Chapter 16 The Enemy of Life

"Then you can try it, Loveline!" The woman's voice was silent for a moment.

"Loveline?" Sue muttered the word in her mind. It's a bit of a surprise, and it doesn't feel like it's a new word, but a proper noun with a long history. The word came from some mysterious language, at least not before in the history of the planet, but Sue suddenly understood the meaning of the word.

Loveline, in some mysterious and ancient language, means devourer of life, also known as the enemy of all beings.

Su was a little puzzled, not knowing why he knew this language, but this could not make him flinch when he was already in a state of complete battle.

The pervasive panorama has long broken through the barrier of underground space and penetrated deep into the ground at a depth of nearly 100 meters. Within the probe of the panorama, a half-abandoned zigzag passage appeared. The passage is more than two meters high, filled with a large amount of organic matter, and there are more than a dozen rusted and damaged pipes. This was a dedicated pipeline channel, and now it's a nest for some kind of large parent organism. A pipeline of this magnitude must be connected to a large base, and from the depth of the channel, it is a highly classified base buried deep underground.

Sue walked steadily, gradually leaving the confines of the oil marsh. He was moving along the underground pipes, oblivious to the extent of the oil marsh. The location of the oil swamp has a confusing effect, trying to lure the enemy away from the correct location. However, Su's panorama has been able to penetrate into the ground at a depth of 100 meters, and with the pipeline channel as a guide, it will naturally not lose its way.

A few kilometers away, Sue began to find traces on the ground: an abandoned railroad, the remnants of two high-grade highways, and several low, but sprawling, semi-enclosed buildings. The thick snow obscures a qiē, but in the panorama, the snow layer is no longer an obstacle. Su "looked" inside a large warehouse in the ruins, with a huge entrance to the underground base in the center of the ground. The warehouse covers an area of more than 10,000 square meters, where railways and roads meet, and three large lifts can transport containers and heavy trucks into a huge base 50 meters underground. There are still nearly 100 large containers stacked in the cargo area of the warehouse, but with the erosion of the wind and frost over the years, most of the boxes have been damaged, and the goods contained in them must have lost their value.

The main lift and the three cargo lifts, which required high-power power support, have long since become ineffective, and the mechanical-hydraulic parts have corroded to the ground as far as the eye can see. The entire warehouse was dark and dreary, and there were no emergency lights, indicating that the base's power system had been completely paralyzed.

About fifty meters away from the main entrance is a safe passage that does not rely on electric drive. The largest secure lane is large enough for heavy trucks, while the remaining three are ordinary lanes for personnel. The largest safety passage has collapsed and is completely buried by mud and rock. However, there are obvious traces of blasting at the entrance of the safe passage for personnel to enter and exit, and judging from the traces, it has only occurred for a few years. Looks like someone had been here a few years ago, and opened the entrance to the base and went in to explore.

Standing in front of the entrance to the safe passage with still traces of explosions, Su looked at the bottomless passage and said, "It seems that the people of the Holy Radiance Crusaders entered the underground base from here. ”

Medirli was standing near the wall, intently observing the traces on the wall, when she heard Sue's words and said, "Well, it seems so. You see, judging from this scratch, it should be left over from the Templar Individual Auxiliary Power Armor dedicated to the Holy Radiance Crusaders, and multi-layer metallic paint was their unique technology at the time. As for the rest......"

The girl raised her elbow against the dusty wall, and with a sudden force, the specially reinforced concrete wall, which was up to a meter thick, made a muffled sound, and with a rumbling sound it had collapsed, and a hole appeared that could be entered and exited by one person. Medirri found a rectangular piece of alloy out of nowhere and shoveled away the thick layer of snow outside. The snow was as hard as ice, up to a metre deep. With a few shovels, Medirli dug a one-meter-deep pit in the ground. She crouched down and carefully looked at the soil layer on the wall of the pit before raising her head and saying, "There is a complete layer of radioactive fallout here, which means that it was a base established before the outbreak of the war." If you look at it this way, the Radiant Crusaders should have nothing to do with the original base, and they may have gotten the clues to this base from before sending an advance detachment to explore. If what the fool said in Tardek was true, then the advance detachment at that time should have gathered more than half of the elite of the Holy Radiance Crusader. It's just that it doesn't seem like their quest has been very successful, otherwise there wouldn't be a woman left to talk to. ”

I have to admit that Medirri is not good at telling jokes. The rare move actually shows that she is also nervous. Although the monsters spawned in the oil swamp are not strong, they inexplicably make her feel a real threat, so she has been careful not to let their claws or teeth touch her during the battle, and especially reminds Sylvanas to take a long-range attack, and it is a wild bombardment at the expense of her body. Her keen instincts told her that if she allowed the bodily fluids of these monsters to seep into her body, perhaps something unpredictable would happen, even with her body after three transformations.

