Section 36 Otherworldly Creatures

"yes, that's right... Okay... Okay, well, so be it, okay, I'll send someone over when I'm sure I'm sure of a good candidate. By the way, how is Professor Zhu Yuqing's team? Evacuated safely? That's great. Okay, okay, go back and say. ”

Inside the armored transport vehicle, the director of the 103 Institute, with all white hair, and a group of high-level officials of the institute were huddled in a cramped carriage. From time to time, he will shake his body with the bumps of the wheels.

Hanging up the communication, the director pressed his back all on the hard plastic backrest, and the protruding vertebrae and the backrest collided and rubbed because of the emaciation, and then the car was a bump, so that the back and the back of the chair collided together, and the pain made him can't help but let out a cry of pain, and quickly straightened up his body away from the backrest by covering the painful position with one hand.

"Hey, I said before that I wanted to improve the quality of the seats in the transport vehicle, but those guys in the military didn't listen, saying that sitting too comfortably would make the soldiers lack a sense of urgency. In my opinion, it is reluctant to raise costs. A senior executive in the nearby office complained

"Hey~ Okay Lao Lu, let's say a few words, it's not wrong for them to think like this. After all, the soldiers now wear full combat armor, and whether the chair is comfortable or not is about the same for them. The director inhaled and spoke for the military: "And in this period, all sides are reaching out to ask for money, but the economic form of the country is not optimistic, there are so many funds, how to distribute and how to use it is a headache." ”

"Hey~ You still speak for them, Lao Li, you are too good to talk. What about always thinking about others? Is your waist okay? A hand reached out next to him and gently patted the director's shoulder. Then he handed over a folded white coat.

The director took it and put the white coat between the back and the back of the chair, so that he comfortably pressed the weight of his body on the back of the chair.

"It's not good to talk, it's not like this good old man, how can I sit in this position?" He shook his head with emotion: "In terms of personal ability and academic achievements, which one of you here is not better than me?" I can do this, that is, I can be more tolerant of mud, and then I am more obedient. ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and several people made eye contact, and they all found that the director's mood was a little different after taking the previous call.

"To be honest, I'm not one who can do research with peace of mind, and I did have thoughts about this position before I sat in this position. But when you actually sit on it, it feels different. If you want to say that Gao was not happy after sitting in the director, he was very excited at the time, and who could not indulge in the feeling of holding power? But if you hold this power, you have to bear the corresponding responsibility. ”

"Since becoming the director, I don't even have the habit of accompanying my wife to the lake every weekend, not that I am really busy with work and can't squeeze out time, and I am definitely not as tired as I used to be when I soaked in the laboratory day and night. It's just... My heart is unstable, the pressure is on my shoulders, and I can't let go of this heart. ”

"Lao Li, this is the reason why you can sit on this son. This sense of responsibility is more important than anything else. The other deputy director stretched out his hand and grabbed the arm of the elder Li, the palm of which was on the sleeve of the white coat that was straddled, and the five fingers were slightly closed to grasp most of the thin arm inside.

The old man of the deputy director showed a surprised expression, he rarely had physical contact with the director, but he didn't expect that this old friend, who was well-groomed on the outside, had already lost weight like this, and his face didn't look very thin.

“······ You've worked hard all these years. ”

"What's the matter, it's just that you compete with yourself, and it's just a matter of increasing your heart. But now it's okay, and now I can relax. The director said with a smile, but the smile on his face was not very happy.

"What? Is it going to disband our 103 institutes? That's child's play. Although we have a 3, but the scientific research strength and achievements over the years, except for the 101 in Haojing, which one dares to compare with us? The other deputy director's eyes widened, and the anger on his face was undisguised. Or do they want us to come out and bear the blame for this disaster? Who knows that the Honkai disaster will befall the sea, there will always be a Honkai disaster every month, and the area where they come is completely random, sometimes in the city and sometimes in the deep mountains of the wilderness, how can we let us come out and take the blame because this attack is ours. ”

"Yes, I think the Honkai beasts are besieging us, in fact, because we resisted to the end, and the only thing that is still resisting the Honkai monsters after the fall of the central city is not our 103 guards? They must have come up because of resistance, not specifically against us. Another said.

The director closed his eyes and shook his head.

"The specific disposal plan still needs to be discussed, and it didn't say anything about responsibility, but just notified me of our losses."

"We have 103 institutes, 2,782 in-service researchers, and more than 700 graduate students who follow the internship, and now there are only 103 people left. Including the group that evacuated with Xiaozhu, 178 people, the total number of people who survived this disaster is less than 300. ”

"With such a small number of people, they can't support 103 institutes."

