Chapter 306 Invasion
That was the last whisper uttered by the "intruder" - the breath of life was so weak at the moment of death that it even sounded like a breeze drifting from the edge of an illusion. The sound of the wind quietly melted in the ears, leaving only a few disturbing ticking sounds.
That was the sound of blood dripping on the ground.
"What did he say?"
Another member of the monastic order came over and asked in a low voice.
The black-robed man standing next to Yu Sheng's body lowered his head, seemingly still confused by the disturbing auditory hallucination. It was not until his companion asked a second question that he raised his head as if awakened from a dream and muttered in a dazed tone: "He said he was going to die, but something came back to life... I don't know, I didn't hear it clearly."
There was a hint of hesitation in his voice, as if even just repeating this sentence would bring about some mental uneasiness.
But where did this uneasiness come from? What exactly was he worried about? The man in black robe himself couldn't explain it clearly.
All he could hear was the groaning in pain of his fellow monastic who had just been hit by the invader's club and was badly injured. The large dose of cardiac stimulant and adrenaline automatically injected by the power armor could not completely suppress the pain. Now the armor's life support system was forcibly prolonging his life, but if he delayed any further, he would die.
"He must be sent to the operating room immediately... His internal organs are like a mass of mud," someone checked the injured person and said quickly, "The original body can't be saved. Make a decision, pure steel or blessed flesh and blood?"
The member of the hermitage who fell to the ground gasped with difficulty, raised his hand slightly, and a hoarse and painful voice came from his helmet: "Steel..."
The black-robed man who was checking the injuries nodded and instructed the others, "Okay, notify the medical team and prepare for the brain transfer operation - we need the body of a mechanical monk."
As he spoke, he lowered his head again, grasped the injured man's hand, and comforted him in a deep voice: "Relax, brother, you will have a pure and powerful new body. The useless original body will be sent to the biomass processing machine and become the cornerstone of our progress. Hold my hand tightly and go to the starting point of the road to promotion. But before that, I have to cut off part of your limbs. We can't wait for the stretcher. We must send your brain to the operating room as soon as possible."
The harsh noise of "treating" the injured's limbs echoed in the corridor.
Even if the body is amputated below the neck, the NK-22 power armor helmet can still ensure the survival of the brain for fifteen minutes.
However, even though there were a lot of noises behind him, the man in black robe standing next to Yu Sheng's body still stood there quietly, as if his mind was drawn out by something, looking at the "invader" on the ground with a blank and dull look.
"What are you looking at? We have to leave here," someone shouted. "Leave this wreckage in the corridor. Someone will come to collect it later."
The man in black robe reacted and nodded hurriedly: "Oh, oh, okay."
He turned around and walked towards his compatriots, but he couldn't help turning back and looking at the pile of blood on the ground. Then, as if he sensed something, he looked up at the corner.
A hidden camera in the corner was also watching him quietly.
The Bronze Knight escorted several black-robed believers away from the place quickly. These members of the monastic order seemed to have subconsciously sensed some kind of danger and left in a hurry.
Where Yu Sheng fell, the scattered clothes, the knife that fell out of his pocket, the blood-soaked stick, all these things were melting in the pool of blood little by little, as if they were swallowed into another dimension, and gradually sank into the blood.
The phone was also soaked in blood, and traces of blood covered its screen and casing as if they had life, and then the phone screen suddenly lit up.
The border communication interface popped up, followed by the private message window. The keys on the virtual keyboard flashed lightly, and a line of text was quickly written and sent to Baili Qing——
"Ah, let's talk about the topic just now. Do you want to be a cultist of the Priory of the Holy Saint?"
A moment later, the phone buzzed and Baili Qing sent a reply, which only had one short word: "Yes."
Then after a while, perhaps feeling that there was something wrong with his reply, Baili Qing sent another message: "You want to bring them back alive? Why don't I just send you a group of backup? It's too dangerous for you to be alone in their lair."
The blood on the phone screen slowly dissipated, and a message was quickly sent: "No need. If you send someone over, it will alert the enemy. If they find that the situation is out of control, they may directly blow up the entire spacecraft."
"...Okay, then tell me how to cooperate."
…
On the top floor of the "Pillar of Order", in the control hall, the old man in the white robe still sat majestically in his seat, waiting for the results from the action team.
He waited for good news.
