Chapter 230 Time and Space Stacking
Four people (the number of people this time was lower because of the addition of a squirrel) stood blankly in the silver-white corridor, all of them a little stunned for a moment.
After a long time, Hu Li was the first to break the silence: "My benefactor, is this the back of the 'stage'?"
"It's different from what I imagined," Irene also muttered, "I thought it would be tentacles, flesh, eyeballs, and weird voices everywhere... Isn't this the style of the previous paintings?"
"Don't ask me. I don't know what's going on. This is not what I imagined." Yu Sheng waved his hand, but soon pointed to the sign on the wall of the corridor. "But this is indeed in Ankaela... er, in it's 'inside'. The sign says, Ankaela-Maintenance Passage."
Hu Li opened his eyes wide in surprise: "Can my benefactor understand the words on it?"
"I can understand what it means, but I don't recognize these words," Yu Sheng frowned and looked down at the hunting suit he was wearing. "Maybe... it is also related to the hunter's vision?"
After a moment of shock, Irene quickly responded: "Maintenance channel?! What the hell? Is this the maintenance channel inside Ankaela's body?"
Yu Sheng couldn't give an answer. He could only lead his team, keeping high alert, and walk deeper into the mysterious "maintenance passage".
What is this place? Is it inside Ankaela? Or is it the road leading to Ankaela? Why is there such a corridor that is obviously man-made behind the "stage" of the fairy tale? In the final analysis... "Ankaela", this existence named "Angel of Darkness", what is it? Countless questions surged in his mind. In the empty corridor, only the footsteps of Yu Sheng and Hu Li echoed monotonously. Yu Sheng didn't know where to go. He just followed a certain "intuition" in his heart, walked deep into the corridor, and chose a direction that "felt the most correct" when he encountered a fork in the road.
The hunter's bullet was still slightly warm, pointing him to a vague range. He could only roughly judge from the condition of the bullet that his current direction was correct.
From time to time, there was a slight buzzing sound coming from under the feet or above the head. It sounded like the sound of some equipment in operation, but these sounds always sounded a little unreal, as if they were just the reappearance of some long-lost memories in a dream.
Feeling slightly dizzy, Yu Sheng subconsciously looked forward.
His vision flashed, and the brightly lit white corridor instantly turned into a torn and twisted wreckage. Horrible dark red shadows pierced the walls and the ground, and silt-like growth material gushed out from the broken pipes around, polluting and covering everything. There was a big hole in the roof in front of him, and outside the hole was chaotic and crazy light and shadows and star phantoms that seemed to be infinitely stretched -
The squirrel suddenly let out a tiny scream, and even Irene shouted "Fuck!" loudly. Yu Sheng and Hu Li stopped instantly, their muscles tensed.
However, just when Hu Li had lifted up his two tails and was ready to fire a round of machine gun fire at the front, the horrific scene disappeared again, and the corridor returned to its bright and tidy state.
Yu Sheng and Irene on his shoulder looked at each other. They were silent for a moment. The little doll spoke first: "Do you think that is the past or the future?"
Yu Sheng said solemnly: "It may also be the real appearance now."
"...You are already a professional ghost detective," Irene curled her lips, "and you know how to come up with hypotheses from the most bizarre and frightening directions."
"My benefactor," Hu Li came over holding his two big tails, and said nervously, "I suspect there is a magic here... I watched a horror movie when I was a child, and there was a scene similar to this."
Yu Sheng asked subconsciously: "Horror movie? What horror movie?"
"I forgot the name. It's about a man who was traveling on a boat. In fact, everyone on the boat had died in an accident halfway through the journey, but this man had Observer Effect Bias Syndrome, so he didn't notice it and continued sailing on the disintegrated ship. Then, as the journey continued, he kept sinking towards 'another world', until he sank to a world line where all life was extinct. Only then did he suddenly wake up and go crazy..."
Irene's hair stood up when she heard this: "Do you really have to tell this kind of story in this kind of environment?"
The fox girl still felt aggrieved: "My benefactor asked me to tell you..."
At this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly raised a hand and interrupted the voices of the puppet and the fox: "Shh."
The corridor suddenly became quiet.
Then they heard footsteps.
There were dense footsteps, and it sounded like a group of people were running quickly from behind, very close.
Yu Sheng's eyes narrowed and he immediately turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from.
However, he saw nothing, and the corridor was still empty.
Only footsteps could be heard, and they sounded like they were running past him.
