Blue Star

After Gu Li broke off with the crystal mine ring, he cut off several spider-like limbs, and raised his hand to push the young man's back.

"You go up first!"

The boy didn't hesitate, and quickly climbed up the escalator and jumped to a dim mechanical platform above the fish tank.

It should be more convenient to enter the laboratory through the small door next to the auction table, but now that the sea water is pouring back, that door will definitely not be able to open.

Most of the mechanical platforms are pipes and gears that run the laboratory, so you can't take too many steps when walking.Perhaps for the convenience of studying the infected, the mechanical operation here is all autonomous and does not use the crystal ore magnetic field.

Fortunately, the top gate was opened for the convenience of entering the fish tank, otherwise, in this situation, he would have to drown if he was not bitten to death.

The boy clung to the turntable on the gate with both hands, but unfortunately he had to stop and shake his hands every two turns.The pipe leading to the ground on the side is unbearably hot, and the heat is transmitted to the gate. Without gloves, it is equivalent to frying meat on an iron plate.

The boy cursed secretly, then took off his seawater-soaked shirt and wrapped it around the handrail of the gate, and twisted it five or six times before opening the gate.The lighting crystal mine inside illuminates the platform, which saves the trouble of not being able to see clearly.

The boy jumped down first, and after making sure there were no monsters inside, he crawled out and shouted, "There's nothing inside, come in!"

Gu Li struggled to open the magnetic field and quickly climbed up the platform. Before jumping into the laboratory, he pierced the chest of the mutants who swarmed up with his sword.The broken body was still able to crawl. When the gate was closed, a limb was snapped off, the hard shell of the worm body was shattered, and a piece of disgusting mucus remained in the gate and the stairwell.

Gu Li jumped from the stairs to the ground, took off the suit jacket that was stained with the infected person's blood, checked his skin for abrasions, and heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that it was all right.

The roar of crazy monsters can be heard outside the laboratory, and the sound of different limbs stepping on the iron plate can be heard from time to time on the hard mechanical platform. In addition, the backflowing sea water makes the air gradually lack, this kind of madness will only intensify.

The young man panted and looked at Gu Li. For a while, he didn't know what to call him other than the wizard, so he could only introduce himself: "My name is Mimier, and I live in the fruit and vegetable area of ​​the fourth town."

Gu Li glanced at the laboratory in front of him, and replied, "Ke Erqi Gu Li."

Mimir exclaimed, "You are the newly appointed elder this year? Isn't the patriarch..." He quickly shut up in the middle of the sentence, after all, no one wants to be said to be appointed by connections.

However, he had witnessed the operation of the magnetic field just now. This newly appointed elder was definitely not as rumored on the outside. His talent seemed to be stronger than other elders he had seen, and his proficiency in magnetic field manipulation was astonishingly fast.

Gu Li threw the robe next to the experimental table to the shirtless Mimir, he didn't want to see another honest person after Iris.

The laboratory is divided into three rooms, one for testing, one for observation, and the other for dissection.And the room where he and Mimir came down is the laboratory, all the tools and utensils are much simpler than Kirch's, but there is no lack of necessary ones.

There are four experimental tables in total, except for some crystal ore that needs to be used for lighting, the most is the suppression crystal powder.This kind of crystal powder differentiated by Daoporin's talent is indeed slowly losing its effect. After taking too much, the body will produce antibodies, but for those who just took it, it still retains a little effect.

Looking up, there are many anatomical diagrams of salamanders drawn in pencil on numerous vellum papers on the wall.The body characteristics of these salamanders are obviously juveniles, and many bones are not fully grown, which are different from those found on the boat that night. Perhaps this is what the salamanders looked like when they were first captured.

He took one down and looked at it closely, and the lower right corner of the kraft paper with the baby salamander was marked with a string of small words, Peterpus salamander, which belongs to paleontology.

"Paleontology..." This reminded him of the plant notebook brought back by the army. Many of the plant species recorded on it seemed to be labeled as paleontology or extinct.

Next to the salamander anatomy drawing is a sketch of a mermaid, with a normal human on the left and a mermaid on the right, with a double-headed arrow between them and a question mark above the arrow.

From human to mermaid, this is obviously the process of being infected.But why should it be marked as two-way?Or is it true that during Dr. Zhong's research, there was indeed a successful case of an infected mermaid turning back into a human?

"what--"

Heart-piercing screams came from the observation room, but the voice was more mature and not Mimir.

Gu Li put away the blueprints and stuffed them into the pocket of his suit pants, and walked quickly into the observation room.

Mimir shrank in the corner with a pale face, pointed at the man in the observation room, and said in horror: "Yes, it's the security guard just now!"

In the observation room, no less than twenty coffin-shaped glass fish tanks were stacked from bottom to top, and almost every fish tank contained infected mermaids that had been cut to pieces.The dark blue blood soaked the sea water in the fish tank to be turbid, some of them were still intact, while others had already rotted.

