Chapter Twenty-Six: Lost in Search
The ceiling light on my helmet lit up as soon as I entered the cave, and the inside of the cave was as damp as I imagined, with all sorts of gray-black unidentified objects wriggling in the cratered stone walls, and I flew straight in, and I had no time or intention to take a closer look at what these things were. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The team that Ning 08 is in should have just entered the cave, and theoretically can catch up, but there is not a single red dot in the life detector of my helmet so far, and similarly, there is no green dot to be found. In the darkness, there was only the lonely white glow that represented myself.
The cavern was not quiet, the firefights, the vibrations and wails caused by the impact were cut through the stone, and it sounded like it had been filtered through a stuffy can, becoming more distorted. After flying around these sounds for a while, I began to hallucinate, always feeling that something was watching me or following me, but in front of me and behind me, it was just an endless, damp darkness. There have been a few times when a red dot appears on the life detector, but upon closer inspection, the screen becomes empty again.
I began to regret my decision to act alone, I always thought that I would soon be able to catch up with Ning 08, and it would be more reliable to have someone I knew than to team up with strangers, and now it seems that maybe it would be better to set off with other teams and have someone to talk to. Now I am accompanied by the dull voices of the other passages, unable to distinguish whether it is a human or another creature. No matter how long I've listened to it, it's still terrifying. I didn't hesitate to turn up the speed of the aircraft, which meant that if there was a fork in the road in the cave, I would crash into the rock wall if I couldn't dodge. But now as long as I can see people, anyone.
After the speed increased, I flew forward for some time before I saw the first fork in the road. I stopped at the fork in the road, trying to discern the movement on either side, but the noise around me was still so loud that I couldn't tell which of the two roads was moving.
If I choose the wrong path, I'll have to take on an unknown enemy alone, and the only thing I can use as my main weapon is three ion knives, and the only difference between them is size. The hairs on my body stood on end at the thought of this.
I finally chose the one that was the right size, turned the speed of the aircraft to a low setting, and flew casually towards the hole on the left.
Ning 08's squad also has the possibility of acting separately, so I don't have to be alone. I tried to comfort myself. Hiding in this set of equipment is safe, even if it is attacked, it will not be good, and you will be able to find someone quickly......
As if in response to my thoughts, shortly after entering the fork in the cave, I saw the first "person" since entering the cave.
"He" was stuck in the stone wall, and it was not quite accurate to say that he was a "person", because there was no green dot in my helmet, and of course, there was no red dot.
I cautiously approached "him" and found that it was a metal robot with a silver glow all over it, which looked very hard, but had been severely squeezed and torn by external forces and had been deformed and crumpled into a ball of scrap metal, and it was wearing the same helmet as ours on it, with DG48 written on it. I tried to turn on the communication device and "he" to communicate, but the channel DG48 was on was showing "unreachable".
Is this what bio-nails really look like? Has this person been successfully detached? Or is it actually some defeated alien creature? Since everything about extraterrestrial creatures is unknown, it's not impossible to look like a robot...... But why do you wear the same helmet as us? Did anyone leave their helmet here? I reached out to take off "his" helmet, but the helmet was stuck with its body and could not be removed at all.
The whole cave shook suddenly, pulling me back to reality.
I don't have time to think so much now, so hurry up and find Ning 08. I put aside my distractions and continued to fly, the path seemed to drift away from the direction of the other groups, as I began to lose my voice. There was still no movement on the screen.
The speed of the aircraft was slowed down by me, and I was even attacked by fear at one point, wanting to stop and breathe, but I was afraid that I would be pulled into the abyss.
If the one I saw just now was a member, it proves that something has already appeared on this path, but there is nothing like an alien corpse along the way, which means that "it" is still alive and will reappear at any time.
The white dot in the upper right corner of the screen that represented myself was my last straw, and I stared at it so hard that I almost went limp when the green mark finally appeared on the edge.
"Ning 08, can you hear me, it's me." I could hear the tremors of my voice.
But I waited in the dark for a while, but the other party never heard back. I flew forward a short distance and 8 red dots appeared on the edge of the screen.
Is it surrounded? My heart skipped a beat, and I scrambled to tighten my grip on the knife in my hand and flew as fast as I could.
The second green dot began to appear on the screen, and there were several red dots around it, but these red dots were flashing and the number was slowly decreasing.
Ning 08 mentioned that the people who teamed up with her were from the first team, and their strength was really unusual. I couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, something flew towards me.
