Chapter 103 Egg——ran away!
"You mean... the entire base is covered in a dense maze of tunnels!? All of it? No? Gaps??"
Bishop Claude looked at the red-robed believer who came to report in astonishment, wondering if he had appeared? Hearing hallucinations.
Knowing that the underground base covers an area of nearly 100,000 square meters and the space height is about 100 meters, if we want to dig a hole from the uppermost surface sand layer to pass through the hidden underground base and enter the deeper area, I am afraid that we need to dig through a height of about 200 meters in total. Let's not talk about how to prevent the sand layer from collapsing. The manpower and time consumed alone are a big problem. However...
"There's only one person on the other side, are you sure?"
Bishop Crow couldn't help asking again.
The red-robed cultist who served as the leader of the demolition team was full of anger. He walked around the base square to check the situation and then ran back to report. He said, "Yes, after we blew up the ground of the base, there were crisscrossing tunnels underneath. Bishop, did that damn thief really dig out the base?! Even the A-level defense materials of the base couldn't withstand a bomb, but the blood crystals used to block the falling soft gravel on the opposite side completely withstood the power of multiple bombs!"
The red-robed Christian who was speaking had a scowl on his face. "Your Excellency the Bishop, I would like to request the use of those large-caliber shells in the warehouse!"
"..." If that thing fires a few more shots, this base will? Collapse? .
Bishop Claude looked at the red-robed cultist whose hair was almost standing up. He was the person in charge of the incubator at the No. 23 base. He swallowed his saliva quietly and began to comfort him in a gentle voice, "Calm down first. Since he can use blood crystals, it means that he is an alien, and there are only two aliens in the base. What about us? Let's secretly tie up Bo Qu first? Are you still afraid that his companions will show up?"
The person in charge had a gloomy expression. He looked at Bishop Claude, and with a reluctant smile, he said, "Of course, I have sent people to arrest Bo Qu. I heard that Bishop Claude has a good relationship with Bo Qu in private. I hope you can come forward and persuade him to send the experimental subject back."
Bishop Claude thought that he had some kind of relationship with Boqu, and it was not certain that it was Boqu who did it. Based on his understanding of Boqu, digging a tunnel underground to steal eggs was too outrageous and exaggerated, and it was not something that someone like him could do.
But at this time, the person in charge was furious, and even his tone became extremely cold and hard, and it was obvious that he could not hear any sound.
Bishop Claude had no choice but to agree repeatedly, appease the other party first, and then wait and see what happens.
...be quiet.
Wait? When the person in charge turned around and prepared to take out the bomb to continue blowing up the tunnel, Bishop Claude touched his increasingly bald head and sighed silently.
What is going on?
When I accepted the mission, I didn't say that the incubator in Base 23 was still in operation.
The influence of the Red Cult spread throughout the desert. Unlike the Knights who stayed in the mobile fortress all year round or occasionally went out to annihilate the enemy, the Red Cultists either stayed in various subsidiary bases to monitor, or hid in corners to secretly study various strange projects - the incubator was one of them.
There are dozens of incubators of all sizes in the desert, most of which have been abandoned due to the slow progress of research. The incubator in Base 23 may be the exception.
Bishop Claude was one of the members of the church stationed in the kingdom. He enjoyed wealth and luxury, loved leisure and hated work, and was good at dealing with people. He learned through some channels that this meeting with the envoys from the ruined city was extremely important and could make a lot of money, so he took the initiative to accept the mission and rushed here, but he didn't expect that there were traps everywhere.
The third person who accompanied him? The leader of the Knights, "Bear", was a stupid guy, very rigid and followed the rules.
Bishop Cui, who intervened in the action, was lazy and willful, and his true thoughts were hard to understand.
Later, the alien Bo Qu, who rushed to the base and claimed to be "looking for suitable research materials", looked friendly on the surface, but actually had ulterior motives and did not make his true purpose clear.
