Chapter 961: Invading Phantom Worm
Alice didn't keep Leo waiting too long, and a few hours later, she was already accompanied by someone from the Bachelor's Club, picking up Leo and Sylvia to the location of the intelligent core of Lansey City.
Judging from all the circumstances, the Bachelor's Guild seems to attach great importance to Leo's behavior of contacting the intelligent core this time, not counting the sergeants who accompanied him to monitor and escort together, the Bachelors of the Bachelor's Guild alone sent more than twenty people, three of them wore four purple ribbon badges, according to the identity of the Bachelor's Guild, these three should all belong to the higher bachelors who are very outstanding in a certain exclusive field.
The bachelors of these guilds are extremely proud of their identities, and naturally look down on Leo and Sylvia, even if Leo has mastered a lot of things that they have not mastered, so that when Alice was about to introduce them to Leo, they were interrupted by these cold words, and urged Alice to leave as soon as possible.
Alice also saw the mentality of these members of the Bachelor's Club, so she didn't think about introducing the two sides to each other, and then led the group to a hidden entrance and exit located at the edge of the defense zone, and used the open identity authority to open the door to the entrance and exit, and boarded the mobile platform that had been prepared.
"Why don't you go from the city?" asked a senior scholar after boarding the platform, a puzzled "It's faster over there, and the equipment is newer." ”
As he spoke, the platform started suddenly, and this platform did not use more stable magnetic levitation power like other newly built platforms, but used the most primitive mechanical gear device, so when it was suddenly started, the whole platform shook constantly, as if it would collapse at any time.
Among the people standing on the platform, Leo, Sylvia, and Alice were still standing on the platform, their feet as if they were rooted in the ground, while the others all fell to the ground due to the sudden shaking and shaking, even the sergeants who carried out the guards and surveillance figures.
Immediately after that, the harsh metal grinding sound from the old machine that had not been used for a long time resounded throughout the lifting platform shaft, and even Sylvia and Alice couldn't help but cover their ears when they were caught off guard.
However, soon the screeching sound and the shaking platform were gone, although the surroundings were still a little noisy and the platform was shaking, but it was not as strong as just now, and everyone got up from the ground, slapped the venue, and looked at each other with some embarrassment.
At this time, Alice also answered the inquiry of the higher scholar slightly, and said: "You can directly reach the central area through this road, and you need to pass through the manager's city and the upper meeting room to take that road, and they don't want outsiders to get close to it." ”
As she spoke, her gaze gestured to Leo and Sylvia, and the senior scholar said no more.
At this time, Leo didn't pay any attention to the conversation between Alice and the High Bachelor, and his mind at the moment was more focused on using the spirit net to probe the surrounding situation.
After boarding the platform, the number on the platform and some vague steel stamps on the platform lift shaft allowed Leo to quickly find the corresponding position of the lifting platform from the structural diagram of the Prometheus in his memory.
As Alice explains, this platform is numbered 001 on the Prometheus, and is one of the few central platforms on the ship that can lead from the bottom to the bridge area at the top.
According to the drawings in Leo's hand, the main control computer of the spaceship is located at the back of the lower level of the spaceship command bridge, which is an independent cabin, and in wartime, this cabin can be moved to the hinterland of the spacecraft and protected by other parts of the spacecraft, as long as the spacecraft is not completely destroyed, this main control computer cabin will not be destroyed.
It's just that Leo didn't take this spaceship drawing seriously, because the later Earth Federation warships modified each other's facilities when they merged with the Prometheus, so it is debatable whether the main control computer cabin is still in its original place.
The speed of the platform rise was not very fast, and the group stayed in this lifting shaft for about ten minutes before reaching the top of the lifting platform.
After Alice opened the platform gate, she led the group into the bridge area where no one had been here for a long time.
The structure of the bridge area is simple, it is a large patio-like building, with a cylindrical hollow inner ring that extends upwards, and the top is where the ship bridge is located, and there are seven different elevators on the surrounding walls, each leading to seven different floors, of which the elevator in the middle leads directly to the top.
Perhaps because it hasn't been here for a long time, a thick layer of dust has accumulated around it, and all kinds of facilities look like they have been corroded for thousands of years, and even the special alloy steel plates that make up the walls have deteriorated and become brittle in corrosion.
"How is this so badly damaged?" said one of the higher scholars, frowning in displeasure.
"No! Two months ago, the monitoring team came here for routine maintenance. A sergeant who served as the leader of the team said with suspicion, then squatted down and wiped the dust on the ground, and said: "Judging from the dust, it has not been cleaned up for almost two months, and the time can be right, but the damage here is probably what happened after that." ”
As he spoke, the sergeant made a gesture, and all the sergeants in charge of protection took out their energy weapons, and took out something like a church emblem, placing it in their hands and shaking it back and forth in the air around them.
At this time, a faint light suddenly flashed on the holy emblem in the hand of a sergeant, although this light was very faint, and surrounded by the surrounding lights, it was very inconspicuous, but it still attracted the attention of the sergeant who paid attention to the badge, and then he put the holy emblem in the place just now and shook it, and after confirming that the light was not an illusion, he immediately shouted loudly: "An abyssal object has sneaked in." ”
Hearing the sergeant's shout, the other sergeants immediately turned their heads to look in that direction, but as they turned their heads to focus on the other side, they didn't notice that a glowing plate above their heads that was large enough to encompass everyone below them bulged out silently.
Then, just as everyone's attention seemed to be drawn to the other side, the bulging object turned into a sticky mass and fell from the top, as if it was about to wipe everyone down there.
This thing was silent from the moment it appeared to the time it attacked, and even when it fell, it did not cause the surrounding air currents to fluctuate, and it felt like a transparent phantom.
