Section 25 The Sea of Light

What to say?

Don't agree to have surgery? It's as if I don't have the slightest resistance.

Just listening to the other party's speech, Xu Yun stepped on the impression that he had fallen to the floor directly.

Holding the sheet with one hand to cover his body, Xu Yun controlled Ouyang Luoli's arm to take over the tablet, and what came into his eyes was a large text description, looking at so many words at once, this was the first time since he graduated and said goodbye to school.

This directly reminded him of the days when he was in the library all day long to catch his graduation thesis, and he subconsciously resisted.

But the title did get him some interested.

Agreement on Stigmata Experiments and Protection of Rights and Interests

What is Stigmata?

Related words have appeared in Western legends, but Xu Yun's understanding of stigmata comes more from the setting tricks played by modern anime, film and television dramas, and various games.

Whenever there is a stigma in the play, it is a tall existence, which often has the effect of promoting the direction of the plot or greatly improving the combat effectiveness.

Thinking of these, Xu Yun put down his impetuous mood and began to read this agreement carefully.

The content of the agreement was lackluster, most of them were related rules and clauses, and Xu Yun directly skipped the tirade at the beginning and found a description of the performance of the stigmata and the rights and interests he would receive.

Given that Ouyang Luoli is the official establishment of the Valkyrie Army, the rights and interests enjoyed in this agreement are at least not as bad as those formulated by some unscrupulous capitalists, and the other party does not seem to have any intention of forcibly detaining herself for covert experiments.

This made Xu Yun breathe a sigh of relief.

As for the performance of stigmata, it is all theoretical values, and there is no example of it. In fact, even if there is, Xu Yun has no information basis in this regard, and there is no way to judge the authenticity.

In any case, just looking at these theoretical functions and data, Xu Yun has to be moved. First of all, the stigmata is an important add-on developed to strengthen the Valkyrie, and its most important function is to increase the upper limit of the Valkyrie's Honkai energy carrying capacity, and act on the Valkyrie body in the form of additional abilities.

The external manifestation is to greatly improve physical fitness, reduce the erosion damage and mutation of the body caused by the collapse factor.

In theory, it is expected that a full-fledged Stigmata accessory would also provide Valkyrie with an additional ability in addition to her own Honkai ability, which is simply an additional skill.

With the same level of erosion, the Valkyrie with Stigmata will have greater speed, strength, defense, self-healing, vitality, and more Honkai energy reserves.

The accompanying Honkai ability is still under development, and now Ouyang Luoli is equipped with a space-time fracture function that has a mature theoretical model, as for whether it can be used after loading, it depends on the results of the experiment.

To sum up, stigmata is equivalent to an artificially manufactured external integrated energy circuit in addition to the energy circuit naturally generated by the Valkyrie's own erosion and mutation by the Honkai factor. A small stigma can carry almost 100% of the Honkai energy possessed by a Valkyrie, and the Honkai Energy Circuit Textures equivalent to those all over the Valkyrie's body are integrated into the palm-sized stigmata carrier.

After reading the description on the agreement, Xu Yun could already foresee that once the Stigmata Project was successful, its future prospects would be bright.

However, the current stigmata technology is not yet mature, and all data is based on theoretical calculations. The conditions for carrying stigmata are also quite harsh, and the burden on the body is equivalent to about 10% of the erosion factor of the collapse factor by connecting the biomass components that are the carriers of the stigmata to the nerve bundles of the Valkyrie's spinal nerves.

There are pros and cons, which makes sense, and the risks are clearly written in the agreement. This made Xu Yun's impression of the protective clothing in this operating room not as bad as before the agreement.

Having just successfully plundered the king crab's collapsed crystal, Xu Yun can be said to be very inflated now, if it weren't for the title of the agreement that attracted him, he would have been ready to kill it.

After all, breaking free from the fixed strap just now is quite easy for this body.

Xu Yun felt the surging Honkai energy in his body, and the surging sense of power was completely different from his own body.

He was a little in love with the feeling that the will would fall on Ouyang Luoli, in this body, he felt that he seemed to be unable to do anything, and that surging power made him believe in it so much.

It's inexplicable and amazing, it's so confident.

"I agreed, when will the surgery begin?" Putting down the tablet in his hand, Xu Yun stared at the researcher's glasses behind the goggles opposite, and asked in a cold tone.

