Shanghai Port, Pier 7.
"Do you know what happened?" Zhong Yi asked.
Lu Yin shook his head: "No, the oracle has no response and knows nothing."
"Is this common?"
"It's rare. Although I only have the ghost level, the superiority of the oracle allows me to perceive more. To be honest, if the last signal from Hou Xiao's black box hadn't been interrupted here, I even doubt that everything is normal here. . ”
Actually, Lu Yin was right.
Ye's ability is "Mirror World". He can copy scenes from the real world and paste them into his mirror world. The battle between Hou Xiao and Arnold took place in a mirror world that was exactly the same as Pier 7. Naturally, everything was normal at Pier 7 in the real world, so Lu Yin's detection here would only be in vain.
But Lu Yin and Zhong Yi didn't know this, so they could only try their best to guess the truth.
"The only thing we can be sure of now is that Hou Xiao is in danger or not?"
Lu Yin nodded.
"Then what are you going to do now?" Zhong Yi asked the most important question at the moment.
"I have informed Kuriyama Yoshiko of this matter." Lu Yin said slowly: "Hou Xiao is the minister of the Ninth Branch. Without him, there will be no strong person in charge of the Ninth Branch."
"I plan to let Tong Xincheng take over the position of director of the ninth branch."
Zhong Yi, who had a calm expression on his face, showed a rare surprise: "Him? He has been setting up defenses at Well No. 2. Is it necessary to remove him?"
"Yes. The BTS headquarters has been guarding Well No. 2 for more than ten years. It is important that Tong Xincheng is stationed there, but..." Lu Yin changed the subject: "Once Well No. 2 is breached, the headquarters will bear the brunt. The fastest way for us to evacuate is It’s the high-speed train that connects the headquarters and the ninth branch.”
"I must ensure that there is no loss of retreat."
Zhong Yi sighed: "The situation in Well No. 2 has become so corrupt."
"I'm afraid it's not just here, the "wellheads" all over the world should be similar, at least the four wellheads in Long County. I informed Mr. Qian of the news that Hou Xiao has lost contact, but he can't send anyone to reinforce us."
"In the past two years, various special departments in the federation have been conducting large-scale military training, even civilian departments like BTS are no exception. I believe you have long realized that the federal combat power is stretched thin."
"BTS headquarters only has five ghost-levels, including you and me. Now Hou Xiao is out of contact, and the lack of combat power is even worse. Yesterday... no, this morning Xia Yan told me that Shanghai may soon be It will become a real magical city. Now it seems that it has become a prophecy.”
Zhong Yi took over the conversation: "By the way, I just mentioned Lao Xia. I just wanted to ask you, since a ghost-level ability user is going to be sent to the ninth branch, why not let Xia Yan go? Tong Xincheng's ability is more suitable Suppress Well No. 2."
"Zhong Yi, I know you are tight-lipped, so I told you. Because..."
"I always feel that Xia Yan is not a good candidate to be sent to the Ninth Branch."
Zhong Yi was stunned: "Oracle?"
"No, it's just my own decision." Lu Yin left these words, turned around and left: "Go back to the headquarters, further inspection is a waste of time. The enemy knows my abilities very well and used methods unknown to us to avoid them. The perception of the oracle.”
"We have met our match."
Zhong Yi looked at the back of Lu Yin, the youngest and most high-spirited minister of BTS since its establishment. At this moment, his back was full of exhaustion and confusion...
and mystery.
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Ten Thousand Islands County, Manila.
Ten Thousand Islands County is composed of the former parts of Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Malaysia on the island of Kalimantan, basically the entire Malay Archipelago. Manila is the second largest city in Ten Thousand Islands County, after Jakarta, the county capital.
Luzon Island, Manila Bay.
Manila Bay covers an area of 1,940 square kilometers. It is 58 kilometers long from northwest to southeast. It is surrounded by two peninsulas from east to west, and the bay goes deep into the hinterland. The water depth in the main areas is 10-40 meters, and the tidal range changes little.
A large metal bowl is placed upside down on the bottom of Manila Bay. This is the isolation cover. "Well Outpost No. 5" is the name of this isolation barrier and the building under its shelter, referred to as Fortress No. 5.
