The girl with white hair and red eyes is serious about revenge

Perlis and Shaya nodded to each other, and they began to check the surrounding environment. The top of the Upper Hub Star is a circular area, and the circle near the edge is a glass wall, which overlooks the entire Upper Hub City. However, it is now locked by a layer of iron curtains, which also makes the entire top floor area darker.

Perlis and Shaya were not in a hurry to find a way to unlock the iron shutter. They decided to walk around the top floor first to make sure there were no potential threats.

Along the way, Perlis noticed that Shaya's eyes were a little dazed, and she was obviously troubled, so she said:

"What do you see?"

Shaya's eyes trembled slightly, and she turned to look at Perlis, somewhat incredulous:

"how do you know?"

After hearing this, Perlis was stunned - yes, how did she know that?

Originally, Perlis was the one who was always cared for and taken care of by others. Now is it her turn to care about others?

Perhaps it was some kind of resonance... Perlis sighed and said:

"Your eyes told me."

"What a literary way of expressing myself... Miss Perlis," Shaya said with a wry smile, "Yes... While ascending in the elevator shaft, I briefly returned to the past, to the day when my parents brought me to the Pivot Star..."

Shaya recounted her experience in the elevator shaft to Polys. She was very calm. The initial heart-wrenching pain had long since faded away - in fact, it had faded away decades ago and had only reappeared briefly just now.

"I know I can't go back, so I can break free."

"I'm sorry." Perlis said softly.

"No, don't apologize. In fact, you are the same as me. I can feel it," Shaya whispered, "I saw it from the very beginning when we first met. Miss Carly must be very important to you..."

"She is the most important person to me." Perlis murmured.

"Sorry." Saya lowered her head.

The two immersed themselves in the action, pretending to investigate the darkness, but each had their own thoughts.

In fact, Perlis had already known that there were no followers of the Black Tide on the entire top floor - she could sense the entanglement of factors within a hundred miles in an instant. She did not notice the threat in the elevator shaft just now because of the subspace of the lower world. Now that she has returned to the real Upper Hub City, there is no blind spot that she cannot perceive.

Time passed in the darkness. After an unknown amount of time, Perlis heard Shaya's excited voice:

"Perlis! Look over here!"

When Perlis looked over, she saw Shaya standing beside a small counter with glowing eyes.

"This is the reception desk. There should be a control panel to open the iron curtain."

Although Shaya said this, her eyes were fixed on a small shelf on the counter. There were all kinds of small things on the shelf: a water bottle made in the shape of the "Upper Pivot Star" antenna tower, dusty commemorative coins, and a small model of the antenna tower in a quartz enclosure.

Shaya seemed to notice Perlis's gaze and smiled embarrassedly:

"...Hey hey hey...I remember my dad bought me a bottle of water here on my birthday. It was the one in the shape of an antenna tower. Although it was expensive and ordinary, I was so happy at that time..."

Shaya took a bottle of water in the shape of the "Upper Hub Star" antenna tower, unscrewed the lid and smelled it, as if she wanted to take a sip, but gave up:

"Forget it... I don't know if it will cause any problems, so I'd better not drink it."

"Are these goods all souvenirs?" Perlis noticed that the prices on the counter were very high, much higher than normal mineral water.

"Of course it's a souvenir! In fact, according to my father, these things are used to cheat tourists!" Shaya screwed the lid back on. "'It's expensive and a rip-off. It costs only a few cents to make and sells for more than ten yuan!' That's what my father said. He thinks only tourists from other places would buy this kind of thing, but he still bought me a bottle."

Shaya's eyes were a little dazed for a moment. She looked at the bottle of mineral water, and light and shadow flashed across her eyes.

"...Actually everyone knows that this kind of thing is worthless, but everyone will pay for it, so who cares about its value? Buying souvenirs may just be our attempt to remember something, just like now, when I see this bottle of water, I remember how handsome my father was when he smiled..."

Shaya spoke in a lower voice, as if she realized her own mistake. She shuddered, then stuck out her tongue and smiled at Perlis:

"...Sorry, haha, I seem to be a little..."

"You're right, I miss them too..."

Perlis spoke softly, she subconsciously grasped the [Blood Diamond] on her ring finger and pursed her lips slightly.

She remembered the pair of icy blue eyes in low-Earth orbit:

"Put it on. I'll feel more at ease."

In fact, Carly certainly knew that a red stone could not protect Pearlis much, but she still put the ring on Pearlis's ring finger.

There will always be people who try hard to leave an echo so that they can be remembered forever.

