Sword and Magic and Taxi

"Where is this, another monster guard field?" After passing through the portal, everyone seemed to be back in the circular passage. . The fastest update is the pipes, valves, and strange meters, but the ceiling here is much shorter, and the diameter is less than half of the previous one.

"No, those hanging on the pipes are not living things, just corpses." Zhao Mai sniffed the smell, and then said affirmatively: "Speaking out may make you feel upset in your stomach, those things..."

"Stop talking!" Susan was already using the actual act of retching to prove her stomach upset. This is not to blame her, after all, looking around, on the ceiling and walls of the entire circular passage, there are all kinds of air-dried corpses hanging everywhere, most of which are open-mouthed, and some are left with only one skin. , It's like... Forget it, don't describe it, what if the reader happens to be eating bacon rice while reading this paragraph? .

The pipes are already full of steam, and all the devices here are in operation. The valve made a creaking sound, the lever and the piston squeaked, smoke filled and steam filled everywhere, and the sharp rubbing sound was endless, making teeth sour. Compared with the empty passage before, this place finally "lived", like a dilapidated old car, mixing the power of water and fire, mixing with the smell of steel and rust, and exerting the last waste heat.

The steam picked up the wind, swaying the dead bodies of various creatures that were hung, entangled, or stuffed between the pipes. There must be some kind of antiseptic magic here, otherwise the smell will be ruinous in such a humid and hot place. It's okay now, everything around is just devastating visually and mentally, and temporarily spares my nose.

Zhao Mai was the first person in the team. He stood still and kept looking up at the corpses in the sky with a solemn expression. Diana went to Zhao Mai's side to look at him, and asked, "What's wrong with you, did you find any shortcuts again?"

"No, I was wondering where these corpses came from." Zhao Mai's words almost caused Susan to vomit. Her legs were weak, and she hurriedly lay on the shoulders of the steel man. "Brother-in-law, I am studying physics and astronomy, not pathobiology or criminal investigation. Please spare me."

"I'm talking about astronomy." Zhao Mai said: "Let me tell you this. These corpses look a lot like the bionic beasts we have seen before, but they are not all. If you look closely... forget it. , Let me just say the result: these are all aliens."

Diana knew that Zhao Mai's cosmic fleet traveled across various galaxies to perform the task of finding and spreading life, so he was sure of his judgment. Ganglishi and the Invisible Girl didn't know Zhao Mai, but they saw him with only one move before, and they paralyzed the asteroid, which can prove his strength from the side. If he says that these are aliens, let's just think so. But what Susan said was right: "Anyway, it's the corpse, which won't hinder us. Let's quickly find a path through this morgue."

"Alright." Zhao Mai said as he walked, "I sent a spacecraft to go deep into the sea of ​​stars, to millions of star systems, and across the Milky Way, leaving thousands of colonized planets, but a little No traces of alien creatures have been found. Let alone a corpse, it's just a radio wave, a relic, even fragments of man-made objects. If it weren't for the dead star and superman, I would think there is no alien in this universe. People. I didn’t expect to see so many kinds of alien creatures here, which inevitably makes me wonder: How did they die here?"

In fact, the answer lies in these corpses. With his professional vision, Zhao Mai found the surgical traces left by various biological experiments. Although aliens of the same type are scattered around the circular passage, as long as you pay attention to your memory, you can find that they can make up the scale of several ethnic groups. The differences in body types, classification of physical characteristics, and differences in the degree of aging of skin and muscle prove that they are captured in groups for special research.

One can imagine a picture: The Death Star descends on a certain planet, suppresses the power of an entire planet with weakened light, and then begins to plunder and learn. After everything is completed, all traces are erased, leaving only some souvenirs. Zhao Mai measured the difficulty of doing this, and found that besides perfectly erasing traces, he could also do other things himself. If the relevant capabilities are specifically developed, this model is absolutely feasible.

As Zhao Mai walked, he used his psychic powers to remove the dead body so that everyone could pass more smoothly. Walking here is an unpleasant experience for others, but it is a journey of discovery for Zhao Mai. For these aliens in front of us, it is pure waste to only study their organs and abilities. Only by investigating their evolutionary journey and studying organisms like history can we learn what they have accumulated over time and survived in the corpse. The most important knowledge: how to adapt to the environment. So Zhao Mai released a part of the source quality, enough to support the establishment of a small research base here, and by the way, it also allowed the psychic power space to produce surplus. He secretly took some samples, avoided everyone's attention, and stuffed them in.

Following the increasingly clear spatial energy signal, they walked forward about one kilometer. "There is a biological signal ahead, it is alive." Zhao Mai's words made everyone alert, and one after another made a guard posture. Unexpectedly, Zhao Mai smiled bitterly: "Don't be nervous, it's just some eggs."

Sure enough, after turning an angle in the circular channel, everyone saw the "egg field" ahead. The sticky milky white jelly is spread all over the ground, walls and ceiling, forming a thick "hatching bed". Thousands of oval gray-white biological eggs the size of a watermelon sit upright on the incubator bed, each with a pit. Each egg has a cross-shaped opening at the top, and a few openings are straight.

The four-person team are not ordinary people. They either use special eyesight to see through directly, or use their ability to detect energy and particles. Even if they are iron brains, they will not lose the IQ and caution of normal people. They can naturally find out. These eggs are active. The eggs that appeared in the pile of corpses did not give people a reassuring feeling~www.NovelMTL.com~ So Diana directly said: "Destroy them all!"

"Don't rush your hands, they are indeed very fragile now. The eggshell can be shattered with a single shot. However, I smelled extremely corrosive substances in the living bodies and inside the eggshell. These things in front of me are both The hatchery is also a minefield. It is easy to break them, but if the corrosive liquid flows everywhere, this circular pipe must be finished. If the space is turbulent outside, how can we go to the other side?"

"You are an expert in biology. Follow your advice. We listen to you. If you can paralyze these eggs, it would be the best, and we can safely pass through."

"Give me a few minutes, and I will see if I can imitate their shells and learn the key gene that can resist strong corrosive body fluids." Zhao Mai motioned everyone to back up and move forward alone. He adjusts his natural force to blend with the surrounding environment as much as possible to avoid being detected by the egg.

This reminded Susan. She immediately said: "Brother-in-law, I can make everyone invisible, so they can't see us, let alone attack. How about this method?"

The sound wave passed, and an egg slowly opened the top opening, slowly rotating the egg shell, just like a cannon adjusting the angle of fire, aiming at Susan.