326. Project Arrow, mutation
The first time the Snake Edict was concluded.
Dean forged an unbreakable bond with the magical creature in front of him, easily sensing its mental activity.
It is like a child full of all kinds of naΓ―ve fantasies, and like an old man, he has experienced vicissitudes.
The lake monster's pale blue eyes looked at Dean a little more kindly, narrowed his big eyes, grinned wide, and rubbed his head against his chest.
"Alright, Light Blue, you go back to the lake first," Dean reached out and touched the round head that was as soft and elastic as a rubber bag filled with water, "I have any news about Martha and will contact you immediately." β
"Can't I help?" The lake monster hummed unwillingly,
"Movement on land is not very convenient for you. I gave you another important task, to detect the environment in the lake area, and to notify me immediately when I found the fog. Dean stroked its big head and admonished, and in the palm of his right hand there was an extra pale golden bead the size of a fingertip, which was also a spatial positioning bead made by his own bones, "By the way, this bead can help us converge and put it away." β
The lake monster nodded meekly with its snake neck raised, opened its mouth and spat out a slippery tongue to suck the set-piece into its stomach.
With a flick of his colored tail, he turned around and broke through the water surface and dived into the lake, rolled up a few gentle waves, and dived.
"Martha, I've moved to the rescue, and Light Blue is coming to save you!"
Dive.
The lake monster's massive body split into streams of water, one of which was rolled with a positioning bead and spread throughout the long lake.
The messy ice returned to calm, but the moon ducked behind the clouds.
The air was completely stagnant, and an ominous haze weaved through the darkness.
"Kenny, what's next?" Sean looked at Dean with a hint of recognition in his eyes, as a new monster, he would rather be with people who treat his own people as equals than cold-blooded butchers.
"The lake monster mentioned that the white fog drifted to the surface of the water from three directions: Naples, Harrison, and Shiling Town, and there were major suspicions in these three places. You go to Harrison Town and inspect every building. β
Dean looked at the shore of the lake in the distance, took out a watch and a compass from his bosom and handed them to Sean,
"If there is a stagnation or reversal of the watch or compass, it means that there is a problem with the magnetic field there, write down the address and give it to me. Be hidden and try not to be spotted. β
Sean nodded solemnly and put the watch on his wrist,
"I'll be in charge of the remaining two towns, and I'll meet at the antique store in Qiaodun Town at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Understood."
Sean turned and ran towards the undulating black silhouette of kilometers across the ice.
Dean flew into the night, flashing in the sky several times like a bat, crossing kilometers in ten seconds and landing on the soft mud of the shore of the lake in the town of Naples.
Then he took out the shallows from his pocket,
"Leave this town to you, gather your animal companions to help with the search."
"Wait, master, are you going to harvest Light Blue as a second servant?" Shallow said expectantly and apprehensively, "Will it rob me of my favor?" β
Dean flicked the shallow head, shook his head and smiled, "I'll help it get Marsha back and let it go." β
"Then I'll be relieved."
The shallows turned into a streamer of light, drifting over the forest to the silhouette of the town's black buildings.
And Dean suspended in mid-gravity in mid-gravity and flew in the direction of Shiling Town, using his skills to observe the changes of the space nodes, while paying attention to the fluctuations of the magnetic field.
Not far from the shore of the long lake is a barren snowy field, covering an area of dozens of acres, but there are no lush shrubs or bushes.
Even rats, crows... Not a single critter can be seen either.
Dean raised an eyebrow.
This kind of severely barren land obviously shouldn't be found near a vibrant lake.
"Could it be that the white mist once passed through here and robbed the land of its life?"
As he continued two kilometres back, he was blocked by a spiked power grid with surveillance cameras and a striking warning sign that read "No Entry" in a military location.
This is the boundary line of the military base in Shiling Town.
Dean flashed back to the two soldiers he had seen in the cafeteria, and the conversation between the two mentioned that "something had gone wrong." (Chapter 323)
"There's a different world in this base? Accidentally opened the door and released a white mist, killing Martha? β
The more Dean thought about it, the more he thought it was possible, but his temples pounded unusually at this time, and the Omen Expertise issued a strong warning that there would be an accident when entering the base.
