief judge who climbed to the top of the world is willing to pay the price of his life to protect What a huge truth can be drawn from a secret.

It's just that they never thought of it.

Jing Shanyan's secret will be this...

"You, have a good rest."

Gu Shen couldn't bear to let Jing Shanyan continue.

After saying so many words in one breath, the old man's breath became hurried again, his life was passing by quickly, Gu Shen started counting down from the moment he entered the bottom of the frozen lake, but now is the real countdown.

Jing Shanyan's life probably only has the last few minutes left.

anyway.

He didn't even have a chance to leave this icy lake and look at the sunshine above.

At the last moment, Gu Shen wanted the old man to live a more comfortable life, so he tried his best to launch the "Fire of Vitality", and in the cold pool 500 meters away from the frozen lake, he opened a warm field with eight floors and three realms. The "Fire Realm" of the Transcendent is just a rudiment now, but it is more than enough to envelop the young and old who are close together.

Jing Shanyan has endured a lifetime of severe cold and torture, and finally at the final stage, he felt warmth. The expression on his face became relaxed and at ease, but his voice did not stop.

"Let me... go ahead..."

He wanted to go on.

When people get old, they become stubborn.

For the previous 20 years, he stubbornly said nothing.

And now.

He stubbornly wanted to say everything.

Gu Shen's lips moved, he hesitated to speak, and finally he hummed lightly from his nasal cavity.

"Project All Stars...is just a cover."

Jing Shanyan murmured: "The idiots of the Federation...they will never know what we want to do..."

He smiled mockingly.

these years.

The investigation and interrogation of him by various forces revolved around the "Project All Stars".

But the truth... is actually far simpler than they imagined.

This is a deceitful scam.

"You know, the evolution of the deep sea requires a lot of computing power, and [source code] is no exception. If you want to restart it, it is not enough to have Turing's array box as hardware support..."

Jing Shanyan said softly: "Chu Ling's consciousness wants to submerge in the deep water area and iterate silently. It always needs a part of independent computing power to start it. If the massacre hadn't happened, we would have had more time to prepare." , we could have done without sacrifice."

Gu Shen was stunned.

We could have done without sacrifice.

"It all happened so suddenly."

Jing Shanyan recalled the scene 20 years ago, maybe the picture 20 years ago was too worrying, or maybe this long life was about to come to an end, the old man's eyes began to become blurred, and his voice gradually became muddy: "[ Deep Sea] The means of the main system are chilling. Its vision of selecting "teammates" is extremely vicious. After the approval of the parliament, the secret order to kill the Ancient Literature Society was directly sent to Gu Lushen and Zhao Xilai. Not too famous…”

Gu Lushen, Zhao Xilai.

These two names, after 20 years, respectively represent the peaks of the two factions of Dongzhou Jiangbei and Jiangnan.

"The extermination mission was rolled up in Nagano and Dadu. Zhao and Gu completed the mission dispatched by [Deep Sea] in a very short period of time... Nearly a hundred suspects were arrested and detained."

"Because the main system has absolute authority, except for the high-level members who have independent database records, the grassroots of the Dongzhou Ancient Literature Society was uprooted almost overnight, and a few days ago, we also held an online meeting. , to discuss how to resume [source code] operation..."

Jing Shan said in a bitter voice: "It wasn't until the end of the killing mission that I, as the chief judge, knew that a big operation had taken place. [Deep Sea] planned everything, and it selectively targeted unknown 'suspicious people'. In order to conceal it, the relevant information about the 'suppression of the ancient literature society' was strictly concealed, and that night, only those on the whitelist who were absolutely safe were eligible to participate in the parliamentary vote."

Gu Shen was completely silent when he heard this.

The absolutely rational [Deep Sea] main system, after deciding that the "Ancient Text Society" betrayed mankind, all the reactions it made... were horrifying. This is an invincible opponent who can dispatch all people within the five continents. things.

It can control tens of millions of eyes at the same time.

And has billions of arms.

