(Oh, come on! The thirty-first!! Should I be glad this month has a thirty-first... Please vote, subscribe, and recommend! Why isn't there some automatic monthly-vote-requesting author function? It'd save someone like me so much trouble...)
Anu Lili lightly pressed the control button atop the small device in her hand. I was surprised to discover that no matter where one went, the switches on most high-tech gadgets were operated by pressing them—this utterly pointless thought flashed through my mind before I sensed the space around us beginning to warp. A stable Teleportation Channel was being projected around us through remote equipment. Anu Lili seemed to be waiting for the "ordinary people" before her to show shocked expressions, so I could not help nudging Miss Lin's arm. "Hey, Lin Brat, shouldn't we gasp or something?"
Lin Xue shot me a glare. Before she had even finished rolling her eyes, the spatial teleportation activated.
The light before our eyes twisted violently. We experienced around ten seconds of weightlessness and disorientation before the rather unimpressive teleportation ended, and our wavering vision finally stabilized. We had been transported into a vast enclosed space, and... at last saw something that matched a high-tech setting.
This space was roughly the size of two or three football fields and over ten meters tall, generally square in shape. Straight blue and black lines divided the floor into several sections, making it look like the Stack Area of an emptied warehouse. The ceiling and four walls were covered in silvery-white alloy, while the floor was a slightly darker grayish white, with the texture of battleship armor plating. The soft floor lights set into the ground and the cold-glowing lines on the ceiling felt distinctly high-tech, but not all of those lights were functioning properly. Many broken lighting fixtures and signs