The security guard who ate "mermaid meat" on the stage before was also among them. His naked body had obviously mutated, and the speed of infection was faster than usual cases.The skin and flesh of the legs were damaged and glued together, and the toes had also turned into the tip of the caudal fin.

The security guard was terrified and wanted to tear his legs apart. After seeing Gu Li, he knocked on the glass fish tank with a pale face and shouted: "Help me, please help me! I don't want to become a fish, I don't want to die! My son is still waiting for me, he is still waiting for me to go back! Please, please..."

The mutation is still going on, but Baoan's rationality still retains human thinking. Gu Li has seen such a scene many times, but every time it is his brother who solves it.

He didn't kill a sane infected person.Because of that kind of look, the kind of look that yearns for life and asks him for help, it will always make him unable to do anything.

"Please, I don't want to die..."

The color of the security guard's pupils was changing, and he was hitting the fish tank with his fists. The pain caused by the mutated legs made him unable to sit up like a normal person, and his body was bound by chains, and he couldn't move.

But the strength of his fists is gradually increasing, and his temperament has also become manic due to the mutation.The situation of infected mermaids is different from Iris. They cannot rationally control their bodies and emotions, which is a necessary process for every infected person to mutate.

Mi Mi MiEr stood behind Gu Li, watching the mutated and painful security guard with red eyes.He knew very well what would happen next as an infected person.

Gu Li turned his head and raised the crystal ring with a sharp beam of light, closed his eyes and killed the man who asked him for help.The speed of light penetrated the glass and hit the man's brain.The hands are clean and there is almost no pain left.

Mimir's eyes were red, "My brother must have had an accident, there are no normal human beings alive in this laboratory!"

Fear turned into anger. Looking at the infected corpses in the observation room, he said in a hoarse voice: "They bought and sold living people for experiments, and tricked us into researching injections that are more effective than suppressing crystal powder. What doctor, it is simply murderer!"

The more Gu Li heard it, the more wrong it became. He frowned and said, "You mean, they experimented with uninfected humans?"

Mimir trembled and lowered his head, his face was full of hatred, "Three months ago, my father went to work on Zhonghuaide's fishing boat. It's a pity that he was unlucky, there was a storm at sea, and there was no wizard to escort him." The fishing boat almost capsized in the sea..."

The probability of human beings surviving in the Ancient Continent is very small. Even if the weather is sunny and sunny, they must inform Ke Erqi, and then send wizards to escort them.Zhong Huaide did this because he had no intention of specifying a safe sea area for fishing from the beginning.

Gu Li had a sullen face and did not interrupt Mi Mi Mier, only to hear the 15-year-old boy continue to say: "When the wind and waves on the sea stop, the fishing boat will be blown to a place that is about to approach the restricted area. There is a deep sea where you can't see the bottom. However, Zhong Huaide was unwilling to lose his money and forced the fishermen to fish for three days in a row outside the restricted area.

Just when everyone thought that no big fish would come ashore, my father accidentally caught a mermaid.I don't know what the mermaid in the sea looks like, but it's definitely not as gentle as it is written in the book.The fishing net couldn't trap the mermaid at all, it broke the moment it was dragged onto the fishing boat, and scratched my father when he escaped. "

After all, Mimir looked angrily at the corpses of the infected mermaids in the observation room, "Infected humans are no longer humans, but everyone is not sure whether the mermaids are infected or marine life.

From the moment he was scratched by the merman, his father was brought to this laboratory.Zhong Huaide's elder brother threatened that my father was an exception, saying that mermaid cells in my father's body could instead cure the infected.

It was also from that time on that the laboratory would always secretly buy off the experimenters.At first it was the infected who were hidden, and then slowly became uninfected humans. "

He took a deep breath, "When my brother saw that his father hadn't come back, he said he wanted to come to the laboratory to look for him, but I waited for almost a week and didn't see him coming back, so I just..."

"How old is your brother?" Gu Li asked.

"Seventeen." Mimir looked up at Gu Li.

Gu Li didn't continue to ask, most of the infected people in the whole laboratory were over 20 years old. At the age of 17, the only one related to Zhong Huaide was the boy who was used as a mermaid bait when he went out to sea.

He didn't tell the truth, but said: "Maybe your brother is just lost."

Mimir's grief finally healed a little. He wiped away his tears and said, "You're right, how can we make a conclusion without a corpse."

He turned his gaze to one of the fish tanks where only the mermaid skeleton remained, "I haven't seen my father's body either. How can I say that they are dead if I don't see it. Aren't there infected people who lost their minds and were sent to the wild? Father and Brother must have lost his way in the wild."

Gu Li: "..."

