ATPnovel Chapter 113: The Grand Script?
Chapter 113: The Grand Script?
Gunfire erupted, illuminating the darkness.
The spent cartridge bounced off the metal floor with a crisp "clink". The recoil tore upwards along Lu Dan's wrist bones, but his hand remained steady.
A fleeting flash of intense firelight illuminated the "person" before them.
It was a mass of flesh that had been forcibly sewn together.
His face was covered with rough black stitches.
The bullet precisely tore through its left shoulder and neck, and dark liquid exploded onto the cold wall.
"hoarse--"
The monster crashed heavily backward and disappeared into the depths of the expanded eight-meter cube.
The fire went out.
Everything returned to the abyss.
Lu Dan remained in a half-squatting position, his left hand gripping the edge of the metal balance lift platform that rose from the ground.
"Click click click..."
Because he forcibly blocked the retraction mechanism of the lifting platform, the gears at the bottom made a misalignment sound.
Lu Dan sniffed, his brows furrowing deeply in the darkness.
The air was filled with the smell of blood splattered from the monster's wounds.
The options on the elevator platform flashed through Lu Dan's mind in an instant—"True Heart," which pulsated slightly and had a rough surface.
The taste of this heart is just as sweet.
"I see."
What we call sincerity is very likely just an organ dug out of the body of such a monster.
On set, the monster might be the former tenant, and the source of the problem is ultimately the same person.
Such a perverse sense of humor has remained unchanged for thirty years.
The cracking sound of the gears grew louder and louder.
"Bang!"
With a muffled thud, the hydraulic rod of the lifting platform broke completely, and the metal platform suddenly plummeted downwards by more than ten centimeters, becoming stuck in mid-air.
The floor, which was originally perfectly sealed, now revealed a dark crack about half a meter wide due to the tilt of the lifting platform.
A passage leading underground.
Lu Dan raised his left hand and brought the old-fashioned mechanical watch to his ear.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock..."
The ticking of the second hand had become a dense drumbeat, and the acceleration of time was skyrocketing at an incredibly frantic pace.
Severe stomach cramps are a protest by the body after it rapidly loses nutrients.
In reality, perhaps only half an hour had passed, but his bodily functions were rapidly depleting.
The defeated monster lingered in the corner, its voice sometimes near, sometimes far.
It feared this fire-breathing weapon, but it had the patience to wait for the land urchin to be worn down by time.
"I don't have time to play hide-and-seek with you."
Lu Dan holstered his revolver back into his waistband, fumbled around for a while, then grabbed the edge of a crack in the floor with both hands. With a light leap, he slid down the half-meter-wide gap into the dark shaft below the elevator platform.
Abandoning a spacious room and venturing into a narrower, unknown passage would seem like suicide to most people.
But Lu Dan's logic was extremely clear: if he stayed still, he would surely die; if he went down, he might be able to smash this crazy, accelerating clock.
……
Room B.
Lin Xiaoxiao leaned against the metal wall engraved with crazy ramblings.
Playing...
She bit her lower lip, which was completely bloodless.
One must, psychologically, completely hypnotize oneself into a perverted "voyeur."
She looked up, her gaze fixed on a tiny black protrusion in the corner of the ceiling—a camera.
"I'm watching you..."
Lin Xiaoxiao's voice began to change. She deliberately lowered her voice, giving it a neurotic and morbid quality.
She pressed her hands against the cold wall, slowly climbing and wriggling upwards, trying to get closer to the camera.
"You're looking at me too, aren't you?"
Her facial muscles twitched, her lips parted in an exaggerated smile, and her eyes, bloodshot from the intense pain, appeared particularly ferocious.
"You took away Bing's eyes... You like eyes... I like them too."
She pressed her cheeks tightly against the cold metal plate, tilted her head back, and stared greedily at the black dot.
The distance has been shortened.
With the help of night vision, the details of the originally blurry black dots began to be magnified in Lin Xiaoxiao's pupils.
She saw it.
Tiny black bumps covered with an extremely thin layer of mucus.
The moment Lin Xiaoxiao made eye contact with it, the edge of the "lens" contracted extremely slightly.
It's like the natural reaction of the pupil when it encounters strong light.
Lin Xiaoxiao's heart was pounding wildly in her chest.
"It's so beautiful..."
Lin Xiaoxiao forcibly suppressed her fear, pressing her face even closer together. She murmured with extreme fascination, "Your structure is so perfect... Let me see it more clearly..."
