"The heat radiation trajectory of the drainage network conforms to the migration law of bee colonies." She suddenly bit off the bandage with her teeth, and the bloody gauze fell to the edge of the console. "If the replica needs culture medium..."
Mou Xuan stretched out her hand to stop the pollution index chart that she was about to close, and electric current patterns flashed across the bionic skin at the crack of her combat suit.
In the blue light of the holographic projection, he saw beads of sweat gathering on the tip of Chen Yao's nose, and the pulsating data streams were refracted into star clusters in her pupils.
The sound of the airtight door releasing pressure interrupted his gaze.
Analyst Yu rushed in holding a half-melted signal sniffer, with sewer moss still clinging to his glasses: "Messenger Qi's nano drone self-destructed, but he managed to capture this—"
On the noisy screen, eight communication chips were being engulfed by flames.
Mou Xuan magnified the remains of one of the missiles, revealing half a piece of biological fiber at the crack in the metal, which looked very much like the flickering red spots in a sewage treatment plant.
"It's a neuron synapse bionic structure." Chen Yao picked up a strand of her hair with tweezers. The tip of her hair showed similar fluorescent patterns under laser scanning. "They use the human brain as an encryption carrier."
Analyst Yu suddenly grabbed the disinfectant spray and pressed it frantically towards the chip image: "According to the principle of topology, the control center of this encryption method should be located at..."
"The west side of the sewage treatment plant." Mou Xuan rotated the satellite cloud map 37 degrees.
"No! It's in the basement of the railway dispatching station!" Analyst Yu threw the tablet onto the medical box, and the hemostatic gel bounced up half an inch.
Just then the alarm sounded.
Mou Xuan's tactical eyepiece automatically focused on the corner of the surveillance wall - the green light dot representing Ren's contact person suddenly split into four red dots at the security checkpoint of the railway station.
He pressed his bleeding left shoulder and found that Chen Yao was tying a knot on his arm with a bandage. The tying technique was the double-ring buckle that they learned in the air-raid shelter when they first met.
"I'm going to mobilize the drone swarm!" Analyst Yu knocked over the alcohol cotton bottle.
"Stop!" Mou Xuan threw out three locators and nailed them to the opponent's feet. "Analyze the moss sample on your glasses before moving."
Chen Yao suddenly pulled off the metal pendant around her neck.
When she pressed the pendant into the card slot of the main console, the quantum communication band of the entire city exploded like fireworks on the screen - it was a signal amplifier modified with the DNA of the enemy leader.
"Twenty seconds." Her voice trembled. "I can hack into the shared consciousness layer of the replica."
Mou Xuan's pupils reflected the data stream like sparks in the sky.
When Chen Yao's nails dug into the old scar on his wrist, he smelled a faint smell of electrolyte coming from the back of her neck - that was the solvent that was on her when she secretly modified the prosthetic eye.
There was a scratching sound coming from outside the airtight door.
Messenger Qi, wrapped in insulating tape, rolled in, holding a half-burnt robotic arm in his arms: "They mixed... mixed..." into the culture medium. Before he finished speaking, he coughed up blood foam mixed with metal fragments.
Mou Xuan tore open the dark layer of the tactical vest and injected the last two nerve repair agents into Envoy Qi's carotid artery.
When he saw the missing alliance badge on the young courier's tactical pants, he suddenly held down Shen Yao's hand that was cracking the code: "How many identity chips did Ren, the contact person, wear today?"
"Two." Chen Yao blurted out, "He always said that the spare chip would interfere..."
Seventeen purple spots suddenly appeared on the holographic map.
Mou Xuan looked at the signal sources moving along the underground river and finally understood why the DNA map showed dual frequencies - each copy carried the biological characteristics of the original and the electronic imprint of the contact person.
"It's not splitting, it's grafting." He crushed the empty medicine bottle in his palm, and the glass shards left white marks on the bionic skin. "Turn our people into living keys."
Analyst Yu suddenly whimpered like a trapped beast.
The moss analysis image that appeared on his glasses completely overlapped with the biological sample of the logistics team member who had disappeared three months ago.
The sharp communication alert tone broke all thoughts.
Chen Yao reached out to press the answer button, but Mou Xuan grabbed her wrist with a blood-stained tactical glove.
Under the overlapping palm lines of the two people, six melting ice icons lit up on the communicator screen - that was the highest level of dissolution code of the intelligence team.
"The third monitoring station has lost contact." Inspector Cai's voice was filled with electric noise. "The vital signs of the contact person..."
Mou Xuan crushed the communicator directly.
The flying electronic components created faint blue sparks on the bulletproof glass, reflecting the twitching mechanical prosthetic limbs of Envoy Qi and the silent opening and closing of Shen Yao's lips - she was repeating the oath she made three days ago in lip language: when the Meltdown Protocol was activated, she would be the one to press the confirmation button.
Analyst Yu suddenly began tearing up the playbook, the scraps of paper sticking to his bleeding bandages.
When the twelfth surveillance screen went out, Mou Xuan felt Chen Yao's little finger brushing against the railgun on his waist. The handle of the gun still had scratches from the bullet casing from the last breakout.
The alarm sounded throughout the city at the same second.
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