"Still in simple mode now?!" Xiao Mo couldn't help shouting in his head.
"Your Majesty, you cannot send this information back, no matter what! I beg you! I am willing to let you stay in my body, and I am willing to be controlled by you forever. I just ask you not to send this information back! Your Majesty!"
If he could kneel down to the system, Xiao Mo would really kneel down.
"If I say, you just need to recycle Xuelihong, I will..."
Xiao Mo suddenly fell silent.
system:…
There was only one thought left in Xiao Mo's mind: "Do you really want to make such an exchange request?"
System, "A Xuelihong and all life on earth, this should be a good choice."
Yes, it's a good choice. The moment the system made such a request, there was only one answer left in his mind, and he didn't even have to worry about it.
"Think about your family, friends, and so many people you know. If the earth turns into hell mode, I'm afraid they won't survive. Your elder brothers and sisters-in-law, younger brothers, nephews, father, Wu Xiaoyuan, Lin Xiaofei, and the scavenging team members All partners must die." The system cruelly stated the facts.
Xiao Mo felt something breaking in his heart. At this moment, his mind was extremely clear. He even saw the man walking out of the endless darkness step by step, with a smile of compassion and a little bit of malice on his face.
"Is it difficult to choose? Why not give your body to me. You have been struggling for so long, don't you want to take a good rest?"
Xiao Mo glanced at the man coldly and said coldly: "I am never the one who chooses difficulties, and I am never the one who escapes."
The man lowered his eyes and smiled self-deprecatingly, "Yes, it's like others think you are kind, but they don't know that you are the most cruel. You... must have remembered it."
Xiao Mo didn't answer.
The man looked into his eyes and said with certainty: "You have remembered it all."
"Yes, I remembered it all." Xiao Mo looked indifferent, "I remembered when I escaped from the jar and fought my way out of the underground testing center. I remembered that I could also use my destructive ability. After I escaped, I My heart is full of hatred, so I gave our enemy to Lingchi and destroyed that gang. I also remembered that when the matter was over, you wanted to come out, but I was unwilling to give up this body, so I sacrificed you at the cost of giving up my destructive ability. Imprisoned."
There was a hint of deep resentment in the man's eyes, "You are very smart. You know that having universal abilities means that our souls are still connected. We are like Siamese twins in our souls. And you are willing to do anything to separate from me. Give up that terrifying and tempting ability and completely cut off the connection between you and me."
Xiao Mo was still so indifferent. At this moment, his expression looked particularly like Xue Lihong, "It's not that I'm smart, it's just that you can't let go of that ability. I asked you whether you want to destroy the ability or control the body. You chose ability."
"that is because… "
"That's because you think you are the original owner of this body. As long as you think you can one day break the prison I set up and escape from me to seize control of this body, or even kill me completely. But the ability is not It’s the only one, and once you give it up, you can never get it back.”
"Did I make the wrong choice? You were..."
Xiao Mo interrupted him again, "No, you made the right choice. At that time, I really hated that ability and hated that my hands were bloody. I wanted this body, but I just wanted to try a normal life. I didn't want to let myself go from birth to death. There was only pain and blood until it disappeared, so I sealed up my memory and imprisoned you. Until I met Xiaohong, I was not very attached to this body. When I imprisoned you, I had I thought that if you could break out of the prison, then it would be nothing if I gave this body back to you."
"But you don't want to pay it back now!" The man's voice was full of anger and accusation.
"Yes, I don't want to pay it back." Xiao Mo admitted it, and he even smiled, "Just now I made sure of one thing, that is, even if I exchange it for the whole world, I will not give up on myself Of…Xiaohong.”
The indifference on Xiao Mo's face disappeared, and at this moment his eyes were filled with a gentle and doting smile, "My Xiaohong, don't look at him claiming to have lived for more than a thousand years, and he can be like a bean all the time, but he is He is a child who has not grown up. He really wants to trust someone, wants to get along with someone for a long time, and longs for the embrace and dependence of others."
