Chapter 265
According to Shen Yijing's understanding of Jiang Yunu, sometimes, when the white-haired girl said that she had done one point of something, in fact, she might have done ten points.
The green supernatural power instantly filled the entire space, as if it were an alien parasitic species, turning the entire space into its own nutrient supply base in the blink of an eye.
Shen Yijing watched as the vine tentacles spread out, reaching into the ceiling, walls, and ground.
But he also clearly saw that in a farther place, at the extreme limit of the human eye's vision - there was also green emerging, echoing the supernatural light lingering around Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu must have quietly invaded here with his supernatural powers while the middle-aged man was immersed in the past and talking to the two young students about his personal regrets and past achievements.
Shen Yijing still doesn't know how she did it, but that's not the point.
What made him even more confused at this moment was that the middle-aged man's projection had already seen how Jiang Yunu had "invaded" the new type of mutant before, but it seemed that the other party had no vigilance at all.
It seemed that they had never thought that Jiang Yunu could invade the alien without making a sound, and the "flesh wall passage" before the invasion could naturally be used to invade here and invade the other party's territory that they thought was safe.
When Jiang Yunu's superpowers first erupted, the middle-aged man maintained his composure, as if "I was just watching an ignorant child throw a tantrum."
But soon, his expression in the physical projection changed.
“…No, impossible!”
The middle-aged man's expression was first disbelief, then turned into frenzy and suspicion.
In the physical projection, he slightly closed his eyes, and the edges of the projection blurred, revealing groups of rapidly interlaced tiny data codes, meaning that he was meditating, searching, and repeatedly checking something.
Then he suddenly opened his eyes.
"--You found my 'core'?!" The middle-aged man's expression was no longer "seeing a little girl who he had an inexplicable affinity with", but as if he had seen a ghost.
Jiang Yunu was still standing there. She had not moved an inch since she approached the middle-aged man's projection.
But she seemed to have arrived somewhere very far away.
She was here yet not there.
She seemed to be everywhere.
"I found it." Jiang Yunu's tone was still calm and light. She stared at the projection of the middle-aged man with an unpredictable expression, as if she was neither angry with him nor sneered at his crimes.
Shen Yijing, who was standing next to him, felt that the way Jiang Yunu looked at the other person was like he had changed from looking at someone with whom he could communicate on an equal footing not long ago to looking at... looking at what?
It seems that the quantifier "one" can no longer be used.
Because Jiang Yunu seemed to be just watching a portion of food that was about to be cleaned, cut and carried to the stove.
Shen Yijing compared his association to a slight tightening of his back, a chill climbing up his spine to the back of his neck, causing the finest hairs there to stand up.
He looked at Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu still spoke in this strangely calm manner, saying softly, "I saw you running away."
"see".
How did she see it?
What did Jiang Yunu "see" in the place that he himself could not see?
Captain Shen could only rely on his natural intelligence to extract and infer the information from these two short sentences: the middle-aged man's projection is here, and the projection cannot be attacked, but the other party's body must be hidden somewhere in the research base, and perhaps the "body" and "core" are one and the same, and this crucial core has been found by Jiang Yunu at a lightning speed, and the core itself has the ability to move.
The middle-aged man's expression in the projection was extremely ugly.
Jiang Yunu tilted his head: "Where do you want to escape to?"
She paused for a second, looking at the man's ever-changing face, staring at his slightly distorted features: "I can see you wherever you run to."
The middle-aged man's physical projection did not speak: "..."
He also stared at Jiang Yunu, looking at her deeply, as if he wanted to understand what kind of monster this young girl who initially made him feel very compatible with him was.
"Keep running." Jiang Yunu urged.
There were no longer any obvious green supernatural vines climbing on the surrounding walls, floors, and ceiling domes.
Everywhere you look, there's a slight green tint.
A soft and light green can be seen from the walls, the ground, and the surfaces of various materials.
It seems that all the dead things here are now "alive things".
And now, they all bleed green blood.
The middle-aged man didn't speak.
But from deep within the research institute base, a rumbling sound was heard again.
Amidst the rumbling sound like the earth rumbling, there was also the dull thud of heavy objects slowly stepping on the ground, and the crisp "da da da" sound of hoofed creatures stomping on the ground quickly.
Shen Yijing's ears caught a sound: "Ding——"
That sounds a lot like an old-fashioned, traditional elevator that automatically sounds an arrival alert when it reaches a designated floor.
The middle-aged man was still staring at Jiang Yunu. Amid the approaching chaotic noise, his expression was distorted, half of it was fear of the white-haired girl, and the other half was a complex mixture of deep curiosity, exploration, and fanaticism.
"I want to know what else you can do." The middle-aged man finally spoke again, gritted his teeth and spoke through them.
The way he looked at Jiang Yunu was also strange, and a word suddenly popped up in Shen Yijing's mind - [Ye Gong likes dragons].
The three-dimensionally projected man looked at Jiang Yunu, just like the ancient people who claimed that they loved dragons the most, and suddenly realized one day that they might actually see a dragon.
