Chapter 101: Contact
Zhang Zicheng looked at the picture from the mobile phone screen, and controlled the dragonfly drone to fly towards the figure.
As the distance of the dragonfly drone gets closer and closer, the image obtained by the system through the super white blood cells inside the dragonfly drone becomes clearer and clearer.
But since the other party was cowering in the stream with his head down, only the man's long hair and bony back could be seen from above.
"Is it a woman?" Zhang Zicheng was not sure, he tried to let the dragonfly drone land and check the front of the person.
However, after zooming in closer, Zhang Zicheng was surprised to find ...... The other party turned out to be washing large chunks of meat in the stream.
Fat and thin strips of meat were placed on the riverbed, and the man meticulously scrubbed the dirt from them. Not only that, but this person was also covered with several pieces of animal skins of limited size, which could barely cover the vital parts, which were obviously the fur of those wild boars that were hunted illegally.
Seeing these meats and furs, Zhang Zicheng was already convinced that the other party was definitely the person the police were looking for.
So what's next? Direct police report the location of this person?
Of course not, Zhang Zicheng is also very curious about the origin of this person, and what the reasons for the various behaviors made by the other party. The main thing is that he wants to take the initiative of information and does not want any supernatural factors other than himself to appear in reality.
So Zhang Zicheng simply stood up, and while monitoring the other party with the dragonfly drone, he directly controlled the spiritual energy and ran towards the other party's position.
It's only 30 kilometers, less than 10 minutes.
Even in the mountains and forests, Zhang Zicheng walked in a straight line, and when he encountered a high slope, he climbed it up in two or three times. When I encountered a mountain stream, I didn't even slow down, I directly accelerated and ran far away and jumped over like flying.
This kind of joyful action is like running, and Zhang Zicheng also feels a kind of freedom from the relationship between body and space.
However, just when Zhang Zicheng was about to arrive at the other party's location, he saw a surprising and shocking scene through the dragonfly drone.
I saw the suspicious figure...... Suddenly, he shook the meat in his hand and threw it into the air.
Then, the flesh suddenly disappeared!
And the other party did not stop the movement of his hand, one after another, throwing all the meat into the air, as if there was an invisible monster there, devouring the meat.
Eventually, the meat was gone, and the man stooped down in the brook to drink the water, then stood up and walked in the direction where the meat had disappeared, and in an instant there was no trace of it.
When Zhang Zicheng came here, there was no trace of it.
It's as if no one has ever been here.
"System, you saw it too, right? What's going on here? ”
Zhang Zicheng frowned and asked the system.
The other party's behavior, whether it is stealth or entering some kind of unknown space, seems to be too supernatural.
This kind of thing has never happened in the past few months, Zhang Zicheng only hopes that it is not the so-called aura revival, the awakening of the supernatural, and he doesn't like that kind of script.
And the system quickly replied to him.
[After the environment is scanned, there are subtle fluctuations in space and gravity, these fluctuations are like water waves, they are still moving and changing, are they tracked?] 】
Zhang Zicheng was stunned for a moment, and was immediately overjoyed.
Unexpectedly, the system could track it, Zhang Zicheng hurriedly said: "Of course tracking, the content you scan will be displayed in the screen sent back by the dragonfly drone." ”
Then Zhang Zicheng immediately saw through the field of vision of the dragonfly drone that was in the air, and the area deliberately wrapped by the system with translucent blue.
It was like a blue balloon that bounced slightly when it touched the ground, and was slowly pulled to the ground by gravity in mid-air.
This bulge that seems to be a drum of time and space continues to move at this seemingly slow and fast speed.
Zhang Zicheng tried to touch the bulge, but nothing happened, and nothing changed in his own vision.
But in the third-person perspective of the dragonfly drone, Zhang Zicheng found that after touching the bulge, his arm was strangely bent and lengthened a short distance.
"What's going on?" Zhang Zicheng said in amazement.
The system immediately replied: [This time bubble is formed by stripping a small part of the space-time of the three people, but it continues to adhere to the original space-time, and wraps itself in the backflip. 】
[As the existence of this dimension itself, it is normal for you to not be able to perceive changes in space-time, because whether it is the photons you can receive or the magnetic field you are exposed to, they are also within the influence of the air bubble at this time, and you cannot obtain any reference material information to inform your brain that there is an abnormality here. 】
[As for why it bounces up after touching the ground, it is not within the scope of natural laws, and should be an artificial design.] 】
Zhang Zicheng roughly understood, but he couldn't summarize a more concise description than the system.
