Chapter 5: Rampage
Yang Ming was thinking about how to refuse this reward.
On the projection screen, several light red lasers flashed, and blood holes as thick as thumbs appeared on the hands and feet of the Valkyrie lying on the ground.
In addition to the injury locations proposed by Yang Ming, there were two more injuries to the shoulder joints.
The captain in the fire control cabin below asked via radio: "Do we need to inflict more casualties, Professor?"
"That's enough," Kigrov said immediately, "That's enough. Don't hurt her anymore. Let the assault team go up and put all the modified bodies into a deep hibernation state. They are all our precious achievements."
"Okay, professor," the captain's voice sounded a little unsatisfied.
On the projection screen, two rows of imperial soldiers wearing protective clothing and holding laser guns rushed into the bottom cabin and quickly pressed their knees down on the necks of the cyborgs.
The Valkyrie suddenly opened her eyes, and red waves bloomed again.
But a light blue protective film appeared on the soldiers' helmets, protecting their fragile brains and sensitive brain waves.
Just as Yang Ming had said before, when the Valkyrie suffers multiple penetrating wounds on her body, she will lose the ability to move.
Several needles tried to pierce the Valkyrie's fair and smooth skin. Her hands and feet kept shaking, but she couldn't move.
The commando's messy voice came from the built-in speaker of the main console:
"Oh my goodness! Captain, look, the Valkyrie's wounds are healing, and the burn marks are gone."
"Unlimited cell proliferation? Did she incorporate Zerg genes?"
"What kind of monster is this! Even though she's very beautiful! Damn it, bring the thickest needle over here, my needle can't penetrate!"
"Inject the dormant injection into her wound. Her skin is extremely resilient... She is truly a monster."
Kigrove said coldly: "Captain, tell your men to shut up!"
"Yes, Professor."
The captain cut off the voice synchronization of the action team, and the main console became quiet again, with only the rapid and rough breathing of Kigrov remaining.
Yang Ming, who was standing behind, seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Kigrove's breathing gradually calmed down, and he slowly turned around, his mechanical prosthetic eye shining with dark red spots.
"Come on, Hanton," Keegrove cheered up, "I will personally help you with the transformation surgery."
Yang Ming immediately said, "Professor, I think... at this moment, I need to maintain the equipment of the spacecraft. After all, there has been such a big commotion."
"Isn't this what you've always wanted?"
Kigrove stared at Yang Ming and said, "Why can't I see any happiness on your face, Hamton?"
"Professor," Yang Ming forced an ugly smile, "I just injured my head and now I feel dizzy. I'm worried that this will affect the success rate of the transformation."
"This won't have any impact," Keigrov seemed to be looking for something from Yang Ming's face, "This is the reward you deserve, Hamton, why do you give me the feeling that you have suddenly become a different person?"
Oh my god, is it going to be exposed?
Yang Ming was shocked by Kigrov's insight, and was thinking rapidly about the current situation in his mind.
Don't think that Brother Ji is still friendly now, this guy is a perverted murderer at heart, and he regards life as worthless.
If Brother Ji becomes suspicious of him, his situation will be very dangerous.
But that 35% mortality rate…
"Professor, why don't you wait until this is over? I still have a lot of work to do."
"I don't make promises lightly, Captain Henton, and when I make a promise, I don't change my mind."
"But Professor!"
Yang Ming rushed forward half a step, and suddenly there was a sound of stuttering footsteps from the side. Four garrison soldiers appeared on his left and right, and the red dot of the laser gun fell on Yang Ming's forehead.
"Don't be nervous, Hanton, I understand you."
Kigrove walked towards the stairs with his cane, no longer looking at Yang Ming, but turned his head and said:
"Captain, please personally send Third Officer Hanton to the spare laboratory to encourage this young man and have my assistants make some preparations for him if they can still move."
The captain, who had just left the operating table, looked at Yang Ming with complicated eyes and made a gesture of invitation to Yang Ming.
"Thank you, Professor."
Yang Ming forced a smile and walked towards the captain without looking back.
On the projection screen, the Valkyrie was carried by the soldiers to the experimental table nearby, quickly tied up like a dumpling, and began to be injected with more hibernation reagents.
…
The captain is a thoughtful soldier, completely loyal to the Empire and Professor Kigrove.
On the way to the backup laboratory, Yang Ming was always looking for a breakthrough, the moment he left the bridge, the moment he entered the elevator, the moment the elevator switched to a microgravity environment...
