Chapter 17: Pandora

The feeling of standing at the entrance of the psychic passage is very subtle, and it is theoretically from here that I was dragged into the sub-chasm by Xiao Ming Xiaohong a few days ago, but I actually have no impression of the appearance of the entrance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Before my eyes was a huge complex of white egg-shaped buildings, small ones about the size of the stones on the side of the road, and large ones like a mountain that could not be seen, and there were too many buildings here to count, and I believe that there were smaller buildings and larger buildings beyond my naked eye - they all had one thing in common, that is, they were all shaped like an ostrich egg. The reason why I was sure it was a complex was because no matter how big or small the "eggs" were, I could see creatures of the same size shuttling back and forth at the entrance. Most of these creatures use "teleportation", so I can only see shadows. But one thing is certain, the M6 and M6-2 are not here at this time.

Maybe I can sneak away before those two troublesome stars show up, and it's 100% good for them to look for me anyway.

I tried calling M6 and M6-2 with the chip, and the red dot in the chip tip in the upper left corner of the field of view turned blue, flashed a few times, and then turned back to red.

Call Failed

Okay, since I can't contact them, I should be able to go back?

The thought crossed my mind when I heard someone behind me shouting my name.

"Aya 17? It's Aya 17, right? It's Ning 08's son, right? yes, yes, yes? "This is exactly the same chirping sound I heard the first time I entered the sub-chasm.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Xiao Ming Xiaohong? ”

"Sure enough, yes, sure enough! I said I couldn't be wrong! Long time no see! Yes! The Last Human Visitor! "For some reason, Xiao Ming Xiaohong's body color is a little dull today, and it looks like a piece of deteriorated jelly.

"It's not like I haven't seen you for a long time, I've only been here for a few days......"

"Oh! You don't understand! It's been a long time, of course! I'm living like a year now! ”

Its body lay out in frustration, as if someone had just smashed it to the ground with a punch. I don't really want to know why it's "like years", but judging by the direction of the conversation in front of me, it seems that it is impossible not to ask. I decided to ask casually out of coping, and if his answer was something like "hard to say", I wouldn't ask again.

"What's wrong?" I say.

"Oh! Good Samaritans! Aya 17! You're a good Samaritan! Come and care for me! Oh! Let me elaborate, I suck, suck, suck! What to do, the passage is broken, it's all over, this is what I do best, receiving all kinds of guests between the sub-gaps, the spirit star channel, that's what you call it, okay, that's what I call it, I like it so much, every day, with a 'bang', you can see what new creatures come from there, each one is different, every day is so fresh. But now it's gone, now it's all gone, what should I do? In the words of you earthlings, unemployed, yes, haha, unemployed, I've seen movies where unemployed should be holding a big box, and then like this. ”

It suddenly became an unemployed office worker in a film and television drama, holding a box with a sad face.

It was clear that the loss of his job had made him very depressed and anxious to find someone to talk to.

"I'm sorry ......" At this time, other characters in film and television dramas usually say "I'm sorry", so I have to "regret" now.

"Hey, good Samaritan, kind Aya-17, I don't know what else to do, this is the most interesting job in the whole of the Gap. The new job right now isn't for me at all, I don't like it! You should really come and see my new job...... It's terrible, oh," it suddenly came to its senses and elongated, "yes, you should see it right away, come and see it now, right now!" ”

Xiao Ming Xiaohong twisted towards me with the greatest enthusiasm, and it detached a hand from its slimy body, pulled the corner of my clothes, and drilled into an "ostrich egg" about the size of the school building on the side. It was probably a good excuse to escape from the M6, so I half-pushed.

"It's so boring right now! I feel like I don't know how to survive without the Psionic passage! Of course, the Poma people don't have any concept of life and death, but I've learned a word from you humans, yes, it's painful, that's it, that's right. I can't believe you should really look here, it's dead! ”

"After all, the passage is broken." I tried to soothe it.

"It's broken, it's broken, it's broken! Yes, it's broken! I don't know if it can be repaired yet, my Puma star, why am I encountering such a thing! ”

"But why is the passage broken?"

"Why? Ha! It shuddered angrily, "You'll know why in a moment!" ”

The inside of the egg is like an indoor transit station, scattered with all kinds of creatures, all of which are similar to my size, but most of them are abstract in appearance, and the imagination of aliens in the science fiction movies I have seen is completely indescribable. Some of them are howling loudly, others are quiet, and there are two aggressive-looking alien creatures in the corner biting each other, not knowing whether they are fighting or greeting.

