Chapter 9: "Adventure"
Two days later, at 13:21.
Jiang Ke slowly opened his eyes - the environment he had never seen before, the sound of familiar footsteps, the sound of the machine turning on, the ticking of liquid, someone walking back and forth beside him, test tube ...... Injection...... However, the man only cared about talking to himself, as if he was just a prop in front of him. Maybe it was psychological, but he felt as if he had experienced it.
"Smack!" The door opened, interrupting his thoughts. The blonde girl is holding some scattered tools and is followed by a huge Alaskan dog. She walked in through the doorway, stopped in front of a quadruped robot, and put down her things in turn. Beside him, a red-haired man with his back to him was lying in a chair drinking water, analyzing the data floating in front of him.
The girl glanced back at the bed, her eyes widened, and she immediately called out "Ke is awake?!" The quadruped seemed to respond to the sound and began to move slightly, and the girl had to stop and return to the quadruped robot to start a new round of work, but her eyes kept glancing this way.
Jaime quickly turned around, glanced at the data on the screen, and was very proud, "Look, if it were a normal human, how could it recover so quickly?" β
"How long?" Jiang Ke asked directly.
"2 days, 52 hours to be exact," Jaime replied unhurriedly, dangling in his chair, "I've got a suit for you, and your necklace on the table." β
Jiang Ke sat up and first brought back the necklace embedded with his sister's photo, he saw that the wound had healed and grown a pink scar, and tried to press it with his hand, "How did you do it?" β
"Think of it as a bonus for having your genes rewritten, congratulations on your recovery." Jaime raised his glass and shook it in a toast gesture.
"It's also genetically modified! Wait for the results of my genetic comparison! Ruby said as he bowed his head and repaired An An.
"I said that I would bet that Ke would get out of bed in a few days!" Jaime yelled. Seeing Ruby's refusal to admit defeat, he rubbed Ruby's side with a wicked smile, "I'll make the simplest analogy with you, if you think you haven't been rewritten, the amount of radiation is like this......" Jaime approached Jiang Ke with a radiation value detector, and the machine began to beep rapidly, "You won't live today."
Ruby pursed his lips and continued to repair An An.
"I am willing to lose the bet! Even if you're underage, take responsibility for what you say! Once the results of the comparison are out, you're going to teach me all the mechanical knowledge you have! Jaime shouted at Ruby's back.
Jiang Ke got dressed and walked out of the room with a faint smile on his face, and it was not a bad thing to wake up and see these two people fighting. The cold wind outside stimulated the cells all over his body, and his brain, which had been stagnant for two days, was much clearer.
yes, and radiation. Jiang Ke laughed self-deprecatingly. He moved his previously injured shoulder and thought that the wound would not heal quickly if the genetic survival instinct was not triggered. But in previous experience, wounds have never healed so quickly. Is it a further "evolution" of oneself? Or is Jaime hiding something?
Jiang Ke shook his head and decided not to delve into it for the time being, after all, the pollutants released by the Slots were something that the creatures of the earth had never faced, and before this or even until now, no one would have expected the impact of the pollutants plus nuclear radiation, and what would happen to them, no one had a definite statement and prediction. What made him more concerned was that when he regained consciousness, he instinctively felt that the scene was familiar. Not only this time, but when he first fainted and woke up, he also experienced such a feeling.
"Hey, it's still so cold outside! I feel cold no matter how many clothes I wear. Jaime and Ruby followed, shivering unconsciously at the howling wind.
Jiang Ke looked around, there were 4 parallel buildings, the closest to him was the infirmary marked with a red medical sign behind him, and behind it were three parallel buildings marked "1, 2, 3", which occupied more than half of the area. In addition, there is a grey detached building on the side of the infirmary, which is connected to the infirmary by a corridor.
"Building 123 is supposed to be living quarters, we went on an "adventure" when you were unconscious, and Fairbanks should have arrived here safely with the evacuees. Jaime explained to him, "That's where you found the clothes you're wearing." There's also a small amount of food that's hidden in it, but it's fun to find. James said triumphantly that during the time when Jiang Ke was in a coma, he tried to be a backbone-like existence, although there were only 2 people.
"It's all Andrew's work." Ruby rolled her eyes from the side.
"Anything else that matters?" Jiang Ke nodded, approving James and Ruby's actions.
"There were strange traces in Building 3 at the farthest point, as if there had been a big fight, and there were some unintelligible symbols painted on the walls, but there were no bodies," Ruby recalled, "and the smell was so strong that there were blood stains everywhere." There was also a door that was blocked by contaminants and we didn't enter. β
"What about the house?" K gestured to the gray building on the side of the infirmary.
