Seeing the monster lying motionless on the ground, Bai Yi finally had the chance to move closer and examine him carefully. Judging from the remaining clothing on the other person, it should be the corpse in the center of the lounge.
I just don't know what happened that caused the body to become like this in just over ten minutes.
Looking closer, he could see that the unburned cystic tissue was still moving slowly and irregularly. Bai Yi turned on the flashlight, and the rotten flesh moved even faster, converging toward the spot illuminated by the flashlight, forming a bulge of dark red granulation tissue.
It seems that these things are phototactic.
Seeing this, Bai Yi began to worry about the two people who had gotten separated. Enol should be fine, given her unique life form. Dr. Max, on the other hand, although he had armed robots as guards, it was unclear whether they were infectious. Therefore, the immediate priority was to find them as quickly as possible.
He was certain that spacetime on the Apollo was warping, but he wasn't sure about the exact structure and cause of the warping. Without a clear understanding of the situation inside, it wasn't appropriate to send in more units.
So he had no choice but to try to contact the combat robots in the spacecraft while groping forward according to the map of the ship stored in his mind.
Continuing along the dark corridor, at a T-shaped intersection, Bai Yi heard a sudden sound of metal collision on the right.
He quickly compared the map and found that although the corridor was lengthened, if the structure had not been changed, the right side should lead to the engine room.
Having determined his goal, he no longer hesitated and strode towards the engine room.
The closer you get to the engine room, the stronger the smell of blood in the air becomes. When you actually stand at the door, in addition to the smell of blood, you can also smell the stench of a rotting corpse.
Bai Yi stretched out his hands and extended his ten finger blades again. He inserted these thin but sturdy blades into the gap between the two isolation doors, and then pried them open to both sides.
The scene inside was unforgettable to him.
The ground was littered with dried blood and body parts of the crew members. These people had been dead for quite a long time, and their bodies had rotted and decomposed due to bacteria, emitting a foul odor.
Baiyan stepped over a shriveled and blackened thigh and stepped on the blood-soaked floor.
He took out a small transparent ball from his pocket and threw it forward.
The ball didn't fall to the ground, but instead flew through the air for a distance before automatically floating up. It emitted many blue beams in mid-air, which swept across the surface of the engine room one by one.
This is a portable scanner that can quickly scan the surrounding environment and synchronize the results to Bai Yi's processor.
Through this little guy, he quickly got a preliminary understanding of everything that happened in the house.
Judging from the amount of bleeding and the number of scattered bodies, except for the man who was in the lounge next to it at the beginning, the other 15 crew members were probably here.
However, Bai Yi was not sure of the real cause of their death. Although there was a powerful tree man among them, it was not possible to cause such damage to the corpses with brute force alone.
At least not given the power that tree people usually display.
What's more, Bai Yi also found a lot of broken branches around the house, all of which had been broken into pieces.
If the previous body parts can be explained by the infinite power of the tree man, then how to explain the tree man's own body now?
It's impossible that he dismembered himself after he died.
What’s the difference between this suicide by shooting himself 12 times in the back?
At this moment, the spacecraft lost power again, and the engine room was instantly plunged into darkness.
Bai Yi immediately activated the night vision mode.
A buzzing sound came from the darkness. Looking in the direction of the sound, Bai Yi saw a strange device that was placed on a high platform in the middle of the hall and was operating automatically.
It resembled a modified armillary sphere, with a sphere at its center on a base and four concentric rings surrounding it. The rings fitted perfectly with the sphere and each other, rotating around the sphere along their respective axes.
The speed of the ring was getting faster and faster, and gradually a whooshing sound was made.
Bai Yi took two steps forward curiously and discovered that the bloodstains in the hall actually had a trend. Although they were scattered irregularly on the ground, they eventually converged into a stream and connected to the silver-gray device in the middle that resembled a celestial sphere.
Blood trailed up the stairs, as if a body had been dragged up by something, and every bump on the staircase left a splatter of blood.
While Bai Yi was still observing the steps where the device was placed, the speed of the rings had gradually slowed down.
They finally came together to form a silver plate facing the stairs, and the round metal ball in the center also changed at this moment.
It is like a black glass bead with many small bright spots on it. If you look closely, you will find that these bright spots are not on the surface of the glass bead, but inside it.
It’s like there is a huge space inside this bead.
Bai Yi walked up the stairs until he came to the device.
The device is more than two meters high, and the ball in the middle takes up a large part of it.
At this distance, he saw that the black bead in the center was not a solid object, but a very dark barrier. As he got closer, he could barely make out something strange moving within the barrier.
At this moment, a tentacle as thick as a bucket shot out from the barrier and instantly wrapped around Bai Yi's waist. This tentacle had many suction cups, and the moment it wrapped around him, these suction cups firmly stuck to him.
Bai Yi also reacted immediately. He held the edge of the metal ring with one hand, struggling to resist the pull of the tentacles, and quickly took out the gun with the other hand. He turned the power of the Gauss pistol to the maximum with one hand, then stuffed the muzzle directly into the barrier and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
There was a loud bang.
Bai Yi was blown away by the shockwave of the explosion. He was very sure that he must have hit something close to him, otherwise it would not have been possible to produce such a powerful impact.
He landed heavily on the ground, smashing a hole in the alloy floor, but his cheating alloy body did not suffer any damage.
So he immediately got up and fired two more shots.
The thing behind the barrier obviously sensed the danger, and the thick tentacle quickly retracted inward, but it was too late.
Two high-temperature plasma balls blew it directly off the barrier.
The tentacle that fell on Bai Yi's side thudded a few times to the ground and then stopped moving.
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