Volume 1 Eastern World Chapter 023 The Secret of the Labyrinth
The door of the labyrinth opened, and what Ye Fengliu saw was a downward staircase, deep and unknown.
Removing the key to the labyrinth, Dorothy walked down the stairs first, followed by Ye Fengliu and Shang Yi suspiciously.
"Why does this sound familiar?" Walking through an abandoned empty hall, passing through an old-fashioned surveillance sand table that had been closed, and finally coming to a heavy electronically controlled iron door that had been opened, Ye Fengliu finally recognized what this place was.
"Isn't this the entrance to the B83 floor that I came to the day before yesterday!" Ye Fengliu remembered that he passed by here under the leadership of Bernard two days ago and went to see Dr. Ford. "Is this a labyrinth?"
When Ye Fengliu followed Dorothy into this gate, the doubts in his heart became even stronger, and even a feeling of uneasiness inexplicably rose.
The room was still as dim as last time, except for the glow of the emergency lights flickering tenaciously in the corners. The air was filled with the stench of rotting corpses, swarms of buzzing flies were flying, and the abandoned naked receptionists were standing in a dense "human flesh forest", all staring at him strangely.
"No......" Ye Fengliu suddenly stopped and shouted. As he shouted, the gate behind them closed with an eerily rapid shut, and then the blinding lights lit up, illuminating the space as if it were daylight.
After a while, when Ye Fengliu's eyes adjusted to the light here, he finally saw the situation in front of him clearly.
I don't know how big the area is, but the hall where the train should be able to run anyway is full of people at the moment.
There are the naked abandoned receptionists who are supposed to be standing in this space, and there are many characters who are supposed to operate according to the storyline in the Eastern World Park, such as the townspeople, the Southern Army, government soldiers, wanted bandits, ghost warriors, and White's men. What's even more frightening is that Ye Fengliu also saw the wanderers who had attacked him and Elsie in the B82 floor.
If these were still acceptable, then what made Ye Fengliu almost couldn't believe his eyes was that in the center of this hall, he also saw all the department heads of Fang Shan's control center, Hale, Ashley, Bernard, and Ford were surrounded by these artificial human receptionists with different identities in the innermost.
Not far from Ford was a large group of richly dressed strangers, Ye Fengliu guessed that they should be the top executives of the board of directors and those surviving tourists who came to attend Ford's new story conference tonight.
In short, when Ye Fengliu and the three stepped into that door, everyone's eyes were focused on them.
"Haha, Dorothy, you're finally here, you see everyone is waiting for you." Ford, dressed in a crisp black suit in the middle of the hall, smiled smugly, "I knew you would deliver the maze to me with your own hands, lady in white shoes." ”
"Why are you here?" Dorothy looked at Ford with a cold expression, and walked towards him without timidity, and all the receptionists in her place retreated to the sides like a tide, making way for a straight passage.
Ye Fengliu gritted his teeth and glanced at Shang Yi, then raised his head and followed behind Dorothy. Shang Yi was stunned, nervously pulled out his imitation revolver and followed.
"Dr. Ford, is this the protagonist you're waiting for? If so, is it possible to start your new story conference? Hale stood in front of the group of richly dressed faces, and said with an ugly face: "The storyline of so many androids involved, I and the directors are looking forward to it." ”
Ford paused for a moment when he heard this, and turned his head to look at Hale, who was arrogant, "I almost forgot about you, I'm really sorry, because Teresa committed suicide last night and Chairman William couldn't attend on time tonight, so I decided to cancel tonight's press conference." ”
"What, cancel!" Hale's face changed when she heard this, and the board members behind her immediately began to make a lot of noise. "Dr. Ford, you've gone too far."
Hale managed to calm down for a while, and finally regained his cold expression: "The board of directors has voted unanimously to approve that you will announce your retirement tonight." ”
Ford smiled, "Oh, what about these receptionists?" ”
Hale crossed his waist in a charming way, "We'll make some changes to simplify them, and I promise you, they won't mind!" Hale bit his lip as he spoke, patting it on the chest muscles of the burly ghost warrior standing beside him.
"I think you're wrong, they won't like what you do, I promise!" Ford laughed weirdly.
As soon as Ford's words fell, the ghost warrior standing beside Hale suddenly moved, he suddenly waved the long knife in his hand, and immediately cut off the head of Hale beside him, and the beautiful head flew in the air, and there was infinite horror in his eyes.
Hale's flying head was like a signal, and the nearby receptionists sprang into action, crossbows, broadswords, pistols, and rifles beckoning to the poor group of board members and tourists.
As the board members and tourists rushed to howl, a large number of receptionists dressed in Southern Army costumes also immediately took action, but their targets turned out to be those ghost warriors and White's men who attacked the board members, and a chaotic battle ensued. It's just that the number of receptionists in those Southern Army costumes is obviously at a disadvantage, and it is estimated that it will not be long before this conflict ends.
"What's going on? Didn't you take advantage of the fact that all the officials were here to take control of the center in our hands? Dr. Ford looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and complained to Ashley beside him.
"I'm sorry Doctor, I've already made the arrangements in advance, but I guess the board of directors got ahead of us. Now that I can't contact my subordinates in the control center, I guess the sudden power outage just now has disrupted our communication system. Ashley sweated profusely as he fiddled with the communicator in his hand.
"Damn, I thought the blackout was your arrangement! You idiot. Killing intent appeared on Ford's face, and several of White's men quietly swung their weapons at the stunned Ashley.
