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it's dark.

Li De looked up at the moon rising closely following the footsteps of the sun. It was the same as the moon in his hometown in his memory, bright and soft, but not rounder or brighter than the earth's.

"Luna", the Romans compared the moon to a goddess, and the Scylla people did the same. Li De also found an interesting thing, that is, the Scylla people, like the Romans, called the sun Sol. The twelve planets in the world are all named after the gods, and he is actually in a Roman planet.

But I'm not interested in being Caesar.

Once he saw the starry sky, Li De couldn't help but think of the Brotherhood's plan to launch satellites. Not only that, it also covered a plan about a whole set of aerospace technology. GDI's space control technology is in full swing. The host's plan is to build five synchronous orbital space stations, 32 ion cannon launch platforms, and [-] military satellites to maintain absolute control over the planet's surface.

The watchman's suggestion is more direct-relocate the Brotherhood's core base to the moon as a whole to ensure absolute safety.In this way, even if the Brotherhood suffered a setback in its military operation in Syra, at least the Brotherhood who controlled space was invincible.

It is rare that Li De did not refute the watchman's plan. As the worst possibility, the premise of the final plan, as a leader, he must prepare for the worst.But the plan belongs to the plan, there is not even a shadow now, spaceflight has always meant a huge consumption of resources, and the current base facilities are probably not enough to support such a grand plan.

"It's only the second day that I have to think about opening the mine, and the progress is getting faster and faster."

Li De slapped his head, thinking whether to send Olivia to take charge of this matter, when someone in the team suddenly shouted: "We're here, we're here!"

Under the dark sky, through the shadow of the jungle, a dilapidated factory building appeared in Li De's eyes.Seeing that the landing place is right in front of them, even the most exhausted people suddenly regain their energy.Li De also moved forward with them, but at this moment his ear, that is, the audio receiver, received bursts of ultra-high frequency pulse signals.

The radar-like ultrasonic response swept around him and the others round after round. Li De read the audio and found that it was very close to the frequency of bats.But these ultrasonic waves are not just one or two dozens, but an innumerable wave, which is the reaction of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of transmitters working at the same time!

There are no bats in this world, what is it that emits such a dense ultrasonic tsunami?

Anna was very surprised to see that Li De suddenly slowed down.Li De had carried all the luggage for her today, which made her feel very uncomfortable, so the girl also paid special attention.

"Li De, what's the matter?" She asked curiously.

He didn't answer, but asked suddenly: "Anna, are there nocturnal bats around here?"

Brown was attracted by his words, and the old man shook his head: "Impossible, the lairs of nocturnal bats are all in the caves of orcs, and they are only there where the orcs are. There has long been no food for them in such wild places. "

"We have walked this road several times in the past two years and have never encountered it. Nocturnal bats do not leave the city."

Brown explained a few words, and seemed a little displeased with Li De's blind worry.But the latter is obviously more concerned about one of his words-"You mean, where the orcs are, they are there?"

"Nonsense, the orcs like to attack at night, and these flying insects are the first ones. If no orcs keep them, where can they go to find food..."

Li De suddenly laughed, and he said to the bewildered old man: "You said that the night bats are accompanied by a large army of orcs? That's unfortunate, there is an entire army of orcs marching in the tunnel under our feet." .”

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"What I want to say is that this army of orcs is not coming for us, but this group of nocturnal bats has come out to look for food!"

Li De didn't care whether the old man believed it or not, he raised his voice and shouted to the whole team: "Hurry up, everyone, if you don't hurry up, it will be too late!"

His words caused a commotion in the team, and Jin Mingyang rushed forward: "What are you talking about, are there any enemies here?"

"It's not an enemy, but it's more terrifying than an enemy. It's a nocturnal bat!"

The three words "Night Walking Bat" hit everyone's hearts like a huge boulder, causing an uproar.But some people still don't believe it: "Nocturnal bats never appear in this kind of place, why are you scaring everyone?"

Li De looked over, and it turned out to be that kid Hill.I paid a little more attention to him when I saved his life before, but after that, the kid's mental state became a little strange, and he always looked at himself with suspicion.His words are still very representative among the crowd, and there are still many people who don't believe it.

Li De maintained the greatest restraint: "I didn't scare you, either hurry up, or wait for someone to collect your body."

"You are not our leader, an outsider, a guy of unknown origin is always giving orders to us, what are your plans?"

It's really... hard to persuade, damn it!

At this time, Anna came out to rescue Li De: "Anyway, let's hurry up to the mine to be safer...Everyone, hurry up!"

"Anna," the young man's words were full of disappointment, "Why do you treat outsiders like this?!"

The girl's face suddenly changed, she pursed her lips, her expression became cold.At this time, Mr. Brown finally spoke. Although he was very dissatisfied with Li De's anti-customer, as the real leader of the team, he still took responsibility: "Enough! Whether it is true or not, the place is not far anyway, everyone gives I quicken my pace!"

