Chapter 116 Narrative Cage (Thirteen)

Common flush toilets have accumulated water at the bottom, and the S or U-shaped water storage curve below can effectively prevent the leakage of odor.

The toilet in the single cell of the Narrative Cage does not store water at the bottom. Instead, it has a metal filter and a device similar to a vacuum pump.

With Huiyu's character, she probably wouldn't be able to liquefy her limbs or reach into the toilet and take out the coins - her lower limit is still too high.

Li Sheng took off the shower head from the shelf, pointed it at the toilet, and turned the wrench.

A stream of moist air immediately erupted from the nozzle, and as the wrench turned, the air stream continued to increase.

Ding bell——

A coin was hit by the airflow, bumped back and forth against the inner wall of the toilet several times, and finally bounced out and fell to the ground.

The surface is slightly scratched, the front is a pattern of 80∑, indicating the face value, and the back is a brilliant star map of a certain star system.

"As the currency of the interstellar era, the reverse of the 5Σ coin is a meteorite asteroid, and the reverse of the 80Σ coin is a star system. It should be considered a currency with a fairly large face value. Even so, you can only buy 16 bottles of drinks from the vending machine. Looking at it this way, prices are really high, almost the same as in Tel Aviv.”

Li Sheng complained casually. Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, is one of the most expensive cities in the real world. A 2L bottle of Coca-Cola costs NIS 9, while the monthly salary of an IDF front-line soldier is NIS 3,000. A month of fighting life and death on the front line is enough to buy 333 bottles of Coke or 100 burgers.

He took the shower head and continued flushing, making sure there were no more coins in the toilet before giving up.

There are no other clues in the room, so this coin is the only gain. Huiyu frowned and asked, "What are you doing now?"

"Go to the cell in the lower right corner."

Li Sheng turned off the shower head, walked out of the room, and asked Hui Yu to help open the door of the cell in the lower right corner.

The cell door opened, and the disheveled figure was still sitting in the corner of the room, speaking fragmented and incomprehensible words to the wall.

"At least this guy was in the cell before Isaac was locked up. He must have tried to escape from prison so many times that his self-awareness was severely damaged and he was completely unable to communicate. Also, when you see him later Face, don’t be afraid.”

Huiyu reminded in a low voice, and his palm turned into the shape of a chain sword. Li Sheng understood, stepped lightly, walked forward slowly, and walked around to the side of the prisoner.

Then he saw a rather strange scene.

The prisoner's entire face was covered with gears and saw blades, and large areas of skin were corroded and covered by chemical plating. His two eyes were replaced with expansion bolts, making it impossible to see their original appearance.

Hinges replace joints, springs replace fascia, connecting rods replace bones, speaker units replace throats, and if you look closely, even hair is made of thin steel wires.

It looks neither like a human being nor a mechanical life, but more like an art piece that cannot be sold for a long time and is eventually thrown into the garbage dump.

Li Sheng lowered his voice and asked Hui Yu, "Is he originally like this?"

Huiyu replied in a low voice: "It's no different on the face, but it's more serious elsewhere."

It was not so serious originally. Could it be that this prisoner was infected with the so-called iron plague virus?

No, the iron plague virus is related to Zero Civilization and Isaac. If the levels in the engine room of the narrated cage were influenced by Isaac, then why were the unknown prisoners who were imprisoned earlier than Isaac also infected with the iron plague virus?

Li Sheng suppressed his doubts, covered his mouth and nose, slowed down his breathing, and looked at the prisoner carefully. Most of his body has been corroded by metal machinery, and his original appearance cannot be seen. A corner of the newspaper was exposed under the buttocks.

The content in the newspaper seemed to be a battle report of a war.

"Hello?" Li Sheng asked tentatively: "I am your cellmate, can you hear me? I will give you 80∑, how about buying the newspaper under you?"

"Ha ha ha ha."

The prisoner was unaware, smiling stupidly, raising his hands made entirely of metal rods, and gesticulating back and forth in mid-air, as if he was playing with a doll with some non-existent child.

Wait, doll?

Li Sheng paused for a moment. The prisoner's eyes, nose, and ears had been replaced with metal parts, and his brain was covered with gears. He probably couldn't hear him anymore.

According to Isaac, the iron plague virus can be spread through contact

Carrying the infection from the Insect Master's evil on his body was troublesome enough. Li Sheng didn't want to provoke the so-called iron plague virus anymore, so he immediately eliminated the option of violence and turned around and walked out of the cell.

He put 80 ∑ coins into the vending machine, pressed the button, and bought a white rabbit doll in a transparent plastic gift bag.

This rabbit doll was originally listed behind the corn juice, and the price was 10Σ. After buying it, the vending machine spit out a 70Σ coin. The reverse side features a frozen planet graphic.

