Chapter 307 Empty City

“This empty city… It feels like my childhood dream.”

Many student ershenmin are walking on the streets of the city.

There are no other residents in the city. A large number of vehicles are abandoned on the streets and the doors of every store are closed.

It’s actually pretty easy to get in, and the goods inside are usually still there.

So living here is also a very interesting thing, but most of the Ershi people think it is more interesting in the virtual dream.

"Then let's go in and have some fun!"

Sharin and a group of classmates walked to the door of a department store. She kicked the door open and rushed in with her classmates cheering.

Sharin has always behaved like an ordinary Ershi citizen, which seems to bring her more fun.

Lin was looking at some...screens in the mall.

There are quite a few advertising screens hanging in the mall, and these things should be the place where Xing Ji first appeared.

Xing Ji himself will not show up, that's generally the case.

Because the civilization of many creatures is that the entire civilization enters the virtual dream, but there are some like the Ershi people, there will always be a little bit that stays and refuses to enter.

At this time, Xing Ji will appear.

Its manifestation will continue until those individuals who do not want to enter the virtual world disappear, such as dying completely or changing their minds and wanting to enter the virtual world.

"Pah—"

Suddenly, the screen above Veronica flickered a few times, lasting only a few seconds before stopping.

Then other screens began to experience similar flashes, and because they lasted for a very short time, no other students noticed except Sharin.

In fact, they may go unnoticed all the time.

Ersh's research found that Star Silence appears in various devices used by creatures, and these creatures always use these devices in the process of living in empty cities.

As long as there is a device that can transmit and display information, Xingji may appear.

The appearance of Xingji usually makes the device display some wonderful content, such as suddenly seeing a paragraph of text or some quickly flashing images.

At first, all creatures will not care, but slowly they will begin to pay attention to this wonderful information.

After a period of time, these organisms will undergo some changes due to long-term exposure to this type of information.

Even different civilizations will have one common change - stopping reproduction.

Then they might continue to live until they all die, or fight and rob each other, or try to enter the virtual world.

Those individuals who remain will always dissipate, and they will not be able to revive civilization.

Ershi believes that as long as this situation occurs, it must be the influence of Xingji.

Xing Ji hopes that these civilizations are enjoying themselves in their dreams and does not want them to continue... As for why, it is not clear.

And these hedonistic civilizations are not permanent, although many of them believe they can last forever.

Most of them believe that they have created permanent or semi-permanent devices, but sooner or later they will be exhausted, and eventually these civilizations will slowly die out over a long period of time.

Like now, all the civilizations that Ersh encountered in the past that enjoyed themselves in the virtual world have all been destroyed.

This is the function of the 'Ersh' in the Chaos Battleship.

It is used to confirm... whether Xing Ji is dead or not.

After all civilizations affected by Xingji have perished, will Xingji itself die?

The 'Ershi' in the Chaos Battleship and the Ershi civilization on it were set to be built long after the demise of those hedonistic civilizations, so that we can know whether Xing Ji is still alive.

Now it seems that Xing Ji is alive.

Veronica and Sharon lived with this group of classmates for a while.

They began to establish a base in the shopping mall, and then slowly absorbed some of the Ershi people who also remained on the surface.

As the number of Ershi people increased, Xingji's appearances also increased, and a lot of wonderful information could often be seen appearing in various film and television equipment.

However, this group of Ershi people were not greatly affected. Their goal was to rebuild the Ershi civilization, and they believed that those Ershi people who only knew how to enjoy themselves underground were beyond salvation.

Lin thinks this may have something to do with Sharin.

Lin's Veronica didn't say much to the Ershi people about this matter, and just observed them, but Sharin liked living with them very much, and they also intended to regard Sharin as their leader.

As this kind of life continued, Xing Ji's appearance frequency became higher and higher.

The contents of Xing Ji's messages were all very simple, such as "Such a life has no meaning." "You can only spend a short life here." and so on.

Under normal circumstances, the Ershi people would be influenced by these brief messages and finally decide to enter a virtual dream.

But here they are not affected at all and still spend every day actively.

Lin is studying the nature of star silence.

Ersh had also studied this before. He initially believed that Xingji was a single "individual", but later believed that there were many of them.

They will appear one after another to "attack" the various remaining civilized creatures, making them all disappear.

At first it's just information, but if it doesn't work, something else will appear.

After spending more than a hundred days and nights here, new anomalies appeared.

When a group of Ershi people were playing ball on the rooftop of a shopping mall, a red light appeared in the distant sky.

"Is that... activated?"

When an Ershi citizen raised the question, a loud roar was heard in the distance, and the earth was covered by rising smoke and strong light.

"It is true that the world-destroying device has been activated, much earlier than expected." Sharlene said, "Although this is also within expectations."

Originally, this group of Ershi people planned to leave the city to avoid the destruction after the Ershi year was about to end.

But now it's clearly started earlier.

"We will be attacked here too...Run!"

A moment later, all the people fled hurriedly downstairs. At this time, a bright light appeared in the sky, followed by a violent explosion.

But the explosion did not occur in the city, but instead occurred high in the sky, and the impact of the explosion had no effect on the area below.

Although it was quite dazzling, the Ershi people did not look at the sky.

"It's completely blocked." Sharin said to Lin's Veronica: "I don't know when you installed the shield, but I believe you must have installed it."

"It's not a shield." Veronica said, "It's the control of chaos."

"Are we... okay?"

At this time, several Ershi people who had run downstairs ran up again, looking around in some surprise.

"It won't be all right so soon." Sharin pointed to the sky, and saw a huge shadow slowly descending.