All possible opportunities for resistance were blocked by the experienced captain.
From Hanton's memory, we can know that when this situation occurs - the soldiers on the ship open the safety of the laser gun and aim at the head of the experimental material, it means that they may shoot at any time.
There have been incidents before where experimental materials were shot directly through the brain.
The current situation is that there is still a chance of survival if you are transformed, but the chance of survival is slim if you directly conflict with them, and there is still some buffer space for transformation.
"After all, the chance of survival is still 65%..."
Yang Ming thought with a smile on his face.
The backup laboratory was just one floor above the bottom cabin, and the restored elevator took them directly to the door of the laboratory.
The silver-grey alloy door opened to the left and right. Several experimenters who had received orders in advance were staring at the door nervously with fear on their faces.
"Hanton," the captain patted Yang Ming on the shoulder, "Thank you, you may have really avoided a disaster for us just now."
Yang Ming clenched his fists slightly.
If the real Hamton got such an opportunity, he would naturally be ecstatic; but his current worries and resistance had aroused Kigrove's suspicion.
Yang Ming even vaguely felt that Kigrov was observing him.
The soldiers stood by holding laser guns, their fingers near the triggers, and the guns' biometric safety was on.
In other words, the soldiers had received orders to kill Hanton at any time, and the person who issued this order could only be Kigrov.
"captain."
Yang Ming whispered: "If possible, please suggest that the professor use some more mature techniques on me. Only by staying alive can I serve the empire."
Before the captain could even open his mouth, the usually inconspicuous third mate had already lowered his head and walked into the cabin, lying calmly on the experimental table. Without the soldiers' "assistance", he put his hands and feet in the right positions and was tightly bound by the shackles that popped out from below.
'The professor may have made an unwise decision.'
The captain suddenly had this thought .
Signaling the soldiers to stay in the laboratory, the captain turned and rushed to the cabin, trying to figure out how to plead for Third Officer Hamton without angering Professor Kigrove.
…
The wait at the lab bench seemed particularly long.
Yang Ming's mood gradually changed from anger and irritability to calm and restrained.
This life was saved, now I just need to find a way to survive.
Drop, drop, drop.
I don’t know which instrument made the sound, but the rhythm of the sound was exactly in sync with Yang Ming’s heartbeat.
Needles pierced the backs of his hands and feet, and cool liquid invaded his blood vessels. Yang Ming felt a little dizzy and soon fell into a coma.
Drop, drop.
Yang Ming opened his eyes dazedly, and saw Kigrov wearing a surgical cap and a mask, who was concentrating on looking at the instrument table beside him.
"Professor, the gene stabilizing fluid has very low rejection rate and is an excellent material."
"Do you want to try Type 2 genetic fluid, Professor? Or should we use the most conservative Type 1 genetic fluid? After all, this is a loyal Imperial soldier."
Kigrove said, "Go get Gene Fluid No. 6. Maybe it will work this time."
"Number 6? Professor, that's not the genome extracted from the Valkyrie ... It's only a theoretical possibility..."
"His key statistics are very close to those of Posa ," said Kigrove in a somewhat impatient voice. "If it weren't for the fact that there was only a mass of the ancient god's cell tissue left, I would have transformed Hanton the same way I transformed Posa! Move quickly, don't miss the opportunity!"
"Yes, Professor."
whirling?
This is the name of a Valkyrie? It's a hard word to pronounce.
Yang Ming wanted to give Kigrov a middle finger, but he was already in an anesthetized state and his thoughts were quickly interrupted.
I don't know how long I slept, maybe a moment, or maybe several hours.
The intense pain shattered the blank dream woven by the anesthetic.
The pain of being burned by the underground fire reappeared, and Yang Ming seemed to be thrown into an incinerator after being anesthetized, but the flames were gushing out from under his skin.
"Hold him with the robot arm!"
"Two doses of gene stabilizing solution! Intensive injection!"
"Bloodlet! Bloodletting from the artery, injecting maintenance agent!"
These bastards!
Yang Ming was roaring like a wild beast.
Buzz——
Suddenly, there was a sound in my head, as if ten thousand bees were flapping their wings at high speed.
Yang Ming saw several images flash by quickly in pain.
[A dark cloud floats in the silent starry sky, far away from the stars, with no destination. It is a substance belonging to this universe, a gift from the universe to possibility. It can think, can feel existence, and is a living being.]
