desire reconciliation

When the two stood outside the giant glass cover and saw the piles of Zerg corpses inside, they realized that the relationship between subject and object might have been reversed from the beginning.

"Because the mine was discovered first, and the experimental data we saw were all related to the study of energy stones, so we preconceived that this research institute relied on the energy stones extracted from the mine as the starting point for subsequent research."

"Actually, on the contrary, the mine is just a subsidiary of the research institute, and the energy stones mined from it are just feed for the Zerg."

The giant glass cover is like the boundary between hell and the world. The Zerg inside seems to have been dead for a long time. Each Zerg is at least one person tall, and the bottom layer is densely covered in the huge glass cover. The liquid flowing out of the glass cover The bottom layer is submerged, and there is even a layer of oily substance soaked on the glass above.

In the semi-oily corpse liquid, there are still many Zerg corpses that have been bitten off, which seems to be the result of cannibalism due to no one feeding them.

The Zerg above stepped on the corpse of the Zerg below, as if struggling to climb up again, but in the end they couldn't escape from the smooth glass and ascend to heaven.

Many Zergs died in a struggling position. The scene was so spectacular that it made people shudder. If the mental quality is not good enough to see such a scene, they would have already vomited out the food they ate last night.

Uriah was shocked by the scene in front of him, he subconsciously looked at Lancelot's reaction, fearing that he would not be able to stand such a disgusting thing.

I thought I would see the disgusted expression of the man, but I didn't expect that the man didn't even wrinkle his eyebrows, and he looked calm and calm, more like a normal person than him.

"Go and see what we can investigate." After Lancelot finished speaking, he calmly approached the giant glass cover.

Seeing that Uriah hadn't followed, he turned his head and asked, "Is there any question?"

Uriah came back to his senses, and followed in a few steps: "I thought you wouldn't be able to bear this kind of thing."

Lancelot snorted, and checked the content on the operation panel: "If I can't even stand this, how can I stay in the military for so long?"

"I don't know who didn't even want to blow the whistle just now."

"These two things are different in nature. That whistle is a random gadget made by their investigation team. It is used to deceive children without even testing its practicality."

"If it's work, you must take it seriously?"

"of course."

Uriah thought for a while: "The order issued by the marshal is very important to you.

The mission is the job, right? "

Lancelot operated the control panel with one hand, while replying to him, he also recited a military rule: "Yes, the military rule Chapter 2 Section 2, the subordinates must unconditionally obey the instructions issued by the superior."

"Then give me a kiss."

Lancelot: ?

Lancelot's hands froze on the control panel, and only then did he realize why Uriah asked that way: "You don't call it an order, you call it sexual harassment."

Uriah came over from the side: "Have you ever heard of using power for personal gain?"

"You also know that you are using power for personal gain."

"So Colonel Lancelot is not going to carry out an order?"

Lancelot took a step to the side, opening the distance between him and Uriah.

"Has Marshal Uriah forgotten that we are killed now, not here for vacation?"

"So if we're on vacation now, you'll be able to carry out the order?" Uriah insinuated.

"You're sophistry."

To be honest, if Van Lancelot was [-]% sure that he could beat Uriah, they wouldn't be standing and talking like they are now.

Uriah took a step forward: "Okay, I won't tease you." He stood in front of the operation panel to analyze the data, "Let me do it, finish it sooner."

Lancelot also entered the working state: "The data in the system is only open to the content of the last six months. What is certain is that the research direction of this research institute is Zerg mutation, and the energy stone research is only a side project. They evacuated before, and set up a system program at that time. The necessary things such as food and culture fluid were provided to the Zerg on a regular basis. It is reasonable to say that these reserves can last at least four months, but after they left for about a month , I don’t know what went wrong, the Zerg in the training room began to die one after another, and there was no sign of life in the training room a week ago.”

Uriah glanced at the display screen: "There is no problem with the design of all the timed delivery, and there is no error in the delivery process."

Lancelot: "If it was caused by external factors, all of them should have died within a short period of time. However, according to the current data, the death process lasted for nearly a month, and the system did not give a predictive analysis result."

