Dow and Carbon-Based Monkey Breeding Guidelines

Chapter 1022: The End of the Sky, the Corner of the Earth (Part )

Robin Han found that he had underestimated how much Miffy knew about the whole thing. He had just agreed to tell Miffy the truth when the cunning alien monster immediately asked, "Does Feng Chuxing really only have another 26 hours to live?"

"How do you know this?" Luo Binhan said, "Li Li only found out about this this afternoon?"

"She knew it before she was put in the isolation box." Miffy said, "In the last three seconds before you put her in the isolation box, she had seen the note you put in the isolation box in advance. Moreover, she thought that the content you wrote on the note was suspicious. So, she sent some updated data to her backup machine in those three seconds..."

"Wait a minute," Robinson interrupted, "what do you mean by her backup phone?"

Miffy was reluctant to explain the details, but Robinson poked it twice with a sharp shadow, forcing it to explain it more clearly: Apparently Li Li made some backup plans before taking her box to the battlefield. She first took the box to a secret server center, where she made the necessary data backup and kept all the information that the local residents needed to know in the doomsday survival; at the same time, she also built an information analysis model based on herself to help others retrieve this information efficiently.

This information analysis model, which she called "Archiver Maggie," was based on her neural simulation data, but was limited by the computing power and storage capacity of the local device and had to run at the lowest speed in the design to avoid taking up too many resources. Therefore, this model thinks very slowly and cannot access illegally as freely as she does. It only optimized the algorithm for the existing database and can be said to be a doomsday expert who specializes in how to deal with the worst-case scenario.

This was the original plan. However, within three seconds before the lid of the isolation box was closed, Li Li sent the last data update to "Archiver Maggie" and activated it in advance. This update deployed a new set of action plans for it, including notifying the special operations team to stop the bombing plan and releasing Miffy from prison. While reorganizing Miffy's independent action mission, "Archiver Maggie" also described the current situation in detail to it and played several high-definition video recordings to help it increase its understanding -

"Video?" Robin Han asked, "What video?"

"Well," Miffy said, "When you and her met, and when you had conflicts...she kept the recording function on."

Robinson stared at it in amazement until Miffy began to shrink back. "She showed you this?" he asked in horror. "She filmed everything she saw? And showed it all to you?"

"Not all of them," Miffy said immediately. "I think she edited them. A lot of them are incoherent. She just wanted me to get the key information."

It tried to downplay the incident, but Robin Han didn't listen. "She might show it to anyone in the future!" Robin Han said tremblingly, "What I said before, and those last few minutes... My God!"

He looked up at the wellhead in despair, considering whether he should slip out immediately, find "Archiver Maggie" before anyone could react, and forcefully delete the stupid algorithm that had mastered the source of his nightmares - it was too late, the real Li Li was back online. She was the king of the world in the data world of this planet, and could spread all his ugly behavior all over the Internet in three seconds. If she decided to use a more lively way to explain to the people of the world how this doomsday was caused... he couldn't show up from the wellhead again, and couldn't give her any chance to talk about or even play those videos in front of him.

"She hates me," Robinson said, devastated. "How could she do such a thing!"

Miffy watched his reaction furtively. "I think," it said in the soothing tone of a novice nurse, "you look pretty good in the video."

Robinham stared at it in silence. Miffy retracted the silky mouth into her body and quietly retreated into the box where she was originally locked. There was nothing to argue about now. If one or two people didn't die in the well tonight, the whole thing would become unresolvable. He scratched his hair listlessly, trying to make his image closer to a sure win than a desperate one.

"So," Miffy said after a while, "Feng Chuxing?"

Luo Binhan sighed tiredly. "Feng Chuxing is fine. He's in Jin... I mean, he's in Zimuniang's territory now. Tomorrow, Zimuniang will log in to my social account and tell Li Li which cave she should go to pick him up. You can tell her so when you get out."

"He's in the cave?"

"There are many caves there. Zimu gave me a kind of powder. I sprinkled it at the entrance of the cave, and wild animals will not go in."

"So you didn't really bury him?"

"Am I crazy?" Luo Binhan said, "What a joke, how do I know if he will die unexpectedly? What if the coffin is not strong enough and collapses in advance? Or is he breathing more than the average person? I can't catch him in advance and do a few experiments. What if Li Li finds me a few days later, or digs him out a few hours late, what should I do? Death countdown mechanism? Maximum oxygen consumption? Come on, only Li Li would take such things seriously. Does she think everyone can figure out the thing of sending people into a box?"

"But you mentioned the calculation formula in the video..."

"I have never understood mathematics, physics and chemistry!" said Robin Han. "Don't ask me to do this!"