The man scolded: "He is just a control freak! Your ability means that he will never give up on you, nor will he allow you to betray him. You will be controlled by him as long as you live for one day!"
"I know, but so what? I'm not perfect either. He and I both have various shortcomings. He doesn't dislike me, and I don't dislike him either. Besides, lovers and couples don't always get along with each other like this. Did you just become family?"
"But are you sure Xue Lihong likes your soul, or does he want you because of your ability to make him grow?" The man pointed out the biggest problem between Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong viciously.
Xiao Mo chuckled, his laughter gradually getting louder.
"Why are you laughing?" The man didn't want to ask such a low question, but he couldn't help it.
"I'm laughing at someone who is jealous without knowing it. Are you envious of my repair ability? You agreed to give up control of your body for that destructive ability, but now I have the opposite of you, but with others, A repair ability that is more useful to the world. Because of this ability, I got a lover, a thug, a partner, and a family member who will never give up on me. Are you so jealous that you want to kill me?"
The man cursed an extremely unpleasant word, and after a while he said, "You want to kill me?"
Xiao Mo's eyes turned cold, "Do you think I don't know that you are trying to contact the system, want to join forces with it to kill me, and replace me as the master of this body? What are your conditions for tempting the system to take action? Recycle Xiaohong? Hmm? ?”
Observer system: ... I always feel that if I interrupt at this time, I will definitely be beaten to death.
The man seemed unable to bear it, "This is my body!"
Xiao Mo's eyes were like daggers, "You can have this body, you have the power. As long as you have the ability to snatch it back, I will give you a fair chance to compete. But if you want to hurt Xiaohong and take him back, this is absolutely impossible." Can't!"
"What do you want to do?" The man took a step back, feeling more dangerous than ever before.
Xiao Mo chuckled emotionlessly, "What do you think?"
*
The system witnessed the entire incident.
Xiao Mo pinched his eyebrows habitually, "Now, Your Majesty, let us continue to talk about our affairs. Where did we talk just now? You said you want me to use Xiaohong in exchange?"
System, "Yes."
"Are you serious?" Xiao Mo actually laughed, "You told me before that sending back this news was determined by rules and you had no power to violate it, right?"
"… right."
"So that means, even if I recycle Xiaohong, you still have to send this information back, right?"
"right."
Xiao Mo pressed his forehead, "So are you kidding me?"
The system continued to spit out the same words in frustration: "Yes!"
Xiao Mo smiled helplessly, "You know how to joke. It seems that your upgrade situation is very good. But I'd better not make similar jokes in the future. It's too irritating to me."
System: Yes, it’s so exciting. The little white rabbit turns into a monster in one second.
Xiao Mo said seriously: "Then can we delay it for a while? I'm not asking you not to send the information back, but I'm just delaying it a little bit."
System: "How long will the delay last?"
Xiao Mo's eyes lit up, "How long can you delay?"
"Considering that interstellar information will encounter some unpredictable circumstances when transmitting it over long distances, resulting in information loss and delay, the rules require that important information must be transmitted three times."
"how long?"
"Extend Earth time by up to 72 hours."
When Xiao Mo was negotiating with the system, the external situation also changed.
Xue Lihong originally only collected the components of the purple fog from the outer edge for analysis, but when Bao Yiyong asked a group of superpowers to enter the thick fog, a sudden change occurred.
The thick fog actually started to move and spread!
"Retreat! Everyone, retreat out! There are monsters in the fog! The communicator will fail! Everyone, leave!" Lei Bing was surrounded by flames, ran out of the thick fog, and shouted with the communicator.
People who had just entered the thick fog were also running out of the thick fog, but some people ran out, while others were lost in the fog.
