··· Xiao Yu?

In the warehouse on the B3 floor of the shelter, looking at Xiao Yu, who had expanded more than one circle in front of him, Luo Yu was stunned on the spot.

This is ······ What's the situation?! "Blanch!"

Seeing Luo Yu who appeared at the door, Xiao Yu called out excitedly, although his voice was still weak, Chu Guang could clearly feel that this little guy had recovered some of his spirit.

"I told you not to learn that strange scream······ What the hell is your situation. ”

Luo Yu walked forward, ignoring the tentacles floating beside him, and reached out to touch Xiao Yu's smooth and delicate head.

Hiss so hot!

This guy's body surface temperature is as low as sixty or seventy degrees.

"Uh-huh..." Xiao Yu let out a weak cry, and that pitiful appearance made people feel distressed.

Chu Guang looked at Heya.

"Let's tell him about the situation."

Heya nodded, looked at Luo Yu with an anxious face, and repeated to him what she had just said to Chu Guang.

Especially about those two options.

“···· Now there are only two options, let it evolve on its own, or let it devour the brood of the B6 layer. The former has a higher success rate, but greater randomness,

And if you succeed, there is a high probability that you will lose your current memory. The latter is at risk of being swallowed up in reverse, but if evolution is successful, the outcome is relatively controllable, and there is a high probability that it will retain its current self. ”

After listening to Heya's narration, Luo Yu fell silent and said after a moment.

“··· Does it have to evolve? ”

He suddenly felt.

You don't have to be that strong.

For him, Xiao Yu has become his partner, and he has saved him on the battlefield before.

If the price of becoming stronger was to sacrifice those irreplaceable memories, he would rather it be as stupid as it used to be.

Looking at Luo Yu, Heya nodded seriously.

"Yes, just as human beings are born, old, sick, and die, this is something that must happen during its life cycle······ Even if you leave it alone, it will eventually get there. ”

Luo Yu lowered his head slightly with self-reproach.

"Is it because I took it to hunt xenos and fruiting bodies?" "Yes and no."

Luo Yu raised his head in confusion. "What do you mean?" Hea said.

"Variant slime mold····· It's a very special creature, and your little feather is the most special kind of thing among them. It does not rely on spores to transmit information, but uses vocal cord occurrence like humans to communicate with sound. Genetic material is only a small part of its evolutionary path, and more ······ I think it can be memory. ”

"Memory?"

"Well," Hea nodded, "the habits, experiences, knowledge, and so on of the creatures all together make up its understanding of evolution and the next stage of its self. When these memories accumulate to a certain extent, instincts from the depths of life tell them that it is

It's time... It will naturally move on to the next stage of its life. ”

"That's its mission."

Luo Yu was silent for a while, then looked up at Chu Guang, "I want to talk to it." ”

Heya also looked at Chu Guang.

"My suggestion is that it is better for its owner to communicate with it... But we'd better make our choice within an hour, I'm not sure how long it will remain self-aware. ”

Chu Guang nodded and looked at Luo Yu.

"You hear me, you have an hour." Luo Yu nodded.

"It won't take that long······ Ten minutes, no, five minutes is enough. ”

Chu Guang waved his hand at the Guards, and then led Heya and his party out of the warehouse and came to the outside of the B3 floor.

He thought it would be better to let Xiao Yu and Luo Yu be alone for a while.

Anyway, Xiaoqi can monitor every corner of the shelter, and even if something happens, he can control the situation at the first time.

While waiting, Heya looked at Chu Guang.

"Is it okay to leave it to him?"

"No problem, I'm sure he has his own judgment." Chu Guang replied simply.

There is no best of both worlds in this world, not to mention that the problem with Xiao Yu is that there has never been a precedent on this planet.

Since it's all gambling, it's better to leave it to the parties to make the decision.

The alliance has come to this day, and it is not all up to him to make multiple choice questions alone.

One person and one mother communicated for a while, the time was shorter than Chu Guang expected, and only three minutes passed, and Luo Yu walked out of the room.

