Void Jigsaw Puzzle

Guo Ling calmed himself down and stopped wandering around the garden.

Although there weren't many people here, he was still very cautious, carefully avoiding the sight and attention of passers-by. Although there were many people on the central road just now, they had all been sedated and turned into zombies, perhaps losing their ability to perceive the outside world.

After all, this place is getting closer and closer to the power center of the entire Carbon Clan, and those people from the Hydrogen Clan and Helium Clan who were infected by the Turtle Clan are also likely to be in it. We must not take it lightly.

Guo Ling stopped briefly at a stone cave under several rockery, avoided passers-by, and quickly left the garden area.

After walking down a path lined with tall trees, the view suddenly opened up. A large lawn and a wide, straight road split the lawn in two. At the end of the road was the ingot-shaped main building.

If you were standing on Central Avenue and looking at it from afar, you would only think that this building was very cute. But now, the closer you get to its foot, the more you feel its majesty.

The vast lawn was deserted, with only automated robots mowing and watering it in a regular, repetitive process. Guo Ling had only seen these scenes in distant memories or in books, but since the "Singularity Moment," he hadn't witnessed them in person, whether in Wuming City or Kunlun City.

There were no vehicles passing on the avenue leading to the Yuanbao main building at the moment, but the few pedestrians were still walking very orderly on both sides of the road, leaving the middle area for the convoy that might appear at any time.

Sure enough, the ground on the left side of the main building's first floor suddenly opened like a mouth, slowly rising until it formed an acute angle of about 60 degrees with the ground. Beneath it, nothing could be seen in the darkness, but soon the roar of an engine could be heard. At first glance, it looked like a singer practicing their voice with their mouth open.

But soon, the "mouth" began to spit out clumps of black objects. They were cars, all glossy black, and one after another, they emerged from the "mouth" and smoothly turned a small corner, onto the road between the lawns, heading towards Guoling.

Guo Ling stopped moving and quietly stepped aside, counting the cars. There were seven in total. He had seen Mr. Liang's private car in Wuming City before, and it had seemed incredibly luxurious. But compared to these seven cars, it was practically a beggar.

"It must be some important person traveling..."

As these cars drove past him one by one, Guo Ling suddenly felt that someone was staring at him!

He was shocked: "I am clearly in a virtual state, I can't see or touch anything, how can I have this feeling?"

He immediately glanced around but found nothing strange. And when the convoy passed by, this feeling disappeared.

Guo Ling thought rapidly, and couldn't help but recall an old proverb: "When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you."

At that time, he stared closely at the dark, opaque windows of the motorcade, imagining what the people inside would look like. If he appeared in a physical form, he would probably only see his own reflection, like looking in a mirror.

However, the people sitting in the car must have looked out the window at some point, looking in the direction where he was. However, due to his virtual form, their sight passed directly through him and went to the distance behind him.

However, this feeling of looking at each other but not being able to see each other really made him feel extremely subtle.

Guo Ling's thoughts were soon interrupted by a mechanical sound. He looked in the direction of the sound and was surprised to find that the road under his feet had sunk into the ground before reaching the tree-lined path outside the garden!

Then, another "mouth" slowly opened just a few meters away from him, revealing a dark interior.

The sunken road extended into the "mouth," forming a passage leading underground. Just as they had just driven out from under the Yuanbao main building, the convoy drove down and slowly disappeared into it. Then, after another burst of mechanical sounds, the "mouth" closed again.

The seven cars briefly drove on the avenue for a few dozen meters and then disappeared again.

Guo Ling didn't know who was sitting in the cars, nor did he know where they were going, but there was one thing he was sure of: this "Big Ingot" area, which looked very large, might actually occupy an area far larger than imagined.

Perhaps there was another world underground. He couldn't help but think of the underground factory in Ciqikou, Wuming City.

It was at this moment that he gave up the thought that flashed through his mind just now, "Why don't I go down and take a look?"

He decided to enter the Yuanbao main building first.

Guo Ling no longer stopped to think, quickened his pace, and trotted all the way to the downstairs of the main building, looking for the entrance.

Despite its size, the main building had surprisingly few entrances and exits. He walked around it and discovered there were only four doors. Furthermore, windows didn't appear on the walls until about ten meters above the ground. In other words, at this height, the main building was like an impenetrable castle.

Of the four doors, three were tightly shut. Their facades weren't very large, much like ordinary entrance doors, except that they looked much thicker and more substantial. Only one, facing the central avenue, stood majestically open.

Guo Ling thought for a few seconds at the door, then rushed in.

Although he has been in virtual form for some time, he still has the thinking inertia of the embodied form.

When he entered the hall, he discovered that there was an even more unique world inside.

On the left was a small roofless hut, the door of which faced the center of the hall. There was a long marble table at the door, behind which sat a man and a woman, both dressed in formal uniforms and looking handsome.

To the side and back of the cabin was a passageway leading to the back of the hall. Clearly, to reach that area, one had to pass the marble platform at the entrance to the cabin. This couple was most likely serving as receptionists.

On the right side of the hall is an open area with several rows of randomly placed sofas and coffee tables, which is obviously a place for visitors to rest.

Facing the gate is an extremely smooth screen wall, without any patterns or words on it. However, this wall does not feel monotonous, because its texture is like flowing water, slightly moving. Although the amplitude is not large, it makes people feel very comfortable at first glance.

Before he knew it, Guo Ling was actually a little dazed.

He quickly came to his senses and felt something was wrong, so he walked across the marble platform, walked up the passage next to the hut, and went deeper.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the man and woman behind the marble table were smiling at him strangely.

Guo Ling was shocked and quickly looked around, but found that there was no one else.

Only then did he notice that the water ripples on the screen wall facing the gate began to tremble irregularly, as if blown by the wind. The ripples became more and more obvious, and soon formed a sentence on the wall!

"Guests from Wuming City, welcome."