Chapter 9 Rooted
In the vast no-man's land that Su had once walked, a slender figure was walking slowly. This is a woman, a woman who is no longer beautiful. Her body was covered with terrifying wounds, and the flesh and skin on the edges of all the wounds were turning outward, and the flesh and blood were showing a palpitating purple-black color. Her hair had fallen out, but the shiny baldness had added some eerie charm to her.
With every breath Crotina, it was as if she had ignited a fire in her body, which was cold, but it was burning with what little vitality she had. Her legs were getting heavier and heavier, and the remnants of her body even made it necessary to rely on strong perseverance to ensure that she did not fall to the ground with every step. She tried her best to look into the distance, and could see that dozens of kilometers away was still a barrenness. Dozens of kilometers that she can easily cross for her are so far away that they seem to never end.
She still insisted on going west, because Sue was in that direction, because she hadn't finished her mission yet, hadn't killed Sue. There is also a vague connection between Crotina and her own energy, but this connection is fading. This is a sign that Sue is still alive and that Sue is gradually suppressing her ruined energy.
Clotina felt very thirsty and wanted to drink some water. And on the horizon in the distance, there is an endless sparkling water. It is a miraculous Great Lakes region that has awked countless generations of people with its sea-like sense of space, and in the new era, it has been even more shocking, not only by its vast span, but also by the strong radiation that even mutated creatures cannot survive. Despite the headache that looked like it was about to explode and her lips cracked with blood, Klotina knew she couldn't drink the water.
A bitter and moist taste suddenly surged in her throat, and then her legs went weak, and she involuntarily fell to her knees, opened her mouth, and spurted out a thick purple-black blood with a wow! Looking at the color of the blood and the small fragments of tissue floating inside, Crotina's mood gradually sank to the bottom.
This is the third time she has ** today, and in the past few days, she would only vomit blood at most once a day, and the amount was far less than today, and the color was not as dark and cloudy as today. She could feel that the xenomorph cells in her body were flowing around, launching rounds of never-ending attacks on the vital organs inside her body! Worst of all, they have gradually taken over the blood vessels and the heart!
"Today...... It's the last day, right? Crotina suddenly laughed, and her expression was very relaxed. After squirting out another mouthful of black blood, she took a deep breath and prepared to stand up and continue west. Although in her current state, she may not even be able to walk a kilometer, but she just wants to do her best until the last breath of her life.
At this time, an invisible cold feeling suddenly descended on Crotina, making her shiver involuntarily. The immune system in her body was suddenly chaotic, it was only less than a minute of chaos, but for the invaders in her body, it was enough time. Crotina clearly felt that those terrifying xenogeneous cells had opened a passage to the spine!
In the depths of Crotina's heart, Elena's face and the resentment hidden under her innocent face quietly emerged. With a slightly bitter smile, Crotina did not leave, but sat down on her knees in place. Looking at the magnificent scenery of the Tianshui line in the distance, her heart suddenly opened.
Crotina knew that Elena hated herself, but she didn't expect to hate herself to such an extent, and she didn't hesitate to spend such a huge amount of energy to harm herself. Elena succeeded, because Crotina didn't have long to live, and the pinprick pain was hurting up her spine. But Elena also failed, because even if she didn't make any moves, Crotina knew that she would only have to hold on for two more days. The ending is the same.
At this time, the face of the ** kept flashing in Crotina's heart, and there was Bebraz, the man who gave her a second life and made her determined to repay it with the rest of her life. Most importantly, Bebraz gave her man a second life.
And then there is Henral, a crazy and talented young man who is also her man. Whenever Henral gave her almost masochistic vents, Crotina could feel his repression and pain. There is no doubt that Henral is a genius, but in the shadow of Bebraz all geniuses seem so mediocre. He is hell-bent on surpassing his father, but every time he reaps nothing but despair. Crotina had no affection for Henral at all, for all her affection had already been giving. And Henral came to her out of curiosity and a taste distorted by long-suppressed tastes. It was only out of gratitude to Bebraz that Crotina did not refuse. She thought that Henral was just having fun, but she didn't expect that the relationship between the two would last so long.
Henral is also the reason why Elena hates her. Elena likes Henral, and she likes young Haydn, and she likes two men outside her normal range at the same time, and both like them to the point of madness. Tragically, however, neither man liked Elena and didn't even want to touch her.
It's a complex, repressive, twisted cycle of feelings, and there's no solution.
Then, she thought of Sue again. From Sue's body, Crotina seemed to see her original self, and the past things that she thought had been forgotten were turned up one by one. The difference is that she has failed and given up, while Sue is still holding on. In the old days, Crotina would have been willing to be good friends with Sue because they were the same kind of people. But this is a new era of turmoil, so there is no choice but hostility until one side falls.
Crotina fell, but her face was serene as if she were asleep.
At the last moment, her heart was cloudy and there was nothing.
In the central creature room under the Bloody Council, as the chief assistant to Dr. Connor, the host of the real yàn room, the man who was close to middle age was crouching at his desk, looking intently at the huge formula that numbered hundreds of lines on the light screen in front of him. His eyes were bloodshot, and his lips had been cracked with a deep cut that had not healed for days. He has been battling this formula for almost a month, and now he finally has the initial results, and if he can make a breakthrough, then it will be a very important step. Although this step is only a small step in the vast and ambitious core plan of the entire real room, and it does not lead directly to the core, but only plays an auxiliary and detour role, it is an extremely important link for him personally.
That night, his heart was beating violently, his nerves were tense, extremely tense, as if something was about to happen, and he had a premonition that it would be the result he had always dreamed of. Just as he was about to touch the faint law in the endless count, a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded on the light screen next to him, in the silent midnight, the sound was so harsh, he was so frightened that when he came back to his senses, his whole back was covered with cold sweat, and all the inspiration disappeared without a trace in an instant.
