349 Sky Gate (V)
◎There is no text in Chen Qihang's notebook◎
It was quiet outside the door. The man with the acne scar should have gone far away, but there was still a faint aroma coming from outside, as if something was being cooked.
Zhu Ning had previously speculated that the man with the acne scar was eating maggots, and his mind was filled with lingering images.
She quickly interrupted her imagination and prepared to form a team and leave immediately. The fly people were so engrossed in eating that they seemed to be unable to see them. The nearest fly person was squatting in the corner and laying eggs.
Zhu Ning didn't want to watch, so he walked to the corridor. This place was so depressing. It was almost like hell since the lights were turned off.
Zhu Ning asked, "Where are they?"
There has been no news for such a long time, could he be in danger?
Bai Cheng tilted his head, as if trying to communicate with another version of himself. After a moment, he said, "There's a discovery over there."
Zhu Ning was a little surprised. She had just attracted all the firepower by herself to cover Lin Xiaofeng and the others' escape, and she thought they had gotten separated.
You discovered it so quickly?
Bai Cheng led the way, and Zhu Ning followed behind him. They still walked on the top of the wall. How to say it, after staying in this place for so long, Zhu Ning almost felt like a fly.
The man with the acne scar came too suddenly just now. Lin Xiaofeng ran away in the opposite direction of Zhu Ning. She was invisible and did not attract any attention. She originally wanted to find a place to hide quietly and wait until the danger was over before coming out. Later, she saw a corner.
The model was either made of reinforced concrete or thin wood and cardboard. The man with the acne stuck a finger in, destroying a lot of the wall and revealing a piece of paper.
When Zhu Ning arrived, Lin Xiaofeng and Pei Shu had already studied the room for a while. The room was empty and no fly people lived there, but there were two fat maggots lying in the kitchen and bathroom.
The damaged wall was the TV wall in the living room, and a word was revealed inside, printed in black and very blurry.
A corner was covered, so it was hard to see what was inside. Bai Cheng and Pei Shu were carefully peeling off the wall.
There were words, finally some information. Zhu Ning hurried over to help. The structure of this model house was a layer of wood pasted with a piece of paper, and then the outside was decorated.
In order not to damage the text, I peeled it off very carefully. After a long time, I finally saw some incomplete text.
Lin Xiaofeng released the reconnaissance plane, and the sesame-sized reconnaissance plane took off, widening the perspective to see the overall situation.
"2?" Lin Xiaofeng controlled the reconnaissance plane and said this word carefully.
A number? The number is probably a date. In a contaminated area, time, place, and person are crucial information.
Zhu Ning increased the speed of peeling, but the entire wall was peeled off, leaving only another word.
"Bao——?" Lin Xiaofeng was not sure. The word was severely incomplete and she could only make an inference.
Pei Shu climbed over the wall and went to the next room. That room was also empty, so there was no danger, just plain disgusting.
After a while, Pei Shu climbed over the wall and came back: "No."
Number Five, Bai Cheng, searched for information on another wall and shook his head, "No."
As expected, assuming Zhu Ning was making the model, she might have been short of materials and just tore a piece of paper from somewhere to put it on top. These words were scattered around and probably had no connection.
The walls of the model house were peeled off, and only two words were left: Bao, 2
Bai Cheng: "2 is probably a date, maybe 20xx? A date from the old world, what to protect? Protect?"
Zhu Ning: "Shelf life?"
It really does look like it. Bai Cheng looked at the wall carefully and it might be a corner of a biscuit box from the old world.
Pei Shu carefully examined the wall, tore off a small piece of paper, and observed it while looking at it. He said, "This is paper from the old world."
The Federation no longer uses this material. When investigating outside the wall, you must learn to distinguish the basic age of items.
Zhu Ning didn't ask how he deduced this. "Old World? You mean? In the Old World, there was a group of humans who were polluted in the sky?"
The location of the contaminated area this time is very strange. It is in mid-air and higher than the clouds. In the old world, one can only reach this altitude by plane, right?
