Chapter 75 Killer Simulator
The bartender shook his head, twirled the SUV key on his finger, got in, and drove the car that Ji Xu had driven back to a farther location. The helicopter rose into the air, just in time to overlook the entire view of Adonis.
Seen from a high place, the man-made oasis is not only magnificent, but also very prosperous. A large number of Erythrina trees are crowded together with tropical, temperate and subtropical plants. The dense flowers are blooming enthusiastically out of season, like a ball of fire located in the middle of the desert, swaying in the wind.
The scenery that should have been fascinating now only gives people a chill due to the overly saturated colors.
When the helicopter flew to 700 meters away from the oasis, the Citong Group did not respond, because the emergency phone banner on the wing was not removed, and it looked like they were here to rescue tourists. When they were about 500 meters away, the Citong Group realized that Ji Xu was coming towards them, and they used the radio to repeat loudly that this was private territory and requested radio contact.
Ji Xu ignored him and hung up the radio. When the last 300 meters were left, the Citong Group finally realized that the newcomer had bad intentions and decisively gave up communication. Instead, the four walls were extended with brackets, and rows of alloy plates were covered on the top. Anti-aircraft guns rose in the gaps of the gray-brown metal, and the flames spit out formed an airtight encirclement.
Ji Xu stepped on the pedal suddenly and lowered the joystick to avoid the bullet, but thick dark green vines suddenly attacked from the corner and almost hit the rotating paddle blades.
The tree hole, which had not appeared for a long time, sighed: "When you said at the cult headquarters that the orange tree was useless, you would never have thought that this day would come."
Ji Xu pretended not to hear.
The vines are not real vines. Thanks to his past love of growing flowers and plants, Ji Xu has a superficial understanding of these things. His tutor at the time even praised him for his self-cultivation which would help his studies. It would be better if he didn't go to the agricultural department next door every day to look at other people's culture media... In short, the topic is a bit off. Vine plants are also called climbing plants. Their stems cannot stand upright like normal plants. They have the habit of climbing around other things or hanging down to grow.
No matter how much catalysis and upgrading there is, research must also know how to play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses. The evidence is the green ivy 'Mamba Snake' at the promotional conference. Even though it can wrap around a person like a snake, it is its deadly toxicity that ultimately kills people.
Ji Xu suspected that the Citong Group was deliberately sending him to his door. A closer look revealed that the plants sticking out of the ground and swaying randomly in the air were more like tree roots with vigorous vitality than thin and long vines.
Is this what you call falling asleep? Did someone pass me a pillow? He pushed his glasses up in surprise, maneuvered the helicopter to avoid the new round of shooting, and spread a fifth of the high-concentration herbicide.
Within a few minutes, these rhizomes were limply attached to the ceiling, with gray-brown spots rising from them. Their huge bodies covered part of the anti-aircraft guns. Ji Xu also controlled the helicopter to land at a height of about 100 meters from the ceiling.
Freeing one hand to unbuckle his seat belt, he leaned out his upper body to touch the metal box behind the seat. The anti-aircraft gun below took advantage of his hovering moment to launch a precise attack, but Ji Xu seemed to have eyes on his back. When the shells were ready to be fired, he casually fiddled with the remote control stick, and the helicopter swayed and spun on the spot. The slender fuselage just avoided the side shells. His other hand quickly and flexibly opened the buckle, hooked the □□ in the box and threw it down.
The explosives made a rapid warning sound and exploded the next second after hitting the metal roof. The thin plate fell to the ground with a crash, revealing a large hole.
Ji Xu held the metal box in his arms and returned to the driver's seat, driving the helicopter in. Inside, the plants were in a mess and dancing wildly. The Erythrina trees were popping out short conical thorns like porcupines, emitting blurry red pollen in the wind. Countless plants were attacking indiscriminately as if in response to stress, making people doubt themselves that they had accidentally entered the scene of Plants vs. Zombies, and that they were zombies.
Fortunately, Ji Xu never believed the nonsense of the Citong Group. When the host said in the live broadcast that the lily jellyfish was the first species to be researched, only a fool would believe it. If this was true, what has the Citong Group been researching for so many years? An artificial oasis concept that is not open to the public? Or adding green belts to the city?
It would be better to say that they have only carefully selected some things in recent years, thrown them into the outside world, and tested the reactions of ordinary people, from their weird appearance to their ability to kill with one blow, the next step may be resistance to thermal weapons.
The helicopter was flying so low that it almost brushed the crown of the Erythrina trees. Even so, Ji Xu did not see a building or a living person below. He gave up the search and opened the floodgates to spray the remaining four-fifths of the herbicide.
When the cabin door was opened, a strong gust of wind was sucked in due to the pressure, blowing up his hair and clothes, making them messy. Ji Xu couldn't help but push up his glasses. With the familiar perspective and familiar operation, he easily used the metal box to clamp the remote control rod, then put on his hood and jumped directly from the helicopter.
