"Why are all of you here?!"
Artemis seemed to be affected by the rigid information system in the world fragment, and it was only now that she realized what was going on.
"There's a problem, so we're here to investigate," I said vaguely.
The situation with the world fragment had become more and more complicated, and it was likely that I would need to think carefully about how to deal with it.
"We're here to investigate …" Artemis muttered to herself, and after a while, she finally understood the meaning behind this sentence. "Wait!! You mean, you can freely travel between the two worlds!? "
"That's not difficult," the elder sister said lightly. "To deal with problems related to the world, crossing dimensions is an essential skill."
"That means, you can help us …"
Artemis' face immediately showed an expression of ecstasy, completely losing her calm and decisive appearance at the beginning. The blonde ponytailed girl almost lost control and screamed out loud. She stood up abruptly and almost leaned her entire body in front of me.
This behavior reminded me of Liliana from back then. At that time, that naturally dark girl also used the same method to deceive a lot of my sympathy, but now all I got was a fake loli that was terrible to the core … Uh, it seems that I've gone off topic again.
"Calm down." The elder sister immediately held down Artemis, who was losing control of her emotions. We could understand her feelings. This seemingly ordinary and prosperous world hid a cold, graveyard truth behind it. No one would like to live here, and it was only natural that she had high hopes for us to be able to achieve a miracle like traveling through space and time. But in reality, solving this problem was a hundred times more complicated than imagined. We couldn't even determine the cause of this world fragment or even the principle of its existence. Even Jingle couldn't explain its appearance, not to mention how to restore the dead world fragment. And even if we didn't save this world, it would probably be impossible to just take Artemis and the others away from here. No matter how close to normal free will they had, they were ultimately Information Specters that had died together with the entire world. Or to put it another way, they were Information Specters that had entered an unstable quantum state and hadn't dissipated. What would happen if such Information Specters entered the main material plane? No one dared to take this risk.
So, even though I was happy to help this girl, things really weren't that simple.
It did not take too long for Artemis to calm down. This stubborn and strong girl had amazing psychological endurance. She was worthy of being a leader in both worlds, and her judgment of the situation and the overall situation were far beyond her age.
We told Artemis about the difficulty of the whole thing, and though it was difficult for a high school girl to understand something so profound, she calmly accepted the fact that even we could not do anything for the time being — much to our surprise.
"In short, everything is not hopeless," Lin Xue comforted Artemis, who was biting her lip in silence. "I can see the future, and you are still in it, but we don't know what to do yet."
"Tell me about this world, what happened here, and what is happening now, which is crucial to whether you can be saved." Artemis shook her head.
Artemis shook her head. "I don't know. Everything happened overnight. I was just an ordinary high school girl before, and I never thought I would experience something like this … That night was so ordinary. Hu Wen and I were walking by the school pool, and everything was fine, but … there was a very strong flash in the sky, and in just a moment, we all lost consciousness … When we woke up, the world had become like this, a lonely city of death …"
"It could be a star explosion," the think-tank led by Bubble and Tawil transmitted the possible deduction results in real time. "But before a star explodes, there are usually signs that last for a long time, which can be observed with the naked eye during the day, which does not fit Artemis' description. The second possibility is a 'King's Landing -level Genesis Flash. That light can vaporize an entire galaxy in an instant, which fits Artemis' description, and also fits the condition of a planet being destroyed in a very short time to form quantum ghosts — or information fragments, but this possibility is the smallest. The power of the Genesis Flash is mainly reflected in the destruction of tangible matter, and its law attack is not strong. We need more information."
As for the current situation of this world, Artemis does not know much. After all, she was just an ordinary high school girl before, and even if she had a high leadership talent or a strong spirit honed by later experiences, she could not hide her lack of knowledge. The conjectures and laws of the 'dead world' that she summarized are of no use to us, and the only thing worth paying attention to are a few nouns.
The Awakeners refer to the students who gather around Artemis and maintain their self-will. As the key point of the information projection of the two worlds and a special link between the two worlds, the information around Artemis is very active, even enough to be called a small information explosion point in this world, which allows her companions to maintain their free will, and there will occasionally be signs of students' waking up 'in her place. This is the reason why Bell Yin' harassed 'the students in the classroom. She was looking for companions, and this special power of Artemis is also one of the important reasons why she could become the leader of the Awakeners.
However, the probability of 'waking up' is quite low. Even a few years after the destruction of the world (or maybe even longer, but time here seems to be very chaotic, and any common means of measuring time is useless. Artemis only thinks that a few years have passed, but in fact, their own time has stopped long after the destruction of this world), less than ten 'newbies' have been discovered. It is no wonder that Hu Wen and Bell Yin were surprised when they saw us.
