It wasn't until the dizziness dissipated and the sight regained clarity that Gu Meng could clearly see the environment she was in at the moment.
He was lying in an oval-shaped cabin with an arc-shaped glass dome above it.
He looked left and right, and found that there was something like a pointer plate on the bulkhead, and the pointer and numbers on it fluctuated and jumped unsteadily.
Gu Meng stretched out her hand and pushed lightly, and the edge of the top of the cover ejected gas like a balloon leaking, and it automatically opened upwards.
Then, Gu Meng supported the edge with one hand and sat up from the cabin.
Looking around for the first time, he found that he was in a room of ten square meters in size. It was square and white everywhere. It couldn't be more regular.
Right in front is a silver-gray encrypted iron door, and there is nothing else in the center of the room except for a capsule-like instrument.
Gu Meng looked up to the corner of the room, and saw a camera flashing red light in the upper right corner, like a surveillance eye, occasionally turning an inch mechanically.
A small radio was hung under the camera, and the voice of the young man just now clearly came from there.
Gu Meng didn't hesitate any longer, and climbed out of the cabin, her mind was still filled with messy pictures, she just switched from one scene to another, and still felt nauseated.
He rolled over and landed on the ground, holding on to the edge of the capsule weakly, lowered his head and took a few breaths.
"Are you still there?" Gu Meng kept his posture still, his drooping forehead hair messily cut his sight, he asked into the air.
"Yes." A young man's voice came from the radio behind him.
"Where is this?" Gu Meng asked.
"Transfer station." He asked, and the young man answered, never taking the initiative to say more.
The man's voice is low, but also contains the unique clarity and vitality of young people. It is easy to win people's favor just by listening to the voice.
But now Gu Meng is in an extremely bad mood. When she recalls everything she experienced in the illusion just now, a dense sense of fear spreads all over her body, making her very uncomfortable. At the same time, that feeling also triggers a sense of irritability.
He had a faint feeling, as if he was being manipulated by something, and he couldn't help himself, and he still couldn't completely get rid of the shackles of the game.
After a while, Gu Meng straightened up, and asked all the questions outright, with a forced calmness in his tone, and said:
"Who are you? Who are you? Why are you locked up here? What is this broken machine?"
Speaking of this, Gu Meng thumped the glass mask hard with one hand, revealing the true emotions in her heart, and then said: "What was the experience just now? What happened after leaving the sixth dungeon?"
"Sister-in-law, don't be impulsive." The man's voice was still leisurely, not even afraid of offending Gu Meng, and said with a faint smile, "Now the system shows that all your vital signs have exceeded the normal value, this is not a good sign Why don't you take a few deep breaths first?"
"Don't fucking talk nonsense with me!" Gu Meng turned her head to the side, and shot a slightly sharp gaze at the camera on the upper right.
He believed that someone over there, or something, could see.
"Okay, okay." The man said as if compromising, "Let's solve the problems one by one."
In the end, it seemed troublesome to mutter in a low voice: "If it weren't for the fact that you are someone under the special care of the master, you would have already gone through the process and destroyed it..."
There was a moment of silence on the radio, and when the voice came out again, the man had already changed into a formulaic tone, and said slowly: "It doesn't matter who I am, you must care more about who we are."
"You can call us Homo sapiens if you like, of course, we never call ourselves that, because the code name is really stupid."
"Homo sapiens and human beings have been in two different galaxies for a long time without disturbing each other. However, the earth has always been within our monitoring range, but rest assured, we have no malicious intentions and are pacifists between galaxies."
The man was talking to himself, and he seemed to be tired halfway, and took a breath of something.
The sound of smoking was amplified by the microphone, Gu Meng heard it, and couldn't help asking: "What are you drinking?"
"Oh, sorry." The man said.
Hearing the sound, he took two more sips and made the sound of an empty cup, and then continued to answer: "I am drinking milk tea, this may be the best invention on your earth, two cups a day to continue life, I can't stop. "
"..." Gu Meng suddenly didn't know what to say.
