Returning from the abyss

Chapter 518 Hunting
After talking to most people, there is only one worm bait left.Lu Ning was not worried about the insect bait, mainly because she knew that even talking would not have much effect on him.The military department's evaluation summary is that the insect bait is an honest person, but once the psychological endurance is broken, it will immediately take drastic actions regardless of the consequences.Instead of chatting like this, talking about the consequences directly can alert him better.

When returning to the outpost, there was already a light with just the right brightness in the corridor, and a metal-specific smell permeated the automatically cleaned walls—even though 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 the brewed coffee into the liquid food delivery container of the protective clothing, and even greeted her when Lu Ning came back.

"No...thanks." Lu Ning waved her hand.

"Captain, Longmai has repaired the biological detector. After the overall sterilization, we conducted an in-station scan of the outpost, but found no dangerous pathogenic bacteria or viruses."

"If it is so easy to find, then the advance team will not be recruited. In short, restore the production chain here first, and we will set off to search this area tomorrow."

"We can send drones. My military drone modules have been loaded onto the production line by Longmai, and 24 reconnaissance drones can take aerial photos of the entire mountain area within an hour," Qiu Shu said.

"Yes, but more importantly, we need to check the strength of the wild Eudemons here. I'm sorry if you need to sit here if you send drones, then I will set off with spades and clarinets."

"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 opinions. Lu Ning checked the working status of each instrument, then returned to the monitoring screen, flattened the chair and closed his eyes.

Sleep till dawn.

"There must be something wrong here!"

"Where is the problem? 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 her head to look over, and found a group of people gathered in front of Qiu Shu's workbench.

"What happened?" She directly cut the team channel.

"The captain is awake?" Qiu Shu said, with a hint of amusement in his tone, since the vice-captain is like this, it means it's not a big deal.

"Explain to me."

"To put it simply, I restored some of the original surveillance video. It is a pity that the circuits in most areas were severely disturbed during the chaos, so I could only find the normal period. However, when everyone watched the video, they pointed out that there was a problem in one place, but everyone After looking at it for a long time, I couldn't see what the problem was, so Spider Silk and Spades started arguing with him."

"Yanghao, tell me."

"Captain, it's not that I rely on the old to sell the old, this is experience and intuition. We don't have video footage of the chaos happening, so we can't confirm it. I can only say that there must be something wrong with this place."

Lu Ning had already got up, walked over there, everyone moved out of the way, knocked on the console a few times, and rewound the video to the point where he pointed out the problem.

It was a biological sample laboratory, and it recorded the "reproduction" process of an E-level creature. Of course, Lu Ning was not sure if this was considered, because the creature under the camera was a mushroom-like thing, huge The canopy protected the tiny body below, which was supported by eight slender, spider-like feet.

First, the center of the gray-brown "mushroom" part above began to crack, and the cracks extended to the edge in a four-pointed star shape. This crack quickly spread to the lower body, and some yellow-brown juice flowed out, and then the body was also averaged. The earth was divided into four pieces and fell to the ground.

After two or three seconds, new slender feet began to squirm from the lower torso, and the yellow-brown juice also gushed out from the inside, covering the cut surface of the mushroom.The detection system inside the laboratory seemed to have noticed 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 grew completely, leaving only four parts. One of the canopies also slowly gathered into an ellipse, but the newly formed part was slightly smaller.

"What's the problem?" Lu Ning was also puzzled after watching the process.

"Here." Yanghao slowed down the video and adjusted it to the place 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 tell why, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I just think there's something wrong with this recovery method..."

"Um... you mean, when its foot recovered, it didn't gush out that kind of fluid?"

Yang Hao clapped his hands fiercely: "I just said where the sense of disobedience is! That's right, isn't it strange that the foot grows first and then tissue fluid covers the wound?"

"What's so strange?" Spade was not convinced, "Maybe the energy needed to grow the foot is relatively small, so it doesn't need it?"

"No...it proliferates by splitting." Lu Ning stared at the video and said, "The original body has its feet outside. The normal idea is to grow the body first, and then extend the feet from above. In reverse order... spider silk, what is the record of this 'mushroom' in the database?"

"Splitting Mushroom Grass." Spider Silk quickly retrieved the information from the file, "E-level threat, both animal and plant, divides and proliferates, but can move short distances through eight legs. Targeting the The interstitial fluid has also been studied, it is a cell activity stimulating substance, it can be used as medicine, and it can quickly heal common wounds. However, due to cautious considerations, this drug is still in the experimental stage and has not yet entered the human trial period.”

"Only these?" Yang Hao turned his head and asked.

"Yang Hao, there are D-class creatures in the sample library. E-class creatures are not on the priority list. Every kind of phantom beast here is a brand-new species. Although the outpost has a large area, there are not so many people." Zhusi said, "There are four professional biological research groups in total, and they all have experimental subjects at hand. You are also studying biology. You should know how long this kind of unknown research takes?"

"……Humph."

"But they did ignore the possible characteristics of some low-threat creatures. Since Eudemons have some unique properties, this one is probably no exception. Dragon veins, are there any samples in the outpost?"

"No, they are not real after all. Mushrooms will grow everywhere. Now this laboratory has long been empty, so they probably ran away." Longmai shrugged.

"It doesn't matter, as long as they still exist on this planet, we can get new samples. Today, Spades and Clarinets went hunting with me, and the rest of us are in the central control room to help Qiu Shu draw out the surrounding topographical map with drones." , I will check and accept the work when I come back.”

"learn!"

"Captain, are three people enough? The danger outside is still unclear." Tie Mei asked.

