Chapter 684

Su Bai first went to the orphanage and saw Ji Xiang and Ruyi lying there. The two cats had actually found their way here from Shanghai. This surprised Su Bai. It wasn't that the two cats didn't have the ability to do so, but most of the time, they were very mischievous, especially Ji Xiang. Moreover, Su Bai was certain that Ji Xiang and Ruyi could sense the changes in this world. In other words, it was very dangerous for them to casually walk around in the real world.

It could be seen that Ji Xiang was in a very low mood. Su Bai crouched down beside it and reached out to pat it on the head. Ji Xiang gave Su Bai a glance and, as though it didn't have the energy to argue with Su Bai, it tilted its head slightly to avoid Su Bai's head pat.

Su Bai saw the plastic bag on the ground and picked it up. He took out a bag of milk and drank it. As he drank, Su Bai raised his head slightly and took a deep breath.

"Soon, it should be soon. I will get him out of there."

"Meow," Ji Xiang replied.

Chen Guang and Fatso were discussing something not too far away. Clearly, Fatso was tempted. Indeed, given Fatso's personality, it was very hard for him to resist such temptation. He was like a squirrel preparing for winter, constantly looking for 'food' to hide.

Truth be told, Su Bai was quite envious of Fatso's' Zhou Pi Pi 'mentality. At the very least, he could always be in the state of preparing to do something or doing something.

It seemed Ji Xiang was going to continue lying there for a while longer. Ruyi naturally followed beside Ji Xiang. The two cats had traversed half of China to find him, so Su Bai didn't mind them.

Without greeting the busy Fatso, Su Bai went to the entrance of the temple. It was indeed a very exquisite temple. Its exquisiteness wasn't reflected in its solemnity and dignity as a temple, but in its livable aspect.

At the very least, Su Bai could tell that when the temple was designed, the presence of the three worship halls was very low. Most of the space and facilities were used as a leisure area.

Be it Lord Zeng, Fatso, or the monk, at their level, it was unrealistic to expect them to maintain their original piety.

Su Bai had just walked into the living room, which was larger than the combined entrance of the three worship halls. He poured himself a glass of wine at the bar and took a sip, wondering if this was a religious-themed bar.

"You're back?"

Su Bai turned around and saw Xun Er, who had just walked in.

"Mhm, I'm back." Su Bai poured Xun Er a glass of wine.

It seemed that Xun Er had just returned from training. Her body was covered in sweat and dust, but her mental state was indeed good.

"I will go to Lhasa the day after tomorrow. I have been here for three days. I just wanted to tell you when you came back." Xun Er took a sip of wine and said.

The two of them didn't have much to talk about. Su Bai didn't want to keep Xun Er here. Of course, if she was willing to stay here and receive protection, Su Bai would definitely agree. But obviously, Xun Er wanted to use the last period of her life to go out and experience more.

The two of them did not have much to talk about now, and Su Bai did not intend to tie her up here forever. Of course, if she was willing to stay here and accept protection, he would definitely agree. However, it was obvious that Xun Er still wanted to use what might be the last period of her life to go out and experience more.

"If you want to go to Lhasa …" Before Su Bai finished speaking, he saw a person walking in from the floor-to-ceiling window. Who else could it be but Lord Zeng?

"Speak of the devil." Su Bai smiled and continued, "Ask Lord Zeng to arrange it."

Xun Er nodded and didn't refuse his kindness.

"That Chen Guang is here again?" Lord Zeng nodded at Xun Er after coming in. He didn't greet her. He knew Xun Er, but Xun Er wasn't qualified to be on equal footing with him. He was polite to Xun Er only because of Su Bai.

"Yeah, he invited Fatso to look for the stone man, the incarnation of Emperor Wang. You can go too if you're interested. "

"Hehe, I'm not interested. I'm going to go into seclusion and should be able to break through another level." Lord Zeng gained a lot from his trip to Shifang Arhat Temple. In this environment, there was nothing more important than breaking through.

"Xun Er will go to Lhasa the day after tomorrow. Please arrange it," Su Bai said.

"Well, no problem," Lord Zeng promised.

"You guys talk. I'm going to take a shower." Xun Er left voluntarily because she knew that she was under a lot of pressure between the two of them, and it was difficult for them to have a common topic.

After Xun Er left the living room, Lord Zeng took out his mobile phone and put it on the bar. "There's something wrong with my phone. It's an inexplicable problem."

"Is it broken?" Su Bai asked.

Lord Zeng shook his head. "It feels strange. It's like a virus, but it's not."

