May you be happy and prosperous

After clearing the gamma nematodes, being on the news broadcast, and having a fight with the clown in the Wonderland team, and it seems to be a complete victory, Lu Twelve and his group ushered in the first battle on Gamma A star. On the weekend, they unexpectedly discovered that they had become a well-known Phantom Beast staff group.

The most famous person in the team is probably Fa Cai. In fact, before that, he already had a sense of presence among some female Phantom Beast staff, but at that time everyone called him "Blonde Cool Guy". Now, he has changed from " Blonde cool guy" became "the blond hunk who defeated the clown" - because this title is so shiny that when someone came to ask about Fa Cai's real name, Lu Twelve didn't have the nerve to say it out, Fa Cai His name is "Fat Cai" - if he had known that there would be such a day, he might give Fa Cai a slightly foreign name, such as "Megatron" or "Optimus Prime", which would be a good choice.

Although Lu Twelfth explained to others countless times that Fa Cai is not a member of his team, it seems that no one wants to listen to his long-winded appearance—even some people who know that Fa Cai currently has no team are willing to hire him with a high salary to become their team. The permanent members of the team—the most sincere Phantom Beast staff team leader even proposed [-] gold coins per month, every weekend, three times the salary on holidays, and two ten-day paid Lu Twelve was very tempted by the attractive conditions of the short vacation, and then he gritted his teeth and rejected him.

After all, Fa Cai is still a juvenile Eudemons in essence, and would often make such embarrassing behaviors as "getting angry if you don't give sweets". Lu Twelve was afraid that the staff captains who came full of hope would not be able to bear such an embarrassment. pain.

In addition to those people who are trying to hook up and make a fortune, other teammates continue to invite them to carry out difficult tasks together - if it was placed before, Lu Twelve and the others may have happily agreed, but until now , They have already made up their minds to find the "Queen Bee" Ye Luosha of the entire Gamma A star before Asura's team, so they evaded all the invitations they came to the door, and received Come down and concentrate on waiting for the in-depth task of F area - because according to Lu Twelve's unreliable speculation, since gamma nematodes generally appear in F area, this means that F area is the place where the "Queen Bee" focuses on guarding. The "Queen Bee" body is closest to this area, so it will make such a move.

It's a pity that Lu Twelve and the others waited in shifts for a few days under the task release column, but they didn't find a suitable task. After two days in a row, Lu Twelve almost gave up doubting whether there would be any tasks to be issued in Area F—but in At this time, things finally turned around.

This is the seventh day since they arrived at Gamma A star. On this day, JAY suddenly received a notice, saying that they were asked to go to the material center to collect the [-] gold coins for the follow-up reward for cleaning up Gamma nematodes. JAY was delighted He went to the ground, and brought back not only five hundred jingling gold coins, but also a brand new mission.

It was only then that Lu Twelve realized that not all tasks would be posted on the task posting column—in this kind of place where task entrusters and task locations are concentrated in one area, for the sake of efficiency, many task entrustors will Detain the task privately, and then directly find the team he thinks is suitable for contact and negotiation.

Star Gamma A, No.12 Area Rescue Station, in the rest area.

"I took a look. This mission is an object-finding mission, and the mission location is in Area F, so I temporarily took down the mission. I will come back to discuss with you and see if you want to take it." JAY clicked on the electronic map, and in A red circle was drawn near a fairly central location, "It's here."

Lu Twelve leaned over and took a look: "It's very close to the center."

Sabak folded his arms and asked, "What kind of mission? What are we looking for?"

JAY put down the electronic map, and after thinking for a while, he looked at his teammates and asked, "Do you still remember the video we saw on the news broadcast when we were still on Earth—it was No. 13 The research and development team entered the mining area, and then was attacked by unknown creatures and the team was completely wiped out? It was recorded by the camera."

that.

Because at that time, even through a TV screen, I still felt like I was there, so I was very impressed.

Lu Twelve nodded.

JAY took a deep breath: "What they want us to find is the camera that recorded the whole process at that time."

"What?" Lu Twelve was taken aback for a moment, "Isn't the camera already retrieved, otherwise where did that video come from?"

JAY shook his head: "When the news was broadcast, the actual situation was concealed. Today, the person in charge of the research institute who commissioned the task told me that the camera was actually left somewhere deep in Area F—the entire team The images under attack were directly transmitted to the workstation through the network covering Star Gamma A, not as we imagined, they successfully took out the information obtained from the memory card in the later stage..."