At the same time, she wrestled her legs and broke free from the bed frame with the straps that held her lower body in place. Metal components and screws bounce and roll on the floor.

Several staff members wearing protective clothing in the room unconsciously took two steps back.

"Subject 001 is self-conscious, and can conduct experiments with it, and his personal danger level has been raised." Through the camera in the room, the Valkyrie staff sat in front of the monitoring table, indifferently reporting the situation and quickly recording the latest observation data.

"Her physical strength performance is stronger than the data detected by the instrument, and it has exceeded the average dead soldier by at least 50%." Professor Li looked at the purple-skinned Valkyrie on the screen and nodded with satisfaction.

"If you are a Valkyrie who has reached 100% erosion, could it be that reaching 100% erosion will cause some new mutation that we don't know yet?" Professor Chen sat in his chair and flipped through the data report of Xenomorph Subject 17 after the previous round of experiments.

In the last round of experiments, Subject 17 devoured the mental consciousness of the cloned Valkyrie who was the emissary, and for a short time showed signs of awakening self-awareness. In view of the more than a dozen test subjects that had failed before, the xenomorph project team had accumulated some experience in dealing with them, cut off the mental link between the envoy and the test subject in time, and quickly injected coolant to completely freeze Subject 17, forcing Body 17 to spontaneously enter a state of hibernation.

Now, Professor Zhang looked at the data of Subject 17 in hibernation, and considered whether to thaw it and continue to use it for the next experiment, or choose to destroy the test subject directly, so as to avoid cultivating a powerful Honkai beast controlled by the will of Honkai in the base, which would cause an uncontrollable Honkai disaster.

If it is invalid and destroyed, it will be another astronomical amount of experimental funds, which is equivalent to being burned in vain, even if it is a person in charge of Professor Zhang's level, even if he knows that the funds are not his own money, he will inevitably feel pain.

"This is very reasonable, after all, the Valkyries belong to the product of our restriction of erosion and mutation, and in the Honkai monster system, they belong to the inferior individuals who are not completely mutated, and their individual quality is not even as good as that of a lowest-level dead soldier.

The physical fitness of the dead soldiers is generally three to five times higher than that of a qualified warrior, and what really limits their combat power is the will to control them. ”

"In fact, at this point, we even have to thank Honkai Will, if the Honkai monsters we face are all super soldiers with several times the combat power of special operations soldiers, our soldiers may only be able to barely resist these guys with large-caliber weapon firepower."

"And thankfully, of course, they don't know how to use guns."

"Hehehe."

In the observation room, several researchers echoed the awkward laughter.

The difference between humans and Honkai monsters is too great, and if the other party also uses these weapons, it can't be described as a disaster. At least the current human race, even resisting the Honkai disaster may only be delusional.

After all, the Honkai energy weapon we use is an instinctive energy on the other side, and we don't even need to worry about running out of energy, and we can replenish it in time in an environment with a Honkai factor.

On the human side, there is still a need to replenish the Honkai Energy Battery.

She agreed, and proceeded with the boarding experiment as soon as possible. That guy out there might have to rely on our test subjects here to solve it. ”

"The loss of Canghai City this time is too great, if our experimental subjects do not perform, for a long time in the future, don't think about new funds being approved." Professor Chen rubbed his temples, but decided to keep Subject 17.

When the funds are sufficient, it is an inconsequential little thing to enjoy such a small pleasure as drinking some excellent tea, but if the funds are stuck, let alone drinking tea, there must be a question mark on how the experimental project should be carried out in the future.

At this stage of the project, a large amount of money is being spent on the production of each test subject, and the cloning of Valkyrie as a 'consumable' is actually not a small amount of money.

If it weren't for proving that the cloned Valkyrie couldn't go to the battlefield now, wouldn't even think about calling the cloned Valkyrie like the current one.

On the ground, in the city of Canghai.

The process of the king crab absorbing and aggregating the two fallen emperor-class flying Honkai beasts was interrupted, and the humans seemed to have gained the battlefield advantage, but with the spread of dense fog, the heavily polluted area of the Honkai Factor quickly expanded from the central block of the city to cover the entire city.

Receiving the attack order from the 'King Crab', the Honkai Monster Legion launched an attack from the area of dense fog that had been gathered to the entire city.

