When running in this metal world, everything feels unreal.
"Is that Su Lun? Is it? Isn't it..." I have been worrying about gains and losses in my mind, for fear that too much hope will lead to excessive disappointment.
Since 1995, the global search for "Asian gears" has become more and more intense. Among them, the research progress of Guan Mingoro's school has been the fastest. He has published more than a hundred articles and adheres to the principle of "adjustment".
The theory that the speed of Asian gears can quell the global war.
As the proud disciple of Master Kuannan Goro, Su Lun has always regarded this task as a major pursuit goal in his life. Now, I am next to the gear mechanical body, but I don’t feel anything at all. I just feel that those cold and silent
The spinning gears look extremely weird. Other than that, I don't feel any attraction to the mechanical body at all.
It only took me four minutes to get from the top of the mechanical body to the outside of the cave where the girl appeared. I calmed down my excitement a little, and then slowly approached. The entrance to the cave was two meters above the ground, quiet, and there was no sound of anyone.
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"Su Lun?" I called softly, for fear of scaring her.
No one responded, so I grabbed the edge of the hole and jumped in. It was a shallow corridor, and there was no way to go after twenty steps. What was blocking the way was a silver mirror pointed at my head. At this moment,
There was a girl standing in front of the mirror, her back to me, staring motionless.
I was reflected in the mirror, and she was slightly surprised. She looked at me from the mirror, and our eyes instantly contacted and locked together. I saw it right, she was Su Lun. Compared with when we parted in Hokkaido, she was even more beautiful.
A lot more haggard.
"I'm dreaming again? Is it really you?" She asked in a low voice, but did not turn around.
"It's me, it's not a dream, it's real." I smiled, took a few steps over, and stood next to her. At this moment, the joy of seeing each other again after a long separation filled my chest, but neither of us yelled, laughed and were elated.
They didn't make any kind of celebration gestures, but just stared at each other in the mirror in silence.
Her hair looked a little disheveled, and her once delicate lips were chapped in several places, but her eyes were still dark and bright, and every time her eyelashes fluttered, they seemed to be telling the secrets in her heart.
"But - you were obviously talking to me on the other side of the mirror? How come you are here in such a blink of an eye? Do you have the special ability to cross obstacles?" She gently touched the mirror and frowned slowly.
stand up.
I was surprised and looked carefully at this mirror. The flower and plant ornaments inlaid on the four walls were completely similar to the previous bronze mirror. When I passed through that mirror, the situation was very critical and I didn't have time to look back, so I didn't
I didn't see clearly what this side of the mirror looked like.
"Su Lun, what do you want to say? I did go through a mirror, but not here, but in another cave."
I thought I had made it clear enough, but her expression was even more confused: "Another mirror? Feng, are there countless such mirrors next to Asian gears?"
She stopped calling her "Brother Feng", which made me suddenly feel that there seemed to be some kind of huge gap between the two of them. To outsiders, this title seemed rustic and pretentious, but every time I heard it, I always started from the beginning.
When it reaches the feet, it is as delicious as glutinous rice.
I shook my head: "No, this is only the second side I've seen. I was calling you loudly just now, didn't you hear me at all?"
While running around the mechanical body, I screamed at least two hundred times, otherwise my voice would not be hoarse. The corridor was very shallow, she should definitely be able to hear it.
"No, I only saw you speaking with 'lip reading'. Your voice was blocked by the mirror and I couldn't hear a word. Feng, tell me, how did you get to me through the mirror?" Her expression was very
Seriously, this is definitely not a joke.
I turned my head and stared at her profile: "Su Lun, maybe something is not right, have you noticed it? It was about half an hour ago that I passed through the mirror, and it was four minutes ago that I found you. You were with
Who is talking through the mirror? That person can never be me, absolutely not."
She raised her head and thought for a moment, then looked down at the watch that had stopped moving long ago, and asked confusedly: "Which person? In this world, time is meaningless, and we can only express the length of time by our own guesses.
In the fifteenth minute from this second forward, I saw you on the mirror, and then we chatted with lips. After ten minutes, my body was pressed against the mirror. It felt too hard, so I moved a little.
I stepped forward, trying to change my posture. Suddenly, I felt an inexplicable dizziness, and then I fell forward, and suddenly I was standing here."
No one had cleaned the bronze mirror, but its light was discernible, reflecting the suspicion on both of our faces, making each other clearly visible.
"Su Lun, it's not me who has traveled through the mirror, but you." I pointed out keenly. No matter what, the feeling she described was like just waking up from an illusion, and her thoughts were still in a confused and chaotic state.
"So, have you seen Risika?" She shook her head and asked another question.
