nightmare exec

After the pre-battle preparations were over, a portal appeared on the west wall of the battle preparation room, and the dungeon world outside the door had been opened to the two executive officers.

However, Song Yin could not see clearly the specific situation inside.

Because the portal seems to be covered with a layer of oil film, emitting layers of psychedelic and beautiful colorful lights under the action of optical interference.

"This is the air filter membrane." Ergou explained, "The system detected that the air inside the dungeon contained extremely fine suspended particles. In order to avoid polluting the combat preparation room, special isolation settings were made."

"Suspended particulate matter?" Song Yin became a little nervous when he heard it, "Will it be harmful to the human body? It doesn't matter if you inhale it?"

"It will take some time to make an accurate determination. The current preliminary experimental conclusion is that the air in the dungeon can be breathed, and it will not cause particularly large side effects on the human body."

Song Yin was still a little uneasy: "Should I just put on a gas mask?"

"It's not necessary." Ergou shook his head: "The gas mask is only effective against the poisons registered in the Aksha database. It can only provide psychological comfort for extremely fine particles that lack analysis basis."

"Let's go."

Qi Zhengnan, who was well-informed and well-informed, was very calm. He passed through the oil film and disappeared into the colorful lights and shadows.

Although he felt that he was a bit unusually "reckless" today, Song Yin didn't think too much about it, and hurriedly followed.

There was no special feeling at the moment of passing through the oil film, but Song Yin subconsciously lowered her head and closed her eyes.

What should a murderer's dream look like?Although he didn't have a very specific guess, it must be dark and gloomy, full of blood and pale corpses, and even haunted by wraiths.

However, when he opened his eyes again, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

At this moment, he was standing in a lush and beautiful jungle like the Garden of Eden.Looking around, there are different shades of green around, above the head and under the feet.

There are thousands of lush plants, crowded together, stretching long and short leaves, and blooming colorful and beautiful flowers.

By the side of the clear stream, the water vapor evaporates into a low mist under the sunlight like a golden arrow, and then condenses into water droplets on the leaf tips and petals, and falls back to the earth little by little.

The "suspended particulate matter" reported by Ergou before is actually pollen emitted from thousands of flower stamens.The air is mixed with the fragrance of all kinds of flowers. After smelling it for a long time, one can't help but wonder whether one's own blood will also be infected with such a smell.

"This is too beautiful..."

Song Yin murmured to himself, but he did not forget the important task of this trip even as he lingered.But because the dense forest is really dizzying, it took him a while to find his "partner and boyfriend" again by the edge of a tall bamboo forest.

"Hey! What are you doing? You have no vigilance at all!"

He had already walked to Qi Zhengnan's side, but the other party didn't even turn his head to look at him, Song Yin put his hand on his shoulder a little unhappily.

"I know it is you."

Qi Zhengnan still didn't look back, he was still looking up at the tall bamboo forest, but lightly pressed Song Yin's hand on his shoulder to show comfort.

"Look at this too."

Following the direction pointed by his gaze, Song Yin also looked towards the high place together—although the bamboo forest was indeed overgrown, it was still essentially the same as the real bamboo.

"What's the matter?" Song Yin was thinking about asking Qi Zhengnan to give the answer, when he suddenly found the answer.

Those are spike-shaped objects hanging between the bamboo branches, yellow-white and huge in number.Judging from the positional relationship, they should also be part of the bamboo organs.But Song Yin has never seen them in reality, it is more like a special customization of this dream copy.

He soon discovered that there were large pieces of similar objects in the entire bamboo forest, which looked like solidified light yellow smoke from a distance.

"These are bamboo flowers." Qi Zhengnan finally revealed the answer.

"Flowers?" Song Yin looked curiously at those listless spikes. From a distance, they might look fine, but if you look carefully... this might be considered one of the most simple and simple flowers in nature.

He was just about to ask Qi Zhengnan, "Why are bamboos blooming so rarely", when he suddenly heard a buzzing sound in the air.The sound got closer and closer, and in an instant it turned into a swarm of bees, flying around in the air above their heads.

"What are they doing?"

Song Yin felt that he had become a curious baby. After all, a bee is not difficult to see, but a swarm of bees—at least for him, if he saw it normally, he would definitely run away.

This time, it was the second dog in the earphone who answered him: "This is the queen bee performing a wedding flight. Simply put, it is a queen bee that has just emerged and is flying in mid-air while mating with the surrounding drones, which is rare. scene."

"...It's rare again."

Song Yin chuckled dryly, and had to admit that the restricted-level performance of this group of small animals successfully made him a little uncomfortable.He could even feel Qi Zhengnan's staring gaze fixed on his back, like a lion with only one pair of eyes exposed in the jungle.

"This jungle is really magical, haven't we walked into the oil painting of Henry Rousseau..."

While sighing with unknown meaning, he forcibly turned his attention elsewhere, and soon made a new discovery.

There are more than a dozen strange shrubs growing close to the ground—at the bottom is a huge "ball" surrounded by countless silver-white slender leaves, and there are pagoda-shaped flower spikes that are as tall as a person out of the ball. , full of purple flowers.

The collection of such weird plants looks like a group of alien creatures from a distance, which makes people nervous and curious.

"This is silver sword chrysanthemum, an endangered plant native to the volcanic zone of Hawaii. It is said that its lifespan is as long as a hundred years, and its flowering is a rare spectacle once in a century." Or Ergou introduced it in the earphones.

"Once in a hundred years?" Song Yin has already sensed some vague internal connections, "Why are there rare things everywhere in this dungeon?"

"Suspect A used to be a gardening enthusiast and rich. He should have a lot of research on rare flowers in various places."

