Chapter 47: Pseudo-World "There are only four humans on this mission"
The chip flashed violently, and there was a vibration sound from the communication. When he looked down, the vibration sound turned out to be the detection of bromine mist concentration.
Amid the alarm of rising bromine mist concentration, the alien species spread across the entire passage like reptiles, and the gravity body was tightly entangled by the alien species. Every time the gravity body moved, the alien species were cut in half by the sharp shell of the gravity body.
"Ugh—" Liao Yizhi felt a tightness in his chest and almost vomited, "So disgusting."
As soon as she finished speaking, the gravity body in front fell down without any warning. The aliens roared excitedly and climbed onto the back of the gravity body.
The sharp fangs collided with the outer shell of the gravity body, making a "crackling" sound. Liao Yizi's heart skipped a beat. Just as he was about to kick away the alien at his feet and rush over, the sound of flesh being torn into pieces instantly filled the corridor.
The heavy body in front of him instantly spread out its steel wings, and the alien species on his back were strung together by the wings like a candied haws. The gravity body lightly supported the ground, crawled forward for two distances before standing up, shaking the densely packed alien species on his back to the ground.
"Oh my god!" Liao Yizhi's eyes sparkled. "Jie Shuqin, your operating skills are incredible! Are you interested in being my mecha class leader?"
Xie Shuqin slowly loosened her grip, her tense body finally relaxing after clearing out the aliens. She pressed down her earpiece and chuckled softly, "That won't work. I've already been reserved."
Liao Yizhi still didn't give up and ran to her side: "I can drive better than Xu An. Please teach me. I learn quickly."
Xie Shuqin glanced at her through the gravimetric detector and shrugged, "Then you should really use your talent to learn on your own. Let's hurry up. Xu An is still waiting for me to teach her how to fly a mecha. Last time, she twisted her gravimetric body in an S-shaped pattern and blew up 66 training machines. She even nearly jumped off the base. I'm worried about her flying a mecha alone."
As he spoke, the gravity bodies behind him followed one after another.
Xie Shuqin quickly and efficiently released the ash-reduction net, turning the alien corpses in the corridor into ashes, and then called on everyone to follow.
The corridor they were in was exceptionally long. They had been walking for half an hour since entering the room, and apart from a few stairs and turns, there was no change in the terrain.
Xie Shuqin felt inexplicably uneasy. She pressed the microphone to connect with Yao Yin, but before she could say anything, she heard the crackling sound of the keyboard on the other end.
"The detector can't penetrate deep into the ground, but the direction is roughly correct." Before Xie Shuqin could speak, Yao Yin spoke first, "Also, be prepared. Xu An and Baili Yunle have lost contact, and I'm doing my best to locate them. Also, Feng Lan just arrived and is dealing with a Level III alien species. Be careful."
Hearing this, Xie Shuqin's heart skipped a beat: "I understand."
After hanging up the communication, Xie Shuqin took a deep breath, touched the hydrangea amber pendant on her neck a few times, and then continued to operate the mecha.
The tunnel was still bottomless, and the further in, the more I went, the harder it felt to breathe. Aside from a few low-level alien species blocking the path, nothing else appeared. Even the eggs were fewer than those outside.
Every time Xie Shuqin saw a few hatching shells, she wondered if they had been accidentally moved in from outside.
After walking for another half an hour, the terrain finally changed.
The corridor, which was originally a single passage, was divided into two identical entrances. There was no light inside. Standing outside, one could only see some bloodstains on the left side and the right side was clean.
Yao Yin's voice soon came through the headset: "The right side leads to the seabed, which should be the garbage discharge outlet. The left side has a longer passage and has not been explored yet."
Xie Shuqin understood and was the first to light up the lamp and activate the night vision program: "Go left."
The corridor was as narrow as ever, only wide enough for one gravity body to pass through. Xie Shuqin led the team at the front, with Liao Yizhi following closely behind her, clearing out the low-level aliens while taking the opportunity to exchange a few words.
"Jie Shuqin, do you find this a bit strange?" She grabbed the throat of the alien creature flying from the sky and asked her, "We've had it pretty easy this whole trip. We can't contact anyone else, but Dr. Yao is still talking to us?"
Xie Shuqin had long harbored this suspicion. Ever since entering this room, the communication headsets and chips used by teammates in other corridors seemed to be broken, and every message they sent fell on deaf ears.
At first, Yao Yin said that everyone else had met with misfortune, but with so many people, it was impossible for every headset and chip to be broken. Even if everyone had met with misfortune, why were she and Yao Yin completely unaffected?
"Could it be that something is controlling this space?" Xie Shuqin found it hard to believe that all the members of A061 would be completely trapped in such a short period of time and not leave any clues.
But just as he finished speaking, something slowly rose from either end of the wall. The white light strip on the ceiling was obscured by the protruding stone, and a human-shaped shadow slowly emerged in front of him.
"Attention everyone!" Xie Shuqin said, and took the lead to catch up.
