Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 704: Fusion after eating
"Perhaps... we can find a reason?" Aya whispered, "For example, we can stage a play and let a 'dangerous person' sneak into the neighborhood, and then use this as an excuse to let the people evacuate?"
"It won't work." Ke Lan shook her head. "Let's not talk about whether this will alert the people of the New Star Chamber of Commerce. What if an important person from the other side also escapes in the evacuation crowd? Wouldn't our efforts be in vain? You can't have people surround the New Star Chamber of Commerce and only let everyone else evacuate, right? If you do this, wouldn't it be telling them clearly that they are the ones we want to arrest?"
"It's almost impossible to evacuate the people from the neighborhood without the Nova Chamber of Commerce knowing about it!" Aya said with a hint of anxiety.
Ke Lan and the others had originally planned to put the matter of the fusion aside for the time being, and first find out the "black hand" hiding inside the New Star Chamber of Commerce... But the problem was that they couldn't get down to the sixth floor of the Chamber of Commerce.
The sixth floor of the New Star Chamber of Commerce, from the outside, seemed to be a dormitory for the Chamber of Commerce employees, but this was actually just a disguise of the outermost circle of rooms. Behind the thin wall of the disguised room was a heavily guarded biochemical laboratory.
Countless glass jars were stacked in the empty hall, and there was a person in each jar - according to the information obtained by Asano Akira, these people were still alive, but their heartbeats were extremely low, and they should have fallen into a state similar to hibernation or suspended animation.
But this is not the key point. The key point is that the defense of this floor is many times stronger than that of the seventh floor. Not only are there fully armed guards everywhere in the corridor, but the ceiling is also equipped with cameras and remote-controlled machine guns, and there are almost no blind spots.
Even a "perfect individual" like Marshall who was subjected to telekinetic living experiments, or Ke Lan who possessed living armor, could not eliminate all the guards in an instant and at the same time destroy the remote-controlled machine guns of the cameras that were almost everywhere.
It's not that they didn't consider bypassing this floor from the outside of the building, but through observations from external street cameras, it seems that the Nova Chamber of Commerce had been transformed into a "fortress" a long time ago. All the windows and glass curtain walls cannot be removed from the outside. Except for the main entrance and the roof, the only way to enter the building is to resort to violence.
They had thought about another power outage, but according to the reconnaissance results of the micro-UAV, the entire sixth floor, including the biochemical laboratory, monitoring equipment and remote-controlled machine guns, all used independent power supply systems. Even if the entire block was without power, they would not be affected in any way.
In the corridor outside, the sound of flesh being torn made Ke Lan a little irritated... Once those corpses were eaten by the fusion body, it would probably be their turn.
This situation is really a dilemma...
Outside the utility room where the three were hiding, a mechanical spider was attached to the wall. Its four pairs of blood-red composite cameras were like the eyes of a real spider, tightly locking onto the shape of the fusion larva.
This is a reconnaissance micro drone that comes with Aya's cyborg prosthesis. They have tried to use it to investigate the situation inside the Nova Chamber of Commerce - but when the mechanical spider approaches the first floor of the Chamber of Commerce, the remote control signal will be extremely strongly interfered with... Obviously, the remnants of the heretical sect have placed a high-power electromagnetic interference device on the first floor or in the basement.
Ke Lan had seen the design drawings of the Nova Chamber of Commerce's headquarters building on the way here. In addition to the eight floors above ground, there were two basements underground - they didn't even set up an interference field for the biochemical laboratory on the sixth floor, which meant that the most important secret of the Nova Chamber of Commerce should be buried underground.
Ke Lan has already notified the people from the Research Institute, the Crisis Management Department, and the Ark's General Engineering Department, asking them to stand by at the bottom of the module layer where the Nova Chamber of Commerce headquarters building is located. If things really come to a point where they cannot be helped, they will choose to drill a passage directly from the ground to the basement of the Nova Chamber of Commerce.
"To be honest, I've never seen a monster like this before..." Aya paused, as if trying to find a suitable adjective. But after searching her brain for a long time, she realized that her vocabulary was really poor. "I've never seen a monster like this before."
She shared the footage taken by the micro drone with Ke Lan: the corpses in the corridor had been almost completely eaten, and the imagined scene of splattered flesh and flowing blood did not appear - the fusion larvae knew how to cherish food, and even sucked up the blood beads scattered on the ground. Except for some traces of corrosion by digestive juices, there was not a single blood stain on the ground.
But the most eye-catching thing is the fusion larva itself.
It had already broken free from the corpse of the "container" and eaten that corpse as well. Its size had now expanded several times, and its height was approaching three meters, almost touching the ceiling of the corridor.
As for the appearance of this monster… well, it looked like a novice programmer who had just learned how to model had randomly pieced together a dozen human body material packages - a mess of limbs intertwined and tangled together, a head that was half flesh and half bone pressed to the ground, and the part connecting the head was not a neck, but a thigh without skin…
Many organs were directly exposed outside the body surface... Three still beating hearts were gathered together, wrapped in a bag of white fascia, and underneath was an unusually large lung lobe. You could vaguely see liquid that seemed to be blood flowing in the pipes, being pumped from the three hearts into the lungs, and then flowing back along another blood vessel.
Ke Lan couldn't be sure for a moment whether this was an internal circulation system or an extracorporeal circulation system like ECMO...
Ke Lan knew that the Seed of Erosion needed to breathe, but this thing, like an earthworm, could breathe directly through the mucous membrane on its body surface. It could absorb oxygen directly from the air and water... Ke Lan also didn't know what role human organs like the heart and lungs could play for this fusion larva.
So far, the fusion larva has only devoured a few human corpses, so the organs and limbs that have grown on its body are all human organs and limbs... Although the distribution of these organs and limbs is a bit "messy", there has not been any substantial mutation.
Ke Lan even suspected that if these organs and limbs were cut off, they might be used directly for transplantation into the human body?
I just wonder if this part of "material" contains the genetic code of the fusion itself...
In addition to the human part, there are many tentacles extending from the gaps between the limbs - these tentacles are the main body of the fusion, they are both weapons, as well as organs of movement and eating.
But just when Ke Lan was about to observe for a while longer, Asano Akira suddenly reminded her, "Someone is coming up... Two people, to the middle platform of the stairs."
