"Get down!"
Mou Xuan's roar was drowned out by the whistling sound of the particle flow.
As soon as Captain Han dragged the last wounded soldier into the lead shelter, he saw tens of thousands of mutant creatures twisted into a pretzel shape in the blue light.
Chen Yao's ice shield reflected a strange spectrum, and the engineer ants that were gnawing at the defense wall suddenly began to eat each other.
Three minutes later, a thunderous collapse sound was heard from underground in the nuclear power plant.
When Fatty Lu climbed out of the sewage pipe, his cold-proof clothes were covered with ice crystal hyphae: "My electromagnet has melted into molten iron!" He cursed and threw out half of a graphite ring, which just caught the fragment of the defense wall that fell from the ceiling.
When the mycelium network gradually returned to normal, everyone discovered that the entire ground of Area D was covered with black ashes.
Captain Han picked up the debris with tweezers and held it up to the emergency light. "The exoskeleton lattice is all misplaced, just like..."
"It's like a thousand-layer puff pastry torn apart by the turbulence of space and time." Qin, the weapon developer, slumped beside the base of the particle cannon, his fingers still twitching nervously.
On the display screen in front of him, the red area representing the enemy group was fading radially with the fuel pool as the center.
Mou Xuan wiped off the blood and ice residue that had stuck to his eyelashes, and the tactical tablet showed that the number of mutant creatures had dropped sharply by 37.6%.
Chen Yao's ice spike suddenly pointed to the sewage outlet in the southeast corner: "There!" When everyone turned around, they happened to see the last three soldier ants curled up into charcoal under the burning of mycelium.
Cheers suddenly broke out when Captain Han was stitching up the seventh wounded man.
Fatty Lu took out half a box of expired beer from somewhere, and the foam sprayed on the frosted lead plate with a hissing sound.
Even the defense soldiers, who always had stern faces, were knocking on the bulletproof glass with their rifle butts, improvising an absurd victory march.
"Something's wrong." Mou Xuan crushed the snow on the ground with the tip of his boots. Dark red liquid was oozing out from the threads of the graphite ring.
The mycelium network suddenly stung his retina, and he saw that the wound on the back of Researcher Jiang's neck was slowly multiplying black plaques.
When Chen Yao came over quietly, he was stuffing three liquid nitrogen bombs into the reactor maintenance passage.
"The celebration is about to begin." An ice rose formed on her fingertips, and the mycelium network flashed warning signals in her pupils. "There's news from the East District Watchtower that people from Steel Bone City will come to exchange medical supplies tomorrow."
Amid the cheers, the excited explanation of weapons developer Qin was particularly harsh: "Do you know how powerful the graphite resonator is? It's equivalent to using the remnants of a nuclear leak seven years ago as a fuse..." He waved the data tablet and knocked over the petri dish, not noticing that Researcher Jiang was secretly collecting the crystals from his wounds.
Mou Xuan suddenly held down Chen Yao's hand as it was about to touch the graphite ring.
The moonlight shone through the broken dome, and the pool of dark red liquid was outlining the outline of the Steel City on the snow.
A faint backtracking signal came from the mycelium network, and he clearly remembered this time in his previous life - the sewage outlet that should have been full of corpses was now abnormally glowing with a metallic luster.
"Tell Captain Han to prepare double the painkillers." Mou Xuan used the sole of his shoe to wipe the pattern on the snow. The mycelium under the ice was weaving a new topological structure. "Notify the logistics team to move the expired cans in Warehouse No. 3 to the most conspicuous location."
Outside the defensive wall, black ashes were swirled into vortices by the strong wind.
In a shadow that was not covered by the mycelium network, the half-melted remains of the engineer ant suddenly twitched, and the surface of its compound eyes reflected the unique eagle logo of the Steel City transport vehicle.
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