Returning from the abyss

Chapter 513 Primitive Egg
The restoration work will take about two hours, and Lu Ning naturally cannot be idle. After leaving the spider silk worm bait and clarinet and three people to watch here, she took the rest of the people to continue to explore this energy layer.

Just turning two corners, everyone came to a small circular rest area.There are many doors on the walls around here, and according to the template, it provides a series of rooms for offices or small meetings.

"There doesn't seem to be any biological damage here...huh?" Spade had just walked half a circle around the wall when he suddenly noticed that a door was not closed.

"Captain! There is a door here that is not closed. Someone should have entered after the energy was cut off, otherwise the door will automatically close!"

"I know, be careful." Lu Ning drew out her pistol and pointed it at the door, "Tie Mei, open the door."

"coming!"

This time, no special tools were needed. Iron Eyebrow stuck to the wall next to the door, raised her hand and slapped the door open, and then flashed quickly, Lu Ning immediately scanned the back of the door in all directions.

"No response, safe." She quickly said the result.The team members breathed a sigh of relief, but turned on the light vigilantly and shone inside.

This time I finally saw a complete body.

"Longmai will probably be very happy to see it." Spade knelt down next to the corpse, "This guy is actually wearing a nuclear, biological and chemical protective suit, which is different from those people in the corridor. It seems that he has survived here for a while look..."

"Get out of the way." Lu Ning came over, but the two medical soldiers were not there. Yang Hao was good at collecting specimens but not very good at autopsy, so she had to come by herself.

After taking off the helmet of the protective suit, it was obvious that this was a member of the Canglong Alliance.Through facial information comparison, Lu Ning also found relevant information - Lieutenant Xu Zhenxing, the captain of the advance team number B3745 defense team, and his outpost number 48 in the returned data, which means that the outpost was built not too early. Night.

As for the specific personal evaluation, it is bold, careful, unique in combat and strategic vision, and has detected subtle dangers several times and led the team to conduct pre-response.If it weren't for such a reliable person, it probably wouldn't have been entrusted with such a role.

Lu Ning glanced at the protective clothing again.

"Without an order, no one is allowed to remove the spacesuit equipment on their body." She exhorted, then peeled off the protective suit, and took off the personal terminal on Xu Zhenxing's arm.This person is an excellent soldier, so there must be some clues left even before death.Lu Ning can bypass the terminal authentication authority and quickly read the content inside. The only pity is that the advance team used personal terminals decades ago, which are not as advanced as those equipped by Lu Ning and others. Input and output of voice and text.

She looked at the extra audio and documents in her list, and chose the most recent date.

A piece of audio was played, first of all was heavy and somewhat rapid breathing.

[Advanced team B3745, defense team captain Xu Zhenxing.Now I stay in the energy layer meeting room, the environment is safe.But personal symptoms are already obvious.I don't expect much support from the rest of the outposts, and support from the Alliance will take years or even decades to arrive.This protective suit can preserve my body, and I hope it will help in the identification of later members.

As I said before, prepare yourself for the most comprehensive protection.The threats of those phantom beasts are only C-level ones that need to be considered, but what is more serious is the subsequent outbreak of symptoms.The advance team was nearly wiped out, and I don't think the other outposts were spared either.

The hidden things on this planet... No, it should be said that the hidden things in this galaxy are deeper than we think.The only hope is Outpost No. 1. The foresight of Mr. Pang Xu and Captain Zheng Heng is not comparable to ours.There is a star map of the phantom stars in my room, please go there, I believe they will not die.

In the end, as a soldier, I at least choose to die as a soldier of the Union instead of becoming a ghost, and please say sorry to my family, if they are still alive. 】

Audio interrupted.

"It's a disease." Lu Ning opened the team channel and said succinctly.

"Illness? What? Captain, what did you find?" Spider Silk immediately responded.

"The last words and records left by a soldier." Lu Ning flicked the screen while speaking. There are a lot of files in it, but it is difficult to tell whether they are relevant information from the naming. It takes a long time to read them all. time.

"Did you mention what happened here?"

