The sound of shattering ice and exploding slime intertwined into a strange symphony.
Chen Yao's ice mirror armor suddenly wrapped around her entire right arm in reverse, and the fluorescent powder refracted by the mirror surface burned out charred lines on the mucus layer - the lines were exactly the same as the direction of the bronze gears in Mou Xuan's timer.
"Retreat three hundred meters with the contaminated samples!" Mou Xuan's particle oscillator knife suddenly changed direction, and the air ripples caused by the high-frequency vibration of the blade shattered the fluorescent powder in the sky into powder.
The dark green mark on the front of his combat uniform began to heat up, as if some living thing was responding to the heartbeat deep in the mucus layer.
Chen Yao's ice chain barbs suddenly all turned inwards, wrapping up Qu Gong, who was screaming in mid-air, into a silver-white cocoon.
She stepped on the jagged ice ridges and jumped to the side of Inspector Hu. The mirror armor reflected the molecular formula jumping wildly on the spectrometer screen: "Pull up the map you detected the underground river three days ago!"
A human-shaped outline suddenly rose out of the mucus layer, and sparks flew from the joints of Mou Xuan's mechanical arm.
He pressed the timer into the slime figure's chest with his backhand, and dark red rust seeped out from the bronze gears gnawing on each other - that was the poison left on the assassin's dagger last week.
"Found it!" Inspector Hu suddenly smashed the spectrometer to the ground. A half-snake-shaped molecular chain was frozen on the broken screen. "This abnormal peak during the dark river detection, I thought it was a device failure..."
Chen Yao's ice mirror armor suddenly turned into mist, and a three-dimensional projection of the southwest corner of the base emerged in the cold mist.
She ran her fingers, stained with the corrosive liquid from Qu Gong's trouser legs, across a fault: "Explorer Lou, take my ice spike and dig a 20-meter vertical shaft here." Three bronze gear fragments were frozen in the ice spikes that were thrown out. They were the spare parts she had taken from Mou Xuan's locker room this morning.
The slime figure suddenly opened its featureless face, and the moment Mou Xuan was blown away, he caught a glimpse of the bronze gears rotating in the other's chest - the structure was exactly the same as the core of his own timer.
The hairs on the back of his neck stood up as he finally understood why the assassin last week had been able to accurately destroy the safe house's particle barrier.
"Use the dark matter resonance frequency!" Chen Yao's shout came mixed with the sound of ice chains breaking through the air.
The icy spike she hurled at Lou the Prospector suddenly disintegrated in mid-air, the ice crystals arranging themselves in the shape of a Möbius strip above the slime layer.
Inspector Hu took the opportunity to throw the wreckage of the spectrometer towards the center of the ring, and the DNA spiral-shaped source of pollution emerged in the exploding blue light.
Mou Xuan's robotic arm suddenly moved autonomously, and the particle knife chopped along the light path constructed by Chen Yao.
Black blood with a smell of rust spurted out from the severed neck of the slime figure, and those blood beads condensed into the shape of a miniature timer in mid-air.
"Now!" Chen Yao's ice mirror armor suddenly collapsed, and the flying lenses formed a huge prism above everyone's heads.
The midday sun refracted and burned a charred totem on the ground - which was exactly the same as the forbidden totem on the seventh floor underground of the safe house.
Prospector Lou suddenly jumped out of the southwest corner shaft, holding in his arms an ice ridge that was constantly oozing clear water: "There is running water under the fault!
But..." The shoulder straps of his protective suit had turned dark green at some point, and the cuffs were condensed with the fluorescent powder unique to the mucus layer.
Mou Xuan's timer suddenly made a grinding sound as if the gears were stuck. He saw that the encrypted instructions he had written to her last night were frozen in the icy spikes thrown by Chen Yao.
The words were slowly flowing in the ice crystals, reorganizing into completely unfamiliar ancient characters.
"Don't touch the water source!" Engineer Qu suddenly tore open the cocoon and pounced on the ice edge. Bronze-colored hyphae emerged from the wound on the outside of his thigh.
The barbed ice chain thrown by Chen Yao wrapped around the old man's ankle at the last second. The ice chain was covered with protrusions similar to timer gears.
A dull sound of gears turning came from deep in the mucus layer, and Mou Xuan's mechanical arm stabbed his own temple uncontrollably.
At the critical moment, Inspector Hu stuffed the map of the underground river into the secret pocket of his combat uniform. The document stained with corrosive liquid suddenly showed a three-dimensional structure diagram of the safe house, and a flashing red dot coincided with the position of the vertical shaft in the southwest corner.
When Chen Yao's ice mirror armor recondensed, gear patterns appeared. She crushed the fluorescent powder on the ground and rushed to the shaft: "It's not the water source, it's the location!
This coordinate is devouring..."
Her words were swallowed up by the sudden collapse of the shaft.
Mou Xuan watched helplessly as the clear spring water gushing out of the ice spikes condensed into the shape of bronze gears in mid-air. Those gears meshed and fell into darkness, making the same sound as the doomsday bell he heard on the night of his rebirth.
An ice-blue flare suddenly shot out from the bottom of the shaft. It was the emergency communicator that Chen Yao had modified using the barbed ice chain.
The timer in the secret pocket of Mou Xuan's combat uniform was slightly hot, and green light with clear moisture seeped out from the gaps between the gears - for the first time since his rebirth, the cracks on the dial showed signs of healing.
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The mucus layer condensed into vortex-shaped crystals at the collapsed part of the shaft, and the secret pocket of Mou Xuan's combat uniform suddenly became hot.
The moment he took out the timer, the green light bursting out from the gaps between the bronze gears carbonized all the fluorescent powder within a radius of ten meters.
"The mycelium on Engineer Qu's leg is decomposing!" Inspector Hu suddenly raised the shattered spectrometer fragments, on which a bronze data stream was jumping. "The ice shards thrown by Team Leader Shen...are quantum entangled with the Dark River molecular chain!"
Mou Xuan's robotic arm suddenly disassembled and reassembled automatically, and the parts were assembled into a miniature particle collider in mid-air.
When the fluorescent debris thrown by Inspector Hu passed through the ring-shaped structure, a holographic projection of the seventh underground floor of the safe house emerged from the exploding sparks - those forbidden totems that should have been destroyed were multiplying crazily.
"Use my blood!" Engineer Qu suddenly tore off the bandage on his thigh, and dark green liquid oozed out of the wound wrapped with mycelium. "Three days ago in the purification cabin, the mucus actively avoided my hematopoietic stem cells..." His trembling fingertips dipped in liquid and drew spiral patterns on the surface of the ice, which perfectly matched the gear patterns left by Chen Yao before she disappeared.
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