"Abnormal invasions happen almost every day, but the situation in Area 95 that year was unique. Since there are mutually exclusive strengths and weaknesses between abnormal species, under normal circumstances, Baicheng will only be invaded by a few types of creatures at a time. But Area 95 and A large number of abnormal frequencies erupted in Area 99 in a very short period of time. Hundreds of them have been analyzed so far, and there are many more mysterious bands that are difficult to separate and analyze.
"Unfortunately, Area 99 is more complicated than Area 95. We found in the early sampling of Area 95 that the dominant frequencies mainly came from certain plants and insects, but the frequencies in Area 99 were disordered and balanced, and it was completely impossible to speculate on the possible source of the hyperabnormality. Which category among them, everything needs to be carefully investigated in the city.”
When Ding Ding began to list the currently known types of abnormalities, An Yu turned to look at Qin Zhilu.
Qin Zhilu had been looking out the window in a daze. This year, there has been unexpectedly less wind and snow in the suburbs of the main city, and the outside has become increasingly chaotic. However, the barrier function of the dome seems to be expanding, and several nearby districts have gained precious peace.
Order and disorder seem to have their own map, but no one can crack the code for their passage.
"Sir." An Yu called him back to his senses softly, "If Area 99 is also hopeless, will everything be cleared with a hot bomb like it was back then?"
Qin Zhilu came back to his senses, his eyes darkened.
Dingfeng sighed, "Since the disaster, the main city has devoted a lot of manpower and material resources to the management of Area 99. There have been internal proposals to abolish it, but it doesn't work - there is a unique substance numbered XB8219 in the shallow layer of Area 99, which can catalyze the core fuel of the dome. The previous energy core stored the radioactive energy of this fuel. To put it cruelly, no one in Area 99 can be left behind, but that place must not withstand the destruction of thermal weapons."
Qin Zhilu glanced at the microphone and finally said: "I am partially responsible for the failure of Area 95. I mistakenly infected the super abnormal body with my own genes, which instead gave it unlimited chaos and abilities. This time it will not happen If it happens again, we will find it as soon as possible and make it disappear cleanly."
"That's what I want to say too."
A group of photos of women, ranging from six or seven years old to those in their twenties, popped up on the screen. He has long dark gray hair that reaches his waist, fair skin color and deep eye sockets that are unique to people in high latitudes. In the photo when she was a child, her eyes were clear and helpless, like a frightened deer. As she grew older, those eyes gradually became brighter and sharper, her outline became more heroic, and her eyebrows revealed bravery and fearlessness.
"Sienna, Sienna, I think you haven't forgotten her yet." Dingfeng said.
Qin Zhilu stared at the woman's latest photo, "S."
An Yu clicked on S's information.
Tang Ru and others were staying in a B&B in Yuge Snowfield. Sienna was an orphan adopted by the boss and was only four years old. On the day when the mystery arrived, she was also nearby, with a straight-line distance of less than one kilometer. She was the person considered to be at the highest risk of exposure besides Tang Ru and Zhan Xue.
Sienna has been in the brain for a full ten years. There is no abnormality in her genetic entropy, so she only needs to be monitored and does not need to undergo any experiments. During the period of recuperation after the experiment, Qin Zhilu often saw her pressing her face against the glass and looking in, with fear in her big eyes, as if she was afraid that it would be her turn next.
Qin Zhilu scrolled through the information on the screen carelessly, "I haven't read her partner's report for a long time. The last time was half a year ago. She said she stopped hunting and opened a bar instead?"
In the photo, Siena is wearing a cool long brown trench coat and a pair of riding boots, chatting with the drinkers on a high stool behind the bar.
"Yes. There has been nothing unusual about Siena for so many years. But three days ago, her partner reported her disappearance. After the main city responded, no more communications were received." Dingfeng paused, "She and her There is no news from the monitoring partners now. Black Tower highly suspects that Siena is related to the anomaly in Area 99. If there are no other clues, it is recommended to start by looking for Siena."
After Ding Ding finished speaking, Qin Zhilu did not respond. He stared at the air as if deep in thought. Ding Ding asked, "Do you have concerns?"
"Huh?" Qin Zhilu came back to his senses, "What are you worried about?"
"You were in the brain with her for ten years."
Qin Zhilu raised his eyebrows in surprise, then smiled sarcastically, "Heita is overly worried."
He said in a deep and meaningful voice: "In those years, except for the people who the Black Tower tacitly allowed me to contact, I never talked to anyone."
An Yu looked up at the screen - he really wanted to see Feng Feng's expression at this moment, but there was only empty information and photos on the screen.
So he decisively asked: "What resources do we have available?"
