45 Weird Oceanarium (Part 2)

◎I am Prometheus, the commander of this battle◎

The three-person team changed into their uniforms. Following Fang Ying's instructions, they did not wear helmets but gathered with other team members.

There are many people on this mission, one team of demon hunters and three teams of cleaners.

The demon hunters came from the Grey Eagle Team. The last time they met was in the sewer. One of them mocked Li Nianchuan, and Zhu Ning couldn't tell which one it was.

Now we have to go on a mission together.

Is this putting two rival teams together?

Zhu Ning saw Chu Ling inside. As the only girl in the Grey Eagle team, Chu Ling was very conspicuous with her height of 1.8 meters.

Chu Ling raised her eyebrows at herself as a greeting.

Zhu Ning waved to Chu Ling. Some of them looked familiar, but he couldn't remember their names. He must have seen them during training.

The others showed no expression when they saw the cleaning team.

Li Nianchuan made a snort at the side. He was a vengeful person and had never been in a good mood towards the Grey Eagle team.

The demon hunter was wearing steel armor and stood in a row with the cleaner.

After the special training, everyone behaved very well, and Zhu Ning seemed much more professional than the novice he was last time.

Fang Ying glanced around, her gaze heavy on everyone as she began to explain the situation: "There was a sudden contamination inside the Mechanical Oceanarium, which instantly infected the Mechanical Jellyfish Pavilion and then spread outside."

Each of them has a floor plan of the aquarium on their employee wristband, with the deep-sea aquarium marked in red on the plan.

And this red area is still expanding, with four venues suffering from varying degrees of pollution.

This was Zhu Ning's first time encountering a newly polluted area. How did the pollution break out in this situation?

Fang Ying continued, "There's not much information available. The source of the contamination is unknown. A tourist was visiting when the glass suddenly exploded. We captured footage from inside the aquarium before the surveillance cameras were infected with contaminated spores."

Fang Ying synchronized the video on everyone’s employee wristband.

It has been specially processed and the surveillance footage of each scene has been spliced ​​together, so the plot looks very smooth.

An hour ago.

The Mechanical Oceanarium is still operating as normal.

If there is any benefit to radiation, it is that there is a richer variety of species.

The Mechanical Jellyfish Hall is the most popular venue in the entire aquarium. Mechanical jellyfish is a brand new species and is only exhibited in the 103rd District Mechanical Oceanarium in the entire federation.

Eighty percent of visitors come to the Mechanical Oceanarium just to see the jellyfish.

The mechanical jellyfish swims in the water, with the agility of the jellyfish itself and the metallic luster of a machine.

The cold metallic luster, set against the backdrop of the sea water, has a strange silver cold light, which is very beautiful when viewed from different angles.

Harmless and beautiful.

Many people come here to check in.

Today is the weekend and there are a lot of people in the oceanarium.

Each person has to queue for at least one hour and is limited to fifteen minutes for the visit.

A little girl with pigtails had been waiting in line for an hour and a half. Her parents held her hands and led her into the viewing area, while the tour guide next to her patiently explained things to her.

"Mechanical jellyfish are a species specially cultivated in the Mechanical Oceanarium in Area 103. They have a metal shell, but they are not robots. They are mechanical creatures that can reproduce independently."

The tour guide carried many mechanical jellyfish figurines with him, and in order to attract children, the figurines were equipped with neon lights of different colors.

As the commentator moved, the mechanical jellyfish figurine swayed back and forth, making people's eyes sore if they stared at it for too long.

The little girl's parents took a lot of photos.

"Hurry, tilt your head." The man held a professional camera and pointed the lens at the little girl. There were only fifteen minutes in total, so they had to seize the opportunity.

The little girl herself was not in a good mood and kept looking bored.

The father shouted, "Smile! Smile!"

The little girl forced a smile, her signature smile, which looked innocent and harmless. Her father pressed the shutter with satisfaction.

After the little girl posed a few poses with her parents, she lay on the huge transparent glass wall, staring at the swimming jellyfish without blinking.

The mechanical jellyfish has an umbrella-shaped appearance, and its tentacles move with the waves when it swims.

The little girl stretched out her hand and pressed it against the glass. A jellyfish swam over and rubbed the little girl's palm affectionately through the glass.

The little girl showed a surprised expression of "Wow".

Unlike the pretense of innocence just now, it was a genuine expression that came naturally.

The narrator took the opportunity to explain: "The mechanical jellyfish are not aggressive towards people and have gentle personalities. They see humans as very friendly. It seems they like you very much, little one."

The commentator's words made the little girl's parents laugh. Every parent wants their child to be praised.

The tourists who came to visit also nodded and smiled, and many of them took out their cameras to take pictures of this scene.

The little girl in the red dress and the beautiful mechanical jellyfish, the two creatures are separated by a transparent glass wall, the whole picture is very warm and healing.

