The Collection of The End

――TR.82.11.28――

Haven Star, abandoned mine.

Renault and his team were heading to the depths of the mine to eliminate those strange plants. Apart from the crackling footsteps, there was silence in the mine.

The original roaring mineral conveyor belt and the mine carts that should be traveling at high speed on the track all stopped quietly, with a lot of plants climbing on it, and the dim and dim miner’s lamp reflected the rust stains all over the various equipment. .

However, it can be clearly seen that these mottled rusts appear to be quite new, the birth may not exceed two months, and this time also coincides with the moment of the accident at this secret base of the Federation.

"This mine is a typical federal style." Walking in the downward spiral of the mine, Renault commented casually.

"How do you say?" Tycus was shining around with the searchlight on his armor.

"There are no protection measures for miners at all," Renault knocked on a mine elevator that had been out of service and had no protective net at all. "Probably in their eyes, it is better to provide security for cloned miners than to build them after they die. New."

When Marsala was the "sergeant", Renault went into many mines, mainly to investigate potential safety hazards and confirm the job security of the cloned miners. At the moment when all forces are attacking the Tyrannian Federation, Any unfair treatment of clones will attract attacks from people of insight. Although Renault does not care about these attacks, it is better to do more than less.

"Oh?" Teckis' thinking circuit is obviously different from that of ordinary people: "So, those plants are already full after occupying the ‘cloning production workshop’?"

"Hey~" Jimmy took two quick steps away from Tycus.

"I don't think so," Ariel who retorted him was at the end of the team: "First of all, plants are quite smart and will not attack the creatures that dominate the planet, that is, humans. Second, if they have to eat, Unused culture fluid is much more nutritious than humans."

"Hey hey~" Jimmy moved away from Ariel again.

"Ms. Hansen, I have to remind you again that this is a secret research base in the Federation, and dangerous monsters may rush out at any time," Renault looked at the bold botanist: "You are not equipped with power armor. In the event of a battle, it is likely to cause accidental injuries. In that case, we cannot explain to Speaker Hansen."

"I'll repeat it again, Sergeant Renault," Ariel obviously didn't take it seriously: "If the enemies you meet are those plants, I will be safer than you think, and if you find any key information What should I do if I don’t understand?"

"I think I should be able to understand." Toxu who walked in front of her was confident.

"..." Because the answer was too ridiculous, Ariel was silent directly.

"In short, if there is a fight, we will try our best to ensure your safety, but also please don't act on your own terms, can you?" Renault decided to go back and forth.

"Of course, I'm not stupid." Ariel replied.

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"Who on earth just said she was not stupid? Huh?"

In a "temporary resting place" in the middle of the mine, the two stronger bodies of Tykes and Tosh were pushing their bodies against the metal gate of the resting place, and Tykes shouted while pushing the door.

Outside the gate, there are a lot of vines like green pythons. Due to the large number, it is impossible to tell how many vines are in the end. I only know that their crazy power to smash the door makes the full power output of the two power armors a little bit high. Can't help.

Renault held the gun and aimed at the door, ready to shoot whenever the two of them couldn't stand it. At the same time, he asked Alliel without looking back, "Ms. Hansen, how long will you be able to finish?"

"Soon, hold on." Ariel replied and pressed several buttons on the complicated panel in front of her.

Wow-wow-

Huh huh!

The strange alarm sound that came out simultaneously made the vine army outside the door more irritable, and Tycus and Tosh didn't even have the effort to curse the street.

Renault looked at the giant training trough that was constantly trembling with Ariel's operation, and decided to give the professionals what he didn't understand.

About half an hour ago, Renault and his entourage found this underground building that was suspected to be a resting place for miners under the mine, and roughly judged that this should be arranged by the person in charge of the federal secret base to prevent the miners from going to the surface to cause trouble.

When they were about to take a short rest here, Ariel somehow opened a secret door and found a botanical research institute inside.

The research institute may be inaccurate. To be precise, it should be a specimen showroom. There is almost no test equipment here. The more eye-catching thing is a row of petri dishes with different postures of vines, and these "specimen" are marked with nameplates next to them. These plants are grown in different environments, such as acid, alkali, cold, heat, atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen content and so on.

What surprises Renault is that no matter what the environment, these vines will at most be "skinny", but they all look very healthy overall.

The only vine that Ariel was working on at this time was the only surviving vine in these samples. According to the instructions on the nameplate, it was in a strange environment with extremely high humidity and current passing through at any time.

When Ariel tried to take out the vine, because of improper operation, an alarm in the showroom was triggered. Not only did the vine re-protected, but also a large number of vine monsters that had been seen in the surveillance were killed outside. .

Then, it was Tycus and Tosh blocking the door, and Ariel tried to turn off the alarm to take out the vine.

"[Commander, I think even if Ms. Hansen turns off the alarm, the vines outside will not leave easily. Can I get a firebomb?]" Jimmy secretly talked to Renault on the channel.

"Don't do that yet. If you switch to incendiary bullets, you can tell from the appearance. I'm not sure if Ms. Hansen understands this." Renault responded in a low voice.

"[All right]." Jimmy also raised his gun and aimed at the door.

Wow-wow-wow.

Finally, Ariel successfully turned off the alarm on the petri dish and took out the tiny vine.

Almost at the same time, the vines outside stopped hitting the door, and after wandering around the door for a while, they scattered and left.

"According to the experimental records, these plants hate high-frequency sound waves," Ariel explained to Renault: "Under normal circumstances, they should feel disgusted and fearful and stay away from the sound source, but when the fear reaches the limit, it turns into anger, so they turn to Decided to completely destroy the sound source."

"Oh..." Renault replied not caring: "Then what do you plan to do with this thing?"

"I have memorized its experimental procedures. After I go back, I can arrange the same environment and conduct further research." Ariel put the small section of vine into a small petri dish, and then put it into the backpack.

Renault frowned slightly, how did she feel that she seemed to be very interested in the research results of the Federation?