Chapter Twenty-Three: In the Undercover Days

[Okay, now pick up the Eridium Element Crystal Block in front of you]

The sound of mechanical commands came from the loudspeaker, and Su Jing suppressed the anger in his heart, and lifted the purple crystal block on the platform in front of him with both hands.

[Now, absorb it]

Su Jing silently released the demon hunting insects, and the purple and white beetles that only he could see flew onto the Eridium element crystals, gulping down the crystals full of magic power, just like eating cookies. In the eyes of those who can't see through its optical camouflage, this scene is like Su Jing using his hands to dissolve the crystals of the eridium element little by little.

Now, use your fire ability

Reluctantly, the Demon Hunter flew back to his left eye, and then converted the absorbed elemental energy into the heat of the flames, which erupted from a few streaks of his skin, turning his upper body into a golden-red glow. Surrounded by flames, Su Jing's handsome and expressionless face was like an inanimate statue, solemn and majestic.

[Very good.] Now that the experiment is over, go back to your accommodation.]

Su Jing walked down the aisle with a blank face, and after a week of experimentation, Handsome Jack seemed to be very relieved of him. After giving the order to absolutely prohibit escape and fully cooperate with the experiment, he was allowed to wander around the base.

Of course, there are some forbidden areas that he is still strictly forbidden to enter, such as the energy room, weapons room, monitoring room, and exit, etc. However, the people in the base are already familiar with him, because of his usual gentle attitude towards people, and some Hyperion staff will even say hello to him.

But so far, he has not been able to see the outside world and judge his geographical location. The completely closed base made him feel very melancholy, and he just wanted to eat some sweets to please his mood.

Su Jing went straight to the cafeteria, asked for three meals and four large chocolates, and carried them back to the dormitory alone.

Presumably for the convenience of surveillance and guarding, Handsome Jack placed the three captured men in the same dormitory. As soon as Su Jing pushed open the door, he saw that Gage and Tina each occupied a desk, the former having his hair twisted into a messy honeycomb, and the latter picking out his nose with the barrel of a pen.

"I can't believe that two years after running away from school, I still have to face these problems one day." Gage's eyes were blank and he said, "I feel better off being shot now." Why will there be no bullets in that gun that day? Why does Heaven want to torture me like this? Have I done anything in my life other than killing people and setting fires? ”

For Hyperion, the greatest value of these two young ladies is not their combat effectiveness, but their excellent work design ability. At the age of sixteen, Gage designed portable combat robots based on the spatial folding technique, while Tina is a genius designer of explosive weapons, a natural destroyer who can create improvised missiles through a primitive workshop.

"These blinded idiots - actually took my Super Rifle blueprints, my proudest work - 'Kill Jack' back, because they said there was no good theoretical basis for this design! I clearly wrote it so clearly!! ”

Su Jing leaned over and looked at the drawings on Tina's desk, and the crooked engineering monitor was densely written with various annotations, such as "I think this is the way it is", "because it looks more **" and so on, which made him feel a trace of sympathy for Hyperion's weapons design department.

"It's time to eat, ladies." Su Jing put a meal on everyone's table, followed by a cup of chocolate, and felt that her gentleness had risen to a new level.

"Wait...... You kid, how do you drink two chocolates alone? Tina looked at the paper bag in Su Jing's arms with alarm.

"I've been in a bad mood lately. Need to eat more sweets. ”

"Eat two desserts in front of a growing girl!! You're killing yourself!! Tina waved her pencil and pounced, mingling with Su Jing.

Half a minute later, Su Jing sipped the remaining cup of chocolate gloomily, feeling even lower.

The lights out at the Hyperion base were on time, and as soon as the lights went out, the three of them sighed in unison, climbed into their beds and lay down.

Even breathing could be heard in the darkness, and none of the three seemed to be able to sleep.

Suddenly, Su Jing could feel Gage kick the bed she was sleeping on.

Su Jing ...... Now, Mr. Roland, Mr. Ivan, Lily...... They must be looking for us with all their might. ”

“………… yes, they must be looking for us. In their power, we will be saved. ”

"Hmm."

The next morning, Su Jing was personally received by Handsome Jack.

Today's Jack was wearing a snakeskin casual suit, with that hypocritical smile on his face, and as soon as he saw Su Jing, he opened his arms and gave him a big hug.

"Oh, good morning, dear friend Su Jing. It's been a good few days, right? You see, I've put two underage girls in a room with you - don't worry about the juvenile protection law, this is me - Handsome Jack's territory, and no one cares about that. Oh my goodness, two underage girls, even me, handsome Jack, one of the most powerful men in the five galaxies and the leader of Hyperion Corporation, only allowed myself to enjoy it once a weekend - great! ”

"Sir, I would like to remind you that I am transgender...... Although my current gender is male, my sexual orientation may not be the same as that of a normal male. Su Jing raised her head a little higher, trying her best to keep her expression unchanged.

