Chapter 461 Hello, Human

Chen Ke and Xu Jing faced the mirror again.

Although the other Chen Ke burned down the coffee shop base established by the Foundation in 1859, he didn't know how the Foundation's people got here.

"This is your stuff." Xu Jing handed Chen Ke a worn-out iPhone 3G with two cracks on the screen.

"Oh! I thought it must have been lost." Chen Ke took the phone and wanted to turn it on, but found that it was out of power.

After killing the other Chen Ke, he found the Moonlight Holy Diamond while looking for Xu Jing, but couldn't find the phone.

"Don't you have the habit of charging your phone?" Xu Jing asked.

"I don't often have time to charge." Chen Ke put the phone in his pocket.

Xu Jing didn't ask any more questions, took out a pocket watch from his arms, and opened the cover with a snap. Chen Ke found that there was no glass cover or time scale on the dial. Xu Jing gently turned the dial while talking to himself.

Chen Ke looked at the mirror, and the shadows of two people were reflected in it. As Xu Jing turned the dial, the clothes of the two people in the mirror began to change, and they became the clothes they had changed into when they just crossed over.

"2009, July... around 1 pm. We will go back now." Xu Jing put the pocket watch in his pocket.

"Wait a minute." Chen Ke suddenly stopped.

He touched the things on his body, looked at Xu Jing and asked, "After I go back, my things will not be less, right?"

Florence got a set of holy diamonds after coming here. If I go back, won't I erase the things I got before the time node?

"You think too much. We are in a state of flow. Didn't I tell you? Time is human cognition, and the universe doesn't work like this." Xu Jing said.

"Okay, let's start, travel through time and space." Chen Ke made a gesture of invitation to the mirror.

"Well, when we return to the City of Opportunity..." Xu Jing said, and her voice became more and more vague.

Chen Ke couldn't hear clearly, and he suddenly found that water began to accumulate on the floor.

"Hmm? What is this..." Chen Ke raised his foot and looked at his wet shoes. If he remembered correctly, they were on the second floor.

"Xu Jing... It's flooded. Is this... normal?" Chen Ke asked. The side was empty. Xu Jing disappeared.

He looked at the stairs. Water was constantly coming in. The speed of the water rising was beyond imagination. Chen Ke couldn't figure out what happened outside to cause such a big flood.

However, the water was extremely clear and smelled salty.

In just a few seconds, the water had risen to the waist. Chen Ke couldn't find Xu Jing. He knocked on the mirror and studied for a few seconds. He didn't figure out anything, so he struggled to wade towards the stairs, wanting to go outside first.

Chen Ke sank into the water, grabbed the handrail of the stairs and dived downstairs. There were jars and bottles in the house floating in the water. He swam to the door and found that it was closed.

How did the water come in... He thought it would be difficult to open the door, so he pulled it with his hands, but it was easy to open the door, and he saw that the outside was also submerged in the water.

The water that came out of nowhere continued to rise, and the water level even exceeded the roof. There was no living thing on the street, and carriages, wine bottles, and even street lights were floating in the water.

Chen Ke slowly floated up with the water flow and soon floated above the sky. Big Ben was dozens of meters below him. He was soaking in the water and overlooking the entire Langdon, as if it was an underwater city.

Gurgle... Chen Ke's lungs were filled with water, but he didn't need to breathe. The current situation was beyond his cognition and control, and he could only let himself float in the sea.

He looked up, the white light was like the scorching sun above the sea. As the height of the floating became higher and higher, the city below was gradually hidden in the deep sea and became no longer easy to identify. Chen Ke felt the intensity of the light, so he swam upwards.

The light became stronger and stronger, and the sound of waves and dolphin-like calls came to his ears. A feeling of sleepiness came over him. Chen Ke closed his eyes, curled up his body, and floated in the sea.

After an unknown period of time, Chen Ke felt an ultimate sense of comfort, like the comfort of waking up naturally from a sleep, accompanied by a sense of interruption similar to being awakened by the warm sunshine during a nap. He opened his eyes and found himself lying on the ground.

The hot wind caressed him, the sun was scorching, and he sat up suddenly, soaking wet, leaving a wet human-shaped mark on the ground.

