Chapter 120: Narrating the Cage (End)
“It’s okay, I want to cool off.”
Li Sheng lowered his head, like a naughty kid in kindergarten, spitting on the ground and going back and forth at the same time Shake your head and let your saliva slosh.
His abstract movements, which are comparable to performance art, make Huiyu full of questions. Fortunately, Li Sheng recovered immediately and sucked away the saliva with a slurp.
“How disgusting!” Huiyu shouted subconsciously.
Li Sheng said confidently: "What's so disgusting about this? As mentioned in the "Sacred Chai Revelation", many animals, including dogs and alpacas, use saliva evaporation to dissipate heat."< br>
“Isn’t it good to spit it out?”
“People secrete 1 to 1.5 liters of saliva every day, of which water accounts for 80%, and the rest is mucin, mucopolysaccharides, immunoglobulins, Free amino acids, etc. Judging from the ingredients, it’s not much different from some health products. Every time you spit out it, you’re spitting out money.”
Li Sheng curled his lips, “What’s more, water is the source of life. If you are unfortunate enough to live in extreme environments such as deserts and oceans, not only your saliva and sweat must be recycled, but also your urine if necessary!”
“Why do you suddenly become excited when the topic of shit and peeing comes up? ? !" Hui Yu's eyes twitched, feeling somewhat grateful that he was a silicon-based being.
"Now, it's time to face the real warden."
Li Sheng instantly turned back to seriousness, and before Hui Yu said, "What a blunt change of subject!" ’ In the midst of complaining, he straightened his clothes, strode towards room three, and opened the wooden door.
The door opened, and the surrounding scene changed instantly. The two of them once again stood in the gravity-deficient corridor of the Blood Eagle battleship.
Crews wearing magnetic boots ran through, the corridors echoed with the sound of damage alarms to various parts of the hull, and the red distress lights flashed endlessly.
Everything is the same as when you first entered here, including the position, movements, and demeanor of each crew member.
[The second-stage mission goal has been completed]
[The third-stage mission goal: Escape from the narrative cage]
[Task time limit: 10 minutes]
[Task reward 1: 600 experience points]
[Task reward 2: 700 game currency points]
[Task reward 3: Random item*1, quality depends on clearance evaluation]
[Task reward 4: Micro life potion*1]
[Task failure penalty: none]
< br>Glancing at the newly popped-up notification, Li Sheng walked through the corridor and came to the bow bridge. Isaac and Lieutenant Rabbit Ears were standing side by side, ready to greet Li Sheng. The background outside the floor-to-ceiling windows was still full of pirate warships bombing each other.
“We meet again.”
At this point, there is no need to tell those winding riddles. Li Sheng said frankly: "Considering that the mechanical device in the misdirection room claims to be the warden, it should have been generated after you occupied the warden's room. . I want to know where the real warden is."
"There is no real warden in this prison area, it is automatically controlled by the system."
Adjutant Rabbit Ears. He said slowly, that Li Sheng could stand here and ask this question proved that he had seen through the scam and deduced a series of truths such as No. 1 and No. 2 Isaac. Otherwise, you should shoot right away.
Li Sheng said in surprise: "Then how did you get trapped and died here?"
"Permissions."
The captain of the Blood Eagle, or No. 2 Isaac, said slowly: "The original Isaac was infected with the Iron Plague virus on the way out of prison. She knew that she didn't have much time left, so she cut herself and split me.
I have tried to jailbreak countless times, and I have succeeded many times, but I do not have full prisoner permissions. Even if I work hard and press five engine room buttons in a row, I cannot open the jailbreak. Open the gate of the long room and get out of here."
She paused, glanced at the busy crew on the ship, and said calmly: "I am not willing to go back to the single cell and continue endlessly. Waiting - The prisoners in the narrative cage may face court trials in dozens or hundreds of years, or they may never wait to be sentenced.
So I chose to enter the warden's room and use my incomplete authority to borrow. The functions of other engine rooms
The jump time of the flashback room, the breaking of narrative integrity by the continuity room, and the deception of the misdirection room
The superposition of various functions transformed the warden's room into what I am familiar with. "
"A familiar look? It should be more than that, right? "
Li Sheng said: "Even if you start from the scraps shown in newspapers and past images, you don't seem willing to indulge in fantasy. ”
“That’s right. "
Isaac said: "My idea is to use the various abilities of the narrative cage itself to create a small world inside it. ”
Duck Law - If an animal looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck.
