Chapter 116: Narrating the Cage (Thirteen)
Common flush toilets have accumulated water at the bottom, and the S or U-shaped water storage curve below can effectively prevent the leakage of odor.
The toilet in the single cell of the prison does not store water at the bottom, but is replaced by a metal filter and a device similar to a vacuum pump.
Given Hui Yu’s character, she probably wouldn’t be able to liquefy her limbs and reach into the toilet to take out the coins—her lower limit is still too high.
Li Sheng took off the shower head from the shelf, aimed it at the toilet, and turned the wrench.
A stream of moist air immediately erupted from the nozzle, and as the wrench turned, the air stream continued to increase.
Bing Ding——
A coin was hit by the airflow, bumped back and forth against the inner wall of the toilet several times, and finally bounced out and fell to the ground.
The surface is slightly scratched, the front is a pattern of 80∑, indicating the face value, and the back is a brilliant star map of a certain star system.
“As the currency of the interstellar era, the reverse of the 5Σ coin is a meteorite asteroid, and the reverse of the 80Σ coin is a star system. It should be considered a currency with a fairly large face value. Even so, it can only be purchased at a vending machine. Then buy 16 bottles of drinks. The price is really high, almost the same as in Tel Aviv.”
Li Sheng complained casually. Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, is one of the most expensive cities in the real world. A 2L bottle of Coca-Cola costs NIS 9, while the monthly salary of an Israel Defense Forces front-line soldier is NIS 3,000. A month of fighting life and death on the front line is enough to buy 333 bottles of Coke or 100 burgers.
He took the shower head and continued flushing, making sure there were no more coins in the toilet before giving up.
There are no other clues in the room, and this coin is the only gain. Hui Yu frowned and asked, "What are you doing now?"
"Go to the cell in the lower right corner."
Li Sheng turned off the shower head, walked out of the room, and asked Hui Yu to help pry open the cell in the lower right corner. room door.
The cell door opened, and the disheveled figure was still sitting in the corner of the room, speaking fragmented and incomprehensible words to the wall.
“At least this guy was in the cell before Isaac was locked up. He must have tried to escape from prison so many times that his self-awareness was severely damaged and he was completely unable to communicate. In addition, after Don’t be afraid when you see his face later.”
Hui Yu reminded in a low voice, his palm turned into the shape of a chain sword. Li Sheng understood, walked lightly, walked forward slowly, and walked around the prisoner. side.
Then he saw a rather curious scene.
The prisoner's entire face was covered with gears and saw blades, and large swaths of skin were corroded and covered by chemical plating. His two eyes were replaced with expansion bolts, making it impossible to recognize their original appearance.
Hinges replace joints, springs replace fascia, connecting rods replace bones, speaker units replace throats, and if you look closely, even hair is made of thin steel wires.
It neither looks like a human being nor a mechanical life, but more like an art piece that cannot be sold for a long time and is eventually thrown into the garbage dump.
Li Sheng lowered his voice and asked Hui Yu: "Is he always like this?"
Hui Yu replied in a low voice: "There is no difference on the face, but other places are more serious."
It was not so serious originally. Could it be that this prisoner was infected with the so-called iron plague virus?
No, the iron plague virus is related to Zero Civilization and Isaac. If the levels in the engine room of the narrated cage were influenced by Isaac, then why were the unknown prisoners who were imprisoned earlier than Isaac also infected with the iron plague virus?
Li Sheng suppressed his doubts, covered his mouth and nose, slowed down his breathing, and looked at the prisoner carefully. Most of his body has been eroded by metal machinery, and his original appearance cannot be seen. A corner of the newspaper was exposed from under her buttocks.
The content in the newspaper seems to be a battle report of a war.
"Hello?" Li Sheng asked tentatively: "I am your cellmate, can you hear me? I will give you 80∑, how about buying the newspaper under you?"
< br>"Hahahaha."
The prisoner was unaware, smiling stupidly, raising his hands made entirely of metal rods, and gesticulating back and forth in mid-air, as if he was playing with a doll with some non-existent child.
Wait, doll?
Li Sheng paused for a moment. The prisoner's eyes, nose and ears had been replaced with metal parts, and his brain was also covered with gears. He probably couldn't hear him anymore.
According to Isaac, the Iron Plague Virus can be spread through contact
Carrying the infection of the Insect Master God on his body is troublesome enough, and Li Sheng does not want to provoke the so-called Iron Plague again. Virus immediately eliminated the option of violence and turned around and walked out of the cell.
He put 80 ∑ coins into the vending machine, pressed the button, and bought a white rabbit doll in a transparent plastic gift bag.
This rabbit doll was originally ranked behind the corn juice, and the price was 10∑. After buying it, the vending machine spit out a 70∑ coin. The reverse features a frozen planet graphic.
