Li Cheng stood on the gravity-sensitive floor of the Main Character Effect Room, pondering deeply.
The prisoners of Narrative Cage, all were villains or heroes who had left their mark across the sea of stars, yet here, they were simply prisoners.
"No wonder that Isaac had carved words into the bed rail, no wonder the prisoner in the lower right corner cell turned into a vegetable, mutilating himself with each escape attempt, driving himself insane after several tries."
He reached out and lightly brushed the gray-white walls of the isolation room, the walls were made of an unknown material; they were firm and smooth, without any pits or indentations, almost as if through them he could hear the crying and roaring from within.
Just as the metal sliding door was about to open, the wooden door behind him was suddenly thrust open with a "snap", and Gray Rain stepped into the room, confronted by Li Cheng’s puzzled gaze, Gray Rain frankly said: "How about you work with me, and we escape together?"
"I’ve been in this prison for half a year, and during that period I attempted to escape ten times, the most successful one being the last time I pressed down four engine room buttons over the course of eight hours, just a little short from the last [Coherence Retrieving] room.
The probability of success is certainly higher for two people conspiring than one alone."
Li Cheng’s heart wavered slightly, but he still diplomatically asked: "Each engine room creates traps tailored to the escapee, are you sure that bringing two people won’t make it more difficult?"
"Don’t worry about that; that missing Isaac once said that he had attempted to escape with a cellmate from the lower left corner cell, and the difficulty of the traps was the same as when trying alone. Secondly,"
Gray Rain lifted her right arm, her slender palm with gray skin slowly melted, transformed, until it became a huge Chain Saw Sword.
Liquid Metal? T-1000 robot? But she was just energetically drinking corn juice a moment ago. Could it be some sort of cybernetic organism...
The metal sliding door in front opened completely, and what appeared in front of them was not a square room, but... the bridge of a spaceship.
At this moment, Li Cheng and Gray Rain stood at the end of the T-corridor, with officers dressed in military uniforms running past the junction in front, all wearing magnetic boots, their boots flashing red and green lights with every stride, firmly attached to the metal floor.
The soldiers’ ranks were clear; the pilots wearing helmets were in black uniforms.
Engineers in red uniforms brandishing communication devices shouting and coordinating energy distribution between the engines and the ship’s shields.
Medical personnel transporting the injured were in green uniforms. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
Maintenance staff installing multifunctional mechanical arms to repair the ship’s internal damage wore yellow uniforms.
These "people" had strange and varied appearances; there were not only pure humans but also humanoid cats and dogs like those from Wasteland World, the tentacled beings that could float in the air, and the rhinoceros people with horns on their heads.
And the spaceship they were on, it seemed to be going through a fierce battle. Cables were sparking, octagonal corridors flashed with alarm red lights, and all the announcements broadcasted were bad news.
[Artificial gravity system power supply has dropped to 9%, all Blood Eagle crew members immediately activate magnetic boots]
[The starboard power room has been hit by a missile, crew are making emergency repairs, 15 minutes and 13 seconds remaining until restoration]
[A torpedo approaching at 8.7% of light speed from the 7 o’clock direction on the port side, 48 seconds until impact, shield energy has been allocated]
The corridor was in chaos, and for the moment, no one noticed the prisoners Li Cheng and Gray Rain clad in dark uniforms—due to the absence of gravity, they had to brace against the walls to avoid floating off the ground.
"Stow away your Weapon."
Gray Rain whispered, reaching out to grab Li Cheng’s arm—her arm once again turned into Liquid Metal, sliding over Li Cheng’s skin, covering his prison clothes.
It could be Liquid Metal, or perhaps some currently unknown type of Mercury-class Magic Tool; as it covered the prison clothes, it gradually changed color to match the yellow uniforms worn by the repair personnel in front.
Furthermore, the Liquid Metal also formed the appearance of magnetic boots under Li Cheng’s feet, securing to the ground (though it actually lacked magnetic attraction, it simply grew fasteners that could lock into the metal floor’s grates)
An Engineer in a red uniform ran quickly through the corridor, heading towards Li Cheng and Gray Rain.
Gray Rain immediately stepped aside to avoid him, pretending to be a maintenance worker reading parameters from an LCD panel, and Li Cheng too got the hint, squatting down to study the sparking electrical power lines, muttering, "Hydropower is gentle, thermal power is warm, nuclear power is harsh, wind power is soft..."
He wasn’t surprised by Gray Rain’s Liquid Metal Transformation Ability, what concerned him was this spaceship named Blood Eagle, and the "Captain Isaac" mentioned by the Engineer.
Isaac Lord, the previous owner of Li Cheng’s cell, the interstellar pirate captain, the original owner of the Perfect Level Particle Emitter Gun Final Redemption.
According to Gray Rain, as well as the clues in the cell, this Isaac obviously had disappeared during an Escape attempt; how could he appear here, in the Main Character Effect Room?
Could it be that he, like Li Cheng in the Misleading Room, was trapped, believing he was still in a normal worldly timeline?
The red-uniformed Engineer didn’t pay any attention to the disguised escapee duo and continued to sprint, heading straight for the bridge.
Seeing this, Li Cheng whispered to Gray Rain: "What’s going on here? How could Isaac be here?"
"I don’t know either."
Gray Rain’s face was equally taut as she whispered back: "By the end, he almost couldn’t remember his own name, and he didn’t tell anyone about his last Escape attempt, I don’t know how he disappeared either."