The repair work would take about two hours, so Lu Ning naturally couldn't be idle. After leaving Spider Silkworm Bait Recorder and three others to watch here, she took the rest of the people and continued to explore this energy layer.
After just turning two corners, everyone came to a small circular rest area. There are many doors on the surrounding walls. According to the template, it provides a series of rooms for working or holding small meetings.
"There doesn't seem to be any biological damage here... huh?" Spade had just walked half a circle around the wall when he suddenly noticed that a door was not closed.
"Captain! There is a door here that is not closed. Someone should have entered after the energy was cut off, otherwise the door will close automatically!"
"I know, be careful." Lu Ning pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the door, "Tiemei, open the door."
"coming!"
This time, no special tools were needed. Iron Eyebrow pressed against the wall next to the door, raised his hand and swatted the door open. Then with a quick flash, Lu Ning immediately conducted an all-round scan behind the door.
"No reaction, safe." She quickly said the result. The team members breathed a sigh of relief, but still cautiously turned on the lights and shined light inside.
This time I finally saw a complete body.
"Dragon Vein will probably be very happy to see it." Spades squatted down next to the corpse, "This guy is actually wearing a nuclear, biological and chemical protective suit, which is different from those in the corridor. It seems that he has been living here for a while. Looks like..."
"Get out of the way." Lu Ning walked over. The two medical soldiers were not there. Yang Hao was good at extracting specimens but not very good at autopsy, so she had to come by herself.
After taking off the helmet of the protective suit, it was obvious that he was a member of the Azure Dragon Alliance. Lu Ning also found relevant information through facial information comparison - Lieutenant Xu Zhenxing, captain of the advance team number B3745 defense team. In the returned information, his outpost number was 48, which means that the outpost was built not too early. Night.
As for the specific personal evaluation, he is bold, careful, and has unique combat and strategic vision. He has noticed subtle dangers several times and led the team to respond in advance. If he had not been such a reliable person, he probably would not have been given such a responsibility.
Lu Ning glanced at the protective clothing again.
"No one is allowed to remove the spacesuit equipment without an order." She warned, then took off the protective suit and took off the personal terminal on Xu Zhenxing's arm. This person was an excellent soldier, so he would definitely leave some clues even before his death. Lu Ning was able to bypass the terminal authentication authority and quickly read the contents. The only pity was that the advance team used personal terminals from decades ago, which were not as advanced as those equipped by Lu Ning and others. They could only Perform voice and text input and output.
She looked at the extra audios and documents in her list and chose the most recent date.
An audio piece was played, starting with heavy and somewhat rapid breathing.
[Advanced team B3745, captain of the defense team Xu Zhenxing. Now I stay in the energy level conference room, in a safe environment. But my personal symptoms are already obvious. I don't have high expectations for support from the remaining outposts, and support from the Alliance will not arrive for several years or even ten years. This protective suit can preserve my body, and I hope it will help in the subsequent identification of the members.
As I said before, prepare yourself for the best possible protection. The threat of the phantom beasts themselves is only a few C-level ones that need to be considered, but what is more serious is the symptoms that will break out one after another. The advance team was almost completely wiped out, and I think other outposts might not have been spared either.
The things hidden on this planet... no, I should say, the things hidden in this galaxy are deeper than we think. The only hope is Outpost No. 1. The vision of Mr. Pang Xu and Captain Zheng Heng is not comparable to ours. There is a star map of the Phantom Star in my room, please go there, I believe they will not die.
Finally, as a soldier, I must at least choose to die as a soldier of the alliance instead of becoming a human being and a ghost. Please say sorry to my family, if they are still alive. 】
Audio is interrupted.
"It's a disease." Lu Ning opened the team channel and said concisely.
"Sickness? What is it? Captain, what did you find?" Spider Silk responded immediately.
"The last words and records left by a soldier." Lu Ning said and swiped the screen. There were a lot of files in it, but it was difficult to tell whether they were relevant information from the names. It would take a long time to read them all. time.
"Did you mention something happened here?"