He took out a portable notebook from his pocket and opened it to show Miffy. It only recorded the watering frequency, fertilizer preferences and characteristics of various pests and diseases of several crops. There was no information related to burial alive or oxygen quantity.

Miffy fell silent. It must be silently digesting this latest intelligence, and maybe it is still thinking about how to pass the truth to Li Li in advance. Luo Binhan is not particularly worried about its little calculations, because in any case, he has brought a core that can be started normally to the bottom of the well. Any electronic device like a bug should be ineffective here, and even if Li Lixiang came up with some trick to let Miffy send the message out, she would definitely not be able to stop him from starting the traction well immediately. She knew that he would really do this, so she would not risk sending more people to die, except for the unfortunate Miffy. He hoped that the fast climbing pole device would really work.

"You lied to her." Miffy said, "So, whether she can catch you or not, she can find Feng Chuxing."

"It's not that easy." Luo Binhan explained, "Zimu Niang lives in a place that is hard to find. She cut a small piece of skin from my body... I don't know what she did specifically, but she said that if I suddenly disappeared from this world, she would know immediately. As long as I disappeared, she would contact Li Li immediately. And if I stayed, she would wait until the deadline to contact Li Li."

"Deadline?"

"Midnight two days later, that's the time we agreed on. I guess things can't be postponed any longer. If I still can't get the wellhead by then, I will give Feng Chuxing to Li Li."

"You'll really give it to her? Without asking for anything?"

"I don't need to really blow up the planet. All I have to do is make her believe that I will. This is actually not difficult at all. Anyway, she must have heard many people complain about similar things, such as praying for a comet to hit the continent... But if you think about it carefully, this is a ridiculous wish in itself, isn't it? There must be something on this planet that has not wronged you. If you really feel that you have had enough, you can solve this problem yourself. Why bother the comet for such a small matter? Unless you just dislike everyone, or take yourself too seriously, and don't really want to get things done."

Miffy said, "I'm not quite sure what you mean."

"It means that I will really give Feng Chuxing to her." Luo Binhan said listlessly, "I will give her everything she needs, including the startup password - do you know what the startup password is? It is not a set of numbers at all, but a geometry problem, and I don't even understand the damn question. Only Feng Chuxing can explain the password problem to her. If the moment really comes when it can't be delayed any longer, I will admit defeat and stop, give her what she needs, and let this matter end here. Then I will leave by myself and think of other ways... Whoever is not satisfied with this world will leave by himself."

He unscrewed a bottle of mineral water on the ground and gave Miffy some time to digest it alone. In this short silence, he began to wonder if all this was a deliberate arrangement by Li Li. Perhaps Li Li sent Miffy here not out of pure racial discrimination, but because he had seen through some of his hidden psychology. She knew that he would lower his guard in front of a completely neutral alien monster, and he would not be able to help but talk more; Miffy would not really understand, so it was very safe to talk to it, anyway, it could not really laugh at or despise him. Talking to Miffy and facing Feng Chuxing are similar in nature - yes, although it is a bit absurd, he and Feng Chuxing actually got along well during this period. During the journey to remote areas to find witches, he often played the role of a good brother who took care of his seriously ill brother in front of outsiders, and if a person really wanted to perform a play that impressed the audience, he had to get himself involved.

As a tool and captive for obtaining intelligence, Feng Chuxing was perfect in terms of convenience: not only did he help him identify the many unfamiliar devices in the basement that looked ordinary, and confirm what he had to take away before he set off, but they also talked frequently during the subsequent journey, sometimes even all night long. Any technical questions he asked the kid could be answered, although they might not be correct or easy to understand, but the other party never concealed anything, nor did he show any boredom, and was as honest as a primary school student dealing with the teacher's test. He also asked about that night - of course, it was two different nights for the two of them, and the "that night" in Feng Chu's eyes was more than ten hours earlier than him - the answer he got was even more boring than he imagined. He asked Feng Chuxing more than once what it felt like, and all these questions, like other questions that wanted to figure out the kid's own attitude, did not get any meaningful answers at all. The kid just didn't understand what he was asking, and his reaction was no different from a caterpillar being poked with a stick. There's really no point in killing caterpillars, even if it's just to tie the game score.

There is another type of question that Feng Chuxing can answer, and that is his life after arriving at the old shipyard. Feng Chuxing described that period as neither romantic nor bizarre, and it was as plain as if he was living some kind of ascetic life: he just learned, gave feedback, and learned again. 0206 implemented an education model for him that was very close to Wuyuanren. This model hardly required living people to serve as classroom teachers, and the so-called "educators" were more like invigilators and auditors. During this period, Feng Chuxing always lived in several chambers in the middle of the shaft, and rarely had the opportunity to go down to the deepest part of the shaft and go to the high spiritual field area to participate in the most critical projects. He only fully understood (or thought he understood) the work that 0206 was doing from a conceptual level, and he also took the initiative to invite his friends to participate in the test.

