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"If that noisy man doesn't chase him," Gu Tie said with a lip.

"Even the Son of God, it is difficult to dig a thousand-meter tunnel in the darkness. The oxygen around him will be exhausted soon." Lao Xiao pushed his glasses. The cracked lenses finally shattered completely with a loud bang.

"That's hard to say. There are some strange things in this world. We have seen a lot of them. Materialism is no longer suitable for today's world, Secretary Xiao." Gu Tie slowly stood up with the help of Aziwei, and walked towards the hatch door coughing.

Xiao Liping pressed the button. The hydraulic door of the shield machine opened moaningly. The mud fell down large pieces. It was pitch black outside. "Let's go down with a rope ladder. It's very high. Be careful." He turned around and asked. He pulled out a roll of BEAL high-strength nylon rope ladder from the cabinet next to him. He threw the counterweight blocks down. The hoist roared. After a few seconds, he clicked and automatically locked. It proved that the rope ladder had reached the ground. Gu Tie took half a second to calculate the result: "One hundred and fifty meters high. We are on the top of that strange room. It's really stingy. Even if there is no elevator, it's not difficult to repair a staircase or something."

Xiao Liping said: "There is an elevator during construction. After the construction is completed, all lifting equipment will be removed for safety reasons. This is also a helpless move." He took out two sets of hiking rope groups and handed them over. He took a nylon rope and tied it around his waist and tied a sailor's knot. He stuck the ring-shaped lock on the zipline on the side of the rope ladder. "It's okay to slide down. The damping can be adjusted. I know that with your temperament, you must be disdainful of climbing the ladder slowly. I didn't expect you to be injured. It seems you have to be more peaceful."

"Stay good at it." Gu Tie shouted. "Aziwei. We don't need a mountaineering rope. Just use a damping ring and buckle it with two hands and pull it. We reach the ground in ten seconds."

"Your injuries are very serious. Idiot. Stop showing off." The Flower of Rain Forest said softly.

"Hurry up." The Chinese shouted childishly. Aziwei hesitated for a while and nodded helplessly. At this time, Xiao Liping had already thrown away a few packages and began to climb down. The woman grabbed the rope and tied Gu Tie and herself tightly together. She held the ring and jumped forward with force. She was already in the void.

They were in the center of the top of the cube room. The shield machine pierced the ceiling of the room. It was stuck between the rock formation and the roof. Outside the cabin door was a dark space of 150 meters high. "Oh, that's right... Uh..." Gu Tie shouted excitedly. Then the voice was held back. Aziwei hugged him so hard that his plump chest pressed the breath of the injured person, leaving Gu Tie with only the air that was coming out but not in. Due to the heavy damping, the two of them were not much faster than Xiao Liping. It took a minute and a half to see the fluorescent sign at the bottom of the rope ladder. It took another five minutes to reach the ground. As soon as his feet touched the ground, Gu Tie slapped Aziwei hard and asked her to untie the rope. Then he sat on the ground and panted. "What's the matter? How could this be the action movie? It slipped so slowly. The audience in the cinema fell asleep fucking... Huh..."

"Hmph." Aziwei unbuttoned the lock and opened the small spotlight on the hiking rope group. The divergent light illuminated the space in a 20-meter radius. As Xiao Liping said, there was no sight except the blue resin floor. The thick darkness settled in the distance with malicious intentions. Gu Tie took two deep breaths and found that the air here did not have any strange smell. It was not like the closed room in a dark and wet underground.

After a brief rest, Xiao Liping also arrived at the ground. He opened the backpack he had just put down, took out the replacement clothes, pistols, ammunition, medicines, food, water, and a pair of spare glasses. These resin glasses with gold edges made Secretary Xiao look a bit like a playboy. Gu Tie pointed at him and laughed. Old Xiao smashed a set of equipment on him: "No one has been here for a long time. Although there is no danger, you must be prepared. Before you reach the control room in Area 07, use spotlights to illuminate. Can you walk?"

"Walking upright is my racial talent." Gu Tie replied without any pretension. He gritted his teeth and supported his body. His feet suddenly became soft. Aziwei immediately wrapped his arms beside him. "It's okay, it's okay. Xiaowei. As soon as he came to this place, I felt much better. I always felt that this place is suitable for me." He waved his hand easily and said.

