Chapter 12: Dark water

After walking along the passage for a long time, the surrounding black metal walls and the turquoise light path are indistinguishable from each other, and the two people have no way of judging how far they have gone.
The uneasiness in the musketeer's heart became more and more intense. Not only did he not feel sleepy and hungry, he could not even feel the decline in physical strength, as if he could always go forward like this. He even once suspected that the body's metabolism had completely stopped and became a walking dead, but his breathing and heartbeat were still normal, which indicated that he was still alive.
Until he saw the end of the passage, the suppressed emotions of the gunsmith recovered.
There is also a black metal wall at the end of, but there is a handprint-shaped symbol on it.
John, who was walking in front, stopped and turned back, "There is only one sign, and it seems we have no choice."
The Gunner replied, "Press then."
After more than ten seconds, after the strong blue light lit up and disappeared, the two came to a very open space, the size of a football field, and the roof was very high. The top of this space is semi-circular, and the ground is flat. The cyan light track on the floor depicts the scenery of mountains and rivers. The light on the top is basically text, and there are two other conspicuous graphics. It should represent the sun and the moon.
The riflesmith couldn't help but admire this magnificent scene, and it is estimated that the people who built the ruins built the microcosm of the world with their imagination. But the gunsmith wondered a little bit and wondered. With such technological prehistoric mysterious civilization, do you only know where the sky is?
John John walked to the center of the room, stared at the center of the "Earth", and beckoned to the gunsmith: "Hey! Charles, you see there is a handprint symbol. It is the first time that two handprints are juxtaposed."
The gunsmith came to John, looked down, and only looked for two seconds, he understood the meaning of the mark: "Two symmetrical palm prints with the thumbs inward, and the small oval shape above is the imprint of the forehead. It should be It needs someone to support the ground with both hands and a head to trigger. Of course, depending on the size, it is still suitable for the kind of black creature.
John said: "Then let's try? Maybe this is the way to go out."
The rifleman took a few steps back and made a "please" gesture.
John sat on the ground, leaned forward, pointed his hands at the sign of the opponent, and then lowered his head. When his forehead touched the ground, there was no bright light in the imagination. Instead, it was a large piece. Friction caused by moving metal.
雕像 A huge human head statue, more than twenty feet high, slowly rose from the ground, two meters in front of John. At that moment, John seemed to be kneeling towards the statue.
"Well, what is this again? A metal replica of the Easter Island stone statue?" John stood up and looked up at the statue in front of him.
The musketeer looked at the face of the statue, which was roughly a human face, but it looked a little different from modern humans. The brow bone and nose bridge are very prominent and forward, but the angle from top to bottom is vertical and flat, so it does not appear to swell the nose; the statue's eye sockets are very flat, and the eyes are almost constricted inside the face, but the size of the eyeballs But the ratio is also normal; in no one under the nose, the chin and mouth are nothing special; the ears are slightly strange, and they grow slightly higher and have a longer shape than today.
After the statue was fully raised, the huge mouth opened, and the gunsmith moved closer, and found that there was no tongue and teeth in the statue's mouth. Maybe the maker was too lazy to carve it? He took a closer look and saw an irregularly shaped cyan crystal emitting a faint light.
John reached in and picked up the item, and raised it to the front of his eyes for details: "Although I don't know what this thing is, I have a feeling that if I can take it out, I will definitely sell it for a good price.
The musketeer said, "Show me."
John handed the crystal to the gunsmith, and the gunsmith glanced at it and said, "Now, do you want to say that this crystal may well help us to leave this ghost place."
John froze; "what are you talking about?"
The gunsmith continued: "Oh? Do you have any other plans? Are you planning to take me to the ruins again? I think it ’s better to save it. When I see this thing, I understand Now, your ultimate goal ... "
John's expression suddenly changed, or he suddenly became expressionless: "When did you see me?"
The Musketeer said, "To be sure ... in that passage."
"Do I look too brave to lead the way?" The other asked.
The gunsmith denied: "No, your imitation is seamless. Every reaction, speculation, and expression you make is in line with John's character, and there are no obvious signs of lying. From your performance, I simply cannot. I think you are not John. "
False John said: "So? Why did you finally know?"
当然 "Of course from those things that you didn't show." The gunsmith replied: "Hunger and fatigue, I haven't felt it for a long time ...
