The infrastructure starts from the plane hotel

"On the [-]th local time, an earthquake of magnitude [-] occurred in the Bering Strait of the Arctic Ocean, which has spread to coastal areas. Many countries have issued tsunami warnings. At present, both Mao and the United States have issued notices on this matter."

The TV in the lounge broadcast the news indifferently.

This TV was left over from before, because Yu Xi likes to watch TV here during his break time, so Chu Ci didn’t dismantle it, but except for Yu Xi, most people only use it as background sound and don’t pay attention to it its content.

Even the news of the "earthquake" only made a few people stop, and they found out that it wasn't their own country that didn't care:

"Bering Strait? Where is that?"

"At the top of the map, is the strait between Mao and America?"

"Does anyone live there?"

"Isn't the casino in the United States there?"

For most people, this is an unfamiliar geographical concept.

Chu Ci didn't seem to be paying attention to the news either. He stared blankly at the screen for three seconds and asked suddenly, "Speaking of which, what's the date today?"

"NO.14." Yu Xi replied.

"Oh……"

Chu Ci replied, and walked away as if floating.

Only Yu Xi, who was closest to Chuci, vaguely heard him mutter:

"If it can be drawn out before NO.20, isn't it..."

I am still alive? !

After Shi Jing checked his physical condition as soon as he woke up and made sure that there was nothing wrong with him, he had time to be shocked.

He clearly remembered that the scientific research ship he was on encountered a tsunami, and the overwhelming waves smashed down on the ship. Not to mention the humans on board, even the whole ship was like a toy in the hands of a violent child in the waves. At the mercy of nature.

At that moment, Shi Jing felt that he was really finished.

Shi Jing boarded the scientific research ship with a mission.

That day, he went to Buzhou Hotel to meet with Chu Ci, and got a coordinate, which should be related to the half-lost [] organization. Curious about the documents, he took the initiative to apply for follow-up, and after being approved, he was stuffed as a peripheral personnel on a scientific research ship composed of multinational personnel.

Of course, with regard to the [] organization, there is a professional rescue team for investigation and rescue.

Shi Jing's task is to observe the trend and report immediately.

Shi Jing even had a little suspicion that he was sent on vacation.

But it turns out that the task is not that simple.

Before the rescue team could make any progress, Shi Jing's research ship was hit by a tsunami and submerged in seawater.

But at this moment, when Shi Jing woke up, he found himself in a passageway under the sea.

The body is naturally wet.

Fortunately, the jacket and equipment on his body are all waterproof. Shi Jing himself has a perfect score for outdoor survival. He immediately took off all his clothes and wrapped himself in a waterproof down jacket. He searched around and successfully found materials that can make a fire. Light the fire to dry the clothes, and check the equipment by the way.

After avoiding the existential crisis, Shi Jing's thoughts began to return.

In addition to being shocked that he survived, he was even more surprised how he came here.

Shi Jing had just confirmed when he was looking for fire materials that the other end of this corridor was a dead end, not big enough to get in, and the other end was obviously downward, and there seemed to be a wider space below, but there was no Sea water can wash him to this position, and the vegetation in the cave doesn't look like it has experienced flooding.

It's like Shi Kyung just showed up here out of nowhere.

Or to use a more popular (?) metaphor, Shi Jing is like a player who entered a teleportation point in the game and was suddenly thrown into a dungeon.

What game is this?

Of course Shi Jing couldn't think so.

Although they also play games such as eating chicken after training, they are not addicted.

Shi Jing only thought about the whereabouts of the other people on the scientific research ship, the half-lost 【】organization, and his own mission. He felt obliged to investigate further.

Of course, Shi Jing is not reckless.

After he checked the equipment on his body—thank God, if the technology is advanced enough, now scientific expeditions will consider various situations, most of the equipment is waterproof and can still be used—Shi Jing left a signal transmitter in place , continue to send out signals, and hold the audio equipment, and record his exploration along the way:

"...The other end of the corridor is a dead end. I don't know how I got here."

"The vegetation in the corridor is very rich. I found some dead branches and leaves to make a fire. It's drier than I expected. Unfortunately, I don't know much about plants. The plants here... are quite uncommon."