"I decided." Staring at Chu Guang intently, Luo Yu said in a serious tone, "The second one····· Let it devour the brood of the B6 layer. ”

Chu Guang looked at him and reminded him in a calm tone.

"Have you figured it out? It's not easy for a baby who has just learned to walk to defeat an old youkai who has lived for more than a hundred years, even if the guy is already weak. ”

"Uh-huh·····" Luo Yu nodded and glanced at Xiao Yu behind him, "This is not just my idea... It was also its decision. ”

Rather than losing all your memories and becoming a new life, you should take a gamble and pass on your memories with a new body.

As he said, it wasn't his decision alone.

After listening to his confession, Xiao Yu took the initiative to choose option B... It also doesn't want to give up those precious memories.

Chu Guang nodded.

"I respect your choice."

As Luo Yu made the final decision, the operation to transfer Xiao Yu to the B6 floor soon began, and it was still the same team from last time.

A group of heavily armed players, led by Lao Bai, took the elevator down to the B6 floor, and soon formed a queue outside the buffer workshop.

"Team with me! Team B Fire Cover! "Target server room! Let's go! "Whoa!"

Accompanied by a burst of neatly

With a click, LD-47 rifles and LD-47j light machine guns were loaded in unison, and the squad of twenty people quickly entered the hallway.

The dozen or so gnawers that had been killed before had their organic matter recovered from the brood and resynthesized into new fruiting bodies.

However, the average subentity is no match for the players at all, and in a sudden burst of firelight jumps, it is quickly wiped out by three strikes and five divisions.

Under the leadership of Lao Bai, the high-level players of the Burning Corps quickly reached the door of the server room and controlled the entrance.

There is no reactor on the B6 floor.

The brood hosts a server in the biology lab, with tentacles replacing the wiring and cooling pipes that connect to the chassis.

"Inhibitors for me."

"Oak." Quit Smoking took out a metal tube the size of a can from his backpack and threw it to Lao Bai, who was wearing power armor and driving the way in front.

Catching the metal round pipe, Lao Bai skillfully pulled out the fuse, and threw it in the moment he opened the movable door of the computer room.

The moment the metal tube touched the wriggling fungus blanket, it was quickly swallowed up indiscriminately, but it didn't take long for the brood to realize that it had eaten something dirty that it shouldn't have eaten, and suddenly shook as if it had been electrocuted, and reflexively spit it out.

But it was too late.

A white mist erupts from the metal pipe, and the moment the mist comes into contact with the brood, the brood becomes sluggish at a visible rate.

This concentrated biopheromone is like a numbing drug to the slime fungus.

However, the brood is different from the general fruiting body after all, and the anesthesia may not last long.

The index finger clicked on the helmet, and Lao Bai said calmly. "The brood has been controlled····· Luo Yu, how is it on your side? ”“····· I just got off the elevator and arrived soon. ”

"Okay, better hurry."

The sound of an elevator door came from the other end of the communication channel. I don't know if it's his delusion.

At the moment when Xiao Yu arrived at the B6 floor, Lao Bai could clearly feel that the brood in front of him seemed to become more irritable. ｛

Soon.

Xiao Yu, who occupied half of the corridor, appeared in everyone's sight, and the tentacles flying behind its head were like pythons.

Looking at that guy, Ye Shi couldn't help but whisper a whisper. "I'm ····· This guy is getting more and more like a tentacle monster. ”

There was no complaint from Night Ten, and Luo Yu's attention at the moment was completely focused on the brood in the computer room.

In terms of size, it is clear that Xiao Yu is much weaker than it.

Luo Yu's eyes couldn't help but have a hint of worry, but at this moment, a tentacle landed on his shoulder.

"Hmmm."

Slightly stunned, Luo Yu looked at Xiao Yu who was watching him on the side.

"You mean to ······ Let me not worry, right? ”

"Hmmm!"

Xiao Yu nodded.

The abstract outline could not see its expression at the moment, but Luo Yu could feel the unwavering confidence in its heart.

Don't want to live up

That courage, he took a deep breath, and the same serious expression appeared on his face.

