In He Yi's intermittent narration, Qi Leren finally connected everything together.
Octopus, a kind of cosmic alien that can exterminate civilization, once they spread to a civilization planet and sense nearby creatures, they will start to hatch. Generally speaking, this kind of "hatch" is very slow, and it takes more than half a month It takes time to break free from the outer layer of luminous pebble-like shell and start to parasitize. But there is also a way to stimulate the octopus to revive it quickly, that is, to make the body fluid of the creature—usually blood—contact the shell of the octopus, and the octopus will complete recovery within a few minutes and enter a parasitic state.
The blood stain on the luminous stone in the church is obviously Anne or Mark consciously awakening the octopus inside, allowing it to parasitize on Mark.
Once parasitized, the host will quickly lose self-awareness and become completely a puppet of the octopus. The octopus can develop into a mature body within 20 hours, enter the breeding period, lay eggs once a day, and parasitize the surrounding organisms until a relatively closed space has less prey for parasitism than that of the octopus. total.
The octopus is a thinking creature. The smarter its host is, the smarter it will be, because it perfectly inherits everything from the host after it seizes the host's self-awareness. It will use the host's brain to "think" what to do next To reproduce itself more, its ultimate goal is to reproduce, to reproduce and expand by any means.
In the middle of the night on the first day, Mark, the first infected person, appeared, and in the middle of the second day's night, the second infected person also appeared—from various indications, it was Xue Jiahui, and her "amnesia" after waking up was not only She just forgot that she was parasitized, because the octopus in her body had already borrowed her brain. After thinking about it, she came to the conclusion that she had better pretend to have amnesia and "forget" everything she knew about the octopus , in case anyone asks.
On the night of the third day, two new infected people appeared, one was most likely Annie, and the other was currently undetermined, most likely Laura, who was in charge of taking care of Xue Jiahui, but Qi Le had doubts about this, because If Laura had been parasitized, she would not have mentioned the clue question of "menstrual period" to the Qi Le people when listening to the best of the day this morning.
Then came tonight, with four more new victims tonight, more octopuses than humans. After these juvenile octopuses enter the mature body, the eight mature octopuses will not be able to get enough prey, and they are about to start a massacre. In order to obtain enough energy, they will enter the long-term life cycle like the original octopus. dormant until new prey emerge.
According to preliminary estimates, this time will be the night of the fifth day.
"If you want to save them, time is running out." He Yi looked at Qi Leren with a tired tone, "Are you sure you want to try? There are probably eight octopuses outside, at least four!"
"We still have time and methods, and I can't think of a reason not to do it," said Qi Leren.
"Method?" He Yi frowned.
"The instrument that can identify whether he is infected." Qi Leren reminded that He Yi used it to confirm that he was not infected.
He Yi's face changed: "No! Don't bring them in! You can go out, but after you go out, don't come back. I will wait here until the army arrives, but I will not let those infected people enter here!"
Qi Leren also frowned, thinking: "How about this, this institute is very big, you find a safe room to enter and lock it, I will bring a few people who may not be infected to come in for testing, if something unexpected happens... you Just close the gates along the way and hide in the power distribution room. If the situation is not good, you can cut off the power immediately, so that all the gates will be difficult to open, and even if there are infected people, they will not be able to enter your area."
He Yi still shook his head: "No, I won't let the monster in!"
"... Well, at least let me go out." Qi Leren sighed, he understood He Yi's concerns, and could understand his panic at this moment, if at this moment he was not an outsider, but a It is impossible for ordinary people who are innocent to be involved in such a dangerous situation to behave as righteously as they are now.
Deep down in his heart, Qi Le still held a wait-and-see attitude towards He Yi. There were still doubts about this person, and it could be said that there were quite a few. But the people of Qi Le didn't even ask, because it was impossible to get any useful response when questioning He Yi face to face here, and they would even startle the snake.
"How do you want to get out? The entrance I came in has been completely blown up, and I can't get out. The door to the outside requires a special ID card, and there are life detection systems and gait recognition systems inside the passage, and the brain will automatically Analyzing your walking posture is much stricter than any fingerprint authentication, and you cannot cheat at all. Once the system determines that you are not in the database, the laser defense system will activate until the life detection system determines that there are no living things inside, you Do you have the confidence to pass again?" He Yi asked.
Without any confidence, the people of Qi Le thought to themselves, the cooldown of SL Dafa is one hour, and it hasn't passed yet.
And the Prophet has said that the use of SL Dafa should be reduced as much as possible... Qi Leren actually didn't have any real feelings, he just vaguely felt that this skill was a bit evil, and if he died a lot, it would cause him to have frequent nightmares, but when it came to the critical moment, He still relies on this skill instinctively.