"I found a strange pattern, which was not formed naturally."

"I've been walking for seven hours and haven't seen any animals, not even insects."

"The type of plant is unknown, and I dare not enter it for the time being. I have some compressed food on me, which can last for about a week, or should be prepared."

"There are more traces of patterns, and repeated patterns appear. It seems to be a kind of text?"

"After nine hours and 37 minutes, I suspect that I have reached the end of the corridor. Is this also a dead end?"

"Not necessarily, there seems to be a... mechanism here?"

Shi Jing stopped recording, and looked strangely at the stone slab he found among the vines on the stone wall at the end of the corridor.

This is obviously not an ordinary stone slab, it has patterns (?) that Shi Jing has seen before, and it seems that it can be pressed down.

It's a pity that Shi Jing is not an expert in linguistics. He can't study the meaning of these patterns, but he has a good memory. The several patterns here appear in combination. Shi Jing has seen repeated combinations along the way.

Shi Jing tried to press the slate according to the combination of those patterns.

He tried several combinations, and finally in one of them, he felt a vibration from below, and the stone slab under his feet moved unexpectedly, and was still slowly rising above.

"Here, is this an elevator?"

Shi Jing didn't know what to use to describe the rising stone slab, he could only call it "elevator".

After the stone slab reached the top, what Shi Jing saw shocked him even more.

That's a huge crack!

This crack exists on the rock wall, but it doesn't look like it is on the rock wall, because the surrounding of the crack is twisted, and you can vaguely see the ocean, caves, grasslands, and even the scene of the city.

But at the other end of the gap, there is a starry sky.

In the starry sky, there is still something vaguely floating, which looks like——

"altar."

A voice seemed to have sensed Shi Jing's thoughts, and said suddenly.

"Who?!" Shi Jing was naturally taken aback by the voice, and he followed the sound nervously.

Then he discovered that there was still a lot of space where the stone slab rose, but he was attracted by the gap at first glance, and didn't notice it.

In fact, he doesn't have the energy to pay attention to this space now.

He was just seeing a figure coming out from the shadow of the space, but after seeing the other person's face clearly, the muscles on Shi Jing's body tightened even more. to attack each other.

Because that figure is impressively:

"Chuci?!"

Yes, this person is Chu Ci.

The young owner of the holographic hotel that Shi Jing investigated a while ago!

It was also the person who gave him that coordinate and indirectly caused him to come here—although before that, Shi Jing never thought of blaming the other party, even now, he didn't think about it either.

Shi Jing only doubted the real identity of the person in front of him.

But from the outside, this person seems to be Chu Ci.

He has the same beautiful and impressive face as the little boss of Buzhou Hotel, but his expression is more gloomy, without a smile, and his body is thinner and paler, as if he will disappear in the next moment.

This "Chu Ci" did not deny his identity, but frowned, "You know me?"

"Are you really Chu Ci?" Shi Jing became more suspicious of the other party, "Boss Chu has no reason to appear in such a place!"

"Boss Chu?" "Chu Ci" turned his head and asked strangely.

When he was helping his mother look after the store, he would be called "Little Boss", but that was before high school. After going to college and working, Chu Ci had less and less time to go to the store. He had been in the store for a long time. Not being called the boss anymore.

Shi Jing also realized that he was talking to the other party.

He confirmed and asked: "You are the owner of Buzhou Hotel, Chu Ci?"

"...Buzhou Hotel is owned by my family, but it belongs to my mother Xia Xiuying," Chu Ci said seriously, "But if you say that Xia Xiuying and Chu Mo's son, Chu Ci, I am right."

Shi Jing sighed: "Very well, then I didn't mistake the person!"

No, not good!No mistake, talent is not good at all!

"Why are you here? You can't be here!" Shi Jing said in a little confusion, "Just a month ago, I met you at the Buzhou Hotel!"

"That's impossible. I've been trapped here for several months." Chu Ci said.

But Shi Jing said: "Then how did you come here? You have no record of leaving the country!"