"Ah, borrowed, thanks, borrowed, oh, don't you understand? Get out of the way! Roll on! ”

Xiao Ming Xiaohong irritably led me through the alien crowd and squeezed into a disc-shaped teleportation device similar to the teleportation room, and I didn't even see it give any orders, and the surrounding scene suddenly changed to a different shape.

"Come on, come on, this is it, oh, I don't want to come!"

Xiao Ming Xiaohong led me down the teleporter and led me through the hallway. This floor is much quieter than the first floor, with only very dim lighting in the whole space, it has been renovated to look like a corridor outside a normal hotel room, with carpets on the floor, closed doors on both sides, and dim earthy yellow wall lamps on the side walls next to the corridors. After arriving here, Xiao Ming Xiaohong seemed to have lost interest in continuing to chatter, but this atmosphere was unsettling.

"What exactly is your current job?" I asked cautiously.

Xiao Ming Xiaohong let out a long sigh. It didn't have a mouth, but I didn't know why I heard a sigh.

"When the psionic passage was attacked, I happened to receive a new arrival message, and then just as I was about to receive it, an explosion occurred." Bang "gotta it!" The channel is distorted, a whole bunch of 'data' overflows, and then 'this' is 'spit out', and it all dissolves together, and then the channel just breaks. I still don't understand it, but what I don't understand even more is why I have to take care of these things! ”

Indignantly, it led me to a dark red double hinged door at the end of the hallway, and pulled out something that resembled a giant bubble blower out of nowhere, and it took it and covered me and itself from head to toe, so that I and it had an extra transparent film on our bodies.

"With this thing, you don't have to worry about virus infections and stuff like that, it's equivalent to being quarantined." It explained to me, and then slammed the door open with its body.

Quite different from the European-style dΓ©cor of the palace on the outside, the inside of the door resembles a huge infirmary, with a bunch of instruments on display on the walls that I can't read. In the center of the room is a large semi-circular device, which looks like a coconut shell that has been magnified several times, and there seems to be something lying in the device, and you can see that the pipe inserted in this thing is rising and falling regularly.

Curious, I approached the bed and found a translucent cocoon inside, shiny and shiny, unlike the gray cocoons on Earth that envelop humans.

"What is this?"

"That's right! What is it? I don't know if you ask me! But I'm taking care of it now, because it's also a visitor! I don't know how long I'll have to take care of it yet! I did data analysis on it, and then the results of the data analysis, hehe! Ah, data analysis, data analysis found that it is a mess of data!! ”

"Data?"

"Yes, but objectively speaking, I think there seems to be something in it, and I don't know if it's dangerous, so such a high-risk job was handed over to me. They said to me, 'It's okay, it's been checked for danger, and it turns out to be a living organism, and it's not dangerous.' But how do I know if it's dangerous! ”

I walked around the cocoon, and there seemed to be something underneath it. Upon closer inspection, it can be seen that with each rise and fall of its "body", the uniformity of the transparent and translucent parts of the cocoon changes, like Rorschach's mask. In this short interval, I seemed to see a human body lying in a cocoon. I'm not sure if I've seen human fingers, but the arms and curled legs seem to be recognizable.

"Have you ever thought about peeling back this cocoon?"

"Peel off? Oh, I just got it, and I'm figuring out what to do with it, peel it off...... I'm not sure if that's a good idea, what if it's part of this creature? Oh, and although the result of my data test just now is that it's just a mess of data...... Well, it should be fine, I think it should be fine, what could be the problem, what could be the problem, what could be the problem with a bunch of data? ”

"Maybe you can try, I feel like it's a person inside."

"Okay, cut." Xiao Ming Xiaohong raised a huge machete.

"No, no, no, don't use this, do you have any slightly smaller ones?"

"Smaller?"

This time, it handed over a mini-scalpel the size of a toothpick, or rather, an iron needle.

"I'll do it."

I took the needle and boldly scratched it on the outermost layer of the cocoon.

The wound was too small for me to make out with the naked eye, but the cocoon immediately began to change. It blooms like a flower, slowly, one by one, and when these threads are broken, they hang softly to the sides, with a gentle rhythm, like being swayed by an invisible wave. Finally, the calloon finally revealed the white limbs hidden in the innermost part, curled up in a ball, and the smooth back and the almost transparent long hair that only tinged with a faint indigo when densely intertwined made me look at it in a trance.

"Looks like this is the last human visitor to the sub-chasm?" Xiao Ming Xiaohong stretched her body.

A throbbing throb climbed over my head.

Yes, that's her.

Even if it's just the back, I can be sure that she's the girl I met in the spirit passage.

That's not an illusion.