Seeing that everyone didn't notice the monster's attack, and was about to be completely wrapped in the monster, a burst of strong light suddenly erupted above Alice's head, and this strong light instantly wrapped the monster above her head like the sun's rays, and before the sergeants could look up and see what was happening, the monster had already been burned to ashes.
Alice's sudden exertion of her power naturally alarmed the people around her, and the sergeants and bachelors looked up one after another, just in time to see the last sight of the monster before it was completely burned to death.
"Damn it, it's a phantom bug!" a maester with a deep knowledge of abyssal monsters immediately warned.
Hearing this warning, all the sergeants immediately gathered around the bachelor, and watched the surroundings vigilantly, and the sergeant who led the team said to Alice: "Your Excellency, this place should have been invaded by the Abyss Phantom Worm, we don't have the supporting cleaning tools at hand, I'm afraid it will be dangerous to continue to stay, I suggest ......"
Before the sergeant could finish speaking, Alice raised her hand to stop the sergeant's words, then turned to Leo and Sylvia and asked, "What do you think?"
Leo and Sylvia looked at each other, as if exchanging views, and then Leo came out and said, "I'd better come! ”
As he spoke, Leo walked in front of the group, his eyes scanning the surroundings, and finding the phantom insects that had changed into various forms through his vision.
In fact, from the moment they entered here, Leo and Sylvia had already sensed the faint power of the abyss around them, and also sensed the source of these powers and what the hidden abyss monsters were.
Phantom insects, which are at the bottom of the abyss, are usually used as daily food by some abyss monsters, but if you underestimate this kind of monster because of this, then even the top abyss predators like the Abyss Demon Dragon will suffer a big loss.
Camouflage is the natural ability of this monster, its camouflage can only be some ordinary stones or moss and the like at first, but as the phantom worm devours more and more prey, its strength is getting stronger and stronger, and finally there are more and more types of abyss monsters that can be camouflaged and transformed, and it is said that it can even perfectly disguise itself as the abyss demon dragon, the abyss snake and other abyss-top existences, and even be able to camouflage some of the abilities of the demon dragon and the big snake.
In this respect, it is very similar to the Faceling's abilities, except that it is the prey at the bottom of the abyss, and the other is the predator at the top of the abyss.
In addition, in addition to the natural ability of camouflage, corrosion is also the most distinctive ability of phantom insects, almost anything will be corroded as long as it is touched by phantom insects for a long time, so there are several times when the abyssal tides, the high abyssal race with command will use this phantom worm as a corrosive bomb to attack the turret of the dome and the ground.
At first, this attack was still very threatening, and many energy cannons suffered damage due to this corrosive ability, or even became unusable. However, after learning about the habits of things, the Bachelor quickly researched the corresponding cleaning tools, so that the damage did not expand.
It's just that for Lan Xicheng, this kind of weak phantom insect is a big headache, because the phantom worm has almost no abyssal power in the larval stage, so it is difficult to defend the various arrangements that prevent the invasion and penetration of the abyssal force in and around the city in and out of the city.
This makes every abyss tide, there will be more or less larval phantom insects, avoiding all the fortifications, sneaking into Lanxi City, and then gradually growing up in Lanxi City, and finally posing a certain threat to Lanxi City.
For this reason, Lanxi City has a special pest control corps for phantom insects, and it is very rare for a site to be so badly corroded like now.
While figuring out the details of the phantom insects, Leo also easily discovered all the phantom insects hidden here through his vision.
Once the location of these phantom worms is revealed, their threat is reduced to the extreme, and any sergeant with an energy weapon present can easily deal with them.
However, Leo didn't plan to teach this matter to others to solve, because he didn't want to waste time on such a trivial matter.
I saw that as he began to use the crystallization magic that he had mastered and improved during this time, crystals like ice flowers suddenly appeared out of thin air around his body.
This scene seemed very dazzling to others, and they did not feel the powerful power contained in these crystals at all.
With Leo's mind control, these suspended crystals instantly flew out in all directions, and under the attention of everyone, they hit some ordinary-looking objects and walls around them.
And just when everyone was still wondering what Leo was doing, there was a sudden scream of extremely subtle but at the moment where those crystals hit, and then a wave of power was generated, and the form of a phantom insect body appeared, and then it shattered into countless crystal fragments, sprinkled in the air, and then fell to the ground like falling snowflakes and disappeared.
With the exception of Sylvia and Alice, everyone present was stunned by what was happening in front of them, especially the fellows who were accompanying them, who looked at Leo with a strange look like a monster.
Before that, those scholars just thought that Leo was also a foreigner who had mastered a large amount of lost knowledge of Lanxi City from somewhere, and they never thought that Leo would have such a powerful and extraordinary power.
Although those phantom insects are easy to deal with, dealing with so many phantom insects at one time is definitely not something that ordinary people with extraordinary abilities can do.
And in the minds of these scholars, the bigger doubt is that Leo is a master who has clearly participated in the assessment, but he has extraordinary powers, which obviously defies the common sense of the past countless years.
In Lanxi City, the bachelor does have a special status and is the actual manager of Lanxi City, but I don't know if it's because of the curse, whether any official bachelor has extraordinary power or not before becoming a bachelor, after becoming a bachelor, the extraordinary power will quickly weaken in a short period of time, and eventually disappear, even if he gives up his identity as a bachelor, the extraordinary power will not reappear in that person's body, so all the bachelors in Lanxi City are ordinary people.
But now, Leo has obviously broken this rule, he is not only a bachelor, but also able to use extraordinary powers normally, which makes the scholars feel extremely incredible.
However, these scholars did not know that Leo was not the only one present to break this curse, and Sylvia was also unaffected, and the greatest characteristic of the two of them was that they were outlanders.