Chapter 37: Preparing to go deeper
The bumps along the way caused the wounds on Tang Shao's body to collapse several times, and the white gauze wrapped around him was also dyed red. But because Ren Jiuyan and his party were in a hurry, no one cared about his injury.
Tang Shao, who was unconscious, felt that when he settled down again, his body was already numb with pain, but the sudden dryness and warmth still made him sober for a moment. It's just that his sobriety is limited to his brain, and his body seems to have been completely scrapped.
"Why are you only here now?" The voice was dull and sounded somewhat familiar, and Tang Shao's attention quickly focused.
"What do you dare to talk to me like that?" Miss Ren's temper was still as domineering as ever, but after a pause, she still said: "When I walked halfway, all the cars were scrapped." And when we go back in, there are always strange things happening. ”
"Didn't Mr. Nguyen make you wait on the edge? Who told you to go ahead without permission. The person who spoke was also unceremoniously, but it could be heard that his unkindness was definitely not intentional, but purely low emotional intelligence. After saying two sentences, Tang Shao also remembered the odd number of people who hid in a small hotel with unkempt hair and killed people.
Miss Ren finally got out of her anger: "Just because you dare to talk to me like this, why didn't Mr. Ruan come?" ”
"She's already in. Mr. Nguyen had an order that no one should contact her once she entered the rainforest. ”
Miss Ren's eyes rolled as if she had thought of something, so she suppressed her anger and asked, "Aren't you curious about what happened strangely?" ”
"What Mr. Ruan didn't want me to know, I don't want to know." Although the words were firm, the odd number with low emotional intelligence couldn't hide the curiosity in his eyes at all.
"If I had to say, would you still plug your ears?" Ren Jiuyan sold a lawsuit provocatively, and then said leisurely: "After my people advance inward to a distance of about ten kilometers, they will have illusions, some people say that they see God, and some people say that they see Rulai." And some people claim to have personally touched the gods they believe in. ”
Odd rolled his eyes, and soon had an answer: "This is a tropical rainforest, with a lot of dead branches and rotting leaves, animal carrion, and the humid and stuffy environment can easily produce some gases that can make people hallucinate. Is such an explanation reasonable? ”
"I've been there myself, wearing a gas mask. Do you know who I saw? Miss Ren paused again, but she soon realized how uninteresting it was to chat with a science student with basically negative emotional intelligence. No one answered, so she could only pretend to cough dryly and continue: "I saw my father. I also shook his hand, it was very real to the touch, definitely not a hallucination. ”
"Then there must be something wrong with your brain. Whether the sense of touch is real or not is the result of the brain's judgment. What odd numbers said was questioning, but the tone was not a little questioning, it felt like it was just a matter of stating a fact.
Miss Ren is not a scholar, but she is not a nonsense guy either. She was silent for a moment, and instead of worrying about illusion and truth with odd numbers, she said directly, "You must know how to get there, right?" ”
"My mission is to take over your team here, and I don't know anything else."
"The team was outside, sixty-eight in all, and sixty-nine with this dead man. But now I'd like to add one more person in. ”
The odd number who can't chat doesn't take over Jiu Yan's words, but
He said directly: "Then give them to me." ”
"Let me go in too, or I won't hand them over to you." As if to show the determination of her attitude, she said word by word: "If you don't meet my requirements, you can't take any of them." ”
The situation was stalemate for a moment, and it was obvious that there was nothing that could be done about the odd number of Miss Ren, so she could only say: "There is a way, but Mr. Ruan also has advice first." She said that if you have to go in, you have to know the consequences. ”
"What consequences?"
"It's going to be dead, and it's 100 percent dead. She told you not to leave anything to chance, but whoever goes in there will never come out alive. ”
Ren Jiuyan hesitated for a moment, but still said very firmly: "I know the result, how to get in." ”
Odd rummaged through his backpack for a long time before pulling out a slender box and saying, "Use this." ”
Ren Jiuyan opened the box and looked at the syringe without any logo but hesitated: "What's in it?" ”
"I don't know the ingredients, Mr. Ruan only gave me this before he went in."
"How do you use it?"
"Before hallucinations, inject them into the body. After the injection, your brain pauses association and memory functions, so you need to have a guide to remind you of what to do next. Your AI is the guide. ”
Ren Jiuyan looked at the medicine in her hand and was stunned, looking for loopholes in the odd words over and over again in her mind, and after a while, she asked, "Can I also use sedatives to put myself to sleep, and then let them bring me in." ”
"A sleeping person can still dream. As long as your brain is functioning normally, you can't break through the peripheral illusions. ”
"Why? I can let my AI man forcibly bring me in. It's just a nightmare. ”
"I don't know if it's superfluous. However, as far as I can guess, the illusion is only the outermost defense, and if you go deeper, there may be something even more powerful. ”
"You make me think about it and give you an answer tomorrow."
