128 Metamorphosis
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The direction of progress is the third channel counted on the right hand. Our two squads add up to a total of eight people, each fully armed, Billy walked in front, me and Mae followed him left and right, and then there were five people from Team I, they were very particular about the distance and position between each other, and they immediately gave people a sense of professionalism and tacit understanding when they marched.
To be honest, in the month since I was involved in the apocalyptic fantasy, I have been fighting alone most of the time, talking about tactical cultivation or something, but I don't have it at all, and I often feel weak, for fear that if I am not careful, my retreat will be cut off. It's a lot more reassuring that the people in charge of the aftermath are all proven professionals.
The passage is quite spacious and square, and the walls are the same as in the hall, and the material is a silver metal, which gives a very strong futuristic feel, and the destroyed elevator looks like an antique from the last century. This kind of mixed and intertwined visual contrast makes people feel inexplicably weird.
Presumably the pulses destroyed the sensors, and the glass cover that appeared at intervals on the wall that looked like a sensor lamp was completely ineffective. As we went deeper, the light diminished rapidly, and when the darkness reached a point, the silver walls emitted fluorescence. I occasionally looked back, and the road I had come from had fallen into a hazy state, shrouded in a fog of fluorescent and shadowed shadows.
I don't know how long the passage is, and it turns around like a labyrinth, and if it weren't for the automatic generation of maps by a communication device, it would have been dizzy. We were on high alert from the moment we entered, but along the way, there was not a single ghost in the place. In this confined environment, it seemed like every second of the beating became slow, and I felt like I was trapped in an iron box, and the oppressive atmosphere became more and more difficult to breathe.
"What's going on in this place?" The flash cursed under his breath, and as a result, a loud echo sounded in the passage.
"Stop." I said, "Something is wrong. ”
We stopped where we were, taking the opportunity to judge the situation to dilute the high concentration and repressed fatigue along the way. There are corners in front and behind, and when I look at the map, I see that I am walking in a zigzag-like maze, and although I feel like I have walked a long way, the absolute distance from the entrance is actually less than a kilometer.
"I can't get in touch with the other teams." Billy said suddenly.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and immediately tried it themselves, and it didn't take long to confirm his statement.
"What to do? Go back or move on? Particle asked, "I've tried before, in the lobby we can talk to the team that enters the other passages, and if the other teams lose contact with us as well, then we can return to the lobby as a transit." If you move on, you don't know what's ahead, or it may just be a dead end. ”
His considerations were not unreasonable, and he was clearly interested in the proposal, but she was not the only one in the team, and she had to consult Billy.
"What do you say? Billy. I'd like to have matches and flashes back to the hall, maybe the other teams will take this into account as well, and if they send someone back as well, then those who stay in the hall can be used as a backup team. ”
"Just do as you say, I just hope that what lies ahead of me won't be in vain." Billy shrugged.
However, Glitter has a different opinion on who to return.
"Let Little Red Riding Hood go, she is more attentive and patient, and it is best to stick to the hall." He said.
"I'm going? No, no way. Little Red Riding Hood protested: "It is precisely because I am more careful and patient that I should continue to move on here." The captain's judgment is correct, Flash, you are too impatient to fit the environment here. ”
"That's it, Flash." I pair the flash.
Flash wanted to say something, but Match had already come over, put his arm around his shoulder, and said, "Brother, how long have we been together?" We all know what kind of person you are, come and come back with me. ”
Although the flash looked reluctant, he still half-pushed and half-walked back with the match, but the two of them had not gone far before suddenly a metal wall fell from the top wall in front of them. With a loud bang, the way back was completely cut off.
We hurried over to the other side, where Flashes and Matches were already studying the metal wall, but soon came to the unsettling conclusion that the metal wall was one with all four walls, and there were no gaps at all, as if it were a single piece in the first place. The timer they brought with them should destroy it, but it's worth it at this point in question.
"It looks like we have to move forward. Didn't the pulse destroy all the monitors? How could a wall fall so coincidentally? "That's the question that most people in the team have.
"Maybe it's a mechanism. It's okay to move forward, and it's triggered to go backwards. I said.
"Maybe it's more complicated, but whatever it is, it's all about dividing us and pushing us to go deeper." After entering the passage, Mae spoke for the first time, her voice was gloomy, but it was very organized, and if she hadn't witnessed her illness attack, she wouldn't have thought that she was a schizophrenic serious illness.
"Then let's meet those guys. We are not weakling. I said categorically.
