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Chapter 331 Information Ocean

The people around me disappeared.

He remembered Planst saying that white flames had a restraining effect on virtual dream reality, and if not careful it would ignite the sea of ​​information, so he deliberately suppressed the flames. However, after entering the range covered by the virtual dream reality, everything in front of him was in chaos and he could not see the scene clearly.

But when he turned around, he could clearly see the road he came from and the city of Casmir not far away.

"Damn, where are they?" Ling Dengxian instinctively felt that he was tricked, but he still roughly guessed the reason. He raised his head slightly and looked towards the misty space. Every time the white crown was pulled and moved, the foggy world in front of him would surge.

"You won't let me in unless I put away the white crown, is that right?"

The virtual dream reality would not respond to him, but the cold and hard attitude was vivid. Ling Dengxian suddenly raised a white flame, and the foggy world retreated and had no intention of covering it again.

There was no time to lose, Ling Dengxian was no longer anxious, but became more calm. This was just a question of "yes or no". Since he had no choice but to fight, he could only bet on his fragile body... because someone was waiting for him.

King Yanyin was defeated, and the only support left for the lonely king was once again the weapon in his hand. The misty world seemed to stagnate for a moment, and then slowly floated up, encompassing the unarmored visitor.

……

The scene in the virtual reality is very different from the last time I saw it, but the familiar repulsive force and the dreamlike feeling of underwater action are still the same.

"...Okay, next question, here...orthogonal decomposition...along angle a...the resultant force provides a centripetal..."

Ling Dengxian opened his sleepy eyes, but before his vision could clear up, he heard the sound of a lecture in a daze. He was a little confused about the situation, so he shook his head and propped himself up. At the same time, the sound of the lecture fell silent. He raised his head, and saw a group of familiar faces that he hadn't seen for a long time. It had been so long that they looked a little blurry, and he couldn't even match these classmates' faces and names.

classmate?

He woke up instantly and found that he was indeed sitting at the podium in the classroom. However, his doubts that his experience on Terra was all a dream were dispelled as soon as they emerged, because everyone in his field of vision was staring at him, but with empty eyes, like a group of exquisite puppets, which made his back creep.

*I want to make a deal with you.*

The voice that appeared directly in his mind startled him and made him jump reflexively. It was also this stress reaction that made him clench his hand and find that the city-breaking spear was still in his hand.

Yes, the sound of lectures. That was the only noise he had heard before. In a normal class, unless it was a whole day of extremely high-intensity main subjects scheduled, there would always be some noise from the students under the podium.

Who was his teacher in the classroom before he traveled through time, giving lectures to this group of puppet classmates?

And if I was behind the podium...my seat would be right next to the podium.

Thinking of this, he felt a little creepy, but as his thoughts gradually became clearer, he also knew that now was not the time to hesitate because of these things. He gripped the weapon in his hand tightly, and the solid texture of the Dust-Breaking Spear gave him some sense of security again.

Ling Dengxian raised his head. He had already prepared himself mentally to face any strange creatures of various shapes and sizes. However, things did not go as he expected. The person standing behind the podium was his physics teacher, Mr. Peng. And unlike the puppet-like looks of his classmates, Mr. Peng's demeanor was normal, humorous and patient, as if his behavior of jumping up and taking out a huge weapon was just a harmless mistake he made accidentally in class because of boredom.

But when he met the teacher's eyes and the voice appeared in his mind again without Teacher Peng moving his lips or teeth, he understood the problem.

*I want to make a deal with you.*

"Teacher Peng" just repeated what he said before, although in this scene this sentence seemed a bit weird with his face still having a funny expression.

“…Don’t use my teacher’s face. I don’t want to have bad memories when I see him in the future.” Ling Dengxian raised the city-breaking spear, the tip of the spear was steady without a trace of trembling.

*good.*

The next moment, Teacher Peng's eyes became empty, and there was a noise behind Ling Dengxian. He turned around quickly and found that it was "Yi Shishi" who stood up and stared at him quietly.

"Do you have to use such a nasty form?"

The voice in my head still showed no fluctuations.