"But there is not much time left until Mr. Ruan's appointment, and the rest of the road can only be walked, you ......"
"Needless to say, I'll give you an answer tomorrow." Ren Jiuyan said undoubtedly.
Tang Shao's sober brain seemed to be locked in a numb **, although he heard the words of the two people clearly, he couldn't move or speak. As the two footsteps walked away, Tang Shao's brain gradually sank......
Suddenly, Tang Shao felt that there was gradually a light in front of him, and the tall figure in the dream woke up in a lush greenery. The strangely shaped leaves and weeds outside the energy shield were exactly the same as the ones Tang Shao had seen in the woods yesterday.
"Where is this?"
"Report to the Commander, this is Star 6485 in District 06135. It is about eighteen light-years away from the parent star. ”
The big man scanned his surroundings carefully, and there was a sense of novelty and familiarity.
"Have you checked the outside environment?"
"Confirmed, habitable."
"What are the people in the House of Elders doing? Do they have any plans? ”
"They've signaled and they've been echoed by homegrown intelligent beings."
"What do they want? Isn't this an active exposure? ”
"The House of Elders has sent someone to assess the brain energy density of the creatures on this planet, and it has been found that their IQ and civilization level are roughly equivalent to the third level of development, and they cannot pose a substantial threat to us at all. And they seemed to be happy to talk to us. The people of the House of Elders prepare three celestial time units and make their first formal contact with native intelligent beings. ”
"What? A bunch of hypocritical guys! Stupidity! Now that it has been confirmed as an inferior creature, is there still a need for communication? We should take control of this place before they assemble, use this as a base, and continue the Blackstone Project. In this way, you can not only find the essence of time and space, but also save your compatriots on the home planet! ”
"This ......"
"Can you find the deputy chief? Let him come to me! ”
"The deputy chief is arranging a guard for the first contact, and the people in the House of Elders told us not to disturb ......"
"Get me the deputy chief!" Looking back, the general had already shown a fierce light, and the little guard hurriedly ran out.
The surroundings were suddenly quiet again, and a pair of eyes once again scanned the lush woods around him, and in a trance, Tang Shao couldn't tell whether the general was watching or he was watching.
He thought that the dream would end like this, but the scene in front of him suddenly changed, it was still this wood, but it was already a different place.
"You can go back, there's a blackstone guide down there." Tang Shao found that his perspective was the speaker's perspective, so he couldn't see the speaker's face clearly. But he recognized the person standing across from him, Ah Hu. Tang Shao also thought that the person who spoke must be his father.
"I have this, and I can go with you." Ah Hu took out a syringe without any markings from his arms, and Tang Shao immediately recognized that it was the medicine in the frozen warehouse of Kojima.
"How dare you disobey my orders." My father didn't say this harshly, it seemed to have been expected.
"Hehe, I can't remember how many times I've disobeyed orders, and it's not bad this time."
"But not this time. It's my fate, and it's not your turn to interfere yet. ”
This time, Father Tang's tone was very serious, but Ah Hu on the other side was like a ruffian, and immediately replied: "No, I've been curious since I was a child, and you never let me ask so many secrets, I must go and see it this time." ”
"Go back, even if you get this needle, it won't help if you don't have anyone to guide you."
But after saying this, Tang's father's body suddenly shook slightly, and at the same time, Tang Shao also felt an abnormal fluctuation in his brain.
Father Tang said to himself, "It's not good!" After that, he looked at Ah Hu very seriously.
"Your brother has also come here, and now it's about our southwest direction. If you want to help me, go and get your brother back, take him out, and go as far as possible. ”
Ah Hu was stunned for a moment, but then reacted and said, "Hehe, Dad, you want to lie to me again!" ”
"This time it's real. In addition to the connection of the four of us with Blackstone, there is another connection. So we can sense each other. Now Mr. Ruan is in the south, Ouyang Dong is in the east, we are in the north, and your brother is in the west. Now he had reached the edge of the area, and he hadn't moved for a while. Hurry up and chase after him, you must not let him enter that area! ”
Ah Hu stared at Father Tang with a pair of frightened eyes, it seemed that it was the first time he had seen such a father, but he nodded vigorously while being frightened.
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