Chapter 16: Dream Jellyfish

At the time, they didn't realize that they were encountering some kind of creature. The telescope's observation of the outside world is still a vast sea of clouds, as dark as if it is in a huge cave.

As for the reflection of the outside world from the window, it is completely a vast cloud of clouds in the tower-like clouds, and the clouds in the distance are only the outlines of nothingness, which are hidden from each other, like mountains on top of each other.

When everyone was awake, they began to monitor the descent of the Dead or Alive.

Gu Chuan stared into the depths of the cloud world, trying to find the interface of the netherworld, but only saw heavy clouds and mist.

"Is there a good thing or a bad thing?"

At that time, Zai Yan said.

"What's the matter?"

"No snowflakes, no debris drops."

It's a strange phenomenon, since the Death or Life has sailed in the Netherworld, there hasn't been a day that hasn't dropped something from its hull.

Just as they were thinking, the waterwheel and the sail suddenly stopped obeying the command, but somehow broke through to the periphery of the tower-like cloud. This phenomenon made the passengers in the ship break out in a cold sweat.

Fortunately, after only a few moments, the waterwheel and the sail began to move in the other direction, away from the thin edge of the towery cloud, but the unusual behavior never stopped. The whole Dead or Alive, like a reptile spinning in circles, froze in mid-air, swaying, as if resisting some kind of pressure.

There is only one kind of pressure that the watermill and the sail resist, and that is the liquid.

The obstruction of their vision forced them to log out of the Dead or Alive, trying to figure out what had happened to the Dead or Alive.

It's just that who would have thought that the moment Gu Chuan opened the hatch on the top cover of the exhaust chamber, colorless water with a fishy smell gushed down from that gap, as if it was a faucet that could no longer be stopped. Against the resistance, he hurriedly closed the hatch. But the water had reached the soles of his feet, reaching the corners of the walls, and piling up white foam.

Not only can the exhaust chamber exhaust air, but also the water.

The exhaust chamber has side chambers and is the room used for cleaning. Gu Chuan left his shoes in the exhaust room, and washed himself barefoot in this washroom with hot water repeatedly to prevent the unknown liquid from being brought to the dead or alive. When the washing was finished, the wet young man left the side room with a cloth.

By the time he arrived at the Outer General Observation Room, Zai had already measured the colorless water in a cogwheel manner.

"I distilled a sample of this liquid." "At the interface of the water evaporation temperature, the sampled liquid loses 80 percent of its mass, which can be assumed to contain about 70 percent water," he said. ”

"And what about the remaining thirty percent of the mass?"

The young man sat next to the telescope with his head shaky, his head resting on his hands, which fell loosely on the table.

"It's hard to say."

Zai Yan said with a straight face:

"First of all, it may contain a certain amount of netherworld matter, but it is difficult to say how much. I knocked on the side, and determined that the content of the rest of the matter accounted for about twenty-five percent, so the content of the nether matter should be less than five percent. ”

The evaporation point of the Netherworld Matter is uncertain, and the Cogwheel Man did not measure it until it was recalled due to the Answer City Incident. At high temperatures, the netherworld matter evaporates. But when it's cold, it also emits a cloud of smoke.

Gu Chuan knew this very well.

"And what about the other 25 percent?"

"It's complicated."

Zai Yan said.

In Gu Chuan's earth dialect, the main body is electrolytes based on various inorganic salts, and the rest is protein, sugar, and lipids.

In the cogwheel language system, the last three categories are classified as non-cogwheel animal organizations.

The judgment of animal tissues contained in colorless liquids is based on the analysis of air temperature after evaporation at high temperatures. The smell of burning animal tissues resembles that of burnt feathers, which Zaiyi once smelled.

He couldn't understand why pouring water into the Dead or Living had the smell of burnt animal tissue when heated.

"I thought there might have been animal carcasses in these waters......"

"If it's a corpse, it's probably not fresh."

Chu Yun knew half of their biological knowledge. She stood to the side and calmly spoke her mind.

"That's true."

Zai replied with difficulty.

In the hazy fog outside the window, the face of Gu Chuan, who raised his head and turned his head, was reflected. He looked at his distorted face in the fog and thought for a moment.

When you don't realize it, the fog is just fog.

Now when he realizes it, he looks at the fog outside, and he feels that there is a curtain of water, so that the fog is no longer natural and normal.

