Chapter 69 Deep Dive
Yu Sheng guessed several possibilities about the help Little Red Riding Hood wanted him to do, and they were all related to the supernatural field. After all, although she looked like a girl of only seventeen or eighteen years old, she was also a professional "spiritual detective". What she was going to do should be professional. To be honest, Yu Sheng was quite looking forward to it. After all, he himself had to deal with foreign lands, and it was not a bad thing to regard this help as accumulating experience with a "young senior"...
He was just a little nervous. He didn't know if he could handle what Little Red Riding Hood wanted him to do. If it was too difficult, he would have to think of a way to get by without losing face...
Then he stood in a roadside cafe, staring at what the girl took out.
It is to help high school girls copy math papers.
What a big book! Yu Sheng looked at the math paper in front of him and then looked up at the short-haired girl opposite him. His eyes went back and forth several times, fully expressing his confusion.
It is indeed difficult - if there were no answers at the back of the test paper, this would be much more difficult than fighting monsters in a foreign land. After all, no matter how difficult the entity is to fight, you can drag the corpse over after dying a few times. If you don't know math, then you really don't know it. Even if you kill him on the spot and he opens his eyes and comes back to life, he still can't do it...
Hu Li stood by holding Irene and watching, not understanding what was happening.
"Just help me finish copying this paper here. The answers are at the back. You can write a little sloppily, as long as it's filled up," Little Red Riding Hood said calmly, "Then I'll take Hu Li to the mall next door to buy clothes. Oh, you have to give me some cash first. I don't have much money on me. After the shopping, I'll pay you with the receipt. I'll refund you for any excess and pay you for any shortfall."
Yu Sheng opened his mouth and finally organized his words: "So... so helping you means helping you with your homework? Is this... appropriate?"
"It's appropriate. I had already finished my homework, but it was torn up by the real thing - but the teacher didn't believe it." Little Red Riding Hood looked depressed, but when she looked at Yu Sheng, there was a smile in her eyes, which was the joy of being saved. "I came here to buy new papers today. I was planning to stay up late, but I didn't expect to meet you."
Yu Sheng said with a bitter face: "My handwriting is different from yours. Even if I try my best to imitate it, it will probably be seen."
"It's okay. I won't read it carefully even if I put it away," Little Red Riding Hood waved her hand. "I'm pretty serious. After all, I wrote it myself the first time. Some of my classmates just asked others for help..."
"Okay," Yu Sheng finally sighed, accepting the fact that many things in this world would not go as he expected. He stood up, took out his wallet and handed it to the girl in front of him, then turned to look at Hu Li, "Follow her. If you have any questions, just ask her. Bring Irene with you, and contact me through Irene if anything happens."
Hu Li looked at Little Red Riding Hood and seemed a little uneasy, but nodded slightly after hearing Yu Sheng's instructions.
Little Red Riding Hood was slightly stunned after taking the wallet. Then she looked up and said jokingly, "You're giving me both the person and the money - aren't you afraid that I'll run away?"
Yu Sheng was already looking down at the paper at this time. Hearing this, he raised his eyelids and said, "You will never go near any door in your life?"
The expression on Little Red Riding Hood's face tensed up instantly, and the corner of her mouth twitched: "You're a little scary..."
"Your paper is even more frightening," Yu Sheng sighed, "Ah... I never thought that one day I would face high school homework again under such circumstances. When I was in school, I didn't have so many..."
Little Red Riding Hood immediately took Hu Li's hand and backed away, waving her hands as she backed away: "Then let's go buy clothes!"
Hu Li was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly grabbed Irene and waved to the students - she wanted to wave her other hand, but that hand was grabbed by Little Red Riding Hood.
Even from several meters away, Yu Sheng could see Irene secretly grinning.
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Passing through layer after layer of isolation doors and safety compartments, Song Cheng felt as if he was crawling in the belly of a huge beast made of reinforced concrete. After passing through several checkpoints in succession, he finally arrived at his destination.
At the end of the brightly lit underground corridor stands a heavy alloy gate, with fully armed Secret Service guards standing on both sides of the gate. The gate is engraved with dense, complex patterns that are dizzying at first glance. The sign above the gate emits a reassuring green light, with the words "Deep Diving Area-D2 Diving Port" written on it.
Song Cheng took out his identity card and swiped it on the card reader marked "Customs Verification" next to the gate. As the gate opened, the situation on the opposite side came into his sight.
There is a slightly twisted light curtain covering the inside of the gate. Through the light curtain, you can see that there is an extremely spacious hall opposite. The lights in the hall are bright, and there are many large devices like "water tanks" arranged neatly. Those "water tanks" are all three-meter square containers with a complex black metal base at the bottom, and the containers are filled with some kind of light blue liquid.