"I listened to the last words first. It seems that a disease has spread here. It is still not allowed to remove any components of the space suit to prevent the pathogenic factors from remaining."
She opened the files one by one as quickly as possible and quickly browsed the keywords inside. When she reached the middle part, she saw some records.
[The sample organisms brought back by Dr. Luo Qing have successfully reproduced, but due to complex reasons such as living space, we must assist in transporting the second generation organisms to an ecological cage with ready sight lines in another area. I personally don't like those beasts. Although mammals that lay eggs are not unheard of, it is still a bit difficult for me to accept.
But according to the doctor, these creatures have very important research value. Judging from the gene extraction results, they should be relatively ancient species on this planet. If detailed research is carried out, we can even understand the various environmental and climate changes that have occurred here... …Anyway, it’s not my field.
But those eggs are not as sticky and disgusting as in horror movies. From a distance, it looks like a gem. The soft but tough surface layer does not protect itself with a hard shell like the eggs of many creatures.
To prevent accidents, I will record Dr. Luo Qing’s words here.
The research team named it primordial egg, but I was not informed of the specific reason. It comes from the phantom beast Jade Layer Lizard, a reptilian creature with a D-level danger. Note that it only looks similar to a lizard. We occasionally encounter this kind of phantom beast when we perform patrols and collection tasks. They have little desire to attack and will not actively attack as long as they are not within five meters of them. 】
Lu Ning read it while reading it. After she read this simple note, Spider Silk quickly said: "It sounds very similar to the thing we found."
"Well, it's still not very professional. Even if species cannot be clearly classified because of alien planets, then at least the appearance must be described in detail." Yang Hao said slightly critically, "People back then were still not professional enough."
"This sounds like a casual note. Old man, you are too strict." Spade said with a smile, "Captain, is there any place where you write about this or other phantom beast? I remember that the alliance does not need to conduct species inspections. Rename unless there is a strong specificity.”
"I'm looking for it." Lu Ning replied.
"About diseases... it's hard to say. The most common thing in space expansion is the invasion of pathogens. Outsiders will bring new microorganisms and viruses to the planet. At the same time, they do not have the corresponding antigens for the diseases on the planet." Yang Hao said, "In the early days of interstellar development, many people died because of this kind of thing, and we even lost two habitable planets."
"Because of this, all subsequent developments will be accompanied by a dedicated medical team to develop targeted general-purpose vaccines. Of course, after the advent of adaptive immunity vaccines twenty years ago, children born since then have not had such Such troubles." Qiu Shu said.
"But none of us here were born within twenty years... Oh, is this what we were injected with before setting off?" Yang Hao suddenly realized.
"You can think so." Lu Ning said, "We have almost all the alliance's highest technological achievements. We never skimp on strength in space development... We found it."
She flipped through some documents and found an introduction to the Phantom Beast.
[Communication from Outpost 1. (backup)
According to Mr. Pang Xu's research, the classification of the corresponding fantasy star creatures is currently changed to "phantom beasts" according to the content of the following documents.
At present, it has been discovered that some organisms have unnatural growth organs, characteristics, abilities, etc., and the reasons have not yet been identified. Before eliminating the interference of unknown civilization, the document will be classified according to its content and sent to the seventy-nine outposts established so far. All personnel must read through and understand the contents.
This document will be managed and processed in accordance with the confidentiality chapter of the Canglong Alliance's "Nebula Development Law".
Commander of Outpost 1
Lu Tongyun]
"This was a famous figure back then. Why did he disappear so quietly?" Spade suddenly realized.
"Who? Pang Xu?" Longmai also joined in.
"No, Lu Tongyun. This man is in charge of cleaning the waterways in the army. His reputation for those battles is still spread among the star thieves and mercenaries. If he hadn't been suddenly transferred away at that time, the Canglong Alliance's waterways would still be able to continue. Fifty years of solid work.”
"It's very stable now." Qiu Shu said.
"Hahaha, deputy captain, I won't refute you, but you may not know as much as I do about this." Spade was happy.