*It is your freedom to understand the world and feel what you want, and you should not interfere. ”

Ling Xian had some difficulty understanding what the voice said. It seemed as if the words and phrases were in conflict with each other, but soon, the other party got to the point:

*The path you desire, I can open for you. *

Ling Dengxian was stunned for two seconds. He was wondering when he had longed for a certain road, but soon he realized what the other party was saying.

"You...you mean, my way home?!"

"Yishishi" looked at his body, turned around, and froze in place. Then, a figure with a complicated status in his eyes moved and wrote a big "Road" on your textbook full of notes.

"Li Lingyu" came in front of him, his eyes seemed to reflect the bottomless black universe, stared at him, and nodded.

*I can't do it now, but I will be able to do it soon*

*Accordingly, I want 'legacy'.*

Although he only heard the voice in his mind, Ling Dengxian clearly felt the complex and strange meaning contained in the word "legacy" that the other party said.

"I don't understand you. Can you do it?"

*able.*

"Li Lingyu" turned sideways, revealing a passage filled with the noisy smell of fireworks. The moment he felt that breath, he had an urge to cry.

*As I said before, it takes time to connect the coordinates, but now it is complete. *

*Hand over that person's inheritance, and the matter will be settled and order will be restored.*

Ling Dengxian was silent for a moment and realized that he had no idea what inheritance meant.

He seemed to hear a familiar sneer coming from that mysterious "little scum" with whom he once had an open mind.

*Your life.*

"Li Lingyu" still had a calm expression on his face, as if he was not aware of the problem at all.

Ling Dengxian suddenly woke up from the dream of the other party's temptation to go home, and at the same time broke out in a cold sweat for his own carelessness, with anger flashing in his eyes: "You are fucking kidding me!"

*? Information is life. If you leave, you will naturally leave behind a "life" that does not belong to you, not to mention "information" that does not belong to you. *

The information that directly emerged in his mind carried too much complex content. Ling Dengxian could hardly understand every word of this sentence. The heavy burden made him breathless.

White flames rose, and "Li Lingyu"'s figure limply fell on the desk beside him. The tip of the waving spear cut through the space, revealing a corner of darkness.

"What the hell are you!"

*The information sea, a tentacle differentiated from your thinking pattern, brings you information. *

"You are the one who caused my time travel?!"

*Error, I don't do anything other than pick up information.*

"Then what inheritance do you want?" Ling Dengxian kept looking around, trying to find the real body of the voice in his mind.

*…*

"Legacy needs to be inherited, stability needs legacy, not only the information sea, but also many other high-level existences need 'legacy'."

Xiaoxie, who had been silent for a long time, spoke again. Unlike before when only her voice was heard, her figure also appeared in the corner of Ling Dengxian's eye. The long black veil and unnatural glowing figure were particularly eye-catching.

After that strange figure appeared, this space seemed to be frozen, and the sound of the sea of ​​information did not appear again.

Ling Dengxian frowned subconsciously. He had clearly never seen this figure before, but it felt as if he had seen her thousands of times. Even though she did not appear in his clear vision, he was familiar with every aspect of her appearance, but he could not bear to think about it too much.

"Xiaoxie? You're here too?"

"The sea of ​​information cannot detect me because I have not missed any information here." Xiaoxie's figure seemed to be pacing, but no matter how he adjusted his perspective, he could not see her figure clearly.

"Let's get back to the point. That 'legacy' is extremely important to these special beings and certain high-ranking beings. It doesn't have to be in their own hands, but it must be inherited by one of them. Otherwise, it will lead to very serious consequences."

"Before they perish, will you be affected in the slightest? This is also the source of the conflict between you two."

"But what does this have to do with me? I have never heard of such things, nor do I feel that I carry anything resembling a so-called heritage."

Xiao Xie was silent for a moment, then sneered: "Because your life is a legacy."

"To them, your individual lives are a continuous cycle of matter and information... You want to go home. The information sea has all the information and can indeed find the location of your original world and outline a path for you to go home. But as he said, your life and Ling Dengxian's life will definitely not be able to go back with you."

