our secret base

Chapter 25 "Nepenthes"

The world... has been turned upside down.

Yan Jingxing felt that he was gradually being swallowed by a huge vortex, and completely lost consciousness in the terrifying feeling of drowning that was difficult to break free; and when he woke up, he felt that he was being spit out by the vortex.

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

"Uh... what, what..."

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

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

Yan Jingxing stopped struggling, gathered his strength, and silently said "three, two, one!" in his heart, and then twisted his hands and feet with all his might.

"Drink!"

In one go, he broke free from everything on his body and opened his eyes at the same time.

"This...what is this...?"

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

No, not "like"!
He took a deep breath.Surrounded by a narrow, dark space, he could clearly hear his heartbeat; at this moment, he suddenly realized that the beating frequency of these silk threads was consistent with his own heartbeat...

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

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

Was this the thing that restricted his movement just now?
Bones, flesh—

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, followed by a flash of light and a violent vibration...

Then, he appeared here.

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

Yan Jingxing's heart began to pound again.

succeeded?It actually succeeded like this?He has now been transferred to an alien planet?
Obviously that UFO was not powered on, and they didn't touch any devices, but it could be started directly as long as a person sat in it, what the hell is this...

No, now is not the time to think about it, he didn't come alone!

"Chunzao! Xie Yuzhi! Are you there? Can you hear me?"

He yelled, but got no response.The shouts echoed in the narrow and dark cabin, which seemed extremely empty.

"Ji Chunzao! Captain!"

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

"Oh no, I have to get out of here!"

He became anxious and his eyes fell in front of him.

There, there is a row of small zigzag gaps, and faint light is projecting in from the gaps.

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

"Hey!"

As if the gears that were not fully meshed were separated by human hands, the falling light became more and more intense with the sharp and ear-piercing sound; the blood-red silk thread stuck between the gaps, but finally loosened the gap.

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

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

He observed carefully for a while, and the ground looked like some kind of creep blanket, covered with a layer of fluff; and under the fluff, there was some kind of strange metal—it looked like living flesh, but it actually felt cold and hard to the touch. , as a combination of the two.

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

This fifty-square-meter room is all constructed of some kind of muscle tissue that resembles peeled skin.

Everywhere he could see were strange colors, which made him feel dazed for a while; after staring at them for a long time, he would also feel confused about "are they moving?"

"What the hell is this place?"

Yan Jingxing muttered to himself.

He felt as if he had entered the belly of a gigantic animal, and the room was its hungry stomach pouch.

Looking back, the place where I came out is a pod, which looks like a pitcher plant with its lid closed. It is also made of flesh-and-blood metal machinery, but the surface is still covered with a layer of light yellow. the fascia;
After he forcefully opened the "cage cover" and drilled out, the gap of the "nepenthes" only lasted for a few seconds, and then closed and sealed automatically.

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

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

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

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

Still no reply.

He gritted his teeth, put his hands on the gap, and began to break it apart forcefully.

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

……

"Xie Yuzhi! Xie Yuzhi!"

Someone is calling her name.

The voice seemed to come from far away.

The girl frowned, as if she felt that her sound sleep had been disturbed, so she felt a little annoying.

But amidst that person's tireless repeated calls, her consciousness still dominated her body again, and her soul seemed to rise from the dark abyss and float to the surface.

Xie Yuzhi's fingers trembled and curled up slightly.

It seems that they still miss the touch when they held each other's hands before everything happened.

Then, her hand was gently held.

The voice in the ear finally became clear.

"Xie Yuzhi, are you okay?"

A familiar voice, with concern, rang in my ears.

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

The light from outside fell on her face lightly like a feather.

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, the line of sight moved down unconsciously——

It's his unshaven posture like a newborn baby...

But the problem is that, 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 hard with a head hammer.

"Wow ah ah!"

"Go and get dressed for me!"

*
Before Miss Xie used the "rocket head hammer" to teach him a lesson, Yan Jingxing was completely unaware that he was naked.

It should be said that the strange situation and strange environment deprived him of the space to think about other insignificant things in the first place.

After "transporting" from the earth, even the clothes are gone...?
He is now more and more sure of his guess that the function of UFOs that can send people to alien planets is genuine.