With just such a little effort, Qi Zhengnan also identified a rare plant—Puya flower, a South American plant that looks a bit like a silver sword chrysanthemum with a "base", but it is taller and thicker. Small and dense, thousands of flowers bloom at the same time on the same thick flower stick, spelling out exquisite geometric patterns like computer graphics.

"So, suspect A just dreamed of a flowerbed full of rare plants? Are these plants alone able to make him orgasm?" Song Yin made a deduction that even he himself didn't quite believe, "Serial murderer's How could the dream be harmonious and beautiful? Could it be that the system sent the wrong copy?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ergou's voice of denial came from the earphones, emphasizing that the copy was indeed correct and telling him not to underestimate the enemy because of it.

Instead, Qi Zhengnan beside him gave him some comfort: "I can understand your confusion. After all, many people think that beauty is a symbol of morality."

Both of them are from art-related majors, and Song Yin certainly knows that this sentence is Kant's famous statement on aesthetics.But what surprised him was that Qi Zhengnan actually discussed art with him as Yun Shi, isn't he afraid of being cheated?

So he deliberately asked back: "Why, you also agree with this point of view?"

"No, I don't agree."

Qi Zhengnan shook his head bluntly: "I think beauty is beauty, and no matter how bad or immoral an object is, there are good parts in it. On the contrary, people try to use morality to obliterate the beauty that exists objectively."

"Hey, this is really a unique idea, so let me give you an example."

Song Yin recalled the time when the two of them went to college together—they would occasionally quarrel over a subject like this.Although the ground was red and swearing at each other from time to time, but looking back now, it is still a good memory.

He was nostalgic when he suddenly heard Qi Zhengnan pointing at the ground and shouting: "Snake!"

Song Yin was shocked, and hid behind Qi Zhengnan while shivering: "Damn, where is it?!"

"I lied to you."

Qi Zhengnan reached back with one hand, wrapped his arms around his slender waist naturally, and sneered softly: "Look at your virtue."

"I'm going! Lie to me?!" Song Yin raised his foot high and lightly kicked Qi Zhengnan's knee: "What's the matter? Is it shameful to be afraid of snakes?!"

"It's not shameful. After all, hundreds of millions of people in the world are afraid. It is said that 'fear of snakes' is written into human genes as a survival strategy. Therefore, newborn babies will also feel fear when they see snakes. Even In many religious myths, snakes are identified as the embodiment of evil."

After talking so much, Qi Zhengnan finally revealed his main idea: "But do you think snakes are beautiful?"

"It's not beautiful!" Song Yin leaned on his shoulder and shook his head, "It's so ugly, ugly and terrifying, they should all be wiped out from this earth!"

"Don't fight!" Qi Zhengnan flicked his forehead.In fact, he once saw Song Yin drawing gradient colors from Zhuyeqing's photo to make a color card.

"I don't think it's right for you to make such an analogy. Let me tell you one."

Song Yin twisted his arm in retaliation: "Snake is a creature that can shed its skin and grow. Before shedding its skin, its appearance was tattered and it seemed to be very old, but after it shed its skin, it was a smooth and good snake. The ancient people therefore I mistakenly think that it can regain youth, and youth is in line with aesthetics. So immoral things can be moral, and ugly can be beautiful at the same time-how, my metaphor is better ?!"

Qi Zhengnan resisted the idea of ​​pinching the tip of his nose, and said solemnly: "In short, beauty has no moral concept. Even for the most evil people, dreams may be beautiful. Arbitrarily judge a person's good and evil. No matter how beautiful a scumbag is..."

He stopped abruptly in the middle of his words, and at the same time stretched out his hand to protect Song Yin beside him.

At the same time, Song Yin vaguely saw a few khaki lightning bolts flying past them and disappearing into the bushes on the other side.

"What the hell?!" He vaguely felt that they were a few small animals the size of weasels, but he couldn't see clearly as they passed by.

Fortunately, the omnipotent Ergou quickly gave an accurate answer: "The ones who just ran past were two quolls, three males and one female. It should be a courtship ceremony."

"Courtship?"

Song Yin's heart was like lightning: "What is the swarm of bees we saw just now... Marriage flying, and now we meet two small animals courting. If flowering is regarded as the mating behavior of plants, then this copy, It really does look like something..."

"Collective estrus." Qi Zhengnan completed the words for him, and at the same time stretched out his hand towards Song Yin.

"What, why..." Song Yin blushed, but quickly saw the little thing standing on the back of Qi Zhengnan's hand——

Those are two turquoise praying mantises who "hug" each other face to face, one big and one small, looking very loving.

But wait a minute, Song Yin always felt that something was wrong.

After the mantis is in heat, apart from mating, it seems that some horrible things will happen...

Thinking of this, his heart sank, and then he went to look at the two praying mantises, and suddenly cried out "wow".

Because the male praying mantis held by the female praying mantis has no head.

The author has something to say: "Henri Rousseau's painting" in Song Yin's mouth refers to "Dream". In the jungle in the center of the picture, there are two lions probing their brains. That is his metaphor for Qi Zhengnan~~

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When I was young, I always felt that the appearance of the villain is ugly, and the protagonist is always beautiful.Later, I gradually realized that this is not the case.The first impact should be Notre Dame de Paris... Although morality can be defined as beauty artificially, the beauty of nature is not completely moral.

When doing social news, I occasionally encounter the kind of serial murderer with a group of admirers behind him.Perhaps in the eyes of this group of people, this murderer has the so-called "beauty".But so what?The law does not take subjective beauty and ugliness as its criterion. No matter how beautiful a murderer is, what he receives in the end is only a gun instead of a bouquet of flowers.

Of course, the above feelings have little to do with the plot, and the plot is more tortuous.Don't believe what you see~

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Interested students can look up the plants and animals mentioned in this chapter, what are their similarities~~