Similarly, if the small world created by the narrative cage has the same physical laws, rules of things running, time flow, etc. as the outside world, then it will be a complete world that is fake and real.
In this world, Isaac No. 2 can completely manipulate the world line, resurrect his comrades and adopted daughter, make up for past regrets, create a new future, and regard it as his own "reality" ".
No wonder the contents of other engine rooms are more or less related to Isaac. Including the last newspaper Li Sheng read in the misdirection room (actually the protagonist's effect room).
He looked around, "So, what's the price."
The most important people to Isaac, Angelina, Anna and others, did not appear on the Blood Eagle, which means there must be something wrong, and things went counterproductive.
“Everything.”
Issac said bitterly: “[Narrative] has inertia. Even if I rescued Angelina on the Orion C planet’s transport ship, she They will also die in the subsequent missions. Even if I rescue Anna on Proxima A, she will die from the iron plague virus
Including here-under the siege of enemy pirate ships. , the Blood Eagle destroyed all the enemy ships and survived miserably.
However, more than 80% of the crew members on the ship, as well as all the Zelo refugees deep inside the ship, died due to damage to the hull.
In the real world online, I can't save them, and it's the same here. "
"So," Huiyu took a deep breath, stared at Isaac and said, "split twice, went around in such a big circle, and finally returned to the starting point, with nothing changed? What's the point of splitting me off? ”
“You are the last hope. "
Isaac said: "I'm sorry for dragging you into these things. Elsa, who had complete memory and permissions, failed, and I, who had complete memory and half permissions, also failed. Maybe you, who has forgotten all memories and is like a blank sheet of paper, can have a different ending. ”
Outside the portholes, thousands of light spears, torpedoes, missiles, and drones are still fighting, with the sea of stars as the background, weaving together a gorgeous picture.
Adjutant Rabbit Ears suddenly interrupted, "Time is running out."
"What time?" Hui Yu asked subconsciously.
"The time you left."
Isaac said: "My body has long been annihilated. It was me who invoked the functions of each engine room and tampered with the warden's room. Everything is because of me. If you start, you should end because of me."
With that said, she clicked several times on the battleship console, and a strong gravity was immediately generated behind the ship, sucking Huiyu and Li Sheng back.
"Wait!"
Huiyu grabbed the wall with both hands and struggled to resist. She had too many problems blocking her mind, including the lack of memory, the blank space in life, and the meaning of existence.
"When I walked out of the automated factory and looked up at the stars for the first time and felt reborn, gray rain fell in the sky. This is the origin of your name." Isaac whispered: "You are me, and at the same time It’s also an independent individual. Leave here and write your own life.”
Bang bang bang!
Under the pull of gravity, Li Sheng and Hui Yu crashed through the hatches and retreated quickly. The surrounding hulls were also disintegrating and collapsing until they turned into fly ash.
No longer blocked by illusions, the warden's room showed its original appearance - an empty house with a green button on the only table.
In the middle of the wall facing the wooden door, there is an alloy gate embedded in it. The gate was not damaged, only large black explosion traces remained on the surface.
Li Sheng pressed the green button, and the alloy gate slowly rose, revealing a long, narrow, upward-sloping corridor.
"The way to salvation lies within. Let's go."
Li Sheng stepped into the corridor, but the gray rain around him was blocked by a golden light curtain generated out of thin air, making him unable to pass.
A line of words slowly appeared on the surface of the light curtain [Illegal escape behavior detected]
As an individual formed by the second split, Hui Yu was still not a prisoner in the strict sense.
“.”
Her expression changed from stiff, to dazed, to relieved. She forced out a smile, waved her hands indifferently, and said, "Isn't it true? Tsk, I knew it. Forget it, you can go on your own."
tread.
Li Sheng said nothing, stepped back, and returned to Hui Yu's side, pretending to be deep in thought.
"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?" Huiyu looked at him in astonishment, "Don't you want a chance to escape from prison? Just walk out of the corridor and escape! There is a great world waiting outside. What about you?"
Maybe he was too shocked, and he started talking nonsense, "Brother, you are not greedy for my body, are you?" "We have only known each other for a few hours." "I'm warning you. Oh, I'm not that casual, eh, robot."
"I wonder if your 256GB brain capacity can be used for serious things."
Li Sheng rolled his eyes and complained: "There is no colorful world outside. If I guess correctly, there is just a vacuum in the universe outside the corridor."
