Chapter 287 Action ahead of schedule
"Old Li? Is that you?" Liu Yu asked in a deep voice.
He took another step back, but something in the mud seemed to catch the foot of the power armor, causing him to lose his balance and fall on his back.
"Grass!"
Liu Yu cursed secretly, stretched out his hand to support the ground and climbed up, but neither his own arm nor the mechanical arm attached to the power armor backpack could find a point in the slippery mud that could bear the force. I tried several times but failed to lift my body up.
The powered armor with the names of Li Yimin and Peng Wei on it slowly walked up to Liu Yu and lowered his head to look at Liu Yu.
"Old Li? Peng Wei?" Liu Yu still held on to the last trace of fantasy in his heart - but he also knew in his heart that if the person in the power armor in front of him was really Li Yimin, the other party would have already reached out and pulled him up. , but just watched himself struggling in the mud.
The fear in Liu Yu's heart had swelled to the extreme. Faintly, he seemed to be able to see a pair of pale eyes behind the mask on the opposite side, staring directly at him.
No, more than one pair of eyes!
Liu Yu didn't know if he was hallucinating. When the other party was close to less than half a meter away, he finally saw the face hidden behind the shadow of the mask.
This face seemed to have been corroded by strong acid. The surface was covered with dense pits, and at the bottom of these pits, what looked like eyeballs were spinning.
But now, hundreds of eyes, large and small, on "Li Yimin's" face were focused on Liu Yu's face.
Liu Yu's mind suddenly went blank.
"Brother Liu? Brother Liu, are you okay?" Xiao Wang's voice came from the earphones, "Can you get up on your own? Do you need me to come over and help?"
Liu Yu watched helplessly as the monster wearing Li Yimin's armor pushed away its mask, opened its mouth, and a large cluster of tentacles like sea anemones stretched out from its throat.
"Run! Run!" Liu Yu shouted with all his strength.
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Tianfu City, the construction site of the comprehensive talent training base.
Although the entire Tianfu City has entered a state of martial law, the construction site has not stopped because of this. High-lumen headlights illuminate the entire construction site like daylight. A hundred-meter-high tower crane rises and falls, building modular structures like building blocks. The components are spliced together, and then workers manually lock the locking devices at the joints and pour concrete into the hollow load-bearing steel columns.
The prototype of a building complex that is much larger than the Tianfu City Monster Research Institute has appeared. Even the "temporary research institute" built above the underground palace has been replaced with a solid fortress-like building.
Sun Hang parked the car at the designated location and just locked the door when the cell phone in his pocket rang again.
"It's Yang Qi." The familiar exclusive ringtone allowed Sun Hang to confirm the identity of the caller without even looking at the screen of his phone. He took out his phone and answered the call directly, "Hello? Is there anything else that you haven't finished explaining just now?" ”
"There is something abnormal happening over at Chimera No. 17!" Yang Qi spoke very quickly, "All observation posts from zero to six have lost contact, and the drone has detected that the memetic intensity of Chimera No. 17 has increased. The speed has accelerated suddenly, and now we have no longer 41 days left... According to the latest data, Chimera's 'cocoon breaking day' on the 17th may be one month ahead of schedule."
"In other words, there are only eleven days left?"
"Yes."
"In eleven days, you can't even complete the meme reverse engineering, right?" Sun Hang asked, "I remember you said at the meeting that it would take a month to complete 70% of the meme reverse engineering?"
"I just communicated with the reverse engineering team. They told me that as long as the meme sample obtained is complete enough, 50% of the reverse engineering can be completed in ten days... Although 50% of the 'pesticide' The potion's efficacy will be greatly reduced, but it can still significantly weaken the strength of Chimera No. 17."
"Then you mean, you want us to leave now?"
"That's right, firstly, it is to investigate the cause of the sudden mutation on Chimera No. 17; secondly, the collection of memetic samples must start immediately... We really don't have time!"
"What if you accidentally stimulate Chimera No. 17 and its 'breaking out of cocoon day' is advanced again?"
