Chapter 245 Targeted Attacks
There were two footsteps behind him, one light and one heavy.
"Brother Fan?"
Gao Yuan's somewhat confused voice sounded in the team's voice channel: "Why don't you leave?"
Chen Fan swallowed his saliva and tried to keep his voice as calm as possible: "... Come and see for yourself."
The footsteps behind him were a little hurried.
With the advantage of long legs, Gao Yuan came to Chen Fan's side one step earlier than Isa.
When he saw the hell-like scene in front of him, Gao Yuan's face turned pale instantly: "This, this is..."
Almost at the same time, a soft exclamation sounded in the team's voice channel.
"Resonance."
Chen Fan turned around, and his steady and powerful eyes swept to Gao Yuan and Isa, whose faces were pale: "It's very similar to those who died of resonance on Varela Star, but..."
"These academicians seem to have been attacked by some unknown force."
Under the horrified gaze of Gao Yuan and Isa, Chen Fan squatted down, hesitated and stretched out his hand to gently pick up the dark brown academician covered with blood and threw it aside.
Of course, it was separated by the exoskeleton armor.
Without knowing the details, he didn't want to get into any trouble out of thin air - what if there was a deadly virus hidden in these pieces of meat?
The academician's robe soaked in blood was a bit heavy.
It drew an arc in the air and made a dull sound when it fell to the ground.
The rotten meat covered by the academician's robe was also completely revealed in front of Chen Fan.
Chen Fan, who was looking at this scene through the transparent mask, subconsciously held his breath, but there was still a faint stench echoing in his nasal cavity.
Chen Fan, who noticed this, couldn't help coughing hard, and even a few tiny tears appeared in his slightly red eyes.
"Yi, is there a problem with the internal circulation system of the exoskeleton armor?"
Until the stench in the nasal cavity gradually faded, Chen Fan took two deep breaths and questioned Yi.
As soon as the voice fell, Chen Fan realized the problem.
Logically speaking, the exoskeleton armor has extremely good sealing properties, coupled with a perfect internal circulation system, these odor-spreading gas molecules simply cannot enter the armor.
Moreover... the air circulation system of the research ship is running, and it is impossible for such a strong odor to remain in the research ship!
As expected, the electronic synthesis voice quickly sounded in my ears.
"The self-test has been completed, and the current internal circulation system is operating normally."
Chen Fan frowned slightly: "Just now... I smelled a strong stench."
"It's the kind of corpse stench that only rots."
"Impossible!" Yi quickly refuted, "This machine retrieved the internal circulation monitoring data of the exoskeleton armor. Since leaving the [Varilla], the environmental indicators inside the armor have not fluctuated at all."
Chen Fan did not speak, but just felt it carefully.
Strangely enough, the sudden stench just now has disappeared, as if it was a hallucination that swept through.
"Hallucination?"
Chen Fan lowered his eyes and murmured in a low voice.
Although he said so, he did not believe this statement in his heart.
He thought that his nerves were not so fragile.
The experience of investigating Varila had tempered his nerves to be extremely tough, otherwise he would not have been able to squat down and pick up the academician's robe to carefully examine it without changing his expression.
Footsteps came from behind him, and Isa and Gao Yuan also came to his side.
Chen Fan did not speak, but just turned his head slightly to look at Isa's face behind the transparent mask.
The moment she saw the mixture of blood and flesh, Isa's already bleak face became even paler, but she still stood firmly beside Chen Fan, trying hard to restrain her nausea, and even opened her eyes as wide as possible to look at the rotten meat on the ground.
"Don't you smell anything?"
Chen Fan suddenly spoke and asked Isa who was trying to adapt.
"Smell?"
Behind the transparent mask, Isa sniffed lightly, and then shook her head blankly: "No."
Chen Fan's heart sank.
Is it really just an illusion?
Or... this inexplicable stench is directed at him?
While thinking, Gao Yuan's honest voice came from the side: "Brother Fan, what's wrong with you?"
Chen Fan calmed down his inner emotions and his expression returned to his usual calmness.
He shook his head lightly: "It's okay, I just thought of a little thing."
After that, Chen Fan looked down at the rotten meat crawling on the ground again.
Fine and dense, layered tumors are growing on this mixture of blood and flesh, just like some extremely malignant cancer.
But Chen Fan knows that cancer under normal circumstances will never cause such a result!
Especially...
Not far from the mixture of blood and flesh, there is a medical cabin with quite complete functions.
Chen Fan stood up and squinted his eyes to look at the overall shape of the rotten meat.
With some close-fitting clothes, a vague human figure can be vaguely seen-the whole person is lying face down on the ground, with his right hand still reaching far to the medical cabin not far in front, and two lumps of rotten meat in the shape of legs are slightly twisted behind.
