The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 198: Fog of Disaster
"Trapped in a time loop?" Wu Chang couldn't help but ask.

He Yun opened the can in his hand and said, "Everyone in the underground shelter is like the two people you just saw. Our lives are anchored at a certain time point. Once we die or a major change occurs in our lives, our lives will return to that time point."

"No matter what happened during this period, the physical and mental traces will fade away as if nothing had ever happened."

Wu Chang was silent for a moment, not knowing how to respond, and could only say, "It sounds like a different kind of eternal life."

"Eternal life?" He Yun sneered.

"Here, everything remains unchanged. No matter what we do, we cannot leave any traces in our lives. Those important moments that we vowed to remember for the rest of our lives may not be remembered at all when we wake up."

"When you study hard, master enough knowledge, train hard, and have skills that everyone praises. When you win game after game, become the focus of the shelter, and stand on the final stage, the next moment you have changed too much, and you revert on the spot and become the confused boy looking at the game poster ten years ago."

"Can you imagine this feeling?"

Wu Chang just thought about it for a moment and couldn't help frowning.

This would be perfect for those who just want to do nothing, but for those who have dreams and aspirations to achieve something, this setting of change means rolling back the game is a bit too cruel.

It would be fine if you were alone, after all, if you have lost all your memories, you won’t know how far you have come.

But in the city, everything you have done will always leave traces somewhere else. When you know that you were only one step away from the end of your dream, but the next moment you are back to the starting point, this gap will definitely make you collapse.

He Yun crushed the empty can and threw it on the ground. A trash can robot came over, grabbed the trash with its mechanical arm and stuffed it into its mouth. After a beeping sound, a metal coin rolled out of its recycling port and fell into the metal storage tank under the robot.

“When you find that all your efforts only bring more regrets and a maddening sense of loss, people will stop changing and try to play their original roles.”

"Do you still think this is a kind of eternal life?"

Wu Chang did not answer. No wonder the natives of Underground Shelter No. 88 all seemed to have super male syndrome. They were either committing suicide or on their way to death.

Perhaps this is the only way they can feel that they are still alive.

He looked at He Yun and asked, "You are not as crazy as others, aren't you afraid?"

He Yun turned and went upstairs, leaving a faint answer.

"Nothing that happens in this underground office is considered a major change to me."

Not long after, He Yun put on his clothes, went downstairs and started to chase people away.

"I should go out to work, and you should leave too."

Wu Chang came to He Yun excitedly and asked, "What are we going to do today?"

He Yun paused for a moment. The word "we" sounded particularly harsh in her ears.

"There is no we, only you and me. I will do my thing and you go your way."

Wu Chang said to himself: "What I need to do now is to get familiar with this underground shelter. In my experience, if you want to understand the local customs and practices, there is no better way than to stay with local friends."

He Yun looked at Wu Chang in surprise, "You have local friends?"

Wu Chang looked at her and nodded.

He Yun realized something was wrong, pointed at himself and asked, "Are you talking about me?"

Wu Chang said as a matter of course: "In our place, being able to stay overnight at each other's house is already a symbol of a close relationship. So I think we are friends."

He Yun took a deep breath, oh no, this guy is really dependent on her.

Wu Chang then said, "Besides, the people here are very unfriendly. I'm afraid that I won't be able to control myself and the noise from self-defense will be too loud and cause some trouble. If I'm not in your sight, you will definitely not be at ease."

If he was just thick-skinned and persistent before, his words now carried a hint of threat.

Wu Chang's words hit the nail on the head for He Yun's worries. As a native of the underground shelter and one of the strongest people, He Yun understood very well the weight of the underground shelter.

If Wu Chang, an outsider with the ability to teleport and great destructive power, really clashes with the locals, the locals will most likely suffer a great loss and will find it difficult to do anything to Wu Chang.

After all, the underground shelter is a technological plane, and they have no ability to prevent space jumps.

After hesitating for a moment, He Yun finally compromised.

"Listen carefully. You stay with me, but don't cause any trouble. You can't do anything without my permission, or you will be rude to me."

Wu Chang said with a grin, "I knew we were good friends."

Our ancestors were right. When facing a gentleman, we should deceive him with the right method.