Ancient god life form?
In severe pain, Yang Ming forced himself to keep thinking.
Ancient gods, cosmic creatures in "Abyss", refer to special life forms that can survive in a vacuum-like environment without the help of any external force.
In the game, they usually exist as the BOSS of the Legion World, possessing amazing destructive power, and usually have characteristics such as mind control, devouring, and infinite proliferation. Every time they appear, a huge disaster will occur.
If the ancient god life forms represent the ultimate path of individual life evolution, then the classic villains in "The Abyss", the Second Scourge Zerg, represent the ultimate evolution of collective life.
"The study of the life of the ancient gods is our shortcut to eternal life."
This is a line from a certain plot in "The Abyss".
Yang Ming suddenly understood.
The Valkyrie is the product of the Sherman Empire's research on the ancient god's life form. It is a monster created by combining the ancient god's cell clusters with humans. The ancient god has been resurrected in the Valkyrie's body!
There are other images that keep pouring out, but they are broken, incomplete, and mixed with the experiences of two living beings.
[The besieged 'dark cloud', the ancient god life form that gradually melted away under the bombardment of the star destroyer, ushered in its end.
A cute little girl with a ponytail, holding her father's big hand, played in the glass-colored waves, kicking the waves with her little feet.
'whirling.'
The father's big hand gently touched the girl's head.
'You will become a perfect being.'
'Dad, what is perfection?'】
What?!
Yang Ming stared at the memory fragment, and the pain and suffering in his body became less severe. He slowly raised his head along with the little girl, and what came into his eyes was Kigrov's face without the artificial eye.
Brother Ji and Valkyrie are father and daughter!
This old man transformed his daughter!
The incomplete picture disappeared like a spark, and Yang Ming's pain also quickly subsided, leaving only a feeling of soreness all over his body.
Made it through?
At this moment, Yang Ming heard Kigrove's laughter: "Very good, Hanton's transformation was very successful, the gene stability coefficient is 0.92, which is a great number. Prepare enough gene stabilization drugs and nutrient solution for him..."
Kigrove talked incessantly, with a sense of boasting and satisfaction.
But Yang Ming was not in the mood to continue listening at the moment.
In a trance, he seemed to be in a starry sky, with brilliant nebulae above his head and under his feet.
He was face to face with the girl floating in front of him.
The girl is a Valkyrie, she is wrapped in a sacred pure white light, even though she is naked, she does not have any desire or obscenity.
Coo-coo-woo——
The roar of deep-sea whales could be heard in the starry sky.
Words emerged in Yang Ming's mind, as if the Valkyrie was talking and calling.
How should we interpret the message that the Valkyrie is conveying at this moment?
It is complex, yet simple, a direct communication at a higher level than language. If I were to describe it in words that humans can understand, it would probably be...
Combine? Devour? Return? Merge into one?
No, none of these are accurate.
The most accurate translation should be:
'I want to eat you.'
Yang Ming's whole body was shaking unconsciously.
The girl directly revealed her desire for Yang Ming!
In the bottom cabin laboratory and the backup laboratory, on two similar laboratory tables, a man and a woman who were also trapped opened their eyes almost at the same time.
Densely packed compound eyes appeared in the Valkyrie's pupils, and these compound eyes arranged into a dense crystal structure in an instant.
She opened her mouth and let out a silent scream, and a red energy wave spread from her forehead, instantly sweeping across the entire cabin.
The soldiers wearing anti-neural interference helmets held their heads and screamed at the same time. More than a dozen figures who did not have adequate protection slowly fell to the ground, their eyeballs full of bloodshot and blood flowing from their nostrils.
Explosions were heard from instruments everywhere.
Those high-energy ray transmitters that continued to lock onto the Valkyrie lost contact with the bridge!
at the same time.
In the spare laboratory.
Yang Ming shook his head violently, and the red light in his eyes instantly faded away.
He didn't have time to think about it, and yelled at the panicked staff:
"Untie me now! The Valkyrie was hiding her strength and preparing to give you a big blow! She's going to swallow me now!"
The few experimenters who stayed here looked at a loss.
Kigrov was not in the bottom cabin laboratory at the moment.
"Believe me!"
Yang Ming faced the experimenters with a sincere face: "Only I can stop the Valkyrie. This is a secret mission given to me by the professor! For the glory of the empire! The Imperial Star shines on you and me!"
These experimenters clearly showed a hint of hesitation.