"But I have heard about Pang Xu." Long Mei said, "I read two papers written by him when I was studying bioengineering and ship design. They must be early results. Although from today's perspective, I have read two papers written by him. It's not perfect, but the aura in it really makes people feel that this is a very talented person. Later, I checked the index in the library but couldn't find many of his papers, and I was surprised how such a genius had declined."
"Obviously it's not that it has declined. It's because it was so powerful that it was directly invited to the military and went through top-secret procedures." Yang Hao snorted, "In short, they found signs of unnatural evolution of these creatures, and then renamed and stipulated A set of identification standards? The response was very quick.”
"Yes, but according to this backup, since the regulations of "Nebula Development" are followed, it cannot be saved in the personal terminal. The central control room database must be repaired to retrieve the relevant files." After Dragon Vein finished speaking, Suddenly he added: "There is going to be light, everyone!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding scene suddenly lit up. The adaptive system of the helmet was activated, turning off some light-sensitive capture, and switching to the natural light observation state. Everyone finally saw the surroundings through the helmet smoothly and smoothly.
"It's more comfortable to see things with your eyes. Well done, Dragon Vein!" Spades was in a better mood.
"What's going on around here?" Lu Ning asked.
"Safe." Recorder answered there, "There are no traces of biological activity around, nor are they attracted by light. Can the lighting be maintained? Captain?"
"Okay, Dragon Vein, are you sure it can provide the operation of the central control room?"
"The central control room was originally designed to be activated by any source of energy. With the current repairs, it is not difficult to maintain an area. We just have to be careful about what might damage it after we leave," Longmai said.
Lu Ning nodded slightly: "Regardless of that, don't separate the team when we go to the lower level. The most important thing is that we enter the central control room as soon as possible to restore the self-control system here."
"Don't look at the record?"
"Don't worry, I'll make you puke when the central control room recovers the information there." Qiu Shu joked.
The team quickly regrouped. Under the lighting conditions, the creatures did not seem to come out. A team of people arrived at the stairs smoothly. Lu Ning still went down first, and the people behind followed closely. However, the ninth floor was quiet. , no fighting occurred.
"Is it safe?" Bayonet asked in a low voice, still aiming the gun. After all, the power supply here has not been restored and it is still dark.
"It looks like there's nothing wrong with it." The recorder flashed the searchlight twice and collected the surrounding objects, but everyone soon let out a gasp.
From the captured images, it was clear that there were a large number of primitive eggs of the kind seen before piled up at the corner of the corridor in front. What made people feel even more ominous was that all of these eggs were in a state of bursting.
"How many are there?" Chongbai asked.
"God knows... there are close to twenty of them just illuminated." Yang Hao said coldly, "If these phantom beasts really have any unusual abilities, they might be very difficult to deal with."
"Anyway, let's check the situation first." Qiu Shu took down a reconnaissance drone and released it. Just as everyone thought, there were more ruptured eggs behind the corner. This number has exceeded the normal range of specimens. It must not have been the people from the outpost who gathered here consciously.
"Where are the things inside? They hatched and they had to—"
Before Spades could finish speaking, a black object suddenly popped up from where the drone was shooting at the corner. Before most people could react, Clarinet instantly set up his gun and fired, accurately hitting the target with one round of ammunition. That thing was knocked down.
"Tongue!" Yanghao shouted, "It's those green-layered lizards!"
"Thank you for remembering such a difficult name!" Spade shouted, raising his gun to shoot out the bullets. The high-temperature trajectory traveled through the air, quickly lighting up the space in front of him, and at the same time burning the body of a lizard.
"Is this a chameleon?" Tiemei roared. The beaten lizard was hiding on the outermost surface of the egg shells, but its body was almost the same color, making it extremely difficult to distinguish.
"This thing has no biological reaction. It can even assimilate with the surrounding ambient temperature." Qiu Shu glanced at the picture returned by the drone again, "Captain! We can't risk going deep."
"I know, Tiemei, prepare the negative decomposition burner. Before entering the central control room, we have to do some cleaning work." Lu Ning replied calmly.