"Xiao Tian told me before that people die three times. The first death is when you stop breathing, you die physically; the second death is the funeral, you die as a human being; the third death is when everyone in the world forgets you, then you have nothing left, you are forgotten by the world, just like countless forgotten people."

"When the disaster happened, my parents and I were on the highway around Shangshu City. All information from the city was silent, and the traffic ahead suddenly came to a standstill. We waited and waited... until our fuel and energy were all used up, but no rescue came, and we had no idea what was happening in the city..."

"It was as cold as an ice cellar in the car. I couldn't sleep because of the cold. My father gave me all his clothes, but he couldn't hold on any longer. We had to leave the car and go to the roadside to find a way to make a fire..."

"Luckily, someone had already started a fire. Mom took me to the campfire to keep warm with other women and children, while Dad went with the men to look for materials nearby to start a fire..."

"That winter was very cold, so cold that my eyebrows were frosted. In fact, that was my first time leaving Shangshu City. I took the initiative to ask to go on a business trip with my father. I also wanted to be as handsome as him, and said I wanted to learn how to drive. He did not reject me, but took me and my mother to Chaoqu to transport goods... I watched him negotiate several orders in person. I thought that when I returned to the school in Shangshu, I could tell everyone that my father was a hero! No one would look down on me anymore!"

3) Temple of the Old Blessing (Part 7)

As Saya spoke, the light in her eyes dimmed a little.

"But I didn't expect that it would be the last time... The howling dispelled the confusion brought by the cold, and a herd attacked us. I heard many voices at once... so many, so many..."

"Dad was roaring, and Mom was holding me tightly under her body. I could feel her trembling... Liquid flowed into my ears, and it hurt..."

"I lost consciousness. When I woke up, I found myself lying on Artamis' back. My master was carrying me away from Upper Central City. I wanted to ask him where my parents were, but I couldn't make a sound because I heard countless...screams..."

Shaya's face was pale, and recounting this past experience seemed to overdraw her soul. Perlis noticed that her hands were shaking.

"Those sounds have never stopped until now," Shaya smiled gently, "Master made me these noise-canceling headphones, which can help me alleviate some of the torture in my daily life, but I still keep hearing those sounds..."

"Is that the voice of the Black Tide followers?" said Perlis.

"You can think so, but... I didn't just hear the screams of the monsters," Shaya lowered her head, "I heard the screams of those people... Their memories seemed to remain in the bodies of those monsters. The meaningless screams that sounded like meaningless to ordinary people sounded like emotions to me. Some people were in pain, some were in fear, and some were in ecstasy..."

"I'm sorry this happened to you," Perlis said softly.

"No, no need to apologize. I haven't said these words to anyone for a long time. Maybe it's because I have the courage to say them in front of you..." Shaya raised her head and smiled, "Ms. Perlis is much stronger than me. Obviously, you have also encountered so many bad things..."

"I'm just used to it," Perlis said, "I'm used to it..."

Saya took a deep breath, went behind the counter and fiddled with the control panel.

A heavy roar was heard, and when Perlis turned her head, sunlight came through the gaps in the iron roller shutters, filling the darkness on the top floor of the Upper Pivot Star inch by inch.

"Don't get used to it, Miss Perlis. We can't stand still, because we are the only ones who remember them. If we forget them, then they are really dead."

The tide-like sunlight dyed the dilapidated top floor with a layer of brilliance, and in an instant, the scenery of Shangshu City suddenly appeared in front of Perlis.

The dilapidated city stands in the sun. The stacked high-rise buildings are already covered with plants, but they still stand proudly without any signs of collapse.

The disaster took away the flesh of Shangshu City, but it could not erase its bones.

Even though it is riddled with holes, it still stands in the sun, as strong as any ordinary day.

......

Five minutes later, Perlis and Shaya returned to the door of the elevator shaft and reunited with the other two.

Aoi and Lian were standing by the glass window, overlooking the city together. When they heard footsteps, they turned around and waved to Perlis and Shaya:

"Pure White! Come over here."

Perlis came to Aoi's side, and before she could ask any questions, Aoi grabbed her wrist and pressed it against her chest.

In an instant, the senses of both of them magnified at the same time, and the black tide heart beating in Aoi's chest was sensing the power of the underworld throughout the entire city.

At this moment, Perlis looked out the window and found that everything had changed.

— Countless fragments of the past are mixed in the structure of the city!

It wasn’t that the group went back to the past, but that the infiltration of the netherworld caused the memories of the past to reappear on the earth, “creating” those illusions.

This is also why Aoi felt that the signal of the [Old Blessing Temple] came from all directions when she entered the city - because the distribution of these fragments in the city was irregular.

