54 Weird Oceanarium (XI)

◎Zhu Ning is actually asking Xuan Qing for money!◎

Cleaning center.

Apart from the three technicians and Xuan Qing, there was no one watching.

Someone passing by glanced over here and said, "They haven't given up yet?"

The cleaning center has given up. The witcher has handed over his body to Prometheus, but a cleaning team has not given up yet.

The technician sighed: "They are really lucky."

Luck is definitely the biggest factor in their survival. If they were attacked by a invisible man, they would probably have the same fate as the witcher.

But the current situation also came about because Zhu Ning and his team were not limited to just sweeping up the garbage, and proposed to go to the director's office to check first.

They discovered the existence of the invisible man before he took action.

Then some counterattack plans were made, although these plans seemed ridiculous to some people.

"That's too much of a joke." Someone said, "I don't believe it."

As long as the four of them move, there will be no flaws. If their formation is broken up, they will be finished.

Xuan Qing didn't say anything. She neither confirmed nor denied this statement.

On the screen, Zhu Ning had led the team through the corridor for 500 meters and killed two invisible men during the process.

They passed by four fire extinguishers and replenished their resources. Now fire extinguishers have become strategic weapons.

The five hundred meters were walked very slowly. The corridor had the advantage of terrain, with narrow sides and few places to hide. The only things to pay attention to were the corners.

Ever since the Invisible Man suffered a loss once, he has been very cautious when appearing.

The invisible man is not so easy to catch.

All the team's ammunition is concentrated on Zhu Ning and Chu Ling. They crush their way forward, aiming to get close to the Mechanical Jellyfish Pavilion at all costs.

When they arrived, they took the stairs, walking according to the design of the building.

When they left, they did not return the same way, but took an unconventional route.

The four-person team will approach the Mechanical Jellyfish Pavilion from above, which is the shortest and fastest route.

The offices for the aquarium staff are usually on the upper floors, and the structures of all aquariums are similar.

To use the model as an analogy, it is like placing several large fish tanks on the ground and filling the fish tanks with marine life.

Visitors usually walk between the fish tanks to view the fish, while the aquarium staff work above the tanks, feeding marine life, maintaining the marine system, cleaning the aquarium glass and other tedious behind-the-scenes work.

Therefore, the tops of each exhibition hall were left open, leaving openings for staff to enter and exit. It seems that even with the technological advancements of the wasteland world, the basic logic of the aquarium remains unchanged.

The corridor became emptier and emptier, and we were about to reach the staff's workshop.

There is a door 500 meters ahead with the words "Mechanical Jellyfish Museum Backstage" written on it.

This is where they feed.

Zhu Ning warned: "Be careful."

The closer Zhu Ning got to the backstage of the jellyfish museum, the more she could feel the gazes. There were more and more invisible people, and she felt like someone was staring at her.

I should be approaching their forbidden area.

Three hundred meters.

There were still three hundred meters left to the backstage of the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum when something unexpected happened.

The fire extinguisher in Li Nianchuan's hand was used up, and he needed to change equipment. The fire extinguisher in the wasteland world had super endurance. He walked five hundred meters and continued to spray the fire extinguisher, and it was very powerful until now.

Li Nianchuan acted quickly. He immediately put down the exhausted fire extinguisher and reached behind his back to get a new one.

During this period, Zhu Ning kept holding his gun and looking forward.

Just as Li Nianchuan's finger hooked onto the spare fire extinguisher, Zhu Ning suddenly heard a ding sound.

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[Primary talent Danger Prediction has been triggered. A 30-second warning has been sent. Please be careful.]

Danger prediction?

The system is finally alive?

After the system prompt sounded, Zhu Ning felt a huge force in his right hand.

Someone grabbed her arm!

A terrifying force was transmitted from his arm. If Zhu Ning had not been injected with the genetic medicine, his arm would have been crushed into powder by now.

She heard a clear sound of bones cracking. The invisible man saw how the team operated and decided to deal with their strongest gunman first.

Zhu Ning is their new target.

She could feel Li Nianchuan's eyes widen and he shouted, "Be careful!"

She could also sense the invisible man close at hand.

He was right beside her, and she could hear the faint sound of his breathing.

Very soft, almost inaudible.

In the premonition of death, Zhu Ning saw the invisible man grab her arm, and then his other hand stabbed directly into her chest, piercing her heart.

It only took twenty seconds for her to die instantly.

Zhu Ning held the gun with his left hand and pulled the trigger with his right hand.

The invisible man was pinching her right forearm.

