Brilliant Time [Interstellar]

When Gary was distressed by the tragedy he might encounter when he returned to the capital of the empire, on a planet belonging to the Freedom Alliance hundreds of light years away from the space station, a certain laboratory located tens of kilometers underground in the dense forest base Here, a truly bloody tragedy has just occurred.

Scarlet blood and a liquid of suspicious color dragged glaring traces on the ground and walls, as well as the scorching caused by laser weapons and the nicks made by the sharp blade of a certain creature, like an abstract postmodernist painting. In the painting, intelligent medical robots are busy at work, while the gunfire of the wounded and the shrill sirens further deepen the oppressive atmosphere.

An important sample is placed in this laboratory, and the safety equipment and monitoring measures are first-class.But God knows when the dangerous creature woke up and destroyed the confinement device without being detected by the electronic monitoring equipment, and took advantage of the researcher to sample it.

After dispatching the armed mechs, the human side finally gained the upper hand and successfully drove the instigator of this scene into a corner of the experiment. The thick alloy material barrier separated the whole laboratory into two parts. Half.The transparent container that was originally used to imprison it has become tattered after being damaged by some kind of violence and weapons. ——But fortunately, there are other emergency containment measures in the laboratory, which are stronger and safer than the original container.

God knows when this important experimental sample woke up and destroyed the confinement device without being detected by the electronic monitoring equipment, and went into trouble while the researchers were sampling it.

The existence of mermaids is also an undisclosed secret inside the base, and the researchers who have access to this laboratory are all elites of the base, with excellent qualities—whether in terms of professional skills or psychology.

But as the only survivor who was not directly attacked by the mermaid, the leader of a certain research team didn't look much better than those who were injured.His body was trembling uncontrollably all the time, cold sweat was dripping down the tips of his hair, and his face was pale, as if he could faint in the next second.

Coupled with his seemingly thin body, even the members of the Sirius Legion next to him were a little worried.Just now the team leader witnessed with his own eyes how the mermaid on the opposite side of the metal isolation layer treated his two colleagues—the other party had astonishing strength and exceptionally sharp minions, and the human body was like a flimsy and fluffy creature in its hands. The slice of bread was easily torn apart, and it even ate a part of the two's body tissues on the spot.

However, the team leader's performance was far more rational than his appearance, and he was the one who put down the emergency wall.But now, even though he was still in shock, he rejected the soldiers' proposal to let him have a medical examination with the injured, rushed down to the console on the side, entered the main control brain of this laboratory with the authority of the team leader, and turned off the Hearing the constant blaring of the alarm, he scanned the lab for damage.

After a few seconds of self-test, amidst a series of error prompts, the still intact equipment began to resume normal operation.

A certain electronic screen began to display the situation on the other side of the metal wall. This laboratory is equipped with a rigorous camera system. Fortunately, they were not completely destroyed.

When the image of the mermaid appeared on the screen, even though they knew it was just an image, the fighters who had fought it just now had the urge to pick up weapons and point it at it.

Having just witnessed its amazing combat power, no one can feel as relaxed as when he came here.

Except for the slight sound of equipment operating, the scene fell into an eerie silence—including the creature opposite.

The team leader repeatedly confirmed that the recording equipment was intact through the brain, and his expression became more and more complicated.

You don't actually need to do this to tell that it really isn't making any sound.

Yes, it does not show the behavior characteristics of animals after being irritated, irritable, roaring, destroying everything around them, etc., none of these.

It stayed there silently, its snake-like slender fish tail entwined, and its gorgeous tail fins swaying slightly.The upper body stands upright, those long hair-like tentacles are slightly opened, and they are vigilantly on guard.

The scales on its skin have been so thin that it is almost unrecognizable to the naked eye, except that the color is still strangely gorgeous, it looks no different from human skin, and its appearance seems to have gathered all the aesthetic advantages of aalpha, it looks like It is so handsome and compelling, if it is not for the pair of vertical pupils that show its inhuman identity, this face is enough to impress all the omgeas who see it, and let them be amazed by it.

The fierce battle just now left it with only some insignificant small wounds, but at this moment these wounds are being covered by some kind of strange transparent secretion, and are healing at an astonishing speed.

The high-magnification camera faithfully shows all this, and you can even clearly see its muscles wriggling under the accelerated metabolism.

The combat personnel's eyes widened slightly. Even in today's highly developed biotechnology, no biotechnology can achieve such a level, and they are the most vulnerable group, so they are undoubtedly more concerned about this. .

The focus of the research team leader's observations was not this.He looked extraordinarily dignified and nervous, carefully scrutinizing its every move, every subtle expression change, and making judgments on it, to verify a certain terrible idea in his heart.

In the first picture, it is carefully looking at the surrounding environment.The muscles under its skin were tense, ready to deal with any attack coming from an unknown direction.

It is entrenched in the center of the small half of the laboratory. Logically speaking, this is the most dangerous area to become the target of attack, but it is also a more convenient location to observe the surrounding environment.And with its keenness and quick action, dodging is not difficult. Even if it cannot be avoided, it is difficult for conventional weapons to cause fatal damage to it.

But soon its eyes turned around, and it was right on the location of the hidden camera—even though that place looked like a whole metal wall with no flaws.

