12.Chapter 12 Reunites with my brother
It was an aircraft carrier ten times larger than a normal warship, and I don't know how long it had been sleeping here.
"The base ship is down there, and God knows how it ended up here." The lone wolf exclaimed in dismay, squatted down to test the acidity and alkalinity of the liquid with the tester, and glanced at the value, "Fortunately, it is weakly alkaline, similar to bath gel." ”
"First check for the signs of zài's life underneath." Helo remembered the hallucinations that were both real and false at night, and felt a little uneasy in his heart, and pointed to the big guy who had been resting on the roof of the car, the artificial intelligence machine "Xiao Ai" dedicated to exploration—of course, the name of this disgusting bar came from Ando.
In view of the fact that this thing has the function of a video player in addition to pathfinding, surveying and diving, it is often used by him as a "movie appreciation", and the director will make an unbearable noise at every turn when he is working.
Kicking it into the water in disgust, Herro turned on the receiver on his helmet.
There was a dead silence on the screen, and after a few moments, an extremely faint signal seemed to be heard.
The white eagle reached out and picked up a handful of lake water, twisted it in his fingers, and jumped in first.
The haze beneath the surface of the water, the light of the lake dyed in a brilliant and eerie color, made him feel drunken dizzy for a moment, and saw a figure leap into the water in a graceful position, slid past his side, and gestured back to him.
"How is it, boy, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
The beautiful face of the young man revealed through the glass helmet, the silver-white hair fluttered with the air like aquatic plants, and the extremely light-colored eyes blinked at him, shining in the light of the searchlight.
The scaly isolation suit due to the temperature sensitivity clings to his slender body under the pressure of the water, making him look like a charming mermaid.
White Eagle clutched his chest and nodded, pretending to be a little uncomfortable and leaning over to his back.
Helo couldn't help but squeeze the young man's hand, and suddenly saw the scene when Shayero rescued himself in the water.
Taking a deep breath of oxygen, he turned on the jet on his back and swung his legs to approach the sunken mothership at a constant speed. Its surface was white, and it was also wrapped in a layer of spider silk similar to the one in the Sayero warship, and even the propeller was not spared.
Several people gathered around it and inspected it up and down, and Gu Kun and Lone Wolf installed a laser cutter in one place, and soon carved an entrance into the surface of the almost airtight canned ship.
In a short time, the laser drill penetrated the solid and thick hull, and the current formed a whirlpool nearby, rushing towards it, and they immediately drilled into it one by one, and the gap was blocked by "Xiao Ai".
The natural light around him disappeared completely, and only a few searchlights were left on his body. Darkness invaded from every angle, as if a giant beast had swallowed them into its belly.
In fact, the inner walls of the light were densely covered with criss-crossed white filaments, making the arched passage they were in look like the inside of a living creature's intestines, wriggling at any moment to digest the prey that had strayed in.
This unconscious association makes the hairs stand on end.
The water was waist-deep, so the jet booster could not be activated, and it was a bit difficult to walk, but fortunately, the passage was spacious enough for them to walk side by side and maintain a good perspective to observe the surroundings. But there were many large and small hull wrecks scattered in the water, which caused a great obstacle to their progress.
", it's disgusting here." The lone wolf touched the wall and cleared the obstacle for the group in front of him.
The silence of the entire ship was suffocating, except for their voices echoing between the walls.
Cold and dreary, like a death knell from hell.
Helo looked into the dark and bottomless depths of the corridor, his heart swaying like weightlessness, unable to fall into place. Is that distress signal really coming from here?
But there were no signs of life here, and he couldn't imagine how anyone could have survived such a place and survived until now, even if it was Sayara. What does he eat and drink?
Forcing himself to stop thinking about the pointless question at the moment, Helo held on to the wall and stepped over a piece of wreckage in the water, steady.
Unless he sees Sayero's body with his own eyes, he will never give up the slightest hope.
“…………”
The sudden explosion of rock in the silence of the space startled Helo into shock, thinking that he was having auditory hallucinations again. Ando shook his head on the side, as if he had taken medicine, and did not forget to throw a wink at him.
"We need to adjust the atmosphere here." He spoke to the people.
Nightingale rolled her eyes and wanted to hit him with the laser gun in her hand, but thanks to him, everyone's mental state was a lot easier, but they couldn't help but shake when they walked, and even the action of the lone wolf to clear the obstacles seemed to bring a sense of rhythm, but Helo was immune to Ando, a poisonous race.