He knew that He Yun did not like to abuse force and would not kill people rashly, so he could shamelessly succeed repeatedly and even stayed in the other's house for a night.

He also saw that He Yun was different from other locals, that she was rational and responsible, so he half-threatened her to bind her into action.

If it had been the psychopaths he encountered last night, Wu Chang's tricks would have been impossible to use. Those super-strong guys had already taken out their weapons and emptied their magazines.

However, Wu Chang also has another way of communicating with those people. You see, he communicates very smoothly with the bartender in the bar.

The two left home and headed towards the bus stop where they got off last night.

When he passed by the billboard from last night, he found that the charred Asylum version of Pete had disappeared, probably resurrected on the spot like the assassin duo.

Thinking of resurrection, Wu Chang couldn't help but think about the mechanism of resurrection of the locals.

What is their method of resurrection, regeneration or reorganization on the spot, so he asked Xiang Heyun directly.

He Yun said: "I once tried to study the reasons why people were resurrected, but after trying a few times, I found that it was not something that could be proven by science. But if you have to say it, it is like a kind of retrospection, tracing the body back to a certain time point."

Wu Chang asked, "What if I throw a target, such as the two assassins last night, into an iron barrel, fill it with cement, and then sink it into the water, what will happen to them? Will they keep resurrecting and then dying?"

He Yun looked at Wu Chang with a strange look in his eyes and asked, "What do you do outside? Are you a gangster or a professional killer?"

Wu Chang shrugged and said, "I have many careers. A week ago, I was still a chaebol."

"I've never seen a chaebol who buys hot milk on credit." He Yun sneered, and then answered Wu Chang's question.

"The rebirth mechanism of the underground shelter is very special. It takes into account the possibility of being killed continuously after rebirth. Therefore, if a local dies three times in a short period of time, after the third death, he will be reborn at the collective rebirth point instead of being reborn at the original place."

Wu Chang didn't expect that this resurrection mechanism was quite humane. "Where is the collective resurrection point you mentioned?"

He Yun: "Because resurrection is divine, and the Paradise Cult is the only religion in the underground shelter, the collective resurrection point was transformed into the Paradise Cult's cathedral."

Oh, with this relationship, the reputation of the Paradise Cult in the underground shelter must be high.

Wu Chang frowned and asked, "If I rashly come into conflict with the Paradise Church, will there be a war with the entire underground shelter?"

He Yun was puzzled and asked, "Why do you want to conflict with the Paradise Sect?"

Wu Chang: "Because of a friend of mine."

He Yun: “Ah?”

Wu Chang knew nothing about the underground shelter and had obviously never been inside one before, so it was impossible for him to have any friends here. Even if he had friends, the number of people who had conflicts between the underground shelter and the Paradise Sect could be counted on one hand.

In addition, when Wu Chang relied on her before, he said that they were friends.

This guy, I don't think he's going to look for trouble with the Paradise Sect just because she was assassinated yesterday.

He Yun immediately said: "I can handle my own affairs, you don't need to do anything."

Wu Chang:?
What the hell? How does this relate to anything?
He quickly realized that He Yun must have misunderstood. He was thinking about Fang Hui who was kidnapped, but He Yun seemed to have misunderstood him because of the joke in the morning.

If he explained it clearly at this time, He Yun would definitely be embarrassed.

Therefore, the considerate Wu Chang decided to make the best of a bad situation and said, "I don't care what you think, I care what I think. Those people from the Paradise Sect can go out and ask around about my reputation. As long as I recognize my friends, there is no reason for them to be bullied."

He Yun interrupted quietly, "Isn't your name Peace?"

"Yeah, how does peace come? If we don't kill all the enemies, will peace come to us on its own?" Wu Chang said as a matter of course.

He Yun sighed, feeling that in some ways, Wu Chang, the outsider, was more extreme than the locals.

She said, "I suggest you don't act rashly. As you said, since the foreign archbishop moved in some time ago, people's faith in the Paradise Cult has increased significantly. If you deal with the Paradise Cult, you will really arouse public anger."

Wu Chang touched his chin and thought: "When those two guys resurrected during the day, not only did they become thinner, they also completely forgot that they came to assassinate you. You said that resurrection will recall memories, how far back will it go?"

He Yun said: "It's hard to say. It usually goes back to before the cause of death or the beginning of a major change, maybe a few months, maybe eight or nine years."