So we got in order and left the place. As we moved on, an unusually oppressive silence began to creep in again, accompanied only by our own heartbeats, breathing, and footsteps. How long will it take to reach the finish line? No one can tell. Whether the enemy's purpose is to delay time or to divide us and make us agitated, it is clear that this state has been achieved, and if this state continues, it is likely that the enemy will be disadvantaged because he will not be able to get rid of the negative state immediately.
The surroundings seemed to be the same, but a discovery suddenly made me realize that it wasn't really unchanged. The pace of this change is so small that people become accustomed to it before you know it. Just like a person who gets along day and night, your impression of him will also change, but this change is far inferior to his own change. What prompted me to get out of this sluggish state of sensibility was a small speckled patch of red rust.
It must have been rust, I stopped to look around the corner, and as I returned for more signs, another metal wall fell to block my path. When my gaze fell on this wall, the sense of disobedience from change immediately became stronger.
"What's wrong? Crow. I asked, I felt everyone else's eyes fall on me, and I wondered, did no one notice anything wrong but myself?
"Don't you feel it?"
"What does it feel?" Little Red Riding Hood said, "If you want to say bad, it's always been bad here. ”
"The environment around us has changed." I carefully sifted through the right words in my head, "like...... Time is accelerating, or going backwards......"
"What?" Everyone looked at each other.
"Look at the walls, although they are still silver, they are completely different from the original silver, and the style is older than before......" I scraped some red powder from the corner of the wall with my dagger and motioned to show them, "Are these rusts?" ”
The particle walked up, rubbed some powder between his fingers with his hand, and put it on the tip of his nose to sniff the smell.
"It should be."
The sound of metal grinding suddenly sounded in the passageway, and it turned out that Billy was cutting the wall with a knife. I walked up, and although Billy was silent, the result of the real yàn was already very obvious, and the silver layer fell like powder. Where we had passed before, it was clear that the silver was not paint, but the color of the metal itself.
"The crow is right." Billy stood up and said in a dreamy tone, "This channel is degrading......"
"It's unbelievable that we didn't even notice it." I said with a frown.
"The question is, why?" Particle said: "Even if the resources are insufficient, then the core should be ensured, not the ......."
Before he finished his words, he seemed to think of something and suddenly paused. I've thought about it, and he probably came to the same conclusion as mine.
"Perhaps, that hall is the centerpiece."
"We were tricked from the start."
This idea is a bit bizarre, but when you think about it, it is just as reasonable. There may not have been anything wrong with degrading passages, mechanisms to prevent return, blocked communications, which at first were seen as means of delaying time by the enemy, and dividing and weakening the intruders, but now they are seen as proof that we are being transferred away from the true core of this underground base, and there is nothing wrong with it, and it can even be said that this is what it really does.
"So what are you waiting for? I'm going to blow it up. Flash said, unpacking his backpack and pulling out the pieces of explosives.
"Don't do it yet." I stopped him, "We've come too far to know how many metal wall traps we'll encounter when we return from our current location. She looked at the particle and asked, "How far are we from the hall?" How many layers of walls are there? ”
Everyone immediately understood what she was thinking.
"1,200 meters, at least 20 layers of walls will be blown up." The particle calculated and replied, "If each wall costs one explosive, the margin will not be enough to completely destroy the base when you return to the hall. ”
"You were going to plant explosives in every passage?" Billy asked.
"The explosives in the hall are very powerful, and if only the strength of these passages is used, they can theoretically be completely destroyed, but there is no guarantee that the enemy will not strengthen the defense of the important core, so we have to be prepared." Particle said.
"There is also the question, do the other teams have enough explosives like us? If they can't return, and it's just us, even if they find the hidden core in the lobby, the difficulty of completing the mission will increase dramatically. I reminded.
The crowd fell silent.
"There's no time left to think about it, the exact situation ahead has not yet been confirmed, maybe the enemy is deliberately confusing us to delay time." Billy said, "What the hell is to do, you must come up with the charter at once, I am still dividing the troops, I all return to the hall, and we will continue on our way." If there is an situation in the hall, you can let us know immediately. ”
Indeed, what we lack most is time, nearly a quarter of the 90 minutes have passed, and if we can't complete the task, no one will disarm the explosives, and after the time limit, we will all be buried in the ground. The particles said that the explosives could plow the passage, and no one dared to doubt that.
"Okay, that's it." I made up his mind and said to us, "Go on, and be careful of yourselves." ”
"The same goes for you. Don't be scared, notify us immediately if something happens, and communication will not be interrupted in the same channel. Billy said.
