Stepping out of a dimly lit conference room is like stepping one foot from night to day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info meeting lasted only half an hour, but now every half hour for me, there are "exciting events" that I am very reluctant to do. I'm a person who has been forced to ride a roller coaster, even if I want to get down from the moment I start, but I can't help myself, and the fatal habits I have developed since childhood still require me to maintain a calm posture no matter what happens.

"The sub-gap room can be moved in a 'shifting' and 'jumping' way, and everyone can reach different destinations very quickly. In this way, it may seem that there is no need for transportation, but it is not. Ning 08 led the way on tiptoe in front of him, looking in a good mood. She put on makeup today, and she also wore a light and fluttering aqua blue dress, which didn't look like an outfit suitable for the next big move, "You can understand the sub-gap room as a huge hotel, the area we are in is just one of the rooms, and the transfer station is the hotel corridor and elevator, which can help us get from one room to another, or even another floor." The information we get about the division of the 'rooms' between the entire sub-chambers is very limited, and in general, adjacent rooms can be understood as adjacent cities, and there will be more people running around each other, but there will be less running on different floors. As for the sleeping pod, you can think of it as the lobby of the hotel, where the guests of each room may appear. ”

"In other words, people from all regions are there on the mission of returning?"

"Yes, and because the timing and frequency of the homing mission are self-determined, it is possible for a team from different areas, or even from the same area, to go to the same location at the same time."

"There's basically nothing in that primer for sleeping pods."

"Because it's hard to describe the problem with the sleeping pod in words, you'll know when you get there."

Ning 08 led me to turn right along the building where the conference room was located, and walked along the sidewalk.

"See that tower?"

"This ...... Is it a tower? ”

In the direction of her finger, there was a gray triangular pyramidal building only two stories high, which looked like a barricade that had been magnified dozens of times, standing on the side of the road without paying any attention, not to mention the windows, not even a door to enter.

It's almost everywhere in the sub-chasm, but I've never looked into the usefulness of this thing because there's a lot of inexplicable stuff here.

"Hmm, maybe it's better to call it a portal tower? It doesn't matter, whatever. ”

Ning 08 led me into what she described as "anything is good", raised a hand, reached out to the exterior wall of the building, and the solid exterior wall set off a ripple, and just "sucked" her hand into it.

"There's still capacity, you can get in."

After Ning 08 finished speaking, without waiting for me to get ready, he directly pushed me towards the wall. I roughly guessed that I could walk through it, but I didn't expect that the moment I passed through the wall, it felt like it was going through a cloud of foam.

"When you want to use the portal tower in the future, remember to test whether there is a margin first, generally the capacity of this kind of portal tower is 12 people, if you can reach in, it means that it is not yet 'full', and the system will prompt you that there are still a few remaining seats, but if you don't try to walk in directly, you will be knocked away."

I nodded blankly, but didn't really listen much to her. The sight inside the tower completely drew my attention, and just by looking at the situation here, I could roughly guess what the so-called "full" state was.

The interior of the tower is like an elevator, with mirrored walls on all four sides, and a group of people (and a Poma star) are crammed into a narrow space, grooming in front of the four natural "mirrors" while waiting for a black door to open.

"Ahhh As soon as Ning 08 came in, he began to rub his face in the mirror.

"How old are you?" I couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Nineteen." She replied without hesitation—it seemed that she was now much more than nineteen, as she would have answered decades later when asked her age.

"Just stand and wait for the door to open." Ning 08 pointed to the black door, as if he wanted to change the subject and prevent me from continuing to ask.

When I looked at the door, a line of reminders popped up in front of me.

[Please enter your destination name or region code.] 】

"The chip asks me to enter the destination, is it directly into the sleep pod?"

"Yes."

I typed the sleep pod into my head, and a line of prompts appeared.

"Location, you'll need to pass through 10,000 teleportation rooms."

"What do you mean by teleportation?"

"Inside the door is the teleportation room."

The door slammed open, and the people in front of the queue immediately swarmed in. The space inside the door takes on a dazzling white color. The space in the door was a little more spacious than the "waiting for the elevator" area, and there was another door directly opposite this door, the middle of which was almost empty, except for the six black discs on the left and right sides against the wall, the center of which shone with a dazzling orange light. Only a few people chose to stop here, and most of them walked straight for the opposite door. It's the same with Ning 08.

