"Muke, you and Liu Jiayi go to the infirmary on the second floor to find if there are any relevant medical records to see why this group of people take such a large amount of drugs."
Bai Liu's eyes were deep: "These people should be mentally sound when they arrived in the Antarctic. We have to figure out what made them mentally upset."
Mu Ke nodded and led Liu Jiayi down. Before leaving, Bai Liu threw them two guns, three or four boxes of bullets: "Be careful."
Mu Ke took the gun and bullets steadily, and was skillfully loaded against his side.
Liu Jiayi is a bit reluctant to use it, because although the □□ has been improved, it is still too long. You have to lift your arms to hold it, but the posture still looks good.
After so many dungeons, they almost all use guns now. Although their heads are not as good as Tang Er's god/gun/handler, they can at least reach the level of a gun/strike game master.
Even Liu Jiayi can skillfully use automatic or semi-automatic □□, but this type of □□ because of the height restriction and strong recoil, she uses less, but it is not unavailable.
But now there is no choice. In this kind of ice and snow, rather than consuming one's physical strength and skills, it must be the first to use the dungeon materials.
Bai Liu led the fight between Mu Sicheng and Tang Er, took the guns, followed Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi and went downstairs. They were going to inspect the basement under the helicopter hangar outside the observation station.
The two teams are separated on the second floor.
When Bai Liu walked to the front door, he saw that the door was covered with snow and frost in just an hour. There was foamy white condensate hanging on the lock handle, but it felt cold and hard after shaking hands.
It's too cold here. The extremely low temperature and the hurricane made the formed snow solidify quickly, and the holding and the ice are not much different.
Bai Liu shifted his gaze to the wind speed measuring instrument hanging beside the door, and the measuring instrument reported the temperature and wind speed outside the window:
[-55.8℃, wind speed of 119 km/h, wind force of 12, first-degree hurricane, no going out]
Mu Sicheng grew up in the south and has never experienced such a severe cold. Realizing that he is in a low temperature environment of minus 50 degrees makes him feel colder and feel uncomfortable all over his body, as if the bones have been drilled into the cold wind. , Swishing chills.
However, although he has no concept of low temperature, he is still familiar with typhoons. Mu Sicheng looked at the first-degree hurricane and said, "Damn?! Is it such a strong wind?! This is on the coast, where dozens of kilograms of trees can blow up. Woke up… "
Tang Erda also raised his eyebrows: "If you can't drive a helicopter in this extreme weather, you will be forced to land by the wind. If you want to go out to find other observation stations, you have to drive a snowmobile."
Bai Liu didn't comment on the weather, so he calmly opened the door.
The gust of wind swept in, and there was no light outside the door. You could only see the strong snow color blocking the faint light in the sky, turning the field of vision into darkness.
The door was swayed by the wind, and a thick layer of snow was already piled up at the door, which was as high as a person’s knees, and the wind blowing in was so strong that Tang Erda couldn’t help but raise his hand to cover his eyes. , Was moved back by the wind for a certain distance.
"Put on goggles and sled shoes!" Tang Erda had to raise the volume and shouted in the strong wind so that other people could hear his voice, "Take the safety rope around your waist and don't be blown away! Also! Pay attention to the ice cracks under your feet! Don't fall into it!"
The wind speed in Antarctica can reach as fast as 35 meters per second, enough to blow ten objects as heavy as Tang Erda, but this is not the most terrifying thing here.
Here, the most terrifying thing is an ice crack. No one who has ever lived in Antarctica is not afraid of this.
The ice surface of Antarctica is not completely flat. As the weather and temperature change, during the process of melting and reshaping of the ice surface, many fissures up to 100 meters deep will be formed between the ice surface and the ice surface, and the snow will cover it. In these fissures, make these fissures visually invisible and difficult to be discovered.
This naturally means that people are easy to walk on ice or snow, and if they don’t pay attention, they will step on the void and fall.
Tang Erda remembered that he had come here before and heard a story, saying that a member of a Japanese observation station went out to overhaul equipment. When he came back, a strong wind blew and the person disappeared.
Four days later, the observer at the observation station found the team member in a shallow ice crack less than three meters from the door.
