Borderlands: The Death Examination Room Chapter 35: Thunderstorm Mining Area (5)
The white patches of the Cree Worm crashed into the "Ingenuity Space", and both sides fell from mid-air.
The "original space" has a certain protective effect, but the space wall is too soft, and Cheng Sikong didn't have time to solidify it when he fell, so everyone fell not lightly even in the space, Jiang Ruzhou, Lu Ting and Shu Yungui were almost stacked together.
The Cree Worm was not in good shape, most of its body was planted in the soft sand and gravel ground, and the thunderstorm slashed its head, cutting countless blood marks on its body.
The bubbling blue blood of worms flowed down the sand and gravel towards the center of the mine, which was still sinking.
The Cree worm howled, stretching out its slender and feeble forefeet to pull his heavy body out of the sand.
Its six large compound eyes were floating with cloudy levitation, and the smashed eyeball had completely deflated, leaving a film like grape skin hanging and swinging under the empty eye sockets.
Shu Yungui was so excited by its cry that he had a headache, pressed his temples hard, pushed open the pavilion, and got up from the space.
As soon as he moved, the remaining compound eyes of the Cree worm looked at him.
"Also...... I ......"
Shu Yungui pressed his temple and asked it, "What do you want?" ”
The Cree Worm continued to wail, its tone sharp and piercing.
Although you can understand the words of the Cree worm by using "Like My Words", the Cree worm does not seem to be a smart species, Shu Yungui endured a headache and listened for a long time, it only said two words upside down-
"Also...... I ......"
To outsiders, the cry of the Cree worm is no different from the loudspeaker that emits a high-pitched whistling sound after the string, and Cheng Sikong can't stand the continuous sharp sound, and controls the thickening of the space wall, isolating the outside sound like a double-layer soundproof glass.
The sound in his ears stopped suddenly, and Shu Yungui finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Were you talking to it just now?"
Cheng Sikong asked him.
Shu Yungui shook his head and said, "It kept repeating the words 'return me', and I asked it what it wanted, but it didn't seem to understand." ”
"Nine times out of ten, it just wants azurite, but what does it want azurite? It doesn't generate electricity. ”
Lu Ting was examining Cheng Jing's leg injury, and he didn't raise his head to continue.
Although the blood coagulant is the old version, the wound on Cheng Jing's leg is not serious, and the blood is no longer flowing at this time, as long as he keeps breathable and does not see water, he will soon be fine.
Cheng Sikong leaned on the wall of the space and said, "No matter what it wants to do, we still have to rely on the azurite mine to hand over the task, and we can't give it to it." ”
This Cree worm was far inferior to its counterparts outside the Giant Lion No. 1 Wormhole in terms of lethality and physical strength, and it howled for a while, its thin forefeet unable to support its huge body, and its repeated struggles exhausted its physical strength.
It fell to the ground, let the sand envelop it, and was pushed towards the center of the mine by the force of the flow.
The abyss he had knocked open was about to swallow it.
"Look at its eyes!"
Zhu Xinyue was lying on the wall of the space and tiptoeing, and exclaimed, "It's turned blue!" ”
Under the dazzling light of a violent thunderstorm, all color intensity decreases, but the difference between red and blue is immediately discerning.
Shu Yungui and the others all came to the space wall and observed carefully.
The Cree worm was no longer moving, slanted on the sand and gravel, and from a distance it looked like a hemp mosquito from an ancient earth biology book.
The blue blood that flowed from its shattered eye sockets had coagulated, and the shell of its body had disintegrated and melted in the thunderstorm, leaving only five intact eyeballs to roll to the ground.
The eyeball, which was supposed to be blood-red, was filled with suspended matter, like a lens in the eye of a cataract patient, gradually condensed and discolored, and the entire eyeball shrank and dried up, and finally turned into a palm-sized blue crystal, which was quickly swept away by the sandstone.
"Its eyes turned into kyanite!"
The five pieces of azurite ore were brought by quicksand to the center of the mine for a long distance in an instant, and Cheng Sikong wanted to use "coordinate rewriting" to pull the azurite ore over, but the "original space" was isolated from the outside world, and the ability to cast mutation in it could not act on the outside world.
The thunderstorm is violent, and everyone has to rely on the "original space" to save their lives, and Rao is Cheng Sikong can't leave the space to be completely exposed to the thunderstorm.
It's too late to put everyone in a safe place and come back, the kyanite ore is tumbling in the quicksand, and it looks like it's about to fall into the ground!
"Let me go!"
Shu Yungui motioned for Cheng Sikong to pop himself out of the "original space" and rushed towards the azurite mine against the thunderstorm!
The confrontation between natural energy and mutant energy was staged in the mine, and countless life-threatening thunderbolts were bounced back by the "instantaneous defense", and countless thunderbolts took advantage of the passive ability trigger gap to fall, trying to split this daring challenger into powder.
Shu Yungui walked flexibly through the mine, the quicksand and gravel flooded his instep, but he couldn't slow down his progress, and at the moment when the "instantaneous defense" failed to touch, he used the "coordinate rewriting" in time to teleport in the mine.
Throughout the mine, along with the thunder and lightning, there was also the blue light that he constantly evoked to "rewrite the coordinates".