When the severe pain was clearly transmitted to her brain, she had already reacted. She immediately loosened her left hand and pulled out a □□ from her thigh.

Then he collapsed to his right without even looking.

This was so sudden that Zhu Ning didn't even look up, and of course it couldn't be called aiming.

The moment the bullet was shot out, there was a bang and blood exploded.

Jelly-like tissue mixed with blood exploded, drizzling onto the rest of the team.

Li Nianchuan was stunned. Zhu Ning's right forearm was broken and hung loosely.

She had been injected with genetic drugs, but she could still be injured like this even under the protection of her work clothes.

Li Nianchuan's heartbeat quickened, and he immediately opened the fire extinguisher, filling the gap and spraying out dry powder.

There was more than one person coming.

Another person appeared in front of Zhu Ning. The invisible man's blood formed a pool on the ground, so if someone wanted to step over, there would be traces.

A bloody footprint suddenly appeared on the ground.

Zhu Ning endured the pain in his right arm and fired with his left hand. The bullet hit the bloody footprint and probably missed.

Bloody Footprint sensed the danger and immediately ran in the opposite direction.

Zhu Ning's foresight of danger bought her thirty seconds to react, otherwise her heart would have been ripped out by now.

She can't use her right arm now. She is right-handed and her shooting accuracy is much worse with her left hand.

Zhu Ning yelled, "Chu Ling! Be careful!"

There is a gang committing crimes on the opposite side. They seem to have thought of a plan to deal with their team. Zhu Ning is in danger, and the next one is Chu Ling.

As she expected, something unexpected happened in Chu Ling's direction.

The place they were in now was not as narrow as a corridor, but an open space, which meant that the enemy could come out from anywhere at any time.

Chu Ling felt someone suddenly rushing towards him from the right. Xu Meng had been spraying a fire extinguisher. The other party dispersed the smoke and wanted to catch him off guard. When he saw the invisible man, he was already within two meters.

Chu Ling reacted faster with Zhu Ning's reminder. She was a robotic arm, which was much stronger than the human body.

Even with enormous force, it is impossible to break it in an instant.

Instead, Chu Ling raised his right leg and attacked fiercely in one direction.

This is martial arts.

The other party is not that good at it. Chu Ling realized in an instant that they are marine creatures raised in an aquarium. They may have great strength, but they will not have combat skills.

The advantage of having 80% of her body mechanized is that she is actually no different from a combat robot. She can adjust her own values ​​to adapt to opponents of different levels.

Zhu Ning had taken fighting classes with Chu Ling, and she remembered the moment when she threw herself out with a hug.

Very scary.

Chu Ling immediately adjusted the value to the maximum and established a full body defense system. The other party only removed the surface skin of her mechanized body.

With a bang!

Chu Ling grabbed the opponent's arm and immediately shot.

Blood exploded. The invisible man looked very strong, but when he was beaten to pieces he looked like a jelly man.

Chu Ling's body was half covered in blood.

Xu Meng was in charge of spraying the fire extinguisher. She and Li Nianchuan were both cleaners. It was the first time they saw Chu Ling beating someone up close.

The quality of demon hunters is really different, and it is completely different from the training courses.

From beginning to end, their formation did not break up.

Chu Ling: "There's nothing unusual on my side."

Zhu Ning endured the pain in his right hand and adjusted to holding the gun with his left hand. He said calmly, "Nothing unusual."

Chu Ling: "Are you still leaving?"

Zhu Ning gritted his teeth and said, "Keep going. They're so nervous, it means we're on the right track."

The invisible man's behavior patterns are becoming more and more complicated and dangerous, which proves that their journey was not in vain.

There are less than a hundred meters left to the backstage of the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum.

So far, Zhu Ning's guesses about the invisible people have been correct, and their number will not exceed a hundred.

There were five people who came out to attack. One of them ran away and stepped on blood with his right foot, leaving a long bloody footprint. Zhu Ning was too lazy to chase him.

"Go on." Zhu Ning said.

…

Many people gathered in the lobby of the cleaning center.

They either came to watch on purpose, or they were in the middle of their work or passing by the screen when they went to get some water and suddenly stopped.

It’s just that there were quite a lot of people who stopped and gradually gathered together into a group.

After the A-level system was activated, they felt that there was no hope.

Their team, with Chu Ling as a demon hunter and everyone else as cleaners, was actually gradually approaching their target.

A few noobs fought against a transparent man with enormous strength, and for some unknown reason they felt their blood was boiling.

Those who are abandoned never give up. This vulgar drama never goes out of style.

