Chapter VI Intruders

Pendulum City is the location of the Central Branch of the Rockerland Company. It is more than 200 kilometers from Asmo and 150 kilometers from the N11 base. In the turbulent years when there were no roads at all, and the ground was rugged and dotted with ruins in most areas, 150 km was already the limit of the combat radius of the old tanks owned by the division.

As soon as it was dawn, Pendulum City was awakened by the roar of the engine and the sound of a simple and powerful command. Five light personnel carriers lined up in the central square, heavily armed soldiers boarded the vehicles, and two powerful off-road jeeps parked aside, the shooters on which they leaned lazily against their anti-aircraft machine guns and looked at the rookies with disdain. Next to the machine gun shooters, each stood a veteran, and they were leaning on the RPG bazooka in their arms.

Li was dressed in a straight military uniform, with no smile on her face, and looked coldly at the soldiers who boarded the car. When the last soldier got into the personnel carrier, she looked up at her watch, thirty seconds faster than she had planned.

Li then walked to her off-road command car, this time she was driving herself. The four wheels of the command vehicle rotated at the same time, and in the harsh tire friction sound, the command vehicle rushed out, overtook the military vehicle all the way, and soon rushed to the front of the convoy. As soon as it arrived in front of the convoy, the command vehicle roared even more, and the speed increased again, speeding away. There were five or six elite fighters on board the command vehicle, and these second- and third-order capable warriors sat very steadily, with no signs of being thrown out at all, and even their bodies rarely shook.

Seeing the command vehicle speeding away, the drivers on the follow-up military vehicles were all sweaty. They no longer cared about the life or death of the soldiers in the car, and they didn't care whether the queue was neat or not, they stepped on the accelerator one by one, chased after me, and rushed out of Chong Swing City like a drag race.

In Pendulum City, an eighteen-storey office building has been completely restored and is home to the Roxerland branch. Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows on the eleventh floor, he watched the troop go. Although Li didn't bring a chariot with her this time, this team is an elite unit under her command, and its combat effectiveness is better than the one when she captured N11. It would be a bit of an overkill to use such a force to wipe out a mob that had recently entered the area controlled by the Roxerland Company. What's more, Liz personally led the lead?

In the field encounter, even Rigorei himself does not want to meet an opponent like Leigh.

This time, it can only be said that the luck of these mobs is really bad, and it happened to hit Rei when she was in a bad mood. Regory showed no mercy for these mobs who were all about their homes, and as the tank speeding through the urban agglomeration on the Roxserland coat of arms suggested, power was right in these turbulent times. To have power is to have a qiē, there are no laws, no rules. The so-called rules can only be effective between people of equal power, and they will be guaranteed to be enforced. And it is the power that maintains the rules. If either of the two sides loses power, then the rule becomes invalid.

All in all, these are turbulent times. There are countless rules formed every day, and more rules are broken every day.

Only a big company like Roxerland can create a person like Leigh. It was only in Roxerland that Leigh was able to grow and play to her strengths. If you bring five people each, Rigolei can beat Li. Twenty people, the ending is unpredictable. If there were more than 200 people, most of Rigolei's troops would be wiped out, and Li would still have most of his subordinates left. Only a behemoth like Roxserland would have a guard of more than 200 people under the command of Jean Leigh.

The convoy had already galloped far away, and the smoke dragon formed by the dust was still drifting higher and higher. Rigore left the window, went to the large desk, pressed a few numbers on the telephone, and a high-pitched but old voice came from the telephone: "Who? Didn't the company rules state that this was my actual time? ”

"Rigore."

The voice on the telephone muttered a few words and reluctantly said, "Okay! What are you looking for me? I still have a bunch of real yàn to do. ”

"Is that thing out of the analysis?" Standing in this office, Rigore was no longer the kind of casual decadence, but full of majesty, and spoke concisely and clearly.

"The results have just come out...... Wait a minute! What's going on! This one...... You'd better come and take a look, you can't understand it on the phone! ”

Rigore immediately threw down the phone and rushed out of the office. He walked through the corridor at breakneck speed, not waiting for the elevator that was still parked on the ground floor, but ran straight up the fire escape to the sixteenth floor: where the branch biochemical room was located. After checking his ID card, he walked through the researchers who had been immersed in their work and walked directly to the central room, which occupied half a floor.

There was only a shriveled and thin old man in the thousand-square-meter room, who was crouching on the microscope and observing something, and he was obviously extremely excited to see the muscles in his cheeks twitching. This old man is the chief scientist in the biochemical field of the Roxerland Corporation, and once created a fourth-order ability Rothstein.