"late..."

Li De said, suddenly he stuffed something into Anna's hand: "Quick, I will buy as much time as possible!"

Anna spread her hand, it turned out to be a fireworks signal stick, and she immediately understood Li De's meaning.But before she had time to say anything, Li De stuffed her backpack back into her arms, turned around and ran in the opposite direction.

"Li De! You..."

Brown held down Anna: "Don't worry about him, if he is so confident, it means there will be no problem!"

The sound... the dense fluttering of wings, mixed with small chirping sounds faintly came from the night.The nomads are no strangers to this sound. They have hidden in closed rooms for countless nights, falling asleep uneasy amid such noise.But now, in the windy wilderness, they feel like they are in an ice cave.

In the sky, a mass of nocturnal bats rushed towards them with hissing neighing. These cruel creatures had razor-like teeth, and they passed by like locusts crossing the border, leaving no survivors.Now no one had any objections anymore, and everyone ran towards the mine in front of them desperately, and among them, only Li De was running in the opposite direction, towards the night bat.

"You don't want to die!"

Dom looked at Li De passing by and shouted anxiously, and suddenly something was thrown into his hands by Li De.He picked it up and saw that it was the same firework stick as that given to Anna.

In the dark night, a figure walked through the jungle at an extremely fast speed.While running, Li De unscrewed the last pyrotechnic stick. With a "chi", the chemical agent containing magnesium powder reacted, and a bright light appeared on the dark ground.

PS: It's a bit late to get off work, my liver is not moving, sorry.

Chapter 41 The Nocturnal Bat Solution

A light in the dark night, even if it is weak and faltering, is enough to light up the hope in people's hearts.

The pyrotechnic signal used for military markings is like a small flare after adding magnesium powder to strengthen the lighting, so conspicuous in this dark land.The night bats obviously also noticed this unusual target. Their flying altitude dropped a little, and more than half of the night bats changed their targets and flew towards Li De.

Interestingly speaking, creatures that are afraid of light may also have phototaxis. Nocturnal bats living underground are very uncomfortable with strong light, but in such a dark night, light has become the best reference. These nocturnal bats can instinctively Make the judgment that where there is light, there is food.Seeing the nocturnal bats aiming at him, Li De glanced back at the homeless team, and simulated and calculated the time it would take for them to reach the safe range of the mine.

4 minutes, I need to fight for 4 minutes for them, I hope my titanium steel armor can withstand the sharp mouthparts of these cannibalistic little things... But Li De looked at the black cloud, the electronic eyes The sighting system gave him a rough judgment——

Seventy-nine thousand!

What I am facing is as many as [-] nocturnal bats. People with a little common sense can see that it is a joke to block a murderous swarm army with a small firework signal. It's really a bit of a swollen face to pretend to be fat.

"Watcher, I know you say I'm proud, sensitive...but I'm not stupid."

As he said that, Li De stopped running. He waved the pyrotechnic signal device in his hand at the night bats, leading them to lower their altitude and surround him.

The wings of the night bat flapped dozens of times per second. Nearly a hundred thousand flying insects circled above his head to form a black vortex, stirring up a powerful air field, and Li De was in the center of the eye of the storm. , there were countless spinning black shadows in front of his eyes, and ear-piercing neighing in his ears.They surrounded him impenetrably, he tried to take a step forward, but felt that he hit a wall made of sharp knives, and pushed himself back, with a large number of scratches on his face and breastplate.

The bionic skin was damaged, revealing the metallic facial bones, and the maintenance system automatically secreted new cortical emulsion.Even the man of steel couldn't get away, and an ordinary person would be ashamed at this moment.

"Boom!"

Li De was hit on the back, and a scratch was scratched on his coat with a snort.From the vortex of night bats, some fearless guys began to attack him with strong light. They kept bumping into Li De, trying to gnaw off a piece of flesh and blood.In such a passive environment, Li De touched the equipment on his body against the attack. Bullets are useless against this kind of enemy, and peace envoys are also useless. The most useful flares...no .

"But I have this!"

A silver metal body was thrown high into the sky, it collided with the night bat in the air, and was carried to a higher place by the spiral airflow—"Boom!"

A not-so-intense ray of light flashed in the night-walking bat group, accompanied by continuous dull explosions in the air.An invisible ripple spread among the night bats—it was the paralysis grenade that Li De used once before, which was equipped with the apostles. This weapon can produce violent infrasound waves and paralyze the hearing and balance systems of creatures. For you How well do these little things with more sensitive hearing work?

The vortex collapsed—the swirling black storm became a turbulent current, and the nocturnal bats lost their bearings and crashed into each other, so close together that the razor teeth twisted their own kind. debris.A rain of flesh and blood fell around Li De, and the corpses, as well as the nocturnal bats that lost their balance, almost drowned him.

