Chen Xu casually put the badminton racket aside and followed her. He saw her find a treadmill. Just as he was about to speak, he saw a red light on the opposite wall. His eyes fixed and he said, "Don't run for too long, get used to it first. I remembered that I have something to deal with." After that, he turned and left.

Luo Xiyun started jogging, and he didn't start jogging until he left the gym. After more than ten seconds, he turned around and looked towards the door.

Just now, he said he wanted to play badminton with her, but now he suddenly said something happened. It must be something very important.

After a while, she withdrew her gaze and increased the speed of the treadmill.

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Chen Xu came to the control center next to him and asked, "What happened?"

Zheng Niu and Zheng Yang were on duty. Zheng Niu stood up and said, "A suspicious creature was found ten kilometers away from the base, and it is approaching the base."

Chen Xu walked to his position and said, "Send the image over here."

He once gave an order that when he was with Luo Xiyun, no one should disturb him unless there was an emergency that they could not resolve.

Just now when he was in the gym, he saw the red light on, which was a signal from Zheng Niu. It meant that something urgent had happened and he had to deal with it personally.

A picture immediately appeared on the screen in front of Chen Xu. It was a bird's-eye view of a long road on the ground.

If you want to be rich, build roads first. After the production line of high-strength silicon molecular materials was put into production, the output was too large and the base could not use so much, so he simply used it to build roads. So far, the total length has reached several hundred kilometers.

On the grassland, such a road is extremely conspicuous.

From the aerial view, no animal can be seen in the picture, and few animals dare to approach the base. In fact, there are not many animals living on the grassland.

For the first few seconds, nothing seemed unusual. Suddenly, a small black dot appeared at the edge of the road and then disappeared immediately.

Then, we returned to the time when the black dot appeared, and the picture zoomed in. Finally, we could see clearly that it was the head of a creature, with no hair on top and covered with something that looked like scales. The eyes were very large and looked a bit like the compound eyes of a fly.

Just by looking at its appearance, you can tell that it is definitely not a good creature.

Next to it, a set of data was listed: its head was 43 centimeters high and 37 centimeters wide, much larger than a human's. From this, we can infer that its body size is not small.

"No wonder we couldn't find it then. It turns out it can burrow into the ground."

The first time Chen Xu saw it, he guessed that it was the black shadow that attacked the farm a few days ago. Even if it was not the same one, it was the same species.

"Not only did you attack my farm, you also wanted to attack the camp? I'll give you a great gift."

Chen Xu began to issue orders, sending the robots responsible for combat out to guard several directions, waiting for the enemy to show up before attacking. There was only one principle: don't let it escape, capture it alive if possible, and kill it if not.

He has always attached great importance to the safety of the base, and has included the surrounding area of ​​dozens of kilometers into the monitoring range. In order to solve the communication problem, he spared no effort to build many communication base stations.

After the arrangement was completed, Chen Xu sat there waiting.

After waiting for more than an hour, the guy still didn't show up.

He glanced at the time. It was already past five o'clock. He tapped the handrail gently, then suddenly stopped and said, "I'll leave this to you. I'm going back first. Let me know when you catch it or kill it."

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Chen Xu returned to the living area and saw Luo Xiyun washing vegetables in the kitchen, so he walked in and said, "Let me do it."

Luo Xiyun glanced at him, said nothing, and didn't walk away, just stood there to help.

The two cooked a meal together.

In reality, both of them are busy with work and have never cooked together like they do now. This feeling is extremely warm.

After the meal was ready, the two of them sat down together to eat naturally.

During the whole process, no one spoke, and no one wanted to break the atmosphere.

After dinner, the two of them cleaned up together. After they were done, Luo Xiyun returned to his room without saying a word.

Chen Xu looked at her door and smiled slightly.

She was acting out of character today, probably because she had guessed something. Although she didn't say anything, her willingness to cook and eat with him was already a silent support.

Chen Xu knew that she still needed time.

He stood there for a while and then left the hall.

After a while, Chen Xu came to the control center again. Zheng Niu and Zheng Yang were still on duty. He asked, "What's the situation?"

Zheng Niu said, "The unidentified creature appeared thirty minutes ago. We have killed it and transported the body to the biological laboratory for autopsy. However, we lost an assault robot."

