The young man was busy putting specimens into the test tubes. The zipper of his waterproof combat uniform got stuck on his sweaty hair. "When... the construction team reported that these biological tissues encountered a specific frequency... Hey, be careful!"
The mycelium suddenly pulled Chen Yao away from where she was.
A bowl-sized pit had exploded on the cement floor where she had been standing, and some fluorescent green mucus was corroding honeycomb-like holes.
Mou Xuan threw out three hyphae with his backhand and nailed them into the collapsing ceiling of the air-raid shelter. The rapidly scrolling data stream in the tactical lens suddenly froze on a surveillance video from 1972 - the scars on the back of the necks of the boys wearing engineer hats were oozing out the same gelatinous substance as on the ground.
"In twenty seconds this place will collapse into space-time turbulence." Mou Xuan's mycelium suddenly wrapped around the ankles of the two men and dragged them towards the holographic projection on the wall.
Chen Yao pulled the trigger while rolling, and the shotgun blasted the gelatinous monster that pounced down from the ventilation duct. The splashing fluorescent mucus burned scorch marks on the tactical lenses.
Assistant Liao suddenly inserted the multifunctional saber into a certain spot on the map projection. Sparks like welding burst out when the blade touched the holographic image. "These coordinates are in the negative pressure area of the siphon underground river!" The old pocket watch in the pocket of his combat uniform suddenly turned upside down, and the dial glass reflected a dark space full of bronze valves. "We have to pass through the flood control gate in 1972 to... Shit!"
At the moment when the concrete fragments fell like a rainstorm, Mou Xuan's mycelium web suddenly wrapped around the three people and curled them up into a cocoon.
Chen Yao bit open the freezing grenade on her tactical belt, and the azure cold mist froze the falling ruins along the mycelium veins.
At the moment when the feeling of weightlessness swept over them, they saw through the translucent mycelium cocoon that the residual images of bronze doors from fifteen generations were nested like Russian dolls.
The violent collision caused Assistant Liao to vomit acid.
As he shivered and wiped the ice off his gas mask, he found three people lying on top of the barnacle-covered flood gate.
The turbid water of the Huangpu River formed a whirlpool thirty meters below my feet, and a large number of gelatinous nerve bundles floated in the foul-smelling water mist.
"At eleven o'clock, behind the three-layer waterproof gate." Mou Xuan's mycelium pierced into the rusty gear box, and the tactical lens analyzed the gate structure of 1972 into a red dotted line.
When Chen Yao's shotgun blasted open the third layer of barbed wire, the water-soaked concrete wall suddenly peeled off like a melted candle, revealing a silver hatch riddled with bullet holes behind it.
Assistant Liao suddenly pressed the rapidly jumping pocket watch: "These bullet marks... are armor-piercing incendiary bombs used by special forces in 2021!" The pipeline network map on his tactical tablet suddenly flashed, and the seven Big Dipper marks simultaneously pointed to the location of the hatch electronic lock, "Someone is modifying the coordinates... Be careful!"
Chen Yao's military boots suddenly crushed two pieces of jelly that were trying to wrap around her ankles, and the shotgun barrel fired three shots against the hatch hinge.
When Mou Xuan's mycelium pierced into the bullet hole and entangled the internal gears, the rusty mechanical lock suddenly oozed a large amount of smelly green liquid - those parts that should have rusted to death in 1972 were now being rapidly reassembled according to the specifications of 2023.
"They are transforming the space-time anchor point into a living trap!" Assistant Liao suddenly tore off his combat uniform. The old newspaper scraps on his chest were soaked with cold sweat and turned translucent.
In the news photos from 1972, the seven-star scars on the back of the engineer boys' necks suddenly oozed blood, dripping along the edge of the tactical tablet onto the hatch code dial.
Mou Xuan's mycelium suddenly stretched as straight as a steel cable.
When the blood drop seeped into the seventh groove of the cipher disk, a deafening whistle suddenly sounded throughout the flood control gate.
Thirty-meter-high waves condensed into ice waterfalls on the surface of the Huangpu River. The gelatinous nerve bundles frozen in the ice were madly hitting the ice surface, projecting hundreds of overlapping red light spots in the tactical lenses.
"Hurry up!" Chen Yao suddenly poked the shotgun barrel into the gap of the cabin door. The recoil caused by the bullet made her mouth bleed.
Mou Xuan's hyphae pierced into the cabin along the trajectory, and at the moment it entangled a hot metal box, the tactical lens was suddenly flooded with blood-red codes - the logo of the pharmaceutical company printed on the surface of the box was exactly the same as what he saw at the laboratory explosion site on the day of his rebirth.
Assistant Liao's exclamation was drowned out by the roar of the gate collapsing.
As the three men dragged the metal box towards the turbulent underground river, Mou Xuan's mycelium suddenly weaved into a glowing web in the turbid water.
Chen Yao turned over in the rapids and saw seven Big Dipper symbols lighting up at the bottom of the river. The lights clearly outlined a huge mouth full of sharp teeth.
The tactical lens suddenly emitted a dazzling red light. At the moment when the mycelium was about to be torn off by the undercurrent, Mou Xuan saw a familiar figure standing on the top floor of the flood prevention observation station 300 meters away.
The hem of the man's windbreaker was rustling in the river breeze, and his right hand, wearing a black leather glove, was pressing on the eyepiece of the observation instrument - and what was flashing on the screen of the instrument was their real-time coordinates underwater at that moment.
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