Chapter 232 Fetus
As he walked forward, Yu Sheng suddenly had a strange feeling for some reason - it was as if the whole world was reduced to just the corridor in front of him and the dark red light at the end of the corridor.
The Black Forest, the orphanage, the Boundary City... everything was far away, and even seemed to have become something from another world, while the "world" before one's eyes had already collapsed.
Footsteps echoed in the corridor and the sound of a baby crying came from the front. Yu Sheng gradually no longer felt that the crying was noisy, as if he had become accustomed to its existence.
Hu Li followed him. Hu Li was holding Irene in her arms, and Irene was holding the squirrel in her arms. They walked through the light at the end of the corridor and entered the last door deep inside the Ankaela.
"Umbilical cord" connecting cabin.
A special and strange "cabin" appeared in front of Yu Sheng's eyes - rather than a "cabin", it seemed more like a maintenance structure in the middle section of a large vertical shaft. Just as the "Hunter" described, the ground here was a circular platform with an invisible top, shrouded in darkness, and a silver-white, thick structure consisting of two main pipelines and a large number of auxiliary cables and pipe bundles hung down from the dark height, passing through the hole in the middle of the circular ground and extending downwards.
Yu Sheng walked forward cautiously, came to the edge of the hole in the center of the circular ground, and looked at the "umbilical cord" in front of him.
"This thing looks like a pipeline for transporting substances? There are also many cables..." Irene stretched her neck in Hu Li's arms and looked at the thing in front of her with curiosity, "Is this the 'umbilical cord' of the Dark Angel?"
Yu Sheng did not say anything, but just held the railing at the edge of the cave and looked down carefully.
The "umbilical cord" extended downwards, and the area below the cave entrance seemed to be extremely deep. It was impossible to see clearly what structure was underneath. Only a vague light and shadow could be seen from the depths of darkness. There seemed to be a translucent dome with a faint light inside.
Yu Sheng's sight fell on a certain section of the umbilical cord extending downward, and his gaze fixed there.
There was a noticeable damage in the middle of the "connection bundle", but it was unclear what force had destroyed it - a section of one of the two main pipes was missing, and the surrounding cables also had extremely smooth and abrupt "cuts", giving people the feeling... as if there was some kind of invisible "hole" that directly swallowed up that section.
Hu Li had sharp eyes and she quickly discovered the situation on the umbilical cord. She immediately reached out and tugged at Yu Sheng's sleeve, "My benefactor! Over there, the pipe is broken. Ankaela has been looking for her 'umbilical cord'. Could this be the reason?"
"It should be." Yu Sheng said with a frown, and just as he finished speaking, the slight feeling of dizziness came over him again.
His eyes flashed, and he saw that the circular ground under his feet suddenly turned into a "bone layer" covered with dark red viscous substances, and the surrounding cabin walls also turned into a flesh-and-blood structure like the inner wall of some organ. The "connection bundle" that penetrated the cabin turned into thick blood vessels and nerves. It broke in the middle, and twitched slightly in the air as if it felt pain. In the direction of its break, at the edge of the hole in the middle of the circular ground, a hand... or some strange structure that reminded people of a "hand" suddenly stretched out! Yu Sheng's breathing stagnated, but the scene in front of him returned to normal immediately.
Irene and the squirrel next to them screamed at the same time, and the tail behind Hu Li opened its screen again with a "bang".
"Fuck..." The little puppet's face looked very bad, "You scared me just now!"
Yu Sheng frowned tightly. Just when the "illusion" just now reappeared, he felt as if he heard a voice, a voice whispering to him, telling him something... Was it Ankaela? Or the "child" being conceived in the darkness below the umbilical cord? He hesitated for a moment, leaned forward, and reached out to the silver-white "connection beam".
"My benefactor, please be careful!" Hu Li, who was standing by, hurriedly reminded when he saw the situation.
"It's okay. I can feel that this thing poses no threat to me," Yu Sheng said as he placed his hand on the surface of the "umbilical cord." "The ones who are really scared are not us, but..."
He didn't finish his words.
Because a strong feeling of weightlessness instantly interrupted everything he wanted to say - the circular platform in the center of the room collapsed.
Yu Sheng only had time to scream "Oh my god" before he fell down along with the collapsed floor and broken railings. He heard Irene and Hu Li's screams from above at the same time and the wind whistling in his ears. The last thing he caught a glimpse of out of the corner of his eye was the squirrel jumping down as well.
