Chapter 53: Highway Star
I've been dreaming every night for as long as I can remember, and I wake up and can still remember the contents of my dreams clearly. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info unless you are exhausted before falling asleep.
But today, I only remember the end of last night's dream with a group of villains beating gongs and drums in my ears, and I didn't realize until I woke up completely that it was because the alarm of the underground research institute went off.
The screeching level of this alarm can be used as a mental attack prop for criminals during interrogation, and I think the dead can be brought to life.
I leaned against the wall and went out, bumping into Liyue, who had just put on her protective suit and was about to go out.
"What's wrong?" I raised my voice, trying to drown out the siren with my voice.
Li Yue pressed the button on the wall next to her, and the alarm stopped. "There's a creature approaching here, I'll deal with it." "That's right," he said, and he looked back, "I remade two chairs last night, and they should be much better than the last time, so you'll see if it's more comfortable to sit on." ”
"Why do you still have time to do that ......?"
"Let's take a break for my brain, now that I've got more time to move, I need to sit for a while once in a while," he stepped into the elevator, "I can see you don't like the old chair, so I made you a new one by the way, and you might have to stay here for a while anyway." ”
"Wait," I ran in, "didn't you sleep last night?" ”
"yes, what's wrong?"
"What's wrong...... Is it okay for you to go out in this state? The situation is too chaotic now, maybe the creature approaching here is the first team? ”
"It's my obligation, I have to go." He put on a gas mask and spoke in a buzzing voice.
I sighed, "Then I'll go with you, I don't have anything else to do if I stay here anyway." ”
"Well, I hope you won't trouble me."
"Huh?" I couldn't help but kick him, "It's amazing, it's arrogant." I'm an expert, okay? ”
"Oh." His reaction was very flat, and I started to regret helping a little.
Outside, it's just dawning, and it's still a clear way that requires a little light to see. Unable to pull out any lighting tools, she led me to the dusty road behind the Institute. I glanced at the helmet's biodetector and saw that there were no red dots nearby, and I couldn't return to the sub-gap, which didn't necessarily mean that even this one would fail.
"Where?"
"If the creature stays still, it will take about twenty minutes to walk forward."
"Twenty minutes? Can you sense it from so far away? ”
"What's the use of waiting until the door to come out again, it's a precaution."
"No wonder you took me to the underground research institute for a long time the two times before, I always thought that you deliberately took a detour."
"Oh. I did take a detour. ”
I was tempted to hit him, but I held back.
"Don't you have any transportation? It's too slow to wait for you to walk past like this. ”
"I have, but I can't use it, and it's not good for me to be found by new traces of human vehicles at this time. Sometimes, when I encounter a creature that moves too fast, I will simply move to the location of the underground research institute. ”
"Is it okay to leave footprints? Although this road does not leave footprints today, what about other places? ”
"Most of the time I don't go down the roads where I can leave footprints, and even if I do, the soles of my shoes have been transformed into the shape of biological claws that weigh as much as mine, leaving no human footprints."
"Okay."
The road is wide, lined with former factory areas, and apart from the occasional container truck or two parked on the side of the road, all that can be seen is the gray and bare fences, and the scenery is quite desolate.
"We're getting closer. Wait a minute...... There are quite a few of them. ”
My detector screen is still empty. And Liyue had already taken out a large-caliber silver pistol from his waist, its body was much more slender than ordinary pistols, and it glittered elegantly in the night, reflecting the cold light on Liyue's slender fingers. It's so beautiful that it looks like an advertising prop, and it almost makes me wonder if I can shoot a bullet.
In contrast, I was in a hurry to return to Earth this time, so I couldn't pull out any attractive weapons, and all I could use was an ion pistol, three ion knives, and a bag of Litai that was automatically equipped to me. I hadn't taken a few steps from the ion gun when I felt the ground tremble, and a red dot began to seep out of the edge of the life probe. I am afraid that what can cause this kind of movement can no longer be described as "a lot".
"If it's too much, let's go back and change the location of the institute."
"Wait."
Ritsuki took a few more steps forward and crossed the viaduct before stopping. I couldn't contain my curiosity, and I trotted along.
Without the shelter of the viaduct, the first thing that came into view was the gradually rich glow in the eastern sky, and under the gentle light of the light of the newborn sun, I seemed to see a great migration of animals from an alien galaxy, no, if you want to look at the appearance of these creatures, it may be more appropriate to use a hundred ghosts to walk at night. Alien creatures of all shapes and sizes are gathering in a haphazard procession, running along the opposite side of the road.
"Where are they going?" I lowered my voice and tugged at the corner of Larry's clothes.
"No, they're chasing their prey."
