In front of us, on the chair facing the activity room's door, a girl was sitting there in an imposing manner. She was dressed in loose overalls that were stained with various colors of spray paint. The outfit, which didn't match her age, hid the girl's slender and soft figure, but it couldn't hide her beautiful and dignified appearance. She looked Asian, but she had a soft ponytail of blonde hair. Although it couldn't be compared to Sandora's gorgeous curly hair, it was enough to add a touch of color to this room that was filled with graffiti and scraps of paper. What caught my attention were the girl's eyes. They were filled with stubbornness that would never give up for her ideals. Even if there was no hope, even if her meager strength was completely gone, her stubborn gaze wouldn't change.
"Bubble, I will share my vision with your database. Search for this person."
That stubborn expression was too eye-catching. There was once a similar face that left a deep impression on me. However, that person couldn't possibly appear in this world fragment. So, I decided to let Bubble search for me. However, Lin Xue quickly confirmed my guess with a mental connection. "There's no need to doubt it. That girl … has indeed disappeared. Under the surveillance of the six special agents of the ability group, she has vanished from the face of the earth. The person in front of you is her."
In fact, I was almost certain of it. It was just that the truth was too bizarre and hard to accept. The moment the girl saw us, the shock and the trace of fear that she showed was concealed in the blink of an eye. However, it didn't escape my eyes.
However, since the other party didn't show any intention to acknowledge us, we were willing to cooperate tacitly in front of the two outsiders, Hu Wen and Ling Yin. Thus, as though it was rehearsed, the girl with the blonde ponytail stood up with an excited and joyful expression. She welcomed us while we looked at Hu Wen and Ling Yin with a trace of 'confusion and bewilderment'.
Look at our acting skills!
Amidst the tacit pretense from both sides, the somewhat straightforward Hu Wen and the slightly clumsy Bell Yin were the only two people who were kept in the dark. Knowing his companion's habit of stuttering the more nervous he was, Hu Wen took the initiative to introduce both sides. He pointed at the blonde girl and said to us, "This is our captain, Artemis. Don't underestimate her just because she's a girl, she has a lot of prestige among us!"
Uh, Artemis … Speaking of which, could this be the girl's real name? It should be said that it was indeed a parallel dimension. Even though it looked very similar at first glance, was there a slight difference in culture and other things?
"These newbies are …" Hu Wen turned his head towards us, but he was stunned the moment he opened his mouth. It was obvious that he was too excited just now and forgot to ask for our names. Only now did he realize this serious problem.
Even Artemis had a helpless expression on her face, and it was clear that this was not the first time this tall, straightforward boy had made this mistake.
"Chen Jun, this is my girlfriend, Xu Shallow Shallow, and my sister, Chen Qian. These two are Passerby A and Passerby B."
"Passerby your sister!" Lin Xue and Liliana, the two crazy girls roared at the same time and rushed forward — — but I held them down with each hand and threw them back the way they came.
Tsk, an employee who was still so arrogant.
"It seems that you guys are not the same as ordinary Awakeners." Seeing our lively interaction, Artemis said with a hidden meaning, and I replied with a similar sentence: "In fact, we just arrived here, and are very confused about the strange situation here … Looks like we need your help."
"Of course, as the leader of the Awakeners, that is my responsibility, but now you guys better find a place to rest first. You may have been wandering outside for a long time, so you must quickly find a safe place to rest for a while, or else you will easily fall asleep. I will slowly tell you more about the situation later, and you can also try to find out for yourself … Ling Yin, please take these newbies to the activity room in the chemistry department. Hu Wen, call Ai Hua and the others back, they have been outside for too long."
The baby-faced girl named Ling Yin immediately agreed, and Hu Wen raised his head in surprise: "But … Oh …"
When he saw the serious expression on Artemis's face, Hu Wen immediately swallowed the rest of his words and obediently agreed. From this point of view, this Artemis really has a lot of prestige in her small team. I just don't know if this has anything to do with her hypnotic ability. Right, her ability should have already been … no, that's not right. It's impossible for her to appear here in the first place. In this strange world, I'd better not use common sense to judge problems.
When we followed Ling Yin to the activity room in the chemistry department, there was a section of Land Rover that was traveling with us. Seeing this tall young man's expression, I familiarly used my elbow to poke his waist and pretended to not care and asked: "Say what you want to say, there's no one else here to talk to anyway."
"It's nothing, I just feel that the captain is so strange this time," Hu Wen said as he scratched his cheek. "Don't look at the captain's serious appearance. In the past, whenever a newbie joined, she would be especially excited. Every time, she would gather everyone and hold a small celebration party. Originally, I was full of expectations this time, but this time she … Forget it, the captain definitely has her own ideas. It's a good thing to let you guys rest first, after all, it's been a long time since new people joined, and some of the old people have fallen asleep … Forget it, let's not talk about this, I'm leaving first, goodbye!"
