Chapter 117 Spore Memory (1) (1st update + 2nd update + 0.5 update of 17.2w nutrient solution) [VIP]
In addition to asking Lu Changfeng, Bai Jinshu also sent messages to Guan Hongyan, Yun Guang and Xu Zichen.
There are actually only five people in this team at the moment, and there must be one person who cannot go.
Since everyone had entered the Cthulhu worldview last time, Bai Jinshu was not worried that they would encounter any accidents in basic knowledge. However, Xu Zichen only appeared on the last day in that space, so his experience was definitely not as sufficient as the other two.
As expected, Xu Zichen considered for a while and decided not to go to this space. It just so happened that he had some things to deal with in his real life and could not get away in a short time, so he declined the project very smoothly.
The remaining Guan Hongyan and Yun Guang agreed.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been bored for the past few months, but Guan Hongyan responded very quickly as usual, as if she lived on the Internet: [No one came to contact me anymore. I think I joined a fake organization.]
She Mochu answered her: [Are you a primary school student? The permissions of 0106 are all open. If you want to go to the project, just go to the library and look it up yourself? ]
Guan Hongyan: ...
Of course she knows that she can translate it herself, but doesn't that mean she is not sure about these projects?
She was not a rookie who knew nothing about special spaces. After passing the assessment project, Guan Hongyan unexpectedly found several people she had known in high-end spaces. They also sent invitations on behalf of their organizations. Although Guan Hongyan did not agree and her relationship with these people was average, at least she had something to talk about.
After talking with these people, Guan Hongyan realized that not every organization is like [0106].
Skao really doesn't care.
Other organizations are like a tight machine, everyone is a gear in it, and the machine is running all the time.
The reason why the special space is special is that the space here does not belong to the foundation. The project space here has its own owner before the exploration. The foundation has a cooperative relationship with them and is just a transit agency.
The owner of the space issues a commission to the foundation according to the needs, and then the foundation issues a transfer order to the exploration team and selects team members from inside the special space to enter.
The transfer orders issued by the Foundation were received by these organizations, and then the tasks were assigned to the members according to their situations. Some were responsible for exploration, some were responsible for analyzing data, some were responsible for connecting with the space owners, some were responsible for medical logistics, and many were responsible for sorting out relevant information...
Often when a project transfer order is issued, the entire organization will start to operate for it. Her friend is considered a team leader in the organization, and he is very busy every day. He is either exploring the space or dealing with other team-related matters.
As for Skao, let alone its operation, before she saw the words appearing on the message board and She Mochu contacted her, Guan Hongyan even doubted whether anyone in the organization knew that a new member had joined.
So she asked She Mochu why he didn't reply to her on the message board, and got an expected answer: [I'm too lazy to reply. ]
Guan Hongyan: ...I really would thank you.
If She Mochu hadn't gone to the message board to ask who wanted to participate in the project, she suspected that her sentence "Hello everyone" might have stayed on this thing forever.
According to her friend, the mission deadlines in special spaces are actually very long, because unlike ordinary spaces, projects in special spaces do not have fixed opening times.
In other words, if the space owner has not confirmed all the team members who will enter his space, then he will need to wait for the special team members to have confirmed themselves, and then the foundation can issue an order, and both parties will confirm a time for the space owner to open the authority.
However, this time it seemed a little different. After it was confirmed that the four of them would enter, the transfer order came down quickly, and a confirmed entry time was quickly given: 10:30 tomorrow morning.
Also coming along were relevant information provided by the owner of this space. Guan Hongyan and a few others wrote a message on the message board: [Meet at the base at 8:30 tomorrow morning to make advance preparations]. I don't know if She Mochu has seen it.
At around eight o'clock the next morning, Guan Hongyan showed up at the base on time, holding a cup of iced American coffee to sustain her life. She yawned and complained, "Why is this space so urgent?"
Didn't they say they had to wait for all the team members to gather? She didn't even know what the project was like or how many people would be joining.
"They were just waiting for us," Shemochu arrived a little late, "This space is about to collapse, and they need people urgently, so the approval order came down very quickly, and the names of the names were all reported by Skao."
"I was the one who reported it," Yun Guang suddenly said, "After confirming it yesterday, Skao told me that I could just get the permissions for these small matters myself, and then report the list in the name of 0106. Then he even gave me the permissions for the entire organization."
He probably didn't expect that this space was so urgent. After reporting it yesterday, the channel was opened and he could enter directly today.
She Mochu looked up at Yun Guang in surprise: "Did you report it?"
