Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 347 Queen Zenobia!
That evening, a small fishing boat drifted on the Mediterranean Sea.

According to local time, it was only after five o'clock in the afternoon, which was actually not too late. However, the sky over the sea was covered with clouds, and it was obvious that heavy rain would hit soon.

It was Parker who was driving the small fishing boat, and in the small cabin, there were Jill, Li You, Aiji, and...V.

The narrow cabin of the small fishing boat had limited capacity, let alone now that four people were crammed into it, making it even more crowded.

The four of them sat facing each other in twos and twos. Gil looked at Li You and V sitting opposite, somewhat curious.

It's not because of anything else, it's mainly because V has been very excited since he got on the boat. He looked left and right, like a countryman entering the city for the first time.

But looking at her clothes made of good materials and her mannerisms during simple interactions, she must be from a good background.

So what is she excited about? Or is it actually the other way around? This is a young lady who ran out of nowhere to experience life?
Li You didn't know about Jill's guess, otherwise he would have told her that in fact, her guess was not entirely correct.

The main reason why V was particularly excited was because it was her first time on such an "antique" fishing boat.

"This kind of old equipment can still work! It's hard to find this kind of thing in Night City!"

Li You watched O'Brien drive away, thinking in his mind.

Originally, Li You had no intention of letting V out so early and running around. She wasn't used to traveling between different worlds yet. Unlike Yuzi and Aiji, who were experienced, she would say some shocking things if she wasn't paying attention. language.

Then, taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Li You took his companions out of the camp, and then called Claire to explain the situation.

After taking two steps, he reacted again, so he turned around and asked, "Huh? Did you say something? Sorry, I was a little distracted just now."

Li You: "..."

It turned out that O'Brien had received intelligence earlier and discovered a suspected Greyhound organization's base in a mountainous area in Northern Europe.

The terrorist organization Greyhound was the culprit of the bioterrorist attack on Terra Grigia, but under the siege of the FBC, it should have been wiped out long ago. This is the personal statement of FBC leader Morgan Lansdale. declared.

"Then I'm sorry to trouble you. Please find Chris with Jill and the others. And you must be careful not to get into trouble."

But O'Brien thought for a while, but finally agreed and solemnly asked Li You.

Jill also nodded: "Well, Chris and Jessica are not easily taken down. They must have been plotted!"

And now, Greyhound is suspected to have remnants. Such an organization that planned the largest and worst bioterrorism incident to date has not been completely eliminated. This is undoubtedly a big deal in the anti-bioterrorism field.

Seeing Jill constantly looking at V and Aggie, Li You coughed lightly and said, "Then, let's confirm the target this time. In short, it was Chris who was supposed to be in a mountainous area in Northern Europe. First the signal was lost, and then the location appeared on the Mediterranean, right?”

Therefore, O'Brien immediately sent Chris and Jessica to investigate... Unexpectedly, something happened right after.

A man who can punch a forty-ton boulder, he can't think of what could happen...

By the time he got on the boat, he still didn't know who had happened.

Afterwards, Jill and Parker went to find the fishing boat, and Li You said that he was going to gather his companions, and happened to be separated from them.

Li You, who had listened to the whole process, also said, I will go with you.

But when he called Yuzi and Aiji out, V in the companion space naturally knew about it, so she also expressed to Li You that she wanted to go out together.

Hence the current combination. Including Yuzi was outside, standing at the stern of the boat, looking at the sea in the distance.

His voice was neither loud nor quiet, but O'Brien walking in front of him could definitely hear it. But O'Brien showed no reaction and continued walking as if he had heard nothing.

In any case, Li You still said: "It's hard to imagine that Chris was kidnapped silently. I think there may be a conspiracy behind it."

Li You smiled slightly: "Don't worry."

Jill replied: "Yes... Chris and Jessica, they were supposed to go to Northern Europe to investigate the suspected 'Greyhound' base, but now they are actually on the Mediterranean. This is so strange."

Jill also stopped looking at her. She didn't mean any harm. Although V and Aggie had already noticed her gaze, they didn't say anything.