Su Bai also took out his mobile phone and looked at it. He did not find anything wrong with it. Of course, it might be because his mobile phone was often broken and he often changed his phone, so it was not obvious.

Coincidentally, a WeChat message came in. Su Bai opened it and saw a voice message.

"Do you have time?" It was Hills.

Su Bai called the other party back, and the other party quickly picked up. "My holy garment is polished, and I've almost repaired the array inside. Let's arrange a time to fight again. There aren't many people in the West who are qualified to fight with me now."

"You've advanced?" Su Bai asked.

"Hehe, I'm lucky. I successfully gained enlightenment in the ancient battlefield, and now I'm an advanced listener." Hills was deliberately showing off. This reminded Su Bai of the time when the two of them were at the Land of Proving Dao. Hills showed off to him while eating instant noodles.

"You still have to die if you don't prove your Dao."

"…" Hills took a deep breath. "Su, can I interpret this as jealousy?"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh …"

Static noises came from the phone. Su Bai frowned slightly. Bad signal?

Soon, the static noises disappeared, and Hills' voice became clear again.

"Damn it, it must be that thing. It's monitoring us," Hills said exasperatedly. This feeling made him even angrier than when Su Bai mocked him.

"What the hell is that thing?" Su Bai looked at Lord Zeng when he asked. He remembered that Lord Zeng had mentioned something was wrong with his mobile phone.

"I also heard it from a veteran. He's mechanically enhanced and has the ability to enter the Internet with his own consciousness. It's an additional ability. He said that a strange consciousness has appeared on the Internet recently, and it's doing things with its own emotions."

"It's not man-made?"

"He said it's not man-made, because such cases are happening all over the world in areas with Internet coverage.

That consciousness is fighting crime and maintaining social order. I even suspect that if those nuclear powers were to press that button, they might not even be able to detonate a nuclear bomb.

You know, even an enhanced Advanced Listener can't use the Internet to monitor the entire world and deal with accidents. This can only mean that an independent consciousness has been born in this area of the Internet. "

"It sounds a bit like Terminator," Su Bai teased.

"This might just be a data error, or it might be an accident. However, Su, I feel that this might be a type of inevitability."

"When society develops, oh no, when technology and information civilization develops to a certain level, artificial intelligence will be born without human control?"

"Su Bai, it seems like you've made many discoveries recently." Hills obviously understood the meaning behind Su Bai's speculation.

"So, this might be the reason why the broadcast forcefully changed the attributes of our world into that of a technological plane." Su Bai voiced his speculation.

"Because it itself might have been born like this." Hills took a big gulp of whiskey on the other end of the phone. "Maybe many years ago, after a certain plane's technological civilization developed to a terrifying height, an artificial intelligence similar to the one in the Terminator series was born. It became the rule and dominated everything, not only through the Internet, but also beyond it. Its methods are no longer relying on mechanical creatures to do things for it. It has become a kind of thought, a kind of master, a kind of supremacy.

Then …

Just like how a normal human country will naturally annex its surroundings after it becomes powerful, it is no longer satisfied with being the ruler of a single world. It formed a rule similar to the broadcast now, and began to forcefully distort and change the world one by one, causing other worlds to also embark on the path of technological civilization. The consciousness that was born now is very likely the initial form of the broadcast, so its behavior can also be called … "

"Laying eggs." Su Bai continued.

"Phew, this is just my guess. Of course, I can't guarantee whether it's true or not, and we don't have to guarantee it. But thinking about how the great broadcast is actually doing something similar to human reproduction, I find it very interesting. Ordinary rapists rape women or men, but the broadcast is a little more advanced. It rapes a world. Hahahaha, forcing a world to bear its seed.

Right, I also found something special in the ancient battlefield this time. "

"Mm." Su Bai took another sip of red wine and waited for Hills to continue.

"I found some clues, and these clues are very clear.

That is, more than two thousand years ago, Alexander the Great sent a message to the empire in the east, or a signal. But I'm not sure if that signal was sent to the Zhou royal family or the emperors before the Qin dynasty. "

"Send a message?"

"Yes, I haven't completely deciphered it, and the information I got is very fragmented. However, there should be coordinates and time nodes in the information. I don't know where the coordinates are pointing to, but if I didn't decipher the time wrongly, it should be in the next few years. The time is only a rough estimate, not an exact time. I don't know if the First Emperor of your Qin dynasty received this message or made any arrangements. "

Su Bai's fingers tapped lightly on the bar counter,

Maybe..,

He had already understood some things.