Sleeping is the complete opposite of waking up. In this world of death, 'sleeping' is a taboo word, which means losing all self-will and becoming one of the walking 'ghosts'. Sadly, compared to the low probability of 'waking up', the probability of 'sleeping' seems to be quite high. There will be students who wake up suddenly falling asleep, becoming the 'ghosts' who listen carefully in class and walk mechanically in the campus. At the beginning when the world was destroyed and turned into a large piece of information fragment in a quantum state, Artemis gathered hundreds of companions around her, but now, there are less than twenty people who are still awake …
"Stay in a few special rooms in this building that I'm supervising and communicate often, even if it's meaningless. Don't wander outside for too long, and don't have too much interaction with the rigid 'ghosts'. There are many other tricks, too. They are the experience that we have gained after sacrificing hundreds of companions for such a long time."
Artemis said slowly, with a deep sadness in her voice.
What kind of strong heart does it take for an ordinary high school girl to shoulder such a heavy burden?
"We will do our best to help you. After all, this doesn't contradict our original goal."
The kind-hearted Big Sister said sincerely to Artemis.
That's right, it doesn't contradict. Even though this fragment of the world is a threat to our real world, as long as we separate the intertwining Lines of Law between the two, this threat will no longer exist, and separating them was our mission to begin with. It is just that the original plan was to destroy this floating fragment after completing the separation, but now it has changed to saving this place.
Although the second step of the operation seems to be a hundred times more difficult than the original plan, but … as Big Sister said, do your best, and if it really doesn't work, let Little Bean do it. I don't believe that that guy didn't improve at all after taking so many make-up exams!
We talked with Artemis for a long time. Of course, it was mainly Artemis's one-sided talk. This girl has been suppressed for too long. Even though she appeared to be so strong, living a nightmarish life in this graveyard city, and being treated as the only pillar of support by her companions, such a heavy burden was almost unimaginable for an ordinary girl. Moreover, since the information projection between the two worlds was interrupted for unknown reasons, she even lost the 'dream world' where she could comfort herself. Under such heavy pressure, even the strongest person would reveal their fragile side. It is precisely because of this, after seeing us, who she once regarded as characters in her dream, appear in front of her in real life, Artemis showed unusual enthusiasm. No one would have thought that this girl was the leader of the Olympus terrorist organization on Earth not long ago, and she even almost subverted the entire human society!
"By the way, what were you thinking at that time, to obtain the power of 'God'? To lead the Olympus organization to inform the world? Aren't these ideas a little too vulgar? "
After gradually becoming familiar with each other, Qian Qian developed a great curiosity towards this former enemy of hers. She and Qian Qian seemed to have become good sisters who could talk about anything, almost intimately huddled together.
"This …" Artemis immediately became embarrassed at the mention of this topic. "If I said that I only regarded everything as my own dream, or even a fantasy world of my own imagination, would you believe me? Even now, I still feel a little unreal … "
And then we all oh.
So this was another student girl who was poisoned by YY novels, and the kind that read too much otherworldly hegemony — uh, speaking of which, most of the people who read such books should be boys, right?
"It's getting dark, right?"
While chatting, Artemis suddenly looked up at the bright sky outside the window and said something without rhyme or reason.
"Getting dark? The sun is still so high … "
Shallow Shallow said strangely, but soon she could not go on. It seemed that the sun in the sky had not moved from the beginning, and it had been hanging in the middle of the sky all day.
In this world, nothing could be explained according to common sense.
Sure enough, less than a minute after Artemis's voice fell, the sky outside suddenly darkened.
There was no process at all, as if God was a poor animation supervisor who was short of funds and lacked a sense of responsibility. In order to save costs, the gradual twilight effect was directly removed from the stage play called "The World". Just a flicker of the screen, and with a "biu" sound, a sky full of stars replaced the original blue sun and clear sky.
Then, the pile of books and chair fragments that were piled up in the middle of the classroom completely defied the common sense of physics and spontaneously combusted. The blazing bonfire cast a ghostly shadow over the spacious classroom, and Shallow Shallow immediately happily ran with Liliana to play with the fire.
"Although it is difficult to determine the exact passage of time in this world, there are still signs of things like dawn and dusk. It is related to the shape of the clouds in the sky, and after such a long time, we have also touched the edge of this chaotic world." Artemis looked at the bonfire that was burning, but the books and pieces of wood under it showed no signs of burning, "For example, this fire that always burns by itself, when it turns blue, the sky is about to brighten."