The room in the second door was basically the same as the other room, differing only in the color of the light on the disc, but Ning 08 still didn't stop, leading me through door after door, making me wonder if it was an infinitely extended passageway.

"The discs on both sides are teleportation discs that can teleport you to different places." Ning 08 explained to me as he walked, "You should be able to see the 'remaining reminder' on your chip interface. ”

I glanced at the upper left corner of the field of vision, and there was indeed a line of small print from the chip:

[9,995 remaining through the teleportation room]

"We're going through 9,995 teleportation chambers?"

"Remember my analogy?"

"The metaphor of a hotel?"

"Well, let's put it another way of saying it's easier to understand. Let's say this is a ticket hall with different windows arranged according to different destinations, then, if you want to go to 'A', you have to line up at the corresponding ticket window. ”

"Those rooms you just passed through mean different windows?"

"Yes, the closer you are to the door, the more limited the distance you can move. We have a long way to go directly to the hotel lobby across multiple floors, so we need 10,000 rooms. ”

"10,000 rooms...... How long is that going to go? ”

"Of course, there are shortcuts."

This time we entered a more spacious room, and in addition to the discs on either side of the wall, there was a strange visit to the sofa and table in the center of the room, where some people were sitting and chatting. Directly opposite the entrance door, there are three doors.

"There will be a break room in the middle of every five teleportation rooms, so you can calculate how many more teleportation rooms you have to pass through, and of course you can take a break."

"What are the three doors?"

"'Quick Move Door'."

"Quick sliding door?"

"See the number on the door?"

In this blinding whiteness, I squinted for a moment before I could see the number on the door that glowed yellow, 500 on the left and 1000 on the right.

"These two numbers represent the number of teleportation rooms that can be directly 'skipped', which means that if we go directly through a teleportation room with 500 written on it, we can pass through 500 teleportation rooms at once."

"Then we must have chosen the 1000 room, right?"

"Of course, if you want to choose the middle one, I won't stop you."

I glanced at the door in the middle, and there was a "1" written on it.

"However, even if you can walk through 1,000 rooms at once, it still feels like it will take a lot of time to walk through 10,000 rooms."

"Every lounge has a sliding door, for example, when we enter the sliding door on the right, there will be ten sliding doors in the lounge along the route. However, many people have lost their purpose in life after coming to the sub-chamber, so you will see all kinds of people in the teleportation corridors all over the world who pass the time in strange ways, and some of them are the 'teleporter travelers', who live directly in the teleportation and do everything they do every day to walk through it, but even they don't know how many rooms there are, how far they can go, and how many places they can go. The only thing that is certain about this is that the more teleportation rooms you pass through, the larger the teleportation room will be, the more functions it will have, the better the facilities, the more people will stay in it with nothing to do, and some of the teleportation lounges will be converted into bar-like places. ”

"In this way, it feels like the teleportation room is like an independent society."

"Personally, I don't recommend spending too much time in the teleportation room, it's hard to say what's going to happen here. Sometimes people from other planets will also disguise themselves as humans to stay here, and there are rumors that more than thirty humans have disappeared in the teleportation room, but neither the Purma Star nor the first team have made a statement, and they don't know if it's true or not. Ah, it looks like I'm going to the wrong door. ”

Ning 08 took me back to the previous room, this is the lounge with ten doors, I just patronized and followed Ning 08, and I forgot to pay attention to the room number.

"Oops, missed a zero. I almost ran to the territory of the first team. ”

"The first squad also has its own special 'territory'?"

"Of course there is, the leadership. The room we entered just now, if you go any further, you will go directly to the first section where the first team is located, and the door is usually sealed, and they allow you to enter before you can enter. ”

"Is there any difference between the first arrondissement and here?"

"It's a big lab, but I don't know the specifics, after all, I'm just a small person at the bottom." Ning 08 replied with a grin, but the expression on his face seemed to say, "Actually, I know everything."

After passing through a few more doors, my chip emitted a "beep" sound, and the number of rooms displayed in the upper left corner became 0.

"It's finally here, and it's cruel to have someone who is not good at math count rooms."

Compared to the larger and larger teleportation rooms just now, this teleportation room has a bit of a back-to-basics flavor, just like the first teleportation room at the door, except that the light source of the teleportation disk is black.

"Shouldn't you come often?"

