Doomsday Totem

Chapter 79 Battery
Not long after boarding the beach, a group of heavily armed soldiers greeted them.The leader was a black and thin man. When he saw Zhao Linglong, he immediately gave a military salute and said loudly, "Report to the chief, the sixth fleet of the Southwest Division, deputy captain of the Moon Sea, report to you."

Zhao Linglong returned the salute, and then asked, "Where is Captain Cole Harvey?"

"The captain is still directing the search work on the front line. Please follow me to the camp command center, where we will report the details to you."

After a while, everyone followed the black and thin man to the temporary camp.Zhao Linglong walked into the large army tent in the middle. The captain and others wanted to follow in, but were politely stopped by the guards.

"Dear guests, this is the temporary command post, which involves military secrets, please stay here for a moment."

The captain spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and led everyone to the side, waiting for news from Zhao Linglong.

The iron slag was mixed with the sailors, neither talking nor looking around, looking very inconspicuous.Due to a lot of contact during this period, the sailors did not pay much attention to him.

"Have you seen anyone from Starchaser?" Tie Slag lowered his voice and asked Feng Yun behind him.Feng Yun shook his head, glanced at the semi-circular building not far away, and replied in a deep voice, "It must have been used as cannon fodder."

Tie Slag nodded. He had been observing secretly just now, and found that although the soldiers were very polite, their expressions were a little nervous.Especially after entering the camp, they seemed to disperse randomly, but in fact they formed a siege around them intentionally or unintentionally.

At the same time, in the military tent, Zhao Linglong was questioning the captain - Cole Hasson with a slight frown.

"Why did you act without authorization?"

"Investigator Zhao, we can't find your signal, and I heard that they have withdrawn their troops. I'm afraid that if we delay, it will affect the collection of evidence, so..."

"Tell me about the current situation." Zhao Linglong interrupted Cole and stopped asking the question just now.

"The research institute is located deep underground, and the power supply has been cut off. I sent a team down and planned to start the generator set first, before proceeding to the next step of exploration..." Cole reported the situation with a serious attitude and a calm tone.

Zhao Linglong nodded her head, as a recognition of her current job.

After getting the affirmation from his superiors, Cole showed a smile with relief, and then signaled the orderly next to him to pour water.The orderly gave a military salute, trotted to a small table beside him, poured two cups of hot tea, and brought them over.

"Sir, drink some tea to warm up." Cole said flatteringly.

Zhao Linglong glanced at him, picked up the teacup, and blew lightly with her vermilion lips. Just as she was about to take a sip, she smelled a faint scent of vertigo in the faint tea fragrance.She put down the teacup calmly, and said, "It's a bit hot, let's put it for a while."

However, she absolutely shouldn't, she just shouldn't explain.As a superior, do I need to explain to my subordinates whether I drink tea or not?
Cole's expression froze, blue light flashed in his eyes, and he punched Zhao Linglong suddenly!

Zhao Linglong had been on guard for a long time, she dodged sideways, avoiding Cole's fist.Immediately, he drew the gun with his right hand, and stretched his left hand behind his back to pull the emergency ring.It only takes [-] seconds, and her third-generation psychic power armor will cover her whole body.With the strength of her fourth-level psyker, coupled with the advanced power armor, Cole will be crushed by her like an ant.

"Boom!" With a gunshot, Cole flew upside down a few meters away.Although gunpowder weapons cannot penetrate psychic power armor, the huge momentum is hard to resist.He had already lost his only chance, as if he foresaw a tragic future, his eyes could not help showing the fear of death.

However, this time, fate seems to favor him.

Zhao Linglong pointed a gun at him, but she was stunned.Because the psychic power armor didn't instantly cover her whole body as expected.She pulled the emergency ring again, but the power armor still didn't respond, as if it had failed.

As the saying goes, if you don't die, you won't die.This time the captain made a solid death.The reason why Zhao Linglong's power armor failed was thanks to him.When he was on the boat, in order to reduce Zhao Linglong's threat, he secretly removed the energy-concentrating battery of the power armor while the two were getting close.

However, psykers below the sixth level cannot radiate psychic energy outside the body, they can only stimulate psychic energy to the surface of the body.Therefore, they need to use spiritual energy absorption equipment to collect the spiritual energy scattered throughout the body, and then use it to drive the spiritual power armor.

Zhao Linglong only had the fourth rank, so if she was wearing the first or second generation psionic power armor, she would not need concentrated batteries.But the third-generation psychic power armor was just a small backpack before it was activated, and it couldn't collect the psychic energy on its surface.Therefore, she must first activate the power armor with the concentrated battery and cover the whole body before igniting the psionic power device.

