Chapter 1836: Chapter 442: What Is There to Fear in Death?
The dim light outside the [Old World] flickered like swimming fish.
Gu Shen looked at the scene outside the green silver glass, and he reached out two fingers, slowly writing strokes on the glass.
"Are you okay now?"
Even though his spirit was trapped in a young body, he could see that Chu Ling’s condition was dire.
The few black flowers picked when leaving Divine Temple Mountain were still perfectly worn by her temples, but her expression revealed a hint of paleness and she looked quite haggard.
It had been only a day since her birth.
"I’m... okay."
Chu Ling smiled faintly.
She hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "Zero Zero One has been destroyed."
Gu Shen was stunned for a second, and then his expression grew anxious.
He knew what the destruction of Zero Zero One meant.
Chu Ling’s spiritual abode was destroyed, and now she was left only with this part of her spirit. If this body also perished, her spirit would dissipate and disappear.
"Don’t worry."
Chu Ling smiled, gently saying, "Before Mr. Turing left, he gave me an array box, saying it’s the last link... This is where I was nurtured."
Gu Shen’s expression remained tense.
He gestured and wrote: "My ’Pure Land’ is still here."
As long as the Pure Land remains, it can harbor those masterless spirits!
If the issue Chu Ling faces is only the destruction of her body, then the Pure Land should be able to keep her.
"The Pure Land can accommodate all ’living souls.’ They are beings who have truly lived, but I am not."
Chu Ling shook her head with regret, saying, "I’ve been to the Pure Land many times... I know very well that I cannot stay in the Pure Land."
She watched as Gu Shen gradually developed the Pure Land from a wilderness into a well-ordered new world.
Every time she visited the Pure Land, she could feel the transformation of this world.
Such a pity.
This world had nothing to do with her.
She was a guest, a guest in every sense of the word, and everything that happened in the Pure Land World had nothing to do with her. She could watch, she could help, but she could never stay here... The Pure Land accepts "lost souls" who died in the real world, and she had never even lived, so how could she die? In the world will of the Pure Land World, this woman who came and went with Gu Shen was nothing more than a wisp of wind.
Even if Gu Shen wanted to keep her, she would disperse on her own.
Chu Ling suddenly laughed.
She raised the small iron box in front of her, shaking it slightly, feigning nonchalance, and smiled to comfort: "It’s okay, when this body reaches the end of its life, my consciousness... will return to this small box. Although not in the Pure Land, I’m still alive, and as long as your spirit immerses into this ’array box,’ you can see me."
Gu Shen could tell, Chu Ling didn’t want him to worry.
But how could he not worry?
Gu Shen wrote with his fingertip on the glass: "Chu Ling, you must live."
Seeing this small line of words.
Chu Ling squinted, smiling: "Of course, I must live. Don’t worry, I’ll live earnestly and well. Gu Shen, you must do the same, you promised me before, no matter what happens, you must live well..."
The sentence started with a very light tone.
But halfway through, Chu Ling’s voice held a tinge of unavoidable sadness, her speech slowed.
"We... all must live."
Zero Zero One was no longer there.
But Gu Shen always remembered the scene when they first met and Chu Ling’s initial advice.
He saw Chu Ling’s eyes become dim, and somewhat anxiously extended his fingertip, writing to ask: "What’s wrong? Why are you crying?"
"I..."
Chu Ling’s voice was somewhat hoarse, unsure of how to explain to Gu Shen.
Through this spaceship navigating the dark void, she could see the outline of Gu Castle Fortress, the Umbrella Line had become very distant, very small... This was just the longest distance Chu Ling could maintain contact with the Five Continents through the array box, the last ray of light Mr. Turing left her was in this array box.
After the spaceship passed the Umbrella Line, she watched silently through the independent sea of the array box, this land no longer belonging to her.
Chu Ling didn’t expect.
This independent sea, was actually linked to Mr. Turing’s Spirit Sea.
And so...
She saw the wanted notice issued by [Deep Sea].
Also saw those bloody scenes uploaded to Mr. Turing by [Deep Sea].
Living, these two words seemed simple, easy...
Yet in the face of war.
Those two words became an incomparably heavy desire.
Because of seeing these, Chu Ling’s eyes became moist.
Someone had already died.
The war between the Ancient Literature Society and Deep Sea had officially begun.
Besides these, there was another very important thing.
Along with those bloody scenes playing out, in the desolate spiritual sea of the array box, remnants of souls began to appear... just as Jing Shan Yan stored the souls of Ancient Literature Society colleagues back then, Mr. Turing never truly participated in the meetings of the conference room, yet through [Source Code], he recorded the spiritual information of every member of the Ancient Literature Society.
Only then did Chu Ling realize that the array box Mr. Turing left behind was not just for storing her "spiritual consciousness" so simply.
This small iron box was her return path.
It was also the return path for the Ancient Literature Society.
...
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After saying the two words "begin the war," Turing severed the spiritual link with the Deep Sea Main System, with a slight hook of his fingertip, a circle of ancient text appeared in a green glow, and the next moment the text spread, this main boat of the Gu Family, suspended above the Gu Castle Giant Wall, vanished without a trace from the Deep Sea monitoring system.
