The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

The laboratory on the other side was converted into an infirmary, where several seriously injured anti-Ghost warriors were lying. The woman in the lead, wearing a white combat uniform, had a disheveled hair and sweat on her forehead due to fatigue, but her aristocratic temperament could not be concealed.

This person is none other than Shen Ge's target of this operation——

Cheng's mother.

"Shen, Shen Ge?" Mother Cheng thought that the person Uncle Cheng brought in was a new wounded person, but unexpectedly she saw a familiar face.

Before Shen Ge could respond, Cheng's mother walked over quickly and asked in disbelief, "Shen Ge, why are you here?"

Shen Ge replied: "Aunt, this is a long story, to put it simply... I am here to take you back."

Given the relationship between Shen Ge and Cheng Shengnan, there is nothing wrong with calling her "mother-in-law", but after all, there is still one step between the two of them, and calling her "Mrs. Cheng" seems a bit strange.

"Is Shengnan okay?" What Cheng's mother was most worried about was that Cheng Shengnan was so ignorant that she came to Australia, a place of trouble.

Shen Ge shook his head and smiled: "She is waiting for you at home."

"Huh." Mother Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and then said, "The infirmary here... well, it's not very convenient. Let's talk outside."

"Student Xiaoqi, please go and help look after the wounded here and see if you can be of help in any way." Shen Ge said.

"Okay, master." After responding, Xiao Qi controlled the red mist armor to transform into a human form and walked into the infirmary.

Then Xiao Qi stretched out several blood-rotten tentacles, wrapped around the wounds of the wounded, and neutralized the strange energy erosion they had suffered.

"Relax, I am the most advanced artificial intelligence in the Great Celestial Empire, with various medical, research, combat, maintenance, etc. functions. I am now checking your physical condition."

"Your bodies were corroded by the strange energy during the battle with the strange energy. I am now neutralizing it by injecting strange energy. Please relax and do not resist..."

"Very good, your condition will stabilize soon..."

"I am controlling the latest technology of the Great Celestial Empire, the nano-armor. Please don't worry."

"I……"

When Xiaoqi first appeared, he caused a small commotion, and the medical warriors subconsciously regarded him as an anthropomorphic monster or weirdo.

But when I thought that Shen Ge was someone Cheng's mother knew, and most of the people here were Cheng's mother's confidants, or they were people sent by the Special Policy Department of the Great Celestial Empire to protect Cheng's mother, they naturally "knew" Shen Ge.

Shen Ge is now the face of the Great Celestial Empire. Even if you have never met him in person, you have at least heard of his name. If you are a citizen of the Great Celestial Empire and don't know Shen Ge, it's like not knowing how much "Da Chui" and "Gong Ting Yuye Liquor" cost. You will probably be invited by your uncle to have tea and check the ingredients of 50W.

With the help of Xiaoqi, the medical soldier in the infirmary was instantly "unemployed" and stood there blankly watching this magical scene.

Shen Ge, Cheng's mother and others came to the experimental area outside and sat down on the sofa in the corner. Cheng's mother and others told Shen Ge about their experiences during this period.

Soon after Cheng's mother was forced by her family to return to the Australian estate, her family told her that they had become a strategic partner with the Granger family, the largest family in Australia, to jointly develop strange energy and apply it to the research and development of weapons and food.

Cheng's mother is now considered half a member of the Special Initiatives Department, and is also the "financial backer" behind the Special Initiatives Department of Rong City. In addition, given the relationship between Shen Ge and Cheng Shengnan, it is naturally impossible for her to cooperate with the Monster Organization.

However, just as she was trying to find a way to escape from the manor by dealing with her family, the manor was attacked by an army of strange people.

When Cheng's mother evacuated with her family members, she found out that the family had actually been in cahoots with the Granger family without her knowledge. During the years she had been in the Great Celestial Empire, the family had built a new manor at the address provided by the Granger family, and underground in this manor was a huge base for researching monsters.

In order to resist that strange army, the family members detonated a device. Cheng's mother didn't know what it was, but the device immediately caused a space tear after the detonation, resulting in the emergence of multiple strange spaces.

Afterwards, under the protection of Uncle Cheng and other close associates, Mother Cheng survived in the strange space for nearly three months. During this period, she met many agents from international anti-strange organizations who came to rescue her. The team also gradually grew from a dozen people at the beginning to hundreds of people.

However, as the distortion of multiple strange spaces became more and more serious, casualties also increased, and the team of hundreds of people was now reduced to less than half.

