Chapter 23: The Spiral

Xiao Ming Xiaohong compared the changes that Yuexia Spring Valley brought to Youbaiyuan is "innovative", although there is still some data staying in Youbaiyuan's body, but there is no longer the danger of a "data storm" like last time on her body, as long as she goes to Yuexia Spring Valley every other day, she should be able to slowly return to her original appearance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the efficient Van Xi Xing didn't give me much time to witness the changes in Youbaiyuan.

The day after I returned from Yuexia Spring Valley, I received an "official notice" from Ji 87:

[Members of Team 5:

After this period of discussion, the four parties of the Puma Star, Team 1, the ordinary human representatives, and the Fanxi Star People have finally reached an agreement on the last expedition incident - the first team claims that technical problems caused the existence of "blind spots" on the map, but still loses the exclusive right to define and review the return operation; The Puma Xingren will re-accept the specific supervision of the inspection, and the entire inspection process will undergo certain changes, and the return of each team will be temporarily suspended until the process is determined; The Puma people sent a mixed team composed of the first team, other team leaders, and the Van Xi people to conduct a preliminary survey of the original site of the pit, and the results of data analysis showed that it was indeed one of the important transfer bases of the alien creatures on the earth, and as for the rift that really allowed the alien creatures to enter the earth, it seemed that it was still deeper in the cave. Due to the complexity of the composition of this subterranean cavern, the Pomma Planet requested that all members of the inter-subtemporal exploration team be mobilized to form a special operations team to conduct a revisit. Please visit the meeting point for the Task Force Preparatory Meeting at the following time and at the address below. 】

This may be the number one event after the humans moved into the sub-chasm, because the whole thing was arranged in such a hurry that the meeting time was an hour later. As for the meeting point, it's a completely unfamiliar place - the Center of Gravity Building in Area 52 of the Inter-Gap, and I live in Area 58 now.

According to the popular science of chips, if you use the floor metaphor, Districts 50 to 59 are located on the same floor between the sub-gaps, and the center of gravity building in Area 52 seems to be the hub building of our floor, and it is also the usual activity location of the first team.

In fact, I don't need to care so much at all, because the coordinates uploaded to me by the meeting notice are instant jump coordinates, which is a special shortcut movement method used by the first team, I don't need to go to the transfer station to find the teleportation of Area 52 first, just order the chip to select the coordinates passed to me by Ji 87, and I can directly reach the inside of the center of gravity building.

Of course, this also means that people who don't have this instant jump coordinate can't find the location of this center of gravity building anyway.

I followed Xiao Ming Xiaohong's suggestion and gave the chip an order to "access the coordinates in this information" 5 minutes before the meeting began. The next moment, the room suddenly fell into darkness, and then a bright light entered my eyes, causing temporary blindness, and when my vision slowly began to recover, the completely unfamiliar scene belonging to the "Center of Gravity Building" gradually "faded" into my vision. It's the worst movement I've ever experienced in the sub-chamber.

When I had the strength to look around, the momentum of the "center of gravity building" had easily and completely suppressed meβ€”and at first glance I was sure that I didn't like this oppressive place. It was unbelievably wide, and I was in the middle of the hall, but the person standing on the side wall closest to me looked like it was the size of half a tinythumb fingernail. Directly in front of me, on the left and on the right, there were a pair of stairs with strange shapes like a bent slide, which curved from the first floor to a height close to a dozen floors, and from a distance it seemed that they could be put together in a semicircle. At the intersection of the two escalators, a huge gray sphere floated in mid-air, the patterns on which were slowly changing, and it seemed that it was its presence that made the atmosphere of the entire hall gloomy. Like most of the buildings in the subgap, the center of gravity building does not have a dome, and when you look up, you can only see something like a cloud wrapped around it. After seeing that church on earth, it is always unpleasant for me to see the clouds again. The light in the room itself is not very good, like a room with no lights on on a cloudy day.

Ji 87's notice asked me to "stay where I am when I arrive", but it is not easy to "stand by now". The floor here is made of mirrored material, and I will be dizzier when I look down than when I look up, but I don't want to see that inexplicably oppressive gray ball in the air, so I can only let my eyes sweep within the range of my peripheral vision, hoping to find something that makes me settle down. After a few minutes, several people appeared near where I had been standing, and I felt a little calmer as I watched the series of reactions that these newcomers had just experienced.

The first member of the fifth team to appear was Duan 28, who didn't seem to be the first time here, and as soon as he landed, he calmly and comfortably started talking directly to the strangers around him, and his communication skills were impressive. I didn't come up to talk to him, and he didn't notice me.

Then Ning 08 appeared wearing headphones, she looked quite withdrawn when she was alone, she appeared expressionlessly, looked at the surroundings expressionlessly, shook her body a few times expressionlessly because of the mirror structure of the floor, and nodded expressionlessly at him after seeing Duan 28. It wasn't until she saw me not far away that the facial features on her face came alive again, and she raised her paws to greet me, and I always felt that her gestures were very similar to that of an octopus swimming in the sea with its tentacles outstretched.

"What are you giggling at?"

"Laugh at you're looking more and more like Mom."

"I'm still early!" She pouted unhappily and hit me on the stomach with her elbow mercilessly, "Why like Mom?" Because I'm wearing black today? Are you going to wear brighter colors in the future? ”

"I'll just say it casually, don't take it seriously."

