The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 1146 There are clues to follow
"Wow, we're so close to Bell Labs!" Liu Hongyi exclaimed.

The guide smiled and said, "Of course, our memorial hall was originally built right next to Bell Labs, right next to the wall."

He raised his hand and gestured downwards.

"Look, that's the family headquarters of Bell Labs. It's full of high-level server rooms that can hold trillions of data points and tens of billions of digital beings."

He spread his arms out exaggeratedly:

"This—is the first family of the Spectral Star!"

For a moment, everyone stared at the enormous forest of server rooms, falling into silence.

I don't know if it was because I was shocked, or... I had other thoughts.

The guide, of course, thought it was the former and was very satisfied with the current effect, so he clapped his hands.

"Alright, everyone should have a better understanding of Bell Labs now. Let's take a break here for a bit, our tour isn't over yet."

This is actually just a souvenir shop with a restroom next door. It's supposed to be a place for people to rest, but you'll definitely end up making a purchase when you come here.

The freshly baked scones were incredibly fragrant, and the pandan tea shimmered in the clear glass with a beautiful, almost unreal, color—far superior to the artificial coloring in the drinks served at the door.

There's also pandan ice cream with added MPE—not much, of course, but just a little is enough to attract attention.

Aston generously offered to buy one for each member of the "New World" group.

However, in the end, only Taibai Sword Immortal and Ariel accepted it. The two of them are now standing by the window, admiring the magnificence of Bell Labs while licking ice cream until their hands are covered in it.

Not to mention, the souvenirs specially designed for Bell Labs by professional designers are indeed exquisite – magnets, badges, flash cards, figurines, backpacks, and even aircraft, co-branded terminals, holographic backgrounds, and so on are all available.

Since we're already here, wouldn't it be a waste not to buy a few things to take home?

Even the mechanical father couldn't resist holding up the Bell Labs logo magnets to his body, as if that would make him a Bell Labs employee.

The little girl was even clamoring to buy a Dr. Bell II figurine, which supposedly has a built-in Class C computing module that can enhance computing power to some extent.

The price, however, was a dilemma for the couple.

As a second-best option, I bought her a doll made of space cotton with no extra functions, and that was enough to get rid of her.

But the girl was clearly not happy.

Holding "Dr. Bell I's head" in one hand and Dr. Bell II in the other, his eyes were still secretly looking at Ariel—the ice cream in his hand, and he quietly swallowed.

"Sigh, really, why bring a child here now?"

From afar, the woman with the vibrant eyeshadow shook her head and sighed.

"What? Is my memorial hall not good enough?" the guide chuckled.

"Whether it's good or not isn't the key point. The key point is—she's not even a noble. If it were before, it would be alright, at least there would be a direction to strive for. But now... it's just giving her unrealistic hopes."

“My dear, you are indeed kind and wonderful.” The tour guide then sighed again, “But to be honest, it’s because so many people think like you that my business has been so dismal lately.”

The woman crossed her arms. "So that's why you called me here, saying it was a date, but it turns out you just wanted to boost your sales figures, right?"

"Isn't this something we can do after afternoon tea?"

The guide still smiled gently.

Although perfectly handsome faces are commonplace in the noble residences, it is precisely because he exudes a pheromone she likes that this is what truly distinguishes people in this era.

Her anger subsided considerably without her even realizing it.

The guide also explained in a low voice:
"I had already decided that there would be very few people today, so I might as well skip work. I didn't expect that eight people would sign up at once, which is the most I've had recently!"

"You can also take a look at where I work; isn't that a way of getting to know each other?"

The woman was secretly pleased, and gave him a sideways glance, saying, "At least you know how to talk."

Just then, Liu Hongshan and Liu Hongyi, who had just gone to the restroom, came out.

The tour guide's eyes visibly flickered, following Liu Hongyi's retreating figure.

The woman's temper flared up. "You were just using sweet talk! You couldn't even keep your eyes off her, you were staring at her the whole time!"

