"Goodbye, my brother," Bond waved his fat hand and staggered into the portal.
"Goodbye, Bond."
Li Liang waved his hand.
After just a few hours together, he saw the enthusiasm of the Tifami people in Bond. The same life form and similar cultural imprints make it easy for them to communicate with each other. Meeting similar people in a foreign country always makes him feel a sense of intimacy.
Just now, Bond kindly invited him to visit Tifami another day. He agreed immediately, but was unable to return the same invitation.
Human civilization is in turmoil and trapped in prison, but he believes that one day, humans will be able to open the door to spiritual principles and welcome friends as masters.
Ten minutes later, the diamond-shaped magic creation guarding the portal moved away again, indicating that it was okay to enter.
Li Liang calmly stepped forward and stepped in.
After a brief period of darkness, the surroundings became bright again.
This is a room of only a few hundred square meters. A long light source is installed on the roof. The walls and floor are made of unknown materials. They are pitted, mottled and old. There are some pairs of thin metal poles half a person's height placed on the ground. A green wall of light was pulled out between the thin rods, forming a "bow-shaped" passage. Dozens of creatures stood in line in the passage in an orderly manner.
The second transmission had obviously been screened again. The creatures listed here were basically the same size, and they were still mostly inorganic creatures. At a glance, Li Liang only saw one "same kind", and it was a "woman".
The woman was very conspicuous because the creatures in front and behind her had deliberately distanced themselves, preferring to squeeze together rather than dare to get too close to her.
She is about two meters tall, with long silver hair that reaches the ground. The headdress studded with gems emits light golden light, forming an oval-shaped shield. The long skirt on her body was extremely complicated, and the fabric of unknown material shone with bits of light. The layers overlapped, wrapping her well-proportioned body like blooming flowers, and the exposed skin was white and flawless.
As if she sensed Li Liang's gaze, she turned her head gently, raised her skirt slightly with both hands, and bowed in greeting.
Li Liang was a little surprised. At first glance, this person came from a powerful civilization. Unexpectedly, he was quite polite, so he waved hello.
At this time, the line moved forward, and he noticed a counter at the end of the line. The first crystal creature floated to the counter and stopped for a few seconds. A light curtain rose around it, blocking it with the counter.
It seems that this is the place to "go through the formalities".
Li Liang took a few steps forward. In front of him was a creature composed of slender transparent tubes. The material of those thin tubes was very similar to glass, and they were bent and intertwined into a clump. The light flowing rapidly in them seemed to follow a certain pattern. , sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes bright, sometimes dim. From a human aesthetic point of view, it looks like an exquisite handicraft.
He looked at the creature in front of him and couldn't find any structure that looked like an "organ".
What kind of thinking does this thing use?
However, he was even more speechless when he saw the creature one position further ahead. At least the "glass tube" was relatively delicate. How could that slimy thing lying on the ground be defined as an intelligent creature?
The team continued to move forward. Li Liang came to the corner of the team and found many "posters" posted on the wall. After careful inspection, he found that they were all advertisements.
The largest one is a dynamic image. A single soldier covered in powered combat armor walks through the smoke and ashes, walks closer, crushes the twitching insect corpses with one foot, holds a huge assault rifle horizontally, and wears a head-mounted mask. Open it, revealing a face of vicissitudes of justice, and then several bright red words appear on the screen.
Although he didn't recognize those words, Li Liang was familiar with this set of powered combat armor, and was even more impressed by the appearance of the Pangbotans.
Terranza Legion recruitment advertisement?
The rest of the posters are also dynamic, including magic school enrollment, store openings, promotion of the latest travel tools, and an introduction to the basic world scenery of a certain gaseous civilization.
In the next hour, Li Liang relied on these advertisements to relieve the anxiety of waiting. In particular, there was a "real estate advertisement" that introduced a new type of magic residence. The appearance can be customized, such as being made into a lightweight ring that can be placed on the ground. A spacious staircase is formed. Walking down the steps, you will find a huge space. Buyers can freely change the internal structure of this private space according to their needs, whether it is commercial or residential.
The advertisement demonstrated the space style transformation of various civilizations. The example of carbon-based organisms reminded him of the last time he returned to the Gate of Spiritual Reason. Deep Blue also used ropes to create a small apartment and invited him to drink tea with him. It was just an advertisement. The rooms in it are much more luxurious than the dark blue "dwelling".
Magic is not only a weapon, but can also solve housing problems. It’s just that I don’t know which god to believe in to learn this kind of "three bedrooms and two living rooms" magic.
The "glass tube" creature has been blocked by the light curtain together with the counter, and Li Liang is the only one left in the whole room, because since he came in, no other creature has entered here to queue up.
After a few minutes, the light curtain disappeared.
Li Liang took a deep breath and walked up.
Behind the counter is a weird creature that looks like a lump of jelly with a "neck" as thick as an arm growing out of it, with a round sphere at the top of the neck.
A clear female voice asked in the common language of Titan: "Please use the official language of the civilization to which you belong to say: Hello, or express the same meaning in the standard communication method of the civilization to which you belong."