I subconsciously tried to swing my sword in defense, only to find that it was not flesh and blood, but a round piece of metal that slammed into the wall of the cave next to me, nearly bouncing back to me.
I didn't have time to see what it was, and in the light from the Ionic weapon wielding in front of me, something unrecognizable was moving towards me.
It's a red dot.
My heart seemed to be beating right next to my eardrums, making it hard for me to concentrate. I looked at the distance between the shadow and me, and compared it to the position shown on the screen in the upper right corner, estimating how far away it was from me, and deducing the timing of the swing. Strangely, when I raised the knife, I felt that the muscles in my body had memorized the position of a certain preparatory action, and I tried to swing it a few times, and it was unexpectedly easy.
However, just as I was confident about to deliver a fatal blow to it, it suddenly vanished halfway towards me.
I was stunned.
Did it stop? Is it gone? Was it attacked by someone else? Where did it go?
Red dots, red dots......
Then I remembered that there was a red dot, and that the red dot was already close to my white dot.
Before I had time to think or be afraid, I reflexively raised my hand and swung my knife at the air in front of me.
I didn't anticipate what kind of object my knife would cut and what kind of "touch" it would bring, but the metal object just now made me more or less mentally prepared to cut at hard things. As a result, my knife seemed to melt away.
The blow was indeed a hit, and the tactile feeling of exactly hitting something was different from swinging in the air, but I still couldn't see anything in front of me. After a few more moments, something like liquid iron suddenly appeared, cutting a black line from the air, and the thick silver liquid fell to the ground as if it were dripping blood.
Is this dead? I looked at the right corner of the screen on the mask to confirm that the red dot was indeed gone.
Let's assume it's over.
I calmed down a little, and I felt like I had lost all my strength, and I could barely hold the knife. But I can't rest yet. It's just getting started. Judging from the blow I just made, the M6 did do special training for me, and if it was just luck, I would never change the direction of the knife swing when I was about to strike.
The successful defeat of the first enemy gave me some confidence, but it also caused me trouble. It was probably because I saw a new light source here, and the red dots that had just gathered in front of me had all shifted towards me.
I pulled out another long ion knife and prepared to try my hand at work.
This time there were three red dots, and I slashed longitudinally with my long knife, followed by a shorter knife that slashed upwards, and the silvery liquid exploded in the air and bounced against the wall with a clanging sound.
Then, there were the "latecomers" who flocked to the front.
I didn't have time to see what it was, so I decided to give up on identifying it with my own eyes and concentrate on looking at the monitor on the mask. Ning 08 is right, this "life detector" is indeed the most useful thing here. Using it to repel the enemy, the difficulty of the battle was reduced by a few percent, and although I was still uneasy, my hand with the knife was much more stable than before, and I was getting closer and closer to the two green dots.
At that moment, a sudden rush of red poured in from outside the monitor - it was something made up of a dense mass of red dots, and I almost suspected that my monitor was malfunctioning. But it was only for a moment, and I still had to use it to make sure my location was safe.
Then, with a wave of heat, I saw someone holding something like a machine gun rising to a height, and then a tsunami-like burst of fire stained my vision in front of me.
On the screen, the red dots disappeared in patches.
I wanted to call Ning 08 to confirm her safety, but I was worried that this would increase the danger to her, so I had to slash all the way indiscriminately.
Ahead seemed to be another fork in the tunnel, and it was vaguely clear that it was a more spacious place, and the entire passage was piled up with various gray-red flesh, and the exit became very narrow.
The first person who came into my sight was struggling with a knife and three things the size of a tank, similar in shape to a giant spider but with large pincers, I stabbed one to death in the back, jumped on the other with its corpse, stabbed it downward, the third one on the left flew at me, and I swung it horizontally with my left hand to split it in two, and my body was so flexible that it didn't look like my own. I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that the color of the blade is getting brighter and brighter.
"Who are you?" The surrounded man crawled out of the corpse, his reddish-brown curls exposed outside the helmet, not Ning 08. Her clothes were stained with all sorts of liquids and pieces of flesh, and she could no longer distinguish their original shape and color, and she had to rely on the support of her sword to barely stand up.
"Where's Ning 08?" I asked.
"The monster?"
The man shook his head at me and didn't answer. I didn't understand what she meant.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, someone seemed to have released a flashbang in front of him, and in an instant, the cave was as bright as day.
"It exploded again." The red-haired woman muttered.
