Chapter 35 Bai Fan
Could this swamp be the nest of the human centipede?
What is the principle behind this? Space teleportation? Or hallucination?
Why was Nana also teleported in with him? Is this really Nana herself carrying this one?
And where did the centipede go?
Li Pan couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he could only try his best to look around and be alert.
He placed one foot across with his left foot and then stepped over with the other, imitating the steps of an ape. He held Nana's buttocks with his left hand. His right hand was free, and he pinched his fingers like the man in green robe taught him, and raised his index and middle fingers like the tips of swords. Store the strength in your body at your fingertips and draw it out without releasing it, as if you are holding an invisible torch to prevent the 'centipede' from suddenly attacking from under the water.
But he wandered around for five minutes and didn't see the centipede appear.
I don't know why, but the centipede didn't seem to follow the door.
Strange, isn't this its home base?
Li Pan stopped and stood quietly in the water, feeling the mud under his feet.
He couldn't stand it anymore.
A bone-chilling chill poured into his feet from the mud and pool water. I could bear it at first, but the walk lasted for a long time, only five or six minutes. Li Pan began to feel that his legs were as stiff as ice sculptures.
It was as if there were many ice snakes burrowing through the skin and into the marrow of his leg bones, stimulating his flesh and blood like needles pricking ice.
"Hiss-hoo-hiss-hoo-"
Even the ape trick doesn't seem to work anymore. Li Pan had to stop where he was, breathing deeply, standing there and running the Nine Yin Refining Form, and then he was able to slightly relieve the ice flow that hit his legs.
This place is really not for people to stay. It would be fine if they were all dressed in formal clothes. Now he is only wearing a pair of big pants. What kind of adventure is he going on in another world? He should find a way to go back first.
Just when Li Pan just thought about it, he suddenly touched something hard with his left hand.
It seemed as if someone suddenly inserted something between his palm and Nana's buttocks.
He raised his hand and saw that it was a silver key.
Haha, there is no end to my path!
So where is the keyhole...
Li Pan raised his head and looked around.
The vast expanse of water, the misty gray fog,
everything was silent for a moment, and there was a sudden silence between heaven and earth.
Suddenly, Li Pan felt like he was being watched in secret by something.
It's not that I detected any signals or detected any signs.
It is the most primitive and true instinct of living things.
It was so creepy that the hairs stood on end.
Facing the fear of superior predators.
There seemed to be something watching him under the shallow puddle.
The centipede just now was really just a centipede compared to this thing.
"Where are you..."
As if confronting an invisible beast, Li Pan got goosebumps all over his body.
Then,
out of the corner of his eye, Li Pan
suddenly saw a white blanket falling from the gray mist,
like a falling kite or a blown sheet, silently wrapping itself around them.
That's as fast as slide slicing! It only takes one swipe, the previous frame is still in the fog, and the next frame is right in front of you!
"Hiss—"
It was too late to turn around or dodge. Li Pan took a deep breath, raised his right arm, and shook off all the power from his fingertips.
Hurray!
He seemed to see a bright blue flame in the corner of his eye, like a bursting laser! The sparkle blooms! Blooming at his fingertips!
Cut the white blanket that comes in front of you into two!
At this passing moment, Li Pan turned his waist, but the blanket had already passed behind him and disappeared silently into the thick fog.
"Huh--"
Although Li Pan actually saw nothing, he could feel that the uneasiness of Feng Mang on his back disappeared for a while.
Have you been driven away...
"...Hey."
Lying on Li Pan's back, Nana opened her eyes at some point and forgot to breathe, slowly said,
"What the hell is that."
"Look. It's here."
Li Pan swallowed,
"You saw it, right? I didn't see it clearly, what does it look like?"
Nana was silent for a while, and then spoke, her voice was much colder and calmer than before. , even a little low and hoarse, he doesn't look like the same person anymore.
"A huge sail, a regular quadrilateral with a side length of about 260 feet. The speed is at least Mach 5." "There is no
sound at Mach 5?"
Li Pan waved his right hand. It was violent just now. I don't know if it was a pull. The muscles were still cramped, and my right hand was sore, numb, and swollen. When I tried to focus on it again, it felt like it was cut and the pain was excruciating. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to use the second sword.
"What is that? Who are you? Where is this?"