Li Liang couldn't find the place where the sound came from, so he could only think of the ball as the head of the creature in front of him. After hearing the request clearly, he stared at the ball and said, "Hello."
The ball shook.
It seemed that this thing was indeed a head, and Li Liang waited quietly for the next instruction.
A curtain of light rose from the surroundings, covering the counter as well.
The next moment, he vaguely heard the hissing sound of gas filling.
"Hello, human, the environmental parameters have been adjusted. Please take off your protective equipment for subsequent review," the female voice sounded again, but this time she used standard human language, speaking Mandarin fluently.
Li Liang first tried to take off one of his gloves. The temperature was suitable and there was no discomfort on his skin. Then he slowly took off the auxiliary power combat armor on his body.
"Please place in the correct area."
An arrow appeared in mid-air, pointing to the circular area on the side of the counter.
After Li Liang moved the armor up, he continued to stare at the ball behind the counter.
The ball shook, and then, a "caterpillar"-like creature sprang up from under the counter. Its fleshy back was full of holes. It curled up and shook, spraying out streams of light blue mist.
Li Liang instinctively took a step back and found that the fog was gathering in the sky, displaying the screen like a screen.
The picture shows a cartoon-style human boy waving hello.
"Excuse me, do you define yourself as: Luca - Neobiome - Eukaryote - Uniflagellate - Opisthoflagellate - Animalia - Silkworm - Animalia - Eumetazoa - Subkingdom Source heteromorphic animals - Floating larva-like animals - Bilaterally symmetrical animals - Nephrozoans - Deuterostomia - Chordata - Cephaloda - Vertebrate subphylum - Submandibular phylum - True jawed phylum - True jawed phylum Stomatids - bony fishes - lobe-finned fishes - tetrapods - tetrapods - reptiles - amniotes - synapsids - mammals - mammals - eutherians - placentae - northern eutherians High order - Superorder of primates - Superorder of primates - Superior order of primates - Order of primates - Suborder of rhinoids - Infraorder of anthropoids - Stenorrhinoidea - Anthropoidea - Hominidae - Hominoideae - Hominin - Homo Subtribe – Homo – species Homo sapiens – late subspecies Homo sapiens.”
As he "recited" word for word, a question mark appeared on the head of the cartoon character in the picture, and Chinese characters scrolled beside him.
Li Liang was still listening carefully at first, but then his mind went blank as he stared at the subtitles displayed.
This classification is too detailed.
After finally listening, he nodded immediately: "Yes, yes, I am a human being."
The cartoon man also nodded, then stretched out a hand, and a series of hand anatomy diagrams appeared next to it, down to the cell structure. However, there were several branches of the lower-level DNA molecular structure.
"Please choose the correct DNA molecule structure."
Li Liang pointed to the "double helix" structure.
The cartoon character made a cheering gesture, and then began to walk to one side. In the process, he continued to demonstrate the tools used, starting from drilling wood to make fire, and finally driving the spacecraft to the stars.
Then it starts from scratch again, starting with drilling wood to make fire, and then gradually becomes religious. In the end, the cartoon villain sits cross-legged on the ground, and his "soul" leaves the body, floating and flying towards the stars.
"Excuse me, which technological direction does your civilization prefer?"
"Spaceship, interstellar exploration."
Cartoon people make cheering gestures.
Next is a series of similar verification questions, counting methods, timing methods, mating methods, reproductive methods, education methods, social systems, etc. Each time the cartoon villain will demonstrate several different situations. After Li Liang finishes answering, he will use Cheering indicates a correct answer.
These problems made Li Liang feel more tormented, and he felt like he was undergoing rehabilitation training for Alzheimer's disease.
Finally got to the last few questions.
"Do you have any fixed beliefs?"
"No." Li Liang stared at the ball and said.
The ball shook.
"Have you joined a coalition or independent organization outside of your civilization?"
"No."
"Excuse me, what is your purpose in coming to Makosik City?"
Li Liang said sincerely: "Travel."
"Congratulations," the ball shook. "You have been allowed to enter Makosik City. Next, in order to better adapt to the life in Makosik City, the Entry-Exit Management Center will conduct relative positioning for you free of charge. test."
"Thank you," Li Liang breathed a sigh of relief.
But after all the calculations, the last self-funded project is left, which is probably very easy. After all, it is to bring goods, so we can't embarrass "God".
However, there was a moment of silence behind the counter, and then the clear female voice came out: "There is one last question."
Li Liang frowned, why is there still a problem?
"explain."
"Excuse me, why have you been staring at my gonads?" The ball shook, "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
"..."
Li Liang was stunned for a moment, leaning forward on the counter and looking inside. He saw snail-like tentacles vaguely extending from both sides of its jelly-like, fat body, which looked like eyes, with a split "mouth" in the middle.
The bottom part is the head, and the top part is...
"Uh..." He had no choice but to purse his lips and said against his will, "Yes, it's very beautiful."
"Thank you," the ball shook, still emitting a faint pink light.
Li Liang coughed: "Test, it's time to test."
"Oh yes, please be prepared."
Before he finished speaking, Li Liang suddenly felt empty under his feet.
Then, he fell into a dark and boundless space, and his body seemed to lose weight, drifting down until it hovered.