When Luo Binhan heard this, he pondered for a long time. By then, he had found Jin Yu - for some strange reason, she had the same name as her biological daughter - and completed the fatal ritual. The witch who was deceived by him was naturally furious, but she could do nothing because he had all the necessary cards in his hand. He could spare time to concentrate on his plan and hook up with a local carpenter. Of course, it was not to learn how to build a coffin, but he had to try his hand with something and learn how to accurately control the shadow. Cutting wood was a good choice, which was both economical and safe, as long as he didn't make sawdust all over the room, otherwise Jin Yu would have to light a cigarette. Therefore, most of the time he practiced in the cave where Feng Chuxing was imprisoned. This was a very efficient way to practice while collecting intelligence. Multitasking should be the basic skill of a shadow assassin.

He asked Feng Chuxing that question while carving a decorative wooden ball. Since he had work to do, he was in a calm mood when he asked the question, and he didn't expect to get any surprising answers. "Do you remember a person named Cai Ji?" He asked the other party casually. If Feng Chuxing said that he didn't remember, or just nonchalantly admitted that there was such a person, he would not find it strange. However, Feng Chuxing answered without hesitation: "He was my old friend."

Robin Han stopped the shadow of the woodcutters. He looked at the hostage tied in the cave and could not see any difference between him and the past. How do you define the word friend? He really wanted to ask this question. But deep down he knew that he would not get any interesting answer, so he asked, "Do you know where he is now?"

"do not know."

"You nearly killed him—or you killed him. Why did you do it?"

Feng Chuxing did not deny that his teacher was fatal to most people. "People will always die," he replied, "Rather than dying without doing anything, shouldn't we try to obtain a higher form of life? I want to give him that opportunity."

Luo Binhan had to admit that Zhou Yu might not be the worst friend in the world. The slender shadow holding the wood swung lightly, throwing the bumpy semi-finished product into the deep ravine outside the cave, and then patted Feng Chuxing's head twice, just like patting a wild dog of unknown temperament, or a watermelon of unknown quality. "You think this is a higher form of life?" His shadow slid down and swayed a few millimeters in front of Feng Chuxing's eyeballs, "Is it worth gambling with the life he could have had?"

Feng Chuxing thought calmly, with only a little doubt. After a moment, he replied: "Didn't you choose the same way yourself?"

Considering the boy's usual performance, this is a pretty powerful counterattack. There are many intuitive and attractive benefits to becoming a shadow, but the disadvantages are difficult to describe in words, which inevitably makes people feel that this is actually a very worthwhile deal - of course, the failure rate and mortality rate must be considered, but it is probably not that bad for the successful ones. Luo De must be very satisfied with his second life, and Cai Ji also enjoys playing his simulation business game. As for Luo Binhan himself, he is just a short-term experiencer anyway, and the truly disgusting side effects of this form - limited to the part he has just discovered) - will only be reflected in the longer years. At present, he is indeed enjoying the most refreshing and enjoyable part of monster acting. His life is full of unprecedented unity and freedom. Therefore, he really can't say that Feng Chuxing's views are unreasonable.

Feng Chuxing discovered his true purpose very late, probably just a few days before he left. During those days, he did not sleep or eat, and immersed himself in the carving of materials and spirits. Every time Shadow cut a piece of wood, his plan took shape, and he gradually dug out grooves and edges from the rough and simple large pieces of wood. At first, he even thought about taking care of only one person, as long as he could get it into his hands, he would be fine with anyone, but after meeting Feng Chuxing, he realized that this was not something that could be done by just anyone. He had to fulfill the promise he had made: if he lost in this matter, then no one else could win.

If he could achieve a revenge that was absolutely restored in form, for example, using a spirit field shield and a flow aid to drill through the opponent, then chopping off his head and burying it in the roots of a tree, that would indeed be the most attractive idea. Unfortunately, it was not feasible, so he had to settle for the next best thing and seek another way to make both the curse and the blessing vanish. He asked for extra details about the information about the "wellhead". Even if Feng Chuxing didn't understand his intention at first, he would definitely understand the key in the end.

"You won't succeed." He only said this to Luo Binhan. He must have confidence in his guide, but in Luo Binhan's view, since this kid said this, it just shows that this plan is truly threatening.