I was startled: "Who? Resika? Why did you mention this person, someone you have never seen before-"
There are many girls named "Risika" all over the world, but I intuitively realized that she was asking about the one who disappeared in Hokkaido.
"Feng, I am referring to the American girl Resika. She once met you on the plane, and you had a very good chat, right?" Su Lun's eyelashes flashed, and a meaningful smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.
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This look was the Su Lun I was most familiar with. For a moment, my mind relaxed. As long as she was okay, everything would be fine.
Risika and I only met once on a plane. In the days that followed, her disappearance at Hokkaido Fengkakuji Temple became an unsolved mystery, and Guan Baoling said that she had appeared in a mysterious undersea glass box and then disappeared again.
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"Su Lun, has she told you her true identity? A secret spy stationed by the Pentagon in the Middle East?" Yanxun also mentioned Rusika on the phone, and specifically emphasized that she is a key figure who affects everything.
The Pentagon spy network is currently searching for her.
"Yes, she told me, and we also talked a lot about Feng. We will talk about her wonderful experience later. Let's go find her first." Su Lun turned around and walked outside the cave entrance. His movements were quick and agile, and he had completely restored his original appearance.
, all my worries disappeared at once.
Outside, there is still the silver mechanical body. I have searched in circles. It is impossible for anyone to hide in it. The remaining suspicious places are the numerous cave entrances.
Su Lun seemed slightly startled when he saw the mechanical body, but he regained his composure in an instant.
I followed her and asked with concern: "What? What's wrong?"
She pointed at the gears on the mechanical body: "I think their rotation speed seems to have changed, getting faster and faster. Forget it, let's go to Ruishika first, and there is another person, you probably remember, Sun Gui
——A member of the Sharpshooter Club went into the mountains with you to explore, but he fell from a secret pipe and was frightened to death at first. But in fact, the world of Afang Palace is not that scary, right?
"
Of course I remember Sun Gui, and I also remember those strange telescopic stone pillars in the tunnel, and I subconsciously looked up to the top. The belly of the mountain is a three-dimensional structure, and the place where Sun Gui fell is above this world. So, those mysterious
What about the stone pillars? Will the foundation be exposed from here when they expand and contract?
I have thought about this question more than once. When I entered the Afang Palace from the cave where Alpha was stationed, I often looked up, eager to discover the relationship between the stone pillars and the Afang Palace. After all, where Sun Gui disappeared, I saw the shadowy underground ancient city. It’s just that
One thing is, I'm not sure that what I saw was the place where Alpha fought the decisive battle with the great god Tulihan. In fact, Afang Palace is not really a palace, but just a Qimen Dunjia formation set up by Alpha, which can be attacked and killed but not inhabited.
"I remember, but where is he?" If I see Ruishika and Sun Gui, it will be another two huge gains in the search operation. Now I have completed the main goal of this operation - to retrieve Su Lun.
My mind has calmed down and I can now focus on other issues.
"Right here, in the world of 'Asian Gears', haven't you seen him?" Su Lun felt strange about my reaction and showed that surprised expression again.
"There is no one here, Su Lun. Let's sit down and talk slowly, and verify the information we know each other. I feel like some issues have been sidetracked, and you and I are talking to ourselves." I saw it in front of the mirror.
She felt as if there was some kind of invisible diaphragm between the two people, including the change of names.
At this time, we have jumped out of the hole and are standing in front of the mechanical body.
"Risika——" she shouted loudly.
I knew it was in vain. If there were others in this space, they would have jumped out long ago when I was looking for Su Lun.
"Sun Gui——" she shouted again.
I frowned and looked up at the hole. Now, the stupidest and most effective way is to search all the holes to see how many mirrors or secret passages are hidden inside.
Su Lun called seventeen or eighty times in a row, and after making sure that no one answered, she walked straight towards the spinning gears. She was wearing a black leather suit, but she had a white belt that was very inconsistent with the clothes, and it was tightly tied
On the waist, it looks very weird. She has a very good sense of dress and would never make such a failed color combination.
"Feng, it looks... a little weird here. Come with me. There is a passage that leads back to Afang Palace. Follow me!" She covered her eyebrows with both hands, briefly discerned the direction, and turned to the left.
Advance sideways.
In her past experiences, she was used to walking behind me, and before making any decision, she would first seek my opinion in a consultative tone, but now, her behavior has obviously added an element of dictatorship and arrogance.
I couldn't help shaking my head and smiling: "Su Lun has grown up! With her personality, she really shouldn't always walk in the shadow cast by the scalpel and me." She has an excellent personality of being calm, cold, wise, and courageous. This is surgery.
