After talking to most people, there was only one bug bait left. Lu Ning is not worried about the insect bait problem, mainly because she knows that even talking will not have much effect on him. The summary of the military's evaluation is that Chongbai is an honest person, but once his psychological endurance is exceeded, he will immediately take drastic actions regardless of the consequences. Instead of chatting like this, it would be better to directly talk about the consequences to alert him.
When she returned to the outpost, there was already a bright light in the corridor, and the unique smell of metal permeated the automatically cleaned walls - although Lu Ning couldn't really smell it.
She took the elevator back to the central control room and found that the three people who stayed here were pouring brewed coffee into the liquid food delivery container of the protective suit. They even greeted Lu Ning when she saw her return.
"No...thank you." Lu Ning waved her hand.
"Captain, Longmai has repaired the biological detector. We conducted an in-station scan of the outpost after the overall sterilization, but no dangerous pathogenic bacteria or viruses were found."
"If it were so easy to find, then the advance team would not be tricked. Anyway, restore the production chain here first, and we will set out to search this area tomorrow."
"We can dispatch drones. My military drone module has been loaded onto the production line by Dragon Vein. Twenty-four reconnaissance drones can take aerial photos of the entire mountainous area within an hour." Qiu Shu said.
"Yes, but more importantly, we need to check the strength of the wild phantom beasts here. Qiu Shu, if you send a drone and need to stay here, then I will take the spades and the recorder together."
"Leave it to me." Qiu Shu nodded.
The captain and deputy captain quickly decided on tomorrow's itinerary, and the team members could not have any objections. Lu Ning checked the working status of each instrument, then returned to the monitor screen, flattened his chair and closed his eyes.
Sleep until dawn.
"There must be something wrong here!"
"Then what's the problem? Can you point it out first?"
"There is no sample, no evidence, what do you want me to point out? This is the intuition of biologists!"
Lu Ning shook her head, turned to look over, and found a group of people gathered in front of Qiu Shu's workbench.
"What happened?" She directly switched to the team channel.
"Captain is awake?" Qiu Shu said, with a hint of humor in his tone. Since the vice-captain is like this, it means it's not a big deal.
"Explain it to me."
"To put it simply, I restored part of the original surveillance video. Unfortunately, during the chaos, the circuits in most areas were seriously disturbed, and I could only find the ones from the normal period. However, when everyone watched the video, Yang Hao pointed out that there was a problem in one place, but everyone After looking at it for a long time and still unable to see what the problem was, Spider Silk and Spades started arguing with him."
"Yanghao, tell me."
"Captain, I'm not relying on my old skills, this is experience and intuition. We don't have the video of the chaos when it happened, so we can't confirm it. I can only say that there must be something wrong with this place."
Lu Ning had already stood up and walked over there. Everyone moved out of the way. He tapped the console a few times and rewind the video back to where he pointed out the problem.
It was a biological sample laboratory, recording the "reproduction" process of an E-class creature. Of course, Lu Ning was not sure whether this was considered true, because the creature under the lens was a mushroom-like thing, huge. The umbrella cover protected the tiny body underneath, and eight slender, spider-like legs supported the body.
First, the center of the gray-brown "mushroom" part above began to crack, and the cracks extended to the edges in a four-pointed star shape. This crack quickly spread to the body below, and some yellow-brown juice flowed out, and then the body was evened out. The ground split into four pieces and fell to the ground.
After two or three seconds, new slender legs began to wriggle out from the trunk below, and yellow-brown juice also gushes out from the inside, covering the cut surface of the mushroom. The detection system inside the laboratory seemed to be aware of this situation, and sprayed some light green nutrient solution on the mushroom along a thin tube. Its regeneration speed gradually accelerated, and soon the trunk part was completely grown, with only four parts left. One of the umbrella canopies also slowly shrinks into an oval, but the newly formed part is slightly smaller.
"What's the problem?" Lu Ning also looked confused after watching this process.
"Here." Yang Hao slowed down the video and adjusted it to the point where the mushroom split into four pieces and the fallen torso began to recover.