She rolled her eyes at me.

"Have you been here before?"

"I've heard of it, but I've never been here, what's wrong, you're not used to it?"

"It's okay, it's just a little dizzy...... Why do you have so many ways to move between the sub-gaps? It used to be a pin given by Xiao Ming Xiaohong, and now there is this instant jump coordinate......"

"Diversity. Although I don't know what the future world will look like...... Anyway, as far as the earth of my time is concerned, there are already many ways of transportation, trains, planes, subways, light rails, ships, cars, motorcycles, bicycles, the same reason. Instant hop coordinates should be equivalent to a helicopter...... Were there still helicopters in your time? ”

"Basically gone."

"That's right...... Is the car of the future still running on the ground? Or did it fly in the sky? ”

"There are those who float in the sky, and there are those that open on the earth."

"Wow, isn't that the same as in science fiction movies and science fiction novels?"

"Maybe the designers themselves were influenced by these things."

"By the way," Ning 08 didn't know where to take out a lollipop and stuff it into his mouth, "how are you living with that girl?" ”

I opened my mouth to deny it, but I didn't make a sound.

"It's very promising, what does it look like, show me, are there any things that shouldn't be done?"

"Iβ€”"

Just then, a high-pitched, voluptuous male voice came out from front and interrupted me.

"What do you think of this place? Who allowed you to eat candy here? ”

The comers were a group of guys wearing the same black one-piece tight-fitting uniform as the last Xiao 339, numbering about fifty people, with a silver metal badge on their chests that was heavily reflective, as if to combat this reflection, each of them brought a pair of sunglasses that covered half of their faces. There didn't seem to be Xiao 339 in this group, and the one who spoke just now was standing in the middle, a man who didn't know if he was fat or strong and had a wider body than others. Ning 08 glanced at him, but just changed the sugar from his right mouth to his left mouth.

[They are the members of the first squad?] I asked through the chip.

[There's no one else who can get nervous to wear a bodysuit in the sub-chamber, and that task force must not dictate that we have to wear this stupid outfit as well.] 】

[Can't eat sugar here? 】

[There has never been such a rule, and besides, there is no formal assembly, he just wants to play official. 】

I scanned the first team member's profile.

[Shuai 9, a member of the first squad. Height 184. 】

[This person is not the first batch of immigrants, I don't know how to get in. 】

"I'll say it again, if you want to eat, get out of here and eat for me." Anger began to appear in the chubby voice.

"Okay, how do you get out?" Ning 08 put his hand in his pocket and looked at him with a mentally retarded look.

Shuai 9 was asked, he pursed his mouth in silence, and seemed to be using a chip to contact someone. Judging by his last expression, it seemed that the application had failed.

"Forget it, I don't have the same knowledge as low-level residents like you," Shuai 9 tried to let out a sneer from his nose, and then turned to the rest of the hall, "Okay, okay, all come here, line up in two rows." ”

He waved his hand at them impatiently, as if they were a flock of ducks. I heard the people around me whispering and complaining, but they were still focused on him. I saw KC66 and G17 in the crowd, they were all lined up some distance from us, Duan 28 ran to the front of the line, and Ji 87 was nowhere to be found.

"The people here are all so impersonal, are they willing to ignore him?"

"Shuai 9 is the one who leads the way, we can't go down to the meeting without him, and the instant jump link we got is a one-way ticket. We'll be forcibly teleported when the time comes, and we won't be able to leave until the link expires. So everyone just wanted not to waste time because of fearless arguments. After all, who wants to stay in this hellish place for more? ”

"If you can still forcibly teleport in the sub-gaps, then you don't have no freedom at all?"

"Why do you feel that people here are free? I've always felt that when I make calls or text exchanges through the chip here, in fact, all the Puma people can see and hear, of course, assuming they are really so idle. ”

"Don't they know everything? Including things like we didn't have a good relationship with Team 1 privately, and the last time we deliberately rushed ahead of Team 1 to investigate......"

"Theoretically, they know, but whether they know it or not, it doesn't affect our actions."

"Aren't you afraid they'll tell the first team?"

"One of the reasons they become highly intelligent creatures is that they are not as boring as humans."

"You trust them?"

"It's not about trust or distrust, because even if you don't trust, you have to be vigilant everywhere every day, and you can't necessarily prevent it, so tired, it's better to do what you want, what's the point of caring so much, anyway, most of the time, life here is still quite comfortable."

Shuai 9 and the people around him found fault with the problem that the line was not straight enough after everyone finished lining up, and tossed back and forth for a long time, like military training instructors. When they were finally satisfied, they beckoned to us and motioned for us to follow him.

The group marched through half of the hall toward the two escalators. When I got closer, I realized that there was something like a conveyor belt on the escalator that was moving at high speed, and it didn't look like it could carry people. Sure enough, Shuai 9 took us directly around there, until we walked to the position directly opposite the ball in the center, and then stopped, signaling us to form a solid circle around the ball. After a few seconds, my chip received a prompt.

[Please select whether to enter the underground conference room for admission permission]

[Yes.] 】

My body was sucked down into the ground.

Sure enough, there was no normal way to move between the sub-gaps.