The Collection of The End

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Haven Star Jungle area, ruins of the Federation base.

"Sorrian? That doesn't sound like the scientific name of the plant, it's more like a code name. It seems that the secret base here is not researching bugs, but it's researching..." Renault played back the video record for a moment: "Vine?"

"[I don’t know, sir,]" Jimmy’s voice was a little trembling: "[I’m sure I didn’t find those monsters mixed with vines and branches, but there were no bodies of federal agents, like, like...] "

It's like they cleaned the battlefield after they killed all federal agents.

If this guess is true, then these vines are not ordinary activated plants, but some kind of intelligent creatures, at least, intelligent creatures are behind them.

"Okay, don't be nervous, Jimmy, now you go back the same way, don't touch anything on the road, we will decide the next step after we meet." Renault said as he sent Jimmy the mark of the meeting place.

"[Good, good.]" Jimmy closed the communication.

"What do you say, I have work to do?" Tycus leaned over.

"Put on the incendiary bomb..." Renault looked at the dense jungle around: "No, we still use large-caliber live ammunition. If it burns up here, we won't be able to escape."

"Captain Renault, what are you talking about? I seem to hear'Incendiary' and'Burn'?" Ariel, who could not receive the Ranger's internal channel, frowned: "I don't recommend using those things here."

"No, we won't trap ourselves in the fire," Renault shook his head to Ariel: "Unless this forest refuses to let us leave."

"Reject?" "Commander, guess what I found?"

Ariel seemed to be going to follow up, but turned to see Jimmy sneaking back, so he stepped back and motioned for him to speak first.

"Oh? Yes, besides that video, did you find something else?" Renault raised his eyebrows and looked at Jimmy.

Speaking of it, the Heavenly Devil chose him as a scout. The main reason is that he can hide, run fast and get timely information. As long as he can do this, he is almost an excellent scout. .

"No! I didn't find anything!" Jimmy announced.

"...Very good." Renault decided to withdraw his praise.

"Uh, no, I mean..." Jimmy stunned for a while before retrieving the language: "Commander, you said,'There is no intelligence at all, it is a kind of intelligence in itself.'"

"That's right, so you mean, there is no noteworthy information in these buildings?" Renault looked into the distance as if it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, almost completely covered by plants.

"Yes, yes, except for the previous surveillance video, there are no logs, records, documents, and experimental results that the experimental base should have. If it weren't for the method of destruction of this base, it is strange plus the evidence of the video found before. , I almost thought this was a normal evacuated and abandoned base." Jimmy said quickly.

So to speak... Renault pondered.

If it is normal to drag the corpse away after the federal spies are killed, but the vines have even wiped out the surveillance records and test documents. This is by no means something that an animal that has just awakened to intelligence can do, so the existence of the command behind the scenes can already be determined.

But the key now is whether the other party has long since escaped, or is it here to wait and see? If he can control the plants, then there is no safe place in this jungle.

For a moment, Renault felt that all the surrounding plants were secretly opening his eyes and staring at him.

"What do you say, cowboy?" Tycus carried his blaster, in a posture that he planned to find trouble with those plants.

"Let's go in and search," Renault finally made a decision: "No matter what the origin of the vine that destroyed this base, since the other party tries to clean up all the traces left behind, it means that it won't come back again, maybe except Jimmy’s achievements, there are other fish that slip through the net.

"You have the final say, boss." Tykes didn't seem to care much.

"Before that, Tosh must be allowed to join us. I suspect that there may be some dark boxes that require psionics to open. Now, stay alert and ready to respond to a sneak attack." Renault nodded and took out the flare gun to cover the trees above his head. A bright red flare was fired in a sparse direction.

"Is Tosh?" Ariel raised his head and glanced at the position where the flare had penetrated.

"I'm a left-behind crew member who specializes in combat," Renault casually composes: "He is not good at investigating, and he is generally not allowed to accompany him without a combat mission."

"Oh..." Ariel seemed to believe it, nodded and began to observe the surrounding environment.

The first impression of this abandoned base was indeed abandoned for a long time, but after learning that the appearance at this time was simply a disguise, and then looking at it, flaws were revealed in many places.

For example, the shell of the command center has no place to climb. It is now covered with vines and the supply station is intact. However, an open wound from the inside to the outside was made inexplicably on the top. The most outrageous thing is a few rides. The SCV with the vulture car-you can't put it on because they look like combos!

Therefore, based on the current intelligence, the commander of those plant monsters is a person who is not very familiar with military standard equipment and building functions, has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, and a little careless and conceited.

"Tsk...disappointing," Tykes sorted out his blasting gun. "I thought Jimmy would bring out a bunch of bugs like last time."

"I don't always have problems!" Jimmy retorted angrily.

Renault ignored the bickering between the two and began to analyze the current situation.

After announcing the request for assistance, after maintaining alert for so long, the opponent has not launched an attack, it seems that he is really absent.

If what is expected is not bad, when Tosh arrives, he should be able to find the key information left after the other party confidently cleaned up the scene and left.

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Huh—Boom!

A few hours later, a Viking fighter skimmed over the jungle, then converted to ground mode and fell directly from the place where Renault launched the flare, smashing a large hole in the ground.

"Hi, boss, I heard that I am needed here?" Tosh jumped out of the cockpit.

"Look at this sign, are you familiar with it?" This scratch... Renault mourned for two seconds of silence for the mechanic deck maintenance personnel, pointed to the sign on the nearby armory and asked.

After confirming that the plants in the video would not attack, Renault took Tykes and Jimmy to clear the nearest building as a temporary foothold.

I have to say that the air quality here is much better than that of the Worm Nest where the mask could not be opened at all. Ariel even made her own cup of tea to drink.

