Chapter Seventy-Six: The Man in the Mirror
Now that they decided to go down to check, several people enlarged the opening in the queen's abdomen. The milky yellow substance on the queen's abdomen was as thick as grease and exuded an indescribable smell.
They used a rope to fall into the passage, and Zhang Xiaohu took the torch and was the first to slide down.
Below the passage, there is a metal corridor more than ten meters long, the firelight reflects the smooth walls, the torch illumination range is red, and the distance is pitch black. There are three chambers in the corridor, two of which are locked, and one of them has its door opened. Zhang Xiaohu held the torch and walked into the room carefully.
The room was in shambles, with machine wreckage strewn across the floor. There were several huge screens installed on the walls of the room, but they were also destroyed at this time, and it was difficult to find anything valuable by looking at these scattered and malfunctioning instruments.
Zhang Xiaohu secretly guessed in her heart that these should have been destroyed by Chenyi just now, why did she destroy these machines? Is there anything she wants to hide? What did she just take?
There was a very slight abnormal sound in the room, Zhang Xiaohu was startled, and hurriedly looked at the sound. In that location, there is a large machine, which has a strange shape, a hollow design, with an empty center and various displays and consoles around it. At this time, a mirror-like picture appeared in the middle part of the machine, and there were layers of ripples on it as if the water surface had been broken, and in the ripples, he saw a person who was exactly like himself, and he also looked at himself with a surprised face.
Zhang Xiaohu subconsciously walked to the front of the machine, stretched out his hand to touch the person in the mirror, and the person in the mirror also stretched out his hand, as if responding to himself, the two people look exactly the same, but the temperament is completely different, Zhang Xiaohu is a sunny, kind, simple teenager, giving people a real and unpretentious feeling, just like a cup of warm tea in winter, so that the people around him feel sincere and trusting; And the temperament of the person in the mirror is a little cold and gloomy, with three points of arrogance and seven points of suspicion in his eyes, like the cold wind in the wax moon, which makes people shudder.
Zhang Xiaohu felt the strange eyes of his other self in the mirror, and felt that he was being seen through, and a layer of cold sweat broke out all over his body. His hand was also a little sluggish, and he didn't make contact with himself in the mirror. At this point, an angry expression appeared on the face of the other self, as if to say something. However, Zhang Xiaohu couldn't hear any sound at all, and could only see the person in the mirror taking a handful of strange things from his back and facing him.
The machine emits a "pop!" With a bang, the mirror quickly disappeared, and the original scene was all gone.
Zhang Xiaohu knew that he must not be an illusion just now, but really saw another self. But if it is another self, the difference is too great, that person is like a poisonous snake, and people can feel a strong danger just by looking at it.
He was still in the room recalling what happened just now, and Zhao Zixuan also rushed to this room, and saw Zhang Xiaohu standing there stupidly motionless, and couldn't help shouting: "Old Zhang, what's wrong with you?" ”
"Oh! I'm fine! There's nothing to see here, it's all ruined, let's go look elsewhere! Zhang Xiaohu looked at the strange machine, had palpitations, and hurriedly said.
The two of them left the room and met Xu Haitao and Song Haozhe in the corridor, these two people had to come down to feel it, and Zhang Xiaohu couldn't stop them.
The doors of the other two houses were so sturdy that they did not open them in several ways. The few of them did not dare to linger any longer, so they all returned to the queen's room, where they found King Peter still studying the queen's corpse.
"King Peter, you are really obsessed with this bug, no wonder Uncle Yan makes fun of you!" Zhao Zixuan looked at King Peter and teased.
"What do you people know, these creatures appeared in front of me like a dream, I believe this is an opportunity given to me by God, I want to seize these opportunities, leave a record, if I can go back to my time, based on my research materials, I must be the biological authority of all people!" King Peter was intoxicated by the thought of the great glory that he would attain when he returned to the future.
"I really haven't asked you, in your time, human beings colonized outer space, can't these ancient creatures engage in some genetic recombination and resurrection? In 2019, humans will be able to clone creatures. King Peter wondered.
