My avatar is becoming the final boss

Chapter 378 The Moon, Ji Minghuan's Parents (Seeking Monthly Tickets)
"Come on, Ji Minghuan, I'll take you on a tour of the outside of the base," the instructor said with a smile.

Ji Minghuan was stunned.

The location is the Salvation Society base, F2, children's playground.

The elevator doors at the park entrance were wide open, and the instructor stood alone inside the car, the cool light shining down, causing his glasses to reflect slightly.

Upon hearing his voice, the children in the park all turned their heads and stared at him curiously.

"Will we really be able to leave the base this time? Or is my mentor just lying to me...?"

Ji Minghuan sat on the swing, lost in thought.

"My avatar for Unit 1 is already prepared at the Hofs Glacier. As soon as my main body appears above the glacier, it will be detected, thus confirming the location of the base."

Thinking of this, he took a barely perceptible breath.

"But if I really do see my mentor and his true form, do I have a chance to kill him with a surprise attack using the restraints? But Sun Changkong and Shang Xiaochi are here... The chances of a successful surprise attack are very small."

At that moment, his mentor's words interrupted his thoughts.

"What are you all standing there for?" The professor adjusted his glasses, put his hands behind his back, and smiled warmly. "Aren't you curious about what it looks like outside?"

"Okay, let's go then."

Ji Minghuan murmured to himself, turning his gaze away from his mentor's face. He took Kong Youling's hand, stepped off the swing, and slowly walked towards the elevator.

"Going out to play... It feels like it's been a long time since I last went to London." Ji Minghuan murmured softly, a slight smile playing on her lips, as she turned to look at Kong Youling.

Kong Youling tilted her head and met his eyes.

Ji Minghuan raised her hand and poked her nose. "A quiz with a prize, you silly penguin, where do you think the Salvation Society's base is?"

"……seabed?"

Kong Youling lowered her head and thought for a moment, then raised her head.

"Can you be a little more imaginative?" Ji Minghuan shrugged. "If it's hidden underwater, there's still a chance it will be found. Don't science fiction novels have underwater sonar detection equipment? Such a big building hidden underwater would be very conspicuous."

Kong Youling rested her chin on her hand and thought for a while. Then she took out her notebook, lowered her head and drew a rough doodle: a little white rabbit was hanging from a tree by a rope, its head drooping downwards, its eyes forming an X shape, and then a dynamic onomatopoeic word "click" was drawn above its head.

Then she pressed the notebook against her face and lowered her voice mysteriously:
"Everyone we found has been silenced."

"That's possible, after all, our Salvation Society is known for its kind approach," Ji Minghuan said, pursing her lips. "But can't you consider other possibilities?"

"volcano?"

Kong Youling's pen slid across the paper, drawing a small volcano that was puffing out gas.

"Can't you use any common sense? Building a base on a volcano, aren't you afraid of a volcanic eruption?"

Ji Minghuan shook his head. Kong Youling glanced at him angrily from her notebook, her cheeks puffing out slightly, like a little snowman with chubby cheeks.

The two chatted as they entered the elevator, keeping a distance from their mentor and leaning their backs against the cold steel wall. The cool lighting cast their unwell complexions upon them, and their blurry reflections were projected onto the dark elevator wall.

The mentor looked at the two of them and said with a smile, "Your relationship is still so good."

"None of your business." Ji Minghuan shrugged. "Stupid penguin, scold him."

Kong Youling paused for a moment, looked at Ji Minghuan, then at her mentor, seemingly unsure of what to say. So she simply covered her face with her notebook and mumbled something.

Ji Minghuan chuckled, and the instructor also chuckled softly.

At this moment, Kong Youling suddenly lowered her head and remained silent for a short while. Then, she raised her red eyes from behind the notebook and looked at Ji Minghuan.

"What's wrong?" Ji Minghuan noticed her gaze.

Kong Youling shook her head, her pale white hair swaying like snow. She didn't speak, but lowered her head, drew something in her notebook with a pencil, and then turned the notebook around.

Ji Minghuan raised an eyebrow, turned his head and saw that the notebook contained a bright white moon and two small figures sitting on it.

"The moon," Kong Youling said earnestly, her lips moving slightly.

Ji Minghuan was startled. For some reason, a sudden sense of dread exploded from the bottom of his heart, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

Upon hearing her answer, for some reason, the tutor beside her also paused slightly and composed himself. But he quickly regained his composure.

