Chapter 1: Uneasy "You went to the bar when you were 4 years old?"...
Not far away, clouds gathered and spiraled up, and the huge suction force drove the fire jet to gradually deviate from its direction.
The control room was completely engulfed by a thunderstorm, with flashes of light and thunder echoing in everyone's ears.
"Report, still no information has been collected on A061."
The long-haired woman at the main console sighed slowly. She glanced at the storm outside the window and said, "Continue the search."
After she finished speaking, the screen on the console flickered, and the woman quickly called up a ground plan.
Thousands of feet in the sky, there were swarms of alien species on the ground, densely surrounding her. Red dots were scattered all over the plane map, slowly crawling. She immediately gave up the idea of forced landing.
The storm intensified, and the control room was enveloped by the roar of thunder and the sound of tapping screens.
"Traces of A061 were found at the three o'clock direction."
Hearing the voice, the woman quickly walked to the control console and answered the message: "This is the control room. I'm Tan Wenshu. A061 received. Please respond."
However, after a few seconds, there was no sound from the other end except for the signal being stuck. Tan Wenshu frowned, feeling uneasy. "A061, received the message, please reply."
A flash of lightning pierced his eyes, and a hoarse and stuttering voice echoed throughout the control room: "Alien...mutation...escape..."
As soon as he finished speaking, thunder roared. Tan Wenshu endured the tinnitus in his ears, his heart pounding wildly, and his voice became louder. "Captain Feng Lan? Captain Feng Lan?"
The signal was cut off and there was no sound from the headset.
Someone at the control console screamed, "There's an eye in the storm!"
Amidst the layers of black fog, a flash of lightning flashed, and a giant pupil seemed to hang in the clouds. Then, it split into two, then four, until four pupils crammed into one eye socket, staring intently at the control room.
"Speed up!" Tan Wenshu shuddered. After giving the order, he immediately connected with the commander. "This is the control room. A special species has been discovered in the storm. A061 seems to have met with an accident..."
Tan Wenshu's voice suddenly stopped.
Because she heard her own voice coming from the corner of the control room.
That corner was the emergency evacuation passage, but now it was empty. Outside the door, something seemed to be hitting the glass.
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The heavy rain that was violently hitting the glass cover started two hours ago. The A061 team, sitting in a military E3 loader, was walking on the ground covered with water vapor and dust, and there was a dense and continuous sound of water all around.
After the third radar check showed it was safe, Feng Lan unbuckled his seat belt, got up and left his seat with his favorite soda.
"Detecting the driver leaving the seat and turning on the autonomous driving function."
As Feng Lan walked out of the cab, a scent of fragrance came over him.
"Good for you guys. I drove for half an hour ahead, but you guys are eating here." The soda in his hand suddenly lost its flavor. Feng Lan took the lunch box and looked at a woman in a hat who was dozing with her eyes closed in the corner.
Feng Lan declined the other team members' offer and quietly walked up to the woman, handing her a lunch box and a pistol. "We'll be entering a densely populated ecological zone soon. Although you're only responsible for logistics, you'd better replenish your energy. A061 doesn't want too many casualties."
Xu An's eyelashes trembled slightly when she heard the sound, and a few strands of hair fell out from under the brim of her high ponytail. She slowly opened her eyes and took the thing. "Thank you."
The quiet sound of water around her made her feel extremely uncomfortable, and the aroma of the lunch box in her hand did not arouse Xu An's interest. But more importantly, something had escaped.
After Xu An took the things, he pulled his outer robe closer and looked at the endless Gobi Desert outside through the one-way glass. Only then did the dizziness in his head feel better.
The clouds in the sky kept rolling. Xu An stared at the hole in the clouds created by the loader. When the vehicle bumped around, he suddenly caught sight of an eye.
"Can your protective suit only protect against bromine mist?" Xu An asked Feng Lan who was not far away.
Feng Lan turned around in confusion upon hearing the voice. Military protective clothing has always been developed and manufactured to prevent bromine mist from entering the body. Even if Xu An is only a mecha cleaning worker of the second team and is not familiar with combat skills, he should have this common sense.
