Yan Sichen, who took Sky Elevator 1 from Starport back to the camp, was just about to go back to his room to rest when he was stopped by No. 1 at the entrance to the shooting range.
The two of them just met each other and understood each other's meaning after exchanging glances.
Follow No. 1 around the shooting range to the underground hangar.
No. 2 and Xian Qianhua were waiting for them in a hidden corner.
After the four of them gathered together, Yan Sichen took out a rose-gold voucher and followed the door in the corner before it was opened.
After entering, passing through a deep trail, in a simple underground space with four walls, the replica carrier core is conducting a comprehensive analysis of another "chunk of meat".
The people responsible for supervising this analysis process are Shen Yinuo and Chu Xiaoming.
Both of them were wearing protective clothing, holding crystal plates in their hands, and their faces were solemn. They had lost the relaxed and comfortable look they had in the camp.
After everyone arrived, No. 1 said: "If my prediction is correct, they should make some moves in the next few days, but we can't confront them head-on. We have to create some opportunities for them."
Xian Qianhua said: "I have discussed this with Yi Nuo. I will go out rock climbing with her in a few days. Then I will pretend to be missing and you will organize a rescue together. This opportunity should be real and natural enough, right?"
"Well..." No. 2 nodded, and he asked Chu Xiaoming: "Xiaoming, are you sure they will come?"
At this time, Chu Xiaoming was no longer the Chef Chu who spent all day in the kitchen studying recipes. He adjusted the multifunctional glasses on the bridge of his nose and said: "Unless they think we have no value, they will definitely come back. That's it." Samantha and I see eye to eye."
"Oh? Is that so? Samantha?"
"Yes, I am more than 70% sure that they will show up, but you'd better be prepared to deal with them in advance. After all, the other party may be very difficult to deal with."
"Well... this reminds me." No. 1 lowered his head and thought for a moment: "I guess we have no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation, but if we treat the entire camp as a hunting ground and set some traps for them, I believe we will be able to win. many."
"The whole camp is used as a hunting ground? Hey, you're betting a bit too much," Xian Qianhua said in surprise.
Yan Sichen also had the same idea: "Yes, Wanxia, if we still have reservations, we should still be able to afford the loss, but if we go all-in, we may lose everything."
However, No. 1 said calmly: "Don't worry, I have my own sense of discretion. This matter will be left to the two of us. You will be responsible for playing your part. When the time is right, it will be time for us to reveal the truth. "
Yan Sichen and Xian Qianhua were still a little worried after hearing this, but they chose to believe in No. 1's judgment.
"Okay, then... let's do this."
"Wait." Shen Yinuo, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke.
Everyone looked at her in confusion.
Shen Yinuo put down the crystal plate and asked No. 1 Su Wanxia: "Wanxia, do you really believe that the Lord of the Past exists?"
Everyone was even more puzzled when they heard this, because everyone seemed to have reached a consensus on this matter. Otherwise, how could they have been conspiring under this camp for more than ten years?
But only Su Wanxia knew what Shen Yinuo was worried about.
He smiled slightly: "Believe me, everything will go well."
Shen Yinuo nodded slightly and did not question anything.
…
One week later.
According to the requirements of the script, Xian Qianhua and Shen Yinuo put on simple space suits spray-painted with exaggerated graffiti as usual and then drove terrain vehicles to the predetermined location.
The Fararim Canyon is located 327 kilometers northwest of Lihan Crater. It is a water-eroded canyon formed about 700 million years ago.
Scientists were very excited when they first discovered it, because this canyon can almost fully prove that there was once a rich source of water on Mars.
But now that Xian Qianhua and Shen Yinuo, who have arrived at the Farram Grand Canyon, looking at the bottomless canyon, they can only lament that Mars once had water sources.
"I think this side is pretty good, why don't we start here." Xian Qianhua chose an edge that looked dangerous and stopped the car.
Shen Yinuo also stopped the car. She was carrying a modified emergency rescue rope on her back, but she had no intention of using it.