The missing team member had been frozen to death. He was full of snow and frost. He opened his eyes and looked up at the exit of the ice crack with resentment. Ten fingers were broken and turned out. The nails were all frozen and scratched. With blood and wounds, the front teeth were broken by biting, and the mouth was full of blood, and there were some sticky human skin and blood on the ice.
The snow covered on the cracks in the ice is not thick. It is reasonable to say that this team member can be removed and then climbed out. This team member also realized this. He desperately grasped with his hands and bit the deep layer with his teeth. Snow cover.
He could have escaped successfully.
But in those two days, in order to find the missing member, the members of the observation station went out a lot, and used snowmobiles to run over the crack several times. Such intensive outings quickly put the ice on the crack. The snow is compacted.
And this team member watched these people in the name of saving him, turning his only survival door alive into a cold dead door, and then fell to death and froze to death here.
Since then, the Japanese observatory has often broken down equipment at night when the blizzard is coming, and the team members who went out for maintenance said that on the way back, when passing by the ice crack, they could hear someone underneath maliciously. , Crying for help and grinning resentfully.
The lingering player said that he could hear the madly scratching of nails under the snow layer and the chucking of teeth, feeling that something inside would scratch through the ice in the next second, and grabbed him with a bitter smile. .
After missing a few more maintenance crews, Japan chose another observation station as its base camp.
Tang Erda doubted the authenticity of this story, because the observation station would check whether there were ice crevices around him on a daily basis, but it was also through this story that he remembered the ice crevices.
So when Bai Liu said he was going out, in order to remind this group of people to pay attention, Tang Erda also told Mu Sicheng and Bai Liu this story.
After listening, Mu Sicheng said: Grass, or I won't go, you two go.
Bai Liu calmly dismissed it.
The three people pulled the safety ropes on their waists back and forth and swayed towards the helicopter garage in the hurricane. Fortunately, the helicopter garage was not far away, and soon arrived. Tang Er opened the hinged door and the three entered one by one. To the basement.
Mu Sicheng trembled with the snow on his body and his teeth trembled: "Damn, the weather has become too fast, right? When I came here before, there was no such strong wind!"
"If you stay a little longer, when the wind comes, you don't have anything on your body, and there is not a satellite phone safety rope." Bai Liu lightly glanced at Mu Sicheng. "... Maybe you'll be blown away and trapped. Where is it in the crack of ice..."
Mu Sicheng: "..."
Grass.
"But this is the game pool, I can still quit the game!" Mu Sicheng retorted sternly.
"That's not necessarily true. It's absolutely impossible for you to go out rashly before in this dungeon." Tang Erda followed the strong (fear) tone (scare) under Bai Liu's eyes, "The deepest ice crack here is. One hundred meters, the lowest temperature can reach -89 degrees, fifteen seconds can make you feel groggy, you may not wait for you to think that you can quit the game, you will be frozen to death."
Mu Sicheng: "..."
Grass! ! ! !
What a ghost game! !
The basement that Bai Liu and the others entered has two floors.
The upper layer is for some light experiments. There are not too many things and no need to be too clean. Some sensors, hydraulic hammers and the like are stacked on this layer, and two large tanks of pickling are also placed in the corners. Make cabbage and radish.
Tang Erda opened the cover and took a look, a sour stench rose into the sky.
Mu Sicheng's nose moved uncomfortably—the extremely low smell was pure and everything was frozen, so he smelled this irritating smell for the first time after coming to this instance.
"It smells like my grandma's rotten sauerkraut after failing to make sauerkraut." Mu Sicheng retched and slammed his hand in front of his nose.
Tang Erda put down Geb, and he looked at Bai Liu with a complicated expression: "This sauerkraut is a Chinese method, and the people at Edmund Observation Station should not be able to do it, so it failed and it stinks."
"But they should think of storing food like this after listening to someone's guidance." Bai Liu thoughtfully, "-it seems that the relationship between Taishan Station and Edmund Observation Station is not as rigid as we thought."
Otherwise, the people at Taishan Station will not be so friendly to instruct each other on how to make sauerkraut, so the short communication between parents is obviously the sustenance of intimacy.
Bai Liu walked around the tank a few times, his expression was thoughtful, as if he was looking for something.
