Abyssal Wanderer

Chapter 37 NO.0025: Why Didn't Explode

Although it may not be the best time now, it is probably the only chance now that both of his arms have been abolished.

The opponent is obviously a prosthetic body type specialized in close combat, or at least a street warrior who has been practicing swordsmanship since the age of wearing crotch pants.

Although I really don't want to admit it, my level of hand-to-hand combat is far inferior to that of the opponent... If I continue to fight like this, I will definitely die.

The moment before he realized that his arm was about to be cut off, the veteran's eyes became blank—as if his soul had been pulled from his body.

Immediately, the "puppet circuit" buried in the giant black man's body was activated, and the headless corpse stood up convulsively as if being pulled by an invisible thread.

For the "puppet" who was successfully controlled by himself, losing the head on his neck has both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that the second brain, the "puppet circuit", can completely take over all control of the body without interference in a short period of time—as long as the corpse has not completely cooled down.

The disadvantage is that the efficiency of this second brain is far from being able to replace the real brain. Under its control, the puppet can only complete some extremely simple actions.

Moreover, after losing the various receptors on the head, its actions still need to rely on the perception of its own controller.

However, in the current situation, this simple action is enough...

The running headless zombie is like a crazy brown bear, carrying almost crazy primitive destructive power.

On the other side, Jiang Zhou used up his offensive during the knife that he thought he had a chance to win, and there was no time to turn around to counterattack or defend.

So, after completely cutting off the opponent's other arm, Jiang Zhou felt as if he had been wounded by a roaring dump truck. With the speed and strength enough to make people reincarnated into a different world as a brave man, He was thrown headfirst against the wall of the basement, unable to move.

The wall dust was shaken to the ground, and the smell of rust poured into his nostrils.

Even with the strengthened muscle fibers as a cushion, he still felt like several ribs were broken.

But that wasn't enough to kill him now.

Jiang Zhou could feel that even though the arm of the headless zombie in front of him looked thicker than his waist, in fact the strength of both sides was no more than equal.

Previously, the opponent could only succeed in this way by relying on the huge kinetic energy brought by his own tonnage, and by seizing the opportunity to sneak attack when his saber momentum was exhausted.

Once he freed his hands, a big fool like this could kill a dozen with a knife without breathing.

It's just that the other party, or the guy who manipulated the headless zombie in front of him, didn't want to kill himself through muscles.

The black box on the zombie's chest was flashing red light rapidly.

This situation is exactly the same as the situation when the Raven-66 blew up before.

Once it explodes, with such zero-distance contact, it will be at a temperature enough to burn people until there are not even ashes left.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhou's hand immediately touched his waist...

At the same time, the veteran of the Lobotomy Gang didn't even have time to retrieve his severed arm after Jiang Zhou was knocked into the air, so he immediately scrambled and scrambled to avoid the distance.

【Detonation】, 【Detonation】, 【Detonation】

As he stayed away, he kept giving orders to the puppet circuit to self-destruct.

Then, he turned around...

At this moment, that dazzling electric light had already begun to appear between the two of them out of thin air.

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After Liao Qi left, Booker leaned against the wall and panted for a long time.

During this period, the self-repair function of the Aegis I individual combat module continued to take effect. However, because most of the redundant parts were used to build the monomolecular knife for Liao Qi, the progress of the repair is now abnormally slow.

It took a long time for him to recover to the point where he could stand up and walk with the assistance of the power device.

Limping through the broken corridor, he saw Xia Hu who was hiding when he passed a certain room.

Putting on a stern posture like a parent, he told the brat to continue hiding here and not to move, and Booker continued on his way.

And as the combat module continued to be repaired, his speed became faster and faster.

Until this time, he had almost figured out what Liao Qi said earlier, that this was a trap used to target him.

In the underground area of ​​the resettlement area, military-grade heavy weapons like plasma bombs are very difficult to obtain.

Because if this kind of thing can be circulated freely, it will pose an immeasurable threat to the entire resettlement area itself.

After all, the resettlement area is a super artificial building. Although at the beginning of the design, according to the developer's propaganda, even if the basic part is hit by a tactical nuclear attack, it will not affect the overall safety of the building at all.

The original resettlement area for people to live in is only the area on the surface. Even, people at that time still had some humanistic concerns of the old era—the eleventh and twelfth floors were designed as ecological parks and artificial beaches for all residents in the resettlement area to enjoy the atmosphere of nature and sunshine.