Today, the two of them will challenge themselves to rock climb on Mars without the help of any protective equipment.
The gravity of Mars is much smaller than that of the Earth. Two ladies with perfect figures weigh about 100 kilograms on the Earth, but they only weigh more than 30 kilograms here. This kind of gravity can greatly reduce the difficulty of rock climbing on Mars, but the protection The weight of the suit itself cannot be ignored. In addition, without any emergency life-saving props to assist, it is still a retrograde road from top to bottom. The risk factor of such rock climbing is still extremely high.
However, Xian Qianhua dared not even take a photo of Mars, let alone rock climbing with Mars, so she started before Shen Yinuo started.
Shen Yinuo also followed immediately.
Although neither of them has received professional training, they have had enough time to learn and explore on their own over the years.
Therefore, rock climbing movements can be considered relatively professional.
But when the two of them descended thirty meters, Xian Qianhua suddenly smiled and said, "I'll wait for you below." Then she let go, her body fell backwards and disappeared into the darkness of the canyon.
Shen Yinuo was dumbfounded. This was very different from their original plan.
So she hurriedly called out Xian Qianhua's name, and at the same time let go of her hand, trying to find Xian Qianhua's figure with the help of the auxiliary descent device of the space suit.
However, after reaching the bottom, what Shen Yinuo saw made her froze.
…
Shen Yinuo, who hurried back to the camp, was confused all the way.
, she could no longer tell whether she was alive or dead, and always felt as if she was in a dream.
The anxious people waiting in the camp immediately became busy after hearing that Xian Qianhua was missing. Everyone acted very realistically.
But only No. 1 Su Wanxia saw the strange behavior of Shen Yinuo... She was not acting...
This uneasiness made No. 1 suspicious. He followed the others and left the camp, but he was uneasy along the way.
…
after an hour.
Things turned out exactly as described in the script, they came.
The preset trap was triggered, and Su Wanxia, who was wearing a mechanical exoskeleton and was taller than No. 1 and No. 2, was blown away more than ten meters by the explosion.
Su Wanxia's body was severely damaged when she landed in the open space outside the camp, and she almost lost her combat capability.
Xian Qianhua, who came after hearing the sound, had just entered the pressure chamber and had not had time to calibrate the data. She heard a sharp roar and the pressure chamber exploded.
The last scene that Su Wanxia saw in the eyes of Su Wanxia, who fell to the ground unconscious, was that Xian Qianhua followed the pressure chamber and turned into pieces.
He himself was also affected twice. His back hit the solar panel bracket outside the camp. The metal pierced the armor on his back. The pressure was unbalanced and the oxygen was lost rapidly. Su Wanxia's life was at stake.
But he still survived.
Because all the actors who went to rescue Xian Qianhua came back.
…
"Say it."
"What did you say?" Su Wanxia, who was locked on the bed with a restraint, looked like Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs.
Although he is not a bloodthirsty psychology expert, his calm expression shows his super high psychological quality.
Because the person responsible for interrogating him at this moment is himself.
This statement sounds really weird and convoluted.
To put it simply, it is like Su Wanxia talking to herself in interrogation room 4 with two mirrors in front of her.
"who are you?"
"I am who I am, do you two have any doubts about who you are?" Su Wanxia laughed.
No. 1 and No. 2 looked at each other, and No. 1 asked again: "What's going on with the 'meat'? Are you here to destroy it?"
"No comment." Su Wanxia had no intention of cooperating. He looked at the glass on both sides of the interrogation room and said, "Stop looking outside the room. If you want to say anything, just come in and ask whatever you want."
However, the door to interrogation room 4 did not open.
No. 2 also looked at the glass on both sides, and then sneered: "There is no one outside, it's just the three of us now."
"Oh? That's it..." Su Wanxia was a little surprised, and he took a deep breath: "How long have I been unconscious?"
"one day one Night."
"Where's Qian Hua?"
