Nearly dark blue flames spurted out from the black tube, and Iron Eyebrow advanced step by step, and everything touched by the flames was instantly incinerated into powder.
This is an unconventional flame that cannot even be called a flame. It does not have the continuous property of fire, but it is also a kind of "burning". Its root lies in the new material "negative decomposition fiber" discovered by the alliance on a resource star, a special substance that can cut chemical bonds. Of course, this is essentially just a special interference. When the burner stops, the interference will also stop. If the ions scattered on the ground are reassembled, they will definitely not be in the original state of matter.
By the way, the current way to withstand this kind of attack is single-material armor, such as the material of the burner.
Even if these eggshells and the lizards lurking in them are unusual, they are still within the category of living things. Naturally, there is no room for resistance when encountering such a top-notch killer weapon. What's more, Spades, Bayonet, and Recorder kept using bursts of fire to bring out the hidden lizards. The passage was not wide to begin with, and the few hiding here quickly turned into debris on the ground together with the egg shells.
"A path has been burned." Tiemei extinguished the flame in his hand, "But the number is not enough, captain. The ones we just blasted out were only about a dozen, and here there are hundreds."
"It's not certain whether they are still here," Yang Hao said. "Judging from the state of the eggs, I'm afraid it will take several years for them to hatch. It's not certain where these big guys can go."
"Yes, although the outpost is relatively closed, it is not without any entrances and exits. Some of the garbage canals are so big that they can crawl out when they are just born." Longmai said, "I am even more curious about the ones left behind, how they grow. Big ones? What do you eat? These eggs don’t look like they’ve been eaten?”
"...We have a lot of problems." Lu Ning said, "Can you open the central control room first and then use your imagination?"
"I hope there aren't any other monsters there." Spade said helplessly.
I don’t know whether it was Spade who was really that lucky, or whether this area really lacked the necessary food sources for survival. In short, everyone did not encounter other phantom beasts after passing through the passage where the original eggs were. Lu Ning was a little surprised that she came to the door of the central control room so easily.
The energy source has been repaired before, and here we only need to restore the circuit connection. About five minutes later, Longmai opened the door to the central control room. The huge room and a large number of complex equipment were arranged in categories. Qiu Shu, the last one to come in, turned on the lights on the wall, and warm white light shone in the room.
"This should be the surveillance area." Lu Ning walked to a place where there were many screens arranged, and there were some other functions next to it. But of course, the most important thing now was to resume surveillance as quickly as possible and figure out the overall situation of the outpost. She The first task is not shown as completed yet.
Longmai walked to the row of black boxes in the middle, connected the connection cable again, and began to restart. But he soon encountered some obstacles.
"Captain, there seems to be some obstruction in the east production block outside. Two error signals have been reported. I think we have to go and investigate."
"Isn't there a fantasy beast there? Let's prepare some powerful weapons and kill them directly." Spade stood up, but Lu Ning asked him to sit down.
"Bayoto, Iron Eyebrow, Spider Silk, you three come with me, the rest stay here."
"Isn't this bad, captain?" Qiu Shu was a little confused, "It's obvious that it's best to allocate enough combat power to deal with the obvious battle."
"You have to stay here to ensure that nothing happens in the central control room. I don't want to take most of the people away and end up losing the central control room when they come back. Don't forget that there are still countless lizards in there." Lu Ning said. .
The captain's orders can never be refuted, and Qiu Shu only makes suggestions. Lu Ning left the central control room with three people and hurried to the east side.
"Captain, it's easy to understand that you have a bayonet and an iron eyebrow. Why did you call me? I'm not very good at fighting." Spider Silk asked as he ran.
"I need to bring a medic with me. Insect bait is not suitable. Although the sheep's hair can make a cameo, it is not as professional as you."
"Medic?" Tiemei frowned.
"Probably for genetic testing." Bayonet whispered.
Lu Ning raised her eyebrows. Although the bayonet didn't like to talk, it hit the mark every time. She really wanted to conduct a genetic test on the creature that was causing trouble there. After all, the ninth floor is not a very livable environment, and only a few of the lizards are left. Why would other creatures block one place and interfere with the circuit? Those are not external wires, they are all buried in the wall.