Lu Ning looked carefully for a long time, but still couldn't find out what was wrong. Yang Hao couldn't explain why. He thought for a while and then said: "I just think there is something about this recovery method..."
"Um...you mean that the liquid didn't come out when its feet were recovering?"
Yang Hao clapped his hands fiercely: "Let me tell you where the sense of disobedience lies! That's right, isn't it strange that the foot grows first and then tissue fluid covers the wound?"
"What's weird?" Spades was unconvinced, "Maybe the energy needed to grow feet is relatively small, so it's not necessary?"
"No... it proliferates through division." Lu Ning stared at the video and said, "The original body has the feet on the outside. The normal idea is to grow the body first, and then extend the feet from the top. There will be this In the opposite order...Spider silk, what is the record of this 'mushroom' in the database?"
"Split mushroom." Spider Silk quickly retrieved the information from the file, "E-level threat, with both animal and plant properties, divides and proliferates, but can move short distances with its eight legs. When it divides, it secretes The tissue fluid has also been studied. It is a cell activity stimulating substance that can be used as medicine and can quickly heal general wounds. However, out of caution, the drug is still in the experimental stage and has not yet entered the human trial period."
"That's all?" Yang Hao turned around and asked.
"Yanghao, there are D-class creatures in the sample library. E-class creatures were not originally on the priority list. Every phantom beast here is a brand new species. Although the outpost is very large, it does not have that many manpower." Spider Silk said, "There are only four professional biological research groups in total, and they all have experimental projects at hand. You are also studying biology, so you should know how long this kind of completely unknown research lasts, right?"
"……snort."
"But they did ignore the characteristics that some low-threat creatures may have. Since phantom beasts have some unique properties, this one is probably no exception. Dragon Vein, are there any samples in the outpost now?"
"No, after all, they are not real mushrooms. They grow everywhere. This laboratory has been empty for a long time. They probably ran away." Dragon Vein shrugged.
"It doesn't matter, as long as they still exist on this planet, then we can get new samples. Today, Spades and Recorder went hunting with me, and the others were in the central control room helping Qiu Shu draw the surrounding terrain map with a drone , I want to check and accept the work when I come back."
"learn!"
"Captain, are three people enough? We still don't know the danger outside." Tie Mei asked.
"We will not go deep into dangerous areas, and the detection device will also help us avoid some risks in advance. The outpost needs to be guarded, and the power of your weapons in open terrain will be weakened unless high-lethal means are used. But we are hunting, and we are not There is no need to kill prey and bring back food.”
"Okay." Tiemei nodded and sat in his seat, and began to schedule the security robots arranged by Longmai.
As for Spades and Recorder, they were very excited. One is active and the other loves fighting. These two people cannot be idle in the outpost. It was with this in mind that Lu Ning chose these two people.
After making some adjustments to his equipment, Lu Ning took the two of them and set off. As they climbed over a low slope, several black spots passed over their heads. They were the reconnaissance drones released by Qiu Shu.
"They move very fast." Spade glanced up, "Speaking of Deputy Qiu's resume? Drone combat is not a method that conventional armies would use. This thing is too weak in the universe."
"Unfortunately, I don't know his past." Lu Ning just took a glance and focused on his surroundings again, "I only know that Qiu Shu is from the navy, and his rank seems to be a little lower than mine, that's all. "
"Thank you for trusting him..."
"Even I can believe you, let alone someone who is also from the army?" Lu Ning glanced at Spades, "If you have the ability, claim that you are a spy sent by mercenaries, and I can shoot you on the spot."
"Stop joking." Spai Tao also heard the joke in Lu Ning's words and was not afraid at all, "If we want to talk about danger here, the recorder is more dangerous, right?"
"Me?" Recorder wondered.
"I can roughly guess what most people here are thinking." Spades knocked on his helmet. "Including the captain and deputy captain, I actually know that I have not been discriminated against. But I can't see through you at all."
"Really? This is a compliment, right?" Recorder looked very happy, "When I was a soldier, the instructor scolded me for having a bad head."
"Is there still this matter?"