"Don't be angry. Aren't we in an open relationship? You said it yourself. What's wrong with me admiring someone? I haven't interfered with your relationship with your digital lover."

"A digital lover can't be—"

"Anyway, can we just ignore each other?" the guide quickly interrupted her. "Speaking of which, don't you think this woman is quite beautiful?"

"Really? I don't think it's that good-looking..."

“That’s not what I meant,” the guide said in a low voice. “Her face shows no signs of alteration.”

The woman then took a serious look at him.

"If you mean that, then yes. The red-haired guy next to me doesn't seem to have it either."

"This level of genetic perfection..." The guide stroked his chin, a hint of inquiry in his eyes, "I'm afraid only those freaks from the Izetta Foundation could achieve something like this, right?"

“But I just looked at the registration information, and they are not from noble families, but from some obscure little family called ‘New World’.”

"The New World..."

The woman silently repeated these three words.

By this time, the two had already approached each other, and the topic naturally came to an end.

The guide clapped his hands and announced loudly:
"Next, we'll go to the Dr. Bell Memorial Hall."

As he spoke, he led everyone through a long, narrow holographic tunnel.

Images of the old colonial era constantly appeared on the tunnel walls, with layers of light and shadow creating a momentary sense of disorientation, as if one had truly returned to the past.

When the light and shadow finally dispersed, the area ahead suddenly brightened.

A new world unfolded before them.

The trees are lush and green, their canopies so tall that the sky is completely obscured. Colorful vines are everywhere, and amidst the trees stands an extremely simple bungalow.

"This place recreates the working environment of Dr. Bell I."

"What you see now is the result of the maximum restoration."

“The environment was much worse when the colonies were first established. There was no stable air filtration system, no vaccines, many people died from infections, there was not enough energy, and even the most basic food rations had to be calculated precisely.”

"But it was here that Dr. Bell I laid the technological foundation for the planet Banlan, founded the later Bell Labs, and led the entire colony into a new era step by step."

The group went inside.

Scattered on the table were paper notebooks and open books, as well as a laptop, but it was clear that no one knew what it was anymore; only the members of the "New World" glanced at it indifferently.

In the corner stood several old-fashioned servers, still humming and flashing a faint light.

A group photo hangs on the wall.

Seeing that many people were interested—especially Liu Hongyi—the guide leaned over and explained with a smile:
"This is a group photo of our colonial forefathers."

"Among these people, those who have been able to continue their bloodline have all become nobles."

He pointed to a woman in the middle.

“Look, this is the ancestor of the Izetta Foundation. She and Dr. Bell were mortal enemies back then, and they still are now.”

"Different ideologies?" Liu Hongyi asked.

"Of course." The guide nodded, giving Liu Hongyi a strange look.

The beautiful woman gave her a sidelong glance. "Isn't this common sense?" "Izetta insists on the path of physical modification, while Bell has chosen the path of consciousness evolution—the former believes that only superior genes can pass on civilization, while the latter believes that consciousness is the key to the progress of civilization."

As she said this, she shrugged slightly.

"Of course, as things stand today, most people actually have both—chips, prosthetics, neural optimization, organ replacements... they all use them to some extent."

The Taibai Sword Immortal stared at the group photo, his gaze sweeping over it little by little, finally landing on a girl huddled in the corner, and suddenly froze.

"Who... is this?"

“Oh, this one…” The guide quickly searched through the memory chip in his mind, but his brows slowly furrowed. “That’s strange, there’s no name for her… but I know that she later founded the Kovien family with that young man next to her.”

He pointed to the young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes beside the girl.

“Kouweien…” The beautiful woman’s expression shifted.

But the Taibai Sword Immortal felt a sudden tremor in his heart.

The image of this youth has been seen in the statues at the Palm Garden.

As for the girl, he knew her name.

Because he knows him.

We've known each other for a very, very long time.

She was still young then.

The Ling family's son carried her around and flaunted her to everyone he met, boasting that he had a daughter.