Hearing the thunder soldiers' call, everyone began to retreat. The soldiers were okay, they retreated in an orderly manner and maintained an encirclement posture. But the mercenaries couldn't help it. When they saw the thick fog starting to move away, they immediately fled in the opposite direction, and several gaps opened in the encirclement.
Bao Yiyong was very angry when he saw this, and repeatedly ordered everyone to maintain a tight circle and keep an eye on whether there were any spots of light.
But mercenaries are not fools, and not everyone has isolation suits. Only those named to enter the thick fog will wear isolation suits.
Suddenly there was a scream in the thick fog.
Lei Bing's angry curse also sounded: "Everyone, please get out! The isolation suit is probably useless! Implement plan No. 2 immediately!"
"Captain Lei, what's the situation inside? Why did you come out as soon as you entered?" Bao Yiyong was wearing the same isolation suit as any other. In fact, the specially made isolation suit quickly hid further away under the protection of four bodyguards.
"Didn't you hear what I said? There are monsters in the thick fog! The isolation suit is useless! The communicator will also fail!" After Lei Bing yelled at Bao Yiyong, he quickly contacted the people who came out to confirm how many people were still there. Escape.
Xue Lihong flew back and picked up Xiao Mo, "Quickly! The thick fog is spreading faster! Something's wrong inside!"
All members of the scavenging team ran towards the base vehicle.
After contacting Lei Bing, he found that half of the people could not be contacted, and two-thirds of them were his soldiers. Not many mercenaries were willing to enter the thick fog in the first batch, so the soldiers had to set an example.
Lei Bing roared, quickly handed over the command to his deputy, and rushed into the thick fog again wearing a useless isolation suit. He had to bring his soldiers out!
"Captain!" His deputy wanted to stop him, but Lei Bing shook his hand away.
"That Bao Yiyong swiped us! Damn it, he didn't tell us that communication would fail in the thick fog, nor did he tell us that the isolation suit was of no use and that there were monsters in it! You should report this to the boss immediately ! That bastard must have other plots!"
"Captain, let me go in, you stay!"
"No, my flames seem to be able to push back the purple mist to some extent. I have to go in. Big head, take them all out of the third ring. Don't wait, hurry up!" After Lei Bing dropped these words, he couldn't contact him again. .
The handsome soldier named Datou had no choice but to order all the soldiers and mercenaries to evacuate quickly and ignore the encirclement. Life was now the first priority.
Bao Yiyong was still trying to draw everyone's attention to the light spot, and behind him there were some people carrying frozen collection boxes and wearing isolation suits like him. The girl named A Ning also followed Bao Yiyong in isolation clothes.
Bao Yiyong also looked quite nervous. He said to someone wrapped tightly around him: "Why did the thick fog spread so much? We didn't find the same situation the last two times."
The tightly wrapped man spoke in a slightly weird Chinese dialect: "This is a new thing. Our research is only the furthest inside the surface. No one knows what its characteristics are."
Bao Yiyong also knew this, but just like he concealed many things about the Zhongshan Base during this mission, he always felt that this person also concealed something from him.
Someone who looked like a scientific researcher approached Bao Yiyong and said uneasily: "Minister, I don't know how long our isolation suits will last. How about we let our people avoid the thick fog first and collect them later?"
Before Bao Yiyong could answer, the man with the tight package said first: "No, the first two collections have shown that we are not the only ones who like the minced meat, but those non-human beings like it even more. If we can't follow up and collect it, When we come back afterwards, I'm afraid it will be the same as the previous two times, with only a few leftovers."
"But… "
"Don't worry, the isolation suits we wear are the highest-tech crystallization developed by our company's special materials research institute. It has a better isolation effect than the most advanced space suits. Besides, we don't enter the thick fog, we just need to follow the thick fog. .”
Bao Yiyong finally agreed with the tight package man's opinion. Since he came and issued such a large-scale task, he naturally wanted to gain more, otherwise he would not be able to explain to the capital and Zhongshan base.
