May you be happy and prosperous

"what?"

"What do you mean? Guard? What does this mean—what are these gamma nematodes guarding?"

"how is this possible!"

The people around talked about it, everyone was confused and seemed to be unbelievable to Lu Twelve's words, but the black-haired young man ignored them and just took care of the gamma nematode. The dead body was pulled out from Sabona's arms, and he held it in his hand and looked at it - as expected, just as Byron had speculated, the gamma nematode that he was holding in his hand at the moment was light, and then looked inside the body , it was empty inside, as if it had been completely hollowed out.

Byron's previous guesses were basically confirmed: these gamma nematodes are like bees in nature - when they sting their enemies with their tail needles, they also hollow out themselves and die because of it.

Before, Lu Twelve's train of thought stopped here, because he thought that with this alone, they had already obtained and solved the answer they had been looking for, but at this moment, he found that he was wrong, and he was wrong. Outrageous - in this whole "bee" simulation problem, there is another important question hidden behind it, such as: Why do they sting?

If it is a bee, it will make them sting people at the cost of their lives. There are no more than two reasons: one, they feel the threat of the outside world to themselves; The "Queen Bee".

Only when they sense that someone is approaching their nest and may threaten the "queen" will they engage in an all-out frenzy of aggressive behavior-and when the threat has withdrawn from a certain "danger" they consider When they are out of range", they will immediately stop attacking and return to their nests, where they were originally on standby.

If gamma worms worked exactly like bees...

Then it can also be speculated that there is a "queen bee" lurking in the depths of the mine veins, or even in the center. It is it, in order to protect itself from being exposed, and direct these gamma nematodes to attack humans, preventing anyone from being exposed. Even if it is one step closer to the depths of the mine - if the mysterious disappearance of those Phantom Beast workers during the mining process has something to do with this "Queen Bee", the death of the Phantom Beast workers in the team yesterday was caused by "Bee Bee". After" another warning to humanity.

It is neither rush nor slow.

It's like a king crouching in the dark, declaring his sovereignty to the invaders step by step.

That thing has intelligence.

And it is likely to be a high IQ that is completely comparable to humans.

At this moment, Lu Twelve stared blankly at the corpse of the gamma nematode that he had dissected in front of him, his head was buzzing, his heart was beating wildly, he raised his head and glanced at the surroundings in a daze. Eyes around him, teammates who seemed to be waiting for him to explain what the so-called "guardian" meant, he moved his lips, but found that he didn't know where to start.

On a completely unknown new planet, a completely unknown high-intelligence advanced creature appeared-if this conjecture is correct, Lu Twelve conjectures that Gamma A star is likely to be ushering in the second huge explosion in nature. Variety.

This……

It gives a creepy sense of foreboding.

After wiping his face, the black-haired young man stood up, and first told the leader of the small team of Phantom Beast workers in front of him what he knew according to the rules of "information exchange", but the exchange of information was in the "gamma The working principle of nematodes is very likely to be the same as that of bees in nature" and then stopped abruptly. Lu Twelve did not express his theory that there is a "queen bee" in the depths of the mine. Questioned by the speech, he just said: "It is probably the protection of the instinct of the creature to the nest."

When the other party was in the shock of the "Bee Theory" and couldn't extricate himself, the black-haired young man patted the sand on his body, and beckoned his teammates to go home first and then make a long-term plan.

Shabak and the others exchanged glances, as if they realized that Lu Twelve still had something to say to these strange Phantom Beast workers, thinking that anyway, their purpose today was just to find the corpse of a gamma nematode Just doing research, now that the goal has been achieved, you can go home.

The group returned to the alkaline solution car. Lu Twelve first mixed some solution with water to clean Sabak's wounds—in fact, those wounds didn't look serious, but slightly black. The solution was directly corroded into coke... Fortunately, in the chaos just now, none of the Phantom Beast workers noticed the difference between Sabak's wounds and ordinary humans. Lu Twelve held Sabak's arm I looked around and saw that there was nothing serious, so I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Does it hurt?" JAY squatted aside, watching Lu Twelve wash Sabac's wound with alkaline water - the solution was poured on the wound, and when the acid and alkali met, there would be a "zzz" sound, and a large white bubble would appear , so densely packed that it makes one's scalp tingle.

Sabak stared blankly at his wound for a while, as if he felt it was quite fresh. After a long while, he raised his head and glanced at JAY: "Whether it hurts or not, you can try it yourself."

