mist [unlimited]

It gets darker and darker.

Slowly, even the scattered garbage parts on the side of the road and the vines with fluorescent flowers can no longer be seen.

Walking in the dark, the two could only feel each other's existence through the divine sleep between their hands and the faint fluorescence on the flowers they just picked.

In this seemingly endless darkness, it is really easy to have doubts about "am I still alive".

There are no markers in all directions, and there are no traces of other living creatures, as if this is the only two of them left in the world.

After walking for about an hour, I was still in the dark one second before, and I stepped forward the next second, and when I landed, my eyes suddenly opened up.

With just this one step, he stepped into another world in an instant.

The bright light stimulated the two to cover their eyes, and when they got used to the brightness, the two were startled when they saw the scene in front of them clearly.

They even stepped into a tropical rainforest.

The smell of green grass, puddles, and soil paved the surface, and it was caught off guard and poured into their lungs, refreshing and tangy.

The dense vegetation fills the entire field of vision. Trees with a height of tens of meters grow in the lake. The roots of the trees are intricately coiled, like a huge network of veins, which can be seen clearly from the water surface.There are no fish in the water, nor any traces of microorganisms, and it is unbelievably clear.

Plantain-like plants are dotted among them, and the thick leaves are moist, and the greenery seems to be about to drip.Aquatic plants grow all over the center and shore of the lake, thick vines twine among the trees, and flowers of various colors can be seen everywhere.

But what is even more speechless is that if you look up along those trees, you will find that they are endlessly high, because the world above your head is like a reflection, which perfectly reproduces the scene on the ground.

There is no sky here.

What is above their heads is - a piece of rainforest that hangs upside down and is exactly the same as the ground. It is also full of greenery and lush vegetation.

Ji Yushi suspects that this is actually some kind of hallucination.

They walked for a while, and when it was raining, they stretched out their hands, but they actually touched the leaves of the plants. The touch felt slightly cool, and he frowned: "It's all true."

The temperature and humidity here are very high, and the two have already taken off their protective clothing and put it away.

Song Qinglan's sensitivity to the environment is far beyond that of ordinary people, but he didn't notice the danger signal here. He stood behind a field of purple and white flowers that he couldn't name. The black combat uniform fit his body line perfectly. It's like a model shooting some kind of blockbuster: "Consultant Ji, have you noticed that it's too quiet here."

There is no hustle and bustle of the rainforest, no sounds of animals and birds, no water and wind.

Except for the vibrant plants, it seems that there is not even a moth.

"It's very strange." Ji Yushi nodded, and then looked into the distance, "Captain Song, shall we continue to move forward?"

If you don't go forward, you can only go back.

The direction they came from was clear to both of them.

"If you want to find out what's going on here, I think you can only go forward." Song Qinglan held Shenmian in her hand, "What do you think?"

Let go of the leaves in your hand during the monsoon rain: "I think so too."

Song Qinglan reminded: "But if you continue to walk, you may encounter danger. There are only two of us."

Ji Yushi said: "Then we can only go back and be with the bearded man."

Song Qinglan bent her lips and used her gun to push away the plants blocking the way: "Okay, then let's continue walking."

There is no weapon on Ji Yushi, and everything here is unknown.

This time Song Qinglan naturally walked ahead to open the way, and Ji Yushi had no objection.

The rainforest was hot and humid, as if it had just rained, and water droplets were still hanging on the treetops and grass.

After walking for a few minutes, both of their hair and bodies were wet.During the monsoon rain, his complexion was cold and pale, and the water droplets slid down his hair to his face and neck. Against the backdrop of greenery, his eyebrows and eyes were particularly vivid.

Song Qinglan always felt that she was going to get sick again during the monsoon rain.

Walking under a dense round-leaved plant, Song Qinglan took advantage of her height and easily broke off a leaf the size of a water basin: "Take it, and block it."

Ji Yushi took it and held it like an umbrella: "Thank you."

Why not do it if you can block it for a while, he teased Song Qinglan: "Captain Song is so considerate, I almost thought I was a woman."

Song Qinglan had to hold a gun in both hands, and was also responsible for opening the way. She really didn't have time to "open an umbrella" for herself, so she casually replied, "I didn't say that."

They walked into the depths of the rainforest.

The trees here grew even bigger, and many of the trunks were as thick as four or five people surrounded by people, so the gaps between the trees also became larger.There are many parasitic plants growing on these trees, and they hang fruits, which are as plump and attractive as dragon fruit, but no one dares to try it rashly.