The three of them changed into ragged and bloody clothes, put on comfortable cotton underwear and tarp coats, tidy up the headlights and equipment bags. Under the relaxed appearance, Gu Tie was actually confused. The strong visual effect was transformed into countless scattered memory clips. He knew clearly that he had been here. He could not retrieve the complete memory. He could not say when that happened. Humans always instinctively escaped the visual perception and tried to use strange behaviors. In order to eliminate the overlap with the phenomenon of vision, Gu Tie unconsciously hummed a song now. Humming an old song from the 1970s. Masquerade (Masquerade) sung by Karen Carpenter. He couldn't remember when he had heard this song. There was never such nostalgic blues pop song in Gu Tie's iPod. But the melody seemed so familiar. As he hummed softly, the lyrics slowly emerged in his mind.

“y,

Lookingforwordstosay.”

(Is the lonely game happy?

Don't know what to say.)

Azivi turned his head and looked at him. "What are you singing?"

"An old song." Gu Tie grabbed his messy hair and replied casually.

"It sounds nice." The Flower of Rain Forest said softly.

Xiao Liping looked back and said, "Let's go. Follow me. Don't get lost. In addition, singing in such a dark place is a bit scary. Isn't it?" He carried his bags and lit the headlight and walked forward. Under the illumination of the black light in his hand, a fluorescent arrow appeared on the blue floor, pointing in the direction of the main channel.

Gu Tie refused Aziwei's support and walked slowly behind Xiao Liping with a folding cane. He continued humming unconsciously:

“Searching but not finding, understandinganyway.

We'relostinamasquerade"

(I can't find it all. I can only accept it.

Lost Masque Dancer.)

The weak, low male voice sounded softly. The sound seemed so weak in the boundless darkness. It was like a bird flying away in the blue sky. At this moment, in the abandoned office building in the Royal Albert Port of England, as Wu Tianlan's fingers slide over the sensing buttons, Carpenter's silky sound came from the terminal speaker. The same song "Masquerade". The piano sound from nearly a century ago flowed quietly in the air.

"Ah. You like this song the most. Tian Lan always plays it over and over again." Dr. Bartholomew said in the phone receiver.

"It's not enough to listen to it for many times." Wu Tianlan said with a sigh. She stretched out her hand and gently slapped the photo frame on the table. Xiao Gu Tie's bright sunny smile disappeared in front of her. "Brendon. Are you a Christian?"

"Although I don't go to church, I still believe in God deep down." The old man replied.

"The vast majority of scientists are theists. This is not surprising. What do you think of suicide?"

"The Bible says that life belongs to God. The Acts says that he (God) created all races from a book to live on the whole earth. He sets in advance the age and boundary of their residence. People are created by God. Life is sacred and noble; the life of a person is in the hands of God. Therefore, no one except God has the right to terminate his own life. The Ten Commandments clearly state that it is not necessary to kill people. Killing others is a sin. Killing yourself is also a sin. You know that Christianity has always opposed suicide. Refusing to hold funerals for those who commit suicide. Those who attempt suicide or attempt suicide will be expelled from the church."

"I'm asking. Your own point of view. Not the Vatican point of view."

"To be honest, I had the idea of ​​suicide in the dark period. Tian Lan. To be honest, I think suicide is cowardly. But when a person loses all his right to choose and walks the second way except to purgatory, I think even the Creator will forgive this little selfishness."

"Yes. If God exists, then computer suicide. What do you think?"

"Computer. If you are talking about ending the process and releasing resources, it is often used when programming. If you put it more broadly, in the traditional PC era, the system process runs through BIN commands and forced shutdown of the running operating system can also be said to be a suicide act. In this sense, the virus will complete this work for the computer..."

"No, Brandon. I'm not talking about this." Wu Tianlan interrupted the other party. "What I'm talking about is..."

At this time, the behemoth in the underground cave of GTC headquarters in the suburbs of Salzburg quietly woke up. It only used a small part of the resources to deal with all the concurrent requests around the world. It was leisurely circulating and sucking massive data from the quantum network. Most of the resources were sleeping and waiting for something in the sleep. When an unknown data packet came from a process, the inconclusive quantum cloud produced violent fluctuations like nerve pulses. 1 The subtle time pointer jumped. The awakened artificial intelligence made a decision.

"What do you want to say?" Brandon Bartholomew's voice came. But the sound that came through the telephone receiver was no longer the words of the old man in Aston Martin's sports car. Instead, it was a false voice created by a voice synthesizer. Wu Tianlan did not notice anything strange... No human in this world can detect something strange. Because in essence, "Genesis" has all the knowledge, experience, and memory of Bartholomew. It plays Bartholomew himself, who exists in the quantum network.
Chapter completed!