But the developers back then did not expect that the two levels with the best locations would be divided up and acquired by many companies, and the enclosure became the private property of the chaebols—they built the company's branch on the level with pleasant scenery , can not only become the company's employee benefits that everyone covets, but also facilitate them to tap the rich human resources in the resettlement area, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Nor did they anticipate that, after the Third Cyber ​​War, the resettlement areas would eventually be flooded with refugees five times beyond their design capacity.

The original seven underground levels are all used to maintain the self-sufficient self-discipline equipment of the entire resettlement area-geothermal power station, water circulation water purification system, hydroponic farm, krill and algae breeding pond. In order to maintain such a huge equipment matrix, the developers even equipped it with three universal printers!

However, the number of refugees five times the limit load design, coupled with the company's rejection of the proposal to transform the eleventh and twelfth floors into residential areas, finally forced the interim government of the resettlement area to open the underground floors as a temporary shelter.

In the end, even though those refugees have no legal status even today, they have in fact become residents of the underground class.

To make room for refugees, geothermal power stations were dismantled, hydroponic farms were shut down and krill ponds were filled. Even in order to avoid a large-scale humanitarian disaster, those refugees were dug down two floors before they could be resettled.

But the price of doing so is that the lifeline of the entire resettlement area is completely controlled by the enterprise. Most of the residents in the resettlement area now use the power supply of the Fusion Bureau operated by the company, and eat the food synthesized by the food factory.

Even after the water purification cycle system was contracted to the company to operate, half of the fresh water supply in the resettlement area came from the water purification plant opened by the company.

And these basic expenses may be affordable for residents with relatively stable jobs in the ground area of ​​the resettlement area. But for the residents of the underground areas who lack employment opportunities and are struggling in the quagmire of poverty and crime, it may be difficult to maintain a basic livelihood without using some crooked brains.

As early as more than 30 years ago, the residents of the resettlement area had already sold off the valuable equipment underground. Later, some people even began to dismantle the special steel of the main structure of the building and sell it for money...

Although this behavior was quickly stopped by the government of the resettlement area with thunderous means, to this day, it is inevitable that some poor and crazy people will take the risk to do so.

There are steel thieves perseveringly destroying the main structure of the structure, coupled with countless illegal transformations, two extra underground levels dug out, and perennial gang fires and damage to the building... Today's Nord placement The area is no longer the miracle of engineering that was able to withstand a tactical nuclear strike and still stand tall.

Or looking at it the other way around, the Nord resettlement area is still standing today, which shows that it is a miracle of engineering...

Therefore, although the underground levels in the Nord resettlement area used to be known as the "front line of the war zone", most of them were just "fighting" with light weapons and modern cold weapons. Almost all forces, including the company, will prohibit the circulation of heavy weapons underground.

Even for a super enterprise under the Olympian order like Pluto Deep Diving Company, it needs to bear a certain degree of political pressure to send a disciplinary force with heavy firepower down to the underground area. After all, they are not the only super companies that want to do business in the Nord resettlement area.

All in all, since the Lobotomy Gang was able to obtain a prohibited weapon such as a plasma bomb, it was enough to show that there must be some huge monster standing behind the opponent.

Therefore, the opponent's attack on Chiron's House was definitely not a whim, but the product of careful planning.

Raven-66, an adjustment person with a depth of 3, may still be considered a figure in the lobotomy gang, but in the eyes of a certain existence that wants to deal with them, it is just a person who can be discarded at any time... maybe even a pawn None of them count.

Booker is getting faster and faster.

If even Raven-66, which is considered a good combat power at the bottom of the resettlement area, can be used at will in this way, then the opponent must have a stronger reserve strength.

And Liao Qi, a young man who has just completed the adjustment of depth 1 and has almost zero combat experience with the adjuster, must be alone.

While running, Booker felt a familiar tremor coming from the direction of the basement, followed by the sound of the plasma bomb exploding.

An ominous premonition climbed up his brain along the tailbone.

Booker shook his head violently.

The current Liao Qi cannot die.

He is the one who binds the activation authority of the universal printer, the one who adjusts Icarus' upgrade path, and besides himself, another witness to the mysterious existence of "paradox"...

If he died, if he was dragged into the abyss by the "paradox" again in the future, he would not even have a teammate with whom he could discuss countermeasures.

Thinking of this, Booker knocked himself on the head in great annoyance.

Was he confused by the plasma bomb before?

Just give him a knife and let him go in a daze?

Just because he said "for Icarus"?