Camera flashes flashed, mixed with the exclamations of tourists.

“How cute.”

“It’s so healing.”

Amidst the laughter, it seemed that the mechanical jellyfish understood what people were saying.

More jellyfish came in swarms, swarming through the glass.

At first there were only two of them, and the picture was warm and cute.

Later, there were more than ten or twenty mechanical jellyfish, which looked a bit strange.

However, just three minutes later, hundreds of water mechanical jellyfish rushed in together.

They waved their tentacles and used their umbrella-shaped "heads" to push against the glass wall, as if forming some kind of group thinking.

The little girl put her hand against the glass, and thousands of jellyfish came over, as if summoned by her.

The whole scene was spectacular.

Click, click, click——

Tourists were still taking pictures and their flashes kept flashing.

"How spectacular." Someone exclaimed: "It's really beautiful."

“It was worth it this time.”

"Honey, is...something wrong?" Only the little girl's mother asked uncertainly.

Thousands of jellyfish came to the entire venue, and they were densely packed on the glass walls.

No matter how cute something is, if there are thousands of them suddenly appearing before your eyes, it will be creepy.

In front of this "wall" made up of mechanical jellyfish, humans seem very small.

"No, how cute!" The little girl's father was very excited and quickly pressed the shutter. "Our little Feng is going to be an Internet celebrity."

He didn't care about the strangeness of the mechanical jellyfish at all. He could only see the flashing lights. His daughter had never been so popular. This video might be on the federal hot search list tomorrow.

By then, the whole federation will be able to see his daughter.

They are going to be famous.

In this era where controlling traffic means controlling money, he saw an opportunity to make a fortune, and at that moment it seemed as if countless money was pouring into him.

Sudden.

There was a slight bang.

A mechanical jellyfish hit the glass wall, but the sound was very small because of the thick glass.

If only one mechanical jellyfish is acting strangely, there's actually nothing abnormal about it.

Animals often behave in ways that are difficult for humans to understand.

But, bang bang bang!

One after another, mechanical jellyfish began to crash into the wall.

The little girl's mother was so worried that she couldn't help but raise her voice, "What's wrong?"

The commentator's smile froze. He was just an employee who got paid a fixed salary and memorized information every day. His knowledge of marine life was only superficial.

I've never seen such a scene before and don't even know how to explain it.

Dozens of tourists with hundreds of eyes stared at them, not knowing whether this phenomenon was normal or abnormal.

"Now it seems," the narrator said, his voice hoarse under pressure, "these jellyfish are quite enthusiastic."

"Really?" Someone rubbed his arm and said, "Why do I feel a little scared?"

"I think so too," said another. "They seem...really eager to get out?"

The mechanical jellyfish went from sticking to the glass wall to "squeezing" against it, hitting it with its umbrella-shaped head.

It looks like it really wants to come out.

Would a mechanical jellyfish have such an idea?

The commentator had never encountered such a challenge in his career and reassured everyone: "The mechanical jellyfish doesn't have that high IQ, please rest assured."

"Is it unsafe?" Someone looked at the mechanical jellyfish with a worried expression.

The commentator has been doing this job for so long that he's always asked some strange questions. Even if he's swearing inside, he appears very gentle on the surface: "That won't happen. Our glass walls are specially made and can withstand tens of millions of tons of pressure. They're bulletproof. Not to mention jellyfish, even explosives can't blow them up..."

Snap——

Before the commentator could finish his words, a clear clicking sound suddenly occurred in the venue.

Everyone heard it.

Everyone looked at the glass wall.

The little girl suddenly started to back away as if she had seen something terrifying.

I saw that the place where the little girl's palm was previously placed had cracks with spider web patterns as the center!

The little girl's mother was the first to react. She hugged her child around the waist and ran out with her in her arms, completely ignoring the people behind her.

Then there were screams, and all the tourists reacted.

This glass wall is about to collapse.

The mechanical jellyfish inside is about to come out.

Not to mention whether there are any living creatures inside, the pressure caused by such a huge water wall once it collapses can suck everyone into it!

"Run!" someone shouted as they ran. "It's going to collapse! Run!"

There were people queuing outside the venue, all of them getting very impatient when they suddenly heard some movement coming from inside.

"What's wrong?" asked someone outside the venue.

Someone ran out with a panicked look on their face, "Hurry up! It's going to collapse!"

Some people followed the crowd out, while some tourists stopped to see what was happening.

The commentator was stunned. He still had a microphone on him and a series of mechanical jellyfish figures hanging around his waist.

The commentator swallowed, not knowing why he couldn't move his feet.

How is that possible?

The information I memorized shows that this wall will never collapse.

Isn't it said that it can withstand bombs?

It's just a crack, what a big fuss.

Snap—

A desperate sound came from behind.