Hu Wen said to himself, then separated from us at a corner, and walked along a staircase that suddenly extended out from midair into a dark corridor. Ling Yin said to us with a slightly embarrassed expression: "Hu Wen, he … he always … talks a lot, you guys … don't … don't mind him …"
It's probably because he wants to be on par with you, who stutters?
I cursed in my mind, although this Ling Yin is a pretty cute girl, her slight stuttering is not a big or small flaw. Well, it can be counted as a cute point, it's just that it's tiring to listen to her talk, even more tiring than talking to Sylvia.
"He's your boyfriend?" Shallow Shallow moved closer to Ling Yin's ear with a thick sense of gossip, and suddenly asked when the other party was caught off guard.
"Ah … I … I …" Ling Yin's face immediately turned red. This time, she completely stuttered to the point where she couldn't even complete a sentence.
The activity room of the Chemistry Department was located on the third floor of this ancient building, or at least somewhere similar to the third floor. The space here was distorted severely, and even the floors were in a strange intersecting shape, making it difficult for people to clearly pinpoint where they were. We finally stopped in front of a sliding door that was tilted to the left at around 30 degrees. The sign hanging next to the door frame originally had the words "Network Center" written in relief, but it had been painted with a big cross, and a cardboard sign was hung below it, with the words "Chemistry Department" scrawled on it.
"You guys … First … First rest here for a while, I … I'm going back!"
Ling Yin, who was flustered because of Shallow Shallow's words, stuttered, then disappeared from our sight with a red face. The big sister was both angry and amused as she flicked Shallow Shallow's forehead, and then extended her hand, intending to slide the sliding door open.
However, the door didn't move at all.
"This place is extremely strange."
Lin Xue shrugged, and a faint light flashed in her eyes. Then, she walked forward and pushed: This damn sliding door actually opens inward! But it doesn't even have a doorknob!
"Don't use common sense to judge anything in this place." Lin Xue took the lead and walked in, and said, "Oh, fortunately, it's clean inside."
This large classroom used to be a student club's activity area, but it seems that there were other people who stayed here before us. The large tables in the activity room were placed messily at one end of the room, leaving a rather large empty space in the middle. A pile of professional books and a few dismantled chairs were piled up in the empty space, looking extremely uncoordinated. The only fortunate thing was that the walls of the classroom weren't filled with spray-painted graffiti, to be honest, I was already a little annoyed looking at the messy spray-painted graffiti outside.
I helped the big sister move the largest table from the corner and placed it in the middle of the room, while Lin Xue and Liliana found a few sturdy chairs in the other corner of the room. This way, we finally had a place to sit down and discuss our problems. At this moment, Shallow Shallow was already walking around the large classroom full of curiosity, the disorderly stacks of chemical instruments and reagents piqued her interest — — I quivered and quickly dragged her back.
I definitely can't let Shallow Shallow touch those things! Qian Qian's talent in chemistry was simply out of this world. Her amazing results in chemistry and her ability to screw up any kind of experiment were the nightmares of all the chemistry teachers in K City's Second High School. Qian Qian's bizarre accident when she blew up half of a test bench during a simple operation of distilled water was regarded as a legend. But that was not the worst part. What was worse was that Qian Qian, the chemistry idiot, loved to take lab classes!
That was the only class that brat was truly interested in, and also the only class that she had never passed. I have no doubt that even if there was only half a liter of distilled water left in the pile, that brat would still be able to create the sound of TNT!
"Oh, it wasn't easy for me to think of an interesting experiment …"
Shallow Shallow who was forcefully pressed onto the chair complained with a wronged expression, "Anyway, I can turn back time, at most I can do it a few more times! I'll let that old lady despise me again! "
Turning back time so many times to do a distillation experiment, don't you feel embarrassed when you say it out loud?
"Alright alright, you two stop messing around and come over to eat!"
The elder sister's doting voice interrupted my and Shallow Shallow's playful play. I turned my head and saw a hot pot sizzling with steam rising from it. Beside it, Lin Xue and Liliana were drooling beside the hot pot with a silly look on their faces.
… Elder sister, don't tell me you put an entire kitchen in your personal space again? Also, using a psionic coil as a heating component for the hot pot, is it really okay to waste it like this?
"Blockhead, hurry up and come over!" Lin Xue raised her chopsticks and beckoned me over, "Otherwise, there won't be any for you!"
Forget it, it wasn't the first time such a miraculous turn from saving the world to sightseeing had happened. If I complained about it every time, one day I would die of dehydration. Speaking of which, it had been a long time since I had eaten elder sister's hot pot. Although that bug-level cooking maid Anveena was here, elder sister's cooking had a special meaning! Lin Xue, don't you dare steal my meat! Liliana, is it really okay for you to toss a sprout from the World Tree into the hot pot and eat it? Shallow Shallow, watch your table manners!
