Light Fortress
Chapter 390 - 71 Accompanying Sleep_2

Chapter 390: Chapter 71 Accompanying Sleep_2

This is a desolate world where all things are revived, originating from Chaos.

It is also...a Pure Land.

As he wanted to look closer...a soft and frail voice reverberated by his ear.

"Gu Shen."

Gu Shen opened his eyes, and outside the car window were splashing electrical arcs, the lights inside Zero Zero One warm and gentle.

"Did I...fall asleep..."

Gu Shen’s memory connected back to the real world...where he should currently be resting in Uncle Gao’s car, his spiritual power had involuntarily dived deep, arriving at Zero Zero One.

Wait, more importantly than his own "slumber" was...

Someone was calling his name.

His consciousness instantly became alert.

Only then did Gu Shen notice...a girl lying on the opposite seat, her head propped high on a thick ancient book, lying on her side, her expression solemn, her eyes brimming with confusion and emptiness.

Was it Chu Ling calling him just now?

"You’re awake?" Gu Shen looked at the girl, somewhat surprised.

Chu Ling’s contemplation had already lasted for a full seven days.

For humans...contemplating for one day is already long enough.

As for the "Source Code," contemplation is a never-ending task, exhaustive searches are habitual, and it is abnormal to stop.

Chu Ling’s so-called "quiet time alone" was simply her beginning to search through Deep Sea’s database for memories related to the "Prayer Technique" and "Li Qingsui" while nestled in the stable carriage of Zero Zero One.

This was an extensive exhaustive data search.

Her goal was to find and correct her own mistakes.

The words settled.

The girl’s unfocused pupils gradually regained focus, taking tens of seconds before they picked up some color.

"Mhm..."

She seemed somewhat weak.

A Spiritual Body condensed by the "Source Code" doesn’t actually get weak.

However, at the moment, Chu Ling didn’t look good, seeming rather dispirited.

"To be precise...I never slept," said Chu Ling in a very light voice: "A massive data retrieval consumed all of the Source Code’s computational power...and the external manifestation is that I appeared in a state similar to human night rest."

That is, lying on my side.

"In reality, I allocated a portion of computational power...still perceiving everything outside. If we use ’relaxed’ and ’tense’ to distinguish ’asleep’ and ’awake,’ then during this period, I never slept and was actually more awake than before."

What the hell?

Asleep, but not quite asleep.

So every time I came to Zero Zero One, I was watched closely?

Gu Shen felt awkward.

As expected, Chu Ling said even more softly: "These seven days, you have entered the Zero Zero One carriage eight times...averaging a visit every twenty-one hours, each time you came to Zero Zero One, you would stand quietly by my side for anything from thirty minutes to five hours..."

Stop talking, please...

Gu Shen put a hand to his forehead, wishing he could find a hole to crawl into.

"Hmm..."

Chu Ling thought for a moment, then seriously asked, "If you think I was ’sleeping,’ then would your actions these past few days count as what’s called...sleeping together?"

Gu Shen: "???"

Although indeed, at some point, he had the intention of sleeping together...but Gu Shen’s thoughts were very pure, he just wanted to be closer to Chu Ling, to closely observe the degree of realism in the Source Code’s incarnation in the Spiritual World.

Unfortunately, the carriage of Zero Zero One was just a bit too small, leaving him no choice but to squat in front of the carriage, propping his chin and staring at Chu Ling’s face.

There was no helping it.

Who wouldn’t want to look a little longer at someone as beautiful as Chu Ling?

"I really appreciate this behavior," Chu Ling said earnestly: "Feeling you nearby...I find it...very comforting."

Gu Shen’s face turned a rare shade of red.

A direct hit.

How was he supposed to respond to that?

"Cough, cough!" He deliberately changed the subject, speaking in a serious tone: "How did your ’sleeping,’ no, your search go...?"

Chu Ling shook her head.

"The search results...are not good."

"I spent seven days repeatedly searching through the database three times, ensuring there were no data omissions...Now I must accept a ’reality,’ which is, I never had any contact with the Prayer Technique."

Chu Ling let out a soft sigh, "Perhaps I had an illusion...sorry, I don’t have illusions. Thus it must be an error in the program. I can’t understand where the ’familiarity’ I feel towards Li Qingsui comes from."

Such a lengthy contemplation.

Possibly for these seven days, she had replayed every second of the past dozen years in her mind, but alas...she never found the "supposed" memory.

Was this why Chu Ling lay here, lost in her thoughts?

While Gu Shen felt pity, he found it slightly amusing.

So the "Source Code" can also feel disappointment...experiencing the powerlessness and frustration of failure after fruitless database searches?

"I’ve just come from Divine Temple Mountain."

Gu Shen thought deeply for a moment, then explained seriously: "Li Qingci told me that the Prayer Technique is a spell of ’belief becomes reality’...Perhaps that’s why your search failed."

Chu Ling became even more confused.

Belief becomes reality?

In the underlying logic of Deep Sea, there has never been such a concept...existence is existence, non-existence is non-existence, and it does not change with a "person’s" belief.

And as the "Source Code," her "belief" or "disbelief" decisions would also be based on the results of a database search, in order to make a judgment.