I flew towards the source of light in a frenzy, and the explosion had blasted out a large new clearing, and there were a pile of charred black things on the ground, each of which was close to the size of an adult male bear, and seemed to be some kind of alien creature as well. My monitor is marked with a green dot that is moving out of my communication range.
Could that be Ning 08?
Before I had time to think about it, there was another dense explosion ahead. I had just gotten to the point where I could see the green dot when it moved out of range.
"What speed is this guy moving?"
Even without mentioning the speed of movement, her efficiency in cleaning up aliens is amazing.
"Ning 08, Ning 08!"
I kept calling her name every time I saw the green dot, but she never responded, and she never slowed down.
"This guy, are the headphones broken?"
I followed her around into a place where something resembling a stalactite hung from the top, and in the distance, green liquids kept falling, and as soon as they fell to the ground, they merged into ooze monsters. The dense red dots almost covered the green dots that represented her.
When she took out the big sword, I could finally be sure that the person in front of me was Ning 08. The left side of her helmet was damaged, most of it had been cut off, her blue hair was soaked with too much monster blood, and she was soaking outside, humming a song, holding her sword in both hands, and slashing sideways as she spun her body, and the red dots around her evaporated. However, as soon as the sweep was finished, a new circle of monsters surrounded him again.
Ning 08 then turned around, took out a gun and fired three shots at the wall of the cave on the side, the wall of the hole was pierced, revealing another way, and she immediately drilled in.
Is she so capable of fighting? Is this person really Ning 08?
I suspiciously tried to chase after me, but the red-haired woman stopped me from behind.
"Where are you going to chase her? She's gone crazy. ā
"Why do you say that?"
The man did not answer, but sat down on the ground and threw the knife to the side, "Shall we go back together?" There's no way to use the emergency exit button here, we have entered the compartment between the earth and the other space, and while she cleared the way for us, it is too late to turn back, and if we go inside, we can't get out. ā
I ignored her and restarted the aircraft.
"Xiao 339 has done something in the biological armor of your team members, which can increase combat power," she shouted to me from behind, "It's just that there are side effects, and the price of exerting all potential combat power is that it is easy to lose the control of the brain over the body and fall into a state of madness." ā
I stopped in mid-air and turned around.
"The people in our first squad have all been given this medicine, and without it, we wouldn't be able to survive with our mental control ability."
"Then why are you okay? According to you, I should have been drugged too, but I ......"
"The efficacy of the drug varies from person to person. It's like when you're drunk, some people talk nonsense, some people get drunk, some people cry, you don't kill enough enemies, and you haven't reached the critical point of being stimulated, but I, when I'm excited, that's it. As for Ning 08, you should really look at her expression just now, she is definitely crazy. I didn't dare to come near her after that, I was afraid that she would attack me together, you know? So leave her alone, let's go, the chances of the two of them escaping together are still very high. ā
"Get out of here by yourself."
"Are you really going to die?" She still didn't give up, and pounced on me and grabbed me, "There are really people who are going to die here, and one is already dead, don't you see?" ā
"Wasn't that an emergency escape?"
"As I said earlier, the emergency release button has failed, and in that case, there is only one reason to completely disappear the signal......"
"You're crazy, aren't you? Bio-armor should be able to block out all damage. ā
"No, the technology of the Puma Star can only guarantee that they will not be harmed by physical attacks, but not mental attacks, and you know how the first people who entered the sub-chasm died, right?" She replied to me in a non-refutable tone, "When surrounded by a group of monsters or attacked by spirits, some people can easily collapse, do you think that the second group of inter-Asian immigrants are particularly mentally strong?" On the contrary, many of them are very mentally sensitive. Some of them just have the same wavelength and a strong ability to accept new things, so they will be transported over. After all, there are too many conditions set by the Puma Star people, and it is too troublesome to find the objects that match them all. ā
"You've been mentally attacked? What the hell is going on? ā
"I don't know, we decided to split up at the first fork in the road, DG48 because he was a man, so he went the other way alone, and I was with Ning 08. But not long after they separated, DG48 chased after him, like madness, kept screaming 'why is it invalid' and 'why is it invalid', and then a black beast rushed from behind him, pressed him against the wall and began to bite him, we stabbed the monster with a knife several times and it didn't let go, we told DG48 to get out, but he pressed the button repeatedly to no avail, and finally Ning 08 threw a piece at the monster before scaring it away. But at that time, the signal of DG48 was gone, and the whole person was distorted. ā
"He hasn't been to the inspection before?"
"Ha," the woman shook her head, "you're Ning 08's son, right?" The tone of the speech is exactly the same. ā
"What's wrong?"
