Yuan Jiang and I were heading back to the Adventurers' base.
Xu Qiuyan was still there.
I felt that, in the end, we would still have to find the answers through her.
What exactly was going on with that plea for help on the wall? Since I had come, I had to get to the bottom of it. Otherwise, this trip would have been for nothing.
On the way, Yuan Jiang asked me what I thought of the Void Realm after being here for so long.
After thinking for a moment, I said, "You heard what Zeng Dajiang said before. The Void Realm is the last hope the Doctor left behind for humanity. If humanity in the outside world truly ends up going extinct, then the Void Realm can still preserve a spark for mankind."
"What about the Living Dead? What does their existence mean?" he asked again.
I froze for a moment. I truly had never considered the Living Dead.
I looked at Yuan Jiang. "Then what do you think the Living Dead mean?"
"Before, I might not have been able to figure out what the Living Dead were. But after hearing Dajiang's description of the Void Realm, I think the Living Dead aren't truly dead in the conventional sense. Their physiological characteristics as humans still exist, and from a medical perspective, they are alive. It's just that their senses have been restricted. So I was thinking—could this be a form of protection by the Doctor?"
"Protection?"
"That's right. After all, the Doctor understood one thing very clearly: humans have flaws in their nature. Normal people all have desires, ambitions, and their own schemes. Everyone is selfish at heart. So, to ensure that humanity could truly preserve its spark, he turned some people into Living Dead. He slowed their