With amazing dexterity, Soulsqn's granules threaded the string through the space of the collar and tied a knot. Just like that, Lin Sanjiu was tied to the collar. The Veda had only melted her halfway before it tricked them into leaving. Now, she was still in her half-melted state, floating in the air like a wisp of smoke. As the flesh worm tugged at her, she was dragged forward by the force of the Veda's pull.
Seeing Soulsqn happily dragging her forward, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help feeling a little curious. "Hey, do I weigh anything now?"
"Nope," the flesh worm answered without turning her head. "Aren't we just a set of data now? How do I weigh anything? "
Lin Sanjiu had no idea how a person's physical attributes would be represented in the Data Stream Library. She guessed that she was now like a compressed package that had been decompressed. After a while, she would be loaded into the "computer" known as the Data Stream Library. Therefore, she would lose her physical attributes such as bulk and weight. However, when she mentioned her conjecture, Puppeteer and Soulsqn gave her a blank look.
"You don't have to explain. I've never heard of compressed packages." Puppeteer cut her off coldly with a tinge of impatience and sarcasm. "What you're talking about is too primitive. I'm not an archaeologist."
Lin Sanjiu let out a long sigh. She wasn't too worried about her own condition. After all, when she met her grand prize, he would definitely have a way to get rid of this condition. She looked around and a new question popped up in her mind. "Where should we find them?"
They were still surrounded by the same Arabian city. The streets, alleys, walls, and gates intersected with each other between the houses and temples. It was hard to tell where they should go. However, what reassured her was that Puppeteer's pace was steady and fast. After a few turns without hesitation, he left the alley far behind him. It seemed like he had a card up his sleeve.
"I don't know," the person in the robe answered the moment her voice trailed off. "Let's wait and see."
If Lin Sanjiu still had four limbs, she would have grabbed Puppeteer by the arm.
"No, you don't know?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked and anxious. "Wait! Wait! We might be getting further and further away from them. What should we do? "
"Then let's just say they're unlucky."
"You can't say that —"
"Then what should I say?" Puppeteer twisted his body abruptly, and the glitter around his eyes glowed a deep, dark blue. "If I die here, I don't think the grand prize will come to save me. The only reason I'm willing to take these few steps to find him is because he's with the highest god. "
For the sake of the highest god?
Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, he sneered, "A person like you who can climax by being moved by yourself is easily confused by the grand prize. Have you forgotten what the Veda said just now? ' Both of them have already picked up a Lin Sanjiu and are currently looking for a way out. I don't care if they save me or not, but don't expect me to do my best to save them. How long they can survive depends on whether or not I happen to bump into them. "
Seeing that Lin Sanjiu was speechless and could only float in the air, Puppeteer immediately turned his head away as if he was annoyed by the sight of her. "That grand prize has worked so hard to get to where he is today by manipulating you. If everything ends here, it will be a great irony."
Lin Sanjiu knew that the grand prize must have used some tricks when they were together, but now that she thought about it, she didn't care about it at all. She knew that she couldn't say it out loud. For a moment, she was sweating profusely. She didn't know how to persuade Puppeteer, so she said anxiously, "But he has the coding ability —"
"He's not the only one who has it," Puppeteer's voice was as gloomy as the thick, heavy clouds. "Even if he's dead, there's still the highest god."
No wonder he said that he was only willing to take these few steps for the sake of the highest god. It turned out that Puppeteer didn't care about the grand prize at all. Even if he had a target, it would be the highest god. With this thought in mind, Lin Sanjiu looked at Soulsqn. However, the flesh worm was unusually quiet at this moment. She just lowered her head and hurried on without saying a word.
"If only I had something like a signal flare …" Biting her lip, Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment. Just as she glanced at a stone wall beside her, Puppeteer suddenly said, "Don't even think about it."
"What?" Lin Sanjiu asked back. "I'm not thinking about anything."
Lin Sanjiu sounded like she was trying to hide something.
"If you want to send them a signal by destroying the buildings here, I advise you to give up."
"Why?" Lin Sanjiu was so shocked that she forgot to deny it.
"To the Veda, we don't exist now." Soulsqn raised her head and explained to her "balloon", "But the Veda said that it can monitor all the data flow! Say, if a 'non-existence' suddenly destroys a large part of the city wall, will it attract the Veda's attention? If it probes deeper into the city, do you think we can still avoid it? "
Lin Sanjiu was so anxious that she had forgotten about this point. She frowned and thought about it carefully. "Then, doesn't that mean we can't interact with the data here? Once we do, the Veda will know something is wrong. "
"That's right," Soulsqn answered. She moved closer to Puppeteer's feet and said, "My lord, am I right?"
