Sound into the Heart·Grey Hours

Memories of the past

13

"Brother Xi..."

"Brother Xi, wake up..."

"Don't sleep, don't sleep..."

The misty call, like the whisper of a dolphin in the deep sea, ripples along the heavy water waves into the whirlpool, and reaches the ear, leaving only the slight echo still vibrating.

plucked at the heartstrings.

"Brother Xi... don't sleep..."

Whose voice is that?

The dim light leaked into the eye sockets, but it was enough to pierce a trace of sinking in the dim consciousness.Wang Xi was thinking slowly and tiredly. It was a difficult thing to mobilize the memory to distinguish the voice.But the voice became a little bit clearer, and it kept repeating, don't sleep, don't sleep.

Why don't you sleep...why are you so tired?I can't help but fall asleep.

In a trance, he heard the sound of sea waves coming from a long time ago, slowly rushing up the beach, smoothing the rough and scattered sand, and the tide receded, leaving a smooth piece of sand.

Wang Xi seemed to see a figure from the back again, wearing a long white gown, under the sea breeze, a row of lonely footprints went to the sea, to the boundless moonlight on the sea.

There seems to be a longing in my heart that is about to break through the ground.

"deeply……"

The golden light flickered slightly, lighting up the void.Cai Chengyu happened to hear this soft call, and frowned unconsciously.

"How is he doing?"

"The Evol that Stranger imposed on him has basically been removed." Liang Pengjie walked out of the darkness, carrying a small silver lantern, and whispered: "But it is impossible to return to a normal Evolver. The body function is fine, but he His consciousness control should have rebounded, and he hasn't woken up yet."

Gold raised his finger, and Wang Xi gradually descended from the void.Limbs are hanging in the air, even if there is still breathing and heartbeat, in the erratic light of the lantern, it looks like a puppet.

"Prince... Do you want to take him away now? Before he wakes up?" Liang Pengjie tugged at the hem of his clothes, and said in a low voice, "It's not sure if he can control it when he wakes up."

Cai Chengyu ordered indifferently: "Take it away."

"Yes." Liang Pengjie watched him turn and walk out of the void, and suddenly felt that this person had become too strange.

In the middle of the night, wearing light clothes, Yu Di slipped in through the side door of the M City Archives.He didn't know what Li Xiangzhe, Gong Ziqi and the others thought, they must come to the archives to get something.

The archives were silent in the dark.Yu Di walked quietly on the corridor, and a small mist of light twirled on her fingertips and flew away.Not long after, the light mist floated back again, indicating the direction.

Gong Ziqi, Li Xiangzhe and Zhou Shen arrived at the corridor entrance of the first file room early.Yu Di stepped on the stairs, keenly feeling the release of Evol.Time was stopped, Yu Di went upstairs quickly, and Gong Ziqi gave his hand.

"How are you...?" Yu Di had a lot of questions in her mind, but she kept her mouth shut and couldn't ask.

"Zhou Shen knows something. There is something hidden in the archives, which may bring about a change in the current dead situation." Li Xiangzhe said softly and quickly, and pushed open the door of the first archive room.The smell of wood lacquer and rust of the old cabinets is covered by the dust and dust on the face, which makes people unconsciously awe, awe of the endless stories in the long river of time.

"I have no way to say more." Zhou Shen turned and looked at Yu Di: "I can only say that my Evol has been fully awakened, and I know some things that I can't explain clearly to you for the time being. But I hope you can believe me."

"I believe in you." Yu Di didn't hesitate at all: "What are you looking for?"

"..." Zhou Shen turned around and looked at the almost bottomless first archive room, hiding infinite unknowns in the darkness: "I'm sorry, I don't know. But such things must be related to the Desire incident."

"Then start with the files from three years ago, and collect everything related to Desire..." Gong Ziqi said anxiously.

Zhou Shen shook his head slowly.Things are not that simple. He is the office director of the archives, and he knows all the materials in the archives.Because of the information placed on the surface, no information about Evolver will appear.

Super-evolved humans are inherently invisible.

"We have to find the entrance to store the Evol file first." Yu Di thought about this problem first.He took a step forward, raised his hand to push his glasses, and looked down.A few seconds later, he pointed to the depths of the first archive room: "But Ziqi's idea is correct, and the entrance must also be related to the explosion of the chemical plant three years ago. Let's start from there."

The first archive room is the largest underground archive room in the M city archives.As the highest level of confidentiality, no employee has ever found out how many secret materials are sealed in the first archive room.

The iron ladder spirals downwards and is divided into five floors, each of which is getting darker and darker.The filing cabinet seems to grow out of the bottomless abyss, silently sealing unknown secrets.