Seeing this, Cole immediately turned over and stood up, looking down at Zhao Linglong with a face full of jokes.A psyker without psychic power armor is a fish on the display board.Of course, this is limited to psykers below the sixth level.Those high-level psychics can radiate psychic energy outside the body, and even without psychic equipment, they are extremely lethal.

Obviously, Zhao Linglong is not above the sixth rank.With a muffled sound, Cole punched Zhao Linglong in the abdomen, ending the fight.

"Throw it on the boat and lock it up, and enjoy it on the way back." Cole ordered.

At this moment, the captain who heard the gunshots rushed into the military tent and confronted Cole.

"Looking for death?" Cole asked calmly.

"No, just looking at it..." The captain looked at Zhao Linglong who was lying on the ground, and squeezed out a wry smile.Is Cole, who is wearing psychic power armor, an existence they can shake.

"I'll give you 10 minutes of preparation time, and then take your people to the research institute and find a way to turn on the power." Cole showed a playful smile and threatened, "If you want to survive."

"Okay..." The captain replied helplessly.

Iron Slag, who was hiding behind the crowd, originally wanted to run, but seeing the four bowl-sized spray holes behind the opponent, he immediately gave up his idea.Although this man looked far worse than the red-clothed warrior who assassinated him that day, and the psychic power armor on his body was also a bit old, but it was still not something he could deal with, let alone a group of heavily armed soldiers on the other side.

Ten minutes later...

Zhao Linglong, who was unconscious, was disarmed and put in the cell of the ship.The captain led everyone into the research institute under the supervision of two soldiers.

Entering the door is a long passage, with some messy and fresh footprints on the ground.Looks like someone came in not too long ago.After walking in the passage for a while, the captain suddenly stopped and gave Iron Slag a meaningful look.The latter nodded knowingly.At this time, at the end of the walk, the two soldiers in charge of surveillance raised their flashlights to shine on them, and one of them shouted, "What are you doing! Let's go!"

"Look at this, it seems a bit abnormal." The captain pointed to a place in the darkness.

The soldier stepped forward and raised his flashlight to shine a light on it. There was only a pile of discarded wires, and he cursed, "My brain..." He couldn't continue speaking halfway because a spike pierced his throat!

Immediately afterwards, the soldier behind was about to squeeze through the crowd and go up to see the situation, but suddenly his head tilted, and he stood there straight and motionless.Everyone looked back, and through the dim light, a spear-shaped thing pierced his temple!
In the blink of an eye, the spear disappeared, and then Iron Slag came out of the darkness, and the soldier's body fell limply.Before everyone could figure out what happened, the two soldiers had already become corpses.

"What's the plan? Tell me." Iron Slag asked bluntly.

"That person, how sure are you?" the captain asked back.

"Not at all." Tie Slag said frankly.At this time, hiding it is meaningless.

"What if he runs out of psychic energy?" the captain hypothesized.

"It's like killing a chicken." Iron Slag replied. (Only here, pay tribute to Chen Daming.)
The captain pulled Iron Slag aside and said in a low voice, "My abilities are 'Venomous Bee Needle' and 'Ante-Eater Spider Venom', the target stabbed by me will become weak in a short period of time and intensify exponentially." Physical exhaustion. Let's go in and find the group of Starchasers, then unite with them, and then look for an opportunity to sneak attack him."

"The ability is pretty good." Tie Slag grinned and said.

The captain rolled his eyes and said, "In case I die, I can take it if I want. But I have to remind you, I still have a basic ability, but I won't tell you what it is for. Anyway, the three abilities, yours Whether the gene chain can carry it, you can decide for yourself."

"Can't they be copied separately?" Tie Slag asked modestly.He still doesn't know much about this matter.

"When using gene plunder, only normal genes and mutated genes can be distinguished, and multiple abilities are copied together." The captain replied.

"Thank you." Tie Slag clasped his fists and said.

"I'm not dead yet..." the captain said depressingly.

"Brush..." At this moment, the sound of the metal door opening suddenly came from the front.The two quickly turned their heads and rushed to the front of the team.The metal door at the end of the passage was opened, and Feng Yun was leaning against the door frame, holding a flashlight and looking inside.

The inside of the metal door was pitch black, and through the beam of the flashlight, it could be judged that this was an empty hall.There was something white on the ground, like piles of snow.At this time, more flashlights shone in, and the light overlapped, making it much brighter.
Upon closer inspection, the "snow" on the ground turned out to be piles of translucent silk threads, densely entwined, a bit like cotton and a bit like spider webs.

"Squeak... squeak..."

Suddenly there was a slight sound above his head, Feng Yun raised his angle and looked over...

In an instant, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. He lost his grip on the flashlight and fell to the ground and died.

Everyone immediately raised their flashlights to shine on them, beams of light shot on the ceiling...

"By...what did it come from!" The captain opened his mouth wide and exclaimed.

(End of this chapter)