Li Sheng put away the 70∑ coins and found that compared to the wrinkled transparent gift bag, the cotton rabbit doll inside was much newer. Unfortunately, there is no information such as the place of production, and it does not look like there is a foreign object inside the rabbit.
Returning to the cell in the lower right corner, Li Sheng put on gloves and carefully placed the rabbit doll into the hands of the unknown prisoner. The latter was stunned for a moment and repeatedly groped the surface of the doll, as if to confirm its shape.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu”
Whether he was crying or laughing, the unknown prisoner sobbed while holding the doll. He slowly fell over and lay on his side with the doll in his arms.
This lying down gave way to space, and the newspaper that was pressed under him was able to see the light of day again.
The title of the article [Naval Special Warfare Team Destroys Key Nodes of the Iron Plague Nest], the content is "A special operations team under the Third Fleet of the Zero Navy sneaked into the Iron Plague-occupied area of Orion C and successfully destroyed three Level Iron Plague nest stores super-heavy elements and safely retreats on the Vulture transport ship. This marks the break of the ten-year strategic stalemate between the two sides since the emergence of the Iron Plague nest on Orion C. "
Li. Sheng put on his gloves, put the newspaper into the backpack column, put away the gloves, walked out of the cell, closed the cell door ajar, and murmured to himself: "Like the previous newspapers, this newspaper tells the story of It’s also about the war between Zero Civilization and Iron Plague.”
“Is there any problem?” Hui Yu asked.
"What a coincidence."
Li Sheng said: "In order to get this newspaper, I first have to get coins to buy a rabbit doll. In order to get the coins, I have to enter the cell in the lower left corner. In order to enter the cell , I have to get your help first. All of these are intertwined, just like a man-made puzzle game. It even gave me an off-site opportunity."
He pulled out the [Death Redemption]. Pistol, with a flash of gunfire, "This gun is extremely powerful, it should be able to force open the cell door.
In other words, the order of the strategy can be changed, and as long as you use props, there will be no serious jams.
For example, if I use this gun to break open the cell in the lower left corner and get 80 ∑ coins, I can buy 10 ∑ rabbit dolls and 5 ∑ corn juice in one go.
With the corn juice, you can bribe you, then pry open the cell door in the lower right corner and exchange the rabbit doll for the newspaper.
Or maybe I use this gun to directly attack the vending machine, steal the dolls and corn juice, and then bribe you, the result will still be the same.
This design is too deliberate. "
"You mean the prison wants you to escape as soon as possible? "
"It may be that the prison authorities want me to die quickly. "Li Sheng said casually and came to the front of the last two engine rooms.
Reversal, misdirection, and protagonist effects have all been conquered, leaving only flashbacks and continuity.
Since the order of the strategy can be disrupted, there is no difference between the remaining two rooms. Li Sheng chose the continuity on the right.
After entering the engine room, I saw a solitary red button on the ground. The layout of the room was exactly the same as the [Misdirection Room].
“Holy shit.” The corners of his eyes twitched. The [Misleading Room] made him think that he was a character in a self-created comic book. He almost died of old age in it. The continuity was so similar to the Misleading Room. It was meant to cause trouble. Which.
It was too late to evacuate at this point. Due to the double door setting, the outer wooden door could not be opened until the button was pressed.
The two looked at each other and had no choice but to press the red button together.
One second, two seconds
Time passed bit by bit, and the surrounding scene remained unchanged. No man-eating monsters popped out, nor were they teleported to other places.
"." Huiyu looked around cautiously, squatted on the ground and touched the solid ground, and said in disbelief: "What's going on? Why didn't you respond?"
Li Sheng took out his machete and poked at the wall to make sure there was no trap. Seeing the wooden door open by itself, he walked out.
Everything outside the engine room is still the same as before. The unknown prisoner in the cell in the lower right corner is still lying there, and the time displayed on the vending machine is only two minutes.
“Is there just a button in the room?” Hui Yu said suspiciously, “Are we trapped in a simulator hallucination?”
“Probably not.” Li Sheng pulled the button from his backpack Take out the toy factory key and emergency escape card from the column. These two things are the most mysterious items on his body, and they cannot be simulated by ordinary hallucinations.
He mused: "The characteristic of continuity is to break the integrity of the narrative and temporarily add settings. For example, temporarily refreshing a wall out of the sight of the escapee. There was nothing in the room just now, and it was obviously goods. Not right. Unless.”
Hui Yu asked: "Unless what?"
"Unless these house numbers can be removed." Li Sheng reached out to move the house signs, broke them off with his hands, and pried them with a 170 straight knife. It took him a long time to work. I couldn't remove any of the door plates.
He wasn't angry when he didn't succeed - it proved something else.
Immediately walked towards the last engine room with the door sign of [Flashback].
“Wait!” Hui Yu quickly chased after him, and pushed open the wooden door of the flashback room side by side with Li Sheng, complaining: “Did you find any clues and deliberately didn’t reveal them? We We are teammates now, don’t hide it, okay?”
