Chapter 232 Fetus

As he walked forward, Yu Sheng suddenly had a strange feeling for some reason - it was as if the whole world was left with only this corridor in front of him and the dark red light at the end of the corridor.

The Black Forest, the orphanage, the boundary city... everything was far away, and even seemed to have become something from another world, and the "world" in front of him had already collapsed.

Footsteps echoed in the corridor, and the sound of a baby crying came from the front. Yu Sheng gradually no longer felt that the crying was noisy, as if he had become accustomed to its existence.

Hu Li followed him, Hu Li was holding Irene in his arms, and Irene was holding a squirrel in her arms. They passed through the light at the end of the corridor and walked into the last door deep in the Ankaela.

"Umbilical cord" connection cabin

A special and strange "cabin" appeared in front of Yu Sheng. Rather than calling it a "cabin", it seemed more like a maintenance structure in the middle of a large vertical shaft. Just as the "Hunter" described, the ground here was a circular platform, with no visible top, shrouded in darkness, and a silver-white, thick structure consisting of two main pipelines and a large number of auxiliary cables and pipe bundles hung down from the dim height, passing through the hole in the middle of the circular ground and extending downward.

Yu Sheng walked forward cautiously, came to the edge of the hole in the center of the circular ground, and looked at the "umbilical cord" in front of him.

"This thing looks like a pipeline for transporting substances? There are also many cables..." Irene stretched her neck in Hu Li's arms and looked at the thing in front of her with curiosity, "Is this thing the 'umbilical cord' of the Dark Angel?"

Yu Sheng did not speak, but just held the railing at the edge of the cave and looked down carefully.

The "umbilical cord" extended downwards, and the hole seemed to be very deep below. It was impossible to see what structure was underneath. One could only see a vague light and shadow from the depths of darkness. There seemed to be a translucent dome with a faint light inside.

Yu Sheng's sight fell on a certain section of the umbilical cord extending downwards, and his eyes fixed.

The middle of the "connection bundle" was obviously damaged, but it was unclear what force had damaged it - one of the two main pipelines was missing a section, and the surrounding cables also had very smooth and abrupt "cuts", giving people the feeling... as if there was some kind of invisible "hole" that directly swallowed up that section.

Hu Li was sharp-eyed, and she quickly discovered the situation on the umbilical cord, and immediately reached out and pulled Yu Sheng's sleeve: "Benefactor! Over there, the pipeline is broken - Ankaela has been looking for her "umbilical cord", could it be because of this?"

"It should be." Yu Sheng frowned and said, and just as he finished speaking, the slight dizziness came over him again.

His eyes flashed, and he saw that the circular ground under his feet suddenly turned into a "bone layer" covered with dark red viscous substances, and the surrounding cabin walls also turned into a flesh and blood structure like the inner wall of some organ. The "connection bundle" that penetrated the cabin turned into thick blood vessels and nerves. It broke from it, and twitched slightly in the air as if it felt pain. In the direction of its break, at the edge of the hole in the middle of the circular ground, a hand... or some strange structure that made people think of a "hand" suddenly stretched out!

Yu Sheng's breathing stagnated, but the scene in front of him returned to normal immediately.

Irene and the squirrel next to him exclaimed at the same time, and the tail behind Hu Li opened the screen again with a "bang".

"Fuck..." The little doll's face was very bad, "You scared me just now!"

Yu Sheng frowned tightly. At the moment when the "illusion" just now appeared again, he felt as if he heard something. The voice was whispering to him, telling him something... Was it Ankaela? Or is it the "child" that is being nurtured in the darkness below the umbilical cord?

He hesitated for a moment, leaned forward, and stretched out his hand towards the silver-white "connection bundle".

"My benefactor, be careful!" Hu Li, who was standing by, hurriedly reminded him.

"It's okay, I can feel that this thing is not a threat to me," Yu Sheng said, while pressing his hand on the surface of the "umbilical cord", "It's not us who are really afraid, but..."

He didn't finish his words.

Because a strong sense of weightlessness instantly interrupted everything he wanted to say - the circular platform in the center of the room collapsed.

Yu Sheng only had time to say "Fuck" before he fell down with the collapsed floor and broken railings. He heard the screams of Irene and Hu Li from above at the same time, and heard the wind whistling in his ears. The last scene he caught a glimpse of from the corner of his eye was that the squirrel also jumped down.

