55 Weird Oceanarium (12)
◎Super-large mechanical jellyfish◎
Cleaning center.
"Minister Xuan," the technician asked uncertainly, "Is she blackmailing you?"
No matter how you look at it, it seems like blackmail. The Grey Eagle Team is still resisting in the Mechanical Jellyfish Pavilion. Zhu Ning leads the team to the top of the jellyfish pavilion and stays there.
It seems that he has to hear Xuanqing's reply before taking action.
There is a certain time difference between them and the polluted area. Thinking that Zhu Ning has been waiting at the door to ask for money during this period, what is the difference between him and a local tyrant!
Xuan Qing smiled. She had lived for so many years and witnessed so much of the Federation's history, but had never been blackmailed.
Xuan Qing stood with his arms folded, thinking for only three seconds.
"Reply to her, the reward will be ten times the amount if the mission is completed, and the excess will be deducted from my salary."
Ten, ten times?
The technician looked at her in shock. Without Lu Qiqin, no one could control Minister Xuan.
This is too exaggerated.
The rewards for B-level tasks were already very generous, and Xuanqing directly gave it ten times as much?
The cleaning center employees nearby were all in an uproar. They were still discussing whether it was in accordance with the rules, and they looked sad, wondering why they were not the ones to carry out the task this time!
With this money, you could work for a year without having to work, and if your expenses are low, you could even retire right away.
They were still sighing when they heard Xuan Qing say, "Capture the invisible man alive, and the reward will be twenty times the value."
As soon as their discussion stopped, the whole hall fell into an eerie silence.
What did Minister Xuan just say? She wants to capture the invisible man alive?
The employees who had previously regretted not entering the contaminated area were suddenly speechless, and asked themselves honestly that they were simply not capable of doing this job.
Zhu Ning blackmailed Xuan Qing, and Xuan Qing also added chips.
She wants a living invisible man, because the research value of the invisible man is greater than other things.
Zhu Ning actually agreed.
…
Chu Ling couldn't understand why she agreed to such an outrageous plan.
But Zhu Ning didn't care. According to Zhu Ning, at least I got money for you.
Before they worked for the cleaning center, now they work for their lives and huge bonuses.
Zhu Ningting loves money, who doesn’t love money?
But she did not risk her life for money. After living in the zombie world for a long time, her understanding of money was that it was enough to have enough. The money she had only needed to be enough for herself to take genetic drugs and live a good life, which would be perfect.
Once she reaches this amount, she will lose motivation to work hard.
But these people need money. Chu Ling needs tens of millions of dollars to maintain his mechanized operation. Xu Meng also needs a high living expense to upload his consciousness. Li Nianchuan works just to open a restaurant and be a chef after retirement.
The same goes for other demon hunters.
In the wasteland world, if you are not a first-class citizen, you must invest a huge amount of money to maintain your own operations.
She needed to quickly improve team cohesion so that no matter what little thoughts they had, their first priority would be to complete the task.
Xuanqing's promise is the carrot hanging over everyone's head.
Sure enough, money, as a panacea, began to make the team start working.
They would just suppress their doubts about Zhu Ning and complete their mission.
The eight-member team was divided into three groups again, with Chu Ling, Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng forming a group of three and being left on the ground.
The door to the backstage of the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum has been sealed. Ninety-five percent of the backstage area is water, leaving only five percent for operations by the aquarium staff.
They stood in a circle of their own blood and paint, waiting for unknown danger.
Now the backstage door of the mechanical jellyfish is blocked. If there is a transparent person inside, it is equivalent to them being trapped together with the invisible person.
Either they complete the mission and leave with a huge bonus, or they fail the mission and die together.
The total mission duration is only twenty minutes.
Under Zhu Ning's operation, this mission became a teamwork game with a certain game duration and rewards for completing the game.
Li Nianchuan and Xu Meng held forearm-long sabers and carried self-defense tools, but Li Nianchuan had rarely used them in all the years he had been on missions.
Li Nianchuan stared at the darkness, feeling as if countless eyes were staring at him.
They don't know their number, they don't know their exact location, they could come from anywhere.
A transparent person stepped on the blood, leaving a bloody footprint on the ground. Chu Ling reacted very quickly and fired immediately.
This time she fired marked bullets, and twenty marked bullets were reserved for use at the critical moment.
The marking bullet explodes instantly. The marking bullet is more useful than a fire extinguisher. Once hit, the paint cannot fade.
The green marking liquid outlined a human figure, a three-meter-five-meter-tall human.
They were all stunned when he first showed his face. He was three meters and five meters tall, and when he stood up, he was about to touch the ceiling of the backstage venue. Li Nianchuan even had to look up to see his face.
The invisible man was mostly soaked in green juice, like an ancient forest monster.
He immediately realized that he was exposed, and then rushed towards them. According to the information integrated by Zhu Ning and Chu Ling, the invisible man moved very fast and had great strength that could break human bones in an instant.
Their only weakness is their weak defense and fragile skin surface. After being shot in the head, they will quickly collapse like jelly.