There was a dead silence in the transporter, which was completely deathly, unlike the previous silence. After a few moments, the sound of breathing began to sound again in the carriage, but it was a little heavier.

"103 people...··, there are so many shelters in the underground base, only 103 people survived?" One of them asked in disbelief, and the only response was a bitter nod from the director.

The man clasped his forehead with both hands, and his five fingers went up along the gap between the filigree, and then slowly clenched and grasped it. During this time, ten fingers shook uncontrollably, he gritted his teeth, buried his face in his chest, and wanted to curl up in a ball, but he was stretched by the seat belt, and could only nod his head down again and again in vain.

Heavy breathing was followed by other sounds.

"In other words, except for the shelter we are staying in, all the other shelters in the base..." Zero-one said in a voice as if he hadn't drunk water in days, but in the middle of his sentence, he stopped speaking himself.

There was no need for anyone to respond, the answer was here, and he had already thought of it.

The family members and friends of most of the people in the carriage did not hide in their own shelters, but in shelters set up on other underground floors.

The shelters used today by the director and the upper echelons of the station are built to the same specifications as dozens of other shelters built at the same time in the underground base, except that the number of people rated in the shelters is smaller, and the internal equipment and material reserves and protection strength are exactly the same as those of other shelters.

And it's not the lowest floor underground, so it's a bit of luck to survive.

The 103 Institute is dead in name, and it has been hurt even more than the city that nurtured it. The economic situation of Canghai City will definitely decline predictably in the coming period, even if it is an important port and cargo hub along the coast.

The human heart will naturally make those who can afford to leave choose to stay away, after all, no one can be sure whether it can continue to be suitable for living under the pollution of the remnants of the Honkai factor.

Next, a brief meeting was held at the top of the institute to decide who would come forward to contact the military. The underground research base was destroyed like this, and so many important scientific researchers were lost, and there are many troubles in the future.

The other side.

Footage from the cracks in the ground is transmitted via physical cables to the Ground Corps' internal network encrypted channel, and sent to the front-line commanders and rear combat headquarters.

The crack with a diameter of more than ten centimeters filled with purple energy, through that layer of purple light, the dense white scaly figure behind the light in the picture was already familiar to everyone in the command headquarters and the commanders on the front line.

"It's an army, an army that is ready for battle. They were going to come through this passage. The staff officers in the headquarters looked at the picture, carefully looked at these figures, and recorded and marked them on the combat tablet one by one.

"Fortunately, the passage is not fully opened yet, and they can't pass for the time being." The other spoke

"It's only temporary, whether it will open on its own with the passage of time, it may have to wait for someone from the institute to come and give us an answer." Another staff officer frowned solemnly, his eyes fixed on the screen, but his gaze was not focused.

"These guys look a little smaller than the smallest Blade class of the Honkai beast breeds we've found here. Maybe it's not hard to deal with. ”

"There are a lot of varieties that haven't appeared yet, and I don't know what they're capable of, so you can't jump to conclusions before you come into contact with them, and you can only prepare for the worst outcome."

"What to do with this crack channel? Does physical containment work? Or use energy hedging to destroy it? One of them tapped the ballpoint pen in his hand and muttered to himself.

"Don't think about it, energy hedging, you can't think of it. The Honkai energy conveyed by the big guy of the king crab energy light cone before, if it could damage it, this crack should have disappeared a long time ago, and I am afraid that it would have fulfilled its wish by attacking it with a Honkai energy weapon. ”

"Energy weapons aren't just about Honkai energy. Perhaps one of the forms of energy we know, such as electricity, heat, and magnetism, will do the trick. You have to give it a try, don't you? ”

"I'm behind you from an emotional point of view, but from known experience, I don't think it's very likely. First of all, there is such a thing as Honkai energy, which is already an existence that our current scientific knowledge cannot explain. It··· Apparently a higher form of energy. ”

"It's like a fantasy story, Honkai energy can completely destroy matter at the same time, it can also destroy soul consciousness, before Honkai energy appeared, we have been arguing for thousands of years on the question of whether there is a soul living in the human body."

"Yes, thousands of years, the history of mankind is several thousand years, compared with the time experienced in the vast universe, what is the course of our civilization?