"We will not go deep into dangerous places, and the detection device will help us avoid some risks in advance. Outposts need to be guarded, and the power of your weapons in open terrain will be weakened unless high-lethal methods are used. But we are hunting, not It’s useless to kill prey and come back to eat.”

"Okay." Tie Mei nodded and sat in her seat, and began to schedule the security robots arranged by Longmai.

As for Spades and Clarinet, they are very excited.One is active, the other loves to fight. These two people can't stay idle in the outpost. It is precisely because of this that Lu Ning chose these two.

After making some adjustments to the equipment on her body, Lu Ning set off with the two of them. When they turned over a low slope, several black spots passed over their heads. They were the surveillance drones released by Qiu Shu.

"They move very quickly." Spade looked up. "Speaking of which, what is the experience of Deputy Qiu? Drone combat is not a method that conventional troops would use. This thing is too weak in the universe."

"Unfortunately, I don't know about his past either." Lu Ning just took a look and then focused on his surroundings again, "I only know that Qiu Shu is from the navy, and his military rank seems to be a little lower than mine, that's all. "

"Fortunately, you can trust him..."

"Even you and I can believe it, let alone a person from the army?" Lu Ning glanced at Spade, "If you have the ability, declare yourself a spy sent by the mercenaries, and I can shoot you on the spot."

"Don't be joking." Spade also heard the joke in Lu Ning's words, and was not afraid at all, "If we talk about danger here, the clarinet is more dangerous, right?"

"Me?" Clarinet wondered.

"I can guess the thoughts of most people here." Spades tapped his helmet, "Including the captain and the deputy team, I can actually know that I have not been discriminated against. But I can't see through you at all."

"Really? It's a compliment." Clarinet looked very happy, "When I was a soldier, I was scolded by the instructor for my elm head at the beginning."

"Is there still this?"

"Well, the instructor is quite fierce, and he doesn't look good on anyone... He led our group of people back to the battlefield, and then he seemed to die, and I don't know if he is still swearing in another world. "The clarinet said with some nostalgia.

Spades remained silent for a long time.

Lu Ning probably understood why Clarinet retired that year. Her slightly neurotic state was already in a mentally sub-healthy state according to the military's psychological analysis, and she was not suitable to stay on the battlefield.And now it seems that she herself is not even aware of it.

"Captain, what is our hunting target today?" Clarinet ignored Spade's silence and asked Lu Ning instead.

"D-level creatures, about three." Lu Ning said, "Of course, they must be of suitable size. It is not mandatory to survive, but try to ensure that they are complete. You should have prepared your weapons."

"Ah."

At this moment, there was a reaction on Lu Ning's detector, which was a small life response signal, and it was in a dense forest ahead.

"Optical invisibility." She gave an order, and a burst of light like soap bubbles appeared on the three of them at the same time, and then the body tone became almost the same as the environment.

"260 meters ahead, share data information. Spade, you use the silencer attack to test first, the number of targets is one." Lu Ning hid behind a rock, and Spade took a few steps forward, standing in a big tree later.

Spade picked up the rifle with the sniper components in his hand, flicked the module switcher lightly, his breathing quickly became undetectable, and his hand was stable and motionless. This is a battle left over from years of mercenary experience. Literacy.

As if it was just a gust of wind blowing through the woods, the fingertip-sized pulse bullet passed through the dense forest and hit the target in a breath.

"Clarinet."

Without Lu Ning saying a word, clarinet immediately rolled out of his hiding place one by one, and with the help of trees, stones, and slopes, he circled from the flank to the target position, while Lu Ning continued to share the data sent back 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 spades are well controlled and the clarinet should be able to...

At this moment, she suddenly discovered that more than [-] detection signals appeared on the detector instantly, and all of them were medium-sized life forms.

"Clarinet, pay attention to the signal, the threat level has increased significantly."

"Understand the captain, I have seen it, the one who was hit was a short man, but the one who got out of the soil was a big man."

"What a short and big man! You think this is a potato? Come back quickly!" Spade yelled in the communication.

"No need." Clarinet breathed slightly hurriedly and excitedly, "It can be killed!"

"Spades, start sentry, allow free sniper support, I will help clarinet, don't need to panic." Lu Ning immediately walked out from the other side, and quickly rushed to the front battlefield after giving instructions.

More than 200 meters is only a dozen seconds of sprint time for a professional soldier. The first thing Lu Ning stopped was the "short man" in the mouth of the clarinet. The spade was really right. This thing looks like a potato, round and round But it has a bumpy khaki body, with an ugly little head growing on it, and its four claws are moving quickly on the ground, as if it is about to dig out fallen leaves to cover itself. Lu Ning threw a magnetic lock on it, and then directly He rushed to the clarinet.

And the 20 or so that Clarinet faced were not potatoes. They were covered with rock formations, each of them was nearly two meters high, with short and thick legs but extremely strong arms, and they neighed nasty While rushing towards the clarinet.And when Lu Ning arrived, Clarinet had already chopped a rock monster alive with a steel chopping axe, and was using the terrain to move into a ball with the other two. Other rock monsters wanted to rush up but were always caught. Companion stopped.

Lu Ning glanced at the more than 20 potholes on the ground. It is reasonable to say that even if she hides in the ground, she can't escape the detection device. But since she didn't find it before, these creatures may also have unique properties...

"Ah, Captain! You're here too? I really can't be the only one to enjoy the fun of fighting!" Clarinet caught a glimpse of Lu Ning and immediately shouted ecstatically.

"Catch the small ones, and kill the big ones." Lu Ning said casually, pulled off the outer layer of the glove, and five crimson flames nearly one meter long spewed out from her fingertips, pointing at the nearest one like a flaming sword. A rock monster slashed down on its head!
(End of this chapter)