"Normally, this is the work of Scarao. You weren't tricked by him into coming here to be a housekeeper, were you?" His snake-like pupils scanned Yun Guang with pity, and his tone was very compassionate. "Then you may never be able to catch Xiao Ao again."
"Why?" Guan Hongyan was a little confused.
"Because if there is nothing important, he usually takes a vacation, which lasts until the end of time, until the sun and moon are gone. The only time he moves is when he reports the list and takes in new members," She Mochu's expression was full of pity. "Now he has even given all the authority to Yun Guang, so he can really be a hands-off boss."
"He established this organization because in most organizations, exploring projects is actually assigned, and he didn't want to be controlled, so he simply set up one himself and then recruited various potential stocks," She Mochu lay back and said casually while flipping through the information on the table, "Which newcomer set up this base? It's so ugly."
Guan Hongyan glared at him.
She Mochu ignored her glare, crossed his legs and continued, "0106 has grown to its current size thanks to our hard work, and it has nothing to do with Xiao Ao. If I had known earlier, I should have told you not to ask for full authority. But it's too late now. You should find a job for yourselves in the future."
"Brother Chu, what does it mean to find a job for yourself?" Lu Changfeng didn't understand.
"Special spaces have indicators. If the projects don't meet the standards every year, you will be demoted, but we don't guarantee the distribution," She Mochu looked up and glanced at him, "It's just like playing a game. If you don't have enough points, you will be demoted. Do you understand?"
"In fact, there are also targets for organizational tasks. After they are completed, the organization will be upgraded," he said casually, "but we generally don't accept them. It's good enough if everyone can complete their own section-protection projects every year. Anyone who is interested can open their own permissions to take them, and whoever takes them will do it themselves."
Guan Hongyan's mouth twitched. She felt that the message conveyed by this person's words only had one central idea: the core of the [0106] organization is just a show-off. Everyone is a show-off. Skao is too lazy to take care of everyone, and the members of the organization are too lazy to take care of each other.
Very good, now she knew why She Mochu was here, because the tone of the entire organization seemed to be in perfect harmony with him.
She could even imagine what [0106] was like at the end of every year. Other organizations in the special space were bustling with activity, some taking holidays, some holding annual meetings, and [0106] was also bustling with activity, with a group of people frantically taking on various projects at the end of the year to meet deadlines in order to avoid being demoted.
...very poisonous.
It is also very easy to understand why one will be demoted if one fails to complete enough projects. Most of the team members who will be promoted to the special space are those who already have an organization from the beginning, like Isaac or Wu Zongzi, who enter here just to join their own organization and explore the space.
They were promoted here to work for the organization behind them. These projects can only be accessed by entering a special space, so they need to stay here all the time.
But if they only enter projects owned by their own organization, it is equivalent to them using the foundation platform to set up a private team of their own, and the foundation will not receive any commission from it.
Therefore, under such circumstances, everyone who enters here needs to complete a certain amount of project exploration every year, forcing everyone to participate in other organizations in addition to completing the tasks of their own organization. In this way, the existence of the Foundation becomes a platform, using these skilled team members who must explore enough projects to stay to negotiate with other space owners and absorb new partners.
New partners will in turn train new exploration team members to enter the special space, thus forming a virtuous circle.
Due to this mechanism, the Foundation's projects in special spaces are generally only released to organizations, and cannot be selected by individuals like in ordinary spaces.
Therefore, if scattered team members like them who had no affiliation at the beginning wanted to stay here, they had to choose an organization to join.
When Guan Hongyan heard this from her friend, she felt uneasy.
She had always thought that the foundation was just an organization that collected, developed and sold spaces, and was commercial in nature. But now it seems that the foundation had actually established connections with many space owners long before anyone knew about it.
How many parallel dimensions are there in the world, and how many space owners have reached cooperative relations with the Foundation?
For these independent people without any background, special spaces are not popular at all. If they choose the wrong organization, it would be like they would unknowingly intrude into the love, hatred and vengeance of the owners of these spaces.
The more authority you gain from an organization, the more deeply you are tied to it, and the harder it will be to break away from it.
Joining a completely neutral organization like [0106] that does not belong to any force is actually the best choice for them.
The friend who told Guan Hongyan the news enthusiastically persuaded her to join their organization before the invitation period ended. It was only after the invitation period was over and Guan Hongyan said she had confirmed the organization that the other party told her the news.
After hearing this information, Guan Hongyan felt like she had a lot of dirty words to say. She went to tell Yun Guang about it. Yun Guang touched his chin thoughtfully and said, "It seems that the water in this space is really deep."
Before entering the special space, the best that can happen among all team members is that the stronger ones absorb the weaker ones to form some organizations and divide the entire exploration team into gangs.