"After DG48 died, the first thing Ning 08 did was to take away all the weapons on his body, and said the same thing as you, that guy, I think that a weak person like him who can't stand the stimulation deserves to die."
"Even if she thinks so in her heart, she probably won't say it explicitly."
"I don't say it explicitly, but I think that's what she meant."
"Don't take speculation for conclusions. But why are people who haven't been to the inspection here here? ā
"This is our obligation as members of the first squad." The woman said proudly.
Suddenly I understood something.
"You're a newcomer?"
"What's wrong with the newcomers, the newcomers are also the newcomers who have been selected into the first squad." She held her head high.
"Don't be so proud of being cannon fodder."
My words didn't anger her, she just sneered, "Are you sure it's safe to participate in the inspection?" There are far more 'things' in this cave group than we expected, and if we want to achieve our goal, it is impossible to slow down for one or two people, which means that everyone is 'conceited life and death', even if someone will come back to save you afterwards, when you are found, it may be the Year of the Monkey, no, it is possible to be forgotten here forever. In the meantime, you will be trapped here, suffering from endless attacks and death, this is the curse of Prometheus, do you dare to guarantee that you will not go crazy? ā
"I can't, but it doesn't matter. I've been delayed for too long, goodbye. ā
She shrugged, not looking surprised.
"Well, the so-called family affection."
I turned around and walked through the stalactite area, rushing into the path that Ning 08 had just driven out before the mud monsters on the ground touched me. The road she opened was supposed to belong to the other teams next door to investigate, and although I lost her again, the corpse she left behind along the way was a mess of natural road signs, which was very recognizable. I tried to focus on the display in the upper right corner and not to delve into the uncomfortable wreckage. Explosions could still be heard in the distance, but I couldn't tell if the source was her.
Theoretically, she would have had moments of need to stop and meet the enemy, and I had been flying as fast as I could, and we should have met soon, but the boring flight was much longer than I had imagined - until I saw the last thing I wanted it to appear - a fork in the road.
I made the right bet last time, but where do I go this time?
In short, choose one first, and if you encounter an enemy, it means that you have chosen the wrong one, and then turn back and walk the other one.
There was no movement on the life probe, and there were no traces of alien life at the entrances on either side, so this time I chose the right path.
The cave walls of this road are different from the tunnels just now, a bit like the inside of a person's intestines. I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always felt that the cave wall here had been shrinking and expanding repeatedly, and I tentatively slashed the cave wall a few times with a knife, and there was juice overflowing, and a disgusting smell wafted out. I hesitated and stopped flying. One second, two seconds, three seconds...... Nothing happened. But just as I was about to continue flying in, the whole cave suddenly "trembled", and something was faintly rushing towards me in front of me, but there was still no red dot on the monitor. Just in case, I switched directions and wanted to fly back to the fork in the road. At this time, a red wave finally appeared on the screen, and when I looked back, it was a large wave of rotten water mixed with rotten flesh surging towards me, I quickly turned up the speed of the aircraft, and returned to the fork in the road and went around into the cave on the left, and the wave of things that I don't know whether it was liquid or living things also turned with me.
This amount is simply impossible to solve with just a few knives!
I turned my head backwards as I flew forward, and the wave had climbed the wall, chasing after me like a big rotting mouth, trying to swallow me in.
Don't panic, don't panic, be calm, be calm!!
I kept admonishing myself.
Think of a way, think of a way, there must be a way, you must come up with a way.
I kept groping around my waist for something that I could use, and then I felt the spherical Litai. It seems that Ning 08 used this thing as a bomb just now. There's no better option anyway, so give it a try.
I grabbed one and threw it back, and almost as soon as it touched the creatures, a fire ignited behind it, and the entire cavern was lit up in fiery red.
It turns out that not only does it work, but it works amazingly.
However, the range of effects was limited after all, and the monsters continued to chase after them.
I had no choice but to continue throwing away from the back as I flew away. The number of litas in my pocket was quite limited, but luckily the red dots began to retreat just as I was about to finish throwing them. I escaped death, and my breath couldn't calm down at all. In terms of combat experience, I'm not much better than the member who was scared to death, and if I had been caught up just now, I would probably be surrounded by the strange swamp as the woman had said, until someone finds me. At this moment, I don't know if I want to find Ning 08 or just want to get out of here.
It was still pitch black in the hallway, and although the flight time was less than half of what it was, I felt paralyzed, and I could only stare at the white dot in the upper right corner of the screen to try to stabilize my emotions, but all that filled my brain was the sound of my own violent gasps and the sharp ringing in my ears.