This also means that Perlis's initial guess was correct. The temple is indeed not in the current space and time, but in a nested netherworld subspace.

"This is really..." Perlis was speechless for a moment.

Perlis has seen many manifestations of the power of [Engraved Ink], such as shaping the marks of the dead into monsters made of black water, and shaping the lush earth into a plain covered with black hard objects.

But everything before my eyes is fundamentally different: fragments of the past emerge from the underworld that records history, and are in turn shaped into light and shadow that cover the world!

Who would do that? What on earth is that singing thing?

Perlis tried to see the pattern of those space fragments, but she suddenly realized that she was not an expert in this area. She wanted to speak, but suddenly closed her mouth.

At this time, Lian said:

"Sister, please describe it for me. Let me see."

"it is good."

Aoi took the city distribution map handed to her by Lian, and then drew the boundary between the old and new cities on paper. The two of them walked along the glass on the top floor of the tower and spent half an hour drawing almost all the fragments of the city.

After getting the distribution map, Lian bent the four mechanical tentacles behind her into the shape of a chair, sat on it, and then began to observe with a frown.

No one disturbed her. Although Lian's genius aura was often overshadowed by Carly in some aspects, no one would question her strength.

Soon, three minutes later, Lian snapped her fingers softly:

"I can see... these things are distributed in a divergent state."

"Divergent state distribution?" Aoi was a little confused.

"I just made up this idea. In short, the distribution pattern is very simple - the closer you are to the sound source, the denser the number of spatial fragments, and vice versa."

Lian recorded the numerical values ​​of the distribution of those spaces in an abstract way, and then drew them as points one by one to form a visual graph.

When Saya saw the visual graph for the first time, she covered her mouth:

"Is this...sound wave diffusion...?"

"Sure enough, it's that singing voice..." Perlis said softly.

It was no wonder that when the group heard the singing after entering the city, they were dragged into the subspace fragments. The singing created a new subspace and pushed the old one out, causing a shift. The shifted space fragments touched the group and dragged them into the former Shangshu City.

The same is true for the flashes on the plains. Perhaps the [Tortoise] briefly passed through a sparser subspace, and only then did it see the past city emerge in the old place in an instant.

This was the guess Lian came up with in the shortest possible time. It might not be completely correct, but Perlis felt it was very close to the truth.

Voices from the past are emerging from the land, eroding the ruins of Upper Central over the years, turning it into a cursed dead city.

"So, where is the source of the sound?" asked Aoi.

"At the estuary," Lian directly linked the distribution ladder diagrams together, "It seems that our guess is completely correct... The point where the sound wave spreads is on the sea, no, it should be said that it is under the sea..."

......

3) Temple of the Old Blessing (Part 8)

The four slid down the antenna tower through another elevator shaft and returned to the ground.

In fact, this is not accurate. It should be said that after Perlis used the rift in the upper realm to explore the entire elevator shaft, Lian used a mechanical arm to carry her sister and Shaya and slid down the elevator shaft.

"Ugh... This feeling is so terrible..." Aoi was the first to complain after landing.

The group found [Tortoise] at the entrance of the antenna tower. Since they already knew the distribution of space fragments in the entire city, they were able to successfully reach the beach closest to the sound source near the estuary without entering the subspace.

This place seemed to have been a holiday beach, located on the edge of the city, and had also been abandoned for a long time. Shaya drove the car directly to the beach, and the group got out of the car.

"This should be it," Lian glanced at the drawn map, "It's two miles from the beach, which is not too far..."

Perlis looked towards the sea. Unlike the azure blue waves on the sea, this sea was covered with a layer of faint black. The sunlight fell between the waves, but there was not much reflection.

"This sea is probably part of the Kuroshio ecosystem." Perlis murmured.

"Is there anything at the bottom of the sea?" asked Aoi.

"I can't see," Perlis shook her head, "something is blocking my vision."

As they were talking, Lian and Shaya had already removed the submersible from the top of the [Tortoise]. Two robotic arms carefully lifted the round iron ball and placed it carefully on the beach.

"If our speculation is correct, the temple is in a space-time rift under the sea," Lian said. "Based on our previous experience, the seabed eroded by the Kuroshio ecosystem is full of uncertainty. We don't have the means to detect the specific depth, so let's go down in a submersible."

"I can go alone." said Perlis.

"I'll go with you," Aoi said, "Have you forgotten? Only I can really see the exact location of the temple."

"If anything goes wrong, the submersible can quickly surface," Lian said, "I have read the operating manual to my sister, she should be able to do it."

"Of course I can~" Aoi said confidently.