Thinking about it, his eyes were stern and he asked her, "What do you mean?"
Xu An opened his mouth, and the car body suddenly shook violently. Feng Lan immediately steadied himself, then flipped over the table and jumped into the operating room, "Check the car body condition."
The loader's mechanical voice rang out: "The rear of the vehicle was violently struck by the alien species, but the body of the vehicle suffered no damage."
As soon as the words fell, the combatants who had been prepared for a long time quickly rolled down the car windows. The sound of wind and water suddenly rushed in. Before their ears could adjust to the sound, the team members turned over and stood up. The dense sound of gunfire and artillery mixed with the roar of alien species filled the air.
"Captain, it's the dog."
Outside the glass, endless yellow sand was rising on the Gobi Desert, and the black mist formed by the intersection of sand and water vapor was the alien species rushing towards them.
These gnats were roughly the size of an adult, running on six legs, their backs covered in glowing tentacles. Even a barrage of bullets could only slow them down. A few of the faster ones, with mouths the size of an adult's head, charged at the car's frame!
"Close the window!"
Almost at the moment of speaking, a gnat stuck half of its head into the car body. Seeing that the glass window was about to be squeezed closed, a dagger flew from the side and split the gnat's head in two along the glass door.
"Are the air defenses just for show? Get ready, 'Falcon'!" Feng Lan's roar came from the headset.
Amidst the howling wind, blood splattered the room and the barely closed glass windows. The resounding sound of the alien smashing into the loader lingered in my ears, and before the sound faded, the loader's side jets suddenly activated, their super-high-temperature flames instantly reducing the nearby gnat to ash.
Immediately, the jets gradually turned to the rear, and the loader picked up speed, leaving a trail of dust across the Gobi Desert. The loader behind it followed closely behind, and the "Falcon" in the sky streaked through the air, clearing a path for the vehicle amidst the gunfire and artillery fire.
Forget it, Xu An slowly released the button, smiled as he looked at Feng Lan who bent down to pick up the dagger, and slowly licked the blood splashed on his lips.
"Xu An! Why are you fiddling with the jet again? Do you know what energy conservation means?" A girl with two low buns stood up in the team. "If we can't lower the lift, these firepower will still be needed to support us to fly to the base!"
Xu An raised his eyes, his smile not fading. His gaze slowly shifted from the half alien head to the girl. "There are so many aliens here, are you still worried that you can't fly up?"
Someone else quickly interrupted, "Stop wasting time with her! If it weren't for her awakening ability reaching 32%, no one would allow this sickly girl from the hospital to join us on ground missions, even as a mecha cleaner."
With that initial comment, other complaints quickly followed. "She's just born lucky, but she's been assigned to A061 despite having no real skills. We all have to take turns doing logistics, but she's stuck with Team Two cleaning mechas, getting paid the same as us, and having a safer life than us who work so hard. If she weren't already in her twenties, I'd think she was the commander's illegitimate daughter."
"Aside from her high awakening ability, how can she compare to the Commander? Don't bring her down!"
Shuangwanzi couldn't stand it any longer and looked up. "After all, Xu An is the person with the highest awakening value in the base. If he made a mistake, that's his own business. Why are you spreading rumors about his background?"
In the corner, a middle-aged man silently cleaning his gun spoke softly. His low, hoarse voice made people obey him: "The car still needs to be cleaned. Besides, we're about to reach the ecological zone. The weather is horrible, with rain and storms. We don't know what we'll encounter. We'd better keep our strength up, at least don't be the first to die."
The girl with the two balls looked at him immediately and said, "Who's going to die first? I've done many more missions than you, so don't cling to my legs and ask me to protect you later!"
Feng Lan frowned as he listened to the scolding: "Alright, stop talking."
After these words were spoken, the car returned to silence, with only the sounds of wiping bullets and cleaning machines remaining.
In the silence, Xu An almost collapsed in the corner, her physical discomfort becoming more and more intense. After a few bouts of dizziness, she glanced at the team members who were resting with their eyes closed, and stood up with her tired body.
Raindrops were streaking down the glass, and the sky was occupied by dark clouds, which seemed to be surging and rolling, and also seemed to be silent.