The footsteps of the four became softer and slower, Yu Di and Zhou Shen's fingertips twitched faintly, searching along the rows of filing cabinets, floating up and down.In the dimness, it flickers on and off, reflecting the slowly flying dust and smoke.Gong Ziqi looked at Zhou Shen's cheeks illuminated by the light, and his thin silhouette fell in the filing cabinet on the other side, and he felt a sense of bleak crisis for no reason.

"C11——C12——C13..." Zhou Shen muttered silently with his fluttering lips.Shimmer followed her fingers across the gray filing cabinet bit by bit.

In the depths of the darkness, there are faint calls rippling around.Zhou Shen shook his fingers, and his gaze focused on the depths of darkness in front of him.The perception there was so strong, Zhou Shen squeezed his palms slightly, and walked over at a faster pace.

"C15..."

Zhou Shen stopped in front of the C15 cabinet.This is an unremarkable wooden box, painted yellow, with dark green iron locks, which has the taste of inappropriate years.But the lock that was hanging was a round and smooth black spar, without dust accumulation.

"What is this?" Yu Di walked behind Zhou Shen.

"It's here." Zhou Shen raised his trembling hand and touched the black crystal.

For a moment, a string seemed to be plucked in their minds, and after a "clang", they heard the voice from the bottom of their hearts.

"Da, da, da, da, da, da..."

Li Xiangzhe was the first to realize something, his face became very strange, he stepped forward and looked at the wooden box.

"This is...?" Gong Ziqi looked around, but it was still dark.

"It's the sound of the clock." Li Xiangzhe paused, and the clock and time flow he saw in the Stranger's Gate suddenly flashed in his mind, "And, it's the sound of the second hand going backwards."

After he finished speaking, Zhou Shen suddenly raised his head and stared at him. Li Xiangzhe did not meet his gaze, but was still looking at the wooden box in cabinet C15.The "da da" sound of the second hand going backwards did not stop. In the silent darkness, it was clearer, uniquely clear, beating in the amplitude of the heart.

Slowly, the black crystal fell off and fell into Zhou Shen's palm.The wooden box slowly slid open a gap.

Zhou Shen lowered his eyes slightly, but under their gaze, his fingertips touched the box door.A faint door of light appeared between Pure's fingertip and the door.

Yu Di clenched her @gun tightly, and was the first to rush in.

Evol Archives.

The moment Gong Ziqi and Li Xiangzhe entered the file room, their expressions changed.The tingling in his head overlapped some blurred pictures with the room in front of him.

"This is the room behind the Stranger's Gate?" Gong Ziqi vaguely remembered that Commander Liao and Wang Xi were attacking them here, but beside... beside...

Yu Di and Zhou Shen didn't notice their strangeness, they just looked up at the vaulted roof and looked at the dusty archives.

"Here... is where the Evolver files are kept."

Zhou Shen looked at the only ray of light in the room, reflecting the registers in the darkness.

Evolver, forever beyond the light.Not accepted, not recognized.They may even be regarded as aliens, monsters.

For a moment, Zhou Shen suddenly understood why Belief wanted to "purify" and build a higher world.

"wrong……"

Yu Di who was standing in front of the file shelf suddenly made a sound, which startled everyone.

Li Xiangzhe walked over and glanced at the file in Yu Di's hand. From the beginning to the end, there seemed to be nothing wrong.

Until the eyes focus on the last line of date.

"This is impossible." A strong premonition in Li Xiangzhe's heart became more and more agitated. He took several files next to him and flipped through them one by one, his face became paler.

Gong Ziqi and Zhou Shen gradually realized their mistakes and omissions.

"The deadline for all the files was three years ago." Yu Di suppressed the fear in her heart and took a deep breath: "Could it be that they haven't been added yet?"

"All Evolver's files are only recorded up to three years ago. How much work would it take to fill in the leaks at once?" Gong Ziqi's palm on the shelf seemed to be icy, and he withdrew his hand: "What's more, could it be Is Evolver here to supplement the files here? Who is he?"

"It's not who..." Zhou Shen whispered from one side, he was still searching anxiously.

"What are you looking for?" Li Xiangzhe walked over and held down his restless wrist.

"I'm looking for my file...Pure's file." Zhou Shen whispered: "I haven't awakened three years ago. And here, only Pure can enter, and others can't get in without me, let alone supplement. "

"Are you looking for this?"

The fifth voice suddenly sounded in the darkness, causing Zhou Shen to stagger and fall.Yu Di was quite frightened, raised his pistol and fired a bullet at the sound.

"Hehe." Laughter suddenly appeared on the other side, "The director is very skilled."

Zhou Shen held his heart that was about to jump out, and suddenly felt that the voice was sincerely familiar.Then in the third direction, there was the sound of pages turning.