The two went back and forth to study the data in the system for a long time, and there were many inferences, but very few that could be verified.

The thread is interrupted again

The.

"The data analysis comes here first. It's not necessarily that this research institute must have something to do with the changes in the Zombie Abyss. Compared with these research data, let's take a look at the power plant that maintains the research institute." Uriah analyzed.

Lancelot felt that it was a pity to give up now: "Then just wait for me." After that, he stood back in front of the operation panel and looked at the data one by one.

"What are you doing now?" Uriah asked.

"Don't be noisy."

"You don't want to memorize all these data, do you?"

"If you don't have enough time, you may not be able to memorize all of them, but 80% should be enough." Lancelot said very naturally.

Uriah was shocked, and he pulled the man away from the operation panel.

"What are you doing?" Lancelot asked.

Uriah leaned over and squatted down, moved his hands and feet on the control device under the operation panel, and took out a palm-sized object from it after a while.

"What is this?" Lancelot asked again.

"It is similar to the function of a mobile hard disk. It is for data backup. Generally, the laboratory operating system will have such a backup. But thanks to you, these systems have always reported errors. If the system is locked and opened, this Things just exploded."

As soon as Uriah put the "mobile hard drive" in his bag, he was about to leave the laboratory, and he did not forget to joke: "I know you have a good memory, but you must learn to be flexible and learn more, young man."

Lancelot was speechless: "You can't be two years older than me." He followed Uriah out of the laboratory.

Uriah: "You are two days older than you are."

They entered the research institute from the mine, and they have roughly walked all the way from the laboratory on the bottom floor to the material supply station on the top floor. It is not difficult to find the power supply device for maintaining the research institute. According to the general architectural planning plan, they I stepped on several places where the power unit is usually installed, and quickly found the target.

The power plant in front of me is 50 meters high, and there are nearly [-] delivery ports extending from the top, which is much higher than the largest power plant currently in the military.

"This is a bit too much." Uriah sighed.

The power plant is divided into many layers. The bottom layer is the energy stone addition layer, and the upper layer is the energy storage layer, the conversion layer, and the dispersion processing layer. The internal core, voltage stabilizer, and loop circulation system cannot be seen from the outside, but according to able to see

The proportion of the part is enlarged, and this set of equipment is more than three times that of the general equipment.

The lights on the device are only blue, white and red, alternately on the outside of each layer, and turn on and off as energy is delivered.

There are also many conveying pipes wrapped around the outside of the device, and steam will be ejected from the upper part from time to time, which means that the cooling and decompression device is in operation.

Lancelot: "If this device only physically increases the power of the device to resist magnetic field disturbances, then we really can only wait for rescue."

Uriah: "No, the disturbance of the magnetic field is a sudden situation at a certain moment. At that time, the degree of disturbance will be much higher than it is now. Only increasing the transmission frequency by physical means will not reach that level."

"So you're sure they used other methods to resist magnetic field disturbances?"

Uriah couldn’t walk up the steps, so he flipped over on the handrail, and his figure was on the other side: “I wasn’t sure before I saw this device, but now I’m sure.”

Uriah turned over and stood on the other side. He winked at Lancelot, thinking he was very handsome, and almost wrote three words "I am handsome" on his face.

Lancelot thought he was a little naive at first, but he felt even more naive when he saw the way he was showing off to himself.

But then he also became childish, imitating Uriah's posture and turning over slightly, his hands fell to the ground very vigorously, and his head was incidentally turned to the side, like a proud little swan.

The moves against normal Omega are completely inapplicable to Lancelot, and Uriah should have known it long ago.

Instead of being handsome in front of him, it's better to fight with him in a mecha.

Lancelot walked to the power unit and studied the content on the control panel: "The magnetic field in the low and medium frequency bands can be shielded by the armor itself, and the high frequency band is dominated by millimeter-wave terahertz. To absorb the magnetic field in this part of the band, it takes Either a device that can generate a superimposed electric field, or a very special material."

