Listen to the space-time administration

Chapter 354 Beyond the Aquila Rift

Rorschach asked himself to wake up, and all the images in front of him were frozen like a canvas.

With the freezing of the dream, Rorschach also lost the ability to move.But he can still feel the warmth behind him, and the tenderness given to him by the creatures behind him.

"Are you ready? Accept the truth of reality? In fact, I can make you forget these things. As long as you cooperate, I can rearrange a real dream for you..."

The voice behind him kindly persuaded Luo Xia. She could feel the grief in Luo Xia's heart. It was definitely not the pain of losing a loved one.

The connection and communication of the world, all of which exerted pressure on Rorschach.

Every time a world is added, the burden on Rorschach will increase.

And Rorschach can only use hegemony to reconcile all contradictions forcefully, and make all problems submit to his ruling.

"Escape is not the answer, you have to face the cruelty of reality."

"By the way, thank you. I haven't had such a rest in a long time..."

The creature behind her stopped persuading Rorschach, she grew taller, wrapped Rorschach with gentle limbs, and sank into this fabricated dream.

Rorschach struggled to open his eyes, as if he was drowsy and unable to wake up after a long sleep.

The secretion in the corner of the eye has covered the eyes, and he stretched out his hand to crush it. Rorschach reached out to hold the slimy beside him, and randomly wiped the dried secretion crushed in his hand on the slimy beside him.

It was as if his eyes, which had adapted to the darkness, were stabbed by the sudden flickering lights in the room, and Rorschach had some difficulty identifying the surrounding environment.

It's like a cave here, or a juncture of all caves, something creeping in the dark.

Everything is held together by connective tissue-like biomass, stained with a brown fluorescent color that resembles blood.

The light came in from the outside, and could only illuminate part of the area.

In the light, there are huge spider-like creatures everywhere, constantly shuttling back and forth in the cave.

They are like bustling termites, constantly building and filling the nest.There are also a few multi-clawed arthropods that carve new passages through dappled, textured tunnels.

When Rorschach saw the surrounding environment clearly, the light from the spotlight came from behind.

The Admiral Barron was right behind him, keeping an eye on Rorschach and waiting.

The shadow of the shadow space under Luo Xia, there are shadow soldiers supporting him at any time, ready to pull him into the shadow world.

At this time, Luo Xia remembered what he had done before...

[Looking for a secluded place where I can have a good night's sleep with the help of external forces. 】

This is the request that Rorschach listed on the Universal Wishing Machine, and the Universal Wishing Machine gave Rorschach a coordinate.

He came here with the Admiral Barron, and as if he knew something, he entered this weird creature's lair alone.

The Admiral Barron was Krieger who completely obeyed Rorschach's orders. They couldn't disobey Rorschach's orders, they just parked the battleship outside and let the shadow soldiers guard Rorschach's body.

As Rorschach sat up, the battleship outside started to move. It slowly approached Rorschach and released the landing module.

But this kind of behavior caused a commotion in the cave, and various small arthropods began to run, as if they were hiding, trying to stay away from the battleship outside.

Rorschach stretched his hand into his shadow, and following Rorschach's request, the battleship outside stopped moving and returned to its original position.

Rorschach looked towards the distance of the cave. Between the staggered caves, there was another huge cave like an insect mother's room.

Lost the fluorescence of the intertwined connective tissue in that area, as if someone had turned off the lights in the cave.

Arthropods kept walking into that darkness and never came out again.

There is something inside that is sending out information and instructions, and is restricting everything in this space.

"Aren't you coming out?"

Rorschach asked in the darkness, like calling a bedridden friend.

"You won't like it..."

A whisper came from the darkness, like a whisper to oneself.

"how do you know?"

"Can you understand?"

The voice in the darkness seemed to be exclaiming, and Rorschach realized belatedly that there was no sound intelligible to humans in the darkness of the cave, it was more like a kind of communication method used by arthropods. Vibrations, emanating from the surrounding connective tissue network.

[Theory of communication that all things listen to] Let Rorschach theoretically be able to communicate with any intelligent life.

The creature in the darkness seemed to have made up its mind and said, "Okay, Rorschach, you have to understand that I care about you, and I take care of all suffering souls."

The creature turned on the lamp deep in the cave, and it radiated outward from the depths of the cave like the breath of a living being.

A strange creature with the height of two people gradually came out of the darkness.

She has six articulated limbs to support her body, and there are organs similar to eyes on the joints of the articulated limbs.From the joints up, it looks like a naked human upper body, but this upper body has no head, and four jointed arms extend from the shoulders, supporting the cave wall to help her move.

The organ that should be called the skull hangs at the front of the entire foot joint, like a naked brain, covered with eyes, and her lamprey-like mouthparts add to the fear A little weird.

She was a little timid, as if she was afraid of Rorschach, or she knew how evil her face was in the eyes of humans.