Only Sue is unrestrained, and the past has proven that this beautiful and delicate man is almost a qiē virus or a nemesis of biological toxins.

"Let's go, she's waiting for us down there." Sue said. His tone was cold and cold, without a hint of warmth. This is Sue in a fighting state: a cold and efficient killing machine.

A group of three walked unhurriedly down the spiral staircase. The emergency escape ladder dozens of meters long seemed to have no end, and the other end was completely submerged in boundless darkness. The air was turbid and mixed with a lot of toxic gases, and the oxygen content was negligibly low. Decades after the complete destruction of the ventilation system, the air is already fresh. But even if the air was as fresh as it was in old times, the trio would try not to breathe. There are a small number of roe deer suspended in the air, which will revive once they come into contact with a warm and humid environment, and their activity is dozens of times that of ordinary human cells, and they have a strong ability to reproduce, feeding on living cells. Its overall danger is even greater than that of the most powerful viruses.

Both Sue and Medirri tried to inhale some roe deer, but the roe deer was defeated by the girl's extremely strong body cells. It often takes dozens of phagocytic cells produced by roe deer to gnaw on an ordinary body cell of a girl, and the immune cells in the girl's body can also kill the devouring roe deer in a one-to-three, or even one-to-four situation. As a result, the girl is like an ordinary person who has been exposed to some germs, and she doesn't even feel uncomfortable.

Although the phagocytic cells produced by the roe deer are ferocious, the invaders in the body of Su are faster, stronger and more ferocious, and all the roe deer are wiped out by the invaders as soon as they are activated, and the phagocytic cells they produce are not even enough to complete the first split! Its rout was swift as if the outcasts had met an army led by a dragoon general.

Sylvanas tried to inhale some air, then fell silent. After a few minutes, the young man's lips became more and more red, so bright that blood was dripping, his pale and delicate skin gradually flushed red, and his body temperature quickly rose above eighty degrees.

With just one glance, Su knew that the boy was fighting hard against the phagocytes that had invaded his body, and he had done his best. However, the juvenile's ability is far from reaching the level of control of the body's cells, and he can't even control the subtle tissues. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to fight against the devouring roe deer, and in a day at most, his body will completely collapse, and then barely maintain life for the next 24 hours, which is the limit of what he can do.

Sylvanas was indeed reckless, and he shouldn't have tried like Sue and Medirri.

Su frowned, walked up to the young man's hair, picked up his chin, and then used his right index finger to cut a cross wound on his throat, and then the fingertip cracked, and a drop of blood popped out of Sue's fingertip as if it had its own consciousness, and shot into the young man's wound. It quickly dissolved into the boy's body, and in the blink of an eye, countless filaments were formed at the boy's wound, pulling the wound and closing it. If you don't look closely, you can't even see the wound on the teenager.

When the wound was closed, an expression of extreme pain suddenly appeared on the boy's face, and the beautiful little face was even completely distorted! But the unbearable pain disappeared in an instant, replaced by numbness, and the whole body was no longer under his control.

The drop of blood that Sue shot into his body had turned into countless particles, traveling through the tissues of his body, absorbing nutrients and splitting along the way, and even robbing some of the less important normal body cells to replenish the consumption. After penetrating deep into the boy's body, the invaders split in two, one rushing into the boy's brain, and the other rushing into the core that replaced the heart, and entrenched on the outer edge of the core, forming a membrane that tightly enveloped the core. They are like a swarm of worms hanging from the body of a giant beast, constantly injecting large amounts of genetic fragments into the core.