"Ando, I didn't think you liked WANDS too?" White Eagle's voice seemed a little agitated.
"Ah, a little older...... But the classics never go out of style. ”
Helo gave way to the two unreliable guys on the left and the right with a blank face, but his foot was tripped by something at this moment, and there seemed to be something like a cable under the water.
Pointing his searchlight to his side, he bent down to the bottom and scooped up a large strand of aquatic weeds.
A large cloud of turbid fog rose from the surface of the water, and with it floated another small thing, a gray-white solid like a wreckage, as if it had been entangled in something.
Several men grabbed it together and pulled it out of the water, but Helo leaned back without standing still, and in an instant, a miserable white face slammed into him.
"!"
Facing the pupils of a pair of wormhole holes at close range, Helo took a few steps back, raised his gun to push the thing that came out of the water, and sprayed a cryogenic mist at it.
"Oh my God!" Ando gasped, and several people brought the guns together.
The thing in front of him had been frozen into an ice sculpture at low temperatures.
It was a human corpse. But fortunately, it was not Sayara, but a young male corpse in his twenties.
Its skin was covered with a translucent white substance, its eyes were staring wide open, and there was a circular seven-pointed star on its forehead, as if it had been pressed by a laser, like a seal that people had imprinted on the possessed in ancient times for exorcism.
Everyone was silent for a moment when they noticed that.
Helo frowned, he had seen this too, and although it was a memory from a long time ago, it was still very deep.
Fifteen years ago, in the Third World War, which broke out after a meteorite shower. The seven-pointed star represents a meteorite crystal that is always heptagonal under the microscope, and also symbolizes the source of strength and absolute power.
It was seen on the wreckage of a neo-Nazi fighter jet found on the beach when he was seven years old.
-- A symbol of the neo-Nazi army.
The Neo-Nazi Army, also known as the Army of Annihilation, was the result of the reorganization of fascist forces in Germany and Japan after the first major meteorite rain disaster known as Yom Kippur. They frantically worship the meteorite rain with great destructive power, use the mysterious energy contained in the meteorite to develop new spaceships, develop biological and chemical weapons to strengthen the army, and sweep the faltering new world that has just experienced the end like a cult, in an attempt to take the opportunity to destroy the solar system federation developed with China and the United States as the axis.
It was a terrible disaster that lasted even longer than World War II.
Although the neo-Nazi forces were still defeated by the combined forces of China and the United States, the damage they caused to human civilization was permanent and irreparable.
The economy destroyed by the war and the unprecedented death toll have distorted the entire world pattern.
The diseases caused by the biochemical virus "Flower of Evil" used in the war are rampant all over the world, people lose their faith, riots occur frequently, and social classes are pulled to two extremes - the rich and rich are living in the Garden of Eden under the protection of the government, and beyond the "Garden of Eden" is a completely different purgatory full of sin and chaos.
A real, uncompromising dystopian world.
"Helo, look there, it should be the wound that killed him." Ando gestured to a spot where the body was submerged under water. Hero moved the searchlight over, and was shocked to find that the corpse had a crack of about ten centimeters under its abdomen, and the flesh was turned outwards to reveal the whitened internal structure.
Resisting the urge to vomit, he bent down to examine the wound, and found that it didn't look like it had been cut open by a sharp object at all, but more like it had been broken from the inside by some slender object.
His gaze looked into the abdomen of the corpse, and found that it was empty, as if the whole person had been hollowed out from the inside out, and only a pair of skins remained.
Helo couldn't help but shudder, feeling a little indescribably nauseous.
"Isn't this an alien version of the painted skin? I remember the story my sister told me when I was a child! Sir, are you scared? The White Eagle was amazed, poked the corpse's frozen head with his hand, and with the other hand, intentionally or unintentionally, reached over and pulled Helo's belt, dragging him to his side.
"Disgusting? I think it's beautiful, it's a miracle of the universe, a work of art from outer space. ”
Ando looked at the half-sized man of this hero with disdain, took out a metal needle and pierced it into the corpse's eye, and pulled out a tube full of liquid, which was probably going to be used to study some new type of potion.
Completely different from human □□, the □□ he pulled out was like a fluorescent agent, filled with many faint glittering particles, and I don't know what it was.
