Chapter 20 In-depth above
After sweeping away the alien creatures on the first layer, the two of them got a short but precious rest. Depending on the movements of the alien creatures on the second basement level, they can have nearly a minute.
Su squatted on the ground and directly put hundreds of meat strands out of his left hand into a winding meat tube, connecting it with the inner wall of the meat tube, and experiencing its internal structure and physiological fluctuations. At first glance, the squirming tubes were indeed biomass, and the thick walls of the tubes were filled with hundreds of unknown cells. In this blood-like fluid, there is no oxygen component, only a large amount of organic matter, but it is not suitable for human beings or ordinary feeding animals in the old days. Thin pores are formed in the shredded meat floating in the thick liquid, and the surrounding liquid is constantly sucked in. At the same time, a small amount of blood cells belonging to Su also dissociated into the concentrated fluid.
Compared to the huge lifeforms scattered throughout the research base, not only are the shreds of flesh so thin that they are almost invisible to the naked eye, but even Su himself is negligibly small. Although there is no nervous system in the fleshy tube wall, the inserted left hand provokes a strong immune-like response, and countless huge phagocytes are converging. If you think of blood as the ocean, then the immune cells of ordinary creatures move like small fishing boats driven by the wind, and the phagocytes are like fighter jets flying at low altitudes! These phagocytes not only gnawed hard at the shredded flesh, but also continued to invade Sue's body along the cavity above!
These phagocytes seem to have a spirit of their own, and in terms of power, they are much stronger than the biochemical weapons of the old days. They continue to devour all the cells that stand in their way, and when their bodies swell to several times their original size, they will stop moving, and after about a minute, they will divide into several new phagocytes before moving on. Without effective defense, they can invade the internal organs along the blood vessels in the arm in less than 10 minutes, and can kill people in 20 minutes, which is not at all comparable to viruses or bacteria.
If someone else were replaced, even a few phagocytes would invade the body, and they would die quickly. However, the phagocytes clearly made some mistakes in their choice of object this time. Just after they invaded, the various cells in Su's body that looked normal suddenly swelled, and then suddenly cracked, releasing dozens of invaders from inside! Countless invaders rushed towards the phagocytes at a speed several times faster than the phagocytes, and then crashed into the phagocytes like moths throwing fire, and were swallowed by it in clumps. The phagocytes swelled rapidly and soon reached their limit. However, the invader cells still pounced one after another, rushing into the phagocytes one by one.
Finally, after increasing in size by a full tenfold, one phagocyte reached the limit of its endurance and cracked open! But what comes out after cracking is not phagocytes, but thousands of invaders!
In the blink of an eye, the phagocytes that had invaded Su's body had been defeated and all of them had become nutrients for the invaders. Countless intruders even rushed out of the body under the instinct of the body, spread into the thick liquid and went on a killing spree! All of a sudden, the concentrated liquid around Su's left hand was tumbling violently as if it were boiling, and a strange gray color began to spread in the thick liquid.
From strangling phagocytes to releasing intruders to killing in the thick liquid, it was all done in a very short time, completely driven by Su's physical instincts.
Sensing a large number of intruders emanating from his hands, Su frowned slightly, and his heart moved, and the intruders not far from his body flowed back one after another. The small number of invaders had already left far away, and they did not follow Su's thoughts to return, but they did not continue to move forward, but began to fight against hundreds of immune cells in the concentrated liquid. Even in front of the far superior number of immune cells, the invaders have the overall upper hand, and the number increases exponentially every minute. If it weren't for the fact that there is a limit to the number of intruders that can split, it might be possible to turn the entire research base into a collection of invaders.
Su had already sensed that as his power rose, the upper limit of the number of intruder splits seemed to be increasing. And in response to his thoughts, there was a faint sense of resistance among countless extremely tiny individuals.
The concentrated fluid that was absorbed into Su's body contained a variety of cells and components, which were engulfed by Sue's cells and analyzed at a rapid pace. Su, on the other hand, constantly adjusted the panorama according to the analyzed numbers, and all the meat tubes and films containing the biomass concentrate showed a light blue outline on the panorama, outlining the background of the base more clearly. The blue color kept spreading, and soon it extended beyond the confines of the first layer and towards the second. The farther the blue extended, the wider and clearer Sue's vision became. As the blue extended, orange dots of light began to appear. These are embryonic cells that grow on the meat tubes to give birth to alien organisms. At intervals, there is also a striking red dot of light. It's an alien illumination, and it glows a dark red, but with much more intense radiation. Those rays that are invisible to the naked eye are the real rays of alien creatures. They rely on the reflections and echoes of these rays to see their surroundings clearly.