So Zhang Zicheng communicated with the system about the basic concepts of time and space, and carried out daily learning, while following this strange bubble of time.
That's six hours.
The sky had completely darkened, and the last rays of the setting sun were swallowed up by the night.
Fortunately, the air quality in my hometown is still good, the stars and the moon are bright at night, and the slightest light source provided can make the eyes that have been strengthened by spiritual energy see at night, and everything is as clear as day.
Zhang Zicheng didn't follow closely the whole time, he wasn't sure if the people inside the air bubble could see the outside at this time, so he basically stopped and stopped, most of the time hiding in a position that couldn't be seen in a straight line, and confirmed the direction through the dragonfly drone.
Finally, just when Zhang Zicheng couldn't control it and wanted to yawn, the air bubble finally began to tremble.
Zhang Zicheng did not act rashly for the time being, which was thought out from the beginning. If the other party plans to come out, then he will always go back in the end, and he can't startle the snake when he comes out, and then find a way to stop it before the other party goes back.
So, Zhang Zicheng saw the figure before, as if passing through the water, 'floating' out of the bubble of the air of time.
As soon as the other party landed, he looked around vigilantly, constantly turning around, and looking back and forth at the surrounding environment.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Zicheng was also relieved, it was obvious that when he was in the bubble, the other party could not view the external environment.
And the purpose of the other party coming out seems to be to collect firewood.
But this man didn't even look at the dry wood and fallen leaves on the ground, and actually stared at a tall tree beside him. The other party was like a monkey, deftly climbed up, grasped the lowest branch of the big tree, and used it hard, only to hear a click, and the thick branch broke in response.
Zhang Zicheng was really surprised when he saw this scene.
This is not a dead tree, it is a very good tree, vigorous and full of life. Such a tree is not only dense, but also extremely tough, not to mention being broken by someone, even if it is cut with an axe, it is not so easy to cut down.
Of course, Zhang Zicheng shook his head, feeling that he still had the habitual thinking of the past, and for him now, breaking such a branch is not much more difficult than crushing a leaf.
And the other party's raised face, under the moonlight, finally let Zhang Zicheng see the other party's face clearly.
"What a woman?" Zhang Zicheng muttered with a strange expression.
How so......
The other party does look a little weird.
If I had to say it, it was a bit like Alita, a battle angel, with bigger eyes than normal, but her thin body was a bit like a normal version of her skin, and she was thin and pale.
Compared with the big eyes and the thin figure, the sense of incongruity is a little heavier.
Seeing that the other party was dragging a huge tree trunk and jumping down, and was about to drag the trunk back to the air bubble, Zhang Zicheng immediately controlled the dragonfly drone and hid in the branches and leaves of the tree trunk.
Although he really wanted to follow up while the other party didn't react, Zhang Zicheng couldn't be sure if there was a dangerous situation in it that he couldn't solve.
After all, she is just an ordinary person who can use psionic energy, and this thin woman has a lot of strength, although she may not be as strong as herself, but as long as there are twenty beings of the same strength, if she goes to a small area with insufficient space, she is also at risk of overturning.
Zhang Zichengke has been reminding himself that he is in reality, not a high-dimensional overlooking a low-dimensional, and he can't do too risky things.
And then......
Zhang Zicheng watched as the tree trunk was engulfed by the air bubble little by little, and the dragonfly drone fell straight from the air.
"What's the situation? Discovered? ”
Zhang Zicheng took two steps forward and picked up the dragonfly drone on the ground.
However, he realized that he could no longer control the dragonfly drone.
The super white blood cell mass in the core of the dragonfly drone is gone.
Zhang Zicheng was amazed, and quickly closed his eyes, trying to communicate with the super white blood cells with his will.
Fortunately, perhaps it was a similar ancient time, and Zhang Zicheng easily reconnected with the missing super white blood cells.
With this connection, the system can obtain the photons felt by those super white blood cells through the power of will, so as to obtain visual information.
