This is the first time I've been back to Earth alone, and the ruined planet looks horrifying enough during the day, let alone at night after losing power. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this moment, wearing a helmet that did not fit the skirt on my body, and carrying a tulle gown, I walked awkwardly among the ruins, like a bride who had escaped overnight, embarrassed and depressed.

My mission tonight may be the most insignificant, Ji 87 just asked me to go back to Earth and find a safe place to stay, not to contact anyone, not to try to fight, and to go back at dawn the next day - he needs me to test what will happen if I stay on Earth for a long time after the individual return function is turned on, whether there will be any changes in my biological and mental states, whether I can sleep normally, etc. Perhaps after the last inspection, Ji 87 had a similar guess about the secret behind the form itself, or maybe they planned to manipulate the control system of the "return" tonight. The specific plan is none of my business, the less I know, the safer. The reason why this errand of the comparative experiment fell on me was because I didn't know how to seduce and didn't have dexterity, but even if Ji 87 didn't make such an arrangement, I might have applied on my own initiative - this was my perfect opportunity to find Liyue again, and after returning to the sub-gap, I had many more questions to ask him.

In order to prevent the information from being stolen by the first team, I did not record the coordinates of Ritsuki's location, so I could only rely on my general impression to find the campus where R5 and I came out of the hole.

At night, the Earth was as quiet as a tomb, and the helmet's life probes showed no signs of signal along the way. I found the playground, found the place where Ritsuki had stood and shot me with a gun, but I couldn't find a fragment of the previous sculpture anyway, as if it and the rainwater hole beneath it had never existed, and the memories I had with R5 of that day were just a hallucination.

I walked back and forth like a headless fly in my unaccustomed high heels, trying to find the place, as if I had found it, and everything would turn around. Even I understood that it didn't make much sense anymore.

A row of small red dots slowly appears on the edge of the Life Probe's screen. A rabbit-like thing sprang out of the grass on the side, passed me like no one, and jumped into the grove opposite. Then came the second, and then the third......

I picked one up from it, shone it on the electric light of my helmet, and found that it was a sheep everywhere. This thing's attack power is similar to that of ordinary herbivores, and it is at the bottom of the food chain among alien creatures, and its only advantage is its large number. So I grabbed three or four sheep and threw them one by one in all directions, and they all landed on the ground steadily, without any cases of being bounced off by the transparent shield, and one by one they waved their ears and kicked their legs, and then spread their feet and ran.

I stood still for a moment, watching the last sheep in the line chase the large army into the grass. Could it be that I'm in the wrong place? Or has Ritsuki already left here? Maybe there are a lot of things I'll never be able to be sure of with him? If I'm betting on the wrong bet, I might really need to find a safe place to spend the night alone. Then the place to spend the night must not be here, this can only immerse me in memories, sink in regret, loneliness and unwillingness.

If only I could be as relieved as I pretended to be, wishing the R5 and G17 from the bottom of my heart, once in a while I need some time to be true to myself and hold on to the last vestiges of fantasy, even if that is not a good thing.

A sudden gunshot rang out at his feet, shattering Fang Cai's melancholy atmosphere.

I smiled helplessly, maybe I should thank him.

"Don't you know how to greet each other normally?" I protested to him.

As she did last time, she remained silent until she entered the underground research institute. The situation in the institute is similar to when I first came, and the room where we met last time was still monotonous and cold, except for the addition of a metal chair in the middle, which looked like it was randomly wrung out of scrap wire and iron blocks, more like installation art, and had no practical comfort. After doing a routine mechanical inspection of me, Liyue went around to the console and left the chair for me. I thought it would be better to sit on the floor than this, but I was embarrassed to live up to his kindness, so I sat down anyway. Sure enough, the face was very uneven, and it would sway back and forth when you sat on it.

"So every time you go back to Earth, you change your bio-armor?" Li Yue asked.

"So I have to check it every time I come here?"

"To be on the safe side." He shook his finger, "So, I guess, you came to me in such a grand dress in the middle of the night, probably not so that I could judge your taste in clothes, right?" ”

"If you want to judge, I won't listen. A large number of people died last time, and I would like to ask why. ”

"Ask me? Why do you think I'll know the answer? ”

"Last time you said that bioarmor is just a substitute limb for us, and all the damage to this limb will not be reflected on the real us, so why would anyone die in a hole? And it's brain dead. I have people who think that the first team did it, and some people think that they were scared to death, but is it really possible to be scared to death? ”

"How many people died?"

