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Chapter 108 Mimosa cactus

PARKING LOT.

Chen Guangxi walked towards a blue sports car.

"Did you change your car?" Zhou Yuan remembered that her original car was a famous red supercar.

"Xiaomi just released a new car, I'd buy one for fun." Chen Guangxi likes it very much. For her, good looks are everything.

——Being handsome means being strong, being handsome means being good, being handsome means being extremely aggressive!
After getting in the car, Zhou Yuan took out his notebook, connected to the local control bureau system, and received the mission details.

He raised his eyebrows: "It's a level 2 abnormal event."

Chen Guangxi came over and looked at the navigation map: "Let me see... Eight kilometers, not far, but there's traffic on the road, it will probably take two hours to get there."

"It's not a big problem. The scene has been controlled and the anomaly has no active attack capability. It doesn't matter if we are a little late." Zhou Yuan said.

"Tell me the details of the mission." Chen Guangxi stepped on the accelerator and the car sped out.

"This incident has been named [Shy Cactus]."

Zhou Yuannianqi document content:

"Three hours ago, a citizen called the police and said that his friend had been missing for more than five days. No one answered the door or phone calls, so the police, medical staff and locksmiths came to the door.

After the locksmith opened the door, everyone entered the house and smelled an obvious stench of a rotting corpse.

A police officer then pushed open the bedroom door and saw a broken computer chair overturned, with a bloody mass of rotten flesh lying on the ground. The rotten flesh was covered with dense needle-like wounds, and similar needle-like damage marks could be seen everywhere in the room.

Walls, floors, ceilings, bookcases, bed boards, computers... everything is covered with densely packed holes, big and small, and is full of dents.

Then, a cactus placed on the computer desk suddenly launched a large number of dense spikes in all directions. Due to the limited space of the door, only three people standing outside the door were injured. Among them, the policeman who opened the door was the most seriously injured. According to a rough calculation, his body was covered with more than 1 cactus spikes.

Ten minutes after the incident, all the cactus thorns disappeared.

15 minutes after the incident, the Control Bureau intervened in the investigation. An investigator brought primary treatment drugs to the hospital to treat the three injured people and administered Class A amnesiacs to all personnel.

28 minutes after the incident, investigators arrived at the scene and conducted preliminary tests on the abnormal items.

"After some experiments, the investigators came up with the following important information:
[Mimosa cactus] does not have the ability to actively attack, but as long as someone appears in front of it, or looks at it in some way, it will shoot a large number of spikes in all directions. The attack will only stop when it completely loses its vision.

Invisibility, darkness, cameras, and robots cannot circumvent the triggering mechanism of the Mimosa pudica.

The cactus thorns are uniformly 8 cm long and contain trace amounts of toxins that can paralyze the body. The thorns have barbs on the top, and forcibly pulling them out will cause secondary damage.

The spikes will automatically disappear about 10 minutes after being fired.

The spikes flew at an extremely fast speed, and the investigator, who was a Level 2 Beyonder, had difficulty reacting.

The damage caused by the spikes was in a strange constant state - the investigators tied wooden boards, steel plates and pork in front of their bodies in turn to withstand the attacks of the cactus spikes, and each time the spikes penetrated precisely to a depth of 1 cm.

Currently all testing on [Shy Cactus] has been suspended. "

After reading the document, Zhou Yuan scratched his chin and said, "From the current archives, this cactus is indeed difficult to contain. No wonder Director Wei asked us to come here."

But to be more precise, we should ask Chen Guangxi to come over.

The abnormal mechanism of [Smily Cactus] is very special, and it will take a lot of manpower and resources to successfully contain it. But if Chen Guangxi, a level 5, is allowed to come, it may be easy to contain it.

If it really doesn't work, Chen Guangxi can call Jiang Wuming. With him as a guinea pig that can be resurrected infinitely, the shelter cost can be reduced even further.

Fifty boxes of dark stones and free labor, Wei Jianqiu really won this time. He gained a lot just by showing up and mediating.

Zhou Yuan didn't think there was any problem. After all, the other party helped him out. Otherwise, who knows how big a mess this matter would have become.

The thought of this made him so angry that his teeth itched.

Zhen Wuliang, right? Don’t let me see you in Xin Yue. If I see you, I must take off your hood!
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After a long traffic jam, Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi finally arrived at the crime scene.

The two investigators were sitting in the living room eating buckets of instant noodles.