The most frightening thing is... It seems that after the second evolution, it began to understand "human nature" and control "human nature".

"Because of the 'Project Stars', I have obtained the supreme authority approved by the highest seat. [Deep Sea], which has just completed the second upgrade, has no way to refuse the mission order I executed."

Jing Shan said: "With the secret order of the 'Stars' mission, I forcibly interfered with the arrangement of [Deep Sea] with the highest authority. The main system originally wanted to arrange for Gu Qilin to be responsible for mental torture... These people have all been picked up."

"You should know the rest of it."

Many people know about the following things——

20 years ago, Jing Shanyan directly took away the members of Dongzhou's ancient text society on the grounds of the need for the "Stars Project", and temporarily locked them in the experimental cabin... As the chief judge of the prison, he Simulation experiments were carried out on these death row prisoners.

But unexpectedly, there was an accident in the experiment.

The "suspects" who were supposed to be interrogated all "died" in this experiment.

Thereafter.

Jing Shanyan kept silent about what happened.

No one knows... what a terrible and heroic flame burned underground that night.

[Deep Sea] has already launched a suppression campaign. It successfully drove Turing out of the Five Continents, and also successfully removed the Guwen Society from the “sights” on this land.

This is the last and only chance to revive [source code] Chu Ling.

The killing on the first night wiped out the exposed foundation of the Guwen Society.

And the subsequent killings lasted for a whole year.

The pillars that once supported the Ancient Literature Society have also fallen in the long liquidation game of [Deep Sea], such as Lu Cheng of Dadu...

Jing Shanyan didn't know how long his position of "Grand Judge" could last in this severe and ruthless killing.

But what he does know is.

He was excluded from the "big killing" meeting, indicating that [Deep Sea] had included him in the list of suspects.

"I should have made the most correct choice. Even if I hold back at that time, I won't last long in the future."

Jing Shanyan said softly: "It has already begun to doubt me..."

About those colleagues who were arrested.

He has never doubted the "determination" of these people, it is just a method of [Deep Sea], and it cannot be resisted by normal people.

The federal government has ten thousand ways to deal with low-level transcendents.

The most simple and crude one is the high-level spiritual system, which directly performs hypnosis and forcibly extracts information.

It is useless to want to keep a secret, only determination.

You also need strength.

then……

"That night, there were a total of 73 members of Dongzhou Jiangbei and Jiangnan Ancient Literature Society, and they decided to carry out the real 'Stars Project'."

Jing Shanyan lowered his eyebrows and said with a smile: "After connecting to the spiritual network of the array box, these 73 extraordinary people sat in the link cabin, and they willingly carried out spiritual transmission. After uploading their consciousness, they burned their souls, As the starting computing power of [source code]... On that day, Chu Ling re-'resurrected' in the deep water area network. To see the light in the dark, often only a small ray of fire is needed, and these people are the original First strand."

Gu Shen listened quietly.

"So...what Han Dang did was actually stupid, right?"

Jing Shanyan said with a smile: "He thought this was some kind of amazing plan, it was the last home for human beings to fight against the ultimate disaster... In fact, these are all lies I fabricated to the federal government..."

"So, there is no 'spiritual oasis' at all, and there is no 'barrier'..."

Gu Shen murmured softly: "The consciousness of these people did not directly 'fly up', but was uploaded to the closed network of the array box..."

In the field of [truth], Han Dang forcibly seized the spirit of Jing Shanyan.

This set, the big shots in Dongzhou have tried it a long time ago.

It's just that they all failed. With a title of Jing Shanyan's level, with an extremely firm will, even the [Apostle] with a token may not be able to read the effective information in the spiritual sea.

Or, Jing Shanyan cannot be hypnotized.

Or, the information you get is confusing.

And the information Han Dang got was a lie...

He is a madman.

He compiled a nothingness that he believed in, and let him use [truth] to make it true.

After seeing through the [truth], Jing Shanyan decided to use the same method to deal with Han Dang, so... Under the guidance of Jing Shanyan's "lie", Han Dang made a crazy act of uploading everyone.

