The Bizarre Adventure of Tartaros Fleet

Before she could continue to think about it, bad feelings spread from all directions.The space trembled slightly, as if it was about to crush itself, and the tentacles that were made of the same material as the outer wall just now were emerging from various empty places.

where is this place?Is it a deliberate trap?Or some kind of targeted predation?

Oregana couldn't judge for the time being, but those tentacles didn't intend to come over yet, they were just sniffing in mid-air, like a group of blind eels, not knowing where they were or what they were doing.

[Sickle meow, sickle meow, can you hear me? 】

She tried calling her teammate on the comm, but all she got was noise.This is not surprising, if the other party has the space technology of the previous level, or the forerunner level, and I don’t know where I am at the moment—in case the space in this ruins is also stacked like the shield world, Maybe the physical distance between myself and the nearest communication node at this moment is several light minutes or even farther. In this way, it is helpless that the portable short-distance communication device will lose its function.

So try that route for consciousness uploading...

Thinking of this, she strengthened her consciousness signal, but at this moment, all the tentacles around her were facing in this direction.They detected the ripples of thought waves in the warp, and quickly locked on to the target.

"Tsk..." Oregana clicked her tongue, and slid out the hilt from the storage box on her wrist to hold it in her hand. "Sure enough, it has the characteristics of a dark worm... We know why the arbiter overturned."

Rather, if it weren't for the arbiter who was guided out of psionic power, the probability of overturning the car might be smaller.But the Star Alliance probably didn't know about it until the end.

In the next instant, all the tentacles struck from all directions, blocking almost every possible evasive direction. This feeling reminded Oregana of the animal performance she had seen when she was a child—the magician lying in a glass jar, Then the assistant poured down baskets of snakes from above.At that time, it was just the animal trainer showing off his skills to make money, not a big deal.Although it looks dangerous, animal trainers have long known how to live in harmony with snakes, just like holding a large orange cat of [-] kilograms.

But if he is caught now, it will be terrible...

The rushing 'snake' disappeared in the light of the beam saber, and the rest had just filled their positions, and the repulsive field blasted by the turbo-shattering flying fist also smashed them to pieces in an instant.Afterwards, the light beam emitted by the Demon God's Flame, which was adjusted to the scatter mode, swept across all enemies within a 120-degree range-although there are many tentacles, they are very fragile. They seem to be deadly to a Sangheili warrior, but they cannot Resist the Skullkeeper's attack.

But this is not a long-term solution.

Oregana is very clear that she has no way to escape safely now.It’s okay to let your consciousness go away easily, but what about your body?

There are too many secrets in this body, and it will definitely not be a good thing to let it fall into the hands of some kind of ghost.And if the power furnace is detonated, if there is some kind of linkage between this space and the truck outside, and accidentally blows up the entire ruins, wouldn't it be a lot of fun?After finally finding a place with so many clues that could be connected with the previous information, she didn't want to explode it directly.

But what should I do?

She jumped off the spot, using the thrusters to move at high speed, and then chased after her, firing beam machine guns from clusters of tentacles gathered together.The light of the explosion intertwined with the flames of the surrounding battles, as if he was on the fierce battlefield back then.Reality and phantom, memory and reality are intertwined, forming a grotesque picture that is indistinguishable from reality.

But because of this, Oregana made a huge mistake——

When she finished a round of shooting and began to accelerate to leave, she suddenly found a huge crystal in front of her.The crystal was blue, floating beside the dark worm, and was constantly shooting towards the forerunner's battleship. The brown cage-like structure around it was repeatedly burned and regenerated under the washing of the crystal's energy.She could barely open her eyes under the strong flashlight, and subconsciously made an evasive maneuver.

And the tentacles were already waiting for him in the evasive direction.

"!!"

It was a very swift blow, and the large group of tentacles slammed into the shield like a fist, causing Oregana to lose her balance and slammed into the crystal next to her.His sight was blocked in an instant, and he was walking through an 'entity' at high speed, all the sensors displayed wrong data, no matter which side he looked at, there were only blurred color blocks and light spots.

By the time he realized it, the tentacles had already appeared very close.