"I listened to the last part of the last words first. It seems that a disease has spread here. It is still not allowed to remove any components of the spacesuit to prevent the remaining pathogenic factors."

She opened the files one by one with the fastest speed and quickly browsed through the keywords in them. When she reached the middle part, she saw some records.

[The sample organisms brought back by Dr. Luo Qing successfully reproduced, but due to complicated reasons such as living space, we must assist in transporting the second-generation organisms to an ecological cage that has been prepared in another area.I personally don't like those beasts. Although egg-laying mammals are not unheard of, they are still a bit unacceptable to me.

But according to the doctor, these creatures have very important research value. Judging from the results of gene extraction, they should be relatively ancient species on this planet. If you study in detail, you can even understand the various environmental and climate changes that have occurred here... ... Anyway, not my field.

But those eggs are not as sticky and disgusting as in horror movies.From a distance, it looks like a gemstone, with a soft but resilient surface, not a hard shell to protect itself like the eggs of many creatures.

To prevent accidents, I will record Dr. Luo Qing's words here.

The research team named it Primordial Dwelling Egg, but I didn't tell me the specific reason.It is derived from the phantom beast, the green lizard, a reptile with a dangerous level of D.Note that it only looks like a lizard.When we go out to patrol and collect tasks, we occasionally encounter this kind of phantom beast. They don't have a strong desire to attack. As long as they are not within five meters of them, they will not take the initiative to attack. 】

Lu Ning read it while reading it. After she finished reading the simple notes, Spider Silk quickly said, "It sounds similar to the one we found."

"Well, it's still not very professional. Even if it is impossible to classify species clearly because of alien planets, then at least a detailed description of the appearance must be made." Yang Hao said slightly critically, "The people back then were still not professional enough."

"This sounds like a random note, old man, you are too strict." Spade said with a smile, "Captain, is there any Eudemons written about it? I remember that the alliance does not need to conduct a review on species." Rename, unless strongly specific."

"I'm looking for it." Lu Ning replied.

"About diseases...it's hard to say. The most common thing in the development of the universe is the invasion of pathogens. Outsiders will bring brand-new microorganisms and viruses to the planet, and at the same time, they themselves do not have corresponding antigens corresponding to the planet's diseases." Yang Hao said, "I got up early in the interstellar development, but because of this kind of thing, many people died, and even lost two habitable planets."

"Because of this, all subsequent developments will be accompanied by a dedicated medical team to develop targeted general-purpose vaccines. Of course, after the advent of the adaptive immune vaccine 20 years ago, children born since then have not had this kind of disease. Annoyed." Qiu Shu said.

"But none of us here were born within 20 years... Oh, this is what we injected before we set off?"

"You can think so." Lu Ning said, "Almost all of us have the highest scientific and technological achievements of the alliance, and space development has never been stingy with strength...I found it."

She flipped through some documents and found out the introduction about Eudemons.

[Communication from Outpost 1. (backup)

According to Mr. Pang Xu's research, currently, according to the content of the following documents, the classification of the corresponding phantom star creatures is changed to "Phantom Beast".

At present, it has been found that some organisms have unnatural growth organs, characteristics, abilities, etc., and the reasons have not yet been ascertained.Before eliminating interference from unknown civilizations, the document will be sent to the 79 outposts established so far, and all personnel must read through and understand the content according to the content of the document.

This document will be managed and processed in accordance with the secrecy chapter of the Canglong Alliance's Nebula Development Act.

Master of Outpost 1
Lu Tongyun]

"This was a famous person back then, why did he disappear without a trace?" Spade was stunned.

"Who? Pang Xu?" Long Mai also joined in.

"No, Lu Tongyun. This person is in charge of clearing the waterway in the army, and his reputation for those few battles is still circulating among the star robbers and mercenaries. If he hadn't been transferred suddenly at that time, the waterway of the Canglong Alliance would have been able to continue. 50 years down the line."

"It's very stable now." Qiu Shu said.

"Hahaha, deputy team, I won't refute you, but you may not know as much about this as I do." Spades laughed.

