Chapter 54: Like Clouds and Fog (2)
Remember this site for a second: m. I...... Misread it......"
Frightened, I looked at the scene in front of me in amazement, panting uncontrollably, and it took a long time to hold back those few words.
"No, you read that right. β
Lao Xu's voice was also trembling, his mood was probably the same as mine, at this moment, we couldn't believe our eyes.
"We ...... Is it in the mist?" I asked weakly.
"I want to ...... Yes. β
"Is this really fog?"
β......β
At first, Lao Xu and I thought it was just a thin layer of mist. Many of the peaks are foggy, because the temperature on the peaks is low and relatively humid, and the bowl-shaped valley has a special topography that does not seem to have air intakes, so it seems that it is very easy to produce fog here.
However, this is definitely not fog.
How should I describe it?
For a while, I couldn't find the exact words to express it. Maybe this is nature, its wonders, its magnificence, how can it be concretely expressed in one or two words? But I will still try my best to record this picture in front of me.
"What the hell is it?" Lao Xu shook his head, he couldn't give a definite answer.
Have you ever tried walking through the clouds?
If you've ever tried, you can imagine what I'm seeing. It's like a thick cloud, but it's not just a cloud. We know that clouds are easily penetrable, while they are fluid and impenetrable.
It caught Lao Xu's pickup truck steadily, and it was unscathed. It was as if we had fallen into a misty pool of cotton, staggering and sinking.
And the white fluid outside the window was still flowing quietly, without a single sound.
I stared at the outside with my eyes wide open, and when I looked closely, it was not pure white, but white and gray layers, and there were some tiny fibers, really like cotton.
I'll call it the "Cotton Pool" for now.
Since falling into here, Lao Xu's pickup truck has stalled, and no matter how Lao Xu lights it, there is no way for the car to restart, so it can only be allowed to sink.
But at this moment, a prompt message popped up on the screen of the control panel, and Lao Xu looked at it, his expression immediately became solemn, and his eyes turned quickly, as if he saw something terrible.
Seeing him like this, I leaned over and glanced at the message, which read:
[Outside oxygen concentration less than 10%]
My heart suddenly chuckled, if the oxygen concentration was low, what would Gu Chengzi do if he was still outside?
"Lao Xu!"
"I know, Xiao Qiong, I'm thinking of a way!" It seems that Lao Xu and I have thought together, which makes me half relieved.
"The oxygen cylinder! the one you gave me oxygen last time!" I said excitedly.
"Yes, yes, that works, where?"
"You don't put it in the hold, do you? β
"Of course not, yes, here. β
Lao Xu
Pull out a storage compartment from under the driver's seat, take out a can of oxygen cylinder from it, and then take out a piece of rope, ready to tie it around your waist.
I snatched the oxygen cylinder and rope over, and Lao Xu's eyes widened and looked at me incredulously.
"What are you going to do?" he asked me.
"Go out and save Gu Chengzi!" I replied to him without hesitation.
"Don't make a fuss! You dodge, and it's not your turn to save it. His eyes grew serious, and he reached over to get the oxygen cylinder back.
"Don't make a fuss! You're out, who's driving? I don't know how to drive, let alone drive a speeding car. β
"No, no, it's too dangerous. β
"Don't worry, I will definitely be able to save Gu Chengzi. β
I pushed Lao Xu's restless hand away, he must stay here to control this car, and in the current situation, he must control the overall situation.
I quickly tied the rope to the push that was tied to myself, then tied the other end of the rope to the bar under the driver's seat, and finally stuck the oxygen cylinder on my belt to prevent it from slipping down.
"You...... At such a young age, why is your personality just digging like this?" Lao Xu sighed and shook his head, looking very angry and unwilling to look at me.
When I had tied the ropes, he knew he couldn't stop me, so he pulled out a pair of goggles from a small dark compartment on the roof of the cab. He poked me in the shoulder with his goggles and told me to put them on.
I took the goggles and smiled at him, but he still didn't want to pay attention to me. I knew in my heart that he believed in me, and he knew that I believed in him.
[Outside concentration less than 5%]
Another message popped up on the screen, as if to warn us that time was running out. I quickly checked the rope and was ready to open the door. I grabbed the doorknob with one hand and pushed the door out with the other. But even though I pushed it hard, the door wouldn't open.
"It may be that the pressure difference between the inside and outside is too large. β
Seeing this, Lao Xu hurriedly debugged the screen of the control panel, changed the way of opening the car door to a mechanical assistance, and then asked me to open the door.
This time, the door opened easily with the help of machinery.
The moment the car door opened, a strong air pressure pushed my body out, and before I could react, the whole person was sucked into the cotton pool.
As soon as I entered the cotton pool, my first reaction was that I couldn't breathe, my nose inhaled, I couldn't suck in anything, and my eyes instantly became blurred.
While my body was still numb, I quickly pulled out an oxygen cylinder from my waist and sprayed it into my nose and mouth. I took a deep breath of oxygen, then held my breath and swam to the back of the car.
In this cotton pool, although it is obviously not liquid, the feeling of being in it is really like being in water.
It's just that in the water, it usually floats up, and it makes people sink down, so I have to go upstream desperately to keep moving in a relatively straight line.
I breaststroked past and observed the white fluid. It had very low visibility, about half a meter or so, and I straightened it
hands, and only their own fingers can be faintly seen.
