The Collection of The End

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Haven, underground mine.

"Hey, I bet those federal agents were defeated here." Tykes said, pointing to the ruins ahead.

"What's the gamble on the obvious?" Tosh said not to do it.

This is the third research institute found by Renault and his party. If nothing else, it should be the last.

Compared with the previous two research institutes with no signs of resistance, at first glance they were crushed by the enemy, this newly discovered research institute can be called a battlefield.

Doors, windows, roadblocks, bunkers are everywhere, with bullet holes, dents, corrosion, and explosion marks. Renault observed for a while, and the commander system had roughly reproduced the situation at the time.

The simulation showed that those roadblocks and bunkers had been set up in advance. The researchers and soldiers here clearly knew what the danger they were facing and made countermeasures in advance-but from the results, it seemed completely useless.

When the battle occurred, the enemy-the commander system was simulated as a large group of vines-first completely destroyed the roadblocks and bunkers by impact. Although in the process, the federal soldiers' attacks "dead" many vines, but compared to the opponent's Quantity, that point of victory is completely meaningless.

After that, the Union soldiers arranged some explosives to block the enemy's offensive, retreated into the research institute, and tried to fight street fighting with thick walls. This kind of close combat in a small space prevented the vines from being able to show their quantitative advantages, and the two sides entered a stalemate.

How long this stage lasted, the commander system could not be simulated, but compared to those vines that can survive only by eating diazine, the Union soldiers as humans obviously can’t last for too long. After a while, they organized a Breaking through, judging from the traces of the battle, it seems to be escorting important supplies or important people away.

According to the simulation results, they were still fighting and retreating, but after a certain node, they suddenly became deserted and fled. The commander system put a question mark there and gave out "the **** material is lost and the **** person died" or The deduction of "A stronger enemy appears".

It may also be a two-pronged approach. Renault shook his head. As for the soldiers who successfully escaped from the ground, only looking at the situation on the ground would know that they could not please.

"[Commander, look at what I found~]" Jimmy's voice came from the communication channel.

Obviously, although the fighting here is tragic, there are no corpses and hybrid monsters. Jimmy has turned back to that agile scout and has gone deep into the research institute.

"Temporarily safe, let's go in." Renault waved to the vigilant Tykes and Tosh, and walked towards the messy research institute together.

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"this is……"

"It's the **** psionic jump gate!" After finding Jimmy, before he could introduce what he found, Tosh exclaimed angrily: "The ground base didn't find this thing. Was it built here?"

"Oh? This is..." Renault carefully looked at what Jimmy had shown as if offering a treasure.

Although Renault had learned from different populations that Marsala's "insect plague" was caused by the Federation's "psionic jump" test, it was the first time to see the real thing.

It was a metal "door frame" that was full of technology and fell on the ground. The overall shape was a black circular ring, with a hollow in the center, which was exactly the same size as the "mechanical egg" where the trust was located.

However, compared to the concept of "door", it is too small. If it is installed in the stern of a spacecraft, it can completely pretend to be an ion engine nozzle.

"Oh oh~" Tykes stood up with interest: "How to do it?"

"It's useless to just stand on it, it has to be activated by a psionicist and determine the destination," Tosh said, stepping back a few steps: "I don't want to touch this stuff again."

"In other words, the Federation brought those'bugs' to Haven through this thing?" Ariel said coldly while rummaging for valuable information: "After causing such a big trouble, he unilaterally cut off. Transport device?"

Although Renault felt that destroying a small federal base could not be considered a trouble, or even a good thing, given that the opponent is the daughter of the planet speaker, those uncontrolled vines are indeed a trouble-if they are really uncontrolled- Still decided to remain silent about this.

"Hmm..." Jimmy didn't notice Ariel's attitude, and was tossing the control panel of the transition door: "It seems that it can't be activated because there is no power. Is it damaged by the attack? If it can be repaired, maybe we can directly Teleport to Tarsonis."

"I can't do it," Tosh shook his head repeatedly, "Why do you think they made the door so small and stuffed the jumper into the eggshell? Of course, because the psionic energy needed to activate it is too amazing to be unilaterally impossible. To activate it, there must be a psionicist on the other side to respond."

"In this case... can the princess use it directly?" Tykes continued.

"..."

Several people who had seen the strength of Emil's spirit were silent collectively, and looked at the "jump gate" together, as if Emil would jump out of it in the next moment.

"I found some...what are you doing?" Ariel walked over with several broken and scratched record boards in his hand, interrupting the stupid behavior of several people.

"I'm thinking about whether this thing can be removed." Renault thought of an outrageous reason casually.

"It can be demolished, but the federal side must have severed the connection with it." Toxh immediately answered the conversation.

"Then treat it as a trophy and move away and show it." Tycus followed.

"Uh... Ms. Hansen, what did you find?" Jimmy couldn't keep up with the topic, and instead spoke to Aire.

"I found out that they seem to be actually experimenting with the fusion of vines and people." Ariel made a gesture to show Jimmy the record, and Jimmy immediately hid behind Renault.

"Uh..." Renault roughly imagined it, and decided that he would not be stimulated by the spirit: "You might just say it, Ms. Hansen."

"Basically, it is similar to the information we found on the surface," Ariel slid the almost scrapped record board: "They were originally cultivating vines that are active due to diazine radiation as biological weapons. Although these vines adapt to various environments, But the speed of movement is worrying, it can hardly be used as a weapon, and animal experiments are prone to rejection."

"Then they turned to fusion of people and vines?" Renault tutted.

"According to the record, they discovered the problem that they could not find in the animal experiment until the human experiment started. This is that this kind of'vegetable' will completely lose memory, or that after the fusion, it will be a completely new individual. The experimenter can think that it has died. It directly caused the project to fall into a bottleneck."

"And at this time, those'bugs' appeared."