Although it was midnight, Zhou Zhuo still showed a speed that did not match his age and quickly arrived at the communication device in the command room.
After both parties briefly confirmed their identities, Zhou Zhuo tentatively asked a few questions that he had prepared in advance.
These questions were used to determine whether the subject's thinking logic was normal. After confirming that there were no problems in all aspects, Zhou Zhuo focused his attention on the most important link, which was the issue of the life support capsule.
"For the life support capsules produced by Hope City, there will be a laser-etched code on the side of the hatch. Find it and report it to me."
Zhou Zhuo's tone sounded full of confidence. He confirmed that the empty life-support module should be the creation of Hope City. However, he found it difficult to understand why such a problem would occur with the originally unmanned exploration rocket.
Of course, the so-called unmanned rockets are more accurately lifeless rockets, so there is no possibility that there are creatures such as monkeys in them.
Then, Zhou Zhuo heard an unexpected but more logical response:
"We found no etchings."
"emmmm"
Zhou Zhuo thought for two seconds and asked tentatively:
"Are you sure? Is it possible that we were negligent? If you can't open it, I can..."
It was no wonder that Zhou Zhuo was so suspicious of the other party. After all, he had just experienced a red temperature a few hours ago. In his opinion, the level of those people on the other side of the communicator was already very high.
"No, the life support cabin of team member 'Puppet Master' has a similar structure. We successfully opened the hatch from the front and did not find the number you mentioned."
Zhou Zhuo could tell that the person who replied to him was the lady code-named Beacon. The other party's voice was obviously not that happy, and it seemed that she was helpless about her own suspicion.
The deputy director fell into deep thought again. After more than ten seconds, he slowly asked:
"Can the armor of the superpower codenamed 'Undead' also carry an empty life support capsule? If so, I hope you can bring it back.
“This is very important to Hope City, because if this life-support capsule is not produced in Hope City, then it means that there may still be large human settlements outside the city walls.
"Our technology is of the same origin, but there are some differences in models and manufacturing, so the numbers and detailed structures will also be different, which is very important to us."
The people on the other end of the communicator had already thought of this direction of development. After confirming that Wang Xiao still had enough strength left, they agreed to Zhou Zhuo's request and would return immediately after dawn.
Everything that happened here was secretly monitored by Lin Qingliu. For the first time, he felt the joy of peeking at the screen, and at the same time he had some different ideas.
Because unlike Zhou Zhuo who was hundreds of kilometers away, Lin Qingliu could see everything here.
He saw some black granular substances at the bottom of the life-support capsule, which was produced from an unknown place.
Was the observation window broken from the inside or the outside? What was the final fate of the creature in the life support capsule?
Lin Qingliu fell into deep thought, and felt it necessary to ask Ji Yongxing to pay special attention to this item after the team returned to Hope City.
At this moment, he felt an unusual fluctuation.
Even though he was using Fran's senses, and even though they were 150 kilometers apart, Lin Qingliu was still able to discern the nature of that fluctuation; it was a biological field.
The biofield around Team Fresnel was changing, and changing rapidly.
One, two, dozens of roots emerged from the soil, lingering in the hole left after the life-support capsule was evacuated.
In a windless environment, these roots sway in all directions, as if looking for something.
The hyphae grew more and more numerous and became denser and denser, interweaving into a spider-web-like structure in the holes formed by the soil and humus.
The cylindrical space was divided into countless small parts, and then these roots underwent new changes.
The roots, which originally had some characteristics of plant roots, began to evolve in another direction. It took only a few seconds for them to transform from roots into hyphae and began to move rapidly outward.
At the same time, rustling sounds began to echo in the sparse jungle, as if a baby whose pacifier had been taken away began to express his dissatisfaction in the simplest and most primitive way of crying.
"Give it back to me, give it back to me! Give me back my things!"
The illusory signal appeared in Lin Qingliu's mind without any language. He felt the constantly fluctuating biological field around him, as if a pool of stagnant water was thrown into the biological field of a big stone. He felt that the air around the team seemed to become a little sticky.
"Return immediately."
A familiar yet unfamiliar voice appeared in Wang Xiao's ears. He was stunned for a moment, then remembered the owner of the voice. Then, relying on his deep trust, he immediately made a decision:
"Captain, we retreat now!"
"What?"
Fresnel asked back instinctively. For ordinary super-powered people, no matter how powerful their abilities are, it is difficult to feel the existence of the biofield as long as they do not have corresponding specializations.
Therefore, the strong winds and huge waves at the biofield level just now did not affect Fresnel and others at all.
“Pah.”
With an almost inaudible sound, a strand of mycelium was placed on the edge of the life-support capsule that was placed on the ground.
"Found it! Found it! That's mine!"
Lin Qingliu once again felt excited and happy.
At the same time, Fresnel also saw the undisguised seriousness in Wang Xiao's expression.
"Take the life support capsule and evacuate immediately!"
The others didn't ask any more questions and quickly entered combat mode.
Fresnel closed the life-support capsule and inserted it into the fixed interface on the back of Wang Xiao's armor.
At the bottom of the life-support cabin, several hyphae that had come following the news were torn off. The hyphae, which were less than the thickness of a hair, floated slightly in the wind created by Wang Xiao's running, and continuously sent their own position using all their remaining energy.
Almost the next second after Fresnel reacted, he felt the soil under his feet begin to soften, as if a rare liquefaction phenomenon had occurred in an instant.
He moved his feet one by one and saw that milky liquid began to seep out of the footprints he had just left.
"Evacuate south!"
He gave the order calmly, and at the same time gathered the nearby moonlight to illuminate the space within a few dozen meters around him.
In the pale light, every tree, every bush, and every blade of grass in the woods moved slowly and silently.
This movement is almost unnoticeable without careful observation, but if you look away from one place for a few seconds and then move your eyes back, you can feel a noticeable change.
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