Chapter 25: "Nepenthes"

World...... It was completely turned upside down.

Yan Jingxing felt that he was gradually being swallowed by a huge whirlpool, and completely lost consciousness in the terrifying drowning feeling that was difficult to break free; And when he came to his senses, he felt like he was being spit out by the whirlpool.

Dazzling flashes, violent vibrations...... Everything was coming out like a sudden storm, and soon the clouds and rain subsided, and his eyes were closed, waiting until his surroundings had calmed down before he was allowed to move his eyes.

"Hmm...... W-What ......?"

He subconsciously opened his mouth, but could only make a muffled sound; At the same time, the eyelids become difficult to open, as if they are stuck with glue.

It's like being thrown into a pool filled with maltose, covered in sticky, slimy stuff.

Yan Jingxing stopped struggling, gathered strength, and silently recited "Three, two, one!" in his heart! Then twist your hands and feet as hard as you can.

"Drink!"

He freed everything he had from his body in one fell swoop and opened his eyes at the same time.

"This ...... What is it......? ”

Yan Jingxing looked at his body in surprise, blood red silk threads stuck to his bare skin, as long as he used a little force, he would show amazing elasticity; And even after breaking free, they still agitate as if they were alive......

No, not "like"!

He took a deep breath. It was a narrow, dimly lit space, so I could hear my own heartbeat clearly; It was at this time that he suddenly realized that the beating frequency of these silk threads was the same as his own heartbeat......

These things are like muscles, or at least some kind of living tissue.

He looked around and saw that he seemed to be in a life support pod, flanked by white solids like human ribs, slowly shrinking back.

Was this the thing restricting his movements?

Bones, flesh and blood –

Where is he?

Yan Jingxing knocked on the door of his head, and the memories before the coma returned like a tide.

By the way, they sat on the UFO in the secret base of the cave, followed by a flash of light and violent vibrations......

And then, here he was.

This place is clearly not the original UFO capsule. Coupled with that strange loud noise, could it be saidβ€”

Yan Jingxing's heart began to pound again.

It worked? How did it work? He's been transferred to an alien planet now?

Obviously, the UFO is not powered on, and they have not touched any devices, but as long as a person sits in it, it can be activated directly, what the hell is this principle......

No, now is not the time to think about this, he didn't come alone!

"Spring algae! Xie Yuzhi! Are you there? Can you hear me? ”

He shouted loudly, but received no response. The shouts echoed through the cramped, gloomy cabin, and seemed unusually empty.

"Ji Chunzao! Captain! ”

Yan Jingxing tried to shout several times, but the result was the same.

"Oh no, I have to get out of this place!"

He became anxious, his gaze falling on the front.

There, there was a row of small crevices that twisted and turned, and faint light was shining through the gaps.

Yan Jingxing put his hand on it, inserted his fingers into the gap, and then exerted force with both arms.

"Hey!"

Like a gear that has not been fully bitten apart by someone's own hand, with a sharp and piercing sound, the falling light becomes more and more intense; The blood-red threads stuck between the gaps, but eventually they let go.

He fell forward uncontrollably, slipped out of the way, and lay on the ground.

Yan Jingxing took a breath of the outside air, and then found that this "ground" was also a little strange, and the touch from the palm of his hand was soft and slightly elastic.

He looked closely for a moment, and the ground looked like some kind of fungus blanket, covered with a layer of fluff; Underneath the fluff is some kind of eerie metalβ€”what looks like living flesh and blood, but it's cold and hard to the touch, like a combination of the two.

Yan Jingxing staggered to his feet, looking around at the walls around him, as well as the ceiling overhead......

The fifty-square-meter room is all made of some kind of musculature that resembles peeling skin.

Everywhere he looked, there were strange colors, and he was in a trance; If you stare at them for a long time, you will also have the confusion of "whether they are active or not".

"What the hell is this place?"

Yan Jingxing muttered to himself.

He felt as if he had arrived in the belly of a huge animal, and the room was its stomach pouch that wriggled in hunger.

When I turned my head again, I saw that the place where I came out was a pod, which looked like a pitcher plant with a closed cage, and was also made of flesh-and-blood metal machinery, but the surface was still wrapped in a layer of pale yellow fascia;

After he forcefully broke the "cage cover" and drilled it out, the cavity of the "pitcher plant" only lasted for a few seconds, and then it closed and sealed itself.

