Rebel Demon King

Chapter 1171 The Sphinx of the Winter Palace (1)

Queen Dolovna couldn't wait to run to the life jacket that looked like a diving suit and began to study it.

"You go first!" Zero said.

Socrates Onassis said, "Together."

Cheng Mo withdrew his gaze from the cigar box not far from his feet, and looked at the paper box in Amedeo's hand. The doubts in his mind were getting bigger and bigger, and countless clues seemed to be pointing to an unbelievable fact .

"Okay." Amedeo nodded and said, "You take it, the remaining one is mine."

Cheng Mo stretched out his hand to the cardboard box slightly bigger than the shoebox, but his mind was running fast, and his thoughts entered the moment when he woke up in the "Winter Palace".Seeing that Cheng was silent, he had already put his hand into the box, so the old man and No. [-] also immediately put their hands in through the irregular round hole.

The sudden rapid breathing sound was extremely loud in the empty torpedo launch bay, as if several bellows were suddenly operating crazily.

Everyone was engrossed in staring at the round hole. Even Queen Dolovna, who was wearing an emergency suit, stopped what she was doing and turned to look at the people standing by the watertight door.

The lottery drawers all had dignified expressions and held their heavy breaths.

The world was empty.

Socrates Onassis was the first to pull his hand out of the cardboard box, and suddenly it was a cigar with a bright yellow label, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Then there was number zero, with blood still dripping from his hand, and the cigar was also stained red with blood, and there was also a bright yellow "COHIBA" label that was stained red.

The last one to pull out his hand, of course, was Cheng Mo, the cigar in his hand was bare, nothing.

Amedeo sighed, threw the cardboard box in his hand on the ground, and said in frustration: "It seems that the creator is not on the side of the three of us." He turned his head and looked at Chloe Delorme , staring at Cheng Mo again and said, "It seems... It seems that we can only swim up."

Zero turned and walked towards the life jacket, and took an orange life jacket off the wall with great difficulty.

Cheng Mo didn't throw away the cigar, and exchanged glances with Amedeo in the solemn atmosphere. He saw something intriguing in Amedeo's eyes.

Chloe Delorme turned her head to look at the depth gauge next to the watertight door, and said as if nothing had happened: "Now we have dropped to 120 meters. If we really want to go out like this, the chance of surviving is very slim."

Cheng Mo heard the mother-in-law's subtext is "You do it, I support you", even Amedeo stared at him silently, as if expecting him to do it.

At this moment, Socrates Onassis handed the cigar in his hand to Chloe Delorme and said, "Put on your safety suit!"

The mother-in-law froze for a moment, then turned to look at the old father-in-law who curled his lips.

Socrates Onassis said with a long sigh: "I came to the 'Winter Palace' to save you, and it is impossible for me to fail."

"Thank you~~" Chloe Delorme took the cigar and said softly.

"Tsk tsk~" Amedeo laughed, "Mr. Socrates is really a role model for us men."

Socrates Onassis glanced at Amedeo and said, "Isn't it what we men should do to give the immersion suits to women and the wounded?" He patted Amedeo on the shoulder, "Young man, don't Give up, 100 meters is not without a chance, I have dealt with the sea since I was a child, and the deepest free dive was 80 meters, let alone you young people are not as good as me, an old thing!"

"I've never done free diving before, can you tell me what special method you have?" Amedeo asked.

"Take a deep breath, hold it, and don't exhale until you surface. You wait and follow me, don't delay for a second"

Amedeo smiled wryly, "Is it that simple?"

"Yes! It's that simple. Let's go!" Socrates Onassis waved his hand, he walked quickly to Queen Dolovna, and said softly, "Honey, let me help you put on the life jacket , maybe you don’t quite understand how it is used, let me tell you.”

"Go away! You liar, I don't need you to teach me, you go and save your ruthless cousin!" Queen Dolovna sneered.

