From the end of the world

Chapter 172 Entering Again 2
Compared with humans with finite lives, people who have obtained infinite life are bound to look at problems from a different perspective, and their spirituality is likely to take a completely different form. However, this difference has not yet appeared to me.

Sometimes I think that after a hundred years, when all my friends are dead, I will probably be the same, but I don't indulge in the melancholy of worrying about the length of our lives. The reason is simple. After all, I want to pursue adventures, and I may die on the roadside in the near future. It doesn't matter how much life expectancy I have, I may die earlier than ordinary people.

I always have a feeling that if I really choose to give up adventure one day and accept the life expectancy that I can't see the end, maybe my spirituality will change drastically at that moment, and even leave the category of "human". The reason why I am still maintaining the old spirituality now is probably because I haven't given up my obsession with being a human.

Back to the topic, because Junior Sister Zhu’s eyes were a bit scary, I immediately changed back to a form that was almost twenty years old.

"Ah." Zhu Shi made a regretful sound, "Brother Zhuang, are you really not going to stay like that for a while? You see, Ma Zao seems to have some regrets too..."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but turn my head to look at Ma Zao, who said calmly, "...I don't have any regrets. Really."

From her tone, it seems like she still has a bit of regret. Could it be that she likes me to look younger?

It's not a problem to change alone in front of her occasionally in the future.

As for Zhu Shi, I think it would be better for me to be cautious in what I say and do.

"Ahem, let's get back to business." Lu Youxun intervened, "Do you have any other opinions about that strange secret base of the Humanitarian Department?"

"I don't understand what they think either." Zhu Shi regained his composure. "But there are many demon hunters there who are under threat from the Humanitarian Department. The demon hunters that Zhuang Cheng helped to free earlier may have also been discovered to be abnormal by the Humanitarian Department. We must find a way to help them."

And Ma Zao rarely joined the conversation.

"I think that base may be located in the 'space outside of reality'," she said.

The space outside of reality - this term reminds me of the basement on the fifteenth floor, and I feel itchy inside.

"Why?" Lu Youxun asked.

"I tried to transfer myself to Zhuang Cheng before, but failed." Ma Zao said calmly, "At first I thought there was a barrier stopping me, but considering the various strange phenomena Zhuang Cheng mentioned, I think the possibility of a different space is higher. And now it is really difficult for me to teleport myself to a different space."

"Hmm? Wait, Mazao..." I recalled a little, "When I teleported myself over, I didn't seem to bring your marker sticker with me... Why were you able to try to teleport?"

I was only wearing a white straitjacket there, with no Ma Zao marking stickers on my shoulders. If I had, it would probably have been noticed by the researchers and "jailers".

"Because I held you at night." Ma Zao said seriously, "It is much more difficult to locate your regression coordinates on a living person than on an object. The reason why I held you when we slept was to locate your body to 'where I was in the past.'"

Huh? She hugged me for two consecutive nights some time ago. It turns out that it wasn't because of a bad sleeping position, but she did it on purpose?
I was marked by her without knowing it?

She looked at me as if it was natural, as if she didn't think there was anything wrong with her behavior. Although I, as someone who secretly put heat energy marks into other people's internal organs, have no right to say this, I think her behavior is indeed not normal. Perhaps it is because she rarely interacted with people in the past, and her "concept of companionship" is different from that of normal people, so she lacks a sense of distance.

But when I thought that she treated me as a partner, I felt a little happy.

"Brother Zhuang, have you and Ma Zao been sleeping together?" Zhu Shi's gaze pierced me, a potential criminal, like a sharp sword, "This is different from what you told me before..."

As she spoke, she looked at another person: "Also, Ma Zao... don't you think that as a girl, you should keep a little social distance from men?"

"Is there any problem with this?" Ma Zao wondered, "Zhuang Cheng and I are partners, which is the so-called 'community of shared destiny', right?"

"What community of shared destiny? Could it be that not only Brother Zhuang, but you too are in the gravity system? Are you a binary star system?" Zhu Shi complained.

"Now is not the time to talk about that." I quickly changed the subject. "If the Humanitarian Department's secret base is not the real world, then everything that happened there might be as unreal as a dream. Whether it's 'people like two years ago' or 'girl Lu Chan', or 'distorted scenes that don't look like research facilities', they are not real things... Am I right in understanding it this way?"