JAY: "People care about you, why are you so unlovable!"

"Why should I be 'cute' to you," Sabak wrinkled his nose and said in a rough voice, "Stay out of the way, bitch."

"Your uncle," JAY pointed directly at Byron who was leaning on the wheel and "has nothing to do with him", "I have his mother?"

Byron was taken aback, then turned his head and frowned: "It's none of my business."

"Primary school students, please shut up when they are arguing," Lu Twelfth changed into a more relaxed tone, looking down at the moment when he was wagging his tail and twitching his little nose, staring at the big piece in Shabak's hand with interest. The white bubble on the wound watched the young Eudemons non-stop, raised the corners of his lips and mocked, "Brother Cai, you ran so fast just now."

Fa Cai heard the words, turned his head and lazily yawned at Lu Twelve, showing two small canine teeth: Didn't you let me run away?

"You are always the most obedient at this time."

Lu Twelve rolled his eyes, took out his ID card from his pocket, and looked at the task display, only to find that the number for cleaning gamma nematodes had changed from "0/150" to "8/150 ", he was stunned, and it took him a long time to realize that Uncle Shabak had already wiped out 8 gamma nematodes in just a short while-this is too awesome.

"Why don't you go to the material center to borrow animals?" Lu Twelve stared blankly at the ID card, and said in a somewhat overwhelmed manner, "Let's transfer back and finish the task directly? Master Shabak——"

"No." Sabak refused without hesitation, "Those gamma nematodes are completely metallized, and they are small in size. What about me, but it will hurt if you touch it, not to mention the 'protection' you just said, what does that mean—huh?"

As soon as Sabak stopped talking, he frowned suddenly.

"what happened?"

Lu Twelve asked inexplicably, and lowered his head inadvertently, only to find that Fa Cai seemed to have pricked up his ears suddenly, revealing that he seemed to be listening attentively... Just when the former wanted to ask them what they were doing Fa Cai, who was originally squatting on the ground, suddenly jumped up, jumped onto Lu Twelve's shoulders, and then lay on his head, stretching out his furry claws on both sides to cover Lu Twelve's ears on both sides.

"What are you doing?" Lu Twelve became more and more surprised, "What do you mean?"

"Hush," Fa Cai's furry paws are not very effective in sound insulation. Lu Twelve saw Sabak frowned, and then heard him say in a very depressed voice, "Why are there singing from the aquarium around here?"

Lu Twelve, who was tricked by "Singing of the Aqua Eudemons", said: "..."

Unaware JAY: "The singing of the aquarium? What is that? There is no water source on Gamma A, so how could there be an aquarium monster?"

Byron also swept away the relaxed look on his face before, stood up a little bit, showed a dignified expression comparable to Shabak, frowned and listened for a while, and after a while, he said in a confused and depressed voice : "It is indeed the chanting of the Aquarium, but there are no lyrics, just the melody - it is also possible that someone is using the weapon snatched from the Aquarium Eudemons?"

After Byron finished speaking, Lu Twelve clearly saw that Uncle Shabak's face became ugly.

A few seconds later, Lu Twelve finally heard a faint sound of melodious music, which seemed to come from a certain direction from far to near, and the tune of the whole music sounded like a familiar lullaby— ——Obviously it’s the first time I listen to it, but it always gives people the illusion that after listening to the first half of the sentence, they can hum the second half of the sentence... However, when they really want to do this, people will be surprised Suddenly, I found that I couldn't remember at all what the tune of the last piece of music that just drifted away from my ears was.

It's a nice song, but it makes people feel uncomfortable all over.

In the song, there is always an urge to stop the brain from working immediately, and just be silent in the singing.

Lu Twelve looked around, Sabak had calmly taken out two earplugs from the toolbox and put them on, JAY's eyes were completely distracted, and Byron seemed to be in a trance, and only Fa Cai and He remained awake - Lu Twelve only felt that his head was buzzing, but unexpectedly, his whole mind was clear.

He tentatively attributed this to Fa Cai's furry paws persistently covering his ears—although—as I said before, the sound insulation effect is not very good.

It seems that Brother Cai is not fat enough, and the fat cat's paws are seamless... Lu Twelve thought with embarrassment.

