Son of the Stars

Chapter 31 A ghost

In the past two weeks, the Mount Argentario base has issued four invasion warnings.The security system judged by AI made rare continuous errors, which really opened the eyes of the scientific workers living in the base.

The video and surveillance sensor fluctuations that were mistakenly touched by the AI ​​need to go through multiple manual cross-reviews—Lu Chen and others have also seen the video.There is indeed nothing in the video, it seems that it is just some cracked stone powder blown by the wind.

And such occasional convulsions also brought some entertainment effects to a certain extent.Academician Tang opened the market, asking everyone to guess if there will be a false alarm today - the cost of participation is a canned yellow peach.If there is a mistake, everyone involved can take away three cans.If there is no mistake, welcome to take another can to participate in the gamble the next day.

The game design is very good, but unfortunately no one in the base intends to participate.Lu Chen was busy analyzing the data, and had no time to deal with the gambling.Watanabe was excluded from the game by Academician Tang because of his ability to cheat.Yang Weimin has diabetes, and his canned yellow peaches were originally distributed to everyone—the two ladies don't have a high demand for sweets.To them, the risk of betting three cans with one has no appeal.

Canned sugar water is really not a valuable thing in modern society, especially yellow peaches in sugar water. It is not because it is so rare that it is made into canned sugar water, but because it tastes better when it is made into canned sugar water.

Lu Chen stood in front of the yellow floor-to-ceiling windows of his dormitory, eating canned food, and his mind was rarely empty.Thinking about nothing, not caring about anything, just looking at the scenery outside that seems to be a mixture of Mars and forests.

Then, he saw a man with strange stripes painted on his face walk slowly past.

In the Argentario mountain base, with an average altitude of more than 200 meters and a background radiation as high as 8.3mSv/h, there is a human with khaki rags hanging all over his body and strange white lines painted on his face. Passing by the floor-to-ceiling windows as if entering no one's land.His gait is steady and slow, and his walk is extremely "firm".It seemed that nothing could stop him from reaching his destination.

Then, as if someone had reminded him, the man turned his head and saw Lu Chen holding a can, shirtless, with his mouth half open and half a can of yellow peach in his mouth.

He widened his eyes, looked at Lu Chen in horror, and turned his head to run.But as soon as he turned around and ran for half a step, he looked anxiously at Lu Chen who was in a stiff state again.The desire to escape and the haste to turn his head seemed to have exerted tremendous pressure on and even damaged his body. The little brother with strange black and white lines smeared on his face squatted down while clutching his neck.

But he was still looking at Lu Chen anxiously, his eyes full of fear and anxiety.It seemed that Lu Chen was standing at the entrance of a huge meat grinder. With just a slight touch, he would fall into the sharp blade and lose his life—and then turn into a puddle of meat.

As a human being, the old man outside the window obviously chose a more altruistic behavior pattern.In this kind of place that can almost be called a restricted area of ​​life, he even stopped his steps in order to "save" a stranger who was naked and eating canned yellow peaches.

The old man clutched his neck and approached the floor-to-ceiling windows with difficulty.He looked around, but couldn't find any useful "tools".After looking back and forth a few times, he suddenly closed his eyes, as if he had made some decision.

And Lu Chen finally came back to his senses, he realized a very important thing - the radiation outside was almost high enough to kill a normal adult within a day.Although the old man outside the glass painted some strange things on his face, those things definitely couldn't block the radiation.

Lu Chen quickly swallowed the yellow peach in his mouth, and then began to call out to Baozi, "Baozi, sound the alarm! There's someone outside the window... What the hell is he doing with the stone?!"

The "savage" outside the floor-to-ceiling window tried his best to lift a huge stone from the ground, and then staggered towards Lu Chen.He put the stone on his shoulder, and then made a gesture of "you hide inside" to Lu Chen.

Then with all his might he slammed the stone on his shoulder into the yellowish radiation-shielding glass—leaving a tiny white "scratch" afterwards.

He lifted the stone with all his strength, and then smashed it down with all his strength, and the result was just an inconspicuous small pothole, which made the old man outside the window look very shocked.He opened his mouth wide and yelled something at Lu Chen, his right thumb, index finger and middle finger pinched together and shook vigorously back and forth.

"The good news is that I just saw a right hand belonging to an Italian." Baozi's voice sounded in Lu Chen's ear, "but the bad news is that I only saw that hand, but not other body parts— —Brother, are you sure there is really someone outside the window? Or did we meet a ghost together?"

The Italian savage outside the floor-to-ceiling windows shook his head, then continued to chisel the glass with stones through gritted teeth.Just as he was chiseling the stone for the third time, Watanabe rushed into the room sullenly, still holding a loaded pistol in his hand.

The savage who was chiseling glass froze at first when he saw Watanabe, and then became ecstatic.He speeded up the speed of his hand, and kept making eye contact with Lu Chen and Watanabe.

From the eyes of this savage old man, Lu Chen read the firm will of "I will definitely rescue you".And the extreme excitement and joy of seeing one another.

"I don't think he has any hostility." Seeing that a professional came by his side, Lu Chen's tension eased a lot.He said to Watanabe, "Is the radiation level outside still very high?"

"Today's test result is 7.1mSv/h...we have to bring him in." Watanabe cursed twice, "This kid is soaked in radiation, doesn't he feel uncomfortable?!"

Two humanoid security robots quickly ran towards the Italian brother through the release channel, and then decisively used an inhalation anesthetic when the brother tried to resist.From running to his side to putting the person on the ground with a transparent plastic breathing mask, it took a total of more than ten seconds.

Lu Chen looked at the "savage" lying in the robot's arms with a terrified and angry expression, and hesitantly asked, "Has the robot's program been adjusted according to the movements of those cultists?"

"They learned the programmed actions of the security robot." Watanabe changed the subject without changing his expression, "The only doctors in the base are you and Professor Yang Weimin. The robot will thoroughly decontaminate him to remove the radioactive dust. After that, you have to check his physical condition first."

"Speaking of this..." Lu Chen suddenly remembered Baozi's description before, "Baozi said that it only saw a hand waving in the air - it didn't notice anyone standing outside at all."

"The AI ​​at the base didn't notice him approaching, and what's even more frightening is that there is no trace of him in the video." Watanabe said with a pale face, "It seems that we encountered another ghost that could not be photographed."

(End of this chapter)