"Don't mess around, this corpse is weird, we should stay away from him. Ando, throw the hell thing out of your hand. Helo stared at the corpse's punctured lens, and the dropping of his eyes ran down his cheek like a line of tears, making him feel as if it was going to roll its eyes in the next second, and then jump up crying.
Ando ignored the liquid in the syringe into the vacuum test tube, put it in his backpack, and grinned at him slyly: "Don't forget, we can have a mission to do, and it is our business to find out the cause of this unlucky bastard's death." ”
"Freaks." Helo cursed, looked around worriedly, and threw a detector out of the corridor.
"Let's hope all these people in the base haven't all turned into works of art in your eyes! Hell yes. Here are two more! No, there's more! The White Eagle spewed a circle of cryogenic mist to his side.
The light swept across the water, and the light was really numb.
"I hope the murderer who killed them is no longer here, or we will come in purely to send them to death."
Gu Kun, who had been silent, interjected faintly.
"Afraid of what? Our equipment is comparable to the firepower of a legion, plus 'Little Love'," White Eagle poked the burly figure that had been silently following them all this time, "That guy can top a fighter jet and blow this place up in the blink of an eye." No matter how bad it is, there is me. ”
That sounds like a destructive maniac with a secondary disease.
Helo looked worriedly at the boy next to him, unable to associate him with the "number one felony of the International Police Department", only to find that the other party glanced at him shyly, like a schoolboy who was pleading with a teacher.
"Didi-Di-"
With a burst of news from far and near, several spherical probes flew back from the depths of the tunnel, depicting the structure of the space-huge ship as a hologram.
They appear to be in the middle of the ship's bridge, and further in, they enter a relatively open circular area, I don't know what it is, maybe the core power area or the habitation pod or something.
Heloh stared at the circular area, with a vague premonition that something incredible would happen there. The moment he arrived at the circle, he realized that his instincts might be correct.
It is a ring-shaped, all-glass cabin that can be seen from the inside, and the purple-red light envelops the area from all sides, giving it a psychedelic and oppressive mystery.
Beneath your feet, you can see a breathtaking sight beneath the ship - a spherical white behemoth stands at the bottom of the deep lake.
Its surface is full of holes, like a huge coral colony, and its regular contours make it less like a miracle of nature and more like a building that has been "artificially created".
"This can't be some alien lair, right?" The lone wolf, who has a wealth of combat experience, became vigilant, pulled out the laser gun on his back, and looked around.
"I think it's possible." Ando squatted down and took out the binoculars with great interest, but before he could squat down, he was kicked to the ground by someone behind him, and his face was deformed against the glass. The young man's fierce face was reflected in the reflection, a long leg crushed his back, and his condescending demeanor was unexpectedly very angry.
When his heart was fluttering, he heard a vicious voice from above: "After finding the survivor, I have no objection to you coming here alone to study this ghostly thing, and it is no problem to open the real yàn room in the lair of alien creatures." But before that, if you give me any more grinding and make some accidents, I will dismantle you as dry food to improve the food! ”
"Oh my God, Sayakoro, this is the little rabbit you raised single-handedly, you better not come back!" He secretly sighed in his heart, almost without whistling and saying "it's so spicy".
"Yes, yes, I do as I am told, sir."
Seeing the man who was trampled on the ground crawling up, his handsome face flushed with red tides, Helo knew that he had probably poked the weird nerve of this pervert, and he immediately got goosebumps.
The center of the area is surrounded by a circular wall, like an open-air control area.
The White Eagle had already reached its entrance first, but only glanced in and shouted into the pager.
"Come here! Over here...... Over here...... You've got to take a look! ”
Helo's heart suddenly sped up inexplicably, and he rushed towards the place with a few people, the wet soles of his feet brushing against the smooth glass underside, and he fell to the ground in the cold.
At this moment, he caught a glimpse of a black shadow rushing from the bottom of the lake with great speed, but when he looked closely, there was nothing. When Gu Kun, who had followed him, helped him up, he noticed that his projection also flashed through the glass as it had just done, and Helo breathed a sigh of relief.
Maybe he was too nervous, but it was just a projection of himself.
He held his breath and walked into the circular wall, and the sight that greeted him was startled.