Liyue pointed to the bottom of the large army, and I realized that a dynamic chain of creatures was being displayed in real time - a medium-sized creature chasing the small creature in front of it, and when it managed to swallow it in one bite, there were even larger animals waiting behind it for breakfast. Every creature is chasing, chasing and fleeing at the same time.
"Before we find out, let's go back quickly, shall we? We can't handle this amount if they change direction. ”
"I've never seen so many kinds of alien creatures come together."
"Now is not the time to sigh." I dragged him back.
"No, I'm wondering why."
"Think about it later."
"If that's the direction, they're supposed to come out of the underground caverns." Ritsuki was finally willing to move her steps, "but there has never been such an example before...... How could these creatures come out of the cave at the same time? ”
"You go faster." I had to look back almost every two steps to check on the situation, and I wasn't in the mood to hear what he had to say.
However, I saw a red dot rapidly approaching here.
One would be fine, I turned around and was about to give it a shot, but Liyue suddenly grabbed my hand and started running.
"How ......"
Before I could finish, I realized that the red dot on the biodetector was already close to me. This speed......
It seemed to be getting dark all of a sudden, and I looked up and faced a mouthful of fangs, and Liyue cleanly raised her hand and shot at the mouth, not even figuring out its location. This shot caused the monster to shatter directly into a mess of flesh, and "snapped" to the ground. However, even after repelling the threat, Ritsuki did not slow down.
"Corpses and the like will volatilize automatically, but its scent will also attract other creatures closer to here, so we must hurry back to the institute and move our location."
"It's already here."
The red color on the life probe is pouring in like a tide, and behind us, a group of alien creatures have gathered, and they are like a moving monster mountain, black and oppressive rushing towards us.
I threw the bag out as I ran, trying to delay a little, but to no avail.
"Maybe it's too late to make ......"
If I stop now, it may not affect me, but I just don't know where the limit of Ritsuki is.
"Don't panic," Li Yue glanced back, and fired a few shots in a seemingly random direction, but all the behemoths fell. This gun looks delicate, but the lethality is very amazing, no matter how big a behemoth is, as long as it is shot, it will definitely turn into meat puree. The position he picked was just the perfect "stumbling block" position. The alien team was successfully slowed down by the thick, tall meat sauce, and even those who tried to pass through the meat puree were stuck and unable to move in the process.
We finally managed to jump into the institute before the aliens caught up, and when we closed the door, our violent panting echoed through the quiet of the institute.
"Transfer now?"
Li Yue nodded, tapped her finger on the wall next to the door, and the interface of an electronic screen appeared. He clicked back and forth on it a few times at a speed I couldn't read, and the whole institute began to sink with it. I finally put my mind at ease, and Ritsuki began to continue thinking about the question she had just asked.
"I have a hypothesis."
"What?"
"Why hasn't all the extraterrestrial creatures on Earth shown any intelligence so far? Like animals, on the other hand, everything follows the form of instinct, but perhaps according to their own natural rules. ”
"Do you think there are still intelligent creatures in the abyss that haven't appeared?"
"It could also be more powerful creatures, and if we use animal minds to speculate on the logic of the behavior of these alien creatures, then the performance we just saw is undoubtedly escaping some kind of catastrophe or something that frightens them."
"I've heard people in Asia say that how long we think the civilization of the earth has existed, the history of the world in the abyss will be multiplied tenfold. For such a long time, even monsters who have been exiled to the wilderness have indeed developed their own civilization. So the reason for letting these 'animals' come first is...... Experiment? ”
"Anyway, I have to decipher the code now." Li Yue walked to the elevator, "Time may be running out." ”
If there really were so-called "intelligent beings", would the earth completely move to others? What about those cocoons...... This is better off not becoming a reality in the future.
I thought the underground institute would be "moving" a little longer, but when we stepped out of the elevator, it seemed to have stopped.
"Where was the place you just set?"
"I've chosen another place that's close to here, but it's going to be a place where the creatures won't pass through."
"Just find a random spot on the map?"
"Yes, just enter the coordinates and bearings."
"Wait a minute...... I've got it! ”
Regarding the question that bothered Ritsuki, I think I had guessed another possibility.
"What do you think of?"
"That string of numbers, you've always thought about it too complicated, I can't tell you if it's just latitude and longitude?"
"If it's latitude and longitude, we're going to ......"
Li Yue stopped only halfway through his words, and his face became very ugly.
"Someone's here."
He reached for the gun on his waist and held me behind him, signaling me not to act rashly, and I subconsciously grabbed his arm and looked out.
There are also three steps, two steps, one step.
A figure that shone with a crystal clear beauty walked out.
It's a secluded place.
No, it's Holy Glass.
For a moment, Li Yue looked at her without saying a word, and I knew that he was just worried about the authenticity or purpose of the holy glass in front of him.
The bait that worked most effectively for him appeared.
He still didn't let go of the gun in his hand, but I, too, let go.