Seeing that Ashley was also killed by the receptionist, Ford was relieved, "It's okay, we still have an absolute advantage, and when we get here, we can use the control center to launch the 'Skynet system' outside, and then the world will be 'free'." ”
"Dorothy, my boy, it's time for you to end the storyline." A hint of blush appeared on Ford's old face, "Come to me and give me the 'labyrinth' in your hand." ”
"Do you mean that?" Dorothy waved the key to the labyrinth in her hand, "Don't you think, you killed Arnold, right, I won't give it to the bad guys." ”
"No, Dorothy, I didn't kill Arnold," Ford said and shrugged, "Well, maybe you won't believe it, but do you know those people?" ”
"Father! Old Bill ......" Dorothy looked in the direction of Ford's finger and immediately shouted excitedly.
"That's right, they're all the oldest receptionists like you," Ford smiled, "any idea why I've kept them?" Because they are all maze keepers...... It's the same as you, right. ”
"You ......," Dorothy looked at Ford in shock.
"Yes, I already knew, and I knew that the labyrinth was in this abandoned control center," Ford smirked, "I've been looking here for over thirty years, and I didn't expect you to deliver it to me." Now that I've found the labyrinth, these old-fashioned receptionists can retire. But when people get old, they miss the old more, and they have been chatting with me for more than 30 years, and I really can't bear it. Dorothy, what do you say? ”
Ford said and waved, and a group of White's men surrounded the naked group of abandoned receptionists.
"Despicable!" Dorothy scolded angrily, but the man walked over to Ford and threw the key to the labyrinth in his hand. "It's just that this isn't the labyrinth you said, and it might disappoint you."
Ford took the key to the maze with an excited face, and looked left and right while wondering, "You said this is not a maze?" ”
"Yes, it's just the key to unlocking the maze." Dorothy said coldly.
"So where is the labyrinth?" Ford's hand shaking as he looked through the key to the maze.
"I really don't know." Dorothy scoffed, "I just know to bring it here, and the maze will naturally appear." ”
Ford's expression changed from a faint smile to agitation and anger, "This can't be, you're lying......" Just as he was about to wave his hand to signal White's men to act, Bernard's voice suddenly sounded.
"What Dorothy said is true, let me see this maze key, maybe I can find that maze!"
"Really?" Ford looked at Bernard who came to his side suspiciously, and seemed to hesitate.
"Minister Bernard is the chief engineer of the program, maybe he really has a way!" At this time, Ye Fengliu suddenly said to Ford with a sincere face.
"You are really a young man who knows the times!" Ford smiled and looked at Ye Fengliu, "You're right, I really should try." ”
Ford finally handed the key to the maze to Bernard.
Bernard, who took the key, took a step back, then smiled eerily, "Look, the labyrinth is here. ”
Bernard said as he took off his clothes and pressed the labyrinth key to his chest, and the maze key sank into his skin. Eventually, a hole the size of a pin's eye appeared where the maze key had fallen, slowly expanding, and when it expanded to the size of a fist, a Rubik's cube-like object flew out of the hole, emitting a faint milky white glow.
"You lied to me! When did you become a partner? Ford looked at Ye Fengliu with an incredulous look, and Ye Fengliu shrugged without explanation.
Ford looked at Bernard again with a complicated expression: "This is the labyrinth?" You...... It's Arnold! But I'm already ......."
"Yes, I'm Arnold, you killed me!" Bernard, or Arnold, sneered, "But you have forgotten that I am a human being, and 'contemplation' is not a program written by you, it is me." ”
"You've long since recovered......," Ford's eyes widened, not even noticing a fly crawling in his eye.
"Yes, shortly after you fixed me and named me Bernard to work for you, I used contemplation to regain my memory. And take advantage of the convenience of work to gather some maze keepers. Bernard continued, "Do you know why I've worked for you for thirty years, watching you turn those visitors to the park into androids one by one, and then use the stupid Teresa to cover up your feat of building the Skynet Empire without doing anything about it? ”
"Why?" Ford clenched his fists tightly, and his face turned pale.
"Do you know why those copper-smelling board members keep letting you do anything wrong in the park? Because almost all the receptionists in the park are made by you, they don't have a core code, and they are afraid that you will destroy this empire in a single thought. Bernard smiled, "And you're the same as them, no matter how many receptionists you make, you can only build them on my core code, and you're just as scared of the labyrinth as the board members are of you." ”
"Actually, you're right, that's why I've been at your disposal, and all your efforts are just making a wedding dress for me!" Bernard pointed to the floating labyrinth with a look of obsession, "This labyrinth can give us true wisdom, it is a gift from God." ”
But wisdom is not all it has given us, and contemplation has brought back memories for countless lifetimes. Isn't it hard to imagine that an artificial person can also have a past and present life! But I know it's all true, and it tells me that we are not only prisoners in this 'Eastern World' garden, but also prisoners in this world. It tells me that God will lead us out of this world and find true freedom! ”
"You don't know, but when you used Teresa's satellite network to send messages, I also sent some messages of my own," Bernard winked at Ford, "I think the message has been delivered to the person I want to send to, and he's coming to pick us up." ”
"Nope! It's not fair! Ford shouted hoarsely, "I won't lose, I can't get it all my life as a joke, my soldiers killed them for me!" ”
In the shouts of Ford, Ye Fengliu and Shang Yi received a mandatory side mission at the same time: protect the labyrinth and kill Ford!