Chapter 208 Withered World Tree

  In the empty doomsday base, it was dark and deep, so quiet that no trace of life could be found, and no sound could even be heard.

   "Is this the underground base that people built after the sun went out?"

  Zhou Wan stood on the balcony of a twenty-story building, holding Chen Ji's arm with one hand, and looked around curiously with a flashlight.

  She had seen such a scene in her dream, and she had also visited with Chen Ji in her dream, but it was the first time she had actually seen it with her own eyes.

According to Da Zhou, the doomsday base in Haicheng is located one thousand meters below, relying on the inexhaustible power of crystallization of life abilities to provide energy, the whole city is full of mutated hyphae, and there are maglev trains in the sky all the time run.

  But at this moment, Zhou Wan could not see any life.

  Everything is quiet and pitch black.

"Um."

  Chen Ji nodded, "The residential buildings are very close together, almost at the level of a village in the city. The dormitory assigned to you is already one of the rooms with the best view in the city."

   "After all, you gave 'me' a lot of merit points."

  Zhou Wan smiled, pulled him back into the room, touched the furniture in the living room with gloved hands, and really felt the smoothie, which proved that the moisture in the air had just condensed.

"amazing!"

  Zhou Wan was very surprised, "The time in this whole city seems to have been frozen, and we came to change... Why do you say?"

   In the main world, she was the young female president of a company with a valuation of 50 billion yuan, but now she turned her head and asked curiously.

   "I don't know, I can only rely on testing."

  Chen Ji laughed.

   "Where's your guess?"

   "Did you just guess that the time here was frozen? I have a different point of view from yours. I guess this place has just been created."

   "Just created? A whole city?!"

   Zhou Wan showed a surprised expression, and glanced outside the balcony again.

   Such a huge underground city was just created when she and Chen Ji crossed over?

   "The reason why I guess this way is because I came here with Shu Min last time."

  Chen Ji explained: "In the wine storage room of your house, she said something dark, but a candle-lit lantern appeared in the basement outside, and she said she was hungry, and a cake appeared in your living room."

  Zhou Wan frowned: "But I'm not her, so I can't say what I want... You mean, this world has the ability to create things quickly?"

   She came to her senses and saw Chen Ji.

   "Yes, at least this world can restore a building that was blown up."

   "...Your guess is very reasonable~, better than mine."

   Zhou Wan was persuaded by him.

   It's not that time begins to flow, but this small world has just created the underground city.

   "It's like the Big Bang!"

Following Chen Ji's train of thought, Zhou Wan continued: "The difference is that the Big Bang only produced elementary particles, which are disordered, but here... this city is created based on the underground city of another world in our memory. out of an orderly civilized city."

  Chen Ji winked at her: "How about it, do you feel awkward being read from memory?"

   "Does this world have a will?" Zhou Wan asked back.

   "If it is completely unconscious, I guess it will not do so, but if the will of the world is compared to a person, thinking like a person, I think it is impossible."

  Chen Ji became a fairy in the world of martial arts. He drove the dragon and phoenix to forge the first fairy sword, driving the will of heaven in a disguised form.

  In addition, from Mu Xiaoxiao's mouth, he also saw the destiny of the Nine Realms with his own eyes, and from Astana, he knew that the four pillar gods of the Shenen Continent were born from the beginning.

  So, he has a certain understanding of the will of the world.

  It has its own consciousness, but it doesn't think like a human.

   "If that's all, it's acceptable."

   Zhou Wan nodded slightly, "If the will of the world really thinks like a human being and observes our memories living in the world, then I will feel awkward and disgusted.

   However, these are just our guesses. "

   "It's easy to verify."

  Chen Ji took her hand and walked out the door.

  I didn’t take the two bags with me, so I left them in the room. These supplies were intended to be handed over to Wang Shaodang and others directly, but now they are inconvenient to carry, so they can only be thrown in the room.

  Zhou Wan guessed what he wanted to do, held his hand tightly, and illuminated the front with a flashlight.

  The two walked hand in hand like a couple.

  The dark corridors are illuminated, and the corridors are no different from those in the doomsday base.

   But then.

  Chen Ji knocked on the door next door, and after confirming that no one was there, opened the door.

  The furniture inside is exactly the same as Da Zhouwan's house.

  Chen Ji went to another house on the same floor and opened the door.

   "It doesn't seem to have changed?"

   Zhou Wan looked inside and frowned slightly.

   "Three bedrooms and one living room...it's impossible not to change."

  Chen Ji said firmly, pulled her in, and opened the bedroom door.

   Sure enough, there was a very small room inside, smaller than the average bathroom, as if it had been compressed out of thin air, which looked very weird.

"I see."

  In the darkness, a smile appeared on Zhou Wan's delicate cheeks illuminated by the light, "This house should not have three bedrooms and one living room, but two bedrooms and one living room."

   "Exactly!"

  Chen Ji took her hand and walked to the balcony, "Come on, let's go downstairs and have a look."

   "Let's go take the stairs."