After a short episode, the man continued the unfinished sentence, saying: "It should have been so peaceful, but 262 years ago, Homo sapiens detected that the earth was changing, and it was not obvious at first, and did not attract much attention. , but the latter obviously exceeded the pre-control."
Gu Meng couldn't help but walked to the bottom of the camera and stopped, looked up at the top, and asked, "What do you mean?"
"Humans..." The man's voice was tinged with sarcasm, "It's like bacteria in a hotbed, multiplying and spreading at an incredible speed."
"The planet Earth is experiencing unprecedented damage, because it is estimated that her own cleaning speed cannot keep up with the speed of human destruction, and Homo sapiens can no longer sit idly by, so..."
The man seemed to be adjusting his state, deliberately brewing a vast and surging atmosphere.
After a long time, he declared in a savior-like, uplifting voice: "So we launched the human selection program to protect your planet and ensure the ultimate continuity of your human race!"
The last sound was still echoing in the white room with a size of ten square meters, but the result was silence, enigmatic silence.
Man: "..."
There was another awkward, suffocating silence.
Afterwards, Gu Meng said expressionlessly: "So you are an environmentalist with a bad brain."
The man said, "... no."
"In order to protect the earth, your plan is to eliminate human beings?" Gu Meng succinctly refined the man's central idea.
"No..." The man paused, then changed his words, "It's not absolutely eradicated, but to put it more plainly, it's about purifying the earth."
"The escape game is the selection criteria?" Gu Meng remembered Enjin's words at this time. At that time, Enjin had concealed something, but now the cause and effect can be connected in series.
The man coughed twice, changed his tone to a more normal one, and said, "Yes, you will go through a six-day escape game, and the ones who can survive in the end are qualified humans."
"What is the seventh day?" Gu Meng asked again.
"Glory Day." The man repeated, "Glory Day."
"The survivors accept the glory?" Gu Meng said.
"Yes," said the man, "accept your glory, sign the contract, and enter the Promised Land."
Gu Meng felt that she might understand.
He bowed his head in silence for a moment, and said to himself: "So, I just entered the Promised Land... the purified world?"
"That was just a simulated scene to test the satisfaction of your survivors." The man corrected, then sighed, and continued, "Sister-in-law, if you promised Enjin at that time and indicated that you wanted to stay, the contract would be automatically generated. When you wake up again, you will enter a new world, all you need to do is sleep, and in the new world, you will find eternal peace and happiness."
Gu Meng was silent for a while, not knowing what she was thinking.
Not long after, when he looked up at the camera again, the camera framed a slightly dazed face.
He said, "Do you know Enjin?"
The man said: "... I know."
"Is everything in the simulated world real?" This is what Gu Meng cares most about.
He must determine what is real and what is false.
"Except for Enjin, no matter the people, things, or things you have come into contact with, they are all real. The appearance in the simulated world is the appearance of the Promised Land. There is no need to worry about that."
"Why isn't he real?" A moment of panic flashed in Gu Meng's eyes, and she couldn't help but take another step closer to the camera, as if eager to get an answer.
"Enjin left the testing ground for the time being...I mean, your planet, he needs to go back to his life and repair his body." The man said with some consolation, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, he will always come back."
Gu Meng calmed down for a while, then said to the flashing red camera: "What role did Enjin play in this human eradication plan?"
"It's human screening." The man corrected him again.
Gu Meng stared at the camera without blinking, without speaking.
The man sighed, and said: "Enjin is the greatest builder of our planet, no matter what exists or does not exist in the universe, whether he has seen or never seen, as long as he thinks, he can create, except In addition, he can also match things in different dimensions, for example, ghosts that coexist on the same planet as you, but in different dimensions... To put it more simply, the master is the master of space. Many dungeon scenes are his masterpieces, ranging from mountains and valleys to small plants and trees, all presented to you through his hands."
Gu Meng digested silently for a while, but Enjin never told him these things.