Cheng Sikong stood in front of the space wall with his arms crossed and chuckled, "This kid learns quite quickly." ”
"That's, and I don't look at whose genes it is."
Lu Ting said triumphantly: "The people of our family dare not boast of other abilities, and their learning ability is absolutely first-class!" ”
He turned his head and winked at Jiang Ruzhou and said, "Seriously, you should consider studying medicine with me, right?" ”
Cheng Sikong said to stop: "Don't always think about prying IAFA people!" ”
The two were arguing here, Shu Yungui kept at his feet, and in the blink of an eye, he had rushed to the center of the mine, and in front of him was a huge sinking black hole, and quicksand and gravel replaced the hollowed out azurite ore, refilling this man-made hole.
The remaining four kyanites were gone, and when Shu Yun returned, the last piece of azurite was crumbling on the edge of the black hole.
Fortunately, his eyes were quick, and he jumped over and hugged the kyanite, but his body was also hit by the quicksand and was about to fall into the black hole!
said that it was too late, and then it was fast, Cheng Sikong, who was still arguing with Lu Ting a second ago, suddenly jumped out of the "original space", used "coordinate rewriting" to pull Shu Yungui in front of him, and borrowed Shu Yungui's "instantaneous defense" to resist the thunder and lightning that came overhead!
The two quickly returned to the "original space", Shu Yungui shook off the sand, and took out a precious piece of azurite from his arms.
Cheng Sikong poured out the remaining five pieces in his backpack, and everyone sat around this small stack of azurite ore, with mixed emotions.
"Who would have thought that the precious energy source for human survival would be the fossilized corpse of the Cree worm......
Lu Ting's head shook into a rattle: "The people of the whole alliance can't think of it, right?" ”
Cheng Sikong reminded him: "Few people in the whole alliance know about the existence of creatures like Cree worms. ”
Cheng Jing picked up a piece of azurite, the girl's hand was already small, the azurite was only the size of her palm, compared to the huge volume of more than twenty meters before the death of the cree worm, people couldn't help but have an unreal feeling.
"In fact, coal, oil, and combustible ice are all formed by plants that are buried deep in the ground after they die and decompose over thousands of years."
Cheng Jing held the azurite ore and said seriously: "Biologically speaking, plants and animals belong to living organisms, and the coal and oil formed by plants and the azumarine ore formed by cree insects are actually essentially the same. ”
Zhu Xinyue leaned next to her and said regretfully: "Such a big living thing can only be turned into such a small piece of energy after death, so how many cree worms must be formed by the azumine buried under the surface of the six administrative stars of our star field?" ”
Shu Yungui sighed: "The place where we humans dig is actually the burial ground of the Cree worms, which is why they are so resistant to human entry. ”
"That Cree worm just now should be one of the mining teams that attacked the Three Rivers Mining back then, I don't know where its people have gone, only one of them was buried in the ground and never saw the light of day until we reawakened it."
"After a thousand years of hunger, loneliness, and the approaching life expectancy, it has long since run out of oil, but it still instinctively wants to expel humanity."
Everyone fell silent for a long time before Cheng Sikong's deep voice sounded.
"So, is it the humans who are being attacked by the Cree Worm, or is the Cree Worm's home invaded by humans?"
No one can answer this question, the phenomenon of competition for life has existed since the emergence of single-celled organisms, and evolutionarily speaking, natural selection and survival of the fittest are no longer suitable for the new rules of the universe.
For human beings who have lost their homes and are forced to migrate interstellarly, natural selection and the survival of the strong are the last word.
Living in an era of peace, enjoying the new life left behind by the first generation of immigrants, no one in the room is qualified to judge the rights and wrongs of those who came before them.
The only thing they can do is to preserve the embers of human civilization that their predecessors have managed to survive from natural disasters.
"Is this what history is hiding from us?"
Jiang Ruzhou said: "But I don't think there's anything to hide, the book said that at that time, the energy of the immigration spacecraft ran out, and human beings had no way to find the next place to live, although it was an invasion of species, but it was beneficial to survival, in that case, survival was the first priority." ”
"Besides, human beings themselves are also living beings, and the competition between species and species can be judged simply by good and bad, right and wrong? I don't think there's any need to erase this history, it's just a slightly bloody chapter in the history of human civilization. ”
Cheng Sikong laughed, reached out and patted his head.
"Kid, didn't the teacher teach you not to jump to conclusions so quickly? You just saw the Cree worm turn into an aquarite mine, and you decided that there was a human invasion, so we have a special ability, did you already think that we are not human? ”
"Of course not!"
Jiang Ruzhou hurriedly raised his head, slowly lowered it again, and said in a low voice: "I just feel that at some necessary moments, survival is above all else. ”
Knowing that he still had a shadow on Wenfeng Game, everyone didn't say much, and as Cheng Jing opened the azurite ore in turn, everyone's communicator rang again.
[The Azurite Ore Collection Quest has been completed, the main team quest "Once Upon a Time in the White Tower" has been completed, and all team members have +80 points.] 】
[The main quest "Dust Sealed Power Station" has been received, please bring all members of the "Human Vanguard" team to the "Wind Erosion Substation" with the azurite ore to start the power generation nuclear group, with a time limit of 12 hours, if it is overtime, the mission will fail. 】