Dean hesitated for a moment, followed his instincts, and instead of rushing in, he sent Shadow to fly across the power grid and use his atomization and stealth abilities to explore around.
Behind the grid is a wide, flat airstrip ... A large pile of black drainage pipes were installed on both sides of the runway, pointing to the barren snow.
Behind the runway sat a radar station, a large underground hangar of reinforced concrete, where several fighters were parked.
Next to the hangar is the munitions logistics warehouse, which is full of guns, rocket artillery, camouflage painted armored vehicles, tanks, helicopters and other modern ordnance.
Correspondingly, there are nearly a battalion of thousands of soldiers stationed in the base, most of them dormant in the middle of the night.
The rest patrol around the base.
In the middle of these heights of security stands a windowless, fully enclosed research building, clearly a core facility.
Ying just wanted to fly in to find out, but suddenly his body turned into fog and teleported to Dean, four kilometers away, and for the first time, his cool face showed a frightened expression.
"There's a dangerous person in the building, and my sixth sense tells me that just leaning on the past will trigger an unpredictable disaster, no, I seem to have triggered some kind of danger."
"It can make you feel dangerous, it has to be close to level 6, it looks like there are people from the Special Operations Department in the base." Dean looked at the darkness behind the power grid with a solemn face, "With such a powerful superpower in the base, the research project must be extremely dangerous. The risk level exceeds that of the Hawkins Energy Laboratory. β
You must know that when Dean was in the Hawkins Laboratory, he was only blocked by a level 4 ability person from Damien.
"Don't act rashly, find out the news first."
Dean retracted his shadow, casually pulled away a spatial node in front of him, and stepped into the pitch-black void.
Under the perspective of skill, he chose a node that had been positioned among the countless nodes and stepped in.
In the next second, Dean appeared thousands of miles away, in the town of Hawkins.
Paqui's house, in his own bedroom.
He jumped on the bed, turned on telepathy, and contacted Professor Sean at Hawkins Labs.
"Professor Sean, I have something to ask you."
"Sean?"
"Hmm... Sorry master, I was sleeping just now... Now, it's an honor to serve you. β
"Your higher authorities, apart from setting up a national energy laboratory in Hawkins to study other dimensions, are there similar military bases in other places?"
"You guessed it, gold doesn't have a bank." Sean yawned and said, "In addition to the 'Upside Down World' project that has been put on hold, the higher departments are also carrying out several plans to explore and develop 'other dimensions' at the same time, competing with each other. β
Dean sighed at this generosity and asked,
"Which of these programs prioritize danger more than 'Upside Upside Down' and are more valued by higher-level departments, even with the assistance of powerful agents?"
"All I know is that the biggest contender in my mind is Project Arrow, and the people of the Project Team are opening a window to observe an extremely dangerous extradimensional." (Chapter 293)
Dr. Sean laughed to himself,
"It's also a coincidence, if Martin Brenner hadn't made a mess of Hawkins in the first place, I wouldn't have been sent to Hawkins to clean up the mess for him, but I would have been sent to Project Arrow to assist in research, and it would be impossible to meet you, the master."
Dean asked, "Project Arrow's base camp is at the military base in Rocky Township, Cumberland County, Maine?" β
"I'm sorry, I can't answer, whether it's the 'Alternate Dimension Project' or the 'Evolutionary Mutation Project', the specific addresses and research progress of most of the projects are kept under high confidentiality, and no one else knows about them except for the superior departments and the core members of the group."
"By the way, master, I don't know whether to say something or not."
"Say."
"If you encounter a suspicious dimensional plan, then the plan team must have at least one secret killer that is not weaker than a nuclear bomb."
"Unless you can quickly control the top person in charge of the lab, the 'caretaker', and the secret killer, don't take it lightly."
"If you accidentally destroy the space passage and release monsters, plagues, and supernatural disasters from another world, then in order to avoid the spread of negative effects, the members of the planning team can only take the last path and release the killer weapon."
"At that time, not only the military base will suffer, but the surrounding towns, the people living there, and the surrounding natural environment will be completely destroyed and irreversible!"