In order not to get lost here, I had to hold the car with my hand and swim carefully along the side of the car.
It took me a lot of effort to swim from the front to the rear of the car, and there were a few bumps in the process that almost got me out of the car.
I floated in front of the cargo door, took another breath of oxygen, lowered my head, and carefully searched for the rope that tied Gu Chengzi nearby.
"Where is the rope?" Gu Chengzi, where are you?" I asked myself anxiously.
At that moment, I felt something touch me lightly at my feet. I swam into the hold and crouched against the wall, because the visibility was so low that I could only see a small black wriggling thing.
At first I thought it was a snake, and I scared myself. But he quickly reacted, where is there a snake here! This should be the rope that binds Gu Chengzi.
So, I grabbed the rope tightly with both hands and pulled it in.
Pulling and pulling, a fraternity figure appeared at the other end of the rope. I took another breath of oxygen and pulled in even more excitedly and hard.
The rope quickly came to the end, and the white quilt appeared in front of me, and Gu Chengzi was sandwiched between the quilt, wrapped tightly.
"Gu Chengzi?"
I shouted his name, and strangely enough, I could faintly hear my own voice, but my voice didn't seem to be able to penetrate the white fluid.
I pulled him into the hold and lay him flat on the ground, his white face no longer showing a trace of blood.
I quickly pointed the oxygen cylinder at his mouth and nose and sprayed, his body twitched violently, and his face finally regained a little blood.
I remember Lao Xu mentioning that people in Lazy Town go into hibernation mode after the day of laziness, just like animals hibernate, and the body's oxygen consumption rate will be greatly reduced. As a result, the townspeople generally choose to sleep obediently, and even if they wake up, they may be delirious due to lack of oxygen in their brains.
Thinking of this, I was glad that he had gone into hibernation, otherwise, in just a minute or two, he would have died.
It took me a long time to untie the rope on Gu Chengzi's body, Lao Xu's rope binding kung fu is really amazing, and it is too strong to tie him around.
"Gu Chengzi, Gu Chengzi, your life is really big. I thought to myself.
I untied my body from my feet, intending to tie the feet of the two of us together.
But at the moment when I untied the rope, a bump came, and Gu Chengzi and I were bounced up, floating in the air, and couldn't find the direction in a blink of an eye. To make matters worse, the rope slipped away from my hand at this moment, and disappeared in the white cotton pool.
"Oh no!!" I chuckled in my heart, and uneasiness instantly took over my entire heart.
I stretched out my hand and tried to grab the rope, but at that moment I caught it empty, and my heart panicked. I hugged Gu Chengzi's waist tightly, put his hand on my shoulder, and carried him downstream.
"What's going on? What about Lao Xu's car?
β
Lao Xu's pickup van also disappeared out of thin air, and even though I tried my best downstream, it was like I had swam into a bottomless pit, and I couldn't swim to the end.
Maybe it's a bottomless pit......
My heart is beating faster and faster, and I can't go on like this, because the more nervous you are, the faster your body consumes oxygen. I stopped, quickly pulled out the oxygen cylinder, took a deep breath, and then held it hard, and after a while, my heartbeat finally eased.
However, although my heartbeat has calmed down, my body is still too tired. When I was traveling alone, I didn't feel any better. But now carrying a person of 100 pounds is really a bit unbearable for me.
Suddenly, I not only regretted that I had done it a little bit, I should have let Lao Xu come out, but I also missed the feeling of wearing nano clothes.
Just as I was about to continue downstream, a large black shadow slowly slid in front of me. I swam a little further, and when I looked closely, the behemoth was all metal, with a row of cannonballs lined up on it, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was a ship sent by laziness.
What I didn't expect was that it also lost power and sank uncontrollably.
When I saw it, it was like seeing a life-saving straw, and I hurriedly swam over with Gu Chengzi on my shoulder. I saw a pole on the ship, and my other hand quickly reached over and held on tightly.
The force of the fall threw Gu Chengzi and me towards the spaceship.
In the blink of an eye, the two of us hit a piece of hard glass, and my knee was pushed up, and the pain was unbearable for a moment. But I still held the pole tightly with one hand, and Gu Chengzi tightly with the other.
At this time, no matter how painful and tired you are, you must not let go.
I lay on the glass and waited until the pain wore off, then I slowly opened my eyes with tears in my eyes.
I glanced inside, and it was okay not to look at it, this look made me feel mixed in my heart.
There was no one in this huge spaceship, and it was all running by itself. On the console, rows of data are strictly calculated, buttons are automatically switched on and off, and rows of screens are flickering regularly......
The sophistication of the lazy machinery made me feel not only surprised, but also a kind of fear from the bottom of my heart.
Some people will ask, what am I afraid of?
I think my answer, like Fleur, is why they are so supportive of hard work, and I think I'm worrying about the same thingβthe infinite development of intelligent machinery to such an extent that it has completely surpassed us human beings, so what is the value of our human beings? Is there still a need for us human beings to exist?
I suddenly felt a little sympathetic to the inhabitants of Lazy Town, who seemed to live in the sunlight brought by intelligent machines, but they did not expect to be deprived of their freedom and even more value.
I have never been so desperate to find diligence and desperate to save them as I am at this moment.
The fire in my heart faintly began to burn again.
(End of chapter)
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