The setting sun shines on the skyscrapers, like a golden lake vertical to the ground.

The refracted light was soft and bright, hitting Zhou Zhen like a carefully modulated stage light.

Feeling the surging energy in his body, he quickly came to his senses, immediately took out his phone and glanced at the screen.

The current time is 16:03, and more than an hour has passed since he entered the "digital forest" of Jiwei Cinema.

Seeing that the time was no longer 15:42, which seemed to have taken root, Zhou Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

Won!

No. 009 has been absorbed by the first drop of "digital rain"!

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhen looked back at the abandoned Jinsheng Machinery Factory behind him.

This factory is quietly located among the tall buildings. The fairly spacious yard is covered with weeds and surrounds the abandoned factory building with an area of ​​tens of thousands square meters.

Those windows with missing glass are like black eyes, staring coldly and indifferently at the outside world.

The wind slowly stirred the grass blades, and the smell of dust and rust was mixed among the cascading green waves.

It looks the same as always, nothing has changed.

No. 009 has been absorbed, and the "digital forest" of No. 009 should also be eliminated.

However, he has other things to do now and will not risk going in again.

Thinking in his mind, Zhou Zhen retracted his gaze from looking at the factory, turned around and walked out. At the same time, he took out his mobile phone and prepared to dial Tao Nange's number.

Snapped!

As soon as Zhou Zhen raised his foot, he stepped on a piece of rotten banana peel, then his foot slipped and he fell uncontrollably to the ground.

Just as he was falling, he caught a glimpse of a sharp light from the corner of his eye. It was a small shard of glass embedded in the ground. The sharp angle was aimed right at his eyes!

Zhou Zhen exerted force on his waist, suddenly did a backflip, and landed firmly on the ground.

It’s [Murphy’s Law]!

The "digital forest" of Jiwei Cinema has been solved, but the "digital forest" of "Huangjia Club" and the mathematics textbooks scattered throughout the city are still the same as before!

Just as he was thinking about it, a burst of electricity suddenly sounded in his ears.

At the same moment, in the alley diagonally opposite between the two buildings, there was also the sound of unhurried footsteps.

Zhou Zhen immediately put down his phone and looked at the familiar alley warily.

Soon, a familiar figure walked out of the alley and appeared in his field of vision.

The visitor was incompatible with the real environment around him. He was wearing a white coat, black trousers, and shiny leather shoes. However, among the clothes, there was a human figure outlined with black and white horizontal and vertical lines. Those lines were flickering on and off quickly, as if there was a problem with the signal. The old-fashioned TV screen is like forcibly Photoshopping two-dimensional lines into the actual scene, which looks extremely contradictory.

Looking at this figure, Zhou Zhen frowned, it was "Doctor Ashes"!

The leader of the "Order of Ashes"!

At this time, "Doctor Ashes" walked towards Zhou Zhen. His face covered with black and white horizontal and vertical lines, with no flesh and blood visible, seemed to be smiling, but the sound coming from him was a harsh electric current. sound.

"How do you feel... ba ba ba ba..."

"呲呲......"

"You should... ba ba ba... learn to use the power of 'Digital Rain'... ba ba ba..."

"Bah, bah, bah, bah... In this way, you can be like me..."

"Not affected by [Murphy's Law]...呲呲..."

"呲呲呲呲...呲呲呲..."

Hearing this, Zhou Zhen frowned even more tightly. Every word of "Doctor Ashes" was mixed with sharp and harsh electric noise.

It's like a radio with bad reception.

He remembered that the last time the two met at the school in the suburbs of Binhai City, the other party would only make this messy and harsh electric sound every time he laughed, and now...

The other party is an "out of control number", and his problems seem to have become serious!

Zhou Zhen stared closely at the figure with black and white horizontal and vertical lines in front of him, and asked in a cold voice: "Are you as out of control as you?"

"[Murphy's Law], maybe better."

Hearing this, "Doctor Ashes" suddenly let out a sharper and higher-pitched electric laugh: "呲呲呲..."

"Bah, bah, bah, bah..."

But soon, he stopped, stood not far from Zhou Zhen, and replied calmly: "Humans want to make progress... 呲呲... always need to keep exploring the unknown..."

"呲呲呲... If Gu Fangzhou had not used his one-year-old biological son to test the medicine, polio, which is highly contagious, has a high death rate, and has a high disability rate, would not have been completely eradicated from China...呲呲..."

"Without Saul Krugman using those 29 mentally handicapped children as guinea pigs for hepatitis B infection experiments, the hepatitis B vaccine that has protected the health of tens of millions of people would not have been born... 呲呲呲..."