Silence for the time being, Li You recalled what happened a moment ago.

Just now on the coast, O'Brien told Jill and the others that something happened on Chris' side and explained what happened.

Even now, V kept looking at Parker who was driving the fishing boat, making the uncle a little nervous. He didn't know what she wanted to do or if she had any dissatisfaction. In fact, V was just curious about the structure of the fishing boat.

After hearing this, Li You thought to himself that Chris should worry about others?

Brother O'Brien... remember he also played a key role behind the events of Apocalypse, right?
What exactly is it... I still can't remember, forget it. Anyway, at least it's a positive role.

Li You smiled: "No, it's okay."

"Really?" O'Brien nodded, "Then I'll take the first step. The headquarters still needs command."

Both Jill and Parker were surprised by his offer. After all, Jill wouldn't say anything, and Parker had already heard about Li You's past deeds.

Li You thought about it and felt that it would be a good idea to let her gain some experience. Jill was very familiar with him anyway, and once on the boat, it was impossible for him to keep his secrets from his companion Parker, so he let her out.

But forget it, after all, he himself can't remember clearly the twists and turns behind the Apocalypse incident, and he can't mislead Jill at will.

Sister, that's not what I meant...

However, when Jill and the two left, and only Li You and O'Brien were left on the coast, he suddenly said softly as if talking to himself: "...I have a feeling that there is a conspiracy behind it."

Of course, you definitely can't say that to Jill, and Chris in this world probably doesn't have the ability to hammer boulders with his hands.

…I guess so?

According to the location of the headquarters, the two Chriss are currently on the Mediterranean Sea, suspected to be on a certain ship. So Jill immediately found a small fishing boat and planned to search.

"And they haven't responded to the headquarters' contact. I'm afraid something happened, so we have to find them."

He left immediately.

When Claire heard that her brother's twins had an accident again, she didn't care about anything else. At that time, she said that she would take people there quickly and let Li You and Jill go first.

After doing this, Li You went to another nearby dock and successfully met up with Jill.

After that, they took a boat out to sea and followed Chris's positioning signal.

——Time returns to the present.

In the overcast sky, the heavy rain finally fell, splashing into the sea and hitting the small fishing boats.

Parker was driving the boat, braving the heavy raindrops through the ventilation fan hole in front of him, and observing the situation in the distance. But the weather was so bad that he could hardly see anything, so he could only continue moving forward according to the route and system positioning.

But at this moment, Yuzi, who had been standing at the stern of the ship, noticed something. He poked his head into the crowded cabin and said:

"...I see it, the big ship is not far away."

Li You also cheered up: "Okay! Where is it?"

Following Yuzi's instructions, Parker drove the small fishing boat a little further, and sure enough he spotted a huge cruise ship floating in the undulating waves.

Everyone walked out of the cabin at this moment and looked at the cruise ship in the rain. Although the hull was mottled with traces of wind and rain, they could still clearly see a line of large characters on the side.

"—Queen Zenobia."

While everyone was watching, small fishing boats were also approaching the cruise ship. Gill looked at the big ship that was already close at hand, and was extremely surprised: "It's unbelievable..."

Is there such a ghost ship floating in the Mediterranean?

Parker in the cockpit said: "We are really lucky that this thing can stay on the route."

"——Chris' position is on the ship, right?"

Seeing Jill nodding, Parker also said: "Then come back and sit down! I'll find a boarding point!"

The small fishing boat circled half a circle around the Zenobia Queen. Finally, Parker found a suitable position near the stern of the boat and stopped the boat. Then he used professional equipment to shoot a thick grapple rope and fixed the boat to the cruise ship. This was also They were given the route to board the ship.

Jill and Parker had already put on tight-fitting combat uniforms. At this time, they were hanging lifting grapples on the steel cables.

After finishing, Parker took the first step and quickly climbed up to the cruise ship deck along the steel cable with the help of the pulling force of the lifting hook.

Jill turned back to Li and said, "We don't know what's on the boat yet. Parker will check the situation first. You can also use the spare lifting hook..."