Uriah followed his words and said: "Ordinary mechs don't need to go to places with disordered magnetic fields, and the special material is extremely expensive. Using it to paint a rack is almost the same as rebuilding a rack. Using this method The possibility of covering the whole study is too small, so I am biased towards a device that can generate a superimposed electric field."

Uriah was not in a hurry to look at the console, he walked towards the huge power unit, went around in a circle, and found another door on the side opposite to the console.

Blue

Sloat studied the console for a long time and found nothing different from ordinary consoles. He looked up and found that Uriah was gone. Just as he was about to shout, he heard a loud "bang".

That voice was the direction Uriah was going in, and he hurriedly ran in that direction, but there was another "bang" after walking a few steps.

"Uriah!"

"what?"

Lancelot took a few steps around to the back of the power unit, and what he saw was Uriah with his legs half-raised.

And the door on the power unit in front of him has been kicked and deformed.

Uriah kicked it up one last time, and the door fell inward with a "boom".

"What did you call me just now?" Uriah asked him.

"It's okay." Lancelot looked shocked, a little overwhelmed.

Seeing the worry on his face, Uriah immediately reacted: "Are you worried about me?"

Lancelot adjusted his expression and replied, "No."

"Yes, yes, don't be shy."

"Not shy."

"If you only deny the second half of the sentence, then you have it."

Lancelot: "..."

Uriah smiled brightly: "Okay, let's not bother you, the door is open, let's go in and have a look."

Lancelot stepped on the door that Uriah had just kicked down, and walked into the interior of the power unit: "You are really courageous enough, you won't be afraid of blowing up this thing with your foot."

Uriah walked in front and listened to his words, and said with a smile: "This is called reverse thinking. If this door is really blown up by kicking the power unit twice, then the entire research institute will be ruined. This power unit is the whole The heart of the building must be very stable, even if the earth’s crust blows up tomorrow, it won’t be able to blow up, and my feet are neither painful nor itchy for this thing.”

"You have a high opinion of this device, and to correct you, you kicked three feet."

There is a circular upward corridor inside the device, and there will be a platform at a certain distance, which should be the passage used by maintenance personnel for inspection and maintenance.

Counting up, there are fifteen platforms in total, and there is a large platform after every four small platforms.

The view up from the ground floor they had just entered was spectacular, like a tower inhabited by some technological princess.

They went up the steps one by one, and the small platform was empty. When they reached the fifth floor, which was the first large platform, two consoles and a few chairs appeared, and nothing unusual was found.

The next four layers also follow

It was the same as before, until the tenth floor, which was the second large platform, where there were two consoles and a few chairs similar to the fifth floor, but they found something different on one of the chairs.

"Is this a terminal?" Lancelot squatted on the ground, looked at the things on the chair, and poked again.

"It seems that the researchers here probably forgot to take it away."

"It's useless to have a terminal, and it can't be opened on this planet...wait." Lancelot said casually, and suddenly realized something was wrong.

It was only now that Uriah realized that they hadn’t used the terminal because of the magnetic field disturbance, so they seemed to have forgotten its existence. At this moment, a terminal suddenly appeared in front of them, and they remembered the one they put away: “If it is generated by the research institute itself Superimpose the electric field, and within the range covered by this power plant, all electronic equipment will return to normal."

Lancelot continued his words: "But now our terminal is inside the research institute and still can't be used."

"So this research institute is not able to avoid the interference of the magnetic field because it does not use a superimposed electric field device, but the possibility of covering it all with ordinary materials is too small, and it is still underground."

The air became quiet again, and the atmosphere between the two became a little heavy. If it wasn't for the device that used superimposed electric fields, then the possibility that they could use this technology on the mecha to escape the planet was very small.

Uriah raised his hand to pick up the terminal on the chair, but he didn't expect that a stereoscopic projection suddenly appeared on the terminal.

"Why does this terminal work normally?" Lancelot's question blurted out, and this was exactly what Uriah was thinking.

And what shocked them even more was still behind. What was shown in the projection was a slightly old researcher in white.

The terminal projection is not as accurate as the projection of large-scale equipment. Through the slightly blurred picture, you can see the expression of the researcher, kind but with a little helplessness.

"Hello, stranger." The old man in the projection spoke.