Dean took a deep breath, and the scene of destroying the Potala spider-man with a nuclear bomb flashed back to his mind, "I see. β
Dean finished the telepathy, his hands on the back of his head and deep in thought.
How do you safely and covertly enter the base and control the leaders inside?
β¦β¦
Shiling Town Military Base.
Research Building.
In the vaulted hall on the first floor, a man in a light blue suit, black hair, and an irritable expression looked at his subordinates in white coats beside him.
"Have there been any suspicious people in Shiling Town and its surroundings recently?"
"There are twenty-three out-of-towners staying in five small town hotels and townspeople's homes," the white coat lifted the frame of his glasses on the bridge of his nose, "and no special purpose spies or supernatural creatures have been found so far." β
"Your Excellency John, why did you suddenly mention this, what's wrong?" To the right of the man, a dark-skinned, neatly combed white coat asked, his eyes sharp under his thick eyebrows, as if he could see people's hearts at a glance
"It's okay, I might be feeling wrong." John's gaze peered through the reinforced concrete wall next to him, staring at the sky where Shadow had finally disappeared, "Now, Dr. Rostend, hurry up and continue the experiment. β
The eyes of the researchers in the hall turned to the laboratory behind the glass wall, at the end of which was an irregularly shaped black door that resembled an oval.
In the center of the gate is a transparent spherical observation window, through which you can see that the interior is white and blanket, shrouded in a vast and boundless fog.
In front of the door stood a researcher wearing a hemispherical transparent hood and an inflatable white hazmat suit, holding a spray gun connected to a backpack device, waiting quietly.
Roostende took a deep breath, pouted a few times, and pressed a red button in front of the console in front of the vaulted hall.
The observation window on the black door slowly pushed open, and the fog behind the door searched for this breakthrough, and frantically poured into the laboratory, spreading in all directions.
This layer of milky white mist is like a floor fountain spreading and rising on the floor.
The experimenter immediately aimed at the dense fog and pressed the gun launch button, and bright yellow flames whistled out, enveloping the dense fog.
It suddenly let out a series of piercing screams like a living thing, and was burned to ashes.
There was a hint of anticipation on the faces of several researchers in the vaulted hall.
But the expectation then vanished, and the thick fog that had been burned out returned, wrapping around the experimenter's body with the spray gun in double size and momentum.
"The experiment failed, the D62 flame was invalid!"
He turned and slapped the buttons on the wall behind him, and the floor, ceiling, and walls, more than a dozen pitch-black pipes like giant vacuum cleaners opened, making a rumbling sound that attracted dust, debris, and the only layer of fog left in the lab.
At the same time, Roostende repressed the red button in disappointment, closing the spherical entrance.
But too slowly, a part of the mist broke away from the range of the vacuum cleaner and began to invade the vaulted hall.
Seeing this, John's figure flashed, and a strong wind swept through, and he teleported into the laboratory.
Those fiery eyes swept to the ground!
Ziziziββ
A dazzling red ray burst out of John's eyes, and the powerful energy melted the steel floor into deep ravines.
Sparks and charred steel shavings rose up.
The mist was also nailed to the ground by the rays, like poisonous snakes pierced by flaming arrows, annihilated by the heat.
The lab returned to calm.
After disinfection.
John looked at the researchers at Rodesstein, their handsome cheeks twisted and the veins in their necks protruding, "You've failed more than a thousand times. And I've been paying for you guys for two and a half years, and I've had enough of being a caretaker for so long. Give me a definite amount of time before we can find a qualified fog eliminator to destroy these damn white fogs! β
"Calm down, Mr. John," Rodesstein said with a wry smile, "We've done everything we can to develop a fog eliminator, but the occult field is full of uncertainty, and we can't give you a word of confidence. β
"Then I won't come next time." John's face turned cold, and he said unquestioningly, "I will send another member of the group with a lower level to help you maintain order." β
"Without your powerful laser, no one else or machine would be able to destroy the fog accurately and quickly, and the experiment would be difficult to advance." Rodesstein bowed slightly and said sincerely, "Please stay for another half a year, and after half a year, whether you succeed or not, you can leave." β
"You're already a senior researcher, don't you see what's wrong?" John sarcastically said, "Our 'Project Arrows' is studying another world, and we've built a window. β
"This is the highest 'sin' of all 'offenses and transgressions' in our great world."
