It was difficult to find "lamps" at first, but thanks to Lao Zhang's whimsical idea, there were eight of them.
As for the remaining 4 lamps? It doesn’t matter, Lao Zhang still has a way:
"The night light on Xiaofang's bedside, Lao Wang's and my tablet, and..."
"Old Zhang, doesn't your keyboard light up when you plug it in?"
"Hey, that's true."
Even Liang found it a bit incredible that 12 lamps could be found in a small dormitory.
Moreover, these things are too high-tech. They are basically electronic products, full of technology and hard work.
The two went back and groped for a while, and soon, they quietly slipped out with a bunch of things, looking like digital thieves.
Their dormitory is on the 12th floor. To go up to the 20th floor, the elevator is more convenient. Entering the elevator, Leon breathed a sigh of relief.
I feel that doing things together with Lao Zhang is a lot easier and more relaxed.
"Xiao Liang, what kind of ritual are you going to do, and what effect will it have?" Lao Zhang was very curious.
Leon has never seen it before: "I don't know. It is said to create a realm with no shadow, only light."
"Haha, can't it be done in the elevator? I think it's quite bright here."
"I'm afraid not."
Leon lowered his head. Although it was bright in the elevator, there was still his own shadow beneath the two of them.
Ding dong~
The elevator door opened, and the two of them walked out in the dark, walked around the floor, and found the fire escape leading to the rooftop.
Walking up the stairs, as expected, the door to the rooftop was locked with iron chains. Many students had been here, including Leon, who had just entered college, and wanted to see the night view of the rooftop, but they all failed in front of such a chain.
It is not difficult to cut off the chains, but the problem is that there is surveillance here. It is easy to go to the rooftop, but it is difficult to escape the punishment.
Putting down the keyboard and laptop he was holding, Liang picked up the lock cutting pliers, pointed at the chain and used force, and with a crack, the chain fell off.
Done.
Opening the door, the evening breeze blew in, adding a bit of coolness to the June night.
"Oh, this is the first time I've been on the rooftop of our dormitory building." Lao Zhang looked around and said, "It's very ordinary."
"What did you think there was?"
"Helicopter or something."
"How could that thing have..."
Finding an open space, Liang placed the electronic products one by one and turned on the power. They also knew the passwords for Xiao Fang and Lao Wang's things because they had borrowed them several times in the past.
"What to do next?"
Liang took out his phone and took a look: "Wait, turn everything on now, I'm afraid the battery won't last until then."
"Too."
The two sat down directly on the spot. Lao Zhang scratched his head: "I never expected that there would be such an unfolding."
"Um?"
"My good roommate actually traveled through time, and now I am in a false world..."
Liang sighed for a while: "I never thought that I would be able to travel through time."
"Well, I said..."
"Um?"
"In reality, uh, you in our world are already dead?"
Liang's eyes darkened: "Yes."
Lao Zhang was silent for a while before continuing: "I'm sorry."
"What's wrong?"
"You said you... left around three in the morning. According to normal development, I must have been playing games at that time, right? If I had paid more attention, maybe you..."
Li Ang smiled: "Don't feel guilty, Lao Zhang, it's not your fault. I have the disease myself, and I have no one to blame. And if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to point out the person in the history class in the first semester of my freshman year.
It’s already gone.”
During that class, Liang also suffered from a sudden illness. Fortunately, Lao Zhang noticed it in time and took out the medicine from Liang, which saved his life. It was also from that time that several roommates learned that Liang had a heart disease.
"Oh, you can't comfort me now. In reality, I would probably feel guilty to death..."
Liang remained silent. In this false world, no matter how much he said or did, it seemed that he could not make up for what happened in the real world.
Li Ang looked at the night. He didn't know how long it had passed before Lao Zhang said again: "Xiao Liang."
"Um?"
"Do you... want to call your family?"
"Family? Here? Now?" Li Ang looked at Lao Zhang in surprise.
Lao Zhang rubbed his nose: "Just think that I am nosy... But in reality, you haven't said goodbye to your family, right? Although this is false, you... listen to the voices of your family
, it’s good after all.”