Lu Twelve was even more at a loss: "But that thing was trampled..."

"The disappearance of the picture is not because the camera was stepped on, but because the model was interrupted. None of us saw who the person who stepped on the camera was—"The camera was stepped on" is just our subconscious guess, In the end, it subconsciously became what we believed to be the truth.” JAY sighed, as if he was lamenting the treachery of the relevant official departments, “The whole picture was blacked out later, it was artificially uploaded later, in fact, the real situation at that time was that they felt The picture signal has been seriously disturbed, but the camera is still working in fact - just can't see the picture - they guessed that a large land combat phantom beast approached at that time, and then sent out an electromagnetic pulse attack..."

While talking, JAY raised his head and glanced at Sabac as if he had lingering fears. As an expert professional user of this skill stamped by the Eudemons Research Institute, the latter smiled grimly at him with his mouth open.

The Phantom Beast staff member who was wearing a peaked cap immediately lowered his head obediently, thought for a while, and honestly finished his words: "Now, the client of the research team hopes that we can retrieve the lost video camera from Area F. Let them try to repair the memory card, read the complete picture, and determine what kind of phantom beast haunts the depths of Area F..."

Lu Twelve raised his head and gave JAY a strange look: "They are willing to tell you so much before we fully plan to take over the mission?"

JAY moved his lips, and was about to answer, but at this moment, he was interrupted by Byron who was sitting aside and checking the news on the tablet——

"Because another group of task force teams were wiped out a little deeper in Area F."

As Byron spoke, he raised the tablet in his hand and pointed to it: "The accident just happened yesterday morning. There were five people in the whole team, four men and one woman. No one survived, and the bodies couldn't be recovered—— Do you want to ask, by the way, if there is a 'finding' task for them to collect the corpse, we will do it together."

After Byron finished speaking, he showed a rather nasty smile.

JAY squinted at him, turned his head and said to the other people present: "If it is confirmed that the task has been received, the person in charge of the research team will extract the disturbed video that was erased and show it to us, although we may not be able to see it. A flower came out, but... it's better than nothing, don't you wonder what happened next? I'm quite curious."

"Let's let my curiosity go, I'll take it, I'll take it!" Lu Twelve said while taking out his ID card, and directly took over the task by sharing it with JAY's ID card—so in Gaia Under the big mission of Ma Axing, a new object-finding mission appeared immediately.

Lu Twelve poked in to read the mission description, but found that the mission description this time was terribly concise——

[Look for the camera recorder lost by the No.13 research and development team in the Eastern European Continent from the F area of ​​the Gamma A star mining area, even if it is only a memory card.

Task reward gold coins: 800 pieces

Task reward social contribution value: 1500

Mission reward Eudemons staff guild contribution value: 800

The recommended type of quest to receive the Eudemons: Not disclosed to the public, only suitable candidates can receive the quest] "Wow," Lu Twelve looked at the quest record on the ID card in surprise, "The rewards for this quest are rich enough—but Why is this quest display orange?"

JAY stretched his head to look, and after three seconds of silence, he said with emotion: "It means that we are also the ones who can take over the S-level mission."

Lu Twelve: "..."

JAY: "I remember when I first came here, even if I just wanted to scan the ID card to scan the task type and gossip, I was told that I was not qualified--but now--Mr. Lu Youqian, why are you so happy?" Meaning, I don’t think this has anything to do with you holding up a stupid face on the news broadcast, thank you—Brother Cai really became famous in one battle.”

Lu Twelve's face slumped, and at this moment, the "Brother Cai" mentioned by JAY was curled up into a furry ball, huddled on his knees and sleeping soundly. When his name was mentioned, the latter's all The reaction was that the ears stood up and trembled quickly, and one eye opened between Lu Twelve's arms to glance at the person who called his name. After seeing that it was JAY, he yawned loudly. He closed his eyes again, and continued to sleep with a face full of disdain.

Lu Twelve stretched out his hand and touched Fa Cai's furry ears thoughtfully.

It is probably because of too much harassment these past few days. Most of the time, this Chinese pastoral cat maintains the appearance of a fluffy phantom beast, so when other strangers approached Lu Twelve, they asked curiously, "What are you doing?" Where is the younger brother?" No one knew that Lu Twelve's "brother" was lying at his feet, walking on short and thick legs, staring at the big pie face full of features, and fell to the ground. Rubbing the trouser legs of "brother".

Apart from being a little embarrassing, Lu Twelve thought it was pretty good.