"If we can't do anything, how are we going to save the grand prize?" Lin Sanjiu raised her voice. "No matter what, I don't —"
Before she could finish her sentence, countless strands of golden light suddenly flashed across the stone walls, roads, and residential walls. They slid to the edge of her vision at a high speed like fish and disappeared in the blink of an eye at a tall white tower in the distance. The two humans and the insect stopped in their tracks at the same time. They looked at each other, and their faces turned pale.
"It's … It's the Veda, right?" Soulsqn asked in a shrill voice, "What happened just now?"
"Who said we can't do anything?" Puppeteer stared at the white tower in the distance. Suddenly, half of his face twisted into a smile. "We can't act rashly and alert them, but I can attack them directly."
As soon as he said that, Lin Sanjiu's vision blurred. It was only then that she realized that Soulsqn had increased her speed to keep up with Puppeteer. The smoke around her limbs had turned into ribbons. Staring at the slender white tower with a crescent moon painted on it, Lin Sanjiu felt her mouth go dry. Just as they were halfway to the tower, the delicate and slender white tower suddenly snapped like an ice cream cone. A black crack stretched out from the center of the tower.
In an instant, the cracks on the wall turned into a few spider-web-like cracks. Half of the white tower disintegrated in the air with a loud boom. Countless pieces of the white wall were thrown into the air by a strong force, but they floated in the air as if they had lost their weight. They gradually disappeared like smoke, just like what Lin Sanjiu experienced earlier.
Obviously, when the "surface" of the tower was destroyed, it became a part of the data in the database again. The white tower was not alone. Along with the broken pieces of the tower, a figure that Lin Sanjiu was very familiar with flew into the air: herself.
When the "Lin Sanjiu" was sent flying out of the tower, her limbs were twisted into a hair-raising angle. Her neck was stuck to her back, and her face was expressionless. Before her body landed on the ground, she also disintegrated into smoke in the air like the broken pieces of the white tower. Even though Lin Sanjiu knew that she was just a copy, she couldn't help shivering. She had almost become the "source file" of the copy.
"See? I told you that's not my sister," Ji Shanqing said from afar. "Can you write something so that we can find her as soon as possible?"
On top of the half-broken white tower, two small figures could be seen. One of them was completely naked while the other had long, flowing hair. They were the highest god and the grand prize. Beneath their feet, the golden threads that the Veda had transformed into slithered up the walls of the white tower and headed straight for the two of them. However, they did not seem to notice it at all.
"Be careful!"
Before Lin Sanjiu could transmit the thought into a message, the Veda had already opened up beside the two of them and revealed its original form. It was a vast, abstruse, and abstruse "pool". The specks of golden light shone brightly, dazzling the white tower. Lin Sanjiu felt as if her heart had stopped beating. She yelled at Puppeteer in a hoarse voice, "Go and help them!"
Puppeteer did not move. He only responded with a cold sneer.
"Help who?" he asked softly. "Help the highest god or your grand prize?"
"Isn't it the same no matter who I help?" Lin Sanjiu was exasperated and confused. "They are all under attack —"
"Have your eyes turned into smoke as well?" Puppeteer stood up and walked toward the white tower. Soulsqn was stunned for a moment, but she quickly followed after him. "Take a good look," Puppeteer said.
Lin Sanjiu raised her head in a daze. She squinted at the broken wall of the white tower that was shrouded by the golden light.
Among the two figures, one of them was a humanoid figure that was covered by the golden light. It was standing stiffly under the gigantic Veda as if it had lost its ability to move. The other figure was staggering backward, so much so that she could barely see it clearly. However, Lin Sanjiu could still tell that the person who could still move was her grand prize.
'What's going on? '
"You are indeed one of the subjects that we placed in the 'non-observation' control group," the Veda said slowly and calmly. It seemed to be studying the highest god, ignoring the grand prize, who was standing not far away. "You have developed very well. You have developed both analysis and coding abilities. The paper cranes that you released are enough to prove that your coding speed is very fast. However, your overall ability is still very crude. It is still too early for you to lead a few humans to attack us. "
"Huh?
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