Chapter 70

Su Xing was a bit dazed, because everything before him was like a dream. People in dreams do not have clear consciousness.

However, upon seeing Xu Shilan, the light of the Sleepless Spiritual Sense in Su Xing's consciousness flared brightly, which made Su Xing wake up suddenly. He immediately looked around vigilantly, then went to grasp the Yellow Lotus fragment he wore on his neck, but upon grasping it, he found he was wearing a bowtie on his neck, which left him stunned.

"Walk with me for a while, okay?"

Xu Shilan smiled, naturally taking Su Xing's arm.

Although Su Xing found all this very strange, his Sleepless Spiritual Sense had no unusual movement, and he instinctively knew that the person before him was Xu Shilan.

Xu Shilan took Su Xing out of the bedroom and came to a long corridor outside, which was also antique, filled with various paintings, vases, decorations, artworks, and the like, and several servants were cleaning.

These servants seemed unable to see Su Xing and Xu Shilan, letting the two walk through the corridor and arrive at the hall below.

There were dozens of people in the hall, holding wine glasses, either talking, eating, or relaxing. This seemed to be a banquet.

"My coming-of-age ceremony."

Xu Shilan smiled, taking Su Xing through the crowd, while others couldn't see them at all. The two walked to the middle of the hall and saw a handsome middle-aged man, his arm slightly bent, as if supporting someone.

"My father, a Level 7 citizen, one of the presidential candidates." Xu Shilan looked at the middle-aged man, smiling as she introduced him to Su Xing.

There was only sadness in Su Xing's eyes. He accompanied Xu Shilan silently, standing together.

Xu Shilan looked at everything around her, her eyes full of nostalgia. After watching for a long time, she sighed and said, "I can't bring you to see my younger brother. He was a Super-Brain. After he died, he told me he was afraid I would be sad when I thought of him, so he deleted all images of him in my memory... Stupid brother. If I could remember what he looked like, I wouldn't be so sad."

Su Xing listened quietly to Xu Shilan talking, from her father, to her mother, to her brother, to the maid at home since childhood, to the classmates she met at school...

After a long, long time, when the edge of the hall began to become hazy, Su Xing said in a hoarse voice, "Why..."

Su Xing himself didn't know why he said "why," nor did he know what he wanted to express.

Xu Shilan looked at Su Xing with a smile and said, "No reason. It's just that I died. Everyone dies, don't they?"

There was a sound in Su Xing's throat, but he couldn't make it out.

Xu Shilan smiled and smiled, and suddenly tears rolled down. She looked at the haze gradually eroding from the surroundings and said, "Death Return... A masterpiece of the Sixth Singularity Company."

"You also know that the greatest nightmare of humanity from ancient times to the present is actually death. The fear of death transcends everything. This is something deeply rooted in the deepest part of the human race, and the Singularity Technology of the Sixth Singularity Company involves death."

"They, those old people, those powerful people, they are so afraid of death, they are so eager for life. And after proving that biochemical bodies and mechanical bodies cannot carry the life consciousness of 'I,' they turned to support the Sixth Singularity Company's research on the afterlife, and returning from the afterlife."

"Although I despise these death-evaders, it is ironic that I am also a beneficiary of this research. For example, now, I am dead, but I can return for a moment..."

The haze had already eroded one-third of the entire hall and was eroding toward the remaining two-thirds.

Xu Shilan looked around and suddenly asked, "Little Brother Su, do you think there really is an afterlife? Chu Minghao said the reward for a Level 6 shelter is the ability to talk to the dead, which means there really is a world of the dead?"

Su Xing nodded hard, but couldn't say a single word.

Xu Shilan smiled happily, clapping her hands and saying, "Then I won't be lonely. My dad, my mom, my brother, and many of my good friends are waiting for me there..."

The haze had already eroded half of the hall, and this haze seemed to be accelerating.

Xu Shilan suddenly said again, "Can you... hug me?"

Su Xing hugged Xu Shilan without a word.

Xu Shilan leaned her head on Su Xing's chest, and then Su Xing felt a wetness on his chest.

"I'm so scared, I'm really so scared. I can feel it, it's very terrifying over there, very scary. I don't want to die, I really..."

Xu Shilan whispered, crying at the same time.

Su Xing couldn't do anything, only able to hug Xu Shilan quietly.

The haze had already arrived at his side. Xu Shilan suddenly pushed Su Xing away, wiped her face, and a golden sphere suddenly appeared in her hand. He couldn't see clearly what it was. She suddenly threw the sphere at Su Xing, and the sphere fell into Su Xing's chest, merging with him. Then she showed a brilliant smile and said, "I didn't expect that after I died, the only one I could find was you... Little Brother Su, live on, don't come to find me too soon."