Mu Sicheng couldn't help but asked, "It's just two cylinders of sauerkraut, what are you looking at?"
"I'm looking for a production date." Bai Liu answered lightly.
"?" Mu Sicheng was a little confused, "Who makes sauerkraut and writes the date of production? Don't you just make this stuff casually..."
His words came to an abrupt end when Bai Liu squatted on the side of the tank and wiped a dark mud spot in the lower left corner with his hand.
In the lower left corner of this kimchi jar, there is a lab label posted on it neatly and read: [10/8, 12.14kgradish (radish)]
It's as if you are marking something about an upcoming experiment.
Mu Sicheng was shocked: "How do you know they posted the production date?!"
Bai Liu slowly got up: "This is a laboratory. Edmund is a scientist. He doesn't know how to make sauerkraut. So he put these two cylinders of sauerkraut here for only one purpose—that is, to do experiments and record the fermentation of sauerkraut. process."
"According to this Dr. Edmund's rigorous attitude towards experiments, he will definitely make some basic records on this kind of thing."
He raised his eyes and smiled: "Like a date."
Tang Erda was already squatting under another sauerkraut jar. He wiped the old sauerkraut jar carefully with his fingertips, and found another label in the same position.
"The placement date here is also August 10." Tang Erda raised his head and looked at Bai Liu, but he quickly felt that something was wrong and frowned. "The date of the plane falling here and crashing was August 7th at Taishan Station. Feng implied that the fax that Edmund stole the body parts was sent on August 8th, but this Edmond—"
"—Is it weird to toss two cylinders of sauerkraut on August 10th?" Bai Liu asked softly.
Tang Er frowned, he couldn't figure out why.
But Bai Liu didn't mean to answer his doubts. Instead, he continued to move forward and walked to the side of the sliding door leading to the second underground floor.
There is also a zipper door between the first underground floor and the second underground floor. This door was obviously frozen, but it had already been chipped open when Mu Sicheng came down. Bai Liu stroked the icy debris with his hand and pulled it. Drive down.
At the moment of opening, Bai Liu understood why Mu Sicheng would take the information and ran away.
A strong, weird stench that almost overwhelmed the human heavenly spirit cover rushed out, accompanied by substantial dust and light smoke in the air.
With the restoration of heating, the ice on the top of the second underground layer melted, ticking down like stalactites and the turbid liquid, which flooded the ground, immersed the ground in a layer of dark gray muddy water, and there were a lot of muddy water floating on the surface of the muddy water. I don't know what kind of biological slides and some plastic packaging materials.
In short, it does not seem to be a pleasant scene.
Mu Sicheng saw that Bai Liu had to go down without saying anything, and anxiously reminded: "There is water below! There are rubber boots and rubber gloves next to the stairs! You can change it before going down!"
Bai Liu changed his rubber boots, pulled down to fix the rubber gloves, took a plastic portfolio to block his head, and walked deep into the second floor underground.
After coming down, the weird stench became stronger, just like the fishy smell of some fish in the depths of the ocean that was just salvaged. It was smooth and sticky, like a sea snake, surrounding the white willow in the dark and dusty air. Roam.
The water on the ground shallowly covered the soles of the shoes, and Bai Liu acted with sloshing water waves. He bent down and picked up the glass slides and some materials floating on the water.
The slides recorded the names of the biological slices, and Bai Liu faintly recognized several killer whales, small temperature whales, and several different species of penguins.
The glass slides floating on the water are basically the fat and epidermis of these polar animals, and most of the floating materials also record the research results of these animals.
In the center of the basement is a large and heavy writing desk with four microscopes on it, an overturned slide box in the middle, and two small test tube racks.
There are several rows of small test tubes neatly arranged in the test tube rack. The cell fixative inside is slightly frozen on the surface, and now it is slowly melting as the temperature recovers, and the floating biological tissue inside shows a peculiar pink color after staining.
During the heating process, the edges of the fleshy tissue began to darken and grow strangely, and even the tissue in some small test tubes began to squirm slightly, as if it was about to come alive.
Bai Liu glanced at the labels attached to the caps of these test tubes. They all read: [Penguin (killer whale, etc.) + unknown organism X free cell mixed culture].