“Without James Marion Sims using dozens of black female slaves as experimental subjects and conducting various surgical experiments on them without giving any anesthesia, the Xin position and the Xin vaginal speculum would not have been invented... ...Bah...vesico-vaginal fistula cannot be successfully treated..."

"Without Robert Bartholow inserting an electrified needle into the brain of young woman Mary Rafferty and conducting many experiments, future generations would not know that electric shock to specific parts of the brain would produce specific reactions... 呲... 呲呲呲... …”

"Without Philip George Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment, psychologists and historians would not have a clearer understanding of how healthy people can become evil under certain circumstances... 呲呲呲..."

"What we have to do now is the same."

"The officials are too cautious! Too conservative! And too slow!"

"In order to maintain the current stability, they have listed many things as taboo."

“But it’s often those taboos that can create miracles!”

Zhou Zhen listened quietly, neither objecting nor expressing approval. "Doctor Ashes" came to him at this time, and he definitely did not come to debate with him.

After thinking quickly, Zhou Zhen asked calmly: "So, why did you come to me?"

"Doctor Ashes" stared at Zhou Zhen and did not answer immediately. Instead, he walked around him as if to observe his condition.

Ten seconds later, "Doctor Ashes" stood still in front of Zhou Zhen again, and then said: "The energy of No. 009... 呲呲... Although it is not as good as Duan Lihe and Guo Chengbo, it can't be just this little... 呲Sigh..."

"Most of the energy... 呲呲呲... must have been taken away by your 'digital rain'..."

"呲呲呲...The specific battle process and battle data just now...呲...呲呲呲...Use [overfrequency interference] to directly send all the data to me..."

Duan Lihe...

Guo Chengbo...

Zhou Zhen was startled for a moment, but he quickly recalled that "Doctor Ashes" was talking about the deputy commander of the Starry Sky Law Enforcement Corps and the deputy commander of the Deep Sea Patrol who were confronting No. 009 in the movie just now.

Tao Nange was sitting behind him and introduced him.

What "Doctor Ashes" now means is that he has absorbed the "digital energy" of No. 009. Under normal circumstances, the current "digital ladder" should be more than the "seventh step".

In addition, No. 009 is a life form of an advanced civilization. His battle data with No. 009 is very much needed even by a person of the level of "Doctor Ash"!

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhen had no intention of handing over the data and quickly asked: "What level is No. 009?"

"What kind of ladder are you on?"

"And Duan Lihe and Guo Chengbo, how many steps are they on?"

"Doctor Ashes" did not hesitate and immediately replied: "No. 009, used to be the 'Ninth Staircase'... 呲呲... Human beings have so far... 呲呲呲... the highest ladder level!"

"But... 呲呲... No. 009 you met..."

"Bah, bah, bah... there should be only the 'eighth step'... bah..."

"After No. 009 came back from Skade Solu Peninsula... ba ba ba... something is getting more and more wrong..."

"He thought of many ways... ba ba... but couldn't kill himself, so he divided his energy..."

"Bah ba ba... I am now... ba ba ba ba... I am the 'ninth ladder'..."

"But for the time being, we can only use the energy of the 'Eighth Ladder'... 呲呲呲..."

"Once the energy of the 'Ninth Ladder' is used... ba ba ba ba ba... will immediately lose control..."

"Duan Lihe, Guo Chengbo, and the ghost No. 005 that attacked you and the 'Nine-tailed Fox' last time are all the 'Eighth Staircase'... 呲呲呲... close to the 'Ninth Staircase'..."

Zhou Zhen listened carefully, "The eighth step", "The ninth step"...

There are ten questions on the exercise book in his classroom.

Each question corresponds to a ladder.

The levels of the "numeric ladder" should not only be one to nine, but one to ten.

In addition, his guess was correct. The ghost that attacked him and the "Nine-tailed Fox" in Qingquan Valley, Tongfu City last time was indeed one of the top ten ghosts!

He has now reached the "seventh ladder", but the "digital energy" gap between him and the ghost No. 005 is still very huge.

If No. 009 is also the "eighth ladder", its energy should be similar to that of No. 005.

He absorbed No. 009, so he really shouldn't have only this little energy...

However, he was not the main force in the classroom at that time. He was the first drop of "digital rain". He first brought No. 009 into the classroom, and then Wei Jiachuan did the questions on the blackboard.

The energy of No. 009 should be shared between him, First Drop of "Digital Rain" and Wei Jiachuan.

