"This is 'Shadow', the 'Sleepless City' investigation team, we have arrived at the 'Sleepless City'."
The man took out his communicator.
Although the shape of this thing is a bit retro, it can indeed make calls through the "shallow personality network", so it is difficult to be blocked, and the most important thing is that it can be connected to the helmet of the shadow troop, making it possible to be in a fierce situation. Both parties on the battlefield can communicate without being affected.
"Received, positioning has been enabled, and 'connection permission' is being activated." Opposite was an emotionless female voice, like a machine.
"Permission activation is successful, now start describing the mission details."
"The Evernight City is the largest 'outer city' in central Asia. It is located at the junction of the 'Chinese Republic City State' and the 'Yelis City State' and is part of the federation. It has been nearly 30 years since its establishment in 3997. The city owner was originally' The high-level officials of Beisu City-State later broke away from Beisu and established the city that never sleeps. They are fanatics trying to prove that humans can survive outside the 'fortress city-state'."
"Not long ago, the outside world lost contact with the Evernight City. Subsequently, the Evernight City suffered a devastating blow. The whole process took less than five minutes. It has been determined that it was caused by the 'Luozi creature', and it is speculated that one of the 'Seven' may have appeared. But so far, we have never come into contact with the existence of No. 1. Moreover, the existing information is not enough to deduce the 'No. 1'."
"The goal of this mission is to explore the truth behind the destruction of the Evernight City and search for survivors. But according to analysis, the possibility of survivors is infinitely close to zero, so please make the first item the highest priority."
"above."
"Understood." The shadows said.
"Okay, please check if there are any loopholes in the 'program', and...be prepared for destruction before falling into darkness..."
The man inserted the communicator into his waist, turned his head, and nodded to the dozens of people behind him.
"Kakakaka..." There was a mechanical sound, and people took off the guns from their backs, and took out the dark blue round button-like things from their armors and put them into the guns.
"Temora Battery", this is the name of the round button, and the "Annihilator Gun" called "Infinite Electromagnetic", these two weapons are specially designed to fight against Luozi creatures, and they are also the only weapons against enemies that humans can mass-produce. .
Temora batteries were jointly developed by several Western city-states. Just a few dozen grams of Temora batteries can release super currents that are enough to destroy everything within hundreds of kilometers. However, they are also extremely stable and can only be used with equal or higher power. It will be stimulated only when the current is greater than that of the stimulation.
The name of Temora commemorates the earliest suggestion that "the limits of everything are opposite, just like the beginning of the universe is a dense singularity, but it gave birth to everything in the world, and all existence is borrowed from the universe itself. The universe is me, I am the universe" and began to conduct experiments to "create the 'universe'". It is not difficult to see that he was influenced by ancient Buddhist and Taoist thoughts. So, people called him crazy at the time - and he did go crazy in the end - and set a fire, burning himself and the laboratory together with the entire hundred-story building. Fortunately, there was no one else in the building at the time.
In the end, people built a grave for him. In the grave were a few cubic meters of soil dug out from where the building collapsed.
Now, those soils have been moved to the "Alaga City" in America, and a huge memorial hall has been built to enshrine them, called: Ashes That Changed the World.
Temora batteries were originally used as energy sources. Two or three thousand years have passed since the first industrial revolution. People have broken through the twenty-year mark and ushered in the twenty-first technological revolution, also called the "fourth revolution." Energy Revolution". It is indeed necessary to carry out these sub-energy revolutions. After so many years of "scourge", coal, oil, natural gas and even flammable ice have become collectors' collections for thousands of years. Although during the twelfth technological revolution, Then artificial coal and artificial oil were born... So the objects of harm became trees, some animals, stones, etc. Thanks to these, people finally understood the fact that "living things and stones can be turned into crude oil."
And then...then the Earth successfully lost weight. Next, they burned most of the moon and sucked half of Jupiter. They really wanted to thank these planets. No, with their help, the remains of the Temora building were "enshrined".
Next, people turned their attention to weapons. It has to be said that human beings are really "brave" creatures. Even if the planet they live on is about to collapse, they still wage war regardless of everything, divide the high and low, and fight to the death. Perhaps, is this the so-called "death must be vigorous"?
Well, the saying is true, "If you want two people to reconcile, let a third person interfere and make them work together..." In a sense, the network creatures have also become peacemakers.
Now, back to the text.
Everyone loaded up the "ammunition" - let's call it ammunition. Then they took off their helmets and checked them over and over again. After confirming that there was no problem, they put them back on their heads.
Helmet, it is not for life-saving, but for life-saving. Now they were putting in the keys and ready to fight.
They took out a chip about the size of a thumb from the bulge on the chest armor, then expressionlessly unscrewed the knob on the helmet's forehead, put the chip in, and screwed it on again. Done in one go.
A bright blue window popped out from the bulge on the side of the man's helmet, and rows of white numbers flashed quickly, then suddenly froze.
204713, a red number.
The man turned his head sharply.
A faint light was scattered from everyone's helmets, except for one person. Very close to him. That's a teenager.
"What's wrong with you!" The man slid along - he was always above the half-collapsed wall.
"I...I don't know," the boy seemed to be about to cry, "It still worked last time..."
"Didn't you check before setting off?" the man gritted his teeth.
The young man lowered his head and said in a very low voice: "I... forgot..."
"Forgot?! You said you forgot!" The man seemed unable to suppress the anger in his heart, his whole body was shaking uncontrollably, and he accidentally saw a silvery-white light not far away from the young man. It's the light reflected from the metal.
The man picked it up. It was an electric burning knife with a fuel pool on the handle. When opened, the continuously scattered electrons would ignite the overflowing fuel, forming an ultra-high temperature flame.
