Qiaoqiao Tianyi ran wildly in the corridor. In the time it took her to let out a short scream, she had scraped down twenty corridors. It was only then that the door that she had broken down and had the emergency escape sign on it was slowly pushed open. Some people poked their heads out to look outside, seeming strange about this new environment. Finally, she determined that there were no obvious threats around her, so Yaleriga also walked out from behind the door and stood in the corridor to check the situation.
“This doesn’t look like a wish machine environment,” she said. Behind her, Bodie emerged from the safe passage. He no longer felt as comfortable and complacent as before. Instead, he became the ugliest one among the three explorers. When Yaleriga stared at him, she saw him bending over in pain.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Bodie gasped. "Damn, this place is so quiet."
"This environment is indeed not suitable for you. Maybe you should have been waiting up there."
"No, the sound is nothing. I'm much stronger than that little follower at this. But I don't like the shaking."
Purdy kicked the ground. As they spoke, the entire corridor continued to undulate and sway with regularity. This swaying did not make them lose their balance, and the building itself did not make any structural friction noise. It was as quiet as a dream. Yaleriga was also unable to explain the source of this swaying.
"You have seasickness," she reassured Bodie. "Don't focus on your feet. It'll be better this way."
"What do you mean? Is this what it feels like on a ship? That's not how it feels when I'm on your ship."
“You haven’t experienced sailing the ocean of tide yet.”
"I hope not in the future," replied Bodie with difficulty. "Don't tell me you've been living in a place like this, or I might have to change my mind, my beauty—I mean, Yale. . I admit that you are quite beautiful, but that also gives me the opportunity to remain still and admire you."
"I thought I looked better when I moved." Yaleriga said. She walked nonchalantly to check in the corner, leaving Purdy there angry and amused. At this time, Qiaoqiao Tianyi blew back in front of them like a storm. She was panting and had obviously traveled a lot.
"Everywhere here looks the same!" she shouted. "It's all narrow, uncomfortable corridors, nothing like a wish machine environment! Are you sure we're in the right place?"
No one could give her an accurate answer. The remaining two people looked back at the place where they first appeared. Behind that door was a very small, almost closet-like enclosed room. They couldn't find a way back. And what they faced ahead was not at all what they expected. Corridors within corridors. They all look the same everywhere.
Yaleriga looked at Bodi.
"Don't look at me like that," Bodie said. "I just happened to hear the Immortals talking about how to get in here. But they never said what to do after that, and maybe they don't know either."
"They're talking about something so important in front of you?"
"An accident. I said it. One of the immortals once called me over to do something. When I went there, I saw them arguing about shortcuts in the city. I thought it was a dispute about mythological content, or they Want to create a new base. Anyway, it’s nothing more than that. And they don’t care about arguing in front of me. After all, I won’t say anything, and no one will believe it if I say it. In their eyes, my life span is also Short enough, nothing to cause trouble.”
Yaleriga stared at him and blinked. She wanted to ask something more, but Qiaoqiao Tianyi had already flicked her tail, showing a focused expression.
"Wait a minute," she said, "do you hear anything?"
Bodi and Yaleriga both denied it. The surroundings were extremely quiet, with no sound at all. Qiaoqiao Tianyi took turns looking at both sides of the corridor several times, and finally tapped his horns with his hooves.
"Oh, well," she muttered, "I probably heard it wrong. It happens every once in a while. My horns react to some special structure, even from far away. That would give me Causes some auditory hallucinations, but that doesn't happen often... Never mind that. We have to figure out where we are. What the hell is this place?"
"It looks like a primitive civilization in terms of architectural style." Yaleriga looked around and replied, "We successfully fell asleep during the fall. I think we are now inside the wishing machine structure."
"Yes. But shouldn't we be looking for a city? Like the abandoned baby criminal we are looking for said, a city full of golden bells. I know that when he talks to a yahoo... I mean, he talks to a yahoo... His primitive animal friends may have done some art in telling this story, but that's far from it. I don't see any bells or balls, or the kid we're looking for. There are hallways everywhere."
