Chapter 285: Destroy the Tower
At night, Ryker and Lena lie in their respective cots, and Lena turns off the lights in her room.
"Didn't you sleep, Lena, let me tell you some stories, I guess you can't sleep now, after all, the experience of the day is too scary for you, but you have to learn to see it!" Lake was on his cot and tried to comfort Lena in the small metal bed next to him.
However, after hearing this, Lena didn't squeak at all to talk to Lake.
"In this way, I'll tell you a few ghost stories that are suitable for listening to before going to bed, listen to some ghost stories, and you won't feel terrible during the day, you will be able to distract yourself, and feel that ghosts are the real fear!" After Lake finished speaking, in as gloomy a tone as possible, he told Lena two ghost stories.
Lake thought that after talking about one more story and reassuring Lena to make her forget the pain she had experienced during the day, it would be time for him to go to bed.
But after hearing an exclamation from Lena on the bed next to him, he threw the pillow he was sleeping on at Lake.
Lake felt almost done, and he went back to his pillow, only halfway through the third ghost story, and Lake went to sleep.
When he woke up the next day, Lake saw that Lena had already changed her clothes, but she had two more dark circles under her eyes and her eyes were hazy.
Lake found himself up late, and had to regretfully get dressed himself.
"Good morning, Lena! Wake up so early! Lake greeted Lena, who was sitting on the cot next to him.
"I haven't slept all night, now, tell me the damn ghost story, what happened to the man who carried the female ghost into the cave on his back! Also, after telling this ghost story, you are not allowed to tell me a ghost story again, otherwise I will apply to be transferred out and not live in a room with you. Lena said.
Lake thought back to the ghost story that was halfway through last night, and then finished telling it to Lena, but he didn't expect Lena to listen to his story so much, and Lake felt very relieved.
After listening to this complete ghost story, Lena breathed a sigh of relief, got dressed and lay back on her little bed, and went to sleep.
Lake sat on his cot with nothing to do.
More than half an hour later, the soldier who delivered the breakfast came, left two boxes of lunches and turned to leave, and locked the metal door of the room again from the outside before leaving.
"Get up for breakfast, Lena! The husband has already prepared a love breakfast. Lake woke up Lena, who had just fallen asleep.
"Don't talk nonsense!" After being woken up by Ryker, Lena took the lunch box that Ryker handed over and began to eat.
Lake finished his meal and went back to his cot to sleep.
He and Lena are still in custody, and they need to wait for Ventres to report to them before they can be released from the military base.
Fortunately, after eating at noon, the middle-aged couple Wen Tris came, "Venerable No. 2, Dr. Lena, your identity application has been confirmed, and you are now officially an external researcher at this base, and I need to take you to a new place in the living quarters." ”
Lake and Lena nodded, and then walked directly behind Ventres.
In this room, the two of them have no luggage to take, and it is very convenient to move.
The new accommodation that Ventric took Lake and Lena to change was a small double room in the living quarters of the military experimental base.
Ventric had already decided that Lake and Lena were in a relationship, and the small double room still had two single beds, and the facilities were similar to the previous one, the only advantage was that they would not be locked in the room in this living area.
There are also some communal recreational facilities in the living area that can be used.
"This is your ID card, put it away, and with this card, you can move around most of the unenclosed areas of the base." After handing Lake and Lena an ID card, Ventres explained a few words and left.
Lake and Lena choose to visit the entertainment facilities in the living area first, but when they arrive, Lake discovers that the entertainment facilities here are different from what he expected, and the entertainment facilities here refer to the gym and gun shooting range.
Three women, shooting at the shooting range with guns.
Lake saw that it was the three teammates of the next five-person death squad, Anya, a medical nurse, Josie, a physicist, and Cass, a geomorphologist.
"You're new here, I heard that you live next door to us, have you ever played with guns, and it just so happens that the three of us are playing a shooting game, can you come and participate together?" Cass approached Lake and Lena and extended an invitation to them.
"I've used it, how many years have I been a soldier before? He doesn't know! Lena said.
"I'm a fast learner, it's okay!" Lake said with a smile.
After a short exchange and introduction, Lake knew that the three of them were originally using a shot to see who could shoot accurately, and the one who lost was responsible for cleaning the dormitory.
Lena took it as entertainment, and began shooting at the range with Ryker in groups and in groups of three.
But after half an hour of trying, no one was playing with Lake and Lena.
Lena's shooting skills are not bad, but Lake is too wicked, pointing to wherever he hits, this is a shooting champion hidden among university professors!
The three-person women's team has already lost a week's worth of cleaning, and they can't win against Lake at all.