"I don't know. The door is locked. β
At this moment, the quadruped robot slowly walked out of the infirmary, and as it stepped out of the door frame, it even knew to raise its feet to avoid causing damage.
"An An?" Jiang Ke tried to bark at his Rendi dog, noticing that it had been repaired.
"Tomorrow. I'll be able to adjust it tomorrow, you're using it too roughly! Ruby reached out and touched An An, and Andrew snorted disdainfully on the side.
Jiang Ke nodded, "I'll go around, you go back to the infirmary and wait for me." β
The next day, early in the morning.
Jiang Ke got up early, and after a little exercise, he opened the M-SEEN. This is a daily lesson, he has adjusted the frequency of various contacts to try to get in touch with the rest of the team, and now he has also come to Anderson according to the message left by Li Jie, but he is facing an empty city, which can't help but make him feel ominous thoughts in his heart.
The screen of the M-SEEN flashed twice, and unlike usual, it clearly showed that the signal of another M-SEEN had been read, and it was very close.
Jiang Ke immediately thought of the locked gray building, and he quickly called Jaime and Ruby, and decided to open the locked room.
"Bang!" An An easily broke open the door. Ruby modified Rendigou, and now it is able to identify some of the hardware on this advanced war machine, with door breaking being one of the basic functions. And Ruby did more than that, she expanded the amount of command recognition, and yesterday she also pulled Jiang Ke to record non-stop, enhancing An An's command feedback on new functions, instead of the original instructions that could only complete simple hugging, rolling, sitting down and other pet dogs, making this Rendi dog more "military".
An An put away the hammer and quickly scanned the house, "Wang", in view of the information Jaime gave Ruby, Jiang Ke is a dog lover, so in the use of human mechanical language or dog barking, Ruby chose to keep the original barking of the random dog Samoyed, through one, two, whimpering or howling, etc., to express its thoughts.
As the door opened, the suffocating stench came to the surface, and it was visible to the naked eye that there were multiple corpses inside. Ruby quickly ran backwards and covered his mouth and nose with his clothes, running to the side and vomiting violently.
"Waste of food!" Jaime complained, but his mouth couldn't help but be sour.
Jiang Ke pulled the collar to the highest and rushed in without hesitation.
There is a simple monitoring room in the house, and the rest of the space is like a command center, with several passages leading to the back room. Jiang Ke came to the front of the monitoring system, the system was all normal, and the cameras were also effective, facing the entrance and exit, the outside of the power grid and the entrances and exits of several buildings.
Jiang Ke tried to play back the surveillance, but because he did not have permission, a warning in red font appeared on the screen "Identification Error". He had no choice but to give up and walk along the passage to the depths of the building, which was the soldier's quarters, and there was nothing unusual, he reflexively returned to the monitoring room to examine the corpses, and found that all but two had committed suicide.
"Obviously there's food outside...... Jiang Ke wondered, "And where did the others go?" Why is there only a corpse here? According to the traces in the vicinity, they can be said to have left here in a very hurry, so hurried that someone was left behind? β
"It's a rush, it's like they're running away from something, they didn't even close the door to the base," Jaime said, giving clues that only he knew.
"Well, that's right, they're running away", Jiang Ke agreed with Jaime's conjecture, "Could it be the weapons of the Slots?" However, while they were discussing, a pitch-black shadow flashed quickly on the screen, and neither of them could notice the scene.
Jiang Ke once again turned on the M-SEEN and tried to find the signal source, but the walls in the military base were too thick, and the radiation interfered with the accuracy of the equipment, and the precise positioning failed, so Jiang Ke went back again and searched carefully.
No, or no. Jiang Ke is already a very patient person, he has carefully searched for large and small places, and James tried to talk back and forth several times in the middle, but he ignored them. Jaime had no choice but to take Ruby, An'an, and Andrew back to the infirmary first.
Is there anything else you haven't discovered? Jiang Ke finished searching the last area, straightened up and thought seriously. Immediately, the words of Ruby yesterday sounded in his head, "There is another door that is sealed with contaminants, and we have not entered". Building 3, the only remaining place in the base that has not been inspected, is the room in Building 3 that is attached to the contaminants!
Thinking of doing it, Jiang Ke immediately came to Building 3.
He quickly found the metal door described by Ruby, which was covered with greenish-brown pollutants, Jiang Ke pulled out a dagger, slowly peeling off the pollutants, and the two words engraved on the door were revealedβ"Temple". He stretched out his hand and turned the doorknob, and the four sealed metal strips on the top, bottom, left and right, were put back with a bang, and the door slowly opened.