The first drop of "digital rain" definitely got the most energy; Wei Jiachuan, who went to the blackboard to do the questions, was second; he got the least energy...

After quickly sorting out his thoughts, Zhou Zhen then asked: "Do all the official top ten ghosts only have the 'eighth ladder'? Or is only No. 005 the 'eighth ladder'?"

"Doctor Ashes" replied: "Ghost No. 001 is the 'Ninth Staircase'!"

"呲呲...and the leader of the Starry Sky Law Enforcement Group...呲呲呲...the main team of the Deep Sea Patrol...呲呲...are all the 'ninth ladder'!"

"The Chinese official... 呲呲呲... the 'ninth ladder' on the surface... 呲呲呲呲呲..."

"Just these three!"

Apparently there are three people, but actually there are more than three people?

Um……

This time to deal with No. 009, the officials dispatched two "Eighth Step" compatible people. I wonder what the result would be if it was the "Ninth Step" who came?

While thinking quickly, Zhou Zhen continued to ask: "You just asked me to learn to use the power of 'Digital Rain'. How should I learn it? How risky is it?"

"呲呲呲……"

"Doctor Ash" seemed to smile, and then took out a sealed syringe. There seemed to be a faint glimmer of water in the black syringe, but he couldn't see the specific condition of the liquid. He said, "The method lies in this memory." Liquid."

With that said, he didn't ask Zhou Zhen to pay anything, and directly threw the syringe to Zhou Zhen.

Zhou Zhen raised his hand and caught it.

Looking at the memory liquid that was so easily obtained, Zhou Zhen frowned slightly and suddenly understood that this so-called method must be very immature!

"Doctor Ashes" wanted him to be the experimental subject for this method!

"Hey...what else do you want to know?" While Zhou Zhen was pondering, "Doctor Ashes" asked in a leisurely manner.

Zhou Zhen came back to his senses, thought about it seriously, and asked in a deep voice: "What happened to my dad's death?"

Regarding Zhou Jianqiang's death, he initially thought that it was caused by the "Ash Order".

Especially when he first met "Doctor Ashes", he also asked this question, and "Doctor Ashes" never explicitly denied it.

But then he met "Shi Guang" and "Ji Yu", who provided him with certain clues, and things suddenly became complicated...

Now seeing "Doctor Ashes" again, of course he would ask again!

"Bah, bah, bah, bah..."

At this time, "Doctor Ashes"'s neck, which was full of black and white horizontal and vertical lines, once again emitted a high-pitched and harsh electric noise, and then quickly said: "You'd better ask the official about this question!"

"Hey...the official people are coming soon!"

Seeing that "Doctor Ashes" refused to say more, Zhou Zhen frowned. He was still thinking of asking some more questions, but "Doctor Ashes" finally urged: "Send me the battle data just now!"

"Bah ba ba... this is very important..."

"This relationship... 呲呲呲... the future of human civilization!"

Zhou Zhen's expression did not change much after hearing these words. He asked calmly: "I just fought with No. 009. If I fail, will you take action?"

"Doctor Ashes" did not hesitate and replied briefly: "Yes."

Zhou Zhen nodded, no longer hesitated, and immediately used [Overfrequency Interference] to transmit all the battle data just now to "Doctor Ashes".

After receiving the information from [Overfrequency Interference], "Doctor Ashes" no longer stayed. The black and white horizontal and vertical lines on his face, neck, and palms suddenly swelled up like a rising tide, swallowing up all his clothes, shoes, and socks, and then hurriedly It flickered, and the next moment, it was as if he pressed the power button on the display, briefly leaving an afterimage of the cross before disappearing without a trace.

After looking at the empty ground and confirming that "Doctor Ashes" had left, Zhou Zhen picked up the phone again and prepared to continue calling Tao Nange to confirm the other party's condition.

boom! ! !

At this moment, a tall and burly figure fell heavily from the sky.

The seemingly solid concrete floor fell apart in an instant. The flying sand and rocks were just churning, and were immediately suppressed neatly by a powerful force. The surrounding air became clear for an instant.

A middle-aged man wearing a white Chinese tunic suit and a golden ribbon appeared in front of Zhou Zhen. He had a shiny bald head and three hideous wounds full of ferocious aura. It was Duan Lihe!

Duan Lihe looked at Zhou Zhen and stretched out his right hand neatly: "Zhou Zhen? I am Duan Lihe, deputy leader of the Starry Sky Law Enforcement Corps."

"The situation is urgent. I'll make a long story short. Please come with me now. The Starry Sky Law Enforcement Corps urgently needs your assistance in this Binhai City rescue!"