Chapter 16, the color of the forest

The leader shouted a few times and found no answer, so he took out the probe in his pocket and began to search for signals of human life around him. It was only at this time that Ono saw the familiar device, and then kicked away the green-armored soldier who was dead but still stuck at the entrance of the cave, and appeared.

As soon as Onno appeared, the person who had just fought immediately raised the weapon in his hand and aimed it at Onno, who had just come out, and put his finger on the trigger, ready to fire at any time. As for the leader-like figure, after seeing Onno, he looked up and down, and found that there was a golden mark engraved on Onno's equipment, a cosmic watchtower-like shield badge, and suddenly remembered what the meaning of this badge represented.

"Stay vigilant! Dare to ask this benevolent brother who came down from the cosmic watchtower? The man's first sentence was to give orders to his men, and the second sentence was to look at Onno and ask in a serious tone. Onno frowned, nodded in response that he had indeed come down from the Cosmic Watchtower.

All the people around seemed to be relieved when they heard this, and the leader nodded, and waved his hand to let the people off guard. The next move of these people flattered Onno a little, and the leader gave an order to let all his men protect Onno in the center like the stars holding the moon, and walked towards the depths of the black forest.

After walking a short distance, Onno found a magical thing, that is, the more he walked inside, the more colorful the original black forest became, and when Onno followed these people to the place where they stayed, he was surprised to find that there was no trace of black forest here, instead of a large area of extremely colorful forests and clearings, but this gorgeous color was basically green and purple-red.

In this gorgeous forest, there is also a lot of faint white mist, and in this mist, you can also see some purple birds flying around from time to time. Along the way, those people didn't say a word, even when Onno asked, these people were silent, until they arrived at this place, and some smiles appeared on their faces, and the leader turned his head and said to Onno: "This distinguished guest of the Cosmic Watchtower, welcome to one of the remaining strongholds of the existing ground base, we call this place 'Mori no Cai'!" ”

Onno nodded and was about to say something, when he suddenly saw a man running from the depths of the forest and whispering to the leader, who nodded and glanced at him from time to time. When the two of them finished whispering, the leader said to Onno, "Our commander, who is also the highest executive here, wants to meet you!" Come with me! With that, he took Onno and walked towards the depths of the forest.

"This old man, you just said that one of the only remaining ground base strongholds, are there any people who escaped from your ground base?" Onno asked curiously as he walked, and the leader nodded and said that there were indeed many people who had survived and established a stronghold, but now that they had all broken off contact with each other, it was not clear if the other party still existed. And as far as their forest color is concerned, there are only thirty people living here.

As he listened to the leader's story, he looked at his surroundings a little, and the color world in his eyes mixed with green and purple always gave him a sense of unreality, especially when he saw some vines on the ground actually growing fruits such as strawberries the size of a fist.

After a while, the two men came to the outside of a huge tent, and the leader announced, the door of the tent opened, and Onno followed the leader's steps and walked in, and saw the Supreme Commander of Mori no Sai, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground. And when Ya saw this supreme commander, he immediately called up the corresponding information and found the true identity of this person.

"Authorization code 81831, Cosmic Watchtower Ground Base, Nine Lives Cat Squad Captain 'Whirlwind'!" After hearing this series of words, the Supreme Commander of Mori no Sai, Whirlwind, instinctively made a gesture of beating his chest with his hands crossed, saluted a standard military salute, and then looked at Onno with a look of surprise. As for Onno, he looked at the whirlwind captain lightly and said, "The Cosmic Watchtower has restarted the core watcher project executor 'Onno', and now needs to have a confidential conversation!" ”

When Captain Whirlwind heard these words, a familiar and unfamiliar feeling floated through his heart, and the expression on his face changed from indifferent to serious. Soon, however, he adjusted and waved his hand to let everyone else out of the tent. At this time, Onno sat directly on the ground, opened the mask and symbiote mask on his head, and projected Ya's figure onto Onno's arm.

"Captain Whirlwind, as a Captain of the Nine Lives Cat with the corresponding authority, I need to ask some relevant questions, and please answer them. As far as I know, the Nine Lives Cat Squad is used to collect or deal with strange things or mutated creatures, so do you know what happened to the ground base and the Cosmic Watchtower more than a decade ago that led to this situation? Onno asked.

