Gao Chuan already has a general understanding of the style of the female officer, she before entering the working state and her entering the working state are completely different things, and her attitude towards bed affairs and her attitude towards combat are completely different. Although Gao Chuan has long known that there must be such a group of people in various governments who are engaged in the profession of warfare, and the 51st District is only one of the more prominent among many national organizations, Gao Chuan still deeply understands the difference between a "soldier with mysterious powers" and a "mysterious expert" in this female officer.

It's not about the difference in power between the two, it's about the way of thinking and the way of choosing priorities for the same thing. Most of the time, in the face of the same situation, the attitude and way of dealing with each person have obvious stylized imprints, which are a combination of complex factors such as personality, professional habits and habitual thinking.

The selection and methods of a female officer have fully revealed that she is different from the members of a mysterious organization of a non-state department, and even from Area 51, which is clearly a state department. To a certain extent, Takakawa felt that the female officer and the organization behind it were actually very close to the Nazis during the Second World War, or rather, the more purely violent the institutions, in fact, they all had similar characteristics - there was only a vague line between them and the Nazis, that is, the scope of the division between themselves and the inclusiveness of either/or.

In terms of Nazi performance during World War II, they were extremely narrow-minded in their inclusiveness and harsh in their division between friend and foe. The current Nazis, although still called "Nazis", are in fact completely different things -- their ideology, biological form, and organizational composition have been completely separated from "humans" and called them "monsters". It is not an exaggeration to call it the "enemy of humanity".

However, no matter what kind of person the female officer was, as long as she was still an enemy of the Nazis and Shinrikyo of Doomsday, Takakawa still felt that he could communicate with her and reach a consensus in a harsh situation. Now condemn the means and ideas of the other side. It's all pointless, she has a great grasp of the timing, and she has a full explanation of her methods - and in fact, Takakawa also thinks that the occult experts who are not controlled by her need only an explanation, and they can only accept this explanation, just like the captain of the ship.

Gao Chuan knew it very well. There's not much you can do on your own. Because, as I said before, everyone actually knows what the ending will be for this ship and most of the people on this ship, if there is a difference, it is only a difference in the process. Obviously, they are all going to die, and the things that happened before death are of great significance from a certain point of view. But on the other hand, it can also be meaningless.

What is coming on board. It's going to be terrible, it's sad, but someone has to face it.

There is nothing more painful than "knowing the outcome of a matter before it happens, but having to face it".

The female officer promised to "consider" Takakawa's proposal, but. Gao Chuan was not sure that his persuasion would be successful. He could only wait, and after watching the female officer leave the room, he picked up the copy of "Mind Copy" again, and quietly waited for the result. His chain verdict can override the new Titanic. But he couldn't observe the ship in all directions, so he knew that what he didn't observe didn't mean it didn't happen, on the contrary, maybe something very bad was rippling like ink from an angle that he couldn't perceive.

Takakawa vaguely felt the restless restlessness, death, struggle, despair and madness, like a mist pouring along every passage in the ship, seeping through the cracks into every room, confusing some and suffocating others.

By the time the still, cold earth began to brighten, figures had already climbed the hillside. - "Mind Replication"

When Gao Chuan read this sentence in the text, he seemed to be in a flash, like an illusion, and saw a sudden light outside the door. It was a soft light, like silk coming through the crack in the door, but before it could blink an eye, it vanished, as if the light had never changed. He suddenly felt that the world outside the room had suddenly become unusually silent and cold, like a cold storage that had been idle for a long time, running only on the remaining electricity. He rubbed his eyes to confirm that unlike the hallucinatory light before, the white cold air was very real.

At this time, are you in a nightmare-like state of consciousness? Or is it a relatively real material world? Are you asleep? Or awake? Takakawa was completely unsure, he felt that he was awake, and all the strange things that happened in front of him were real, but various experiences in the past had proved countless times that when mysterious events occur, the dividing line between consciousness and matter is often not tight.

The sound of footsteps clanging, like stepping on a suspended iron plate, echoes buzzing, hasty and panicked, this is not at all the sound of the normal aisle of this ship, but one cannot help but imagine a huge and empty scene. The chains were swinging, the gears were turning, the huge machines were roaring, some kind of liquid substance was trickling, and the human voices were noisy, but they were always overwhelmed by the sound of the instruments. The sound, the smell, the temperature felt by the skin, is more like an old, dilapidated but still functioning factory.

However, this is the inside of a big ship, not a factory.

Gao Chuan felt that it was difficult to breathe, not to describe fear, but to physically have difficulty breathing, and there was something invisible blocking the trachea. Fortunately, he does not rely on normal biological organs to sustain his life, and up to sixty percent of his body has been prostheticized, which allows him to survive in a limit state that normal people cannot bear, and if this limit state is created by illusion, then there is no way to take Gao Chuan.

Although he still felt that he was not used to it, no matter whether it was suffocation, high temperature, or messy sound that made people uneasy, it could not make Gao Chuan's heart restless. The brain rigidity rigorously monitors emotional and physiological states and sends real-time values and statistics to his retinal screen.

Suddenly, the door recessed inward. It was as if some monster of great force slammed and slammed again, and with a third blow, the whole door twisted and suddenly opened. Something flew in, and then it nearly froze in Gao Chuan's field of vision. Takagawa at the same time. The speed of the sweep has been launched, but the speed of the start is several times faster than the thing that pounced on it. What exactly is this, Gao Chuan couldn't see clearly at first, even in the state of quick sweeping, all the other party's movements were like slow motion, and there was a layer of hazy gauze covering its outline.