In addition, Tosh was naturally not on standby on Bucerfalos. He used the same stealth capabilities of "Ghost" and "Ghost" to search the places that Renault had searched for a second time, but still found nothing.

"Well, I don't have this mark in my mind. It may be a secret unit of a secret department of the Federation." Toxh took a closer look and shook his head again and again.

"Oh..." Ariel seemed to be numb to Renault's revealing one after another hole cards, calmly continued to drink tea, but looked up and down Toxu: "Your subordinates are all very unique. of."

Renault has nothing to refute about this. Jimmy is a thin monkey, Teckis is a burly man, and Tosh... he is a quick and fat man. From this look, it seems that "Renault's Rangers" are all strange members.

This is the fault that Arcturus borrowed her face as Angela!

"So, what do you think of this base?" Renault decided to ignore that topic and pointed to the abandoned federal base.

"It's very interesting, boss," Tosh touched his chin: "I can feel it in the sky. This base is like being completely washed by psionic energy. If you light a psionic flame now, they will be fully Burn it."

Don't burn it. Didn't Ms. Hansen's glasses start flashing again?

"No, our focus is not on these buildings and plants," Renault shook his head: "I need you to use your psionic energy to explore this base to see if there is any hidden intelligence."

"It's very simple," Tosh grinned: "It's not easy to find if it's chaotic like a normal base, but since it's covered by plants full of psychic energy, the special features are straightforward."

"Well, let's do it, and be careful not to damage them. There is no information left in this base. We can only count on you." Renault patted Tosh's shoulder.

"Hmm, let me see." Tox pressed his forehead, his eyes suddenly lit up with a red light, and he began to "scan" the entire base.

Tosh’s psychic abilities are all red, while Kerrigan and Nova are all blue. Psionics is really mysterious. Reynolds let the "scanning" route allow Tosh to work.

"There are roughly three hidden locations." After a while, Tosh stopped "scanning": "Lucky, the nearest one is here."

While talking, he walked to Ariel and activated his psychic energy to open a hidden safe on the wall.

"This is a simple psionic lock, but if you don't have the ability to release psionics, you won't be able to open it even if you find it. You can only tear down the wall-hey, this kind of experimental record makes me sleepy." After taking out the two data boards and sliding them for a few times, they threw them to Renault boringly, and turned to walk to the place where he had just determined the position.

"Fortunately, we brought professionals here, Ms. Hansen?" Renault glanced at it. As expected, more than 50% of the words could not be understood, so he handed it to Aire.

"Can you?" Ariel shook the data board: "I guess this is what you are looking for, a very important thing, right?"

"If you go back to the relevant experts to explain, it will take a lot of time to go back and forth, and you should also want to know what is happening on your planet, right?" Renault responded indifferently.

The original purpose of coming to Haiwenxing this time was to find bugs. Since there are no bugs here, weird vines have been replaced, and the Federation's base has been destroyed, so it is not too urgent.

"Then, okay," Ariel looked down for a moment: "Fortunately, it is my professional category. When I find all the hidden documents, I will translate it for you."

Next, Tox found the other two documents and the accompanying audio and video very smoothly, all of which were handed over to Ariel for sorting.

"The above content is still some incomprehensible parts. I will read the parts I understand to you one by one in order, and play the pictures and videos synchronously." After Ariel arranged these secret documents in order, he said to Renault .

"Please." Renault nodded.

"[The search for dizine in Havenstar went smoothly, and its consul was completely unguarded.]"

"[Although the dizine fountain is located in the primeval forest, it is strange that no affected animals have been found.]"

"[It's ridiculous, why are plants mutated by the influence of diazine? How do we use plants as weapons?]"

"[These plants are growing at an amazing speed, but they still have no military value. We are considering withdrawing the institute from Haven.]"

"[The idiots of Tarsonis used the'Psionic Leap' without relevant protection measures. This is simply a death court.]"

"[I have to admit that some departments have already made results, and the actual combat capabilities of this crazy creature far exceed those of us slow vines.]"

"[A Venus flytrap ate the worm. Well done.]"

"[Havenstar's vines evolved at an amazing speed after fusing insect genes, I named it'Solian']"

"[Hahaha, I can already foresee the shocked faces of those reviewers the next time I submit the results.]"

"[No,'Solian' is not a plant at all, it is an ancient existence that cannot be resolved by our knowledge.]"

"[We are over, now I just hope it hasn't learned to use the transition gate.]"

"[They are smashing the door...]"

"Nothing," Ariel put down the record board in his hand: "It seems that the head of the base has hidden all the research results, hoping to be discovered by federal agents."

"This, this..." Jimmy's eyes were erratic, looking around: "Let's leave early, Commander."

"If they intend to attack us, there is no shortage of such a moment," Renault waved his hand: "Ms. Hansen, do these research results indicate their reproduction speed and mode of reproduction?"

"They reproduce through seeds like ordinary plants, as long as there is enough food," Ariel turned the record to the video of "Eat the Bugs" and spread out.

"Hey, this is really one thing and one thing." Tykes gloated at the creature that was eaten by plants, exactly the same as on Marsala.

"The next one to be surrendered is us," Renault frowned. "Ms. Hansen, how long will it take to evacuate all the residents on Haven?"

"I think... that shouldn't be possible, if there is no clear reason," Alliel shook his head: "Only based on these information, there is no clear crisis, the residents here will not leave the home planet, I know them."

"Then, there is only one way," Renault took a breath and looked to the ground: "We have to eliminate the vines before we have enough diazepam and plan to change the taste."

"..." The plant expert tilted his head slightly: "It's not impossible."