Griffin stood on the bridge, looking at the fish swimming in the bay through the tempered glass wall. "It feels like visiting an aquarium," Griffin thought. He is forty years old this year, and it has been ten years since he came to No. 5 Well Outpost, from an ordinary lieutenant to the chief commander here. Colonel Griffin, as his colleagues called him.
A month ago he was neither commander-in-chief nor colonel. Just a month ago, on that day, a large number of water-marked beasts broke through the defensive position of Well No. 5. The former commander-in-chief died in the wave of beasts, but Lieutenant Colonel Griffin turned the tide and annihilated all the water-marked beasts. After the war, Griffin temporarily took over the post of commander-in-chief of No. 5 Well Outpost. Yesterday, the official letter of appointment and promotion order came down, and Griffin became the legitimate leader here.
The mood when I came back to enjoy the fish swimming around now was naturally different from when I first came here ten years ago. When Griffin first saw this scenery, he sighed with tears in his eyes, but after ten years, he got tired of seeing it. However, at this moment, he stood in front of the glass curtain wall by accident, looking at it with gusto.
The blaring alarm ruined Griffin's mood, and red lights representing danger flashed everywhere. "Damn beast." Colonel Griffin cursed and hurried to the bottom of the No. 5 Well Outpost. At the same time, his voice came from the earphones of everyone in the station: "Everyone is on alert! The combat troops have arrived. Reserve the location! The water-patterned beast is coming!"
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The bottom floor of Fortress No. 5 is a spacious hall, with a "door" floating two meters above the ground in the middle of the hall.
It's not so much a door as it is a small black hole with a diameter of about ten meters and chaos at the entrance. Most of the time, it just sits still in mid-air. But at this moment, the black hole is not calm. It is shaking like a lid on a pot of boiling water.
A huge animal head poked out of the hole, then two sharp front claws, half of the body, and finally the whole body.
This is a water-patterned beast with a terrifying appearance. It is three meters long and has strong muscles. It looks like a wolf lizard, the land overlord of the late Permian period, but it is obviously a reptile. There are circles of water-like waves on its dry and cracked skin. pattern.
Water Pattern Beast is not the name of a certain creature, it is a collective name for all creatures with water ripple patterns on their bodies. This is a water-patterned beast named "Smoke Lizard", and everyone in Station 5 is very familiar with it.
The door of the hall is facing the black hole. A dozen meters above the door is the indestructible command room. The staff in the command room are busy and meticulous, executing the commander's orders meticulously.
"Prepare the electric shock cannon." The commander of the command room is Griffin's adjutant. He is experienced and well prepared.
One after another, the smoke lizards jumped out of the black hole. Holes were opened in the smooth metal wall, and the gun barrel was aimed at them. Just waiting for the commander's order, the high-voltage current would instantly transcend the Smoke Lizards.
The throughput of the black hole was very high, and soon there were hundreds of smoke lizards standing in the hall. The black hole was like a patient with a stomachache. After spitting out these smoke lizards, the black hole gradually returned to calm.
"Shoot!" The adjutant saw that no smoke lizards came out of the black hole and ordered them to be annihilated.
A stream of electric current entered the body of the smoke lizard, and the electric shock of up to 100,000 volts instantly harvested the lives of these alien creatures. Smoke lizards have rough skin and thick flesh, and have strong defense against bullets and other conventional weapons. The use of electric shock attacks is the result of many years of human experience in fighting them.
Aiming is a lot of trouble. Although the hall is very large, the size and number of smoke lizards are more impressive, and you can hit one at any time. Dead bodies of Smoke Lizards littered the halls.
Thick smoke billows from the corpse, which is where the smoke lizard gets its name. After they die, their bodies will secrete a special substance that oxidizes to form thick black smoke, but fortunately it does not cause much harm to the human body.
"Sir, all the smoke lizards are dead, and the life detectors found no signs of life." The adjutant signaled to Griffin.
Griffin nodded: "Okay, everyone, thank you for your hard work. Send a few more recovery teams to dispose of the Smoky Lizard's body."
