Chapter 29: Spindle
The cave where Mandela escaped was roughly circular, and when viewed from above, he didn't feel how big it was. It wasn't until we actually stood in front of it that we found it to be three meters in diameter. The structure of the stone walls in the cave is not neat, but the surface is very smooth, as if deliberately polished, but the priest said it was corroded.
The cave is as deep as expected. According to the direction, it leads to the other side of the corridor, so when we flipped the coin and got the opposite result, we might be able to directly find Mandela's lair. Because Mandela stays on this side to hunt prey, we don't need to fight it.
The injured Mandela is now full of resentment, hiding in the depths of the cave, and no one knows whether it will return to the lair to lick the wound or hide in the darkness to act as a dangerous sneak attacker. Its volume is very large, and the speed is not slow. Once we lie in the cave, we don't know how many opportunities can escape.
"Let's change the direction." Cui Di also said anxiously.
"No one can be sure where this cave is going." Fu Jiang retorted, her expression eager to try, as if she did not put the possible sneak attack of the monster in her eyes.
She looked at me for sure, but I turned my head to the priest. The priest is the oldest Mageweave messenger in our group, and the information in his hands is bound to give better advice.
"Nodes are not fixed, sometimes appear in easy to find places, sometimes accompanied by danger. Our luck is not very good, Ms. Fu Jiang is right, we have to go on."
"I have a question, how do you know the node is in this place?" Fu Jiang suddenly raised this question, her eyes full of doubts, wandering between the priest and Tracy, as if they could see through their minds.
I have long wanted to know this question, but I am not sure if this is the time to ask, and even if asked, I do n’t think the priest will answer.
Cui Di turned to look at the priest with a look of exploration. She didn't know the truth. What happened when they formed the team?
"Have you not asked?" I said.
"No ... I thought someone had asked." Tracy said hesitantly.
"Who was the captain at the time?"
Cui Di shook her head in confusion.
"No, without a captain, we just got together, and then the priest ..." She said, she looked a little strangely at the priest: "At the priest's suggestion, she came in. You said there was something for us to go back to Method, no one of us was in doubt! "
Father spread his hands innocently.
"I didn't lie, I did."
"I'm not saying this ..." Cui Di was very dissatisfied with his answer that he avoided the weight, but he was interrupted by Fu Jiang just halfway through the conversation.
"Father, answer my question, how do you know where the node is?"
"If I can see you here again, I will answer." The priest smiled without any excuse: "Now, you can only choose to believe or not to believe."
Fujiang stared at the priest's eyes with a playful expression. She must have mastered something using psychology.
"I believe in you." Fu Jiang said undoubtedly: "I will come back."
"Goodbye? Come back? What do you mean?" Cui Di asked with a stunned look, his eyes turning back and forth on the faces of the three of us.
So I explained to her the conclusion that once there is a doomsday illusion, you will lose all memories in the illusion. I took out my diary, and before I entered the cave, I quickly recorded the information identified by the priest and distributed the food I brought to everyone.
We ate high-calorie food outside the cave and then entered the cave without objection. It was still Fu Jiang who took the lead, and the priest was cut off. I followed as a cover behind Fujiang. Cui Ti walked to the third place in a trance. It seemed that he had not recovered from the shock of intelligence.
This long cave is slightly dry with no underground waterways or landscapes like stalactites. After walking for a while, the light drops to a low point that the human eye can't perceive. Only the light of the flashlight can bring a little sense of security.
Although she kept worrying, she was not attacked by any sneakers. It felt like she was walking in a tunnel cut by huge earthworms in the soil.
When the light appeared at the end, I thought it was the illusion of staying in the dark for too long. But the light did not disappear, and it continued to enlarge as it progressed.
Followed by it was a smell that gradually became stronger.
Some are like excrement, and some are like the smell of the leftovers of the human body in the room where the ghost dog is used as the kitchen.
When this taste got into the nostrils, I didn't have any doubt, the trouble was in front.
There was a violent shock behind him, accompanied by the sound of the collapse of the stone, the dust that was rushed out rushed far away, and surrounded us for a long time.
The road was cut off.
It has been waiting too long, and it is necessary to make a conclusion here.
The light of the exit is green, and the fluorescence emitted by the unknown glowing moss.
There is a hall with a grotesque sci-fi style. The ends of the spindle-shaped object as the central pillar and the floor are integrated with the zenith, as if cast directly from the mold. All the materials that make up the hall are a material with a metallic luster but a non-metallic texture and a flesh-like feel.
Is clearly clean, but the **** smell comes from it.
There is a metal sign in the middle of the spindle body facing us, and the square-shaped text is etched on it, and no one can read it.
Including the spindle body, all the surfaces of the material are engraved with many complicated patterns similar to circuit board wiring, including the zenith, four walls and the floor constitute a grand mystery.
The trajectory of countless streamers passing through the lines, like an electronic cloud, disappears and flickers, spreading in all directions.
This is obviously not a monster's lair, but more like the remains of a facility.
The priest looked at the structure of the hall and the text on the spindle metal card until he reached a certain conclusion before taking back his sight.
"What was written there?" I asked.
"Ruling Bureau."
"Ruling Bureau? What is that?"
Father didn't answer, just like he didn't hear it, he thought for himself.
"What the **** is this place?" Cui Di asked silently.
"I don't know." The priest said, "But where is the node ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~?"
I also felt that the magic lines give the body an indescribable feeling, like being attracted by a magnet hidden somewhere in the air.
The node is here, you can feel it, but you cannot find it with the five senses.
"Invisible but exists, a very special situation, it should be disturbed." The priest said firmly.
"What should I do next? How can I go back?" Cui Di asked.
"I am more concerned about where Mandela has gone." Fu Jiang said, walking away carefully.
Father led me to a device that looked like a console under the spindle. Data is continuously generated on the dome-shaped display. It seems to me that the data is no different from the computer garbled characters. The priest also has a confused expression. In addition, there are some levers and buttons, and no one knows how to use them.
At this time, Fu Jiang cried out behind the spindle.
"I found Mandela."
When the priest and I ran over, we only saw Cui Di looking at the spindle with a dull expression on his face. It is a glass-like transparent shell that is very different from the front view, through which you can see the inside of the spindle. It was filled with light yellow liquid, and the monster Mandela was floating in it, and dense mechanical non-metallic tentacles were stuck on it.
Mandela was motionless like a biological specimen, and the body decomposed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
How did it get into the spindle? What did those tentacles do to it?
The strange breath continued to diffuse from the spindle.
The only certainty is that this seemingly unsupervised huge facility is operating on its own and is interfering with the emergence of nodes.
"It must be stopped." I said to everyone.