At this moment, he suddenly saw Sabak make an unexpected decision—the burly man with two big knives on his back waved to his teammates present, then turned his head, seemingly Ready to return to the previous mission location, it seems that he has made up his mind to see who is using the weapon of the aquarium Eudemons.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Lu Twelve raised his head and glanced at Fa Cai who was lying on top of him at the moment. The latter also stared at the direction Shabak left with a pair of golden pupils. At the same time, his tail wrapped around Lu Twelve's neck. He moved, as if he was silently urging him to quickly catch up with Uncle Shabak, who had already walked a few meters ahead. At that time, Sabak walked firmly, and Fa Cai's tail was harassing his neck non-stop. The black-haired young man sighed, and had no choice but to follow the man's buttocks and walk back to the mission location.

After Lu Twelfth followed, Byron seemed to have finally come to his senses, frowned, stretched out his hand and slapped JAY on the back hard, the latter suddenly came back to his senses, and looked down. He looked at his own Eudemons A-boy at his feet, who was staring at him silently.

"..." JAY scratched his head, and was about to say something, when he raised his head, he found that Lu Shier and his party had already walked more than ten meters away. , quickly trot all the way to keep up.

Lu Twelve followed Sabak's butt for a short distance. At this moment, he suddenly felt the ID card in his pocket start to vibrate. He took out the ID card inexplicably and glanced at it in a hurry. On the screen, Lu Twelve saw a scene that shocked him so much that he couldn't move his eyes——

On the ID card, the number for clearing gamma nematodes actually started to jump again.

而且跳动的速度很快，从“8”跳到“10”，再是12、15、20……

How could this be?

Lu Twelve was confused, and at the same time he heard JAY exclaim behind him: "Master Sabak, how many gamma nematodes have you been bitten just now? Why is the number of our missions constantly changing? !"

Sabak, who was walking in the front, stopped when he heard the words, and took out his ID card to look at it, then shook his head and said: "I killed all the gamma nematodes that came across me just now, and the remaining group They didn't inject the venom into me... Those bugs probably died after being marked by my chip and then because of some accident."

"..."

Because of what accident happened, and then died?

Lu Twelve froze in place. After a while, he suddenly thought of those phantom beast workers who were still staying at the entrance of the mine vein after they left. At the same time, Fa Cai jumped off him with a "meow", took the lead and ran at the head of the whole team.

About 5 minutes later, when Lu Twelve was panting and hurried back to the hill where he was separated from the team of Phantom Beast workers, he was surprised to see that the entire team, including Saibona, had nine people. They were lying on the ground leaning against the rocks—it's just that their skin was intact, and they didn't look like they had been attacked by gamma nematodes.

Lu Twelve's heart, which had been beating wildly before, calmed down a little.

He stepped forward and looked at Saibona who was closest to him at this time. At this moment, the kid was breathing evenly, and when Lu Twelve turned his head to check, he made a loud whimpering sound.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Actually just fell asleep.

Dan pained to let go of the little devil in his hand, and let him lie back on the ground to continue sleeping. At this time, Lu Twelve vaguely heard the melodious music sounding in his ears again. In the music, there seemed to be a large number of gamma The sound made by the thread from the humming and vibrating wings, and this time, the sound seemed to be right next to his ears...——

The black-haired young man raised his head and subconsciously looked at the entrance of the mine vein. As expected, he saw another group of people appearing at the entrance of the mine vein where the gamma nematode appeared before——Lu Twelve saw it at a glance The man named Asura, at this moment, stood quietly not far away, watching the hundreds of gamma nematodes rushing towards them, but he remained motionless and extremely calm.

Beside him, the beautiful woman named Linghua still had an indifferent face, and at this moment she was holding a delicate, white flute in her hand. The distance was too far and Lu Twelve couldn't see clearly. Reluctantly seeing that it was Linghua playing the flute, an even more astonishing scene happened amidst the melodious music playing——

I saw those gamma nematodes buzzing out of the entrance before reaching the enemy to attack, the flying speed became slower and slower, the buzzing sound became smaller and smaller, when the music Suddenly there was a harsh high-pitched voice, and Lu Twelve subconsciously frowned and covered his ears. At the same time, not far from him, those gamma nematodes flying in the air were falling like raindrops. It fell to the ground!