The further you go, the bigger the plants in the rainforest are, far beyond the normal range of cognition.

They passed a huge fungal colony.

All kinds of huge mushrooms in light blue, red, white, and yellow grow in the rainforest like piles of small houses.

Standing under the canopy of a mushroom during the monsoon rain, I observed and said: "These mushrooms should not be of the same species. The biggest mushroom I have ever seen is a boletus with a canopy about 50 cm in diameter, or the fungus spreads underneath. Up to 2000 acres of Armillaria austrii. The fungus grows along the roots of the trees and secretes digestive enzymes to rot the roots, but so many mushrooms grow to this extent without affecting the growth of the trees..."

"I didn't expect you to know about mushrooms." Song Qinglan asked, "Consultant Ji, is there anything else you don't know?"

The long journey was too boring, so the two continued on.

Ji Yushi said: "Actually, I just read the materials in the museum."

Song Qinglan asked, "Is there a museum dedicated to mushrooms?"

"It's just one of the popular science exhibition projects." Ji Yushi said, "I was only five years old at the time, and I thought it was very interesting."

People with hyperamnesia seldom find something they remember interesting.This was the first time Song Qinglan heard a relaxing memory from Ji Yushi's mouth in such a long time.

Song Qinglan turned her head and asked, "You can already remember everything from a young age?"

"No, this disease is not born." Ji Yushi told him, "It was a long time later, and one day by chance, I suddenly found that I could remember everything that happened. Including all the experiences I had, and all I can remember all the details clearly, and then I can never forget them.”

Not born?

Song Qinglan guessed that something must have happened during that time.

Ji Yushi didn't go any further when he said this, and the two of them didn't get to know each other well enough to have a heart-to-heart conversation, so the topic ended like this.

They walked through huge fungal colonies.

Then they passed a small stream, by which they finally made a discovery.

There are some tools, packages, and a rusty kettle by the stream. It looks like someone has stayed here.

When it rained during the monsoon, I opened those packages to check, and found that there were also some daily necessities inside, including moldy and rotten batteries, communicators that had failed due to water ingress, etc., all of which were unusable.During the monsoon rains, I found a compass in the package. In their era, the styles of these things belonged to supplies more than ten years ago, but this compass is well preserved, and the N/S English letters on the dial are still clear and legible. It's a pity that the pointer is spinning around and it's completely useless.

"Consultant Season."

Song Qinglan also noticed something, standing behind a bush, her expression was not very good.During the monsoon rains, I put away the compass, walked around behind the bushes and looked, and my expression sank.

There were three corpses behind the bushes, lying on top of each other in disorder, and most of their bodies were covered by the mud washed ashore from the stream during the heavy rain.

These people seem to have been dead for a long time, except for their hair and still, their bodies have been skeletalized.

What made the two feel uncomfortable was that the clothes on these corpses were basically in good condition—high-strength polymer materials that are flame- and moisture-resistant, and the color, style, and position of the number logo on the left chest all fought against the black they were wearing. The clothes are exactly the same.

Song Qinglan squatted down, brushed away the dirt from the body of the corpse, and the number on the guardian's chest appeared: 12.

All three corpses are Guardians from the Vault.

"Fifteen years ago, there was a guardian team numbered 15 in Tianqiong who accepted an S-level mission." Song Qinglan said, "But from the 12th second after they set off, all eight of them lost contact. In the past year, I haven’t heard from them again, and the Tiandome system has checked in various time and space many times, but they haven’t found any trace of them.”

Ji Yushi: "This is them?"

"It should be." Song Qinglan frowned, "I heard about this case when I first joined the guardian team. According to the analysis of experts, they got lost in a certain time and space and hid."

Whether it is a guardian or a recorder, the requirements for personnel selection are very high.

Not only does it require them to have sufficient abilities, but it also requires them to have a sufficiently strong and firm psychological defense.After all, human beings have weaknesses. Just imagine, people who go back to the past are equivalent to having the ability to predict, while people who go to the future may have a new life... Since the establishment of the sky, because of various human desires, it is not unheard of. Lost in time and space and do not want to return to the original time and space.

At this time, Tianqiong will send another team to correct the mistakes. They are called inspectors. Once they set off, they will completely clean up those deserters and bring them back to the original era for execution.

And the Sky Twelve team 15 years ago was the only team that was not caught by the inspectors.