"The branch team of the military in District 99 will arrange for people to pick you up. One thing that is both lucky and weird is that there is still communication signal coverage in District 99. Although the signal quality is very poor, it has never disappeared. That bait city has not appeared yet. A very obvious chaos." Ding Ding paused and sighed: "Perhaps everything will become silent under the frost and snow."
An Yu nodded, "Where are the personnel?"
Dingfeng pondered for a moment, "For this kind of taboo mission, it is always recommended that senior executives go alone to minimize the impact. But since you want to follow, you can bring one or two more assistants."
"An, Ning." An Yu said, "We will leave at any time."
Black Tower and Brain held a day-and-night meeting. With the lessons learned from Area 95, no one was optimistic that Area 99 could retain a few percent of the human race.
After dinner, An Yu sat in the room packing equipment. He accompanied Qin Zhilu on countless missions, and his personal weapons still only had the [Order] dagger he initially obtained, and the other bandages he was used to wearing around his neck and wrists. In previous missions, his superiors bought him mechanical wings to assist in action, but they were not needed in the snowfield, so An Yu carefully put them away in the cabinet.
Sleeping peacefully in the cabinet was a heavy flame sniper, Ling Qiu's [Breaking Dawn].
"Do you want to bring it?" Qin Zhilu, who was sitting on the sofa, asked casually: "You have never used this gun except when you used it to hit the freaks in Area 53. Do you want to try it?"
"I don't dare to shoot, and I can only use it as a stick." An Yu sighed, "Forget it, this operation needs to be low-key."
Qin Zhilu did not force him and changed himself into a new pair of leather gloves.
An Yu glanced at the gun holster strapped to his thigh through the open lapel of his windbreaker, "Are you still only carrying this gun?"
Qin Zhilu nodded casually, "That's enough."
An Yu looked down and landed on the backpack that was thrown at Qin Zhilu's feet, "You used to rarely carry a backpack when you went on missions."
"I brought a few extra magazines, spare gloves, and -" Qin Zhilu paused, raised his foot and kicked the bag, so that the open mouth of the bag faced An Yu, "There are fewer people this time, so I'll carry some for you." Rations.”
A large number of fancy packaging bags were exposed from the mouth of the bag, including the energy bars commonly seen in Minaret, as well as An Yu's usual favorite chocolates and buns.
An Yu opened his mouth in surprise and looked back and forth between the backpack and the officer's face.
Qin Zhilu raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong?"
"You——" An Yu paused, "really didn't realize it?"
"Realize what?"
"You look more and more like 716." An Yu couldn't help but lower his voice as he said, "716 is not wrong, it just accelerated the deduction of what you will look like..."
Qin Zhilu frowned when he heard this, "Don't compare me with AI. Any deviation in accuracy of AI will be amplified with the deduction. It already has too many things that don't belong to me."
An Yu didn't refute, lowered his head and continued to apply the bandage on his wrist.
Qin Zhilu frowned and looked at him, "If you have something to say, just say it. Don't always look like you're being bullied by me and don't dare to speak out."
"There's nothing to say." An Yu said calmly: "It just shows a lot of things that you have suppressed. You won't admit it, so I won't say it."
The person on the sofa suddenly stood up and strode towards An Yu.
Qin Zhilu stood in front of An Yu. His condescending posture naturally created a sense of oppression. He changed to squatting down and asked in a low voice: "You are not afraid of me at all now, are you?"
An Yu thought carefully and nodded, "I'm not afraid anymore."
"Where did it start?" Qin Zhilu recalled, "I became your assistant in the orphanage?"
An Yu shook his head.
"Have we been on too many missions together?"
"No." An Yu raised his head and stared at the pair of black eyes across from you, "I'm just getting to know you better and better, and I also understand the operating rules of this main human city."
According to the risk control principle of the Black Tower, the original execution order for him must be true, and it must be a secret execution, just like it was for Zhan Xue. The executioner will be randomly selected from those on duty that day, and that person will not know who he is killing, nor will he ask why.
That person could never be Qin Zhilu.
"On the snowfield, you didn't just decide to keep me alive temporarily after the inspection. From the beginning, you were already thinking about how to save me from the Black Tower." An Yu stated calmly, "I have read too many of your In the past, you never trusted the Black Tower, nor did you trust the Brain. You only had a cooperative relationship with them. If there is anyone in this world that you truly trust, maybe I am the only one."
The words fell and the room became quiet.
The pair of black eyes were rarely absent-minded for a while. After a long time, Qin Zhilu asked in a low voice: "Where do you get the confidence?"
"This is not self-confidence, but analysis and..." An Yu paused and pursed his lips slightly, "Intuition, sir."