Mimir stopped looking at the observation room, looked at the drawing of salamanders on the wall of the laboratory after regaining consciousness, and said, "Newts? By the way, when my father came to the laboratory last time, there were still several salamanders locked in glass boxes. Why is there not a single salamander in it this time?"

"Have you seen it? When?"

"Just three months ago, when my father was sent to the laboratory. I remember Dr. Zhong said that it seemed to be brought back from some library." Mi Mier thought hard for a while, "It is the place where the archaeological army went! ruined sixth town."

Gu Li clenched the blueprint in his suit trouser pocket tightly. In this way, the salamander, which may be the source of infection, is hidden in the ruined library like the plant notes!

Suddenly, there was a piercing sound from the pipeline outside the laboratory, like sharp nails scraping against a metal armor.The influx of sea water should have flooded the underground auction house, and the monsters gradually became quieter from the initial roar.

According to the time, at least 10 minutes have passed since they entered the laboratory.If the mutant is not an amphibian monster, it should have died of suffocation after 5 minutes.

The sound of the pipeline came from underground, and if I guessed right, it might be the passage leading to the port.It's impossible for Iris to come back, is it a mutant like a spider or an ant?

The fluff on their legs can indeed take part of the air to survive when they enter the water.However, the underground auction house is airtight, and even so, it shouldn't survive for too long.The passage to the port is very deep, and it is difficult to withstand the pressure except for sea creatures such as merfolk.

Gu Li turned his attention to the exhaust pipes in the laboratory. As long as these mutants do not destroy the pipes from the outside, the probability of death is still very high.

When he entered the laboratory just now, he had seen the mutants that he could see. Most of them were multi-segmented and incomplete. It was almost impossible to survive underwater for 10 to [-] minutes.

The piercing sound in the pipeline gradually disappeared, but because he was separated from the sea water and the laboratory, he couldn't be sure whether he left from the water or died from lack of oxygen.

Mimir stood still and didn't dare to move, even breathing deliberately became quieter. After waiting for a long time when there was no movement around him, he asked nervously, "Elder Gu Li, are we safe or in danger now?"

Gu Li kept looking around, and finally found the water gate wrench next to the mechanical door of the laboratory.

It is impossible for a submarine channel connecting a port to ignore drainage facilities, otherwise the underground laboratory will also be affected when the tide rises.

When the wrench was pulled down, there was a bang of water absorption, and the seawater outside the laboratory dropped sharply, accompanied by the sound of the infected person's limb hitting the iron plate.

According to previous research, this involuntary collision sound can ensure that all mutants outside are dead.

Gu Li turned the ring to open the magnetic field, and said to Mimier: "Go to the observation room, and if there is any accident, close the door of the observation room."

The current Gu Li is the last straw for Mi Mi Mier, if there is an accident, he may have to wait for death.

Immediately, he took a convenient iron rod in the laboratory, followed behind Gu Li and said, "I, I will follow you. Staying in this laboratory is not as safe as being by your side!"

Gu Li didn't have time to deal with this kid, but it was undeniable that Mi Mier was telling the truth.

The level of danger in this laboratory is slightly better than that in the auction house, and it is unknown what dangers are hidden in the unexplored anatomy room.

He took Mimir behind him, put his hand on the handle of the mechanical door, and said in a deep voice, "Follow closely."

Mimir was so nervous that he was sweating profusely, holding the iron bar tightly with both hands and staring at the slowly opening door.He didn't listen to what Gu Li said afterwards, just saw a long spider-like leg suddenly protruding from the open door, and beat him up.

The bug's shell shattered, splashing slime all over the floor.

Gu Li helplessly grabbed Mimir's wrist, and said, "Stop! Open your eyes."

Mimir trembled all over, and when he opened his eyes obediently, he saw only a broken limb.But right now, it has been beaten to pieces by him, and I can't tell what it looks like.

"Yeah, sorry, I'm just a little nervous."

"I see."

Gu Li opened the mechanical door, and outside the door was a corridor leading to the auction platform, which was where the security guards were brought in at first.The ground and walls were all soaked by sea water, and many decorations and shattered suppression crystals were scattered everywhere in the venue, and of course there were monster corpses.

But to his surprise, these mutated monsters were all brutally torn apart, as if they had just experienced a brutal battle instead of being drowned.

Opening the mechanical door at the end of the corridor, the scene in the auction venue was even more horrible.In addition to the humans killed by the infected, the bodies of these monsters are not complete.

The place near the bottom of the fish tank is the scariest place. The iron net used as an interception is distorted and deformed. The snake-shaped monster he killed before is torn apart, and there are many traces of the beast's claws on the flesh.

Crouching down to examine carefully, there were still some small scales and blue blood stains that had not been washed away on the gap where the iron net was broken.

"Iris..." He whispered the name he gave.

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Yu Ling:

Thank you Mumu Zaoqing for the fish food! ?(‘???`)