Chen Fan can even simulate the scene at that time in his mind.
When the resonance occurred, an academician wrote down all kinds of strange text symbols that appeared in his mind. Then, his body began to undergo some kind of mutation, and a large number of tumor-like tumors appeared inside his body.
Perhaps it was the severe pain that awakened him, or perhaps it was the strong willpower that made him regain some consciousness. The academician struggled to stand up and tried to enter the medical cabin not far away.
But...
the speed of the mutation obviously exceeded his expectations. Before he took a few steps, his body turned into a pile of rotten meat and fell heavily on the ground.
Chen Fan couldn't help but shudder, and a little confusion emerged in his heart.
Although the resonance of Varila Star can also kill people, it only roasts the brains of intelligent creatures, and it will definitely not cause this kind of tragic situation of the whole body mutation. What is the reason for
this academician in front of him to become so miserable? Chen Fan took a deep breath, squatted down and cleaned up the rotten meat on the ground. Although he was wearing a mechanical exoskeleton armor, Chen Fan still noticed something strange when he inserted his hand into the rotten meat. The rotten meat no longer had the firmness and elasticity of flesh and blood. It was like a layer of blown-up foam, extremely loose. "One, open the medical cabin." Chen Fan held the rotten meat in his hands, carefully stepped over the dark brown blood words on the ground, and walked towards the emergency medical cabin installed in the corner of the laboratory. Swish! As Chen Fan approached, the tightly closed door of the medical cabin slowly opened, and a soft orange-yellow light was lit inside. Chen Fan endured the nausea that kept emerging in his heart and put the rotten meat full of tumors in his hand into the medical cabin. "One, help me check it carefully." ... The medical cabin started to operate, and Chen Fan also took the opportunity to take a holographic photo of the blurred blood words on the ground. When the Academy of Social Sciences successfully deciphered this strange text, perhaps these blood words could provide him with more clues. "Test completed." The electronic synthesized voice sounded in his ears, and the orange-yellow light in the medical cabin slowly dissipated. A holographic projection showing various complex data automatically popped up in front of Chen Fan. "The biological DNA has been severely damaged, and almost all DNA chains have been broken." Yi explained the test results to Chen Fan: "The degree of breakage is very alarming." "It can almost be called a crushing destruction." "In theory, unless the academician has prepared a backup clone gene in advance, even if he enters the medical cabin, his fate cannot be changed." Chen Fan raised his eyebrows: "The resurrection function doesn't work?" "Of course." Yi gave an affirmative answer: "Although the medical cabin has a resurrection function, it still requires complete biological genetic genes." "Almost all the DNA chains in his body are shattered, so it is naturally impossible to revive again." "As for those sarcomas..." Yi hesitated for a moment and continued, "The test results show that almost all of them are malignant hyperplastic tumors." "But the activity of these tumors is very strong, and their growth rate has reached an unprecedented level." "It is basically certain that this academician has been attacked by an extremely precise external attack." Chen Fan nodded, turned his head and scanned the still intact laboratory, and took over the conversation: "And it is a highly targeted attack." "The target of the attack seems to be only humans." "The experimental equipment in the laboratory has not been damaged. In this case, the other party's target is most likely the research ship itself." "No wonder the research ship has to activate the internal ban mode..." As he said this, he couldn't help but reveal a little admiration in his eyes. He has experienced several resonances and naturally knows the mental state when resonance occurs. Being able to issue this order soberly under the condition of resonance and physical alienation, there is no doubt that the academician who issued the ban order is absolutely worthy of respect! Chen Fan pondered for a moment: "One, is there any way to bypass the research ship itself and carry out precise strikes on the academicians inside?" "Theoretically..." One hesitated for a long time and gave an answer that surprised Chen Fan: "There is no such weapon inside the Human Union." Chen Fan subconsciously asked back: "No?!" "But for low-level civilizations, the Human Union has a weapon that can achieve similar effects." "High-energy neutron storm." One called up an interface that recorded simple data, "This weapon that relies on high-energy neutron beams to cause damage can directly destroy the genes of living organisms, but this weapon is easy to resist." "As long as you master the grand unified force field, it will be difficult for high-energy neutron beams to penetrate the starship shield and cause damage." " Therefore, this weapon can only be used against low-level civilizations." "Based on the safety level of the research ship, this machine does not think that this weapon can cause harm to the academicians inside." One made a summary, "Besides, the genetic damage caused by the neutron storm will take some time to show up." Chen Fan looked a little heavy. There is no such weapon inside the Human Union. The meaning of this sentence is actually very clear-the enemy's strength will never be weaker than the Human Union. It may even exceed the Human Union! ! ! (End of this chapter)
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