"Paji", a nocturnal bat that lost its mobility was crushed by boots, and Li De stepped out on the pile of corpses.The black whirlwind had been swept away, and the remaining nocturnal bats slammed into the night sky like headless flies, unable to pose a threat to themselves.

He patted the blood stains on his body, looked back, and muttered to himself:

"It's been almost 4 minutes. They should be safe."

With that said, he started running back.

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Li De's judgment was correct, but it was still not accurate enough.They did arrive, but not securely enough.

With a bang, the gate was closed, the factory building was in disrepair for a long time, and the doors and windows were broken. They scattered around looking for heavy objects to block the gaps in the doors and windows.The old man panted and counted the number of his own people, "Is everyone here?" he shouted.

"It's all here, no one is left behind!"

Someone answered him, but Anna was in a hurry: "I know that the night bats must be kept out, but we blocked the door, how did Li De get in?"

"Then we have no choice." Brown's mouth was dry and his head was a little downcast. "We really owe him this time, God knows how he knew the night bats were coming."

At this moment, Dom came over—"We're guarding the door. If Reed comes back...I mean, I hope he really has a way to deal with so many nocturnal bats."

The girl lowered her head and covered her face with her hands in pain: "How is it possible, there are too many, a little light source can't stop them, he will be torn to pieces."

Dom sighed. At this moment, there was a sudden violent vibration from the roof of the factory building, as if hail was "crackling" from the sky.The nocturnal bats chirped and hovered over the mine, constantly hitting the walls and windows with their bodies, and everyone's hearts suddenly rose again.

"Block the windows, quick!"

Before it was too late, nocturnal bats kept hitting the windows reinforced with wooden boards.The glass couldn't bear it and burst, and a group of flying insects the size of a fist filed in through the cracks.One person couldn't dodge enough to be covered in face by these nocturnal bats. He covered his face and let out a scream, and a large amount of blood splashed out.

"Chi-" A ray of light drove away the night bat, and it scattered away from the strong light, and Dom rushed to the wounded with a firework in his hand-"Fortunately, there is no life-threatening!"

Several people hurriedly followed and filled the gap in the window with the things in their hands.Dom was next to him and used the glow stick in his hand to stop the nocturnal bats from pouring in.But this is only a drop in the bucket, more windows are being hit, the storm of night bat wings makes the whole building crumble, the dust on the ceiling "swishes" down, the sound of glass shattering is like the footsteps of death, every sound Heartbeats are counting down.

"We can't stay here anymore, we have to find a closed room...Ah!!!"

As Jin Mingyang was talking, suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his head, and he couldn't help hugging his head in pain.Not only him, but everyone present felt a piercing pain in their brains. In this situation, everyone was suppressed and could not move, not to mention blocking the night bats. There was a chill in my heart.

over... what is this?Are you going to die?

The brief tens of seconds seemed like centuries, when the maddening headache finally disappeared.People were pleasantly surprised to find that not only did they not die, but the nocturnal bat that hit them just now was paralyzed on the ground and could not move.His empty factory building was full of corpses of nocturnal bats, and the nocturnal bats that hit the doors and windows were gone. Hearing the sound, they gave up attacking in an instant and were moving away from here.

At this moment, a familiar voice came from their heads.

"I'm sorry to make you suffer, everyone...but you closed the door, so I can only come in through the skylight."

Chapter 42 Machine Scientist

Turning his eyes from the direction of the homeless people to the base, Sira had already entered the night, but General Olivia did not rest.Under the watchman's suggestion, she reported to Li De the suggestion of opening up a new base. She proposed a whole set of plans, which were easily approved by him. Although Li De seemed to be busy, he still allocated part of his attention Discuss the details with her.

"General, go to the biological laboratory of MCV. I told the researchers to decipher the physiology of orcs. I think this will be helpful for your future strategy formulation." After saying this, Li De seemed to hesitate a bit, and added He said a sentence - "There is a person in the research room, you can go and meet him, I think he should be your helper."

But strangely, no matter how much he asked, the leader didn't seem to want to tell her who this person was right away.So Olivia came, she walked into the MCV with doubts, and took the elevator inside the MCV all the way to the laboratory - it seemed that not only she had something to hide from the leader, but the leader also had something to hide from herself.

"Hello, General Olivia."

Before entering the biological laboratory, an inhuman and non-mechanical voice sounded in Olivia's tactical network.Olivia frowned. From the voice, it could be heard that it was a man. His authority was not low, and he could directly contact himself through the chain of command channel, but he never knew that there was such a number in the base information. figure.

"who are you?"