You and I are in the same environment. At least from the moment I woke up, we did n’t eat, drink or sleep. After this torment, the real John was either exhausted or surprised by this inexhaustible abnormality, but you didn't say anything and didn't say anything. When I first woke up, you also mentioned things that would cause you to sleep without water, but after that, you completely ignored the physiological needs, and of course it was normal, which was quite strange. "
The fake John said: "It turns out that this is indeed an oversight. At first I didn't know what it was like to feel hungry and tired. It was only after absorbing this man named John that I got some rough information from his memory. Unfortunately, There is still a big gap between the memory and the actual feelings in the human brain. "
吸收 "Absorb ..." Gunsmith said: "Is John really dead?"
"Yes, after you entered the ruins through that river, I absorbed him, and then brought the unconscious you into the interior and pretended to be John." The other party took the initiative to explain the situation, It seemed that John's death had nothing to do with him.
The Gunner asked with disgusted eyes: "What the are you?"
"In a language you can understand, you can call me 'Dark Water'." Dark Water replied.
The musketeers knew when they heard from the front door of the opponent that the fake John standing in front of him was undoubtedly the black creature that he had encountered before: "This is your name or the title of your entire race?"
"No difference." Darkwater: "My people have perished, and I am unique in this world."
The Gunsmith sneered: "Except for the first time I triggered the mechanism, every handprint was pressed by you next, leading me all the way here, and pretending to 'discover' the statue activation symbol in the middle of that room. The final The purpose is for this? "He held up the cyan crystal in his hand.
"Yes, I need your ability, alchemy." Darkwater is still outspoken.
Gunsmith said: "Well ... can I understand this? Your so-called 'absorption' can acquire the knowledge in biological memory and imitate its appearance, but it cannot obtain the ability of the absorbed person, at least not the full ability. "He looked at the dark water in front of him." Even if you look like John now, you are still a black monster. "
Darkwater did not respond to the monster's title, but just replied: "Yes, so I did not absorb you, but saved you. I need your alchemy to repair the 'eternal core'."
According to the gunsmith's inference, the item in front of him is estimated to be a creature without any emotions. At least his emotional response is far less sensitive than that of modern humans. He will only do what is "needed" to do, and will not question the correctness of this matter Sex, because he does not even have the concept of "right and wrong", not to mention the traditional moral concepts in human society.
"What if I refuse to help you?" The gunsmith asked, and he was not afraid to ask that, anyway, creatures without emotions would not be angry or lie.
Darkwater is indeed like this, but his undecorated answer makes it feel like intimidation: "I will torture you under the basic conditions of not harming your life and superpowers until you agree to repair the eternal core."
The Gunner said: "Dare to ask how such a brilliant idea came to you ..."
Darkwater Channel: "I am a species much higher than you. Naturally, I know how to achieve my purpose through learning. The knowledge obtained from John's memory has given me enough to understand your race and the status quo of this era, deception and torture. Both are good methods, and as far as I know, these two approaches are more useful than pleading.
Therefore I suggest that you immediately agree to my request, without any hypocritical shackles that can restrain my actions, I will definitely achieve my purpose. "
The riflemaker thought about it, UU reads www. uukanshu.com replied: "Yes, but I have a condition."
Dark Waterway: "Do you want to use the form of 'transaction'? That's OK, what do you need?"
"Return the bone gun to me." Gunsmith said, he seemed very confident: "I think that with your wisdom, that weapon that can destroy the armor made by your civilization will not let it go away. Right. "
Anshui did a very disgusting thing without saying a word. He put his hand into his mouth, his chin was dislocated instantly, but he continued to extend his facial paralysis, and his half of his arm reached into his body. He swelled and slumped, and at last he took out from the esophagus a black, slimy, wet bone gun covered with mucus.
He sent the gun to the gunsmith: "Do you want those two scimitars?"
The gunsmith's jaw was almost dislocated, and it was shocked. He hurriedly replied, "Knife ... you should keep it ..." He was really afraid that the other party would do the same thing in front of himself. Once, if the dark water changed three ways, it is estimated that the gunsmith had to dig his own eyes to maintain the virginity of the dog's eyes.
The gunsmith took the bone gun, tore a piece of cloth from the clothes in the dark water, wiped and wiped, and the other side said very calmly in the process: "My clothes and the composition of this black slime it's the same."
The gunner cleaned his gun and patted the cloth over the shoulders of dark water: "Is it?"
布 The cloth gradually disappeared into the body of the dark water, and answered the gunsmith's question.
Anshui looked at the gunsmith and said, "I returned the bone gun to you. It is time for you to repair the eternal core."
He responded with a gunshot, the bullet passed through the heart of the eyebrows in the dark water, his head burst, and black mucus splashed more than ten meters behind him.