Chen Ke found himself on a mound. He climbed up and looked around, and there was an endless red soil plain.

The color in the sky was indescribable. It was not a blue sky, but a deep space of the universe that was both amazing and terrifying. The huge broken half moon moved slowly in the sky, and the naked eye could see that it was half blood and half white. The distant sun was like a heat-collecting bright spot, burning the earth with scorching high-temperature sunlight.

Chen Ke looked at the corner of his eye, and the life countdown disappeared.

Alienated space?

No, this feeling... Chen Ke felt the long-lost "thump, thump" heartbeat in his chest...

He reached out to cover his chest, it was his heart beating! He pulled open his collar, the sun mark disappeared, leaving only a wound from a knife.

"This is..."

He searched his body, but couldn't find his wallet and cell phone. He tried to communicate with the stone in his heart, but got no response.

He tried to call the soul interface, but there was no response. His right hand bounced away, and he tried to condense the psychic crystal gun, but there was no response.

All abilities are gone, has he become a normal person?

He felt himself breathing, bent down to pick up a sharp-edged stone, and cut a hole on the back of his hand, and blood immediately flowed out.

"Heal... Heal... Heal..." Chen Ke muttered silently, but the pain did not go away, and blood flowed out of the hole.

He didn't know whether to be happy or worried. Returning to the mortal world was what Chen Ke had always pursued, but now, he was a little hesitant. What's more, where is he now? There was no information at all, and everything on his body was gone.

Chen Ke covered the back of his hand and looked around blankly. Looking at the terrain, this place was very similar to the mountains in Colorado, USA, of course, if the United States also had Colorado.

He walked down the mound and strolled on the red soil plain. The sun was scorching. After walking for a long time, Chen Ke felt tired and thirsty, and a feeling of fatigue and dizziness that he had never experienced before came up.

After walking for an unknown period of time, Chen Ke was defeated by the scorching sun. The temperature was a bit abnormally high, and it was probably over 40 degrees.

Chen Ke took off his windbreaker and covered his head with it. He continued to trek for a while, but he was exhausted and fell to the ground.

"Damn... am I going to die here?" Chen Ke muttered to himself unwillingly. In a daze, he saw an abandoned wooden house standing abruptly in the distance. He gritted his teeth, struggled to get up, and rushed towards the cabin regardless of everything.

Banging into the small house, Chen Ke was disappointed to find that there was no water or food inside, and it could only be used as a shelter to block the sun.

There was a pile of corpses lying on the ground of the hut, wearing all kinds of tattered clothes. It was obvious that they had been dead for a long time. According to the position of the corpses, they seemed to be piled on something.

Chen Ke came to the center of the pile of corpses. After clearing them all, he found a piece of iron-gray floor on the ground, covered with rust, scratches, potholes of varying sizes and dried blood.

"Is this... a shelter dug by the owner of the house?" Chen Ke muttered to himself.

In the United States, there is a group of people called doomsday preparers, including billionaires. They have pessimistic expectations for the future of mankind, so they have been storing various survival supplies for a long time and building their own underground shelters in their backyards.

Maybe this is also a bunker... No matter what happened here, if it can be opened, there may be survival supplies inside.

Chen Ke checked the floor and knocked on it. There was no echo at all, which shows its thickness.

Of course, this is just a piece of iron plate embedded in the ground, which is also possible.

But Chen Ke didn't want to go out and be exposed to the scorching sun again, so he placed all his hopes in this room.

"Damn, I can't find the handle, and there is no switch in the room. I'm so unlucky. Ah, I'm dead..." Chen Ke sighed and lay on the floor to rest.

"Checking... the main components of organisms..."

A strange and expressionless electronic synthesized sound came into Chen Ke's ears at this time. The sound was very light and intermittent, like a radio with poor signal.

"What is this?" Chen Ke got up and looked at the gray floor, on which a light blue progress bar appeared.

"Comparison...body...in the library, please wait..."

Chen Ke patted the floor, not knowing what would happen next.

"Comparing...Comparing..."

"Comparison completed..."

"The organism has passed the human verification procedure."

"Welcome, human."

At this time, the large iron plate trembled, making a mechanical expansion and contraction sound, collapsed under the floor, and retracted, revealing a step down.