After a few minutes, the operation of the boy's body organs has completely changed, and a large number of highly aggressive immune cells similar to invaders have been created, and under the leadership of a small number of real invaders, they pounced on the devouring roe deer that had begun to spread, and then fierce battles started all over the boy's body!

After 10 minutes, all the devouring roe deer have died, the immune cells in the juvenile's body have reached their maximum concentration, and the organs have stopped making immune cells. The intruder stopped replicating itself, detached from the core and brain, and began searching the tiny blood vessels at the end of the boy's body to find the devouring roe deer that had slipped through the net.

Fifteen minutes later, the invaders began to disintegrate and die.

Within sixteen minutes, all the invaders died, and most of them decomposed into nutrients that could be reabsorbed and utilized by the teenager's body. A small amount of waste can also be gradually excreted.

Seventeen minutes, the unused invader gene fragments in the core began to change, and dozens of fragments were grouped and fused according to some mysterious law, and finally became extremely complex gene locks. In the next 24 hours, these genetic locks will turn themselves into meaningless nutrients. The newly created immune cells contain fragments of genes that also disintegrate on their own, causing the death of these highly aggressive immune cells.

At this time, the young man's face gradually returned to normal, and his body was slowly able to move, but his face was full of exhaustion, and his body was soft and unable to lift his strength. The short battle of less than twenty minutes of attack and defense greatly overdrew his body.

Su Wei squinted his eyes, carefully perceiving the qiē that happened in the young man's body, until he was in a stable state, and then said lightly: "Keep walking, we have already delayed a lot of time." ”

Sylvanas took a solid oxygen bag from her backpack and put it on her face. He couldn't do it for so long without oxygen like Sue and Medirri. Devouring roe deer is no longer a problem, and there are still a lot of immune cells in his body.

The three of them continued to descend the stairs, their footsteps echoing through the empty and dark stairwell, apparently distant and lonely.

Dark.

There was nothing but darkness, at least Sylvanas couldn't find a single bit of light. For some reason, the monotonous and unchanging rhythm of footsteps suddenly became louder and louder, echoing in his ears. The teenager even heard his own heartbeat!

That's not the heart, it's the pulsation of the core. But the sound of pulsating sounds also grew louder and louder, mixed with the sound of footsteps, and at last it was like thunder!

Sylvanas's breathing began to heavily, and he felt the chemical oxygen he inhaled getting hotter and hotter, as if he was breathing in flames, and his chest began to feel heavy. He suddenly felt weak and flustered, and both darkness and silence were constantly putting pressure on him.

Yes, quiet, extremely quiet. Sylvanas couldn't hear anything at all, except for footsteps and his own heartbeat. Sue and Medirli in front of them seemed to have completely melted into the darkness, and did not make a sound. If it weren't for the core induction, he would even wonder if there was anyone in front of him. But even with the core, the teenager began to lose control of his feelings, and even began to doubt whether the core's induction was accurate. He wanted light, even a little bit of light, as long as he could break through the darkness and see Sue's figure.

Subconsciously, Sylvanas realizes that he is afraid, though he refuses to admit it.

He didn't use his fire ability to ignite even the faintest spark, which was the easiest way to break through the darkness. Reason told him that the wisest thing to do before Sue or Medirli gave him a clear directive was to maintain the status quo. There were countless unknown dangers hidden in the darkness, and he also sensed that there was danger in the air, but just by taking a few more puffs like Su, he almost died under the devouring roe deer, which made the boy no longer dare to take risks indiscriminately.

Thankfully, Su's control over the invaders was only strengthened not so long ago. Otherwise, even if the devouring roe deer in the boy's body can be destroyed, the boy's body will be devastated: in battle, the invader cells will not consider how much damage they will do to the battlefield.

The darkness, the silence, and the sound of footsteps, like three boulders, pressed heavily on the boy's chest. Just as he felt like he was about to suffocate, Medirli's voice suddenly sounded not far ahead. Now that the maiden has broken the silence, so have the invisible chains that bind Sylvanas. The young man suddenly broke out in a cold sweat and suddenly became weak.

"Sue, the woman who spoke, gives me a bit of a similar feeling to you." Medirli said.

Su Zuzu was silent for a minute before replying in an unchanged cold voice: "It's not just a little like it, she, and I are the same kind." ”C