Rigore patted him on the back, and Rothstein immediately gave up the electroscope to Rigore. When his eyes were closed to the eyepieces, Rigor was stunned to see dead cells everywhere in his green vision, and he recognized several bacteria that were famously vigorous.

"It's ......" Rigoley straightened up and looked at Rothstein inquiringly.

Rothstein was wiping the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and he groaned, "Oh my God, I've never seen anything like this!" Where did you get it? This...... How do you describe this? ”

Rothstein was pounding on the computer next to the station, and a set of thrilling images immediately played on the screen.

Against the backdrop of greenery, it is full of life and bustling with all kinds of cells. These cells, or bacteria, move slowly and attack each other. At this point, one cell could be seen expanding abnormally and then shattering, and dozens of new types of cells flowed out of it, apparently different from the mother.

All the cells seemed to move slowly, but Rigore didn't think so. In the real world, these cells or bacteria are actually moving extremely fast, and if a person is infected with the bacteria that mutate the cells, it means that he will not survive a day.

That's when an amazing scene occurred. A medium-sized cell suddenly appears at the edge of the viewing area, and they move extremely quickly, almost a hundred times faster than the others. As soon as these cells encounter other cells, no matter what kind of cell they are, they will stick out the tip of a needle and pierce into each other's interior, injecting their own fluid. In just a few seconds, the spiked cells burst open, spitting out more than a dozen cells identical to those of the invaders. The intruders immediately scattered in all directions, as fast as an off-road locomotive passing through a tortoise. In less than a minute, none of the cells in the image were spared, either ruptured or stabbed to death.

In the entire screen, all that can be seen at this time is a dense crowd of intruders!

Intruders collide with each other, then bounce in all directions like balls, and then collide with more intruders, resulting in more complex bounce movements. However, there are no other cells or bacteria left for them to eat. will make all intruders, both original and new, bounce wildly.

In another minute, all the intruders were dead, and there was a dead silence in the image, littered with corpses of cells, just as Rigore had just seen through the eyepieces.

This image is the film recorded by an electron microscope.

Li Gaolei only felt that his scalp was a little numb, and his palms were full of cold sweat, slippery, clammy and cold, and very uncomfortable.

After a while, Rigoray said, "You mean, these cells were found on the samples I gave you?" ”

Rothstein nodded and added, "The record you see is only the second half. In the beginning, there was only one living cell, which I call the invader, and as you can see, this one cell immediately kills every cell it touches, and it becomes its own hatching ovary! When I first saw this scene, I was almost stupefied, and then I remembered to record it! His voice was sharp and high-pitched, and he seemed to be immersed in the horror of the moment.

Rigolei frowned, staring at the screen frozen in the cell graveyard-like scene, and suddenly said, "If ......"

Rothstein obviously knew what he was going to say, and immediately said: "If this cell invades the body, we may turn into monsters in half an hour!" And no one knows what kind of thing will appear! ”

Rigore's hand immediately trembled, which was an extremely rare phenomenon in him, who had always been calm. However, Rothstein did not notice this, pointing to the screen and saying, "I don't know if this is good news, if the invaders can't find food in a minute, they will die." This may be explained by the fact that they are hundreds of times faster than their peers and therefore require a lot of energy. And the invaders will never kill each other. ”

"Analyze their genes now."

Rothstein shook his head, and with another tap on the computer keyboard, another chart was called. It was full of fragmented genetic fragments, and there was no way to make a complete and meaningful genetic sequence.

Rothstein pointed to the chart and said, "You see, this is the gene of the invader, which is not a gene at all, it is just a meaningless nucleic acid!" There can only be one explanation, and that is that when the invaders died, they had completely destroyed their genes. You see, these intruders look like they have their own intelligence! ”

"How's that sample, can it detect the genetic makeup of a live invader?" Rigolei's voice was heavy.

Rothstein shook his head again and said, "There are no living intruders on the sample anymore." You've seen that invaders never give much time to other cells and themselves. This scene was the last intruder I found. As soon as I moved it into a standard genetic sieve dish, it immediately regained its activity and began to slaughter. From this process until all the creatures in this dish are dead, a total of ......"

The doctor looked at the time on the monitor and called out a number that made Rigore break out in a cold sweat again: "Two minutes and eleven seconds." ”

The petri dish is the size of a cell like Rigore standing on the top floor of a branch building, looking around.

"If this thing enters the body of a living being, will it have an incubation period, and will it mutate again?" Rigori asked sullenly.