Lin Xiaofeng asked cautiously: "Was there a plane accident?"
It is a reasonable guess that the plane crash caused an accident, but why was the plane's body not preserved, and the outer shell of the Homecoming Train still in the shape of a train?
What happened to this plane?
"I suddenly thought of something," Bai Cheng said, "Have you heard of the escape plan from the old world?"
They were talking in the model house, with rustling sounds all around them. Huge maggots kept swarming towards this side. As Bai Cheng was talking, a maggot's head drooped down from the background wall and larvae formed on the wall.
This scene was a bit scary, making it hard for Zhu Ning not to be distracted. Pei Shu asked, "What exactly do you mean?"
Bai Cheng: "It's not necessarily called that. Before the full-scale pollution arrived, there was a small group of people who were devoted doomsday believers. They firmly believed that the end of the world would come sooner or later, and they made long-term preparations for it, even looking forward to it."
There seems to be a professional disease name to describe this type of people, who prepare doomsday supplies at home for a long time, with their homes filled with compressed biscuits and medical equipment. They spend time and energy studying the doomsday that they don't know whether it will come or not, abandoning the present and living only in the future.
Bai Cheng: "I also heard that there is a group of people who are not from an official organization, most of them are research and development funded by capital, trying to fly away from the planet and find a new habitat."
Pei Shu hadn't heard much about it; his explorations were all on the ground. However, Bai Cheng had lived longer, so perhaps some of his older memories had awakened. He asked, "Are you saying they failed to escape?"
Bai Cheng: "A guess."
So there was a group of people at that time who tried to escape the pollution, but ended up being trapped in the sky and became fly people?
This is too tragic. He was trying to save himself, but ended up becoming a maggot.
So what roles did the guy with the acne scar and the guy with glasses play? I couldn't figure it out.
Zhu Ning: "Let me open my notebook."
The news was too scattered and they had no time. Zhu Ning took out Chen Qihang's notebook. The notebook had not changed much and still exuded a cold aura.
Zhu Ning paused for a long time after opening the notebook. Until now, only Zhu Ning could see the contents of the notebook. Bai Cheng thought that this note should be very long, but Zhu Ning did not turn the page for a long time.
After a while, Zhu Ning turned the pages. It was a rustling sound, not like turning pages while reading, but just flipping them casually. It was a very strange movement.
"What's wrong?" Bai Cheng asked.
Zhu Ning shook the notebook, a little incredulous: "Empty."
This was the first time she encountered such a situation. There was no text in Chen Qihang's notebook, which meant that they were the few humans who had entered. This might be a very newly contaminated area.
There is also an even more terrifying speculation that Chen Qihang is not qualified to record this place and all the words will be erased.
Zhu Ning has relied on this notebook for a long time, which made her always want to open the notebook to quickly understand the contaminated area. Now the "golden finger" is ineffective.
Bai Cheng was not disappointed. Having no clue was the norm when exploring outside the wall.
Lin Xiaofeng asked: "Will that still bring danger?"
Zhu Ning once roughly summarized the rules of the notebook. The price of opening the notebook is increased risk.
The notebook didn't provide any valid information. Does this deal still count? Zhu Ning wanted to ask this question. She closed the notebook and waited quietly for a while. There was no obvious change. Perhaps the danger had already occurred, but they didn't know it.
Bai Cheng: "It won't be that bad?"
Zhu Ning smiled bitterly: "Don't underestimate how unlucky we are."
There were thousands of Chen Qihang, and even a pollutant like him had never entered the air gate, but Zhu Ning opened it.
Pei Shu and Bai Cheng are the professionals in exploring outside the wall. Zhu Ning only knows how to devour. She doesn't want to eat maggots. Even cockroaches dislike the black mucus. If they eat maggots, they may strangle Zhu Ning to death on the spot.
Bai Cheng pondered for a moment. "To summarize, we've discovered that the air door is a closed space, with no way back. The attack power currently displayed is that of the pockmarked man. We have no abnormalities."