Rorschach stood up supporting his body, and greeted the creature that comforted his soul.It is a creature that is here waiting for eternity, a creature of compassion that is always concerned with lost souls.

After she came to her side, Rorschach hugged her warmly.

When he released her, Rorschach was covered in her slime.

The creature was a little overwhelmed by Rorschach's enthusiasm, her jointed limbs stomped on the ground, and said hurriedly: "Sorry, there is no water here."

Not only is there no water here, there is even no light...

This is the field outside the galaxy bubble. The thrust produced by the supernova explosion has formed countless bubble-like substances in the universe. These bubbles wrap different celestial bodies in it, and the galaxy bubble that wraps the solar system becomes the local bubble.

Some of the bubbles are connected to each other, and some are separated from each other.

At the junction of different galactic bubbles, large clouds of fine, opaque dust form dark cavities, called fissures, that resemble seafloor rifts.

This is the unobservable place and the darkest place in the universe.

No light can shine in, and no signal can be sent out.

This is the rift, and now, Rorschach is outside the rift!

The rift has become the boundary between the known world and the unknown world of human beings, and the world beyond the rift is inaccessible and incomprehensible to human beings.

This is the place of nothingness, the emptiness beyond the map.There are no references here, nor are there any resources.

It's like the world on the back of the map, it doesn't exist, but ants have stepped into it.

Rorschach stretched out his hand, and the creature beside him put his limbs into Rorschach's hand.

The shriveled body felt like skin and bones, but Rorschach could feel the kindness and comfort from the creature.

She possesses all-inclusive kindness and open-mindedness, and comforts all confused souls in the dead silence outside the gap.

"What should I call you?"

The creature thought carefully about the meaning of the name, and said, "You can call me Aquila (aquila—transliteration of Aquila). I am the first creature to come here."

"Thank you, Aguilar."

"Sorry, I didn't relieve your pain."

Aquila's limbs hugged Rorschach, just like in a dream, warming Rorschach's broken wound with his soul.

The ring-shaped mouthparts looked hideous to outsiders, but in Rorschach's eyes, Aguilar's smile, which soothed his restless soul, was charming.

Rorschach let the slime on Aguilar's body stick to his body, and asked, "Are there others here? I can send them back to their planet."

There was a hint of confusion in Aguilar's tone, and he said: "There are no more, there have been no lost souls here for a long time."

Beyond the rift is the home of the lost in interstellar travel, and they are destined to die alone here.

Aquila, who was the first to get lost here, used lost spaceships and minerals to build this home for the lost, to receive all lost souls, and let them forget the cruelty of reality in illusions.

Perhaps the human beings in the outside world have ushered in the end, perhaps human beings have re-understood the surge point of the space-time tunnel network and avoided all the cracks.

Without the lost people, Aquila can't get supplies from the lost spaceship, and she's here alone waiting for eternity.

Rorschach listened to Aguila telling his experiences. This was a lonely life for an unknown period of time, and Aguila finally had a channel to confide in.

Aguila pointed to the place where Rorschach got up, and said, "During the last observation time, you walked in alone, and then lay there..."

Luo Xia was a little puzzled and asked, "When was the last observation? How long have I been sleeping here?"

Feeling that something was wrong, Rorschach moved his body, feeling as if his body was filled with lead. The primordial virus in his body kept sending out the desire to eat, but it was suppressed by Rorschach's will.

For the eternal Aguilar, time has never been a unit of measurement. She explained in the meaning of time understood by Rorschach: "There should be 11 years."

"11 years? I slept for 11 years?"

Rorschach raised her voice unconsciously, and the excitement in her tone made Aguila a little overwhelmed. She carefully explained: "Your spirit is too strong, and it took me almost half of the time to sort out your soul. You There are too many things in my soul memory, I..."

Aquila, who looks hideous and terrifying, is actually the embodiment of compassion and kindness. She carefully explained why it took a long time.

Feeling Aguilar's spirit, Rorschach comforted him in turn and said, "It's okay, I just remembered something and it's about time."

Rorschach moved the shadow under his feet, and the Admiral Barron outside gradually approached.

The landing craft shattered the outer wall of connective tissue, and the stand shields blocked the vacuum of the outside world.

Immediately, small arthropods drove forward and sprayed some biomass around the landing craft, as if repairing and repairing the damage.

Aguilar let go of Rorschach, as if seeing off a friend, and she watched Rorschach step onto the landing craft.

At the door of the landing craft, Rorschach turned around and extended his hand towards Aquila.

"Leave with me, Aguilar. It's so lonely here..."

　Beyond the Aquila Rift, from the novel "Beyond the Aquila Rift" and the short story of the same name (the seventh episode of the first season of Love Dead Machine).

　　The creatures here are the most benevolent creatures I have seen in all literary, film and television works.Beneath the hideous appearance is a compassionate heart.

　　She offers comfort to every lost soul, giving them hope in times of despair.

　　
　
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