Chapter 3: The Strange Tiger
"In this way, I returned to the base alive, but the other team members, missing......" The man narrated, no, it was Ah Hu, began to sob.
Although I didn't see their deaths with my own eyes, I guess the only thing that awaits them in the end is death. The reason why he said that he was missing was just for him, and it was also a kind of comfort for Ye Hao.
"The purple tentacles you are talking about, is that what attacked you?" After relieving himself, Ye Hao asked.
"Yes, we don't know exactly what it is, it's a species we've never seen before, and it should have mutated again." Ah Hu paused and said.
"If you want to study, you have to have a sample, but ...... Sample collection is too difficult. Ye Hao did not hesitate and said directly.
"It's better to ...... I'm going to collect a sample? "After listening to it, I also understood what they meant, which means that samples are to be studied, and collection is also to be collected, that is, no one collects them. As an NPC, I'm definitely going to have to collect it, and I'm here to deal with the human crisis.
After speaking, I said, "Ah Hu, you know the place, now, I need to know the location by concentrating on that place, including the surrounding environment. With that, I put my hand on the top of Ah Hu's head and reached into his head.
Ah Hu answered, trying his best to cooperate with my investigation.
After knowing the location, I said goodbye to Ye Hao and the others, and went to the place where there were all purple tentacles.
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There was silence all around, and there was no sound, but with Ah Hu's side probing, I knew that it was just the calm before the storm.
Sure enough, as I had just discovered, cracks began to form in the ground, and with a clicking sound, purple tentacles began to pour out of the ground, as if trying to drag me underground.
But who am I? I'm an NPC, and this gadget still wants to hurt me?
I turned on the system, typed in Command 005, and pulled out the shield and protective gloves from the space.
I saw the right moment and "chose" a purple tentacle, chopped off a portion of it, and placed it in the containment hood.
Looking at the lines on the tentacles, a sense of déjà vu came.
This...... Where do I seem to have seen it?
Come to think of it!
Before I became an NPC, there was a species of creatures that looked similar to this kind of thing - big heads, many tentacles, but those tentacles couldn't move away from the head, and once they were separated, only the nerves were active for a short time, and it didn't take long for them to completely lose their vitality.
And this one, although it is a type of tentacle and looks similar, only has tentacles, and it doesn't look like it was stripped from somewhere else. It's weird, and it seems worth looking into.
With this in mind, I returned to the base with the sample.
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"Captain Ye Hao, I'm back." I took out the sample and found Ye Hao.
But seeing his dazed expression, it seemed that something had happened.
"What's wrong, did something happen?" I couldn't help but ask.
"Ah Huta...... Something is wrong. Ye Hao sighed and finally said to me.
"Just after you left, I asked Ah Hu to rest and adjust, but when he left, I felt that there was something wrong with the way he walked." Ye Hao looked up and said to me.
"What's wrong, did you just get hurt?" I wondered.
If you were injured when you went out before, it's normal to walk strangely.
Ye Hao shook his head, "No, he doesn't have any damage in his body, but how to say it, I feel that he doesn't walk like a human being." ”
Not like a human?
I was thinking about some symptoms in my mind, and suddenly I thought of something, I asked Ye Hao: "Let me ask you, did he walk with more force with his left foot than his right foot when he just left, and then he walked stiffly, and his limbs seemed to be very uncoordinated?" ”
Ye Hao thought about it carefully for a while, clapped his hands violently, nodded and said, "Yes!" I was worried about how to describe it, it was stiff, it felt like he hadn't walked for a long time, and then his left foot was stronger. ”
"Ah Hu is not left-handed." Ye Hao added.
"He's parasitized." I said.
"Parasitized? How could it be...... Could it be that those purple tentacles ......" Ye Hao couldn't believe it.
"That's right, it's the purple tentacles. Did Ah Hu mention a potion before, and he also took it, so he came back to report it? "I think of the new potion mentioned in Ah Hu's words before. As I expected, the effect of this potion is not simple.
"Do you have any potions, show me." I stretched out my hand towards Ye Hao.
"Yes, yes, because there are very few potions that are successfully made, and only one will be assigned to each captain. Is there anything wrong with this potion? Isn't it just to temporarily inactivate the human body? Ye Hao put the potion in the palm of my hand and asked suspiciously.
"It's the loss of activity that is the problem, and I think there's probably more to it than that." I took out the analyzer from the space, opened the potion, and poured a little into the mouth of the instrument's dish.
After a while, the analyzer displays the following lines:
RLON substance, strong tolerance, easy to split, can adapt to all physiques, RTT attribute value: 3 stars, WUC value: 200
Ye Hao looked at the words on the analyzer, a little confused, pointed to the words on it and asked: "I understand this 'strong tolerance, easy to split, and can adapt to all physiques', but what is this 'RLON', 'RTT', 'WUC'?" ”
"This 'RLON' is a substance with a purity of 99, which is roughly composed of the source substance, 'RTT' is the star that changes the activity of human cells, and 'WUC' is the rate of heterocellular division." I patiently explained that RLON, RTT, WUC are all statements from our side, and it is normal for Ye Hao not to know.
Looking at Ye Hao, who still didn't seem to understand after listening to my explanation, I summed it up and said, "It's okay for this potion to make the human body inactive, but it has some other effects." At a value like this, it has reached a point where it can be accepted by any tissue without exclusion, and the body does not produce antibodies, and even thinks that it is originally part of the body. In other words, after Ah Hu was injected, this agent did make his body temporarily inactive, but we don't know what happened during the time he was unconscious. But now his reaction, the data from the analyzer, and the purple tentacles, everything can be connected. ”
"In other words, Ah Hu has purple tentacles in his body?" Ye Hao suddenly realized.
"Yes, and as I thought, he was parasitized." I took a sip to moisten my throat.
"And he...... What will happen? Ye Hao asked a little worriedly.
I couldn't help but praise in my heart.
After knowing that someone around him was parasitized, his first reaction was not to say that other people would be in any danger, but to care about Ah Hu's own situation, and he was a good captain.
It seems that I came to this place on the right foot.