After only twenty minutes of walking together, the team was once again divided and weakened. I used to feel at ease because of the professionalism of the I team, and I felt that when everyone united, the strength would be improved to some extent, and the reality is also that collaboration can always bring convenience. However, the reality has given me a blow in the face, and now that the team has been beaten back to the prototype, I am deeply aware that the power of others cannot always be with me. In this strange battlefield, the only people you can rely on are yourself and those who have the consciousness to walk with you.
I glanced at Mae and couldn't see any wavering in her indifferent expression, it didn't make a difference to her whether she had the help of others or not. Billy will leave us one day, but I'm sure Mae won't, because she and I have become one. I touched my left eye, and my ups and downs slowly calmed down.
"Now that they're gone, we can pick up the pace." I say.
"What do you mean?" Billy stopped and looked.
"I can't take eight people with me for a quick sweep, but it's okay if there's only two."
"Is that okay? Ah Chuan, in terms of perception, it is not that your movements become faster, but that the changes around you slow down, so that you can control your actions. Mae said, "Can your senses withstand a long and boring operation?" ”
"Even if you walk for a while and stop for a while, it's much faster than it is now, and if there is any abnormal change, there is also room for buffering." I say.
"Come on, then." Billy said.
Billy and Mae put their hands on my shoulders, and I grabbed ten gray stones from my pockets and absorbed them. In the process of constantly using superpowers, the process of transforming and releasing the gray stone energy through the guò magic pattern became clearer and clearer. Some of these energies are stored in the magic pattern, and some of them are used to strengthen and repair the body, and for the reason why Tomie's strengthening is extraordinary, I think in addition to her special physique, it is also likely that there is a problem with the proportion of energy distribution. This ratio cannot be considered to be controlled at present, but since it exists, it can theoretically be controlled, but there is no clue how to do it.
"So, are you ready?" I asked the two.
"Let's get started." They said.
Swift sweep.
The high-speed corridor extends forward on its own. This passage has a lot of corners and is not well lit, which is very different from the environment where I used to use superpowers, and it turned out that I discovered the blind spots of this superpower. I can't form a high-speed passage outside of the range of my vision, whatever the reason, whether it's dark or obscured, in short, the more difficult it is for the eye to see, the more difficult it is to form the passage, and the invisible place is completely unable to form a passage.
I carry Billy and Mae to run through the passage, this kind of galloping is almost involuntary, once I enter the high-speed passage that is determined to be formed, there is a force that pushes me forward, and it is not the body that is consumed, but the energy in the magic pattern, but if you use your legs, you can reduce the energy consumption on a certain distance.
The speed of progress in this passage feels close to a constant value, but when accelerating, the speed of the outside world slows down relatively slowly, and this slowdown presents a state of distortion of the external scenery in the field of vision, the lower the speed of the world, the stronger this distortion feels, if it is too distorted, it will distort your judgment.
Therefore, in my opinion, the speed at which I move forward is not much different from before, the same monotony and sluggishness, coupled with carrying Billy and Mae, exacerbates the load on the body. Every time you turn a corner, every time the view ahead becomes blurred due to light problems, you have to rebuild the high-speed tunnel.
If you use your superpowers so frequently, and constantly increase the speed ratio between the channel and the outside world, you will clearly feel that the flow of energy will accelerate dramatically, and your body will gradually approach a certain limit.
This feeling of rapidly approaching the limit is different from fatigue and exhaustion, and the feeling of being squeezed by one's body and soul before reaching that limit does not have much effect on the action itself, but the thought of trying to go beyond that limit creates a great and deep fear of death.
The landscape around me gradually evolved as I progressed, and suddenly, the feeling that this evolution had reached a tipping point hit me. I stopped, and as far as I could see, it was darker than before, and the style of the massive metal labyrinth gradually became unified with the lift. Cold, hard, stubborn, a sense of stale that has been abandoned in a secret room, dusted for half a century, and rusted and peeled off from the bones. Those purple-red mottled rust even make people involuntarily think of dried blood. There was an indescribable smell in the air, and I felt that the qiē that surrounded me was exuding a fermenting evil.
"What the hell?" Billy frowned, walked over to the wall, rubbed his fingers, and the rusty wall layer immediately peeled off a small piece.
"It seems like no one has used it for a long time." He said.
"It's not because no one is using it." Mae suddenly spoke, his tone seemed to be familiar with this kind of place, "It's that it's used too often to be adequately maintained." She walked over to the fuchsia rust and sniffed with her nose, "Someone has been executed here, and it's a lot of it, the metal is soaked in blood and rusts. ”
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