"What?"

An assault robot is a robot designed specifically for combat. It has thick armor and powerful firepower, making it suitable for frontal attacks.

How could that unknown creature be so powerful? He sat down at his seat and said, "Bring up the video of the battle."

Soon, a video appeared on the screen. Two kilometers outside the base wall, a black head emerged from the soil. In an instant, the drone attack arrived and a red tracking missile flew towards it.

It was extremely alert and immediately retracted its head.

Less than half a second later, the red tracking bullet sank into the soil, and then seemed to pause for a moment before the ground suddenly exploded, creating a deep pit. A huge black shadow was thrown out.

Chen Xu finally saw the appearance of the black shadow. Its shape was similar to that of a human, with two hands and two feet, and similar proportions, but it was much larger, more than three meters tall, and covered with a layer of black scales.

In the explosion just now, it lost half of its hand and looked seriously injured.

Then, an assault robot arrived and shot out a net to cover it.

This is no ordinary net. It is made of high-strength material and can emit strong electric shocks. It is specially used to catch large animals.

When Chen Xu saw this, he couldn't help but feel confused. It looked like it was seriously injured and was covered by an electric net. It should not have the ability to struggle.

At this moment, something unexpected happened. A slender black shadow flashed by, and a layer of black liquid-like sticky substance appeared on the robot. Soon, the black sticky liquid penetrated into the interior of the robot through the gap.

After a few seconds, the light in the robot's eyes dimmed and it remained motionless.

"What's going on?"

He was shocked and rewound the video a few seconds. He finally saw it clearly through slow motion. The black scales on the black monster's body began to wriggle, and a black strip-like object as thick as a finger extended from the position of the fingers, drilled through the mesh, and flew out.

As the black scales faded, the monster's true appearance was revealed, and it turned out to be a human.

Chen Xu was a little stunned. He never expected that the original form of this black monster would be this person.

The picture was frozen on that person, a man, naked, about 1.8 meters tall, with black hair and facial features that were no different from theirs, the only thing that didn't move was his pupils, which looked a bit like a cat.

At this time, his whole body was twitching, his facial features were distorted, and part of his skin was gradually turning black.

He was electrocuted.

Chen Xu suppressed his shock and continued to look down. After the robot was destroyed, the slime came out again after a while, and then a shell fell from the sky. With a bang, a large piece of white mist rose up.

When the mist dissipated, the black slime that was frozen hard took on a strange shape, stretched out very long, and was broken into several pieces.

Obviously, it wanted to escape, but was instantly frozen into an ice cube, and broke when it fell from mid-air.

The battle ends here.

Throughout the entire process, there was no problem with the tactics adopted by the robots and drones. Even if he were in command, there would be no better results.

The robot was destroyed by accident. The intelligent computer in the host probably didn't expect it to have such a capability.

"Continue to strengthen monitoring." After watching the video, Chen Xu said this and left the control center.

He went directly to the biological laboratory and finally saw the black slime that had condensed into ice with his own eyes. It was packed in a transparent box.

It is a kind of high-strength glass that is strong enough that even bullets cannot penetrate it.

Chen Xu stood in front of the box, feeling vaguely frightened. It was a very obvious sense of danger.

Next to it was a smaller box containing the human's body. Chen Xu knew he was dead as soon as he saw it.

On the other side, Feng Song was sitting in front of the lab table, looking down at a microscope. The other two assistants were fiddling with a machine and didn't notice his arrival.

Chen Xu walked over and asked, "How is it?"

"Mr. Chen." Feng Song stood up and said in amazement, "It's amazing. This is really an incredible creature. Its cell structure is constantly changing, which means it can transform between different forms at will."

Chen Xu just learned this from the video. When it covered the human's body to form scales, it was directly hit by a shell, but only one hand was broken. It was harder than metal and could be transformed into mucus-like tissue. It was really amazing.

He asked, "So it's still alive?"

Feng Song said, "Yes, its cells are still active. I cut a part of its tissue and after thawing it, it came back to life and showed all kinds of magical properties."

Chen Xu patted his shoulder and said, "Study hard, and I will send you a few more assistants."

(End of this chapter)