"Click".
The sound came from the other side of the wall in the room.
Lin Xiaoxiao's performance was effective.
The room condoned her "voyeuristic" behavior.
She turned her head.
A palm-sized panel slid open on the smooth metal wall.
A dark observation hole appeared on the wall.
The height is just right at an adult's eye level.
Lin Xiaoxiao took a deep breath and dragged her slightly weak legs to the observation hole.
"The Spying Machine..."
She brought her right eye closer.
The observation hole was very deep, like a cylindrical telescope, with a dim red light at the end.
Through the red light, Lin Xiaoxiao saw the scene in another room.
It resembled an operating room, with a rusty iron bed placed in the center.
On the iron bed, a highly decomposed corpse was chained with thick iron chains.
No, it's not a corpse.
When Lin Xiaoxiao focused her gaze, the "corpse's" chest was still rising and falling very slowly.
The "corpse" had a heavy iron cover over its head, with the words "[A]" written on it in red paint.
A is not dead yet!
But A is being dismantled bit by bit.
Beside the iron bed, there was an automatically operating robotic arm with a sharp scalpel at its tip, slowly peeling away the skin on Jia's thigh.
Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly covered her mouth, trying to suppress the urge to vomit.
A, B, C, D.
A was in a terrible state; he was used as a living material repository.
The answer to where the "sincere heart" that was brought up by the lifting platform and even the red water on the tray came from is self-evident.
Just as Lin Xiaoxiao was pondering, the armored figure on the iron bed, wearing an iron cover, seemed to sense something.
He stopped his unconscious convulsions, and his head, covered by a heavy iron shield, turned around, staring straight at the observation hole where Lin Xiaoxiao was.
Even though there was an iron shield between them, Lin Xiaoxiao felt as if she were being stared at by a desperate wild beast.
……
In the distant depths of the starry sea.
The abandoned satellite numbered "47".
Outside the window, the brownish-yellow torrential rain continued to relentlessly wash over the spaceship's worn-out armor plating.
The emergency lights inside the spacecraft flickered with a dim yellow glow.
Chen Hua sat in front of the control panel, without saying a word.
"Be content." Ye Jianguo bit off the bandage and let out a long breath. "If it weren't for the sudden broadcast, I might have really been done for."
"Are you sure...?" Chen Hua turned his head, his brows furrowed slightly.
"Confirmed." Ye Jianguo said in a deep voice, "We absolutely did not mishear."
"But that doesn't make sense." Chen Hua stood up and walked to the holographic star map. "We are currently in..."
"He went into another place. How could the sound have come from here?"
"Unless..." Ye Jianguo raised his head, his eyes extremely deep.
Unless, of course, all the scripts on set are not like independent aquariums.
Instead, it was a huge, interconnected mental hospital building.
Ventilation ducts and sewers—there are always some hidden lines that connect all the scripts.
At the very least, their scripts are related.
It's also possible that the film set divided a large script into several smaller scripts, and the scripts for the various actors were originally one.
After all, the previous Twin Villages were a prime example of two villages merging into one.
So it's not surprising that a script is broken down into multiple scripts.
Both of them guessed this, but they didn't want to say more.
"If sound can travel, does that mean objects, or even us, can also travel there?"
Chen Hua shook his head, forcing himself to calm down.
"Forget it, thinking about that is useless. The most urgent thing is to raise the remaining 2955 yuan quota. We need to upgrade our equipment..."
Her words came to an abrupt halt.
Chen Hua's gaze was fixed on the bottom of the control panel.
"Ye Guo, come and take a look at this."
Ye Jianguo stood up, leaning on his shovel, and limped to the table.
Following the direction Chen Hua pointed, Ye Jianguo narrowed his eyes.
【Scrap Materials - Zone D - 004】
"District D?"
He turned to look at Chen Hua.
Both of them saw undisguised shock in each other's eyes.
A, B, C, D.
The script Lu Dan entered was called "Dark Room," and the clue was the order of the four code names: A, B, C, and D.
"so……"
Ye Jianguo took a deep breath, feeling a chill run down his spine. "We guessed right?"
"If this is the abandoned District D..." Chen Hua pointed to the text, "Does that mean that deep within this massive facility, there exists a passage leading to District D?"
……
In the primeval jungle on the other side.
Big Lu's two short little hands comically rummaged through the red and white airdrop pod.