Enough to penetrate the chip.
The man looked at the young man, who was looking at him in horror.
The man has understood everything.
He remembered this boy. His assessment results that year were pretty good. He could have entered the 'Light' troop, but because he had conflicts with several students at the same level and was afraid of retaliation, he chose to join the 'Shadow' troop. He soon regretted it. Because he couldn't bear the hardship, he cried and asked to be discharged from the army every day. He even said that he participated in the conscription of Guangying to "be a powerful official, not to die" and so on. He was almost dragged to death by a violent officer.
Although what he said is indeed a bit exaggerated, it is also true. Many people in the "Light" are here to get ahead and be in the limelight, and the "Shadow" is indeed going to die.
The chip in the helmet will definitely fall into darkness as long as it is used.
"Rumble..."
A tall wall suddenly rose in front of them. Maybe it wasn't a wall at all - it emitted a bright blue light, and numbers intertwined with each other.
There is a door on the wall, and red light shines everywhere, so in the light, it seems like countless portals are slowly opening.
This sudden change made everyone stunned for a moment, but they quickly reacted.
"Gather the fire!!!"
The man kicked the boy away and rushed up the wall, shouting loudly. At the same time, countless lights and shadows flashed out and surged forward. Some were hit by annihilation guns and their bodies were damaged, but they still rushed forward with a face that was mostly rotten. They are not living creatures - perhaps it should be said that they are not living creatures according to our definition. When hit, they just fly out of a few blue squares and then divide into four, four and sixteen, until they disappear.
I want to kill them unless...
The man aimed at an approaching enemy and shot him in the abdomen. The Luozi creature exploded instantly, and a blue cube fell to the ground and shattered.
Luozi core. Things that exist in Luozi organisms, like the human heart and brain, do not have a fixed position, and their positions are different in each Luozi organism.
But the translucent blue color of ordinary web creatures, as long as you get close, you can see the core - a square with a darker color.
"Damn it." The man cursed, "Call the command center. We have been attacked. The other party can open the 'door'. You can be sure that there are 'seven people' here. We are preparing to try to detect his identity."
"Copy that, do you need support?" It was clearly a question, but what the other party said seemed to be a statement.
It's not like "you definitely need support", but...
"It's not necessary." The man said.
"Understood. The Federation will remember your sacrifice."
"The next task will be handed over to other teams." He put away the communicator.
"Prepare to sacrifice yourself, shadows," the man said.
His voice was low, but it reached everyone's ears.
As a result, everyone stopped attacking and pressed the sides of their helmets with both hands without any hesitation. Only that man was staring at the first door.
"Requesting connection," everyone said. So, everyone heard it, a grand, majestic, god-like... No, that was the voice of a god, that was the god who belonged to Luozi. He was high and ruled another world, but he would not interfere. What his people did, so his people came into the world.
God! He gazed at the two worlds in the Luozi world, and laid a giant network that encompassed everything at the intersection with the material world, connecting the thoughts of every Luozi creature... except for these intruders.
Once upon a time, humans had a god like this...
Man steals the power of God and wants to surpass the God.
"Allow connection, personality network." The god was saying. It was clearly a voice that had never been heard before and could not be heard by humans, but it really came to my mind, and I understood the meaning of each character.
Everyone was screaming, and the pain of their bodies being transformed was like heartbreaking. They lost their eyes instantly, leaving only a blue light in place of their eyeballs.
In the confrontation between humans and the Luozi creatures, there was only a brief chaos in the early stage. It took them a very short time to find a way to break the situation. They stole the domain that belonged to the gods and a part of the sanctuary belonging to the Luozi creatures.
The personality network is originally the net cast by the god of Luozi in the legend, and all the lives of Luozi are connected to it. And if humans want to control this web and steal the power of the gods, they must pay a price.
Losing both eyes was just the beginning. The safety in the helmet was opened by the chip. The fragments of the core of the network were once again connected to the personality network under human will. Their bodies began to turn into blue bit by bit.
"Advance!" the man shouted.
Just like that, a strange scene appeared in the ruins.
The blue wave surged forward, but a group of warriors charged towards the wave, and their bodies were inevitably stained by the tide.
They were just an investigation team, without any powerful weapons, and even refused support - they knew they would definitely die here.
The Luozi creature finally rushed forward.
The moment the two sides came into contact, blood spattered out, accompanied by shrill screams.
This is a bloody fight, a battle between monsters and monsters.
Teammates died one by one, but the man still stood there. He was not connected to the personality network because he had to see it.
During the war, the man was hit and lost an arm, but he did not make a sound. He still stared at the door.
Then, he saw the figure appearing in the door...
"It's the third one..."
He used the last of his strength and roared. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the young man who had destroyed the chip and was running back without his life.
This bitch is greedy for life and afraid of death.
Forget it, anyway... none of us can survive.
"Copy that." The voice on the other end of the communication line was still cold, "Have a good trip."
The next moment, the man was torn apart by the rushing creatures.
"Boom!" His remains exploded.
This is "shadow".
They guard mankind like shadows, and will choose to die with their enemies when faced with death.
They can connect to Luozi's network and gain power, but this power will also corrode their minds. Therefore, everyone has a bomb in their heart.
Unlike the natural network creatures, the core of a human being who becomes a network creature will only be formed in the heart. This new core will detonate a bomb and completely destroy the human being who has not yet completely turned into a monster.
The person in the door appeared. He looked like a man with brown hair and flames billowing behind his back.
Everything calms down.
The third one - let's call him this, he is sitting on a high throne, his eyes are not knowing where to look. Behind him was an endless legion of Luozi, among which there was a young man with lifeless eyes, as if he had no heart - indeed, a blue square that was darker than his skin was slowly rotating on his left chest.