Takakawa had already circled its back.

As always, Takakawa raised the revolver and was about to shoot bullets into the seemingly brain-like place of this monster one by one. But the moment he pulled the trigger, he stopped moving. He felt a familiar feeling telling himself that he shouldn't pull the trigger.

At the same time that Takakawa stopped sweeping, the thing seemed to realize something, and stayed where it was, raising its hands - it was these raised hands that seemed to tear through the haze that shrouded it, and made its image clear at once. It became him. With these hands at the center, this thing that seems to be something anomalous. From the head to the soles of the feet, it has completely changed back to the most recognizable image.

It was the captain of the new Titanic. Takakawa remained silent and withdrew the revolver into his left hand.

"What the hell? I'm not an enemy. The captain was mixed with unceremonious anger, and suddenly turned to face Gao Chuan.

"Sorry, I couldn't figure out who it was in the first place." Takakawa said calmly, "I'm in a weird situation. ”

"Really? Then you're going to have to encounter a new weird situation. The captain said.

"What's going on?" Takakawa asked.

"There was a lot of fog on the sea, and all navigation methods were out of order." The captain said, "Just now. Something is trying to attack me. ”

"You're done?" Takakawa said.

"If you can solve it, you won't risk being killed and come to your room by crossing such a long distance," said the captain, "Since you're all right, I'm going to look for the rest of the crew." ”

"I'm still not sure what the hell is going on." Takakawa said.

"To put it simply, we are already in an abnormal state, and even the fog is abnormal - the fog has penetrated. It seems to isolate a lot of places. The captain thought for a moment and explained, "I have only found you all the way. Others, whether it's people or rooms, are gone. ”

"Are you sure the fog seeped into the ship from the outside? And not from the inside of the ship, gushing out of the ship? Takakawa couldn't help but confirm it, because the captain's description seemed to occur at the same time as his own perception of the anomaly, but the specific process was not small.

"It's seeping in from the outside." The captain said with great certainty.

"Has there been any drastic change in the look inside the ship?" Gao Chuan asked again.

"Aside from the disappearance of many rooms, not much has changed." Said the captain.

"Okay, let's go out and find someone else." Takakawa put "Mind Replication" aside, "Do you think it could be the preparation for the sacrificial ceremony?" ”

"Perhaps...... I don't have a lot of information here, you know, I'm only in charge of driving the boat. The captain shrugged, "But, I know that the woman must know something more. ”

The woman naturally referred to the female officer.

After that, the captain glanced at the table again, and suddenly asked a strange question: "Mr. Takakawa, what were you doing just now?" As he spoke, he repeated Takakawa's action of putting down the book. This made Gao Chuan suddenly realize that in fact, in his body, an abnormality had already occurred earlier.

"A book called 'Mind Replication.'" Gao Chuan stared at the captain solemnly: "Didn't you see it?" ”

"I haven't seen it, I've never heard of it." The captain smiled wryly, he was also a sensitive person, and realized that something was wrong with Takakawa, "It seems that the situation is even worse than we thought." ”

If it's not the captain's eyes, then there's a problem with his own cognition, or maybe both of them have a problem-Takagawa's gaze can't help but turn to this "Mind Copy", and then, he saw that the book was becoming transparent, and within a breath, it lost its actual touch, disappeared into the air, and left no trace of its existence.

A voice echoed in his head:

――When the silent and cold earth began to brighten, the figure had already climbed the hillside.

Outside the door and window there was a sudden silky glow again, and this time, even the captain sensed it, and he vigilantly took out a weapon from behind his waist - the folded crossbow unfolded and wound itself, making a creaking sound as if it could not be overloaded. This time, the light that spread through the crack in the door did not immediately disappear, and with it, a long figure emerged through the crack in the door, along the corner, from the floor to the wall. The figure drew a lanky, elongated silhouette that looked like a human being, something in human form—but it was undeniable that both Takakawa and the captain felt it alive.

Then, Gao Chuan suddenly remembered that when the captain came in before, the door had been broken down. However, the door in front of him was still intact. Did I see the hallucination before, or is it the hallucination now?

"How did you get in?" In a strange and tense atmosphere, Takakawa asked the captain while on guard, "Who opened the door?" ”

"Isn't that you?" The captain said, after a pause, he realized that something was wrong, and said, "What is going on?" ”

"What I saw was that you smashed the door open in the image of a monster." Takakawa said.

“…… I feel that there is no better explanation than the explanation that we are all dreaming. The captain's voice was a little dry: "If the enemy can distort everyone's perception in reality and tailor different phenomena, then our situation will be worse than a nightmare." ”

"Maybe, not too bad." Takakawa replied. Because, he had already encountered enemies like the captain had said.

Although the current situation was strange and dangerous, it was unreasonable, but it had not caused substantial harm to the two of them. In Takakawa's retina screen, the monitoring data of the brain hardware to the prosthesis is all in the best condition. In any case, there are not many options, leave this room, find someone else, and determine the state of the ship - Takakawa thought so and asked, "Can the direction of the ship still be confirmed?" ”

"There are specially manufactured automatic navigation systems." "If the personnel can't work, they have to rely on the system," the captain said. You say it's unreliable, and I think we have to believe that it's reliable, and we have no other choice. (To be continued.) )