He lowered his eyes and whispered: "Maybe just like 21, I also started to try to calculate the received information."
When going through the officer's memories, he only looked at his teenage years, but missed Area 95.
But even though he had not seen it with his own eyes, he knew that Area 95 was an old nightmare. He had been forced to relive the nightmare of killing Ling Qiu with his own hands again and again, and he had experienced the trance that could engulf people.
Qin Zhilu's voice was low, "It seems that winning a bet with Mo Li made you trust your intuition."
"I just think that people lose control in old dreams, so you finally agreed to take me to District 99 with you because the only one you truly trust is me. You believe that only trust in me can wake you up from the old dream. "An Yu said, opening his arms and gently hugging Qin Zhilu, "This time, my intuition is right."
Qin Zhilu didn't comment. Before he finished packing his things, he was called away by a phone call from Heita.
An Yu and Xu Shuangshuang explained about the bakery and opened the door, only to see a familiar figure standing in the dimness.
Ann seemed to have been standing there for a long time.
"Are you waiting for me?" An Yu looked around in surprise, but did not see Ning.
After a while, Ancai said "hmm" and raised his hand to pull off his hood, "Let me tell you, Ning and I are not following the mission in Area 99."
An Yu paused, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on his head, "For..."
"Sir, in order to protect Bo from being injured, he will soon go to Area 77 to solve the anomaly in the sky. The risk of the forbidden mission is extremely high, so Ning and I decided to accompany him..." An pursed her lower lip, "Sorry, I can't assist you this time. .”
This seemed to be the first time An Yu heard the word "sorry" from An's mouth.
He was blank for a while before hesitatingly said: "I haven't seen you much since the Mo Li incident. That post..."
"I didn't choose him because the superior deleted the post for me." An shook his head. He stretched out his hand and looked at his fingers. The genotype of the Great Morpho butterfly made his fingers slender and white. His fingertips touched the air, releasing a looming wave. The luminous white dust particles look as beautiful as the shadow of a butterfly when dragged.
"Both sides are taboo missions. Ning and I chose the side that can maximize the release of our abilities. We are destined to belong to the sky battlefield." An whispered, "Although butterflies are weak flying creatures, being a good support is my only value. "
An Yu wanted to say something, but didn't know how to say it. He could only stand there and watch An Yu turn around and put his hood back on.
An took two steps and then looked back. The side edges of his hat made his outline a little blurry, and An Yu had the illusion that he actually smiled at himself.
"I'll follow you on the next mission when I get back from the sky." An whispered, "I wish you good luck."
When he walked far away, An Yu realized that Ning was waiting for him in the distance. He gave him a hug as usual, and then took his hand and entered the elevator together.
There was a sound of the door opening behind him. Qin Zhilu held the terminal and took it out, "I seem to have heard news from the Minaret. The most popular corner has been abandoned by his assistant?"
"..." An Yu turned around stiffly, "I am also your assistant."
Qin Zhilu raised his hand and pressed his hair in a comforting manner, "Just follow him. It's rare to hear him say so many words on his own initiative."
An Yu nodded, "It's indeed a bit abnormal."
"Ning Daing told me that An's temper was a little better than before after coming back from Yundao, but only a little." Qin Zhilu said and waved his hand, "Since An can't go, you can just use another assistant this time. .”
An Yu was stunned for two seconds, "Another one, how could there be another one..." His eyes suddenly widened, "Jiang Xiao?"
"Heita said on the phone that Jiang Xiao's extreme brain test has just ended, and the test result is that he passed. The Arctic Willow gene expressed an incredibly beautiful ability in him."
Qin Zhilu paused for a moment, "It's not just cold resistance. Under extreme cold conditions, his physical signs will tend to be constant, but his mobility will be retained - this value includes not only survival value, but also mental strength."
An Yu was stunned for a while, dumbfounded and said: "I remember that his previous auxiliary ability in the healing system was..."
"Transformation ability. It consumes the opponent's mental power and provides survival treatment for the opponent. When the opponent's mental power is constant-especially in your case, his own mental power will be consumed to provide survival treatment, so his ability depends on It seems powerful but difficult to use, but now the situation has reversed." Qin Zhilu chuckled and whispered: "District 99, it seems that he is destined to assist you in your mission."
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【Snowflakes】Jin Xuyan (5/6) Leopard Taming (3)
Many times, I can't see through Zhao Ran.
I never exerted Black Rose's mental control on him, I only tentatively contacted him while getting along.
He resisted me, cursed me, refused to bow his head no matter how much punishment he endured, and even spat at me when the pain was severe.
He never recognized his status as a lawful one, but whenever I asked him to go on a mission, he still showed up.