"Damn, I have goose bumps." Some technicians have been watching the whole process until now. The car has reversed twice. They always feel that it will overturn next time, but they haven't overturned yet.

"How did she do that gun just now?"

Some people were watching Zhu Ning's video over and over again, and it seemed a bit strange no matter how they looked at it.

What can I say about Zhu Ning’s reaction? It was as if she had foreseen that the invisible man would attack her arm. Does she have the ability to foresee danger?

"It's a sixth sense, a lot of experienced demon hunters have it."

Sixth sense. People who have been on the battlefield for a long time will possess a very special ability, and it is difficult for the old veterans to explain to the younger generations.

It cannot be taught or explained, and in a sense it is a metaphysics.

But metaphysics can save lives at critical moments.

"What are they planning to do?" someone quickly interrupted him, "I don't understand this strategy. Didn't they say they were going to provide support?"

If they wanted support, they should have gone straight into the Mechanical Jellyfish Pavilion. The Grey Eagle team there was almost defeated.

The mechanical jellyfish and the invisible man are attacking from both sides, and now they are controlled by Prometheus. The four people seem to have a common brain, and their cooperation degree exceeds that of humans themselves.

At the cost of sacrificing Cao Wei's arm and Liu Zhiwei's leg, the four of them came together.

They re-formed a formation, following the same strategy as Zhu Ning and his team.

They found the only place that was not flooded by water. It was a transparent ladder specially used for taking photos. Internet celebrities hope to have a sense of suspension when taking photos.

The oceanarium provided this device, which has now become an escape prop.

The glass stairs were covered in blood and had jelly-like severed limbs.

Next to Cao Wei was the seriously injured Liu Zhiwei, who was leaning against the glass wall with a very horrific wound on his abdomen.

There were some empty fire extinguishers at their feet, and the glass walls were covered with marks from bullets.

The Grey Eagle team had just suffered a fierce battle. There were endless mechanical jellyfish in the water, and they had to be on guard against the ubiquitous invisible men at all times.

They made a very crude trap, spraying red ink at the entrance to the stairs and leaving a few red footprints on the glass stairs.

They will shoot immediately if anyone approaches.

This is a stronghold they found. The Grey Eagle Team looks obviously not doing well and may not be able to hold out for long under Prometheus's control.

If they need support, they should go here. Why are Zhu Ning and the others going above the jellyfish museum?

"What do you think the cleaning team is doing?" someone asked.

They analyzed the scene and didn't understand the plan of Zhu Ning's four-person team.

The other man pondered for a moment and replied, "Perhaps they want to go directly above the jellyfish tank, bypass the witcher, and kill the source of the pollution?"

"Fuck!" the man yelled, then whispered, "Are you crazy?"

Below is a trap made up of invisible men and mechanical jellyfish, so these people just jump in.

"I guess so." The man himself didn't quite believe it.

"What genius came up with this stupid idea..." He changed his tone mid-sentence, "A genius idea?"

"The new guy inside."

The first time he went on a mission he entered a Class D contaminated area, the second time he entered a Class B area, and now he wants to lead the cleaning team to rescue the new guy from the Witcher.

“…”

Okay, he had nothing to say. Considering how outrageous Zhu Ning was, nothing that happened to her was outrageous.

…

They killed two more pollutants.

Then the door to the backstage of the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum was opened.

The backstage was very large, with a huge pool. As soon as they came in, they smelled a strong smell of blood.

It felt like I was walking into a slaughterhouse instead of the backstage of a mechanical jellyfish museum.

It was their first time to enter the backstage of the aquarium. There were many sophisticated instruments mounted above the pool to create artificial waves and lighting effects.

There is an entrance specifically for feeding. If the invisible man lives with the mechanical jellyfish, he must be fed here.

The pool looked a little strange. The water was black and swirled constantly. Countless tiny tentacles were twitching in the water. Some mechanical jellyfish had tentacles resting on the edge of the pool, clearly telling others that this was not a good place.

They could faintly hear gunfire below, probably the witchers resisting.

The little girl in red, Lin Xiaofeng, and the real source of pollution of the mechanical jellyfish are right below.

"Set a trap." Zhu Ning said.

There must be other invisible people nearby, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

But it is beneficial to them now. When facing the invisible man, if you don’t want to provoke him, it is safest to stay still.

As soon as Zhu Ning finished speaking, Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng immediately took action, splashing ink and collected blood on the ground.

That little bit of blood was contributed by those invisible people just now.

They barely drew a two-meter protective circle, which became a safe zone. As long as a transparent person stepped in, they would be able to detect it immediately.

