Chapter 308 The World
"Hello? Hello?" Jiang Yu adjusted the angle of the headset and tried pressing the side button of the headset a few times.
However, there was silence in the communication channel.
She couldn't help but feel a little scared.
With a "bang", Ling Xiao climbed out of the ventilation duct and landed on the ground.
"Ling Xiao... I, my communication equipment seems to be broken." Jiang Yu hurriedly said to Ling Xiao, "Can you still contact the team leader and the others now?"
"Your equipment is not broken, it's just that the communication has been cut off." Ling Xiao said calmly.
He took out the small car-shaped drone from behind. The red indicator light symbolizing "signal loss" on the drone's butt was flashing rhythmically.
Generally speaking, for exploration operations such as pipelines and tombs, the standard equipment should be snake-shaped wired drones. However, the 67th field team received the task in a hurry and had no time to return to the research institute to re-select equipment. You can only rush to the destination with what you have on hand.
"What should we do?" Jiang Yu asked eagerly, "Should we go back the way we came?"
Ling Xiao raised his head and glanced at the ventilation duct on the ceiling, and shook his head: "I don't think we can... 'return the same way'."
Jiang Yu was a little confused: "What does this mean?"
"Do you remember that both the team leader and Yin Xiang said that the communication within Factory 105 has always been smooth, but no one answered the phone?" Ling Xiao said.
"Yes... but, our radio communication is..." Jiang Yu's word order was a bit confusing, just like her brain now.
"There is a phone hanging over there. You can try to see if you can make a call." Ling Xiao pointed to the door of the entertainment room. On the right side of the door frame, there was a red wall-mounted phone with a base on it. The power indicator light and line indicator light are still on.
"This should be... the internal phone number in the factory, right?" Jiang Yu muttered, "Can't you make a call?"
"I asked the team leader that the internal telephone line in Factory No. 105 is actually connected to the external communication network. It just has a 'switchboard' as a gateway. All external communications must go through that 'switchboard'. The researcher should be at I kept calling the switchboard of Factory No. 105... Even if I couldn't get through, the 'switchboard' was still busy. ”
Jiang Yu moved to the door and picked up the phone.
However, there was silence in the receiver, not even the beeps that should have been heard.
"The phone...is broken?" Jiang Yu repeated the action of putting the phone back on the base and then picking it up again, but nothing changed.
"Do you know the other world?" Ling Xiao suddenly asked.
Jiang Yu shook his head blankly.
"I used to like reading comics. In many comics with the theme of monsters, the existence of an 'inner world' will be mentioned." Ling Xiao said, "Under the influence of the power of monsters, a space is separated into There are two parts, the surface world and the inner world. These two parts overlap but are independent of each other. There are also channels connecting each other..."
"What you want to say is...parallel space?"
"Although it doesn't mean the same thing, it's not much different." Ling Xiao said, "While crawling in the ventilation duct, I felt a strange feeling for a moment, as if we had passed through a layer of Something has come to another world..."
"Why don't I feel anything?" Jiang Yu asked in shock, "Ling Xiao, are you trying to scare me?"
"Sun Hang or Yang Qi, have they ever told you about me?" Ling Xiao asked, "About the fact that I don't have any emotions."
"No..." Jiang Yu shook his head, "You don't have any emotions? Although I think you seem to be very indifferent on weekdays and never show any expression on your face... But I just think that is caused by your personality. of..."
"No, I'm not like this originally." Ling Xiao said, "During a special contact with a strange thing, all my human emotions were pulled away, including joy, anger, sorrow, joy, and various desires... ...but after losing these emotions, I found that when I was extremely calm, my five senses became extremely sharp, especially for changes in time and space. Even if it is a very subtle change, I can make some changes. Notice.”
"You...are you really not an infected person?"