They soon knew what the chaotic noises were, and were not surprised by the result.
——It was the army of alienated people mobilized by the middle-aged man.
It is extremely large in size; its limbs are segmented and deformed; it has lost nearly 70% of its human characteristics and looks like an alien in an old movie.
Most of them still retain human features, but their entire heads have basically been transformed into those of animals.
There were so many of them, all of them were alienated.
In this considerable team of mutants, every mutant in it is like the mutant complex that Jiang Yunu and Shen Yijing had encountered before.
"Can you track me and deal with them at the same time?" said the middle-aged man.
Jiang Yunu only modified his inappropriate words.
"We," she said briefly.
Not long ago, Shen Yijing felt his back tighten and his hair stand on end for Jiang Yunu, but this did not prevent him from feeling inexplicably moved when he heard the word "we". In this situation, Jiang Yunu was still aware that there was another person next to him and regarded him as a useful teammate and combat force.
Captain Shen's way of expressing his gratitude was to immediately prove that he was indeed a trustworthy teammate and available combat capability.
He and Jiang Yunu worked in perfect harmony and faced the mutated creatures that were pouring in like a tide without hesitation.
Shen Yijing could not share Jiang Yunu's vision, and she didn't know that in Jiang Yunu's sensory system, she could fully grasp the "core" dynamics of the middle-aged man.
Within Jiang Yunu's perception range, that thing looked like an orange-red energy ball with blurred edges, but it was highly active and moved quite agilely.
Jiang Yunu and Shen Yijing fought side by side, and also "fought alone" somewhere in the research institute base.
The supernatural power that flows through originally solid physical media such as walls and floors is her omnipresent eyes and ears, as well as her omnipresent hands and feet.
When nearly half of the mutant army was wiped out by the two men, Jiang Yunu suddenly caught a glimpse of something in his peripheral vision.
The flash was very subtle and sharp.
It did not attack her, but attacked Shen Yijing at an extremely tricky angle, who was about three arms' distance away from her.
Jiang Yunu's eyes followed the flash, and with her excellent dynamic vision, she could see the thing more clearly - it was a needle tip.
It was difficult to tell which mutant was holding the syringe connected to the needle tip in such a chaotic situation, and there were many mutants nearby who had more than two hands.
Shen Yijing didn't notice the needle tip so close to him. He was surrounded by mutants in front, on the left, and behind him, making his right side a blind spot.
Jiang Yunu didn't hesitate and rushed over in the blink of an eye.
She didn't push, squeeze or bump Shen Yijing away.
Because Captain Shen was fighting, his supernatural skills and fighting moves were closely coordinated, and he had to deal with attacks from three directions at the same time.
Rashly colliding with someone who is in a smooth fighting rhythm may instead knock him into the blade of other enemies.
Jiang Yunu floated to the right side of Shen Yijing and inserted it between the needle tip that was about to touch Shen Yijing and Captain Shen.
Naturally, the needle tip flashing with cold light pierced into Jiang Yunu's skin.
Shen Yijing noticed that Jiang Yunu was suddenly approaching, and turned his head to see a syringe stuck in Jiang Yunu's left arm, which made his mind go blank for a moment.
“…”
Captain Shen, whose mind was blank, relied entirely on the muscle memory acquired from long-term training and his combat instincts to launch the next round of attacks on the mutants around him, forcing them all to retreat and clearing a semicircular temporary safe zone around himself and Jiang Yunu.
"You..." Shen Yijing opened his mouth, his eyes locked on the syringe in Jiang Yunu's arm, his pupils shrank to as thin as a needle tip. He wanted to say something but couldn't, and he wanted to help Jiang Yunu deal with the syringe but didn't know where to start.
The projection of the middle-aged man has been observing the occupant, with particular focus on Jiang Yunu.
When he found that Jiang Yunu had stopped the syringe for the young man who was not in a serious situation, his eyes widened slightly at first, then he became interested and waited for something.
Jiang Yunu, however, still looked as usual.
"This is the latest product from the R&D lab," the middle-aged man explained. "It was probably just pushed out of the synthesis machine ten minutes ago. It has complex ingredients and is very expensive."
The middle-aged man deliberately didn't talk about its effects.
Shen Yijing’s expression became more and more nervous.
Jiang Yunu tilted his head to glance at the syringe and found that the medicine had not been fully injected. The mutant holding it had only completed the simple action of "inserting the needle".
She raised her hand and grasped the syringe.
Shen Yijing also noticed that there was still most of the medicine in the syringe, which made him feel a little relieved - at least the medicine had completely entered her body.
However, it was too early for him to relax.
Because in the next second, Jiang Yunu's action was not to pull the needle out, but to push the needle inward.
——She pushed the potion into her body.
“It’s like a more concentrated version of glucose.”
Jiang Yunu pushed the needle, pulled it out, and threw the empty syringe on the ground. "How boring! Your research and development failed again?"
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