Yu Sheng was falling endlessly in the darkness, his head feeling a little dizzy.
Will the squirrel be okay? She jumped down too, so reckless...
It should be fine, Hu Li can fly...
The next second, he felt himself hit something - the "umbilical cord".
He touched the "umbilical cord" again, touched where it was broken.
"...We fled our homeland a long, long time ago...My memory begins when the creators ignited the engine."
A calm, low voice, seemingly without any emotion, suddenly came into Yu Sheng's mind, interrupting all his chaotic thoughts.
All the colors around suddenly faded away.
The world of black, white and gray descended. Yu Sheng opened his eyes wide in astonishment in this faded world. He saw that he seemed to be floating in a gray tube, with no top or bottom in sight. In the depths of the gray mist around him, some faded images appeared in his eyes as if emerging from his memory.
The huge ark lit up its engine, drove out from a space structure of astonishing scale that was almost like an artificial planet, and slowly accelerated.
The giant structure floated in the endless space, with stars burning and shaking violently in the background.
A terrifying crack seemed to split the entire universe, running through the entire starry sky from the depths of darkness.
All the images were colorless, just like the world the dead saw when they talked, everything was made up of monotonous black, white and gray, but for some reason, Yu Sheng saw a dazzling red from the horrible crack - as if that red could even transcend time and space, transcend the gap between life and death, and directly reflect itself in the essence of information.
And the next second, the ark that came out of the space giant structure turned into a point of light among the stars, continuing to accelerate among the gradually disintegrating stars.
More than one point of light.
There are thousands of light spots like it, accelerating under the same group of stars and fleeing in all directions.
"We are 'Ankaela', a name given to us by the Creator, but in your language, this pronunciation can be directly translated as 'Ark'."
The low, slow voice seemed to come directly from my mind and continued to speak calmly.
"There are 13,500 Ankaelas, setting sail at the same time.
"We carry the 'seeds' from our home planet and are looking for a place to plant them.
“This is the mission our Creator has given us.”
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Yu Sheng opened his eyes wide, watching the light spots accelerating among the stars entering the transition state one after another - however, even if they exceeded the speed of light, they could not surpass the crack that split the universe.
Points of light went out one after another, and tens of thousands of arks turned into the residual heat after the extinction of all things in just a few breaths.
And what happened after that was a little beyond his understanding.
He saw that the remaining points of light seemed to have hit an invisible barrier, and saw them suddenly disintegrate during the voyage. Although they had not been attacked at all, they suddenly turned into scattered afterglow.
He saw some spots of light strangely "return" to the time when they first set out, and then stay there in the starry sky until they were silently swallowed up by the crack that swept across the universe.
He saw a point of light - perhaps the last one, which kept jumping in a series of chaotic and crazy lights and shadows, like a bird caught in a storm, being thrown to a very far place by the raging waves, and then falling into nothingness.
He saw it begin to fall and change from the inside out. It grew flesh and blood in one moment, but turned into a void shadow in the next moment. It was suddenly torn into countless pieces by an invisible force. Each piece was a complete, miniature "Ankaela", but in the blink of an eye, countless fragments merged together and turned into a ball of cold light.
It has undergone countless changes in form, and in the process has completely turned into some kind of incomprehensible existence, just like... garbled code in the system.
At a certain moment, it learned to think, chaotic and confused thinking.
Yu Sheng talks to it.
He faced its thinking head on.
Some new scenes suddenly emerged from the fading mist around him. Yu Sheng felt himself floating down, and then he walked forward.
The mist faded away and he saw something deep in it.
A mass... difficult to distinguish and describe, it curled up quietly on a pale fetal bed, as if it was a mixture of many strange hands, feet, claws, wings, tails, and countless other strange features. Its shape was as if all the creatures in the entire ecosystem were forcibly blended into one body, and then such a product was blended at the boundary of imagination and reason.
And above this "angel's fetus" is floating a broken umbilical cord - it extends from the surface of the "fetus" and floats upward in the gray-white mist.
"…This is my child. He's so cute, isn't he?"
The calm, slow voice whispered.
Yu Sheng did not answer, but just stood quietly in front of the huge piece of meat.
How could he answer? How should he answer?
It's dead.
Perhaps it was dead at the moment it was conceived.
(End of this chapter)
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