Suddenly, Wen Shifei's footsteps stopped abruptly!
At the corner of the passage ahead, several corpses lay scattered on the ground! They weren't fresh, but had already decayed to a strange, bluish-purple color, covered in a thick fungal mat. But what caught Wen Shifei's attention was the way they fell—all facing the depths of the passage, their bodies twisted into an extremely unnatural, as if frozen in time! Their protective suits bore no traces of bullet holes or tears!
"Invisible knife..." Wen Shifei's heart sank. She immediately activated the terminal's deeper scanning mode and simultaneously removed a small metal ball from her tactical belt, gently rolling it forward.
The metal ball rolled silently across the slime-covered ground, approaching the corpses.
Buzz——!
Just as the metal ball rolled next to the corpse, a sharp, almost ear-piercing buzzing sound suddenly echoed in the air! Then, an extremely subtle spatial distortion wave, almost imperceptible to the naked eye, like ripples on the surface of water, instantly swept across the location of the metal ball!
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The solid alloy metal ball was instantly and silently cut in half, like butter being thrown into strong acid! The fracture was as smooth as a mirror!
Wen Shifei's pupils suddenly constricted! A high-frequency particle cutting field! And it's range-triggered! Pandora's defense technology! Sure enough, it's here!
She immediately crouched low, pressing herself against the relatively smooth metal wall. The terminal screen frantically refreshed the scan data, attempting to capture the energy field's fluctuations and source. Cold sweat trickled down her forehead. This invisible cutting field, once triggered, covered an extremely wide area. At her speed, forcing her way through would be suicidal!
Time ticked by. A low-pitched humming sounded like a demonic voice filling his brain, and the cutting field, like an invisible grim reaper, silently and periodically swept through the passage. Wen Shifei's nerves were tense to the extreme, his brain racing, accessing all the information on similar defense systems in the "Lighthouse" database.
Got it! An extremely obscure method that uses sound waves of a specific frequency to disrupt the stability of its energy nodes! But it requires extremely precise frequency simulation and release timing!
Wen Shifei's eyes flashed. She quickly operated the terminal, calling up the built-in sound wave simulation module, and her fingers quickly entered a string of extremely complex frequency parameters on the virtual keyboard. Success or failure depended on this one move!
She took a deep breath, calculated the gaps swept by the cutting field, and suddenly aimed the terminal at the direction with the strongest energy reading deep in the channel, and activated the simulated sound waves!
Buzz——!!!
A sharp sound wave with a special oscillation frequency, completely different from the surrounding low-frequency hum, pierced deep into the passage like an invisible awl!
Buzz...buzz...
The invisible particle cutting field in the air flickered and twisted violently like a poorly connected power grid! The coverage area was significantly reduced, and the sweeping frequency became disordered!
Now is the time!
Wen Shifei's figure was like an arrow shot from a bow. In the moment of chaos in the cutting field, she used the protruding metal debris on the walls and the ground as a temporary foothold, and with speed and agility beyond her limits, she swiftly passed through the narrow death tunnel! Her figure almost became an afterimage, and every leap and roll accurately avoided the still deadly but no longer stable cutting ripples!
Tsk! Tsk!
A cutting wave brushed past her tactical boots, and a thin layer of the hard sole was instantly shaved off!
Wen Shifei didn't stop, rolled forward, and finally rushed out of this death passage and fell into a relatively open space!
Suddenly, the view became clear.
This was a massive, half-buried dome structure. Most of the dome had already collapsed, revealing the dim light of the sky outside. In the center of the space stood a massive device, resembling a deformed heart, composed of countless twisting pipes and unidentified metal components. Its surface was covered in a thick layer of dust and moss, but key interfaces and energy conduits emitted a cold, will-o'-the-wisp blue light, the source of that anomalous energy! Beneath the base of the device, connected to a dense network of thick, blood-thin pipes, deep underground.
Wen Shifei immediately raised the terminal and began a full-scale scan, recording the device's structure and energy characteristics. This was the target! Pandora's lost, out-of-control neural pulse amplifier! It could release powerful, directional pulses capable of instantly destroying a living being's nervous system! No wonder those scavengers were instantly frozen in time!
We must bring it back! Its core technology could be of immense value to Dr. Qin's research on nerve damage repair! But first, we need to ensure it's safe...
Just then!
"Intruder detected... Threat level... High..."
A cold, intermittent, synthesized sound with electronic noise suddenly rang out in the empty dome space! The source of the sound was the huge pulse device!
Buzz——!!!
At the core of the device, the cold blue light suddenly became dazzling! An invisible, intensely malicious mental shock, like a physical hammer, slammed into Wen Shifei's consciousness!
Wen Shifei was prepared and immediately focused on resisting! But the force of the impact was far beyond her expectations! She groaned, her vision instantly blacked out, her brain felt like it was being pierced by countless needles, and she almost dropped the terminal!
Even worse! Several of the thick, blood-like pipes beneath the device's base suddenly bulged and began to wriggle! Accompanied by the teeth-grinding sound of metal rubbing and hydraulic transmission, several horrifying, twisted figures, as if stitched together from metal and flesh, slowly crawled out from the dark caverns connected by the pipes!
They had humanoid silhouettes, but their limbs were twisted and deformed, covered in rusted metal plates and exposed nerve bundles that shimmered with a faint blue light! Their heads lacked facial features, only a multi-faceted sensor that continuously rotated and scanned, emitting a scarlet glow! In their hands, they held enormous cutting blades, like mantis arms, that shimmered with high-frequency energy!
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