Nana asked coldly.
Li Pan smiled bitterly, "Let's find a way to go back first. Do you see a door nearby? Or a keyhole? If you find it, you can go back." Nana was silent for a while, then jumped off
Li Pan's back, and was caught by the shallow water. Ze shivered from the cold.
Li Pan frowned and looked at her, "Hey, what are you doing! Come up yet! Don't make trouble at this time. This is not the place to talk, and I really don't know the specific situation. If that sail comes again, I can I can't save you."
Nana shook her head, folded her arms and huddled up, jumping up as if running on the spot,
"I'm fine, I'll tell you if I can't hold on anymore, you can't do it either, right? Just take your time."
Li Pan was stunned for a moment and looked at Nana seriously,
"Why...you seem to have changed..."
Nana looked at him coldly,
"This is not the place to talk. Let's find that door first. The door is What kind of thing."
Li Pan nodded, "The door, it's probably the kind that can be seen at a glance. The last time it was on the ceiling... Oh."
Li Pan suddenly realized, squatting down and reaching into the mud to grope.
This swamp is empty in all directions, stretching as far as the eye can see. If there is a door or a keyhole, you can probably see it at once. But if you can't see it now, then maybe the 'door' is hidden under the mud.
"Can you see this key? Look around to see if there is a keyhole."
The water was really cold, definitely below freezing. It was probably not real water. Li Pan put his right hand into the water and touched it twice. The pain was excruciating, so I had to change my hands to explore.
Nana looked up at the sky and suddenly said.
"This is not the earth. It is not the QVN network."
"Ah, ah? How do you know?"
Li Pan turned to look at her. Nana looked back, lifted up her short hair and pointed at the brain socket of the frontal lobe,
"I am a reserve. Officers, starship navigators, the military positioning chip we installed is connected to the Lunar Fleet Command in real time. Now the chip is running normally, and the UFO just now can also capture the speed measurement normally, and I called QVN Virtual Public Network and SFCN Star Fleet The communication network is connected, but there is no signal feedback."
Li Pan, "Oh."
Nana frowned,
"Oh? Do you know what it means that we came to other universes in an instant?"
Li Pan shrugged, "We traveled through time. "?"
Nana frowned,
"This technology will trigger a world war... show me the key."
Li Pan touched for a long time, half frozen to death, and touched nothing except a hand of mud, so he took the silver in his hand. Throw the key to Nana.
The moment she caught the key.
Li Pan saw it,
the sail.
From the thick fog in deep space, a huge white sail fell silently, like a bird of prey with its huge wings spread out! It swooped down from Nana's head in an instant! Cover her in the sail in an instant! Then just roll up and leave!
"Fuck!"
Li Pan didn't have time to react. He was just a few steps away, but he jumped up on the mud and couldn't save him. And the damn thing was at least Mach 5 every time, and it didn't even last a second. That thing had already flown into the fog, and its shadow was gone!
"Fuck you! Ahhh!"
Li Pan was hit by an inexplicable and huge feeling of loss in his chest.
But fortunately, he was still knocked down by fear, but he suddenly had an idea and realized that the other party was looking for the key!
Li Pan took out a second silver key, held it high in his hand and shouted to the sky.
"Come on, Mad! I have one more! Come on..."
Before Li Pan could finish shouting, his eyes suddenly turned white, and he left the ground, as if being sucked into some passage. It was a completely weightless state, and he couldn't tell the front, back, left, and right. There were white sails like sheets in all directions. The canvas seemed to be blown by the strong wind and squeezed him, almost crushing him. There was a strong wind above his head, as if someone was blowing his face with an air blower, which made the skin on his face tremble and made him unable to breathe.
Damn it, was he eaten by that damn thing?
"Nana! Damn it! Are you still alive! Nana!"
Li Pan had difficulty crawling between the white sails due to the rough skin and thick flesh of the fourth-level life form. Although he was unable to gather the torch-like green energy like just now, he could He can also light up a few flames at his fingertips. This was enough. Those white sails that couldn't be hit or torn apart were sliced open by the blue light blades on Li Pan's fingertips. They rolled to avoid the green light and opened a passage.
"Nana!"
"Hi——!"
Suddenly a dazzling white light came from across the passage, and hot sparks splashed Li Pan's face.
