Volume 14: Devastation Chapter 716: Fusion Plus
Shortly after Asano Akira left with Aya , a dozen fully armed men in black rushed in. However, after seeing the body of the "BOSS" on the ground, they all stood there for a while... as if they were waiting for the person who controlled them to issue new instructions to them.
As for Ke Lan who was standing aside, these men in black completely ignored him.
Ke Lan also ignored these men in black - the order they received was most likely to silence the "BOSS", but now the "BOSS" has self-destructed, so from a certain point of view, their mission has been accomplished.
Ke Lan walked up to the man in black who was closest to the door and snatched the light machine gun from his hand. The man just looked at him blankly without making any reaction.
The self-awareness of these people is most likely the same as the living CPU of the "mass-produced fallen angels", in a state of semi-awake and semi-sleeping... People in this state are the easiest to control, just like puppets.
Although these men in black most likely have control chips implanted in their heads, the instructions they received have probably been passed around countless times, and the anti-tracing measures added in between are countless. It would be a waste of effort to rely on these people to catch the man behind the scenes.
Ke Lan didn't know whether this operation was a success or a failure - if it was a failure, they destroyed the hideout of the remnants of a heretical sect, found out the ins and outs of the attack, killed the apparent leader of the group, and obtained a lot of intelligence; but if it was a success, he couldn't find any clues about the real mastermind behind the scenes... The traitor, or rather, the group of traitors, were standing so openly among the members of the crew meeting, and Ke Lan had no way to deal with it.
He knew the traitor was among them, but he didn't know who it was.
If they were just a group of ordinary people, the worst that could happen would be to arrest them all - but these people happened to be at the pinnacle of power in the entire human society... and what made Ke Lan speechless the most was that she was still one of them.
"If we want to find out who the traitor is, we must mobilize all members to vote, but a similar vote has already been held before... Because of the intervention of the mysterious 'Fool', Demeter and the others were unable to achieve their goal in the end."
"In fact, they could have prevented me from joining the crew from the beginning... Then the result of the vote would be a sure thing... Unless..."
"Unless they knew from the beginning that the Fools would vote against it."
"There is another question... Why did several members, including 'Aphrodite', vote in favor of my joining the Undead Crew, but vote against the subsequent resolution to share information?"
"If these few people are the traitors, then they probably don't want to see me join the Undead Crew... That can only mean that they have other secrets that they cannot reveal... That's why they oppose that resolution."
"But we can't rule out a possibility... the traitor wants me to join the Undead Crew and use me to achieve some purpose... maybe killing Pan is to balance the votes of both camps after I join the Crew..."
"So, Aphrodite seems very suspicious... She is the only one in the 'opposing camp' who took the initiative to contact me after the voting ceremony, and led me to check the mission files of the 776th Special Forces Team... What is her purpose in doing this?"
"Is it to give me some kind of hint, or to make me misunderstand something?"
"She also said that I was the one who was most seriously corrupted by 'Him' among all the members of the Undead Crew... But those who were less seriously corrupted than me need to lie in the coffin of eternal life, while I can move freely as if nothing happened... Is this because I am a symbiote?"
"If that's the case, why is she unwilling to reveal more information to me? Is she afraid that my erosion will worsen? But if I watch the 'Super Dream Video' and look directly at the Alphas through Collins's perspective, won't that deepen my erosion? Also, those memory fragments that pop up in my mind from time to time, according to what they said, aren't they equivalent to sparks splashing onto a barrel of explosives one after another? God knows when an insignificant spark will detonate the entire barrel of explosives..."
"There is another question, which is how the undead crew can detect the degree of a person's 'corrosion'? The real world is not a video game. There will be no icon or progress bar above the head of the character with a negative buff... Could it be that they have some kind of instrument that can test the degree of human erosion at any time like measuring blood oxygen saturation?"
Carrying a machine gun, Ke Lan walked deeper underground while thinking about the questions that popped up in his head one after another.
The ground was shaking more and more violently, and it seemed that the thing under the ground was about to break free at any time.
Ke Lan had no intention of killing the fusion. All he had to do was to hold that thing back for half an hour. After Aya's men evacuated the people in the neighborhood, he would directly summon the battleship to bombard it with its plasma main gun.
According to what the instructor said, Ke Lan quickly found a hidden switch on a wall that seemed to be a dead end. After pushing the hollow brick in, the entire wall slowly lowered. At the same time, a long row of emergency lights lit up at the top of the passage at the back.
Through the dim red light, you can see a large cage made of transparent material at the end of the passage. A twisted creature is trapped inside the cage, constantly hitting the top and walls of the cage.
I don't know what this transparent material is, but it has excellent hardness and toughness. Such a violent impact only caused a few fine cracks to appear inside the cage wall, and it is still far from smashing the entire cage.
Only after Ke Lan got closer did he discover that the wall of the cage was six meters thick and had a multi-layer structure... As for its strength, it was probably given by the internal stress of the material, just like the black mummy summoned by the black cardinal in the hijacking incident.
The principle is actually the same as that of common tempered glass. Although it is very strong, once a gap is made, the internal stress will not only collapse instantly, but will also "burst" the material itself - the bottom of the transparent cage is already covered with a layer of broken glass-like debris, which are obviously the broken cage walls.
There are still fourteen layers of cage walls left, so it should be able to hold out for a while.
After making sure that this thing would not be able to break through the cage for a while, Ke Lan turned his attention to the monster.
"Is this... Fusion Plus?"
