Absolute Persona [Unlimited]

Chapter 141 He chose to believe "him", but that person betrayed him.

When his body was crushed into powder and turned into nothingness, Jiang Jian found that his consciousness had not dissipated.

He has a pair of empty eyes, and he can see Zhong Xun's canthus cracked; he has invisible ears, and he can hear the silent cry in his heart; through.

He floats in the air like a dandelion.

Soon, a violent storm swept over, carrying the fragile and weak consciousness into the abyss.

The eyes cannot see, the ears cannot hear, and the last ray of consciousness disappears in the black whirlwind.

until……

High-frequency and noisy voices came from all directions.

He tried his best to prick his ears up to listen to the meaningless words and phrases, to listen to the wailing or screaming, he listened in the dark, and caught a low and pleasant voice.

That voice was shouting: "Jiang Jian, Jiang Jian."

He opened his eyes suddenly, and what he saw was a vast expanse of whiteness.

where is he?

Like clouds and cotton candy, densely crowded around him, a fluffy and huge white floc supported his body—no, he no longer has a body, so this should be the condensation of his consciousness image, clear and transparent.

It's like walking a memory gallery in retrogression.

Soon, Jiang Jian realized the difference.

When going back to the memory gallery, the scene will not change, nor will it affect him in any way.But at this moment, the light clouds surrounding him were squeezing and rushing towards him, making him unable to breathe.

Can you feel suffocation without a body?

While thinking in a daze, he tried to push away the crowded clouds in front of him.

"Jiang Jian!"

When the voice came again, there was a very thin crack in the cloud.

The moment the gap closed, he reached out decisively, kicked the white catkins under his feet, and nimbly slipped out.

It was also a vast expanse of whiteness outside, but at the end of this expanse, he saw an unexpected person.

Sword-browed and star-eyed, with a straight figure, wide shoulders and narrow waist, a little lazy.Although there is a faint dandyism between the brows, the temperament of the whole person is extremely chilling.

This is the ex-captain of Chongming's team from the Dissonance Division, Shen Chen.

"It really is you." Shen Li looked at Jiang Jian's expression, knowing that he recognized him, and frowning towards him, "Why are you here? Where's Zhong Xun?"

Jiang Jian picked the key points to make a long story short, but his pensive expression became more and more dignified.

At the end, he asked: "Where is...?"

Shen Lu glanced at him lightly: "Don't you already have the answer in your heart?"

Jiang Jian was slightly taken aback: "Is there really a barren land? Chen Xiqing said, you never believed in the theory of the barren land, and thought it was fabricated to alleviate the suspicion of the guests and make them indulge in the show."

When Shen Li heard the name, his figure shook.

The long eyebrows were raised slightly, and he laughed at himself: "Before I came here, I really thought so. But the name of the barren land is really... beautiful. If I can, I would prefer to call it the cemetery of consciousness. "

"Consciousness... Cemetery?" Jiang Jian chewed on the word.

"The world we entered, including the world of the program, exists in such a chaotic zone as the 'Desolate Land'. After death, the consciousness will not disappear immediately, but will be washed here. If the consciousness is weak, it will gradually lose its relationship with the person. The connection between them is refined into cotton that can only squeak and scream."

Saying that, Shen Chen grabbed a ball from the crowded clouds and pulled it out.

The ear-piercing screams and howls were suddenly deafening.

Jiang Jian pulled a slice lightly in an imitative manner, what he heard was the sound of a woman whimpering and a child crying.

Fei Zeer's conversation with Tang Yin before his death came to his mind.

From the birth of the tree to the creation of the β world, all follow the path that consciousness precedes existence, and consciousness participates in the formation of matter.

The existence of the barren land seems to further support Feizel's point of view: when a person dies, his specific existence is annihilated, and his consciousness still stays in a certain way, forming such a chaotic square.

He knew why Shen Li thought this place should be called the Consciousness Graveyard, the ruins piled up by the consciousness of the dead.

"According to my observation, the ease of refining has a lot to do with personal will. I can see many dead people here every day, but few people can maintain a complete body like me." Shen Ji Slowly said, "If you really accept that you are about to die or have died, it will be difficult for him to wake you up just now."

"he?"

"my buddy."

Shen Li snapped his fingers, and an all-too-familiar figure Jiang Jian floated out from behind a cloud.

But he didn't dare to admit it very much, and his tone was a little weak; "Zhong... Zhong Xun?"

How can it be?If Zhong Xun arrived at the consciousness cemetery before him, then who was the person outside who was revived because he used the replacement reward?

Jiang Jian stared at the figure in front of her, her eyebrows slowly furrowed.