The shadow was moving very fast, but no one could be seen anywhere. Every time Jie Shuqin slowed down, it would slow down accordingly, as if it was clearly waiting for her to catch up.
Yao Yin's voice in the headset was still the same as usual, even repeating left and right somewhat mechanically. Jie Shuqin clicked on the headset to ask her, but she only got a few irrelevant answers.
The feeling of uneasiness grew stronger and stronger. Just when Xie Shuqin was about to stop, the narrow corridor in front of her suddenly opened up. A five-meter-high machine appeared in front of her, and the shadow was standing in front of the machine.
A clear mechanical voice sounded: "Hello, I noticed that you are in trouble. How can I help you?"
Xie Shuqin was stunned, and her teammates following behind were also a little confused: "So this is the machine that just led us here? It's the intelligent AI that manages the ant nest?"
"Yes," the figure replied, "I am the management center of the ant nest. I can control any setting of the entire ant nest."
"Oh my God." Xie Shuqin widened her eyes. So they found the right place by accident?
She turned off the pulley settings of the gravity body and walked over to the figure. "But I'm curious, why did you choose to help us? As the management center of the ant nest, wouldn't you be xenophobic?"
"I'm not helping you." Although it was just a figure, Xie Shuqin felt like it was looking at her. "I'm helping you."
"What's the meaning?"
But just as she finished asking this question, the chatter among her teammates suddenly stopped. Xie Shuqin turned her head, only to find that everyone was frozen in place, even the gravity body had gone into standby mode.
But as we all know, as long as there is someone in the driving seat of the gravity body, the gravity body will not automatically enter the standby state. This is the most basic procedure to ensure the safety of the driver.
Xie Shuqin instantly took out his mechanical sword: "What did you do to them!"
"Please take your time." As the words fell, a figure slowly moved, and a transparent screen appeared before Jie Shuqin. The diagram on it resembled a topographical map of an ant nest, but with many more rooms and sections connected to the ocean. Furthermore, various points clustered within each small room. Especially in the ocean, a large expanse of blue points surrounded a half-red, half-yellow dot. Not far away, there was another red dot and another half-red, half-yellow dot.
Xie Shuqin was confused. "What is this?"
According to the base's custom, red dots would represent aliens, and yellow dots would represent humans, but what were these blue dots and the half-red, half-yellow dots?!
"Since this is your first time here, I'll explain everything in detail from the very beginning." As the mechanical voice faded, several icons quickly appeared next to the topographic map: "Red dots represent alien species, yellow dots represent humans, half-yellow and half-red dots represent humans affected by alien genes, and blue dots represent androids."
Xie Shuqin was so surprised that she was speechless. She looked at the blue dots all over the topographic map, and then looked at the distribution of her own place in disbelief several times - among the blue dots all over the ground, there was only one yellow dot that was flickering slightly.
"You mean, everyone in this room is a android except me?!" Xie Shuqin's scalp tingled. But when she saw her teammates in the gravity body's cockpit, their eyes glazed over and motionless, she felt a chill in her heart.
"Yes." The intelligent AI confirmed again, "You are the only human on this trip who has not been affected by the alien genes, so I will obey your orders first."
Xie Shuqin paused and looked at the screen: "Besides me, how many other humans are there?"
"There are three more people in the ant nest. They're in the ocean junction area and the nursery area." The light on the screen flickered as the commentary continued. "In the nursery area, I've controlled the use of all electrical devices in the ant nest. This has caused the humans, who transmit their images remotely through machines, to be temporarily trapped in the safe nursery area."
Xie Shuqin raised her head. She knew that the person in the childcare area was Yin Xiangrong.
so……
There are only three humans on this mission...
I'd always heard in the archives that androids were no different from normal humans, the only difference being that they were usually private property, with only one owner in their lifetime. Once abandoned by their owner or died, they would be sent to the initial field for incineration...
Xie Shuqin was suddenly stunned.
Incineration... Isn't this the base's farewell ceremony for the frontline personnel who died?
Xie Shuqin felt mixed emotions, and her mind kept flashing back to what Xu An had said to her at the time, such as "giving birth to a child through technology" and "Ran Yue and Yin Xiangrong colluding to deceive."
So, so-called scientific reproduction involves combining the genes of two androids to create a new android. After the android reaches eight years old, it's then sent to a human community for education under the pretext of having "awakened superpowers"? How many android bases like this exist?!
Xie Shuqin didn't dare to think about it too much.
After a long time, she recovered from her shock and asked, "So what's their situation now?"
"A machine that harnesses alien powers to create hallucinations has been accidentally activated. All sentient beings exposed to it will see their greatest fears. Unconscious beings will fall into a coma." The AI then explained, "You are my key protected target. I have secretly altered the machine's impact on you."
Xie Shuqin suddenly felt that the human who invented this AI was a genius.
The AI quickly began to speak again. "Since all organisms are experiencing hallucinations, the monitoring is concerned that you may become depressed if you don't communicate with others for a long time. We will now enable the ability to enter other people's dreams. Do you want to try it?"
Xie Shuqin was shocked: "Huh?"
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