Looking at the moon on the page, Ji Minghuan remained silent for a long time.

At that moment, a scene flashed through his mind of himself and R-rated 1001 sitting on the moon, gazing at Earth, and the image of the restraints engulfing the Earth still lingered in his mind.

“Maybe the Salvation Society’s base really is on the moon…” he said, shaking his head and looking up at the interior of the children’s playground.

"We're leaving, Mario. Didn't you hear? Our mentor said he's taking us out to play!" Sun Changkong put on his baseball cap and, as he spoke, slowly flew to Mario's side on his Somersault Cloud.

Right now, Mario is sitting on a carousel playing the red and blue Switch game console.

"I dont go."

With that, he got off the carousel, found a corner to sit down by himself, and said without looking up, "Go by yourselves, don't bother me."

Sun Changkong was taken aback, raised his fiery red eyebrows, and flew over on his somersault cloud. "Cat Mario, aren't you curious about what it looks like outside?"

"I was never interested in it to begin with."

"Why aren't you interested?" Sun Changkong pressed.

“Staying with the Salvation was my own choice. What’s the point of knowing what the outside world is like?” Mario said.

He was looking down at his game console, the screen's glow reflected in his pupils.

"No, stop playing games here." Sun Changkong frowned. "Everyone else is going, how can you not go? Are you going to be a shut-in for life?"

"You just learned a word and you're already using it?" Mario asked without looking up. "Did you learn it from Ji Minghuan?"

"Otherwise what?" Sun Changkong sneered, "Homebody, homebody, homebody."

“Country bumpkin,” Mario said casually.

"Homebody".

Sun Changkong lowered her baseball cap, blinked, and remained unmoved, as if "country bumpkin" wasn't such an embarrassing word to her.

She already knew she was a country bumpkin.

“Stinky garbage collector,” Mario continued.

"Huh?" Sun Changkong immediately became furious, gritting his teeth, his little tiger teeth trembling with anger.

Mario said coldly, "You stinking garbage collector, don't bother me, do you hear me..."

However, before he could finish speaking, Sun Changkong grabbed Mario's sleeve, pulled him onto the Somersault Cloud, spun him around in the air more than ten times, and then threw him back to the ground.

Mario was completely disoriented. But his fingers kept poking at the screen, his face expressionless.

"Is the game console your life?" Sun Changkong asked, almost emphasizing each word as he vented his anger.

“It’s my destiny.” Mario rubbed his forehead. “Only games will never betray me.” He paused. “Friends will leave, family will leave, everything is temporary… but the game will always be there.”

"Huh? You're also Shang Xiaochi?" Sun Changkong crossed his arms and squinted at him.

Shang Xiaochi happened to be walking past the two of them with her hands behind her back. She glanced at them and gave a low, cold snort.

She said, "Heh... People who haven't experienced betrayal don't deserve to understand me, and don't compare themselves to me."

Mario and Sun Changkong turned their heads at the same time, glanced at her speechlessly, and then looked at each other.

"Let's go."

"understood."

Mario said impatiently.

Seemingly knowing that Sun Changkong wouldn't let him off the hook, he sighed, paused the game he was playing, and stood up.

He turned his head and glanced casually at the elevator car at the entrance.

The others were already in the elevator, and among them, Fio was the most eager.

Upon hearing that he could go out to play, Filio immediately dropped to the ground and ran over on all fours, his gray-white wolf tail swishing back and forth, his eyes gleaming.

Only Mario remained slow and reluctant. Sun Changkong, on the other hand, was like a supervisor, riding his somersault cloud behind Mario, vigorously patting his back to urge him forward, giving him no chance to stay in the base.

Soon, the children of the Saviors entered the elevator one after another, and the cold elevator doors closed and went up.

The elevator was quiet.

No one looked at Ji Minghuan; they all looked away and lowered their heads.

They were all still preoccupied with what had happened two days prior, and their mentor had advised them not to provoke Ji Minghuan for the time being. For a moment, the atmosphere became somewhat tense.

Fortunately, the instructor had already pressed the button on the control panel and then withdrew his right hand.

Immediately afterwards, the elevator began to vibrate, making a buzzing sound, like the flapping of a giant mountain's wings.

However, the elevator car did not go up immediately, but instead returned to the first floor where it was originally located.

A moment later, the elevator doors opened, and the bright light from the corridor shone in again, illuminating the children's faces.