"Come on!"

Xiao Yu nodded happily. "Blanch!"

As the words fell, the fungus blanket that had been dragging on the floor wriggled forward, dragging its body that had swelled more than a circle forward.

Devouring the brood that has completed its metamorphosis before entering the dormant phase is the only way it retains its sense of self as it transitions to the next stage of life.

Tentacles shot like lightning into the open door, into the sea of slime molds that rolled like waves.

The process of intrusion was smooth.

Just as Xiao Yu felt that he was slowly devouring the huge collection of consciousness, the magnificent information suddenly surged like a wave.

"Babbling"

A hint of pain appeared in the abstract features, and the tentacles that penetrated deep into the door shook violently like an electric shock.

Luo Yu, who was standing on the side and watching, felt his heart tighten for a moment, and his heart rose to his throat.

The blood connection made him feel its pain at the moment, but he couldn't help anything other than watching it suffer.

The players standing on the side also sweated for it.

This small body wants to swallow such a large brood, and you can feel how difficult it is just by looking at it.

Night Ten and Tempest exchanged glances. "Can this guy do it?" “···· I don't know. ”

Tempest looked at the struggling Xiao Yu with a blank face. No one can help with this kind of thing.

It can only be on its own.

It didn't take long for the trembling tentacles to seem to have stabilized, and Xiao Yu's expression was no longer distorted, but approached a gentle state.

The fierce competition has come to an end for the time being.

Unable to help each other, the creatures' instincts led them to choose a temporary truce, and negotiations began.

Xiao Yu could feel that he had established some kind of deeper connection with the brood in front of him.

An invisible bond was holding them together, and in the darkness it heard the call from the depths of the Sea of Knowledge.

The intermittent sound came from the depths of the sea of knowledge.

"Kill the light... Eat ····· Give me your body····· I'm going to continue my unfinished mission..."

"The mission? What is that? ”

"Devour, evolve, override all life, dominate the entire planet

It is the ······ of the universe That's our mission. ”

"No."

"Why??"

"Because... They are also important. ”

The infinite darkness was silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, but the hoarse voice carried a hint of exhaustion

It's been more than two centuries, and it's really tired.

"Looks like you've found another way... Then give it a try. "You're going to give it to me?"

"Yes."

A long silence ensued.

I don't know how long it took, but the rotten voice faded away in the endless darkness.

"Anyway... It's all the same. ”

The brood did not explain the meaning of the phrase, it let go of its grip on control and gave up everything of its own.

At first, Xiao Yu suspected that it was a trap.

It wasn't until it had completely taken over the body that it realized that the collective consciousness that spoke to it had completely disappeared from this world.

It's like never before..." Babble..."

It suddenly felt a little lonely.

Just now, it was able to kill a member of its kind.

That guy can be a senior, or an ancestor, older than his father and mother.

It doesn't regret it, though.

There are so many things in this world that it can't give up without, whether it's those interesting people, delicious sweets, or beautiful sounds.

2 That is something that it cannot have on its own.

So why kill them all? Why can't we be together?

It wants to be with that person more than to be the master over all life····· And those around people.

There's those funny guys in there. It's never lonely...

Luo Yu looked at the computer room in front of him with straight eyes.

Just a few minutes ago, Xiao Yu walked in, and immediately after that, he completely merged with the slime molds that boiled like ocean waves.

And then there is no then.

He didn't even know who had won.

However, the feeling in the dark told him that Xiao Yu was still alive, and the bond between the bloodlines had not been cut.

It's hard to describe this intuition. It's too mysterious.

"It's over?" Staring at the brood behind the door, Ye Ten blinked in confusion, his whole confused expression.

"Looks like it's over." Tempest glanced at Luo Yu, who was standing motionless, and asked, "Do you have any clues?" ”

Luo Yu shook his head.

"I don't know... I could feel it alive, but it didn't seem to hear what I was saying. ”

"Maybe it's going into hibernation."

Lao Bai patted the brother on the shoulder and comforted, "Maybe it's still adapting to its new body, give it a little time." ”

"Hmmm..."

