16 hours later, Mountain City.

With the current technology of the Huaxia Army, they actually do not have the capability to implant a Brain Machine into Ji Xing.

But coincidentally, there is one person, who is very familiar with invasive Brain Machines.

He is so familiar that he can implant a Brain Machine into himself, connect by himself, and immerse in the virtual world created by the Brain Machine.

And that person is Xu He.

After the Battle of Huadu, he almost disappeared from the Huaxia Army's sight.

However, Chen Jian never stopped paying attention to him.

After deciding to exploit Ji Xing to achieve the goal of invading Mountain City, he immediately arranged for personnel to go to Imperial City to find Xu He and quickly brought him to Mountain City.

The latter was almost crazily eager for the "virtual city" that Chen Jian described and even wanted to replace Ji Xing to enter that city for negotiation.

But Chen Jian was too familiar with his intentions.

He didn't really want to negotiate; he wanted to use this opportunity to enter Mountain City completely and stay there forever.

Chen Jian did not give him this opportunity, but half-persuaded, half-coerced the procedure for implanting a Brain Machine out of him.

After conducting simple but relatively complete experiments, Chen Jian personally operated, using an outdated spinal access Brain Machine, to complete the connection for Ji Xing.

Tests passed smoothly, and then, under the guidance of Fu Xi, Chen Jian connected the previous generation Brain Machine with the Brain Machine from Mountain City and implanted additional communication modules into the Brain Machine system.

This clone module was completely independent of the Brain Machine system and was to undertake the most important task of information transmission.

With all tests completed, Chen Jian sent a negotiation invitation to Lingxi.

And this invitation was quickly approved.

---- In fact, Lingxi behaved even more eagerly than Chen Jian had expected.

Its purpose was to preserve Mountain City and that so-called virtual city.

Therefore, it was more eager to show that city to the Huaxia Army to persuade them to abandon their offensive against Mountain City.

The preparation for the negotiation went very smoothly.

When Ji Xing sat somewhat nervously in the chair prepared in advance, Chen Jian was already ready to activate the Brain Machine and engage in "zero-distance communication" with Mountain City.

He looked at Ji Xing and asked:

"Are you ready?"

Ji Xing took a deep breath and slowly nodded, saying:

"I'm ready."

Saying this, she closed her eyes.

She knew that this connection was risky.

There might be a possibility that once she entered Mountain City, she would be trapped there forever, just like Lin Yu.

But she didn't give even a single glance to this real world.

Because she knew that hesitation was useless.

Everyone around her was taking a risk.

It wasn't only her undergoing a challenge.

In the darkness, she felt Chen Jian's hand on her shoulder.

The slightly rough touch made her body subconsciously tremble.

Next, she heard Chen Jian's voice in her ear.

"Connection countdown."

"3, 2, 1..."

"Connect."

In an instant, electricity surged from her spine.

Ji Xing suddenly opened her eyes, but at that moment, the visual signal from her retina was completely overwhelmed and blocked by the signal from the Brain Machine.

Her eyes saw nothing but darkness.

And the next second.

The lights suddenly came on.

...

Ji Xing opened her eyes.

She saw Lin Yu's face.

"Long time no see."

She opened her mouth to say.

Looking around, she found herself in a somewhat cramped room, but this room had a spacious balcony.

Looking through the balcony, the city was lit with dazzling lights, and beneath those lights, there was a faint hint of...

Silent emptiness.

Before Lin Yu could speak, she continued:

"This city is empty."

As soon as she spoke, Lin Yu, sitting across from her, paused slightly.

Then, he sighed lightly and spoke:

"Yes."

"This entire city is empty."

"Only in the building at the center is there a so-called 'human consciousness aggregate.'

"I have to admit, you are much more perceptive than I am."

"I only gradually realized this after being here for a long time."

Hearing his words, Ji Xing shrugged and said:

"That's because you haven't interacted enough with the Huaxia Army."

"If you learn their way of thinking, many things can be seen through at a glance."

"For example, this virtual city—I don't know how it appears to you, but to me, it doesn't have a shred of realism."

"The distant view and close view don't coordinate at all, it's like... some kind of film imagery."

"Film imagery?"

Lin Yu paused.

"What's that?"

"... If there's a chance in the future, go to the 011 base, which is Jinling New City, and you'll understand."

"..... I might not have the chance."

A real expression of melancholy appeared on Lin Yu's face. Ji Xing looked at him and curiously asked:

"You don't seem satisfied with life here... do you?"

As soon as she said this, Lin Yu suddenly stood up.

He helplessly, with a bit of anger, or even anger that he couldn't help but laugh, retorted:

"Who would be satisfied with living here??"

"I'm just trapped here, not willingly used as a communication tool by that so-called artificial intelligence."

"If possible, I'd rather die, okay?"

Seeing Lin Yu's intense reaction, Ji Xing realized she had misspoken.

She raised her hand and said:

"Calm down, calm down."

"I was just asking casually... Speaking of which, in our current situation, we're supposed to be unmonitored, right?"

"Then tell me, is there any way for us, right here, to destroy this world completely?"

"It's useless."

Lin Yu shook his head and answered:

"This area is actually completely isolated from the main computation module; it occupies only a small fraction of the entire Mountain City's computing power."

"Even if we destroy it completely, it wouldn't cause any substantial damage to Mountain City."

"Doing that... is completely meaningless."

"Understood."

Ji Xing nodded thoughtfully, then asked:

"So how does it control the progress of the negotiations? Isn't it worried you'll leak something to us?"

"Do I look like I have anything to leak?"

Lin Yu sat down again with a sigh, then said:

"Actually, the contents of our conversation are also being recorded, and even your every action here is recorded."

"However, it will only transmit the information to Lin Xi after our conversation ends."

"In any case... stop thinking about unrealistic things."

"Just complete the negotiation as soon as possible."

"Whether it succeeds or not... at least give me a result."

"Understood."

Ji Xing nodded at his words.

Then, she straightened up slightly and spoke:

"Let's start with the basics then."

"Now, answer my question."

"If the Huaxia Army is willing to abandon Mountain City."

"Then what can Lingxi give us?"

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