"The Research Institute of Monsters has given me a comprehensive and detailed examination, and I have not been infected by memes." Ling Xiao replied, "I think that this ability may be the human body's response to itself after losing all emotions. A kind of compensation, right? Of course, this is just my guess.”
If Sun Hang were here, he must have realized the key point - apart from allowing people to remain absolutely calm at all times, losing emotions cannot give humans any special abilities, especially the ability to perceive time and space... ...Even among infected people, this type of ability is very rare.
Then there is only one possibility in front of you.
Ling Xiao, like Zhong Ling, is one of those human superpowers who was not infected by the monster meme but gained special abilities.
It's a pity that neither Ling Xiao nor Jiang Yu knows the existence of "superpowers"... Faced with his "special ability", Ling Xiao can only attribute it to the body's "self-compensation" .
"Then you mean...we are in the other world of Factory No. 105 now?" Jiang Yu carefully confirmed to Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao nodded: "I'm not sure how big the scope of the inner world is, but as a 'copy' of the outer world, there must be boundaries in the inner world. As long as we find the boundaries, we will have a way to leave."
"So since we have just entered this 'inner world' through the ventilation duct, then if we exit along the original path, can't we return to the 'outer world'?" Jiang Yu asked.
"The passage connecting the inner world and the outer world has been changing." Ling Xiao shook his head, "Just now, the entrance and exit were still ventilation ducts, but they are no longer."
"This change...is also mentioned in those comic books?"
"No, I feel it." Ling Xiao closed his eyes and took a deep breath slowly, "I can feel that space is like air or water flow, they are moving slowly and disorderly around me The ground is flowing...it is dynamic and constantly changing, but in our conventional senses, it has always maintained a relatively stable state."
"What are the regular senses?" Jiang Yu asked, "I remember we came in in the same batch... Why do you know so many more things than me?"
"What you see with your eyes, smell with your nose, hear with your ears, and touch with your body." Ling Xiao said, "These are the conventional senses."
To be precise, there are five normal human senses. However, neither Ling Xiao nor Jiang Yu would lick the surrounding things with their tongues, so he did not mention the sense of taste.
"Next, I'll clear the way. You follow me." Ling Xiao said, having already walked to the door and holding the door handle of the entertainment room, "My ability to sense space may come in handy... If the door If the world is a table world, I will tell you.”
"Behind the door, is the outside world?" Jiang Yu said, "The scope of the inner world cannot be limited to this entertainment room, right?"
"I don't know." Ling Xiao finished speaking and turned the door handle. The two of them walked as lightly as possible to the suspended corridor outside.
"How was it? Are we... going back?" Jiang Yu whispered.
However, due to the empty structure inside the factory, even though her voice was very soft, there was still a faint echo coming from the opposite side.
Ling Xiao shook his head.
Jiang Yu looked down, and below were several huge glass covers turned upside down on the ground - inside the glass covers was the dust-free workshop where FL09 reagent was produced. All kinds of equipment that she couldn't name were placed in an orderly manner inside the glass cover. The empty conveyor belts were still in operation, and the engine of the large exhaust fan beside it kept making a humming sound.
"I thought... the workers disappeared because they were all locked up in the other world, so no one could be seen outside... But there is no one here." Jiang Yu muttered softly.
"The inner world does not necessarily have only one level, it is also possible... there is someone below." Ling Xiao suddenly said.
"Where?!"
"The fourth dust-free workshop from the left!"
"There are really people!"
It was a woman wearing a black leather coat, her head lowered, her long dark red hair hanging down to her knees - her whole body was suspended by chains to a mechanical beam about five or six meters above the ground. Above, her body was pierced by iron chains in many places. Not only was her leather coat stained with blood, but there was also a large pool of blood right below her body.
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Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu immediately ran towards the stairs quickly.
"Is she...is she still alive?" Jiang Yu asked as he ran.
"I don't know."
"How could she be hung up by chains... It looks like some kind of torture." Jiang Yu said again, "Is this all done by the monster that invaded Factory No. 105?"