It was a soft, small ball with bright, dark eyes and a round, fair face, just like a freshly steamed glutinous rice ball.

When the Taibai Sword Immortal was holding it, he even concealed his sword intent tightly, for fear of accidentally hurting the little thing.

However, the Ling family boy was even more nervous than him at the time.

She only let him hold her for a short while before taking her back.

After that, the Taibai Sword Immortal rarely saw her again.

I've only heard occasionally that the child is so spoiled that he's causing his father a constant headache.

He never liked to concern himself with these trivial matters.

Having seen more, I've come to realize that the less you interfere in many things, the better.

If he hadn't been on the verge of death and despaired of the damned heavens, he probably wouldn't have agreed to the Xiaoxiang Tower Master's request to return to the martial world.

Later, the child almost died.

At that time, he was preparing to unleash that sword strike on Mobei. Before that, he was eating roasted chicken on the Taibai Tower to warm up his stomach and replenish his energy.

It was then that he met Liu Sheng.

That was the first time the two of them had truly met.

At that moment, he saw "Nuomi Tuanzi" again in the torrent of time, now grown up, and pulled her back from a deadly situation.

Because he could sense that the girl shouldn't have died.

Liu Sheng shouldn't have had blood on his hands at this time.

But later on, many things became uncontrollable. Even he, who could clearly see traces of time and space, could not stop things from happening.

That's right.

He had already touched the edge of higher dimensions very early on.

He was always suppressed by the supreme god and could not cross over. In fact, the closer he got to the higher dimensions, the weaker he became.

Until Liu Sheng broke through this ceiling.

However, he now also knows that even becoming an "unknowable" does not mean that he can use high-dimensional abilities without any cost. If he does not know the limitations, he will only fall into the abyss of the unknown.

Perhaps like the girl in this photo.

Lost in the river of time, we can find no trace of it; we can only meet here through an old photograph.

He didn't want to interfere too much at first.

But now he dares not interfere.

Everything... has already been missed.

Ripples spread across the mind of the Taibai Sword Immortal.

So Liu Sheng finally "saw" it too.

And finally, at this moment, she truly understood the meaning behind "entropy reverser".

[Tolena Coveyne...]

[Is she her descendant? No wonder she has this ability...]

But how did she get here? And how could she...?

Liu Sheng couldn't figure it out for a moment.

But it was at this moment that things that had always been shrouded in mist finally began to take shape.

Why were the ancestors of the Spectral Star able to leave clues to track down the whereabouts of General Red Mountain?
How can we know that General Hongshan appeared in that place "at that time and moment"?

Everything has a traceable pattern.

……

On the lonely other half of the planet.

Ling Fu slowly transported a batch of newly discovered scrap materials to the Eastern Hemisphere via the Skynet node, muttering to himself:
"Hopefully this time... I'll find it quite useful."

The sound was swallowed up by the biting wind.

He looked up at the city in front of him.

No, that can no longer be considered a city.

Under the cold night, countless eerie creatures, like some kind of proliferating fungal carpet, had already crawled along the streets, high-rise buildings, subway entrances, billboards, and collapsed bridges, wrapping the entire city into a huge, shapeless, rotting organ.

The once orderly roads twisted into winding black veins, and the building surfaces bulged with irregular, fleshy textures. The windows, like eyes, reflected the light wetly in the cold night.

This is a bizarre world that grows on the corpses of the human world.

There was not a trace of life in it.

Even corpses are hard to find.

Over time, the abyss absorbed everything.

Only traces of humanity remain...

The individual offices lit up in high-rise buildings, the occasional dimly flickering lights in the corridors, the whispers in the walls, the mannequins in the shop windows, the shadows blending into the darkness in the tunnels, and the road signs that quietly shift their positions when you look away...

A gust of wind blew in from the other end of the street, and Ling Fu couldn't help but shiver.

Even though he had already become a god, and the power flowing through his body surpassed the strangeness of this area, even he dared not be careless and recklessly break the rules of this place.

Anyway, he's just picking up trash.