Three-stream detection simulator

Hercules didn't recognize this ship at first.

However, after he touched the control console of the ship, a lot of knowledge spontaneously appeared in his mind - it was the skill level lv.4's 'Knowledge and Knowledge' that was working.

He knew that he was driving the first light transport ship in human history. The original name was very long. Because the first three letters of the number were 'HHZ', it was affectionately called 'Sea Monkey' by some players whose native language was Chinese.

It was modified and upgraded many times in the 20 years since it was put into use. In the middle, it became a tool ship with the function of collecting planetary resources. Because it often shuttled through dangerous areas, it was equipped with sublight speed engines, gravity cables, automatic artillery and refractive shields.

But in fact, the spaceship stranded on this beach was not the one in the game. The real 'Sea Monkey' was built in the outer space orbit. It is nearly one thousand meters high, 1.8 kilometers long, more than five hundred meters wide, and equipped with a plant distribution station, enough for two thousand people to eat and drink in the universe and provide sufficient oxygen, and rely on mining nearby planets to replenish energy.

50 years before the main storyline of the game, Apocalypse and Ark Pharmaceuticals, which had not yet split, jointly designed the blueprint of the Sea Monkey, but did not start construction immediately due to immature technology, ample spare time, frequent wars and other reasons.

A few years later, the situation on Earth became more chaotic, and the three major forces took the opportunity to rise. Apocalypse and Ark Pharmaceuticals parted ways, and it was at this time that the Sea Monkey was gradually assembled according to the blueprint. The letters HHZ are the abbreviation of ‘n’, which can be literally translated as ‘Ark to Heaven’ or ‘Country on Country’, implying staying away from disputes and disasters and gaining eternal salvation.

——It’s just that players are more accustomed to calling it the Sea Monkey.

The spaceship driven by Hercule is much smaller than the real Sea Monkey, and is a projection generated in his mind.

To explain the concept of ‘mental image’ clearly, we must first introduce the ‘Great Flood’. Many ancient myths and legends have related records. China, Mesopotamia, Greece, Maya... have all described the scene of the flood destroying the world, but scientists have not found evidence to prove that the flood was a widespread regional event.

In the story, when facing the flood, humans built ships through various methods to survive the crisis of genocide.

Later, people discovered that the flood was real and existed in everyone's heart. The subconscious of human beings constitutes countless isolated islands, which gradually expand and become land. The things wandering around the land are the "sea". When the sea level rises, it will turn into a flood, submerging the soil where the mind rests.

The "sea" will never disappear like a war.

The island will be submerged, and whether the seawater evaporates or solidifies, it will only exist in a different form. The tide recedes briefly, so the land on which it depends for survival expands, giving people a chance to breathe. But the sea will eventually come back, carrying white waves, dark black turbid liquid, and the angry thunder and hurricane, and conveying the news of destruction together.

But in addition to the sea, everyone has an ark in their hearts.

It could be a leaf, a branch, a small boat, a cruise ship... When you try to save yourself from the sea, a boat will always appear.

Just like the Sea Monkey under Hercule's feet.

His ark, uh, the category is a little weird.

But why is it the Sea Monkey? Is it because he took a second look at the system panel when he entered the mental world and was attracted by the name of the side quest?

The name of the quest is "Stranded Sea Monkey and Fallen Fishing Boat". Normal people would think that fishing boat refers to boats, and who knows what Sea Monkey is.

Then again, it's strange to have the name "Sea Monkey" clearly hanging on the system task. Hercule remembered that "Sea Monkey" was just a nickname circulated among the player community of HHZ. It can't be that there is a Chinese among the game producers, and then he suddenly came up with such a nickname...

The brainstorming ends here. Hercule's current task is to drive the boat and run to the collective subconscious incarnation of the real world, "Sea", from nowhere to save the humans who are surrounded.

One of the functions of the pipe is to transmit a person's main consciousness to the mental world. Everyone's subconscious is connected, but there is a sea around them, so as long as you learn to drive a boat, you can travel between different bodies - this happens to be one of the abilities of the mutant "Apocalypse". He can change his body and become immortal.

Hercule is not trying to rob other people's bodies, but to help them fight for the island.

The Sea Monkey started.

This is a spaceship, which should not move on the sea, but everything is possible in the mental world. The "keel" that keeps rotating above it shoots out hundreds of metal ropes, extending in all directions. The sky is like an inverted bowl, and the ropes are pulled on its bowl wall, pulling the Sea Monkey up at a seemingly slow but actually fast speed.