It's a tracer flare!
"Come on, come on! Fuck! Fuck!"
Li Pan squeezed through the Baifan passage and crawled in. Soon he saw blood.
The blood, like a waterfall, was blown by the strong wind, blowing towards Li Pan's face, and poured all over his face.
But not a drop of it touched the white sail, it just blew out along the canvas.
"Nana!"
Li Pan quickly saw it.
Nana's whole body was squeezed by Bai Fan, as if she was stuck in the white concrete, and her right hand was still raised outside.
"Nana!"
Li Pan grabbed his right hand and pulled it off!
Okay, I'm scared. It's a prosthetic leg, and the flare was shot from her middle finger. Good guy, you also lost your hand? But it’s actually a super-realistic prosthesis, at least it’s a consumer product, right? This thing is very expensive.
Li Pan plunged into the concrete-like pile of white sails and kept digging and pulling out Nana, who was covered in blood.
The man was still alive for the time being, but he was in shock and was almost crushed into a pulp. However, the main wound was not on the torso, but on the left arm.
When Li Pan pulled Nana out of the white sail, he saw that her left hand, the human body, was gone from the elbow down, which was due to the massive blood loss from the wound here.
Li Pan understood after taking a look.
The key should be in Nana's left hand. She seemed to have opened the 'door' on Bai Fan.
Then the surrounding Bai Fan, probably at the moment when the door was opened, squeezed in and crushed her elbow into a pulp, leaving only the cracked bones that could barely be seen.
If he had been a little later, Nana might have turned into Nana-chan.
Li Pan pulled out twice and only pulled out a few broken bones. There were too many white sails blocking the door and it was too hard to open the passage.
Although Li Pan still has a key in his hand, and Bai Fan seems to be afraid of his green sword energy, these things are too fast. Looking at Nana's precedent, if he rashly opened the door on Bai Fan, he might have to lose one of his hands.
Looking at the woman in his arms with her eyelashes trembling slightly and her heart rate weak, Li Pan knew that there was no time to hesitate. He would soon run out of energy if he continued to use up her energy.
Take a gamble!
"Hiss-hoo-"
Holding Nana in his arms, Li Pan took a deep breath and used all his strength from his right hand to illuminate the surrounding white sails. At the same time, he inserted his left hand into the white sails under his body and opened the door.
"Bang!" There was a sound.
Li Pan's eyes went blank, and he felt like his whole body was being hit by a heavy hammer, as if someone was stuffed into the barrel of a gun, bang! It has to be blasted out!
There was another round of spinning, and another bang! With a loud sound, Li Pan felt a fishy smell in his mouth and nose, and was hit so hard on his back that he almost broke his waist.
"Beep, beep!" "Beep, beep, beep!" "Woof, woof, woof!" "Meow--!"
All kinds of noisy sounds filled his ears. Li Pan lifted up Bai Fan, who was holding his hooded head, and raised his head and looked around. Looking over, I found myself back. Next to it is the seven-story apartment, and you can see the balcony when you look up.
The white sail in his hand now lost the majesty it had when it went up to heaven and down to earth. It was just like an ordinary sheet, wilting and clenching in his hand.
"Aren't you awesome! Damn it!"
Li Pan tore it up with all his strength. Unexpectedly, the tattered sheet couldn't even be torn apart. It could even withstand his fourth-level superhuman strength. He was indeed a monster.
Nana was still unconscious due to severe blood loss. It was midnight, and some neighbors had already turned on the lights and looked outside.
"Made...what are you looking at! I've never seen jumping off a building! Get out!"
Li Pan was so angry that he rolled up Bai Fan into a ball and grabbed it in his hand. Then he picked up Nana and got off the roof of the car that he had flattened. She ran all the way to the street and found a prosthetic doctor in the commuting area to send him in for rescue.
After all, two arms were broken, some blood was lost, and the injuries were not fatal, so there was no need to sentence her to death with a three-year reprieve.
Although the prosthetic doctor is a little more expensive than a regular clinic, and does not have a formal medical license and does not accept medical insurance reimbursement, at least there is no need to queue. People will not ask here and there why you little couple are so wild in the middle of the night. After receiving 20,000 in cash, you will be operated on immediately. It also comes with first-class laser printing technology and auxiliary prostheses for the disabled.