Li You just smiled: "No, we can solve it ourselves."

Jill was stunned for a moment, and then saw Li You turning his head and looking at Aiji and V.

Aiji understood what he meant and immediately stood next to Yuzi. Then Li You turned to V and waved: "Come on, let's go up too."

Unexpectedly, V said: "Wait a minute, I want to use this lifting grappling hook too!"

Li You: "......"

Seeing that the corner of Li You's mouth was twitching as he wanted to say something, V immediately smiled, walked to him again, stretched out his hands and gently put them on both sides of his shoulders, and said, "Don't be so serious, I was just joking."

"Okay, let's go, I'm ready."

Li You said expressionlessly: "I'm in a hurry, hurry up."

As he spoke, he hugged V with one hand, raised his other hand, and his grappling hook shot out of his wrist guard!

Li You left a sentence of "move quickly", and then hugged V, quickly retracted the grappling hook, and took them both up to the deck quickly.

Jill on the small fishing boat was still a little dazed. An arm-mounted grappling hook? Is this thing something that human arm strength can withstand?

But before she could recover, she felt the whole fishing boat shake violently!
Jill quickly grabbed the steel cable, and as the boat shook, she saw with a blink of an eye that Li You's giant companion named Yuzi jumped directly from the fishing boat to the cruise ship deck without using anything!
And behind him, there seemed to be the last member of Li You's team hanging.

There was a muffled sound immediately above the deck, vaguely mixed with Parker's exclamation.

“Holy s…”

Jill: “…”

Suddenly he became the one who was left behind.

In fact, a few months ago, when she met Claire in her free time, she heard her mention something about Li You. It was said that his abilities were getting more and more amazing now.

But seeing it with your own eyes and simply hearing it are completely different things...

She reluctantly installed the lifting hook and pulled herself up step by step.

As a result, when she got on the deck, she found that Li You was missing and only Parker was waiting for her on the deck.

"...Where are Li You and the others?" Jill asked.

Parker also had a strange expression: "Well...he said that he noticed that there seemed to be someone moving in the cabin, so he took the first step and asked me to wait for you here."

Jill: "...Okay, let's go too." - Inside the cabin.

Li You held a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, and moved forward without hesitation.

The Zenobia Queen was built in the last century. Although it has been modernized later, many facilities still appear old and the passages in the cabin are also very narrow.

What's more, at this time, the power supply of the entire cruise ship was cut off, the passage was dark, and various debris was scattered everywhere, blocking many roads. Li You and the others had to move forward in the dark.

The game "Apocalypse" is still very good in terms of plot and horror atmosphere, and the early game experience is full.

Unfortunately, for Li You and his party, darkness was no obstacle at all. Li You held the knife and broke through directly in the middle.

In the cabin, apart from darkness and debris blocking the way, the biggest obstacle is the lurking mutant creatures.

"Shh-!"

A blue-silver sword flashed, illuminating a small patch of mist in the darkness. Wherever the sword passed by, a monster with a humanoid shape, but the skin all over its body was soft and swollen, and its surface was covered with mucus, immediately fell down.

This white-haired humanoid monster with walrus-like fangs and bone-spurred limbs is the standard monster in the game Apocalypse - the dripper.

This kind of monster is the mutation of male humans infected with the T Abyss virus. They look like the four reborn people after losing weight. This is because the virus changed their body structure and a large number of organs liquefied. Got to be so slippery.

Because of this characteristic, they can penetrate into small pipes or gaps, launch sneak attacks from unexpected places, and their movements are difficult to predict when moving.

As basic mobs, they are much stronger than the ordinary zombies of the T virus.

But for today's Li You, there is not much difference, it is just a matter of a knife or a gun.

"boom--!!"

Behind Li You, V was following. Holding her favorite SOR-22 rifle in her hand, she assisted Li You in killing the drippers in the passage one by one.

This cutting-edge rifle from the cyberpunk world is enough to deal with this group of drippers. Even if it misses, it can take out one of them with at most two shots.