As if it was hard to believe the scene in front of him, the black-haired young man slightly widened his eyes——

At this time, the little girl standing next to Linghua, Yinhua, let go of the wheelchair she was pushing, came to the pile of gamma nematodes that had fallen on the ground, and suddenly let out a cheerful laugh, raised her foot hard Stepping on a gamma nematode ruthlessly—from a distance, Lu Twelve could hear a creepy popping sound when the gamma wire exploded from the stepped on, and the green corrosion The irritating solution splashed out and fell on the ground with a "sizzling" sound. Soon, only a scorched deep pit was left on the surrounding ground.

At the same time, in Lu Twelve's hand, on the task display on the ID card, the number that had cleared the gamma nematode changed from "51/150" to "52/150".

The sound of the gamma nematode being trampled on visceral liquid seemed to please Toneka.

The little girl let out a cheerful cheer, and stomped frantically on the gamma nematodes that fell on the ground—she seemed to be completely unafraid of those strong corrosive solutions splashing on herself, and stomped unscrupulously, far away. Looking at it, Lu Twelve could only see a little girl with long hair bouncing back and forth in the arms of a group of bugs like she was dancing on a flower rope, dancing...

I don't know when it started, Linghua had put down the flute in her hand, stopped playing, just stood aside with her hands tied, quietly watching her sister crush those gamma nematodes one by one.

Lu Twelve and his party were also silent, standing on a tall boulder, silently watching their task numbers soar from over 50, and finally, when the last gamma nematode was trampled by Yinhua Turning into meatloaf, Lu Twelve and his team's ID cards showed the task count of cleaning up gamma nematodes, which also changed from "149/150" to "150/150".

It was this group of people who received the S-level mission in Area F. They did not need to destroy them—even the other three people in the team directly cleaned up the gamma nematodes at the entrance without even taking out their weapons. .

It was eerily quiet all around.

No one spoke at all.

After a long time, Lu Twelve heard JAY behind him, muttering in a voice almost frightened: "... What kind of monsters are these people!"

Lu Twelve moved his lips, but did not speak. At this moment, he vaguely felt that there was a sharp beam of light staying on their side from the entrance. He suddenly paused and looked up. He started to look, and at a distance of tens of meters, he unexpectedly met a pair of dark blue gloomy pupils.

"..."

The last time I felt such a strong sense of oppression was at the Phantom Beast Recycling Station. When I first saw Uncle Shabak, the uncomfortable feeling of being stared at like a prey and rooted under my feet returned again. Behind him... the black-haired young man was stiff all over. Fortunately, at this moment, he felt something fluffy slowly wrapping around his ankles—looking down, Fa Cai was staring at a pair of round The golden cat pupil raised his head and looked at him quietly.

It was just such a glance, and for some reason, Lu Twelve suddenly felt that the fear shrouded in his heart disappeared.

Suddenly relaxed, he bent down, hugged the furry phantom beast at his feet, and said after a while: "It's good that these people are fine, let's go back first."

JAY seemed to quite agree with Lu Twelve's proposal. He was relieved to turn his head and walk back. After taking two steps, he found that Sabak was staring at the group of people not far away. There was a strong fighting spirit, but at this time, only a soft "swipe" sound was heard, and Byron who was beside Shabak also silently drew out the long saber hanging around his waist. The layer is not the snow-colored light of pure knife light.

JAY was stunned for a moment, this was the first time he saw Byron draw out his weapon—seeing Byron and Sabak looking ready to move, JAY secretly thought something was wrong, turned his head quietly and called Lu Twelve, So when Lu Twelve turned his head, he saw——his teammates seemed to be ready to fight with those crazy strong military personnel.

"What is this for? Byron? Master Shabak?"

The whole scalp exploded, but before Lu Twelve had time to speak, Fa Cai jumped out of his arms, ran to Sabak's feet, opened his mouth, and grabbed him in one bite. He tugged on his trousers.

Shabak was taken aback for a moment, then looked back and lowered his head to look at the young Eudemons beside him with his trouser legs dangling in his mouth: "My lord?"

Fa Cai loosened his trousers, let out a "meow", raised his back paw and scratched his ears.

At the same time, Byron turned his head and stared at Fa Cai for a while, and finally let out an impatient "tsk" click, and "swipe" the drawn saber back into the sheath at his waist.

"Forget it." The silver-haired young man raised his hand and rubbed his chin heavily with the back of his hand. There was an unpleasant light in his silver-gray pupils, but he turned around, patted his hand and stood still. Sabak said, "Let's go back and talk about it, it's pretty ugly to fight here."