In the blink of an eye, he noticed in Ling's vision that this was another space constructed by magic. It was empty and there were no Horcruxes hidden secretly on the side.
Due to the effect of the double-ring ring on space, he did not dare to observe more carefully and could only wait quietly.
After a moment, a voice sounded in the darkness:
"Human, we are now conducting a relative position test, please look ahead."
A giant green arrow appeared in the darkness, pointing upward.
Li Liang felt his feet touch the ground.
"Please tell me the direction indicated by the arrow."
"superior."
Li Liang answered casually, but the next moment, the entire space began to rotate. Almost instantly, his feet were sucked to the "ground" and he was hanging upside down with his head down.
He resisted summoning the portal and lowered his hands, feeling all the blood in his body rushing to his head.
"Please tell me the direction indicated by the arrow."
The voice in the darkness was unhurried.
Li Liang looked at the arrow, which turned with him and turned downward.
"Down."
The moment he finished answering, the space changed again. The "ground" stood up vertically, and his feet were still fixed. He could only rely on the strength of his waist and legs to keep himself horizontal.
"Please tell me the direction of the arrow."
Li Liang already wanted to curse, so he quickly said: "To the left."
Then, the "ground" rotated around the place where his feet were fixed, throwing him to the other side, and the arrow naturally turned around.
Without waiting for the voice to ask a question, he answered directly: "The arrow is now pointing to the right."
The test seemed to be over, and the space slowly adjusted, allowing him to stand on the "ground".
Is this the end?
"Human, your sense of space needs to be adjusted," the voice said in a low voice, "Let's try again."
Again?
But this time, when Li Liang flipped it up and down and said the arrow was pointing down, the voice said: "No, the arrow is still pointing up."
Li Liang realized, did "up, down, left, and right" refer to relative positions? What does this mean, it's just a different frame of reference.
"Human, you must re-establish your sense of space. Otherwise, when you stand in Makosik City, your experience will be like this..."
The entire space began to rotate rapidly, and a strong sense of dizziness came over. Just when Li Liang was about to vomit, the rotation finally stopped.
"The brains of carbon-based organisms rely on the neural spatial coordinate system established by 'grid cells' to determine their positional relationship with other objects. Since your visual range is always very limited, the neural spatial coordinate system is often a priori, not Absolutely, it will make it easy for you to lose your sense of direction in a strange environment. This situation is particularly serious in Makosik because Makosik has a topological visual experience."
Li Liang took a few deep breaths: "How to re-establish the sense of space."
"The process is painful, human beings," the voice changed the subject and became much more enthusiastic. "If you buy a 'spatial cognition fixator', all problems will be solved. Believe me, the spatial cognition fixator is what you need. The most practical value among all the magic items purchased, its application scenarios extend far beyond Makosik City, it is durable, not prone to failure, and only requires 400 beads..."
"..."
A profiteer who takes advantage of others' danger!
Li Liangyi refused categorically: "I won't buy it."
In fact, I couldn't afford it even if I wanted to. Lao Yang only had 7 beads left. He did have a spiritual core in his jacket pocket, but it was too conspicuous to buy now.
I can only endure it for a while. No matter what the topology is, I will get used to it after spitting it out.
The voice in the darkness became less interested: "Well, I wish you a happy stay in Makosik."
The next second.
There was a flash of orange fire, and Li Liang was "swallowed" by a teleportation magic.
When the surroundings lit up again, he held on for a second before falling to his knees.
Rotate.
The whole world is like a drying machine, spinning rapidly, and everything in the field of vision turns into a colorful stream of light.
Severe dizziness is a kind of torture.
However, the moment he closed his eyes, the spinning stopped.
Ling's vision is still very calm.
Panting heavily, he looked around and found that there were signs of spiritual activity not only around him, but also above his head. Judging from the distribution, he seemed to be inside a "sphere".
What the hell is this place? A ball?
He tried to open his eyes again. His vision was still rotating, but it seemed to be a little slower.
After observing in Ling's field of vision for a while, and deliberately memorizing certain fixed outlines, he tried again, and sure enough, the rotation became slower.
He stood there and repeatedly switched his vision. A few minutes later, when he opened his eyes again, the world stopped spinning, and he finally saw his surroundings clearly.
Inside a sphere.
Weird, bizarre-style buildings spread along the curved ground to the top of the head. Countless creatures, large and small, walked along the street and walked up the gradually vertical walls until their heads fell down.
what's the situation?
Li Liang took a step forward in a daze, only to find that he was still at the lowest point inside the entire sphere.
He took a few more steps forward, and it was still the same, as if the whole world would change in real time with his steps...
Sudden.
An ethereal and soft female voice came from behind: "Hello, friend."
Li Liang turned around, raised his head, and met a pair of crystal blue eyes, then noticed her rounded facial features, fair skin, and long silver hair.
However, when his eyes fell on the woman's earlobes, he suddenly felt that the earrings looked familiar, like gray pebbles carved into the shape of a small key.
In the blink of an eye, he found that Ling's vision had been flooded by light and turned white.
Someone actually made the spiritual core into earrings...
