Volume 9: Star Cave Chapter 9 Abstraction
After returning to the room, the conversation began.
The topic is naturally today's discoveries.
And discuss how they should deal with the current situation.
Of course, this kind of discussion is basically empty talk.
There's not a lot of substance, after all, "it" likes to listen.
No one knows whether the other party has the ability to think, and if they hear something, whether they will use it to target you.
Time passed quickly and the lights flickered again. In Lu Bai's perception, the aura was further strengthened and weighed heavily on people's hearts.
Lu Bai did not further open up his own perception, nor did he leave any means of observation such as ice fog to observe the outside world.
But others are different.
On the first night, everyone was cautious because they were not sure about the situation.
On the second night, under the continued mental oppression, some people committed various irrational behaviors.
They feel very insecure and are eager to find the source of danger in order to avoid it.
So, just as the conversation ended and Lu Bai and the others’ lights were turned off, screams were heard.
The scream only lasted for a moment, and then everything returned to deathly silence.
It was as if the scream just now was just an illusion.
There were sudden footsteps and the sound of something heavy being dragged.
Suddenly, another scream was heard, and then the heavy object being dragged seemed to become a little heavier.
When the dragging sound ended, footsteps lingered at the door again, knocking on it from time to time.
When there was a knock on door number five, Dengfa's heart tightened and he couldn't help but listen carefully to the sounds outside.
Determine whether that being intends to open the door.
It was at this time that Dengfa heard snoring.
The snoring was very harsh, and the source was clear: it was Lu Bai who was in the same room.
At this moment, the only thing missing from Lu Bai's nose was a snot bubble.
Dengfa was interrupted by the snoring and realized that the knocking on the door had stopped at some point.
The wandering footsteps sounded again.
Dengfa, who had a vague realization in his heart, no longer paid attention to the footsteps, but slept peacefully.
The night passed quickly.
When daybreak came, the number of people coming out of the room was much less than expected.
At the beginning of the second night, the number of survivors was 42, but after one night, only 29 were left.
In the passage at the door, one can even see traces of dragging.
There are scratches on the special metal floor caused by hard objects.
When I saw those scratches, an image appeared in my mind. That was, those disappeared people were being dragged by something horrible. They fell to the ground, holding on to the ground tightly, and opened their mouths to shout, but no word came out.
After a rough check, it was found that everyone in Room 8 was dead.
In addition to the seven people in Room 8, a total of six people died in other rooms.
After confirmation, these six people are basically the ones who had unusual movements last night.
They used their own means of investigation.
There was one person who did not investigate. Instead, after hearing the screams and dragging sounds, he suddenly stood up and assumed a fighting stance.
Then the man opened the door and rushed out, screaming.
The people left in the room were not prepared to just sit there and wait for death. After all, the door was opened and who could say whether the monster would come in.
However, the slug man, whose eyes were on his tentacles, saw what was happening in the room first.
They clearly heard and even saw the man assume a fighting stance, then open the door and rush out.
However, the slug man looked through the transparent door of the hibernation chamber and found that the door was closed.
The slug man, with a thought in his mind, chose to trust his instincts and, through some secret technique, sent a signal to his teammates: "Don't move!"
The slug man's teammates also trusted him more, so they followed his signal.
I chose to ignore what was happening in the outside world and survived.
After synthesizing the information, many people discovered the problem.
"The more we observe that existence, the more we pay attention to its footsteps and knocks on the door, the more we are uneasy about the quiet of the night, the more dangerous we are."
"The other party is likely to hurt people through perception!"
"The people in Room 8 were probably predisposed to pay extra attention to the outside world, which is why they were directly tricked."
The wool thread made a summary, and then suddenly took action, cutting with fine wire to clean up the traces on the ground.
This trace is too vivid and obviously abnormal.
Keeping this thing will only make it more dangerous, so it’s better to get rid of it.
"When you rest at night, don't pay attention to the noise from the outside world. Just rest well."
"Let's repair the spaceship as quickly as possible and leave here!"
As Mao Xian spoke, he walked to the control room and added his own speculations to those regulations.
Perhaps these regulations were also explored by previous explorers through the loss of many lives.
Thanks to the preparations above, they were able to discover the problem so quickly.