Lancelot and Uriah looked at each other, Uriah raised his hand and turned the terminal around, but the old man in the projection did not turn towards them.

"This was pre-recorded," Uriah confirmed.

At the same time, the old man in the projection slowly opened his mouth.

"It doesn't matter who I am, you just need to know that I am a Zerg researcher, and I have been studying Zerg my whole life.

Breed and mutate.On a certain night many years ago, the wind howled like this night. "

The image of the old man looked into the distance, not knowing where his thoughts returned.

"When I was young, the old man told us that we could make a wish on the starry sky and let the gods help you make a choice. Although it was just a dice roll, I believed at the time that it was a decision made by God. At that time, I was hesitant about the direction of research. , Maybe this is God’s will choosing this path, and I came to this research institute to participate in this experiment by chance, and I was able to record this video to convey my will to you.”

The old man looked back at them and talked about the institute.

"If you have seen this video, you should already know about this institute. I am responsible for the initial site selection, construction, and later personnel deployment. It can be said that this institute is like a student brought out by myself. I also devoted time and energy. But unfortunately, after repeated opinions contradicting each other, I have less and less right to speak. Most people do wrong things for the sake of fame and fortune. In front of them, they also selectively turned a blind eye to them. A small number of people stood on my side either because of the academic spirit in their bones, or just because they supported me, but in the end these people either transferred or disappeared suddenly, probably because of me I was lucky to be able to stay until now when I was old."

As the old man spoke, his eyes gradually dimmed.

"I don't know when this terminal was discovered. It may be a few days after we left? A few months? Or it may wait until we come back to continue research, or it may be that this image dissipated in the interstellar while the planet was destroyed. But no matter what time it is, no matter who you are, when you see this video please listen carefully to what I have to say."

"The experiments being carried out by this research institute may lead to the extinction of all human beings. Maybe I say this too much, but this is the worst plan, and now everything is developing in this worst direction."

Uriah and Lancelot looked at each other at the same time, feeling a little too sudden about the news about the "extinction of mankind" that this video conveyed to them.

Before they had time to respond, the old man in the video continued: "The power stone and the Zerg are the main research objects of this research institute. The initial research direction is to focus on the mutation of the Zerg. The research site is located on this planet because of this planet. star

The ball has a natural magnetic field and a changing nebula that can provide cover. At the same time, there are ordinary Zergs around this planet all year round. At that time, no one knew why these Zergs often came here and did not go elsewhere. The answer to this question will be revealed later. . "

"In the past few years, the research institute's projects have been going smoothly, but this is only superficially smooth. After several years of statistics, as long as they have a certain understanding of the Zerg, anyone who can read the data can find the problems. The Zerg The rate of mutation is too fast, and this large acceleration is still increasing year by year."

"I discovered this two years ago, but everyone is immersed in the joy of promoting the progress of the project due to the rapid mutation of the Zerg. I have declared several times in succession to investigate the reason for the accelerated mutation speed, but I was either rejected or detained. , I have no choice but to secretly start investigating and researching.”

"That is, during the same period when I discovered this incident, another laboratory project had a breakthrough, but this breakthrough was not in the Zerg mutation, but in the power stone. Because of an experimental accident, they accidentally It was discovered that the energy stone mined from the mine on this planet can retain human spiritual power after being activated.

"This discovery shocked all the researchers at the time. Maybe you don't understand it if you are not a professional. Let me explain to you that those power stones can retain the soul of human beings. If they are studied, they may be able to realize human beings on a certain level live forever."

Lancelot knew in his heart that this was the "Human Immortality Project" that his father had always been obsessed with.

"Since then, the research focus of the entire research institute has shifted from Zerg mutation to research on energy stones. The investors of this research institute began to increase investment after knowing the progress of the project, and the research institute has built a lot of underground buildings. Everyone is happy, but my private research on the reasons for the acceleration of Zerg mutation shows that this is not a good thing."