Because Lu Twelve has been in an embarrassing state of "no face to deal with" Fa Cai in human form recently, every time he sees Fa Cai's face within one meter of himself, his heart beats faster and he has difficulty breathing, his brain loses function— —Unfortunately, he couldn't even reach out and push Fa Cai away, because the juvenile Eudemons, who didn't know what was wrong with their master at all, said it was simply baffled by this, and seemed a little happy.

If Lu Twelve pushed him away, he would become even more annoyed.

Brother Cai has been a little bit fond of hands and feet recently - the specific meaning is that he seems to find that touching or kissing can force Lu Twelve to submit quickly, so he has become a bit addicted to using it.

In the end, the whole thing turned into a vicious cycle where Lu Twelve felt awkward—Lu Twelve refused to get rich to approach—Cai Ge Fa Kai started to touch his hands—so Lu Twelve felt even more embarrassed.

Therefore, Lu Twelve only got close to it when he got rich and turned into a phantom beast, and as if to make up for it, he turned a blind eye and approved this heavy and fat big cat to pretend that he was still The little furry mass curled up on his lap to sleep, as it had been when he was a child.

At this moment, Fa Cai was sleeping soundly on Lu Twelve's body. The whole team discussed that since they had accepted the task, they might as well go to the research center to see what the rest of the video was about. As everyone started to set off, Lu Twelve picked up Fa Cai casually, but slipped his hand and almost threw it on the ground—the phantom beast let out a dissatisfied grunt, and Lu Twelve quickly put it on the ground carefully. Holding on tight, weighed it up and muttered, "Brother Cai, have you gained weight recently?"

Fa Cai snorted, and seemed quite dissatisfied with his baseless accusation.

When Lu Twelve and the others walked out of the gate of the rescue station, a large truck transporting supplies happened to be parked outside the gate. While the staff were busy carrying supplies, Lu Twelve saw a handful of weighing instruments on the side of the road. The big electronic scale, walked to the side of the electronic scale, the black-haired young man thought for a moment, looked up and looked around as if no one noticed him, he quickly threw Fa Cai on it, and then...

Then he saw that the juvenile Huanshou, which was only 1KG when it was born, has now become a gorgeous 22KG.

Lu Twelve: "..."

Lu Twelve couldn't believe that he had been walking around with a weight weighing more than 40 kilograms for so many days.

It still has the face to say that it is not fat.

The most unbearable thing was that when Lu Twelve stared dumbfounded at the "22KG" on the electronic scale, Shabak still said sadly behind him: "My lord, you have lost weight."

This was a fatal blow to Lu Twelve's traumatized and fragile heart.

Lu Twelve's first reaction was to smash the fat cat squatting on the electronic scale at Shabak's face, so that he could truly experience how "skinny" his "lord" was.

Lu Twelve took a deep breath: "Brother Cai, look at the numbers on the electronic scale yourself."

Fa Cai obediently stood up on his hind legs, stretched his front legs above the screen of the electronic scale, and then stretched out his neckless head to look at it. After just a glance, it was slightly taken aback for a moment, and then immediately turned into a full face. The cloud lightly jumped off the electronic scale - in order to express its disdain, it also used its hind legs to dig some soil and sprayed it on the electronic scale.

Lu Twelve bent down, stretched out a hand and poked the face of the big pancake cat: "Do you still have the face to say that you are not fat?"

Fa Cai let out a "meow", raised his paw, and hugged Lu Twelve's leg: I want to hug.

"...You stinky shameless." Lu Twelve scolded with embarrassment, and lifted the phantom beast that was leaning on his lap—yes, carrying, for a huge creature with such a weight , it is no longer qualified to use the cute word "hug".

Lu Twelve carried Fa Cai on his shoulders and followed the rest of the team all the way towards the platform of the rail car. At this time, Fa Cai, who was almost the size of an adult sled dog, was hanging on the former's shoulder, yawning listlessly along the way. When they sat down on the railway shuttle bus, it immediately jumped off Lu Twelve's body with its tail up, stomping here and there, showing off its might.

At this time, some Phantom Beast workers from District [-] in the car had already known Lu Twelve, and everyone expressed their doubts that there was such a Phantom Beast in a team like Lu Twelve that didn't look very good in appearance— ——It seems that in their impression, Lu Twelve's phantom beast is not covered in metal blingbling, at least it is a top-quality phantom beast with a large area of ​​metal...

