Chapter 337 The Moment of Waking up From the Dream

[Deep underground, black spiers of structural ruins]

Sumer was still cutting the black spire gate, and the work had been going on for several days.

The material strength of the black spire is very high. The cutter of this earth spacecraft is developed based on the Moon Hidden Arm Blade in the future and uses the same high-frequency particle vibration technology.

Even so, the cutting process is still extremely slow. After several days, the circular cutting has not been completely closed.

At this time, the communicator rang, and the voice of the future came faintly: "Boss, this city has gone crazy. Millions of border people have been abandoned outside the wall and no one cares about them. The elites of giant companies are arrogant under the cover of the authorities. Evacuation, private transportation and chartered flights, just like a vacation. Why did the world become like this?"

Su Mo rubbed his eyes that were red from fatigue and whispered: "It's not how the world became like this, but it has never changed."

"I can get in right away. Turn off the beacon as soon as possible so that all this can really end."

Not long after Su Mo finished speaking, the cutting work that lasted for several days was finally completed.

The shining cutting beam completed a 360-degree circular cut. As the mechanical suction cup attached to it and was pulled out, a round hole appeared on the door of the structure building, just enough for humans to pass through.

Since this space is blocked by a membrane barrier, the temperature is normal, but there is no oxygen for humans to breathe.

Su Mo put on the oxygen supply equipment he had prepared earlier, brought the necessary large tool box, adjusted the communication unit to the corresponding state, and said, "In the future, Qi Ling, the cutting work is completed, I am ready to leave the cabin and go inside."

Qi Ling: "Go ahead, I will always be with you in the future."

Sumer controlled the Earth Spacecraft to dock in parallel with the cut passage opening, opened the hatch and entered the interior of the black spire.

Even though Su Mo had been here many times while playing games before traveling through time, games are still games. No matter how good the graphics card is or how high the resolution is, all you see is a screen.

But when you really see the wonders inside with your own eyes, the shock is indescribable.

What comes into view is a deep corridor, with grotesque and twisted huge mechanical creations standing on both sides. The surface is shining with faint light, forming many regular geometric figures. If you look closely, you will find that each pattern is composed of countless small parts. .

When Su Mo appeared, they all started to move strangely. The geometric figures began to circle as if they were alive, and finally converged into a substantial energy beam and struck.

This scene was expected by Su Mo and was also the normal flow of the original plot.

This is Black Spire's automatic defense method against outsiders. Any non-structural body entering the corridor will be attacked.

Therefore, if you want to explore the depths of the Black Spire, you cannot use drones or robots to replace manpower. You cannot avoid the attack of the defense system. Su Mo must come in personally.

But for Su Mo now, these defense systems are not a big problem.

He activated the Crazy Skeleton Blood Code and the Crimson Rose Blood Code at the same time. The blood factors and the Crazy Skeleton bones fused together to form extremely strong blood crystal bones, forming a defensive layer around the body.

Those energy beams hitting it could only leave deep pits that could not be penetrated, and those pits were blocked by Su Mo's further differentiation.

He just withstood the attack of the energy beam, walked past these defense machines, and came to the end of the corridor.

Walking out of the corridor, an unimaginably huge stone pillar stands in front of you. There are circular stairs on its surface, but each section is independent and changing all the time, either rising, falling, or rotating.

He couldn't help but smile knowingly when he saw this.

Here it comes, the "relic jumping music" of the underworld that was criticized by the closed beta players.

This is a level that tests puzzle solving and operation at the same time. Players must not only calculate the running rules in the ever-changing stairs, but also have precise operations to ensure that they will not step on the air and fall when they jump.

Wrong jump, see you at the save point.

Su Mo was stuck in this damn place for two whole days and died hundreds or thousands of times.

Su Mo concentrated his attention, took a deep breath, and stared at the spiraling stairs of change. At the same time, he activated his super memory ability and compared it with the "game strategy" in his memory.

Soon, the scene he saw in front of him began to match the memory in his mind, and he strode up one of the stairs.

Although Su Mo was carrying all kinds of heavy equipment and toolboxes, his strong body strength still made his movements smooth and smooth, and he kept jumping between the changing stairs.

