EBE Chapter 222 Not a Desert
Chapter 222 Not a Desert
Since Lu Yuan had pointed it out directly, Ji Lang and Gu Nanfeng couldn't say anything more. They exchanged a glance, and Ji Lang walked to the helicopter's cockpit. After all, once Lu Yuan left the helicopter, it lost the automatic flight function that Lu Yuan had set when he took it out of his spatial storage.
"Let's go then." Gu Nanfeng slung his backpack over his shoulder, checked Pei Sihao's backpack, glanced at Lin Yun who was all ready, and signaled to Lu Yuan and the others that they were ready.
"That's great." Lu Yuan watched Gu Nanfeng's series of actions, smiled and murmured a word, and then the four of them disappeared from the helicopter in one go.
"Why is Lu Yuan so strange?" As soon as the four disappeared, Zhong Qiang couldn't hold back and started complaining.
"Yeah, I always feel like the way he looks at Pei Sihao these days is really weird." Yang Xiao, sitting in the passenger seat next to Ji Lang, turned around and complained to Zhong Qiang.
“He was strange, but he didn’t seem to have any strong malice. If I had to say, it was more like a prank.” Ji Lang glanced at the spaceship below their helicopter. It was the kind of car-shaped spaceship often seen in science fiction movies. It could float in the air, and its floating height should not be lower than the height of the helicopter they were currently piloting, but it could also stay close to the ground and move like a car.
"A prank? To Pei Sihao?" Yang Xiao also had this feeling, but if the target was Pei Sihao, it didn't seem quite right.
"I really want to ride in this spaceship too." Zhong Qiang had completely drifted away from Yang Xiao and Ji Lang's conversation and was now drooling as he looked out the window at the spaceships moving on the ground.
"I was wondering too, why Lu Xiaoyuan never drove one of these before." Yang Xiao was also influenced by Zhong Qiang, drooling as he looked at the spaceship flying close to the ground.
"Because the spaceship is attached to me." The system's voice sounded again, and not only the three people in the helicopter heard it, but also the four people in the spaceship.
"Heh, they must be wondering why Lu Yuan never drove this before." Lu Yuan said, leaning back in the driver's seat and eating potato chips. He hadn't had any delicious food for more than half a year, and he really missed it, especially the feast he had yesterday, which satisfied his cravings for a long time.
"What do you mean I need you to drive? You're not driving either, are you?" Pei Sihao rolled his eyes at Lu Yuan. He didn't know why, but he always found Lu Yuan very displeasing.
"But I'm the one who needs to start it. How can we start the spaceship without me?" Lu Yuan continued eating his potato chips. The spaceship could actually go faster, but to keep up with Ji Lang in the sky, their speed wasn't very fast. Yet, in this vast sea of sand, they seemed to be completely still.
"Something's strange." Gu Nanfeng had noticed the problem a while ago, but he wasn't sure, so he kept observing.
“I also find it a bit strange.” Lin Yun had been observing as well. He pointed to a small sand dune not far ahead and said, “Look over there, I feel like the distance between that sand dune and us hasn’t changed at all.”
"Yes." Ji Lang's voice came from the protective shield. Although he was chatting with Yang Xiao, he was also paying attention to the changes around him. Before, when they were on the helicopter, he felt that the helicopter was moving forward because of the sandstorm. But after Lu Yuan and the others piloted the spaceship in sync with him, he felt something was different. Even the best-coordinated partners could not possibly maintain the synchronization rate of two different modes of transportation.
"Wow, Professor Gu, you finally figured it out." Lu Yuan's laughter rang out, making Pei Sihao want to rush up and punch him, but considering that he was currently sitting on his spaceship, he held back.
"Heh, Dr. Lu, what insightful opinion do you have?" Compared to Lu Yuan's sour tone, Gu Nanfeng was much calmer. He looked at Lu Yuan and waited earnestly for his answer.
“This isn’t a desert at all,” Lu Yuan said, pointing to the yellow sand outside the window.
“That’s impossible. I almost got stuck in quicksand last time,” Zhong Qiang retorted.
The yellow sand outside the window was flying, and it was obvious that the sandstorm was getting bigger. But strangely, neither the helicopters in the sky nor the spaceships on the ground felt any increase in resistance; they were still moving forward at a constant speed.
"Is this helicopter real?" Ji Lang's voice came through. Now he felt that the spaceship on the ground might not be real, since Lu Yuan had never brought it out before, but he was not so sure about the helicopter he was piloting now.
If they were hypnotized upon entering this door, then Lu Yuan and what's inside would be in cahoots, but he felt the likelihood of this was low. If that were the case, then the helicopter and spaceship must actually exist, but what kind of space could simultaneously house such large helicopters and spaceships?
"This is an illusion." As soon as Gu Nanfeng finished speaking, the massive sandstorm in front of them seemed to stop abruptly.
Then Gu Nanfeng discovered that the spaceship and helicopter they were on had disappeared, and that Ji Lang, Yang Xiao, and Zhong Qiang were actually right next to him.
The sand sea on the ground was not like Zhong Qiang had described; it wasn't quicksand. They clearly felt that they were standing on solid ground, and the feeling wasn't even like walking on desert.
In the blink of an eye, the sandstorm hanging in the air vanished, the desert on the ground disappeared, and the surroundings transformed into an ordinary laboratory. Perhaps this was the true nature of the laboratory.
"A box!" Yang Xiao quickly spotted a strange box inside a special glass case.
"Don't go over there." Pei Sihao stopped Lin Yun, who was trying to walk over, looked around, and said, "Lu Yuan is missing."
At this moment, the six people realized that one of them was missing—the strange Lu Yuan. They had just been on the same spaceship, Lin Yun sitting next to him, but Lin Yun couldn't remember when he had disappeared.
"Lu Yuan!" Yang Xiao looked around and called out a few times, but there was no response. After thinking for a moment, he called out again, "Lu Xiaoyuan!"
"Be careful, let's go take a look first." Their goal this time was this box, and now that they've seen it, they definitely can't leave without getting it. Ji Lang thought for a moment, and then he and Lin Yun took the lead and carefully walked towards the special protective shield.
As Gu Nanfeng walked at the back, he noticed that apart from the beams of light from their protective suits and the faint glow emanating from the protective shield covering the boxes, the laboratory was terrifyingly dark. Even their lights became increasingly difficult to see if you moved a little further away.
The light seemed to be absorbed by the endless darkness.