Chapter 112 Wake up!
The difficulty of clearing A-level multiplayer copies is within controllable range.
Lin Muyu wielded the long sword slowly and cut off the deformed head with a single move. Blood splattered and he dodged sideways, glancing at his companions nearby.
For multiplayer copies, decryption is not the most difficult. After all, when seven brains think together, the potential they possess is unlimited. Add in two detective abilities, and deciphering and answering questions will be a piece of cake.
Therefore, the most distressing part is the cooperation and trust. A moment of hesitation and thinking may lead to a tragic ending, and it also requires great consideration for cooperation and tacit understanding.
At this moment, the decryption phase has passed, and the mad BOSS leads its soldiers to attack step by step in an encirclement, intending to gradually break through the seven people's defensive positions.
Tumors of varying sizes hung on the skin of the deformed species, scattered all over their bodies, with wriggling maggots and pustules faintly visible. Ye Yunhe had a painful look on her face, and rolled over to get away from the tumor's self-destruction attack, so as to prevent the disgusting substance from staining her clothes and making her unable to eat for several days.
Fortunately, Wumatu's insects are not afraid of being disgusting.
The long worms are twisted, poisonous or non-poisonous, short or long, all of them have grown into huge bodies due to their special powers, and under control, they join the battle in their own ways. The boneless worm wrapped around the deformed species like a python, squeezing it tightly and blocking the filth that would spray out in the next second.
This is destined to be a war of attrition among insects. Wumatu had a gloomy face and his eyes did not miss any corner.
"Catch the leader first!" Si Yu'an held the sword upright on the ground, using the force to step over the group of deformities, "I'm going to go meet the BOSS first! You guys help me block the soldiers!"
"Me too!"
The low-ponytailed psychic replied in the same voice. She pulled up her Amplification teammate who was not too busy and brought him to a very delicate position where she could manage everyone at once.
"This is a good place. You can use your superpowers here. I'll give you some defense first." She was pleased with her own cleverness, then immediately followed Si Yu'an.
This time the BOSS is very clever, and is good at launching attacks when people are caught off guard, swallowing up the team that has not prepared a strategy in one fell swoop. If he fails in one move, he will hide somewhere to consume the enemy's strength and wait until everything turns around before taking action himself.
There is an endless supply of soldiers, but their energy is limited after all. It is obviously not a wise move to compete with the BOSS in terms of consumption in its home field. The most important thing is to find out the real BOSS hidden in the deformity. Si and An knew this truth very well.
But as mentioned before: this BOSS is very smart, smart and afraid of death. Between being cool and handsome, it chooses to be timid, which means it is destined to be a scum among BOSSes who is as slippery as a loach.
Without some good fishing strategy, it is impossible to catch it by yourself.
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As a backup plan, Lu Qingyuan waited patiently outside the copy. The rescue team set up a small tent a few meters away from the black fog and parked it together with several cars.
If it is an ordinary mission, she will be responsible for several adjacent teams at a time, using her special powers to quickly reach the area that needs rescue, and then pull the people out of the copy. But this time is different from the past. It is a cooperative cleanup between the two camps, and there is no room for mistakes in this regard.
Two days have passed now, which is usually the day when the copy ends. It is speculated that the seven people should have already started fighting with the BOSS. Lu Qingyuan stared at the black fog and thought.
There were dark circles under his eyes and his brain felt a little dizzy, as if it was the aftereffect of lack of sleep. She rubbed her temples and felt that her sleep in the past few days was really bad. She always woke up inexplicably in the middle of the night, staring at the ceiling of the tent in a daze as if she was sleepwalking, and then suddenly came to her senses with a startle, her eyes were frighteningly dry.
"You haven't been in a good mood these days."
Xin Yi, who came with the rescue team, frowned and stared at her, his gaze lingering on the bloodshot eyes of Lu Qingyuan for a moment: "Is there something wrong? Didn't you take the medicine prescribed for you on time?"
"No... I just didn't sleep well. I listened to the doctor's advice." Lu Qingyuan pressed his eyeballs through his eyelids, sighed and leaned back on the folding chair, "I'll have a good sleep when I return to the government. If that doesn't work, I'll prescribe some tranquilizers."
