Chapter 531 Wrong Frequency Dimension
...Is this the Black Spot Group’s scientific research facility?
Standing in the dimly lit and gloomy corridor of the space station, Yu Sheng was stunned for two or three seconds, looking up at the crisscrossing black spider silk that seemed to run through the entire facility.
"...It's a bit hardcore." He couldn't help but mutter under his breath.
Well, they're truly renowned extremists in the universe. They could tell at a glance that the goddess of bad omen had appeared in this research facility, yet they couldn't take it seriously. Just the spider silk in front of them would have taken Irene half an hour to weave. And yet, those Algradians were still so enthusiastically tinkering with the stones in the lab. Their generosity was enough to almost stop two foxes...
It has to be the winter fox, when she is more fluffy.
Yu Sheng had strange thoughts running through his mind. He began to walk cautiously along the corridor while complaining in his heart, and at the same time tried to determine the direction to the circular laboratory based on the bloodstains he had left behind.
After walking forward for a while, he began to feel that something was wrong.
It was quiet, so quiet that there was no one on the road - there was not even a hint of other living people.
Yu Sheng stopped at an intersection, looked up cautiously and looked around, but saw only dim lights, empty and silent corridors and spider silk running through the space station - there was actually no lack of lighting facilities here, but for some reason, all the lights in the corridor seemed to be covered with a layer of gray-black gauze, so that wherever he walked, he seemed to see things through a curtain.
It would be fine if there were only one or two areas like this, but the environment I saw along the way was like this, so... it doesn't seem like "pollution" in the general sense.
And how come there is no one in such a large facility?
Yu Sheng frowned. He had come here openly and honestly, and had never thought of covering his tracks. It was impossible for such a facility not to have a security system. Normally, someone should have come by now.
According to the original plan, he intended to make the black spot soldiers here work hard and help him die evenly in various places in the facility, but he didn't expect that this plan would encounter problems at the first step...
After stopping, the subtle changes in the surrounding environment began to become clear in my perception, as if there was a hollow and faint whistling sound coming from a distant place, and in the dark, it seemed as if someone's eyes were falling on me.
Yu Sheng suddenly raised his head and saw a small device on the roof in the corner of the corridor - it might be some kind of surveillance equipment, which he had seen more than once along the way.
The slender notch at the front of the small device resembled an elongated eye, gleaming with a dim scarlet light.
"Eileen." Yu Sheng called out tentatively in his heart.
He got no response.
After calling out several times without success, Yu Sheng exhaled lightly and tried to reach out to the air next to him, trying to open the "door".
An illusory door appeared silently, but after it opened, the other side was not the expected destination - a chaotic and distorted light and shadow covered the other side of the door, like a wrongly projected shadow.
A vague sense of danger arose from the bottom of his heart, and Yu Sheng immediately closed the door.
This situation is somewhat familiar.
He quickly recalled the last time the portal had this kind of mapping error. It was when he and Old Shuaibi went to check the room at the end of the second floor. At that time, he entered a place that seemed to be the temple of the goddess of omen through the "mirror". There, the "door" he opened also experienced a similar out-of-control phenomenon...
Yu Sheng's spirit suddenly tensed up, and he thought quickly about what was going on.
This was definitely the Black Spot research facility, but the surroundings clearly didn't resemble the real dimension. Was it because the power of the Omen Goddess had taken control of this place, transforming it into some kind of "projected space"? Or had the Black Spot scientists truly discovered some uncanny technology from the "Zolda Black Stone" and created this "prison"?
Based on last time's experience, Irene might sense her "soul's abnormality" and try to pull herself out... But who knows how far this research facility is from the border, and Irene's strength is uncertain...
Yu Sheng's mind was full of chaotic thoughts, but he did not stay where he was. He soon had a general goal, then chose a branch at the fork in the road and continued to walk deeper into the corridor.
No matter what, the "Zolda Black Stone" placed in the circular laboratory must be the core of this place. Although he doesn't know what the stone will look like in this strange space, no matter what... he has to find the laboratory first.
For some reason, Yu Sheng could still feel the "bloodstains" he had left behind before - although theoretically those bloodstains were left in the real world, some vague guidance was still effective in this strange space.
They seemed to emit a scarlet glow in this dim corridor, outlining a trajectory between life and death among the black spider silk that symbolized the end.