Logically, they should have shot and killed the invisible man as soon as they saw him appear, but they didn't.
When Chu Ling took action, eighty percent of her body became mechanized, and she activated the defense hardening program on her entire body, which allowed her to withstand the attack for fifteen minutes. She was the only one who was qualified to compete with the invisible man in strength.
Chu Ling kicked the invisible man in the knee. Their guess was correct, the invisible man didn't know how to fight.
The invisible man staggered, but at this moment he instinctively swung his hand and instantly threw Chu Ling against the opposite wall, cracking the wall with a bang.
After Chu Ling fell, Xu Meng immediately filled the gap.
The four of them were once brought together by Zhu Ning, and now that Zhu Ning is gone, they are also exerting their own abilities.
They had only exchanged two or three sentences, but driven by the same goal, they actually had some tacit understanding.
Xu Meng's performance far exceeded Li Nianchuan's understanding of her. She walked close to the ground and moved so fast that people could only see a shadow.
Before Li Nianchuan could see clearly, Xu Meng cut off the invisible man's left ankle cleanly and efficiently.
The body structure of the transparent man is roughly the same as that of humans. Blood suddenly gushed out of his left ankle, and some gelatinous substance flowed out.
Next it was Li Nianchuan's turn.
Li Nianchuan looked at her, tightened his grip on the saber, took a deep breath, and thought to himself, "Are we really going to do this?"
Do we really want to do this?
The Grayhawks have the same question.
Zhu Ning needed them to deploy explosive weapons and detonate them at the right time. When they saw the flashing A-level program instructions, they knew they had to go the blasting route.
Explosive weapons need to be installed manually, and half of their team is injured, so they don't want to move.
Cao Wei’s first reaction at that time was, why should they listen to the orders of a cleaner?
But they all heard Xuan Qing's words.
Twenty times the bonus.
These five words are like a shot of stimulant. If they had half given up before, they would have thought of sacrificing themselves for the overall situation.
Those five words were like a way out from a desperate situation, as if... there was still hope?
Nothing is over yet. As long as people are alive, everything is possible.
They can leave here with twenty times the bonus.
Prometheus had the ultimate authority to take over their bodies, but at this time he did not take any action, and their bodies were still his own for the time being.
Cao Wei and Liu Zhiwei had just received a powerful healing injection and were leaning against the glass stairs, catching their breath.
There were jellyfish swimming in the water on the glass staircase, they had just escaped death there.
In order to install the explosive device, they must cross the jellyfish and the invisible man again. They had just escaped death, and now Zhu Ning asked them to go back.
Tang Ke was silent for a moment, then finally spoke: "Reformulate the battle plan."
They had no other choice but to believe that this plan could come true, and it could only come true.
Prometheus is still on their minds.
Prometheus is also in Zhu Ning's mind. With artificial intelligence, the optimal solution can be calculated through big data simulation. Artificial intelligence should be the "brain" of the entire team.
But this battle was completely different, Zhu Ning was the brains of the eight-person team.
Prometheus can choose to sacrifice three people to complete this task, which has a high success rate and can save most people. He is responsible for the life and death of his team members.
Zhu Ning did not adopt his plan, nor did he hand over the control of his body to an artificial intelligence.
She wouldn't listen to AI.
Zhu Ning stood at the edge of the pool, which was filled with mechanical jellyfish and unknown pollutants. She took a deep breath, then fell backwards and jumped into the spinning black vortex without hesitation.
The black sea water instantly submerged Zhu Ning, and a long string of bubbles emerged in front of his helmet. Zhu Ning had two oxygen cylinders on his back.
She guessed that the oxygen consumption down there was very high, and she might suffocate if she relied solely on the oxygen supplied by the cleaner's work clothes.
The seawater filtration system started up, and she emitted a long string of bubbles, her movements as flexible as a marine creature.
The whirlpool on the seabed was very fierce. Zhu Ning was immediately swept away as soon as he entered. He did not struggle at all. He stretched out his arms and swam with the waves.
The source of pollution should be below.
Their plan must ensure that there are no problems in all links. As the most critical executor, Zhu Ning must not have any problems here.
Zhu Ning probably originally wanted to take Chu Ling with her into the polluted area, but after Xuan Qing mentioned the twenty-fold bonus, she temporarily changed her battle plan.
Chu Ling's whole body is mechanized. She is the only one who has the ability to compete with the huge force and is more suitable for the task of capturing the invisible man alive.
She wants to purify the source of pollution alone.
Zhu Ning is not afraid of death, nor does he possess any heroic spirit.
From the perspective of maximizing efficiency, she is the only one in this group who is most suitable to approach the source of pollution. The mechanical jellyfish is fully mechanized, and Zhu Ning's metal control range is already two meters.
Metal manipulation plus danger foresight, these two talents may not necessarily ensure her survival, but they will definitely make her die slower than others.
Moreover, she has been under surveillance since she started the mission, and it is difficult for her to make any secret moves under the eight cameras.