There is more than one strange device in this shape. There are three "pitcher plants" in total, distributed in different corners of the oval room.

The remaining two were still not turned on, and when he saw this scene, Yan Jingxing immediately felt that he knew it.

He hurriedly ran to one of them, smashed the outer wall of the pitcher plant with his fist, and shouted into the gap:

"Ji Chunzao! Xie Yuzhi! Can you hear me? ”

Still no response.

He gritted his teeth, put his hands on the slit, and began to break them apart with all his might.

Yan Jingxing didn't know if he could open it from the outside, but he had to try. Fortunately, with his desperate efforts, the gap did open up little by little......

……

"Xie Yuzhi! Xie Yuzhi! ”

Someone was shouting her name.

The sound seemed to come from far away.

The girl frowned, as if she felt that her deep sleep had been disturbed, so she felt a little annoying.

But in the midst of the man's tireless repeated shouts, her consciousness regained control of her body, and her soul seemed to rise from the dark abyss and rise to the surface.

Xie Yuzhi's fingers trembled and curled up slightly.

It's as if I still miss the feeling of holding hands with each other before everything happened.

Then, her hand was gently grasped.

The voice in my ears finally became clear.

"Xie Yuzhi, are you alright?"

A familiar voice, with concern, ringed in my ears.

The thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and the girl finally opened her eyes slowly.

The light of the outside world fell on her face as lightly as a feather.

What caught Xie Yuzhi's eyes was a strange narrow space, and Yan Jingxing, who was standing in front of him and looking at him happily.

She stared at his face in a daze.

Then, unconsciously, his gaze moved downβ€”

It's his unobtrusive posture like a baby......

But the problem is that, in many ways, he is not a baby.

β€œβ€¦β€¦β€

Xie Yuzhi lowered her eyes in silence.

"Uh...... Xie Yuzhi? ”

The girl took a deep breath and slammed her head into the boy in front of her.

"Wow, ahhhh

"Get me dressed!"

*

Before being taught a lesson by Miss Xie with a "rocket mallet", Yan Jingxing didn't realize that he was naked at all.

It should be said that the strange situation and strange environment deprived him of space to think about other inconsequential things at the first time.

After "teleporting" from the earth, even the clothes are gone......?

He was now more and more sure of his guess that the function of UFOs to send people to alien planets was genuine.

After Yan Jingxing's explanation, Xie Yuzhi was still able to accept this explanation.

Although the two have not known each other for too long, she feels that she already knows something about Yan Jingxing, and knows that he is at least not the kind of pervert who will run around naked.

It's just that Xie Yuzhi thought of an even more terrifying thing at the same time, that is, if Yan Jingxing was naked from the beginning, he was also in the "pitcher plant" device......

The girl silently lowered her head and saw a large area of snow-white skin exposed in the air, and there was a feeling of "two eyes and one black".

"Don't worry, I didn't see anything in the key parts! Because you've got something in your way. ”

Yan Jingxing, who walked to the corner with his back to her, seemed to guess her thoughts and shouted to explain.

Xie Yuzhi did not answer.

She looked at the bones and flesh-like metal wrapped around her body, hesitated, but didn't pull them away.

At present, these things should be harmless to the human body......

She silently began to think.

But what's going on? Could it be that this is the unique "clothes" of this planet?

The so-called clothing, as a decoration to hide shame, is a function that was born with the evolution of civilization; Before that, it was mainly to protect the skin from the wind and rain, protect the skin from the sun's rays, and prevent the rapid loss of body temperature.

When they move to a new planet, the clothes on their bodies disappear automatically, and they are replaced by the material inside the device...... What does this mean?

Before Xie Yuzhi could figure out what to do, a muffled voice came from inside the last pitcher plant device.

"Hmm...... Me, where am I ......? I...... Jing Xing, Yan Jing Xing, where are you? Yuzhi? ”

Her voice sounded misty.

"Rest assured, we're all here."

Yan Jingxing replied. After hearing someone's response, Ji Chunzao was obviously relieved.

"You ...... Are they all out there? Me, I'll be out right away......"

As she spoke, she seemed to be trying to break the lid of the cage.