And in a pile of blackened and twisted meat, there was a quietly suspended tissue that did not move. Before and after thawing, it was the bright red of the freshly cut surface of the creature.
Bai Liu felt that he could even see blood leaking from the capillaries on the slice, dissipating in the fixative.
He walked over and clamped the small test tube out of the test tube rack with two fingers. A label different from the other test tubes was stuck on the top cover of the test tube rack, and it said-[Unknown creature: X].
As soon as this small test tube was taken out, the tissues in the other small test tubes seemed to have been violated, and sharp steam erupted from the mouth of the test tube, and the formaldehyde liquid inside was instantly evaporated.
These little pieces of meat began to differentiate and grow rapidly in some unknown direction, crawling out of the test tube and sticking to each other, but in the blink of an eye they grew into a basketball-sized ball with tentacles and sticky black meat.
This meat ball has the smooth skins of penguins and killer whales, a mouthful of carnivore teeth, and the fleshy wings on both sides are full of churning newborn tentacles, and the pulse grows vigorously.
These tentacles seem to unite with each other, entangled with each other, sink into the body of this fleshy ball, and quickly differentiate into a new organization-a pair of fish-tailed webbed feet.
This fleshy ball screamed fiercely, and flicked its tentacles and leaped towards Bailiu. Standing at the top of the stairs, Tang Er slapped his eyes and leaned back quickly, leaned on the stairs and borrowed force, shaking his hand to lift the rifle/gun at his waist. On the shoulders, stick to the face, aim, and shoot.
"Boom!"
With two sharp shots, the meat ball lay motionless in the muddy water.
Tang Erda put down his rifle/gun, breathed a little, and solemnly reminded: "I triggered the monster book. This should be one of the monsters in this copy, called Unknown Creature x Pollution Body. This is likely to be a biochemical pollution copy. Be careful. Point, don’t touch the source of pollution."
"Okay." Bai Liu replied gently, and hid the small test tube in his pocket with his backhand.
He possessed and straddled the corpse of this pollutant, half squatted down and continued to search for information in this laboratory. Finally, Bai Liu found what he wanted in a locked safe—he asked Tang Erda to use the gun directly. I broke the lock of this box.
Inside is an experiment diary sorted by time.
After getting it, Bai Liu came out of the underground laboratory door. After closing the door, Mu Sicheng, who was unwilling to go down after death, went up.
Behind them, the pile of creatures that were beaten and "dead" by Tang Er began to deform and merge like pitch. From a pile of non-human-looking things, they quickly reassembled and gradually became more like a person, face and facial features. , The limbs all appeared on its body.
It is like adjusting its appearance and body, constantly reappearing three appearances, a slightly stronger human body for a while, an elegant and clean appearance, and a monkey earphone shape on its head, occasionally. The eyes emerging from the "asphalt" are pure curiosity.
In the end, it seemed to decide what it was going to become, gradually fading the black snake-like shell on its body in the muddy water, and its white hands and feet came out crudely from the shell.
A naked/naked Bailiu stumbled and knelt in the muddy water. "He" opened a pair of pure eyes, and his throat made a high-frequency call to his companion like a whale.
Scattered on the water, the photocopies that were not taken away by Bai Liu said messily:
【—Whale tissues after suspension culture of unknown organism X cells show recombination and regeneration of plants, and the degree of differentiation regresses to the lowest level, which can induce re-differentiation...】
[Cells possess the high intelligence of individual species. The differentiated "basketball tentacle-like lower organisms" (hereinafter referred to as basketballs) show the differentiation of all biological categories, including humans, birds, fish, and even ferns and ancient microorganisms... 】
[Whale cells begin to play a leading role, producing whale habits, and grow a layer of smooth epidermal tissue that wraps the "basketball". The cell differentiation gradually becomes normal. After a week of differentiation, the cells gradually die...】
[Whale habit appeared before death, began to molt, after moulting... My God! It's reborn! It shows learning! It is starting to control its own direction of differentiation... God! After molting many times, it began to differentiate in the direction of humans! ! 】
【—No, I have to stop the experiment. This is an ethical and filthy creature that will contaminate the human genome! 】