Double O swap life!

After a long time, Chen Niancai slowly withdrew his mental power, and all the gloomy haze disappeared.

In the past, he hated the feeling of being touched by others. It was a sign of weakness. He should be invincible and not be disturbed by anyone.

But now, Chen Nian has long understood that it is not the same thing at all. If it is not for the presence of Shaffley, he guesses——

boom! ! !

The loud noise exploded, and Chen Nian suddenly opened his eyes, his figure swayed with the instability of the ground, Shaffley immediately took him into his arms and shouted: Be on alert!

"What's wrong? What happened?" Chen Nian supported the wall with one hand, stabilized his figure, and searched with all his mental strength.

The raw stone inlaid in the metal plate blocks the energy, and the only thing that can break through it is the statement.

The voice of the statement was not loud in the earphones, and some words were swallowed by the chaotic sound.

"It's the parasitic anglerfish. It's destroying the building structure. It's probably because the nest was burned and it went crazy, but the problem shouldn't be too big. It's far away from us. It won't be long before it loses its strength. die, or die."

"Most parasites will leave after the death of the host and look for a living host again. The situation of this blue monster should be similar. Otherwise, after they kill the host, they will not flee in a hurry."

"It's so powerful to listen to the voice." Fu Tianhe said with emotion, when they passed by, Angler Fish was indifferent, and if it became crazy, it would probably be quite difficult to deal with.

Statement: "Let's go, it will calm down after a while."

More than half an hour later, everyone finally found another refuge facility that Eric had mentioned. The situation here did look much better than that there, at least they didn't find any primitive creatures.

"People here may know that we exist." Shafele whispered, "Try to contact them directly."

The special operations captain nodded, and the team members adjusted the communication frequency one after another to send friendly signals.

After more than ten minutes of trying, the team members suddenly shouted: Yes!

Everyone was quiet immediately, listening intently to the movement coming from the earphones.

Davis's angry voice sounded: "Hello, can you hear me? This is E3."

"A1 received."

Davis: "Captain! Finally found you!"

"How are you doing?"

"Everything is normal, everyone is here. We followed the robot all the way here and met survivors. Come here quickly."

Chen Nian looked down at the little robot at his feet. It turned around, obviously to guide everyone.

He took a step and followed.

Although it always seems a bit strange to reunite suddenly and easily, but they have encountered so many troubles along the way, it is normal for them to relax now.

A few minutes later, they successfully joined the lost Davis and his party on the outskirts of the shelter.

The 12-member team was sitting in a hidden gap. The team leader who was in charge of taking care of the three wounded people bent down and got out. He was obviously relieved when he saw the large force.

"The people living in this facility are all uninfected people. We may carry Ashes powder on our bodies, so don't go in and destroy their environment."

Shaffley: "Are they all uninfected?"

"Well, it is said that there are more than 6 people in total. They provided us with a place to rest, so everyone simply waited here temporarily."

In fact, it is normal to have a large number of uninfected people. No matter how powerful an infectious disease is, it may not be able to infect everyone. Besides, Ashes is only exposed to the risk of infection if it comes into contact with dust or crystals.

Then an intriguing question arises: how did the people inside Moonlight be exposed to the Ashes environment at the same time?You must know that these infected people live everywhere in the beacon.

Shaffley: "How are the three of you doing?"

"It doesn't itch anymore, maybe the secretion of the Sea Emperor really works, but it hurts my stomach after drinking it."

Statement: "After going out, do a genetic test immediately."

"Ah? Good." Although he didn't know the reason, Davis immediately agreed.

Chen Ci pursed his lips. Originally, he would be thankful that the Sea Emperor's secretions really had an inhibitory effect, but after seeing the appearance of everyone in the previous shelter, he was not sure whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Just taking it, most of the substances will be digested, and the complete gene cannot enter the cells through absorption, so it should be fine.

Now that they have reunited, everyone simply rests in place. Speakers are installed in the outer rooms to communicate with the survivors inside.

"Hello, everyone." A woman's voice came out from the speaker, "My name is Li Li, and I'm the person on duty today. If you need anything, feel free to ask. All the people in our shelter are uninfected. To be on the safe side, we won't Let everyone in."

Shaffley: "It's okay, safety is the priority."

Xu Fengyi: "The signal on their side is a bit strange, it's completely closed, as if they don't want them to know what's going on outside. If they didn't use robots to go out to explore, they probably wouldn't be able to know the exact situation inside Moonlight."