There is a saying that things are unpredictable. Hunters always think that they are the final winners, but they forget that they can also be used as hunting targets.
A piercing siren suddenly sounded.
Then I seemed to hear someone shouting: "There's thick fog again! It's green fog!"
Bao Yiyong and others changed their faces, feeling happy and sad at the same time.
Never before had two colors of dense fog appeared at the same time.
"Follow the thick purple fog first!" Bao Yiyong decided.
But his idea was quickly shattered, because there was no need to follow, and purple mist also enveloped them!
Not many people could escape from the third ring in the end. To report the news, Datou kept rushing out. His speed power was at its maximum effect at this time.
The soldiers who could get on the military card all fled to the military card, but it was too late, the thick fog spread too fast!
And just like a deliberate containment, a new thick green fog appeared and quickly blocked everyone's way out.
If you look down from the sky at this time, you will see that the entire inner city of Zhongshan is shrouded in two colors of thick fog. The thick green fog on the outside is like a donut with a hole in the middle, and the hole in the middle is filled with thick purple fog.
With the help of the base vehicle, the scavenger team flew directly into the sky and rushed out of the thick fog.
Only then did the members of the scavenging team realize that their base vehicle could still fly!
During this period, Xiao Mo and the others had no time to save others - the thick fog actually affected electronic equipment, and their base vehicle almost stopped running. In the end, it was Xue Lihong who forced the base vehicle to give up all other functions except ensuring the personal safety of everyone in the vehicle, and first concentrate its energy on rushing out of the thick fog.
Just before the base vehicle broke out of the thick fog, the base vehicle's power source was affected by the thick fog and crashed, and they almost fell back into the thick fog. Fortunately, they rushed out, and the moment they broke out of the thick fog, the power source of the base vehicle was restarted, and it slid dangerously against the edge of the thick fog for a while before rising again.
All the members of the scavenging team broke out in a cold sweat, and the two children were so frightened that they hugged the legs of the adults next to them.
The base vehicle landed invisibly and circled around to let the five people on the list get off.
All those who escaped were gathered in the outer camp, where there were communication vehicles and ambulances left by the military before entering.
Xiao Mo saw an acquaintance, it was health soldier Li Wei. Li Wei was busy treating the wounded who escaped, all of whom were accidentally scratched and bruised during the escape.
When Xiao Mo saw that there were no seriously injured people, he did not go over.
He ran onto the communication vehicle in one breath and quickly informed Qiu Feng of the situation here before he could catch his breath.
Qiu Feng was very calm and asked them how many people had escaped, how many people were still trapped in the thick fog, and if they had any rescue plan.
Datou answered one by one, but the only rescue plan was the second plan set by Lei Bing, which was to abandon the people in the thick fog and return all the living people to the base. But of course Datou and the others could not accept such a plan. Including Lei Bing, only less than 100 of the 3,000 soldiers escaped, and the majority of the troops were trapped inside. The same goes for mercenaries. Of the hundred mercenaries, only those who were faster and had a better sense of direction escaped.
After a final count, it turned out that only the scavenging team members had escaped.
"Where are Bao Yiyong and the others? Have you seen them? Have they escaped?"
"No, they seem to be stuck in it too."
Qiu Feng pondered, he didn't believe that Bao Yiyong would risk his own life and get himself into it. If this happens now, either they are sure to survive in the thick fog and survive until the thick fog clears. Or there was some unexpected situation that they couldn't control.
If it was the latter, Qiu Feng wanted to applaud. But considering that more of the soldiers and mercenaries trapped in the thick fog were Zhongshan Base soldiers and mercenaries, his little bit of schadenfreude completely disappeared.
"You just said that the results of the count showed that all the people in the scavenging team escaped?"
Datou replied: "Yes."
He was envious and grateful for the people in this team, and had no negative emotions. In the perception of Zhongshan Base soldiers, the members of the scavenging team have always been very powerful. If they didn't like to keep a low profile, the two honorary titles of No. 1 Mercenary Team and No. 1 Mercenary in the Zhongshan Base Mercenary List would not be considered by others at all. .