But compared with the organizations within the special space that are backed by real factions, countries or planets, it is just a small matter.
Just like the other team members in this mission, after selecting all the team members, Yun Guang found out that the designated number of people for this space was 16, divided into four groups, with four organizations taking on the exploration mission respectively.
In addition to them [0106], the remaining three organizations are called: [Maetlon Society], [Grand Duchy of Shouling], and [Fanduo].
The names of these three organizations almost all carry very distinct characteristics of the factions behind them, making them extremely special among them.
In addition to these, the client who released this project is also very special.
The client who released the project is the native of this space, and the power behind it is a special space organization called [Yunling], the foundation of this space.
In addition to the team members in the special space of the Foundation, Yunling also has an organization similar to the investigators in its own space. The members who stayed in the space found that there seemed to be some abnormality in their world, so they first found the team members in the special space of the Foundation to investigate.
But what is very strange is that all the investigators who came into contact with this anomaly committed suicide in a very strange way.
As more and more members joined in, [Yunling] seemed to vaguely realize that their own space might be on a very critical edge. If they didn't investigate the specific cause, their world might be doomed, so [Yunling] simply chose to seek help from outside.
From the information provided, they already had four vague directions of investigation. The space could only accommodate 16 foreign invaders at most, so the other party specifically specified that four organizations were needed, so on average each organization could enter with four people.
The team members who enter to investigate need to issue a report after the investigation is completed. The employment time is a total of fifteen days. After the last time is up, no matter what the investigation situation is, the foundation will log out its exploration team members.
"Okay, I almost understand the situation in this space," Yun Guang raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's almost time, how about we confirm the transfer order and enter first?"
The procedure for entering the special space is the same as that for the high-end space. You need to check in first, then confirm to start the live broadcast, and then log in to the space.
Yes, there are live broadcasts facing the audience in special spaces, but whether the live broadcast will be started depends on whether the space owner who commissioned the task agrees to make the investigation process public.
Most of the time, not many people watch this live broadcast, and those who watch it from beginning to end are mostly data analysts from the team members' organizations, so the barrage function is generally useless.
Under special circumstances, the audience may include organizations that want to poach people, and space owners who are looking for exploration team members for the space they own.
However, this time due to the special nature of the space, it was a call for rescue and exploration issued by the space indigenous organization, so the barrage included space owners who wanted to observe this world that was about to collapse, as well as many viewers who came to gain experience and many indigenous people who belonged to the same Cthulhu worldview and were worried about whether similar problems would occur in their own world.
[Yunling] They were desperate and tried every possible means, hoping that live streaming could attract people with relevant experience to save their space, so they naturally did not hesitate to start live streaming.
After all the exploration team members participating in the investigation confirmed the order and the countdown started, the live broadcast also started.
【It’s open. 】
[The original plane of Yunling and his team is really going to fail. If the cause cannot be found in this investigation, their organization may even be gone.]
[I don’t know if this organization will disband. If it does, there must be a lot of good players in it. ]
[You guys are really thinking too far ahead. How can space collapse so easily? ]
[It’s hard to say. Haven’t you paid attention to the Curry Project? This dimension has been closed for a few months, but the Foundation has not been able to gather enough people, so it has not been opened. ]
[What about Yunling and the others? Just keep hanging here? ]
[Just hang on, use your own lives to smash it in, extend the life of the space, and add all kinds of conditions crazily. When I went to see it a few days ago, at least a quarter of Yunling had been smashed into this project. ]
【It's really a big investment. 】
[What should I do if my native space doesn't have blood instinct? Should I watch my birth plane explode into a firework? ]
[However, not many players dare to go to the K-type space, especially the K-type space that is about to collapse. ]
[After all, the organization is not stupid. This is clearly sending people to die. Which organization would dare to take on this project?]
[Indeed, it took only a few months to gather 16 fearless people and four organizations that value money over the lives of their team members. This speed is considered fast.]
Many viewers who had been waiting for the special space to start broadcasting came in, and the barrage was very lively for a while. Under the barrage, on the screen divided into four parts, all the exploration team members were ready to log in to the space.
[Space loading——]
【Space loading completed】
[Space client/owner: Yunling]
[Explorer team personnel quota (specified by the client): 16 people/4 groups]
[Time limit for this space: 15 days]
[The interface is well connected, and miracle redemption and use are open normally]
This is a space-time infinitely close to the Earth, and the time is probably at the beginning of the 21st century. With a crisp "ding" sound, all members of the exploration team confirmed their login.
[Pioneer JS5418345 login completed]
After a brief dizziness, Bai Jinshu opened his eyes and looked around him.
