After Being Parasitized by a Monster 72p2

Chapter 72: You’re not just sleep-deprived. p2

For the next few hours, they were like entering a surreal monster-fighting game.

After solving a wave of mutated creatures and entering a new breeding farm, the next wave would soon come.

Arthropods, mollusks, crustaceans, electric eels that could emit electric currents, algae that could decompose organic living things, and plankton that were shrouded in the salt fog… there were traps everywhere.

After passing through one circle after another of the periphery, they could gradually approach the core area in the depths of the circle.

She finally knew why the foundation could be at ease with such an important place without anyone guarding it.

Besides the technological defense, these monsters were the most perfect primitive barrier and would do their best to obstruct external invasions.

Even if they had come prepared, this situation was a bit beyond their imagination. They could only stop and go, and after clearing out an area, they would leave some people behind and deploy miniature robots to explore deeper. The injured also stayed where they were, waiting for the medics to take them back to the rescue vehicle.

The helmets were recording in real time. They were the first scene, and the support group waiting outside was the live broadcast branch.

And so, in the channel that was connected to the command vehicle, besides He Guanwei’s excited shouts, there were also her occasional slaps on her thigh and curses, “The brown algae that the plant team lost! We haven’t even cultivated it! How much data did these birdmen steal from the research institute!”

Cheng Ming’s ears were tortured.

The recovery team was too busy, and the final target was still nowhere to be seen. The further forward she went, the faster her heart beat, and there was an indescribable expectation and nervousness.

Another set of access control systems was broken, and the rusty metal that was almost unrecognizable was opened in front of them. A reliable new instruction finally came from the helmet, “There is a cavity under the building in front. The northwest corner can be blown up.”

Five minutes later, the wall trembled slightly, and with a crack, the concrete floor cracked in an arc, and a weak corner with iron pipes running through it was blasted open by a static explosion.

The retractable ladder was lowered, and the invisible dust was stirred up. Everyone went down to the bottom. They were about to ask about the situation when a sharp, short sound came from their ears, and then they lost all sound.

The inside of the helmet was dead silent. Only the indicator light was quietly flashing, and the visual information was still there.

The radiation concentration was too high, and the external command was temporarily offline.

They could only explore on their own below.

Cheng Ming re-thought the action plan for this time: the primary task was to bring out the mermaid, and if conditions allowed, to recover other experimental subject monsters. If that didn’t work, then they would consider directly and violently leveling the entire area.

Yes, a mermaid. A mermaid again—the so-called CR-rank monster, the main target of this trip.

So was the mermaid a strategic resource? Was the foundation also secretly raising them?

And, since they also had them, why did they want the sample from Redstone Bay last time? What were they confirming? Were they tracking the progress of the Security Department?

She slowly breathed to calm her mind. After eliminating the danger, Cheng Ming turned on the lighting equipment, lowered the brightness to the minimum, and took the lead to move forward. The space was so quiet that she could only hear her own breathing and heartbeat, which were colliding back and forth with a dull thud, thump, thump. When she walked, it was as if she were stepping on a dense drumbeat.

The explosion had affected the pipes, and there was water under her feet. In order to prevent sound wave attacks, the sound collection device was turned off, so she couldn’t hear the sound of the water, but could only feel the viscosity of the liquid.

Finally, following the more and more concentrated mechanical facilities, they arrived at the end of this mission—

The surrounding glass pipes were shining with a familiar fluorescent blue. In the two-meter-high pod, in the turbid seawater, there was a strange creature covered in tumors.

Even with Cheng Ming’s sufficient experience, she could only vaguely make out its silhouette.

She knew that for the sake of confidentiality, the other team members’ helmet vision was thermal imaging, but she could see it very clearly.

This was a production workshop. The raw materials were… algaefungus, and mermaids.

The mechanical arm was constantly extending sharp instruments, creating wounds on the latter, and then planting something in the wounds. Without scales, “she” was like a fresh fish waiting to be cooked, and would only twitch slightly when the sharp instrument passed by. The Wave-Born Floating Flower Algaefungus had a fusion effect, and the mermaid’s self-healing ability was extremely strong, so the newborn cells were exposed to the fungal solution without any protection, and gradually formed a huge tumor.

Given that besides the protruding flesh, there were also slightly concave, circular healing marks, she guessed that these tumors would eventually be removed.

It was like a plant that could bear fruit, not a human-like intelligent creature.