"After we discovered this, we originally planned to go back to the place where there was a signal to explain to you, but we fell from the top, and we couldn't climb out, and we couldn't find other passages, so we could only stay here for the time being. Everyone is worried."

Chen Nian: "It should also be a kind of protection. After all, if you know that there are monsters and Ashes outside and are completely sealed inside, even if you live healthy and healthy in the shelter, various problems will appear after a long time. "

In a desperate situation, people's psychological defenses will easily collapse, turmoil will break out, and in the end they may fall into the worst situation.

And they are like now, only relying on robots to explore a little bit, at least they can still have some hope.

"That's true." Li Li said softly: "We haven't been able to explore the situation on the surface until now, and we don't know that the moonlight has been strictly sealed. We have been trying to collect materials and improve the performance of the robot so that we can explore farther afield."

"I didn't expect...it turned out to be like this."

Chen Nian said lightly: "Don't worry, it's best to know now, and we will definitely take you out."

He suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, sister, does your shelter have a number?"

Li Li: "This is No. 43. There are ten places in the facility, from 41 to 50."

"41!" Chen Nian was taken aback, "Can you tell us the specific situation of shelter 41?"

"You can ask them in person. We can only rely on robots to communicate with each other. It is definitely not as clear as what you said in the past, but as far as I know, there is nothing special there. Like here, it is a refuge for survivors. There are tens of thousands of people living there."

"Uninfected?"

Chen Ci frowned, the situation was suddenly different from what he had imagined.

Since Chen Wei left the blueprint of No. 41 shelter, it must be a very important area, maybe he and Chen Nian were born in it.

After seeing the situation in Eric's shelter, he even felt that he and Chen Nian were children who were screened out by special means.

As a result, everyone in shelter 41 is actually uninfected?

Statement: "Okay, let's go over and ask, can you tell me the direction?"

Li Li: "Go straight up, and the door on the diagonal side is the door. When the Davis team came over, all the shelters in this facility knew about the situation. Just go and explain your identity."

Statement: "Okay, thank you."

Chen Nian stood up: "I'll go with you."

Fu Tianhe and Shaffley were about to leave, but Chen Nian held him down: "No, it's just a chat, my brother and I are fine."

"Old Fu, you went to Eric's side with your brother before, and you didn't have time to rest, so hurry up and take a break, Sha Fulai, don't you still have to try to crack the system?"

"That's right." Shaffley sat down again, "Then you two, pay attention to safety."

"Yeah." Chen Nian patted Chen Ci on the shoulder, "Let's go."

Watching the twins go away, Shaffley took out the nerve adapter from his bag. This place is relatively safe, the dust concentration in the air is very low, and there are few traces of monsters. He can crack it slowly with plenty of time.

Having advanced here, he needs to really enter the core of Moonlight's program to find out what's going on.

Fu Tianhe: "Do you still need me to show you something?"

"No, you go to sleep."

Fu Tianhe said hello, found a comfortable position, lay down and fell asleep.

Shaffley took a deep breath and put the nerve adapter on his head.

In fact, he didn't have a clue.

——Moonlight, what are you hiding?

Chen Ci and Chen Nian walked all the way to the periphery of Shelter 41. Although they couldn't enter, both Chen Ci and Chen Nian knew the internal structure of the shelter, and the specific drawings were still stored in their terminals.

A shelter that looks very much like a laboratory, and all the people placed in it are uninfected.

Statement: "Hello, we are special forces members from Cinnabar, and I would like to ask you about the specific situation inside the shelter, so as to facilitate the setting of subsequent rescue plans."

After more than ten seconds, there was a piercing noise from the speaker: "Hello, my name is Nina, and I'm in charge of receiving you. Ah, it's been a long time since I talked to a stranger."

"My name is Chen Nian, and this is my elder brother's statement." Chen Nian introduced, "We have been inside Moonlight for thirteen or four hours, and we happened to be resting here temporarily. I would like to know More about Vault 41, especially on your side, is there anything special?"

"A special place?" Nina seemed troubled, "It doesn't seem like it is. Everyone is an ordinary person who was placed in the shelter after the collapse. If there is any difference from other shelters, it is probably our previous They all live in the same area?"

Statement: "Where?"

"We are basically workers who live in the washing area."

Chen Ci was taken aback.

Washing area, not infected, broke out at the same time.

The answer is about to come out.

"I see." Chen Ci whispered.

Chen Nian: "Eh? Know what?"

Statement: "I know where the source of Ashes came from."