The other party did not answer himself.The tone of the electronic voice simulation is the same as that of the destroyers, low and sharp. Although his words are respectful, it makes Olivia feel very rude——

"What an honor to see the legendary General Olivia walking in the world again, you look in good condition, yes, you look much better than in the cultivation nest now. Does the body need to be adjusted? Please forgive my excitement , your resurrection is a scientific miracle, and I am extremely proud to be able to contribute to your resurrection, but to be honest, I don't really agree with the idea of ​​your black hand's self-proclaimed purity, which will limit The potential of your subordinates."

Olivia walked to the door of the biochemical laboratory, and the security system recognized her authority and opened the door of the quarantine aisle.As she walked into the hallway, nitric acid sprayed from all directions, a laser beam shone on her, and then the green light came on, and the door of the laboratory finally opened.

The biology lab... looks just like a slaughterhouse.The corpses of orcs were placed in sequence on the experimental table here, and there were everything. Olivia also saw a dismembered burrowing beast.Not all of the experimental subjects were intact, and there were still many fragmented organs soaked in the jar.And here none of the saboteurs are working, all the instruments are working on their own.

"Are you the helper the leader brought me? I didn't find your information in the database. Who are you and where are you?" Olivia said on the communication network. She didn't see any suitable work units on the scene. , "I came here after receiving orders from the leader, you'd better answer my question right away, I don't have that much patience."

"I'm really sorry, General. I need to treat this meeting very seriously. First, I will answer your first question. I, like you, cannot find any information in the files of the Brotherhood." The voice said, "You can call I am Ensig...Although this is my old name. Unlike you, General, I am the only living person who traveled with the leader, which is why you can't get my information. For you, it may be Meeting for the first time, but to me, you just came out of the breeding nest."

"And I'm right in front of you right now, or in other words, although I'm not the main body, this laboratory is me right now."

As he said that, as if to prove his words, the mechanical arms in the laboratory suddenly responded together, as if to greet her.

Olivia also understood at once, she knew why Li De was reluctant to tell her who the so-called "helper" was-"Could it be that you were the person in charge of the Kane Seal project back then? I remember that the leader was taking All the researchers died when the control of the Intellectual Control Corps was lost."

"Yes, we were punished for our foolish disobedience to the leader and our failure to know that he was the true prophet. But I have changed my mind, and the merciful leader has promised me a new future, and I, like you, am Loyal servants of the Brotherhood, all the saboteurs you see are my degraded clones."

"Interesting," Olivia raised her head and looked at a compartment on the ceiling, "Since we are all loyal servants of the leader, why don't you want to show your true face?"

Ensig was silent. He didn't speak, and Olivia didn't speak either. The atmosphere became stiff.

"Forgive me, General, you black hands are proud of 'purity', you may not want to meet a blasphemer like me. Besides, I presided over many experimental plans against you back then... I was extremely rushed The earth is restless. But right now we are both servants of the leader, and I don't really want us to be delayed by trivial matters."

The general laughed.

"If you mean that I was used in the Seal of Kane project, then you have to worry too much. I'm not interested in pursuing the past." I don’t mind these things, but one thing is the same, I don’t want these old things from the past to interfere with my current work.”

"As for the mechanization of the body... I don't fit the concept of 'purity' enough now? Come out, the new black hand follows the purity of the heart."

"..." There was another brief silence, and just when Olivia felt that her patience was about to go to zero, finally, the compartment on the ceiling opened.

A lift came down.Olivia couldn't help being a little surprised when she saw what was on the elevator—a person, or a robot, stood on the platform, except for a face on the head, the body and limbs were purely mechanical structures, a red and black Alternating robes wrapped his body.Countless data pipelines are connected to the back of his head like vines and connected to the server in the laboratory.This man's head may be the only flesh and blood tissue. His pale and thin face is covered with a respirator, and one eye has also been transformed into a focusing lens. This is not a partial mechanization, but a purely cyborg body. .

Can this still be called a person?Olivia was skeptical.

Dragging the pipeline full of brains, Dr. Ensger took a step forward. His steel body was unusually flexible.And like a spider, several mechanical arms equipped with Vientiane joints protruded from the back of his robe to help the doctor control this body.

"Ah, please don't mind, these little things can help me complete the work of a whole team, and they are valuable tools." The doctor said, and he offered his hand—five mechanical fingers, each of which Can transform into a tool.

"Greetings again, General Olivia, thank you for your tolerance. The leader asked me to report to you on the status of orc physiology research and help you implement the brotherhood's pioneering plan."

Olivia reluctantly shook hands with Ensig, and she suppressed her emotions: "I'm not that stingy, doctor...but I'm curious, can our existing technology really support your kind of human transformation? After all, you After all, your brain is just a human brain, how do you manipulate so many limbs?"

"Yes, our human brains have set a strict scope of work, which is theoretically impossible...but our leader generously allowed me to borrow Legion's computing power to assist in control."