The three of them had originally planned to win over the newcomers in the next dormitory, and asked Lake and Lena to clean the dormitory for them, but they all lost themselves.
Lake and the four women went to the cafeteria for dinner in the evening, and then they took them around the military laboratory base.
Then Lake lived in this military base, and every day was quite leisurely, and he was familiar with the firearms and weapons he used, and he didn't need to practice much.
Over the course of a week, Lake accompanied Lena to see Kane's "ex-husband" several times, and Kane's state was more stable than before, but he was still in a coma and was not completely out of danger of death.
Lena learned from Josie that the trio were led by Ventress and entered the Flash X area to explore the Flash Tower.
Lena then went to Ventris, a middle-aged woman, and asked Ventris to join the eleventh group of scouts who had entered the X-Flash.
Lake followed suit and applied to join.
Vintress directly agreed to Lina's request to join the team, and Vintres, as the leader of the exploration team, wanted to form an all-female team to enter the flash X area to give it a try.
After all, after the previous male mercenary team entered, except for Kane, who was unconscious, none of them came back alive.
However, thinking about Lake, who is a doctor of archaeology, and what he said before, Ventric still took Lake to meet with the three female team members of Josie.
"You've also been with Venerable No. 2 for a week, and you probably know more about him than I do, so the five of us voted on whether or not to let Venerable No. 2 join the exploration team." Ventress said.
Lake smiled at Anya, Josie, and Cass.
Of course, this vote was by secret ballot, and the results of the vote were soon in, with three votes in favor of Lake's accession, one vote against, and one abstention.
Lake successfully joins the five women who are scouting the X-Flashing Force, becoming the sixth male member.
Three days later, the six men with tactical packages and weapons on their backs stepped onto the path of bathing in the flash area.
The moment Lake entered the flash area, the prompt voice of the heavens online sounded in his head: "Congratulations to Player No. 2 Venerable, entering the flash area, in order to resist the refraction of infection and mutation in the X area, the Player No. 2 Venerable Immunity Attribute Resistance Mode is activated." ”
Then a virtual countdown that only Lake can see appears above his left eye, showing 199 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 20 seconds, and the countdown value is still decreasing rapidly.
Walking and walking, Lake compared the time and found that the time ratio between the outermost bath in the flash area and the outside world is almost 1:2, and as it goes deeper, the time ratio is still changing, the deeper it goes, the faster the time passes outside, and the more his immune attribute value decreases.
The life-threatening countdown in front of him on the left inevitably made Lake speed up his pace and try to get the five-person team to follow him.
In the shining area, the strange scenery, those crystal-like trees and bright ground, make Lake feel so beautiful in it, even more beautiful than the original natural scenery on the earth.
Walking in the flash area, the deeper you go, the more blurred the concept of time becomes, and when there are 190 days left in the countdown time in Lake's left eye, a team of five women and one man passed through the outermost bathing area, entered the meadow, and arrived at a farm first.
The walls of the cottages on the farm are full of color, like moss after the tissue cells have been enlarged.
As the team prepares to relax here, Lake turns on his Eyesight skill and discovers a large crocodile in advance.
The big crocodile's head has mutated and grass has grown.
"There are crocodiles, be careful!" Lake warned the five female team members in advance.
The crocodile, with grass on its head, quickly crawled over and wanted to attack Lena.
After the continuous gunfire of "Ping Pong", the crocodile was shot and killed by several people.
Physicists Josie and Lena, wearing gloves, began to pick open the mouth of the crocodile carcass and take samples.
"Keep going, no rest!" Lake suggested to the five female team members.
Lake has vaguely become the leader of this team these days, after all, his eyes are turned on from time to time, and he can detect danger in advance and give early warning.
Ventrice, the middle-aged female captain, also tacitly accepted Lake to be the team leader, and Ventres had no intention of being the captain before, but there was no better candidate.
The team moved on, several attacks from infected mutated creatures defused by Lake. Lake discovers that there are more dangers here than in the movies.
Today, Lake looked at the unusually lush woods, and he couldn't help but feel the urge to stay here forever. Fortunately, Lake quickly shook his head and banished the idea of smiling in the woods.
"Not good! This area of light, although it does not infect my body, can affect my thinking. I all have this kind of thought, and the five female members of the team will be affected more deeply! No wonder they will have infighting in the movie, before entering this flash area, several female team members get along very well, it stands to reason that there will be no infighting, their thinking is affected by this flash area. Lake thought.
After discovering this situation, on the way, Lake began to tell stories to the five female team members, and Lake said loudly to the five female team members: "The reason why people can live is because of hope and faith--"
Lake, who already had experience as a savior, began to forcibly pour chicken soup into the five female team members.