This is a place that looks like a conference room. It is the login location selected by the client at the beginning. In addition to them, the remaining twelve people also appeared here. The four organizations appeared in front of the four tables in a very clear manner.
The four members of the Maetlon Society all wore the same robes, with hoods covering half of their faces. The members of the Shouling Grand Duchy all had faces with a lot of Western blood, and they looked like they were all mixed-race. The four members of the Fanduo all wore sportswear that was convenient for movement, and all four of them were dressed in black, looking very uniform.
What is this, a team uniform? Bai Jinshu silently glanced at the three teammates around him. Well, the four of them were walking on the street, so it was okay to say that he didn't know them.
Compared with these three organizations that look like they are one family, it seems that its shell organization [0106] still has a long way to go before it can be formalized.
I don’t know what the situation is here, but the other three organizations have no intention of communicating, so Bai Jinshu naturally won’t speak first.
As the client, Yunling was very considerate and sent four reception members to the exploration team members who came here to investigate.
The exploration team members at the other three tables have already arrived, and only their table is empty.
The other three reception members did not hide anything when talking about the current situation. Bai Jinshu sat there and listened, and soon understood the investigation directions of the other three groups.
[Maetron Society] The direction of their investigation is a museum artifact. It seems that the item was found at an archaeological site of a large tomb not long ago. The owner of the tomb is a very famous tyrant in this world.
The investigation direction of [Grand Duchy of Shouling] is a dead biology doctor. The reason why [Yunling] pays attention to this doctor is that this doctor committed suicide together with their members.
The remaining [Fan Duo] investigation direction is a primitive tribe. The village is said to be an ancient tribe on the verge of extinction. It is very secluded. Basically, the members of the tribe will never leave the tribe and enter the city in their entire lives. It is precisely because of this that they are on the verge of extinction.
When Bai Jinshu had almost finished listening to the contents of the other three organizations and saw that they were about to leave, he heard the sound of hurried running getting closer. The door of the conference room was suddenly pushed open, and a very young boy ran in. He had a backpack on his shoulders, wore jeans that were washed to a white, and his hair was a little messy. He looked like a college student.
And the other party is indeed a college student.
"My name is Hua Sibo, you can just call me Xiao Hua," he hurried to Bai Jinshu and the others, bowed very embarrassedly, and spoke quickly, "I just returned to China not long ago, and I forgot to adjust my watch because of the time difference. I only remembered that I had an assignment when I was halfway through writing the essay."
Why does this person speak so strangely?
Lu Changfeng raised his head and looked at him strangely for a long time. When he met his gaze, Hua Sibo realized that he had just spoken in a mixture of Chinese and English.
"Uh..." he quickly said, "I mean I write articles... uh, reports... No, uh... I write papers!"
Wasber was stuck for a long time before finally finding the right words: "I was halfway through writing my paper when I realized I forgot to adjust my watch. Then I remembered that I had a project... uh, task... work! I remembered that there was a job that was not completed, so I was late. Sorry..."
He was like a human who had just tamed his mouth for the first time. He was stuck for a long time before finding the correct way to describe each word in this sentence.
When he finally finished saying this, he looked up and was met with four speechless faces.
"I'm sorry... I'm studying abroad, and I just returned home yesterday after receiving the news," Wasber's expression was quite broken, "so I may not be able to change the way I speak for a while..."
Guan Hongyan looked at him strangely: "You...are still a college student?"
She remembered that the client of this space was said to be a subsidiary of the Foundation's Special Space Organization? Did this subsidiary also accept international students?
Although the foundation arrests people regardless of whether they are adults or graduates, isn't it a bit unethical for its subordinate institutions to do the same?
"Ah... I'm special." When he met his gaze, Wasber nodded in understanding and was about to introduce himself as if it was a matter of course.
Just as he was about to explain, a lazy voice spoke before him: "He is from the University of Michigan."
"What's so big? How do you know?" Guan Hongyan turned her head blankly.
"Miskatonic University," Wasber said the tongue-twisting name, his mouth became smooth, his eyes suddenly brightened, and he grabbed the hand of the person who was speaking as if he had found a relative, "Are you investigating these as well?"
Guan Hongyan stared in amazement as the man grabbed She Mochu's hand, then shook it as if he had found a relative: "Before, they said that the people assigned to this assignment are all outsiders who don't know much about the situation, so I was a little worried. Now it seems that there is nothing to worry about! You..."
Then, she watched Hua Sibo's expression change in an instant after he met She Mochu's gaze: "You are..."
