Elizabeth could smell the special smell released when life came to an end. She had smelled this smell countless times in her life of more than ten or twenty years, and she knew very well that the intensity of this smell could faithfully reflect It shows the state of the creature when it faces death - the stronger and pungent the smell is, the more fear and despair the creature feels at the moment of death.
This kind of fear and despair refers to the sense of fear that creatures have when facing imminent death, and the sense of despair that arises when facing unstoppable death. The emotions generated by these two creatures at the moment of death are more and more intense. The stronger the intensity, the stronger and more pungent the painful smell that eventually converged into Elizabeth's smell.
The smell of pain that permeates this corridor is now so strong that it is one step away from actually affecting and interfering with the minds of ordinary people. This is the result of letting it dissipate for ten years. It is conceivable that the people who died in the corridor were How hopeless and fearful it is when facing death.
Although Wu Ming could not directly feel the smell of death fear and despair like Elizabeth, he saw nearly 300 corpses neatly placed on both sides of the corridor in a short distance of about 200 meters, and skulls The image of a hole being drilled into his skull and tree roots crawling inside made him feel uncomfortable, and he remained in a depressed state of silence.
According to Zhao Sida's preliminary observation, the degree of weathering and collapse of all the bones along the way is not very serious. It can basically be judged that they died within the same time period ten years ago. The time interval between the earliest death and the latest death is not at most More than half to a year. Based on the time of death and the skeletons with roots in their skulls, it can be concluded that the mutation in the Tree of Life happened at least ten years ago. After the mutation, some people settled in Sky City - most of them Most of them may be members of various extraordinary forces, or have deep connections with extraordinary forces, and they have also mastered the means to activate the sky city, relying on the air superiority of flying at a height of more than 10,000 meters, and this The logistical support that this city could theoretically exist would make it impossible for mimic creatures and demonized plants to take advantage of this city for a long time.
But the Sky City was finally breached by the Tree of Life using some means, and the demonized plants massacred everyone here and turned them into nutrients...
This is the real doomsday. There are no exciting battles here, and there are no opportunities for people to stand up and change their lives. Life is trampled on at will, and death becomes insignificant.
After Wu Ming and others crossed this long and almost suffocating corridor, they finally arrived at the main control room at the end of the corridor.
The double-layer safety door made of an unknown alloy has been torn apart by the wildly growing withered tree roots. These roots invaded through the gap created by the severe distortion and deformation of the safety door. Wu Ming originally thought that the inside would be like the one in the corridor. They were all twisted and twisted tree roots, densely packed and creepy, but after entering the main control room and seeing the actual picture, I couldn't help but be speechless.
Completely different from what was imagined, there are no entangled tree roots in the main control room. All the intruding tree roots are only entangled on the severely twisted and deformed security door behind. The security door seems to limit the boundaries of these tree roots. There are no trees. The roots extend across the border of this door into the room.
The layout style of the main control room obviously has a SF flavor. Except for the wall on the side of the security door, the other three walls of this room are composed of three seamlessly connected huge screens, which are broadcasting various major areas of Sky City in real time. As well as the monitoring scene in the core control area, many streamlined and strange-looking devices and instruments are placed next to these large screens. In front of each screen is a rectangular device that looks like a console, and behind these devices There are also instruments installed next to it that are obviously added by latecomers - those instruments that are connected to the operating console through a tube line, as if they are made of scrap copper and iron, and they appear on the picture tube screen. The image interference is serious, and it is covered with snowflakes. It is obvious that it cannot be used normally.
The most eye-catching thing is that in the center of the pure white room, there are thirty-six rectangular parallelepipeds about one meter long that repeatedly rise and fall from the ground and are embedded back into the ground. The mechanical arms that move back and forth on the ceiling are responsible for moving the rectangular objects. Grab these cuboids that rise from the ground, and then find the next vacant groove and put them down. These cuboids are engraved with complex circuits like circuit boards. As they rise and fall, a faint blue light will flow along the These loops look very strange.
These cuboids were exchanging positions all the time, never stopping for a moment. There seemed to be no pattern in their exchanging positions. After Wu Ming counted the positions of the thirty-six pillars and rotated them, I haven't seen any reason why. The only conclusion I can draw is that there is no pattern, not a cycle. So far, it seems to be a random exchange of positions.
"I always feel like there's something missing here..." Wu Ming pointed to these rectangular bodies that were constantly moving up and down, with an empty top, and suddenly said to Elizabeth next to him: "Do you think there's something missing here? Brain in nutrient solution?”
Wu Ming's horrifying speech made Elizabeth involuntarily think of the corpses outside and the skulls covered with tree roots. She was so frightened that she hid behind Wu Ming: "Oh my god! Brother, don't you mean the ones outside?" Human brains...are...all here, right!?"
"Don't make trouble, there are no signs of life in these pillars." Zhao Sida twisted Wu Ming's arm and glanced at Elizabeth, who was hiding behind Wu Ming: "Look at your worthless appearance, you are actually afraid of a bunch of bubbles. The brain in the nutrient solution..."
Elizabeth was so frightened that her face turned pale: "I have some psychological shadow about taking out the brain and putting it in the nutrient solution... That incident made me watch The Matrix as a horror movie. In real life, Being soaked in nutrient solution and being used as a biological battery, but your consciousness remains in a virtual world where bugs occasionally occur, this kind of thing is super scary, isn't it?"
Zhao Sida was a little dissatisfied. Even if the emotional fluctuations from the spiritual link allowed her to empathize with Elizabeth's mood at this time, she could not understand the reason why the other party was afraid: "Isn't it just to take out the brain? What's the good of that? Scared..."
"I told you it was psychological shadow! Psychological shadow..." Elizabeth, who was hiding behind Wu Ming, argued with reason, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by a sudden female voice.
"Outsiders, why did you come to this city?"
"Hey!!! Brother, save me!"