Zhang Zicheng held the mobile phone, and the system had already shown himself the scene in the bubble of time from the perspective of the super white blood cells.
The skinny girl in front of her is still dragging the branches, so the picture is constantly changing.
The first thing Zhang Zicheng saw was a ceiling made of almost a single piece of tiles, but if you look around, almost every wall in this boxy room with exits on every wall is of similar material.
The girl dragged the branch through an exit in the lower left corner of the room to another room.
This room is a little smaller than the previous one, but in addition to the overall boxy appearance, it also has a variety of irrational structures.
For example, several pitch-black corners without any light, several slides that extend from the ceiling, and some steep and hidden steps.
Zhang Zicheng suspects that behind these seemingly passable roads, there is a high probability that there are similar rooms.
Immediately, the entire field of vision was covered by a flame, and then nothing could be seen.
System Says: [The other party starts a fire, and your super white blood cells can't withstand the heat and are dead. 】
Zhang Zicheng sighed, recalled a dragonfly drone, and monitored the air bubble again.
As long as you know that there is really only one person on the other side...... The place over there is so big, but so empty, Zhang Zicheng feels that at least on the surface, there should be no danger.
However, just in case, Zhang Zicheng still decided that when the skinny girl came out again, he would first capture the other party, interrogate him with specific information, and then see if he wanted to go to that somewhat strange place according to the information.
But the girl was lighting a fire...... It's obvious that I'm going to barbecue and eat meat, and I don't know when the next time I will come out.
Zhang Zicheng could only reluctantly continue to follow.
At the same time, he communicated with the system about the strange thing.
"System, can you see how the air bubbles work when that little girl goes in and out?"
[No, this kind of technology is too complex and involves too many high-dimensional physical laws for the system to parse.] 】
As he spoke, the system paused: [However, this girl's DNA is obviously not an earth human. 】
Zhang Zicheng was stunned.
Although he had already guessed in his mind, the other party's appearance really made him feel unbelievable.
Zhang Zicheng's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "What do you mean...... She's an alien? ”
[This possibility cannot be ruled out.] 】
"Wait, wait." Zhang Zicheng rubbed his eyebrows and raised his hand to stop it.
He asked again in disbelief, "Do you mean that this thing that drinks blood and wears animal skins on its body, and wants to collect firewood and make a fire by himself...... Is TM an alien? ”
[I just don't rule out the possibility.] 】
The system is still very calm, after all, it does not care about this external phenomenon of socialization.
[Due to the temporal and spatial factors involved, there is also the possibility of people in parallel worlds, or genetic variants.] 】
When Zhang Zicheng heard this speculation, he calmed down.
"Indeed...... Just like the two lower dimensions that we are exposed to, the data of the dimension itself is the same, but there are plural parallel universes. Therefore, the existence of parallel universes in the higher dimensions is not a great thing. ”
Having said that, Zhang Zicheng's heart is not calm.
I really didn't expect it...... The real earth usually looks calm, but if something really happens, it will give itself a big one at once.
Compared with people or aliens who come into contact with parallel worlds, Zhang Zicheng is a little eager to awaken the ability of ordinary earthlings.
Just guessing the identity of the other party, while following the air bubble forward.
Zhang thought he would have to wait at least six hours or more, or at least until dawn. Unexpectedly, this time, the air bubble wandered for 2 hours after chasing, and the other party slipped out of it again.
Zhang Zicheng didn't expect the other party to appear so soon, so he didn't pay too much attention to concealment. The other party has obviously experienced several times of safe entry and exit, and has also relaxed his vigilance.
Just like this, back and forth, extremely abruptly, the two of them looked at each other, and the distance between them was no more than half a meter.
“……”
Zhang Zicheng stretched out his hand, grabbed the arm of the girl who turned her head and wanted to go back, and pulled her out of the bubble directly.
The other party naturally refused to let others slaughter honestly, and suddenly let out a threatening roar like a small beast, struggling on the ground indiscriminately, like a bulldozer slamming the dirt everywhere.
Although Zhang Zicheng was not polite, Shan was not too rude...... It's really a bit big a power gap.
Controlling each other is as easy as actually controlling a little girl.
So the thin girl's voice gradually changed from a threatening roar to a mournful cry like begging for mercy.
"W-w-w-"
(End of chapter)