Probably because he was afraid that he would think too much.
However, he does think a lot.
"So..." Gu Meng said, "Enjin is not a good person either?"
"..." the man said, "Sister-in-law, why do you have such an idea?"
"That's right." Gu Meng ignored the camera above, walked to the door beside her, and said, "Why do you call me sister-in-law?"
The man chuckled and said, "In your culture, it seems that the eldest brother's woman should be called 'sister-in-law'."
"..." Gu Meng raised her eyes and glanced at the upper side of her eyes, and then continued to concentrate on tinkering with the iron gate, expressing her disapproval and bad mood by cursing, and said, "Fuck your mother."
The man was silent for half a second, he took a sip of milk tea to suppress his shock, and said, "... Sister-in-law, how do you say swear words?"
The iron door was tightly locked, there was no door handle, and there was only a detection instrument beside the door. Gu Meng knew that she could not just open the door and walk out so easily.
He patted the door panel again, looked at the camera and said, "Open the door."
"Please stay away from the door and re-enter the balance cabin." The man saw the danger that Gu Meng was carrying, so he had to raise his voice to remind him.
"Enter the balance cabin?" Gu Meng sneered, walked back, walked around the cabin, and saw a fire extinguisher bound to it beside the base.
Gu Meng squatted down and began to dismantle the red fire extinguisher, saying over and over again: "And then? Obediently sign a contract with that fake Enjin and enter the Promised Land? Then what? Go to sleep and enter a new world full of tranquility and happiness. the world?"
"Sister-in-law... No, number 1001, please stop your current behavior, this will lead to consequences you never want to experience." The man raised the volume into the microphone.
After Gu Meng removed the fire extinguisher with brute force, she walked to the door with her hands raised, and smashed it towards the lock without hesitation.
"Aren't you Homo sapiens taking too much control?" Gu Meng slammed the fire extinguisher on the door lock, panting slightly, and said, "Even if the earth is destroyed, even if human beings are extinct, it is human beings' own business, so what are you doing? Standing and identity meddling? Admit it, you are an alien civilization invasion."
"It's not human's own business." The man said seriously, "The fate of the planets is all prosperous and all are damaged. We do this for the balance and symbiosis between galaxies."
"So at the cost of sacrificing the lives of most human beings?" Gu Meng panted, and slammed down on the door lock again.
There was a muffled "clang" sound, and the door lock showed signs of loosening.
At the same time, the red alarm light flashed again and again in the room.
"Alert. Alert. Level 2 Alert."
"Test subject 1001, superior, trying to forcibly open the door to escape."
"Alarm. Alert..."
This time, the man did not turn off the alarm sound, but said in between the dull electronic female voice: "For the benefit of a higher level, sacrifice is necessary, I hope you can understand, this is the last kind reminder, please go back to the balance cabin to continue contract process."
"I'm an ordinary person who only cares about how much money the vegetables have raised every day, but you actually talk to me about the symbiosis of the universe and the prosperity of galaxies..." Gu Meng raised the fire extinguisher and charged it down—
The iron door popped open a gap.
Gu Meng relaxed, threw the fire extinguisher aside, and clapped her hands.
"Incomprehensible."
"Alert. Alert. Subject 1001, Class..."
The siren was still noisy, Gu Meng stood by the door and looked sideways at the camera, saying: "Your promised land..."
As he said that, he stretched out his hand and gave a middle finger towards the camera.
it is more than words.
The radio never rang again, and the man seemed to have left, but Gu Meng knew that he was watching all this.
"You may not understand human beings." Gu Meng said, "Eternal tranquility and happiness are things that the dead have the right to possess, but as human beings..." He paused, and said: "We are made of pain, there is no pain." , there is no hope and happiness, so I will not sign a contract."
At this time, the man finally spoke: "Then, I also respect your choice."
In an instant, the alarm sound was lifted, and the room was once again full of paleness.
Gu Meng had just touched the door, and before it could be opened, another mechanical sound sounded—
"Cleanup procedures are ready, start blockade procedures."