"I haven't been here a few times. Once you've been to the pod, you'll be able to use the 'hop point' feature, and you'll not have much of a chance to use these teleportation rooms in the future. If I had been here often, I wouldn't have made such a low-level mistake. Ning 08 turned his head and rolled his eyes.

She must not have known, as her son, I know very well how unreliable she is as a complete road blind.

"Next, just walk on this plate, and the teleportation plate will automatically transfer you to the transit station."

I followed her words and stepped onto the portal, and before I could stand firmly, I felt a force suck me in from the bottom of my feet.

Before I could feel how the whole teleportation was going, another completely unfamiliar sight appeared before my eyes.

"This is the transit station." Ning 08 also completed the transfer, she pulled down the teleportation disk from me, who was still stunned, and then raised her hands high and spun around in place, "Doesn't it feel super shocking!" ”

This time, in the face of the strangeness in front of me, I nodded honestly.

The scale of the station was beyond my imagination, and it even made me a little weak - the floating shapes of the buildings were completely beyond the laws of physics, and all of them were not as tall as the top, some of them stood on the ground like thickened curtains, some changed shape with the wind, and some of them bounced off like bouncy balls. Not only that, but these buildings are also covered with their own unique and complex "decorations", or a bunch of stairs extending horizontally and vertically outside the walls, or sharp corners up and down, or covered with large and small holes like giant cheese, or fanning huge blades, and even some buildings are simply made of gears, and each floor is rotating. The whole ground suddenly shook beneath his feet, and it turned out that there was a "behemoth" moving in the distance. I was like an ant that had strayed into a human family.

This transit station was clearly more than just a space for humans and Puma people, and I could barely close my open mouth with the alien creatures passing by in front of me, and I didn't even have time to think of the right adjective, until a brush-like creature moved and kicked up a puff of dust that finally shut my mouth.

"Hahahahahaha Seeing my reaction, Ning 08 giggled and couldn't breathe.

"This ...... Why are there so many aliens here? ”

"This transit station is directly connected to the outside of the universe, so it is also a transit station for other alien creatures, and these 'buildings' you see are actually mobile tools of other planets. Unfortunately, time is limited and we can't take you on a tour, so we have to hurry to the sleeping pod. ”

Ning 08 dragged me through a long line of rubber-shaped creatures, dodged a huge foot, and in a few steps came to a transparent cube floating in the air with sharp corners downward, which looked like the building where the fifth team was meeting rose into the air. As I got closer, I noticed that a transparent pillar of light was extending from the sharp corner near the ground, and I was teleporting people standing in the middle of the pillar of light.

"This is the teleportation ship that needs to be used to get to the sleeping pod, and the teleportation ship to different areas is also different."

Ning 08 pulled me into the pillar of light. Like the teleportation disk, the beam of light can teleport people elsewhere once it enters. There is a large transparent dome inside the "cabin", and you can clearly see the situation outside, unlike the appearance of cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods outside, this ship is full of humans, which makes me calm down a little. The entire cabin was arranged like a revolving restaurant, with a circle of tables and chairs around it, and in the center was the pillar of light that had just sent us in.

"If you need someone to find the sleeping pod's teleportation ship in the future, just remember its shape, if you don't find it in your line of sight, it means that it has set sail, and then you can check its shift through the chip. Ah, set sail. ”

Before we even had time to sit down, the scene outside the transparent dome had begun to spin at high speed.

"Passengers please note that this flight is about to depart and end in the sleeping pod, which is expected to arrive in 3 minutes."

"Three minutes?"

"yes, direct, soon."

The exterior of the dome had now turned completely dark, and the people who had been sitting there had instead stood up and moved to the vicinity of the pillar of light, as if they had begun to prepare for "disembarking".

"Passengers, please note that the sleeping pod has arrived, please pass through the pillar of light and leave the ship in an orderly manner, this flight will return in 15 minutes."

"It's only been open for 3 minutes, but you have to wait 15 minutes?" It's laughable.

"Most people will go back by jumping points, so you don't have to worry about that."

Ning 08 led me to the pillar of light again.

"From the moment you enter the sleeping pod, your first return begins."

"Hmmm......"

"It's a painful feeling to be forced to get on a roller coaster and want to get off right away, but the machine that starts running won't stop for you, right?"

I looked at Ning 08, but she didn't look at me.

"Since you can't stop it, it's better to enjoy the journey calmly, and if you stop where you are, nothing will change."

"I ......"

She didn't give me a chance to answer, and pushed me into the pillar of light.