As for saving people? Just now, even the soldiers whose duty was to protect the people could only worry about their own lives and flee desperately. Why should he ask the people in the scavenging team to save others regardless of himself
Qiu Feng pondered for a moment on the opposite side, "Invite them over and tell them that I have a new task for them."
When Datou contacted General Qiu Feng, the system was revealing the information it could reveal to Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong.
Of course, the system didn't want to reveal this information from the beginning. It just couldn't help but want to hit Xue Lihong, and then it said a lot after hitting.
"Did that bastard analyze anything by collecting the fog? Just based on the broken instrument in his hand that should have been thrown into the garbage dump long ago, haha."
Xiao Mo: Not bad, even hehe has learned it.
Xiao Mo took advantage of the situation and told Xue Lihong everything about the elemental life that the system had told him before.
Xue Lihong looked around, winked at Qian Yunkai and the others, and pulled Xiao Mo aside.
Qian Yun opened his eyes to the others and blocked their captain and vice-captain intentionally or unintentionally.
Like other lovers who escaped from danger, Xue Lihong hugged Xiao Mo and asked in a low voice: "Ask it, in terms of levels, how many levels of this kind of elemental life can be counted in it."
The system answered simply: "Unknown."
Xiao Mo: Be good!
Xue Lihong continued to ask: "Your Majesty said that there were powerful interstellar adventurers who had successfully optimized their bodies by this elemental life before, but survived, right? Otherwise, those adventurers and developers would not be able to treat this elemental life like this. They flock to each other like ducks."
System: "Yes."
Xue Lihong frowned in a rare way, "So those alien developers consciously want to create elemental life, but they don't know the success rate and rely entirely on luck. Then why do they care so much about elemental life, this kind of life form? What exactly does it do?”
The system did not answer at first.
After Xue Lihong learned from Xiao Mo, she shrugged, "I don't think it knows either. It's just a system. How could the developer let it know too many things."
"At least I know more than you." The system said coldly.
Xiao Mo sighed softly, "Your Majesty, can you really say nothing? We just want to know a little bit, at least so that we can have some ability to deal with it. I really don't want to die, I want to live with you and Xiaohong Together."
The system was silent for a long time, and Xiao Mo thought it would not speak again when it spoke.
"That human being named Bao Yiyong has actually stated two known important functions of elemental life. This is also the current common interstellar understanding of the role of this life form.
The first function of this life form is to optimize the material and non-material life forms to their optimal advantages, and to evolve their forms to an almost perfect state. The more excellent and powerful the physical fitness and qualifications, the more optimizations they can accept. Even the most advanced life forms in the interstellar that have used the best genetic optimization potions can evolve their genes again.
The second function is that it can make the living body optimized by it immune to 99.27% of known viruses and harmful substances in the universe. "
Xiao Mo was shocked by this data, "How is this possible? The universe is so big..."
The system gave an explanation: "Research shows that this kind of elemental life can cause assimilation of the cells of the living body that has been evolved by them. That is, whenever substances that are not conducive to the living body enter the living body, its cells will automatically produce Reaction, assimilating substances that are not conducive to it. If you can't understand, you can think of elemental life as an extremely powerful virus. Its assimilation effect on other substances is like cancer cells infecting healthy cells."
Xiao Mo hesitated to speak to Xue Lihong.
Xue Lihong stared at him, "What did your Majesty say?"
Xiao Mo asked him to wait.
System summary: "Now you understand, the emergence of this elemental life form is the best thing for developers and adventurers. They will go crazy because of it, and all known capable interstellar life forms will want to come to Earth. Try your luck.
But these are tantamount to catastrophe for the earth and the creatures living on it. You cannot keep these elements alive, but you will suffer greatly from them.