Ling Dengxian understood: "So it means sending a corpse back?"

"You are wrong. A corpse is also information, which is what He defines as 'life'. It cannot be taken away."

He was dumbfounded: "Then what the hell am I doing this for?"

Xiao Xie put away his smile and said calmly: "The soul returns to its hometown."

She wasn't joking, she was just stating the facts word by word.

Ling Dengxian was silent, his mind was full of thoughts, and he seemed to understand something.

"Host, please think carefully. Bai Jin and the others are still in the sea of ​​information."

A word of advice awakened the dreamer. Ling Dengxian suddenly looked up, and the strange figure disappeared. Facing the silent sea of ​​information, he swung the city-breaking spear in an instant, and the white flame accumulated energy and blasted open the door of the "classroom" with one blow!

*…you refused? *

"I'm sorry, I really want to go home, but I haven't forgotten that my friend is still in danger - you won't let him go, am I right?" The boy's eyes were burning with Jade Mountain Snow Flames, and the flames floated out of his pupils and turned into little bits of hope.

*Beacons belong in the sea of ​​information, that’s an established fact.*

"What if I don't admit it?" A hint of arrogance gradually emerged in Ling Dengxian's eyes, which was something that could never be seen in his usual easy-going appearance.

The vast sea of ​​information no longer responded, but just took back the scene in front of him bit by bit, placing him in infinite nothingness, neither responding nor suppressing, but just spying on all the signs of his giving up.

Ling Dengxian looked at his hand. He had activated the White Crown for a short time before, but because he used too much power, the Originium crystals spread to the back of his hand again. However...

"It's much better than when I was first infected."

Just as he was about to fight to the death despite the rejection, a distant wolf howl sounded from nowhere, loud and clear, bringing him a clear sense of reality.

Without giving it too much thought, he decisively seized the opportunity and swung his spear to break through this layer of "dream"!

He pushed open a door, but his body was blocked by an unknown force.

Everything seemed to stand still for a moment, but a lot of information was conveyed.

*It looks like this deal has gone nowhere.*

*See you later.*

As if the touch of broken glass was sweeping over his skin, he pushed the door open completely and rushed out, but suddenly he felt a sense of weightlessness and fell face down. He turned over hastily to adjust his landing posture, charged the city-breaking spear, barely identified the terrain and estimated the landing distance, then fired!

"boom!!"

The frightened Bai Jin screamed and ran out ten meters. Before she turned around to see what happened, a strong shock wave knocked her over and pressed her against the blue-gray wall not far away, unable to move. She coughed a few times, rolled over quickly while cursing, picked up the longbow and climbed up, aiming the arrow at the "falling object from high altitude" and ready for battle.

"Ahem... Hey, have you recovered your spirit?" Ling Dengxian propped himself up awkwardly. The dreamlike feeling of moving underwater did not prevent him from feeling the severe pain that almost shattered all the bones in his body. Ninety percent of the reason for this was that he failed to control the recoil force well.

"Ling Dengxian!" Bai Jin was stunned after seeing his face clearly, and then shot an arrow right into his shoulder!

"*Casimir swears* What are you doing!" Ling Dengxian jumped up in pain and was about to pull out the arrow, but then he remembered that he had really arrived at the information sea in the same space as all the beacons, and he could not use the white flame at will. There was no way to stop the bleeding, so he had to leave it like this for now.

"How would I know if you are a real person... There are so many weird things here..." Bai Jin still looked at him suspiciously, her eyes still red from crying.

"…Although it is true that I was wrong, but haven't you taken out your anger on me enough today? This is the fourth arrow you have shot. If it had been a little off, the arrow you shot just now would have taken my life." Ling Dengxian grimaced. He was already used to the pain.

"..." Bai Jin turned his head away and didn't say much. He just walked forward and held his arm, feeling a moment of relief.

"What's wrong?" Ling Dengxian was surprised.

"Nothing, it's just that after coming here, everyone dispersed. I just said..."

"...I know, I know. I promise to take you away from here." Ling Dengxian rubbed her head and said, "Let's go and find other people."

"Ah."