Chapter 455: Two Worlds
Chapter 455: Two Worlds and Realms
The whole mutation process lasted more than two hours, and sure enough, as Artemis said, it was a long time.
But we didn't look for books to kill time, as the other side said.
Because I was fooled by the bubble that "it is within my duty for a wife to prepare a bag for her husband's long trip", I suddenly found that I had put a lot of strange things in the space that little otaku girl put in my carry-on space, so a few of us pulled Artemis who couldn't cry and laughed online for two hours Interstellar 2, and it turned out that in front of the powerful sightseeing group of the Empire, there was no lower limit to not slipping.
Although she was startled by the bizarre scene around her at first, her shallow adaptability really deserved her title of "the most heartless imperial leader in history" (in the language of Shandora), but in ten minutes, she was able to calmly accept the scene of a flight of stairs dancing in front of her, and then she threw herself into the hot interstellar 2 journey, and while playing, the strength of the various races was how rubbish, the so-called battle cruiser formation added up to the scum with a combat power of only 5, The Madonna's ship was a ten-second fast gunner in front of the predator, and it was clear that the sweep of the three major races in the Kprustar region at that time had made this girl so confident and confused the game with reality that she could turn on the game and fill the screen to find where to get ravens and armored scorpions......
Anyway, the final result is that the three of Shallow, Artemis, and my sister were abused by me, Lilina, and Lin Xue together.
I'm really curious, what my sister plans to do with more than 150 farmers......
"If I run out of mines on the entire map in advance, won't I be able to cut off your supplies?"
My sister explained it so with confidence.
Sister, you're a natural military strategist, but unfortunately, Blizzard's engineers aren't ......
"You're really ...... Incredible"
Artemis said with a tangled expression as the surrounding movement calmed down and the crumbling walls returned to their original positions like a video rewind.
Cut, you haven't seen the more boring guys in the Undercity, the two skeletons are fighting to tear each other's ribs
"Does this happen often?" My sister looked at the crack in the opposite wall and closed it, and then asked Artemis curiously.
"There is no pattern," Artemis let out a sigh, although he could face the scene calmly, but a little nervousness was inevitable, "Sometimes this building will last for a year or two without moving, sometimes there will be several changes a day, and in the worst cases, we even have to take refuge in the open space outside, but that needs to be done in a calm time between the two mutations, and if the second mutation comes too quickly, it is even more dangerous to leave the room rashly, while the mutation is underway, In addition to the fact that the interior of the room does not distort, every corridor and staircase in the entire building is unsafe, and we did not know about this situation due to lack of experience, and when the anomaly began, a partner tried to run out of the corridor, and the result was ...... Now he is still pressed under a certain pillar on the first floor, and some people say that they have seen him in class, Sa, who knows what to do......"
Artemis said as he tore a piece of paper from the book at his feet, took out a large marker from his pocket, wrote on the paper the words "Department of Chemistry", and walked to the door on his own, and we looked at us and followed.
The scene outside has been turned upside down, the activity room of the Department of Chemistry that was originally located at the end of a corridor is now facing an elevator, the distance between the elevator door and the door of the activity room is less than two meters, and on the wall next to the elevator, several cracks are rapidly dispersing, and after a while, the sudden appearance of the elevator is integrated with the surrounding walls.
Artemis didn't pay attention to the sudden elevator, but turned around, jumping to try to reach the sign at the door of the activity room, but her height was obviously not enough, and several attempts were unsuccessful - if it was Pandora, I guess the girl would have pulled the entire door frame down, right?
"Do me a favor and put this on it." Artemis flipped over the paper with large scribbles in his hand and sprayed it twice with the spray paint he had brought with him, "while the paint is still dry." β
I took the piece of paper, which looked a little dirty, and when I turned around, I saw a piece of cardboard with the word "Library" on the unfamiliar door number next to it, and under the cardboard, there seemed to be several layers, making the original good door number unrecognizable.
"Every time it mutates, the walls, corridors, stairs, and roofs change, and although it doesn't last long, it can at least let everyone know where to settle safely in a short period of time."
Artemis said in a very normal tone, she was used to such things.
I helped glue the temporary new "door number" to the door plate, which had become almost an irregular rectangle due to the layers of cardboard, and asked curiously, "This building is so weird, why don't you change places?" β
"Only here can protect us from falling asleep," Artemis shrugged, "After that night, only the teachers and students who remained in this building became awakened, and the people outside all became sleeping ghosts, and after a few attempts, I also found that although everyone around me can stay awake well, only when I am in this building, my own ability can be more effective, we have tried to let some of our companions live in a nearby dormitory building before, but after a few days, They all disappeared. β
"It's terrible."