It didn't act to destroy things immediately in anger, but just cautiously stared at the empty wall. During the process, it actually showed a thoughtful expression.

Yes thoughtfully!Don't ask him how he can see such emotions from those reptile-like vertical pupils, anyway, he has such feelings.

And it seems to have confirmed his idea

, the opponent slowly raised his forelegs and shook them slowly at a speed that would not cause hostility, as if he wanted to attract some kind of attention.

And inside its body, which the camera cannot capture, some vocal organs are rapidly changing and reorganizing.

Soon some animal-like sound waves in its throat, which had been indistinct, gradually took on meaning.

It seemed pointless at first, but the speed at which it got used to this new way of speaking was amazing.After it slowed down and repeated many times and kept adjusting certain subtle syllable pronunciations.

The team leader finally understood what it conveyed.

It was actually repeating word by word in the interstellar lingua franca: "Let's... talk about... deals..."

The team leader even picked up a little bit of Orion's accent from the way it pronounced it - Orion is the hometown of one of his subordinates - who was unfortunately killed and eaten by it in the previous conflict Some unlucky guy who bought a movie.

This mermaid didn't try to kill the two researchers at the beginning. Compared with the killing ability it displayed later, some of its behaviors at the beginning were really gentle and restrained.It looks more like trying to keep them in reserve - or something else.

It was only after being enraged by the attack of the soldiers who came with it that it was extremely brutal.

All kinds of behaviors all show that it has a high IQ.The team leader has a vague guess that its species already belongs to intelligent creatures.

But the scene that happened in front of us still subverted the cognition of human beings.

Humanity entered the great interstellar era hundreds of years ago, and tens of thousands of new species have been discovered in the universe.But so far, there is still no biological population with a level of intelligence comparable to that of humans.

A certain authoritative professor of biology even pessimistically believes that in the entire Milky Way, there are no species that have developed to the level that can communicate with humans on an equal footing.

If the simulated pronunciation of this mermaid is a conscious behavior right now.The significance it represents even exceeds the great benefits it can bring to human beings in terms of genetic modification.

And all that happened in the laboratory, as early as when the alarm sounded, the holographic projection had been synchronously transmitted back to an office in the base.

Dennis understood the pronunciation of the mermaid even one step faster than the group leader.

Although for some reason he has formed cooperation with some illegal organizations and received great support from them, but in essence, Dennis is still a senior biologist with extremely high professional knowledge, and deeply loves his professional field Work and be proud of it.

When he witnessed this scene with his own eyes, he also felt so excited in his heart that he almost forgot his original purpose and current situation, and wanted to rush over immediately.

But Sith's lieutenant stopped him.

The bandit didn't understand at all where the excitement of these researchers came from, and he didn't find any significance in the few near-language sounds repeated by the handsome monster.

A fish that looks like a man can suddenly talk like a man, which seems to him like a parrot that can learn to talk, nothing more than strange.

All he paid attention to was the amazing recovery ability of the mermaid in the projection - those wounds healed quickly in a very short period of time, and the skin grew at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it was almost impossible to see the reversal.

And its amazing ability to adapt and evolve.

God knows that it was clearly a marine creature before this.But now it seems all is well, out of the sea environment does not seem to cause any discomfort to it.

The ability to quickly act on the genetic modification of organisms to produce biological weapons with amazing combat effectiveness, adaptability and recovery capabilities was originally the reason why the two parties could reach a cooperation intention, and the Sirius Legion secretly provided the scientific research team with the transition coordinates to the ancient earth an important condition.

And right now, it seems that this is exactly what Sith needs most.

The situation in front of him seemed to be completely within the controllable range of his own side, and the adjutant did not want some unsatisfactory accidents to happen just because the fish learned to speak a few words.

"As you said, it is very dangerous. So please stay in this room. My subordinates can deal with it." He blocked Dennis's way bluntly and coldly, seeing the displeasure on Dennis's expression.He added: "And your subordinate, it seems that he has done a good job, and you don't need the doctor to deal with it personally."

His last point is not flattery. Someone who can lead a scientific research team at the base does have a certain ability to be on his own.

After a short period of surprise and excitement, the team leader immediately responded as he thought appropriate.While quickly submitting a brief report to Dennis through the base brain, he turned on the communication device on the other side of the room and projected his holographic image on the wall opposite the mermaid.

He wanted to make the atmosphere of the conversation less tense during the first contact, so he tentatively greeted him.But the previous terrifying experience exerted a huge influence at this moment, even if his mood is particularly excited because the other party is an intelligent creature, this shadow cannot be eliminated.It made the friendly smile he was trying to maintain look distorted and weird, and the 'hello' sounded dry as if it had been squeezed between his teeth.

But the mermaid obviously didn't care about this, its pair of golden vertical pupils turned around in a strange way, and that handsome face was expressionless and very cold.After staring at the projection in front of it for a while, it nodded slightly, and before the team leader could say anything, it quickly spit out another word: "Deal."

Both the pronunciation and the enunciation of the words are much clearer than before.

Its tail fin began to swing slowly again, and it slapped the ground with a slight slap.

With an indescribable intuition, the team leader felt some inexplicable excitement from it.