The higher you go up, the more intricate the structure between the stairs becomes. Sometimes it is a rotating spiral staircase, sometimes it is a floating platform, and sometimes it is an intertwined bridge, forming a huge three-dimensional maze.

But in the face of Su Mo's super memory ability and the proficiency gained from countless exercises in his previous life, he jumped like a bird and quickly reached the top of the maze.

"Call for life." In this other world far away from human civilization, he joked to himself in isolation.

Su Mo looked around and saw that there was only a deep passage ahead, where was the core control room of the entire black spire.

This is the center of the black spire. In the center stands a giant mechanical structure like a temple tower, which is the main console. There are no physical buttons or switches. Instead, there are mysterious symbols suspended in the air in the form of particle images.

On the top of the main control room, a huge pale crystal is suspended in the air. Its surface texture is intricate, as if it is composed of countless small crystals, each of which exudes a faint cold light.

Su Mo looked at the pale crystal, his eyes getting deeper and deeper.

That's where the fourth customs-clearance item "Tectonic Larva" is located. The thing is inside, and the crystal outside is its protective shell.

In order to make that protective shell disappear and turn off the activated beacon, the operating system of the Black Spire must be destroyed.

To achieve the goal, it is not difficult in principle, just use the black virus to paralyze the system.

The difficulty lies in how to insert the virus into the system.

No matter how powerful the Black Zetsu virus is, it is only an electronic virus. It does not have destructive power at the physical level and can only operate in electronic systems.

To implant the virus into the system, a communication interface is necessary.

The technology tree of the construct is different from that of humans, and the structure of the equipment is also completely different. It does not mean that you can just plug a USB flash drive into the wired interface.

It's obviously a different civilization, but it turns out that it uses the USB interface like humans. Isn't that pure nonsense?

There is only one way to bypass the differences in hardware equipment and directly access the structure equipment.

Su Mo opened the tool box he was carrying and took out a small black box.

This is a communication interface connection device developed in the future. Its effect is similar to the iron-blooded alliance "electronic hacker" that Su Mo used in TL730.

It will search for all available remote communication interfaces nearby, and then Qi Ling will use hacker technology to decipher and analyze them, complete the connection, and finally implant the Black Jue virus into it.

This is how the original plot developed, so there will definitely be no problems.

Su Mo turned on the communicator and said, "Qi Ling, in the future, I have seen the main control room, and I am ready to go in now."

At this point, his voice became lower and his tone became a little faint, "So far, all situations are still under our control."

"But when I walked through the door, it was not something I could have predicted."

"Of course it's best if everything goes well. But if, I say if, I lose contact with you, don't hesitate to activate the emergency plan discussed previously. You must find a way to wake me up."

After Su Mo finished speaking, he strode towards the main control room.

The atmosphere also became solemn at this moment, and even the sound of the heartbeat became very clear.

On the other end of the communicator, reports from the future and Qi Ling continued to come:

"The physical signs are all normal and there are no fluctuations."

"The various data fed back by the detector are normal and nothing unusual."

"The communication capture device can receive some weak signals, but the strength is not strong enough to establish a stable connection. You need to get closer."

"Yes, you can go in this direction now, the signal is getting stronger."

"Keep walking, the connection is becoming more and more stable."

"Don't stop, keep going."

Just as Su Mo approached the huge mechanical control panel in the shape of a temple, something happened without any warning.

The pale crystal suspended at the top of the main control room suddenly began to rotate at high speed, and a strange light erupted as the crystal shone.

The light was extremely weird. It was already bright white, but it didn't feel dazzling at all. It instantly filled the entire main control room, and spread outwards, covering the stairs, covering the corridor, and even pouring out black spires until it was submerged. Covered the entire underground space.

On the other end of the communicator, a hurried scream sounded from the future, "Boss, your vital signs suddenly fluctuated violently! Tell me the situation, what happened? Boss! Did you hear that? Heard the reply!"

Su Mo's eyes were filled with that weird white light, and his pupils were almost the size of pinholes. He stood there stiffly and did not respond no matter how the future shouted.

In the end, Su Mo seemed to have had his backbone ripped out, and he collapsed on his knees on the ground, his head tilted upward as he was engulfed by the light.

"Didi." A cold voice echoed around.

The consciousness is blurred, hazy, and finally gradually rises.