Ai Ji fell behind the two of them and listened attentively. While she was searching to see if there were any drippers around, she was also looking for the agent Li You mentioned.

As for why Li You knew in advance that there were spy activities in the cabin, Aiji had long since learned not to think too much about it, and just act as if it was the case.

However, V has really never seen the world this time, and there are constant problems along the way.

"How do you know there are agents here who need rescue? Are they your people?"

"What on earth are these monsters? Are they quite durable?"

"Why do they melt when they die?"

In response to her question, Li You only said: "Go back and explain slowly!"

Of course, although V kept asking questions like a curious baby, her hand movements were not slow at all, and her words did not affect her shooting speed at all.

Therefore, Li You and others moved forward smoothly along the cabin passage. They soon came to a corner again, and at the end of the passage ahead, another alien dripper appeared.

V's prosthetic eyes zoomed in quickly, and he saw the guy's appearance clearly through the darkness.

It is the same as an ordinary dripper, but it has an arrow-shaped protrusion on its head, and its right hand is actually a structure covered with bone spurs, similar to a hand crossbow.

Seeing Li You and others appearing at the end of the passage, the weird dripper raised his right hand, and then ejected a large bone spur from his hand, spinning towards everyone!
V: "...? Is there such a mutation?"

While speaking, she had already raised her gun and aimed it at the right arm of the alien dripper, and then pulled the trigger!
As for the flying bone fragments, she ignored them.

Sure enough, Li You in front just swung his sword and knocked down the bone fragment. With a gunshot, V accurately blasted the launch port of the dripper's right arm!
The dripper trembled all over, but did not howl. Their vocal cords had basically been melted by the T-Abyss Virus.

V fired another shot, this time shattering its head.

"puff--"

V lowered the muzzle of the gun, reloaded the ammunition, and then said to Li Youyou: "This world is really exciting."

Li You just smiled and said meaningfully: "Don't think it's just 2005, but you feel comfortable."

V was startled: "Is it possible that there will be mutant creatures that I can't deal with?"

Li You smiled and said nothing.

As he spoke, two more drippers emerged from the corner in front, one of which had extremely thick arms, like a mantis's predatory scythe.

The two drippers took staggering steps and pounced on Li You fiercely!
So the next moment, the sword flashed again!
……

Just as Li You and his party were advancing rapidly.

In a secret room in the cabin, a red-haired man was watching them secretly through the monitor.

Of course it's not the cruise ship's surveillance, it's the hidden cameras he installed at key locations.

Looking at Li You and his group on the screen, the man frowned slightly and said into the headset:
"What's going on with them? There's no place for this group of people in the plan, right?"

Because he was wearing headphones, he couldn't hear what the person on the other side of the communication said, but the red-haired man immediately responded: "...Okay, I understand. I will handle it well, and don't reveal the secret to you."

The man immediately cut off the communication. Looking at Li You and his party on the miniature screen, he whispered to himself: "Li You... I hope it won't affect our plan, otherwise..."

As he spoke, the man picked up the gas mask on the table next to him and put it on, then looked through the monitor to search for traces of Jill and the two of them.

……

Jill's side.

She and Parker advanced steadily behind. Although Li You and the others passed through quickly, due to the characteristics of the drippers, when Gil and the others came over, they still encountered other drippers who were attracted by the sounds here.

They fought for a while with the two drippers that came out of the gap. Due to the limited firepower of the small pistols they carried, they destroyed most of the bullets before they were defeated.

Then, looking at the dripper who melted into a pool of blood, leaving only a small part of the body tissue, Gil looked solemn: "It seems that this ship is also infected."

Parker scanned the two corpses with the "Origin" scanner on the side, but did not find much due to insufficient information. He only made a preliminary judgment that these monsters should be infected with the T Abyss virus.

"Does that mean there might be more in this ship?" Gil replaced the last magazine. "Then let's catch up with Li You and the others as soon as possible. It's too dangerous to separate."

Parker also nodded in agreement, and the two immediately moved forward cautiously.

Then, as they turned the corner, they saw the melted remains of the Drapers scattered on the ground.

Jill: "..."