I have to say that the investigators' mental strength is incredibly strong. They can actually eat even with such a strong stench of corpses in the room.

What impressed Zhou Yuan even more was that the two of them were eating traditional pickled cabbage beef noodles.

Are you two brothers really not afraid of cigarette butts, phlegm and smelly feet?
"Hey, you are...Dongzhou Zhenlong?" A man with short hair and glasses recognized Chen Guangxi.

Zhou Yuan beside him couldn't help laughing: "Why do you have this nickname? Why don't you call yourself Fuzhou True Dragon?"

Chen Guangxi's mouth twitched, and he suppressed his embarrassment: "I took it for fun when I was young and ignorant."

"Ms. Chen, I'm your fan. Can I take a photo with you?" Another ordinary young investigator forced out an eager smile.

"Three million for a photo." Chen Guangxi held up three fingers. "This is clearly marked. The rules cannot be broken."

How can she do this without setting some threshold? Wherever she goes, people ask her to take photos with them. It's so annoying.

"Forget it then..." The young investigator took back his phone in disappointment.

"Is the abnormal object in this room?" Chen Guangxi pointed at the bedroom door next to him with his chin.

There is a rope tied to the door handle, which can be used to pull the door closed remotely.

"Yes, be careful. Once the door is opened, the cactus will shoot out spikes very quickly and you won't be able to react in time."

The young investigator rubbed his chest and said, "We both got stabbed. It was not a pleasant experience."

"Let me see what's going on."

To be on the safe side, Chen Guangxi activated his protective qi and pushed open the door.

Zhou Yuan was hiding behind her, and the moment he opened the door, he circulated his protective Qi, entered the shadow state, and activated the Ghost Walker, all in one go.

Swish swish swish! ! !
A sharp whistling sound was heard, and countless cactus thorns shot towards him like a rain of pear blossoms.

“Ouch——!!!”

Chen Guangxi let out the same scream as Tom Cat and subconsciously dodged to the side, revealing Zhou Yuan behind him.

“Ouch——!!!”

Zhou Yuan immediately let out the same scream and quickly dodged to the side in embarrassment.

An investigator quickly pulled the rope and slammed the door shut.

Zhou Yuan and Chen Guangxi's faces were covered with dense cactus thorns, with almost no gaps, like two upright hedgehogs.

You must be kidding... Zhou Yuan felt the severe pain all over his body and couldn't believe it.

The protective qi + shadow transformation + ghost form were enough to make him immune to most physical attacks, but they were completely useless in front of the cactus thorns. He didn't even have time to see clearly before he was stabbed all over.

What’s even more outrageous is that Chen Guangxi was also injured?
"This cactus is a bit tricky. Even my body was pierced to a depth of 1 centimeter. Is it a regular abnormal object..." Chen Guangxi shook his strength, and the cactus thorns that pierced his body were instantly shattered. The tiny blood holes on his skin healed in the blink of an eye, and his clothes were automatically repaired.

Zhou Yuan followed suit and shattered the cactus thorns, but his body's recovery speed was far from as terrifying as Chen Guangxi's. His clothes were punctured and his body was covered with tiny blood holes, with drops of blood flowing. People with trypophobia would faint on the spot if they saw it.

Fortunately, in the flash of time just now, he saw the green cactus on the computer desk.

[A cactus that was transformed into an abnormal object by an unknown force. It was given the ability to "see", but it was a shy little socially anxious person. Therefore, as long as it "sees" something approaching or spying on it, it will release its sharp thorns to repel it - it wants to stay quietly in its comfort zone.

It is actually very simple to contain it. Just find an alloy containment box to cover it, but the question is, how can you cover it?

The answer is simple. Didn’t you see that the system is too lazy to generate tasks? 】

I actually hope you can create a task to increase my experience points. No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat... But what is the situation with this unknown power alienation?
Zhou Yuan muttered to himself, what kind of power could transform a cactus into an abnormal object that follows the rules?

The crew-cut, bespectacled man said in a deep voice, “We’ve tried many methods, but all have failed. The further we go inside, the faster and stronger the spikes become. Even the special alloy armor will be pierced after just a few steps.

Given that this abnormal object has rule-based properties, even if you have the body of a real dragon, you probably wouldn't be able to withstand it.

This thing ignores defense and deals real damage in percentage terms!

Unless... we can find another suitable rule-based anomaly object and use rules to collide with rules."

"No need to bother."

