Chapter 25 "Nepenthes"

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The world... has been turned upside down.

Yan Jingxing felt that he was gradually being swallowed by a huge whirlpool, and he completely lost consciousness in the horrible feeling of drowning that was difficult to escape. When he woke up, he felt that he was being spit out by the whirlpool.

Dazzling flashes, violent vibrations... everything was emerging like a sudden storm, and soon the clouds stopped and the rain stopped. His eyes were closed tightly, and he was not allowed to move his eyes until the surroundings calmed down.

"Um...w-what..."

He subconsciously opened his mouth, but he could only make muffled sounds; at the same time, it became difficult to open his eyelids, as if they were stuck with glue.

This feeling is as if the whole person has been thrown into a pool filled with maltose, and the whole body is covered with sticky and sticky stuff.

Yan Jingxing stopped struggling, gathered strength, and silently recited "Three, two, one!" in his heart, and then tried his best to twist his hands and feet.

"Drink!"

He struggled to get rid of everything on his body and opened his eyes at the same time.

"What...what is this...?"

Yan Jingxing looked at his body in surprise. Blood-red silk threads stuck to his naked skin. They showed amazing elasticity with just a little force; and even after breaking free, they still seemed to be alive. Encouraging...

No, not "like"!

He took a deep breath. There was a narrow, dark space around him, so he could clearly hear his heartbeat; it was at this moment that he suddenly realized that the beating frequency of these threads was consistent with his own heartbeat...

These things are like muscles, or at least some kind of living tissue.

He looked around, and he seemed to be in a life-sustaining capsule. There were white solids on both sides that looked like human ribs, which were slowly shrinking back.

Is this what was restricting his movements just now?

Bones, flesh and blood——

Where is he?

Yan Jingxing knocked on his forehead, and the memories before coma returned like a tide.

By the way, they got on the UFO in the secret base in the cave, and then there was a flash of light and violent vibrations...

Then, he appeared here.

This place is obviously not the original UFO cabin. Coupled with that strange loud noise, could it be said that——

Yan Jingxing's heart started pounding again.

Success? It was actually successful like this? Has he been transferred to an alien planet now?

Obviously the UFO was not powered on, and they did not touch any device, but it could be started directly as long as a person sits in it. What the hell is this principle...

No, now is not the time to think about this, he did not come alone!

"Chun Zao! Xie Yuzhi! Are you there? Can you hear me?"

He shouted at the top of his lungs, but received no response. The shouts echoed in the narrow and dark cabin, which seemed unusually empty.

"Ji Chunzao! Captain!"

Yan Jingxing tried shouting several times, but the result was the same.

"Oh no, I have to get out of this place!"

He became anxious and looked forward.

There, there was a row of small zigzag gaps, from which faint light was projected.

Yan Jingxing put his hands on it, inserted his fingers into the gap, and then exerted force on both arms.

"Hey!"

Just like the gears that were not fully engaged were separated by human hands, with the sharp and harsh sound, the falling light became more and more intense; the blood-red threads were stuck between the gaps, but they were finally loosened.

He fell forward involuntarily, got out naked, and lay on the ground.

Yan Jingxing took a breath of outside air, and then found that the "ground" was also a bit strange. The touch on his palms was soft and slightly elastic.

He observed carefully for a while. The ground looked like some kind of germ blanket, covered with a layer of fluff; and underneath the fluff was some kind of weird metal - it looked like living flesh and blood, but it actually felt cold and hard. , like a combination of the two.

Yan Jingxing stood up unsteadily and looked around at the walls and the ceiling above his head...

This fifty-square-meter room is entirely made of muscle tissue that resembles peeled skin.

Everywhere he looked were filled with strange colors, which made him feel in a trance. If he stared for a long time, he would be confused as to whether they were moving.

"What the hell is this place?"

Yan Jingxing murmured to himself.

He felt as if he had entered the belly of a huge animal, and this room was its stomach, which was squirming in hunger.

Turning around again, I saw that the place I came out of was a pod. It looked like a pitcher plant with a closed lid. It was also made of flesh-like metal machinery, but the surface was also covered with a layer of light yellow. fascia;

After he forcefully opened the "cage lid" and drilled it out, the gap in the "nepenthes" only lasted for a few seconds, and then closed and sealed automatically.