Oregana let out a low growl, intending to use the overloaded beam saber to burn them all in one go, but before she could do it, her wrist was already grabbed.

"!!!"

She popped out the cutting blade without looking at it, trying to cut off the tentacles tied to her hand directly, but the cutting blade only cut a vacuum, and the opponent grabbed the dead corner at a clever angle, and then pulled her whole body backward ...

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Chapter 1105 Chapter 135: Forced charade

The right hand was grabbed, and the strong pulling force made Oregana's field of vision deflected. She didn't even have time to turn on the thruster to control her posture, and her whole body was pulled backwards.The tentacles attacking directly in front flew into the air, and then disappeared in a dense mist.

Everything in front of him disappeared without a trace, gravity returned to his feet, and the swirling mist in front of him disappeared within a few seconds.

Oregana turned around quickly, the intense adrenaline secretion caused her ganglion and visual optimization organs to operate in an almost overloaded state, which allowed her to grasp the situation here in an instant.

This is not a room or a hall in the common sense, but more like the interior of some kind of organ. The brown and gnarled walls are slowly creeping. The walls in the ruins are probably the appearance of this structure solidified.Slight psychic reactions are permeating the surroundings, and these energy reactions are gradually increasing, as if a giant is rapidly waking up from a long sleep.

Something was sticking to his right hand, and it collapsed tightly like a rope. The semi-slime-like appearance was reminiscent of a legendary creature like a slime.She looked along the 'rope' and saw something surprising at the end.

It was an amorphous mass of swelling, colorless, with a faint gleam on its translucent surface.Tens of thousands of pus-like eyes emitting green light continuously formed on its surface, stretched out like snails, shook, and then decomposed into mucus again, wriggling and flowing in place.

This is exactly what he saw on that 'battlefield' just now, what 'thing' stuck to the body of the dark worm after elongating himself.From the point of view, the scenes I experienced just now are the memory of this thing.

However, in the picture just now, the body of this 'thing' does not have these densely packed eye stalks.

Those eye stalks may show the gradually deepening relationship between it and the dark worm, but it is obviously not a solid dark worm - the sensor shows that there is only a slight dark worm energy reaction on its body, which means Indicates that it should be slightly infected, but the infection is still under control.This kind of creature probably has a way to suppress the infection of the dark worm, but after being in this environment for 10 years, its 'immune' system seems to be unable to do what it wants.

But at least it hasn't become crazy now, those eyes that look crazy are still shining with wisdom and reason, and as for the hostility, it is completely unfeelable.

What kind of creature is this?What is the connection between it and the dark worm?What kind of role did this creature play in the past war?What is its purpose now?

The ruin just now is considered a half-living creature, but that ruin and it don't seem to be in the same group—although I don't know what the real purpose is, but it did help itself, fighting against those tentacles up.

Of course, it is also possible to pretend to be a wave, and then let yourself relax your vigilance.In that case it's on the fifth floor.

As for whether it was safe here, she didn't take it to heart.A creature with the characteristics of a dark worm is somehow connected to the space where the hostile tentacles are located. How can it be safe here?However, I still hold the hole cards in my hand, this is where my confidence lies——

If the female knight is captured by the tentacles, the only thing she can do is say 'Goo, kill me! '

But the Skullmaker is captured by the tentacles, and she can yell 'Goo!I killed you! ’ Then it exploded directly—the reactor behind the armor, and the terrazine jar inserted next to the life support system, are all first-class creation materials.

But now, before becoming an artist, I can still be a war correspondent and ask as many questions as possible.

No matter what the actual situation is, Oregana has a strong interest in the shapeless creature in front of her.She watched the mass of tissue sticking to her hand slide down slowly, retracted the inside of the thing's body, and tried to ask in Sangheili:

"Can you understand us?"

It's tricky to speak in Sangheili - it's pretty much one of the oldest languages ​​still spoken in the universe.When the San'Shium established the Covenant in the past, the compromise for the San'Shium was to abandon the culture and language of the San'Shium and switch to Sangheili as the official language of the Covenant, which has always been the Sangheili language in the past. It is a place where people take pride and glory, but they do not know that the concessions made by the San Sims cannot be called concessions at all...