Wu Chang: "Then what do you think? If I kill all the supporters of the Paradise Cult, their memories will go back to before the arrival of the foreign archbishop. Wouldn't that weaken the influence of the Paradise Cult?"

He Yun: "I was too conservative before. You must be either a terrorist or a dictator outside. But I advise you not to even think about it. Even if you do it for me, I will stop you."

Wu Chang shrugged and said, "Okay, you decide." The two took the bus to a power station between the suburbs and the urban area.

Although the locals in the underground shelter will not die, they still need to work in order to maintain themselves and meet the operation of the underground shelter.

He Yun's daily job is to repair power stations.

The power station is a huge building. Judging from the appearance, it requires at least a hundred employees to operate it, but in fact, it is extremely deserted inside, so deserted that when you stand outside, you can't hear any sound coming from inside.

Seeing He Yun's arrival, the gate of the power plant opened, and an old man in his fifties with half of his hair white walked out of the communication room and greeted He Yun.

"I heard that you made a big splash in the bar last night, taking out a troublemaker with just one punch."

He Yun had no intention of discussing this in depth. "It's not a big deal. It's just that the other party is too weak."

The old man put on his glasses, looked at Wu Chang behind He Yun, and asked, "Who is he?"

He Yun hesitated for a moment and said reluctantly, "A friend."

After saying that, he entered the equipment room and began to replace the maintenance mecha needed to repair the power station.

The old man took the opportunity to pull Wu Chang aside and asked in a low voice: "Boy, tell me the truth, what is your relationship?"

Wu Chang also responded in a low voice, "Like she said, we are still friends for now. I was just allowed to go to her house yesterday."

The old man sighed twice, glanced at the equipment room secretly, and said:
"Phew, I'm relieved that she can return to her normal life. Boy, if you have a chance, let her find another job. This place doesn't need anyone to inspect it, or it doesn't need her to inspect it."

"This place is not suitable for her. The longer she stays here, the more she will be stuck in the past. I promised her brother that I would take good care of her, but it is obvious that it is difficult for an old man like me to influence her. Maybe you can help her get out of this."

Wu Chang was just about to ask what the old man was talking about when He Yun, who had just replaced the repair mecha, came out and urged:
"Don't listen to his nonsense, it's time to go!"

The area that He Yun needed to focus on inspecting was the underground circuit passage. As he took the elevator down, He Yun asked:
"Did the old man say anything to you that he shouldn't have said?"

Wu Chang has always been a loyal man and never lies to his friends, so he sold the old man out on the spot.

"He told me that you shouldn't stay here any longer and what happened to you here."

He Yun frowned slightly and cursed in a low voice that the man was nosy.

Wu Chang: "Do you mind talking about what happened here?"

He Yun was very resistant to this and said coldly: "There's nothing to talk about."

As the elevator stopped, they descended at least another hundred meters to the underground.

He Yun opened a heavy metal door by scanning his face, and then took Wu Chang into the circuit passage.

The scene behind the metal door surprised Wu Chang. Through his Eye of Breaking Law, he could see that the space here was full of energy, which was being continuously transported to the interface of the circuit channel.

No wonder there are so few people in the power station and we can't hear the operation of the power generation equipment. It turns out that it is not because the technology of the underground shelter is too advanced, but because the underground shelter does not need power generation at all.

What era is it now? We are still using traditional power generation. In the underground shelter, the air here can generate its own electricity!

The circuit channel sounds like a dedicated space for transmitting circuits, but in fact it is more like a passage leading underground.

Wu Chang followed He Yun and asked, "What's going on here? Why do I feel that this channel is constantly generating energy?"

He Yun used a special maintenance mecha to inspect the wall of the passage and replied:

"You're right. The energy that supplies the entire underground shelter is not from the power plant, but comes from here. However, the energy is not generated here, but spreads up from deeper underground areas."

"In the underground space, there is an endless amount of energy that can keep the underground shelter running all the time and squander it at will."

Wu Chang instantly became nervous after hearing this. This kind of thing cannot be said casually. If the White Tower heard it, wouldn't the mold be in full force?

Pure natural unlimited energy, isn’t this thing much better than oil?
Putting aside the unlimited energy, Wu Chang was more concerned about the fact that this energy came from deeper underground.