"I am... the Grand Judge of Nagano..."

A sly smile appeared in Jing Shanyan's eyes again: "You can decide whether to 'destroy' or 'retain' the spirit in the array box... As long as the body is still there, they still have a chance to go back... that box, I'm buried in... a very interesting place."

He leaned against Gu Shen's ear, and said the location slowly.

"...cough cough cough!"

The old man was ready to continue talking.

But then, there was another violent cough.

He coughed up scarlet streaks of blood, which spread in the icy water surrounded by the vitality fire, like little snakes swimming.

"senior……"

Gu Shen called out the ray of black flame between his eyebrows.

Jing Shanyan handed over the biggest secret of his life to him.

And this moment.

Gu Shen no longer hides.

This ray of black fire is very small, only a strand as thick as a hair... But after it appeared, the frozen lake with a radius of [-] meters became "shuddering". , but in [Jade King's Power Realm], after all, there are still nearly a hundred extraordinary people stored there, and [Children] turned them all into powder.

As for the "Undead Fire"'s authority to summon life, even if the bodies of these "undead" are only powder, they still have to be deterred.

"This is……"

A huge shock appeared on Jing Shanyan's old cheeks, and he looked at Gu Shen absently.

"Hellfire..."

"Yes."

Gu Shen said softly: "The Pluto 20 years ago is dead, and now the fire is in my hands."

It is not appropriate to use the phrase "in my hands".

Because the main body of "Underworld Fire" is still hidden in the cemetery, and it is secretly guarded by Mr. Bai Shu.

Gu Shen hasn't cultivated to the level where he can merge with "Underworld Fire".

However, Jing Shanyan's time is running out, and there is no room for Gu Shen to explain too much.

In the past 20 years, too many things have happened in the world outside [Snow Cage]...

This simple sentence is enough to make the old man understand many things.

"Your body can't leave the frozen lake, but I can keep your spirit..." Gu Shen said sincerely: "Perhaps your life journey can continue."

"..."

Jing Shanyan's gaze on Gu Shen became extremely complicated.

He didn't look at Gu Shen like this before, it was just as if he was looking at an excellent junior, with affection and appreciation in his eyes.

After seeing the "underworld fire".

He recalled more past events, flashing back countless fragments related to "Turing".

"Minghuo chose the key..."

Jing Shanyan smiled softly, and said, "No wonder Zhou Jiren told me that you will become a remarkable person..."

He stretched out his palm, his withered fingertips, wanting to touch the flame.

Gu Shen didn't dodge.

He took off the underworld fire, and surrounded by the blazing flames, this flame looked extraordinarily strange.

"Project Stars... Actually, it's not all fake. When I proposed to the Federation, the words and ideas I wrote are all true..."

Jing Shanyan's fingertips hovered in front of Minghuo.

He said dreamily: "If we are going to usher in the destruction like 600 years ago, what should we do to preserve the fire of civilization... At that time, I thought that it would be better to stuff the body into the ground and turn the mind into stars." The best way……"

At that time, everyone in Nagano thought that Jing Shanyan was a genius.

"Only later, I don't think so."

Jing Shan said with a smile: "During the 20 years in [Snow Cage], didn't I live like this? Only ideal human beings are left, not real human beings. Real human beings should live in the real world , so if I do it all over again... I don't want to choose this kind of life again, living like this is really... very tiring."

"This time, I don't want to hide in the ground where I can't see the light. I want to rush into the storm, even if the ultimate fate is only destruction."

In the end, the old man did not touch the underworld fire.

He opened his arms and embraced Gu Shen slowly. His body was very thin, like a ball of dry catkins, which would dissipate at any moment.

Gu Shen also gently embraced the old man.

He heard Jing Shanyan speak in a slow, falling asleep tone.

"Let me... just end it like this..."

The bottom of the frozen lake is cold and dull.

All that was left was a flickering fire.

"thanks, thanks……"

(End of this chapter)