They even abandoned their hometown and their ethnic group, and used their home planet as a diverse gene pool, let alone their own language and culture.They don't care at all.Until now, the arbitrators who guide the prophets still hope to find the home planet of the San'Shim - from the recorder next to the senior prophet, they know that it is also a lie that the home star of the San'Shim was destroyed by a supernova explosion. For thousands of years, the high-level prophets have been capturing the [Original San-Shimmers] from the home planet to enrich the gene pool of the [Cosmic San-Shimmers] with low reproductive ability.After learning of this secret, Till Vadam didn't speak for more than half an hour, and he didn't speak until he finished eating:

'Not only did they not treat us as their own, they didn't even treat us as their own...'

To be honest, there are not many people who can do such a horrible thing...

In the past few hundred years, all the people who came to this planet to investigate, station, and live spoke Sangheili.Judging from the state of the "Pillar Man" on that pillar, if it was written by the dark worm, then their knowledge and memory must have been absorbed. If the creature in front of me can communicate, it most likely makes sense is Sangheili.

Of course, the language of the forerunner is also a good choice, but the key is that Tartarus has not yet obtained the complete language pack of the forerunner.The brains of the missionaries can't read it, and the head of the think tank has no brains at all. The format of the language pack given by the guides is not compatible, and it is going through a long process of transcoding...

After hearing the voice, the creature—she named it 'Multiple Pudding' in her mind—obviously reacted.Its eyestalks dangled, and the parts of its body extended into the air and began to change shape, finally settling on a Sangheili shape.That shape can be described as lifelike, even the armor and even the scales on the surface of the skin have been restored.

Oregana noticed that the suit of armor was the Arbiter's armor, which meant that the shape it imitated was probably the Kamos Metmi who was stuck in the pillar.The only difference is that even after imitating the shape, it is still translucent, with some black plaques beating slowly in the center of the body, and there are thin black lines connecting the plaques, like a pulse.

Looks like there's something going on.

However, Dome Pudding-sang doesn't seem to be very used to vocalization, or this body structure is not suitable for vocalization.The mimicked arbitrator opened his mouth, but there was only a muffled sound like a fish spitting foam.It shook its head in frustration, and tried again——

This time it worked.

"...I...you...this...fight...back..."

After being vague for a long time, Multi-eye Pudding couldn't even speak a complete sentence.Oregana knew that she couldn't help in this regard, so she could only wait patiently. Judging from the IQ shown by the other party, it probably wouldn't be long before it could master the language system well.And this is not the only good thing. During these few seconds, small noises began to appear in the communication, and the voice of the war scythe was occasionally mixed in.

This is exactly the best way to get out - when the Scythe of War has Abigail by his side, it will be rounded up to Yakumozi. As long as the coordinates can be determined, then whether it is Baicao Garden or Sanwei Bookstore, Xianglintang or Temple House That is where you want to go.

And at this moment, as if to prove his conjecture was correct, the combat eyepiece inside the mask showed a response of space distortion, indicating a low intensity.She subconsciously looked in that direction.

With just one glance, Oregana was stunned.

A brown tentacle full of pustules is poking in from a small crack in the space, and slowly stretching towards the multi-eyed pudding.

There was no time to hesitate, she decisively pointed her arm in that direction:

"Stop!"

The dazzling green light shot out at the same time as the roar exploded, and the tentacle was interrupted in the air before it could stretch out.This startled the multi-eyed pudding, it obviously knew what happened, all the eye stalks were stretched out, looking in all directions, and the body shrunk as much as possible——

But it was too late.

In the next instant, several tentacles popped out from the surroundings, and they stabbed heavily into the body of Multi-eye Pudding.The creature that was just trying to communicate trembled violently. Oregana could see a large amount of black matter spreading from the wound, and they quickly absorbed into the nearest black plaque, and the pulse of the thin thread suddenly accelerated. , they are pumped to the surrounding tissues.

It let out a shrill hiss, and desperately broke free, and its translucent and gleaming body struggled to escape to the wall.Oregana tried to rescue it, swiping her lightsaber and rushed forward, cutting off the tentacles in a few strokes, but more tentacles were already rushing towards the multi-eyed pudding.They restrained it, consciously crushed its eyestalk, took away its vision, entangled and beat it.