The commentator froze and slowly turned around.

The shattered glass wall seemed to be contagious, and a huge flaw could be found from a small crack.

Behind the broken glass wall, dense jellyfish seemed to be ready to attack.

The glass wall, which has been stretched to its limit, cannot withstand even the slightest pressure, let alone so many mechanical jellyfish rushing in at the same time.

The narrator finally realizes how wrong the situation is, but before he can even take a step and run away.

boom!

The broken glass finally couldn't withstand the pressure of tens of millions of tons, and the sea water mixed with mechanical jellyfish instantly submerged him.

…

Zhu Ning frowned after seeing the video. The surveillance video recorded the whole process. At the beginning, a little girl touched the glass, and then it broke.

This little girl is a little weird.

Zhu Ning's question was shared by everyone, and Fang Ying answered it directly. "We are currently investigating this little girl. Her name is Lin Xiaofeng. Her father, Lin Tianqi, was previously an adventure blogger, but his account has since been shut down. Her mother, Su Qingqing, has a social media account."

Fang Ying sent a message simultaneously.

It is a social account named Baby Xiaofeng.

If you scroll down, you will see photos of little girls and some short videos.

Lin Xiaofeng is very beautiful, with big eyes and fair skin. Her parents are willing to spend money on her. When you flip through her photos, you will find that none of her clothes are the same twice.

However, the number of clicks is not high, and it is just lost among the many beautiful pictures on the Internet.

There is no shortage of beauties in this era, and of course there is no shortage of cute little girls.

The account does not seem to be shared naturally, and has obvious signs of personal management.

Maybe this time I came to the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum just to take advantage of the popularity.

I didn't expect to encounter a pollution outbreak at the jellyfish aquarium.

Fang Ying: "There is currently no news about their current situation."

The people in the video were too close to the contaminated area. They did not escape and their bodies were not found.

The situation is a mess now and the cleaning center has no idea about the current situation of this family of three.

Fang Ying stood opposite them, synchronizing the news with them: "There are still survivors inside. The exact number is not yet known, but a rough estimate is that there may be thirty people trapped. The White Dove Team has already entered and they are responsible for rescuing the hostages. The Grey Eagle Team will go in and eliminate the source of the pollution."

It is quite normal to find survivors inside a suddenly infected contaminated area.

Zhu Ning recalled the basic courses he had taken during training. Public areas like this are usually equipped with temporary safety zones.

Large venues are equipped with safe zones that can accommodate 500 people and allow ordinary humans to survive for six hours.

When people encounter pollutants, their first reaction is to look for a nearby safe house.

Zhu Ning just felt an explosion at the Yongsheng Pharmaceutical Foundation. It should be the sound made by the White Dove Team after they entered to rescue the hostages.

The White Dove Team might have activated some large weapon.

Fang Ying continued, "The technical department has determined that the contaminated area is a Class B area with dual pollution sources. The Grey Eagle team will lead cleaning team A70265 directly into the contaminated area, while the remaining two cleaning teams will remain on standby outside."

Double sources of pollution?

Zhu Ning has entered the polluted area three times, each time with a single pollution source. It turns out there are also dual pollution sources?

Fang Ying saw Zhu Ning's confusion and explained, "Cleaners usually enter after the Demon Hunters have finished their work, but this time they're entering with them. This is because there are two sources of contamination. Once one is resolved, Cleaning Team A70265 must immediately begin cleaning up the scene to prevent secondary contamination, especially to protect civilians."

Once a pollution source is resolved, the contaminated spores begin to escape, and the contaminated spores may cause secondary parasitic contamination to the contaminated area.

Especially if there are still survivors inside.

If the contaminated spores are not properly handled, the thirty survivors can easily become contaminants.

What Li Nianchuan said was always right. Cleaners are very important, especially when encountering situations like this with multiple pollution sources.

Fang Ying: "This mission will put a lot of pressure on the Cleaner team. If necessary, the Demon Hunters will have to carry out containment at the same time."

This is the significance of collective training in the cleaning center. When the situation is urgent, there is no difference between demon hunters and cleaners.

Fang Ying looked like a secretary, but at this moment she was very powerful and asked, "Do you understand?"

Everyone answered: "I understand!"

Li Nianchuan was a little worried in private.

In the past, experienced veterans were called in to the contaminated areas with two pollution sources. It was understandable to ask Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng to go there, after all, they had at least one year of containment experience.

But there is a newcomer in their team. Zhu Ning has only been a regular employee for less than a month and has only been on one mission. The last mission was D-level, but this time he is directly on B-level?

Or fight together with the demon hunter?

Are you attracted by Zhu Ning’s extremely high spirit value?

But the Cleaners and Demon Hunters are soldiers to some extent, and they must obey the orders of their superiors.

There was no room for doubt about Li Nianchuan.

