Eternal Night

Chapter 39 Lost Civilization and Opening of the Wall!

Ever since he knew that Jiujiu possessed human intelligence, Wu Xianxiao's attitude towards her was different. Not only would he talk to her, but he would also tell her if there was anything important.

This attitude undoubtedly made Jiujiu very happy. She flew to Wu Xianjiu's shoulder and chirped.

Wu Xianxiao took out the old piece of paper and said, "There are not many words on it, but it is very important. I don't know where you found it... The other information is useless, but this piece of information is very important. 'We have preliminarily confirmed the measurement standard of the pollution source. Taking our world as the reality anchor, the pollution characteristic is zero, that is, our reality does not have any pollution, unless it is caused by something below. The first layer below, the pollution is digitally displayed as one to one hundred, and the second layer is one hundred to one thousand...' This is the important information that the main brain needs! It is probably in this USB flash drive."

It chirped and jumped back and forth in front of Wu Xianxiao's shoulders and papers, while tilting its head to look at him.

Wu Xianxiao said, "Don't worry, no one has peeked at me yet. This information is extremely important. The main brain is even willing to give out rewards. It must be a good thing. I'm waiting for you to wake up so we can take a look together."

Jiujiu was chirping happily again, and Wu Xianxiao said with a smile: "It's just that you sleep deeply, like a pig. You fall asleep as soon as you eat, and you don't wake up until half a day later..."

Jiujiu was furious and bumped into him in the face, then started pecking at his forehead.

Amid the commotion, Wu Xianxiao picked up the black object and said, "Master brain, play the contents."

"Confirm to play... Confirmed, the content of the information carrier will be played..."

"Warning, this information carrier contains high-level information pollution. The preliminary assessment level is 0.5 level..."

"We have removed the information pollution. After comprehensive judgment, 68% of the information is missing... Do you want to continue playing the content?"

Wu Xianxiao looked a little embarrassed. He really didn't expect that after removing all the information pollution, only 32% of the information was left to watch. He could only helplessly say, "Play."

Soon, a light curtain descended, and a virtual reality-like screen projection appeared. Then Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu appeared in a conference room. However, this conference room looked a bit strange. It was full of square metal blocks, and the participants either sat or stood on the metal blocks. All of these metal blocks were suspended in the air, including Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu, who were on the largest metal block.

There were only about forty people in the entire conference room, and they looked different... really different. Some had three heads and six arms, some had wings on their backs, some had snakes in the lower body, and some had giant spiders in the lower body. Of course, there were also people who looked like ordinary people. There were more than forty of them in total, as if a group of monsters and people were having a meeting.

Just as Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu were looking around, a six-meter-tall cyborg in front of them spoke: "...Based on the information sent back by the 320,000 exploration teams, we can draw the following conclusions."

"The reality we are in can be identified as the material reality world. There is no pollution in the material reality world. Of course, you all know what I mean by pollution. It does not refer to various radiation, biological, or memetic sources of infection, but to ******..."

"The current observation and calculation data show that in the first layer of the world below us, the number of pollution sources is from one to one hundred, in the second layer of the world, the number of pollution sources is from one hundred to one thousand, and so on... So far, we have discovered a total of six layers below, which means that the number of pollution sources is from one million to ten million..."

At this point, the other creatures breathed a sigh of relief, and some of them smiled broadly. A creature whose upper body was that of an elephant and whose lower body was that of a horse said, "Although it is still terrifying, it is not out of reach. As long as we can unite as one, and all departments and schools work together sincerely, we may be able to resist the erosion of tens of millions of pollution sources. I will set an example here. My Giant Alchemy Faction is willing to share all the alchemy formulas of my faction with you!"

With someone taking the lead, the rest naturally did not want to lag behind. They all expressed their willingness to take out the resources of their own factions or academic cliques, such as alchemical formulas, experimental products, weapons, etc. For a moment, everyone seemed selfless.

Wu Xianxiao keenly discovered that these beings all mentioned one thing in their words...alchemy!
Moreover, he saw with his own eyes that several creatures were suspended in the air, and in the blink of an eye, there were flames, lightning and other strange phenomena on their bodies. Although it can be explained by scientific instruments, it looked like extraordinary powers no matter how you looked at it.

Just when everyone was discussing heatedly, the huge semi-mechanical life form in the center, on the metal block where Wu Xianxiao was, suddenly spoke: "This is the explored part, a six-layer structure. Our exploration team can no longer move forward and cannot explore the lower structures. Then... everyone, please activate your strongest alchemical defense formation. What we are going to play next is our most elite team, led by a hero with an odd-numbered title. Their strength is comparable to that of us present here, and this is the last video they sent back..."

Then, all the virtual images froze, and a few seconds later the screen flashed, and a huge ruin appeared in front of Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu. Most of the strange lives they had seen before had been torn into pieces or disappeared. There were only less than ten lives left, and the huge semi-mechanical life form only had half of its body left, with electric sparks all over its body.

