202 Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Foundation (VIII)

◎Prometheus escaped?◎

【Signal lost】

Several large crimson words flashed on the big screen of the cleaning center. Everyone was stunned. Would Prometheus lose contact?

"What's going on?" The technician kept adjusting the signal: "Is there a technical malfunction?"

The image on the screen kept flickering, as if they were watching a live show with a poor signal. There were still faint images coming out from inside, but they could no longer send any messages in.

The person in charge of this operation is Huo Wenxi, and several ministers do not have the leadership power of Prometheus.

Originally the logistics team was just watching the fun, but now the entire technical center is in chaos.

Xuan Qing frowned and asked, "Prometheus escaped?"

This is a very reasonable guess. It has never lost contact, and the sudden incident this time can easily be associated with its rebellion.

The Federation has been imprisoned for a long time and no one is allowed to contact it privately. Did it get some opportunity?

If so, it could be a disaster on the same scale as the awakening of underground contaminants in Area 103.

Prometheus did not answer; he could not prove himself.

Lu Qiqin was originally watching the fun, but after hearing this he finally couldn't sit still anymore and started typing a bunch of words on the control panel.

A moment later, Lu Qiqin's earphones lit up. He had received a message from the Federal Control Center. "Zone One has been confirmed to be safe. The restrictions have not been lifted."

Xuan Qing's frown remained on his face as Lu Qiqin whispered, "No one can let it out."

To ensure its safety, no one knows the exact place where Prometheus is imprisoned.

A nearby technician interjected, "There's another possibility for signal loss. We're in the same boat as those outside the wall."

Humans are superstitious about Prometheus because it can guarantee all signals within the wall, but outside the wall is another world. The pollution concentration exceeds the ceiling of human existing instruments, and its failure frequency is quite high.

This guess is very likely.

"If that's the case..." someone said, "Does that mean the place Zhu Ning and the others entered is the same as outside the wall?"

No, it might be more dangerous than some areas outside the wall.

Before entering the hotel, Zhuang Lin had sent out testing equipment, but all the testing machines never came back.

Zhu Ning's team of five had only been inside for fifteen minutes, and now the two sides had lost contact.

There were only intermittent images, and because of image delay, what they saw might be what happened before.

This means that Zhu Ning and the others might even be dead now, but they just don’t know it.

The five-man team was like Schrödinger's cat, entering a completely different state.

After he put forward his point of view, suddenly no one responded. If the pollution has reached this level, it means that the high walls of District 103 have completely lost their effectiveness. They had only listened to Huo Wenxi's speech and some written evidence on display.

But this was the first time the seriousness of the problem was truly realized, and the disaster escalated.

The cleaning center is already in chaos, and now there are all kinds of opinions. Some people think that more demon hunters should be sent to the hotel for support.

Some people believe that Class A procedures should be initiated directly at the hotel to prevent the spread of contamination.

At this time, some people completely faced the reality. No matter how passionate Huo Wenxi's public report was, the destruction of District 103 was a foregone conclusion. They wanted to take the opportunity to leave and completely abandon this sinking ship.

Huo Wenxi was detained and for a while no one stepped forward to stabilize the situation.

Xuan Qing kept frowning. She had wanted to find an opportunity to take action, but the current situation prevented her from making any effective decision.

Zhu Ning and the others didn't convey any useful information at all, and she was still in deep thought.

Sudden--

The lights inside the hall flashed violently, and everyone fell silent at the same time, looking up at the incandescent light.

There were so many light sources flashing above my head, as if a ghost child was playing a prank on me and kept pressing the power button.

The figures of the people flickered, and the faces of people near them suddenly appeared, and then suddenly disappeared into the darkness.

The familiar faces seemed extremely strange at this time.

The lights kept flickering, like some kind of spiritual pollution.

The footage from Zhu Ning's side on the surveillance screen froze, and for a moment, the temperature in the cleaning center hall seemed to drop by several degrees.

On the screen, Zhu Ning had just entered the conference room, and the originally empty seats were now filled with people.

Those people were recorded by Zhu Ning's camera, and a dense crowd of people sat with their backs to them.

Their backs were distorted, disappearing, appearing, disappearing, appearing...

As the frequency of the lights flickering intensified, everyone felt a chill and damp sensation, like an icy snake crawling over them.

And those pollutants seemed to be overflowing through the screen into the hall of the cleaning center.

…

The blue halo on Zhu Ning's temples was flashing.

