Chapter 386: Red Slime
The seventh floor, with a slope of more than 2,000 meters, winds down to a depth of more than 300 meters.
The light source here is no longer provided by electricity, but is grown fluorescent biologically sustained lighting.
"Originally, there was electric lighting here, but these things ............... The appetite is too good. Hanyu said weakly.
To be honest, she doesn't like this dark and damp environment very much.
Combat units have also tried to install artificial light sources and defensive positions, but unfortunately in the face of slime that can devour things, it is meaningless.
Often, devices that were installed during the last exploration are not much left for the next time.
Startled by the slime falling from the zenith, Hanyu let out a scream.
Red slime masses were everywhere, large and small, in the corners of the walls, and even above the zenith.
Perhaps because of women's natural cleanliness, Hanyu has an unusual resistance to this slimy thing.
Thanks to the mech, it is possible to move forward in the dimly lit cavern thanks to two searchlights.
As he walked, the speed of the "Divine Thunder" slowed down.
Maybe it's the searchlights that attract these guys, the red slime is getting more and more, and gradually the speed of the current armor consumption can't keep up with the speed of recovery.
More and more slime was trying to ram the mech, and several times it nearly got entangled in the mechanical foot that was sticking out of the armor.
A pale red energy warning flashed on the screen, but Hanyu was a little anxious.
She found that the slime's attacks on the "Divine Thunder" were repeatedly frustrated, and many of the smaller ones turned to attack Barrett.
It's just that although they pounced fiercely, when they came to his side, they seemed to hit a wall, and they didn't cause any damage.
The slime that followed one after another made the path ahead all red slime, and it gradually filled the ground.
"Divine Thunder" stopped, and the smoke grenade launcher on top of the mech began to load.
"No way, use condensation bombs to get out of the way! I'm afraid it's going to be hard to keep going. Hanyu's voice came out, not through a communication channel, but on the mecha's megaphone.
A condensation bomb is a grenade with cryogenic refrigerant installed in the body of the bomb.
They explode in the area of effect, scattering the cryogenic liquid around the target, which can instantly reduce the local temperature to minus one hundred and twenty degrees.
Using a megaphone to keep Barrett out of the projectile range, this thing is quite powerful.
Hanyu was a little embarrassed, and reloaded his ammunition but did not fire immediately.
Because the response of the biological probe is unusually straightforward, there is a lot of red slime on the top of the mecha's head.
If you can't shoot them down, the mech must stop the current armor when it ejects, and it is easy to get in.
The rotating cannon fired continuously overhead, but with this kind of thing, the lethality was really limited.
The projectile directly penetrated the red slime mass, bringing up the clump of slime, but there was no way to destroy the thing directly.
Barrett also saw the embarrassing situation that "Shenlei" was in, and he silently asked in his heart: "What weaknesses do these guys have besides freezing?" ”
Karma didn't like these guys, unlike the Black Plague, these red slime masses were functionally duplicative of hers.
Although the actual function is slightly different, she and both of them can destroy objects and creatures.
"I think it's better not to continue to accept this kind of unstable individual." It took Karma two full days to squeeze it into a small ball, and Barrett wouldn't allow her to destroy it.
But apparently the gadget doesn't like its kind either, so if someone of its kind tries to approach Barrett, it will be repulsed.
If you can't accept it, then you can only drive it away.
Barrett again tried to sense the impact.
It worked for the beast, but he didn't know if it was a thing or not.
This time is different from the previous time when it was used against the beast, this time it targets all the slime around it.
Closing his eyes to stimulate the ability, Barrett found that it didn't work.
It was as if the slime masses hadn't been attacked in any way, but some of the little creatures in the cave were frightened and fell off the walls.
Perhaps sensing something falling, the slime mass on the zenith followed suit.
The crooked hit was right, although it did not achieve the effect that Barrett envisioned, but the purpose was achieved.