The special properties of the Pillar of the Present World, combined with He Yun's words, make it hard not to wonder whether the deeper layer from which energy is constantly transmitted is actually the second layer of the abyss.

"Are we going to go further underground now?"

He Yun shook his head and said, "That is a blocked area and entry is prohibited. We just need to patrol the periphery and make sure that the fog does not leak out."

Wu Chang: "Fog?"

Just as Wu Chang began to have doubts, he saw a long crack of more than ten centimeters in length appearing on the wall of the passage not far away, and a faint white mist seeped out from it.

Through the Eye of Breaking Laws, he saw the shadow of mysticism in the mist, but the level of mysticism contained in the mist exceeded the upper limit of the Wilderness Realm, so he could not fully analyze it. He could only vaguely sense that it was a sinister power.

It seems to induce people to indulge in desires, while releasing the monsters in the hearts of those affected.

He Yun avoided the white fog like the plague. The moment he saw the white fog, he immediately pulled Wu Chang back.

"Don't touch that thing!"

After He Yun finished speaking, he changed the maintenance armor into a fully closed mode, and walked into the white fog with all his might. He squeezed out a special paste from the maintenance armor and repaired the cracks on the wall.

Her movements were very skillful, and it only took her a dozen seconds to completely repair the crack.

The next thing to do is to wait for the material used to repair the cracks to dry completely and for the leaking mist to dissipate.

Due to the difficulty of white fog, this process usually takes dozens of minutes.

But today seems to be different. The white mist is dissipating much faster than before, and it is actively flowing backwards.

He Yun turned back curiously, and was instantly startled. "You are crazy! What are you doing!"

Behind her, Wu Chang did not listen to her advice. He walked into the white mist and took deep breaths.

No wonder the white mist dissipated so quickly. With the addition of a living air filter, how could it not dissipate quickly?

Seeing He Yun coming quickly, Wu Chang raised his hand to indicate that he was fine. Then he savored the scent for a moment as if he was tasting perfume, and then exhaled all the mist he had inhaled from his mouth.

He couldn't absorb the mist.

"This smell is like sweat mixed with hormones. It's a bit over the top, but there's no need for you to be so scared, right?"

He Yun stood in the distance and watched vigilantly. After a while, after confirming that Wu Chang had no reaction, He Yun was stunned. She pointed at Wu Chang and said in surprise:

"The fog of disaster has no effect on you?!"

Wu Chang shrugged and said, "What effect should it have?"

He Yun: "Under normal circumstances, the desires of people who inhale the fog of disaster will be distorted into monsters, and then materialize into reality. The stronger the desire, the more fog of disaster they inhale, and the stronger the monster that materializes."

Wu Chang said innocently, "It seems that they really don't work on me."

After sensing the occult structure in the mist, although he could not fully decipher it, he could tell that the mist posed no threat to him.

There are many ways to analyze occult rituals. In addition to using the Eye of Destruction to brute force, personal experience is also an important way.

Fully experiencing the mystical energy of the mist would allow him to sense its effects without having to fully decipher the mist's mystical structure.

After all, one of his talents for changing jobs is called "Mystic Control".

As for the mysticism, even if it was beyond the scope of his wild world, he could learn and master it quickly.

The idea was good, but there was a small hiccup.

Because his will was too high, the white mist's judgment failed and had no effect on him at all.

With a will as high as 138, let alone in a dream, even if Lehman used his eyes as a medium to come and reveal his true form as the evil god to dance a pole dance in front of him, Wu Chang's heart would not be shaken at all.

"What a pity! I originally wanted to further analyze the abilities of these disaster fogs through actual experience, but it seems that this won't work."

Wu Chang's face was full of regret, but He Yun could not hide the surprise at all.

She looked at the outsider who suddenly appeared in front of her, and suddenly at this moment, she suddenly understood those believers a little.

A believer once told her that at a certain moment, people will suddenly feel the existence of fate and discover that everything that happens is arranged by God. From then on, people will believe in God.

At this moment, she really felt the so-called fate.

Before, she ignored Wu Changai and even thought that he was a big trouble for being so persistent, but now it seems that this might be a destined meeting.

"You want to know what's going on underground? I'll tell you now."

(End of this chapter)