Zhou Yuan had already thought of a solution and looked at Chen Guangxi, "The time just now should be enough for you to determine the location of the cactus, right?
You make an opaque cover of the right size, and then use teleportation to move the cover to the top of the cactus. Once the cover is put up, the problem is solved.

Hmm... using a blanket seems to work, as long as it blocks the view, the cactus shouldn't attack."

"We have actually thought of this plan, but we don't know any magic." The man with a crew cut and glasses spread his hands helplessly.

"let me try."

Chen Guangxi took out several heavy black iron ingots from the storage ring and activated alchemy, transforming them into a square metal body of 50 cm × 50 cm × 50 cm, with one side empty.

She placed the open side on the floor and pointed with her slender index finger. A silvery-white magical glow lit up, and crystal light particles like diamond dust floated away.

Space transfer.

Boom!
There was a sound of something heavy falling in the room.

Chen Guangxi was very confident in his memory and skills, and he walked forward with confidence to open the door.

The cactus spikes did not shoot out again.

On the computer desk, a pitch-black metal cube covered the space where the cactus was.

【The little social dread has its own new comfort zone. No one disturbs it. It is very happy. 】

Zhou Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the corpse on the ground, which had turned into rotten meat after being pierced countless times by the cactus thorns.

His brows couldn't help but frown.

[A computer genius, a top-notch hacker on the Internet, who loved surfing the Internet, died because he came into contact with something he shouldn't have. Do you remember what I just said? Social phobia is an abnormal object that has been transformed by some unknown force. Unknown force, computer, Internet...what do you think of? ]

Zhou Yuan felt like he was struck by lightning, his brain exploded: "Cyber...demon?"

[Congratulations on discovering the truth of this incident, but unfortunately this is a no-prize contest.]

"Was this man killed by the Cyberdemon? Why did it kill an ordinary person? Because this person was exposed to some secret that he shouldn't be exposed to, and this secret may expose the existence of the Cyberdemon? Was he scared to death like Kevin, or was he killed by the alienated cactus?

If he was scared to death, then the purpose of the cyber demon's alienated cactus was to destroy the body and the computer host with the cactus to cover up his own tracks.

It has become stronger, and can already affect reality and alienate objects in reality..."

Zhou Yuan was shocked. Less than a week had passed since the Amazon rainforest incident, and the cyber demon had already evolved.

Give it some more time, maybe it can really grow into a super AI!

"OK, the containment is successful. Now it's up to you." Chen Guangxi clapped his hands.

"Thank you." The two investigators hurriedly thanked.

"Come on, I'll take you to have a good meal. There are so many delicious foods here in Xin Yue." Chen Guangxi greeted Zhou Yuan.

"Wait, I'm quite interested in the identity of the deceased."

Zhou Yuan scratched his hair and said with pretended curiosity, "I want to know how he raised an abnormal object."

"Didn't I tell you before that the occurrence of anomalies is purely random? Don't delve into abnormal things. Why think about these things?"

Chen Guangxi dragged him out and said, "Let's go, stop wasting time, I'm hungry too."

"Okay." Zhou Yuan thought for a moment and realized that he couldn't find any suitable reason to ask the Control Bureau to conduct an in-depth investigation of the network, so he simply gave up for the time being.

However, the Control Bureau must be informed of the matter of the Cyber ​​Demon so that they can be on guard.

Ok……

It's time for "Wang Zhen" to take action.

·
late at night.

in the hotel.

Zhou Yuan used Wang Zhen’s forum account to send a message to Chen Guangxi: “Are you free to meet?”

After a while, Chen Guangxi replied: "What's the matter? I'm not in Xinhu now, I'm in Xinyue."

Zhou Yuan: "What a coincidence, I'm also in Xinyue. Let's meet at Hongye Park in half an hour. Are you free?"

Chen Guangxi: “Okay.”

Half an hour later, Red Leaf Park.

In the blind spot of the surveillance camera, under the tree, Chen Guangxi looked at Fang Qing speechlessly: "He asked you to come again?"

"It's better to be cautious."

Fang Qing smiled, took out a whiteboard and a black pen from her body, and quickly wrote a line of words on it.

[Put away your electronic devices. I have something to tell you. ]

Chen Guangxi raised his eyebrows and put his phone into the storage ring.

Fang Qing said bluntly: "There is a hidden story behind the unusual incident that happened this afternoon."

(End of this chapter)