The dead soldiers, who had already been partially cleared and were hiding in the city buildings, also frantically rushed out of the buildings and engaged human soldiers in the streets and alleys.

There is no Honkai Beast to stir up the situation, in the face of the dead, the vehicle firepower of the human ground legion is not intimidated at all, even if the dead soldier's movements are fast, they are still faster than bullets, and the defense of the body skin is comparable to that of a large beast? Can you withstand a warhead made of alloy?

What really restricts humanity's combat is the diffuse Honkai Factor Pollution, and when the pollution level escalates from mild to moderate to severe, there are very few vehicle weapons left that can pour fire on Honkai monsters in the streets.

Most vehicles are still stuck at a moderate pollution concentration in terms of Honkai factor defense. In the face of heavy pollution, even the special operations mobile unit led by the head wolf has to wear another layer of protective armor in the vehicle.

This kind of protective armor is not even as good as a set of personnel in ordinary ground legions.

The expansion of the polluted area has forced the human front line to retreat to the edge of the city, which has avoided more human losses for humans.

Because just after retreating to the edge of the city, in the cluster of Honkai monsters that rushed out of the dense fog area, those Honkai beasts with significantly higher levels of individuals had already appeared on the tactical tablets of commanders at all levels.

They were captured by high-altitude reconnaissance drones and quickly uploaded to think tanks for analysis.

Armed with a giant shield bayonet, it exists as a guard legion of Emperor-level Honkaimon.

It looks like a knight, but it is a centaur-type monster that fuses the upper body of a humanoid body and the lower body of a war horse, a knight-level Honkai Beast.

A mantis-type monster that can be optically invisible in a high-concentration Honkai Factor environment, Blade Honkai Beast.

Each of these second-tier Honkai beasts requires the combined efforts of the Valkyrie's three-person combat team to deal with one.

The number of Chariot and Charge Classes and Flying Honkai Beasts is more than two hundred.

Among the dead were the third and fourth new types of specimens with the scythe and bow and arrow removed.

Armed with two knives, his skills far exceed that of ordinary scythe dead soldiers.

Claws grow on both hands, the size of an ordinary human, but the claw dead man who moves fast enough to pull out an afterimage.

These two new types of Dead Warriors are even more terrifying in combat, and the Knife Dead Warrior can even use knives to slash bullets.

On the contrary, it is a mechanical Honkai monster, or a variant of the mechanical fusion that is common to humans. Although these mechanical creatures have more powerful long-range strike capabilities, they are easier to deal with than the new Dead Warriors and Advanced Honkai Beasts.

Fighting against human firepower, the mechanical Honkai monster is considered to have found the right opponent.

With the current technology of mankind, there is no inaccurate statement of large-scale firepower weapons. Unlike these flesh and machine fusion guys, the means of striking are more akin to fire coverage.

Missing shots is a common occurrence.

After a few rounds of precision strikes by humans, these guys had to catch the low-level dead around them to gather and repair the damage.

This kind of enemy is what the ground legion likes to face the most, and the battle line with the mechanical Honkai monsters is often the most fruitful and the front where the monsters are cleared up the most quickly.

At this point in the battle, the role of the air and space warships will no longer dominate, and it has become a confrontation of overall military strength. But with the existence of polluted areas, even if humans annihilate the invading enemy, they cannot easily advance the battle line.

I can only watch as the whole city becomes a garden for monsters to roam freely.

The warriors clenched the weapons in their hands, angry and aggrieved. If you can get in, why stop at the edge of the city?

103 underground research bases.

Ouyang Luoli was pushed onto the operating table.

Since carrying the stigma is helpful to the Valkyrie, Xu Yun has no reason to stop it, and after he calms down, he thinks about it carefully, do you really want to kill it, kill it?

It was his own compatriots who were killed, and Xu Yun asked himself if he really couldn't do it after his impulse passed. This is the underground base of human beings, just look at the various advanced instruments in the room that they know or don't know, if they rush out of the room, I am afraid that a group of soldiers with weapons are waiting outside the room.

Although Xu Yun said that it was quite inflated now, he didn't feel that he could use the Valkyrie's body to resist bullets. The key is that the current Valkyrie has no weapons and no armor, and everyone has been stripped naked.