Lilina muttered, then looked up, "How do you find your way through the mutated building?" Everything here is out of shape, right? β
"Patience, seriousness, and luck," Artemis pouted, then turned and pressed the door of the new elevator, opposite the door of a long staircase, "In this world, even if you don't eat, you won't starve, you just feel hungry, as long as you are careful, don't fall into dangerous places when finding your way, it's okay, I used to spend four days and four nights finding the way from the sixth floor to the fifth floor, and it wasn't impossible...... Come on, maybe you're very good, but here, I'm afraid your skills are useless. β
Artemis is right, the information here is so chaotic that all the probes we released earlier have lost contact in this building, and even if they still have signals, I'm afraid the contradictory data will be of little reference.
Led by Artemis, we walked through this narrow and twisting passage, the steps under our feet were at first upward, but after less than ten meters it became a steep descent, there was no light in the passage, but there was always a certain amount of light to keep us from rushing in the dark.
"There is a certain pattern of mutation, for example, the staircase on the odd-numbered floor will definitely become downward after the mutation, but the opposite is true for the even-numbered floor, and the north-south corridor will slope upwards after the mutation...... Well, sometimes it's not necessarily, ah, there's a door in front. β
Artemis suddenly made a discovery, and less than a few meters in front of us, on the left wall, appeared a bright yellow door, which was only half exposed to the outside, while the other half was hidden under the staircase.
"Well, if there's someone inside and the whole door is sealed, will the people inside be blocked in the room?"
Looking at the wooden door, which was usually hidden under the stairs, he asked curiously.
"No, although there have been cases of hiding in the room and not being able to get out because of the result of the building mutation, but in this world, if you don't eat, drink, or die, you just need to wait until the next mutation to come out, according to our experience, a room will not be sealed twice in a row, and under normal circumstances, the room that is completely sealed will experience a second small range of movement in a short period of time, and it seems that this building still retains the definition of 'door'...... But perhaps there are exceptions to these experiences that we have summarized, there have been cases where the partners who hid in the room disappeared after the architectural mutation and never returned, including the room where they used to hide, I don't know where the passage has moved, many things in this twisted building have disappeared, we don't know if they are hidden in a tangled corridor or if they have really disappeared...... This door seems to open and come and help me. β
Artemis pushed the blocked door a few times, and when he saw that it was opening inward, he turned back to us and beckoned for help.
"Be careful, hold on to the wall next to you, the door may open all at once, if the opposite side is in a dangerous place, fall in and it will be over...... Well, I don't know if you care about that kind of environment, anyway, we have lost more than a dozen partners because of it. β
"You don't seem to care about them?"
I stepped forward and gently pushed the unmoving yellow wooden door, and asked with a puzzled tilt of my head.
"Of course not," Artemis immediately retorted loudly, but then turned his head away, "you won't understand...... Well, there's movement across the door......"
Sure enough, when we were quiet, the faint grinding sound from the opposite side of the door became obvious, as if something of great mass was dragging on the floor, along the way, with the sound of friction and the cracking of cement, Artemis pressed his head against the door panel and listened, and then suddenly raised his head, with obvious panic on his face: "It's still moving in there...... Run"
It's already a step too late.
Before Artemis could finish speaking, the wooden door slammed into scattered debris, and the entire wall on our side was suddenly shattered by something of great mass rushing from the opposite side, and shards of cement mixed with steel bars bloomed from the wall like flowers, and swept towards Artemis who had not had time to dodge, and the shocked expression on the blonde girl's face did not have time to fade, and she was about to be swallowed by this storm that was a hundred times stronger than a bomb explosion.
But in the next moment, everything was still.
"You're right, you really should be careful here."
Asashi stepped forward and roughly pulled up Artemis, who was still in a daze, and dragged the limp girl forward quickly, while we followed, leaving behind the fragments that had hovered in the air as time stood still.
It still took us nearly three minutes to get out of the narrow and dangerous passage, and Artemis snapped his fingers when he fell to the ground with a shallow flick of his hand.
"Boom"
A series of muffled voices rang out in the corridor behind us, and after a while, the pungent smell of lime powder and soot wafted out of there.
Artemis looked at the completely collapsed passage in horror, and only raised her head stiffly for a while, and before she could speak, she impatiently threw out a sentence: "Shut up"
Well, that's hard enough for strangers......
"Don't be surprised, her second personality is like that, no malice," I smiled awkwardly, and smacked the blackened shallow head with no severity, and the latter immediately bared his teeth menacingly at meβand turned back.
"Was that time standing still?" Artemis asked cautiously.
"That's right, we used this trick to catch you in the first place" The pride on her face, the naughty little girl's form was like two people compared to the cold and rude appearance just now.
