Chapter 2944 Split My Poor Little Pussy:>106

It took me thirty-six hours in real time, which corresponded to thousands in the digital realm, to break the puzzle wide open. This was the first step and I was running out of time. I feared I would run out before I got beyond the first door. Speaking of the door, once the correct sequence was keyed in the one hundred and twenty-five-foot door split open and I was greeted by a holographic guide. I guess form dictated function. The hologram was the spitting image of the ship or maybe the ship was meant to match its creators. I swam to meet it. The hologram formed a sphere around me and carried me along much faster than I could have swam. The scale of the ship hinted that the builders were not only vastly superior to humans but much larger physically as well. The hologram took me to what appeared to be a work station. The room was a two-hundred-foot cube with holes in all six surfaces. The spacing and shape of the holes appeared identical in all respects. I hovered over one of the stations and there were eight holes and around them in a perfect circle was something akin to an electronic grid pattern, like a circuit board. I suspect that the crew inserted their tentacles into the holes and that somehow, they manipulated controls inside those holes. That was my guess at least. The sphere I was in was lowered into one of the holes and I could see the internal mechanism. "I was right. The pliable material adhered to their tentacles and subtle muscular changes allowed them to manipulate the machinery."