Volume 9: Star Cave Chapter 7: The Disappearance of Room 10
"Have you ever encountered such a "weird" incident before?" Lu Bai asked.
Dengfa was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "Indeed, I have encountered it. The universe is so vast, there are always some unknown things."
"People can't explain it with science and technology for the time being. They can only sum up empirical rules and rely on luck to deal with these things."
"There are even quite a few people who like to explore this aspect and have organized it into a school of thought called Starry Sky Metaphysics."
As time passed, Lu Bai and others discussed some strange things about the starry sky.
Suddenly, the originally stable and bright light flickered slightly, and everyone felt as if a stone was pressed on their hearts.
Under the stone, Yuhui acted quickly, turned off the lights immediately, then lay on the "bed" and closed the warehouse door.
That’s right, the so-called beds are actually shuttle-shaped hibernation chambers.
After entering, you can also adjust the temperature, humidity, air stability, etc. in the warehouse.
As the lights were turned off, everything suddenly became quiet again.
It was so quiet that you could almost hear the sound of some machines running in the space station.
A deep and great terror swept through people's hearts at this time.
In this boundless starry sky, a lonely space station floats on the edge of the star system, and the only escape ship that can leave is in a scrapped state.
And knowing that there was something strange about this space station, a force that pierced people's hearts quickly emerged.
No one could sleep under such oppression.
Soon, they heard footsteps in the passage outside the door.
It’s hard to tell how far away the footsteps are, and it might even make you feel like he’s lingering at the door of your room.
Judging from the sound of footsteps, it is impossible to clearly determine what kind of person the other person is.
Lu Bai thought about it and stopped paying attention to the footsteps. He suppressed his curiosity, closed his eyes and fell asleep.
But others were not as bold as Lu Bai and could sleep in such a situation.
In room eight, five slaves were inside.
They didn't dare to sleep, and listened carefully to the lingering footsteps, and then heard the footsteps disappear.
Everything seemed to have returned to silence, and hearing returned to normal at this moment, with the sounds of the space station's machines once again reaching my ears.
One of the slaves, lying in his hibernation chamber, was listening carefully to everything going on around him.
He touched the three-piece slave suit on his body and had some ideas in mind.
He was one of the slaves sent by Deng to Lu Bai, and the desire for freedom never disappeared from his heart.
He saw a lot of tools in a corner of the space station today.
There were some tools among them that he was familiar with, and there was a high probability that they could help him unlock the controller on his body.
As long as he unlocked the controller, he could open the hatch of the space station and fly directly across the starry sky to the exit door.
In less than an hour, he would be free.
Of course, there are great risks in doing so, after all, there are all kinds of weird things in this scene.
But this is just an obstacle in his pursuit of freedom, and he will always have to overcome it.
He waited in the dark room for a long time, and there seemed to be no unusual movement in the outside world.
The slave suddenly felt something was wrong.
He also has four roommates, and he found that these four roommates seemed to have stopped moving.
This was not right. He was sure that he was not the only one with such ulterior motives.
It will take at least a few days to repair the spacecraft.
His plan was to slowly test these roommates over the next few days to make sure that none of them were servile enough.
When the time comes, if everyone is able, let’s pursue freedom together.
However, something seems to be wrong now.
Feeling uneasy, he turned around and looked at a hibernation chamber next to him.
Because of his racial talent, darkness cannot prevent him from seeing.
In the darkness, the roommate's hibernation chamber not far away seemed empty.
He looked to the other side and saw the same thing, no one there.
A sense of panic disturbed his heart. He quickly lay down and closed his eyes. He knew in his heart that something strange was probably coming.
He wanted to be free, to get rid of his slavery, to leave here and find his wife and children who were also sold as slaves. He absolutely could not die here.
With this belief, the slaves felt a growing sense of crisis.
"If I continue lying here, something will definitely go wrong. I can't just sit there and wait for death!" With this thought in mind, he suddenly opened his hibernation chamber.
Then he jumped out of it, and his dark vision allowed him to clearly observe the entire situation in the room.
"Everyone else is in the hibernation chamber..." The scene he observed made him feel a chill in his heart.