"Huh?"
"There is only warm air flow in the faucet, there is no water stored in the vacuum toilet, and the drinks in the vending machine need to be purchased with money. These designs deliberately do not allow the element of 'water' to appear in the narrative cage."
Li Sheng smiled: "The gravity of a normal planet should be vertically downward. But when I was spitting to dissipate heat, I paid careful attention and found that the saliva was slightly tilted and bent backwards.
This is Signs of artificial gravity.
In other words, we are not on a planet, but on a giant space station that generates artificial gravity by spinning. ”
When the space station rotates at a certain angular speed, people on board will feel a centrifugal force similar to the gravity of the planet. Its size is related to the rotation radius of the space station, angular speed and the mass of the object.
If If the rotation radius is too small or the rotation speed is too fast, the gravity felt by the person's head and feet is not the same, which will cause dizziness, nausea and difficulty in direction recognition.
Li Sheng does not feel the gravity gradient, which proves this. The space station is ridiculously big.
“I don’t have a spacesuit or the ability to breathe in a vacuum, so I have to rely on you. ”
He smiled, pulled out the [Mortal Salvation], and pulled the trigger towards the golden light screen in front.
Buzz!
The muzzle of the gun accumulated a blazing light that was enough to burn your eyes, and the surrounding air was distorted by the sharply rising temperature.
After a short delay, the muzzle of the gun erupted with a long and thick beam of light that burned everything, easily tearing apart the light curtain, and its momentum continued unabated, refracting and jumping in the corridor until it jumped out of the exit and disappeared.
Click click click.
Achieving the last shot of [Death Redemption], it finally completed its mission and disintegrated on its own. Li Sheng put away the broken parts, smiled at each other and walked into the corridor together with Hui Yu.
The air in the corridor gradually became thinner, and the gray rain melted some of his limbs, changing into the shape of an oxygen mask and oxygen tank for Li Sheng to breathe.
The two climbed up the stairs, reached the end, and looked up.
This is an unimaginably huge ring-shaped space station. The space station rotates slowly and is connected by four cylindrical axes in the middle. On the outermost side are a large number of hexagonal honeycomb-shaped modules.
Each module is a prison area. All areas are combined to form a narrative cage that holds countless prisoners.
"Illegal jailbreak behavior detected!"
"Illegal jailbreak behavior detected!"
There is still thin air in the corridor, so the noisy broadcast sound can be heard.
The cylindrical shaft in the center of the space station opened a series of valves, and dozens of X-shaped aircraft flew out from it, heading towards the direction of the two men, bound to capture Hui Yu who had violated the rules and escaped from prison. Bring to justice.
[The script mission "Narrative Cage" has been completed]
[Reward is being settled]
[There are still 5 minutes left before the transmission, do you want to transmit it immediately]
The system prompt sounded in his ears, Li Sheng glanced at the silent Hui Yu, and picked up the He took off his oxygen mask and shouted: "Come with me."
"Where to go?" Hui Yu also shouted.
“A world that is not so good, but not that bad either.”
Li Sheng turned his palm over and took out the mission reward item he had just obtained. It was a palm-sized egg-shaped toy, with a small color screen with approximately 240p resolution in the middle, and a row of buttons below the screen.
[Item Name: Electronic Pet Egg]
[Type: Portable Prop]
[Quality: Excellent]
[Special Effect: Offering of Love. Use it on a creature whose level is lower than the user's and has a favorable impression of the user. If the other party is willing, it can be put into a pet egg.
[Consumption: None]
[Cooling time: 24 hours]
[Conditions of use: None]
[Remarks: The pet egg can only store one creature at a time. The equipment itself has functions such as feeding, washing, entertainment, education, and sleeping, which can meet the various needs of the creatures in the egg cabin, but does not increase the favorability. Creatures will also not have relevant memories of living in the egg cabin]
[Note: When the favorability of the stored creature towards the user drops below 50%, the creature can refuse to enter or leave the pet egg, or even Choose to defect】
[Remarks: If used in script missions, when leaving the script world, you need to pay a certain amount of game currency according to the life strength of the creature before you can take the creature away]
[Remarks: I want to give Yaya a complete Life】
“Okay.”
Facing the accelerating combat aircraft, Hui Yu did not hesitate and took Li Sheng’s hand, and the two disappeared in an instant.
(End of this chapter)