Apart from its larger size, Fa Cai is no different from a fat tabby cat or white tiger—at least when Fa Cai has not spread its pair of completely metal wings.

Fortunately, out of politeness, they didn't go forward to ask too much, which also allowed them to escape the concern of a certain vengeful Eudemons.

But Lu Twelve did hear someone whispering bad things about getting rich.

——Because what they worship and what they despise are exactly the same thing, so at this moment Lu Twelve didn't stop them from gossiping anymore, just pretending to be deaf and dumb all the way along with the rail car, swaying left and right, waiting for him When the whole person was about to fall asleep, the car finally arrived at the material center.

This time, Fa Cai didn't let Lu Twelve "hug" him again, and jumped off the rail car flexibly along the crowd's figure - of course, there is no shortage of other phantom beasts in crowded places like the material center, but because before Fa Cai I told Lu Twelve that I need to keep a low profile in public, so those phantom beasts didn't seem to be affected——

There were even a few idiots who didn't know why they came up and sniffed and had a look at the rich man.

"They're all female phantoms." Sabak looked at an adult land combat phantom surrounded by Fa Cai at the moment, covered in snow-white fur, with a pair of blue pupils, and twice the size of Fa Cai. The beast said, "Even if the lord is in the form of a phantom beast, he is still charming."

Lu Twelve expressed his disdain for this act of blind worship, and frowned: "Unless the aesthetic standard of Phantom Beasts is a handsome man with short legs and a full body, I agree with you."

As he said that, he lifted the fortune on the ground and put it on his shoulders. At the same time, he said gently to the female phantom beast who looked up at him with a look of disappointment: "Go, this beautiful girl!" Miss, ask your master to take you to the ophthalmology department, poor aesthetic ability is not a terminal illness—”

When the beautiful female Eudemons turned and left, Lu Twelve heaved a sigh of relief, turned around and looked at JAY with a playful expression.

Lu Twelve said blankly, "What are you doing?"

"If you really think Brother Cai is ugly, don't hold him like a treasure," JAY said, "Phantom beasts also need to socialize."

"..." Lu Twelve was stunned, grabbed the phantom beast that was carried on his shoulders, and looked face-to-face with those golden pupils for a while. After a while, he asked, "Brother Cai, what do you want?" Want to get a call from that beautiful chick just now? It hasn't gone far, so it should be in time."

Get rich: "..."

Three seconds later, Fa Cai left three scratches on the bridge of Lu Twelve's nose as an answer.

……

When Lu Twelve and his group came to the research center and entered the office of the relevant person in charge under the recommendation of the staff, the other party seemed impatient. First, he solemnly thanked Lu Twelve and the others for taking over the task, and then Talked a lot of crap wishing them well on their mission.

When Lu Twelve and the others proposed to view the video that was erased by the authorities, the other party called up the video almost without hesitation, and showed it to them in the optical brain projector——

Watching this video again, I can still feel uncontrollable discomfort when I think that the human beings in the video are dead.

Originally, in the video broadcast on the news network, the last picture people saw was that the human beings in the video were panicked. The camera fell to the ground, and then it seemed that some creature approached the camera. After that, the picture went black. Yes... But this time, Lu Twelve and the others saw that after the camera fell to the ground, the plot in the video changed.

There was indeed a creature approaching the camera, but unexpectedly, it didn't seem to be a humanoid creature. Although the light around the mine tunnel in the video was very dark, Lu Twelve still relied on constantly pausing, stepping back, Play it again, and after repeating it several times, it is confirmed that the thing close to the camera is a metalized creature.

When it got close to the camera, the picture on the screen did not go black. In fact, there were only electromagnetic ripples on the screen that would appear after some models were disturbed. "Zi" current sound - mixed with this sound, Lu Twelve seemed to vaguely hear something making a heavy panting sound. The sound made people feel creepy, as if something was making a sound. mad sigh—

The thing was making a "quack" and "quack" sound.

It even sounded like it was talking.

After that, the signal interference became more and more serious, and the entire video image was completely invisible, only the sound of electric current getting stronger and stronger could be heard.

Finally, the video is completely over.

"..." Lu Twelve was silent for a while, raised his head and looked at the person in charge of the research center who was sitting behind his desk, and said frankly, "To be honest, apart from allowing us to confirm the attacks on humans in this video, Creatures are not human beings but Eudemons, so it doesn’t make much sense to complete the video afterwards.”