"Xu An, what did you mean by what you said just now?" Feng Lan walked over slowly with a soda in his hand.
Xu An didn't look at him. "You asked me, didn't you also find something wrong?"
It was raining heavily, and apart from the wind and rain, there was silence all around.
Feng Lan's relaxed expression faded, and he frowned, "We're about to enter a densely populated ecological zone. Logically, we should expect to see many alien species, but all we've encountered are gnat dogs."
Rather than relying on the complex research and identification methods at base, frontline personnel preferred to determine the level and number of high-level alien species by comparing them to the number of surrounding low-level alien species. However, as everyone knows, the intelligence of a gnat is comparable to that of a human, lacking a sense of crisis and jumping around indiscriminately. This cannot be used as a criterion for judgment.
Without other alien species as a reference, it is difficult to identify the level of advanced alien species and it is impossible to formulate corresponding countermeasures.
"We've double-checked the direction. We can't be mistaken. This only means there's an exceptionally powerful alien species here, causing others to be afraid to approach." Feng Lan's gaze deepened as he spoke. "When did you notice this? Besides the bromine mist, is there anything else here?"
"It's a kind of energy fluctuation." Xu An chuckled. She turned around, took the soda that Feng Lan had just opened, and took a sip. "This kind of fluctuation has extremely strong penetrating power and has a strong attack power against strong brain waves. Simply put, the stronger the person, the more susceptible they are to this kind of fluctuation."
As she spoke, she casually placed the soda by the window and looked at Feng Lan with an unclear gaze: "I remember that your ability awakening value reached 30%, right?"
In order to adapt to the attacks of mutants and the impact of extreme weather, humans on the ground extracted samples from early mutants and modified human genes, allowing humans to awaken before the age of eight and have the ability to affect the surrounding things by emitting sound waves of different frequencies. When the awakening value reaches more than 20%, small-scale superpowers can be freely controlled. This is also the minimum standard for joining A061.
"Yes, but the intensity varies." These are all recorded in the genetic archives and are not confidential.
Feng Lan lowered his eyes in thought. "According to you, it's because of these strange energy fluctuations that the lower-level alien species are afraid to approach. But in all the years since the base was established, we've never discovered an alien species that can emit these energy waves. How did you know?"
"You've seen my genetic test report, so there's no need to play dumb." Xu An pinched the bottle's mouth, as if thinking of something, and chuckled. "My awakening value for my special ability is relatively stable, so when the energy wave hits, it will naturally attack me first. Your awakening value for your special ability is higher than others. You should be able to feel it if you walk less than half a mile."
Almost within seconds of her words, Feng Lan felt an inexplicable pressure rising from above him. The sound of rain around him seemed to have subsided considerably, and his head felt dizzy. Occasionally, he could hear laughter drifting in from afar.
He steadied himself, and his eyes, full of bloodshot, were reflected in the glass. Feng Lan had never seen such a terrifying expression even after staying up all night for three nights, and he immediately looked at Xu An.
Xu An was still wearing a black hood, with her ponytail hanging down from her neck to her chest. Her complexion was pale and her expression was normal, at least in front of Feng Lan, whose eyes were almost as red as a vampire's.
"According to what you said, why are you okay?"
Xu An raised his eyelids and shook the soda in his hand.
Feng Lan glanced at the soda in his hand with an ambiguous look, and said with some sadness, "I'll get you another bottle."
"Before the new era, you've never been to a bar, right?" Xu An chuckled and said with some pride, "I added something to your water. It's not poisonous, just to make your eyes red."
Feng Lan paused: "Are you kidding me?"
He quickly realized something was wrong: "Your genetic profile says you were 23, and you were going to the bar when you were 4?"
Xu An was stunned for a rare moment. She touched her nose and said, "I matured precociously."
Feng Lan knew the truth of this statement with his feet. He took the soda and walked towards the driver's seat, "Next time, throw those idiotic novels away. If you encounter an alien species, you can't use them to smash it."
Xu An looked down and silently stuffed the half-opened copy of "Seven Brothers Only Dote on Me" back into his pocket. "It has nothing to do with the novel, stupid."
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