"Because... this is a confidential matter," Chu Ci wanted to explain, but he paused and asked strangely, "Do you have a certificate to prove that you are a reliable person?"

I didn't expect to have to check the documents when I came to this place!

But for compatriots in China, checking documents is really the easiest way to trust each other.

Shi Jing was very grateful for the way he carried the documents close to his body, and handed the documents to Chu Ci.

After Chu Ci read it carefully, he said, "To be honest, I don't understand. I'm not one of your people. Even if you use a radish to make a seal saying that I am Qin Shihuang, I can't confirm whether there is such a department. Are you Not genuine."

Then look at a ghost!

However, after reading the documents, Chu Ci still seemed to believe in Shi Jing's identity.

"As for how to prove my identity, I have witnesses," he said.

"Witness?" Besides "Chu Ci", is there anyone else here?

Shi Jing looked at him in shock.

Chu Ci didn't explain, and walked towards the interior of the space. Shi Jing only hesitated for half a second, and followed Chu Ci.

They walked around the gap and saw a hall.

This place is very "modern", with various instruments, it looks like an ordinary laboratory, the center of the equipment is the gap, and it should be studying the gap and the things behind it.

The only unusual thing is that a group of people are wrapped in thick sleeping bags and placed in front of the ECG monitor.

The logo on the sleeping bag clearly belongs to China.

Shi Jing suddenly felt that his breathing stopped. He didn't care about other things. He quickly stepped forward and checked a few of them. He found that they were breathing smoothly and their electrocardiograms were normal, which made him heave a sigh of relief.

Then Shi Jing slowly realized that these people were probably the half-lost 【】department personnel.

This is the research room of the [] department.

Shi Jing understood this, but was even more confused: "What's wrong with them? What happened to them? Besides, this doesn't explain why you're here?!"

"Study all the records, just like you record your own voice along the way. You can read it." Chu Ci pointed to the notebook placed next to him and said, "Not only here, the captain also has the habit of writing a diary, you search carefully. Search, you can find a lot of 'evidence'."

Hearing this, Shi Jing felt that Chu Ci's words seemed wrong, but now he was anxious to confirm Chu Ci's identity, so he didn't have time to think about it, so he just wanted to take his notebook to read.

But Chu Ci stopped him.

"Wait a minute, you must be mentally prepared before watching," Chu Ci said.

"Mental preparation?"

"Because of this place, there is serious...spiritual pollution."

Chu Ci waved his hand, as if he didn't know how to explain this matter: "I don't know if you read online articles, but this concept seems to be very popular recently. The more you understand something, the easier it is for you to be caught by a hidden rule. Dominated, thought influenced, acted according to the rules."

"Like this project, the more you understand this project, the more you will think that everything related to the project is reasonable, even if it is unreasonable, you will stubbornly accept its existence."

"Sounds like brainwashing." Shi Jing's comprehension ability is good, he thought for a while, and said strangely, "That is to say, after understanding this project, even for two of you, I will take it for granted?"

"About the 'two me' part, I think it needs to be discussed again." Chu Ci said, "In this research project, there is no ghost story to the point of 'two me'."

So what am I facing?

Shi Jing stared at Chu Ci and thought, he was a little glad that he was the one who came here, if it were an old comrade, he might be completely confused now, and he would have doubts about the materialist worldview.

Although Shi Jing's world view is also faltering, he finally chose to "believe in himself".

"It doesn't matter if it's polluted! I want to see it!" Shi Jing said firmly.

Chu Ci did not stop him.

Shi Jing then looked at the research records.

Shi Jing was worried that this record would be falsified, but after reading it, he realized that this record is a decades-long record, and has little to do with Chu Ci, but more of a department's work over the years. painstaking research.

This research began with a "space crack".

There is more than one such crack in Blue Star, and it has been found in both the US and Mao countries. The crack found in the US is even bigger and more stable. They seem to have gotten something from it.

There are actually relevant records in Shenzhou, but the actual space cracks encountered are not stable-of course, it may also be that the research methods are too 'conservative'-until a certain Arctic scientific expedition, such a crack was found, and it was still in the country of Mao As a result, the strait between China and the United States was "jointly developed" by the two parties as a last resort.

