I saw that the two fighting little co-crystals were competing and fighting with each other, and although the tactics were far from being so restored, I could feel the difference in strength between the two. Soon Koizumi Arami knocked the little two to the ground again, and at the same time, Mendechel's bone whip hooked the little two women into his arms and fed the spare isocrystals prepared in advance into the mouth behind it, while using the barbs on the whip to rip off the fine orange powder from its body. The little second girl struggled, broke free from Mendechel's big hand, and rushed towards Izumi Huangbo to continue the battle. Shoji Hong took back the butterfly with understanding, crossed his hands behind his back and quietly watched the scene in front of him.

"The next thing we want to see is what we want to see." Mendecchel laughed.

Without any interference, the little second girl once again regained her combat effectiveness comparable to that of Koizumi Araga, aiming at Izumi Araba to shake off her wound and open her bloody limbs; After all, Koizumi Araba is just the same seed, and he has lost his support as a human being, and his ability to think has been greatly reduced, and in the face of the opponent's second resurrection, he tried to repeat the old trick but was knocked to the ground, and there were many more hideous faces of two women on his face and body. It still didn't give up, and the chain ran and pounced on the two women, shattering countless alien crystals and raising a breeze wrapped in crystal dust. Mendechel's eyes lit up and he wanted to move forward to check, but Zhuang Sihong gently pressed his shoulder before giving up. I don't know how long it took for the crystal dust to go with the wind, and the two women had been completely torn to pieces, while Koizumi Arami stood between its corpses and tore everywhere, filling the isomorph on himself.

"Babble......?!" Zhuang Sihong took a few steps back.

Mendecchel rubbed Zhuang Sihong's hair to signal her not to be afraid, and once again condensed the bone whip in his hand and struck at Koizumi Araga, and the blue isocrystals fell apart, revealing the orange isocrystals that replaced the colorless "nucleus" inside. He picked up the piece of alien crystal and threw it back to Zhuang Sihong along with the one he found in the body of the little second girl. After Zhuang Sihong absorbed them, he took out two instruments from the suspension device on the side and handed them to Mendechel, not daring to go any further as he saw the small pieces of heterocrystals floating back into the instruments. Mendevilel tilted his head: "Are you afraid?" ”

"Eh, eh, ......? I—I don't ......."

"It doesn't matter, it's normal to be afraid. The instinct of the same seed is like this, absorbing what and then making them their own. Mendevilel smiled and shook his head, "Looks like a beast somewhat." I can understand why Deputy Commander Shibasaki believes so much in the statement that isomorphism is a living thing, and I won't feel it until I witness it with my own eyes. ”

"Although the result seems to be no different from the previous battle, at least we can figure out the following points." Mendecel crossed his fingers and explained, "First, if there were no other isomorphs, the second girl would definitely not be Mr. Arami's opponent; Second, the foreign matter is directionally involved in the formation process of isomorphs, which leads to the establishment of the second form of the two women, because although the formation of isomorphs has a certain template—just like their codenames—this template is generally irreversible and cannot be converted, so we can be sure that the existence of a third person is correct; Third, homomorphic atoms can also act without a nucleus and instead use 'nucleoids'. ”

Izumi Huangbo frowned: "Nucleoid material...... You mean, Shoji's abilities, right? ”

"yes, I didn't plan to let her do that, I just planned to carry out the heterocrystalline impact experiment I had seen in the laboratory before, but Miss Hong said that she wanted to try it herself, hum......"

"Please, please don't ......?!"

"What is there to be shy about, well done!!" Ji Gao Shi Naiwu patted Zhuang Sihong on the shoulder, the latter shrank suddenly and wanted to escape, but she grabbed her hands and raised them to her chest, and she didn't even dare to move, "In this way, you can create more combat power in the future, it's a big help, Xiaohong——"

"What is Xiaohong's name, you see that people are scared, right? Let her go. ”

"Don't want to, a stinky man like Paper Zu can't do it, right?"

"Woo ......?! That Ji Gaosan...... I...... Ahhh......h

Faced with the chaotic situation again, Quan Huangbo couldn't help but hold his forehead: "Okay, you guys, let's talk about it for a while." All in all, what Mr. Mendecchel meant was that it was almost certain that it was the work of the anti-emissary, and that it had nothing to do with the surrounding environment. The person's heteromorphism should have been sent for testing, right? ”

"The result of the test is that there is no match, I shouldn't have come to be a messenger, if it's the Eternal Life Society, then it's easy to understand, since I'm a disciple myself, I won't believe us." Paper Zu Asuka poked his finger at his temple, "It's better that their words will want us to die soon, right?" It's just that there's one thing I'm concerned about. Why is there so many hints of eternal life in recent times? Mr. Otani, they've been tracking them for so long, but now they're causing so many things for no reason......"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, it could be a trap, or maybe they need 'us' in their plan. In this case, whether to move forward or remain is open to debate. However, this kind of thing is not for me to decide, and it is up to the commander-in-chief to give their opinion. Okay.,Anyway, let's put the work aside.,It's hard to ask for leave to come and see the Arabata-kun.,I said,Do you want to play UNO? ”

"Eh, now? If you didn't say it earlier, I didn't bring a card! ”

"Stupid you, the cards have always been on me!"

Facing Shinomai's puzzled expression, Asuka smiled maliciously, and then slowly condensed some bright red crystals on his palms, which finally converged into the shape of a card.