"Then let's all wait to die together!" Yang Qi said angrily, "According to the arrangements of the Disaster Countermeasures Committee, all hunters participating in the operation will gather at the north gate of Tianfu City, and there will be vehicles to send you there... By the way, except In addition to the body of Chimera No. 17, we have also detected some memetic fluctuations with independent frequencies, which means that there are other strange things near Chimera No. 17.”
"Is that guy's younger brother?"
"From a purely memetic perspective, there is no connection between these monsters and Chimera No. 17." Yang Qi said, "But I think they will appear near Chimera No. 17 at this time. , no accident.”
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An hour and a half later.
It is 40 kilometers away from Chimera No. 17.
"Bifang III" large military transport helicopter, with a height of 200 meters. "This weather is too bad." Ye Jiu pulled open the door of the helicopter and looked out, "Shuzhou has never seen such heavy rain since the eternal night fell, right?"
Just as Ye Jiu said, the rain outside at this moment is like pouring down from the sky with an extremely huge basin... The helicopter they are riding on does not look like it is two hundred meters high in the sky. , and like being at the bottom of a huge waterfall, if Zhulong hadn't used his own ability to separate the rain curtain, otherwise the cabin would have been filled with rainwater containing radioactive pollution.
"This rain is not a natural phenomenon." Ye Xuan, who was sitting in the innermost part of the cabin with a military laptop on her knees, said. She reached out to adjust the gas mask on her face and continued, "According to the drone's observations As a result, there is a huge 'water-absorbing force field' directly above Chimera 17. This force field will gather all the surrounding water vapor to form a large area of cumulonimbus clouds..."
"I can't understand one thing." Another hunter in the cabin, whom Sun Hang didn't know, asked, "Didn't the average temperature in Shuzhou area drop to below zero? Why is it raining instead of snow? Or something like hail?”
"The temperature of this rainwater is not low." Ye Xuan said solemnly, "The temperature of the condensed water vapor directly above Chimera No. 17 exceeds 100 degrees Celsius. It is a little farther away, but the temperature of the rainwater when it falls to the ground is also more than 30 degrees Celsius. ...If you stand in the rain without any protective equipment, you will feel that the rain falling on you is warm.”
"When you said that, I suddenly felt that the process of gathering water vapor and then rainfall is very much like a huge heat dissipation system." Sun Hang said.
"It's not very similar, it is." Ye Xuan said solemnly, "Since the military carried out the first round of nuclear strikes on Chimera No. 17, the 'incubation mode' of Chimera No. 17 has undergone drastic changes... …Judging from the data collected so far, Chimera No. 17 is now equivalent to a super-powerful nuclear fission reactor.”
"Is this considered... studying?" Sun Hang muttered.
"What study?" Ye Jiu looked back at him and asked in confusion.
"Because this guy was blown up by a nuclear bomb, he learned to obtain energy through nuclear fission... If we blow it up with a hydrogen bomb, if it doesn't die, it will probably turn into a fusion reactor." Sun Hang smacked his lips and said, "Tsk, there is a saying, 'Anything that can't kill me will make me stronger'... It's quite appropriate to use it on Chimera No. 17. ”
"Then what if the 'insecticide' doesn't work?" asked the strange hunter who spoke before. "What if the monster masters the ability to reverse-edit memes, wouldn't it be a big deal?"
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"Don't worry about that. Even if Chimera has learned how to make 'insecticide', it can only use this ability to deal with other weird things." Ye Xuan shook her head, "As for being infected The hunter... With all due respect, if it wanted to kill you, it wouldn't have bothered at all."
"Little girl, I don't like hearing what you are saying." The hunter said, "Although I don't understand how antimemes work, I know that this thing can temporarily disable our abilities. In this way, we Aren’t these hunters just like ordinary people?”
"That is to say, the life-saving trump cards in my hand can only be used based on my own abilities. If I lose my abilities, my combat effectiveness will not be as good as that of a big-headed soldier." Another hunter Said - His body was as thin as a piece of wood, and his whole body was wrapped in a special bandage. Only a face that was paler than a dead man was exposed.