The Whirlwind Captain shook his head and muttered for a long time before saying, "There was indeed a big incident more than ten years ago, causing a huge disaster to both the ground base and the Cosmic Watchtower, but I really can't say what happened!" Because as long as I say it, I ...... I...... Wow! ”

As soon as Captain Whirlwind said two words, he opened his mouth and spit out as if he remembered something terrible, and when Ono saw him like this, he wanted to know more and more about what happened to cause this situation, and even make a captain of the Nine Lives Cat Squad who had experienced a hundred battles have such a serious reaction.

And then Ya's test told Onno the truth, this captain seems to have suffered a very serious mental pollution, although now it seems to have returned to a normal appearance, but when encountering something similar, he will still vomit or be depressed!

Helplessly, Onno sighed, and when the captain finished vomiting, Onno said: "I know that you are very uncomfortable and have suffered from a terrible spiritual pollution, but I must understand the truth of the matter, only then can I repair and restart the core and bring everything back on the right track." ”

Captain Whirlwind nodded when he heard Onno's words with a pale face, and whispered with the uncomfortable feeling of overturning the river and the sea: "More than ten years ago, a joint expedition and archaeological team from the ground base discovered a huge pit, and at the bottom of this pothole, they found ...... Well...... Something, when they dug it up and reported it back to the base, the team of forty lost any information, and when the Nine Lives Cats arrived, they found the scene in shambles. ”

"All of them, they all have no vital signs, and it looks like they are all killing each other, we didn't find the thing they reported at the time, the Nine Lives Cat Team was ordered to investigate for a long time and didn't find any clues, but found some strange mutated creatures near the camp where this team is stationed!"

"When we brought back samples or corpses of some creatures, the scientists at the ground base told us that the genetic material of these creatures had been altered by some mysterious force, and they had become a new species! Then when my team spotted more and more monsters, they finally found it! ”

"The first time they saw that thing, the team members seemed to have seen something and began to attack the people around them like crazy, and each one of them was full of anger! As for me, I had a very special pair of eyes at that time so that I was not disturbed! When I completely wrapped the thing in a black cloth, the team members finally stopped their violence, and the mutated creatures were all killed in an instant. I ......"

Hearing this, Ono had to interrupt Captain Whirlwind and asked, "What, what do you mean by that thing?!" Captain Whirlwind heard Onno's question and wanted to answer it, but his expression was hideous, and he gritted his teeth, as if he was restraining himself from saying it.

"Hug ...... Sorry, it's not that I don't want to say it, it's that I can't! That's what polluted me mentally! My team and I made the wrong decision to pull the thing and the remains of all the dead mutated creatures to the laboratory on the ground base, and to send it to the Observatory for deeper study. ”

"At the beginning, the entire ground base was normal, but some experimental creatures around and inside the base had mutations that shouldn't have been, and then after some researchers made quite crazy words, or committed suicide or were shut down, it wasn't a big deal, the Nine Lives Cat Team handled these things perfectly, but then we found out that we were so wrong!"

"I still remember that it was a clear sunny day, and that thing had been sitting on the ground base for five years, and the scientists couldn't figure it out, and no equipment could cut it down, so it had to be transported to the more capable cosmic watchtower...... But less than three days later, there was no information about the Cosmic Watchtower! And when we learned that there had been no news from the Cosmic Watchtower for three days, we were surprised to find that the surrounding world had turned into darkness, and even the sky was blackened......"

And then ...... I...... Woo woo ......" Captain Whirlwind cried as he spoke, Onno looked at the captain speechless for a while, and wanted to step forward to comfort him, but suddenly heard what Ya analyzed and realized that what the Whirlwind Captain said was a little strange, because the surveillance video in the ground base showed that the people from the Cosmic Watchtower had also come down once!

As he listened to Ya's analysis, he suddenly heard a louder and louder cry from Captain Whirlwind, and with the cry, Captain Whirlwind's hand also covered his face, and Captain Whirlwind stood up while crying. Onno frowned, and when he wanted to ask why Captain Whirlwind didn't tell the truth, he was shocked to find that Captain Whirlwind's hands and head had grown a lot of flesh-colored silk connected together.

Captain Whirlwind struggled in vain to separate his hands from his face, but the more he struggled, the more flesh-colored silk threads appeared, and finally Captain Whirlwind's hands completely covered his face, and only the knots of his fingers could still be seen shaking. And in Captain Whirlwind's mouth, the original old voice turned into a hoarse and dry tone like someone clamping down on his throat!

"Fusion!" ……