Forget it, let's cooperate honestly.

He took the initiative to lie down on the operating table, and he didn't bother to care about the eyes of the guys around him, anyway, he couldn't see their expressions clearly through the heavy protective suit.

But I always feel that I have suffered a loss, what is going on?

The operation required anesthesia, and Xu Yun also withdrew from Ouyang Luoli's body and returned control to the Valkyrie.

Consciousness returns to itself

Xu Yun took a look at the imaginary number power interface, and the power points on the interface had exceeded 10,000, and it was still growing rapidly. The color of the collapsed crystal, which was pinched in the palm of his hand, seemed to have darkened a little. But no matter how much it is, it's just to absorb its power and squeeze it dry.

Now that he has power points, Xu Yun feels that it is a bit of a waste to just hoard them, mainly looking at the two functional options of enhancement and power enhancement, he feels a little itchy in his heart.

Simply don't do it twice, and the mind falls on the empowerment and confirmation.

The imaginary power points of the early 10,000s instantly fell back to more than 9,000 points.

The imaginary number power of the third level has been upgraded to the fourth level, and it has not brought him too many intuitive changes, to say that the most intuitive change after the power is improved, it is probably that the purple-blue imaginary number power interface has completely become blue, and the purple thunder and lightning effect flowing around the text on the interface has also become similar to the expression of water flow.

I don't see any advantages.

If there is any further change, it is probably that the waves of consciousness that are stacked around him and slapped outside the barrier of his consciousness seem to have weakened, and he can no longer hear the ideological information transmitted after it is scattered.

"It's good, at least it's not that noisy." Xu Yun dug out his ears, always standing like this, his legs and waist were okay, and his arms were a little tired.

He pulled his arm outward, pulling the Honkai Crystal out of the hollowed-out organ hanging in the center of the chamber.

The walls of the entire chamber shook violently again, but Xu Yun was helpless.

Xu Yun, who could no longer hear the murmur from the king crab in his thoughts, had long been accustomed to its inability to resist and didn't care at all.

Walking out of the small pool, Xu Yun sat on the floor of the wriggling chamber, feeling the undulating action of his butt falling down to the ground, Xu Yun discovered its new role.

"Hey~ Keep going, it's kind of like a massage."

After tossing for a long time, he was already tired, so he simply lay down on the ground and let the flesh and blood on the ground under him squirm.

If this was when he split the flesh passage before, he wouldn't dare to do anything, if he dared to stop, he would have been tied into a dumpling by the flesh tentacles.

As for whether it will be torn apart or devoured and fused after the binding, it depends on the mood of the king crab.

But here, at least for now, the king crab has not created a single tentacle to attack itself, and it is unknown why.

If you don't understand, you don't bother to think about it, and being at ease with what you encounter is also one of the advantages that Xu Yun thinks he thinks.

There was nothing to do left and right for the time being, Xu Yun focused his attention on the power interface again, but found a little change.

The speed of absorbing the energy of the Honkai Crystal seems to be faster, from ten points per second to ten points per second, but now the speed has increased several times.

In less than a minute, the power points rose to more than 10,000 again.

"More than 10,000, we haven't been so rich. Pushing the boss is really cool and crooked. Looking at the collapse crystals whose brilliance was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye, Xu Yun couldn't help but laugh proudly.

"Do you want to try to upgrade the power again?"

Although he asked, his consciousness had already taken the first step.

Privilege upgrade option, confirm the upgrade.

Probably due to the abundance of power points, the all-around screen does not appear with any prompts. Because of this, Xu Yun's face was almost green in the next moment.

The power points of the early 10,000s were instantly emptied to just over a hundred after he casually confirmed the upgrade.

The only good thing is that the remaining hundred or so points are still growing.

And then he didn't care about the tension power points, and the thinking space where the imaginary power was located suddenly changed dramatically.

In the realm of thinking, the whole world seemed to begin to rotate, Xu Yun only felt an indescribable feeling of nausea and dizziness suddenly descended, and his consciousness continued to rotate with the rotating power in the interface, and the speed of rotation became faster and faster, but his mind could still stay awake, and he couldn't faint.

At this time, Xu Yun really wished that he would faint directly.

As he swirled, Xu Yun felt a certain connection, from an unknown distal end to his own mind, to his own body.

