Shang Jianyao seemed to be unable to understand other people's faces and asked about Jacob and Hendrick:

"He seems to be very powerful, you seem to be afraid of him?"

After a few seconds, Jacob, who has a relatively better personality, said weakly:

“The ‘truth’ is also in that tower, but He will come out from time to time.”

He used the "His" that represents the god in the Red River language.

"He is equivalent to sing a year, but not sing a year?" Shang Jianyao asked with the flow.

Hendrick said unhesitantly:

“Every time He comes out, he will be accompanied by the death of one or two awakened people.”

"But we have not experienced what level of His strength has been, and we cannot give you an accurate answer," Jacob added.

Shang Jianyao said "Ohhh" twice:

"People who are in charge usually don't come out of the tower?"

"They don't need to come out of the tower to extract the consciousness of every inhabitant here and respond to different prayers." Jacob's face showed awe and his voice became a little deeper. "Of course, I have never seen or heard that the senile people would leave the tower."

"That's it." Shang Jianyao sighed, "They are not close enough to the people and do not know how to enjoy the people."

Hendrick squinted his eyes and looked at the guy for a few seconds:

"The flock doesn't want to live with the lion either."

Shang Jianyao did not answer this sentence, and his thinking had already jumped to another place:

"Will our bodies on the dust have no liquid food, no nutritional needles, and nutrient solution slowly starve to death? Or can the human consciousness be extracted feed back to the body and maintain the most basic biological activity?"

This is common sense among the powerful people of the "New World". Hendrick glanced at the weak Jacob and said in a deep voice:

"The body without supplementation will decay faster and will no longer recover your mind normally, and your consciousness will also become weaker.

"In this case, you can only rely on sucking the consciousness of the humans around you to maintain your own mental stability. This will indeed give your body a certain feeding back, allowing it to maintain its weakest biological activity, just like every cell has entered hibernation."

"But what if there are no humans in the surrounding area?" Shang Jianyao asked further.

"Then you can only try to gain human consciousness here." Hendrick said coldly, "If this is not possible, your body will die first, and your consciousness will soon disappear."

"Just approaching?" Shang Jianyao was confused.

Jacob sighed and said:

"The occupants will not waste such consciousness and let it die on its own."

"I understand." Shang Jianyao clenched his right fist and said, "It's just like when we find that some foods are about to expire, they will eat them quickly."

Without waiting for Jacob and Hendrick to respond, he proposed a counterexample:

"But I have a friend who has not existed in humans for thirty or forty years in the surrounding area. He is also a certain battery, and his body is still alive, but he is just close to the state of mummy."

This friend refers to Yan Hu.

"Impossible." Jacob and Hendrick made a denial in unison, but one of them had a soft tone and had no strength, and the other one made a stress.

"That's the truth." Shang Jianyao spread his hands.

Hendrick said coldly:

"This only means that he is not a certain battery. Someone is providing him with human consciousness regularly. Although it may be very low in frequency and not large in quantity, it is enough to maintain his most basic living state."

"Why did that?" Shang Jianyao expressed his confusion.

Hendrick said without answering:

"What you need to ask is him and not us."

"Oh." Shang Jianyao looked like "Why didn't I expect it?"

He asked again:

"At that time, I entered the place where my friend's body was sleeping, but he didn't suck my consciousness hungrily and had to try it after a quarter of an hour. Why?

"Well, we were not friends at that time."

Jacob and Hendrick looked at the guy again, with a very strange expression, as if there was a fool in front of him.

Finally, Jacob answered:

"Because we are in the 'New World', there is a barrier between us and the dust. Whether it is sensing the approaching of human consciousness, searching for positioning, locking and extracting, it takes a certain amount of time."

"That's it." Shang Jianyao suddenly realized it first, and then had a counterexample. "But when I entered here before and provided protection for my companions, there was no delay."

"Providing protection..." Jacob chewed the phrase twice and asked with some clarity, "When someone was drawing the consciousness of your companion?"

