The blue light from the decomposition of the data stream still remained on Mou Xuan's retina, and the ice spikes that burst behind his ears condensed into tiny crystal clusters on the surface of his skin.
He reached out and pressed his left arm, which was being digitized. The bloody smell rising in his throat was mixed with the unique rust smell of permafrost - that was a sign of the concretization of space-time coordinates.
"The entire power supply system will be overloaded in three seconds." Chen Yao's mycelium was entangled in the gap of the control console, and the dark green lines of the Zerg neural network were in her pupils. "The electromagnetic network installed by Expert Xing needs to be recalibrated."
The transparency of the command room floor was spreading upwards, and the speed at which the silver-gray insect swarm in the permafrost pieced together the corpses suddenly increased.
Mou Xuan tore off the magnetic buckle on the collar of his combat uniform, and used the blood-oozing ice to scratch seventeen crisscrossing marks on the console - that was the optimal solution he had found after two hundred attempts to go back in time.
"Engineer Yin!" He grabbed the engineer's crystallized shoulder and said, "Direct the liquid starlight from the cracks in the defense wall to the cooling pool in area B3." The crystal mask reflected the engineer's astonished expression, "But that's a superconducting material..."
"Use mycelium as a buffer layer." Chen Yao suddenly cut her index finger, and a drop of blood condensed into ice crystals in mid-air and fell into the scar left by Mou Xuan. "My neural network can temporarily synchronize with the signal band of the Zerg." The mycelium crown on her wrist suddenly made a sound of gears meshing, and all the screens in the command room simultaneously flashed the perspective of the Zerg's compound eyes.
Expert Xing suddenly threw the electromagnetic net controller to the ground and said, "Are you crazy?
This would turn the entire defense module into a petri dish for biological circuits! "The metal nameplate on his chest suddenly melted, revealing the unique scaly patterns of the insect swarm underneath.
Mou Xuan's pupils suddenly contracted.
The scenes seen in the 31st time rewind suddenly overlapped - the hexagonal insect exuviae emerging from the back of Expert Xing's neck, the gelatinous secretions overflowing from the vents of the command room, and the strange data packets mixed into Chen Yao's mycelium network.
"Master Duan, replace the nano-repairing agent with liquid nitrogen reserves." He kicked open the suddenly mutated electromagnetic net bracket, and inserted his crystallized left hand directly into the core of the console, "Engineer Yin, activate the magnetic storm interference device now!" The engineer's crystal mask suddenly cracked, revealing normal human skin underneath - it turned out that the data stream mask was the mental pollution of the Zerg.
Chen Yao's mycelium suddenly wrapped around Expert Xing's right leg, which was in the process of transforming into an insect: "His bioelectric frequency deviated from the human baseline by 37% 0.7 seconds ago!" The ice crystals bursting from the mycelium crown formed a honeycomb-shaped protective net in the air, trapping Expert Xing, who suddenly jumped up, in a hexagonal light prison.
When the liquid starlight from the cracks in the defense wall was finally injected into the cooling pool, the entire base was filled with low-frequency vibrations similar to ancient whale songs.
Mou Xuan looked at the space-time rift that was gradually closing in the holographic projection, and he suddenly felt a burning sensation at the ice scar on the back of his neck - the coordinate diagram that was beyond cognition was being rearranged on his optic nerve.
"The southeast corner defense module requires manual calibration!" Master Duan's roar was accompanied by blood foam.
The old construction worker was using a liquid nitrogen welding torch to seal the colloid that had seeped in, with wriggling human finger bones stuck to the soles of his combat boots.
Mou Xuan broke through the automatic defense system that was contaminated by the swarm consciousness and turned the crystallized pressure valve with his bare hands.
Chen Yao's hyphae drilled in through the gaps in his combat uniform and weaved temporary neural pathways in his blood vessels.
When the frequency of vibrations from the permafrost suddenly changed, they all saw the horrifying scene reflected in the Zerg's compound eyes at the same time - twenty-seven bases in parallel time and space were being attacked at the same time.
"Now!" Mou Xuan bit the emergency crystal hidden in his back teeth, and the light blue time-stop field exploded with him as the center.
The flying metal fragments in the command room solidified into the shape of a starry sky, and the blood beads sprayed by Master Duan formed into an ice crystal necklace in the air.
In the third minute of absolute stillness, Chen Yao's mycelium network finally penetrated into the main ganglion of the swarm.
When Mou Xuan finished rewriting the last defense code with his decomposing data stream fingers, the gaze of the compound eyes coming from the northwest crack suddenly turned into a trembling of fear.
The honeycomb patterns on the defense wall emitted a strong silver-white light, and all the liquid starlight vaporized into a protective film within one thousandth of a second.
The swarm consciousness within Expert Xing's body let out an inhuman scream and melted into star-like slime in the magnetic storm's interference.
"The remaining enemies are evacuating!" Engineer Yin suddenly pointed at the violently shaking monitoring screen, his face flushed red as the crystal mask completely fell off, "But the energy readings of the permafrost..." His voice was interrupted by the sudden tilt of the floor.
Chen Yao staggered and grabbed the handrail woven with mycelium, and found that her blood had coagulated into an unknown totem on the transparent floor.
The coordinate scar on the back of Mou Xuan's neck suddenly oozed blood, and a three-dimensional star map was automatically drawn in the air - that was clearly the structural diagram of the base three hundred meters underground.
Before the cheers of celebration could be heard, Mou Xuan had already rushed to the observation window.
The defensive wall that repelled the enemy had an abnormal pearly luster, and the insect remains scattered on the snow outside the wall were trembling in a regular pattern, like puppets controlled by invisible threads.
Chen Yao's mycelium crown suddenly decomposed automatically, forming a warning totem on the floor of the command room.
When the last defense module completed its self-repair, a huge shadow flashed across all the display screens at the same time - that thing had glacial scales and eyes made of magma, and was stretching its body that had been entrenched in the depths of the permafrost for thousands of years.
(Continuation)
The red alarm light in the command room suddenly went out, and Chen Yao staggered and fell into Mou Xuan's arms.
The mycelium crown on her wrist was still shedding ice crystals, and the debris formed a crooked smiling face on the front of Mou Xuan's combat uniform.
"How many of your back teeth are still strong enough to bite?" Chen Yao's fingertips brushed across Mou Xuan's chin, which was covered with ice, and the mycelium flowed through the gaps between her fingers and into his collar.
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