The two S-level captains of the ruined city who arrived last did not play by the rules at all.
And the incubator is still in operation...
Bishop Crow bent over, and the more he recalled what had happened during this period of time, the more frightened he became.
For some reason, he always felt uneasy. He thought that the balance of multiple parties could make everything go smoothly, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a little weird and creepy. Indistinctly, it seemed that there was an invisible hand in the dark, quietly pushing certain events to happen.
Bishop Crow, who was lost in thought, did not know that overlapping and distorted shadows were slowly appearing in his pupils, as if a second pair of pupils were quietly emerging.
The next second, there was a sudden sound of wind, and a hand suddenly fell from behind, slapping Bishop Crow's head hard. The crisp sound was very clear in the room.
"Why are you in a daze? I'm talking to you."
Cui Zhiyong glanced at Bishop Claude with disdain, then sat back in his original chair holding the magazine, crossing his legs lazily, which was out of tune with the messy and chaotic environment.
Bishop Claude touched the back of his head. The shudder that had been lingering in his heart had subconsciously dissipated. After a brief moment of confusion, he had forgotten all that he had just thought. He only remembered that Cui Zhiyong had hit him on the head, so he stared at him and asked.
"Can't you? Shout a few more times?... By the way?, what did you just say?"
Cui Zhiyong lowered his eyes to read the magazine and said casually, "I say, don't make a fuss. Maybe the egg will grow legs and run away."
Bishop Crow: "...It's an egg!"
Cui Zhiyong continued calmly, "Didn't you say yesterday that the egg was about to hatch? Who knows? Maybe it secretly broke through the shell this morning and ran away? - It's a new life that has integrated the genes of various organisms. Who knows? Maybe it can also use its mental power to dig a hole in advance?"
Bishop Crow: “…”
He wasn't ready to continue listening to Cui Zhiyong's nonsense. He turned and walked out of the research room, ready to go to the square to see what was going on in the underground tunnel.
Wait? After Bishop Crow left, Cui Zhiyong was the only one left in the room. He frowned, threw the pretentious magazine in his hand onto the table, stepped on the data reports that were full of information, and said to himself: "The egg was originally inactive and could not hatch at all. You affected it, didn't you?"
The room was dead silent. Cui Zhiyong seemed to have heard something. He frowned. "No? It's you? How is it possible? You're not watching this base? Is the energy that is radiating enough?..."
He stopped talking abruptly, and suddenly thought of something. His face changed drastically and he ran out in a hurry.
"Damn it, you can't? Do that to him!"
Cui Zhiyong said angrily.
That’s Yun Yan’s brother!
They haven't even met yet!!
......
“A-choo!”
Chu Xiuyan sneezed again and muttered, "I still feel like someone is thinking about me."
Boom!
The sand layer above his head shook violently again, and the layer of blood crystals covered it with long and narrow cracks. Although it quickly recovered, tiny grains of sand still rustled through the cracks and fell on the boy's head.
He shrank his neck, brushed off the sand on his hood, and continued to push the giant egg in front of him, which was as tall as a person even if it was flat on the ground, forward.
"Yes? It looks a bit like an egg."
Chu Xiuyan smacked his lips: "I want to eat eggs?"
No? The famous egg shook? A moment.
The explosions above his head never stopped. He was only a few hundred meters away from the edge of the base. As long as he left the base, the bombs would not be able to hit him.
But at this moment, Chu Xiuyan suddenly heard a slight thumping sound, like the sound of a bird's beak pecking at wood.
He looked left and right, and then set his sights on the unknown egg in front of him. The next second, with a click, the eggshell the size of a fingernail suddenly fell in front of him.
A small bird beak appeared in his sight, covered with mucus, looking cute and pitiful.
"Is this going to? Break the shell?"
Chu Xiuyan waited expectantly for the next change in the egg, but to his surprise, the bird's beak never retracted, nor did it continue to poke the eggshell around and then pop its head out from the eggshell.
