The other party smiled slightly, held Chu Yanran's hand, and said, "It's me."
Hearing the sound, Chu Yanran was even more surprised.
Because the person who suddenly appeared next to Chu Yanran not only had the same appearance as Chu Yanran, but also had the same voice as Chu Yanran.
This feeling……
Just like when Chu Yanran met Ou Mengya for the first time.
But Ou Mengya had been killed, and Chu Yanran could also feel that the person who suddenly appeared was not Ou Menya, but a familiar stranger who had deliberately put on this face for some purpose.
"Who are you?" Chu Yanran pulled her hand back. She looked behind the strange stranger. Fu Yihan was standing aside. She gestured to Chu Yanran, meaning not to worry.
The other party sighed softly, and then replied: "I am Ouyang Lailai."
Chu Yanran's heart trembled, and she suddenly woke up, feeling that strange familiarity.
"How is that possible!!? Who are you?"
The mysterious man who had almost the same appearance as Chu Yanran smiled bitterly: "You have lived in Hongyan for more than ten years, aren't you familiar enough with my body?"
Come on, Ouyang Lailai caught Chu Yanran's eyes.
Their eyes met, Chu Yanran could no longer avoid this fact.
She was indeed Ouyang Lailai, but Chu Yanran never expected that in this world, Ouyang Lailai would always exist with her identity.
but……
"No...if you are Ouyang Lailai and you also occupy my body, then...who am I?!" Chu Yanran asked a philosophical question.
Ouyang Lailai raised his eyebrows: "You are you, you are the real Chu Yanran, I am just a fake, and...it's funny to say that my true identity was discovered not long after I arrived here, and
Many years after that, I, a murderer, actually joined the regular army. Not only did I have to replace your existence to make some people feel at ease, but I also had to put myself in danger from time to time..."
The content in these words was a bit too much, and it took Chu Yanran a while to sort it out before she understood it.
This was indeed Ouyang Lailai, but she was discovered after exchanging mental consciousness with Chu Yanran.
But the question is, who discovered her? Why did she appear today? Why has no one mentioned the existence of Ouyang Lailai to Chu Yanran before?
It seemed to be some kind of strange empathy, Ouyang Lailai explained before Chu Yanran asked.
"There's no need to think blindly. I'm here today to represent the organization and have a showdown with you."
"Showdown?" Chu Yanran was even more confused.
Ouyang Lailai snapped his fingers and ordered a glass of lemonade before starting to say: "First of all, let me help you fill in what happened on my side after you and I exchanged spiritual consciousness."
Chu Yanran nodded with a serious look on her face.
…
The following is the forty-six years from Ouyang Lailai’s perspective
…
Indeed, something went wrong in the Antarctic experiment, and the impact cost everyone.
Some are life, some are death...
This is not contradictory, nor is it problematic.
Those who paid their lives were people like Zeng Yijie and Guo Xingcai, who both died in failed experiments.
But some survivors seem to have lost the concept of death, and they have become immortal beings.
This group of people includes those who were exchanged
Ouyang Lailai who gained spiritual consciousness.
Although she unintentionally replaced Chu Yanran, the problem was that her identity and personality were completely different from Chu Yanran's, which made her exposed quickly and she was caught by Li Shaoan's men.
After a series of torture, Ouyang Lailai admitted his identity and gradually realized that he had returned to Earth unintentionally.
After that, although Ouyang Lailai thought about running away, after repeated consideration, Ouyang Lailai gave up this thankless idea and decided to officially join Li Shaoan's organization to help them complete a major task.
Recalling this, someone may have noticed that the organization Ouyang Lailai mentioned was not the National Security Agency, but a mysterious independent organization whose core goal was to promote and ultimately complete the "Slicing the Universe" plan.
As for what this organization is, who its leader is, and who its members are, Ouyang Lailai did not tell Chu Yanran. She only explained what she had done after joining the organization.
The first is to continue to exist as Chu Yanran and be responsible for laziness in some specific research. The second is to help Li Shaoan capture intruders like Ouyang Lailai who appear around the world, and guide some of them to join the organization, while the others either clean up
, or regulate it.
When everything was on track and Ouyang Lailai had become accustomed to life on earth, AOA suffered several major disasters one after another.
In the process, the organization Ouyang Lailai joined also suffered heavy losses and was even almost destroyed.
But in the end, with the persistence of some core personnel, the organization regained its strength after the end of the "Cold Winter" decade, and successfully helped the National Security Department advance the "Slicing the Universe" plan.
But during this period, something unexpected happened, that is, both Yougege and Aoa suddenly disappeared.