"However, I have heard of Pang Xu." Long Mai said, "I read two papers written by him when I was studying bioengineering and ship design, and they must be early achievements, although from today's perspective It’s not so perfect, but the aura in it really makes people feel that this is a very talented person. Later, I checked the index in Curry and didn’t find too many of his papers, and I wonder why such a genius has declined.”

"Obviously it's not a decline, it's too powerful to be directly invited to the military, and still go through top-secret procedures." Yang Hao snorted, "In short, they found signs of unnatural evolution of these creatures, and then renamed them and stipulated A set of identification criteria? The response is very fast.”

"Yes, but according to this backup, since it follows the regulations of "Xingyun Kaifa", it is impossible to save it in the personal terminal, and the relevant files must be repaired in the central control room." After Longmai finished speaking, Suddenly added: "Let there be light, everyone!"

As soon as the voice fell, the surrounding scene suddenly brightened. The adaptive system of the helmet was activated, some light-sensitive capture was turned off, and it was switched to the natural light observation state. Finally, everyone could see the surroundings clearly through the helmet.

"It's still comfortable to see things with your eyes, well done, Longmai!" Spade's mood improved even more.

"What's going on around here?" Lu Ning asked.

"Safe." Clarinet replied over there, "There are no signs of biological activity around, nor are they attracted by light. Can the lighting be maintained? Captain?"

"Yes, Longmai, are you sure this can provide the operation of the central control room?"

"The design of the central control room can be started by relying on any piece of energy supply. With the current repaired part, it is not difficult to maintain an area, but we have to be careful of what will be damaged after we leave." Longmai said.

Lu Ning nodded slightly: "Don't think about that, don't separate teams when you're at the lower level, the most important thing is for us to enter the central control room as soon as possible to restore the self-control system here."

"Don't read the records?"

"Don't worry, when the central control room restores the information there, I will spit you out." Qiu Shu joked.

The team quickly regrouped. Under the light conditions, the creatures seemed to have stopped coming out. A group of people arrived at the stairs smoothly. It was still Lu Ning who went down first, and the people behind followed closely, but the ninth floor was quiet. , no fighting took place.

"Is it safe?" The bayonet asked in a low voice, still aiming with the gun. After all, the power supply here has not been restored, and it is still dark.

"It doesn't seem to be a problem." The clarinet flashed the searchlight twice to collect the surrounding things, but everyone quickly let out a gasp.

From the captured pictures, it can be clearly seen that there are a large number of primitive eggs of the kind seen before piled up at the corner of the corridor in front. What is even more ominous is that these eggs are all in a state of rupture.

"How much is this?" Insect Bait asked.

"God knows... there are nearly twenty of them in the photos just now." Yang Hao said coldly, "If these phantom beasts really have any unusual abilities, they might be very difficult to deal with."

"Anyway, let's see the situation first." Qiu Shu took down a reconnaissance drone and released it. As everyone expected, there were more broken eggs behind the corner. This number has exceeded the normal specimen limit. It must not have been consciously piled up here by the people from the outpost.

"And what's in there? They hatch and they have to—"

Spade hadn't finished speaking when a black object suddenly popped up from the place where the drone in front of him was shooting at the corner. The thing came down.

"Tongue!" Yang Hao snarled, "It's those blue-bottomed lizards!"

"It's a good thing you can remember such an awkward name!" Spade yelled, raised his gun and fired bullets, the high-temperature trajectory traveled through the air, quickly illuminating the space in front of him, and at the same time burned the body of a lizard.

"Chameleon, is this it?" Tie Mei roared.The beaten lizard was hiding on the outermost shell of those eggs, but its body was almost assimilated into one color, making it extremely difficult to distinguish.

"There is no biological reaction on this thing, and it can even assimilate with the temperature of the surrounding environment." Qiu Shu glanced at the screen returned by the drone again, "Captain! We can't take the risk of going deep."

"Yes, Tiemei, prepare the negative decomposition burner. Before entering the central control room, we need to do some cleaning work." Lu Ning replied calmly.

(End of this chapter)