Without hesitation, Hanyu turned off the current armor and started the ejection program.
The current exciter sticking out of the outer leg flashed twice in an arc, blinding the fire.
Then there was a series of muffled sounds, and six cryo bombs were fired.
Covering along the front, six cryo-rounds swirled and flew in the air, and the attitude nozzle was adjusted again and again, and the head-down configuration was quickly completed.
Tong! The muffled sound rang out again and again.
Silvery white cryogen was sprayed out.
As soon as the extremely low temperature refrigerant comes into contact with the air, it forms patches of hoarfrost.
The humidity of the air is so high that it makes it look like snow is snowing in the air.
Sure enough, the clumps of mucus that came into contact with the cryonist quickly condensed together, and they turned into pieces of ice sculptures.
At the same time, the Divine Thunder is moving at full speed, and it must rush out before more slime gets closer.
Barrett had just followed, but was grabbed by the mecha's hand.
"You can't step on it!" Hanyu hurried, and she manipulated her arms to lift Barrett into the air.
She knew how low the temperature of that thing was.
I saw the mechanical foot step on the congealed mucus and crush them.
And then............ The mechanical foot was frozen on the ground.
The jets on his feet spewed sparks before he broke free.
Thanks to Juntian's already having experience in dealing with them, otherwise it would be really difficult to deal with these guys.
"Can you withstand this temperature?" Barrett thinks it's good for slime, and it should be the same for Karma.
"............" Karma fell silent.
Barrett sighed slightly in his heart, it seems that the natural enemy of this kind of thing is the extremely low temperature.
"The temperature on the Death Star is minus 375 degrees." There was pride in Kama's voice, how could something like temperature be useful to planet modification tools?
Couldn't the low-temperature Death Star be transformed?
“?” Barrett was held in the air by the mech in a strange position, but instead had time to think.
"Then they ............" According to Karma, they are also compatriots, why are they affected by the cold?
"The constituent bodies are different, our bodies can be pure enough to be free of impurities, but they can't." What is frozen, Karma explained? Only the water is frozen, but how can it be frozen if there is no such thing at all?
It is only a lack of strength, destroyed by low temperatures.
This kind of problem does not exist for Kama.
In their original adaptive space, there is a working mode for the cryogenic death star.
"What the hell are these guys? Terraforming tools? Barrett finally asked, and all the while, he had been trying to come up with it in circles.
But he didn't know what Karma was thinking, and whether this kind of thing could be explained clearly.
"Their main body is human flesh and blood, your kind." Kama's voice was calm, but her words were unusually cold.
"These are our compatriots, with different tasks and different states. But they encountered some kind of anomaly and were confined to this state. ”
"This anomaly, my analysis is that it devours humans, but it can't destroy their souls, and then ............" Karma also wondered about the possibility of such a thing.
It stands to reason that humans who are parasitized by the tools of transformation will soon be transformed into beasts.
But there are variables in this, and some people have not become beasts, but have become capable people.
On the other hand, there are also some people who have mutated, and they have not become beasts with humans as the main body, but have become slime masses with tools as the main body............ No, to be precise, their subjects are also human, but in the form of flesh and blood.
".................." soul?? Barrett is very confused by this concept, and there is such a thing, and he himself is an example.
But why do some people have it and others don't?
Not all of them have become like this, on the contrary, most of them have not.
What went wrong? Who mutated the first mucus mass? What's really different about him?
There is no way to know.
"Okay, I'll take that explanation for now." Barrett didn't dwell on any further, though he knew that Karma hadn't told him everything.
She may have something to hide, but it probably has something to do with the rules they have to follow.
As a tool, she will also have something that she can't tell others.
On the side of "Divine Thunder", the bulky mecha finally broke out of the slime encirclement.
In the area left behind by the cryogen, any slime that comes close will be frozen, which is conducive to the breakthrough of the mecha.
Originally, Juntian's combat troops could not carry this kind of heavy equipment, but there was no way.