"Leave the shuffle to me! Anyway, how about Shoji come along? ”

As a result, five people – or more accurately two – made a big fuss in the hospital room. Yoshitaka Shino Mai began to question whether the paper ancestor Asuka peeked when he shuffled the cards because of the repeated additions, and the shuffler almost spread out all the cards in his hand in order to prove his absolute innocence ("I don't do that kind of thing!"). "Okay, you two will hang on to that machine if you two make a fuss." ）； Izumi Araba has added so many cards as a key persecution target that he can't even take them, not to mention that he is still on fire ("Shoji, why are you ......?!") "Izumi! +5！ ”）； Mendelchel smiled softly and kindly, but he was the hardest of the few people who made the bonus ("Who's going to be next?"). "Mr. Mendevilell!!" ）； Zhuang Sihong, on the other hand, was the first of several people to finish the cards, probably because of the good fortune peculiar to novices ("worthy of Xiaohong!! "Wow......"). In short, I played until dinner in the cafeteria was about to start, and when the queue began, several people said goodbye to Izumi and left. A little bit of absurd loneliness rose from his heart, but when a butterfly flapped its wings and landed on the tip of his nose, he suddenly realized something and laughed.

After this, it was difficult for them to find time to see him together, and Yoshitaka Shino Dance would also be hospitalized for a while, and she could only go out after observation, and I heard that she had been asked by the nurse to rest all day because of the initial isocrystallization of her internal organs. So the rest of the time, he either checked the past records at the commissioning terminal or reported to the base, or stayed in the specially opened library to read books. Occasionally, there is still pain in the eyeball, but reading can still do it. And it was during this time in the library that he noticed a girl who was about a few years younger than him, with very neat short hair, who looked quiet, and often sat opposite him cross-legged in the corner of the bookshelf and looked down to read, but those books were all kindergarten picture books without exception.

The only sound in the library was the two of them turning the pages of their books.

Izumi watched the man quietly through the flipping pages, and she was as quiet as she had seen it for the first time, her eyes down on the book, and now she was reading the picture book of "Snow White", the story he should have heard from the mouth of a household robot. But in the next second, she suddenly raised her head, her eyes staring directly at Izumi and Izumi's cracked eyes. Although it was not the same isomorphic eyes, it still made him feel a little hairy when he was stared at like this by the eyes of inorganic matter, or even completely godless.

Then the girl put the picture book in her hand aside, stood up and took a few steps forward, looking down at the spring from top to bottom. Izumi blinked suspiciously, raised his head from the page, felt his tongue stick to his mouth, and didn't know how long he looked at each other before squeezing out the words: "...... What's wrong? ”

“…… You were looking at me just now. ”

"Well, because you're here every day."

"Can I sit next to you, then?" There seems to be no question with a questioning tone.

Izumi Huangbo moved to the side: "Please." ”

The girl sat down, her hospital gown wide, and her attention quickly turned to the book in Izumi's hand—a book that was a long time ago: Lovecraft's Mountains of Madness. To be honest, he hadn't read a few pages yet, and he didn't have that many ideas, but the girl came up and deliberately raised her bangs above the page: "This, I've seen it." There are cities in the back, a lot, just like isomorphism. ”

“…… Is it? ”

"But those are not human masterpieces. I think it's funny. A little smile appeared on her face," ...... My name is, Rika Kawashima, what about you? ”

"Uh, Izumi, Izumi."

He waited for Rika Kawashima's words to come, but the shadow cast on the book vanished, and he disappeared along with the girl next to him. Feeling bad, Izumibara put down his book and looked around with a frown, only to see that the bookshelves and books around him—including the book he had just read and the picture book that Rika Kawashima had put back—had turned green together, and he frowned, quickly summoning the chains, and at the same time putting on the goggles around his neck, keeping an eye on the changes around him.

Just as he thought, something wriggled on the green ceiling like an insect breaking out of a cocoon, and then it fell rapidly towards the Izumi Arasa. It was a stalactite-like isocrystal. Before its tip hit the top of Izumi's head, several chains quickly wrapped around it and snapped it, and the wreckage fell to the ground and was crushed by him. Although it is impossible to confirm the color of Kawashima Riké's alien crystal through the hospital gown, it can be judged that this is a manifestation of her ability, and that the person who came is not good—perhaps it is the anti-messenger they are looking for.

So it's imperative to defeat her first, even if she seems harmless.

Izumi clenched his fists, chains crawling out of his chest, entrenched on the floor to explore the source of energy, and at the same time he also stood up and fled towards the exit, but before he could take a few steps, several stone pillars appeared above his head; After neatly disposing of them, Izumi hurriedly fled to the direction of the door and grabbed the handle—the assimilated handle did not move, and even climbed some of his fingers. He secretly said something was wrong and quickly shook it off. Fortunately, this anomaly looks different from the oil paint of the Shino Dance of Jigao, and it will not cause him erosion-type damage, but even then it can't let it hurt itself.

Looks like they're being locked up here?

More isomorphs stretched out, this time not limited to the ceiling, but to the four walls and floors, and the chains used for detection were broken before they could do anything, and a wave of vertigo swirled in Izumi's brain, and he reflexively leaned against the wall next to him, but quickly retracted after feeling the bulging touch of the stone pillar. The chains were reoriented, binding up the isomorphs that were trying to make them, and tearing them down as they were. Characters are constantly flashing on the goggle terminals, and the accuracy is naturally not enough to replace the monitoring table, but even this is enough to judge that the other party should be in this room, hidden somewhere...... As long as I find myself and defeat him, maybe the current situation can be avoided.

Thinking of this, he turned his back to the door, but felt the vibration of the soles of his feet, and he quickly dodged, tilted his head and manipulated the chains to break the stone pillar and smash it against the wall of the room, but the moment they touched the wall, they were swallowed by the wall, and soon there was not even a trace left. Also, how can you attack others with other people's isomorphs...... Izumi pulled the corners of his mouth, and continued to lay chains to investigate while noticing the changes in the four directions.

And at this very moment...... He heard the door open. A familiar face crashed into view.

"Izumi, are you here? I managed to escape!! …… Isn't it. ”