"As for those bitter medicines... good Xinyi, please let me go——"
Xinyi looked at her quietly for a few moments.
She tilted her head and whispered, "I feel like you've been different lately."
"Hmm?" Lu Qingyuan looked up in confusion, "What's the difference? Are you being sarcastic to me?"
“It’s a good change.”
The girl replied simply, her casual tone disappearing into the wind. The sky was clear and blue. Her gaze drifted upwards, and she naturally changed the subject.
"I heard that a new copy appeared in the northwest."
"New copy?" Lu Qingyuan narrowed his eyes and felt that this matter was not simple.
"Yes." Xinyi continued, "I specifically talked to you about this because that copy is a little special. Although it has already arrived and spread, the equipment cannot detect its level. The group has been discussing it for the whole morning."
Lu Qingyuan stared and took out her cell phone which she hadn't opened for the whole day to check.
Sure enough, whether it is a large group or a small group, a private group or a dedicated cricket group, they are all neat and bright 99+, which makes people feel less sleepy.
Without saying much, she clicked into the pinned group, scrolled down from the top, skimmed past the useless comments at the speed of light, and a large amount of information suddenly flooded into her mind.
An airborne copy discovered at 4:44 am yesterday morning began to spread like ordinary black fog as soon as it touched the ground, but strangely, when professionals tested its level, the instrument did not respond for a long time. It was obviously repaired not long ago.
The black fog remained silent in its place, without any response to humans' doubts.
After a series of inspections, it was found that there was no problem with the instrument, but it really could not detect anything. There is no other way but to put it aside temporarily. Besides, the magnetic field of the black fog is very stable and it doesn't seem like the type that will suddenly expand its range. The professionals pondered over it and decided to return and report this strange phenomenon to their superiors.
I don't know whether some careless guy leaked the news along the way, or some ordinary, fearless person with his own instrument discovered the difference, but the news spread inexplicably before it even reached the government. Coupled with people's concern about the black fog, this incident is like a stone hitting the water, causing ripples.
"It's normal for the black fog to show its level after it has spread. It's really worrying that it suddenly appears at this point."
Xinyi suddenly spoke up, looking at the ladybug crawling away on the ground: "Qingyuan, do you think this is the work of Anchao?"
"...I can't say for sure." Lu Qingyuan's face was gloomy. "It depends on the further observation. If the special black fog comes from the Dark Nest, I actually think that is the simplest problem."
She fumbled with the screen, staring at the various words on it.
"And letting so many people know this news always makes me feel a little...bad."
Why does this world have to be so turbulent?
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at the same time.
“Still not detected?”
"No, sir." The employee holding a stack of heavy documents said sadly, "The people in the northwest have replaced the equipment with new ones, but they still can't detect the level of the black fog. Now they have arranged for people to be stationed nearby to investigate whether there is any work of the secret nest."
The officer who worked hard stopped writing and said, "It should have nothing to do with the Dark Nest. If those things can even control the copies, then there is no need to fight this battle. Just surrender."
The employees nodded in agreement.
"So, sir, can your special ability be of any use?" the employee asked expectantly.
The commander smiled slightly, shattering his expectations.
"Of course not." He squinted his eyes and said nothing, "I don't know anything except that it is a newly born black fog. My ability is not advanced to that level yet."
"Can you tell me about my fortune for this month, sir? I feel like my luck has been extremely bad lately."
The officer's smile disappeared from his mouth: "Do you really think I'm a fortune teller? Go back to work, don't try to waste time here, I can't do it."
The employee turned around and left miserably.
wrong.
Suddenly, they both stopped. The boss's hand holding the pen was about to move but stopped. He raised his head again and looked at the employee who had suddenly visited him with a stack of documents in his hand.
"What are you here for?"
The employee was silent. He shook his dizzy head and seemed to hear the water shaking inside.
"Excuse me, sir, I forgot I was here to deliver a message."
Under the caring gaze of his superior, he continued with shame: "Because you didn't respond to my message, the higher-ups asked me to inform you: the boy in the ward woke up not long ago. You had contact with him before, so I asked you to go and contact him."
Qi Heng is awake?
The commander was caught off guard and stared at the unexpected news.