"I didn't expect to really see ...... in the real world" Artemis sighed slightly excitedly, in exchange for my complaint: "Do you still think those are all YY in your head?" β
The sudden occurrence of a small crisis is just an inconspicuous episode, according to Artemis's description, this is the first time such a thing has happened, the mutation of the entire building has not stopped at the same time, but there is still a part of the destruction of the already stable building structure because of the continued mutation, but in this strange world, almost every day there will be unexplained and unseen things, as if the dusk suddenly disappeared a few days ago, the surviving awakened have become accustomed to facing this kind of disaster calmly, It even reached the point where it was a joke for the rest of his life.
"If it wasn't in a narrow passageway, but in a wide hallway or classroom, you could have avoided it, so it's not that scary, is it?"
Artemis said lightly with an unpretentious smile on her face.
"Child, you are mentally ill, you have to be cured." Lilina looked serious and planned to start soliciting clients for herself, since she blackmailed Renault and Uncle Z several times in a row in the Kpoplus area, this little girl has become more and more fond of being a god.
"I don't need to," Artemis replied crisply, "in this hellish place, it's not a bad thing to be mentally extreme. β
"Lost lamb......" Lilina shook her head, a look of compassion.
Regardless of the interest that this nasty pseudo-loli had in Artemis, we finally found the activity room where we met for the first time under the latter's leadership, and it was clearly well thought out as the center of activity for the Awakened, and the displacement it produced was minimal in the entire building, and there were no major changes to the main passages connected to it, and in the corner of the corridor near the activity room, we saw a conspicuous red arrow, and the arrow was also marked "Headquarters, Safe Direction" According to Artemis, after each architectural anomaly, members of the Awakened are obligated to mark the new safe passage they have found, so that they can quickly reunite after being separated by the displacement of the room.
We seemed to be a little late, there were already a lot of people gathered in the activity room, at a glance it looked like there should be one or twenty, all dressed as middle school students, they should be the only remaining members of the Awakened now, when they saw Artemis appear, everyone showed a clear sigh of relief, and then everyone's eyes focused on us with unfamiliar faces.
"When we are newcomers," I said directly to Artemis in a spiritual connection, "we are not sure if we can help you yet, and the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, so don't let them know who we are." β
"Understood." Artemis agreed, and then said loudly to the crowd opposite: "The mutation is over, I'm glad to see everyone still standing here, Huwen and Suzune should have informed everyone about the arrival of these newcomers......"
All the survivors have shown great enthusiasm for our accession, from the initial loss of hundreds to only one or twenty people now, the light of hope in the hearts of these "awakened" may have long since faded, even with Artemis's astonishing influence to support them, it will not change the fact that everyone is demoralized, but now our presence has obviously greatly alleviated the situation.
New partners, and five people appeared at a time, even if the gloomy status quo of this world world has not changed, the addition of fresh blood is enough to make them happy.
And the result of the joy is a small but lively party, the morning because there was no immediate welcome party Huwen now finally got his wish, this guy who looks a lot like a bad boy is actually quite straightforward and warm-hearted, when Artemis announces that there will be a long-lost party in the evening, the excited Huwen almost alone took on fifty percent of the preparations.
Because it is a rare opportunity to relax, naturally everyone wants to be able to relax their tense nerves, Artemis specially allows everyone to spend this evening outside the "old building", leaving this strange building for a short time will not immediately make people fall into a "deep sleep", but can make people temporarily forget the twisted scenes in the absurd shelter, therefore, the awakened people will usually put all kinds of celebrations, parties and other things outside the old building, after all, although the world outside is more dangerous, But at least it looks pretty good.
The meeting took place in the open space of the campus not very far from the old building, and the awakened collected a large amount of firewood from the vicinity, most of them came from the desks, chairs and benches in the classrooms, and some were dry branches from the nearby flower beds, these things were piled up in a large pile, as fuel for the bonfire, and all the survivors of the entire world world gathered around this bright flame, releasing great joy that was incomprehensible to outsiders, and not far from the meeting place, dozens of meters away, was the dormitory building area of this school, where the lights were bright, You can vaguely see the students inside moving in the dormitory,The gathering of the awakened is huge,Hu Wen doesn't know where to find the sound that sent a series of inexplicable noises to the entire school park,But the people in those dormitories didn't hear it.,Completely unaffected by the sound here.,Only occasionally one or two "students" glanced at this side with dull eyes.,And then continue to do what you're doing.γ
The dormitory building not far away, the bonfire party close at hand, is obviously in front of me, but it seems to be two independent worlds, looking at such a scene, the feeling in my heart is indescribable.
"That building is like a beast that chooses to devour people," Lilina seemed to drink a little wine, staggered over, and then sat down next to me crookedly, and then leaned over and lay down on my lap, with her little hand outstretched, and tremblingly pointing to the old building not far away, "but they had to accept the protection of the thing...... Boss, can we help them? β
"Of course," I patted Lilina's sleepy silly face lightly, with a confident expression, "Don't forget, your boss is the best person in the world."
"Hmm......" Lilina's confused voice came, "and, the best daddy......"
Me: "......"