nightmare exec

During those years of non-stop dreaming, Qi Zhengnan had seen all kinds of bizarre scenes.

He crossed the bloody river alone, climbed the pile of skeletons, and passed through the wilderness ravaged by poisonous snakes and the desert with frequent thunder and lightning.

But none of this is "terrible" by his standards.Because no matter how absurd the dream, the only one who can hurt is himself.

But the scene in front of him was different.

The silent conference room was shrouded in a faint green light.The light comes from the real-time image projected in the center of the round table.

The human search team put their probes into the crack of the door.What the night vision device showed was an old warehouse with an average height of five meters and an area of ​​nearly [-] square meters. There were no partitions inside, and only a few steel columns acted as supports, so the view was unobstructed.

Perhaps due to the cultivation of prohibited plants, there is still a thick layer of soil and humus left on the warehouse floor.

And the thing that surprised all the executive officers just now sprouted from this layer of soil.

It was countless thick vines, winding and breaking through the ground.Numerous intertwined and braided flexible branches climb and wrap around the steel columns, climbing up the high steel beams.Clusters of pinnate compound leaves and clusters of buds are hanging down.

Looking around, the dark interior of the warehouse is almost like a tropical rainforest greenhouse; it also looks like a specimen showroom full of giant pythons, with a creepy and grotesque beauty.

Under the commando's operation, the lens of the night vision device slowly adjusted its angle of view and partially zoomed in, and four bright white vital sign recognition frames suddenly jumped out on the screen.

At the root of the vine, there are people wrapped in it!

Although limited by many conditions, the night vision device cannot obtain more and clearer image data.But the simplest conclusion has been reached - all 37 infected people except the woman in red are trapped in these strange vines.

No, it should be said that these vines grew from them.

Qi Zhengnan tapped slowly on the table with his fingertips, and then exhaled a gloomy breath from his chest: "Er Hu, pull out the information on stowaway No. 1379 and distribute it to everyone."

"Understood." The cat-shaped assistant's competent reply came from the earphone.

Dozens of small display screens soon appeared on the desktop of the long oval table, and every executive officer attending the meeting received the exact same files of stowaways.

A well-informed person has already seen the clue: "This is... a mutually beneficial symbiotic stowaway"

Indeed, Stowaway No. 1379, also known as "Medusa Vine", is a plant-like stowaway.

After invading human dreams, Medusa vines will parasitize multiple body parts of human beings, causing people to coma and take over human body actions.Then, they will look for a remote and fertile area, let the infected person bury themselves in the soil, and then use the nutrients in nature to complete the second stage of growth.

Generally speaking, due to comprehensive factors such as long incubation period and backward mode of transmission, plant-type stowaways are far less harmful than animal-type and supernatural-type stowaways.But the Medusa vine is a big exception.

Because it's not a vine fighting.

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"What? It's not the same kind of stowaway who infected Chen Mei and those 37 victims?"

In the combat preparation room, Song Yin, like all the executive officers involved in this operation, also received the latest news from this urgent push.

"This super dungeon indeed involves two kinds of stowaways at the same time, and they have a symbiotic partnership." Encyclopedia Ergou Jun began to do a simple science popularization for Song Yin.

Just like the mutually beneficial relationship between animals and plants in nature, stowaways occasionally form a community of interests.

Taking the current case as an example, a "supernatural" stowaway first sneaked into Chen Mei's dream and concocted the urban legend of the "woman in red".Then spread the plant-type stowaway 'Medusa vine' to other victims through the woman in red.

"I understand the order, but what is the woman in red trying to do?" Song Yin was still a little puzzled, "It's fine for it to sneak in by itself, why do you want to bring plants? Gardening lovers?"

"You humans have a sci-fi movie called "The Martian", have you seen it?" Ergou asked an inexplicable question.

"I've seen it, Matt Damon grows potatoes on Mars, why—ah!" Song Yin came to his senses in the middle of the sentence, "You mean, the Medusa vine is the ration that the woman in red brought when she invaded the world? "

"It's just rations, that's all. The key is that this kind of rations are invasive alien species. If the recovery is not clean enough in this operation and the Medusa vines spread out, the consequences can be big or small."

No matter how ignorant Song Yin is, he has heard stories about the extinction of native species caused by the invasion of alien species.He felt that he was finally getting a little nervous, but the focus of his tension was not the battle he was about to face.

"If this dungeon fails, the problem will be serious, right? Qi Zhengnan's current pressure... should be very high."

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In the super copy combat coordination conference room, the live video is still going on.

After confirming the pictures inside the warehouse, the commandos decided to take the initiative to rescue 37 infected people as soon as possible.

Soon, the safety of a flashbang was pulled, and rolled into the warehouse through the gap in the door.Just a few seconds later, with a loud noise, the entire warehouse was instantly submerged in dazzling white light.

The commando wearing goggles rushed into the room, and the muzzle quickly aimed at every blind spot that the night vision device could not see.As soon as you notice a change, shoot immediately.

However, the planned conflict did not occur.After the shock wave brought by the flash bomb dissipated, the warehouse returned to a strange dead silence.

Under the tactical lighting of the team members, those intertwined and leafy Medusa vines remained motionless, just like the most common plants in nature.