A team of six people continues to advance in the flashing area, following the map towards the area where the flashing tower is located.
After 149 days of countdown to the immunity stat value in front of Lake's left eye, the team finally arrived at the room in the movie where the 10th team left a whiteboard.
See the iconic standing whiteboard and the list of members of the 10th squad outlined on the whiteboard.
Lake at least confirmed that his team was not on the wrong track.
Entering the flash X area, all the compass and positioning equipment are on strike, and you can only look at the sun every day to confirm the direction.
As Lake travels every day these days, looking at the rapidly decreasing countdown days in front of him on his left, he can't help but feel a little worried, if he goes the wrong way and doesn't reach the Flash Light Tower within 200 days of outside time, he will be trapped in this dungeon world forever.
Fortunately, seeing the whiteboard standing in the room today, Lake finally had a smile on his face.
Several female team members began to search the room, and Anya, a medical attendant, found a memory card on the table in the room.
Anya took out the video camera she had brought with her, inserted the memory card and began to play the footage inside.
Lake was called over and watched around the camera in Anna's hand with the five female team members.
The memory card recorded a male team member leaning against a corner, his upper clothes open, and a large bug-like creature squirming under the skin of his belly.
The male team member screamed in pain, and a team member next to him, holding a dagger, wanted to perform a laparotomy on him and remove the large worm in his stomach.
The male player's stomach is sliced open, and the image of the memory card ends here.
After watching it, the expressions of the five female team members became more solemn, worried about their situation.
"It could be a fake prank, don't worry too much." Anya, a medical and nursing staff, said.
"Men can get pregnant, you should treat it as a caesarean section, don't worry." Lake also tried to comfort the five female team members.
However, hearing Lake's words, the faces of these five female team members became even more ugly.
Several people began to search the building, and in a pool without water, they found the body of a soldier leaning against the wall.
The soldier's stomach had been cracked, his body seemed to grow as if it was fused with the wall, his neck was extended by more than half a meter, and his body was close to the wall, spitherically growing many colored blood vessels and tissues like tumor cells magnified many times, just like a big tree that wanted to fuse with the human body and grow against the wall.
A female team member found the ground in front of the corpse of the human tree, and it was really the dagger, which was the same as the dagger on the memory card video I watched before, and the incision on the stomach of the corpse of the 'human tree' was also the same as in the video.
"My God, that's true!"
"In the flash zone, the genes in the human body are being changed by the special environment here, and the organisms have gradually lost their original genetic characteristics, and the genes of all species are being reintegrated." Lena said.
Lake looked at the team members who were starting to become emotionally unstable, and decided to let the five female team members get away from here as soon as possible.
"Let's go spend the night in the tower outside this building, let's go, it's getting dark. Rest early tonight and continue your journey tomorrow morning. ”
Lake immediately led the five female team members out of the building and climbed up a tower outside.
Originally, several female team members were going to take turns keeping vigil, but Lake stopped them.
"Our tower is so high, close the door, I don't need you to keep vigil tonight, I sleep by the door, I'll get up if there is a situation!" Lake said.
In the movie, Lake remembers that one of the female members of the vigil tonight will be dragged away and eaten by the mutant black bear that comes to attack.
In order not to reduce the number of women in the five-person squad, Lake felt that it was safe enough to stay in such a high tower, and the black bear would not be able to climb up even if he came.
The five newly frightened female team members nodded in agreement with Lake's decision.
In the evening, in the second half of the night, Lake actually heard the cry of the black bear below.
Lake came to the outside of the tower, activated the Sharp Eyes skill, and directly shot a few accurate shots, blowing the head of the mutant black bear, and then Lake went back to the tower to continue sleeping.
After dawn, a team of six people continued to move forward.
The closer you get to the area of the flashing lighthouse, the more serious the mutation of the environment and animals becomes, and on the farm meadow you pass, there are several standing walking grass men, which are grasses that have been genetically assimilated by humans and grow to resemble human bodies.
Lake also saw many twins along the way.
Two paths with flowers on their heads, two green rabbits, these twins all have a common characteristic, and each pair of twins moves and frequencies the same.
"The doppelganger skill reward I got is probably a similar doppelganger, I hope this doppelganger can be well controlled!" Lake thought to himself.
Fortunately, in this six-person team, there was no attrition, and under Lake's several kinds of chicken soup every day, the five female team members did not want to live in seclusion to laugh in the woods or infighting.