"yes."
Griffin had already learned about the alien attack in the command room. He really looked down upon such an alien invasion, so he let his adjutant take charge of the whole process. "This is the normal state of invasion by alien creatures. The loss of Well No. 5 last month is only a once-in-a-century event." Griffin recalled the animal disaster not long ago with lingering fear: "But the invasions in the past two years have indeed It’s getting worse and worse. Although this time it’s the weakest smoke lizard invasion, the number is several times that of the past.”
The heavy metal door slowly opened, and Fernandi led the recovery team into the hall.
On the ceiling of the hall, a high-power smoke machine was working, but there were really too many smoke lizards invading this time, and the entire hall was still shrouded in thick smoke. Although it's not that you can't see your fingers, the visibility is very low.
Fernandi directed the team members to drive engineering robots to clean up the bodies of the smoke lizards. The robots moved the bodies to carrier vehicles. After the carriers were full, they would directly carry the smoke lizards to the incinerator. The corpse of this creature is worthless, and after decades of exploration by the Federation, it has no research value.
Fernandi, who has been dealing with the carcasses of smoke lizards for many years, found that the smoke lizards that invaded this time seemed a little different from the previous ones?
He got as close as possible to the Smoky Lizard corpse in front of him, and the thick smoke forced him to do so.
There doesn't seem to be anything special, except that the smokey lizard's belly is too big. Is it pregnant? Fernandi finished the inspection and breathed a sigh of relief.
etc!
He rushed over to another body, this one also with a potbelly.
So is this one, so is this one, so is this one...
Cold sweat formed on Fernandi's forehead and back. He didn't think that these invading smoke lizards were all expectant mothers, that was ridiculous.
Fernandi wanted to warn everyone, but there was no chance.
The belly of a Smoky Lizard corpse very close by exploded, and a... bird flew out from the flesh and blood.
This is a strange bird that looks like a pterosaur. Its wings are spread nearly two meters, and there are claws on the middle wings. Its body is covered with feathers, its neck is thick and long, and its head is a meat ball?
In Fernandi's horrified eyes, the meat ball bloomed like a flower...and then ate Fernandi's head in one bite.
"Damn! Who can tell me what happened?" Griffin asked the adjutant loudly, but no one could answer him. More and more red dots appeared on the screen, which were signals sent back by the life detector; the screams of the recovery team were accurately transmitted to everyone's ears and hearts through the headphones. But the people in the command room knew nothing about what was going on in the hall because the smoke was too thick.
"Close the door!" Griffin made a ruthless but correct decision.
The heavy door closed again, blocking the strange bird and also blocking the escape route of the recovery team members. The strange birds are so efficient that the sound of the recovery team can no longer be heard from the headphones.
There was silence in the command room, and people could only wait for the exhaust fan to dissipate the unprecedented thick smoke. The loss of the recovery team is sad, but fortunately the invading creatures are locked in the hall, and they cannot break through the iron walls.
"Bang!" This was the sound of a strange bird hitting the glass of the command room.
Then the second one, the third one...
"Bang bang bang bang"
"Put down the steel plate!" Griffin saw the appearance of these strange birds with his own eyes. He felt that they came from hell.
The glass in the command room is all special glass, but steel plates can make everyone here feel more at ease.
The thick steel plate blocked the impact of the strange birds. Although the "bang" sound could no longer be heard, Griffin believed that they would persevere.
But fortunately, they cannot break through the iron wall.
Suddenly, Griffin thought of something he had forgotten before - the command room! This is not a whole metal wall like the hall wall! Although the protective steel plate is equally strong, if subjected to a large enough impact, the plate may not be damaged but the connection may be broken. Strange birds still kill here!
Griffin tried to get the people in the command room to evacuate, but it was too late. God knows how hundreds of strange birds coordinated together. The impact of their simultaneous collisions caused the steel plate to shake; the second impact caused the steel plate to disconnect from the telescopic device.
The special glass was torn into pieces by the sharp claws of the strange birds. There were no eyes on their flesh-ball heads, but everyone could feel the fierce light.
This is a group of feathered reapers.