Li Sheng put away the 70 ∑ coins and found that compared to the wrinkled transparent gift bag, the cotton rabbit doll inside was much newer. Unfortunately, there is no information about the place of production, and it doesn’t look like there is a foreign object inside the rabbit.

Returning to the cell in the lower right corner, Li Sheng put on gloves and carefully placed the rabbit doll into the hands of the unknown prisoner. The latter was stunned for a moment and repeatedly groped the surface of the doll, as if to confirm its shape.

“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu”

Whether he was crying or laughing, the unknown prisoner sobbed while holding the doll. He slowly fell over and lay on his side with the doll in his arms.

This lying down gave way to space, and the newspaper that was pressed under him could see the light of day again.

The article title [Navy Special Operations Team Blows Up Key Nodes of Iron Plague Nest], the content is "A special operations team under the Third Fleet of the Zelo Navy sneaked into the Iron Plague occupied area of ​​Orion C, successfully destroyed the factory storing superheavy elements in the third-level Iron Plague nest and retreated safely on the Vulture transport ship. This marks the end of the ten-year strategic stalemate between the two sides since the Iron Plague Nest appeared on Orion C."

Li Sheng put on gloves, put the newspaper into the backpack, then put away the gloves, walked out of the cell, and closed the cell door, muttering to himself: "Like the previous newspapers, this newspaper also tells the story of the Zelo civilization and the Iron Plague War."

"Any questions?" Hui Yu asked.

"What a coincidence."

Li Sheng said: "In order to get this newspaper, I have to get coins to buy a rabbit doll. In order to get coins, I have to enter the cell in the lower left corner. In order to enter the cell, I have to get your help first. All of these are linked together, just like a puzzle game designed by humans. It even gave me an off-site opportunity."

He pulled out the [Death Redemption] pistol and flicked it. "This gun is very powerful and should be able to force the cell door open.

In other words, the order of the strategy can be changed, as long as the props are used, there will be no serious jam.

For example, I first Use this gun to break open the lower left cell, get 80∑ coins, and buy 10∑ rabbit dolls and 5∑ corn juice in one go.

With corn juice, I can bribe you, pry open the lower right cell door, and exchange the rabbit doll for newspapers.

Or I can use this gun to attack the vending machine directly, snatch the doll and corn juice, and bribe you again, and the result will remain the same.

This design is too deliberate.

"Are you saying that the prison wants you to escape quickly?"

"It may also be that the prison wants me to die quickly." Li Sheng said casually and came to the last two engine rooms.

Reversal, misdirection, and protagonist effect have all been conquered, leaving flashbacks and continuity.

Since the order of the strategy can be disrupted, there is no difference between the remaining two rooms, and Li Sheng chooses the continuity on the right.

After entering the engine room, I saw a red button placed alone on the ground, and the room layout is exactly the same as the [Misdirection Room].

"Damn it."

The corner of his eye twitched. The [Misdirection Room] made him think he was a character in his own comics. He almost died of old age in it. This continuity is so similar to the Misdirection Room. What is going on?

It was too late to retreat at this time. Due to the setting of the double door, the outer wooden door could not be opened before the button was pressed.

The two looked at each other and had to press the red button together.

One second, two seconds

Time passed bit by bit, and the surrounding scene did not change. No man-eating monsters jumped out, and no one was teleported to other places.

"." Hui Yu looked around cautiously, squatted on the ground and touched the solid ground, and said in disbelief: "What's going on? Why is there no response?"

Li Sheng took out a machete and poked the wall to confirm that there was no trap. Seeing that the wooden door opened by itself, he walked out.

Everything outside the engine room was still the same as before. The nameless prisoner in the cell in the lower right corner was still lying there, and the time displayed in the vending machine had only passed two minutes.

"There's only one button in the room?" Hui Yu asked suspiciously, "Are we trapped in a simulated illusion?"

"Probably not." Li Sheng took out the toy factory key and the emergency escape card from his backpack. These two items were the most mysterious items on him, and ordinary illusions could not simulate them.

He pondered and said, "The characteristic of continuity is to break the completeness of the narrative and temporarily add settings. For example, a wall is temporarily refreshed outside the prison escapee's sight. There was nothing in the room just now, and it was obviously not the same as the picture. Unless."

Hui Yu asked, "Unless what?"

"Unless these doorplates can be removed." Li Sheng reached out to move the doorplate signs, and he used his hands to pry them, and used a 170 straight knife to pry them. After working for a long time, he couldn't remove any of the doorplates.

He didn't succeed, but he was not annoyed - this proved something else.

He immediately walked towards the last engine room with the doorplate of [Flashback].

"Wait!" Hui Yu hurriedly chased after him, and pushed open the wooden door of the flashback room side by side with Li Sheng, complaining: "Did you find any clues and deliberately keep it secret? We are teammates now, don't hide it, okay?"