Xu Shilan was wrapped in the haze, and then she disappeared completely.

Su Xing opened his eyes suddenly, and liquid invaded his eyes, but it wasn't stinging. Su Xing could still easily see everything outside.

He found that he was still lying in the medical chamber, and what he was breathing was this liquid. At the same time, he also found a bird lying on his chest; Jiu Jiu was also breathing this liquid.

Hibernation treatment solution can be converted by carbon-based nano-units. Life can breathe in it, and all waste from metabolism in the body can interact with this liquid. There is no need to eat. This liquid completely replaces all food, ensuring all needs of life.

This is when in a coma for more than two days in the medical chamber, and there are no other people near the medical chamber, the medical chamber will consume carbon-based nano-devices to maintain the coma consumption for the life that has entered.

And with Su Xing's awakening, this liquid began to recede, and then Jiu Jiu's eyes slowly opened, just seeming a bit dazed for a moment, a bit silly.

Su Xing was also stunned for a few seconds, then he immediately flipped up from the medical chamber and ran directly to Amadai and Xu Shilan's medical chamber. But upon looking, his heart went cold. A huge sadness made his whole body tremble.

There was no such hibernation treatment solution in Amadai and Xu Shilan's medical chamber, but a frozen state.

The medical chamber cannot treat people who have completely died, and whose brain tissue has largely died completely. If there is no personnel outside the medical chamber, the corpses inside will be frozen in a flash-freeze manner.

They... died.

Su Xing stood silently for a long, long time, until Jiu Jiu flew to his shoulder and nudged his face gently with its head. Only then did Su Xing press the button on the medical chamber, and then the two corpses were thawed. Then a solution surged out, and the two corpses dissipated in this solution.

Dead means truly dead. Everything is gone. Keeping their corpses has no meaning...

Amadai, Xu Shilan...

Su Xing's feelings for them were different from those for the predecessors.

Although the predecessors took care of him, they didn't actually treat him as a partner or comrade-in-arms. This wasn't just one or two predecessors; all the predecessors were like this.

Indifference, distance, and not wanting to be dragged down, not wanting to be implicated. If it was just simple information notification, or some food or a small amount of money in the dream world, the predecessors were willing to help. But fighting side by side, facing weirdness, monsters, nightmares together... the predecessors were not willing to do so with each other.

And Amadai and Xu Shilan, these were his true companions and comrades-in-arms.

But now they were all gone, and he was left alone again.

Su Xing left the medical station with difficult steps, and Jiu Jiu accompanied him quietly. A moment later, Su Xing arrived at the hibernation chamber. It was a mess here, with only one hibernation chamber still intact, and the others were completely smashed.

Until he walked here, Su Xing remembered everything in the Peace Hotel dream world: paper people, half-paper people, Xu Rongyu, Lin Heier, and his two companions...

Until the last time they entered the Peace Hotel, the three had a conversation.

In this conversation, the three listed all the possible abilities of the Unborn Mother, especially Su Xing, who was familiar with the history and information before the three wars, and he spoke of many transcendent powers in Buddhism.

After doing all this, the three discussed in detail all the difficulties they were about to face, including that the entire Peace Hotel had been surrounded, they couldn't take a step out of the peace range, and at the same time, there was no weirdness they could use to destroy the Peace Hotel shelter, and the Unborn Mother was a high-level existence, impossible to be unintelligent, and impossible to be powerless.

When facing such a high-level existence, all highest-difficulty assumptions were not excessive.

In this discussion, Xu Shilan analyzed several key points for Su Xing and Amadai.

First, the Unborn Mother can erode the environment. This erosion may be changing the basic rules of the world, or it may be dragging the dream world to a deeper level.

Second, the Unborn Mother possesses Telepathy. As long as you think about it in your heart, she is very likely to know it all. It's just that the range of this Telepathy is not clear—is it outside the Peace Hotel shelter, or does she know everything even inside the Peace Hotel shelter?

Third, the Unborn Mother has very likely encountered shelters, so she knows some situations about shelters.

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Fourth, the Unborn Mother can create and control puppets, and whether these puppets belong to weirdness or nightmares, the three of them didn't know the answer.

Fifth, one cannot use strength to defeat the Unborn Mother; the gap between them is too large.

Sixth, one cannot use intelligence to lure the Unborn Mother, because according to the inferences of the previous points, the Unborn Mother only needs to wait for time to win.

