Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

Fang Bailu tapped the counter table lightly with his fingers: How about joining forces with Anbennola to deal with Cang Yangzi together?

"If we want to get closer, the best way is to have a common external enemy... So it seems that Shou Niang and I actually have a prerequisite for cooperation: after all, any company that wants to compete for the immortal's body may threaten my safety."

After a moment's hesitation, Fang Bailu decided to tentatively cooperate with Shou Niang on the condition of more intelligence: information is the top priority at the moment. If he wanted to join forces with Anbennola to deal with Cang Yangzi, it would not be much different from cooperating directly with Shou Niang.

As the saying goes, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

"When the time comes, I will definitely see what's in her head."

Since he still couldn't conquer them by force, Fang Bailu had no choice but to return to his old job for the time being: pretending to be submissive.

Fang Bailu directly used the tip of his tongue to touch the empty groove next to his big tooth and dialed the number of the "outer sect Taoist priest":

"Master? It's me. I need to meet 'her'."

Anbenola's mechanical and hoarse voice sounded through the bone transmitter, as if whispering in Fang Bailu's ear:

"Boss Fang, if you're talking about cooperation... I can make the decision."

"Why don't you meet and talk directly like last time? Do you not want to, or can't?"

Thinking of the complicated rituals that Anbennola had performed when summoning Shou Niang, Fang Bailu had some more guesses in his mind:

"Then I'll be frank: I can cooperate with you, but it must be open and honest."

As soon as Fang Bailu finished speaking, Anbennola's decisive answer caught him off guard:

"Okay. Once you agree to cooperate, I can share what I know with you."

"Everything I know."

Chapter 79 Seven-character quatrain (Part )

Fang Bailu and Anbennola stood together on the top of the oil tower. It was the first time for Fang Bailu to enter the oil tower since their last fight outside the alchemy room.

Now as a Taoist child of the Microcomputer Taoism Research Society, he no longer needs a forged iris record to enter this so-called wealthy area.

Fang Bailu's request for a meeting was immediately accepted by Anbennola - in a sense, he was even more eager than Fang Bailu.

This was the meeting place chosen by Anbenola - it was the highest point in Kuala Lumpur, and one could even see the vague outline of Penang on the horizon.

"Orchid" trembled silently on the side, using the digital sword sound to block out possible prying eyes.

Anbennola's appearance was the same as usual, with no visible changes: but when she walked, the loud noise her feet made on the ground made Fang Bailu realize that she had probably made other changes.

"Has the alchemy technique improved again?"

She looked up at the dark sky covered with countless layers of clouds—even in the daytime, the sky was filled with black and gray:

"Behind those clouds, there are many stars."

Anbennola spoke first, but the topic he talked about left Fang Bailu confused.

"..."

Fang Bailu said nothing. Whether it was day or night, the human eye could not see any extraterrestrial planets other than the sun and the moon in Kuala Lumpur.

Although in the city of my "previous life", I could only see a few twinkling stars in the middle of the night - but now the sky is like a dark gray bowl, covering the whole area.

"The research institute's visualization machine can see the light from those stars. Do you know that if our speed is like those neon beams, it will take hundreds or thousands of years to reach those places?"

She suddenly pointed at Fang Bailu:

"Ah, about as long as you sleep."

"Actually, it's not that far away... not to mention the solar system, even a star like Alpha Centauri is probably only a few light years away."

Fang Bailu did not respond to these incomprehensible words. He leaned his elbows on the railing, and the howling wind pressure and the chill in the sky made him tremble a little:

"You said you could tell me everything. Let's start with the first one. Who is 'Shou Niang'?"

Anbenola put on the full-face mask with her jade-white right hand, hesitated for a moment and then put it down:

"She...she used to be a member of the 'Immortal Assembly'."

"More than one...but is there an organization?"

This organization name obviously did not conform to the new Dan Dao naming format, and was even a bit rough and casual, as if it came up on the spur of the moment, which made Fang Bailu a little shocked:

"…What do you mean? Is she also an immortal?"

"But judging from Shou Niang's tone before, she seems to be just an admirer..."

Anbenola's head never lowered, and it was pointed straight at the sky like a telescope:

"It's definitely not the case now. She said she was 'chopped' out of something."

Ambenola raised her hand - she stretched out her five fingers and grabbed at the sky:

"She should be there. In the Big Dipper/Ursa Major."

"?!"

Fang Bailu looked in the direction of her palm - there was only a gray cloud there.

This nonsensical sentence made Fang Bailu tremble with fear:

"What do you mean? Have humans traveled to an extraterrestrial planet...?"

He stroked the cold sweat on his forehead due to frustration: How could his "mobile phone" reach the birthday girl outside the earth?

"Outside the Earth... Visualization..."

It was like a bolt of lightning struck from the gray sky and hit his head:

"What exactly are you doing when you use the visualization machine to enter meditation?"

Fang Bailu couldn't use the visualization machine - that was the patent of Qigong practitioners. He had always been wondering how this thing, which was somewhat similar to a space telescope, could help Qigong practitioners analyze their alchemy methods?

