Returning from the abyss

Chapter 514 Restart Attempt
A near-dark blue flame spewed out from the black tube, and the iron eyebrow pushed forward step by step, and everything the flame touched was instantly incinerated into powder.

It was an unconventional flame, not even a flame.It does not have the continuous nature of fire, but it is also a kind of "combustion". Its root lies in the new substance "negative decomposition fiber" discovered by the Alliance on a resource star, a special substance that can cut chemical bonds.Of course, this is just a special kind of interference in essence. When the burner stops, the interference will also stop, but the ions scattered all over the place are reassembled, so it is definitely not the original state of matter.

By the way, the current way to resist this kind of attack is single-material armor, such as the material of the burner.

And even if these eggshells and the lizards lurking in them were unusual, they were still within the biological category. Naturally, there was no room for resistance when encountering such top-level killers.What's more, spades, bayonets, and clarinets continued to shoot out the hidden perching lizards. The passage was not wide, and the few hiding here quickly turned into residues on the ground together with their egg shells.

"A path has been burned." Tie Mei extinguished the flame in his hand, "But the number is not enough, Captain, the ones we blasted out just now looked like a dozen or so, and here there are hundreds of them."

"It doesn't matter whether they are still here or not." Yang Hao said, "Judging from the state of the eggs, I'm afraid it will take several years to hatch. It's not sure where these big guys can go."

"Yes, although the outpost is relatively closed, it's not that there are no entrances and exits. Some of the trash canals are big enough to crawl out when they were just born." Longmai said, "I'm even more curious about the remaining ones. How did they grow? Big ones? What do you eat? These eggs don’t look like they’ve been eaten, do they?”

"...We have a lot of questions." Lu Ning said, "Can you open the central control room first and then use your imagination?"

"I hope there are no other monsters there." Spade said helplessly.

I don't know if Spade is really so lucky, or this area really lacks the food sources necessary for survival. In short, everyone has not encountered other phantom beasts since they passed through the passage of the original eggs.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 it only needs to restore the circuit and connect it.About 5 minutes later, Longmai opened the door of the central control room. The huge room and a lot of complicated equipment were arranged in different categories. The last one who came in, Qiu Shu, turned on the lights on the wall, and the warm white light shone in the room.

"This should be the monitoring area." Lu Ning walked to a place where there are many screens arranged, and there are some other functions beside it, but now of course, the most important thing is to restore the monitoring as soon as possible and figure out the overall situation of the outpost. The first task of ’s has not yet been shown as completed.

Longmai went to the row of black boxes in the middle, connected the connection cable again, and started the restart work.But soon he encountered some obstacles.

"Captain, there seems to be some obstacle in the production block on the east side outside. Two wrong signals have been fed back. I think we have to investigate."

"Isn't that because there are phantom beasts there? Let's prepare some powerful weapons and kill them directly." Spade got up, but Lu Ning asked him to sit down.

"Bayonet, Iron Eyebrow, and Spider Silk, the three of you go with me, and the rest stay here."

"Isn't that good, captain?" Qiu Shu was a little puzzled, "It's best to allocate enough combat power to deal with the obvious battle."

"You guys have to stay here to make sure nothing happens in the central control room. I don't want to take away most of the people and lose the central control room when I come back. Don't forget that there may be many lizards in there." Lu Ning said .

The captain's order 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 for you to bring a bayonet and iron eyebrows. Why did you call me? I'm not very good at fighting." Spider Silk asked while running.

"I need to bring a medical soldier. Insect bait is not suitable. Although the brush can make a guest appearance, it is not as professional as you."

"Medical soldier?" Tie Mei frowned.

"Probably to carry out genetic testing." Bayonet said in a low voice.

Lu Ning raised her eyebrows. Although the bayonet doesn't like to talk, it can hit the nail on the head every time. She really wants to conduct a genetic test on the creatures that interfere there.After all, the ninth floor is not a very livable environment. There are only a few lizards left, so why do other creatures jam in one place to interfere with the circuit?Those are not external wires, they are all buried in the wall.

There is no blockade here. Lu Ning has already 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 meaningful lighting for the team with the corresponding detection system.

"It's that thing." The bayonet quickly noticed several creatures lying on the wall and ceiling like jellyfish. They seemed to be asleep, and only one "jellyfish" on the wall had a The purple light flickered, and at the same time it was slowly stretching and contracting like breathing.The tiny tentacles-like limbs popped out from its body and pierced the wall. Seeing this scene, we don’t need any more evidence to think that the problem just now was caused by this kind of “jellyfish”.

"They can pierce through walls, either because they have abnormal hardness or have some special ability. There are regulations on the metal of the walls of outposts." Lu Ning said in a low voice, "Bayonets, reduce the output rate of cutting bullets, and turn on the silencer. In the end of the world, we will Try the one that's awake."

"Yes." The bayonet responded, squatted down, pulled out the second half of the rifle to extend the butt, and installed it under the barrel for stability, then adjusted the shooting mode selection and aimed.

She was very focused. As Lu Ning knew from the information, most of the bayonet's scores were average, except for shooting, firearms and detection, which scored extremely high. She was an out-and-out "bayonet".

The Sliced ​​Bullet made a perfect shot, and only Lu Ning could catch the subtle air turbulence during the shot, and even a gleam of fire was covered up by the debris on both sides, and it hit the "jellyfish" silently.The soft translucent shell quickly sags inward, forming a conical trace, but it quickly bounces back violently, the bayonet slightly tilts the head, and the sound of the wind passing by the side of the helmet hits a hole on the metal wall behind. loud bang.

"Ballistic backtracking, not an intentional attack." The bayonet didn't care about the danger just now, and opened his mouth to report.