It was so sudden. I didn't expect this at all. Although he knew it would be around this time, he really hadn't figured out how to contact him. Besides, the first person people wanted to see wasn't him, a weird government official who had tried to abduct teenagers, right?
He subconsciously went to look for his cell phone which was charging in the lounge, wanting to tell the three people this unparalleled news to them. But in the next second he remembered that the three were currently fighting hard against the enemy in the dungeon, so he gave up the idea.
"..." The officer was silent for a moment. He looked at the documents piled beside him, hesitated for a moment, nodded to indicate that he understood, and was about to get up to visit the medical building.
Before that, he stopped the employees who were about to leave, and with a smile on his face, he acted like a fortune teller, looking quite elegant.
"Don't leave yet. Don't you want me to calculate your fortune for this month? Since we have a good relationship, I will use my invincible power to estimate it."
The employee showed surprise on his face, and immediately stood there waiting. He looked at him and pinched his fingers, his expression becoming serious.
"Um--"
The officer groaned for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes.
Amid the employees' expectant gazes, he withdrew his hand, sighed and shook his head. He looked as if he was about to say: You are in bloody disaster. Unexpectedly, the next second, he suddenly grabbed a heavy document beside him and put it on the stack in the other person's arms, making the already heavy stack even heavier. Then he turned around and squeezed out through the crack in the door, waved his hand and left quickly.
Finally, a faint voice came: "I figured it out, I figured it out. Your luck is really bad this month. The only bad thing is that there will be countless jobs coming to you. But as long as you help me deal with those piles of documents, I will definitely teach you how to crack them when I come back--"
staff:?
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I don’t know how many times I have come to the medical building. Although I am not sick, I come and go more frequently than the other patients.
The officer walked skillfully in the corridor, turning back and forth, nodding to the medical staff passing by.
Really, really, the higher-ups are selfish, but they want him, an upright gentleman, to exercise the power. Don’t they know that the consequence of wanting both is usually to get nothing?
He sighed deeply.
But we really can't let Qi Heng leave the government. Fortunately, this young man has established a deep friendship with those three people here. Otherwise, with this coveted special physique, wouldn't he be carried around by others if he went out? Isn’t this one less hope for humanity?
If that were the case, they would have to resort to tough measures to retain the person, which would not only be dishonest, but would also hurt the feelings of both parties. Although it is impossible to study the boy's physique under the eyes of those three people now, at least the relationship is much more gentle.
He shrugged.
As he was thinking, he arrived at his destination. Looking at the door that was already ajar, the officer quietly turned sideways and glanced inside to check.
The boy has woken up. To be honest, it was quite strange. There was a sense of strange familiarity. After all, the previous times we met, I saw that sleeping face. It was a bit strange to see him suddenly open his eyes and sit up.
Perhaps because he was still confused after just waking up, the always perceptive Qi Heng did not notice a furtive figure peeking at him from outside the door. He just quietly lowered his head and looked at the thin needle inserted into the blood vessel on the back of his hand, staring at the medicine in the tube slowly flowing into his body.
There was no one in the room except him. The intensive care unit was larger than the normal ward, and it looked spacious with the single bed and the necessities that did not take up a lot of space. It was dusk outside the window, and the bright, blurry light and shadows were refracted through the glass and reflected on the ground, making it seem even quieter.
After a while, the boy's eyelashes trembled, as if he came back to his senses from a trance, or as if he wanted to find something to do, so he looked around and finally set his sights on the basket of fruit beside the bed.
It was quite far away, at least for a patient who had just woken up and whose body had not yet restarted. In order to prevent the needle in the patient's hand from shifting, the officer withdrew his gaze and pushed open the door the next moment.
The boy, who was about to bend down to take the apple, paused.
After a brief pause, he quickly glanced sideways, his speed so fast that it seemed as if there was a hint of anticipation, and even his eyes were filled with light.
After seeing the person coming, they all dispersed, leaving only the initial calmness and indifference. Qi Heng retracted his action, sat upright and stared at his superior quietly, not surprised by his arrival.
“…”
Look, he knew that what the young man wanted to see now was not him.
The officer, who was met with invisible disgust, smiled and remained silent, thinking that this might be the price he paid for having his expectations shattered three times in one day.
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