The waves are roaring, but the roar of the sublight speed engine of the spacecraft is even more intense. The metal shell below it glows with golden red light, and the keel spreads out like a bird with wings stretched out, rushing into the depths of the ocean.

The sailing process is smoother than expected, and the wind and waves are under your feet. Hercule sat down and followed the compass to find the ‘land’ where the others were.

The first person he met was Constantine. The wizard in the mental world was not as flexible as in reality. He sat on the rock like a puppet, staring at the ocean and smoking non-stop.

Hercules operated the zipline on the Sea Monkey, hoisted him up and stuffed him into the cabin, the process was a bit like the old web game called Gold Miner. Constantine's subconscious didn't struggle either, hunched over, and looked very depressed. After he came in, he greeted him weakly: "Hi, detective."

Hercules waited for him to say something.

As a result, Constantine's subconscious seemed to say only this sentence. Two seconds later, he said again: "Hi, detective."

Hercules put him in a chair and fastened his seat belt. The water gun on the spaceship next to him sensed the smoke, moved over and extinguished the cigarette butt with two hisses, and sprayed water on Constantine's face. It pointed to the sign hanging next to it, which read: 'No Smoking Area'.

Constantine's subconscious said the second sentence: "My cigarette!"

When he arrived at Constantine's subconscious island, Hercules briefly saw the scene in reality through the wizard's eyes.

To some extent, he and Constantine now share a body.

People in reality were still in a stalemate with the "sea". The problem was that Constantine kept his head up, so Hercule could only see how he was half dead, sitting on the "sea" in a stiff but handsome posture.

It was true that he was handsome.

It was also true that he looked like Maori Kogoro who was shot by a narcotic gun.

Hercule felt that he couldn't bear to look directly. He controlled Constantine's head to turn his head and look at other people, only to see that most of them were shocked, as if they had seen something unbelievable. Hercule followed their gaze and observed for a long time before he vaguely saw the reflection of the Sea Monkey in the shining air.

This perspective is hard to describe.

It's a bit like a person standing on the bottom of the sea and happened to see a blue whale swimming lightly on the horizontal surface. At this moment, Constantine's main consciousness shouted that only the two of them could hear: "Hey! What are you doing with my body! You are not allowed to look at my memories or my thoughts. Are you a pervert?!"

Hercules: "..."

Your way of guessing people's hearts is too vicious, Constantine.

"Sorry." He said expressionlessly, "I didn't see anything. I was just trying to save your life. But your spirit of self-rescue is much more surging than my actions. Maybe you don't need my help."

He quickly returned to the mental world without waiting for Constantine to answer. The Sea Monkey was working hard. It retracted half of the ropes hanging in the sky and pushed them deep into the sea until they reached the bottom of the sea. Then, the waves began to roll irregularly-

Because the spacecraft was trying to use the ropes to lift the bottom of the sea abruptly.

The sea, the wind and the ground were all shaking violently, as if a tsunami had occurred. The water surface formed a black vortex of several kilometers due to the fluctuations of the ground, and the Sea Monkey was suspended on it and remained motionless.

Although the ocean cannot be defeated, it is ultimately an object without life or intelligence.

Finally, the spacecraft lifted a huge plate from the seabed to the shore. The seawater fell from the plate like a gray artificial waterfall hundreds of meters high. The waterfall gradually dried up, and the Sea Monkey smashed the newly excavated land on the edge of Constantine's subconscious island, connecting it to the beach.

The water level nearby dropped a little unscientifically.

The sound of the waves was much smaller, and the whimpering covered the roar. Hercule knew that it would not come back again in a short time.

He put Constantine back on the island, and in order to avoid being misunderstood as a pervert, he sailed away without hesitation. The second person he met was an FBI agent. He was sleeping on the beach, half of his body was submerged by the sea. The Sea Monkey picked him up and shook him, shaking out a pile of shells and conchs, and then lifted him in and stuffed him into the position where Constantine had sat.

The water gun came over and sprayed him again, spraying out a pile of fine sand.

The process of suppressing the sea was no different from before.

Then came Master Withered, who ran to the tree and would rather hold the durian than go down to the ground, Agent Bowen, who yelled at the sea and performed the Turtle Fist, and several members of the Yuwen Church who were chanting...

After a final check to make sure that everyone's island had been rescued, Hercule started the spaceship and flew to his own island. The Sea Monkey was empty when it came, and it was lonely on the return trip, as if it could produce an echo. It is so vast that when it spreads its wings, it almost covers the sky, but it still looks small in front of the sea.