"Of course, everyone should not let down their guard. No one can say for sure whether the monster only has this one ability."
Yarn is still very cautious.
The daytime passed quickly.
Night falls again.
This is the third night.
Everything seemed to be the same as before, except that after people knew the problem, they no longer paid special attention to the footsteps.
So when the day came, everyone discovered that no one had died at night, and there were still 29 healthy people.
It seems that they have probably cracked the survival rules .
The same thing happened on the fourth, fifth, and sixth nights.
Just follow the rules, keep quiet, don't expand your own perception, and observe the traces of the strange existence.
They seem to be able to ensure their own safety.
Under such circumstances, the progress of the escape spacecraft's training is very gratifying.
They only need to stay here for one more night, waiting for the final repairs, and they will be able to escape during the day tomorrow.
Everyone was in a happy mood, but they didn't relax.
After all, this scene was too weird, and they knew too little information while suppressing their own perception.
Even though no one had died in the past few nights, many people were still feeling uneasy.
It would be best if we could leave here.
But tonight, things started to become different.
First of all, it’s not that all the lights are flashing, but that all the lights are turned off.
Secondly, the sound was no longer footsteps, but a very rapid knock on the door.
Before, the knocks on the door were mostly regular light knocks, but now it felt like some crazy monster was knocking on the door outside.
Most people, for the first time, still maintained their previous response strategies, ignoring or not investigating the external noises.
Just think that the strange thing is anxious, so these different signals appear.
However, this time it was completely different. After the rapid knocks on the door, what was heard was the sound of the door being broken and related sounds of fighting.
At the same time, there were cries for help from other people.
A thought suddenly came to everyone's mind: they were about to leave, and this weird person had chosen another way to kill people?
Yu Hui's heart trembled, and he instinctively wanted to release his perception to investigate the situation outside, but he immediately suppressed this mental uneasiness and looked at Lu Bai on the side.
He trusted Lu Bai, and as long as Lu Bai didn't move, he just had to follow him.
However, what he didn't expect was that this time, Lu Bai actually stood up.
And during the whole process, Lu Bai did not make any sound. If Yu Hui had not instinctively sought help and looked towards the hibernation chamber where Lu Bai was, he would not have discovered this.
Yu Hui wanted to ask something, but what she heard was Lu Bai putting a finger in front of his mouth.
Before Yu Hui could confirm anything further, Lu Bai disappeared.
Yu Hui was stunned for a moment. He felt a little weird. Why was he still looking around at this critical moment?
The key question now is what strategy to maintain.
Should I stick to my previous principle of not observing, or should I believe these noises and confirm that the weird person has adopted a different method of killing?
Should I just rush out now and fight that weirdo?
All kinds of questions weighed on Yu Hui's mind, and the sounds of fighting outside seemed to have reached another stage.
All I could hear were a lot of screams, and at the same time, the sound of rapid banging on the door came from the other door.
This time, Yu Hui heard it more clearly.
There was a knock on the door, right next to them.
Unlike the previous sound where the location was difficult to determine, this time he was able to determine the location.
I suddenly made up my mind and no longer hesitated.
Yuhui suddenly opened the door of the hibernation chamber, and the tremendous internal energy in his body began to operate.
Perception begins to diverge.
Then he saw several other people in the warehouse who seemed to be asleep.
Dengfa, Navigation, Engineer... and one more...
Huh?
Yu Hui was suddenly startled. The person lying inside seemed to have no memory of him.
Suddenly, all of Yu Hui's attention was drawn to the people inside.
He stood there, not daring to move, wary of the strange presence in the hibernation chamber.
It wasn't until he felt something brushing past him that Yu Hui's attention was diverted and he looked to the side.
That's the observation window.
Through this observation window, they can see the starry sky outside.
Although most of the time there are only a few stars.
However, at this moment, there was only a mass of darkness, and then the mass of darkness opened its mouth, revealing a ferocious big mouth.
At this moment, Yu Hui only felt that his whole body was changing rapidly, and all the mass of his body seemed to disappear.
If I have to describe it, there is probably only one word - abstraction.
The solid barriers of the space station became meaningless, and as it became more and more abstract, the darkness got closer and closer to him.
"I've been hit!" With this thought, Yu Hui's eyes went dark.