However, among the five female team members, Lake found that their bodies had begun to be infected by this flash area and had some mutations, and some of their skin had begun to grow from the blood vessels to the grass armor, and some of them began to squirm slightly.
In order to add a few auxiliary combat power to his arrival at the lighthouse, Lake began to take turns giving these five female team members the skills of the Secret Word technique every day when they were sleeping, and restored their bodies.
Although the Secret Word Technique could not completely cure the infected mutation, it could at least slow down the rate at which the five female team members were infected with the mutation.
The team continued on their way, walking through the meadow and beginning to walk along the seashore towards the lighthouse.
On the 73rd day of the countdown in front of Lake's left eye, a building that seemed to have split into another dimension, overgrown with gray lighthouses resembling cells after tumor enlargement, appeared in front of him.
Lake immediately accelerated with a team of five, and on the sand outside the lighthouse, kneeling the corpses of five humans, facing the lighthouse, as if atoning for their sins.
"Take the gun and the white phosphorus incendiary bomb, victory is at hand, after entering the command of me, destroy this lighthouse and everything will be over." Lake said to the five team members.
After saying that, Lake kicked open the door of the lighthouse, turned on the Eye-Catching skill, and entered with a five-person women's team.
A camera was placed there, and there was a burning skeleton against the wall, and at the very back of the lighthouse hall, there was a small cavern that led to the underground that looked like an entrance to hell.
Lena wanted to see the camera.
"Before you look, be mentally prepared." Lake reminded in a kind way.
The camera is still turned on by the curious Lena, and in the picture, Kane sits in the corner and says a last word, then detonates a white phosphorus grenade and incinerates himself.
"Ahh Didn't Kane come back and be treated in the lab base! Lena exclaimed in disbelief.
The other four female team members also looked at the man in this video, who was treated and rescued in the military laboratory.
A few people looked at the burned bones in the corner of the wall, and couldn't help but feel a little frightened and weird.
"Lena, it's no longer your original 'ex-husband' who went back, he's a replicant who was made out of this flash lighthouse. The simple meaning is that your ex-husband is no longer that ex-husband, but my lover is still your lover. Lake said.
"Kane is Lena's ex-husband?" A female team member said in surprise.
"You stay here and keep watch, and when you see the door open and a creature comes in, immediately shoot and throw white phosphorus incendiary bombs, don't hesitate. I'll take Lena down into this little cave. Lake said, pulling Lena, who was still in a trance, into the green cave entrance to the lighthouse hall.
"Calm down, Lena, Kane is dead, but you and I are alive, and if you want to get out alive and not let this world perish, the only way to do it is to destroy here." Lake grabbed Lena's arm and woke her up.
In the depths of the cavern, Lake saw a red stone standing in the deepest part, which was supposed to be the meteorite that fell from outer space three years ago.
There are also many dark green plants growing around the meteorite.
Suddenly, an old man in rag clothes stood up from behind the meteorite, and there was one more old man than in the movie.
The old man got up and stood in front of the meteorite, holding a book in his hand, as if it were the Bible or some other theological book.
"I've been guarding the lighthouse for decades, and I can't let you destroy it!" The old man guarding the tower, with empty eyes, looked at Raker and Lena in front of him and said.
"Old man guarding the tower, in fact, you should retire and go home to rest, you are so old, you shouldn't work anymore! I have to destroy this tower today, you have to block it, I don't mind destroying it with you. Lake said, under the observation of the fiery eye technique, the strength of this old man guarding the tower turned out to be silver intermediate, and the book in his hand was also a weapon that could emit silver intermediate attack power skills.
Lake thought that this old man guarding the tower should be the final boss of this annihilation dungeon, and his level was the same as before he came in.
However, after more than half of Lake's physical attribute value is now divided, he is only at the level of black iron, and he can't fight hard against this old man.
"You don't have the power to destroy my tower, and if you want to destroy the soul of the lighthouse, you will be punished by God!" As the old man spoke, he was about to open the book in his hand, and it seemed that he was about to activate his skills.
"There are people above me, and God will punish me, and I can make this place disappear in an instant." Lake laughed confidently as he figured out the meteorite's location up close, feeling like he was about to complete the quest.
Ryker activated the Titan battleship's main gun summoning card, and positioned the coordinates of the three-meter radius of the main gun's strike on the red meteorite in front of him.
But in the next second, as the prompt sound of the heavens online sounded in Ryker's ears, Ryker was completely dumbfounded.
"The coordinates of the long-range strike of the main gun of the Titan battleship have been located, and the main gun attack will arrive on the battlefield in thirty minutes, please be ready."
"Your sister, thirty minutes! Why are you arriving so slowly! ”