With this rotation, it seems that it becomes a bundle of fibers, and this connection from the unknown end becomes another silk thread.

They twisted, entwined, and entangled into bundles with each other, further bound and fused.

In this process, I was awake the whole time, dizzy, and even more confused.

This feeling of dizziness and drowsiness made Xu Yun feel that he would wake up from his dream in the next moment, bid farewell to the world where he had experienced an adventure, return to reality, and return to the ordinary and hard life of a small worker who moved bricks in the second uncle's engineering team.

However, things did not go in the direction he expected.

As the connection with oneself became deeper and closer, through the connection that was entangled and bound to oneself, a certain inexplicable sense of connection became clearer and clearer.

It seems that the network has been upgraded from 2G to 3G to read web pages and listen to songs.

In an instant, Xu Yun seemed to see a new and unknown world through this connection, and his consciousness rose up in an instant, rushing out of the planet and into the realm of wireless distant, vast and light.

In that realm, the light carrying the information turned into a torrent, passing by Xu Yun's body, flowing to an unknown distance, but it seemed to come from an unknown distance, this torrent can no longer be described by ordinary definitions, light in the torrent can not distinguish between going and returning, it seems to have two attributes at the same time.

Just a slight glance at this torrent of consciousness, Xu Yun was almost blown up by the massive amount of information that he couldn't read the details at all.

And such a torrent is so numerous in the vast realm that consciousness can reach that it is impossible to discern the number of them, just as you cannot describe how many rays of light there are in a beam of light.

They seem to converge into a more magnificent turbulence at some point, and above these turbulences are an endless sea of light.

It is a more magnificent and splendid existence than the galaxy you see when you look up at the starry sky.

Xu Yun's mind only needed to reach the distant world where he didn't know where, and then retreated after only a corner of the peep.

When his consciousness regained clarity and he was able to distinguish clear images, Xu Yun only instinctively opened his mouth and breathed heavily, like a person who was dragged ashore after drowning.

The surface of the skin responds back to a sticky, stuffy touch. There is a sluggish feeling of blockage in the nasal cavity, and similar sensory feedback in the depths of the throat.

He flipped his body over and coughed up the blockages sticking out of his nose and throat.

It was pus-yellow slurry, disgusting to look at, and it smelled strange.

Comparatively speaking, the liquid with purple fluorescence in the small pool next to it is much more delicious. At this time, Xu Yun's body was seriously dehydrated, and the backpack and kettle he brought had long been lost before entering this chamber, and the small waist bag left behind his waist was also empty, which was used to hold compressed energy bars before, and those energy bars had already been stomached, and now there was nothing left in the backpack.

thirsty

Very thirsty

Xu Yun, both intellectually and instinctively, is desperate for hydration.

didn't care about it anymore, even if he stepped on his combat boots in it before, Xu Yun couldn't care so much, he used his hands and feet on all fours, and threw himself directly into the pool where the liquid that shimmered purple fluorescence converged, and his whole face was buried under the liquid surface and swallowed.

And the skin that touched the liquid surface also opened his pores at the same time, sucking on this unknown liquid.

The flesh and blood trembling on the four walls of the chamber where the king crab stored its core became more and more crazy, but the liquid was still rapidly depleted in Xu Yun's swallowing, and even the residual droplets at the bottom of the pool were absorbed by his skin.

Outside

The huge body of the king crab that had come to a standstill suddenly trembled, and the action of gathering the two flying emperors had long since stopped, and with the shaking, the gathered organic matter broke away from its arthropods and long legs, and fell to the ground.

The four limbs supporting the body were bent and folded, placing the main body of the torso completely on the ground, and the two front claws kicked in mid-air also began to droop slowly and weakly.

Rumble~~

Even if it landed slowly, the weight of the front claw still smashed the stone slabs of the street and warped, and the smoke and dust rose immediately.

The two visual organ glasses that were composed of countless compound eyes swayed back and forth, the cuticle barrier in front of the king crab open mouth, the hollow oral flesh and blood hidden behind the barrier squirmed wildly, the huge sucking force was inexplicably generated, the sand and stones on the ground, the ruins and broken walls of the landmark building of the research institute, including the light mist formed by the ubiquitous collapse factor that permeated the surrounding space, were swallowed in.