This danger refers not only to the adventurers who come for the elemental life, but also to the elemental life itself. Because your body cannot bear the transformation of elemental life at all, and you cannot even bear the mist it breathes. "
Xiao Mo didn't believe it, "Even if our powers reach level ten?"
The system said cautiously: "Those with level 10 abilities can give it a try, but it is not recommended."
Xiao Mo slowly exhaled and told Xue Lihong.
"I have a question, please answer me, Your Majesty." Xue Lihong looked into Xiao Mo's eyes and said, "You said that no life in the interstellar has been able to capture this elemental life, so those adventurers want to use it What should elemental beings do to optimize their bodies? Is it just to anger the other party and wait for them to crash into their body?"
The system reluctantly said: "Okay, this bastard got the point right, but the answer is also I don't know."
Xiao Mo felt uncomfortable, "Don't call me little red bastard."
System: "He is originally a bastard. What I said is the truth, not to insult him. There is not much information about elemental life in this system's database. I only know that the objects entered by elemental life have no rules. It is not to anger them. , they will crash into you."
"Does it all depend on chance, or the mood of those elemental beings?" Xiao Mo had a headache.
System: "You can understand it this way."
Xiao Mo looked up at Xue Lihong, first relayed the system's words, and then suddenly asked Xue Lihong: "Are you sure about capturing that elemental life if you want all members of the team to participate in this mission?"
Unexpectedly, Xue Lihong actually shook his head, "I didn't know that it was elemental life. I thought it was a genius treasure that I had heard of before, a kind of fungus. You know that some fungi can also emit light, which is very strange." They are tiny and can emit smoke-like spores.
Have you heard of Chemazhi? It is one of them. It is mentioned in the Baopuzi elixir that it grows in deep mountains, under big trees, or on the side of springs. It looks like a palace, a chariot or a horse, or a dragon or a tiger. , or like human figures, or like flying birds, or like light spots, five colors and impermanent, there are one hundred and twenty kinds. You need to walk close to it, cut it with a bone knife, dry it in the shade and grind it into powder. Those who eat it can live for at least a thousand years to thousands of years. Years old, it is even possible to become immortal. "
Xue Lihong said vaguely: "In addition, I also heard some practitioners mention that they had seen a kind of colorful light spots. Some people thought it was fairy medicine and used ancient methods to capture it. As a result, this person It is said that he left as an immortal, but he also left some elixir behind. I suspect that the immortal here may have been unable to withstand the explosion.
The same is likely to be true for the Shengxian mentioned in the Baopuzi Immortal Medicine Chapter. At that time, humans couldn't understand it, so they thought it was the dissolution of soldiers, or the soul leaving the body and ascending. It is also possible that some people's bodies can withstand the optimization and transformation of this elemental life, and then have special manifestations such as lightness of body and spirit, which may also be said to become immortals. "
System: "Huh?"
Xue Lihong said: "So when I first heard about this kind of light spot, I thought it was because of the great changes in the world, especially after the black rain, which led to the abundance of 'spiritual energy' in Zhongshan City and some places, and even produced this kind of light spot. The legendary Immortal Zhi. I once heard by chance what methods those practitioners used to capture Immortal Zhi, and their lifespans are indeed much longer than ordinary people."
The system did not ridicule Xue Lihong, and said thoughtfully: "Maybe the earth has produced elemental life before. As for the method of capturing you mentioned, use a bone knife? What kind of bones? This must be a legend. In theory, It’s simply not true.”
After listening to Xiao Mo's account, Xue Lihong sneered: "The method of capturing that I learned from those practitioners is not to use a bone knife, but what method it is, I don't want to say now."
System: ... nasty bastard trash. If you ask me anything from now on, I won’t say anything.
At this time, some soldiers came to Xiao Mo and said with pleading that General Qiu Feng asked them to come over.
When Xiao Mo saw the soldier's expression, he knew what he wanted to say to General Qiu.