Luo Yu nodded silently.

Lao Bai glanced at the task completion mark on the V, then looked back at his teammates and waved his hand.

"Mission accomplished, team closed!"

Hearing the boss say that the mission was over, the brothers breathed a sigh of relief, put away their weapons, and shouted a few words in an active atmosphere.

"Whew!" "Get off work!"

"Damn, it's all here!" "Damn! It's time to get up and get to work. ”

"Still at work?! Didn't you make enough money at the last auction? ”

"You don't understand, it's to keep yourself from society too far away.

····· Don't beep, brother go first, see you at the forum! ”

At the same time.

Browsing room on the B4 floor.

Chu Guang, Heya, and Yin Fang, who was called to join in the fun, witnessed the whole process of the operation through monitoring.

"So did it succeed or failed?" With a cup of coffee in his hand, Yin Fang blew lightly and asked casually.

Biology is not his area of expertise.

He cares more about the remnants of pre-war civilization than with the slime mold mutant, which is what is truly valuable.

Hea said in a cheerful voice.

"I can't say for sure yet, but my gut tells me it's a success.

According to various indicators, the life activity of the mother nest has weakened, and if the baby feather is devoured by the mother nest, the life activity of the mother nest should be enhanced.

Of course, the most important thing is the reaction of the falling feathers.

Xiao Yu is a mother formed based on his clone.

Although there is no theory to explain this phenomenon, various experimental evidence suggests that there is a special bond between them.

Looking at the proud Heya, a trace of envy appeared in Yin Fang's eyes. "Speaking of which, the B6 floor is a biology lab, right?"

"That's right, after Xiao Yu has completely assimilated the brood, the B6 floor laboratory can be put back into use."

Hea had a happy look on her face, and then added a sentence later.

"Chu Guang has already promised to hand it over to me, and I finally don't have to do research in that small room on the B3 floor in the future."

"That's good... Including the biolab branch of Vault 79, you have two research facilities. ”

"Uh-huh." Hea was in a good mood, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly proudly.

Seeing Yin Fang staring straight at him, Chu Guang coughed lightly.

"It's useless for you to look at me... It's not for me to decide. ”

Of course, he also wanted to unlock all the floors of the Vault, and his instincts told him that the "answer" he wanted was hidden on one of the floors of the Vault.

But it's useless to be in a hurry.

All he can do is get what he's doing well.

"Okay, I know it's useless to rush you... By the way, there is something I want to ask you," Yin Fang looked at Chu Guang and continued to ask curiously, "Did you meet someone from the academy this time?" ”

"Well," Chu Guang nodded, "I saw two B-grades." Yin Fang immediately asked.

"Who?" Chu Guang thought for a while and said.

"The one who negotiated the ceasefire agreement with us was named Li Ke, and the one who later explored Vault 0 was named Yang Kai... But he didn't come out of the shuttle-shaped flying machine the whole time. ”

"Those two." Yin Fang's eyes seemed to fall into memory. Chu Guang raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.

"You know?"

"How can it? I'm a D-class, how can I know that kind of big person," Yin Fang shook his head with a smile, paused for a moment and continued, "But those two, I'm studying."

I often heard their names when I was in the hospital... Especially that Yang Kai. ”

"Oh?"

"His research direction is mutant slime molds, to not be an expert in relics... Hey, that's weird. Yin Fang suddenly scratched the back of his head.

"Strange?"

"Hmmm..." Yin Fang nodded, looked at Chu Guang, who was frowning, and continued, "I remember what you told me, before you went down, you shouldn't have known that there were slime molds there, right?" ”

(Thanks to the leader of the alliance of "Natural and Man-made Disasters O"!!) I don't know if it's food poisoning or typhoid fever last night, I have a fever after eating, I feel cold again, and then I have a headache, I don't know if I slept with my eyes open at night, and I woke up in the morning with sore joints... It was 8K a few days ago, and today it's 5K, so I'll have to lie down for a while, I'm really sorry. ）