Hello, Arknights

Chapter 316 Understanding of the 'World'

"Director? You..."

"Did you hear anything?" Planst smiled slightly, revealing a terrifying aura.

"Ah," the subordinate said, with a few drops of cold sweat on his forehead. "I was just about to report to you that there was a problem with our communication equipment just now. The communication was abnormal, but it is fine now. Do you need to check it?"

"Then I'll trouble you to work overtime. And since one device has a problem, there may be hidden dangers in the others. I'll trouble you to check them all today. Thank you for your hard work."

"……all?"

"Ah."

"within today?"

"Ah."

The unfortunate subordinate glanced at the time and saw that there were less than three hours left until midnight.

"If you can't do it, remember to write a 10,000-word self-reflection on why you made the mistake of entering the goal with your left foot today."

"…Because your right foot is not active enough?" He immediately smiled when he saw the change in the director's eyes, "Director, I'm going to write a report."

Of course he knew that there was no problem with any of the equipment. After all, it was his own fault that he earned the "benefit" of writing a self-criticism.

"Director, the blood sample report is out." Just as Planster was thinking, another quiet staff and member handed her a report. "Combined with the previous medical report on Rhodes Island, the density of the Originium particles in Volper's blood has hardly changed, and the degree of mineral disease infection has increased by nearly two percentage points, which is a bit abnormal."

"As for the blood, it's normal that the spread of the disease hasn't changed much after being treated by Bai Yan. The point is that the degree of infection of the ore disease has deepened. As a beacon, her fatal injuries can be restored after leaving the information sea, but the degree of infection of the ore disease has not returned to the previous level..."

Planst couldn't help but frown slightly. The only variable was the particularly concerning substance... Originium.

"The information is...interesting. The file is sealed. This is not our current focus. I will hand it over to the boss when we return."

"understood."

White Dove Squad Apartment.

"Virtual dream reality? Sea of ​​information? Beacon?"

Ling Dengxian himself was not very clear about what this information represented. He just understood what was going on, but he did not know its meaning. When he relayed it to everyone else, they were even less clear about the relevant content.

"What it roughly means is that Shuangye Xinhuo and the others', uh, consciousness has traveled to another - the 'world' that Brother Baige mentioned, and the damage they suffered there will be synchronously fed back. But if the key targets in that place are eliminated, the injuries within a certain period of time can be reset? Is that right, Brother Baige?" Heijiao did not think about those difficult-to-understand words and principles. After trying hard to understand the essence of this accident, he came up with his conclusion.

"That's right, I think. To be honest, this is all told to me by Kuranta. I'm not too sure..." Texas, who was sitting next to Ling Dengxian, glanced at him. Although he didn't say anything, he felt a chill on his back.

"Just testing her?"

"Really! You should know what kind of person I am." When Texas pressed him into the corner, his desire to survive was overwhelming.

Even though it's been explained, Texas still seems to care.

"What does 'world' mean?" A question brought his thoughts back to reality. Before Ling Dengxian could answer, Nightingale raised his hand and asked, "Does it refer to the land beneath our feet?"

Ling Dengxian was silent for a moment. In the world of Terra, this land was the entire world of the Terrans. They did not know what the sky meant, nor what was outside the sky. Moreover, in this era, they had to continue to fight against the suffering on this land, and almost no one looked up at the sky.

However, the sky and the earth are far from the sum of the world.

What is the world? Is it the sum of everything around us, or is it countless threads that extend and spread in different directions and levels?

Even the road home he was looking for led to another world.

In his eyes, does the word "world" represent the sum of the two worlds?

He didn't know that he was still on his way home.

Facing the doubts in Nightingale's eyes, he just said softly: "The world is far more than the ground beneath our feet. It also includes the sky, the sea of ​​stars outside the sky, and the vast and infinite universe. The world is very big and can accommodate all unknowns and explorations."

Beyond the sky. Ling Dengxian's words were like a star that pierced through the darkness, leading everyone to think about this term for the first time. Perhaps in their childhood, each of them had lied on the ground and looked up at the sky, imagining what was behind the thin layer of clouds and mist, but time had raised quicksand to cover and bury this fantasy, and today a hand brushed away the dust, and after cleaning, it reflected light again.

"When I was a child, I remember wondering if those stars were treasures under the sea. The land where I stand is covered by thick sea water, and I am forever separated from those treasures." Heijiao scratched his head and smiled naively.

"...When I had time to look at the night sky after completing a mission, I wondered if those flickering lights were the people outside also fighting each other with weapons, taking each other's lives - or taking pictures of each other with cameras, leaving their own traces." Shuangye sat on the sofa and hugged her knees.

"When I was starving in the wilderness, I wondered if the white clouds in the sky were pack animals raised by someone, and whether I could find a way to get one down to fill my stomach," Xinhuo recalled.

"I haven't thought about it carefully, but sometimes when I look up at the sky, I feel a little breathless and want to see farther." Ye Dao sat next to Hei Jiao.

"I... have watched the stars with Shining Ling Guang. Ling Guang said that's the appearance of the shining people, working hard in the dark night."

"The sky? When I was a kid, I wanted to try to climb up to one moon, and then jump to another moon. But I was caught climbing the stairs and got beaten by my mom."

"There is a folk song in my hometown that I paid much attention to when I was a child. It says that there is an invisible road on the earth. If you find it, you can push open the door to the sky step by step and find the treasure collected by the wolf mother."

When everyone's eyes were focused on Surtel, the latter frowned and seemed quite annoyed. She suddenly covered her head with her hands as if in great pain. Everyone was shocked and was about to do something when the Levantine that Surtel had placed next to the sofa suddenly lit up with a fiery red light. Frost Leaf screamed and pulled back the tail next to the weapon. She held it in her hand and found that the tip of the tail was burned.

"Sartre! What's wrong with you?"

Surtel quickly recovered from everyone's concern, breathing slightly, as if sorting out something in her mind. Suddenly, she looked up at Ling Dengxian with a burning gaze:

"White Dove, outside the sky...are there many people like Terra—"

"Planet?"