"I didn't deliberately conceal it, I just had an immature guess."
Li Sheng waited for the metal sliding door in front to open and said: "Would the painter take out the half-painted painting and sell it? The chef would sell it? Will the half-finished dishes be served? Will the programmer upload the half-coded code? Uh, wait, this seems to work. In short, there are not enough clues at this stage. It’s a waste of time to analyze.”
“Tsk.”
Hui Yu smacked his lips in displeasure, his eyes filled with anxiety and anticipation.
Simply press the buttons in five engine rooms to successfully escape. It's been done four times now, except for this last flashback room.
Although she could no longer remember the specific experiences of her previous prison escapes, a vague feeling told her that none of her previous escapes had gone as smoothly as now.
Li Sheng is really her lucky star.
Sha——
As the metal sliding door opened completely, the scene in front of me suddenly changed. The two of them had already arrived on a transport plane.
The space inside the cabin is quite vast, with a width of nearly 7 meters and a height of nearly 5 meters. It is larger than the An-225, a super-large military transport aircraft that has existed in the real world.
Through the window, you can see that the transport plane has four huge engines and is sailing in the clouds.
A net is hung on the inner wall on both sides of the cabin, and a large number of individual weapons and equipment are mounted on it.
Parked in the middle are several scarred infantry vehicles. Their shapes are quite sci-fi and futuristic, and they are obviously much more advanced than Earth's technology. The rear compartment of the vehicle is also equipped with four sealed lead barrels.
Nearly a hundred soldiers wearing full sets of dark green power armor sat on both sides. Many of them were injured, but their tone could not hide their excitement.
“I really didn’t expect that we could come out alive!”
“Yes, it took several years for the third-level nest to be dug underground to accumulate two thousand units of super-heavy elements, but we took it all in one go. We also robbed five Come back."
"If we go back this time, the Navy will award each of us a half-ton gold medal, right? Captain, what do you think?"
Li Shenghe. Because Huiyu was sitting behind a camouflage rainproof cloth, he was not noticed by the soldiers at the first time. Huiyu stretched out his hand to hold the back of Li Sheng's hand, and liquefied his limbs again, transforming into a powered armor shell to prevent other soldiers from seeing it.
‘Level 3 lair? These soldiers should be the special operations team of Zero Navy's Third Fleet as mentioned in the newspaper. ’
While listening to the conversation of the other soldiers, Li Sheng reached out and took off the individual weapons and equipment hanging on the wall of the cabin.
These futuristic sci-fi style guns can be played and inspected in his hands, but when he tried to put the weapons into his backpack, the words "Unable to Pick Up" popped up in front of him. The disguise proves that this is an illusionary image created by the engine room.
"Brothers and sisters, after completing this mission, I will return to my hometown to get married!"
A young soldier stood up, took out a photo from his arms, and said to his companions They showed off: "Look, this is my fiancée. Pretty, isn't she?"
"Jack, you brat, you are so lucky to step on dog shit?" An older veteran laughed and scolded: "But I I have also accumulated enough military merit points. This time I go back to my superiors to apply for retirement—after all, my child is about to be born.”
The voice of a female soldier came from under the power armor with the word Angelina engraved on the chest, "Eh? Roland, is your wife about to give birth? My daughter Anna's birthday is tomorrow, and she keeps calling me to ask if I can get back to Proxima A on time. Oh. I forgot to bring her a gift. Why don’t I buy her a rabbit doll when I get back to the space station?”
“Stop talking about it and think about dinner tonight! Going to eat barbecue? "
A group of soldiers were chatting happily, and Li Sheng on the side was sweating on his forehead.
‘No, why are all these people standing for death? What about [Get married after completing the mission] [The child is about to be born and apply for retirement] [My daughter calls to urge me home for her birthday tomorrow],
Saying this kind of thing is just like saying in Conan, 'There may be someone among us. murderer! How is it possible to sleep together? I’m going back to my room’
Saying 'you'll win' in a spell battle is like trying to kill yourself! ’
The corners of Li Sheng’s eyes twitched, and he complained crazily in his heart, ‘But Anna? This name has appeared in children's paintings before. Is it possible that this female soldier named Angelina is Anna's mother? Also she mentioned the bunny doll’
Boom!
A loud noise suddenly came from the outside. An engine on the right side of the transport plane was seen billowing black smoke, and then an engine on the left was also destroyed. The original four engines became two engines, and the speed of the transport aircraft suddenly slowed down.
Zhengzhengzhengzheng!
The sound of dense explosions was endless, and a large number of steel cones penetrated the cabin from the top. As the cones opened like petals, semi-mechanized beasts the size of motorcycles fell from them.
These beasts are just like the nameless prisoners in the cell in the lower right corner of the narrative cage. Their flesh and blood bodies are covered with saw blades and gears. As soon as it landed, it launched an attack on the soldiers in the cabin.
(End of this chapter)