While! The middle-aged man's fists slammed into the workbench before he turned his head and stared viciously at the screen of light that had interrupted his important inspiration, trying to see what was disturbing his most important reality. If he didn't have a satisfactory answer, he didn't mind smashing the screen immediately, as Dr. Connor's chief assistant, let alone smashing a single screen, it wouldn't be a big deal to kill one or two assistant researchers.
The picture displayed on the light screen turned him into a sculpture in an instant!
Under his gaze, the long-standing gene lock is slowly unscrewing, releasing gene fragments containing a huge amount of information! And the process didn't end quickly, but lasted a whole few minutes!
It wasn't until the unlocking process of the gene lock was still there for a full half an hour that he recovered from his shock and looked at a number in the corner of the light screen, which showed the unlocking progress: 11.
11!! This number is like a huge lightning bolt, illuminating the entire world of consciousness of the middle-aged man in a snow-white light!
After a while, the middle-aged male assistant, who had completely regained his senses, quickly counted several sets of numbers in his mind, and immediately rushed out of the office and rushed all the way to Dr. Connor's quarters. Running and yelling like a child. After traversing three passages at record-breaking speeds, he finally made his way to Dr. Connor's quarters. But no matter how agitated he was, the electronic gate of the quarters was cold and unforgiving, and no one had permission to access the gate except by Dr. Connor himself. Worst of all, during the doctor's limited sleeping time, the access control intercom system was turned off. After all, the doctor only sleeps two hours a day, and if he doesn't rest well, he won't be able to guarantee his energy for the day.
The middle-aged man, unable to care about the doctor's habits and possible anger, flew up and kicked heavily on the heavy door made of alloy. This step down, of course, the heavy door did not move. He kicked it a few more times, and it was still the same result. Even the seventh-order powerhouse is here, and he doesn't have a suitable weapon, so he can't think of smashing open this alloy heavy door with a thickness of thirty centimeters.
Somehow, the middle-aged man was so inspired tonight that he took off his coat without thinking about it, stuck it on the door, and set it on fire. A few seconds later, the alarm sounded throughout the room, and the ceiling and the walls on both sides cracked, revealing rows of sprinklers, and then icy cold water sprayed down like rain, drenching the middle-aged assistant. But his round face was red with excitement, and his thick lips were grinning from side to side, for he knew that the same must be the case in Dr. Connor's bedroom.
In less than a minute, the heavy alloy door opened, and Dr. Connor, wrapped in pajamas, rushed out of the door, he was also drenched, his gray hair clinging to his head, and his expensive pajamas were soaked up with ice water and stuck to his thin body, as uncomfortable as he could.
The sirens were still blaring, and Dr. Connor rushed out to find that there was no fire outside, but the entire long passage was filled with mist and spraying icy water. He simply didn't go anymore, and if he walked forward anyway, he would be drenched. The Doctor's gaze shifted to a half-burned coat next to the door, which appeared to have set off the fire alarm and triggered the automatic sprinkler measures.
"Doctor, you're awake!" A voice trembling with excitement came from the side. Dr. Connor turned his head to see his assistant standing by the wall, also from head to toe.
In an instant, the doctor's brain, whose calculation speed was comparable to that of an advanced intelligent brain, had already linked all the scenes together, and said with a sneer: "You set the fire!?" ”
"If you don't set fire, you won't wake up." The middle-aged assistant said it for granted.
"You know, I don't like to be disturbed when I'm sleeping...... Dr. Connor said through gritted teeth, but he was cut off halfway through his sentence.
"Doctor, the key...... The key is here! When the assistant said this word, not only his voice, but his whole body trembled.
"Keys! Why didn't you say it earlier! Dr. Connor let out an earth-shattering roar! His emaciated body burst with amazing power and rushed towards the end of the passage!
Dr. Connor exerted his speed far beyond the limit, and his frail assistant was able to keep up with the doctor at his full potential!
A few minutes later, the doctor and his assistant had already arrived on the platform of the central real yàn room, leaning on the railing, looking condescendingly at the huge space with a height of more than fifty meters from top to bottom. Above the two of them, on a virtual light screen made of lasers, the incomparably complex gene lock has been unlocked for a short time, and countless numbers of jù and gene fragments are floating on loads. The light on the screen was cast on the doctor and his assistant, like small fish made of light spots, constantly swimming.
On the opposite side of the observation platform, there are ten metal cylinders with a height of 50 meters and a diameter of 10 meters standing side by side! When the ten pillars stood side by side, the doctor and his assistant standing in front of them were as small as two ants! There were countless patterns of dots, blocks, and lines on the cylindrical column, and at this moment these patterns were all lit up, and the brilliant light continued to flow on the surface of the cylinder, and the humming low roar was like thunder, filling the entire space, and it was almost impossible to hear any other sound!
Each of these ten metal pillars is the latest and most powerful 'galaxy' computing center under the Bloody Council, and now the ten are connected in parallel, all running at full power. As they frantically calculated, the fragments of genes floating on the virtual light screen were fading and decreasing. Every time a fragment disappears, it means that the information contained in that fragment has been deciphered.
Looking at the ten computing centers with full force, Dr. Connor's heart fluttered, and he had long forgotten the cold tide nightgown on his body, and the bare feet on the cold metal floor.
"It's a miracle...... Dr. Connor muttered as his eyes burst with endless longing and yearning, his hands clutching the railing tightly, otherwise he could fall down at any moment.
Dr. Connor's face suddenly flushed strangely, his breathing became rapid, and he said in a trembling voice, "That's right! With these numbers, we can make the first key, the key that will open the door to the 'Apostolic Plan'! ”