If you simply use combat power to suppress these slime masses, it is definitely not something that a few people can do.
The last time they captured the only slime, it was the elite of more than forty people who were dispatched, and they suffered heavy losses.
Jun Tian's highest exploration record is eleven floors.
These are all in the information Barrett has obtained before.
However, all records from the ninth floor onwards are classified, and although there are records of reaching the eleventh floor, there is no useful information.
After advancing some distance, a dense red color appeared on the biological probe again, and Hanyu had to put Barrett down.
The current armor was activated again, and they had to repeat the previous process again.
But the number of condensation bombs is not unlimited, and if it goes on like this, it will soon run out.
As researchers, Hanyu and Ace must be protected by mechs in order to survive in this environment.
The slightest mistake is enough to kill you.
There is no way, weak humans have no ability to resist in the face of such things.
A single lump of slime almost wiped out the Yutoka base............
This is not alarmist.
"It's not a way to go on like this, the more these guys reproduce, the more they reproduce, the sixth layer already has their traces, it's hard to guarantee that the eighth layer doesn't." Hanyu said worriedly, the reserve ammunition of the "Divine Thunder" can be fired twice.
"Stun guns can do damage to them, though I don't know how powerful they are." Barrett knew that it really wouldn't work, and firing on full fire was also a solution.
But the energy used by the stun gun is not fuel, but the battery, which requires recovery time.
The conversion efficiency of the generator is very low, and it takes about two hours to fully charge the battery.
But apparently the red stuff didn't want to give them that much time.
Seeing the slime surging towards it from all corners again, Barrett realized that the speed of the thing was actually quite agile.
There was still half the way, but the ammunition didn't seem to allow them to drag on.
Barrett sped up to run, trying to lure the slime into chasing him to buy time for the mech.
"Don't ............" Hanyu tried to convince him not to take any chances, but the warning of his energy and the remnants of his ammo prevented her from continuing.
The screen shone on Hanyu's eyes, and Ace behind her trembled slightly.
Hanyu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that the whites of his eyes around the pupils were not white, but bright white.
What's the difference? The difference is that under this bright white, her eyes are extraordinarily demonic, and she actually lost herself for a while.
What's going on? Hanyu pressed his hand only to his chest.
Fortunately, her heart is still beating, which means that she is still alive.
Struggling again, Ace sat up sharply.
"Ahem, ahem!" Coughing loudly, Ace seemed to be about to spit something out of his mouth.
Hanyu really wanted to see how she was doing, but she didn't have time right now, and ensuring that "Divine Thunder" could break through was her most important task.
The coughing behind him gradually stopped, and Ace's voice came: "What the hell is going on?" I ............"
glanced at Ace with her peripheral vision, only to find that she had taken off her hood and looked at her hands fixedly.
The next scene stunned Hanyu.
Ace's burned, inhuman-like arms and back were emitting a bright white glow at a strange rate.
She'd seen this light, she had just seen it in her eyes!
As the light flowed, Ace's skin turned white, the color of a normal human............
Her body was repaired.
I saw Ace spit out a mess of something, and her throat could only make an "ahhhhhh
What was in the palm of her hand was none other than her remade artificial vocal cords!
Both of them were stunned, they stared at the thing blankly, and then realized that not only the burned skin, but also Ace's neck and even chest had been reconstructed.
Her pupils also glowed bright white.
"You ............" Hanyu didn't know how to describe this spectacle anymore, she even wondered if she was in this state too, looked down at her hands, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately this was not the case.
"Ho-ho-ho-......" may have long forgotten how to speak with human vocal cords, and Ace can only make this sound.
But she looked very excited, as if she wanted to vent something, but she couldn't say anything.
Unbeknownst to this strange sight, Barrett was now struggling to lure the slime closer to him, and when he turned around, he found that the "Divine Thunder" had lost control and crashed into the pillar next to the passage............