Eternal Night

Chapter 341 Exploration and Sound

Wu Xianxiao walked at the front of the team, the superimposed light sources in his hands illuminated the front and left and right of him, leaving a long shadow behind him, and the others followed behind him, still in the same formation as the previous seven people, but Gao Changgong carried the unconscious person on his back, and as for the bodies of the two sacrificed people, there was really nothing they could do, and they could only bring them back after a shelter was set up.

Eight people walked along the edge of the building, exploring each building one by one.

Some buildings have tightly closed doors. These doors have incredible power and cannot be pushed open from the outside in any way. Even Wu Xianxiao burst out his strength to test it, but the entire door did not move at all. If the force was greater, the entire building would be destroyed, but the door still could not be opened. At the same time, because this door is not hostile, the title of common man is not effective.

So in the end, everyone could only bypass all the buildings with closed doors and enter only those with open doors.

The exploration went very badly.

There are so many buildings on this block, it can even be described as dense, but less than one-fifth of the buildings have open doors. After checking inside, they find that the buildings are exactly the same as the ones they entered, with different interior spaces and structures, but they are all empty. There is no furniture or utensils, nor any words or patterns. Apart from the buildings themselves, there are no windows, and no traces of any man-made objects can be found.

However, this kind of archaeological behavior is boring in itself. After all, this is the Zero Point Three Dream World. Except for the two deaths and one seriously injured person at the beginning, they did not encounter any major casualties. At the same time, they also figured out some of the rules here. The rest is just repeated verification and exploration. This is already a very good start.

After exploring dozens of buildings in succession, the group still found nothing, and at this time they had reached the edge of the surging darkness.

"...The surge of darkness is encroaching upon this gray space."

Wang Yihui looked at the darkness surging outside the door with concern, then turned and said to the others.

In fact, everyone could see that as time went by as they explored, this gray space was indeed gradually shrinking, and the black surge in the distance was slowly encroaching inwards. The gray space, which was about one thousand meters in diameter at the beginning, was now probably less than seven hundred meters in diameter.

"Although I should be able to break those black surges again, we have been exploring for at least five or six hours and haven't gained even a little bit." Wu Xianxiao said depressedly.

Everyone looked at him in surprise, and at the same time, the confusion index in Wu Xianxiao's eyes rose by more than two hundred points again.

"no!"

Wu Xianxiao immediately shouted, "What's wrong with you? Why do you not understand anything I say? Do I look like a clown? Didn't we waste five or six hours and didn't find anything?"

Everyone laughed bitterly, and Gao Changgong couldn't help but ask, "So...how do you usually explore the dream world?"

Wu Xianxiao said seriously: "Reach the dream world, find the people, explore the era and place, and then combine the history, events, and people I know, or the key information I have asked, confirm the target, find the target, and kill the target... Isn't that what you do?"

Everyone looked at each other, and then Hao Cheng whispered gruffly beside them: "Maybe... we are experiencing two different sets of standards?"

Wu Xianxiao immediately stared at Hao Cheng and said, "Don't be so rude on purpose, speak in a normal tone! Also, what do you mean by two sets of standards?"

Chu Yuyan smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Wu, you have to know that we don't know the history before the Third World War, and you are a future person who has been dormant since the 21st century. This means that for us, unless it is the dream world after the Third World War, we don't even know the general situation of that world. Then think about it, we enter an ancient society with dynasty names and historical figures, but we know nothing about them. All the information we have found out cannot form an inherent concept in our minds. We don't even know who was good or bad in that era. In this case, we must explore everything in this dream world from scratch."

"And you? You just need to compare it with the history you know, and then you can go and fight and kill. So, do you think this counts as two sets of standards?"

Wu Xianxiao was stunned. He opened his mouth to refute, but when he thought carefully, he realized that when Yamadea and Xu Shilan teamed up with him, they knew nothing about the history before the Third World War, so he fell silent.

Wang Yihui also said: "Wu Ge, you have become accustomed to path dependence. Your exploration method does work in high-level dream worlds, but the lower the dream world, the greater the deviation from the baseline reality. For example, this 0.3 dream world is like this. We know nothing about this place and have no cognitive concept of the entire world view. We can know the rules and avoid being killed in just a few hours. This is already a very fast progress. It's only a few hours. For us, exploring a dream world for a few days and knowing some of its secrets is already a very good start."

Wu Xianxiao then slowly nodded and had to accept the reality...

