The quantum screen flashed twice, and just as Engineer Yin had called up the three-dimensional sand table, Zou's confidant knocked the projector crooked.
The polar bear specimen on the wall of the operations room suddenly made a clicking sound of gears turning, and the hairs on the back of Chen Yao's neck stood up - this specimen should have been removed last week and converted into a defensive structure.
"Engineer Yin, please take a look at this genetic map." Skeptic Lu put the quantum jammer in front of the screen, and there was still indigo blood stains between his fingernails from yesterday's dissection of the mutant beast. "The seventh group of base pairs is clearly a double helix structure, but the countdown of the Dow Group..."
His words were interrupted by the sudden explosion of the heater.
Chen Yao instinctively reached for the liquid nitrogen sprayer at her waist, only to find gray-white bone powder falling from the exploded metal shell—someone had mixed the remains of mutants that had been processed in the incinerator into the heating system.
Mou Xuan's tactical boots rolled over the bone fragments on the ground, and three miniature condensation bombs suddenly flew out from the cuffs of his combat uniform.
When the ice fog enveloped the entire genetic map projection, everyone could see clearly those seemingly chaotic radiation patterns, which actually revealed the longitude and latitude coordinates of the Dow base under the low temperature.
"Old Zou, open the holographic recorder you hid in your cuffs." Mou Xuan's dagger suddenly crossed the Adam's apple of Zou's confidant, and on the blade was still condensed some kind of gelatinous parasite scraped from the ventilation duct. "Three hours ago, you met Xu Jiuyou's assistant in the B3 warehouse, right? He showed you the so-called 'evidence of Mou Xuan's betrayal'..."
Chen Yao's star map clavicle chain suddenly made a sharp beep.
She pretended to adjust her tactical vest, but in fact she used her body temperature to melt the nano camera hidden in the pendant. When Mou Xuan stuffed the camera into her palm the night before, her fingertips were left with the unique burnt smell of quantum burns caused by traveling through time and space.
"The Tao boss likes to change guards on the hour." Mou Xuan suddenly pulled open the circuit board behind the quantum screen. Five mechanical tentacles wrapped with nerve guides were trying to tamper with the countdown data. "Engineer Yin, tune out the frequency band of the Antarctic ice shock wave intercepted yesterday and cross-check it with the 'rescue plan' submitted by old friend Xu last week."
When the two sets of data projected overlapping red spots in the polar bear specimen's eyes, Zou Qinxin suddenly screamed.
The smart ring on his wrist was frantically absorbing the bone powder leaking from the heater, and twenty-seven wriggling tumors were bulging under his skin - these parasites were cultivated with the DNA of the chairman of Dow Group, and they would go into a violent state when encountering homologous radiation.
"Hold his right elbow three centimeters away!" Suspicious Lu picked up the laser cutter and rushed over, but knocked over the sonic resonance device that Engineer Yin had just assembled.
Chen Yao accurately caught the deforming parasite in the rain of parts. When the star map pendant brushed against the surface of the tumor, it suddenly projected a real-time monitoring image of the Dow base.
Mou Xuan's tactical backpack suddenly made a crisp sound like ice cracking.
Chen Yao smelled the bitter almond-flavored nerve anesthetic oozing out, but saw golden lines similar to clock gears appearing on the back of the man's neck - this was a sign that the time power was about to be activated.
"Chen Yao, polar bear right eye." Mou Xuan's Adam's apple brushed against her frozen fingertips as he spoke, and tiny particles of time and space fell from the collar of his combat uniform. "If the zipper of my backpack turns blood red in five minutes, immediately detonate all ventilation ducts in Area C4."
The altered melody of an air raid sirens suddenly sounded in the Alliance corridor.
When Chen Yao stuffed the nano camera back into the star map pendant, she discovered that the ice-blue mist seeping out of the side pocket of Mou Xuan's tactical backpack was condensing into the shape of the Dow Group logo on the ground.
Zou's confidant, who should have been unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes, and the unique blue aurora of the Antarctic ice cap flowed in his pupils.
An electronically synthesized laugh was heard from somewhere in the ventilation duct, and a figure wearing silver-gray gloves was slowly appearing in the genetic map projection.
Chen Yao touched the space-time anchor generator given by Mou Xuan in the secret compartment on her back. On the metal shell was still a smiley face symbol drawn in blood by the man - this was the emergency contact signal they had agreed upon.
The hem of my combat uniform was suddenly grabbed by someone.
Chen Yao looked down and saw Mou Xuan's dagger stuck in the crack of the ground, and the cerebrospinal fluid crystals condensed on the handle were spelling out the countdown of "23:57".
When she looked up, the man had disappeared in the distorted radiation ripples of the quantum screen, and only the anesthetic seeping from the tactical backpack cast a silhouette of the Tao leader holding a gun on the wall.
The emergency lights in the corridor began to flicker in the rhythm of Morse code, and Chen Yao's star map pendant suddenly began to heat up.
When a shadow resembling an old friend of Xu reached out her hand from the genetic map, she heard Mou Xuan's unique footsteps with echoes of time and space coming from deep in the ventilation duct - the sound was mixed with the double heartbeat of past and present lives.
Chen Yao leaned against the metal frame of the quantum screen, and the space-time anchor generator in the secret compartment on her lower back hurt.
She pretended to adjust the radiation threshold of the star map pendant, but in fact she was glancing at the third load-bearing column in the corridor with her peripheral vision - five minutes ago, there was a half shoe print with ice on it, and the shape was exactly the same as the tactical boots worn by Xu Jiuyou's assistant.
In the operations room, there was the buzz of Yin Gong debugging the sonic resonance instrument. Doubter Lu kicked away the deformed parasitic tumor while cursing.
Chen Yao's pendant suddenly projected two spots of light, spelling out Mou Xuan's usual warning code on the surface of the fire hydrant: three o'clock direction, seventeen meters, two heat sources.
"Excuse me." She turned sideways and knocked over the genetic sample box on the cart, and the indigo mutant blood splashed on the base of the quantum screen.
When the attacker disguised as a cleaner slipped on the bloodstain, the heel of Chen Yao's tactical boots accurately crushed his wrist bone - the neural pulser hidden in the cuff rolled to the ground, and the anti-counterfeiting pattern of Dow Group on the outer shell glowed eerily in the pool of blood.
The stuffed polar bear suddenly let out a deafening roar.
Chen Yao looked up and saw that the radiation monitor embedded in the specimen's eye sockets was sounding an alarm. The trajectory formed by the crazy swinging of the dial pointer completely overlapped with the logo formed by the ice-blue mist that seeped out of Mou Xuan's backpack.
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