The fusion-style fighting made Oregana unable to start. She raised the lightsaber and lowered it, not knowing where to cut.The tentacles who were chasing Oregana very vigorously before ignored her now. It seemed to them that this guy who had been huddled in the hole by himself was more attractive.

Can't go on like this!

She opened the saw blade on her wrist, thinking about doing something, but before taking two steps, a part of Dome Pudding's body suddenly extended, and it popped out like a heavy punch, hitting Olega heavily Na's chest?The strong force caused her to fall backwards, and after that, it was completely controlled. The dark brown substance made its translucent body no longer transparent, and the gradually increasing spiritual energy response rapidly increased in a short period of time. , as if twisting the accelerator handle of a motorcycle.

It trembled in pain, and the gleam on its surface suddenly became intense.

At this moment, the communication suddenly became clear, and the voice of the war scythe suddenly appeared in the ears——

[32!Did you find an amplifier or something? !I can now detect your location!Don't resist, I'll pull you out now! 】

Amplifier?

I have never seen any amplifier before...

Her gaze stayed on the multi-eyed pudding for a moment...could it be...

Before she had time to think about it, a light circle suddenly appeared behind her, and several familiar tentacles stretched out from it, grabbed her and pulled her back—it was Abigail's tentacles, and she often failed to open it with this trick before. Just grab the snacks from inside the cabinet door and eat them.

When everything was about to disappear, Multi-eye Pudding snapped off a few tentacles, revealing the body that hadn't turned dark brown in the end.The body opened suddenly, forming a structure like a cannon barrel. The arc jumped a few times, and before the other tentacles, including Oregana, could react, they aimed at Oregana's chest and shot out a glowing thing.

"Meow?!"

The thing easily pierced through the shield, and the powerful force generated by hitting the breastplate caused her to fly backward into the door behind her.Half a second later, Oregana felt that she had bumped into something, and a piercing noise of metal tearing sounded beside her ears.Something hit her face, she picked it up and looked——

It's a cheap seat pad used on shuttles.

Abigail and War Scythe in the transformed state looked at Oregana who smashed a pile of seats with surprised expressions—her breastplate was smashed open, a palm-sized piece shaped like a pebble Something is getting stuck in the gap between the armor plate and the 'Demon God Flame'.

"Meow, we saw something super powerful..." Oregana muttered and stood up, she pulled out the 'Legendary White Stone' stuck in her chest and handed it to War Scythe, "Keep this, save it. "

"What is this? Did you pick it up over there?"

"A...a creature I've never seen before. After being caught by the tentacles, it gave us something with the momentum of 'this is my last ripple'." Oregana looked at this thing with a complicated expression.The sensor shows that this thing does not have any life reaction, nor does it have any dark worm energy reaction. It is not an egg, nor is it a piece of body tissue... Maybe it is an information container?

Because of the rush of a lot of information, it was difficult for Oregana to clearly explain what she thought about the series of behaviors of Multi-eye Pudding. It helped herself and tried to tell herself something, but in the end she didn't say anything.No... It's also possible that it said it in another form. The thing it fired at the last moment must have very important value.

But... how to analyze this?

Oregana shook her head. She felt that her brain was a little tired, so she temporarily put these questions aside:

"Let's talk about the details later... How is everyone?"

"We're all fine, and the Sangheili are fine." The Scythe of War nodded, then shook his head again, "The relic came alive, and it chased us all the way. So I didn't free my hands until I left the atmosphere in a safe place." environment to find you."

It's really a safe environment.

Here's a shuttle that looks like a production model aboard the Very Panther.War Scythe and Abigail came out after doing this, and then tried to locate Oregana on the shuttle - because you never know what is behind the door to the war zone, in order to avoid contamination and leakage, in Opening the door in an easily destroyed enclosure is a reliable practice.

That's what Warscythe does.

"Now that you're back, it's time for us to get down to business." He patted Oregana's shoulder armor. "Go back to the ship and prepare to command the battle."

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