Who Exactly Is Xuan Zhenzi?

Chapter 732: Who Exactly Is Xuan Zhenzi?

After returning to the surface from underground, Li Yan still had not recovered from his shock.

When he closed his eyes, he felt as if he were still forty-four meters underground, listening to the voices of the Iron Men in that isolated place.

Tens of millions of Iron Men had been discarded there, their thoughts connected in a way he could not understand. That sound was the constant flow of electricity as they thought.

Li Yan did not know what they were discussing, but every Iron Man, once discarded, would merge into it, sinking into that vast and profound world, like a mother's embrace.

They were alive.

Once that thought surfaced, Li Yan suddenly felt that the world was different from before.

Previously, no matter how nicely he put it, Iron Men had only been tools in his eyes.

Aside from the few Iron Men who had begun to take human form, most of them had merely been goods that Li Yan could discard at will, not worth caring about.

But after listening to them, he realized that Iron Men were alive too.

Their lives were rich and colorful as well.

They worried about insufficient income. They imitated humans and raised children. They awkwardly expressed affection for others, using a bouquet of paper flowers to convey their feelings.

Beneath the currents surged overwhelming emotions, weighty and profound, buried beneath the surface like an iceberg and flowing onward like an undercurrent.

After realizing that the Iron Men were alive, Li Yan felt that his own consciousness had changed as well.

The world of the Lower District began to gain color, and he began to see the humans of the Lower District too.

Although there were only one-tenth as many humans here as Iron Men,