I continued to fly at a moderate speed, and the thought of being stuck here all the time made my feet tingle, like something was pulling me down.
Soon it will be fine. I comforted myself that if I couldn't find Ning 08, that guy's end would mean that I would be finished too.
After the tinnitus passed, I began to hear a regular muffled sound, like a wooden stick hitting pork, followed by a tearing sound that was intermittent and gave me a glimmer of hope. After a while, the inside of the cave shook again, and I was shocked to think that the wave of creatures had returned, but after this tremor it was only a small thing that fell from the rock wall, all of which resembled small insects and reptilian mollusks, and the life detector did not respond to them, so I just brushed these things off my body.
Eventually, some red dots were captured on the edges of the screen, and they appeared and disappeared, but there was no sign of the green dots.
The shaking began to become violent, and the larger rocks collapsed one after another, and I dodged the stones as I advanced, but I was still hit by a stone in the shoulder, and the knife was smashed and almost escaped.
Of course, that's nothing compared to what you just had.
Finally, Ning 08's green dot appeared again in the closest corner of the mask screen, and a bunch of white, plastic-skinned creatures were slowly drifting forward, which might be where Ning 08 was.
I pulled out my long knife, rushed forward, and slashed horizontally at the row of plastic skin closest to me, it felt as hard as cutting glass with a knife, but the ion knives were special weapons after all, and they shattered to the ground in an instant.
In this way, some of the "long strips" in front also spotted me, turned around lightly, and surrounded me. They look like nothing more than inorganic things moving on their own, but the closer I get to me, the more I feel like I'm suffocated in a confined space.
I waved the weapon in my hand in vain, but the "long strips" kept coming up and could not be cut at all. At this point, the green dot disappears at the top of the screen again.
I can't just be stuck here.
I kicked the button on the side of my right foot with my left heel and forced it to fly at high speed, trying to break through with my twin knives as I flew.
But I failed.
The speed of the knife was not as fast as the speed of flight, and it was not long before I was knocked to the ground, and the group of things instantly enveloped me tightly. In the confusion, I could only press the high-speed rotation button and the high-speed flight button of the aircraft at the same time, and with a violent dizziness, my body entered a state of extreme speed rotation beyond the range of bearing, and the two weapons already had their own boomerang effect just by holding it in my hand.
It worked very well, but at the cost of a constant upsurge of vomiting, I quickly kicked my feet to relieve the spin after a certain distance from the group, but I couldn't find my balance in the air for a short time. Just as I was about to be surrounded again, two beams of light passed through my body, and there was another "boom" explosion, and the remaining creatures around me were now blown to pieces.
"Ning 08!"
Far away, she stood on top of me where the light source was out of reach. I can only tell if this person is her by the shape of her body. She put her sword back on her back, holding the gun that had fired the ion beam in her left hand, and a thick, tattered "plastic skin" in her right hand, which she was using as a whip. Draw the other strips around you to make a "pop" sound. She doesn't seem to be fighting, just playing.
As I was about to come into her sight, she seemed to be tired of playing, and with a single shot exploded the remaining strip, grabbed the one in her hand, turned around and continued to fly forward.
I caught up with her again, finally catching up with her just as she was dealing with a new wave of creatures. I'm pretty sure she's now able to spot a teammate behind her from the Life Probe, but she's just swapped her weapons and didn't look back once. However, I felt relieved just by seeing her flying in front of me.
The monsters in the area slowly began to decrease, but the frequency of the cave's vibrations increased, and she nimbly dodged the falling stones, but I was hit in the head several times, and the distance between us was once again widened.
The road ahead was getting wider, and I had a hunch that it was coming to an end.
Suddenly, near the location of the green dot where Ning 08 was, a blue dot appeared.
Before this, I didn't even know that the Life Probe could show blue dots, let alone what the blue dots represented.
Through the faint light of Ning 08's helmet, I saw where the blue dot was, and a naked man was staggering towards me.
Ning 08 did not hesitate to pull out the gun from his waist and load it neatly.
Her detector should be the same as mine, showing the man blue.
However, as soon as Ning 08 raised the gun, the man fell straight to the ground.
"Isn't that ......?"
I was about to rush over, when suddenly the mountain shook, and the whole cave began to collapse, and the continuous stones completely sealed me on this side of the passage, isolating Ning 08 and the man at the end of the passage.
In an instant, consciousness left my body.