While Sue was reconstructing her panorama, Medirri was preparing for battle in her own way. The base has been dilapidated for a long time, but there are many alloy objects that have not been eroded by time. Medirri had gathered a number of metal objects and squeezed them into shape with her own hands, and in the blink of an eye, several poorly made, but cleverly conceived pieces of alloy armor were hanging on Medirri, the hard alloy becoming as tame as soft clay in her hands. And a shoulder armor with sharp edges, an arm shield on the left forearm, armor and stabbing on both knees, and a piece of armor on the outside of the left thigh are the result of the girl in a minute. Even as the aliens poked their heads out of the staircase, she rested her heavy sword in the corner of the wall, and as soon as she stepped on it, she saw the slightly curved blade squeak and groan and become straight again.
The tide of xenobiotic beasts was surging towards the first layer, and in Su's perception, dozens of embryonic cells were expanding and contracting at a speed dozens of times higher than the normal level, and the xenobiotic beast embryos conceived inside were growing and maturing at a speed visible to the naked eye. At this rate, it only takes ten minutes for an xenobiotic beast to go from hatchling to adulthood!
Just as Su was about to withdraw his left hand from the fleshy tube wall, a small area suddenly lit up on the periphery of the panorama! It looked like a real room, with countless fleshy tube walls intertwined to form a high platform of biological matrix. There was a person standing on the stage, who was inserting his hands in the meat quality control platform. He wears a researcher's uniform, is nearly bald on the top of his head, and a pair of old-fashioned glasses rests on the bridge of his nose. He looked like a researcher for the rest of his life. But his research uniform was in tatters, the corners were all worn, and the original color was no longer visible. One side of the vintage glasses is completely gone, and the other side is covered with cracks, and it can be seen that the glasses are just an ornament. And in Sue's perception, under his research uniform, there is a blue glow that belongs to the alien species. The strength of the light indicates the level of energy it contains. The xenobiotic beasts only emitted a very pale blue, but the blue light on this researcher's body was very strong!
There was a tumbling blue glow between the researcher's hands, and around Sue's left hand, a faint blue light also appeared, tumbling at the same rhythm. Within the scope of the blue light, the movement speed of various cells in the concentrated fluid has increased several times, and it has been continuously transformed into highly aggressive phagocytic cells, enveloping Su's left hand.
It seems that he has discovered himself and can control the cells in the concentrated liquid to attack him, Su thought. This is the first researcher Su has seen to be alienated after entering the research base, and it is also the first alien creature with special abilities. His ability to manipulate cells may not be powerful, but it is very subtle and can exert great power under certain circumstances. For example, spreading the plague in a certain city.
Su's left hand clenched into a fist, and all the flesh shreds were retracted, and then under the command of the mind, all the xenobiotic cells that entered Su's body were instantly strangled! The blue xenobiotic energy mass that wrapped Su's left hand also shattered.
At this point, the door behind the researcher opened, but it was empty. Although no one could be seen, a soft voice sounded in the real room: "Hasbele, how is the situation now?" ”
Hasbele, who was standing high on the fleshy console, gasped sharply and replied in a bellows-like voice: "Don't worry, General! I have already invaded the body of one of them, and no matter how powerful he is, he will not be able to match me inside the body! ”
However, before Hasbelle's words fell, his body suddenly twitched, shrunk into a ball, and then bounced away and fell from the control platform in the air! His body fell heavily to the ground, and he actually smashed a hole in the alloy floor! His body weighed at least hundreds of kilograms, far from being as thin as it seemed.
From the blue light shattering on Sue's side to Hasbeyler's volley, there was a delay of about half a second before and after. Su immediately understood that the concentrated fluid flowing in the meat tubes and plasma membrane could not only transport nutrients and energy, but also act as a nervous system. And by Hasbele's side, the general, although close to complete invisibility, could not escape the detection of the panorama. However, Su could only see a blue-black energy sphere as thick as substance floating around Hasbele.
Su Huoran stood up, greeted Medirri, who was happily fighting with a group of xenomorphic beasts, and then pointed in the direction of Hasbel and said, "Let's go, our target is there!" ”
Hearing Su's words, the heavy sword in Medirli's hand suddenly seemed to lose its weight, and its speed suddenly doubled, and it fluttered over the xenomorphic beast that had been fighting for a long time, and then she habitually dragged the heavy sword backwards and followed Su to the staircase on the other side.
Behind her, several xenomorphic beasts, which had been extremely ferocious, suddenly became sluggish, and then fell to the ground one by one, unable to get up again.