"Huh? Empty?"

Gong Ziqi vaguely felt that the crisis was coming, and the four of them stayed close together, guarding against all directions.

Then, another unfamiliar yet familiar voice spoke slowly.

"There was no Pure three years ago, so your file is empty. Zhou Shen, do you mean that?"

There was another flash of light in the darkness, but this time it illuminated the entire room.Five men in black robes were in the file room at some time, two were leaning against the door, one was standing at the door, the other was flipping through Pure's files, and the one standing at the front was the one who just asked.

A presence is less scary than just a voice in the dark.Even if there are many opponents.

Even...Gong Ziqi has already recognized...they are from C&C.

The five most powerful people besides the main god.

"What a coincidence, they're all here." Gold raised his hood slightly, and couldn't see his face in the dim light, only a pair of blood-gold eyes, looking at them lightly.

Gong Ziqi's heart suddenly moved, and he murmured.

"Cai Chengyu."

"You are Power." Cai Chengyu raised his head, and the outline from his lips to his jaw became clearer. He raised his hand and spit out indifferent words from his mouth one by one: "You should know that in the list of C&C, you already dead."

Gong Ziqi fell to his knees in an instant, a huge pain spread through his nerves, and every muscle was suffering Ling Chi's punishment.He raised his head with difficulty, only to see inadvertent doubts slipping through the blood-gold eyes.

"Stop!" Zhou Shen's palm suddenly became white, and at the same time, Yu Di's eyes turned slightly golden. Gold was suddenly suppressed like never before.He raised his eyes to look at Yu Di, and Yu Di was also looking at him.

"Absolute control?" Yu Di looked at Cai Chengyu: "Gold, can we have a good talk first."

Behind Cai Chengyu, Fang Shujian gave him a hand and said in a low voice, "Don't be brave."

Seeing Fang Shujian, Yu Di felt angry: "Xiao Fang, I have always treated you as a pro-student, but you have been pretending to be in the police station, what is your intention?"

Fang Shujian, or Sword pulled back his robe, avoiding this question.

"It's empty. Except for the cover of Pure, there is no content."

The file in Agile's hand was combined and clapped, Huang Zihongfan walked up to Cai Chengyu and asked, "Are you sure it's this one?"

Cai Chengyu and Yu Di recovered Evol almost at the same time.

"What are you looking for here?" Yu Di broke the silence.

"It's meaningless if I tell you." Zhang Chao said silently behind him, "But Pure should be clear."

Several people carefully avoided their eyes.And Space didn't know when, it had already circled behind them.

Gong Ziqi and Li Xiangzhe slowly got together with Yu Di and Zhou Shen, but Yu was slick, and he suddenly saw Gold's file on the high shelf at hand.

"...Pure, you haven't considered it until now. Listen to the transaction between C&C and you. I'm sorry." Gold's tone obviously didn't bring much regret, and it seemed a lot deliberate and hypocritical, but he still Said: "You know, Gray... is Wang Xi, and he is in C&C now. You might as well consider cooperating with us, so that everyone will benefit."

As if to confirm his words, Cai Chengyu turned sideways slightly, and Zhang Chao led Wang Xi closer.

"Brother Xi!!!"

"team leader!"

Yu Di stopped Zhou Shen and Li Xiangzhe, and looked at the unconscious Wang Xi. "How do we know, is it a C&C trap?"

"Director Yu, it's really not nice to speak." Cai Chengyu's eyes are completely different from the kind and lovely big star not long ago. It's more like a new soul in the skin, but it makes people unable to tell the real from the fake.He said lazily, "This is an invitation."

Zhou Shen stared at Wang Xi.

The wound at the corner of his eye seems to have healed, but a shallow scar can still be seen. Pure tried hard to perceive, but could only implicate Wang Xi's weak consciousness.

——Brother Xi, don’t sleep, wake up...

——Brother Xi, wake up quickly...

The huge explosive force from the deep sea pulled Wang Xi out of the whirlpool of consciousness. He lowered his head, and no one noticed his eyes suddenly opened.

And Pure's power was continuously instilled into his consciousness at this moment.So gentle and soft, heals all wounds.

Cai Chengyu didn't react at all, the confinement behind him was suddenly broken away, and the air around him turned.

Zhou Shen opened his arms and caught the weakened and revived soul that came with all his strength.

"deeply……"

"Yes...it's me...Brother Xi..." The familiar breath fell on the neck, and Pure's gentle light enveloped Wang Xi, making people feel at ease.

"hateful……"

Yu Di met Cai Chengyu's eyes almost instantly, and the same powerful control force formed a thick obstacle with Gold, and the Sword of Sword also met Li Xiangzhe's pistol@gun at the same time.