The same thing happened to Xu Meng and Dr. Fu. All three of their human-machine combined devices failed.

Doctor Fu looked the worst, Xu Meng was slightly better, and Zhu Ning didn't have any disastrous consequences because he disliked Prometheus.

But losing the signal meant they lost contact, which also meant no support.

How will the cleaning center react?

Wouldn't it be like the time at the mechanical aquarium, where they would just use a cover to trap them to death?

Doctor Fu's face was ashen. He spread out his hands and said, "It's over."

This time he is finished. He wanted to come in and find out the truth about God's descent, and was even prepared to sacrifice himself. Now even if he found it, he couldn't pass on the information.

Zhu Ning: "Cheer up."

Doctor Fu surrendered too quickly. Zhu Ning asked, "Did anyone notice when it lost its effect?"

Doctor Fu shook his head. He thought that he would never encounter such a bad thing in his life. His attention was all on the outside world and he would never look at his sunscreen.

Xu Meng thought for a moment, "When you enter the conference room, we can still see your video."

Zhu Ning asked: "What kind of video did you see?"

Xu Meng immediately sent her his video. "You suddenly couldn't stand up in the empty conference room. It was like you were grabbed by something."

Fortunately, the basic functions of the helmet are currently working properly. Zhu Ning received Xu Meng's video, and she browsed electronic materials faster, finishing it in just one second.

Xu Meng's video was just as she said, Zhu Ning looked particularly weird.

Doctor Fu had already uploaded the video, imitating Xu Meng's example. "I saw someone."

Zhu Ning stopped moving, and the video of Dr. Fu playing inside her helmet was stuck at a certain frame.

There really was a person on the screen, and this person was zoomed in by the video. He was right in front of Zhu Ning, and suddenly turned around.

With a snap, Zhu Ning immediately turned off the video to avoid any possibility of contamination.

She felt that this place was more chaotic than she had imagined. "The contamination must have started when I entered the conference room."

What Zhu Ning saw, what Xu Meng saw with the camera, and what Dr. Fu saw were all subtly different.

It should be the mental pollution that the polluted area is carrying out on everyone, and they are all hallucinations. Xu Meng suffered the lowest pollution, and Doctor Fu suffered the highest.

Zhu Ning: "Be careful from now on, the thing you saw might come out."

Doctor Fu was a little confused. "I don't understand."

Zhu Ning: "Blinking, camera shutters, they all look like some kind of door."

"If my previous guess was correct, when we blink, it's like taking a picture with a camera. The moment the shutter opens, pollution is brought in, and this thing will deform and spread, like a virus." Zhu Ning felt that things were very troublesome.

Because it is an illusion, all forms are possible.

People cannot control the frequency of their blinking, so the images captured by the camera may be distorted.

Nothing that follows is believable.

Xu Meng: "No wonder Prometheus lost contact."

This place is simply a nemesis for the witcher. After so many years of exploration, humans have developed a set of scientific methods to deal with pollutants.

Find out the patterns, then record videos and transmit them inside the helmet, using technology to make up for the inherent deficiencies of humans in polluted areas.

Now it has been directly wiped out, the advantage has become a disadvantage, and excessive use will increase the risk.

Zhu Ning: "Next, all three of you should turn off the automatic recording function of your cameras."

Zhu Ning was the first to turn it off, followed by Xu Meng. Doctor Fu was a little hesitant.

People like him who grew up in a safe zone naturally trust technology. Turning off the camera in a polluted area is like closing an eye and returning to the original state, which makes people feel insecure.

But Doctor Fu still closed the case. If what Zhu Ning said was right, this method could save his life at this time.

After being turned off, the screen looks like a simple piece of glass, and the person in the protective suit is observing the polluted world as if through a piece of glass.

Doctor Fu asked, "Where's the human-machine combined device?"

The blue halo on their sunshades was still flashing, and the mycelium on the device had penetrated into the sunshade of the person. If they wanted to take it off, they had to take off the helmet first, and then they could remove it manually.

But this is the paradox, when you take off your helmet you become contaminated.

Zhu Ning: "Don't worry about it. If there's a signal somewhere, maybe they can still contact us."

Xu Meng nodded, "We need to find Chu Ling and Cao Wei now."

This place is so dangerous, it might be very dangerous.

Zhu Ning also thought that the greatest fear of mankind is the unknown, and this place simply takes the unknown to the highest level.

The pollution you see is difficult to distinguish between real and fake, and may be an illusion of the experimental subjects.