A tailor-made frame exoskeleton was put on his body, and the thick battery pack was directly fixed on his back - every joint in his body, even the fingertips, needed the help of the exoskeleton. Only with assistance can he move. Without this powered exoskeleton, he would be no different from a talking mummy.
"If the 'Pesticide Plan' fails, all hunters will immediately receive orders to evacuate the battlefield." Ye Xuan said solemnly, "You don't need to worry about this."
Sun Hang glanced at Ye Xuan from the corner of his eye. In fact, the girl still had the last part of the sentence left to say.
"Once the 'Insecticide Plan' fails, all combatants will evacuate the battlefield immediately. Ninety minutes later, a saturation-yield nuclear strike will be carried out on Chimera No. 17."
These are the original words in the battle plan proposed by Yang Qi.
Other combat plans against Chimera No. 17 are also accelerating, but after the remaining time is compressed to only a quarter, the only feasible plan left is Yang Qi's "Pesticide Plan" "Yes.
"The helicopter can only send you here at most. Below is the No. 7 observation post that is currently closest to Chimera No. 17. After you have completed the preparation of No. 7 observation post, you will follow the previous grouping and go to Chimera No. 17 from different directions. As the number approaches, please keep communications open and report to the command center immediately if you find any traces of other strange objects." Ye Xuan said quickly.
"Do we have reinforcements?" asked the hunter who was wrapped like a mummy.
Ye Xuan glanced at the laptop and said: "There is a rapid reaction force of two hundred people on standby at Observation Post No. 8, but they cannot approach Chimera No. 17 - according to the results of previous inspections, there are more than twenty people. If the group target approaches within 35 kilometers of Chimera 17, it will trigger an emergency response from Chimera 17.”
"Long-distance fire support can be achieved," Ye Xuan continued, "but in such harsh weather conditions, I suggest that you don't have high expectations for the accuracy of long-distance fire power."
"Understood." The hunter said dullly, and then walked to the hatch with the help of a powered exoskeleton and jumped directly into the rain.
The moment he jumped out, the rain pouring down from the sky instantly distorted, forming a "vacuum belt" that wrapped him in it. This visual effect was like a legendary creature called "evacuation". "Water Beads" is the same magic weapon.
The hunter did not continue to fall at the speed of free fall. Instead, he suddenly slowed down when he was still more than ten meters away. Then he stepped on the steps made of air and walked to the ground step by step, as if he was strolling. .
Some hunters who were not afraid of radiation rain also jumped out of the cabin one after another, using their abilities or landing on the ground with the help of the equipment they carried. Ye Jiu also wanted to imitate them and jump out, but was pulled back by Sun Hang.
"If you want to show off, there are plenty of opportunities later." Sun Hang said lightly.
The height of the helicopter has dropped to less than ten meters away, and the remaining hunters have also used rappels to descend to the ground. Only Sun Hang, Wang Xiyi, Ye Jiu, Zhong Ling, and Zhu are left in the huge cabin. Long and Ye Xuan, as well as the coffins containing the skeletons fixed to the cabin floor with anchor hooks.
"What's wrong?" Ye Jiu glanced at Sun Hang, "We are the only ones here now. If you have anything to say, you can say it now. The rain outside is so loud that those who jumped out will not be able to hear it. ”
"If you see three apes in action later, whether they are alive or dead, flat images or three-dimensional sculptures, turn around and run. Run as fast as possible. Don't look back." Sun Hang said seriously.
"You are talking about... the three apes?" Ye Jiu was slightly startled, "I remember you asked me about this before... Does this thing have any connection with Chimera No. 17?"
[P.S. I have to say that this autumn is indeed an eventful one. I fell ill after returning from a business trip during the National Day. I finally got better in the past two days. My father suddenly fell ill again and was sent to the hospital last night. Fortunately, today's checkup revealed that it was not too serious. It was just some basic diseases in the past, plus a lung infection and pleural effusion. The doctor estimates that I will be hospitalized for more than a week. During this time, I will have to travel between home and the hospital. I will also go to the store to help when I have time. The update time may be very unstable. But I will try my best to ensure an update volume of 4,000 words per day, so please bear with me. 】
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