Unlike the tadpole moles, that time they quickly showed a mutated form and started growing moles, this time nothing happened.
"Let's go out and take a look. We need to know what the maggots are used for." Zhu Ning made the final decision. There were no clues in this place. She became more and more interested in the sky gate. This place might be the other side of the world.
There was an aroma of roasted protein in the air. Although it was a bit disgusting, eating maggots must be the truth.
The fly man in the model house was still stupid and didn't react to the smell of meat.
The door is still ajar. The man with the acne scar turned off the lights before leaving but didn't close the door completely. It's probably a trap.
Everyone drew their weapons, and because they didn't understand the logic of the pollution, they were even more afraid.
Zhu Ning led the team and the others followed. The yellow light outside the door crack guided the direction and they were no longer confused.
Zhu Ning climbed over the wall of the model house and asked, "How long?"
Bai Cheng glanced at his mechanical watch and said, "It's been three hours since I came in."
They expected it to be over in forty hours, and now there were only thirty-seven left.
Zhu Ning nodded and looked out through the crack in the door. Outside the door was a curved corridor with a yellow chandelier hanging on it. It looked very old and lacked a sense of technology.
Zhu Ning stepped carefully on the wooden floor. It was very hard and there was no sense of suspension. If this was an airplane floating in the air, it would be too stable.
Because she didn't know the way, Zhu Ning decided to follow the direction of the meat smell. There were other rooms outside, so Zhu Ning lay down under the door crack. Being smaller also had its advantages, for example, she could easily squeeze in through the door crack.
Because of the previous model house, it can be quickly identified that this is also a maggot breeding base, and the fly man is equally slow.
There is a poster hanging on the wall of this room, which is an anime character from the old world.
Zhu Ning came out and said, "Same."
The others looked solemn. How many maggots were there in this place? What was the purpose of keeping so many?
They discovered a lot along the way, which was definitely from the old world. Maybe Bai Cheng was right, this was really the product of the old world avoiding pollution.
This place is surprisingly large and winding, like a mountain trail. Maybe because they are too small now, everyone wants to explore it by car.
If it was the interior of a spaceship, why was it built so complicated? This was not a path for people to walk on. They passed many forks in the road and relied on the aroma of meat to determine the direction.
They turned more than a dozen corners, took seven forked roads, and passed countless maggot breeding bases. For a full five hours, there was no danger and no extra clues, as if they were lost in the desert.
There are nothing but maggots here, which makes people's heads itch, as if maggots are going to grow on them.
Zhu Ning stopped to rest the team and let the others replenish their strength and recover their mental state. If there was any change in them, it should be that they became tired.
Under normal circumstances, people with special abilities wouldn't be so tired after walking for five hours, but all five of them turned pale. Lin Xiaofeng couldn't help but yawn, and Bai Cheng felt his muscles were a little numb.
It is easy to associate it with sleeping sickness, perhaps a chronic infection has begun.
There are only thirty-two hours left, and the time is getting tighter and tighter. Zhu Ning hopes not to fall into a coma, as that would greatly affect his combat effectiveness.
Bai Cheng: "It seems to be coming."
There was a different room ahead, and sounds of human conversation could be heard, as if they were watching a movie.
Zhu Ning thought carefully. The map she explored was large enough, and she sketched out a picture in her mind. The good thing about the brain being a mechanical product is that it can draw very accurately.
Zhu Ning: "Wait for me for a moment——"
Zhu Ning was drawing automatically in his mind. Normally, Zhu Ning didn't pay much attention to this function, but at this moment he was suddenly stunned. The route they had taken was connected in his mind, and each model house was a connection point.
Zhu Ning didn't know what it meant at first, but he just felt that it looked a little familiar, and finally he had some idea.
It was a picture of half a brain, like a walnut kernel. The route it followed was the brain circuit, and the winding lines squirmed like maggots, now imprinted in Zhu Ning's brain like a steel stamp.
This is a brain made of maggots...? A brain with maggots?
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