Socrates Onassis said softly: "Honey, I did come to the 'Winter Palace' to save Chloe, but it is true that I love you. No one stipulates that one cannot love two people, the Creator And people all over the world love it! Don’t make love too complicated, it’s actually very simple, that is, I love you, and you love me, just like one plus one equals two. That’s human instinct, don’t f*ck it Love thinks so lofty. It is to love each other, then do X, and then lie on the bed and say something from your heart. It is faith (X), and it is also a kind of inner need. There is no need to sublimate it to the meaning of life, the pursuit of life, and eternity The stars are beautiful, but the short-lived fireworks are not beautiful?"

"Don't be eloquent, I don't want to listen to your sophistry!" Queen Dolovna put something like an astronaut's helmet on her head, and began to try to fix the helmet to the connection of the life jacket.

Socrates Onassis quickly raised his hand to help, "I'll do it."

Amedeo had already unscrewed the cap of another torpedo tube, and turned to Socrates Onassis and said, "Mr. Socrates, Cheng Mo! We have no time to delay and set off!"

Suddenly, all kinds of strange sounds in the torpedo launch cabin became louder, but the feeling was that the sounds were very far away from them, as if those sounds did not belong to this world.Then it sank suddenly, and everyone lost weight instantly. Fortunately, it was only a short moment, and the submarine returned to normal again, but it was tilted much more than it started.

"Is the submarine going to break? We have to go!" Amedeo shouted, grabbing the cover of the torpedo tube.

Socrates Onassis yelled at Chloe Delorme while helping Queen Delova put on the hood of the immersion suit, "Quick! Quick, put on the immersion suit! What are you waiting for?" !"

Chloe Delorme took off the immersion suit from the wall, handed it to Cheng Mo and said, "Master, I'll wear the immersion suit for you. If you don't have the immersion suit, you can't swim up. If you haven't swum to the top, it's not because of hypothermia and freezing to death." , that is, drowning due to lack of oxygen.”

"What?" Socrates Onassis yelled at Chloe Delorme, turning his head. "Are you crazy? Why are you doing this?"

At this time, the various instrument panels in the torpedo launch compartment had completely lost control and began to spin crazily. The lights above the head also went out completely with a "chi la", and the entire torpedo launch compartment fell into pitch darkness.Everyone heard the piercing sound of metal bending coming from the top of the submarine again. The submarine, which was originally in balance, slowly tilted. .

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo " seem to come up from the depths of the ground, like the moans of demons.

"Quick~ hurry~ we can't delay for a minute~ or everyone will die!" Amedeo yelled hoarsely, he had already got into the torpedo tube, "I don't care about you~ I'm leaving now! "

There was chaos in the torpedo launch bay in the dark, footsteps, knocking on covers, cries and shouts.

Cheng Mo lit up the "Seven Sins", and the dark torpedo launch chamber was illuminated again. Instead of looking at the life jacket in the hands of his mother-in-law, he stared at the shadow rising on the wall. He breathed a sigh of relief and confirmed What I have always suspected.

"Put on the life jacket quickly, master." Chloe Delorme stuffed the life jacket into Cheng Mo's hand and whispered, "I still have to tell you the location of "Book of Angels."

"No, no need." Cheng Mo shook his head calmly. He looked at the people crowded in the torpedo tubes and said calmly, "You don't have to be afraid. We are still in the virtual world, which means 'Utopia'."

The father-in-law who was supporting Queen Dolovna looked back at Cheng Mo, and said in a cold voice, "Are you crazy? How could we still be in the 'Utopia'?"

Amedeo, who had already entered the torpedo tube, also shouted loudly: "What are you kidding? We have already come out of the petri dish!"

Leaning against the wall, No. [-], who stuck himself next to the pipeline, stopped wearing the helmet, looked at Cheng Mo, and asked profusely, "Why do you say that?"

Cheng Mo held up the "Seven Sins", grabbed the pipes on the wall, and slowly moved along the sloping floor to the watertight door, picked up the empty wooden cigar box from the ground, and stamped the line like a postmark. The blue letters and numbers are bright for everyone to see, "Do you see clearly?"

