Chapter 6: Attraction
Nataya, who floated naked in the sea, quietly felt the waves of the sea.
"The real ocean, is it the same ... This is the breath of the sea ... ”
This piece of blue ocean, which looks ordinary to the naked eye, in Nataya's perception,
Every warm and cold current is as clearly visible as the blood vessels of living beings,
She has been forced to get used to seeing the world with her senses.
It's been the tenth day since the start of the special training.
In the first three days, Nataya's body was cut down by those jumping insects, but it was also beneficial to be killed more, at least she slowly overcame her fear of the insect swarm.
So much so that since then, in the process of escaping, she has begun to predict the attacks and movements of those bugs.
"The second from the right is going to bounce!" Nataya felt the burst of energy contained in the jumping insect's curled hind legs.
"The claws of the left one are coming!" The girl accurately predicted this attack by raising her forelimbs through the jumping worm, and gently moved out of the way with the smallest angle, without wasting a trace of physical strength.
Nataya, who had been running continuously and surviving for a kilometer, had made a big circle and was almost back in front of the white-haired woman.
"Big White~~I'm still alive~~ Now~~ Teach me how to defeat them~~"
Nataya screamed as she continued to dodge attacks from behind.
"It's ridiculous that a warm-up test took you three days to complete. Jumping worms are just the lowest species of them."
With the white-haired woman's reply,
In front of the girl who was fleeing for her life, more than a dozen snake-like creatures with front paws suddenly appeared.
Nataya is so familiar with these alien creatures that their blood can melt even metal. The liquid ejected from the mouth of the slender head can quickly solidify into a chitinous bone spur after leaving the body, and this bone spur is strong enough to pierce armor.
"Ah~~~~"
Several bone spurs pinned Nataya to the ground.
Until the seventh day,
Nataya finally completed a one-kilometre switchback run that was judged alive.
"I don't know how you can be so tenacious in your life" The white-haired woman sighed as she walked up to Nataya's side.
"Can you not gloat at all so much..." Nataya looked at Da Bai who turned behind her with a black line on her face.
"Ah!!h After the white-haired woman pulled out the two bone spurs that were still inserted behind Nataya, the system instantly determined that Nataya was dead.
"In the future, the training that will be completed with this kind of seriously injured appearance will only be doubled in strength in me" The white-haired woman looked at Nataya coldly, and the number of alien monsters that could spray bone spurs in the void instantly changed from a dozen to dozens. "If you can't survive unscathed, wouldn't it be ridiculous to talk about victory or counterattack!"
"You wicked woman~~~~"
"Ah~~~~~h
Nataya, who hadn't run two hundred meters yet, was nailed to the ground by more than a dozen aliens that suddenly appeared in front of her...
"I'm just letting you experience their cunning and ferocity." The woman in white turned around again and looked at the horizon in the distance.
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"The wings of the three jumping insects in the back are vibrating, and two of them are clawing on the left and right! Seven of the bone spurs that were sprayed were taking shape" On the tenth day, Nataya barely needed to control her body, and when her senses collected and fed back this data, her body reflexively used a very small angle to get out of the way of these impending attacks.
"There is something in the sky, and I want to yin me~~~" Nataya, who has been overshadowed countless times, has become accustomed to maintaining a sense of the changes in the things around her at any time, and she clearly perceives a trace of fluctuations in the sky.
"Ah~~~~"
Then she understood a truth:
I know that there is still a gap between me and whether I can survive or not.
Nataya, who dodged bone spurs and jumping insects, was nailed to the ground again by a dozen centipede-like monsters with bat wings that appeared in the sky.
"Warning, simulated damage tolerance is close to the limits of the body, and the body's repair begins."
With this familiar AI voice, the eggshell was instantly filled with repair liquid.
This is the first time in ten days that it has been repaired, and Nataya has long since remembered.
It's just that this rare moment is the time when Nataya enjoys it the most.
In the simulator, she simulates herself as floating in the ocean, with dazzling sunlight in the sky and waves beneath her.
She likes it.
"The burden on your chest reduces the flexibility of your body by at least 0.2%" Da Bai didn't know when he appeared beside her, glanced at the naked girl, and then stood quietly on the sea, also undulating with the waves.
"Can't you say something nice ... Besides, the body is like this, what can I do" Nataya's face was black, she was wondering if she should throw Dabai into the worm pile, and then reduce her strength until she couldn't resist the lowest-level jumping worm...
At this moment when Nataya's evil was born from the guts, she suddenly found that her black spiritual vortex fluctuated with joy.
"Do you feel it, big white," Nataya asked the white-haired woman beside her.
"I feel it, I'm just your subconscious person, and it's as boring as if you were talking to yourself again" The white-haired woman didn't reply.
Nataya didn't bother to bother with her anymore, because the black spiritual vortex in her consciousness body fluctuated a little more obviously.
That fluctuating feeling brought an inexplicable excitement, followed by a deep longing.
Here it is again, and the feeling begins to grow stronger and stronger.
"Show me the route and transfer the situation outside the ship!" Still floating beside Nataya in the sea, the scene begins to unravel and change. A star map gradually appeared in front of him, and the surrounding environment became an infinite universe.
Yes, here it is ... It is coming from this direction ... Nataya was able to identify the originator of this feeling both through the star map and with the naked eye.
"Al Antuk"
In the image projected into the outer image of the spacecraft, there is a shining ultra-small star just ahead.
A huge belt of steel, apparently man-made, slowly revolved around the super-small star,
From the universe, it looks like a ring with a shining light bulb lit in it.
In parentheses around the remarks on the star chart, there are a few small words.
"Alantuk (City of Machines)"