   "It's okay, I can take you flying!"

   "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just to save some power, what if I run out?"

  Zhou Wan dragged him to the stairs, saying that going downstairs would take no effort and he would reach the first floor soon.

  In such a strange and strange world, Chen Ji and the abilities of the two of them are the reasons why she has the courage to stay here. If Chen Ji is not by her side, she doesn't want to stay here for a minute.

   "Like a stingy little daughter-in-law who is diligent and thrifty in managing the house, this should be saved." Chen Ji muttered.

"What did you say?"

   "No, I said you are really thoughtful!"

"snort."

   Zhou Wan snorted softly, stepped on snow boots to the stairs, and dragged Chen Ji down.

   For the first few floors, everything works fine.

  But after going down to the fifth or sixth floor, they turned a corner, and Zhou Wan's flashlight shone forward.

"ah!"

   She exclaimed.

  In front, there should be only a dozen or so stairs before turning, but it has become very long, leading all the way to a dark place, as if leading to hell, which is extremely scary.

   "Don't be afraid, let's go."

Chen Ji calmly pulled her forward, Zhou Wan's legs were a little weak, she squeezed the flashlight tightly to hold his hand, and after walking a certain distance, she realized that the stairs led to the outside of the building, and it was pitch black outside. The stairs to the next level disappeared.

   "I'll give it a try."

  Chen Ji didn't discuss it with her this time, and used Xianli to step on the stairs. There was a rumbling sound, which was particularly ear-piercing in the quiet underground doomsday base.

   Fortunately, the next staircase is exposed.

   The two continued down.

   After walking not far, a wall blocked the front. Chen Ji kicked it away and continued down.

   Gradually, the shape of the stairs and the building became distorted and weird. The stairs connected the rooms, the sofa was stuffed into the wall, the refrigerator grew on the stairs, and the balcony led to the kitchen...

ten minutes later.

"Confirmed!"

Standing on the street, Chen Ji and Zhou Wan breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "This world, or this doomsday base, was only created based on my shallow memory and yours. Except for the big Zhou Wan's room, other places are Empty has its appearance... just like in a 3D game, high-rise buildings are all empty."

  The doomsday base building in this small world is more excessive than the buildings in the game.

  It was completely created forcibly, only the appearance conforms, and the inside is a mess.

  Just now, Chen Ji and Zhou Wan saw a maglev train on the platform. After entering, the train was only slightly frozen, and everything was intact.

   But Chen Ji went to the train cab to take a look, and it was indeed a mess inside, with no instruments at all, let alone an engine.

  The reason is that Chen Ji and Zhou Wan have ridden in a maglev car, but they haven't seen the cab.

   "The whole city, it seems, is like this."

   Zhou Wan said: "Only the general shape, no more details... Fortunately, you and I took the train to the ground instead of the elevator."

  She showed a bright smile to Chen Ji.

   This sentence is quite subtle.

  Chen Ji was on the train with Da Zhou Wan, but the little Zhou Wan right now was said to be herself.

  Chen Ji didn't know whether she felt it subconsciously or for other reasons, he didn't ask, at least she is Xiao Zhou Wan now.

in addition.

   What Zhou Wan said meant that the two of them took the train from the tunnel to the ground. According to the previous conclusions, there should also be a tunnel leading to the ground here.

  If you go up directly by elevator, and there is no electricity, no engine or other facilities, Chen Ji can only take her to fly if you want to go up to the ground.

   "Don't watch it?"

   Chen Ji asked her.

   "Don't look, other places should be similar." Zhou Wan looked around, "It's dark, and the exit tunnel is hard to find. What about her? Is the car ready?"

   While the two were exploring, Chen Ji had already told Da Zhou Wan about these things. At that time, Zhou Wan proposed to ask her to find a car to bring them over.

   "It should be soon."

   The two stood in the empty street and waited.

   A few minutes later, the car was delivered.

  A BMW x5 appeared in front of Chen Ji, and Zhou Wan recognized it at a glance. It was the car allocated to Aunt Liu to go grocery shopping.

   "Time is running out, you guys should use this one first."

  Da Zhouwan sent a message, "Is there anything else you need? If not, I'm going out to the company."

   "Not for the time being, you are going to negotiate a contract? Actually, it doesn't need to be so tiring."

   "Let her go."

   Zhou Wan pulled Chen Ji into the car, did not explain to him why Da Zhou Wan was asked to negotiate the contract, and said, "Let's go out and see if this place is located on the outskirts of Haicheng, and if we can still find those Jiang Hu people from before."

  She doesn't have a deep impression of the Jianghu people from the world of martial arts, but only remembers their names.

   "Don't worry, let's go to another place, maybe we will gain something."

  Chen Ji started the car, the headlights of the car illuminated the street very brightly, and the beam of light penetrated through half of the city, making this place a little more lively.

   "You mean... the World Tree?"

   Zhou Wan guessed it all at once.

   Soon, the two came to the research center in the center of the doomsday base.