Now Zhu Ning only has the first-person camera left. The images that the cleaning center can see are the images that Zhu Ning sees. No one should notice if he uses some harmless little talents.
For example, now.
Three minutes after Zhu Ning came down, she heard a system prompt.
[Primary talent Danger Prediction has been triggered. A 30-second warning has been sent. Please be careful.]
Zhu Ning turned around and saw countless figures floating behind him.
They should be tourists who came to visit this time and were swept into the polluted area and became part of the polluted area.
Their bodies are soft and their clothing looks like jellyfish tentacles when floating in the water.
They have no human heads, but are replaced by mechanical jellyfish, with countless mechanical tentacles gently shaking and wriggling in the water.
The most eye-catching thing about the Mechanical Jellyfish Museum was that it combined the sense of technology of the machinery with the agility of marine life. Now they are grafted onto people's necks, as if parasites have found a new nest and created a whole new species.
In Danger Premonition, Zhu Ning was killed by the woman in white clothes who was closest to her.
The mechanical tentacles suddenly wrapped around Zhu Ning's face like hair. The tentacles themselves had life. They hugged her helmet tightly and crushed the black helmet.
First, the helmet was crushed, and finally Zhu Ning's brain was crushed, and his brain matter splattered everywhere in an instant.
Zhu Ning hesitated for a moment when he turned around, and the mechanical tentacles had already wrapped around him. High-intensity electric current was transmitted to the helmet, causing the data on the panel to fluctuate wildly.
Prometheus's voice grew fainter and fainter, mixed with the crackling sound of electricity.
Mechanical jellyfish have the same habits as jellyfish. They have electric current and are also poisonous.
Zhu Ning's right hand was disabled, so she could only use her left hand. She raised the gun.
With a bang—
Zhu Ning wasn't sure whether the bullet could penetrate the mechanical jellyfish's defense line after it was fired, because that wasn't what she was using at all.
The shooting was just a deception. She used metal manipulation at the moment of shooting.
Her control over metal within two meters possessed absolute power. The jellyfish man's face had been crushed by her, and the mechanical jellyfish-like head had been crumpled into a ball like a can. Before he could react, he was pulled away by a strange force.
If you look at it from the surveillance camera, it looks like the jellyfish man was blown to pieces by Zhu Ning's shot.
Zhu Ning raised her head and saw a very obvious crack on her helmet. She could hear some slight noises intermittently in her ears, which meant there must be something wrong with the helmet internally.
There was something wrong with the helmet. A small mechanical tentacle was slowly climbing up the helmet, leaving a disgusting and sticky trail.
Because of the helmet, the tentacles were very close to Zhu Ning, as if climbing on her eyeballs.
[Spirit value decreases by 1%]
Zhu Ning tore the tentacles apart, and it took her a long time to shake it off. She always felt that she had not cleaned it thoroughly.
Tentacles may have quietly crawled all over her body like leeches.
Countless jellyfish people were floating on the opposite side, now crowded together.
There looked to be at least a thousand of them.
Sometimes people get scared when they see things that are too densely packed together, and I’m experiencing that effect now.
Thousands of jellyfish people were suspended opposite her, the jellyfish were integrated with their faces, and the places where their mouths used to be were now swallowing and spitting out a large number of tentacles.
"How beautiful." They said suddenly.
"So beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful--" Thousands of jellyfish people called out in unison, with extremely intoxicated expressions on their faces, as if believers were calling out to a certain god, their tentacles still wriggling as they called out.
[Spirit value decreased by 2%]
The good news is that ever since Prometheus short-circuited, the system in her brain has become more and more useful and very sensitive. At least it is informing her of her current situation.
Bad news! Zhu Ning felt his vision darken.
There is no light in the jellyfish museum itself, and people are already blurry when viewed through the green night vision filter.
Now everything in front of Zhu Ning seemed to be completely dark.
She felt like some large creature was swimming overhead, or maybe a huge submarine was approaching.
She looked up and saw only ten pulpy tentacles over twenty meters long. She couldn't even see the whole picture clearly.
It was an oversized mechanical jellyfish, with a total length of probably more than fifty meters.
A variant of the Styx jellyfish?
The Styx jellyfish is the largest invertebrate in the deep sea and the largest of all jellyfish species. Now this thing is obviously more exaggerated than what Zhu Ning has seen in popular science. It is so big that it fills the entire mechanical jellyfish museum.
Humans are like ants in front of it.
Those who are afraid of the deep sea and giant creatures will probably be scared to death at this time.
Under normal circumstances, Zhu Ning would run away the first time she saw this thing, but she didn't move this time. This should be the target she was looking for, and Lin Xiaofeng might be inside.
The author has something to say:
The real-life Stygian jellyfish can reach a diameter of 1 meter. It also has four "paddle-like" arms up to 10 meters long, which can be used to catch prey because they have no stinging tentacles.
The rare jellyfish, which has only been sighted 115 times in the past 110 years, is considered one of the largest invertebrate predators in deep-sea ecosystems.
If you are interested, you can search for photos of the Styx jellyfish, which are super large and shocking.
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