There is no blockade here. Lu Ning has turned on the black light when he is close to the target. It is completely invisible to the naked eye but can be captured by optical instruments. It is another kind of lighting for the team with the corresponding detection system.
"It's that thing." Bayonet quickly noticed several creatures lying on the walls and ceiling like jellyfish. They seemed to be asleep. Only one "jellyfish" on the wall had something in its translucent body. The purple light flashed, and at the same time it slowly expanded and contracted like breathing. The tiny tentacle-like limbs that popped up from its body pierced the wall. Seeing this scene, no more evidence was needed to conclude that the problem just now was caused by this "jellyfish".
"They can pierce the wall. Either they have abnormal hardness or they have some special ability. There are regulations for the metal of the walls of the outpost." Lu Ning said in a low voice, "Bayonets, reduce the output rate of cutting bullets, and activate the silencer apocalypse. We will Try the one that’s awake.”
"Yes." Bayonet responded, squatted down, pulled out the second half of the extended butt of the rifle, mounted it under the barrel and stabilized it, then adjusted the shooting mode selection and took aim.
She was very focused. As Lu Ning understood from the information, most of the bayonet's scores were average. Only the shooting, firearms and reconnaissance scores were extremely high. It was an out-and-out "bayonet".
The Zhanqie bomb made a perfect shot. Only Lu Ning could capture the undetectable air disturbance during the shooting. Even a flash of fire was covered up by the debris on both sides, and it hit the "jellyfish" silently. The soft translucent shell quickly dented inward, forming a cone mark, but it quickly bounced back violently. The bayonet turned his head slightly to one side, and the wind blew across the side of the helmet and crashed out of the metal wall behind it. A loud sound.
"Ballistic retrieval, not an intentional attack." Bayonet didn't care about the danger just now and opened his mouth to report.
"What is the penetration of the chopping round at its current power?"
"Coefficient zero point eight."
Lu Ning glanced at the "jellyfish" who had no further reaction, and asked: "If the coefficient is adjusted to two, can I shoot while ensuring my own safety?"
"If it's like that just now, no problem." The bayonet immediately began to adjust, and after a few seconds it was aimed again.
Iron Eyebrow and Spider Silk took a step back. With a crackling sound, the air flow almost visible to the naked eye roared towards the jellyfish with a sound of breaking through the air. At this moment, the jellyfish suddenly fell off the wall. The powerful bullet hit the wall directly, and a triangular groove was knocked out by the cutting bullet, and Lu Ning immediately raised his finger -
Indigo lasers shot out from her fingertips, and the jellyfish on the ground rolled to avoid the laser attack, suddenly spread its tentacles and plunged into a pile of waste next to it.
"Sure enough, someone is controlling..."
Lu Ning snorted coldly, ducked over and was about to give chase, but suddenly saw a "person" standing up from the pile of rubbish.
All the tentacles of the jellyfish were now pierced into the back of the man's head, and the purple light in the body became brighter. Lu Ning could soon vaguely see that there seemed to be a brain inside the jellyfish. In such a parasitic state, Lu Ning quickly switched from ordinary laser beam to destructive energy impact, and the purple-black energy began to accumulate at the fingertips.
Who knew that the body controlled by the jellyfish actually spoke: "Wait... a moment, I am... from here."
"Who would believe what you say?" Bayonet crouched on a box and said calmly.
"I can communicate...right. I just...have been silent for too long. I will be able to...become more fluent soon, right?" The jellyfish man raised his arms stiffly and waved his hands vigorously, "You are the rescuers. Team? It’s inevitable to become like this, otherwise you will die.”
"Then tell me your identity. You won't say that this corpse is you, right?" Lu Ning did not release the shooting state, but just opened his terminal query system.
"Luo Qing, we are all researchers here, and we may be the last survivors here." The jellyfish man said hurriedly.
Luo Qing? This name was also mentioned in Xu Zhenxing's documents, and his status was not low. The person he holds at this outpost should be a position similar to the leader of a research team. If it is really him, then he should know a lot about what happened here.