"Hiss—" Su Mo suddenly woke up and opened his confused eyes.

His blurry vision gradually came into focus, and he saw the pale ceiling above his head. The dim light cast strange shadows on the walls. The surrounding area was filled with a light and faintly pungent smell of disinfectant, which made people feel depressed for no reason.

This. Where is this.

Su Mo's breathing was rapid and his chest was heaving violently. He subconsciously wanted to get up, but found huge resistance from his hands and feet, preventing him from getting up.

He tried his best to lower his head and look at his body, and found that he was wearing a set of ugly striped clothes, his wrists and ankles were tied with straps, and his whole body was tied to the bed.

Just when he was at a loss, a woman in a nurse's uniform in the room looked over, trotted out the door and shouted: "Doctor Chen, the patient's family, he's awake."

A middle-aged male doctor wearing gold-rimmed glasses walked in. He leaned over and looked at Su Mo, and asked softly: "Xiao Su, how do you feel after taking the medicine this time compared to before? Will you feel better?"

Su Mo looked at him blankly: "Use medicine. What medicine should you use?"

A confused look appeared on the doctor's face, but it did not last long. He comforted: "It's okay. Maybe this medicine is not suitable for you. We can try another one."

At this time, following the sound of hurried footsteps, a middle-aged man and woman hurried into the ward. Su Mo was stunned when he saw them.

"Mom and Dad."

Su Mo's mother Li Huishu walked up to Su Mo and touched his cheek lovingly. Her voice trembled slightly, but you could still tell that she was trying to stay calm: "Son, it's okay. If the medicine is not suitable, we will change it."

"Dr. Chen has said that now that medical technology is so advanced, intermittent mental disorder is not a terminal illness, and he will definitely be fine."

"Intermittent mental disorder?" Su Mo muttered this word and looked around blankly.

The door to the room was closed at this time, and the curtains on the window leading to the corridor were drawn, but not tightly. Through the gaps in the curtains, nurses walking in the corridor could be seen, as well as some patients wearing hospital gowns.

A patient noticed that the curtains in this room were not closed, and pressed his face against the glass to look at Su Mo. He grinned stupidly, showing his withered yellow teeth, and drool kept dripping from the corner of his mouth until he was helped away by a nurse.

Su Mo was completely confused.

Is this a mental hospital?

Why are you here?

What happened before?

My mind went blank, I couldn't remember anything.

Just when Su Mo was trying to recall his memories, he suddenly felt a sharp and tearing pain in his head. He was struggling on the bed tightly, but his hands and feet were restrained and unable to move, which made the bed rattle.

"Dr. Chen, what's wrong with my child?!"

"It's okay, it's a normal side effect of the medicine. Xiao Su, take a deep breath, don't be nervous, take a deep breath."

The human voice became muffled in my ears, and my brain was confused.

In that chaotic ocean of memory, several images suddenly emerged into my consciousness.

A deep pit that reaches directly into the ground.

Mysterious and bizarre structural architecture.

And that pale crystal.

Su Mo opened his eyes suddenly and exclaimed: "Yes! Illusion! This is an illusion!"

"The main control room of the Black Spire has triggered the defense system, which will emit an abnormal wave signal that affects thinking. The protagonist in the game "Dawn" also encountered it."

"But the hallucinations that the original protagonist encountered in the plot were just some flashback images, and the whole person was generally awake. But in my case, it turned out to be such a real and all-round illusion."

"Damn it, it is indeed the same as the time in the alien gene fusion town. It is caused by the innate physical gap between me as a time traveler and the original protagonist."

When Li Huishu heard Su Mo talking to himself, panic appeared in her eyes. She grinned and slapped her thigh hard, crying bursting out of her throat: "It's been so long, why is it still the same as at the beginning? ?”

"I've been talking about Dawn, the protagonist, and time travel. Son, Mom, please, can we stop saying such things?"

Father Su Xun held Li Huishu in his arms to comfort him. His eyes were a little red. He looked at Su Mo and choked with sobs: "Son, Dad knows that this disease is not affected by your subjective will. But you have to fight it from the bottom of your heart. You can't always fight it." Influenced by things that are not true.”

"You are a patient, these are all your hallucinations!" (End of Chapter)