Chen Ci took a deep breath and continued to ask: "Have any of the people who lived with you in the washing area been infected?"

"Of course there are, and there are quite a few of them." Nina said softly, "My husband and children are infected, and their symptoms are very serious. When arranging shelters, I, as an uninfected person, was forced to ask to be separated from them.

"I haven't seen them since then."

In the end, she couldn't help sobbing, and even after more than ten years, she couldn't forget the pain at that time.

Statement: "Is everyone in there in the same situation?"

Nina: "Well, sometimes when we chat together, we wonder whether it's luck or misfortune. We didn't get infected, but we suffered a more painful parting than death."

Statement: "After coming to the shelter, has the beacon made any other arrangements here? For example, with the help of special management personnel or soldiers, do something."

"This... I think about it, it's been a bit too long, and I don't remember the details clearly, but it did happen. At that time, Mr. Heibo prepared special nutrient solution and medicine for us, and organized everyone to donate blood. "

black wave.Chen Ci frowned, and he finally appeared again.

The infected were fed collectively, resulting in sea creature-like mutations, but what about the uninfected?

"Have you had any adverse reactions after taking the nutrient solution and medicine?"

"At that time, I had symptoms of dizziness and soreness, and I was worried that it might be an infection. Fortunately, nothing happened afterwards, it was just a simple nutrient solution and antibiotics."

Statement: "Okay, I got it, thank you. We will take some time to investigate the situation inside Moonlight, and in at most two days, we will get in touch with the outside world and rescue you from the shelter."

"Well, we've been waiting for this day for a long time."

Saying goodbye to Nina, Chen Ci didn't immediately return to the place where the big troops were. He and Chen Nian walked to another relatively secluded corner.

The statement said flatly: "The nutrient solution that Heibo asked them to take is a hematopoietic stem cell mobilizer, and the granulocyte colony-stimulating factor in it can make the hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow enter the peripheral blood."

"Afterwards, hematopoietic stem cells can be obtained only by extracting them from the elbow."

Chen Nian was stunned: "Heibo extracted their hematopoietic stem cells, and then, then..."

Chen Ci nodded, and he looked back at the closed door of Vault 41: "Maybe that's where our blood comes from."

"...Why them?"

"The place where they lived was the first to be infected, but because of the incubation period, everyone failed to notice it."

"The people selected in Refuge No. 41 are all the lucky ones who were exposed to the highest risk environment but were not infected. Maybe there is a fragment in their genes that is not easy to be infected."

Chen Nian suddenly widened his eyes.

Yes, he thought, those purple crystals growing in the tubes, displacing the blue energy that used to flow through them.

The calm voice of the statement rang in his ears: "The energy that can transport the infectious material to the beacons and expose 300 million people to the risk of infection at the same time is energy."

"In the process of mining energy, Moonlight may have dug something that must not be touched by accident. Ashes were drawn upward along the pipeline along with the energy. After multiple treatments, they were blended into the liquid and delivered to every corner of the beacon."

"Electricity, gas, energy blocks, these indispensable resources in daily life have become the deadliest poison."

Like a blood cancer.

It's just that humans can still be treated through bone marrow transplantation, but the beacon can't clear up the many infections that spread quietly.

It's beyond help.

After searching for the truth for a long time, Chen Nian was suddenly struck by unreality when his brother said it calmly.

It was so strong, so strong that Chen Nian didn't want to believe it, he didn't want to believe that Moonlight was sentenced to death.

Chen Nian: "If we can find an antidote, we should be able to save it, right?"

"Moonlight has been working hard on research." Chen Ci paused, and said softly, "I just don't know if it has succeeded. It disappeared and asked for help nine years ago. It was too sudden. I am not optimistic about it."

Chen Nian: "Eric and the others have been being screened all the time, even the Neptune is being used as experimental subjects, and the primitive creatures raised in the aquarium must have been manipulated."

"Moonlight is a powerful supercomputer, capable of iterating trillions of existences per second, not to mention that Heibo is an expert in biochemistry, so there will definitely be some results."

Statement: "We are the results."

Chen Nian: "No, I mean, after that, nearly ten years have passed. During the ten years, Moonlight only allocated a small part of its computing power to assist other beacons in making games. Its real experience must be It was used to develop an antidote, and it was even said that some kind of accident occurred in the end before the message of saving me was conveyed."

Statement: "Maybe."

"We need to hurry up and tell the others about this."

Chen Nian turned around, and the moment he took a step, Chen Ci grabbed his wrist.