The beach is getting closer and closer.

Hercule noticed that the Sea Monkey was about to run aground, and the sound of the waves in his ears became gentle, as if the "sea" had already recognized the spaceship and habitually bowed to it.

Before getting off the spaceship, he pulled out the compass, walked to the raised deck, and threw it to the beach. The Sea Monkey retracted the rope hanging in the sky and slowly leaned against the junction of the sand and the sea, like a giant beast in a light sleep.

Hercule stood on the beach, looking at it for a long time with admiration and love. It seemed that there was no flow of time in the mental world. Before leaving, he looked back at the end of the sea - the only thing that could represent time here was the sun.

Above the horizon hung a dark, non-luminous round celestial body, motionless in both shape and position, like a hanging painting drawn with a marker.

Apart from that, there was nothing else worth noting. Hercule's consciousness returned to reality, and then he found that the attribute enhancement effect provided by the pipe had not disappeared.

At this moment, he suddenly understood why there was standby action No. 1 - why the pipe was addictive.

Hercule looked at his hand in a daze.

For a long while, he slowly opened and closed his fingers.

...It's not an illusion.

Feeling in the hand returned.

The next moment, he fell from the air and fell firmly on the grass.

**

Constantine grimaced in pain. The sea disappeared so suddenly that Hercule fell heavily. However, everyone else was caught up in the excitement of surviving the disaster. Even though they were grateful for the detective's efforts, they did not have the extra energy or physical strength to come and help.

In the end, he got up from the ground on his own.

The alarm on the tent stopped, the believers collapsed on the ground, and several people fainted from exhaustion. Instead, the FBI agent woke up and went to figure out how to fly a helicopter out of this hellish place.

Master Blight was gesturing to Agent Bowen to describe the Sea Monkey in his eyes, swearing that it was definitely a flying bone dragon - people with high inspiration seemed to be more likely to see scenes in the mental world and perceive them. ocean. But the situation just now was special. The spacecraft penetrated the bottom of the sea, and almost everyone caught a glimpse of its endless hull and hundreds of long wings stretched out.

This was also the first time for the believers to see it, and they were more obviously shocked. They all closed their eyes and prayed to the remaining heat of the universe or murmured praises to the helmsman.

For the sake of his own life, Constantine paid more attention to Hercule than the Sea Monkey. The blue umbilical cord connects the body and soul. This is something that many mages know. Even he himself had an out-of-body experience when he was about to die, and he almost had his umbilical cord cut off.

But he was rescued at that time. When the fatal wound on the body is healed, the soul will return to the body. There are really not many cases of Hercule's soul leaving inexplicably and then returning inexplicably.

Constantine wanted to ask what it was like to travel through the subconscious sea as a soul, but found that the detective seemed to be in a state of delirium. He moved his right hand constantly and nervously, pacing in place repeatedly regardless of the fall. If Agent Bowen hadn't pulled him, he would have squeezed his finger with a stone.

There was still some golden light left in Hercule's irises, making his eyes look like the surface of a lake shrouded in autumn sunlight. The lake was now ripples, indicating the owner's confusion.

Not only that, Constantine found that every once in a while he had to take a puff of cigarette with trembling hands. There was still half of the golden liquid in the tobacco pot. After Hercule discovered this, he immediately turned his head anxiously to find the box with the golden hourglass.

That was all, but his pale face did not recover with the return of his soul, but instead became even paler. In the past, the gray hair mixed with his black hair gave him a unique, highlight-like interest, but now it only has a straw-like texture.

Hercule could feel that the attribute bonus provided by each puff of cigarette he smoked was time-limited. He can choose not to enter the world of mental images, and only retain the irresistible and intoxicating attribute-improving effect——

He will return to a normal and healthy body and experience the dexterity and vitality that others can feel without paying the price, but he must take one breath after another without stopping, which means staying in the boundary between life and death until gold until the contents of the hourglass are exhausted.

This is wrong.

Hercule knew this.

But he couldn't stop.

He thought that he didn't care about a body that was not flexible enough, nor did he care about being trapped in a heavy body for a long time. After all, it took so long to adapt after time travel, and people had to accept the reality...

Until now, Hercule thought to himself, I give a damn.

He put the pipe in his mouth and walked quickly to the box. He fiddled with the combination lock awkwardly with his right hand that had not been used for a long time. His brain went blank due to excessive emotional shock, until Constantine grabbed his arm from behind.

"Do you know what you're doing, Detective?"