"You just said that you are all jellyfish?"
"They're not jellyfish, their name is floating brain fluid."
"This name sounds disgusting," Spider Silk said, "And is it really good to become this virtuous? Are you living by controlling your body now?"
"There is nothing we can do otherwise. The outpost is full of phantom beasts. If you don't become one of them, you will be devoured by them." Luo Qing said with some regret, "None of us realized that the danger was approaching, although Someone has also released information to other outposts, and I'm afraid it's also a disaster."
"How did you survive?" Lu Ning asked.
"Hibernation." Luo Qing pointed to the "jellyfish" on the back of his head. "This creature has the ability to actively resemble a hibernation state. Once dormant, it can ensure that itself and the brain preserved inside do not need any energy supply for a long time. And relying on this We can also break away from the constraints of ordinary bodies and control these creatures as long as they are made of organic matter."
"There are some drawbacks to being so convenient." Spider Silk crossed her arms, "For example, the people around you haven't woken up yet?"
"Yes, once you enter hibernation, you must be stimulated by the outside world to wake up. Ordinary sounds and lights are useless, so we tried to extend the tentacles into the wall. Once someone wants to restart the outpost, we can Awakening through electric current stimulation." Luo Qing explained in detail, "But you don't seem to have fully restarted, so I'm the only one who woke up."
"Okay, tell us, what happened here? The number of fantasy beasts here is obviously wrong. No matter what regulations, you will not be allowed to store so many dangerous samples." Lu Ning lowered his hand slightly.
"To be honest, we didn't have time to conduct detailed research." Luo Qing shook his head. "The situation broke out in one day. We only had time to blockade some areas and issue a notification, and most of the areas fell. . Emergency research could only find that everyone was infected with the same phantom star disease, but there was no chance to conduct pathological research because the relevant experimental area had been captured by phantom beasts. A researcher and I came here under the protection of soldiers, We planned to close the external channel of the central control room, but someone in the team soon fell ill..."
"Wait a minute." Spider Silk raised her hand, "Sometimes it's a fantasy beast, and sometimes it's a disease. What's going on?"
"We also don't know that patients with the disease will have symptoms of gibbering, hallucinations and mania in a short period of time, and soon turn into constant gibberish, telling about some horrific events they have experienced or heard about. The problem is , if there are phantom beasts nearby, then these phantom beasts will gradually acquire the terrifying abilities described by those people."
"What?" Spider Silk interrupted him again, "People fall into hallucinations, and then the hallucinations come true? Is this disease called 'wishful thinking'?"
"Spider silk, it's not that simple. Let Dr. Luo Qing continue." Lu Ning said.
Luo Qing nodded: "We also find it very strange! We can only abandon those who are sick, but the phantom beasts are becoming more and more powerful. Later, someone discovered that as long as the sick person dies, then the phantom beasts have corresponding The ability disappears... so..."
"The military's crisis handling style." Lu Ning said, "However, there should be only a few military commanders who can make such a decisive decision. Unfortunately, it is still too late."
"Yes, the number of phantom beasts has become very large. I am afraid that someone has thought about things like proliferation, and this type of disease cannot be cured even if the sick person dies. Our number is getting smaller and smaller. Even if we want to blockade this place It was too late, the fantasy beasts had already arrived in this area. In desperation, I thought of the floating brain fluid, so I brought everyone here. Who wants to be like this? Isn’t it all about living? "
"It sounds like you sacrificed a lot of people." Lu Ning sighed.
"Yes, in the end only a few researchers had the chance to save their brains."
"I don't know how many lies you told, but thank you for your explanation."
After Lu Ning said these words, a purple-black destructive beam penetrated the head of the body in front of him. The jellyfish attached to the back could not block the attack of this high-destructive weapon. It exploded, and the liquid inside was shattered. All the brains fell to the ground.
"Captain?" Spider Silk was suddenly startled, but neither Bayonet nor Iron Eyebrow reacted at all.
"Spider Silk, don't get too involved." Lu Ning said, and then went to call the jellyfish one by one. Here, Bayonet and Tiemei explained to her.
