Body 098.Light on the clouds
After the light disappeared in front of him, Zhao Yu fell to the ground solidly-fortunately, judging from the impact of the landing, it fell from a height of about two meters at most, which is nothing to Zhao Yu now.
He was still a second ago, in the fierce emotion of playing with the giant pillar, as soon as he landed, he bounced up nimbly, put on a defensive gesture and looked around vigilantly, and found himself alone in a corridor, it seemed that everyone who entered the teleportation point was lost, and there was only noise in the wireless communication.
The floor of the corridor is flat, but the front and back directions are zigzag, and the end is impossible to see at a glance, and whether it is the walls, the ceiling, or the floor, there is some kind of incomprehensible pattern, which slowly rotates around a certain point, and sometimes suddenly breaks down into blocks and lines of color as it turns, which are added to other patterns or form new patterns.
"There's no pattern to follow...... At least I don't see a pattern. Zhao Yu looked at it for a while and came to a conclusion, "And it's always easy to feel uneasy in this environment, so you have to leave first!" ”
He closed his eyes, picked a direction that didn't feel so bad, and walked forward with his eyes open.
As soon as he walked two corners, an extremely unpleasant feeling suddenly came from ahead, which quickly turned into an ominous premonition in Zhao Yu's perception.
"Okay, see what it is this time?" He pulled out his dagger. The only weapons I brought with me were a pistol and a dagger, and there were only 4 rounds of bullets, so we had to save them - and to deal with the second-tier enemies, it was not certain whether the bullets would be effective or not.
There was a viscous black liquid falling from the ceiling in front of him, and a large pool of silt was accumulated on the ground, completely blocking the way, seeing such a thing, Zhao Yu couldn't help but wonder: "What is this?" ”
The black liquid began to spread towards Zhao Yu, making him instinctively take two steps back, no matter what it was, it was always a good thing to be cautious, but a more uneasy feeling suddenly rose, Zhao Yu looked back behind him, and couldn't help but scold: "Damn!" ”
At some point, a black liquid appeared behind him, which had completely blocked his retreat!
"Don't think I dare to step on you!" Zhao Yu had no way out, and was about to take the risk to test it, but he heard a voice: "Don't touch these things!" ”
He looked stunned and saw Pasteur standing opposite the liquid, with a look of horror: "Just now...... Mr. Hubert stepped on this thing, and then he was gone! ”
"Gone?!"
"Yes, it's like falling! This black thing doesn't cover the ground!! ”
"This alien black technology is too much...... Zhao Yu's eyes widened, and he watched the black liquid spread around on both sides, getting closer and closer to him.
If you don't do something, you won't even have a foothold!
"Okay...... Pasteur, you get out of the way! There were only two or three meters left in the gap, Zhao Yu retreated to a theoretical limit position, and then used the only two or three meters distance to help run, and jumped onto the wall - to be honest, the walls on both sides are also weird, but now he can't take care of much, this time he successfully jumped out of nearly ten meters with his strength, and finally fell to the ground, Pasteur looked pale when he saw it next to him: "Mr. Zhao Yu, you ......"
"Oh, I've practiced this skill, don't be too surprised."
"No, it's not...... Mr. Zhao Yu ......" Pasteur stammered and pointed behind Zhao Yu, "That, that's ......"
Zhao Yu turned around and saw the "that" that Pasteur said - all kinds of small bumps appeared on the wall, and then these bumps became small versions of the perverted hermit crabs they had fought before, dozens of small hermit crabs fell to the ground and disappeared into the black liquid in an instant, as Pasteur said before, the black mass was no longer a liquid that was attached to the ground and spread out, but like an abyss leading to another world.
But more small hermit crabs emerged from the walls, their tentacles glowing, reaching into the black liquid, and then making indescribable sounds, if I had to describe them, probably five hundred monks holding chanting sessions, but half of them were in electronic voices......
"I'm curious to see what the hell is going on, but we don't have time to delay any longer." Zhao Yu motioned for Pasteur to follow him, and the two of them moved towards the other side of the corridor, which was different from the first floor, there was no personnel display and no countdown display, because I didn't know how much time there was, and every second of delay here was terrifying.
"Pasteur, how did you meet Hubert?" In order to ease his emotions, Zhao Yu opened his mouth to ask, it would be best if he could find a pattern to meet other companions.
But Pasteur could only shake his head in confusion: "I don't know...... It was Mr. Hubert who called me behind my back...... I only spent a few minutes with him, and then he ......"
Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment and noticed another question: "When you met me, something happened to Mr. Hubert...... How long has it been? ”
"Probably, about ten minutes." Pasteur said, "The black thing will slowly get smaller and disappear after a while...... At first, I was blocked by it, and I couldn't go anywhere, but not long after it disappeared, Mr. Zhao Yu, you came. ”
"Is it more than ten minutes...... Zhao Yu scratched his head, "But my feeling is that it is less than five minutes, and this time there is a difference in the time of teleportation?" It's called trouble, I don't know what time it is! ”
While talking, the two walked to the end of the corridor, and what appeared in front of them was an empty hall - if it was just "big", it would be good to say, Zhao Yu had seen it on the first floor, it was simply comparable to the size of a city, but at the moment this hall also has a characteristic of being empty, there are countless huge pillars in the first floor of the space, there are low walls and many buildings that you can't understand and don't have the opportunity to touch, and there is real-time monitoring that appears on the wall at any time, and this hall has nothing, In this space, which is the size of at least ten football fields, there are only a few doors left, except for the pattern that moves on the wall as usual. One leads to the hallway they just left, and the other comes in from outside, God knows where.
"Yo, what a coincidence, old man." The sudden sound made Zhao Yu instinctively raise his pistol, but he immediately relaxed, "Commander, are you here too?" ”
Borg held a cigarette in his mouth and a rifle in his hand: "Looks like everyone is coming to this hall...... Hunter, Christine, and Brittany have already set off, so don't be idle, I'll wait here a little longer to see if anyone else comes out. ”
Zhao Yu hesitated: "Hubert...... I don't think it will come. ”
"You've met?" Borg asked curiously, but he corrected his mood right away, "Okay, an unlucky guy...... Let's go! ”
Pasteur was surprised and asked, "What about the other one?" The white-haired gentleman ......"
"He's the one we don't need to worry about the most." Zhao Yu replied.
However, the situation on the entire second floor seems to be different from what was previously expected.
Just when the three of them were heading towards the opposite door, a bunch of pillars suddenly appeared on the ground of the hall, and then they all turned into five-meter-high hermit crabs, Zhao Yu was already in a cold sweat and wanted to fight hard, but found that this pile of hermit crabs didn't pay attention to them at all, waving their tentacles and running to the other side of the corridor.
"Maybe...... Something is wrong on the aliens' side? Zhao Yu guessed, "Since it's used to evaluate us, then at least pay attention to us anyway, right?" ”
Borg shrugged: "Who knows...... But it's not just right that the alien guy has a problem! ”
Zhao Yu still didn't dare to let his guard down, and looked back at the pile of hermit crabs as he walked, the door of the corridor was obviously not enough for these big guys to get into, so they broke up into smaller hermit crabs one after another, and rushed into the corridor in an orderly manner...... From start to finish, not a single hermit crab, large or small, showed even the slightest interest in them.
"There's definitely a problem...... Zhao Yu muttered, and was about to turn around to catch up with Borg and them, but he hit Borg's body head-on, "My nose ...... Commander, what are you doing? ”
Borg, however, did not answer him, and just stood there motionless.
They had already walked out of the gate by this time, and it was obvious that this gate was part of the interior of the mechanical tower, and outside the door was a wide and flat passage around the tower, about thirty meters wide and more than fifty meters high, and the passage was inclined at an angle, but it did not prevent people from moving further up.
But Borg Ansol's eyes don't stop on this path at all.
On the other side of the road near the outside of the tower, there is a large transparent wall that resembles a giant floor-to-ceiling window.
The scene outside the window was very clear in front of the three of them.
It was an endless sea of white clouds, the clouds were slowly churning and surging, and above this sea of clouds, there was a clear sky. As Zhao Yu remembers, the sky above his head is a perfect azure blue, which is the perfect background that no matter how many times he can't see it. And directly in front of them, the sea of clouds shines brightly, and it is the sun.
It remained unchanged, emitting a bright light that made it almost impossible to open one's eyes, casting the shadows of the three of them elongated onto the floor behind them.
For the past billions of years, it has been watching the Earth like it has always been, watching the magma on this tiny planet gradually cool, the oceans gradually forming, the land gradually emerging, the blue and green gradually covering the entire planet, generation after generation of life coming and going, active and dying, and then, truly intelligent races appeared, they expanded, they built, they studied, they cast their eyes more than once to the sun, to the galaxy, to the universe, but— They still regard their home planet, the only one that can accept their survival, as a battlefield.
"Old man......" Although the light was extremely bright, Borg was reluctant to blink his eyes, and after a while, he continued in a deep and muffled voice, "Is this the sky you have ever seen?" ”
Zhao Yu understood Borg's feelings in an instant. Although Borg may have seen the blue sky and the sun in pictures, videos, and even virtual reality countless times before, it should be the first time in his life that he has actually seen this scene with the naked eye.
The sun has been shining on the Earth for decades, but people on this continent have only seen lead-gray skies for as long as they can remember, so much so that at first glance, he can't even believe whether this scene is real or illusory.
"Yes, that's how the sky is." Zhao Yu replied, "It's brighter than the sun in the game, right?" ”
Borg nodded.
At this moment, there was a dull explosion in the hall behind them, and the entire giant tower seemed to tremble slightly.
Zhao Yu looked behind the door worriedly: "We should go, captain." ”
Borg struggled to withdraw his gaze from the direction of the sun, patted Zhao Yu on the shoulder, and turned his head to walk forward.