The concentrated herbicide fell on the fabric of his clothes. Ji Xu was covered tightly, not even his fingers were exposed. He quickly flashed under the shade of the tree, and remembered the message on the forum saying that "the research level of the Qitong Group is suspected to be down there." He squatted on the ground and stabbed the dagger into the soil.
After digging about forty to fifty centimeters, the tip of the drill suddenly hit a hard metal layer.
Ji Xu smiled. No matter how much he used plants to cover himself, he could not hide the fact that all research in the world was restricted by the rapid development of high technology. Hiding a high-tech base under a botanical garden was the right way to develop. He inserted the dagger into the tree trunk next to him, and the injured Erythrina tree rose from the ground, going crazy like a tree man.
“…”
Although this was expected, Ji Xu still felt precious about his silence.
While the tree man was still running around and had not gone far, Ji Xu pulled back the dagger with force. Suddenly, it became even crazier. Ji Xu quickly supported himself with the tree roots and jumped sideways into the tree. There was only an empty space left where the Erythrina had originally taken root, saving time on digging the soil. To express his gratitude, he politely watched the original owner chase the helicopter in the sky and leave.
Ji Xu retracted his gaze only after the tree man and the helicopter spraying poison disappeared. He rummaged through the things in his shoulder bag and touched the □□ that he had put in there a long time ago. He weighed it, held it in his hand, pried open the gap in the metal plate with the tip of the dagger, and threw the □□ directly down.
Suddenly, there was a burst of angry curses coming from inside.
Ji Xu waited for a few minutes before jumping in. The empty silver corridor was littered with corpses. There were more than a dozen people lying there. It was estimated that most of the people in the research base had come over.
Adonis has been hidden by the Citong Group for many years, and has always been claimed to be a conceptual project. The outside world only knows that there is an oasis, but no one knows where it is, what is inside, and how it works. According to the clues collected by Ji Xu after coming to the simulator, many employees of the group don't even know what they are researching. Perhaps they have a strict division of labor system, which leads to the release of strange plants one after another, and then they understand what the group is creating. Employees who have submitted their resignations are thrown into the experimental field to raise more strange plants, forced to succumb to the will of the CEO or die in accidents.
To sum up, there are not many people who know the truth, and it is even more impossible that there are too many living people running into the desert. The only thing that is certain is that the target of the mission is inside.
Ji Xu withdrew his gaze from the surveillance camera, used his intuition to randomly find a direction, and walked forward.
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The cold pupils without a smile on the screen made people feel chilly. The stranger withdrew his gaze, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The clothes on their backs were wet and stuck to their backs. Just now, they seemed to be looking at the black eyes behind the lenses without any hindrance. If they still had plans to fight back before the ceiling was broken, after watching the other party's series of operations with ease, everyone felt timid.
It's not that they weren't brave enough. Anyone who saw a man driving a rescue helicopter alone, dodging anti-aircraft guns and dancing vines like a juggler, would first think of running away.
Noticing that Ji Xu was heading towards a waste disposal site, someone quickly put all the semi-finished plants being researched in the base into it. No matter what, the most important thing now was to save lives, and the longer they could delay, the better.
As they cast, they whispered, "Who is this?"
"I only know that he came prepared. Even if he offended someone, there must be a reason, right?"
"Go search for recent news. I told you that you should pay more attention to current events. Now it's so tragic."
"Stop arguing. I have something to say: At the promotion event a while ago, a viewer unfortunately caused a stress reaction in Luluo. Did he stand up for the other person?"
There are too many plants in Adonis, so they usually just call them by their names, and no one pays attention to their code names.
However, this news was immediately refuted by everyone: "Don't be ridiculous! How could someone with such skills have a relative or friend who was caught by the green radish? The plants we released were all carefully selected, and their speed is not as fast as a goose. Only my half-month-old nephew could not escape."
The person who shared the news was not convinced: "What if the other person has three highs and his eyes go dark as soon as he stands up? Don't you know the toxicity of green radish?!"
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This reason is speechless, but irrefutable.
But some people still subconsciously argued: "We gave compensation, and the family members accepted it and promised to shut up. Let's look for it again. It should be other new..." news. He just said halfway when he saw Ji Xu walking back from the processing plant with a half-dead saffron. He changed his words urgently and could hardly suppress his soaring voice: "Forget it, don't look for it! Tell the CEO to hide, let's run!"
Suddenly a strange voice interrupted.
"Where are you going?"
Ji Xu kicked the door open with a bang and threw the squirming saffron to the ground in disgust.
Faced with more than a dozen pairs of eyes that could not hide their panic, he patted his gloves that were filled with sedative flower juice, then realized it belatedly and said "oh", saying "sorry" and took half a step back.
He bent his fingers and knocked on the door that was casually folded into the wall. There was a thumping sound, and he said with a faint smile, "I don't mean to disturb you. Can I come in now?"
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