Liang lowered his head, unconsciously swiped his phone, clicked on the contact, selected "a dad" at the top, and added an a before the name of his relatives. This is the most simple and unpretentious way to mark the people closest to him.
at the top of the list.
But looking at the familiar number, Liang finally didn't press the button to dial.
"Forget it." Liang smiled bitterly, "Since we can't go back, there's no point in pretending to say goodbye."
Lao Zhang sighed: "It's up to you, I have no right to make the decision for you."
The two of them chatted without a word, and time passed by minute by second, half an hour, an hour... Liang looked at his phone. This was longer than the time that Wein had said he could delay.
Could it be that he sent it without giving any notice?
Not long after the thought that Cao Cao Cao Cao had arrived, my phone received a text message from the same number:
"Oh I'm dead."
...How come this guy can even express his death so clearly?
A few seconds later, another message came:
"The 'Hunters' are coming soon. Starting the ritual should be able to drive them away."
Leon stood up: "It's time."
Lao Zhang also stood up: "What should I do?"
"Probably... no need." Liang thought for a while, "Just stay in the middle."
Turn on the electronic devices one by one, and the light they emit is naturally not as good as the desk lamp Stephen installed in the study.
After plugging in the last keyboard, colorful lights lit up between the keyboards, Liang took a deep breath, success or failure depended on this.
Recalling the prayers told by Wein, Liang stood in the center of the magic circle formed by the light source and whispered:
"We worship Enlightened Truth, the God of Wisdom;"
"We call upon the Enlightened Truth, the God of Reason;"
"We worship the 'Enlightened Truth', who is the god of dawn and darkness."
"Twelve lamps are bright, but there is no room for shadow here, and there is no room for kindness."
When the last syllable dissipated in the air, the next moment, the electronic devices that made up the nodes of the array shined brightly, emitting a brilliance that far exceeded their original performance.
Then, Liang felt something in his heart and raised his head to look at the sky——
The sky in the distance gradually lit up, as if daylight had arrived earlier and dispelled all darkness.
Moreover, this light spreads all around, and wherever the glow reaches, all shadows have nowhere to hide.
Lao Zhang looked at the scene in front of him and was so shocked that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear: "Fuck, Xiao Liang is awesome, this posture -"
Leon had no idea that this ritual, which was so simple that even a primary school student could do it, could trigger such a big fight.
That’s outrageous!
There was a commotion below. Countless people were awakened by the sudden daylight and ran to the windows to check the situation. For a while, the sound of "fuck" could be heard endlessly.
"I also want to travel through time...if there is no price." Lao Zhang rubbed his eyes, staring at the bright sky for a long time made his eyes uncomfortable, "This is too awesome!"
"I hope this ritual is not so powerful..." Liang was a little sluggish.
The ritual was so simple, but it had such a big effect, which meant... that world was much more dangerous than he imagined.
If a simple technique can trigger such a powerful power, is it as simple as Nawein said before that the ritual that can burn everything around him to white ground is also that simple?
Gee, it’s so dangerous to live in that world...
Time continued to pass. During this period, the noise downstairs was endless. Leon even heard an angry shout coming from a window - "This must be the secret weapon in the experiment!"
Since the mobile phone was used as a light source, Leon had to use an electronic watch he had just found in his dormitory to keep time. This watch had been calibrated with the mobile phone and there would be no error for a while.
"There are two minutes left, there should be no problem."
Leon breathed a sigh of relief, and his tension gradually increased. After all, what he was about to do was jump off the building.
"Relax... okay, I know I can't relax about this matter." Lao Zhang scratched his head, "How should I say, have a good time over there..."
Before Lao Zhang finished speaking, the sky suddenly darkened, day quickly led to dusk, and the shadows of everything were returning to their positions.
"What's going on?" Leon's heart almost stopped.
"Don't panic, let me take a look...ah, it's broken!"
"What's wrong?"
"My computer was set to performance mode. When I brought it out, I forgot to exit the game and just minimized it... The computer ran out of power!"
Lao Zhang's computer and keyboard went out together, and Liang sighed.