There is more than one strange device in this shape. There are three "nepenthes" in total, distributed in different corners of the oval room.

The remaining two stations were still not turned on. Seeing this scene, Yan Jingxing immediately felt that he knew what was going on.

He quickly ran to one of them, smashed the outer wall of the pitcher plant device with his fist, and shouted into the gap:

"Ji Chunzao! Xie Yuzhi! Can you hear me?"

Still no reply.

He gritted his teeth, placed his hands on the gap, and began to open it with force.

Yan Jingxing didn't know if it could be opened from the outside, but he had to try. Fortunately, as he exerted all his strength, the gap did open up little by little...



"Thank you Yuzhi! Thank you Yuzhi!"

Someone was calling her name.

The sound seemed to come from a very far away place.

The girl frowned, as if she felt that her sound sleep was being disturbed, so she felt a little annoyed.

But despite the man's tireless repeated shouting, her consciousness still took over her body again, and her soul seemed to rise from the dark abyss and surface.

Xie Yuzhi's fingers trembled and curled up slightly.

It's as if they are still missing the feeling of holding each other's hands before everything happened.

Then, her hand was gently held.

The voice in my ears finally became clear.

"Xie Yuzhi, are you okay?"

A familiar voice sounded in my ears with concern.

The thick eyelashes trembled slightly, and the girl finally slowly opened her eyes.

The light from the outside world fell as lightly as a feather on her face.

What caught Xie Yuzhi's eyes was a strange narrow space, and Yan Jingxing standing in front of him, looking at him happily.

She stared blankly at his face.

Then, his eyes moved downward unconsciously——

It’s his posture as naked as a newborn baby…

But the problem is, in many ways, he's not a baby.

"..."

Xie Yuzhi lowered her eyes in silence.

"Uh... Xie Yuzhi?"

The girl took a deep breath and hit the boy in front of her with a hard headbutt.

"Whoaaah!"

"Go get dressed quickly!"

*

Yan Jingxing was completely unaware that he was naked before being taught a lesson by Miss Xie with the "rocket headbutt".

It should be said that the strange situation and strange environment immediately deprived him of the space to think about other unimportant things.

After being "teleported" from Earth, even the clothes were gone...?

He is now more and more sure of his guess that UFO's ability to send people to alien planets is genuine.

After Yan Jingxing explained it, Xie Yuzhi was still able to accept the explanation.

Although the two of them had not known each other for too long, she felt that she already knew something about Yan Jingxing and knew that at least he was not the kind of pervert who would run around naked.

However, at the same time, Xie Yuzhi thought of something even more terrifying, that is, if Yan Jingxing had been naked from the beginning, then he would be in the "Nepenthes" device...

The girl lowered her head silently and saw a large area of ​​snow-white skin exposed in the air, feeling like "two eyes and one black".

"Don't worry, I didn't see anything in the key parts! Because there are things blocking you."

Yan Jingxing, who walked to the corner with his back to her, seemed to have guessed what she was thinking and shouted to explain.

Xie Yuzhi did not answer.

She looked at the bones and flesh-like metal wrapped around her body, hesitated, but still did not pull them apart.

At present, these things should be harmless to the human body...

She began to think silently.

But what is going on? Could it be that this is the unique "clothes" on this planet?

The so-called clothes, as a decoration to cover up shame, were born with the evolution of civilization; before that, they were mainly used to avoid wind, cold and rain, protect the skin from the sun, prevent rapid loss of body temperature, etc.

When they are transferred to a new planet, the clothes on their bodies disappear automatically and are replaced by the material in the device... What does this mean?

Before Xie Yuzhi could figure it out, a muffled sound came from the last pitcher plant device.

"Um...I, where am I...? I...Jing Xing, Yan Jingxing, where are you? Yuzhi?"

Her voice sounded dazed.

"Don't worry, we're all here."

Yan Jingxing replied. After hearing someone's response, Ji Chunzao was obviously relieved.

"Are you... all outside? I, I will come out right away..."

As she spoke, she seemed to be trying to open the lid of the cage.