"After the focus of research was shifted to energy stones, the rate of Zerg mutations showed a cliff-like increase. I thought it might be accidental, until one time the research team stationed abroad actually brought back a queen of bugs. Its body shape is about the same as that of ordinary Zerg, so we speculate that because of its size, it is recognized as an ordinary Zerg by other Zergs in the Zerg Abyss and wanders in the interstellar."

"After the focus of the research was on energy stones, only our group still insisted on researching the Zerg, so the Queen of Zerg came into my hands without accident. We

Obtaining this queen is like a treasure, because the research on the variation and reproduction of the Zerg has only stayed in the research of the general Zerg. After all, the queen is huge and generally does not come out of the Zerg. Perhaps we are the first in human history to directly attack the Zerg. people who conduct research later. "

"We collected a lot of precious data from that queen worm. In the past, people in the entire research institute would have carnivaled for a week because of these data, but that time only a dozen or so people from our group had a small gathering in the restaurant, because Everyone except our group is researching power stones."

"The queen soon won the first egg laying. We prepared for a week back and forth, and even a few people in the group moved all the beds in the dormitory to the laboratory. There was no time for a few days when the queen laying eggs. If you miss it, just sleep there, after all, this may be the first time in human history to witness the queen laying eggs, although this queen is a bit small because of the mutation."

"But the result of that time disappointed us very much. The queen produced hundreds of eggs, and all the eggs survived for no more than three hours after hatching. At first, we thought that the queen was a After the mutated body shape, it is expected that the eggs produced will not survive. Afterwards, we provided the queen with delicious food and drink, and its size grew a little bit, but the second time, the third time The first spawning was also annihilated, and none of the eggs could develop into adults after hatching."

Both of them were listening carefully to the old man's narration, his speaking speed was very slow, like a kind grandpa telling a story to the children.

"Perhaps it was God's will again. The organization's deployment staff sent a sloppy intern to our group. He arranged ten things for him, and eight and a half things could go wrong. When the fourth queen laid eggs, we had no I had no hope, so I hastily arranged it for the intern, but to the surprise of all of us, 80.00% of the hatched eggs survived for three hours, and 30.00% of them finally developed into adults. .”

"Finally, when the experiment process was retrieved, we realized that it was the intern who filled the feed that needed to be fed by mistake. What he filled was the energy stone used in the experiment of the next-door group."

"Everything has come to light, why the Zergs are often active near this planet, why the rate of mutation of the Zergs is accelerating, and why none of the first three eggs laid by the queen survived, and the survival rate of eggs produced only in the fourth time It's so high, everything is clear." The old man in the projection said this with emotion,

The voice is vibrato.

"The energy stones mined from this planet are necessary for the reproduction of the Zerg. Similar to bees, if you want to raise bees, you must feed royal jelly to the larvae. If you don't feed them with royal jelly, the larvae can only grow into worker bees in the end. , and the energy stone is not only as simple as growing into a "worker bee" or a "queen bee" for the Zerg, if there is no energy stone, the only way to wait for the larvae is to die."

"Afterwards, we conducted experiments to reduce the amount of energy stones used when the larvae were hatching, and the mutation rate of the Zerg increased rapidly. Perhaps this is also the Zerg's efforts to protect themselves and reproduce."

The old man's eyes focused again, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes.

"This is the end of what I want to convey to you. Now we are forced to evacuate for some reason. I have inquired about it, but I have not received any useful information. I also understand that researchers are just pawns in the hands of those in power. , it’s not even a chess piece, it’s just a biscuit that can be crushed into slag when squeezed.”

"Maybe my purpose of recording this video is not to make this matter public, because I know that if I really want to say it, I should stand up and tell the world boldly, instead of secretly recording this video in the dormitory I'm too old, I don't have the energy to be ambitious, but I also understand that this is just an excuse to comfort myself, a reason for my cowardice and cowardice, and now I only hope that you who see this image are A person who is responsible and has the ability to speak out about this matter to prevent it from developing in a worse direction, I only hope that God can favor mankind again."

The old man in the projection has a sad face and pious eyes, which is not like the expression that a researcher who advocates science will appear.

He put his hands on his chest, breathing from his chest, like the most devout believer praying to the gods.

"I just hope that God can favor human beings once more."