"Chen Nian, it is impossible to cultivate us whose blood has a real inhibitory effect just by relying on those hematopoietic stem cells that may have accidental factors."

"I know." Chen Nian said softly, "There is also... Haihuang."

Humans are not viruses.

RNA viruses can undergo countless mutations in a very short period of time, mutating characteristics that can adapt to the environment, or not suitable for the environment, and evolve rapidly.

But stable chromosomes can hardly do that.

Since it is impossible to quickly select stable traits in the shortest time, get them from other creatures.

There are some that are able to resist infection very well, and even rely on their own secretions to keep other organisms from suffering.

Chen Ci closed his eyes, and he raised his hand to press on the side of his neck.

Under the thin skin, there are large arteries beating with the heart.

Eric's gills are here.

"Fortunately, you are here, brother." Chen Nian said softly, "If I was the only one facing this, I would probably be scared to death."

But now, their destinies are connected, even if it is for each other, they must pursue it firmly.

Chen Ci raised his hand and pressed it on Chen Nian's shoulder: "Let's go, let's go back."

It was pitch black, and the illusory world composed of data was filled with a strong sense of nothingness.

That's right, the last time he used the nerve adapter, he forcibly broke through the firewall and entered the interior of the Moonlight program through the crack.

Shaffley is not quite sure whether this is the core, but at least it is a step further than before.

Nothing at all.

Because of the lack of reference objects, he can't even perceive his own existence.

The countless mouths that once drilled out of the void are not here. Where is the energy that wants to tear him up and eat him?

Shaffley was wandering around, of course he knew that this was not a good thing, but he couldn't make a change at all.

As if floating in the [-]-meter deep sea, in the deep darkness, are there eyes watching him?

Maybe no response is the normal situation, after all, Moonlight has stopped working long ago.

But he must at least find some traces in it, about the truth, about the experiment, about the clues to the antidote.

And the real reason why Moonlight finally called for help.

Shaffley closed his eyes, he gathered all his energy, concentrated, concentrated again, and synchronized his thinking with the electronic pulse.

After all, the human brain also completes thinking through countless electrical signals, doesn't it?

At the moment when the frequencies coincided, the resonance boomed, like a train rolling from the top of the head, engulfing the thought and rushing to the far away place.

In an instant, countless pictures flashed back in front of my eyes.

Shaffley saw him lying on the side of the shaker when he was young, trying to tease his full-term twins; he saw him sitting in the classroom, learning boring political courses; he saw him racking his brains to study and write codes, Father sits by and instructs occasionally; sees the special neural adapters he's seeing for the first time for maintenance.

I saw him seeing the Electric Fantasy Kingdom for the first time, and was shocked by the pictures and engines that were so exquisite that they were no different from reality. I saw him assist Chen Ci to sneak to the clock tower during the break of the royal parade; Identity, sincerely expressing his willingness to help conceal his thoughts; seeing him being grabbed by the collar by Chen Nian, and getting the first sweet kiss.

25 years of life flew by, and was taken far away by the train. In the dark, the dull humming seemed to come from the deep sea.

He saw the golden-eyed woman sitting on top of the ruins, looking down at the devastation everywhere; he saw the sea emperor struggling desperately, bleeding, and the turbulent waves almost overturned the ocean; he saw the black wave standing in the center of the laboratory, in front of him. , is the same man who is almost swallowed by Ashes.

Bright red tears flowed from Heibo's eyes pierced by crystals. He raised his hand and fed the solution in his hand to the dying Alpha.

Blood and solution stained the white coat.

A strong sense of nausea hit in an instant.

Itching from the depths of the soul, as if something had actually invaded his body through the nerves.

In an instant, every cell in the body sent out the same strong thought: escape!

Run away quickly, or you will be...!

No, no!

He managed to crack the firewall and entered the core of Moonlight's program just to find relevant clues. If he just gave up at the critical moment, all their previous efforts would be in vain!

Those survivors who became inhuman, the children who were born with deformities, and the people who lived behind the heavy gate for 19 years are all waiting for an explanation!

He must persist, for those who may be infected in the future, as well as those who have already been infected.

Shaffley took a deep breath. He tried his best to gather his mental strength, and tried to protect himself more closely, resisting those pervasive anomalies.

It was as if a heavy mountain was pressing on his body, squeezing the air into the pores and mixing it into the blood, easily forming an embolism and taking his life away.

Never relax, once you let go of the energy, something will really come in!