Chapter 658: Chapter 571: Inside the Shrine

"How did you know our location just now?" On the road to the Shrine, Four-leaf Phoenix Tree casually brought up.

"A person who’s losing blood, their body temperature will gradually drop, and your blood will clot faster."

"Even if you’re on the move, the blood clotted on the rice stalks will form a direction, so locking onto your position isn’t difficult."

"You’re very sensitive in this area?" Four-leaf Phoenix Tree didn’t expect the girl to give such an answer.

Su Sui didn’t reply to him and continued forward on her own.

"Didn’t you notice?" Zhou Zhao moved closer to Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, "Her hands that hold the sword, the calluses are heavy, only people who’ve held a sword from a very young age would have such calluses."

"Isn’t that quite common?" said Four-leaf Phoenix Tree.

In the homes of big figures, most of the Deadpools rigorously trained from a young age are like this, as an Executioner, he had seen many.

"But the problem is, her Divine Gift, the pattern of the goose and golden ears of rice, is a very noble totem in Jiulong culture, such a meaning is often not... well, it just can’t be a Deadpool."

"You understand what I mean, right, Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, but you can always see a Shadow of Eastern Swordsmanship in her moves," Zhou Zhao said while baring his teeth.

"I don’t know much about Jiulong culture."

Four-leaf Phoenix Tree shook his head.

"I’m just as clueless, the Jiulong Battleship is too mysterious to us..."

During the conversation, they had already arrived before the Shrine, looking at the giant mechanical sphere emitting a strange red glow, red currents could be seen shuttling across its surface, countless sharp protrusions and grid-like patterns pulsated in layers, it was like a freak, a mechanical freak, born to be abandoned here, absorbing countless meaningless, destroyed garbage information.

Heat waves hit in waves, the closer they got to the Shrine, the more the surrounding temperature rose, it was held high in a deep well, looking up from below, the more its mystery could be felt, the sharp protruding structure seemed like a Vortex, trying to completely absorb one’s gaze, the surrounding phenomena distorted in its glow.

Vaguely, they heard the sound of crying coming from the sphere.

All this was too strange, until Su Sui took out the consciousness upload interface, Zhou Zhao suddenly came back to his senses, touching his body, discovering the interface had somehow ended up in the girl’s hands.

They all had interfaces at the back of their heads, just needed to connect the consciousness interface to upload their consciousness into the Shrine.

"Who’s going first?"

Four-leaf Phoenix Tree looked at the two of them.

Seemingly asking Zhou Zhao, but actually asking Su Sui, knowing that uploading data meant losing control of the body, no different from being a lamb to the slaughter.

Su Sui still didn’t respond to him, found a corner to sit down, and under their surprised gazes, lifted the interface to her occipital part and connected, with a hum of charging, closed her eyes.

"So many people watching." Four-leaf Phoenix Tree slightly twitched the corners of his mouth, stopping Zhou Zhao’s little thought. "Mind your image, Young Master Zhou."

"Tch." Zhou Zhao clicked his tongue.

In the end, they all chose to upload their consciousness.

The boundary between the virtual and a deeper daydream interchanged at this moment, data streams constructed the edges of the virtual world, stretching all the way to the horizon. Vermilion pavilions stood up, guests dressed in luxurious robes stepped over the threshold laughing and chatting, until snow fell heavily and a great fire arose, the erected red building collapsed like sand, the pages of history were turned to the next page.

The surrounding scenes slowly became clear, they opened their eyes in a cave, white light shone in from the cave entrance, a girl’s slightly coquettish raising voice sounded.

"Yo, you guys are here, been waiting for you for a long time." March laughed.

Suddenly, her tone changed.

"Wait, who is she, didn’t I say only you two could come in?"

Four-leaf Phoenix Tree and Zhou Zhao felt a bit awkward, even though it wasn’t their intention, violating the Contract was always embarrassing.

"It’s a bit complicated to explain, anyway she’s our enemy, met in the middle, had a fight no one could do anything about anyone, could only cooperate until we got here."

"You say it so lightly." March sneered, "Do you know what the Shrine is like inside, do you know how much risk of data storms an extra person would bring?"

"Tch, marked the target point for you, you should take care of it yourself."

March hung up the communication.

Four-leaf Phoenix Tree and Zhou Zhao exchanged a glance, not understanding why this Mysterious hacker would... throw a tantrum?

Like in many games, a golden marker appeared in the distance, they slowly walked out of the cave, the white light getting brighter, filling the entire world.

As the white light dissipated, the surrounding scenery gradually became clear, they saw a magnificent snow mountain, the crimson palace complex coiled on the snow mountain like a winding giant dragon, lights flickered in the palace complex, forming a clear but not bright path straight to the central hall. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Floating in the air was not snow, but chaotic data, landing on the face, a cool sensation is transmitted.

Looking down, nestled on the mountainside were many modern Italian-style small towns, ancient Church bells tolled long in the heavy snow, nestled slumbering here, slowly awoke.

Sound of tide came from afar, if the view continued to pull up, it would be found that this was an isolated island, surrounded by sea, in geology, this was an almost impossible geographical phenomenon, such an island of this size hardly appeared with a snow mountain of such high altitude, formation of mountain ranges was the result of continental plate thrustin’ movements.

Even in Oasis, when generating virtual environments it would try to adhere as much as possible to real geological structures, to satisfy the realness in human perception.

And here was the inside of the Shrine.

A lot of redundant, meaningless, destroyed meaning piled up here, the environment here was often very unstable and chaotic, the raging thunderstorm snow in the sky, and the collapsing regions at the island’s edge confirmed this.

Their time was limited.

The inside of the Shrine was originally not supposed to have this ’island’, but a chaotic sea of data, countless information surging in the ocean currents, this island was a piece of landing space created for them by the Shrine, reading their memories the moment they uploaded their consciousness.

As they stayed longer in the Shrine, it would slowly deconstruct their forms into data, and this island would collapse with it, swallowed by the data ocean.

"Do not attempt to touch the scenes inside the Shrine."

"Even more so, do not try to accept the data here."

"Once you accept the data here, it will be recognized by the Shrine as destroyed data, the form will be kneaded, torn apart like a toy handed to a baby."

This was what March repeatedly emphasized before they went to the Ausen Technology Innovation building.

"Do not treat the Shrine as a cold machine."

"You must lull it to sleep with patience, like coaxing a baby, let it feel at peace."