"I don't know." Ling Xiao's answer was still so straightforward.
"She has red hair...could she be the missing hunter 'Red-Haired Witch'?"
"I have never seen the 'Red-Haired Witch'."
Jiang Yu ran along the stairs for a few steps and suddenly realized that he was no longer the same person he once was. He immediately jumped down from the height of four floors and landed firmly on the ground.
"Jump down and I'll catch you!" Jiang Yu shouted to Ling Xiao.
Ling Xiao didn't hesitate, and immediately followed Jiang Yu's example, climbed over the guardrail, and jumped off the suspended corridor.
Jiang Yu hugged Ling Xiao who had fallen from a high place. A numbing squirming sound suddenly came from the muscles and bones of the body, and then the impact of Ling Xiao's fall from a high place was Disappeared without a trace.
"Quick!" Jiang Yu put down Ling Xiao and continued running towards the dust-free workshop.
The door of the dust-free workshop was locked, but at this time, the two of them could not care less about the rules not to damage the internal facilities of the factory. Jiang Yu directly took out the hunting knife and cut open the code lock with one knife. The second knife directly penetrated the lock and cut it. The bolt stuck in the glass wall was cut off, and then the door was pushed open.
However, the closer they got to the hung red-haired woman, the more uncomfortable they felt - the red-haired woman's entire body had drooped down, and the blood at the wound penetrated by the chain had turned dark brown. The boards were clumping together... and what frustrated Jiang Yu the most was that she couldn't feel the other person's breathing and heartbeat at all, not even the memetic fluctuations of the infected person.
"She is a monster hunter." Jiang Yu stopped five meters away from the red-haired woman.
She saw that the other person was wearing a hunter's bracelet exactly like her own on his left wrist.
"It seems that she must be the missing red-haired witch." Compared to Jiang Yu's body that had been modified by the Tai Sui meme, Ling Xiao was still breathing a little as she ran all the way. The thing killed ”
"Is that weird thing nearby now?" Jiang Yu looked around nervously, one hand already resting on the folded short bow.
"Not necessarily. Judging from the blood stains, she has been hanging here for a while." Ling Xiao stepped forward and reached out to touch the blood stains directly below the red-haired witch.
The blood had completely clotted, and the surface had become both smooth and hard.
"It has only been less than an hour since she entered Factory 105, right? Why did her blood..."
"The flow of time in the other world is not synchronized with the surface world." Ling Xiao said, "It seems to us that she has been missing for less than an hour, but in the other world, she may have been hanging for several days... ”
"Then what should be done with her body?" Jiang Yu asked.
Unknowingly, she had regarded this boy, who was younger than her cousin, as her backbone.
"Don't worry, let's check around. Maybe we can find other missing people."
The moment Ling Xiao turned around, a voice came from above: "Don't leave yet! Put me down first!"
Jiang Yu was instantly startled, while Ling Xiao slowly turned around, raised his head and looked into the pair of eyes peeking out from between the red hair, and asked: "Are you not dead?"
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"I almost died, but fortunately I have the ability to pretend to be dead." The other party said, "I just heard the noise. I thought that thing was back again, so I went directly into the state of suspended animation... I didn't expect that it was actually a fellow traveler."< br>
The red-haired witch glanced at the bracelet on Jiang Yu's wrist and continued: "How did you two get in? After so many days, has the 'insecticide plan' been completely ruined?"
"So many days?" Ling Xiao and Jiang Yu looked at each other, and the former asked, "How many days have you been hanging here?"
"I can't remember clearly... But from my personal feeling, it must have been seven or eight days at least." The red-haired witch said, "I thought that the Federation had given up on me... In other words, you can Have I let it go?”
"In the eyes of people outside, you have only been missing for less than an hour." Ling Xiao said.
"Less than an hour? Outside?" The red-haired witch was stunned.
(End of chapter)