Dao mentioned this to me early in the morning, and concluded that his sister will become a great person in the future.
At this moment, I didn't realize the seriousness of the matter. I just felt that she walked through the mirror and met next to the mechanical body just like me. This was nothing remarkable. It was just a breakthrough of a "portal".
In fact, I should have considered: "Which world did Su Lun exist in before breaking through the mirror?"
Alpha did not mention Su Lun. He only talked about Tang Qing and Tang Xin. It was as if Su Lun had never entered the Crystal Pit and the Qimen Formation of Afang Palace after his disappearance. But now, Su Lun was going to bring
I'm going back to Afang Palace.
On the metal wall in front, there is a combination of nine horizontal and vertical holes. I am not sure whether that is the place where I came in, because there are no marks on the silver metal wall, and all the holes look similar.
"The wind is right there. The core entrance is the path leading to Afang Palace. Ruishika and Sun Gui must still be waiting for me there. As for the mirror just now-" She frowned and shook her head back.
Wang said, "Maybe it's just another secret door in this world, it doesn't make any sense."
I took a long breath to clear my head and asked nonchalantly: "Who else did you meet in Afang Palace? Have you seen Alpha? Or Tang Qing, Witch Longge, Tang Xin, Tiger,
Great God Tu Rui Khan, You Lian, Elder Sahan, Sen?" As long as she admitted any of the names listed above, she could completely deny one of my sudden conjectures, but she looked at me in surprise and only spat out
Two words: "What?"
Those names cover everyone I came into contact with after entering Afang Palace. I did not mention Situ Qiushi and Lei Aobai, because it was impossible for her to know two killers from the ancient Tang Dynasty.
"Feng, why are you talking about these names in such a mess? Didn't Tiger and Tang Xin disappear in the Egyptian desert? As for the Great God Tulihan and the others, they escaped underground; Witch Longge is a person born in the mountains and forests, and Tang Qing is the Tang Dynasty in Shu.
Door killer, and who is that Alpha?"
She reacted quickly, then shrugged: "I seem to be more concerned about Schiller's life and death than these inexplicable people. Also, where are Fei Ying Fei Yue and the others? Are they still stationed in the mountains and forests now?"
My heart sank completely. If she had been to Afang Palace, she would definitely have come into contact with those people above, even just one of them. She said, Resika, Sun Gui was in Afang Palace, but I didn’t even look at it.
There are so many seemingly unbelievable fallacies, but they all boil down to one sentence: What we call "Afanggong" does not refer to the same place.
"Let's go, let's meet Resika first. I'm afraid her magical experience will surprise you." She jumped up on her knees and climbed up to the first hole. The straight-line distance between all adjacent holes is one meter.
, so she easily climbed continuously and reached the center of the cave entrance combination.
"Feng, come up, go through the tunnel in front, and you can enter-" She greeted me first, then turned to look into the cave, but her voice suddenly stopped and she covered her mouth with her hand.
I knew something had happened again, so I jumped up and rushed to her side immediately.
The corridor is very shallow, exactly like the corridors in all the cave entrances I have seen. There is also a thick stone wall in front of it, glowing with a cold blue light. Yes, this is a stone wall, not the one leading to "Afang Palace" as she said.
path of.
"How could this happen? It's obviously a clean and bright passage, but who made this stone door and put it here? What weird thing happened?" She shouted, rushing forward, stroking the smooth and flat stone.
I can figure out why there are such amazing changes. Just like we can enter here through an open secret door, the so-called "secret door" is also changing rapidly. Reality becomes virtual and virtuality becomes real. It is by no means static.
Eternally still. Now, the gate of life has just become the gate of death. There is nothing to be surprised about.
"Ruishika and Sun Gui are clearly inside. You can see them as you walk along the 500-meter-long corridor. Feng, tell me, what happened?" She was not asking me for answers.
He was just talking incoherently in a panic, and without waiting for my answer, he quickly retreated and jumped out of the cave entrance.
I stood in front of the bluestone slab, stood firm on horseback, and pressed my palms against the stone, but I didn't want to push it, I just wanted to get the wonderful feeling I had before.
"What is behind the stone? Is it the Afang Palace that Su Lun has experienced?" There was a slight confusion in my thoughts, but then I calmly discerned a basically clear context, "Su Lun once entered a completely unfamiliar place.
We must tell everything we know, regardless of whether it is Afang Palace or any other place."
When the theory of the "Second Afang Palace" first appeared on the earth, it was ridiculed by other historians, and all kinds of unpleasant hats were slapped on it. Facts have proved that the "Second Afang Palace" is