The tiny bird's beak just stared at him blankly, looking silly.
The little life inside doesn't seem to be ready to face the outside world.
The system began to ponder: [Is it? It was not originally intended to break the shell, but when you rolled away just now, didn't you accidentally crack a piece of the eggshell, and then it just stuck out its mouth? ]
Chu Xiuyan, is his conscience hurt? He said, "My poor child——"
Then he continued to roll away, and the bombs of the Red Cult swept across a large area, almost blowing up the blood crystal on his head? .
As he rolled, bombs roared overhead, and the bird's beak, sticking out of the eggshell, occasionally poked into the sand, leaving a long winding trail.
"Dan, hold on a little longer. We will soon be able to escape from the enemy's encirclement!"
Finally, the bird's beak shrank back, followed by two more crisp sounds.
Two newly fallen eggshell fragments fell into Chu Xiuyan's eyes.
Then two claws emerged from the egg—hind limbs?
It was about as long as a forearm, with three toes, each with a hard claw. The gray-black scales seemed to be covered with a layer of light hair, which was very strange.
And unlike birds, this little creature's hind legs seem to be very good at running on land.
As Chu Xiuyan was observing the two claws, the two feet suddenly trembled in midair. The little life inside struggled to stand up by supporting the round egg. Somewhere on the top, the small bird beak poked out from the broken crack again and shouted angrily at the confused Chu Xiuyan:
"grumble--"
"!!!"
Chu Xiuyan was touched: "Are you calling me mom? Good? Cute!! But in our species, the father raises the eggs, so? You have to call me dear daddy."
The bird's beak chirped at the boy again, then turned and ran away.
The pair of strong and powerful hind legs ran very fast in the sand, almost leaving an afterimage, and disappeared in the tunnel in the blink of an eye.
“…”
"!!!"
Chu Xiuyan's eyes slowly widened, no? He said in disbelief: "My eggs - damn bad bird, steal my eggs!!"
System: […You were praising this cub for being cute just a second ago! And the egg has already hatched? Don’t just stand there, chase after it!]
Chu Xiuyan ran after him: [I want to glue the broken part of this egg back together. It must be the same position as the bird just broke out of the shell, right? Let it hatch again! Right? I have to let the uncle hatch the eggs. He must have experience.]
System: [… Why does Zhang Chun know this? Does he have any experience in this area?]
Just as Chu Xiuyan's mind was full of random thoughts, a deafening explosion suddenly sounded above his head, smashing through the ground of the base, shattering the blood crystals, and with the rustling of gravel falling, a black shadow jumped down directly.
It was a red-robed Christian covered in dust, with a crazy look on his face, holding a bunch of bombs in his arms. He smiled grimly at the shocked Chu Xiuyan, "Thief, I finally caught you?——"
Before he could finish his words, the crisp thumping sound was heard again.
The egg, which had come back at some point, stood behind the red-robed believer. Its beak seemed to have grown longer. It opened its mouth directly toward the red-robed believer's head, revealing two rows of sharp teeth.
Chu Xiuyan was horrified: "Is there anyone in your recipe?!"
The Red Cultists didn't know there was a strange egg behind them. "Huh?"
The next second, half of his head was suddenly grabbed by the mouth, and his legs left the ground and fluttered in the air.
The exposed mouth opened and closed, screaming wildly: "What is this?! Help me——"
The egg held the red-clad cultist in its mouth and swung it in the air, as if signaling the boy to follow, and then ran quickly deeper into the tunnel.
The voice of the kidnapped red-robed cultist still echoed in the tunnel, as if to remind his companions: "There is a monster in the tunnel."
The system is good? It seems to have guessed it? What, [Host, is there? No? A possibility? The cub in this egg feels that you rolled it too much? Why not just break out of the shell and run away? ]
Chu Xiuyan: "......cute."
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