And compared to our civilization, the civilization on the other side of the rift, how long have they existed? Perhaps our history is less than a drop in the ocean. ”

"Don't be too pessimistic, the changes that have taken place in a thousand years of plankton and a thousand years of primates are not comparable at all. Honkaimon are powerful, but they are clearly more dependent on their own fighting, and we can craft weapons, use tools, and research lethal weapons that are far more powerful than we can do. ”

"Hmmm... I'll just feel nostalgic, and I'm not going to be so sharp. Anyway, if you don't have a fight, who knows who is better? ”

"Look! New developments have emerged in research experiments on the Equatorial Island. ”

In the command hall of the combat headquarters, the main screen still shows the rift footage taken by the Valkyrie warriors of Group A, while the slightly smaller secondary screen on the other side switches to the live broadcast image on the side of Equatorial Continent.

A few dark-skinned scientists and hundreds of soldiers were busy testing the emerging alien species again and again with a variety of light weapons.

However, this canine creature with a body shape similar to a cheetah, similar in appearance and growing six legs, can easily dodge rifle bullet shots, even the machine gun fires kinetic energy bullets, it really can't dodge a few rounds, it was hit by the kinetic energy carried by the bullet and rolled on the ground a few times, turned over and stood up without any damage, and even the outermost scales were not broken.

After being beaten, it also seemed to realize that it was not afraid of this small-caliber kinetic weapon shooting, and let the human weapon shoot itself, only occasionally using its tail to knock out a few bullets that shot it into the eye.

And it kept staring at the busy human population on the outskirts of the polluted area, as if it were picking food.

Swift action, with ultra-high reaction speed, the action is fast enough to dodge bullet shots, and its own scales can resist the blow of mainstream caliber kinetic energy bullets. If such a monster storms the city, the damage caused will be immeasurable.

After the test of the small-caliber light kinetic energy weapon was completed, the scientists of Equatorial Continent moved the new weapon to be tested next, and the staff officers and officers in the command room recognized at a glance what this weapon was, it was the Honkai Energy Rifle that the Celestial Empire had previously supported Equatorial Continent and sold to the other party at a great discount. Although it is the first generation of Honkai Honkai rifle, its lethality is no worse than the third generation of new products used by his family.

The latest model of the Valkyrie's current equipment in the Celestial Empire's third-generation Honkai Rifle is actually an improved attribute transformation developed based on the Honkai ability on the Valkyrie's body, and when used with the Valkyrie's own Honkai ability, the power can be increased by 2.5~3 times.

The first generation of Honkai Energy Rifle only emits Honkai Energy Rays, and there is no attribute blessing. Even if a Valkyrie with Honkai is used, its power can only be fixed here.

Of course, this thing came into the hands of the people of Equatorial Continent, and new uses were developed.

The military in Equatorial Continent has added a pedestal to the first-generation Honkai Rifle and a Honkai battery pack that can be expanded in parallel, so that even a normal soldier can use it while wearing a protective armor while sitting on a chair on the pedestal.

Of course, it has lost its flexibility as a rifle, but it is powerful enough, and after the number of assemblies increases, the effect is no worse than that of the Valkyrie, and in this way, ordinary soldiers can also participate in the battle to encircle and suppress the Honkai Beast.

It's not that the military of the Celestial Empire has not considered such a usage, but first, although the number of Valkyries on the side of the Celestial Empire is scarce, they have been training and output, even if they sacrifice a part in battle, the follow-up blood replenishment ability provided by the training school has also made the Valkyrie's team grow stronger and stronger.

The second is the production of Honkai batteries, the production of Honkai batteries is very limited, and it cannot meet the consumption needs of the Celestial Empire army after large-scale equipment of Honkai energy rifles.

These are all off-topic.

Seeing that the test team finally brought out the Honkai Energy Rifle, the eyes of the staff officers and command officers lit up, this is the main event.

After a slight adjustment, the soldier on the pedestal pulled the trigger button.

Since the kinetic energy bomb was unable to deal damage to itself before, the lone otherworldly species had obviously let its guard down a little, but when the bright purple energy beam shot at itself, all its struggles and dodges were in vain.

Said to be a Honkai energy ray, it has the nature of similar beam irradiation, the speed of the beam is too fast, and the six-legged canine monster over there has just puffed up its muscles to dodge because of its sense of crisis, and the ray has already hit its right shoulder.

The bright purple Honkai energy ray hit the stone like a column of water, and the energy beam sputtered towards the periphery.

This scene suddenly made the eyes of everyone in the command widen.

"It's the Honkai Energy Shield, and it also has the Honkai Energy Shield, but apparently it was careless, and it's too late to turn it on."

With a shield blocking some of the scattered rays, the otherworldly creature was able to move to the side to avoid the rays and continue its attack. After 2 seconds, the rays emitted by the Honkai Rifle vanished, ending the attack. The Soldier's reaction speed was significantly worse than that of the Otherworldly Creature, and subsequent ray attacks failed to continue to hit.