"EATLGN24" the old man recited again, "What's wrong?"

Amedeo in the torpedo tube repeated in confusion, "EATLGN24?"

"Amedeo, you should know that before 1985, there was no code on Cuban cigar boxes, except Hecho en Cuba, nothing. There is no date or factory name. As Cuban cigars became more and more famous, sales increased greatly. In order to protect the advantages of the origin of Cuban cigars and increase the difficulty of counterfeiting, all Cuban cigar heads uniformly use a very complicated coding system to represent the place of origin and date of production. This complex coding system allows the cover on the surface Information is difficult to decipher like a password. Only by mastering the corresponding relationship and sorting rules of letters and numbers can one be able to accurately tell the origin and production date of cigars. Clarified the rules of this set of codes.”

Amedeo climbed out of the torpedo tube again, grabbed the cover, looked at Cheng Mo next to the watertight cabin, and asked in a low voice, "Is it really EATLGN24?"

"See for yourself." Cheng Mo threw the box over.

"What do you mean? Tell me clearly!" the old man said impatiently.

Amedeo took the box with one hand, stared at the lid and said: "EAT stands for Havana, the place of origin, 24 stands for 2024, and LGN is the Spanish alphabet, which stands for." He raised his head, "September."

"September?" Zero said. "How could it be September? Could it be a typo?"

"It's not that there is no possibility of misprinting. Based on this alone, we can't draw the conclusion that the time we know is different from the real time. First of all, we have to confirm that in order to ensure authenticity, everything in Utopia is There's a reality reference, and it's two or three days behind reality, right?"

"Yes. Many people know about this. To build a building in the Winter Palace, a building must also be built outside, and then use digital scanning to copy it in." Chloe Delorme nodded, " But the 'Winter Palace' base has not been copied as far as I know."

Cheng Mo looked at Queen Dolovna, who was standing next to the torpedo tube like an astronaut in an immersion suit, and asked lightly, "Queen Delovna? ​​I want to ask you whether the 'Winter Palace' base has been copied. ?”

"Shouldn't it? How big a project is this?" Queen Dolovna's voice seemed weak in the helmet, as if she was separated by a silent storm, she waved her hand, "There is no need to discuss so much, now let's start Leaving is the right way."

Cheng Mo didn't get much useful information from Queen Dolovna's expression, and he didn't know whether it was because of the isolation of the glass cover or because she was also kept in the dark. He continued: "I'm here When I went to the 33rd floor on the top floor, I passed through countless air-conditioning outlets. In my perception, the heat of the wind is very high, because the space for storing nuclear bombs must have a constant temperature, and the air-conditioning system must maintain thermal balance. In other words, the outdoor temperature is Very low. I asked Andrei Vlasov just now, and I roughly judged that the "Winter Palace" is located in the Franz Josef Land Islands. If it is July, then it is in the Franz Josef Land Islands Summer is the highest temperature of the year. Due to the 'greenhouse effect' in these years, the highest summer temperature in Franz Josef Land has exceeded 12 degrees. Obviously, if we are really in July , then it is illogical for the air conditioning system to work like this...unless it’s winter now.”

The air in the torpedo launch compartment seemed to be drained into a vacuum, and even the sound of breathing disappeared, leaving only low-frequency sound waves that seemed to come from the depths of the universe. This sound was long and cold, like a dark cry.

"We can't judge our situation based on second-hand information that is easily distorted. Even if it is a virtual world now, we have to escape first." Amedeo murmured.