He originally thought it was some kind of supercomputer or something - but now an idea that made Fang Bailu terrified was emerging from the bottom of his heart.

"me?"

For the first time, Anbenola lowered his head and looked at his hands as if he were examining some strange object:

"My 'Tao' is on the star Pojun/Eta Ursa Major. The visualization machine conveys its whispers to me and explains the alchemy method for me."

Fang Bailu took a step back.

"The stars will clear redundant data, optimize and analyze the alchemy for me. That's all visualization is."

Visualization machine...

"So it's some kind of receiving device, no, a communication device?"

"Then...then 'Shou Niang'..."

boom!

The metal railing had a big dent under Anbenola's grip:

"Yes. She said she was the 'Star Officer' of Pojun and could only descend at special times and through special rituals. She was the one who guided me on the path of the new alchemy path."

"No wonder... those rituals and special time nodes - are they some kind of communication restrictions?"

Fang Bailu scratched his neck fiercely, and soon it turned red and rashes appeared:

"She 'lives' in the Ursa Major?"

"Have humans established colonies outside the Earth? It's impossible that they are in the Ursa Major! It must be tens of thousands of light years away from the Earth..."

Anbenola shook his head, and his nerves swayed like real hair:

"No. No living thing can break through the limit of life and death and reach there."

"Is 'Shou Niang' probably alive in a state of Yin spirit or something like that? I don't know either."

"If it's Alpha Centauri, maybe there's a chance..."

The Centaurus Nebula is 4.2 light years away from Earth - if we travel at the speed of light, it would take us several years to reach it. But humans can never travel at the speed of light.

"Perhaps some sublight travel method combined with a hibernation chamber? Judging from the current technology, controlled nuclear fusion definitely exists... No, it is also possible that one of them is lying."

"Are all... all Qigong practitioners like this?" Fang Bailu waved his hands randomly towards the sky. "Is there a computer? No, they just practice by listening to the stars in the sky?"

"Everyone's 'Tao' is different. Before 'unity', everyone's interpretation of alchemy is different - except for those common low-level alchemy methods."

Anbenola took up a nerve tube and rolled it in his hand:

"If your artificial body doesn't have three souls and seven spirits, it can't use the visualization machine. Its Lingbao Bifa can only reach the level of the civilian version, and it won't make any further progress."

"Different? Do they need to be tailor-made? But, there should be an optimal method... Aren't they just drivers for prosthetics?"

Fang Bailu just felt like his head was like paste - these things were ambiguous and messy.

Instead, Anbenola continued:

“…Have you ever thought about what those places would be like?”

Anbennola still kept her head down, but Fang Bailu understood that she was talking about the planets outside the atmosphere, scattered like grains of sand in the vast universe.

"At least it won't be like this...?"

Fang Bailu slowed down his rapid breathing and waved his hands around:

"If, if there are still humans outside the universe, why is this world now..."

He was halfway through his sentence when he felt himself running out of words - who knew that humans who traveled beyond the earth would be different from himself living in this crazy world?

This is how the world works. Individuals with their own will cannot escape suffering and pain - even electronic bliss will eventually become unbearable for the glands.

I thought I would wake up in a better earth: but fantasy is just fantasy after all.

Fang Bailu rubbed his nose fiercely: There is no point in saying these thoughts out loud - even if Anbennola understands and comprehends them, nothing will change.

Anbenola turned his head, and the mirror of his hood reflected the city made of ruins, steel and concrete beneath their feet:

"Don't worry, it's not certain. Other places should be different from here."

She continued:

"I once knew someone who wanted to go outside the sky. I also wanted to know what it was like among the stars."

This time Fang Bailu looked away: below him were three and a half million drug addicts, criminals, and people who enjoyed torturing each other.

In fact, I have become one of them without realizing it. Why should I care if there is a better place?

Is there a heaven on earth, or some kind of promised paradise?

He did not continue this unrealistic topic - the romance among the stars had nothing to do with his current situation:

"The immortal body. What is its use? Why are those super companies looking for it?"

Anbenola gently let go of the hand holding the railing and stood up straight. The sleeves of her robe fell down, covering her palms:

"Opportunity. A chance to achieve enlightenment."

"You know that, right? Immortals were just humans at first."

Chapter 80 Seven-character quatrain (Part )

"Enlightenment?"

Fang Bailu pondered over Anbennola's words: Judging from the various things happening in this era, this word should have a different meaning.

"Does it mean to reverse-engineer the technology contained in the immortal's body?"

Even if the immortal's body contains the crystallization of the old world's technology, it may not be able to be analyzed and utilized in a short period of time.

He thought of the "zombies" that Old Liu had created: even if they were placed in a large company's laboratory, it would not be so easy to reverse engineer the principles behind them. The strange characteristics of "Knuckles" and "zombies" were beyond the knowledge of an "old antique" like him.

If the technology of the old world was so easy to analyze, there wouldn’t be so many Qigong practitioners who only know how to combine technological achievements like building blocks.

Fang Bailu shook his head and moved on to the next question:

"The existence of immortals is a consensus among Qigong practitioners? Or is it..."

"Shou Niang told me."

Anbenola cupped his hands together to catch the raindrops that fell like catkins.