"Are you awake?"

Zhang Chao still looked like he was watching the show, ignored Gold's slightly stiff expression, and absently clapped his hands twice: "Pure is really amazing."

Cai Chengyu didn't speak, and remained in a stalemate with Yu Di.

"However, I have heard a saying. The file is one of the basis for the existence of Evolver." Zhang Chao took Pure's file from Huang Zihongfan, and smiled lightly: "It seems that once Evolver does not exist in the world, the file will disappear automatically .” He twirled a silver rotary knife in his hand, and lightly swipe across Pure’s file.

Zhou Shen felt a sudden pain in his head.Wang Xi hugged him tightly, and looked bitterly at Vision who was still smiling.

"I don't know what will happen to Evolver if the file is destroyed?"

"You can try."

Zhang Chao narrowed his eyes.

Gong Ziqi also held a file in his hand.

"If you destroy Pure's file, so can I."

Cai Chengyu's pupils shrank instantly, and he took a step forward unconsciously.On the file in Gong Ziqi's hand, a big Gold is engraved with a gold thread.

Zhang Chao looked at Cai Chengyu amusedly, and then at Gong Ziqi. "Interesting, this is really interesting. Power, you think I'll believe you're going to kill Gold?"

As he spoke, the silver knife slashed across Pure's file, a gleam of light flashed, and Zhou Shen shrank in pain, with a sweet smell in his throat.

"deeply!"

"Zhou Shen!"

"boom!"

Cai Chengyu saw with his own eyes that Gong Ziqi held the pistol @gun and pulled the trigger on his own file almost at the same time.

A trace of smoke swirled upwards, and Gong Ziqi's hands were shaking.On the file in his hand, the bullet holes were filled with faint gold.

"Prince Prince!"

"Gold..."

Gong Ziqi turned around in shock. He didn't know why, but subconsciously realized that he had done the most wrong thing.

Cai Chengyu's hood slipped off, revealing that familiar face that he couldn't remember clearly.He clutched his shoulder, but blood seeped from his fingers.

Gong Ziqi was stunned for a moment, he even wanted to rush forward to see how he was hurt.

But he is the chief executive of C&C, the enemy, the one who wants to kill himself.

Why, why did Zhang Chao not believe that he would kill Cai Chengyu?

When he was at a loss, Cai Chengyu seemed really irritated.

He saw that face gradually ferocious, and the blood-gold pupils shone with a dangerous light.

"I order you..."

A string snapped in Gong Ziqi's brain.

"...Within the scope of my control, completely obey me. Now, hand over Wang Xi and Zhou Shen."

Yu Di found out with difficulty that he was one step too late, and his body was no longer under his control.

This is a control he has never seen before, almost controlling the entire world.No one can stop it.

And Wang Xi and Zhou Shen walked towards them step by step. Sword, Agile and Vision stepped forward to escort the two of them, and disappeared into the darkness in an instant.

Cai Chengyu's eyes slowly shifted to Gong Ziqi.The moment he shot, some lingering memories seemed to be disconnected.

"And you, Power."

Gong Ziqi looked into Cai Chengyu's eyes, and the familiar sense of powerlessness struck again.

A word echoed in his ear, it was Cai Chengyu's voice, but in a completely different tone.

— Do you know what Evol is spelled backwards?

"...Die!" Cai Chengyu looked into Gong Ziqi's eyes and said softly.

The Gold in front of him and the back in the fragmented memory gradually overlapped.

——From now on, there will be no more Cai Chengyu in your world.

——If Evol can't protect the ones it cherishes, then there's no point in its existence.

--Oh it's you……

——So that night, I received three meals, and I invited my neighbors to eat together!

——Come to my house, I have too many takeaways!

——Gong Ziqi, I'm leaving first!Don't tell others that I'm here!

——Thank you, what's your name?

what are these!

Gong Ziqi raised his hand uncontrollably, and the golden shield suddenly barely resisted the death control in front of him.But my mind was suddenly filled with these intermittent words.

"Go!" Seeing that the situation was getting out of control, Space stepped forward to grab Cai Chengyu who was stranded behind. Gold has not yet realized why Gong Ziqi can still protect himself under his control.

And that golden shield...

"Want to escape?"

The moment Cai Chengyu turned around, his arm was tightly grasped.The moment he turned his head, he saw only half of Gong Ziqi's side face, and was brought into the folding space by Liang Pengjie.

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【Evolver Archives】

In the first archive room (underground) of the M city archives, all Evolver's personal information is recorded. Evolver dies, the file will disappear automatically.In the same way, if the file is damaged, Evolver will also be affected, and the specific degree of impact is unknown.