"Which one are you referring to?"
"Of course it's the one with me."
"died."
"died?"
"right."
"What did you do?"
"No, she was so unlucky that she walked directly into the trap and was blown up by the pressurized cabin." No. 1 said and played the video of the scene to Su Wanxia.
Su Wanxia closed her eyes and said, "Don't show me these, I don't want to have any more nightmares."
"Well... let's answer our first question, who are you?"
"Asking knowingly." Su Wanxia smiled, showing no integrity at all. This seemed to be completely different from the character of No. 1 and No. 2 in front of him.
"Are you Su Wanxia too?"
"Guaranteed replacement if fake."
"What about us?" asked No. 1.
"That's all."
"This is impossible... Even if we use biological replication technology, we are only replicas in the biological sense. We are not the real Su Wanxia at all." No. 2 shook his head.
"That's why I said you asked knowingly."
"..." No. 1 and No. 2 both fell silent.
Su Wanxia smiled happily. He raised his head and looked at the light in the middle of the interrogation room and said, "It's getting late. If nothing else happens, they will come to clean up the mess soon, and then everything will return to normal."
Hearing this, No. 1 looked up and asked: "Who?"
"Who else could put you here? Haven't you been studying the Lords of the Past? You don't even know this?"
After hearing this, No. 1 and No. 2 understood. As they expected, things had indeed reached a point of getting out of hand. However, the reason why No. 1 and No. 2 felt there was still a glimmer of hope was that the matter did not seem complicated and not as expected.
So difficult to deal with.
At least they have caught the current Su Wanxia and confirmed that this camp is a rat cage.
This is similar to when humans put rats in Universe 25, which is the rat utopia. They also don’t know why they are placed in rat cages, nor do they know why there are endless resources.
Supply, just know that things are just like the direction marked by the arrow of time, which perfectly proves Murphy's law - the situation tends to get worse and worse.
This is the current situation.
No. 1 asked again: "Then does the earth still exist?"
"Of course." Su Wanxia didn't hesitate, and he smiled again: "But I think what you want to ask is whether the earth that humans are familiar with still exists, right?"
No. 1 nodded.
"No, except for the fleeing rebels, not a single trace was left. Now this earth belongs to it, to the Lords of the Past, to all the old gods who have come again in the Yasin Temple, and not only that, the entire solar system, the entire galaxy,
Even the entire universe will eventually return to the control of my Lord. Don't bother to resist anymore, it is meaningless." Su Wanxia's tone sounded completely different.
He is a utilitarian.
No. 1 and No. 2 obviously did not expect that one day they would become like this. They said in unison: "You are dreaming."
Su Wanxia was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "There is no need to emphasize the bottom line of human ethics. This is Mars, not the earth you are familiar with. No one will do anything to you here, and no one will care about what you say.
Anyway, as long as they come, everything will get back on track."
This sentence really reminded No. 1 and No. 2, and also touched some secret chords deep in the hearts of No. 1 and No. 2.
Indeed, for a long time, the five people in the Mars camp have lived strictly in accordance with the bottom line precepts of earth civilization. They are still monogamous, follow the basic laws of nature, and even use their high quality to turn the lives of the five people into a harmonious one.
small society.
Perhaps pure philosophical thinking is meaningless, and it is easy for people to lose their accurate perception and understanding of the things around them.
But here is the result.
It is rare for five people to remain trapped for more than ten years without forgetting their original intentions.
"You are a loser. We have concluded that you are not Su Wanxia." After saying this, No. 1 continued without waiting for Su Wanxia to open her mouth to argue: "Okay, let me ask you one last question."
"explain."
"Have humans ever resisted?"
"Of course, but it's useless. The concept of human beings is also given to all living beings by our Lord. It can be given or taken away." When Su Wanxia spoke, her expression was cold and strange, and she really looked like she was showing her true face.
Hannibal.