"The adult Medusa vines in the second stage are basically the same as ordinary plants in appearance, but they must be nourished by living people and soil at the same time to grow and reproduce." Qi Zhengnan's knowledge reserve is comparable to that of the assistant officer: "But it is really worrying Yes, it is actually its fruit."

"What happened to the fruit?" Mithril, Yugutai's deputy team sitting next to him, didn't see the relevant information on the document, so he asked in a low voice.

"A small amount of special anti-aging substances can be extracted from the fruit of the Medusa vine, and the amazing curative effect has been verified on mice many years ago. However, this substance cannot be synthesized artificially, and the plan to domesticate the Medusa vine It also involves issues of ethics and species invasion, and it has been delayed for a long time.”

When he said this, Qi Zhengnan deliberately lowered his voice: "Therefore, all information about Medusa vines will not mention the fruit's effect. After all, it should not be known by too many people."

"Are you worried that there are interest groups operating behind the appearance of the Medusa vine?"

Mithril immediately understood Qi Zhengnan's implication, and immediately changed a complicated and inexplicable look: "Sometimes I am really curious, and they are also stuck in purgatory. How can you know so many things?"

"That's why I can sit in this position." Qi Zhengnan answered Africa's question, and then turned his gaze to the live projection in front of him.

After a thorough investigation, no trace of the woman in red was found in the warehouse.So a few people were left to take charge of the vigilance, and the remaining commandos set out to rescue the 37 infected people who were trapped by the Medusa vines.

Judging from the live video, the Medusa vine has two types of roots: the first kind of seemingly ordinary roots penetrate into the soil on the warehouse floor.Another organ, which looks like aerial roots, is wrapped around the infected person's body and penetrated deeply into their body like an infusion tube.

All 37 infected persons were in a coma, with dilated pupils and dilated pupils.The results of the preliminary examination showed that 18 of them had mild symptoms, and the Medusa vines emanating from the body were small and thin, distributed in non-fatal parts, and did not take root sufficiently in the soil.

Another 12 people had a large number of vines, some of which had taken root in the soil, and the harmful substances exchanged from the soil had begun to cause body infections.

The remaining 1 people, 6 male and 7 female, had the most severe symptoms.The important parts of their bodies were eroded and entwined by Medusa vines to varying degrees, showing signs of infection and even corruption.

On their bodies, the thick vines absorbed the nutrients from the soil and grew again. They opened branches and leaves in the warehouse, and even bloomed a few flowers.

In the face of such a tragic scene, there was a burst of whispering in the conference room.The vast majority of people are just discussing: Is it worthwhile to continue to save if they have parasitized this kind of virtue.

"These 37 people should all be saved."

This is Qi Zhengnan's judgment, he raised his voice slightly, without any hesitation: "Don't underestimate the human will and desire to survive, as long as we remove the stowaways from their consciousness in time, and cooperate with surgery and treatment, at least we can keep them alive." lives. If doctors don't give up on patients who are sent to the emergency room, then we shouldn't give up on these people trapped in nightmares."

"But we are different from doctors."

One of the vice-captains who participated in the meeting was usually dissatisfied with the Yugutai team, which has "few members, good looks, and good reputation". Entering the dungeon means pinning your head to the waistband of your trousers. Do you have to think about this metaphor from Team Qi?"

As soon as these words came out, there was a slight laughter from the downstream of the oval table.

However, the upstream of the oval table was quiet.Qi Zhengnan didn't smile, neither did Mithril, and the captains and deputy captains of Longxiang's first and second teams sitting beside them were also expressionless.The serious atmosphere quickly overshadowed the banter, and even became more quiet and chilling.

"You better be joking."

After everyone spontaneously fell silent, Qi Zhengnan responded word by word: "But if you enter the instance with the idea of ​​maximizing your personal interests, regardless of other things, I will feel sorry for your teammates first. "

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After the initial little apprehension, Song Yin is now in a good mood.

In the past two hours, he tried out the various luxury equipment he received one by one, and with Ergou's suggestion, he selected a complete set that was most suitable for this dungeon, and set it as quick equipment.

Two hours later, he hummed a ditty contentedly and returned to the battle preparation room of the "Mad Flower, Wave Butterfly" team, but what he got was a piece of news that made him a little excited and a little nervous.

"We have to act early."

Captain Wisteria said straight to the point: "Just now I was notified that the surprise operation in the world went better than expected. But the situation of the infected people is not optimistic. In order to save as many lives as possible, the Chief Coordinator Foehn decided that all that has been done Prepared executives, intervene in the copy in advance."

"Yes!", "Understood.", "No problem!"

Regardless of Lily of the Valley, Juemei or Dahlia, the girls who were chatting and laughing just now, admiring each other's nails and makeup, immediately responded to the captain's arrangement without hesitation.

For a moment, Song Yin felt that they were the coolest girls in the world.

"Morphobia," Wisteria turned her gaze to the only treasure boy in the team, "Son of Lianxuan, do you have any questions?"

"No! I'm looking forward to it."

Song Yin also expressed his position simply and neatly: "I will do my best to become the most perfect teammate for you all."

The author has something to say: The women's team with Song Yin—Chong Duck! ! ! !

Qi Zhengnan: I know Xiaoyin loves me, it’s okay

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