"People," She Mochu patted his shoulder very casually, unlike his sudden expression of facing a great enemy, then raised his eyes and glanced at him, and asked in a very casual tone, "Relax, didn't you ask us to come here?"
How can I relax like this!
Wasber felt cold sweat on his back.
For a moment, his mind went blank after he came into contact with the man's unusual and strange pupils.
Then this blankness turned into a kind of horror, a horror that arose from the depths of his soul. If he had not been holding the other person's hand, he had no doubt that he would jump up instantly when he saw that pupil.
The horror these eyes brought to him was so great that even after he came into contact with the other person's inhumanly gorgeous appearance, he was unable to recover from the blankness of that moment.
"What are you studying?" the man asked very skillfully.
He answered the other party's question almost subconsciously: "Psychology..."
"Psychology... that's fine, I can't be picky," the strange young man opposite raised his eyes critically, "You were pulled back in the middle of class, right? How much do you know about us? What's the current situation? Has the University of Michigan sent out an investigation team?"
Guan Hongyan's eyelids twitched. She Mochu was still the same, but after Hua Siber told her about his school, the expression on his face suddenly became intriguing.
He even curled the corners of his mouth and put his hand on the other's shoulder very easily.
And Wasber, whose shoulders he had put his arm around, looked like he had seen some prehistoric monster. His expression was blank and he spoke in an almost instinctive manner.
The other three teams had almost all left, leaving only five of them in the entire conference room. She Mochu sat on a stool like a big shot, while the receptionist sent by Yunling was offline for a few seconds before answering very stiffly, "Yes, I don't know much about you either. I only know that you are the people sent by the organization to investigate the situation."
He spoke very slowly, as if he was carefully choosing his words for each sentence. The relaxed feeling of blurting out English words before was gone. "I don't know the situation either. There are fewer people in the school recently."
"Are you the only one in the institution who studied at the University of Michigan?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.
"No," Wasber shook his head, "There are students from other majors, but they are very busy recently and we don't see them often."
"Very busy..." Bai Jinshu drawled out his tone thoughtfully.
Wasber's head was covered with more cold sweat.
Being busy is not a good sign at UM.
However, the University of Michigan has already sent out an investigation team, and there is such an obvious personnel change with many people missing from the school. It seems that the situation in this world is really serious. I'm afraid that other students of Wasber's major have joined the investigation team under the instruction of Yunling.
And he was probably the one that Yunling specially found to be the receptionist for the Foundation's investigation team.
In the world of K-series, it is common sense that the more you know, the more dangerous it is, so it is a very normal way for them to find someone who is aware of the situation but not very knowledgeable to serve as the receptionist.
Hua Sibo didn't know much, he only knew that their group needed to investigate the various bizarre car accidents that had occurred frequently recently. [Yunling] had already contacted the police, and they could retrieve various information.
As for the origins of these people, the existence of the foundation cannot be revealed to the outside world, so [Yunling] has no way to tell the members who remain in the original organization that the upcoming reinforcements are from other planes or spaces, so it is normal that Wasber knows nothing about them.
"What is the University of Michigan?" After Hua Sibo introduced the current situation, Guan Hongyan looked at She Mochu curiously, "Why do you know he is from the University of Michigan?"
"The University of Michigan is a university in Massachusetts. Didn't Xiaohua say that just now?" As Hua Sibo was sweating madly, She Mochu said in a relaxed tone, "To be precise, it should be the university in Arkham Town, but I don't know if the location of the school has changed here."
"No, no..." Wasber stuttered.
"Oh..." Guan Hongyan said in a strange tone, "Although I don't know what your university is about, we also have a place with the same name."
"If places called Arkham are all so talented and beautiful, then, uh..." Her expression was also very strange, "I think I understand what your University of Michigan is like."
"But why do you know he is from UM?" Guan Hongyan looked at She Mochu curiously.
This should be the university in this space, why does She Mochu know about it?
"Well... because I also graduated from this school?" She Mochu raised his eyebrows.
Guan Hongyan: ...Oh, so that’s the case. That’s okay, we’re alumni after all.
Guan Hongyan: ...and so on.
So She Mochu, you went to school???
The author has something to say:
The University of Michigan in the eyes of Guan Hongyan: It’s called Arkham, right? I get it, I completely understand what kind of place this is!
She Mochu in Guan Hongyan’s eyes: a mythical creature who has lived for more than 10,000 years and seems to be neither human nor illiterate, and he has been to school!
Comrade Xiaohua is not an investigator, but he roughly knows the existence of these things, so he was frightened by Xiaochu.
And the University of Michigan is a Cthulhu meme, a fictional university created by Luo Lao.
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