Everyone closed their eyes or turned their heads away to avoid the light that was strong enough to blind them.
Although they were wearing protective goggles that would filter out the bright light if they looked directly at it, there seemed to be some mysterious force driving them to look away.
When everything calmed down again, they found that the space overlap had ended and they returned to reality.
At the end of the corridor behind them, a broken and twisted door blocked the flying monster. In a sense, the team was finally safe.
Compared to the situation inside the door, Chen Ci's first reaction was to pay attention to Fu Tianhe. Alpha's whole face was wrinkled, and he was obviously in extreme pain. He was carried by Shafuli and no longer had to move on his own, but the bumps during the rapid movement still made his body uncomfortable.
After swallowing Jiu Yue's blood, the situation did not seem to be relieved much. Perhaps relying on the Omega boy to suppress the disease in the past few months has made the Ashes in his body resistant.
We must find an antidote quickly.
Chen Ci forced himself to calm down and moved his gaze to the other side of the door. The room, which was clearly a laboratory, was extremely tidy. If all the lights had not been turned off, and only the beams of light from the team members' headlamps were shining, it would have been like being in the past.
And in the center of the laboratory is a pile of remains.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on it, and they even forgot to breathe at this moment.
After arriving inside the Moonlight, they saw too many debris and the bones of the original creatures scattered all over the ground, which attracted the corpses scattered everywhere by the compass needle and the dying Poseidon in the deeper places.
But none of them can compare to what I see before my eyes, which brings a shock that strikes my soul.
Those are two people.
Purple crystals broke through their body surfaces, turning their bodies into soil for their roots to take root, while their joints were twisted at abnormal angles due to the invasion of foreign objects.
The clothes were stretched like a bag and had many puncture holes on them, but the pattern of the white coat could still be seen.
The two humanoids who were sucked emaciated by Ashes were hugging each other tightly, their heads resting on each other's necks. Even though the crystals growing from their ear canals would pierce each other's necks, they still hugged each other tightly.
They pierced each other's heads, arms, and chests, and knelt down, becoming twisted statues in the empty laboratory.
Chen Nian clearly heard himself swallowing.
Amethyst, corpse, hug.
What exists before our eyes can even be considered some kind of crazy work of art.
Although both of them were almost drained of fluids and extremely skinny, one could still tell from their skeleton outlines that they were two men.
The shorter one had a large round hole in his skull at the back of his head, with crystals spilling out of it like purple ivy.
He was hugged tightly by another person, with his hand on his waist, which is the way to treat a lover.
There was no need for explanation; everyone had guessed the true identities of the two people before them.
The last Elector of Moonlight, the biochemical expert, Heibo Ceris, and his Alpha, the Dean of the Academy of Engineering, Kong Yu.
Chen Nian had imagined many times what kind of guidance Hei Bo would give to the team the next time he met him in the overlapping space.
But he never expected that in front of the incubation room door, it would be the last time he saw the "alive" Hei Bo.
"What is going on?"
No one could answer. Chen Nian calmed himself down and walked forward with the special forces captain. Chen Ci had to take care of Fu Tianhe. As a person who would not be infected, he must be the one to take on the task of carefully finding out the situation.
"I can do it myself." After approaching the purple crystal corpse, Chen Nian reached out to stop the special forces captain, "Don't worry, I will be careful."
"The instrument shows that the energy here has exceeded the maximum limit that can be detected. You must pay attention to safety."
Chen Nian nodded. He took two steps forward, came to Hei Bo's side, and squatted on one knee.
The two of them hugged each other very tightly, and the purple crystals were like hundreds of nails, fixing the two of them together.
There is no way to separate them except by violent means.
After learning that they are incurable, will the couple choose to die together in this way?
Chen Nian's heart was filled with unspeakable sadness. Is it romantic? Of course it is romantic, but if given a choice, who would want this?
Who could have imagined that the once favored son of heaven, the prestigious Elector and the President of the Academy of Engineering would die in such an undignified manner at the deepest part of the collapsed beacon?
Chen Nian observed carefully, reached out his hand and gently placed it on Hei Bo's shoulder. Fortunately, nothing else happened. The polar cold froze their bodies.
If nothing unexpected happens, it can exist in a very stable state for hundreds or thousands of years.
Suddenly, Chen Nian discovered that the postures of the two people seemed a little strange.
As a professional painter, Chen Nian is very familiar with the human body and knows what the human body structure should look like in different states.
Even if Heibo and Kong Yu had some deformation and distortion due to Ashes, the arch of their waist and back should not be like this now.
The mental force explored between the two people, but it seemed to be absorbed by some existence and could not get an accurate result.
It is like there is a black hole in the cracks of the body that absorbs all the energy.
Chen Nian thought carefully for a moment and decided to separate the two people to see what was going on.