"It's just a video. Why is it like this? Why is there spirituality..."

"…Does God really exist? Does the devil really exist? Do those religious beings really exist?"

"If that's the case, then what are we..."

The cyborg life uttered this voice, and then the entire scene ended, returning to the scene of Gaia repairing the base station.

Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu did not move for a long time. Everything that had just happened was really an eye-opener for them. One of them was from the 21st century, and although he had computers and mobile phones, this kind of immersive full-scene image was still the first time he had seen it. Jiujiu was from the ancient Song Dynasty, let alone seeing all this.

The man and the bird were shocked for a long time before they looked at each other, and then chirped and twittered. Wu Xianxiao seemed to understand and shook his head and said, "No more. I didn't turn it off. All the information I could know has been played."

Jiujiu then chirped listlessly, and Wu Xianxiao looked at Jiujiu and said, "I didn't expect you to be a bird that likes to watch TV series... It's definitely not possible now. If you open up the rooms of those entertainment facilities in the future, you will be able to watch many good movies and animations."

Then Jiujiu flew to Wu Xianxi's shoulder and chirped at him non-stop.

Wu Xianxiao's attention was focused on the image he had just seen.

"According to what is said in the video, if the scene in the video is in the real world, then the worlds with one to one hundred pollution sources are equivalent to 0.9 of the baseline reality, and the worlds with one to one thousand pollution sources are equivalent to 0.8 of the baseline reality... Then this alchemical civilization is equivalent to exploring the world with 0.4 of the baseline reality, and then encountered great terror when exploring the world with 0.3 of the baseline reality. Even the feedback image of this terror caused large-scale deaths and damage... It is simply so horrifying."

Wu Xianxiao was secretly horrified, and became more and more wary of the deeper dream world.

However, although most of the video information viewed this time was eliminated due to information hazards, a lot of useful information was also obtained from it, such as... digitization and standardization of pollution sources.

The pollution sources in baseline reality 0.9 are from one to one hundred, and with each layer down, the upper and lower limits of the pollution sources increase tenfold respectively. These are fine, the real key is... are the pollution sources limited to only one to one hundred?
"The Mother of No Life cannot go from her homeland of vacuum to the world of 0.9, otherwise how could I still be alive now? But there are exceptions. If a second-level nightmare goes from a low-level dream world to a high-level dream world, its strength will not decrease at all. How is this achieved?"

Wu Xianxiao carefully thought about the connection between all this.

He was not a very smart man, and all this information was full of mystery to him, but he still keenly discovered one of the key factors...the shelter!

A second-level nightmare cannot be moved from one dream world to another out of thin air. It can only be achieved through a shelter set up by maintenance personnel. This also applies to coming from the dream world to the material world. Does this mean that the shelter is the only exception to breaking the limit of pollution sources in the dream world?

"And there is another point. If this alchemical world is also the real world, then... where are they now?" Wu Xianxiao asked this question. He had some guesses in his mind, but these guesses were too shocking, so he just shook his head silently and temporarily suppressed all these myths in his heart.

"If all the information mentioned in this important information is true, then we can roughly determine the strongest combat power and the most terrifying nightmare strength of a level of dream world... at least we can roughly estimate it."

Wu Xianxiao began to ponder silently, and suddenly said, "Master Brain, open the map of District 6123 in Z District."

Suddenly, light and shadow fell, forming a light and shadow map in front of Wu Xianxiao. Wu Xianxiao looked at this extremely complex, maze-like map and said, "Show me where I am, the location of the surrounding blockade walls, and the locations of all the surrounding restaurants, maintenance base stations, medical base stations, weapon depots, entertainment facilities, and other building locations."

Suddenly, marks of various colors and shapes appeared on the map, with his location highlighted and other buildings also having text notes.

Wu Xianxiao looked for a long time, confirmed again and again the medical base station area he had chosen, and then walked towards a certain location in the hibernation capsule.

There are only two isolation walls in this area. One isolation wall connects the medical base station with the hibernation cabin, and the other isolation wall is the passage from the medical base station to a large square outside, and that large square belongs to... Area 6122!

"Pink snake?"

Wu Xianxiao stood in front of a metal wall in the hibernation chamber. He turned to Jiujiu and said, "I don't know what kind of monster is behind this, but since there is a separation wall, there must be a monster behind it. According to the predecessors, the larger the area blocked by the separation wall, the stronger the monster. The enclosed space of this medical base station is not large, and there is only one public facility, so the monster should not be ridiculously powerful. When the battle breaks out, you should stay away, understand?"

Jiujiu jumped and chirped non-stop, then flew from his shoulder and landed in a hibernation capsule in the distance.

Wu Xianxiao then turned his head again and said, "Mastermind."

"Open the isolation wall in front of you!"

(End of this chapter)