And then they found an unknown civilization behind the rift, and that civilization's—

altar.

Through deciphering by linguists, it is believed that the legacy technology of this civilization was obtained through sacrifice.

Shenzhou and other countries have conflicts over the matter of sacrificing human life, and Chu Ci's father, Chu Mo, chose to sacrifice himself in an accident, but his wish was not successful, and his children were also implicated.

So Chu Ci, as a sacrifice, appeared in front of the space crack one day.

"The first time I was directly sent here, I didn't have a passport or go through the formalities, so I got here as a 'biu'," Chu Ci said, "But the Chinese researchers here refused to sacrifice me. They thought my father It was already an accident, and I must not be sent in, so I found a way to send me back to the country, just let me cooperate when necessary."

Shi Jing looked at Chu Ci, and there were related records in his notebook, and now he is testifying to each other.

"The altar seems to be thirsty for me, and has responded to several sacrifices, but it has become more and more irritable. There are more and more accidents, and I appear here more and more frequently. Many people think that it is better to sacrifice me. Yes, but they didn’t do that in the end!” Chu Ci said, showing a wry smile, and looked at the unconscious people, “Finally, in an accident, the laboratory was blocked, and everyone was unable to leave .”

"Can't leave?" Shi Jing whispered.

"It's not impossible to leave at all, just sacrifice," Chu Ci said, "Through this method, a few personnel from other countries escaped from the research institute, but those who insisted on not offering sacrifices became what they are now. "

Shi Jing looked at the others and fell silent.

Chu Ci laughed: "However, someone is still here! That's all right."

Shi Jing looked up at him.

"You don't have to worry about being stuck here," Chu Ci said, spreading his hands, "Just sacrifice me, and you can leave."

"no!"

Shi Jing vetoed it.

"Why not?" Chu Ci's eyes widened, his pale face seemed a little strangely surprised, "Didn't you understand what I just said? I was originally the chosen sacrifice, just because all the sacrifices up to now It's not me, that's why it's like this, as long as I'm gone, everything will be fine, besides, you are also doubting my real identity! There seems to be a Chuci in Buzhou Hotel?"

"That won't work! What time is it? You still have to sacrifice!" Shi Jing said disgustedly, "As for the question of 'another you', one yard is one yard. We will study it when we go back, and we will not engage in feudal superstition."

Chu Ci pouted, disapprovingly.

But Shi Jing reassured him: "It's not to the point of rejection yet! The other you gave us the coordinates, and the rescue team outside is already trying to find a way, and there are more people like me! We won't give up any of them." human!"

"It sounds like I'm a little convinced that you were sent by the motherland." Chu Ci laughed.

Have you never believed in feelings?

"Well, I think it's fine whoever kills me, but unfortunately the sacrifice cannot be sacrificed to oneself." Chu Ci sat on the chair and glanced at Shi Jing, "Then what should we do next? Wait for rescue?"

"Of course not, we have to be prepared!" Shi Jing said, "While waiting for others, of course we have to save ourselves."

"If it could be done, I would have done it a long time ago." Chu Ci muttered, seemingly disapproving, and only persuaded, "But I think it's better for you to sacrifice me earlier, and others can't wait too long."

Hearing this, Shi Jing also glanced at the unconscious researcher.

But Shi Jing didn't intend to give up, he groped around the whole laboratory to see if there was a way out.

He even went to look at the altar on the other side of the gap.

There are also patterns with similar characters on the altar, Shi Jing wrote them down, and then looked for other places with similar characters.

Chu Ci never took it seriously, but he took care of the staff in the nursing laboratory very seriously, checked their electrocardiograms every day, and carried out nursing care, which made Shi Jing feel a little bit of recognition.

Shi Jing even felt that compared to the Boss Chu of the Buzhou Hotel who had only met once, this one in front of him might be real—otherwise, he wouldn't need to take care of other people like this, right?

Finally, when the food reserve that Shi Jing brought was about to be eaten, that is, at No. 20, Shi Jing discovered something.

"Another elevator! It's in this laboratory!" Shi Jing announced happily.