"That's why I don't like this slow-paced decryption session. It would be great if I could just do some simple tasks, like go to a certain place and kill someone, or take the head of someone or something... That would be perfect." Wu Xianxiao muttered. The big green-headed fly on his waist chuckled, causing Wu Xianxiao to look at her angrily.

Chu Yuyan suddenly said at this time: "In fact, we did not gain nothing. These five or six hours of exploration have already given us a lot of important information."

Wu Xianxiao's confusion index began to drop for the first time. He didn't care and just said in disbelief: "Don't tease me. We didn't find anything. How can this be considered important information?"

Chu Yuyan shook his head and said, "No, not finding anything is also an important piece of information. At least it eliminates many fallacies. For example, after five or six hours of exploration, we can at least confirm one thing, that is, the block we are currently in is a residential area. The internal structures of the dozens of buildings we have explored are generally residential-type internal structures. Although there are no furniture or appliances, we can also see the facilities such as kitchens and toilets, right?"

"At the same time, judging from the density of buildings, we can generally draw a conclusion that the world underwent some kind of change at a certain time, which greatly increased the population density per unit area. That's why the buildings we see are so compact, even to the point of being chaotic."

Wang Yihui also nodded continuously beside him, while Wu Xianxiao thought carefully and recalled it, then nodded in agreement.

Before he was told, he had no idea of ​​this, but once Chu Yuyan revealed the connection, based on the density of buildings he saw along the way, he could indeed draw such a conclusion.

Chu Yuyan said to Wu Xianxiao, "So don't worry. As long as we can proceed step by step and explore bit by bit, even if we can't find any key information, we can still obtain part of the truth through the process of elimination, and this is enough for us to build a first-level shelter. There are only two problems now. The first is safety. We can't be killed by the rules again. There can't be casualties, otherwise we can't be considered a 'force'. The second is enough exploration areas and enough exploration specimens, otherwise we can't piece together the truth of this world bit by bit through the process of elimination."

Wu Xianxiao understood now. He nodded silently, then looked at the darkness surging in the distance and said, "In other words, we should explore a wider space, right?"

Chu Yuyan and Wang Yihui nodded at the same time, and Wu Xianxiao picked up the light source and said, "Okay, let's move closer to the edge of darkness. I'll break another piece of darkness, and then explore as much space as possible. It would be best if we leave this residential area and see if there are any commercial areas, landmark buildings, libraries, etc."

This is naturally the best. Everyone followed Wu Xianxiao and headed towards the darkness surging at the edge. Wang Yihui said to Wu Xianxiao as they walked: "Brother Wu, pay attention to the direction of the light source. When you break the darkness, there is a high possibility that violent flashes will appear again. If this violent flash only appears in front of you, then it is naturally the best. We can all leave shadows behind us. But if this flash flashes from all directions at the same time, then it is very likely that a wide range of shadowless space will appear. You will need to find a way to deal with this."

Wu Xianxiao was silent for a moment, then he said, "Super Brain World?"

Chu Yuyan smiled and said, "Yes, this is your responsibility. As the only awakened super brain and our commander-in-chief, we can't react when the flash appears. But you are different. In your super brain state, you can see the light flashing in the form of waves. In other words, even at the speed of light, you can still react. In this case, you should save yourself first and keep at least part of your shadow intact. After the flash disappears, as long as you are fast enough, you can quickly create a shadow to drag us out of the second layer of space. Again, if the speed is fast enough, the damage we suffer from the embedding will definitely not be great, at least it will not be fatal."

Wang Yihui also added: "At the same time, Wu Ge, you should also pay attention to the light intensity of this gray shadowless space. Every time you break the darkness, will the light intensity of this gray space change? If there will be superimposed light sources, it means that it will become increasingly difficult for us to create shadows when we move in it, which will increase the difficulty of our exploration and reduce our tolerance for error during exploration. You need to pay attention to these."

Wu Xianxiao nodded repeatedly and kept the two people's words in mind.

Then the team quickly arrived at the edge of the gray space and the surging darkness. Wu Xianxiao turned his head to look at the people behind him, and then walked towards the darkness.

The surge of darkness began to become more intense, as if it couldn't wait to accommodate Wu Xianxiao.

When Wu Xianxiao reached the border line, he stood there concentrating, then punched forward. At the same time, he unfolded his super brain world.

The whole world suddenly turned black and white, and everything around came to a standstill.

In this state, Wu Xianxiao's fist was hitting the darkness at a very slow speed, little by little, getting closer and closer to the surging darkness. Then, he suddenly heard a very slight sound that seemed like an illusion.

"...Wu Xianxiao, save me, I am..."

"Dong Ting!"

(End of this chapter)