"Well, the instructor was quite fierce and didn't have a good look towards anyone... He took our group of people out and went back to the battlefield. He seemed to have died later. I don't know if he would have continued to curse people in another world. "The recorder said with some nostalgia.
Spades didn't say anything for a long time.
Lu Ning also probably understood why Recorder retired that year. According to the military's psychological analysis, her slightly neurotic state was already in a sub-healthy state, and she was not suitable to continue on the battlefield. But now it seems that she herself is not even aware of it.
"Captain, what is our hunting target today?" Recorder also ignored Spades' silence and asked Lu Ning instead.
"D-class creatures, about three." Lu Ning said, "Of course they must be of suitable size. It is not mandatory to be alive, but try to keep them complete. You should have prepared weapons."
"Um."
At this moment, a reaction appeared on Lu Ning's detector. It was a small life reaction signal, which was in a dense forest ahead.
"Optical invisibility." She ordered, and the bodies of the three of them glowed with a burst of light like soap bubbles, and then their body tones became almost the same as the environment.
"Two hundred and sixty meters ahead, share data and information. Spade, you first use the silenced attack to test, the number of targets is one." Lu Ning hid behind a rock, while Spade took a few steps forward and stood on a Behind a big tree.
Spade picked up the rifle that had been equipped with a sniper component in his hand, and flicked the module switch. His breathing quickly became undetectable, and his hands were steady and motionless. This was a result of many years of mercenary experience in combat. Literacy.
As if there was just a breeze blowing through the woods, the fingertip-sized pulse bullets passed through the dense forest and hit the target in a matter of breaths.
"Recorder."
Without Lu Ning saying a word, the recorder immediately rolled out of his hiding place and used the cover of trees, rocks, and slopes to move around to the target location from the flanks, while Lu Ning continued to share the data returned from his detector. , the life response is weakened, indicating that the bullet hits and starts to move, but the speed is not fast. The damage is considerable, but not fatal. The control of the spades is precise, the recorder should be able to do the same...
At this moment, she suddenly discovered that more than twenty detection signals appeared on the detector instantly, and all of them were medium-sized life forms.
"Recorder, pay attention to the signal, the threat level has been greatly increased."
"Knowing Captain, I have seen it. The one who was hit was a short man, but the one who came out of the soil was a big man."
"What a short, big guy! Do you think this is a potato? Come back quickly!" Spades yelled in the communication.
"No need." Recorder said with a slightly rapid and excited breath, "You can kill!"
"Spade, start the sentry, allow free sniper support, I will help the recorder, no need to panic." Lu Ning immediately walked out from the other side, gave instructions and quickly rushed to the battlefield ahead.
More than two hundred meters is only a dozen seconds for a professional soldier to sprint. The first thing Lu Ning stopped was the "short man" in the recorder's mouth. Spades was indeed right, this thing looked like a potato. , a round but pitted khaki body, with an ugly little head growing on it, four claws slapping the ground quickly, as if ready to dig out fallen leaves to cover itself, Lu Ning threw a magnetic lock on it, Then he rushed directly to the recorder.
The twenty-odd ones the recorder faced were no longer potatoes. They were covered with rock formations. Each one was nearly two meters tall, with short and thick legs but extremely strong arms. They made an unpleasant sound at the same time. Neighing while rushing towards the recorder. When Lu Ning arrived, the recorder had already chopped up a rock monster alive with a steel axe, and was using the terrain to move around to fight with the other two. The other rock monsters tried to swarm up but were always blocked. My companion stopped me.
Lu Ning glanced at the more than twenty potholes on the ground. Logically speaking, even if she was hiding in the ground, she would not be able to escape the detection device. But since she had not discovered it before, these creatures may also have unique properties...
"Ah, Captain! Are you here too? I really can't enjoy the fun of fighting alone!" Recorder caught a glimpse of Lu Ning and immediately shouted ecstatically.
"Catch the small one, kill the big one." Lu Ning said casually, took off the outer layer of his gloves, and sprayed out five red flames nearly one meter long from his fingertips, pointing them at the person closest to him like a flaming sword. A rock monster was chopped off on the head!