He turned his head to look at the people in the observation room outside, and said:

"So, could we be in the body of a fluid-filled animal?"

The three of them looked at each other.

It was Mr. Dandan, who broke the silence. The hard-boiled egg, which had just woken up, rode through its sleeping box and unhurriedly landed in the exterior observation room. After Gu Chuan described the current situation succinctly, it raised its head in the posture of a king, stared at its small eyes, and said in surprise:

"You've got a good idea. That's a big animal...... So I'm in this creature, am I considered to have been eaten? ”

"This ......"

The young man laughed:

"I'm afraid it can't be counted. You haven't been digested yet? You're not dead! Why don't you go out and have a look on yourself? ”

Before Mr. Dandan, who was confused, understood the whole situation, he stupidly agreed to the young man's request, and inexplicably became one of the candidates for the outward survey.

This time it was a job in the water, and Gu Chuan decided to play in person again.

Mr. Egg claims that it can move flexibly in the water. It said not jokingly, solemnly:

"Don't look at me so plump, in fact, I am a very light and slender gentleman. I'm in the water, I can float! I'm very flexible in the water! ”

Naturally, it wants to be eaten and die a good death, and it doesn't even need protective equipment.

Gu Chuan put on the gear man's protective suit as usual, tied a safety rope, and even connected a ventilated airtight rubber hose - the gear man accidentally also had rubber - and came to the exhaust chamber with the egg.

This time, they were ready, first opened the hatch and released water into the exhaust chamber, and when the water was calm and the water pressure was about the same, the two of them jumped out of the cabin and came to the surface of the Dead or Alive.

Indeed, the Death or Life was surrounded by this body of water.

The gentle water soaked through their bodies, and the young man kicked his legs in the water.

The movement of the water was not fast, but slow, leisurely rippling, which reminded him of the small river in Rizhao Village. He spread his arms and felt a subtle pressure push the water to splash and drum around him.

Then he kicked his foot and swam to a higher position, like a free little fish.

Inside the boat, Zai Yan and Hatsuyun were standing next to the glass wall, staring at the figures outside.

Zai asked:

"Where you were born, there's a lot of water, isn't it?"

At that time, Gu Chuan swam higher. Hatsuyun raised his eyes and followed him closely. The Gear Man looked sideways, as if reading a pure and immaculate search in her eyes, a search that puzzled the Gear Man. Chu Yun said after a while:

"Yes, there is a big river in our hometown. I live in the upper reaches of the river, and he lives in the lower reaches of the river, with countless weights in between"

"Is the river just a long canyon filled with water?"

Zai asked.

Chu Yun was amazed by his description:

"That's true...... I don't know how deep the river is, though. Our river is extremely clear. Previously, we have spoken about the sun in the question of celestial bodies. The light of our sun is reflected in the water all year round, and the light is golden. ”

Zai Yan couldn't help but imagine such a golden river, and he said incomprehensibly:

"Water is a useful industrial resource that can be used as a solvent. There is so much water in your land, and yet there is so little water in the great wilderness...... Can't nature be even? ”

Hatsuyun laughed heartily, and she said something philosophical to the Gear Man:

"Excess and deficiency are the spontaneous laws of nature."

This is not the words of Chu Yun, but the statement of the Twenty-Four Divisions when he taught the Twenty-Four Divisions.

They saw that Mr. Balls wasn't lying. The egg did float in the water, and even narrowed its eyes comfortably, and the thought spread endlessly.

"It's a painful thing to be eaten, but it doesn't seem to be a painful thing to be eaten in comfort. If only the venom of all the predators in the world could bring comfort like the bodily fluids of this creature...... Very reasonable! Alas, predators should evolve more to this attribute! Then we, the prey waiting to be reincarnated, will definitely fall into the net! Isn't that the best of both worlds......"

When Gu Chuan looked back and saw that this egg didn't even open his eyes, but was spinning and talking nonsense at the same time, he knew that this thing really had no hope.

He flicked his arms speechlessly and swam higher.

Different depths of liquids will bring different levels of pressure, which is the knowledge that Gu Chuan acquired in middle school.

And according to his intuition of growing up near the water in this life, he also felt that he was already very close to the edge of this body of water, and with a small leap of his arm, he could rise above the water.

And the rope around his waist does not restrain his flight, but will guide him to where he first was.