The sound was just like the buzzing sound all around, and it also carried a certain sense of unreality.
Yu Sheng also heard from the footsteps a hissing sound that seemed to be the pressure increase and decompression of the power device, as well as the sound of collision and friction of the equipment he was carrying.
"It sounded like more than a dozen people ran over," Irene grabbed Yu Sheng's hair and said nervously, "Invisible people."
"Can you, a cursed doll, not be more nervous than me in this environment?" Yu Sheng had to pull Irene's hand down, "Also, stop pulling, my hair has started to fall out in the past few days."
"It seemed to be heading in that direction," Hu Li's ears trembled sensitively in the air, and he raised his hand to point to a fork in the road ahead, "but the sound disappeared after turning to the right."
Yu Sheng frowned and quickly made a decision: "... Chase after him."
The group quickly ran through the corridor, turned around the fork in the road as Hu Li instructed, and walked forward for a while. Then, a damaged silver-white metal gate suddenly appeared in front of them.
Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment, and when he was about to walk towards the door, the footsteps appeared in his ears again.
Those invisible people seemed to have come to the front of the gate, followed by a low conversation - the speech was very fast, but mixed with a lot of noise, so the content could not be heard clearly. Only vague words such as "broken", "lost contact", and "mission continues" could be heard.
Then he heard an explosion, a sharp tearing sound, a few low screams, and a distant, vague alarm.
Yu Sheng frowned tightly, and at this moment, he seemed to understand something.
“…It’s them.”
Irene gave him a puzzled look: "Ah? Them? Who?"
"That deep-sea diving team from seventy years ago," Yu Sheng slowly walked to the door, his fingers brushing over the traces of damage on the door, "that's the sound they left behind."
As he spoke, he put Irene on the ground, then bent down and carefully crawled through the hole between the two gates.
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Irene and Hu Li also followed in.
Together they stared blankly at the space behind the gate.
There is a hall inside. The center of the hall is sunken. A huge structure like a pillar supports the center of the hall. Countless pipes and cables are wrapped around the pillar. There are also a large number of display devices that have long been extinguished hanging around the pillar. There are also many cables hanging from the roof, which look like long-dead blood vessels and nerves. There are also many unknown devices around the hall. They look like neatly arranged square cabinets or columns, with some openings and display structures on their surfaces - but all the lights and display devices have long been extinguished.
"...This looks like a control center." Irene muttered softly.
Yu Shengze did not say anything. He just carefully checked the surrounding environment and walked towards the center of the hall.
But the next second, the familiar feeling of slight dizziness came again. He stopped abruptly and saw that the hall had turned into a wreckage shrouded in darkness and corruption in the blink of an eye. The terrifying dark red substance covered all the walls and the ground. The cables hanging from the roof turned into twitching nerves and blood vessels. The equipment arranged around the hall began to swell and wriggle like hearts, and the large pillar in the center turned into a giant tentacle-like shadow. The many display devices surrounding the pillar turned into countless indifferent eyes, covering the surface of the shadow...
The shadow bent towards Yu Sheng and the others, with tentacle-like structures growing out of the end.
But in the blink of an eye, it all faded away like an illusion, and the hall returned to its previous state.
Yu Sheng calmed himself down and continued walking forward.
Hu Li followed closely behind him, with several tails floating quietly in the air, keeping an eye on the surroundings.
The footsteps sounded again, and it sounded a little chaotic.
The divers who arrived here seventy years ago seemed to be in trouble. Yu Sheng heard the sound of weapons firing, people shouting, and disturbing noises and chaotic whispers mixed in with the human voices.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a man in heavy protective armor stumbling into the air, but disappeared in the blink of an eye.
This place is like a distorted space-time node. Things that happened at different times are superimposed on each other, and even different levels of "reality" are superimposed on each other.
At this moment, Yu Sheng suddenly felt a heat.
He raised his hand and saw that the bullet from the Hunter was trembling slightly in his palm. The heat from the bullet was getting stronger and stronger. In the blink of an eye, the heat turned into an unbearable burning, as if the bullet had just been fired from the gun a second ago! Yu Sheng's hand shook subconsciously, and the bullet fell from his palm.
He quickly bent down to pick it up.
But just as he stretched out his hand, he saw out of the corner of his eye that everything around him suddenly lost its color.
At the same time, a strange and vague voice came into my ears:
"…Last report, this is the Deep Dive Team, codename for the operation 'Adulthood'…"
(End of this chapter)
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