"You wait first!"

Xie Yuzhi hurriedly shouted to stop

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

"Check yourself, there's a good chance your clothes are missing."

There was silence inside the device, and a crisp exclamation erupted from within it shortly after.

"Huh?! W-What's going on?! Yes, who took my clothes off? ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ No, it shouldn't be like that. Xie Yuzhi sighed, "There is a high probability that it will happen naturally during the 'transfer' process, that is, the clothes can't come with us." ”

After realizing that she was naked, including Ji Chunzao, the two girls all hid inside and refused to come out.

But we can't let it go on like this.

"Let's get down to business now."

Yan Jingxing's tone sounded a little helpless.

"I want to wear clothes, but what if I don't have clothes?"

The air in the room suddenly became silent and awkward.

Yan Jingxing thought about it, stood up again, and began to circle around this place.

The other two companions couldn't get out, and they had to rely on him to find a solution.

Although he is also naked, it is more convenient than the girls after all, at least if you want to cover it, you only need to cover one place.

He wanted to have a solution to his current situation in the room – for example, finding a few clothes to wear.

But he didn't really have much hope in his heart, just looking at the flesh and blood of this place, it was obvious that it didn't look like a gathering place for humans, and it was hard to believe that clothes suitable for humans would be prepared.

After turning around, Yan Jingxing found a door on the flesh wall, with a shallow gap in the middle, maybe the way to open the pitcher plant device with violence is also feasible.

But after hesitating for a moment, he still didn't choose to break it open.

"How, how? Did you find it? ”

Ji Chunzao, who was hiding in the pitcher plant, asked eagerly.

"It's hard, this place is so big......"

Yan Jingxing sighed. But at that moment, his gaze swept over somewhere, and he suddenly stopped.

"Wait, what is this?"

He saw a strange contraption, like a faucet embedded in the wall; The top of the device is connected to the inside of the wall by a pipe, but if the "wall" is like the wall of flesh and blood, then the "pipe" is naturally a thick blood vessel.

It's scary to watch.

But Yan Jingxing still stretched out his hand, grabbed the handle on the device, tried to push and pull in all directions, and finally pulled hard.

"Bang!"

A lattice made of white bone was squeezed out of the lump of flesh, and it contained ......

"Duffle bags?"

Yan Jingxing couldn't hide the surprise in his heart.

"Why? We didn't even bring our clothes with us, why could this luggageβ€”"

"You're saying there's luggage 'teleporting' with us?"

Xie Yuzhi heard his voice. After a moment of thought, she cautiously made a guess:

"I remember that there was a drawer-like device inside the UFO, and I put my duffel bag in it. However, the volume of the 'drawer' itself is not large, so it can only fit one bag. ”

"Really......"

Yan Jingxing tore open the zipper, flipped through the contents inside, and finally said in surprise:

"There it is!"

*

In the process of changing clothes, he couldn't help but feel grateful again, Xie Yuzhi had prepared for everyone in advance, although she herself always felt dissatisfied.

The only duffel bag that followed them was filled with exactly three sets of gray thermal underwear. It is said that those mountaineers who climb snowy mountains wear it.

Although there is no coat, the style of this underwear is two pieces that cover the whole body, and the material itself is thick enough to cover most of the silhouette, and they have no better choice at the moment.

"Great......"

Ji Chunzao, who breathed a sigh of relief, stroked her chest, and a cheerful smile bloomed on her face again.

"In addition to teleporters, are there any devices for teleporting objects?"

Xie Yuzhi looked at the vascular device seriously, as if thinking about the usefulness of this thing.

"Well, let's get out of here. Ready to get started? ”

"I'm ready!"

"Well, pull the door open. Want to help? ”

"No, you don't."

Yan Jingxing moved his hands and feet, inserted his fingers into the crack of the door, and then pulled them apart forcefully.

……

The light that spread all over the planet slightly illuminated the countless dust floating in the air, falling from the open hole.

After leaving the room, they were greeted by a huge palace-

It was littered with contraptions and statues in the same style as those in that room, resembling human organs and flesh tissue, but if you looked closely, you would find that they were all gloomy machines.

And above the palace, the dome was lifted to reveal a large dilapidated hole.

To be precise, here are the remains of a palace.