"It doesn't seem like it at the moment, and such a ferocious cell doesn't need an incubation period. However, it is difficult to say that the expression of a single cell and the surface of the constituent organ may be completely different. Rothstein replied, still wiping the sweat from his face, looking apprehensive: "Fortunately, I was careful enough when I received your sample, and I followed the actual rules and never touched it with my hands." ”

He suddenly saw that Rigore's face was extremely ugly, and he suddenly opened his mouth wide, took a sharp breath, and stammered, "You...... You shouldn't ......?"

"Damn it! I've touched that thing! Rigore exhaled a sullen breath in his chest.

Rothstein immediately took a few steps back and slammed into a row of glass cabinets full of chemicals. There was a groan from the medicine cabinet, and a bottle of strong acid on the top of the cabinet shook a few times, and suddenly it toppled over, smashing straight down on the doctor's head. If it is poured with 1000cc of strong acid, the doctor's huge head is guaranteed to be lost.

Rigore took a step forward and took the bottle of strong acid steadily. His muscular arms were only a few centimeters above the doctor's head. The doctor looked up, and his bloodshot eyes behind the height lenses immediately opened to the limit! But his fear of strong acid seemed far less than his fear of Rigore's arm.

With a bitter smile, he took a syringe from the tray next to him, stabbed it into the veins of his arm, sucked a tube full of blood, and carefully injected it into a vacuum test tube. He drew three tubes of blood in a row, and a blue flame erupted from the palm of his left hand, turning the needle stained with his blood to ashes, leaving only a blackened needle.

"Help me get a test and see if I'm ...... Isn't it infected with that? ”

The Doctor stood close to the potion cabinet, refusing to get even a little closer to Rigore, but nodded blankly.

Rigolei thought for a moment and ordered, "Delete all the image backups, and keep only one copy for me." Don't mention it to anyone, including the top management of the head office. The people in the branch can't say either, especially General Li, they definitely can't let her know about it! If anyone knows this, then whether you leaked it or not, Pelly will have to die. ”

Rostanden shuddered a little, and then came to his senses from his fear. Perrie is his only daughter, who is only seven years old this year.

For the next three days, Rigore sat in silence in his office, his hands crossed on his chin, looking out the window at the gray sky. He didn't say a word almost all day, and his subordinates reported to him on the company's daily operations, as was customary, and Rigory just listened quietly and waved them out.

This is how he spent the whole night in his office. He didn't eat anything, just drank two bottles of water.

In the early morning of the fourth day, smoke and dust rose from outside the pendulum city, and it was Li who had led her troops back. Rigolei finally changed his unchanged posture and stood up. He reached for the phone, just pressed a few numbers, and then hesitated to cut off. But his hand was always on the telephone.

The phone rang suddenly, and Rigore's hand stiffened, and he didn't press the call button until the bell rang several times. Dr. Rothstein's voice rang on the phone: "It's me!" Is anyone there? ”

"I'm listening." Rigore replied. His voice was hoarse and unpleasant, and it turned out that sitting quietly for a few days had made his voice completely hoarse. Fortunately, the doctor still heard his voice and said, "It's good that you're here!" The results of the blood samples came out, I used all the means, and the results showed that there were no signs of intruders in the three blood samples, thank goodness! ”

Rigolei suddenly felt that all the strength of his body had run away without a trace, and he couldn't stand at all, and sat down on the seat. The Doctor's somewhat nervous voice kept coming from the telephone: "Hey! Feed? Are you okay? Hey, answer me ......"

Rigoray froze and said, "I'm fine. You wait for me there, I'll go over and see the results now. Without waiting for the doctor to reply, he cut off the call.

An hour later, Rigore walked out of the sixteenth-floor room. His hair was slightly messy, his eyes were deep-set, and his messy stubble looked longer than usual. If it was in the old era, if a tall, vicissitudes, and decadent type of man like him entered the entertainment industry, he might have a good future.

Perhaps to annotate his dejected appearance, Rigore's stomach suddenly growled. Only then did he feel hungry, and it was not ordinary hunger, and the sweat on his body came out layer by layer. After thinking about it, he pressed the intercom in the corner and asked, "I'm Rigore." Where is General Leigh now? ”

The intercom led to the central control room, and the officer on duty inside naturally recognized Rigaolei's voice and immediately replied: "General Li is now practicing shooting at the underground shooting range. ”

Rigore's body felt a nervousness inexplicably, but he still walked to the elevator and went straight down to the weapons range on the second basement floor. As soon as I pushed open the soundproof door of the shooting range, there was a pungent smell of gunpowder, and the gunshots echoing in the space were extremely loud and deafening, with an indescribable wildness and roughness. Rigore was well versed in most firearms of the old and new eras, but he could not hear any guns that would make such a sound.