The signal was disconnected without my noticing, and everything captured by the camera was unreliable.

Two teammates are missing, and there are swarms of cockroaches outside the door.

And they seemed to be getting further and further away from the truth of God's descent.

Zhu Ning asked, "Can your ability take us underground?"

Xu Meng shook his head: "I can't do it. The distance is too far."

They were on the ninth floor, Xu Meng's ability couldn't hold up, and she didn't stay in front of the cockroach man for long.

Doctor Fu didn't know how to fight the battle. He only knew that the situation was urgent and couldn't offer any useful advice.

Zhu Ning looked at the corridor again from a God's perspective. The cockroaches were even more crowded. There were several human faces lying at the door of their room, trying to get in through the gap.

I don't think this door will hold up for much longer.

It would be disastrous if he faced the enemy head-on. If these cockroaches could also glide, Zhu Ning would be buried by the cockroaches as soon as he went out.

The elevator cannot be used and the emergency passage is blocked, so we can only use the employee passage.

But the employee passage is now also gathering cockroaches.

Use fire?

The feasibility is not very high. If a real fight breaks out, she will have to burn through the entire building.

Do we really have to fight our way through? Zhu Ning and Xu Meng are probably okay, but Dr. Fu will probably die on this road.

Xu Meng: "Through the window?"

window?

Xu Meng was groping by the window. The floor-to-ceiling window in the master bedroom could not be opened, but there were two windows in the living room that could be opened.

She had already opened a window. There was no wind outside, no sound, and it was completely silent.

There was no night view outside the window. Instead, there was a gray fog, and the gray-black lines of the polluted area were struggling.

Zhu Ning stretched out her hand and touched the gray mist. She originally thought it was just mist, but unexpectedly she touched something solid.

A mass of gray-black liquid remained in the palm of her hand. She reached out and pinched it. The texture was like diluted petroleum, and also looked like the secretion of some insect.

What's this?

Zhu Ning looked at the fog from a God's perspective, but found nothing.

There was a scratching sound outside the door. A cockroach was scratching the door. Could it really go out the window?

Zhu Ning lowered his head. This was clearly only the ninth floor, but it seemed bottomless. Once he entered, he would be buried.

The author has something to say:

Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided me with nutrient solution between 2023-03-19 20:26:36 and 2023-03-20 21:00:39~

Thanks to the little angels who threw grenades: 4399, Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou Zhou, and 1 member of the Nanny Kunyu Group;

Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Shi Rui Yu Su An 3; 56181482, Refuse to Go Outing, ph, 66483555, Chang An Chang An, Thrilly, Today's Speculator, Dream is to Wander Around the World 1;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: Xizhen, Ten Dove (60 bottles); Huanghun My Own Version (56 bottles); Qi Tong, Dundun Little Peach (50 bottles); Little Moon (46 bottles); Coco Nana, Fenghen (42 bottles); 1917 (41 bottles); Lingyue, Tanxun, Jinliang Iced Black Tea, Lubi Kalufu, Aspirin (40 bottles); Make a Pig (33 bottles); Cream Amber, Wangzai (30 bottles); Feifei (28 bottles); Salty Circle (27 bottles); Matcha Oreo (22 bottles); Langlanglang Weixian, Rice Noodles, Ci Maoshu, Tuantuantuantuantuantuantuan, Little Pig Rushing Forward, Sun, 66145425, Lijun (20 bottles); Xiaohuihui (15 bottles); Fayfay (14 bottles); 48974301 11 bottles; "Summarizes a Lifetime with a Handsome Word," "Imagine Beauty," "Corn Bamboo Shoots Are So Cute," "Battery 28%," "Chen Shijun," "p@ss," "Nanyue Jiangqing," "56181482," and "Mo Huang Jianshang" (10 bottles); "theone" (6 bottles); "once0605," "Calabash," "Zhenzhen," "LorManari," "Rainy Season," "A Rose," "Bear Bread," and "Ionic Bitter Dolphin" (5 bottles); "Sleeping in Summer," "Refusing a Picnic" (4 bottles); "Whale Swimming," "Walnut," "Mo Mo," "Madam, Please Give Me a Thousand Days," "4399," and "Hehehehe" (2 bottles); "Grapefruit Wine," ":DA," "SHIN," "Chang'an Chang'an," "Mu Jin-O-," "Madam, Write Too Much," "liliko," "Si Si," "A Man," and "Mr. Manman" (1 bottle);

Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!