Anyway, when Artemis pushed open the door as we expected, the first thing she saw was a group of mysterious Imperial Army leaders whom she had been on guard against, and who had only appeared in her nightmares for many days, sitting around a large writing table and fighting over hot pot. This scene caused the serious-looking golden-haired girl to freeze on the spot, and her jaw almost dropped to the ground.
"Did I open it the wrong way?"
Artemis muttered to herself in confusion, then turned around, walked out, and pushed open the door again.
Liliana was busy dipping leaves into the hot pot to eat …
Turned around, walked out, and pushed open the door again.
Lin Xue was fighting over the meat with me in a complete mess …
"Hey! Artemis! Come and try my sister's cooking! " Before the golden-haired ponytailed girl pushed open the door again, I called out to her. "How many more times do you need to go out? That's the number of words I've lied to you!"
Artemis collapsed with a crash.
With a face full of black lines, the girl, who was once the leader of the Olympians, sat down next to Shallow Shallow, who immediately gave her a pair of chopsticks. Shallow Shallow was hopelessly familiar with people, and she didn't have that many tricks up her sleeves. Right now, the most important thing on her mind was probably eating.
Artemis hesitated for a moment, and with a conflicted expression, she picked up a piece of cooked vegetables from the hot pot, dipped it in some seasoning, and put it in her mouth. A few seconds later, the golden-haired girl decisively joined the noisy Empire crowd in the fight for food.
"Wait a minute! I don't think I came here to eat hot pot with you? "
It was not until ten minutes later that Artemis suddenly reacted and ended our lunch with a cry of surprise. Lin Xue leisurely leaned back in her chair and gently patted her belly that was not bulging at all. She glanced sideways at Artemis. "You just realized?"
"Well, now that we're full, let's get down to business." I threw the leftovers on the table into an unknown spatial rift. "Artemis, I think we've met before, at the moon base. That was you, wasn't it?"
"What do you think?" Artemis smiled slightly, said noncommittally, and then accidentally burped.
We: "…"
Artemis: "…"
"That was an accident!" The tragic golden-haired girl was almost driven to the brink of collapse by a series of off-line events. She said rather self-deprecatingly, "Well, the one you saw on Earth was me, and the one here is also me, but the process is quite complicated to explain …"
"Just say one thing: Are you an Earthling, or a native of this world?"
We were no strangers to things like transmigration. Not to mention that the terrible loli next to us who had just eaten half a pound of Yggdrasil was a transmigrator herself, we also had tens of thousands of people in the shadow city who had transmigrated in groups. I was more concerned about the identity of Artemis. She was the leader of Olympus, but in this world fragment that had been dead for who knows how many years, she was also the leader of a student survivor organization. Two mysterious identities were split between two worlds, and she seemed to have the temperament of a leader. Could this guy be the vanguard that Uncle Eyeball had arranged to subvert the plot and rewrite the heroine's story?
"I … To be honest, sometimes I can't tell which world I belong to, but now it seems that I belong here, this tomb that has fallen into a deep sleep … Welcome to the world of death, that's all I want to say."
A native of the world of the dead, one of the only Awakeners left after the apocalypse, this was Artemis' identity, but at the same time, she was also the leader of the Olympus organization on Earth. According to the joint analysis of Bubble and Tawil on Earth, we have a general explanation for this phenomenon. This incomprehensible fact should be attributed to a kind of effect that we still do not understand, but may be related to the information interaction between the two worlds. Simply put, it is the ultimate enhanced version of the information projection of two neighboring worlds concentrated on a single individual. Under the effect of the projection, Artemis obtained a projection on Earth formed entirely of information. According to the theory of the "Information Universe" studied by the Shiring Apostles, information is reality, and the Artemis in the world fragment and the Artemis projection on Earth are real and effective existences. Moreover, because the information projection effect that should have been dispersed to a large number of substances was all concentrated on Artemis, this girl also gained the ability to contact her doppelgänger, and the "Moon Goddess" who controlled the Olympus organization on Earth was thus born. As for the hypnotic ability that the doppelgänger of Artemis (…) possessed, preliminary analysis should be an extremely primitive information interference, simple but completely impossible for ordinary people to resist.
This may more or less explain why there was a small group of student survivors who called themselves Awakeners in the school where Artemis' real body was. Although the information projection between the two worlds was all concentrated on Artemis for unknown reasons, there was still information leakage around her, like water droplets leaking out of a poorly sealed pipe. The active information from Earth preserved Hu Wen and Ringer's free will, so that they did not become a replayable videotape along with the world.
"I always thought it was a dream," Artemis buried her head deep in her chest. "In these nightmarish days, because of the excessive nostalgia for the once beautiful life, the illusion made me feel that I was still living in another world, but not long ago I suddenly lost contact with 'the other side' and woke up from the dream, but you guys actually … Wait! How did you come to this world? "
It was only now that she thought of this important question. Did the perennial information rigidity of the world fragment make Artemis' brain rusty?
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