They squinted, raised their arms to shield their foreheads, and peered through the gaps, only to see the silhouettes of the experimenters squeezed through the bright light.

The experimenters handed the children a heavy object and then left.

With a muffled rumble, the elevator doors closed again. The children lowered their heads, opened their eyes, and examined the kits in their hands with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion.

"Mentor, what is this?" Sun Changkong was the first to ask.

"They're blocking my game console, and they keep shoving all sorts of things into my hands," Mario said.

Shang Xiaochi and Filio looked at each other in bewilderment.

"What is that?" Ji Minghuan raised an eyebrow, looking down at the helmet and the snow-white suit that looked like it was inflated. "Uh... a spacesuit?" That's right, what came into view was a children's size spacesuit.

"Wait... what is the mentor planning to do now?" He stared at the suit, then glanced up at his mentor, thinking to himself, "Why would we need spacesuits just to leave the base? Are they worried we'll freeze?"

"Children, don't have any doubts yet; this is a necessary preparation."

The instructor spoke casually, and took a well-fitting spacesuit from the experimenter. He didn't take off his clothes underneath, but put it on directly.

The children exchanged glances, then quickly put on their spacesuits, and with the help of the experimenters, put on round, transparent oxygen supply helmets.

Through their round helmets, they turned their heads, curiously examining each other's appearance, clutching their stomachs and raising their fingers to mock each other, with Fiorio being the most ridiculed.

Philo's wolf tail extended from the back of his spacesuit, while his wolf ears were trapped inside his helmet and unable to move. Of the group, he was the one who was suffering the most.

A short while later, the participants stepped out of the elevator car, waved to them, and then the elevator doors closed and went up.

Immediately afterwards, the instructor pulled an ID card from his spacesuit pocket and swiped it in the elevator's card slot. At that moment, a new floor number—"3"—suddenly appeared on the elevator's control panel.

Ji Minghuan's heart stirred slightly. This was a floor he had never been to before. He had only been to the second and first floors before. The second floor was the children's playground, while the first floor was the dormitory floor, with the children's dormitories distributed along this corridor.

He was curious whether this third floor was the exit of the Salvation Society's base.

However, logically speaking, their base shouldn't be that small, considering there are a bunch of research facilities... I guess there's a basement level below the dormitory floor, and a second basement level below that.

It's just not shown on the control panel; this is a secret location of the Salvation Society.

Lost in thought, the elevator hummed as it ascended. Shang Xiaochi stared intently at the floor number on the panel, her heart pounding.

She hadn't left the base in a long time, unlike the others who had previously visited London. So, she unconsciously reached out and pinched the hem of Ji Minghuan's clothes.

Ji Minghuan was slightly taken aback, then turned to look at her and silently mouthed, "It's alright."

Sun Changkong was stunned when she saw this scene. Then she thought for a moment, reached out and pinched Filio's tail. It seemed that touching the big dog's tail made her feel very at ease.

A moment later, the elevator stopped on the third floor. The moment the elevator doors opened, Ji Minghuan looked up and froze on the spot; the other children reacted similarly.

Even with a helmet and protective suit on, Ji Minghuan could feel a huge, overwhelming chill rushing towards him, striking straight to the deepest part of his soul.

“This is…” His lips moved slightly.

What came into view was a huge, pockmarked, white star, and the elevator stood atop this desolate planet.

Looking further out, what came into view was an endless, pitch-black curtain, stretching as far as the eye could see, dotted with twinkling stars. Without a doubt, that was the universe.

"No way...it really is the moon?"

Ji Minghuan stared blankly at the enormous celestial body through the helmet, a picture flashing through his mind: just now, Kong Youling had picked up a notebook and drawn the shape of the moon on a page.

He pondered to himself, "How was Kong Youling able to guess? Was it just a coincidence... or did she leave the Salvation Society base, which is why she knew?"

The instructor turned her head, smiled, and looked at the children in the elevator. Then she gently nudged them from behind.

The moment Ji Minghuan was pushed out of the sedan chair, a strong sense of weightlessness came over her. Her body felt several times lighter, and like a frog hopping on water, she floated and sank towards the moon.

"Wait a minute, don't tell me... the Salvation Society's base is really on the moon?" he thought, glancing sideways at the distant blue planet. "Even if this environment is fake, how do you explain the feeling of weightlessness?"

At this moment, Ji Minghuan was completely stunned.