In this situation, there is only one way to make the Unborn Mother act rashly, and that is to use Su Xing's own life as a bet. But the bet is definitely not to let the Unborn Mother let the three go. She absolutely, absolutely would not do this. At worst, she would kill the three and wait for the next opportunity. So this bet can only be to make the Unborn Mother give up waiting for time, and then find a way to control Su Xing.

This was the core of the plan, which was to let the Unborn Mother control Su Xing, but it absolutely could not be remote mental control, but to let the Unborn Mother control Su Xing by creating paper people.

Then...

Instantly return to Gaia, bringing back the part of Su Xing controlled by the Unborn Mother together!

The most difficult part of this plan was Telepathy. If the Unborn Mother was truly a great power in Buddhism, then she must have mastered this supernatural power. And to deceive Telepathy, it was to make oneself not have this memory, and not think about information in this regard.

So after the discussion, the three used the alien-removal instrument of the medical station to change the cerebral cortex of the three from the atomic level, turning this memory into information buried in the subconscious. They absolutely couldn't remember it, similar to deep-level suggestion, and only when certain key conditions for unlocking were met would this memory revive immediately.

And this key condition was... the moment Su Xing was physically controlled!

The plan succeeded. They truly ended and destroyed the Peace Hotel shelter, defeating the great power of the dream world of Baseline Reality 0.2, but...

Only Su Xing survived alone, while Amadai and Xu Shilan died.

Su Xing stood in the hibernation chamber, becoming more and more sad, and his anger and killing intent toward the Unborn Mother became even stronger.

He stood silently on the spot for a long, long time, then suddenly roared to the sky.

"I will, I will..."

After a long time, Su Xing stopped roaring. He breathed heavily for a moment, then said, "Main Brain, display the time until the 'weekend'."

"There are sixty-five days, eight hours, twenty-one minutes, and six seconds until the 'weekend'."

Su Xing nodded and said, "Time is still long... Wait a minute, sixty-five days!?"

The time is not right.

Su Xing immediately reacted, because last time he woke up Amadai and Xu Shilan after the weekend. During this period, they first went to the Peace Hotel to guard, then went to the Mud Buddha Yaksha world for a few days, then returned and went to the Peace Hotel again... No matter how you calculate it, it's impossible to have sixty-five days!

Su Xing immediately said, "Main Brain, how long have I been in a coma in the treatment chamber!?"

"Su Xing, judging... Judgment finished. You have been in a coma in the treatment chamber for one hundred and fifty-two days, eleven hours, fifty-seven minutes, and six seconds."

"Ha!?"

Su Xing was extremely shocked. He had actually been in a coma for one hundred and fifty-two days!? What a joke, he...

"Wait a minute, one hundred and fifty-two days!?"

Su Xing suddenly remembered the countdown of his mental dark backlash. He immediately shouted, "Main Brain, open my personalized information panel!"

"Su Xing, human, pure-blooded."

"Level 2 maintenance personnel, low-level employee."

"Physical body Tier 3 early (Potential +1) (Muscle strength 2.1, gene strength 1.4, nerve reaction speed 2.0, hematopoietic immune function 2.8, self-healing ability 2.8), Soul Tier 2 (can be expanded), Inspiration Tier 2 (Weirdness perception 2.2+0.2=2.4, Barrier-breaking perception 1.4+0.1=1.5)."

"National Arts: Transformation Jin (11.27%) -> Transformation Jin (72.8%), Tiger Demon Art: Peak of Perfection (2.74%) -> Peak of Perfection (97.61%)."

"Human Immortal Martial Dao: Skin Refining Peak (93.7%), Flesh Refining (4.42%), Green Python Molting Art: Supernatural (62.8%)."

"Virtual personality, can absorb self-fragments to condense into truth, consciousness sea negative backlash rate 7%, consciousness sea negative total ???."

"Brand: Buddhist Realm attraction rate 4% (from Buddha Mud), Vacuum Hometown attraction rate 11% (from Unborn Mother's gaze)."

Su Xing silently looked through all the attributes. His gaze stayed on the consciousness sea negative backlash rate of 7% for a long time, then looked at Soul Tier 2, and said, "Main Brain, expand Soul Tier 2."

"Soul Tier 2 (Death Return)."

The entire Soul Tier 2 only had this one lit-up item, and everything else was a question mark.

Su Xing said with a trembling voice, "Main Brain, display Death Return."

"Death Return."

"Can significantly resist or carry all negatives, weakening the influence of one's own madness, disorder, consciousness corruption, soul distortion, etc."

Su Xing thought of the sphere that Xu Shilan finally gave him in the dream-like scene.

He stood on the spot, tears rolling down uncontrollably.

"Unborn Mother!!!"