The gears of Mou Xuan's timer suddenly got stuck for half a second.
It was this slight stagnation that caused the cross-section of the water pipe in the time projection to suddenly twist into a pretzel shape.
Chen Yao's ice mirror armor grew spikes in response to stress, but they melted into milky white gelatin when they touched the surface of the mucus.
"There was absolutely no such thing two hours ago." Engineer Qu hit the rock wall with a wrench, and the gray-white mucus oozing out of the cracks suddenly turned amber. "Look!
It's fucking imitating a quartz crystal structure! "
Inspector Hu's spectrometer suddenly emitted an alarm sound like a baby crying.
In his panic, he knocked over the reagent box, and the colorful test tubes rolled out a smoking trail on the surface of the mucus. "All reference objects are distorted!" His hands were shaking as he pulled at his tie. "The calcium carbonate test value showed granite, and the chloride ion concentration was like concentrated sulfuric acid..."
Chen Yao suddenly threw out three ice spikes, forming a triangular warning net above everyone's heads.
The sand of time hanging down from the end of the ice spike swayed like a pendulum, creating grooves of varying depths on the surface of the mucus. "Something is rearranging the molecules." She formed a six-sided ice crystal on her fingertips and observed the floating sediment through it. "At ten o'clock, three meters deep."
Mou Xuan's robotic arm ejected the spiral drill bit, but it was wrapped in mucus when it reached the target point.
The drill speed suddenly increased, sparks flew, and the splashing mucus condensed into a metal net in mid-air. "Back off!" He pulled Chen Yao's collar and rushed backwards. A translucent cyst suddenly appeared where he was standing, with blue-purple fluorescence surging inside.
Engineer Qu suddenly took off his oil-stained baseball cap and put it on the cyst.
The old fabric was instantly corroded into honeycomb-shaped holes, which dimmed the fluorescence on the surface of the cyst. "The radio can interfere with its frequency band!" He pressed the volume knob frantically, and the crackling noise was mixed with a rhythm similar to Morse code.
When the seventh "drip" sound rang out, Chen Yao's ice mirror array suddenly refracted seven overlapping projections.
The metal parts corroded by slime are different in each picture, but they converge into the same molecular formula in the trajectory of the sand of time. "C12H17ON..." Inspector Hu used a wrench to scratch trembling characters on the surface of the mucus, "This is a fucking neurotransmitter precursor!"
Mou Xuan's timer suddenly turned in the opposite direction, and bronze runes burned scorch marks in the air.
The pipeline projection from two hours ago began to decompose frame by frame, and each corrosion point corresponded to a fluorescent cyst under the mucus layer. "It's not a pollutant." His robotic arm ejected a liquid nitrogen spray gun, and a spider-web-like bioelectric current emerged from under the instantly frozen mucus layer. "It's some kind of information carrier."
Before he could finish his words, the frozen layer suddenly exploded into thousands of crystal spikes.
Chen Yao spun around and threw out an ice chain to wrap around everyone's waists, but the moment she was in the air she saw dark green liquid oozing out of the tips of the crystal spikes - exactly the same traces left on the front of Mou Xuan's combat uniform.
"Last week's assassination..." Her pupils suddenly contracted, and the ice chain grew barbs due to stress.
Engineer Qu, who was hanging in the air, suddenly screamed. Liquid of the same color was oozing out of the pocket of his overalls, wetting the old radio.
Mou Xuan's mechanical arm suddenly transformed into a particle oscillating knife, and the blade brushed against the outside of Qu Gong's thigh.
Half a piece of cloth fell with corrosive liquid, burning a black hole the size of a fist on the slime layer.
At this moment, Inspector Hu's spectrometer suddenly returned to normal, and the molecular model on the screen was automatically disassembling and reassembling.
"It's learning." Chen Yao's ice mirror armor began to proliferate uncontrollably, and the mucus layer reflected on the mirror surface showed retinal-like patterns. "Use our detection methods as teaching materials..."
The mucus sac suddenly burst, spraying out fluorescent powder all over the sky, and the surface of Mou Xuan's timer was instantly covered with blood-like bacterial plaques.
Before Chen Yao's ice spikes could build a barrier, she saw the hyphae slowly seeping into the core components of the timer along the gaps in the bronze gears.
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