In fact, Zhu Ning has something better to use, a 2X2X2 three-dimensional defense space, but she can't use it in front of so many people. Once she uses it, she won't be able to explain it.

The danger foreknowledge could be roughly explained as a sixth sense, but she had no explanation for using the defensive space.

After everything was set up, the four of them sat on the ground, back to back, looking in four directions.

They needed to rest the team temporarily. It was only two kilometers from the director's office, and they had never walked such a difficult two kilometers.

Everyone was tired.

Chu Ling asked, "How are you?"

Zhu Ning: "Not bad."

Zhu Ning gave herself a shot of a powerful healing agent and bandaged it to help it take effect. Bones heal very slowly, taking at least an hour to fully heal.

During this period, Zhu Ning could only use his left hand.

Li Nianchuan looked at Zhu Ning with some worry. There was a huge difference between the left and right hands, especially for shooters. The difference between the left hand and the right hand might be the difference between an ordinary person and a champion.

However, Zhu Ning was able to aim at the target with his left hand just now.

Geniuses should be different from ordinary people.

Zhu Ning glanced at Chu Ling. She only had two broken steel bars on her right arm. Zhu Ning asked, "Are you a monster?"

Chu Ling: "I spent nearly 80 million to buy this body that is 80% mechanized."

If Zhu Ning works in the cleaning center to save money to buy genetic medicine, then Chu Ling saves money to buy the best mechanical parts. The effects of different robotic arms vary greatly.

Chu Ling has always chosen the best within its capabilities.

Zhu Ning: “…”

Are paying players that much great?

The last time she was able to defeat Chu Ling in the fighting class, she was really just being clever. If she really met Chu Ling on the battlefield, Zhu Ning would be crushed by the other party.

Chu Ling: "But I can't hold on for long."

Chu Ling consumes energy, and it can be increased to the maximum in an instant. She has been maintaining a hardened defense throughout her body. In less than fifteen minutes, she was paralyzed.

It is also very powerful and can save lives at critical moments. No wonder so many people choose mechanization.

Chu Ling said calmly, "When planning your battle, you can consider my characteristics. It's okay to sacrifice me if necessary. As long as you preserve my brain, I can be resurrected."

After choosing mechanization, her head also became mechanized. When encountering danger, the head would automatically block and protect Chu Ling's brain.

As long as the brain is alive, in theory, Chu Ling can regenerate after receiving other mechanical prostheses after leaving.

Zhu Ning: “…”

It was a little hard for her to imagine herself walking out of the contaminated area holding Chu Ling's head.

However, if you can make use of the Chu Ling, your chances of winning can be doubled.

"Are we really going down?" Li Nianchuan asked.

He felt a little scared when looking at the black vortex, which reminded him of the truly terrifying deep sea.

In fact, if he looked at the black vortex for a few more seconds, his mental level would drop.

Zhu Ning's plan was to bypass the demon hunters and directly purify the polluted area.

But there are mechanical jellyfish and invisible people inside. Are you sure you are not going to die if you go in?

The four of them went through great pains to get to the backstage of the mechanical jellyfish, and only Li Nianchuan dared to ask this question at such an inopportune time.

Zhu Ning: "You're right, it's not that necessary."

Li Nianchuan: “……?”

Chu Ling: "You..."

Chu Ling was the one who wanted to go in and help her teammates the most. She realized she was out of position halfway through her words. To be honest, all the members of the cleaning team A70265, except Zhu Ning, were just cleaners.

It's already amazing that they can achieve this, and there's no need for Chu Ling to force others to follow him to die.

Chu Ling was very anxious, but Zhu Ning didn't seem that anxious.

Chu Ling asked, "What are you doing?"

Zhu Ning looked at the vortex as if he were a researcher looking at puddle water on the side of the road: "Worker."

Chu Ling: “…”

Generally, without alerting the source of pollution, after entering a polluted area, they will choose an identity that is suitable for the polluted area.

Zhu Ning had been an exhibited creature before, and now she assigned the entire team the identity of feeding the mechanical jellyfish.

But this plan is not very effective. There is already a chaos inside. Even if you put on a vest and act here, the other side will not accept the role.

The backstage of the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum was cold and gloomy. Zhu Ning looked around and said, "Jellyfish have a symbiotic partner called the small herder fish."

"Little Muyu?" Chu Ling, who knew nothing about marine life, asked, "How do you know?"

Zhu Ning: "I had nothing to do, so I read a lot of random stuff."

In her previous life, she was trapped by zombies for three months. She was so bored that she read every word she could see. She was even bored enough to read the instruction manual for a while.