He couldn't imagine how he would manage to lure all sides to the Moon if the Salvation Society's base were indeed located there. It was utterly impossible; at the very least, the Lake Hunters and the demon army would be a major obstacle.

"Ji Minghuan, this must be an illusion. The Salvation Society's base is definitely located north of the Hofs Glacier. Don't let us be distracted."

At that moment, the voice of R-rated 1001 echoed in her mind, his tone still indifferent. His words were like a shot of adrenaline, piercing Ji Minghuan's heart.

He took a deep breath and thought, "That's right. Ruri Urushihara and R-R 1001 were both certain that the Salvation Society's base was on the Hofsjökull glacier in Iceland. Given the circumstances of these two dying men at the time, they had no reason to lie to me."

Then, Ji Minghuan asked himself:
"By the way, how did you find out where the Salvation Society's base is?"

“Me and my…” Restricted 1001 changed his words, “No, I talked to your parents.”

"Huh? My parents?" Ji Minghuan was taken aback. "Which timeline are you referring to?"

"I never met my parents in the timeline where I destroyed the world."

"Oh, so those are my parents?"

Ji Minghuan thought to himself.

He hadn't heard anything about his parents for a while. The last time was when his mentor told him that the Salvation Church had found his parents' bodies in Arabia.

But he knew that this was definitely done by the Salvation Society, and that no one else had any connection with his parents.
"Getting back to the point," Restricted Level 1001 said softly, "your parents were members of the Salvation Society, so they naturally know where the Salvation Society's base is. That's how I learned the exact location from them."

"what's the situation?"

“That happened shortly after you were born, before your parents abandoned you. I found them while they were on a mission, and then, as a prophet, I communicated with them and learned a lot about the Salvation Society.”

Restricted Level 1001 paused, "By the way... it was around that time that I left a monitor in your mental world when you were still a baby, and I adjusted it to look like Kong Youling after you grew up."

Ji Minghuan remained silent for a moment, then asked in his mind, "How do you usually contact the Salvation Society?"

“I usually leave letters at their other locations,” said R-1001.

"Anyway, my parents also said that the Salvation Society's base is on the Hofs Glacier?"

"Yes, if you're interested, you can come to the library afterwards and look through my memories of chatting with them back then."

"But there's still no evidence. Neither their claims nor Urushihara Ruri's claims are necessarily correct." Ji Minghuan shook his head, thinking to himself, "If the Salvation Society's base is really on the moon, then we're in big trouble."

Restricted Level 1001 remained silent, saying, "The probability is very low."

“Very low, but not nonexistent…” Ji Minghuan replied in his mind. He thought for a moment, “But if the Salvation Society’s base is on the Hofs Glacier, then what is this thing in front of me? Could it be… an environmental simulation space?”

“It’s possible that I don’t know much about the Salvation Society’s methods,” said R-rated 1001.

"That old sly mentor of mine, he just loves to pull stunts." Ji Minghuan muttered to himself as he secretly glanced at his mentor inside the sedan chair through the transparent helmet.

At this moment, the children, who had been pushed out of the sedan chair and were staring blankly at the huge blue star, also came to their senses.

They were just locked up; they weren't lacking in common sense. They had seen pictures of the moon and Earth in books and on television before.

But seeing it with your own eyes is a completely different experience; it's as if your internal organs are being impacted, and everyone's pupils contract slightly.

Kong Youling's pencil almost fell out of the sketchbook.

Mario raised an eyebrow, looked up from the game console screen, and silently surveyed his surroundings.

"The moon?" Philio's ears, which had been pressed down, perked up inside his helmet.

Shang Xiaochi was speechless. She raised her head from inside the helmet, her pupils reflecting the starry sky of the universe. At that moment, the enormous blue star occupied half of her field of vision.

"Mentor, our base is built on the moon?" Sun Changkong was stunned, revealing his shocked little tiger teeth.

The mentor stood with his hands behind his back, smiling slightly. He neither agreed nor disagreed, but simply looked up at the universe above.

Just then, Sun Changkong leaped forward while summoning his Somersault Cloud at the top of the moon.

"It's the universe!"

A flash of red light appeared at her heart, and clouds descended from the sky, rolling in hastily. She rose and leaped, gracefully boarding the cloud, about to fly into the universe to chase after that streaking shooting star.

The tutor suddenly paused, then called out her name sternly:
"Chang Kong! Stop!"

(End of this chapter)