With the splash of water bursting out, Gu Chuan poked his head out of the water and saw the netherworld clouds that were clearer than before.

When you break through the water, you feel like a translucent curtain has been opened...... Or fingers deep into the condensed grease that covers the water. When he poked his head out, the "grease" wrapped around his protective suit, barely revealing the gaps.

He looked down and saw only a sparkling sparkle in the dark world, sprinkled on the water at the end. This is the light of the Death or Life Horn wrapped in the middle of the body of water, swimming in the water without stopping.

It has edges and ends.

The young man stretched a little higher, and saw in the light of the lights in the water that it was the shape of an open sphere resembling an umbrella.

Moreover, the sphere is not stationary......

It seems to be drifting upwards.

When it moved, its whole body trembled slightly, and the surface of the water seemed to be wrinkled by the wind. And the front end of its movement is the young man who has broken its body.

Gu Chuan was puzzled at first, but after sensing the slight resistance of the surrounding water surface, he immediately realized the answer:

"I stimulated it!"

So he shrank his head down. Sure enough, this grotesque body of water no longer went up. And he saw some netherworld clouds disappear into the water with his head shrunk.

The slight tremor of the liquid disappeared, which undoubtedly strengthened Gu Chuan's confidence and allowed him to confirm the connection.

He tried to poke out of the water again, and sure enough, the body of water began to move in the direction of his head again, so he quickly reached back.

The tremor that represents the movement of the water body disappears again.

His confidence was boosted, and he began to swim back briskly.

And Mr. Dandan was still floating comfortably in the water until he was caught by Gu Chuan, so he said in a daze:

"The hot water was also very comfortable......

This is because of Gu Chuan's excessively high body temperature.

"Don't be hot or cold! We're back! ”

Mr. Dandan's eyes snapped open and he found himself being dragged back into the exhaust room. As soon as the hatch closed, the exhaust chamber filled with water quickly ran out in the carefully designed pipes of the gear man.

Then the young man who took off his clothes dragged Mr. Dandan, opened the hot water pipe and took a shower to wash away the bodily fluids of the huge creature on his body.

Mr. Dandan leaned dejectedly at Gu Chuan's feet, looking sullen.

The hot water that spewed out of the tube flowed through the young man's cold and well-proportioned body, and finally fell on Mr. Ball's head along the lines of the outer abdomen.

The strange creatures of the wilderness let out a sigh:

"Alas......"

"What's wrong? Are you upset about being dragged back by me? ”

The young man laughed happily.

"Not really, it's just that I'm thinking, such a comfortable liquid doesn't seem to be able to digest me, it's useless in the end, and immersing myself in it is just a long-term prison sentence."

To Gu Chuan's surprise, this egg's understanding is still very transparent.

Mr. Dandan raised his head in the rinse of water and saw the fibrotic scar on the young man's abdomen, which didn't matter at first, but after looking at it for a long time, it suddenly startled and asked in a loud voice:

"What's in your belly? What are you? ”

Gu Chuan was startled by his voice, lowered his head, and saw that it was his own wound before he replied:

"It's a wound from a previous operation."

After he finished speaking, he put on his clothes and went straight to the external observation room, where he communicated his findings with Zaiyun and Hatsukumo.

After listening to his words, Zai Yan fell into deep thought.

"If this is a giant creature, how do we get out of its grip and out of its body of water?"

"Maybe you need to kill this creature...... Gu Chuan frowned and said, "When I break open its skin, there is an obvious exchange of substances, so if I completely tear its skin open, we can get out of it." ”

They had a heated discussion, but Chu Yun kept looking out the window before he said:

"What if we broke through this body of water not in a tower-like cloud, but in a non-cloud belt where netherworld matter is extremely thin?"

"It will fall in a straight line for hundreds of meters, and if there is no cloud in the middle, or the quality of the cloud is not enough, it may fall in a straight line for thousands of meters."

Zai replied naturally.

Then, he and Gu Chuan both realized something and looked out the window.

The water in this huge body of water trembled in the microwaves, shaking abnormal ripples.

Then, it had swam out of the edge of the tower-like cloud, carrying an unidentified glowing object in its body, and flew briskly and freely in the netherworld.

There were no clouds around, only a long band of clouds in the distance could be seen stretching across the sky.

And around it, and its companions, surrounded it in the center, for it was radiating the light of death or life.