"Hmm...... I almost forgot about your setting, haha......haha

The handsome Jack laughed obscenely, and patted Su Jing's shoulder affectionately, "What about today...... I'm here to get you involved in a ...... Experiments with a relatively high level of secrecy. ”

I've been waiting for you for a long time, Su Jing smiled.

Five minutes later, Su Jing was standing in the laboratory, with a large box on the table in front of him, with a combination lock on it.

[The password is 1215225, open it.] 】

Su Jing moved his neck and wrist, and after entering the password, the box snorted and released a large amount of cold air, and then revealed the true face of the items inside.

On the soft spongy plastic trough, a stone, cone-shaped object sits quietly, with purple markings that resemble life. The stone cone was attached to the chest with a leather strap, and next to it was a large purple Eridium crystal.

[Now, absorb the energy of the Eridium element and inject it into this stone.] 】

Really...... Wait until this moment. Su Jing picked up the erbium element and began to let the demon hunting insects devour the crystals.

The stone cone in front of him is the most precious strange thing on the planet Pandora, and it can open the "key" of the Vault Seal. In the first part of the game, it summons the "Destroyer" in the ancient ruins, and in the second part, it awakens the "samurai" sleeping in the lava in the crater. Basically, its appearance represents the coming of death and destruction.

Su Jing felt the power of the eridium element in his hand, untied the belt on the stone cone, and then pressed his hands on it.

The surface of the stone cone is rough and warm, with some strange fluctuations. The elements in his body still needed him to "push" at first, but soon, the stone cone began to actively absorb the force in his body, causing him to feel a sense of emptiness and discomfort. The speed of absorption is getting faster and faster, and the power of this large piece of eridium ore is quickly absorbed by this vacuum-like vortex, and the stone cone seems to be not satisfied, Su Jing only feels that even his own vitality is surging out, and he is swallowed by this greedy artifact.

"Jack - damn it! It's sucking my life!! ”

Su Jing felt as if his hand was glued to it, and the strength of his whole body was being drained, he fell down and lay on the ground holding the stone cone.

It was as if even consciousness had been sucked in, his consciousness became weaker and weaker, his brain began to lack oxygen, tingling, blank, unconscious, his eyes blackened, and his consciousness began to fall, fall, fall......

I don't know how long it fell.

Then he saw ...... "Vault".

Su Jing's consciousness fell into the deep sea, into the flickering deep sea.

It was the pulse of the stars, the beating stars.

The life of the planet is magnificent and magnificent.

The ancient intelligent race, known today as the "ancient saints", was more technologically advanced than today's civilizations, and they extracted the life force of the planet for their own use, thinking that they had conquered the planet and conquered nature......

But the planet began to fight back, and it gave birth to "samurai" who guarded itself, that is, the planet's defense mechanism and immune system...... Powerful "samurai" destroyed the civilization of the ancient saints, causing them to disappear into the back of history.

And the "vault" is the secret of life on the planet...... Some of those monsters were sealed by the Ancient Saints, and some returned to the interior of the planet because they ran out of energy or were too seriously injured, rebuilding their strength.

At this moment, through the connection of the "key", Su Jing, as the first non-witch elemental user in the history of the Borderlands, touched the vast and magnificent spiritual power of Pandora. But just that glimpse made him completely lose his ability to think and fall into the abyss of chaos and unconsciousness.

When she woke up again, Su Jing found herself lying in a lilac solution. He struggled to crawl out of the treatment device, grabbed a doctor-like person, and asked him to find out that he had been in a coma for eight hours, and the time was close to turning off the lights.

After the experiment was interrupted, he was thrown into the treatment instrument by Jack, and his temporary boss seemed to be very satisfied with the results of this test, and specially ordered Su Jing to live as much as possible. As a result, Su Jing, whose vitality was exhausted, was able to survive the full-power rescue of the treatment instrument.

The symptoms of vitality failure are organ failure, somatic cell atrophy and death, and in these eight hours, the treatment machine almost reorganized his internal organs seven or eight times before gradually restoring his vital signs to their original level. This is still the consequence of the most infernanence of a researcher's suggestion to inject an eridium solution, and the demon hunting insect in Su Jing's body was sucked by the "key" and quickly turned into a worm dry, and finally recovered his spirit under a high concentration of Eridium solution.

"Not good!" Su Jing screamed suddenly, thinking of an extremely bad thing, and left the infirmary and went straight to the canteen without even saying a word, and ran back to the dormitory with the food box.

When the door opened, Gage and Tina were already hungry and lying on the bed like dead dogs. Seeing Su Jing coming back with food, the two staggered to their feet and pounced like zombies.

"You're back......"

The two girls who hadn't eaten for a day gobbled up the lunch box and chewed it, and even grabbed Su Jing's share and finished it, just three seconds after they put down the spoon, the power was cut off on time. As soon as the lights went out, Gage and Tina pretended not to see the plate in front of them and climbed back into bed to sleep.

In the dark, Su Jing put away the dishes thoughtfully, then he looked at his palm, turned his head and said:

"Gage, you can sleep with me tonight."

Gage squirted out the unswallowed chocolate in her mouth.