This place must have existed for a long, long time. The instrument pipes were full of accumulated dirt, the operation screen was worn and old, and the metal color was dull.

Cheng Ming stopped, and looked at all this in a daze.

Having seen the foundation’s “breeding” model, she suddenly realized that the mermaid under Redstone Bay was actually living quite well. At least, her freedom was only restricted, and there was no endless torture.

In the darkness under her helmet, the mycelia were quietly and intimately clinging to her. Such a dangerous thing was usually used by Xiao Ming as an external tentacle, and it had developed many functions and interacted with her.

But she was in no mood to care about Xiao Ming’s comfort now. She could only hear her own overlapping and wild heartbeat, like a heavy hammer hitting the blood vessels in her skull, and it was blocking the transmission of oxygen.

In the sudden dizziness, a horrifying feeling crawled all over her body.

If twenty years ago, Cheng Ran had not stolen her from laboratory 40, would this have been her fate?

…

Command and control center, top floor conference room.

Around the circular conference table, a circle of people were sitting in silence. They were dressed differently, some in crisp military uniforms, some in loose jackets leaning against the back of their chairs, and some still in their work clothes. But no matter how casual their posture was, they all had an unusual temperament, a leadership class that could be distinguished at a glance in a crowd.

These were the few people with the highest decision-making power in the Eastern Defense Center. At this time, they were all looking up. The images on the large electronic screen were constantly changing, and there was also a holographic projection in the center, which was locally magnifying more information.

The mission execution scene from hundreds of kilometers away was also being broadcast live here.

The Jingshui Seawater Breeding Base, the information released was that it belonged to a local aquatic products company, and this company no longer existed.

Although there were twists and turns, the mission was generally smooth, and it could even be said to be a surprise.

“Are you at ease?” a female voice asked at the scene.

It was a soft and light voice.

The deputy minister in a dark blue military uniform sitting next to her sneered, “He’s sensible enough not to fight back.”

“It’s just abandoning the car to save the handsome. Which capitalist who can do this is stupid,” the intelligence director, who was also the emergency commander, looked very busy. “Let’s disperse, let’s disperse. They won’t leave any evidence for us.”

The last woman in a blue-gray suit said with a somewhat unclear smile, “But after the stick, you have to give a carrot. Director Chu, you can handle it.”

Chu Lanying smiled slightly and nodded.

She was the main person in charge of the research institute, the deputy minister in charge of scientific research, and also the representative who was in charge of the foundation’s funding projects.

…

Thump!

At 9:30 in the evening, far from the bustling city center by the sea, the group’s building, which had a unique artistic shape, was brightly lit. Along with a loud bang in the office on the 73rd floor, a long crack appeared on the glass tabletop.

The middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes withdrew his hand and looked at the blooming simulated skin. What was exposed inside was not flesh and blood, but mechanical parts.

Without paying much attention, he grabbed the phone and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and said in a rage, “The news just came. They’ve dismantled another one of our bases! The Security Department is too unreasonable!”

“Hmph, what’s the point of reasoning with someone who controls the military. An official is not rich without a merchant, and a merchant is not safe without an official. Don’t you see what to do? Go and contact Chu Lanying and tie her down! Don’t let her forget her roots when her wings are grown!”

Hearing the stern lesson from the other side, his deformed expression slowly returned to normal, and he lowered his head unwillingly. “I know.”

…

Smack!

Cheng Ming sat up, and a bright light entered her vision, which was very dazzling. She covered her forehead, and the smell of disinfectant rushed into her nose.

She was in a hospital.

The mission was over, and she should have gone to the health monitoring center for a routine check-up, but she was too sleepy and had fallen asleep. Her teammates probably thought she had fainted, and the medical vehicle had directly brought her here.

Her left hand was inserted with a glucose IV tube, and her right hand—

“Sister? Are you okay?” Yan Rong was on her right, and she propped herself up to look at her, her pupils shining brightly.

Cheng Ming was stunned for a moment and lowered her hand.

It seemed that after leaving Cheng Ran, this was the first time that someone had been by her bed when she woke up in a hospital room.

“I didn’t sleep well. Did I scare you?” she said with an apologetic smile.

Xiao Ming muttered unhappily in her head, “Don’t I count as always being by your side?”

Swish. The curtain on one side was pulled open.

“You’re not just sleep-deprived.”

A doctor in a white lab coat walked in, holding an examination sheet, and frowned as he looked at Cheng Ming. “Is your department so inhumane? You’re pregnant and you’re still on a mission?”