"The Law of Convergence will grow at a terrifying speed to destroy this unstable factor. Coupled with the fact that a powerful superpower like me appears on the side of the passage from time to time to stimulate it, it contributes to the scale of the explosion of the convergence law in disguise, don't you feel it, it is accumulating. β
"In the past, accidents were just minor fights, killing two inconsequential townspeople."
John stretched out his index finger and pointed at the chests of the five researchers, "But now, your Project Arrow team is a camel laden with stones. β
"One more feather crushes the illusion of balance, and everyone in this base, except me, will not be spared!" John's words paused, his narrow eyes swept over the researchers, all of them turned pale as if they had been swept by a machine gun, "If you want to survive, you must either get the fog eliminator in half a month, or change the guard." β
John finished his gaze and looked at Dr. Rodesstein.
It's like a stern teacher asking questions in a math class.
The latter's face turned blue and purple for a while, and after a while, he said with difficulty, "Yes, I remember, there is a talented research expert, Dr. Sean, who can help us. As long as he is transferred, we will be able to quickly get the fog eliminator and let us safely move towards another world! β
"His project was in the soup not long ago, and he doesn't have any urgent tasks at the moment, so it's not difficult to transfer."
"Mr. John, please trust me this time."
John looked at the flattering smile on the doctor's face, took a deep breath, and his reddened face began to recover,
"I'll give you another chance, bring this Dr. Sean tomorrow, now, hurry up and continue the experiment."
Rodis looked at the experimenter, who chose the third of the neatly arranged piles of backpacks with spray guns in the lab, with his body on his back.
"1236th Fog Suppression Experiment, Material D63."
The spherical viewing window opens, and a cheese-white mist invades the lab.
The spray gun pointed at them and spewed a burst of pale yellow flames, the flame color was darker than the previous one, but as soon as it touched the white mist, like a flame touching grease, it instantly ignited, crackling and bursting into a dazzling burst of fire.
The mist burned one after the other, burning into ashes.
The crowd watching in the vaulted hall held their breath.
The experimenter stopped spraying the gun.
But amazingly, the leaping flame did not immediately extinguish the invading fog in the laboratory, but instead seemed to be summoned to flow backwards into the boundless sea of fog in the observation window.
Rodesstein immediately closed the observation window.
The entire empty laboratory suddenly fell silent, except for the sound of everyone's heartbeat.
It seemed like a century had passed.
White Mist is not reborn.
The experimenter spoke tremblingly and excitedly,
"The experiment is successful, D63 flame, perfect elimination of the white mist!"
"O gods!"
"God forbid!"
"It's a miracle, everyone, two and a half years of hard work have not been in vain!" The researchers embraced their peers in ecstasy, celebrating,
"Mr. John, the prototype of the fog eliminator is already here!" Rodesstein also smiled, and the heaviness and depression in his heart before were swept away, "It seems that it won't take half a month." β
But John stared blankly at the black door.
Like a lion staring at a sworn enemy who invaded the territory, his eyes bulged out, and the fierce aura around his body burned so that the air hissed, "The camel is crushed." β
John sighed.
In response, boom!
The entire research building shook violently, as if an irresistible force had been released from behind the Black Door.
The smiles on the faces of the five researchers disappeared instantly.
Thundered!
The tremors intensified.
The toughened walls and pavement shook from the foundation, as if strong earth dragons were moving through them, warping the steel plates into terrible cracks.
The glass shattered, the ceiling shook off in large clouds of dust and rubble, and the researchers fell to the ground screaming.
And at the bottom of the laboratory, the black gate that had stood tenaciously for two and a half years, separating the two worlds, was also hit by a huge force and toppled backwards.
Seeing this, John did not hesitate to roll up the five researchers, leaving a jumping arc of electricity in place and vanishing.
Endless white mist poured into the empty vaulted hall, drowning everything and devouring everything like a tsunami, and a cluster of twisted tentacles and countless strange shadows followed, tearing and expanding the gaps in the space.
(End of chapter)