The invisible gravitational force spread, and the purple mist formed by the collapse factor that covered the entire city rolled and contracted inward, giving way to block after block.

It excites the ground legions who are fighting against the Honkai monster tide.

The warriors held their guns and looked at the rapidly receding purple in the sky, their faces first dazed, then excited and surprised.

Officers commanding at the frontline positions hurriedly began to search the information terminals to see if the command had issued the latest directives.

"Success!? We did it! The energy source of the Honkai Calamity has been destroyed! ”

"Head, do you want to hit or not?"

"Push! Beat! Why not fight? Mechanical vehicles advanced to the front of the city, with infantry following suit. ”

"This is our city, we must get her back!"

", kill all these dogs!"

In the rear position, the large vehicle covered with heavy armor removed the support legs, and the heavy barrel that supported the elevation angle was flattened back to the roof of the vehicle, and the soldiers quickly climbed back to their combat positions in the vehicle. The electric motor drives the hubs to start, and the thick rubber tires crush the ground, sending this heavy vehicle to the front line.

The smaller six-legged vehicle followed, followed by the four-legged vehicle and wheeled vehicle, followed by soldiers in heavy armor with Honkai Factor protection and large-caliber guns.

The roar of artillery fire rang out in the neighborhoods.

Without the fog cover of the Honkai factor, the stealth ability of the Blade Honkai Beast can no longer confuse the human observation instrument, infrared, thermal induction, ultraviolet, spectrum, and various screening tracking and positioning functions are locked, these worst defense attacks are ridiculously strong, and the huge Honkai Beast first became a victim under the fire.

"It's weird, it's really weird. The concentration of the Honkai factor pollution has subsided too quickly, and the neighborhood where the fog has dispersed has been cleared of pollution. Why is this happening? ”

Among the front-line commanders who followed the team, there were many people who stared at the detector to watch, fearing that it was a trap created by the Honkai monster.

However, the concentration of the collapse factor in the detector has indeed dropped to the point where it is safe even if you don't wear protective clothing.

Such a trap has not appeared before, but it is the first case that the monster tide can be left in place while removing the pollution of the Honkai factor.

Human beings do not lack the ability to maneuver, and the troops who advance the front are all equipped with protective equipment, so it is a big deal to fight and then withdraw outside.

Anyway, I've been back more than once before.

Without the Honkai Factor to cut off communication and erode equipment, Honkai Beast is just a big target in front of the heavy artillery of humans. It is true that the use of large-caliber heavy firepower is not allowed in street battles in the city, but the soldiers of the Celestial Empire also have their own methods.

Isn't it over when we fight armor-piercing bullets, anyway, the goal is not to effectively kill and injure enemy soldiers when fighting humans, but to fight Honkai Beasts, and solid armor-piercing bullets that have been abandoned for nearly half a century have become the army's fragrant buns again.

As for the dead, just leave it to light firepower and soldiers to deal with.

The Knife Dead Soldier can indeed cut bullets, but in the face of concentrated fire from several directions at the same time, or a large-caliber cannon of more than 20 mm by name, even the double knives she is proud of can only be defeated.

Without the interference equipment of the Honkai Factor Pollution and the interference of the Honkai Factor, it is completely different for human beings to start a war.

When the individual radar is working normally, it is hidden in the building, and the dead behind the wall does not even have a chance to sneak attack, so two grenades, or a thermite grenade, are given to it, and it is guaranteed not to die but also seriously injured.

On the air and space battleship, the captain who gave the order to continue the battle without authorization looked at the changes on the battlefield on the screen and clenched his fists.

His persistence was not in vain, and the results came more suddenly than expected. It's a pity for the Valkyrie and her commander who climbed aboard the super-giant Emperor-level Honkai Beast to launch a surprise attack.

Just as he was about to order the observer to report the latest data of the Emperor-level Honkai Beast, a prompt sound of new information sounded on the command screen in front of him.

Tick tick tick

Five seconds after the tone, a newly received message automatically unfolds on the screen, which is the latest command from the battlefield command center.

"Order: Chixiao, Hongwu, Yang Wei, the three ships withdraw from the battlefield of Canghai City, arrive at coordinates X11013, Y3231 airspace to assemble."

"The battle is not over yet, why do you want us to withdraw from the battlefield now?"