Later, Cheng's mother and her group entered an area of ​​a Chinese-style palace, where they spent more than three months. During this time, they rescued several researchers from an international anti-ghost organization, which enabled the team to make great progress in the construction of the shelter.

The recycling devices that Shen Ge saw when he arrived at the shelter were developed by the researchers using local materials.

In a sense, these people can be regarded as "geniuses" in the field of ghost research.

Cheng's mother and others thought they would stay in the Chinese palace until a new batch of rescuers arrived, but who knew that what they were waiting for was the collapse of the Chinese palace. They didn't even have time to pack up their belongings before they were forced to move into another strange space. What's even more depressing is that before they could find a place to build a new shelter, this strange space collapsed again.

After the last few escapes, the original team of dozens of people was reduced to just these few people, and they fell into this fragmented world.

Soon after Cheng's mother and others arrived here, they met an exploration team from the Dawn Base and returned to the base with them.

However, during the time at the base, Cheng's mother and others discovered that the operation of the base was not as simple as it seemed. Behind the scenes, it was still the most common, inhumane world in doomsday novels.

In order to prevent Cheng's mother and two female researchers from being killed, Uncle Cheng and others seemingly broke through the defense line and escorted them away from the Dawn Base.

After hearing this, Shen Ge finally understood why when he asked the leader of the Dawn Base about the news of the survivors, the other party stumbled as if he was hiding something.

After listening to what Cheng's mother and others said, Shirley wanted to refute, but Uncle Cheng was well prepared and the recording device in his hand captured the "dark side" of the base.

Shirley's face turned pale when she saw that the food in the base was short of food, and the people in the base fed the monsters with living people and then cut their flesh and blood to make canned food. She never dreamed that... The Dawn Base was called Dawn, but in fact it was darker than the wilderness. Except for the group of people led by the leader, everyone was their "reserve food".

After Cheng's mother and her group escaped from the Dawn Base, they went north through the abandoned city under the pursuit of the base personnel, and finally were caught in the distorted space and came to this underground base. The ghost warriors sacrificed their lives to protect them to the bottom floor and established a temporary base in the experimental area, which lasted another three months.

As Shen Ge expected, Mother Cheng and her group stayed in the strange space longer than Lieutenant Hawke and his group, for more than a year. It was difficult for them to survive in such a harsh environment for so long. I'm afraid only he knows the pressure Uncle Cheng has to bear.

After discussing with Cheng's mother and others, Shen Ge decided to let Camille and Shirley stay in the shelter first, and Shen Ge would go alone to find the "heart chamber".

Only by trying to resolve the giant turtle's weirdness can Shen Ge take Cheng's mother and others to evacuate with peace of mind.

Otherwise, he would have to take care of such a large group of people by himself, and even if his rating was comparable to that of the giant turtle, he would have no time to take care of everyone's safety.

Two hours later, Cheng's mother settled Camille, who was already exhausted, and Shirley, who was affected by the darkness of the Dawn Base and fell into a daze.

Coming out of the lounge, Cheng's mother noticed Shen Ge observing the ceiling of the shelter.

"This is... the 'living dome.'" Mother Cheng noticed Shen Ge's gaze and knocked the pillar beside her with a test tube. The blood vessels on the dome suddenly contracted, revealing a dense array of spikes behind it.

"Whenever a humanoid monster approaches, these bone spurs soaked in the strange cell solution will..."

Before she finished her words, the entire shelter suddenly shook violently. A tooth-grinding scraping sound came from the peritoneum above everyone's heads, and three tentacles as thick as buckets were frantically beating the defense layer.

Shen Ge's strange eyes penetrated the translucent tissue and saw some kind of centipede-shaped monster spraying acid with its mouthparts, as if the monsters around the experimental area had discovered the existence of the shelter and were rushing towards this side frantically.

"Quick, activate all defense measures!" Uncle Cheng shouted.

Five men who were stirring the culture medium in the corner immediately rushed to the control console. Mechanical transformation devices could be seen on their exposed necks and backs. It was obvious that they were in the same situation as Lieutenant Hawke and were members of the International Anti-Spider Organization who had undergone mechanical transformation.

What surprised Shen Ge was that these people connected the nerve bundles connected to the "living dome" to the mechanical device in the body. As the neural data lines were connected, the blood vessels in the dome suddenly burst into a dazzling red light, and those bone spurs aggregated into conical drill bits like iron filings attracted by a magnet.