"Yes, based on these two points alone, we can't come to the conclusion that this is still a virtual world." Cheng Mo said, "But I read their security logs in the 'Security Center' of the Winter Palace. There is a whole book of signatures with no amount of information. The content is almost the same, including the inspection content of the patrol every three hours, the inspectors, and the check-in time, and the conclusion is "no accident". It seems that this is a book. It’s a very random security log, but at least we can tell that they are arranged in four shifts for 6 hours, and the people in each group are all fixed. So I roughly read the whole book, not only did I not see that after 12 o’clock today I also found an interesting thing in the log, that is, in the third shift on April 4th, the inspection team lost a soldier named Ivan Mikhail, which is normal, and then every other month In the same shift on the same day, this soldier named Ivan Mikhail will be missing. We will not discuss whether there is a normal shift. In short, the conclusion that can be drawn is that the safety log is very perfunctory, but it is not the same as What contradicts this conclusion is that just looking at the log for one month, it is actually very complete and detailed.”

"This is not inexplicable. Many organizations fill in the security logs in a perfunctory way, especially in a place with a loose defense like the Winter Palace. Is it normal to copy the logs?" the old man questioned.

Amedeo said: "It's really normal, but usually they copy the previous day the next day, and rarely copy a month. It looks like"

"Copy and paste." Cheng Mo whispered.

"Do you think that the 'Winter Palace' hibernated the 'Utopia' for several months, in order to lay out this huge illusion trap?"

Cheng Mo nodded, "Yes, in order to trick Ms. Delorme into telling me the whereabouts of the "Book of Angels", they designed a perfect trap, the shotgun Mr. Socrates gave me, the surreal 'Dark Dream', Then go through the mirror in the tunnel, the giant eel similar to the lamprey, and touch yourself, especially my special weapon cannot be used in Utopia, but it can be used in the Winter Palace base. This is a serial trap setting, So when you go through all this and all the surreal elements around you disappear and you appear in a petri dish, you don't have the slightest doubt that you're still stuck in an illusion. In fact, just now, they almost made it, if it wasn't for me After seeing this, I am not sure that this is not the real world at all.”

"What did you see?" Several people asked in unison.

"Everyone, pay attention to the innermost wall of the torpedo tube." Cheng Mo extinguished the "Seven Sins" in his hand, then condensed it into a ball of light and lifted it up, making him spin rapidly in mid-air.

Immediately, the entire torpedo launch cabin was illuminated like a bar, and the walls were intermittently cast with jagged black shadows that moved like flowing water.

After spinning a few times, Cheng Mo turned off the "Seven Sins", then turned it back on, and spun quickly again, as if playing a silent shadow puppet show.

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"I understand!" In the silence, Chloe Delorme breathed out first, and she smiled gratifiedly and said, "Master, you are really careful, have you observed such loopholes?"

"What did you observe?" Socrates Onassis asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Shadows are slower than light?" Amedeo asked uncertainly.

Zero nodded and said, "Yes, shadows are slower than light."

"There is no doubt that we all know that the speed of light cannot be surpassed. But before this sentence, an attributive must be added, that is: it cannot be surpassed by any matter with mass. In the real world, to surpass the speed of light, the actual The concept is very simple, as long as we take a laser pointer and lift it up to illuminate the clouds, as long as the light is strong enough and the clouds are high enough, the faster the searchlight moves, the more obvious it will be to observe that the speed of the light spots moving on the clouds is faster than the speed of light Yes. The shadow situation is the same, just replace the searchlight with a point light source, assuming there is a sphere revolving around it, this sphere will leave a shadow on the far wall. As long as the sphere turns fast enough, the wall is far enough , the light is strong enough, and the shadow will move faster than the speed of light." After a pause for a few seconds, he said in a deep voice, "But the mechanism of shadow formation here is different from the real world, so this is definitely not the real world, we are still in the Utopia in the phantom."

"What are you talking about?" Queen Dolovna screamed, "Even if you are in the virtual world now, you will die. All perceptions are real to your brain, and it will not be because you feel In the virtual world, these perceptions disappear, and if you really go to extremes, your brain will believe that the body is dying! So does it matter where it is now?"

"Of course it's important. Do you know why Andrey Vlasov ran away without hesitation as a character who didn't come out of the Winter Palace?" Cheng Mo took a deep breath, "Let me poke now Break this illusion."

(End of this chapter)