The otherworldly creatures that used their super high mobility to dodge appeared on the grassland flat more than ten meters away. When it reappears in the frame, the entire right shoulder and one front leg are gone, and although the remaining five legs are more than enough for movement, anyone can tell that it is badly injured, some of its organs are exposed to the air, and the cross-section has been struck lifeless by the annihilation properties of the Honkai Energy Ray.

"It worked!" The commanders and fighters in the command breathed a sigh of relief, but this creature is indeed too flexible, if it is encountered in the future, it is necessary to find some way to lock on to the target, so that the power of the Honkai energy ray can be maximized, and one shot cannot be killed, and making up for the second shot is simply a waste of Honkai energy.

Today's Celestial Empire military is not sufficient, and it must be more economical than it can be saved.

The otherworldly creature trembled all around, its four squinted eyes glowing with hatred, and it raised its head to the sky and let out a strange cry that sounded like that of a bird on its own planet.

This long roar continued for a long time, and when the Equatorial Continent scientists signaled the soldiers to launch a second shot, another cry sounded, and by that, one by one, the cry merged into this cry, forming a shocking wave of sound.

A white-purple shadow suddenly flashed in the camera, and an assistant standing in the corner of the frame lost his upper body in the next moment, and the remaining half of his body slipped out of the abdominal cavity and slowly fell to the ground by gravity.

But before the body could fall to the ground, a second victim appeared, losing her left arm and half of her chest.

Next, all kinds of screams and screams continued to sound in the live broadcast screen, and the people in the camera turned around and fled, but before they could run out of the picture, they were already knocked down and killed by the sudden white-purple afterimage.

The machine responsible for shooting the footage is obviously a fixed camera equipment, and when no one is moving, it quietly shows the real-time effect, in fact, there are no living people in the picture, except for the dead entity, not even the shadow of an otherworldly creature, the most effective information transmitted through the live broadcast channel is the sound, the increasingly sparse screams, the continuous sound of gunshots, the sound of thumping and powerful metal impact, the sound of the start of the fuel locomotive.

Eventually, all the strange noises were re-transformed into the sound of the wind blowing in nature rubbing the leaves and the leaves of the long grass.

In the picture, several otherworldly creatures returned to the contaminated area, biting at the corpses of the humans in the footage, only tearing them apart, but not swallowing, and the injured monster that originally raised its head to the sky and screamed, was pounced on by its companions who came later, and was bitten and eaten.

After devouring the same species, the creatures looked at each other vigilantly, lowered their bodies and hid in the grass and gradually dispersed.

"What a savage and crazy species, eating the weakened kind without hesitation, in this population only healthy and strong can survive. If all the creatures in that world were like that..."

"Our enemies are not easy to deal with."

Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~

Just as a group of officers from the command headquarters were busy exchanging their views on the live broadcast of the experiment on Equatorial Continent, the red siren lights in the combat headquarters began to flicker again.

"What's the situation, where did you find the enemy again?"

The staff officers immediately turned their attention to the map projection, which occupied an entire wall, and on this detailed topographic map of Canghai City, including the surrounding 100 kilometers, hundreds of combat units, large and small, were already marked, and the movements of each combat unit would be updated in real time.

And the hostile targets are not marked on this map, because the information summarized at this time shows that the hostile Honkai Beast targets within Canghai City have been completely emptied, and the remaining individual dead soldiers are not worth putting on this map.

"It is outside the 103 Research Institute, and the concentration of the collapse factor under the detection instruments of the ground forces is rising rapidly."

"Attention! Looking at the main screen, the cracks in Operation A seem to be expanding! A-3 is shooting at the crack! ”

The Valkyrie of Group A noticed that there was a monster on the other side of the crack and launched a charge towards the crack, and Valkyrie No. 3 was the first to press the fire button, and the Honkai Energy Machine Gun fired a highly compressed energy projectile instead of the first-generation ray.

As one purple energy bullet after another hit the crack, only the wisps of golden energy that could barely surround the purple energy were left around the crack, and they were becoming more and more sparse, and they could no longer form an encirclement.

When the first purple energy broke through the golden energy, the torn edges of the upper and lower ends of the crack began to extend rapidly, and the diameter of the rift channel in the center began to grow.

As the diameter increases, the monster charge on the other side of the rift becomes even crazier, which directly causes the Valkyrie No. 2 in Group A to start shooting as well.

"That's not right! Stop! Hurry up and give the order for them to stop! ”

"It's their trick!"