"That's right. If the female Lu Chan and other demon hunters are creatures from another dimension, then this can explain why the Humanitarian Department can easily capture dozens of demon hunters as experimental materials!" Zhu Shi suddenly realized, "They can't do this in the real world, but they can do it in the dream dimension! Hmm? Wait, something's wrong..."

"...Yes, that's impossible." Lu Youxun thought about it and shook his head. "No matter what kind of strange power the Humanitarian Department wants to study, it will eventually rely on scientific methods to study it. Since it is science, it is destined to use objective and real materials as research objects. What is created by dreams is nothing more than a repetition of known information, which is meaningless.

"Of course, different spaces are not just dream-like. There may indeed be a space different from the real world, and setting up a base in such a place is concealed and reasonable enough. But the materials they are studying must be real living people." Hearing this, I immediately realized a clue, and then asked Ma Zao to come and read the blank photo.

This is my first time using photo reading, and it is really convenient. All I have to do is hold the photo and imagine it in my mind.

I wrote down the face of the first strange man who spoke to me in the secret base of the Humanitarian Department, and then the face of the demon hunter who was rescued and freed by me. I couldn't remember the faces of the others clearly, so I could only take out these two first.

Then, I handed the photo to Lu Youxun.

"Do you recognize these two faces?" I asked.

"Yes, I recognize them." He stared at the two photos closely. "They are the demon hunters who were captured with me in the secret base of the Humanity Department two years ago. But... they have already died in the inhumane human experiments of the Humanity Department. I saw it with my own eyes, it can't be fake."

Firstly, the research materials of the Humanitarian Department must be real living people; secondly, the two people in the photo are both dead; finally, they were both alive at least two years ago.

Combining the above three conditions, was it true that the secret base of the Humanitarian Department that I went to was two years ago?

"I'm almost back to normal."

Lu Youxun exhaled, and then said: "Zhuang Cheng, if that is really an alien space, then there should be an 'entrance' or 'entry method'. Next, please help find it, and Luo Shan will break through that place. And if it is a real space, please find the address there and assist Luo Shan in the battle against the Humanitarian Department.

"If it really was 'two years ago', at least Chen Long and Doctor Silver Mask who appeared there are 'present characters'. They may have found a way to travel through time and space. Please investigate the truth then."

"I understand."

The situation seems complicated, but in fact my prey has always been clear, that is, Chen Long and Dr. Silver Mask. The former has "Chang'an's whereabouts" and the latter has "clues to the end of the world".

As for "helping Lu Youxun get revenge", this is only a secondary goal for me. However, I have a good impression of Lu Youxun, and he has helped me. I am also quite happy to stand on his side and help him get revenge.

At this moment, an electronic notification sound suddenly came from Lu Youxun's pocket. He took out his mobile phone and glanced at the message, frowning as if reflexively.

"Any bad news?" I asked.

"The Sharpshooter responded to my request, but he's not an easy person to get along with." He said, "Zhuang Cheng, you have to be careful. Although I asked him to do it, considering the special situation here, someone might take this opportunity to ask him to do something else."

At the end of his speech, he deliberately glanced at Ma Zao. I immediately realized what he meant - the magic gun might be harmful to Ma Zao.

This possibility was not beyond my expectation. What surprised me more was that Lu Youxun actually reminded me. Was he going to stand on my side? Because I would help him get revenge on the Humanitarian Department later?
After further organizing and analyzing the previous situation, he went through the mind-cleansing procedure again. During this period, I added a preset instruction to the "firefly" on Ma Zao's body - when the Great Perfection level of impermanence appeared around Ma Zao, it would self-destruct.

I can also sense the presence of the "firefly" on the other side. Once the magic gun appears nearby, no matter whether the opponent is hostile or not, I will immediately transmit it back through the thermal energy mark in Ma Zao's body.

Perhaps it would be a better choice to let Ma avoid it in advance, but now that she has come into the open, it would be too naive to think that she can be hidden at this point.

After bathing and purifying his mind, Lu You walked around to the reception room.

"Then let's start again." He stretched out his right hand to me.

I held his hand, and he threw the white jade abacus in his left hand to the ground again and started divination. This time, as expected, it went as smoothly as last time. He once again saw the image of the secret base of the Humanitarian Department, and then transmitted it to my consciousness.

I vaguely saw a room, a place that seemed to be filled with various sophisticated equipment and instruments, like an operating room.

In the center of the operating room, there is a hard bed made of metal mechanical material. The bed surface seems to have a human-shaped concave design, and it seems to be connected to a lot of restraint props.

Staring at this blurry image, I activated Fire Teleport.

(End of this chapter)