Chapter 359: Lost on the Road
After Akiha's words, the warrior of the forest fantasy, who had felt a little more secure because he had entered here, shook again. ()
Regardless of the attitude and opinion of the organization, it is necessary to maintain the appearance of honor as a member of the organization in front of outsiders, but among the members of the organization, many things cannot be hidden.
While the robots were confused about the organization's actions, so did the other Forest Fantasy warriors. There are some things that they don't think about, but because they are powerless, so they don't want to think about them. In the worst-case scenario, they never feared that the organization would kill them or push them to a dead end.
You know, death here is not like the real world can kill people, once an organization really dares to do this, unless the creator company or the government can easily suppress the behemoth of unfavorable information, otherwise the reputation of the organization will be ruined, if not fatally, it will be affected to a considerable extent.
Therefore, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Forest Loop, the strange thing about this operation is that there is a little more, and they know a little less, but these alone are far from the extent that they will disobey the orders of the organization.
But Qiu Yu's seemingly unrelated words pierced their hearts with pain.
"This is the street."
A sturdy passage is indeed only a point of combat value in normal times, but once consciousness extends beyond the passage, it becomes a center wrapped in uneasiness called the unknown.
"It's okay, even if they want to do something to us, it's not their job."
This reassuring sentence of Qiu Yu to the bear people, to the understanding of the warriors of Forest Fantasy, is simply to say that there is danger here on the premise of ignoring their own existence. Then it is impossible to be completely sure that you will not be implicated if you walk with them in the middle of this street without knowing anything. If you think about it further, the danger in this strange area is not just from humans.
"Some people go to such great lengths, it would be too wasteful to just build a killing trap, but just gather people above the non-commissioned officer level in this core location that should have been completely blocked...... The only plausible explanation is that we don't want to be killed by the Three-Eyed Monster...... But if that's the case, the best solution is for them to kill us first, and that contradicts the current reality......"
If the uneasiness of the first two sentences is associated by the Forest Fantasy Warrior himself, but this sentence is **naked to pull everyone together. Concentrate on people above the rank of non-commissioned officer...... Putting aside the difference between outsiders and members of the organization, aren't all the people here above the rank of non-commissioned officer? From the beginning of the complete opening of this underground city, the organization paid special attention to people above the rank of non-commissioned officer, and then deliberately concentrated in this place. If it is a confidential operation with interests, there will never be any talk of bringing in people who don't know the details. So no matter how you think about it, nothing good can happen. And it's this kind of absolutely useless action, and the people in my own organization are actually arranged with outsiders at will, which really makes people think of no reason not to worry.
"We can't be killed by the Three-Eyed Monster, but we can't ...... At least they can't kill us now, probably because we still have the value to use. So there must be an answer waiting for us that is equivalent to our use value, so let's listen to it ourselves rather than guess. ”
Qiu Yu's words alone seem to be nothing, but combined with the previous content, it seems to be directly saying in the ears of the Forest Fantasy Warriors, everyone here is being used, if you don't believe it, wait until you get to the destination to confirm it yourself.
Now that the words have been said and done, the people of Forest Fantasy don't even have the place to ask, or even the will, all they can do is to run behind Qiu Yu and the others with three points of doubt, six points of anxiety and a point of dizziness.
For Akiha, controlling the mind of the Forest Fantasy Warrior is not an end, but only a collateral effect to verify his speculation. After making sure that they were indeed part of the calculations, he stopped focusing on them. After all, the threat around us does not exist, and it can also be understood that the threat from afar will be even greater, and the things to worry about have not been reduced at all.
"Huh?"
The flying Autumn Feather suddenly slowed down.
The people of Forest Fantasy, including robots, don't have a detailed understanding of Qiu Yu's behavior patterns, so when they saw Qiu Yu slow down, they only subconsciously slowed down.
And the bear man and mayfly are not very clear, and it is not surprising that Qiu Yu can let out a sound with a question mark, and thousands of three-eyed demons suddenly appear in front of him. Almost as soon as Qiu Yu appeared abnormal, the two immediately set up a battle...... No, a defensive posture to be exact.
