"I'm in Room 1 of Zone 7."
"I'm in Room 1 of Zone 14. I'm coming to find you!" The boy was very excited.
Footsteps gradually became clear from a faint distance. There were few surveillance cameras in the rest area, and the boy knew exactly how to avoid them.
Wen Xishu soon saw a boy with a shaved head, wearing a white uniform, and a stitched scar on his forehead.
If he had hair, if he didn't have that scar... maybe he would be quite handsome.
Logically, Wen Xishu shouldn't have felt sympathetic for such a creation of the mental realm.
But Wen Xishu thought... Yin Junchi had lived here for a long time, so he felt this world—
This so-called fragment of the Evil Land, might not be as simple as he had imagined.
After seeing the same scars on the foreheads of the two people and the same expressions that were different from others...
The boy's eye rims turned red.
"That's great! That's great! I've finally seen other living people again! My name is Hugo, a name given to me by my teacher, who said my work would bring change to the world."
"I always thought... my fate would be to die of old age here, or one day, unable to keep up the pretense, I'd be killed here."
"I've finally waited for you! I said, the fourth prophecy of the teacher didn't fail, it just wasn't time yet!"
Wen Xishu noticed this statement and said:
"What about the people who were alive before? That woman, and the boy like you?"
Wen Xishu was asking about prophecy one and prophecy three, and Hugo understood his question.
Tears couldn't help but fall from his eyes:
"They died trying to fulfill the fourth prophecy, to pave the way..."
Horn could understand Hugo's loneliness even more now.
Wen Xishu sighed:
"You've had it tough."
Hugo wiped away his tears:
"I still have plenty of rest time. You can ask me anything you want to know."
"Before the teacher died, he told me... some things can't be done by one person, but you should still strive to accomplish them, so that those who come after will have hope."
Wen Xishu and Horn exchanged glances again.
This statement made Wen Xishu think of the bunker.
To allow humanity to leave the bunker—
Generations after generations fell.
Of course, there were also people like Albert, who lived through several eras.
But Albert probably had similar realizations.
Wen Xishu never thought that the writer Yin Junchi would have such thoughts.
He became increasingly curious about the relationship between Sirius, Yin Junchi, and the Captain.
"Did your teacher tell you everything?" Wen Xishu looked at Hugo.
Hugo nodded:
"He wrote it all down in a novel. The teacher said it was his best novel."
"The novel starts from when he moved into an apartment called Reversed Seven."
"He said since then, his life became more exciting than the novels he had written before."
"I've always kept these things hidden. I've also read a part of it in private, but there are many things I don't understand. It involves... other realms, gods, demigods, and exiles..."
"Oh right, and sequences. I don't quite understand. The teacher's experiences were so rich, like those of a character in a story."
Hugo pulled out a booklet from his white uniform, not too thick nor thin.
It was clear from the worn-out appearance that it had been frequently read, but it didn't affect readability.
Horn took the booklet and handed it to Wen Xishu.
Looking at this booklet titled "My Adventures and Anecdotes," Wen Xishu suddenly had a feeling.
This time, he might uncover many secrets.
This writer wandering in a place called "reality" might have brought more than just things related to the Ark.
However, the protagonists of many stories are only transitional protagonists.
Yin Junchi's journey had ended, but his story wasn't over. His story could only be continued by someone else.
Horn said:
"I probably wouldn't understand much of it either. You read it, then tell us what to do."
"But we only have one day... In fact, we have less than a day left. Wen Xishu, we must finish everything today."
Hugo got excited upon hearing this.
Wen Xishu also knew that they had to make the "blue sun" rise today.
But how exactly to do it, everything was hidden in this book.
Wen Xishu opened the first page.
"After leaving the Reversed Seven Apartments, I was hunted by the Sanqiu Group from the An Family."
"I thought my unlucky life had begun. All of my works were taken off the shelves."
"In Jicheng, offending such a financial clique would get even the biggest star killed, let alone a lazy writer like me who frequently missed deadlines."
"But I never expected one day, a guy with hair longer than a woman's would suddenly find me on a smuggling boat."
"He said his name was Sirius. Damn, who would have such a name."
"He said he had recently hidden in Jicheng but had almost lost his life after being discovered by someone called Pisces. Strange, right."
"Then he asked me a question even weirder than his name."
"'Do you believe there are people from another realm in this world?'"
"I thought he was some kind of novel enthusiast, but then..."
"I suddenly remembered, yeah, I had encountered the Reversed Seven Mansion, my life was already intertwined with the bizarre, why would I find anything absurd anymore?"
"So I said, 'I believe, can you show me?' The man smiled, and thus my strange journey began."