"Will the genetically recombinant organism still be the original organism, in your time, some scholars had the wrong starting point, recombining the genes of several organisms, and creating only a completely new organism, maybe the appearance will be the same, and the inside will be the same?" King Peter looked at the old antique expression, in his time, biological genetic engineering has indeed made brilliant achievements, human beings have repaired their own genetic defects, completely cured many genetic diseases, and life has also been greatly extended, there are many extinct organisms have also been recreated, but the created organisms are not the original after all, has not been recognized by the biological field, can only be re-planned as a new species, so there is a paleontological research field, specializing in the study of organisms before the 22nd century.
King Peter's words reminded Zhang Xiaohu of the other self he saw just now, will that person be the same as King Peter said, but the same as his own appearance, but completely different on the inside, whether he is himself in another time and space, or is he himself created, and what is the truth behind these things?
King Peter wrote down a few notes, and everyone walked around the anthill again, and found something good, and ants have a habit of collecting sweets. In a storage room near the queen room, a large amount of gelatinous candy was found, piled up throughout the space. It is not known where these ants were collected from, but they tasted a little and found that the taste was very sweet, with a hint of floral intensity.
"That's good stuff! Let's bring some more! King Peter laughed and said, "I didn't expect there to be such a good thing on this island!" ”
"Are these honey?" Zhang Xiaohu touched it with his hand just now and found that this thing was extremely sticky.
"Something like that, you've heard of aphids! These are honeydew for aphids! I didn't expect the aphids on this island to produce such a large amount of honeydew! ”
Zhang Xiaohu knows that sugar is very important for people who are adventurous on the road, as an important energy, sugar can be directly absorbed by humans, to achieve the effect of quickly replenishing physical strength, if all these honeydew are brought back to the ship, it can also make the usually boring life on the ship, a little more sweet color.
In addition to the honeydew in this place, they also found many plant seeds in another cave, the size of cherries, golden and round, with a fragrant smell, and they believed that since the ants would pick these seeds for storage, they would mean that they were good for storage and edible. They had eaten enough pickled salted fish and jerky every day on the boat, and how much they wanted to improve their taste, and these seeds were just right.
They made up their minds that there were a few Yan Cannons guarding here, and the others returned to the camp to organize people to carry them.
On the way back, Zhang Xiaohu and the others met some worker ants, these worker ants were different from before, they ignored the existence of everyone, and just searched around with their tentacles.
"The queen ant is dead, the anthill has been destroyed, and now these worker ants need to find a suitable place as soon as possible, re-elect the queen, and build an anthill!" King Peter saw a large worker ant running over beside him and introduced it to everyone.
When they returned to the camp, they found that only a few people were left in the camp, most of them had already returned to the ship after Chenyi returned, and now everyone was waiting for the rescue team to return before preparing to leave.
Zhang Xiaohu and the others immediately conveyed the news in the anthill to everyone, there was no need to organize and encourage, everyone on the ship understood the importance of sugar and food, and went to sixty or seventy people at once, except for the people who normally guarded the boat, basically all the other people who could move went to the anthill to carry supplies.
In the crowd, there was no figure of Chen Yi, according to the people on the boat, Chen Yi closed the door after he came back, and never came out again, and Zhang Xiaohu had no way to answer his questions.
Zhang Xiaohu stood in a forest outside the camp, in front of him were eighteen new graves, which were buried the people who died in the sneak attack last night, these people were all villagers of the seven major villages, even the leader of the Chishui tribe, Han Sha, was unfortunately killed in battle and buried here, these people just wanted to find a suitable place to live and continue their village, but they didn't expect to die on this isolated island outside the outside.
Zhang Xiaohu looked at these graves with mixed feelings in his heart. The road ahead is still full of unknowns and challenges, and I don't know how many more people will fall. If so many lives were sacrificed for the sake of unpredictable answers, he began to wonder if this operation was necessary!
The sun snuggled up on the sea, shining on the sea with a fiery red, and the light was about to fade, and the darkness was coming.