Li Nianchuan poked Zhu Ning and said softly, "Be careful."

Zhu Ning didn't feel anything, "You too."

Li Nianchuan: "..."

Is this a mockery of him?

Zhu Ning was not mocking him, but she knew that something was wrong with Xu Meng, yet she still wanted to participate in such a dangerous large-scale mission with her.

You might die in there.

Fang Ying continued, "The detailed information has been sent to your employee wristbands. Please review it yourself. Please note that the contaminated area is the aquarium, which has a complex ecology. If decontamination is not possible after 30 minutes, the center will send support."

The aquarium is large in area, has many species, and has a complex ecology. There are tourists and large marine creatures. If the contaminated spores spread, it will be a disaster.

The priority of the cleaning center's task is to deal with the contaminated area that is overflowing, which may cause large-scale contamination this time.

The area within five kilometers of the aquarium has been evacuated, and in the worst case scenario, they will seal off the aquarium area.

Otherwise the entire 103 area will be infected.

"I hope everyone will refrain from using explosive weapons unless absolutely necessary," Fang Ying added. "Some creatures inside the aquarium are already on the verge of extinction."

Zhu Ning: “…”

The difficulty of this task is too high. We have to consider protecting marine life at the critical moment of life and death?

I am almost dead. I am the rarest animal.

But no one else seemed to have any questions, especially the demon hunter team, who accepted it easily.

"This time, the cleaners will be on a mission with the witchers, and they will all wear the witcher's communication tools." Fang Ying asked people to distribute the communication tools, which was a black velvet box.

Zhu Ning had heard from Li Nianchuan before that the communication channels of demon hunters were not easily contaminated.

This time Zhu Ning was finally able to make contact.

Opening the black velvet box, inside lay a blue ring the size of an earring, emitting a faint sea-blue light.

Looks very familiar.

Very similar to the earrings of Fang Ying and Song Zhizhang.

On the back of the blue ring is a circle of tiny "hyphae", which should be used to invade the nerves.

Fang Ying: "Wearing it on your solar plexus can directly establish a connection between artificial intelligence and your nerves."

Fang Ying spoke quickly, "If necessary, artificial intelligence can even take over your body and take you away from the venue. Please relax."

Zhu Ning frowned.

She instinctively rejected anything that needed to be connected to her brain.

The demon hunter and cleaner next to him were both wearing them, and Zhu Ning was a little hesitant.

Li Nianchuan noticed that she didn't want to wear it and said, "Generally there's no reaction, but a few people may reject it."

Either Zhu Ning quits the mission or he must accept it.

The mission is urgent and there is no time for Zhu Ning to think slowly here.

She placed the blue ring on her temples.

At that moment, I felt as if countless small needles were piercing my brain, and my whole brain was like an earthquake. The nerves were connected in an instant, and the signals connected every nerve ending.

boom--

She felt a buzzing in her head, followed by tinnitus.

Her head, which was already a little tingling, now felt as if countless needles were piercing it at the same time.

"Zhu Ning?" Li Nianchuan noticed something was wrong with Zhu Ning and asked, "Are you okay?"

Zhu Ning's reaction was so big that the witchers nearby all looked at him sideways.

"What's wrong with her?" Zhu Ning could hear Fang Ying's voice.

"There will be some rejection reactions during the first access, Zhu Ning?" Fang Ying called her.

After all, it is connected to personal nerves. The higher the mental value, the more likely it is to have an immune response, but Zhu Ning's reaction was particularly strong.

Her face was pale, she couldn't help feeling nauseous, and cold sweat kept coming out of her back.

The physical symptoms are bearable. Zhu Ning has suffered many injuries in his previous life, so he will not cry out to the gods for such a small matter.

What was unbearable was her brain. Her brain was extremely repulsive, and every cell in her body was shouting: Get rid of the foreign body.

Get rid of the foreign matter, get rid of the foreign matter, get rid of the foreign matter...

Her brain rejects any invasion, and if an invasion is forced, Zhu Ning will die on the spot.

The filament attached to the nerve ending begins to slip and its attachment fails.

The "hyphae" was slowly retreating, and for the first time it was unable to land in a person's brain.

Finally, it had to settle for the second best. It withdrew all the "hyphae" that tried to control the nerves, retreated all the way back, and finally stationed near Zhu Ning's solar plexus.

Its function became extremely simple. It did not occupy any of Zhu Ning's nerves. Apart from detecting basic life, it only allowed Zhu Ning to hear his own voice.

A deep and calm male voice.

【Voice package implanted successfully.】

[The identity of the cleaner Zhu Ning has been confirmed.]

[I am Prometheus, the commander of this battle, and I am at your service wholeheartedly.]

Zhu Ning had just caught his breath when he was stunned when he heard this.

Prometheus, it really came.

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