Mou Xuan wiped off the lavender liquid from between his eyebrows, and the remaining mycelium felt like a spider web sticking to the back of his neck.
When he kicked open the deformed explosion-proof door, Expert Xing was inserting half of the robotic arm into the ventilation duct, and dark red coolant was flowing down the alloy joints.
"Old Xing, don't move!" Yin Gong's hoarse roar came from the holographic projection. The remaining half of his face was covered with ice crystals. "The swarm is rewriting the defense code. Now the whole system is their petri dish!"
Chen Yao suddenly pressed down on Mou Xuan's wrist, and the remaining mycelium on her fingertips suddenly stretched into twelve silver needles: "Look at the sewage pipe." The moment the tip of the mycelium pierced into the holographic sand table, the originally extinguished defense matrix suddenly flashed a strange emerald green - the nano-insect swarm was transforming the liquid nitrogen pipe into some kind of pulse transmitter.
"Where's Director Shao?" Mou Xuan tore off the hemostatic bandage on his collar. The wound on the back of his neck where the swarm had rubbed him was oozing ice. "I need three tons of graphite powder and..."
"The liquid nitrogen is gone." Resource allocator Shao pushed open the security door, purple-black frost forming on his protective suit. "The honeycomb pattern in the cold storage spread to area D3 half an hour ago." The data board he shook off showed shocking red words: only 17% of the backup energy remained.
The command room suddenly fell into silence.
Expert Xing's broken mechanical knuckles made a harsh friction sound, the ice crystals in Engineer Yin's projection had already climbed to her neck, and Chen Yao's mycelium network was withering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Then we have to rob Peter to repair Paul." Mou Xuan suddenly grabbed a tactical dagger and poked the tip of the knife into the northwest corner of the holographic sand table. "Old Xing, dismantle the tungsten core bullets of the anti-aircraft guns to make electromagnetic barriers. Engineer Yin, use your crystallized right arm as a carrier to reverse the code rewritten by the Zerg and input it into the defense system."
"Are you crazy?" Expert Xing ripped open the breastplate, revealing a mechanical heart that was corroded and riddled with holes. "What can we use to deal with air raids if the tungsten core bullet is removed?"
"They don't even bother to launch an air raid now." Chen Yao suddenly cut her wrist, and the lavender blood poured onto the withered mycelium, "Didn't you notice?
The Swarm is helping us upgrade our defenses—although in their own way. "
The mycelium network suddenly expanded, wrapping the entire command room like a cocoon.
Chen Yao pointed to Engineer Yin, who was crystallizing, and said, "His ice crystal structure, combined with Engineer Xing's mechanical wreckage, can be used to build a new type of composite armor." Her bloody fingertips slid across Mou Xuan's tactical dagger, "And the ice in your wound - that is the purest crystallization of permafrost energy."
The ice spikes behind Mou Xuan's ears suddenly trembled collectively.
When the space-time vortex was reconstructed for the 14th time, he saw the future 0.3 seconds later: Chen Yao's mycelium wrapped around Yin Gong's ice crystals was merging with Expert Xing's mechanical wreckage into a shield wall shining with a faint blue light.
"Director Shao, pour the last 17% of energy into the sewage pipe." Mou Xuan tore off the mycelium wrapped around his waist, "Old Xing, disassemble two tungsten core bullets to make an electromagnetic net; Engineer Yin, bear with the pain." He grabbed Chen Yao's bleeding wrist and pressed it on Engineer Yin's crystallized right arm, "Use your blood as adhesive."
When purple mycelium wrapped in ice crystals pierced into the mechanical wreckage, a crisp sound similar to breaking glass suddenly came from the command room.
Expert Xing pulled out the nanoworm corpses from the mechanical heart while cursing, only to find that the silver-gray substance was automatically filling the gaps in the armor; half of Engineer Yin's crystallized face suddenly peeled off, revealing a metal skeleton with data flowing underneath.
"They... are helping us evolve?" Director Shao's voice was trembling, and the resource panel in his hand suddenly turned dark green - the liquid nitrogen pipeline infected by the swarm began to transport energy in reverse.
Chen Yao suddenly stumbled and fell into Mou Xuan's arms. The mycelium cocoon behind her was oozing silver-gray mucus: "It's not to help... it's to transform us into something suitable for them to parasitize..."
A deafening explosion suddenly came from under my feet.
As Mou Xuan hugged Chen Yao and rolled towards the composite shield wall that was taking shape, he saw that where he had stood two minutes ago, the entire alloy floor was being etched into a honeycomb-shaped launch base by the swarm of insects.
The electromagnetic net that Expert Xing had just assembled suddenly unfolded automatically, melting the attacking swarm of insects into a sky full of sparks.
"warn!
Structural cracks appeared in the northwest defense wall! "Engineer Yin suddenly roared, his new mechanical eyeballs spinning wildly,"The cracks are multiplying themselves! "
The ice spikes behind Mou Xuan's ears suddenly turned collectively. At the moment when the space-time vortex was reconstructed for the 15th time, he saw silver-gray ripples penetrating the space-time barrier deep in Chen Yao's mycelium network.
When he was about to reach out and touch it, there was a sudden roar of permafrost breaking from the northwest - some kind of vibration that transcends the laws of physics was crawling towards the real dimension along the cracks in space and time.
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The ice crystals behind Mou Xuan's ears made a crackling sound, and seventeen prisms turned towards the northwest crack at the same time.
When the space-time vortex was reconstructed for the 16th time, he bit his tongue and threw blood foam towards the holographic sand table. At the moment when the blood drop was suspended in the air, the mycelium network of the entire command room suddenly condensed into purple amber.
"Three minutes." He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and walked towards the northwest corner, stepping on the coolant droplets suspended in mid-air.
Chen Yao's face, which was wrapped in mycelium, still maintained an expression of astonishment, and the silver-gray ripples remaining on her fingertips were eroding the space-time barrier at a speed of 0.3 mm per second.
The frozen swarm of insects remained in a jet-like shape at the edge of the crack, and Mou Xuan used a tactical dagger to pry open the abdominal cavity of one of them.
In the cavity that should have been a mechanical structure, there was actually half a human finger bone curled up.
His Adam's apple rolled twice, and he suddenly tore open the collar of his combat uniform and pressed the permafrost energy crystal hanging on his chest into the crack.
"Come out!" The moment the crystal touched the crack, seventeen ice edges suddenly projected a distorted light curtain.
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