"Maybe this is just a small part." Yaleriga guessed, "an entrance to the core of the black box."
"Why is that necessary? Can't they make a more streamlined expression structure? Even the wishing box made by Never Island is much clearer than this. Oh, I really don't like their black boxes with too many buttons and... No instructions provided, but at least it’s better than no buttons at all. Do they know how to make the machine correctly?”
Qiaoqiao Tianyi kicked the ground twice angrily. Yaleriga stopped her complaints and suggested that they continue to explore a section further to see if there was an exit here or if it was just a closed structure with an infinite loop. The latter will cause them a lot of trouble, but if they can understand the construction principle of this closure, things will not be too bad.
So they walked towards the unforked side of the corridor. Fortunately, all the forks were on the same side, with typical branches, so they could actually tell which road was special. They began to hope that this would be a simple and clear tree structure, so that they could walk back to a certain trunk little by little. However, this journey is also really boring and despairing. They saw no visible changes, just endless swaying corridors.
Occasionally there would be doors in the corridor, like the one they came in from, but they were all locked. They didn't make a rash attempt to open it. Bodi really wanted to do this, but Yaleriga stopped him - in view of various unfortunate cases published in "Fun Canal", scholars always take the trouble to remind people that when you are in an environment suspected of being a wishing machine, When doing so, the first principle to avoid accidental injury is to be civilized. What is civilization? Don’t act violently, don’t do anything prohibited, and follow all regional codes and guidelines. So if the door doesn't welcome them, it's best to give them what they want.
They had come a long way, and even though Bodie had grown accustomed to the stomach-churning weightlessness, they saw nothing new. Qiaoqiao Tianyi counted every corridor they passed, and seven or eight times she counted incorrectly because she was absent-minded. Fortunately, Yaleriga also paid attention to her listless mumbling and helped her correct it in time. After traveling through nine hundred and seventy-two corridors, the fear of breaking into an unknown wishing machine system quickly disappeared. They are not eating, but they do not feel hungry. The concept of energy consumption may have been removed from the inside of this machine. At first, Qiaoqiao Tianyi complained repeatedly, claiming that this was the most boring wishing machine environment she had ever heard of, but she soon got tired of it. Mental fatigue made her droop her wings and almost rest her head on Yaleriga's shoulder. superior.
"I hope this is not a wishing machine that was used incorrectly." She said tiredly, "Remember there was a case in "Xunqu" before? The person who could never find the toilet due to the misoperation of the wishing machine. Maybe here The wishing machine is also a mistake. It takes us forever to find the corridor. We can't just go down this path. God, this is a primitive first-class wishing machine!"
"It's not too primitive." Yaleriga said, "At least it's not hand-cranked."
Her traveling companion finally burst into laughter. She could understand whose mean joke Yaleriga was making. And Bodie looked at them suspiciously, wondering if that was true. Yaleriga did not explain to him, this topic was a bit too long.
However, Bodie didn't want to be left out. He quickly approached her from the other side and bumped into her shoulder intentionally or unintentionally. Yaleriga had to look at him.
"I want to say thank you." Bodi said intently, "After all, I brought you in. This method is quite incredible, and I didn't expect it to come true - but after all, we still came in, right? Right? Dreaming about falling in a bottomless pit. I don’t think what we are experiencing now is an illusion.”
"The thoughts of living creatures while sleeping can be detected by some wish machines." Yaleriga explained briefly, "Not all, but thinking and non-artificial ones can often be detected."
"Not man-made?"
"Let's talk about this when we get out."
"Okay, but you still didn't thank me. And how are we going to get out? Maybe we try opening another door? They don't necessarily lock every door."
Yaleriga was ready to reject him for the second time. Just then they heard footsteps in front of the corridor.