Parker: "..."

Parker, the uncle, also paused for a moment before saying, "As expected, we should hurry up. Otherwise, by the time we arrive, Li You will probably have already rescued Chris, and they will still ask why we arrived so slowly."

Jill: "...Anyway, let's catch up first."

……

The cabin is deeper.

"Boom-!!"

With a loud noise, the heavy metal door that originally blocked the way collapsed. Behind it, Yuzi shook off the mucus on her hands and said to Li Youyou: "...it's open."

"Good job." Li You nodded, holding the knife and walking through the open door.

This is the room where Jill and Parker found the severed hand holding the gun in the game plot. Originally, before this plot was over, the door behind it was locked, and you had to wait for someone to come and open the door.

But Li You didn't want to wait any longer. If he really followed the plot flow, the person he was looking for would have been killed long ago.

As for who Li You wants to save this time?
The FBC agent who boarded the ship before them, Rachel Foley.

This female agent made her first appearance in Apocalypse, and then... she appeared and then exited.

The first time she appeared in the game plot, she died from the attack of two drippers right in front of Jill. And just because they were separated by a wall, Jill didn't have time to save Rachel.

But this is not over yet. Rachel, who was killed by the dripper, did not completely die. Instead, she was infected with the T-Abyss virus, mutated, and finally became a rather hellish blocking BOSS later in the game.

Of course, for Li You, he has never played Revelation, and he is not familiar with Rachel, so there is actually no reason to save her.

Logically speaking, this was the case, but Li You still rushed all the way.

This is not because he is addicted to saving people and doesn't let anyone go. In fact, for Li You, who even has a vague memory of the game plot, there is only one reason why he rushed to rescue Rachel as soon as he got on the ship...

Rachel this is so big!
Ahem...Okay, let's be serious.

Li You actually has a deep obsession with the role of Rachel. The reason is because he was severely frightened by her during the Yun Apocalypse plot when he was a child.

Later in the game, when Jill returns to Rachel's body to look for the key, she will find that she has disappeared. There is only a bloody diary, which records that Rachel came to perform a mission, made discoveries, and was infected again. , the whole process of final mutation.

If you look at the content now, it's actually not bad, but back then, in the text, Rachel could only watch her mutated powerlessness, which left a deep shadow on the young Li You.

Of course, the bigger shadow is yet to come.

In this section of the game, when Jill put down her notebook, she looked up and suddenly saw the mutated Rachel lying on the glass in front of her. The bloody, twisted hands slapped the glass wall that had blocked her way out, leaving bloody handprints.

Rachel's face, which still had a human appearance, was pressed against the glass, and she let out a vague and horrifying moan.

This performance was so impressive that after watching it, Xiao Li You was so scared that he didn't dare to turn off the lights and sleep for two nights.

Although by now, the fear in Li You's heart has long disappeared, but since there is a chance to change, it is of course better to save this rookie agent who once made him fearful, sympathetic, and regretful.

Think of it as repairing the psychological trauma of your childhood self...?
So Li You moved forward, following the vague memory and Aggie's detection, and climbed to the upper level of the cabin. Then he followed the white slime left by the dripper on the ground, and finally saw the familiar corner.

"That's it!"

Li You quickly rushed around the corner, and then he saw, in the research room at the end of the passage, a blond female agent with big waves wearing a tight-fitting combat uniform, surrounded by two drippers!
The female agent kept retreating helplessly, but there was no way to escape, and the dripper in front of her had already raised its mutated arm!

"——V!"

Li You shouted.

V, who ran after him, immediately understood. There was a faint flash of light on his body, and Si'an Westan was running at full speed!
She rushed out along the passage in an instant, knocked open the door of the research room at the end on the right, and with a speed that no one else had time to react, she hugged Rachel, avoided the claws of the two drippers, and flashed into the room. corner!
"Li You——!"

Li You also understood. He had already held the soul pendant in his hand and pointed it forward.

Seeing that V had rescued Rachel, the pendant lit up instantly and the soul gun roared out!

"Shua——!!"

(End of this chapter)