"This world is really strange."
My elder sister and I looked at each other and sighed at the same time.
"There's not even a sunset!"
The setting sun! Such a bleak apocalyptic world, without a sunset, it would be too incomplete, bastard!
"Sunset? There was one a few days ago, "Artemis chuckled, spending time with a bunch of Empire leaders who did not slip away always seemed to be a very happy thing, although she did not think that her sigh was funny," But it's gone now. Now as soon as the time is up, it will immediately turn dark, there is no delay at all, only God knows where this world's dusk has reached. "
Disappeared dusk?
I suddenly remembered the dusk that must come every morning in the real world outside, and then sighed, "I think I know where your dusk is …"
"The collision of two worlds?"
After listening to my explanation, Artemis could not help but widen her eyes. The entanglement of laws, the pollution of information, the collision of worlds, this series of rare terms drilled into her ears, causing this young girl who was still at the age of exuberant curiosity (in this world where time has stopped, Artemis and the others have really obtained another meaning of immortality) to great interest, so Shallow Shallow, who was busy studying with Liliana on how to roast the sprout of the World Tree to taste better, immediately jumped back and began to explain the model of the multiverse to Artemis, this poor girl with the name of the Moon Goddess was poisoned by Shallow Shallow's messy and full of loopholes …
At this moment, a low 'woo woo' sound from somewhere suddenly drilled into our ears, like the whimper of the night wind, instantly silencing everyone.
"Ah … Ah Jun," Shallow Shallow immediately burrowed into my arms, "Did you hear something?"
"What the hell is this …" I hugged the shivering Qian Qian in my arms and looked around in confusion. Qian Qian wasn't afraid of ghosts, but this eerie and creepy whimper was enough to make anyone who heard it panic. Her usually steady older sister and the simple-minded Lin Xue were fine, but Qian Qian, who was just an ordinary girl, was starting to get scared.
"Boss, I'm afraid …" Just as Shallow Shallow calmed down, the naughty loli Liliana suddenly came over and burrowed into my arms, as if to join in the fun. Yep, then she was sent flying by Shallow Shallow's elbow.
"Sh * t, it's moving again." Artemis was rather calm, perhaps this phenomenon was rather normal in this world?
Just as I was about to open my mouth to ask something, the ground suddenly shook.
Then, like a collapsing dream, the walls around us suddenly collapsed!
This was something hard to imagine. Normally, a part of the walls of a building would be load-bearing walls, and once these walls collapsed, the roof would definitely come crashing down, but when the walls around us silently collapsed into rubble, the ceiling above us strangely … floated horizontally?
Where were the roofs in other places? What about the corridors outside? Where did all those things go?
After the strange phenomenon began, the Chemistry Department activity room was like a lonely island in the sea, rocking from the violent tremors around us. The corridors and stairs in the ancient building seemed to have a life of their own, twisting and moving in front of our eyes, and a flight of stairs even brushed past Artemis's hair as it flew past us. A cement base for a lightning rod with a broken steel bar slowly fell not far away, and a classroom on the first floor — or rather, the front wall of that classroom — rose before our eyes and hung at the end of a twisted S-shaped corridor. Only then did I suddenly understand why I saw a guard room on the third floor that should have been on the bottom floor …
It was like an absurd nightmare, the entire building twisted and deformed before our eyes, and everyone within it felt as if they were in the stomach of a nightmare. Facing such a bizarre scene, even the elder sister had a hint of nervousness on her face, and Shallow Shallow directly closed her eyes and curled up in my arms. Back then, when we annihilated billions of insectoids in the Keplu Sector, she wasn't afraid, but today, facing such a bizarre and absurd scene, she was frightened. It was like a brave warrior who could kill countless enemies on the battlefield, but would still be awakened from sleep by a strange nightmare. This scene was so bizarre that it was like a dream.
Even though I doubted that Qian Qian would be able to communicate with the 'brave warrior'.
As for Liliana, this little girl was now also in my arms, and she and Shallow Shallow each took up half of the room. I could tell that she was really afraid now, and I could feel her petite and soft body trembling, which was also why I didn't throw her out of habit this time.
"Ha, look! This nightmarish world! "
Artemis stood shakily in this bizarre scene, and even though the jolts caused her to stagger, the young girl still stubbornly walked forward until she reached the burning bonfire, and then as if ignoring the flames there, she pulled out a book from it.
"Looks like this will last for a long time, we can read for a while first."
Artemis held the large book that was still emitting flames, and turned her head, smiling like a flower.
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