Song Qinglan: "Everyone thought they were deserters in time and space out of selfish desires, but they didn't expect them to be here."

Space-time deserters.

Ji Yushi stared at the three corpses, wondering what he was thinking.

This matter is a secret inside the sky, only the captains of the teams know.

Song Qinglan then said: "You may not have heard of this... Hey, I feel sorry for them. It seems that it is just like what we thought, this is indeed a magnetic field with a strange effect, which will make the crossing during the transition Those who are sucked in."

Ji Yushi said: "If we can't go back, we will be treated as deserters."

Song Qinglan was noncommittal.

What Ji Yushi said was correct, except that they were hijacked to the transfer station by the so-called "Sky Dome Self-awareness", their current situation is very similar to the Sky Twelve Team.If they can't go back, for the third command center, the Tianqiong Seventh team, which lost contact after departure, has also become a deserter in time and space.

But Song Qinglan is not a pessimistic person, and Sky Seven is the same, they will not succumb to the predicament in front of them.

"What's the cause of death?" Ji Yushi asked, "Can you tell?"

"There is no trauma on the bones..." Song Qinglan looked at the corpse, "The clothes are not damaged, it doesn't look like they died from external force. If it was because of hunger, they wouldn't all die in the same place. Judging from the posture, it might be It's poisoning."

Both of them thought of the dragon fruit-like fruit and those big mushrooms they had seen just now.

After burying these seniors, the two continued to move forward.

This time, they walked for a long time.

Time in this rainforest seems to be static, just like the place they came from, day and night, making it hard to feel the passage of time.

However, the energy consumption of the human body did not stop, and soon they felt hungry and tired.

They moved forward along the stream and entered deeper into the rainforest, where they saw huge mushrooms and thick trees.

With the lessons learned from the past, in the case of extreme hunger, they passed through those brightly colored fruits, and still held back their strong desire to try.

After passing a round leaf plant, Ji Yushi stopped in his tracks: "Team Song."

There was a break mark on one of the round-leaved plants, and the milky white liquid was still dripping from the break. It was the leaf that was broken by Song Qinglan before.

Song Qinglan also recognized it: "Fuck. Are we going around in circles?"

In fact, Ji Yushi was thinking about this question all the way, he pursed his lips, and still expressed his inner thoughts: "I don't think there should be any."

Song Qinglan also didn't think so, he and Ji Yushi had a good sense of direction, so they wouldn't take a detour, but this was too weird.

It's almost like a ghost hitting a wall.

After thinking for two or three seconds, Song Qinglan made a decision: "It's easy to know if there is a detour, we have to keep going."

Then, as suddenly as it came.

They took a step in the process of walking, they were still in the rainforest one second, and they stepped into nothingness the next second.

It was dark again all around.

The temperature dropped, and the wetness from the rainforest was still on the two of them. Even though they put on the protective clothing that they didn't want to discard along the way, they didn't warm up, so they had to bite the bullet and move on.

During the monsoon rains, my teeth trembled from the cold.

This time there was no fluorescent flower lighting, he had no choice but to hold on to the end of Shenmian in this cold, trying to speed up his pace.

Song Qinglan looked back at him several times, but said nothing.

The aurora flashed in the sky.

In the silence, they both stopped in their tracks.

What appeared in front of them was another mountain of garbage.

No, this is the mountain of garbage they walked through.

Moving forward, when their hands and feet were about to freeze, they saw the familiar space capsule.

Song Qinglan pushed the door open, and the two walked in.

The bearded man was sitting on the small sofa, covering his nose, which was still bleeding from Song Qinglan's beating, with a towel.

Seeing the two of them coming in, the bearded man immediately bounced off the sofa in anger: "Anfa Lahagen and!!"

Song Qinglan sneered, raised Shenmian to face the bearded man, and imitated his pronunciation and said, "Anfa Lahagenhe."

He didn't understand what it meant, but he knew it was definitely not a good word.

The bearded man froze.

I don't know if it was because of Song Qinglan's words, or because she was afraid of guns, the big, two-meter-long fool performed on the spot and went into a daze.

During the rainy season, her lips turned white from the cold: "..."

It was much warmer in the space capsule. He took off the protective clothing on his body and threw it away, then walked to the pile of sundries with the bearded man.

The bearded man came back to his senses, fearing that Ji Yu would take away his things, so he screamed anxiously.

Ji Yushi picked up a vintage iron alarm clock, and said, "Team Song, less than two hours have passed since we got out of the space capsule."