"I didn't hide it on purpose, I just have an immature guess."

Li Sheng waited for the metal sliding door in front to open, and said: "Will the painter sell the half-finished painting? Will the chef serve the half-finished dish? Will the programmer upload the half-coded code? Uh, wait, this seems to be possible.

Well, in short, there are not enough clues at this stage, and it's useless to analyze it."

"Tsk."

Hui Yu smacked his lips unhappily, his eyes full of anxiety and expectation.

Press the buttons of the five engine rooms in a row to successfully escape from prison. Now it has succeeded four times, and the last flashback room is the only one left.

Although she can no longer remember the specific experiences of her previous jailbreaks, a feeling in the dark tells her that the previous jailbreaks were not as smooth as this one.

Li Sheng is really her lucky star.

Sand——

As the metal sliding door opened completely, the scene in front of them suddenly changed. The two of them had arrived on a transport plane.

The cabin was quite spacious, nearly 7 meters wide and nearly 5 meters high, which was larger than the super-large military transport plane An-225 that existed in the real world.

Through the window, you can see that the transport plane has four giant engines and is now sailing in the clouds.

On the inner walls of both sides of the cabin, there is a net hanging on each side, on which a large number of individual weapons and equipment are mounted.

In the middle are several scarred infantry vehicles, which are sci-fi and futuristic in style, and are obviously much more advanced than the technology on Earth. The rear cargo box of the vehicle is also equipped with four sealed lead barrels.

Nearly a hundred soldiers wearing full sets of dark green power armor sat on both sides. Many of them were injured, but their tone could not hide their excitement.

"I really didn't expect that we could get out alive!"

"Yes, that third-level nest took several years to dig underground to accumulate 2,000 units of super-heavy elements, and we took it all away. We also snatched five barrels back."

"This time when we go back, the Navy Department will have to award each of us a half-ton pure gold medal, right? Captain, what do you think?"

Because Li Sheng and Hui Yu were sitting behind the camouflage rainproof cloth, they were not discovered by the group of soldiers at the first time. Hui Yu reached out and pressed the back of Li Sheng's hand, liquefying his limbs again and transforming them into a power armor shell to prevent other soldiers from seeing it.

'Level 3 nest? These soldiers should be the special operations team of the Third Fleet of the Zelo Navy mentioned in the newspaper. '

While listening to the conversation of the other soldiers, Li Sheng reached out and took off the individual weapons and equipment hanging on the wall of the cabin.

These future sci-fi style guns can be played and inspected in the hands, but when he tried to put the weapons into the backpack, the words [Cannot be picked up] popped up in front of him. This proved that this was an illusion created by the engine room.

"Brothers and sisters, after completing this mission, I will go back to my hometown to get married!"

A young soldier stood up, took out a photo from his arms, and showed off to his companions: "Look, this is my fiancée. Isn't she beautiful?"

"Jack, you stinky boy, you are so lucky to step on dog shit?" An older veteran laughed and scolded: "But I have accumulated enough military merit points. This time I go back and apply for retirement from my superiors-after all, my child is about to be born."

The voice of a female soldier came from under the power armor with the word Angelina engraved on the chest, "Hey? Roland, is your wife about to give birth? It happens that my daughter Anna has a birthday tomorrow, and she has been calling to ask me if I can get back to Proxima A on time. Oh, I forgot to bring her a gift, or I will buy her a rabbit doll when I return to the space station."

"Don't talk so much, think about dinner! How about going to have barbecue tonight?"

The soldiers were chatting happily, and Li Sheng on the side was sweating on his forehead.

'No, why are all these people standing up for death? What about [I will get married after completing the mission], [I applied for retirement soon because my child is about to be born], [I called to urge my daughter to go home for her birthday tomorrow],

Say this kind of thing, it's like saying in Conan, 'There may be a murderer among us! How can we sleep together? I'll go back to my own room'

Say 'I will win' in Jujutsu Kaisen, it's just like asking for death! '

Li Sheng's eyes twitched, and he complained wildly in his heart, 'But. Anna? This name has appeared in children's paintings before. Could it be that this female soldier named Angelina is Anna's mother? In addition, the rabbit doll she mentioned'

Boom!

A loud noise suddenly came from the outside, and black smoke billowed from an engine on the right side of the transport plane, and then an engine on the left side was also destroyed. The original four engines became two engines, and the transport plane's speed suddenly slowed down.

Clang clang clang!

The dense explosion sound was endless, and a large number of steel cones pierced into the cabin from the top. As the cones opened like petals, a motorcycle-sized semi-mechanized beast fell from them.

These beasts, like the nameless prisoner in the lower right corner of the narrative cage, have saw blades and gears growing out of their flesh and blood. As soon as they land, they attack the soldiers in the cabin.