A few seconds later, the two who didn't feel the attack saw that Qiu Yu was still advancing at a normal speed, and under the stunned gaze of the Forest Fantasy Warriors, they quickly put away their exaggerated shields and turtle shell-like protective walls, and followed Qiu Yu as if nothing had happened. Only the bearman's inquiring voice could prove that the scene just appeared was not a hallucination.
"What did you think of again?"
"It's not that I thought of anything, I saw it." Qiu Yu paused, and turned his head to look at the robot that didn't say a word, "I always thought that there should be only one road around here, but I didn't expect that there would be a fork in the road." ”
"I don't know what the fork in the road is, at least not when we confirmed this place, and maybe it's because we haven't gone this far."
The robot didn't speak in a subdued tone, nor did it have an expression that people could judge, but through previous contact, it was enough for Qiu Yu to tell if he was lying from the way the words were combined.
The bear man looked ahead for a while, because there was a monotonous scenery with no reference all around, so it was difficult to see where the fork in the road Qiu Yu was talking about, "It's normal to have a fork in the road, right?" We're only coming from a small area of transfer points, and there should be many more connections in this vast underground city. ”
"A lot?" Qiu Yu shook his head expressionlessly, "A lot, how many do you think is appropriate?" ”
"Judging from the size of the area visually inspected, there are about twenty or thirty places, and if you refer to the space of the ground city, it is possible to calculate hundreds of places."
"Oh." After walking out for another while, Qiu Yu raised his hand and pointed forward, "Then you count how many forks in the road there are." ”
"It's ......"
The bear man was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a while.
Just now he was sure that he had looked at it carefully, and he didn't find the so-called fork in the road, but now he looked at Qiu Yu's fingers, and the entire passage was full of forks in the road that were densely intertwined like a child's graffiti.
They didn't appear out of nowhere, they were there all along. The undifferentiated metal walls around it are one reason, but the other reason is that the passage is like the trunk of a tree, and only the center of the countless forks in the road is inserted into it. So instead of the other passages around it being forks in the road, it is all portals that have been carved out of this passage and do not know where to go.
"Beyond the sturdy cage, is there a complex labyrinth that awaits us in front of us?"
A clump of shaping bacteria in the mayfly's hand was transformed into a fluorescent, powdered object. The slightly relaxed tone and such a move seemed to be better at dealing with the maze than the cage.
Xiong said, "If it's a maze, it should be more complicated, if we go straight down the current passage, aren't these forks in the road around us completely meaningless?" ”
"Maybe that's the trap." "If you walk with your eyes closed, you'll never be able to walk in a straight line, and the passage here is long enough that it's probably that we've been going straight all along, but we've been bent by this place. ”
"It's not a problem, even if we are led to a bend, as long as we don't enter other forks in the road, at best we will delay time to go around in circles, and it is impossible to get lost for some reason. And there is no way out in the first place, and there is no point in getting us lost. The bear man believed in his own judgment, but the confidence to speak was still a little insufficient.
"Didn't your boss say anything?"
The object of Qiu Yu's question this time is not a robot, but all the warriors of the Forest Fantasy.
"If you continue to walk down here......" replied by the robot.
"Keep going? That means you don't know anything, do you? ”
“……”
The robot responded with silence. In contrast to him, there was a cacophony of communication among the other people who fantasized about the deep forest.
The bearman simply complained, "It's getting worse." ”
"It's not too bad, at least it's certain that the passage here has some other purpose than just not letting people run around. From this point of view, these forks in the road are not something that is deliberately causing us trouble. ”
Qiu Yu continued to fly forward, passing through the passages on both sides, without even turning his head to glance.
"What do they do?"
The bear man couldn't be as indifferent as Qiu Yu, and he had to quickly turn his head to confirm whether it was safe every time he passed through a passage, for fear of suddenly killing something from the blind spot of his sight. Of course, he wasn't the only one who did this, but so did all the people at Mayfly and Forest Fantasy.
"I did guess a few possibilities, but ......" Qiu Yu's small face was full of anxiety, "but none of them are likely to be what you want to hear, so it's better not to talk nonsense." ”
"That's what makes me ...... even more"
The bearman stopped abruptly in the middle of speaking, and at the same time, the robot suddenly stared at the front, shouting words that made the atmosphere freeze with the sound of the alarm on its body.
"Something's coming."