After Yan Jingxing's explanation, Xie Yuzhi could still accept the explanation.

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

However, at the same time, Xie Yuzhi thought of a more terrifying thing, that is, if Yan Jingxing was naked from the beginning, then he himself who was also in the "nepenthes" device...

The girl lowered her head silently, and saw a large piece 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 turned his back to her and went to the corner, seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, and shouted to explain.

Xie Yuzhi didn't answer.

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

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

She silently began to think.

But what is it all about?Could it be that this is the unique "clothes" on this planet?
The so-called clothing, as a decoration to cover up shame, is a function that was born with the evolution of civilization; before that, it was mainly for shelter from wind, cold and rain, to protect the skin from the sun's rays, to prevent the rapid loss of body temperature, and so on.

When they are transferred to a new planet, the clothes on their bodies will automatically disappear and be replaced by the substances in the device... What does this mean?
Before Xie Yuzhi could figure out what happened, 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 fuzzy.

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

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

"Are you... are you all outside? Me, I'll come out right away..."

As she said that, she seemed to be trying to break off the cover.

"You wait!"

Xie Yuzhi hurriedly yelled to stop
"Huh? What's wrong?"

"You check yourself, the clothes are probably missing."

The device fell into silence, and soon after, a clear exclamation erupted inside.

"Huh?! What, what's going on?! Yes, who took off my clothes?"

"...No, that shouldn't be the case." Xie Yuzhi sighed, "It most likely happened naturally during the 'transfer' process, that is to say, the clothes couldn't come with us."

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

But the situation cannot continue like this.

"Now we can talk about business."

Yan Jingxing's tone sounded a little helpless.

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

The air in the room suddenly became silent and awkward.

Yan Jingxing thought for a while, stood up again, and began to turn around in this place.

The other two companions couldn't come out, and they could only rely on him to find a solution.

Although he is also naked, it is more convenient than the girls after all, at least he only needs to cover one place if he wants to cover it.

He hoped that there would be a solution to the situation in the room-for example, finding some clothes to wear.

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

After turning around, Yan Jingxing found a door on the meat wall with a shallow gap in the middle. Maybe it is also feasible to use violence to open the pitcher plant device.

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

"What, how? Did you find it?"

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

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

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

"Wait, what is this?"

He saw a strange device, like a faucet embedded in the wall; the upper part of the device is connected to the inside of the wall through pipes, but if the "wall" is like the stomach wall of flesh and blood, then the "pipes" are naturally thick blood vessels up.

It looked really scary.

But Yan Jingxing still stretched out his hand, grabbed the handle on the device, tried to push and pull in various directions, and finally pulled hard.

"boom!"

A lattice made of white bones squeezed out from the meat, and inside it was...

"Luggage bag?"

Yan Jingxing couldn't hide his surprise.

"Why? We didn't even bring our clothes, why can this luggage—"

"You mean that luggage has been 'transported' with us?"

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

"I remember that there is a drawer-like device in the UFO, and I put the luggage bag in it. But the volume of the 'drawer' itself is not large, so only one bag can be placed."

"yes……"

Yan Jingxing tore open the zipper, flipped through the contents, and finally said pleasantly:

"Have it!"

*
In the process of changing clothes, he couldn't help feeling grateful again, Xie Yuzhi had prepared well for everyone in advance, even though she always felt dissatisfied.

In the only luggage bag that "transferred" with them, there happened to be three sets of gray thermal underwear.It is said that those climbers who climbed the snow mountain wore it.

Although there is no coat, this set of underwear has two pieces to cover the whole body. The material itself is thick enough and can cover most of the contours. They have no better choice right now.

"Great……"

Relieved, Ji Chunzao stroked her chest, and a cheerful smile appeared on her face again.

"In addition to teleporting people, is there a device for teleporting objects?"

Xie Yuzhi looked at the vascular device seriously, as if thinking about its usefulness.

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

"I'm ready!"

"Well, pull the door open. 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 illuminates 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 installations and statues in the same style as that in that room everywhere, similar to human organs and flesh and blood tissues, but if you go up and touch them carefully, you will find that they are actually machines with gloomy colors.

On the top of the palace, the dome was lifted, revealing a dilapidated hole.

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

(End of this chapter)