When JAY heard that he was in a bad mood: "You guys are really planning to have a conflict with them, please change the occasion next time when I'm not there, otherwise I should call the police, or call for help, or look at my teammates How about going to die and running away?"

"You don't have to do anything." At this moment, Sabak, who had been silent for a long time, glanced at him out of the corner of his eye and said contemptuously, "Before you have time to do anything, you are already dead."

JAY: "..."

With a grimace, Lu Twelve opened his arms, firmly caught Fa Cai who had jumped back into his arms, and turned around to go back home—but he didn't even have time to see what the living gamma nematode looked like. The most difficult part of the task they took on had been completed ahead of schedule due to some kind of accidental relationship.

The second branch of the whole mission, "Mine Cleaning Mission", is much simpler. Although I really want to go back home now, but considering the previous "Queen Bee" statement, Lu Twelve is a little worried that I will come back tomorrow, and I am afraid that there will be another one at the entrance of the mine. It was a large number of brand new gamma nematodes waiting for them, so it was decided to complete the entire task today in order to avoid long nights and dreams.

Fortunately, when Lu Twelve and the others drove the alkaline solution car back to the entrance of the mine, as expected, no one from the WL team had been seen. Lu Twelve looked around and thought that those people might also I went to finish my task, so I pulled the alkaline solution injector, and quickly cleaned up the acidic corrosion solution within 150 meters from the entrance of the cave——During the cleaning process, occasionally there would be one or two dead gamma nematodes It was a shock to fall from the top of the head, but fortunately, Lu Twelve and the others did not encounter any other accidents.

When Lu Twelve and the others settled the hole and finished their work, the members of the Eudemons team also woke up one after another.

Seeing that Lu Twelfth and the others were packing up the alkaline solution spraying truck in a very comfortable manner, and there were crushed gamma nematode corpses all around, the nine Phantom Beast staff were dumbfounded and ran to Lu Shi in a daze. Two of them approached and asked what happened just now.

Lu Twelve said succinctly: "The WL team came just now."

Then he saw with satisfaction that the faces of a group of people who came to inquire immediately showed a clear expression.

Among them, the captain seemed a little excited, and he took the initiative to help Lu Twelve and the others clean up the catheter of the alkaline solution truck, and asked while doing it, "Did you see how they did it?"

Lu Twelve thought for a while: "That woman named Linghua has a flute, which seems to be able to hypnotize—"

"That's the 'Sea Soul Flute'." Sabak came to them and took up the topic. When the trumpet he was talking about died, his voice was flat and without ups and downs, and there was no other emotion in it, "not so much Instruments, rather weapons—”

"What?" The captain of the phantom beast staff was a little surprised, "Did that group of people kill other awakened phantom beasts?"

The words blurted out by the Phantom Beast staff made Sabak's eyes flicker, and when Lu Twelve stopped what he was doing and turned his head, for fear that he would lose his temper on the spot, but at this moment, Sabak just shook his head calmly: "The 'Sea Soul Flute' is not a weapon that comes with Eudemons. It is a special existence. It is not tailor-made for anyone... In short, there are not many weapons similar to it. There used to be many, but later it was I ordered the centralized destruction, but I didn't expect the 'Sea Soul Flute' to be preserved."

"Phantom beasts still have tailor-made weapons? Who is the one who tailor-made weapons for them? Are they also phantom beasts? Wait, how is this possible? I have never heard of such a statement..." The phantom beast worker Hearing Sabak's words, he fell into a daze for a moment, raised his finger and pointed to himself, "We fell asleep because of the sound made by this instrument?"

Lu Twelve sighed helplessly: "Yes, that's it."

Sabak also nodded expressionlessly, turned around, grabbed a large roll of catheter, and threw it roughly on the car behind him—at the same time, he heard the Phantom Beast worker ask another very constructive question --

"Then why are you all right?"

Lu Twelve: "..."

Sabak: "..."

Subconsciously stopped the movements in his hands. At this moment, the team members who were busy around the alkaline solution vehicle fell into a momentary silence. Lu Twelve and Sabak exchanged a strange look, as if awakened by a word: That's right, obviously other Phantom Beast workers have been knocked down a lot, and even Gamma Nematode can't escape the hypnosis of the music of the sea soul flute, so... why are they all right?