Then, an iron plate fell straight down from above the door frame.
If it wasn't for backing up in time, Gu Meng thought, it might turn into sliced noodles.
The iron plate and the wall are perfectly connected and fused, making the room a closed cube without gaps.
Immediately afterwards, the walls were like plastic bags that were suddenly broken, and salty water burst in from all directions, splashing on Gu Meng's face and body.
Gu Meng wiped the water off her face, and retreated to the center of the room, knowing that she was about to be submerged, but for some reason, the arrogance just disappeared in an instant, and she finally began to panic.
"Hey..." Gu Meng was choked by the water and coughed twice, climbed to some kind of balance cabin and squatted, the room seeped water too fast, and soon rose to her feet.
"Hey!" Probably because of the desire to survive, Gu Meng called out to the camera on the upper right, "Little brother, are you still there?"
There was no sound from the radio, only the sound of splashing water in the room.
"Let's discuss and discuss..."
The water rose another ten centimeters, and Gu Meng had to stand up from a frozen position, stepping on the water again and again in embarrassment, trying to avoid it, and said to the air: "Kill me to death, are you afraid that your elder brother will mess with you?"
"Don't be afraid." The young man's voice suddenly sounded on the radio.
"..."
Seeing that the other party finally stopped pretending to be dead, Gu Meng hurriedly said: "Give me another chance, I will obediently lie back in that balance cabin."
"The removal procedure is irrevocable." As he spoke, the man took another sip of milk tea angrily.
During the short conversation, the turbulent water flow has reached the neck.
Gu Meng swam over to grab the radio, reached out and slapped the edge of the radio, as if it was a man's face.
The man who watched all this silently: "..."
"Why are you standing still! Call Enjin! Let him save someone!"
The man said, "...the master may no longer be in the Earth service area."
Knowing that everything was irreversible, Gu Meng finally saved her energy and gave up struggling.
He lay down on the radio and sighed: "You said... What the hell was I being stubborn about just now? Is it not good to be alive..."
At this moment, the water level rose above the chin, and there was no way to escape. Gu Meng held her breath, closed her eyes, and completely accepted her fate.
When the water completely rose above the head, there was a loud bang in the room, shaking the underwater space from side to side.
Then, Gu Meng was carried by a huge current of water attraction and rushed to the door.
There was a big hole in the door for some reason, and Gu Meng was successfully washed by the water into the corridor outside.
After lying on the ground and coughing twice, he was about to stand up when he was lifted up.
The familiar breath approached, and before he could clean the water on his eyelids and open his eyes, the man hugged him horizontally, and at the same time took steady steps towards an unknown direction.
The arms are firm and powerful, giving people a satisfactory sense of security. Gu Meng instantly relaxes, and her heartbeat gradually calms down.
"Your little brother wants to drown me." Gu Meng wiped the water from her eyelids, coughed twice, and said in a weak voice.
"He's done."
A voice softer than most men rang above his head, and then, a soft kiss was printed on his forehead.
Gu Meng opened her eyes, and found that it was a smooth and cold corridor, and they were passing through the doors one after another.
There is a whole glass window at the corner ahead, and the night outside is dark at the moment, making the reflection reflected on the glass as clear as a mirror.
Gu Meng saw that the man who was holding him was walking steadily. He was dressed in an iron-black military uniform with an orthodox heroism, and the long windbreaker on his shoulders almost pulled the ground.
Gu Meng withdrew her gaze from the glass window and looked up at the man, suddenly feeling a little strange.
It was still the same pretty face, even the upward curve of the eye tails was familiar to him, but the different temperament would modify everything to deviate from the memory.
After staring for a while, Gu Meng reached out and took off the man's officer's cap, and put it on her face to cover her sight.
"You said..." Gu Meng said in a low voice, "It would be great if you were a fool."
The author has something to say:
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, red envelopes must be given out, otherwise my sister-in-law will be unhappy.
Until tomorrow's update.