"Ah?" Chu Ci gave Shi Jing a strange look.

"It's the stone slab that I went up before. It's like an elevator. It can go up, right?" Shi Jing explained a little confusedly, "Actually, this laboratory is the same, it should also be an elevator."

As he said this, seeing Chu Ci's expression of confusion, he even lifted a carpet somewhere to show Chu Ci.

It turned out that there was an instrument that Chuci couldn't understand in this place.

Now that the instrument is removed, and the floor is lifted, it is found that there are small patterned characters on the floor, which can also be pressed down, which is somewhat similar to the "elevator" below.

"This laboratory, no, this space itself should be movable. The experimenters at the beginning didn't realize this, and when they brought the instruments in, they covered up these words," Shi Jing said, "This is actually a very simple mechanism. , It’s just that everyone is used to it and didn’t realize it! Just try a few times, and you can go out.”

"I didn't expect that!" Chu Ci also showed a surprised expression.

He seemed surprised that there was such a thing hidden under the carpet of the house that he had been in for so long, but he couldn't help but want to argue: "Even so, how can you be sure that this space is moved to the desired position?"

"This is indeed a problem," Shi Jingdao, "Why don't you move everyone to the corridor and let me try it alone."

"..." Chu Ci looked at him coldly, like looking at an idiot.

I also want to know that even if the corridor can hold so many people, it is impossible to hold these instruments, and these instruments are necessary to ensure the lives of people in a coma.

"Just kidding," Shi Jing laughed twice, and his expression turned serious, "But we must at least try. Although I believe rescue will come, everyone can't wait any longer."

Judging from the electrocardiogram, everyone is weak and will not survive for a few days.

Chu Ci was still stubborn: "So, just sacrifice me!"

Shi Jing ignored the suicide volunteer and turned to solve the puzzle.

The combination of words in the laboratory is quite obvious. There is a word that is obviously found on the altar on the other side of the gap in the space, but when he pressed it, he felt terrified for some reason.

However, this is to save everyone!

Shi Jing told himself that he finally finished the operation.

Then, as he expected, the space began to rise.

"Look, it worked—"

Shi Jing turned to look at Chu Ci, but found that Chu Ci was gone.

He felt uneasy, and searched carefully, only to find that Chu Ci sat on the altar at the other end of the gap at some point, and the gap seemed to be disappearing as the space rose.

Chu Ci on the altar showed him the smile of Boss Chu of the Buzhou Hotel, waved his hand, and vaguely saw his lips move:

"Thank you."

"Goodbye."

What does it mean? !

Shi Jing was stunned. At this moment, a certain mistake of Chu Ci suddenly flashed in Shi Jing's mind.

"Study all the records, just like you record your own voice along the way." How did Chu Ci know?At that time, he had just come out of the tunnel, Chu Ci shouldn't have seen him!

Or, Chu Ci has been observing him?Everything about him is under Chu Ci's control?

Speaking of which, everything went really well.

Where so many smart researchers are, do they really not know that "elevators" exist?Even if you are used to the layout of the laboratory, you should pay attention to the "elevator" in the corridor!

On the contrary, it was me who saw the "elevator" at the end of the corridor, left the impression of the mechanism, and made a discovery in the laboratory!Everything seems to be designed by people.

The person who designed it——

"A sacrifice cannot sacrifice itself."

"...You lied to me!" Shi Jing finally sorted out everything, and he yelled at Chu Ci, "You made me misunderstand that it was a mechanism, but it was actually a sacrifice procedure!"

It's a pity that it was too late, the entire space had risen to the level of the rock wall at most, and at this time, both Shi Jing and Chu Ci saw what was above the space——

It was blue.

Chu Ci obviously didn't expect this to be the result of sacrificing himself, and his eyes widened.

Then they saw a dragon.

A blue dragon.

The dragon swam out of the sea, spit out bubbles, enveloped the entire laboratory, and flew towards the sky. Only Shi Jing looked at Chu Ci at the other end of the gap in panic.

He saw that Chu Ci on the other side closed his eyes contentedly, turned into light beads at that moment, and disappeared on the altar.

As if it never existed.