"Wait a minute!"

Xie Yuzhi quickly shouted to stop

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Check yourself, your clothes are probably missing."

There was silence in the device, and not long after, a crisp exclamation erupted from inside.

"Eh?! What's going on?! Who took off my clothes?"

"...No, that's probably not the case." Xie Yuzhi sighed, "It most likely happened naturally during the 'transfer' process. In other words, the clothes cannot come with us."

After realizing that they were naked, the two girls, including Ji Chunzao, hid inside and refused to come out.

But we cannot let the situation continue like this.

"Now we can get down to business."

Yan Jingxing's tone sounded a little helpless.

"Although I need to wear clothes, what should I do if I don't have any clothes?"

The air in the room suddenly became silent and awkward.

Yan Jingxing thought for a while, stood up again, and started to circle around this place.

The other two companions couldn't come out, so they had to rely on him to find a solution.

Although he is also naked, it is more convenient than the girls. At least he only needs to cover one place.

He hoped that a solution to his current situation could be found in the room—for example, some clothes that he could wear.

But he didn't really have any hope in his heart. Just looking at the bloody shape of this place, it obviously didn't look like a gathering place for humans, and it was hard to believe that clothes suitable for humans would be prepared.

After walking around, Yan Jingxing found a door on the flesh wall with a shallow gap in the middle. Maybe using force to open the pitcher plant device was also feasible.

But after hesitating for a moment, he still didn't choose to break it apart.

"How, how? Did you find it?"

Ji Chunzao, who was hiding in the pitcher plant, asked eagerly.

"It's difficult, this place is so big..."

Yan Jingxing sighed. But at this moment, his gaze passed somewhere and he suddenly stopped.

"Wait, what is this?"

He saw a strange device, like a faucet embedded in the wall; the top of the device was connected to the inside of the wall through pipes, but if the "wall" was like a fleshy stomach wall, then the "pipes" were naturally thick blood vessels. .

It looks really scary.

But Yan Jingxing still reached out, grabbed the handle of the device, tried to push and pull it in all directions, and finally pulled hard.

"boom!"

A grid made of white bones squeezed out from the meat, and what was inside was...

"Luggage bag?"

Yan Jingxing couldn't hide his surprise.

"Why? We didn't even bring our clothes with us. Why can this luggage-"

"Are you saying that some luggage was 'teleported' with us?"

Xie Yuzhi heard his voice. After thinking for a moment, she cautiously made a guess:

"I remember that there was a drawer-like device inside the UFO, and I casually placed my duffel bag inside. However, the capacity of the 'drawer' itself was not large, so it could only fit one bag."

"Yeah……"

Yan Jingxing opened the zipper, flipped through the contents, and finally said in surprise:

"Yes!"

*

In the process of changing clothes, he couldn't help but feel grateful again. Xie Yuzhi had made sufficient preparations for everyone in advance, although she always felt dissatisfied.

The only duffel bag that was "transferred" with them contained exactly three sets of gray thermal underwear. It is said to be worn by mountaineers who climb snow-capped mountains.

Although there is no jacket, this set of underwear is designed to cover the whole body in two pieces. The material itself is thick enough and can cover most of the outline. They have no better choice at the moment.

"Very good……"

Ji Chunzao breathed a sigh of relief and stroked her chest, a cheerful smile blooming again on her face.

"In addition to teleporting people, are there any devices for teleporting objects?"

Xie Yuzhi looked at the vascular device seriously, seeming to be thinking about its use.

"Then let's get out of here. Are you ready?"

"I'm ready!"

"Well, open the door. Want to help?"

"Need not."

Yan Jingxing moved his hands and feet, inserted his fingers into the crack of the door, and then pulled it open forcefully.



The light all over the planet slightly illuminated the countless dust floating in the air, falling from the open hole.

After leaving the room, what caught their eyes was a huge palace——

There are devices and statues everywhere that have the same style as that in that room, similar to human organs and flesh and blood tissue. But if you touch them carefully, you will find that they are all machines with gloomy colors.

Above the palace, the dome was lifted, revealing a large, dilapidated hole.

To be precise, here are the remains of a palace.