The communicator in front of the seat lit up, and a member of the Hermitage wearing power armor and a black robe appeared on the screen: "Sage! We have dealt with the intruder in a corridor outside the core area."
The tense muscles on the sage's face finally relaxed a little: "Well done - the recovery team will go and clean up the mess. What is the damage?"
"One of our fighters was seriously injured and had his limbs amputated below the neck. We are taking his head to the operating room. He fought bravely and applied to join the Iron Evolution branch before his death."
"Well, those who fought bravely deserve this reward," the old man in white robes breathed a sigh of relief, and he relaxed. "Report to the upper area after you are done."
"yes!"
The communicator was hung up, and the atmosphere in the control hall became much more relaxed with the arrival of the good news.
“I thought it was so amazing.”
A member of the hermitage muttered nearby.
"He's just a very weird guy, but there are a lot of weird things in this world," another person agreed, "Not as troublesome as those shadows we dug out from the Adar Pit."
"Forehead……"
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay. The images on some monitors flickered a little just now. It might be that the core system reset some channels when it was repairing itself. I checked and everything is normal."
"Don't scare people..." An operator guarding the console muttered, stretched out in his chair, and looked up at the camera at the top of the hall.
The camera also watched him quietly, just like every day.
But for some reason, he suddenly felt a sense of...disgust and displeasure towards the camera staring at him.
This uncomfortable feeling was so inexplicable that he couldn't help but shiver, but he didn't know how to explain it to others, so he had to quickly shift his gaze away from the roof.
There was a faint electrical noise coming from the monitoring headphones, as if someone said something on the communication channel, but it was vague and unclear.
The operator frowned, suspecting at first that the headset had poor contact, but quickly ruled out this possibility because there really was someone talking in the faint current noise.
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He frowned and debugged the monitoring channel more carefully, trying to find the source of the noise.
And the voice of the "sage" suddenly came from not far away, interrupting the quiet conversation in the hall -
"Hasn't there been any response from the person in charge of the aftermath?"
"No," a communicator answered immediately, and then he said "Huh", and his tone quickly became nervous, "Something's wrong!"
"What's going on?"
"The recovery team's signal disappeared - just a moment ago!"
The atmosphere in the hall, which had just relaxed, suddenly became tense again. The "sage"'s face immediately became gloomy, and he stood up from his chair: "The signal disappeared? Find out what's going on, is it a communication failure or..."
"The communication signals and the liveness detection signals on the personnel have disappeared - Sage, they are missing!"
"What about surveillance?"
"I just captured them walking through the D-2 corridor and entering the connecting gate, but no one came out from the next gate in the corridor!"
"Which is the nearest drone hangar? Send a drone there immediately."
The hall suddenly became noisy, with tense and hurried commands and reports. The sage's voice was faintly filled with anger, while the voices of the nearby operators were full of tension and embarrassment.
But the operator guarding the console was still carefully adjusting his monitoring headphones, constantly switching between the channels currently in use, as if he was obsessed with trying to figure out what the noisy voice in the system was saying.
After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly heard a voice - very, very clear, even as if it was speaking right into his ear:
"Do you hear me now?"
The operator pulled off his earphones as if he had received an electric shock. His eyes widened with fear, and he suddenly looked up in the direction of the sage: "Someone is talking on the monitoring channel! Something has invaded our equipment--"
"What?!" The sage was shocked, and then immediately turned on the communicator and called the action team on their way back to the upper area. "The situation has changed. Go to the server room immediately. There are intruders hiding on the ship!"
However, only a burst of empty white noise came from the communicator.
Soon someone checked the communication system and surveillance, and reported nervously: "The signal of the action team has also disappeared - near the D-1 corridor, the camera did not capture any attackers or combat scenes."
The sage stood there with a gloomy face, thinking uncomfortably.
There is something hidden in this tower.
He attacked the people in the tower one after another. Although no one knew what means he used, he was obviously very fast and ruthless, and was able to eliminate the fighters in power armor before the other party could even react.
And there may be more than one intruder - because the two teams that got into trouble were not in the same area at all, and there was a report just now that there was a sound in the monitoring channel. The intruder was obviously hacking into the system while carrying out attacks everywhere.
"…Send a second team to follow and monitor the entire process, maintain communication, and close all passages from D-1 to D-2. Search every inch of the way there."
"yes!"
(End of this chapter)
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