No. 2 glanced at him with disgust and said: "But judging from what you just said, there are still some people who escaped, right? Your omniscient and omnipotent, it can even be said that the almost invincible Lord of the Past has not been able to imprison everyone, right?
?"
Su Wanxia didn't answer, he just sneered, as if looking at two corpses.
…
Coming out of Interrogation Room No. 4, No. 1 and No. 2 bumped into the three of them, Yan Sichen, who were all heavily armed.
Shen Yinuo still looked distracted.
Chu Xiaoming asked: "How was it? Did you get any results?"
No. 1 shook his head: "No, he is still not convinced."
"Not convinced? Tsk... This is a bit difficult to handle..." Chu Xiaoming thought for a while and then said: "How about you let me come up with some tricks for him?"
No. 2 asked: “What kind of trick?”
"It's just waterboarding or something like that, wouldn't you know?"
No. 2 immediately frowned: "Samantha has even opened his head and looked at it. Is your method feasible?"
Chu Xiaoming was immediately discouraged after hearing this: "What should we do? Just wait for them to come to us?"
No. 1 said coldly: "Of course not, we have to make some preparations."
"What are you preparing for? A trap? Please, boss, if we really blow up this place, we will be doomed."
"No, I didn't mean that, I just wanted to..."
"You don't have to work hard." Shen Yinuo said suddenly, her half-smiling look looked extremely sick.
"Huh?" Everyone looked at Shen Yinuo, obviously not sure why she suddenly said this.
Shen Yinuo said again: "We are destined to fail..."
Chu Xiaoming frowned: "Sister Yinuo, this is not your line. Why are you so depressed suddenly?"
Shen Yinuo did not give a detailed explanation. She threw the gun on the ground, walked aside and sat down.
No. 1 picked up the weapon and followed several people around.
No. 2 worried: "Sister Yinuo, what happened?"
Shen Yinuo's application was slightly sluggish, as if the words just now did not come from her mouth. Her current mental state was very unstable.
After a while, Shen Yinuo suddenly covered his face and started crying.
Several people panicked.
Xiaoming asked anxiously: "Sister Yinuo, what's wrong with you? Why are you so fine and suddenly crying?"
No. 1, who noticed the same thing, stood up and said, "I'll go outside to guard her. You should persuade her quickly." After saying that, No. 1 left.
Everyone had no choice but to find ways to comfort Shen Yinuo.
But Shen Yinuo was greatly stimulated and could not be comforted by a few words.
After a long time like this, Shen Yinuo said: "We have no chance of winning... This game has been lost from the beginning... We will never reach the earth... The earth we are familiar with Everything is gone long ago..."
Yan Sichen, who was listening inexplicably, asked: "Yi Nuo, have you... been stimulated by something?"
After Shen Yinuo swallowed and glanced at Yan Sichen, he suddenly burst into tears and smiled: "Excitement? How can I be stimulated! It's just hundreds of corpses... They are all Xian Qian Hua... They are all lying at the bottom of the valley... Then The scene looks so beautiful... How can I be stimulated?"
After hearing this, the faces of Yan Sichen and others on the side immediately became extremely ugly.
Chu Xiaoming was even more dumbfounded. After being stunned for a moment, he hurriedly took Shen Yinuo's hand and asked: "Sister Yinuo! What did you just say? What are there hundreds of thousands at the bottom of the valley? Who are they?"
Shen Yinuo did not repeat it again.
Chu Xiaoming just couldn't believe everything he heard.
The words have been spoken, and the victory or defeat has been decided.
More than ten years of planning turned out to be nothing more than a failure.
A flash of light flashed in No. 2's eyes. Although he also frowned and had a very bad expression, he had no intention of giving up.
At this time, No. 1 came back.
He came back injured.
"They are here." No. 1 covered the wound on his arm and said, "There are three of them, and they are all in the camp."
When Yan Sichen and others heard this, their expressions changed again.
But at this moment, Shen Yinuo, who was mentally unstable, suddenly woke up. She picked up the weapon, lowered her mask and said, "Kill out!"