No, think about the tombstones on Undead Island, there are too many.
"Where is the main control room for that laser channel?" Qi Leren asked.
"It's useless, I've looked for it. It seems that the door of the main control room of the defense system cannot be opened without a password, and the monitoring cannot be seen. Even if we find the password and enter, this kind of system is not like a device for checking octopus infection. If you know the characters here, you can't operate at all." He Yi shook his head and said.
Qi Leren began to think hard. To go out, you must pass through the laser channel, and at the end of the channel leading to the outside door, use your ID card to open the door. However, the people of Qi Le have already experienced the danger of the laser tunnel, and they may still need to use SL Dafa to pass through it smoothly. Is there any other way...
"I have an idea!" Qi Leren yelled, and He Yi suddenly looked at him in fright, "He Yi, I need your cooperation!"
"… you say."
"I will go to the laser channel in a while, you go to the power distribution room and turn off the power, so that the laser channel will not start, and the gait recognition system is the same, I will go through the laser channel to the gate, and wait for you to turn on the power again, so that The identification system on the gate is activated, and I can open the gate and go out immediately!" said Qi Leren.
"Are you sure? What if the gait recognition system or life detection system is activated first?" He Yi disagreed.
"It's more likely than going through the laser channel to the gate when it's powered on." Qi Le said, "And isn't there you? It took me about a minute to go through the laser channel last time. Calculate the time after you turn on the power, and turn off the power again in about 40 seconds. Forty seconds is enough for me to open the iron door and go out. You turn off the power, and the laser turns off with it."
He Yi thought for a while, nodded and said: "This method is good, double insurance."
For Qile people who have SL Dafa, this is three guarantees. What he relied on was not luck, nor He Yi's cooperation, but his own strength. Otherwise, he would rather study how to get out of the collapsed passage that He Yi came in than consider such a dangerous laser passage.
The two discussed the details again, and the Qi Le people also took off the watch they found when they were collecting supplies and gave it to He Yi: "Take it to see the time."
He Yi took the watch, nodded solemnly, and said again: "Oh, I also found the arsenal here, heavy weapons can't be used, but you should be able to get started with weapons like pistols, and grenades, you should bring them with you. let's go."
No wonder this kid has a gun in his hand, Qi Leren glanced at He Yi: "Okay, thank you very much."
The two went to get the weapons. These weapons were well preserved. The Qi Le people picked out a few easy-to-use weapons and took them apart for maintenance. They were going to give them to Dr. Lu and the others when the time came, while he took the usual ones. He also tried shooting on the spot, and He Yi, who was standing beside him, said quietly, "You really are from the military. Or did you know that there would be octopus here? Did you secretly hide the octopus in that cave?" inner?"
Qi Leren said helplessly: "I'm wronged, really, why do you think so?"
But he really knew that there would be octopuses.
"Then who are you? You can't be an ordinary lead singer, can you?" He Yi insisted.
Of course not, my singing is terrible, Qi Leren thought.
But... Should he pave the way for his use of skill cards? In order not to expose skills at critical moments and be questioned by the audience, resulting in mission failure? Thinking about it this way, Qi Leren decided to add a personal setting for himself.
"Actually, I do have a special identity..." Qi Leren said solemnly, "I'm telling you, don't tell anyone."
He Yi stared at him blankly for a while: "Then wait, shall I turn off the tracking camera?"
Qi Leren couldn't help laughing, this smile exposed the fact that he was joking, seeing He Yi looking at him resentfully, Qi Leren corrected his expression again, and asked seriously: "Do you have faith? ?”
He Yi was confused by his question, and shook his head blankly: "I am an atheist."
I used to be an atheist too, until I was involved in a nightmare game, Qi Leren thought. In fact, he can't be considered a theist now, he just thinks that there must be some kind of powerful and incredible power in the world beyond their cognition, and they are considered "gods".
— You can admire and question, but don't worship blindly or maliciously slander, otherwise you are doomed to be unable to surpass yourself and enter a higher level. That's what Chen Baiqi told Qi Leren, and Qi Leren felt that what she said made sense.
Seeing that Qi Leren did not answer for a long time, He Yi asked again: "What about you? Are you a believer?"
Qi Leren smiled slightly: "I am an apostle of God."
"..."
"If I am killed, I will be resurrected immediately."
"..."
"When the danger comes, God will give me strength, let me become an angel, and fight against the evil power to the end."
"..."
Qi Leren showed a divine smile like a prophet, and gazed tenderly at He Yi, who was hesitating to speak.
Before the good show begins, give the audience a little psychological preparation.