Yu Sheng didn't know how far he had walked. The monotonous and repetitive scenes and the overly quiet environment made him quickly lose his judgment of time and direction, but he could feel that he was gradually approaching the core of the entire facility.
The spider silk around gradually showed a regular arrangement, pointing in a certain direction in the distance.
But at this moment, two blurry black shadows suddenly appeared in his sight, causing Yu Sheng to stop abruptly.
Living people?
No...it's a shadow.
Yu Sheng took a deep breath and watched the two human silhouettes slowly approaching from a distance, and then passing by his body - judging from their outlines, they should be two fully armed Black Spot Group soldiers.
After calming himself down, Yu Sheng continued to move forward.
Some more swaying figures appeared in the following corridors and cabins, some of them looked like technicians, and some looked like militants.
They would appear out of nowhere, go about their own business as if completely unaware of Yu Sheng's presence, and then slowly disappear into thin air.
Yu Sheng also saw another shadow, which might be someone in this research facility - but was trapped in those dark spider webs.
Those disturbing black shadows were entangled in spider webs and hung on the walls or roofs, but they showed no signs of struggle. Instead, they lay quietly in the "cocoon" made of black spider silk as if they were sleeping, only occasionally wriggling slightly and uttering whispers like dreams.
Yu Sheng carefully walked through a cabin where many cabinets and equipment were stored, and saw a dozen such "sleepers" hanging on the roof by spider silk. They swayed slowly in the air like wind chimes, making indistinct murmurs.
...Are these also the Algradians in this research facility? Are they still alive in the real world? Or have they been devoured by this alienated space station?
Yu Sheng frowned, carefully avoided the figures caught in the spider web, and continued to move on to the next area.
He felt that he was getting closer and closer to his destination, and at the same time he vaguely realized that the closer he got to the Zolda Black Stone, the more blurred the surrounding dimensional boundaries seemed to become.
He began to see more and more frequently those figures that seemed to be projected from the real dimension, heard the voices of those people talking in the real world, and sometimes even saw some normal lights cast from the real world. Those spots of light seemed to shine into the cave through the gaps between the curtains, occasionally illuminating a small area around.
Such a change seemed to be good news - Yu Sheng felt a little relieved in his heart.
At this moment, a small figure suddenly entered his sight.
It was a puppet in a black skirt, squatting near a gate, with her head down, doing something very seriously.
Yu Sheng's heart moved the moment he saw that figure, and he walked over quickly. However, after getting close, he slowed down cautiously and broke the silence from a short distance away: "Eileen?"
The little doll was still squatting on the ground, as if it didn't hear the sound coming from beside it.
Yu Sheng then cautiously took two steps forward and looked down at what the puppet was busy with.
"Erin" was holding a pencil and writing in a notebook that was too large for her.
The notebook was filled with dazzling symbols and formulas. The unrecognizable words were like a chaotic noise, crowding and shoving in Yu Sheng's field of vision, as if trying to escape from the notebook.
Yu Sheng swallowed hard. The strange scene before him made him wary (the main strange thing was that Irene was actually calculating things). "What are you...doing?"
"The world is ending."
The little doll suddenly spoke.
It certainly sounded like Irene's voice, but there was a vague unfamiliar voice mixed in with it.
"The end of the world?" Yu Sheng's mind raced, and he remained alert while quickly organizing his words. "It's... a 'bad omen,' right?"
"That's the name 'they' gave me," the little puppet spoke slowly, seemingly unconcerned about where Yu Sheng came from. His entire state was like sleepwalking. "They were terrified, ever since the first time they gazed at the starry sky. So they gave me this name... They believed fear had a source and an image, so they created this object of reverence and prayer..."
Yu Sheng had some difficulty understanding the puppet's words. He squatted down beside it and looked at the contents of the notebook.
"You're saying that a group of people, out of fear of the end of the world, created an object of worship for themselves, and thus this 'object of worship' was born? Is this your origin?"
The puppet didn't answer, but just continued to sketch intently.
Yu Sheng thought of Ankaela and the Derivative Star Body - even at the last moment of the fall, deep in the ancient and broken memory of the Dark Angel, there was still the huge and desperate shadow of the end of all things.
"What does this formula... mean?" he asked seriously.
The little doll finally stopped for a moment.
She raised her head. Yu Sheng couldn't see her facial features shrouded in black mist, but he could see a pair of scarlet eyes.
"The ultimate solution to the universe—as long as we figure it out, we can activate the shelter."
(End of this chapter)
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