"What is the penetrating power of the cutting bullet at the current power?"

"[-] coefficient."

Lu Ning glanced at the "jellyfish" who had no further reaction, and asked, "Adjust the factor to two, can you shoot while ensuring your own safety?"

"If it's just like that, no problem." The bayonet immediately began to adjust, and then aimed again after a few seconds.

Iron Eyebrow and Spider Silk took a step back, and with a cracking sound, the airflow almost visible to the naked eye roared towards the jellyfish with the sound of piercing through the air. At this moment, the jellyfish suddenly fell off the wall. The powerful bullet hit the wall directly, and a three-edged groove was hit by the bullet, and Lu Ning immediately raised her finger——

An indigo laser shot out from her fingertips, and the jellyfish on the ground rolled to avoid the laser attack, and suddenly spread its tentacles and plunged into the pile of waste next to it.

"Sure enough, someone is controlling..."

Lu Ning snorted coldly, and was about to chase after her, but suddenly saw a "person" standing up from the pile of waste.

Now all the tentacles of the jellyfish are pierced into the back of that person's head, and the purple light in the body is also brighter, and Lu Ning can vaguely see that the inside of the jellyfish seems to be a brain.And this parasite-like state made Lu Ning quickly cut from the ordinary laser beam into a destructive energy impact, and the purple-black energy had already begun to accumulate at the fingertips.

Unexpectedly, the body controlled by the jellyfish actually spoke: "Wait... a moment, I am... a person here."

"Who will believe what you say." Bayonet crouched on a box and said in a flat tone.

"Can communicate...right. I just...haven't spoken for too long. Soon I can...be more fluent, right?" The jellyfish man raised his arms stiffly and waved his hands vigorously. "You are rescuers. Team? It is imperative to become like this, otherwise you will die."

"Then tell me your identity, you wouldn't say that this corpse is you, would you?" Lu Ning didn't release the shooting status, but just opened her own terminal query system.

"Luo Qing, we are all researchers here, and we may be the last survivors here." The jellyfish man said hastily.

Luo Qing?This name was also mentioned in Xu Zhenxing's documents, and his status was not low.He should also hold a position similar to the research team leader in this outpost. If it is really him, then he should know a lot about the incidents here.

"You just said that all these jellyfish are?"

"They're not jellyfish, they're called plankton."

"This name sounds disgusting." Spider Silk said, "And is it really good to become this kind of virtue? Are you living by controlling your body now?"

"There is nothing else to do. There are phantom beasts everywhere in the outpost. If you don't become one of them, you will be swallowed by them." Luo Qing said with some annoyance, "We didn't realize that the danger was approaching, although Someone has also released information to other outposts, so I'm afraid it's more or less ominous."

"How did you survive?" Lu Ning asked.

"Dormant." Luo Qing pointed to the "jellyfish" on the back of his head. "This kind of creature has the ability to actively resemble a hibernation state. Once it is dormant, it can ensure that it and its internal brain do not need any energy supply for a long time. And relying on this We can also get rid of the shackles of ordinary bodies, as long as the torso is composed of organic matter, we can control it."

"There are some downsides to being so convenient." Spider Silk crossed her arms, "For example, the surroundings have not woken up until now?"

"Yes, once you go into hibernation, you have to be stimulated by the outside world to wake up. Ordinary sounds and lights are useless, so we managed to extend the tentacles into the wall. Once someone wants to restart the outpost, we can Wake up through electrical 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, then tell us, what happened here? The number of phantom beasts here is obviously wrong, no matter which regulations will allow you to keep so many dangerous samples." Lu Ning lowered her hand slightly.

"To be honest, we don't have time to conduct detailed research." Luo Qing shook his head, "The situation broke out in one day, and we only had time to block some areas and issue a notification, and most areas fell Urgent research can only find that everyone is probably infected with the same phantom star disease, but there is no chance to conduct pathological research, because the relevant experimental area has been captured by phantom beasts. A team of researchers and I came here under the protection of soldiers. I plan to close the external channel of the central control room, but someone in the team soon fell ill..."

"Wait a minute." Zhusi raised her hand, "Sometimes it will be a phantom beast, and then it will get sick. What's going on?"

"We also don't know that the patients will have symptoms of raving, hallucinations and mania in a short period of time, and soon turn into constant nonsense, telling about some horrible events that they have experienced or heard. The problem is that , if there are phantom beasts nearby, then these phantom beasts will gradually possess the terrifying abilities that those people described."

"What?" Spider Silk interrupted him again, "People fall into hallucinations, and then the hallucinations come true? Is this disease called 'Wishes come true'?"

"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 sick people, 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 effects. The ability also disappears...so..."

"The military's crisis management style." Lu Ning said, "However, only a few military commanders can make such a decisive decision. Unfortunately, it is too late."

"Yes, the number of phantom beasts has become more and more. I am afraid that some people have thought about things like multiplication, and this kind of disease cannot be cured even if the sick person dies. Our number is getting smaller and smaller. Even if you want to block this place It's too late, the Eudemons have already arrived in this area. In a hurry, I thought of Cerebral Fluid, and brought everyone here, who wants to become like this, isn't it all for 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 preserve their own brains."

"I don't know how many lies you told, but thank you for explaining."

After Lu Ning finished speaking, a purple-black destructive light beam penetrated the head of the body in front of him, and the jellyfish attached to the rear couldn't stop the attack of this high-destructive weapon. The handle exploded, and the liquid inside and the shattered All of his brains fell to the ground.

"Captain?" Spider Silk was startled, but neither the bayonet nor Tiemei nearby responded.

"Spider silk, don't get too involved." Lu Ning said, and went to call the jellyfish one by one.Here, the bayonet and iron eyebrow explained to her.

(End of this chapter)