"Thirty-five people."

"This number seems to be too many," Li Yue was silent for a while, "Theoretically, when a person is in a state of extreme panic, the adrenal glands will release a large amount of catecholamines, and at this time, the heartbeat will suddenly increase, the blood pressure will rise, and the oxygen consumption of the heart muscle metabolism will also increase at a high speed in a short period of time." When the rapid blood circulation rushes to the heart, the result is a tear of the myocardial fibers, heart hemorrhage, cardiac arrest, and the person may indeed die. But this question cannot be said in vain, because at present, my knowledge of extraterrestrial creatures is also very limited, and I have never been to that place, and I don't know what is in it, let alone what the impact of those creatures on humans is...... Since you've been down too, how do you feel? ”

"How can it be good to have to deal with all kinds of monsters from time to time in a dimly lit cave where you can't walk to the end...... I've been to haunted houses with friends before, and I can know exactly where each point might have a 'ghost' coming out, and I can probably guess how these 'ghosts' are scary, the only thing I don't know is the shape of these 'ghosts', even so, the lighting and arrangement still cause me some psychological pressure, and when my companions scream and run away because of fear, I can't help but scream and run away, even if I know exactly that it's fake. After repeating this many times, I felt as if there was no end in sight, and the known fright of having to face once in every room also made me feel like a psychological burden. But it's different, in a similar situation, I can fight back, and I don't take any physical damage anyway, and the rest of it is like playing a game with an infinite number of lives. But the feeling of this visit was really different, I seemed to lose my mind for a while, as if some potential in my body had been stimulated, and then I acted almost instinctively, and even felt very happy for a while......"

"Listening to you, it does look like someone has done something to you. However, I don't know how the Puma people use to achieve the separation of your spirit and flesh, and naturally I can't explain the principle or the method of manipulating it, but your biological armor should have been specially treated, maybe the purpose is to enhance combat efficiency, right? The 35 people you mentioned were unlucky, causing excessive side effects. Of course, other possibilities cannot be ruled out, such as some kind of substance or gas in the cave that will increase your nerves......"

His reasoning was similar to what I had guessed, but it was all just a pipe dream.

"There's one more problem. Suppose that a person's spirit and biological A, that is, the substitute limbs, are suddenly forcibly separated during the process of returning, will this person die? ”

"To be honest, this issue is not a theoretical issue that can be discussed. Guess though. Let's say you're playing a fully realistic computer game and the power suddenly goes out in the process, and the result is just quitting the game. ”

It sounds plausible, but for someone like me, who has no expertise in this area at all, it all makes sense.

Delaying time is the common goal of Ritsuki and the first team, and the rest is just a choice of means. Judging from my contact with Team 1, I am fully convinced that they regard human life as a mustard, but what about Liyue? I've only seen him twice, and there's no way to tell who he really is.

And what about R5?

The face of the Van Xi star popped out unexpectedly, I thought that discussing something serious would alleviate the impact of all these boring things on me. It looks like I'm still out of shape.

"I'll talk about these things later, I'll tell you another thing first, I need to sleep with you tonight."

"Huh?"

This is the first time I've seen Liyue look so surprised.

"I can't go back tonight, so you should take in a piece of scrap metal for one night, and it won't affect you, right?"

"Do you remember the last time I told you?"

"I don't remember, you've said too many things."

"Yes, but one thing about it is that you'll have to let me study it."

"That assumes that I agree to work with you, right?"

"That said, but what if I don't follow the rules? It's too nonsense for you to make such a request, aren't you afraid that I will tear it down when you fall asleep? ”

I have to say that his frightened appearance is quite cute.

"You're right, but you also need to put a long line to catch big fish, for the sake of long-term cooperation, first establish my trust in you, right?"

"Building trust......" he tilted his head, apparently thinking that this was incredible.

"Then it's happily decided."

"I don't have anything to lose anyway." He spread his hands.

"Don't let me have any losses, and seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to win the core target customers."

"You ......"

"Find me a bed first, remember to be softer."

Seeing his annoyed look, I was relieved that I would never lose more than he would have lost by staying overnight today.