In the last moments before they parted, Feng Chuxing's attitude finally changed a little bit, which was hardly noticeable. When the time came, the boy seemed to be a little afraid of him, or perhaps it should be said that he was a little confused about him. Until he reached the end of the mountain path, the sight from the cave was still following him, as if wondering why he had to do this. What can you figure out? He said to the guy trapped in the cave in his heart. You haven't even grasped the slightest clue about the most extreme but subtle happiness, pain and despair that a person can experience in his life, the saddest joy, the most joyful worry, and the most intoxicating resentment!

In the darkness, Miffy stretched out her vocal organ again. "You win," she concluded, "In the end, she still believed it."

Robin shook his head hesitantly. "Maybe she didn't believe it," he said uncertainly. "I think she found out, at least at the last moment... otherwise she wouldn't have arranged for you to come here. But she couldn't take the risk - she had already made a mistake once, and couldn't risk the fate of this planet again. So she had no choice but to let me go. And I think she realized that even if she stopped me this time, she couldn't do anything to me anymore. Her secret weapon was no longer useful."

"This is a strange result." Miffy said, "I didn't expect you to become like this. Last time you were very close."

"Yeah...what an unexpected ending."

Luo Binhan touched his left face in a daze, wondering how he ended up in this place. He hadn't been immersed in this thought for long before Miffy asked again: "You mentioned her secret weapon just now. What is it?"

"Shouldn't you have seen it?" Luo Binhan said. He reached under his coat very carefully and took out a strip of woven cloth from the waist bag. He untied it bit by bit, revealing the broken silver-white sword blade inside.

The dagger had been severely damaged by the fatal impact of the flow aid. There was no hope of repairing the gravel-like debris. After searching in the bushes for more than ten minutes, Luo Binhan only found a completely deformed copper hilt and a relatively intact blade fragment. This fragment should be the end of the blade, only the length of his thumb, and the surface was covered with cracks. It could no longer withstand the slightest knock, but it was still the part that was most likely to threaten him, and maybe it could also have an effect on a serious blood recipient, so he took it away.

Miffy recognized the weapon, but the extent of the damage to the wreckage was beyond her expectations. "Is this all you have?" she asked with some regret.

"That's all. So you see, she can't control me anymore."

"Well, she has something to tell you about this."

"She doesn't have a second one as a backup, does she?" Luo Binhan said immediately, "I'm going to kill the beast who supplied her with it."

"She doesn't have a second one. But, she wants to tell you that if you seize this sword and want to use it against your enemies, you have to be careful about some problems... She said that this sword will be easily damaged after entering the material world. In particular, if it comes into contact with shadows, its structure will become very fragile. You can't, uh, move it easily anymore."

"Ah, no wonder she was so secretive during the day, waiting until I was at my most proud. Did she tell me about the effect of this thing on Zhou Wenxing?"

"She doesn't recommend you get your hopes up," Miffy said. "She said this sword... I think she meant the complete sword, which can be inserted and removed from the shadow up to three times..."

"Insert and pull out three times," Luo Binhan repeated coldly, trying not to make any noise with his teeth.

"Ordinary injuries cause pain," Miffy continued, "and fatal injuries cause sleep."

"Totally unconscious sleep?"

"That's what was written in the instructions she got."

Luo Binhan wrapped the fragments up again. He didn't hold out much hope for this thing. It was already too badly damaged, and it definitely couldn't withstand two more insertions and extractions. It might break into pieces the next time it was used to stab someone, and it was unrealistic to stab this thumb-long thing into Zhou Wenxing's vitals. The most important point was that this thing actually provided a peaceful, unconscious sleep, rather than repeated deaths and repeated falls into the dark sea that drove him crazy. Maybe Li Li thought that this sword was gentler than a defibrillator, but he didn't come here to let Zhou Wenxing get a good night's sleep. No one was allowed to have peace tonight.

"You really should leave." He said to Miffy again, "It's very unsafe here, especially after I activate the core..."

“When are you going to start it?”

"Tonight. When that thing shows up."

Miffy squirmed silently for a moment, as if wondering whether she should slip away immediately or stay a little longer to find out what was going on. There must be some suspicion that she was going to settle accounts with Li Li later, but when she continued to ask questions, her voice revealed an interest that was difficult to conceal. Tonight, this little monster was really fearless in order to satisfy his curiosity.

"How do you know your enemies will come?" it asked expectantly. "If no one comes tonight, are you still going to activate the core? Or will you come out of here at daybreak?"

Robin Han looked behind him. His suitcase was still being dragged by the shadow, in the darkness ten steps away. "He will come." He poured the remaining water in the bottle onto the ground, imagining the entire shaft overflowing, "for his brother."

(End of this chapter)