The bus drove for over an hour before arriving at its destination.
A building that had a technological feel on the outside.
A huge abstract statue was erected in the square in front of the door, which looked as if it had something to do with time.
The director led the crowd into the building.
After passing through the security gate, through a long corridor into the elevator.
The elevator was going down.
Down to the negative 12 floors before stopping.
After stepping out of the elevator and passing through a long corridor again, the crowd entered a chamber with 'Time Bubble 206' written on it.
The chamber is square, the surrounding walls are pure white and incomparably smooth, everywhere spotless feeling is very clean, a total of eight large displays hanging on the four walls.
On the floor of the chamber are eight things like medical pods, according to the sign on the wall, the official name of this thing is: 'time bubble transmission device'.
Eight devices in two groups of two, in a cross-shaped distribution, linked to the middle of the control system.
Under the director's instructions, the eight actors, in accordance with the previously formed CP, lay in two pairs into the adjacent teleportation pods.
Inside the transport module, like the medical module, is also a mysterious solid-liquid mixture.
After lying in, the mind will slowly become blurred, very tired and want to sleep.
The staff adjusted various parameters on the console screen, one by one, the icon of the transport module gradually turned green, and the countdown numbers kept jumping until finally all the numbers turned to zero.
Some blurred images appeared on the wall screen.
The dilapidated townhouse, the creaking iron grille door, the rusty chains, the floating figures ...
And, the hissing sound of monsters.
A soft electronic female voice appeared in the ears of the people who were already in a trance.
It was like a dream.
"Detection in progress ..."
"Detection passed ..."
"Identity match in progress ..."
"Matching successful ..."
"Plot character target bubble coordinates confirmed ..."
"Confirmed ..."
"Body teleportation procedure started ..."
"Start-up complete ..."
"..."
The hatch covers of the eight body teleportation pods opened by themselves.
It was empty inside.
...
When Mallory woke up again, he found that he was no longer in that teleportation device, but appeared in a bedroom bed.
The overall decoration of the bedroom is dark, a variety of furniture and bedding color is also dark, the overall give a very depressing feeling.
On the wall of the bedroom, there are two rows of green digital countdown displays.
The top one shows 59 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 13 seconds.
Then it keeps jumping and decreasing.
It's a 60-day countdown.
The one below shows 29 days, 24 hours, 0 minutes and 0 seconds.
It seems to be a 30-day countdown.
However, this countdown below is not moving, in a stagnant state.
Below the two rows of countdown, there is a 'male' character and a 'female' character.
The word 'male' and the word 'female' are followed by a string of digital zeros.
This reminded Mallory of what Vincent said about the 'time index'.
It seems that this performance is related to the time index?
The time index after the word 'male' refers to Mallory's time index, and the time index after the word 'female' should refer to the rabbit girl's time index.
Mallory was wearing a nightgown, a nightgown he didn't recognize.
Shadow City's medical technology could mend their home-grown clothing, and it wouldn't be a surprise to be changed out of clothing in the teleportation pod.
Mallory touched the bed beside him, and the desk beside the bed, and everything was unmistakably real.
The real person had been teleported!
What an advanced teleportation technology!
What is this place, the 'time bubble' Vincent mentioned?
This house, is the so-called 'time prison'?
"Is anyone there?" The voice of a panicked rabbit girl came faintly from outside.
"I'm in." Mallory answered.
"Mallory?"
"It's me."
"Can you come out? I'm scared!" The bunny girl's voice trembled a little.
"Yes, I'll be right out." Mallory looked toward the floor beside the bed, where there was a pair of cotton slippers of just the right size, and he got out of bed wearing them, looking past the desk to the mirror hanging on the wall above the desk.
The person inside was himself.
I just don't know why there is a weird feeling.
The bunny girl called out again from outside, and Mallory didn't think anything more of it as he pulled open the bedroom door and walked out.
"What is this place? Why are we here?" The rabbit girl, wearing the same style and color of Mallory's pajamas, looked around with fear on her face.
Mallory also looked around.
Outside is a hall, is a normal home kind of hall, there are sofas and coffee tables, but the decoration style, furniture style and bedroom, are dark and dark, everywhere gives a very depressing feeling.
On the walls of the hall, there are the same two rows of countdowns and the words male and female.
The two rows of countdowns are also the same above the row of 60 days beating, the following 30 days of a motionless.
"We entered the movie plot, this should be some kind of advanced teleportation technology, directly transported us to the shooting site, I am here, do not be afraid." Mallory comforted the rabbit girl a few times.
"Where are the others?" The rabbit girl asked again.
At times like this, it seems to feel safer with more people.
"I don't know, maybe in another room? Let's look around." Mallory decided to look around a bit.
"Don't leave me!" The rabbit girl hastily pulled the hem of Mallory's coat.
"You follow me, I will not suddenly leave you to run away, do not worry." Mallory reassured the rabbit girl, and then went to the kitchen next to the hall.
The people are food.
After staying on Stonehenge for a long time, the first thing Mallory did at any time was to make sure the food was safe first.
After finding enough to eat, only then can he feel confident and bold enough to do other things.
The tiles on the kitchen walls are also dark tones, real-world families rarely use this tone to decorate their kitchens, it is too depressing, even Mallory, a very bold person in this tone of the room, will feel very some seepage.
Despite feeling a bit seepy, Mallory still came to the kitchen refrigerator.
There is an LCD screen above the refrigerator door, which shows a wide variety of vegetables, meat, eggs and other ingredients, fully classified, click on the first level of the menu, almost all the ingredients that can be purchased in the real world market, which are available.
However, the time index is required for exchange.
Mallory and the rabbit girl's time index balance is zero, shown on the bottom of the refrigerator door display.
Open the refrigerator door, the refrigerator is also empty.
It is likely that you need to redeem your time index for the ingredients to appear in the fridge.
To Mallory, food is very important, and food also needs to be redeemed with the Time Index.
Therefore, his current priority is to figure out how to obtain the Time Index.