What was going on in my mind at that time?

move? passionate? trust? guilt?

But no matter what it is, Booker, who has survived countless battles and survived every time, knows that it is impossible to bridge the gap in strength on the battlefield only by relying on high emotions.

The battlefield is absolutely cold, without a trace of reason.

The opponent's bullet will not be deflected because of your anger; and the blade you cut will not lose its original sharpness due to the opponent's cowardice.

On the battlefield, the only morality is to be the victor.

Feeling pity, anger, sadness, and guilt are the prerogatives of the survivor.

Faster and faster, Booker turned a corner and rushed to the source of the previous explosion.

Then he saw hell.

The corridor that was dissolved by the high temperature and then solidified again was billowing with hot air.

The firepower fortifications that were originally arranged to defend the basement have now been wiped out—in the true sense, there is nothing left under the temperature of the plasma bomb.

Whether it's the fortifications or the people in the fortifications.

And these are the results of the lobotomy gang.

But on the other hand, Icarus's victories are also quite rich.

The six corpses were cut into twelve sections, paving a dark red road of flesh and blood.

The fresh blood was dried by the high temperature, forming purple-black stains, all the way to the basement where the universal printer was placed.

Booker was stunned for about a second, and then he could see from the mirror-like fracture on the corpse that all of these were written by Liao Qi.

In this second, the Echo I combat auxiliary system in Booker's mind completed the restoration of the previous scene by scanning the traces of the battle.

The G72-Wolfhound fired first, then the bullets in the fortifications poured in, and the attackers immediately returned fire... no, not return fire, it was cover fire.

Two adjusters with high levels of transformation attacked at the same time under the cover, and one of them stretched out a melee weapon... What is that? Praying Mantis Knife? In short, the man relied on his melee weapon, clinging to the walls and ceiling, and kept moving around, avoiding the frontal firepower net.

And the other person rushed up recklessly, completely ignoring his own injuries, and then...

The traces were gone, but Booker knew it was a plasma bomb detonated, reducing the fortifications to ashes.

So, another self-destruct.

Afterwards, the surviving assaulter walked through the corridor with a huge and strong man, and went down to the basement, um... so far there is no sign of coming out.

The rest are responsible for guarding outside.

Then……

While quickly walking through the corridor, Booker muttered softly:

"Six seconds..."

A man with a knife came across the corner without making a sound, and in just six seconds, killed the six people who stayed outside on guard.

Everyone was killed with a single knife, and no one even had a chance to fire a shot.

Are these all done by Liao Qi?

Before Liao Qi adjusted to Depth 1, he was just a punk with some street fighting experience.

He may have some flair for street fighting, but he certainly doesn't know how to kill efficiently.

But what those battle marks showed was like a street warrior with more than ten years of killing experience coming out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Cold-blooded and efficient.

There is only one possibility that can explain such a change.

High-risk cyberpsychopathy.

Thinking of this, Booker's mood sank again.

At the end of the corridor, Booker took a deep breath and walked through the blast door, looking into the basement.

At this moment, in a corner of the basement, Liao Qi was being pushed against the wall by a headless black man.

Countless tiny electric arcs are flickering around them.

That is clearly the plasma bomb that is about to...

On the side, a guy with his hands removed was laughing wildly.

"Let's turn into ashes with this place, punk boy, hahahahaha!"

It was too late to save him, and there was no way to save him, so Booker could only watch helplessly as Liao Qi was turned into ashes in the electric light.

However……

However, Liao Qi raised the samurai sword in his hand amidst the electric light that surrounded him, then cut off the headless giant black man with a slash, and then jumped to the ground.

Intense... No, it wasn't that the intense lightning engulfed the two of them at the same time.

After a while, Booker lowered his arm to block the strong light, and saw Liao Qi get up from the ground trembling.

His body was blackened, but he didn't seem to be in any serious condition.

At least it doesn't look like it would if it was hit by a plasma bomb.

The plasma bomb didn't detonate?

Booker thought.

What was the flashlight just now?

Liao Qi ignored the other yelling "Why didn't it explode", but looked up at Booker on the steps.

"I'm almost done here."

He said.

Immediately, he dragged the samurai sword that was broken but did not continue to be repaired again, and walked up to the person who was still yelling. Then he threw something like a jar at the other side.

The "clang" sound of things falling to the ground interrupted the man's yelling.

"Why didn't it explode?"

After a while, the man asked again.

"EMP grenade, boy."

Liao Qi replied calmly.