With the sound of "sizzling", three bone spur drills penetrated the peritoneum and shot out. The centipede that was spraying acid was pierced through the head in an instant, and the dark green body fluid was wrapped into an amber-like substance by the mucus secreted by the blood vessels before it splashed onto the defense layer.

"Heh. Interesting." Shen Ge had never thought that the strange bones and flesh could be used for research besides making strange equipment.

In fact, the Rong City branch has long been conducting research on the use of weirdness in energy, but there has never been any research like this for infrastructure.

On the one hand, weirdness is a huge danger to the real world, and the source of weird events is weird energy. Using weird flesh and blood to build will undoubtedly accelerate the occurrence of weird events.

On the other hand, the strange bones and flesh can be used more directly in the research of strange energy equipment, which is more conducive to enhancing the combat effectiveness of soldiers in anti-strange operations.

After all, “reality” has not yet reached its doomsday, and humans have not yet reached the point where they have to retreat to their bases for “defense.”

But on the other hand, these researchers who used the resources in the strange space to build these defense facilities are indeed "talents". Out of love for talents, Shen Ge also wants to bring them safely away from the multiple strange spaces, which can be of great help to human research on strange things.

Shen Ge noticed the six centrifuges next to the water purification pool. What was rolling inside were the shredded strange remains. The scarlet flesh and blood were extracted through more than a dozen processes and finally turned into black crystals beating in the generator.

Shen Ge asked Xiao Qi to control the red mist armor to assist the soldiers in defense, while he came to the side of Cheng's mother and the researcher.

He had overlooked an important point before, which was that Cheng's mother mentioned that the manor was attacked by a team of monster organizations and the disaster was caused. He forgot that Xiaoqi's huge database could find information about the monster team through data comparison.

"Aunt, do you still remember the details about the group of weirdos that attacked the manor?" Shen Ge asked.

Mother Cheng didn't understand why Shen Ge suddenly asked this question, but she still recalled the details with Uncle Cheng: "Those weirdos were fully armed. If someone hadn't used the ability of three heads and six arms, we wouldn't have been able to determine their identities. Oh, by the way, one of them should be a woman..."

Women are generally more sensitive to each other. Although Cheng's mother had only met the woman once, she was able to roughly remember the woman's height and body shape with her naked eyes.

While Cheng's mother was describing the situation, Xiao Qi used AI sketching to draw the woman's appearance. Finally, a photo of a female anti-ghost warrior wearing a black combat uniform and a gas mask appeared in the holographic projection in front of Shen Ge.

"Wait... why does this person look so similar to..." Shen Ge frowned slightly, looking at the photo carefully, and suddenly felt that the figure looked familiar.

"Master, your judgment is correct... After comparing the data, the body shape of this person is 87.32% similar to that of Dr. Emily from the International Anti-Spider Organization." Xiao Qi gave the conclusion directly.

Shen Ge's eyes darkened: "It's her again?"

In his previous interactions with Emily, Shen Ge always felt that there was something wrong with Emily, but he suspected that Emily was a member of the Twelve Zodiac Signs.

"Wait... If Emily is a member of the monster team that attacked the manor, then that would further prove the speculation that she is a member of the Twelve Branches!" Shen Ge suddenly thought, assuming that what the leaders of the Twelve Branches said were all false, such as asking Shen Ge to help them find the traitor, the grudge with the Monster Association, the family control, and so on.

Cheng's mother's family chose to cooperate with the Granger family, but it was not the Twelve Zodiac Signs that supported the Granger family, but the Monster Association.

Then the Twelve Zodiac Signs would have reasons to interfere, causing this series of disasters, and then take advantage of the chaos to seize what they want, or carry out a certain plan or experiment.

This would explain why the promised "contact person" did not show up, and instead Shen Ge became Emily's "bodyguard" for a period of time?
"But what do they want?"

"Even if there was no 'deal' between the twelve leaders, I would have set out on the trip to Australia. Isn't it unnecessary for them to do this?"

Although the Twelve Zodiac Signs may not be short of money, but to give 1 billion yuan out of thin air shows that they are somewhat wealthy.

What's more, after the fall of the Australian base of the international anti-terrorist organization, Shen Ge separated from Emily. If she was really a spy planted by the Twelve Branches, wouldn't that cut off their connection?
Or... has their conspiracy succeeded?
What are the twelve zodiac signs trying to achieve? (End of this chapter)