This should have been a good thing, but after Yugege and AOA disappeared, the organization was horrified to find that the research on the second phase had completely reached a dead end. It felt as if AOA had expected this day, so... lost
The opponents lost their motivation to continue and disappeared.
When the organization's plan advances into a deadlock, the blow is close to devastating for everyone.
Ouyang Lailai didn't need to explain this point, Chu Yanran also knew it very well.
So for the next twenty years or so, the organization has been trying to establish this kind of spiritual exchange bridge between Gaia and the Earth, in order to find the possibility of filling the gaps in the second stage of the "sliced universe".
But...it had little effect.
Moreover, as the organization's activities become more and more frequent, a new force is awakened, and they act secretly and appear elusive. The organization's attempts to establish contact with them have all failed. Only by reducing activities can the other party's influence on the organization be reduced accordingly.
Cleaning up of members.
This worsening situation lasted until the real Chu Yanran returned through the "door" in Antarctica.
…
After listening to Ouyang Lailai's explanation, Chu Yanran roughly clarified a few points.
First, the exchange of spiritual consciousness is mutual, and the earth side is more sensitive to the smell of "intrusion".
Second, most of those who participated in the "Slicing Universe" were affected by the impact. Some of them became immortal, such as Fu Yihan, and some had their bodies completely changed, such as Zhang Fengyu and Li Rang.
Moreover, Fu Yihan continued to serve the National Security Department on the surface. In fact, they belonged to a mysterious independent organization, and the core purpose of the organization was only one thing, which was to promote and ultimately complete the "slicing"
universe".
Third, the "blank" that Chu Yanran discovered before she left has still affected the possibility of the final realization of the "sliced universe" in the past few decades, but this has not weakened the interest of people like Fu Yihan in the "sliced universe".
Persistence.
Fourth, the disappearance of AOA, which has technological power far beyond the current world, seems to be related to this part of the "blank".
Fifth, although the organization has reached a dead end, it seems that trying to establish contact with Gaia is a viable path, otherwise it will not attract the attention of new forces.
The above five points basically summarize the key points that Ouyang Lailai has covered in his life on earth in the past few decades.
But there are still several problems that bother Chu Yanran.
First, how did the Earth discover that it had been "invaded"? Which other important figures had their spiritual consciousness replaced?
Second, if the impact has changed many people, then why can Fu Yihan and others continue to appear in public? Aren't they afraid of causing panic in the world?
Third, although "slicing the universe" is a very grand scientific concept, what is its significance to mankind?
Fourth, there is a reasonable explanation for AOA’s disappearance, but why did YouGeGe also disappear?
Fifth, what does new power mean?
After listing these questions, Chu Yanran wrote them on the crystal tablet she carried with her, and then placed it in front of Ouyang Lailai and others.
Li Rang and Fu Yihan also sat around.
After the three of them watched for a while, Fu Yihan spoke first: "The first two questions are relatively sensitive. Unless you agree to sign the 'final agreement', I can't give you the answer."
Chu Yanran nodded. Originally, those two questions were not the focus. She looked at the other two people.
After Li Rang and Ouyang Lailai looked at each other, Ouyang Lailai smiled bitterly and said: "In fact, we don't know much about this new force."
"Well? Didn't you say you had been in contact with them before?"
Ouyang Lailai nodded: "It's true that we have had contact with each other, but they are completely unreasonable. They will attack our people whenever they see them, and they are basically the following deadly hands."
"This..." Chu Yanran frowned. She couldn't help but think of the Arbitration Enforcers. Those guys had the same style when dealing with the remnants of the Central Veil.
"But then we found a report in an abandoned base in AOA, which seemed to be related to these people."
"Oh? What's in the report?"
Ouyang Lailai pouted: "I'm just an errand boy, how can I know so much, but I know their code names."
"What?"
"guest."
"Guest?!" Chu Yanran was startled, and her heart trembled sharply, because she was not unfamiliar with the code name "guest"...
"What? You know them?"
Chu Yanran said nothing, she frowned and remained silent for a long time.
Li Rang and Ouyang Lailai looked at each other and saw clearly in each other's eyes.
After a long time... Chu Yanran said: "When I was on Gaia... I did hear that there was a power that caused headaches even for those in power. They also called themselves 'guests', but... they never did it themselves."
Ouyang Lailai did not ask further questions after hearing this. She just looked at Fu Yihan beside her and exchanged a look with her.
Then Li Rang said: "That's it... no wonder the organization values you so much."
Chu Yanran was startled and didn't understand: "What?"