She has read novels about domineering CEOs and many children's science books, just like she knows that snails have radulas and jellyfish have small shepherd fish.

Zhu Ning explained: "The little herder fish is responsible for attracting natural enemies to the jellyfish group, and then the jellyfish will hunt them. Do you think there are any mechanical jellyfish?"

Chu Ling: "You mean, the invisible man is the symbiotic partner of the mechanical jellyfish?"

Zhu Ning: "The source of the pollution is inside. Logically, as long as I eliminate the source of the pollution, the contaminated area will automatically collapse, right?"

Chu Ling didn't know why Zhu Ning asked such an obvious question. Li Nianchuan could answer this question, so she nodded.

Humanity has been fighting against pollutants for more than eighty years, and the laws explored by countless predecessors have become the iron laws for future generations.

Just as Zhu Ning eliminated the source of pollution in the Mermaid Pavilion, the Mermaid Pavilion collapsed automatically and produced contaminated spores.

According to common sense, if the pollution source of the jellyfish aquarium is eliminated, the mechanical jellyfish will die instantly and then turn into polluted spores.

Zhu Ning asked: "Do pollutants have symbiotic partners?"

Symbiotic partners?

Symbiotic partners and pollutants seem very strange together, like a combination of two completely unrelated words, just like putting bicycle and cat into a phrase.

A symbiotic partner of the pollution source?

Chu Ling had been a demon hunter for five years, and she had never heard of it.

Zhu Ning: "Assuming that the invisible man is a symbiotic partner of the mechanical jellyfish, after we eliminate the source of pollution, we are actually not sure whether the invisible man will die, right?"

Chu Ling: “…Yes.”

This logic makes sense.

Chu Ling was also wondering what the invisible people were. Do they belong to this polluted area?

Or just survive near the mechanical jellyfish.

After all, they are very much like a kind of "experimental subjects" raised by the curator.

Zhu Ning thought of someone, Huang Yaruo.

Huang Yaruo can survive in Subject No. 777 for fifteen years without aging. Is her relationship with Subject No. 777 also a symbiotic partnership?

After Zhu Ning purified No. 777, Huang Yaruo did not die, and she is now missing.

Zhu Ning: "Let's consider the invisible people as a third species for now. They are neither human nor pollutants. Be prepared. Even if the polluted area is purified, the invisible people may not die."

Chu Ling was silent, things were very troublesome.

They had come all the way from the director's office, still clinging to a glimmer of hope that the four of them would support the witcher.

Eight people plus Prometheus can definitely purify the aquarium.

The problem now is not only to purify the pollution source, but also to kill all the invisible people.

The highest interests of the Cleansing Center must be the ordinary civilians in Area 103.

If it is impossible to kill all the invisible people, based on Chu Ling's understanding of the cleaning center, they will choose to bury the two teams here.

In fact, they had already done so, and the red letter A on the helmet kept flashing.

She had just seen the A-level program activated, and all the demon hunters would be prepared to sacrifice, but thinking about it.

There's no point in struggling.

They walked from the corridor to the mechanical jellyfish hall, and after going through a lot of hardships, there was actually no suitable solution that could really solve the problem.

Although it was emphasized three times before entering the scene that explosive weapons should not be used casually, it now seems that explosion is inevitable.

The question is how and when to blast.

Chu Ling was lost in thought when she heard Zhu Ning ask, "Is Minister Xuan the person in charge of this operation?"

“Yes,” Prometheus replied.

Zhu Ning fell silent for a moment when she heard Prometheus' voice. If she remembered correctly, Prometheus was now controlling the bodies of the Grey Eagle team.

He controlled it while answering his own questions coldly.

When entering the scene, Prometheus said that the mortality rate of this mission was five to eight percent, and if Prometheus really took over everyone at that time.

The decision-making of artificial intelligence is more important than their right to life, and they will become tools in the true sense.

Prometheus decides who lives and who dies, or if they die together.

Zhu Ning must solve this problem before artificial intelligence takes over.

Zhu Ning looked ahead, as if he could look Xuan Qing in the eye through his helmet. "Please ask her, how much money will she give us if we complete this mission?"

Chu Ling thought she had heard wrongly. What was Zhu Ning going to do?

She wants to make a deal with Xuanqing?

Zhu Ning: "It's so difficult. We were just here to sweep up the garbage. If we really get out alive, it would be a big loss to still get our previous salary."

Chu Ling: “…”

She didn't know what to sigh about first. At this critical moment, Zhu Ning was actually asking Xuan Qing for money!

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