After the flashbang turned Sadako into an idiot, Da Lu used his tail to fiercely lash out at the evil spirit that crawled out of the television.
With the crisis temporarily averted, he now has time to investigate the "delivery" that fell from the sky.
Due to its enormous size, the Great Lu could not operate with the precision that humans do.
He angrily banged his head against the airdrop pod.
"Clang!"
A hidden compartment popped open on the side of the cabin.
Inside was a syringe that was flashing an eerie blue light.
The syringe has a label:
[Free gift with first purchase]
[Gene Mutant Fluid: Agile Enhancement Type]
[Destination: Planet 47]
"What is this thing? Is it going to give me a shot?"
Da Lu rolled his eyes. He was now so thick-skinned that ordinary needles couldn't even pierce a corner of his scales.
However, the blue liquid emitted an extremely alluring energy fluctuation. For Da Lu, who had just exhausted himself, it was even more tempting than a whole roasted lamb.
"Who cares, might makes right!"
Da Lu opened his blood-red maw, curled his tongue, and chewed up the syringe and its contents, swallowing it whole.
"Holy crap? My stomach hurts! My stomach hurts! My stomach hurts!"
Da Lu's massive body crashed to the ground, rolling wildly in the mud and crushing a large number of trees.
He felt his bones being forcibly stretched and reorganized, and the muscles in his thick, heavy legs began to contract and become tighter.
A few minutes later.
A creature unlike any seen before crawled out of the mud pit.
It still has the head and tail of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but its legs have become as long and bouncy as an ostrich.
Da Lu looked at his reflection in the puddle, feeling like crying but having no tears left.
He tried to take a step forward.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of something cutting through the air rang out.
In an instant, Da Lu covered a distance of more than ten meters and crashed headfirst into the trunk of a towering tree on the opposite side, creating a huge dent in the trunk.
"Oh my goodness..."
Da Lu clutched his head, seeing stars from the pain, but a glint of wild joy flashed in his enormous dragon eyes.
That speed is simply unbeatable!
"Sister Sadako, you better not show your face again. If you do, I'll kick you back to your hometown!"
……
Our gaze returned to the abyss-like vertical shaft.
Slippery.
This was Lu Dan's first feeling after falling into the passage.
The passageway has an incline of approximately sixty degrees.
Having lost its sight, the urchin's sense of touch and smell are amplified to the extreme.
His fingers gripped the grooves on the pipe wall to slow his descent.
A slight elasticity was felt at my fingertips.
The tube wall was still making extremely weak peristaltic movements.
"Time acceleration has stopped."
The frantic gear-whirring of the mechanical watch on Lu Dan's left wrist disappeared.
After leaving the metal cube, the flow of time seemed to return to normal.
The slide lasted for about two minutes.
"thump."
Lu Dan landed on a sticky, soft ground.
He crouched down and explored his surroundings.
This is a semi-circular cavity that is much narrower than the room above.
"Squeak—"
The sound came from ahead.
Without hesitation, Lu Dan drew his Reaper Revolver.
Although he couldn't see it, he could sense an extremely faint airflow ahead.
He moved forward slowly, following the direction of the airflow.
My fingertips touched a cold iron door.
The door was unlocked.
Lu Dan took a deep breath and pushed the door open forcefully.
"Clang!"
The heavy iron gate slowly opened inward.
A strong smell of medicine wafted over.
Lu Dan stepped inside.
He heard extremely faint, suppressed breathing.
He was about five steps away.
Along with the breathing sounds came the clanging of iron chains.
"Who's there?" Lu Dan asked coldly, the muzzle of his revolver steadily pointing towards the source of the sound.
A dead silence.
Lu Dan did not approach any further; he stood still, his mind racing.
In the balance of power, person B chose the light, and I lost my sight. This proves that the rooms are interconnected.
If the cube above is a cage, then where is this place below?
Suddenly, an extremely absurd thought flashed through Lu Dan's mind.
"Feed".
His voice echoed in the empty room.
Are you having some kind of trouble?
The sound of the chains abruptly stopped.
Then a hoarse, cracked voice struggled to emerge from the darkness:
"Who are you?"
"Who I am is not important, the key is who you are?" Lu Dan slowly lowered the muzzle of his gun. "I have a gun in my hand, which can take your life at any time."
Lin Xiaoxiao, who was watching this scene through the observation hole, suddenly covered her mouth.
She not only saw A, but she also saw a blind man who had emerged from the shadows.
Lu Dan and Jia actually met in the same space!