Yu Sheng fell infinitely in the darkness, his head a little confused.

Will the squirrel be okay? She jumped down too, so reckless...

It should be fine, Hu Li can fly...

The next second, he felt that he hit something - the "umbilical cord".

He touched the "umbilical cord" again, touching the broken part.

"...We fled our hometown a long, long time ago...My memory begins when the creators ignited the engine."

A calm, slow voice, as if without any emotion, suddenly entered Yu Sheng's mind, interrupting all his chaotic thoughts.

All the colors around him suddenly faded.

The world of black, white and gray descended. Yu Sheng opened his eyes wide in astonishment in this faded world. He saw that he seemed to be floating in a gray tube, with no top and no bottom. In the gray depths of the mist around him, some faded pictures appeared in his eyes as if they emerged from his memory.

The huge ark lit up the engine and drove out of a space giant structure of astonishing scale that was almost like an artificial star, slowly accelerating.

The giant structure floated in the endless universe, with stars burning and shaking violently in the background.

A terrifying crack seemed to split the entire universe, running through the entire starry sky from the depths of darkness.

All the pictures were colorless, just like the world seen by the dead when they talked, everything was composed of monotonous black, white and gray, but for some reason, Yu Sheng saw a dazzling red from the terrifying crack - as if that red could even cross time and space, cross the interval between life and death, and directly reflect itself in the essence of information.

And the next second, the ark that sailed out of the space giant structure turned into a light spot among the stars, and continued to accelerate among the gradually disintegrating stars.

There was more than one light spot.

There were thousands of light spots like it, accelerating under the same group of stars, fleeing in all directions.

"We are 'Ankaela', the creator gave us this name, but in your language, this pronunciation can be directly translated as 'Ark'."

The slow voice seemed to sound directly from the mind, and continued to speak calmly.

"There are 13,500 'Ankaela's', setting sail at the same time.

"We carry the 'seeds' from the mother star, looking for a place to sow.

"This is the task given to us by the creator."

One by one, one by one, one by one, one by one!

Yu Sheng opened his eyes wide, watching the light spots that accelerated among the stars enter the transition state one after another - but even if they exceeded the speed of light, they could not surpass the crack that split the universe.

The light spots went out in pieces, and tens of thousands of arks became the residual heat after the extinction of all things in just a few breaths.

And what happened after that was a little beyond his understanding.

He saw that the remaining light spots seemed to hit an invisible barrier, and saw them suddenly disintegrate during the voyage. They were obviously not attacked, but suddenly turned into scattered afterglow.

He saw some light spots strangely "return" to the time when they just set out, and then stayed in the starry sky stupidly until they were silently swallowed by the crack that swept across the universe.

He saw a light spot - or it might be the last one, jumping continuously in a series of chaotic and crazy light and shadows, like a bird caught in a storm, thrown to a very far place with the raging waves, and then fell into nothingness.

He saw it begin to fall and change from the inside out. It grew flesh and blood at one moment, but turned into a shadow of nothingness at the next moment. It was suddenly torn into countless pieces by invisible forces. Each piece was a complete, miniature "Ankaela", but in the blink of an eye, countless pieces merged together and turned into a cold light.

It went through countless changes in form, and in the process it completely became an incomprehensible existence, just like... garbled code in the system.

At a certain moment, it learned to think, chaotic, disordered thinking.

Yu Sheng talked to it.

He faced its thinking.

Some new scenes suddenly emerged in the fading mist around him. Yu Sheng felt himself floating down, and then he walked forward.

The mist faded away, and he saw something deep in the mist.

A mass... a "mass" that is difficult to distinguish and describe, it curled up quietly on a pale fetal bed, as if it was a mixture of many strange hands and feet, claws, wings, tails, and countless other strange features. Its shape was as if all the creatures in the entire ecosystem were forcibly blended into one body, and then blended into such a product at the boundary of imagination and reason.

And above this "angel fetus", there was a broken umbilical cord floating - it extended from the surface of the "fetus" and floated upward in the gray mist.

"... This is my child, he is so cute, right?"

The calm, slow voice whispered.

Yu Sheng did not answer, but just stood quietly in front of the huge piece of meat.

How could he answer? How should he answer?

It was dead.

Maybe it was dead at the moment of its initial conception.