This figure, which is exactly the same as Zhong Xun's, seems to be incomplete. Under the narrow waist, it looks like light smoke. It looks like a handsome fairy floating out of Aladdin's magic lamp in fairy tales.

He seemed to be aware of Jiang Jian's vigilance, and slowly floated in front of him, raised his hand to cover the center of his brow, as if he wanted to smooth out the beautiful gap, and then kissed him reverently between the brows.

Jiang Jian hurriedly took a few steps back, raised her eyes to meet the lonely eyes of the person in front of her.

"Pfft, you also have today." Shen Si watched the play for a while, then grabbed Zhong Xun's shoulder and pulled it behind him, "Don't be afraid, this is Zhong Xun's own residual consciousness, and it will be refined soon."

Jiang Jian looked at the low-browed and shy figure behind Shen Lu, and felt a split in her heart: "How could he have residual consciousness here...ah!"

He remembered, the show that made Chen Xiqing so sad, except for Zhong Xun, the whole army was wiped out!

"What happened to that show? Why didn't he mention it?"

Sighing deeply, he embraced Zhong Xun, who was becoming more and more vague beside him: "He didn't mention it because he couldn't remember clearly. I'm afraid only this one remembers the whole story of that show."

Jiang Jian listened to Shen Su's words, but did not take her eyes off "Zhong Xun".

It became lighter and more transparent, as if it would soon turn into a wisp of smoke and merge with the surrounding clouds.

"I died first. I watched our consciousness fall here together with my own eyes, but suddenly a vine entangled his consciousness and took him away. This, to be precise, is Zhong Xun's consciousness remnant."

vine?A sharpness flashed in Jiang Jian's eyes.

Although Zhong Xun was only half fused with the tree of consciousness, did the tree still choose to save him?

Jiang Jian looked at the two of them; "So, what happened in that show?"

Shen Li raised his hand and pressed his temple, then turned his head and asked Zhong Xun's remaining consciousness: "Dude, do you want to talk?"

Zhong Xun himself was much weaker in this residual consciousness. He shrank behind Shen Li, shook his head, nodded again, and finally lowered his head simply, silently biting his lips.

Jiang Jian couldn't help staring dumbfounded, how could Zhong Xun, the cheeky guy who kissed him whenever he had something to do, have such a shy side?

"Forget it, let me tell." Shen Si was not used to his good buddy's appearance, and said at a showdown, "Do you know that my brother likes you? If you want me to say, you don't have to treat him as Zhong Xun. The residual consciousness is almost the externalization of all his repressed crush emotions, but it is not the whole him."

Jiang Jian nodded, still couldn't help but look at the man beside Shen Si.

He suddenly thought, Zhong Xun didn't recognize him at first, apart from memory shielding, could it be because of a part of his consciousness that was incomplete?

"It's good to know, it's good to know, and it's good to convey your heart." Shen Si continued, "As far as I know from chatting with him here, in order to tie him up, there will always be people on the show. People who are very similar to you, sometimes in appearance, sometimes in personality. That program should be the 298th time he met 'you'."

Jiang Jian gasped.

No wonder Zhong Xun was so wary of him in Qingluan Village, he didn't dare to confirm it at all, suffering and torturing.

"However, my memory at that time was also a little weak. Not only did I not fully recognize him, but I also didn't realize that there was an NPC exactly like you in that episode."

Jiang Jian asked, "What did that man do?"

"He was the boss of our show, and he wanted to kill everyone including the guest characters, but Zhong Xun convinced all of us the day before and chose to believe him."

It was clearly just a transparent conscious body, but the non-existent heart still beat violently.

Zhong Xun chose to believe "him", but that person betrayed him.

"After he was backstabbed by that person, his mood changed drastically. Originally, he was trying to save all of us, but for some reason, the whole world of the show started to shake."

"Because he has something to do with the stability of the program world." Jiang Jian said calmly.

He finally knew why the live broadcast of the show was suddenly interrupted in the eyes of other guests.Zhong Xun mistrusted someone, and also implicated other innocent guests. The violent mood swing affected the stability of the show at that moment, and the world he lived in was the first to suffer the disaster.

"Although it's tragic, I don't blame him. If that person is Ah Qing, I don't know if I will be like Zhong Xun." Shen Li raised his hand and squeezed the people around him. It became weaker and weaker, "If I didn't go to the barren land, I wouldn't recover my memory. With his remaining consciousness, we have done a lot of investigation here."

Shen Lu paused, with a smile in his eyes: "You went to death so calmly, isn't it because you noticed something?"

Jiang Jian met the thoughtful and keen eyes of his superiors, and couldn't help feeling that he was indeed the former captain.

He said seriously: "When I was sending those zombies off for the last time, some people said that they always saw me looking for death, and hoped that I could live well."