"Yes, yes." Shang Jianyao nodded frequently.

Jacob gave the answer to the question just now:

"You don't feel the delay because someone has set up a channel."

"Professional." Shang Jianyao praised.

Then, he continued to ask with the spirit of breaking the casserole and asking to the end:

"What I don't understand is, as soon as we entered that area, why did we get locked and start to extract consciousness?"

After standing for too long, Jacob pulled a high stool and sat behind the bar. Hendrick helped to make a guess:

“There is no delay either because of sensing human consciousness, searching and positioning the process was completed before, or the awakened person in that area happened to return to the dust from the ‘New World’.”

Shang Jianyao had a lot of experience in discussions within the group, so he immediately shook his head:

"I don't think the first one is that coincidental. We just opened the door.

"Why did we have to complete that action, not too late, before we locked our consciousness and started to extract it?

"The second possibility is also too coincidental. I think no matter at any time, a few days, a few months, or a few days, a few months, as long as you enter that area, you will become a 'unintentioned person'. Well, you can confirm this later."

Seeing that he was very opinionated, Jacob did not persuade him and joked:

"There is another situation where there is no delay, that is, what you are conscious of is the year of seizure."

"This is not right." Shang Jianyao denied again, "If I really do, the protection I provide should be easily penetrated and will not have any effect."

Jacob didn't take his words, changed the subject and asked with a little curiosity:

"You have long discovered the door to enter the 'New World' and will push the door open when you encounter danger?"

"Yes." Shang Jianyao did not deny it.

"It's so calm." Jacob sighed, "I can't do it."

After chatting for a few more words, Hendrick, who seemed very energetic after drinking lemon Margaret, walked to a group of sofas, took out a handful of saxophone from the corner, and started playing it on his own.

The deep and calm music with a little sadness slowly echoed in this small bar.

Shang Jianyao listened quietly for a while, as if immersed in such an atmosphere. At least he did not suggest that Hendrick choose the erhu as the main instrument because he always squinted his eyes.

After a while, Shang Jianyao stood up, said goodbye to Jacob, and walked outside.

The street lights on the street lit up again with him.

…………

"It turns out that locking and drawing will take a certain amount of time... No wonder you have time to push open the door to the 'New World', and I can hold on until you provide protection." In the evening, outside the Eighth Research Institute, Jiang Baimian, who had heard Shang Jianyao's feedback, suddenly realized.

In some sensitive words, Shang Jianyao refers to the code words agreed upon in advance.

Shang Jianyao replied:

"Yeah yeah."

"It seems that it was not the first time." Jiang Baimian nodded thoughtfully.

There will be no delay in the year.

Jiang Baimian still has actions at night, but he doesn't want to consume too much energy now. After a few simple words, he said to Shang Jianyao:

"I'll give you a nutritional injection later. Don't rush to the tower, or rush to deal with people like the 'Vice Dean'. Contact more people like Jacob and Flora, master more situations and seek more helpers. Well, don't show off when you meet those who are not friendly. If you can, avoid them."

"I understand that we must unite some people who are worthy of unity and gather the strength of the masses." Shang Jianyao has always used the "Salvation Army" as the benchmark for his behavioral model.

Jiang Baimian ended the topic and concluded:

"We communicate regularly every morning, noon and evening, each time is a little shorter.

"Well, if there is an emergency, I will immediately touch your consciousness with my spirit."

"What if there is an emergency here?" Shang Jianyao asked back.

Jiang Baimian smiled:

"Although you can't control what movements your body does, it seems that you can still maintain a certain instinct, at least not incontinence so far.

"If there is an emergency afterward, you just let yourself wet your pants, and I can see what's going on.

"If you don't have pee, you can only stimulate me by locking your consciousness and trying to extract it, but this will have a considerable delay."

"No problem." Shang Jianyao agreed without hesitation.
To be continued...