Chapter 11: The Strange Room

Hai Ge felt that he was about to succeed, maybe he would be able to remember the content of one of the dreams in the next second, but that man, why couldn't he let him sleep a little longer? Are you afraid that he will go too far in the dream and not be able to come back?

But just as he tried to figure out who the speaker was, there was a tingling itch in his chest near his collarbone, and a noticeable feeling of soreness in both arms, as if he had carried something heavy before falling asleep. The two feelings were mixed, and he couldn't say how uncomfortable he was, and finally he was forced to give up chasing his dream, and opened his eyes after a long breath.

But where is this? Is it the wolf's den in Ningxin City that eats people and doesn't spit out bones, or the open-air grass nest that sleeps for several nights in a row? Or was it to move the wandering artist into the old garage with a roller shutter?

Although Haige fell into a coma in pain, he did not lose his memory, and only a second after opening his eyes, he remembered what had happened before he passed out - the wandering artist noticed his presence and greeted him very kindly, calling himself "dear friend"!

So, this must be the dimly lit hut of wandering artists, right? That cottage once made Haige feel the warmth of home, so he looked forward to it!

Unable to resist his curiosity, he rolled his dark eyes and began to look at his surroundings, eager to see the furnishings in the room. The desire was so strong that he forgot about the wound in his chest, and sat up in a hurry.

Imagine that the wandering artist's dwelling should be as dirty as his beard, and the house is full of strange treasures, but all the treasures can only be summed up in one word - tatters.

However, when he saw the closest thing to the bed he was lying on, Hai Ge's curious eyes suddenly turned into doubt, because he couldn't name the things that fell into his eyes.

There are no windows in this room, not even a small skylight. There is a fan on the ceiling, and it probably depends on it to ventilate the room. But at this time, the fan blades are stationary, and the color of the sky cannot be found through the blades, only the ceiling as a whole emits a bright white light, as if the roof of the room is a large and somewhat exaggerated lamp.

A row of two-story iron shelves, clinging to the left wall, are stacked with blue and white metal sheets, as well as several toolboxes containing spare parts.

The metal pieces come in different shapes and sizes, and they are so strange that they look like a puzzle game that has been broken up, but when you really put them together, what a huge puzzle!

On the top floor of the iron frame are also placed many instruments. On the surface, they all have the color of ancient bronze, but they can't be described as "tattered".

On the right wall, there is a corner desk about three meters long. The countertop was neatly tidy, with a few books and a thick stack of notebooks stacked in the corner. If it weren't for a pair of odd glasses in the middle of the desk, which looked intricate and bulky, this room would have been enough to be mistaken for a teacher's office at a middle school.

It was probably a pair of outdated VR glasses, old enough to be called an antique by people of this era.

Haige has always lived a life that is inferior to cattle and horses, and playing video games is just a luxury for him, which is out of reach. But he also knows that external VR glasses have been phased out at the end of the 21st century, and today's young people use retinal patch glasses - a nanofilm that can be directly attached to the retina. These inexpensive and easy-to-operate 3D vision glasses that resemble contact lenses not only have comprehensive stereoscopic visualization capabilities, but also provide users with up to 80% immersion with a joystick.

The comical glasses seemed to Haige to be nothing more than artifacts from the last century, and he thought they were the only scrap items that had been picked up from the garbage heap.

The wall above the desk was spotless, smooth and white like a snowy field that no one had walked on. Haige wondered why such a large area of white walls was left vacant? If he were the owner of the room, he would have hung a few beautiful paintings to liven up the dreary atmosphere of the room and add beauty to the place.

But the most striking feature is the huge metal rudder that hangs in the middle of the room, facing the bed. It resembles the rudder used on large ships in medieval Europe, and Hai Ge has seen it in some film and television programs.

It is a structure in which six axes are divided into a circle in equal parts, each of which is at least 2 meters long. If it is really used on sea vessels, the two ends of the long shaft protruding from the rudder ring are the part where the helmsman holds the part that adjusts the direction of the ship. But compared to the real rudder, this thing is undoubtedly too big.

Blue lights flashed at each end of the long axis, which seemed to indicate that the rudder wheel was working, but it was impossible to tell what it was doing.

The center of the rudder is large enough to penetrate a person, and on the surface it appears to be a small door with an iris lock installed. The red light in a fingertip-sized scanner is swept back and forth, and the red light will turn green after the verification of the person's retina is passed, and the small door can be opened.

The iris scanner endows the European classical steering wheel with modern high-tech characteristics, and Haige is amazed that these two completely different styles are not mutually exclusive, but also combine quite harmoniously.

In addition, the relief of a badge in the upper right corner of the center of the plate is particularly eye-catching, and it is not clear which era it should belong to. The motif of the badge resembles a dazzling sun, but when you look closely, it is very different from the sun that is common to earthlings. The round wheel of light seems to have a vigorous vitality, and this feeling comes from the two large trees hidden in the gorgeous light, the large trees stand on both sides of the light wheel, and there is a colorful winged bird on the top of the tree. They seem to be messengers who guard the wheel of light, appearing sacred and magnificent.

Does this badge indicate that the steering wheel is actually from a constitutional monarchy? The coat of arms is the emblem of the royal family that rules that country?

The most surprising thing is that the rudder seems to hang down from the fluorescent ceiling, like a screen dividing the whole room into two spaces, but if you look closely, you will find that it is actually separated from the ceiling by a finger's width, that is, the metal rudder screen, which is likely to weigh more than a ton, is actually suspended without any support.

"Where the hell am I here?" Haige asked himself, he wanted to open the door in the center of the rudder to see what was hidden inside, but he could conclude without trying that he couldn't pass the iris verification.

When staying in the wolf's den, although Hai Ge had a humble status and a low status, he also saw many big scenes with the circus. In order to meet the special requirements of the wealthy and powerful, the circus would often be invited into the manors of those who occupied a city and held special performances, so he had seen many bizarre and bizarre rooms. But a room like this with a suspended rudder is mysterious and a little eerie, and has never been seen before.