The scene when I was lying in the hibernation chamber and found that there was no one there seemed like a dream.
Before he could think further, there was a knocking sound.
I instinctively looked up at the observation window and saw a dark shadow sticking there.
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The next day, after eight hours of "darkness", the planets moved away from the star.
Everyone came out of the room.
Then, as expected, were fewer people.
There were originally fifty people, but now there are only forty-three left.
Seven people were missing last night.
Five of them came from one room - Room 10.
There are two left, one is Room 9 and the other is Room 8.
According to the remaining .
Last night, those who were missing suddenly came out of the hibernation chamber in the middle of the night, then opened the door and walked out without saying a word.
They were all frightened at the time and no one dared to stop it.
This is the final result.
Afterwards, except for those who were going to repair the spacecraft, everyone else came to room ten.
All five people here are missing.
Something must have happened in this room last night.
In the room, only five rest cabins could be seen opened.
There was even someone's personal belongings left inside.
Lu Bai came to the observation window and looked carefully at the starry sky outside.
The starlight penetrates the dark universe and illuminates everything.
"There is something on it." Lu Bai's voice made many people focus their attention on it.
A slug-like creature with several protruding eyes approached the observation window and said, "Indeed, there was something lying outside the observation window, leaving traces."
This situation immediately attracted the attention of many people.
"So, the danger has always been outside the space station?"
"That makes sense." Mao Xian nodded. "The regulations state that we should not leave the space station without protection."
"Maybe it's because that thing is actually wandering outside."
"And its ability is suppressed by natural light. With natural light, it can't attack us through the space station."
"Once the natural light disappears, he will be able to influence us from outside the station..."
This explanation is reasonable, but there is no accurate explanation for the footsteps in the hallway and the occasional knocks on the door last night.
"Last night, it is very likely that someone in this room noticed something outside the window and was affected."
"It could be a mind control ability." Another person speculated.
"Is it possible that this guy is clearing out the people in the space station in an orderly manner, like some kind of ritual?" Suddenly, a short man said this.
At this moment, he was pulling at a bone charm hanging around his neck, making some prayer-like gestures while retreating from the room.
"I asked, it will take at least seven days to repair the spacecraft."
"And during these seven days, one person in the room disappeared every day."
"Then the final number of people will be exactly the same as the maximum capacity of the spacecraft."
"This must be..."
"That's enough!" Mao Xian interrupted the dwarf's "guessing": "This is just a solitary piece of evidence, it doesn't mean anything."
"I am more inclined to believe that the people in this room did something they shouldn't have done last night."
"Everyone, take advantage of the daytime to search this space station more and see if there is anything you can find."
Mao Xian knew clearly in his heart that if he continued to speculate in this metaphysical direction, the entire team would most likely fall apart.
After all, everyone has their own "beliefs", especially in this universe, where there are so many different races and cultures.
The culture of one race likes the number nine, but another race finds this number problematic.
This cultural difference is the most likely cause of dispute.
Don’t say that people in the interstellar age are not superstitious. The development of technology does not mean that people have become developed.
Mao Xian has a deep understanding of this point.
The word ignorance is not the antonym of technology.
No matter how advanced the technology is, there are ignorant people, and it is even more likely that they are ignorant because of technology.
Mao Xian was decisive, but unfortunately, once someone brought up this kind of thing, it would take root in people's hearts.
In the following time, everyone checked every corner of the space station.
However, many clues were indeed discovered.
For example, in one corner, there is a sentence engraved in an unknown language.
It was the translator on Dengfa's combat armor that was able to translate this sentence.
But at this moment, I hope this sentence will not be translated.
【Don't believe those people, they are fake. 】
Such a sentence made the rift in this hastily assembled team even bigger.
Especially at this time, several slaves of Dengfa stood up.
They said to Dengfa, "Please remove the slave control from us."
“In this environment, we all need to work together even more.”
The man looked at Dengfa and said, "Instead of becoming someone's slave."
"Do you know what you are doing?" Dengfa was furious, and every strand of the tentacle hair on his head was wriggling.
Tentacles also spread out from that slave.