  It was also empty like this, Chen Ji took Zhou Wan to a garden inside the research center very quickly.

There are no flowers, plants and trees in the garden. On the soil, there is only a withered tree standing in the middle. When the light shines, the trees with criss-cross branches give people a sense of death, as if the world has died and there is no vitality left. .

  In fact, there is almost no life in this small space of the Four Realms, only mutant creatures fighting in Haicheng.

  The "World Tree" in front of you is the only big tree in this world.

   "Is it a branch?"

  Chen Ji stepped forward, broke off a branch, and asked Zhou Wan to light it with a flashlight to see the texture of the branch.

   "Like a branch!"

   Zhou Wan raised her head and looked at Chen Ji.

  In this small world, the world tree withered in front of me is already unique, a place with a little life.

   "Well, it does."

  Chen Ji originally wanted to throw away the branch, but changed his mind, and put the branch in his pocket. After Zhou Wan thought about it, he also went to fold the next part and put it in his bosom.

   Treat it as a souvenir of this trip across the world.

  Chen Ji took out his mobile phone, and sent a message to the Goddess of Shenen Continent as before:

   "Astana, are you there?"

  In the Church of the Creator, the Goddess of Starlight who was praying opened her eyes suddenly, and raised her head to look at the dome in surprise: "God, believers who love you forever respond to your call."

  Since the last time, Astana's prayers to him have quietly changed.

  Love you forever, accompany you forever, serve you forever, willing to do anything for you...

  Chen Ji blushed when he heard that.

   "Cough, it's nothing, I just want to tell you something."

  After briefly telling Astana about the matter, Chen Ji looked up at Zhou Wan, and saw her looking at his cell phone with weird eyes.

   "Zhou Wan, actually..."

   "Astana always loves the great Creator... so nasty."

   "This, I can explain!"

   "Why explain?"

  Zhou Wan pushed Chen Ji who was in embarrassment, and pouted at his mobile phone, "Your devout elf believer sent you a message again, please reply to her quickly."

  Chen Ji inexplicably smelled a sour smell after the jar of vinegar was overturned.

   Illusion?

   No, Astana is not an elf, the elves are the other seven.

   But he didn't dare to say that.

  …

  Unfortunately, the communication between Astana and him did not cause anything to happen. Everything was normal. This World Tree didn't know whether it was withered or it was empty.

   "Let's go."

  Chen Ji took Zhou Wan's hand again, and returned to the car with her.

  There is nothing to see in this doomsday base. Chen Ji stepped on the accelerator and searched for the exit tunnel around the city. According to the approximate direction he remembered last time, he finally found the exit.

  The tunnel is spacious enough to drive. Chen Ji drove Zhou Wan all the way up, and reached the ground in less than half an hour.

  Cold, ice and snow hit our faces, and the sky was dimly lit, with no sun, moon or stars.

  But it proves that this is still a small space in the Four Realms, where the sky lit up after the little lady shouted "Let there be sunshine" last time.

   "This is indeed the entrance to the Doomsday Base in Haishi, that's right."

  Chen Ji said to Zhou Wan in the co-pilot seat.

   "I remember this."

  Zhou Wan looked out the window: "You brought us here last time, but there was nothing here at that time, but now there are caves and platforms... I don't know if those Jiang Hu people are there?"

   "Just go and see!"

  Chen Ji drove the BMW all the way.

   After more than an hour, they arrived near Zhou Wan's villa.

   "Here it is, someone!"

   Zhou Wan saw footprints on the road, and the road was cleaner than other places, so she deduced that there were people here.

  Chen Ji drove the car into the villa complex, pressed the horn, and let the sound spread around.

   Soon, voices came from the villa community.

"who?!"

   "Who's driving here?"

   "Is it Mr. Chen?!"

   "Hiss, it's him, it's Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen is here!"

   "Hurry up, come out to meet Mr. Chen!"

   "Brother Chen, did you bring wine?"

   A group of Jianghu people dressed in thick robes and sloppy, but all of them were armed with swords. After confirming that the person sitting in the car was Chen Ji, they immediately cheered up and called on the people in the villa to come out to greet him.

   "Alcohol? Of course!"

  Chen Ji smiled at them from the car window and said, "You can drink whatever you want tonight, and there will be wine coming soon!"

   "Really?! Thank you Mr. Chen!"

   "Hahaha, I've got some wine, Mr. Chen really promises everything!"

  Looking at them who were cheering and laughing, Zhou Wan couldn't help smiling.

   It wasn't because she was happy to see the Jiang Hu people, but because Chen Ji and her arrival made these people trapped in this small world see hope, and the joy from the heart on their faces infected her.

  The scene of Chen Ji's arrival seemed to remind her of the difficult days when she was trapped in the basement, surrounded by darkness, cold and hunger.

  At that time, it was also Chen Ji who gave her food and water...

   Oh no, it was for Da Zhou Wan.

   But it doesn't matter, she is also Zhou Wan, and Chen Ji is also Chen Ji, isn't it?

  (end of this chapter)