There were many people in white uniforms walking between the "water tanks", checking the operation of some of the tanks.
Song Cheng stepped into the gate.
The moment he passed through the distorted light curtain, he felt a brief moment of weightlessness and dizziness, followed by a tinnitus that lasted for a few seconds. When the tinnitus disappeared, he heard a gentle system prompt from the headphones he was wearing: "Entered D2 diving port, the current deep diving area is located at the Panin-III site, the average depth in the hall is L-1, environment: stable."
Song Cheng shook his head to get rid of the remaining dizziness, and then walked straight to several neatly arranged "water tank" devices not far away.
He saw a figure wearing a white suit and with long gray hair tied into a ponytail already standing there.
"Director!" Song Cheng walked over quickly, his tone full of surprise, "You came in person?"
"After all, this is a situation that has never happened before," Baili Qing turned her head and glanced at Song Cheng with her colorless eyes, "Your team members are ready."
Song Cheng nodded and looked at the six "water tank" devices in front of him.
Six fully armed "deep divers" are slowly entering the box with the help of mechanical arms. They are wearing black power armor and full-coverage helmets that hide their faces. Only the dark red monitors are flickering on their faces. Each of them also has an additional micro-reactor backpack on his back to provide energy for the mental shield and special observation and recording equipment.
These divers were lowered into the water tank by a robotic arm from above, and then suspended in the light blue liquid. After a moment, a slight buzzing sound came from the black metal base under the tank, and the buzzing sound gradually increased from low to high when the device was running.
A broadcasting voice sounded around: "The 'deep sea' environment is being configured. Please prepare for diving... The 'umbilical cord' is ready, waiting for manual instructions."
A technician who was responsible for monitoring the "water tank" stared at the readings on the device in his hand, and after a few seconds, he shouted: "Connect the umbilical cord!"
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Several white-robed staff members immediately stepped forward and began to manually input instructions for each "water tank".
The light blue liquid in the tank began to sway slightly. At the same time, tubes made of black metal that looked like spines rose from the bottom of the tank. Dark red light flickered between their metal links. The whole thing swam and extended in the light blue liquid as if it had life, and then accurately connected to the chest of each diver.
The broadcasting voice sounded: "The umbilical cord has been connected, the induction agent has been injected... start diving."
There were ripples in the water tanks, and the light blue liquid seemed to have turned into "sea water" in the blink of an eye. In other words, each water tank seemed to have turned into a small "piece" cut out of the sea, and began to surge at the same time at a certain frequency.
The next second, all the divers disappeared from Song Cheng's sight, leaving only the "umbilical cord" connected to their power armor still floating in its original position and slightly rising and falling in the liquid, as if indicating that the divers were still in the box - but could no longer be observed by people outside the box.
"Do you think this will work? What will they see?" Baili Qing turned her head and looked at Song Cheng.
"...The inducer will make them sink into the spirit world, which is very useful for certain types of alien worlds, especially those with spirit, dreams or emotions as entrances and exits. But to be honest...Night Valley is a bit special," Song Cheng shook his head. "We haven't found a stable way to enter and exit Night Valley yet. The inducer can only allow observers to see its shadow in hallucinations. Now there is a 'mutation' in that place, and even Passenger No. 22 doesn't know the specific situation. I suspect...the divers will return empty-handed."
Baili Qing nodded.
Song Chengze wanted to say something else, but at this moment, a sharp buzzing sound suddenly sounded!
"Wow! Pollution!" A technician jumped up almost instantly and rushed to the emergency stop button next to him like a gust of wind, "Pull it back!"
The emergency stop button was slammed down suddenly, and a piercing noise sounded from the bottom of each "water tank". The light blue liquid in the tank was emptied almost in the blink of an eye, and then dazzling sparks appeared on the surface of each "umbilical cord". The next second, the figures of six deep divers instantly reappeared in the real world - they fell into the water tank in an embarrassing manner, their bodies curled up, some of them pulled open their masks, lay on the ground and began to vomit violently, and others struggled to stand up, staggered to the edge of the water tank, and slapped the reinforced polymer tank hard, as if they wanted to say something loudly to the people outside.
Song Cheng and Baili Qing walked over immediately.
"We've reached the end of the tunnel!" The deep diver who struggled to stand up shouted loudly. His voice sounded twisted and distorted through the safety barrier of the "water tank". "The end of the tunnel! A beam of light! There is no night valley, nothing! At the end of the tunnel there are only, only... only math problems! All math problems! They are real problems!!"
(End of this chapter)
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