Li Pan took advantage of Nana's operation and went back to the apartment.
He was so angry that he climbed over the balcony and jumped into the apartment. He didn't see Centipede in the living room, so he went straight to the room where the thing crawled out, kicked open the door, looked around, and immediately recognized the same white sheets on the bed.
In fact, if you look closely, isn't this the cocoon that wraps the centipede's body? There was really a lot of dirty hair on it.
Shit, so this is really a haunted house? And it’s that classic, sheet ghost?
Li Pan pulled off the sheets, kneaded them and tied them into a knot with the white sail in his hand.
Then he searched the entire apartment, tore off all the sheets and quilt covers, as long as they were pieces of cloth, regardless of whether they were white or yellow, dusty or not, hairy or not, crumpled them into a ball, stuffed them into a cardboard box and punched them. The package is considered 'contained'.
Then Li Pan changed into formal clothes, put on virtual glasses, and took out the hidden cameras installed around the room to watch the playback video.
In the video, he and Nana Toyama were drinking, chatting and rolling around, but the centipede was not photographed, nor was Bai Fan, not even the sheets. The signal disappeared after he carried Nana into the room.
Sure enough, there is no valuable information.
But if the sheets are monsters, then what happened when they entered another world? These sheets are made of canvas. It seems that they want to use the door opened by the key to come to the other world...
Li Pan couldn't figure it out for a while, so he called Aqi to drive a company cargo ship over and sealed it. Handed the carton of 'sheets' to it, then helped Nana sort out some clothes, and jumped out from the roof.
Nana's operation went very smoothly. Although it was not as perfect as the filing cabinet, as long as you are willing to spend money these days, even if you only have a brain, you can be transformed into a human figure.
What? Why didn't he just come to the prosthetist before?
Hey, isn't it because there is no cash...
"...So what is it, your company's secret weapon? A new type of drone?"
Nana had just finished the operation and couldn't move, so she lay on the bed and watched Li Pan help her put it on. Clothes, Leng Buding asked.
"More or less. I'm also a part-time worker, so I really don't understand. Anyway, I put those things away, but I'm sure there will be other things coming from there. I suggest you don't live in that apartment. Anyway, you I already have a rental contract and apply for a temporary residence permit. The worst I can do is transfer the rent to you."
Speaking of which, this era of cyber technology is at least a little convenient. No matter what the hell, everyone thinks about black technology first. No one really believes in ghosts and ghosts. It’s a toy.
Nana thought for a while and looked at her hands,
"Okay, I'll change places."
Li Pan saw that she was acting so calmly at this time, and it was really strange.
"Nana? Are you in good spirits? Do you want to be a doctor? Identification? I mean you were quite cheerful last night."
Nana Toyama glanced at him,
"I am the auxiliary personality 'No. 7' generated by the treatment chip. Nana Toyama was bullied in the military academy before. And she cannot accept the cruel interstellar warfare training. She suffers from severe schizophrenia, depression, and suicidal tendencies.
But because she has an excellent sense of space and a high deviation score, it is difficult to train qualified starship navigators. So the fleet performed a lobotomy surgery on her, separating part of her memory and personality and hiding it as a reserve.
'Xiaoqi' has an ordinary personality. She has human emotions and things that are of no use to the fleet. And the rest The part that belongs to me is me.
Normally, she dominates the body, but when it comes to wartime recruitment or when she encounters a crisis, our personalities will switch.
Although Xiaoqi quite likes you, I judge that being with you is too much. It's dangerous. I can help her deal with the danger of several gang members, but the company... Toyama Nana is just an ordinary person. I think it's better for her that we separate. You paid for the surgery, right? Thank you
. , I will pay the monthly rent contract regularly, and I will also re-edit Xiaoqi's memory. We will not contact you again."
Li Pan was stunned for a moment, he looked at her for a while, and finally his eyes fell on her missing arms. Go up, still said nothing, nodded and agreed.
So he helped Nana Toyama go back and pack her things, and watched her drag her suitcase down the subway station and disappear into the vast sea of people.
Finally, Li Pan returned to the deserted new apartment alone, looked at the wine bottles and pizza boxes on the floor, and rubbed his face.
"Made, that's right. Now I can be considered a monster."
(End of Chapter)