Unexpectedly, when the person in charge heard the words, he smiled and shook his head: "What we want is not images, but sound—"

While he was talking, his hands were beating quickly on the optical computer keyboard - on the optical computer screen, the audio of this video was extracted separately and then analyzed step by step. When the noise was completely removed according to the post-processing, The chaotic audio became clearer and clearer, and finally, there was only a low, hoarse, and hysterical voice resounding throughout the office——

That seemed to be a few bits and pieces of words.

The speaking creature spoke intermittently, and Lu Twelve couldn't understand what it was saying at all.

"This is... the language of phantom beasts?" Lu Twelve was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously lowered his head to look at Fa Cai who was sitting in his arms—at this moment, the latter really pricked up his ears, with a look of listening. Concentrated and very serious appearance.

"It's nothing surprising," the person in charge of the research center smiled, "As a creature with independent thoughts, phantom beasts have their own unique communication language just like other creatures in nature-humans have relevant scholars to study Through their language, some initial achievements have been made..."

While talking, the person in charge took out a piece of paper from the drawer at hand, handed it to Lu Twelve and said, "Here is part of the content deciphered by relevant scholars invited by our expert team."

Lu Twelve looked down, and there were only three words written in pieces on the note in his hand, namely: Human, Plan, and Awakening.

Just these three words have already made people think about it——

What happened to humans?

What is Eudemons planning?

What wakes up?

Reminiscent of Shabak's description of Ye Luosha and the prediction of the future situation that Gamma A star will face in the future, at this moment, the black-haired young man has to admit that he has become a little nervous—a brain hole accidentally opened It’s getting bigger, now, the question he’s thinking about is—what if it’s not Gamma A star that is about to face a bloodbath, but the entire earth?

After all, no one knows what the hell Ye Raksha is planning.

Lu Twelve pinched the note and stood there in a daze for a while. At this moment, JAY took the note away from behind him, looked at it for himself, and handed it to Byron. Byron just glanced at it carelessly. , and put the note back on the table, the person in charge raised his head and glanced at Sabak who was standing behind Lu Twelve like a door god: "Don't you need to take a look, sir?"

"He doesn't need it." Lu Twelve said in a ghostly tone.

After bidding farewell to the person in charge of the research center, Lu Twelve and his party returned to the empty hall of the research center—Byron had other things to leave first, and the black-haired young man seemed a little silent along the way, until he looked at them He was one step away from returning to the material center square, and he who was walking in the front stopped, turned his head, looked at Sabak and asked expressionlessly: "What is the complete sentence that the Eudemons said in the video just now?" What is it?"

Sabak was silent.

Look down and make a fortune.

Fa Cai looked up at him, moved his ears, then raised his hind paws and scratched his face.

Sabak sighed: "'Destroy Humanity', 'Plan to Continue'...and..."

Lu Twelve raised his eyebrows: "What wakes up?"

Sabak raised his hand and scratched his head, then spread his hand: "I didn't hear clearly."

Lu Twelve: "...you have nothing to eat tonight."

Sabak: "Really."

Lu Twelve: "Ghosts believe you!"

Sabak: "I told you the first two, what's there to hide about the third—"

Lu Twelfth: "...What is the origin of your phantom beasts? Destroy human beings? The plan continues? Don't tell me that you people are the reincarnations of the people from Star Vaterun who were dug out by humans after sleeping in the ground for 500 years. Back then, your boss You were blasted into dregs by a positioning missile by humans, and you turned into phantom beast eggs and hid them in the ground, waiting for humans to dig you out, take root on the earth as phantom beasts, multiply offspring, and wait for reorganization Brilliant, make a comeback."

"..." Being asked such a question out of the blue that he might not be able to finish it in three nights, Sabak was stunned for a while, and for the first time he seemed a little at a loss for words. After holding back for a long time, he turned his head and glanced at this JAY, who stood beside him for a while and looked at him seriously, finally sighed and shook his head, "No."

Lu Twelve sneered: "Ye Luosha said so."

Shabak frowned: "The thing in the video is not Ye Luosha, just miscellaneous soldiers."

Lu Twelve sneered, making it clear that he didn't believe it at all.

Sabak went crazy: "It's hard to believe, the whole human society is not uniform from top to bottom, whoever is the boss will take care of whether the miscellaneous soldiers below have the second disease!"

Lu Twelve: "..."

Sabak took a deep breath, then walked up with calm steps, stretched out his hand and patted Lu Twelve's shoulder, and said in a low and calm voice: "The earth still belongs to human beings, it was 500 years ago, and it will still be 500 years later."