Dozens of rectangular metal cabins are neatly placed against the wall, and the glass hatches reflect the cold light, like tomb robbers entering the pyramid, facing a large number of freshly unearthed coffins.
It's a hibernation pod.
For a moment, Helo felt his blood pressure rise sharply in his body, and he suppressed his rapid breathing, and walked through the glass pods in turn to see if there were any names on them.
Most of it was empty, except for a few light blue nutrient solutions.
Where have all these people gone?
As he searched, he couldn't help but have questions in his mind.
At this moment, "bang", suddenly, out of nowhere, there was a dull and faint knocking sound.
"Bang"
"Bang bang—"
Mixed with the movement of wet and thick liquid.
He followed the sound towards the last compartment of the second row, and the others, apparently attracted by the sound, rounded the other side and finally stopped in one place. Suddenly, everyone instinctively raised their weapons.
The glass lid of the metal cabin in front of them was squeezed outwards and deformed, and the liquid leaked through the cracked cracks, and the dormant object inside was like a white "egg", which contracted and undulated like breathing, and the amplitude became larger and larger, and the hatch made an unbearable crack.
It seems that it will break out at any time.
"Bang-bang-"
The sound of the crash echoed heart-wrenching through the empty and dead space of the ship.
Helo took a few steps back, his nerves tense to the extreme, and at the same time, a strange voice suddenly came from a corner, as if it was not far from them. As the nightingale raised the searchlight, a dark shadow flickered past their feet, and this time Heloh was convinced that it was not a projection of their bodies.
Because everyone heard a slight "click".
Not far from them, a crack broke open in the bottom of the glass.
This glass, which is as strong as a diamond and can withstand the pressures of outer space, can crack. Before everyone could react, there was another crash from another direction, and the rift widened.
Whatever it was attacking the ship, it wanted to kill them.
"We need to get out of here now! Immediately! The lone wolf shouted and pointed his gun at the thing in the sleeping pod.
Helo reflexively grabbed his arm.
"Get it out and take it away!" He gritted his teeth, his heart almost jumping out of his throat.
"Are you crazy? This kind of juncture! Put this unknown thing out there, and no one can guarantee that we'll be able to handle it! Gu Kun grabbed his body and pulled him back.
He stared at the "egg" that was swelling and writhing more violently, and an indescribable urge rushed over his head, prompting him to raise his arm, plunge the tip of the spear into the crack, and pry it hard.
"Helo! What are you doing! ”
A blast of impact slammed Helo's body open, and the heavy hatch slammed to the ground with a clang.
In an instant, the pale blue nutrient solution spilled on the ground, and half of the wet "eggs" fell to the ground, and half were still hanging in the cabin, deformed by the weight of the contents of the contents, revealing a translucent texture under the strong light of the searchlight.
Its pale surface revealed tiny vertical and horizontal blood vessels, like a woman's womb pregnant with a baby, trembling and squirming, as if a new life was desperately trying to break free from this soft and tough skin.
Helo couldn't see the inside of it, as if he was strongly attracted by something, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand.
Ando took the first step to frame the body of the bewitched person: "Don't let the things inside come out!" The radiation index is beyond normal! Shoot it! ”
"Wait!"
At the moment when Nightingale pulled the safety bolt on the laser gun, Ando seemed to notice something, took out an anesthetic cartridge and pierced it.
The sharp needle pierced the surface of the "egg", like a water balloon, making a "poof" sound.
Sticky juice splashed down from the hole made by the anesthetic needle, and the next moment it cracked open a large opening, revealing wisps of soft tissue-like object, and another spherical outline was revealed.
It was a head, a human head.
Then came a pair of hands, fingers crading at the smooth glass floor, wet arms spasmodically supporting the torso, slipping out of the burst sack.
It was indeed a man.
And he is an adult man with slender hands and feet and a strong body.
Heloh froze there in shock, until he saw a pattern on the man's pale back from the pile of "tissues".
In an instant, the brain exploded with a roar.
He almost fainted first, shaking uncontrollably, and his legs seemed to be disconnected from his brain. He fell to his knees uncontrollably, crawled over like mad and flipped the man out of the disgusting pile of unknown objects, and hugged him tightly in his arms, spasmodizing more than the body in his arms.
The hand that was curled up at his side seemed to feel something, and it trembled on his waist.
He saw his haunted man raise his head feebly, and his eyes widened to reflect his face.