It was said by the zombie who chased Fu Yuncheng in the factory that night before he died.

He thought about it for a long time, and there was no other reason to explain it except that he was mistaken for Jiang Fan.

"Why didn't you tell Zhong Xun?" Shen Si tilted her head and asked him.

Jiang Jian watched the remaining consciousness of Zhong Xun around Shen Si melt into the clouds behind her, and lowered her eyes: "I don't want him to worry. If there must be someone who wants to experience death during the investigation of Jiang Fan, I don't want that person to be him."

After all, when they were still alive, no one knew that the end of death was a barren land.

"It's really yours, come with me."

Shen San pushed the clouds away and led him forward, walked a distance on the cotton candy-like clouds, grabbed a screaming ball among them: "I didn't know that person was your brother before, because he looks a bit like you, secretly Watched him for a long time."

Then he picked another ball and threw it to Jiang Jian.

Listening to the familiar voice, Jiang Jian screamed with drunkenness and madness: "This is... Jiang Fan after being refined?"

"There are fragments of his consciousness in the barren land from time to time." Shen San said seriously, "Just like Zhong Xun, except for the two of them, I have never seen other people have such fragments. But he, what is his name? ?”

"Jiang Fan."

"But Jiang Fan is different. Fragments of his consciousness appear regularly, as if..."

"It's as if he will go to seek death regularly, but he can't die." Jiang Jian continued.

This coincided with the witness testimony of the zombies.

And the reason why he can't die is the same as that of Zhong Xun.Jiang Fan is also the host of the tree, as long as the tree does not allow his body to die, he will never die completely.

"I followed him secretly a few times, and found that his target was in a barren land." Shen San pushed aside the clouds and led Jiang Jian into a narrow and extremely long passage.

After passing through layers of ruins of consciousness, Jiang Jian vaguely saw a glimmering pool of water at the end.

The deep and glowing pool water is so dazzling that it seems to hold a bend of the Milky Way.There seems to be a mutually repulsive force between the clouds and the pool, separated by an invisible barrier.

Shen Si said, "On this road, only his consciousness remains, and it was Jiang Fan who discovered this road for the first time. I followed his route to find this place, and this is his goal."

Jiang Jian looked back at Shen Lu: "So you went in? What's in there?"

The corners of Shen Chen's mouth curled up; "Did you receive a note saying that I will take you to see the fireworks show by the river?"

Jiang Jian's eyes widened, looking at Shen San in disbelief.

After leaving Tang Yin's circular prison, Zhong Xun confessed that he had never written such a thing, but how could Shen Nu, who had died a long time ago, know?

"When we were in school, we often imitated each other's parents' handwriting and signed each other's handwriting. His father taught him his handwriting." Shen Lu admitted with a smile, "I wrote the note, so I didn't recognize it. ?”

"How is it possible?" Jiang Jian stared fixedly at the deep pool outside the barrier, "You went in and then came back to life? No, it's not a resurrection. If you came back to life, you wouldn't be able to stand here."

Shen Si leaned lightly on the cloud beside him, folded his arms: "Have you ever heard a saying, 'Death is not losing life, but going out of time'?[1]

"In this Tanshui, there is no linear time anymore. After sinking to the bottom, swim towards the bright place. After you get out of the water, you will find that you have reached a certain point in time, the real past.

"You can interact with the material world like a normal person, but the stay time is limited, and you can only show the entity if you are observed by others. Like me, no one discovered it from the beginning to the end, so you can go to your windbreaker without anyone noticing. A note was stuffed inside. If you check with Zhong Xun, you will know that he has not written it, and if he can still remember me, you can think that in this world, apart from his father, I am the only one who has similar handwriting with him. "

"..."

Jiang Jian didn't have the heart to tell Shen Lu that Zhong Xun not only didn't realize this, but also treated it as someone else's jealousy for a long time, and because of his carelessness, let Zhong Xun throw the clothes with the note into the washing machine and wash them to pieces , I haven't even seen Shen Ji's handwriting.

Jiang Jian raised his hand and placed it in front of the barrier: "In other words, Jiang Fan is so eager to transfer the identity of the host, because he wants to die completely and reach the barren land, and go back to the past from here?"

"It's very possible. I came here once with Zhong Xun's remaining consciousness, but if the body is not completely dead, there is no strong and complete consciousness. Even if you go back to the past, you won't stay for long. I guess Jiang Fan may have realized it too." At this point, he won't be able to stay in the barren land for long, let alone go back to the past."

Jiang Jian looked back, looking at the road where the clouds squeezed each other when they came: "I guess, he is coming soon."

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[1] "Death is not losing life, but going out of time" comes from Yu Hua's "Screaming in the Drizzle". The last sentence here is different from the original text in order to fit Shensi.