"I want to separate the two of them." Chen Nian told everyone in the communication channel, "I always feel that there must be something in their arms, and if I probe them with my mental power, it will be absorbed."
Shafley: "Okay, can you do it yourself?"
Before Shafley could say anything else, Chen Ci had already walked forward. He was on the other side of the two bodies, with Chen Nian on the left and right: "Come on."
We are really sorry, but we must know if there are any clues hidden. I believe you will forgive us.
Chen Nian said silently in his heart. He took a deep breath and together with Chen Ci, they forcefully pried the shoulders of the two corpses apart.
The purple crystals that grew out of Hei Bo's body pierced into Kong Yu's body, and his body was also filled with crystals that pierced out of Kong Yu's body.
It takes all your strength to force them apart.
The crystal was pulled out, leaving a large hole, through which one could even see the dried up dirty organs and white bones.
Not even a drop of blood could be shed.
At this time, they finally saw what Heibo and Kong Yu were holding tightly in their arms.
A silver-white device shaped like a helmet.
Chen Nian was so familiar with it that he had seen Shaflay wear it on his head countless times and enter the beacon's program kernel to perform maintenance or urgent work.
And now, in Shafley's backpack, there is another of the same model.
This is Moonlight's Neural Adapter!
The two were forcibly separated, and the neural adapter was no longer clamped on the chest, but fell on the kneeling legs.
Chen Nian took a deep breath, exhaled, then took another deep breath, exhaled.
He reached out with a shaking hand and picked up the neural adapter of the sixth beacon.
The indicator light on the adapter actually came on, indicating that it was working.
It absorbed all the mental energies that came to test it, creating a black hole-like effect, and emitted strong energy fluctuations, disturbing the nearby area, and constantly falling into regular space overlap.
Chen Nian already understood everything.
If he was right, the neural adapter was kept in this state intentionally by Hei Bo.
Black Wave needs high-intensity energy to trigger space fluctuations in order to gain some convenience. Perhaps when they touched the black glass on the Midgard laboratory platform bridge, he realized the possibilities of the future. Not only did he leave behind the highest authority identity card, he also made preparations to disturb the space.
Did Hei Bo disturb the space first, so that they could come into contact with him in the overlap, or was it because they came into contact with Hei Bo that the Elector decided to disturb the space?
An unsolvable causal problem.
But no matter what, they finally got here successfully and got Moonlight's neural adapter.
All data related to the sixth beacon is stored here.
Heibo and Kong Yu, the AO couple, knew about the disaster earlier than anyone else, but they did not leave the hopeless Moonlight. Instead, they stayed at the location closest to the core area, guarding Moonlight's neural adapter.
Chen Nian couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat. He looked up at his brother sitting opposite him. Chen Ci said nothing, his pale lips pursed.
Elector, President of the Academy of Engineering.
At this moment, Chen Ci suddenly thought of him and Fu Tianhe.
Hei Bo has been conducting rigorous and complex experiments, hoping to get an antidote to end everything, but ultimately failed, and his lover, who was also deeply infected, stayed here forever.
Will the same happen to him and Fu Tianhe?
No, it won't.
Chen Ci closed his eyes tightly, but his eye sockets were not moist at all. Instead, they were dry and painful.
He would never allow this to happen.
Chen Nian handed the neural adapter to Shafla.
"With this, we'll be able to analyze exactly what happened when we get back." Shafulai watched the special forces captain put Moonlight's neural adapter into his bag.
"This thing has been modified. Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible for it to emit such strong energy fluctuations. It is probably because Hei Bo and Kong Yu injected all their mental power into it before they died, and combined with the powerful energy block, they achieved such an effect."
Chen Nian: "In that case, is it possible that the neural adapter is also contaminated by the Ashes mixed in the energy?"
Schaffray: "It is possible that when we return, the experts will work together to obtain the data in the most reliable way."
Chen Nian nodded. He turned around and saw the two bodies that he and Chen Ci had forcibly separated. He ran back and put them back together as they were.
Heibo and Kong Yu, hugging each other, slept deep in the moonlight, guarding the truth and the faint hope for the future together.
Both of them had their faces badly damaged, so Chen Nian had no idea what their expressions were at the last moment. But if they knew that the team had received the neural adapter today, they would definitely be relieved.
"Come on, let's continue."
Chen Ci urged, the neural adapter was turned off, and the mental power used for detection was no longer swallowed up. He could clearly feel that there was still a huge cavity in the underground part ahead.
Shafulai hummed, and he carried Fu Tianhe on his back and walked quickly.
During these few minutes, Fu Tianhe was eerily quiet. While everyone was sighing for Heibo and Kong Yu, he not only did not say a word, but his breathing became gradually weaker.