Doomsday disaster: Start by building a shelter

Then.

With the help of the detection equipment on the construction robot.

Su Wu's attention quickly shifted to the half-closed door next to the hall.

Because the air conditioner in the shelter was still operating normally.

The temperature in most places in the shelter was kept at around 26 degrees.

Only the room next door had a temperature as high as 45 degrees.

Obviously not normal.

He controlled the construction robot to pick up the assault rifle in his hand and carefully pushed open the door.

A spherical body made of lavender crystals and rocks came into Su Wu's eyes.

"What is that."

Su Wu was a little confused.

However, after finding that there was no movement in the room.

He carefully did not let the construction robot move around.

Instead, he first scanned the entire room, and then used the on-board intelligence for further analysis.

Half a second later.

A large amount of data and inferred conclusions appeared on the screen.

Su Wu glanced at it a few times.

He immediately grasped the key point.

In this room, all the food wrapped in plastic has disappeared.

At the same time, there were a few bones and foreign objects left on the ground, which seemed to have been severely corroded.

"Is it a monster that eats people with skin and bones?"

The clues were too obvious.

Su Wu had to have this idea.

When he focused his attention on the huge sphere in the middle of the room again.

His eyes were full of vigilance against an unknown ferocious creature.

He controlled the construction robot to aim the automatic rifle there and pulled the trigger.

After a bang, a gunshot.

Some sparks splashed on the surface of the sphere, and a shallow pit appeared on it.

The bullet attack was effective.

But the damage was not enough.

Su Wu immediately asked the construction robot to step back a few steps and hang a grenade under the automatic rifle.

Shoot again.

Accompanied by a violent explosion.

A small piece of the outer layer of the sphere was blown off, exposing the biological tissue inside that looked like muscle.

And facing the situation of being exposed to the outside world.

Those muscle tissues seemed to have finally reacted and began to wriggle.

But Su Wu waited for a few seconds.

He found that the opponent's reaction was more like unconsciousness, and did not make any effective counterattack or defense.

This made him feel a little relieved.

The tension in his heart was also relieved at this time.

Since it could not stop the shooting of bullets and grenades.

That proved that it was just an ordinary creature, there was no need to be afraid.

And once the fear disappeared.

The idea of ​​research became stronger.

After a little consideration.

Su Wu decided to be a little more conservative.

No living body, just study the corpse.

Under his decision.

A reconnaissance drone belonging to the micro-mech was ejected from the body silently.

Then it passed through the double isolation door in the car and left the base car.

Arrived above the shelter.

Then, more combat units in the land combat group began to approach the shelter.

The flamethrower that was originally guarding the entrance of the shelter.

Then entered the shelter.

Replaced the construction robot and began to attack the spherical body.

A large amount of high-temperature flames enveloped the exposed muscle tissue of the spherical body.

Continuously output huge amounts of heat to it.

But at this time.

Those muscle tissues showed amazing resistance.

They continued to wriggle in the flames as usual, as if they were not affected at all.

Until ten minutes later.

When the second rotating flamethrower was about to run out of fuel.

It seemed to break through some kind of limit.

The muscle tissue began to char and peel off layer by layer rapidly.

Exposing the structure deeper inside, like brain tissue.

And here.

Its defense is even more fragile.

From being exposed to being burned to ashes.

It only took a few seconds.

Half a minute later.

When the flames went out.

The entire sphere was left with only the outermost layer, a shell made of amethyst and rock.

And the amethyst that was originally gleaming with a faint light became dim and turbid at this moment, and countless tiny cracks appeared on the surface.

"The temperature has completely returned to normal."

"It should be fine now."

Waited patiently for a few minutes.

Su Wu, supported by the various data transmitted back by the construction robot and the reconnaissance drone, concluded that the unknown creature had been eliminated.

Let the construction robot go up to clean up the scene.

Su Wu thought about it.

Out of awe of the unknown.

He still didn't plan to bring the wreckage back to the base vehicle.

He just asked the remaining construction robot to move the laboratory equipment on the base vehicle to the shelter.

The wreckage left by the unknown creature was examined on site.

While moving the laboratory equipment.

The construction robot inside the shelter also determined that the wreckage of the unknown creature did not pose any threat.

It began to further search the entire shelter.

To make sure that there were no similar monsters, and by the way, try to call up the surveillance inside the shelter.

See if any useful intelligence can be found.

In this orderly busyness.

Several hours passed in a flash.

When the sky was slightly bright.

Su Wu, who had not slept all night, got a detailed test report.

"This thing."

"It actually came from deep underground?"

Whether Su Wu was willing or unwilling to believe it.

The test results of the wreckage showed that this unknown creature was likely to come from the asthenosphere in the upper half of the planet's mantle, between 70 kilometers and 250 kilometers underground.

That kind of place is the birthplace of magma.

The average temperature is above 700 degrees.

Theoretically, there should not be any creatures.

"This is an isolated case."

"There will still be many."

Su Wu's expression gradually became serious, realizing the seriousness of the matter.

If it is an isolated case, it's okay.

What if there are more unknown creatures in the asthenosphere of the mantle.

That would be a terrible disaster.

Recalling the records found from the shelter monitoring, Su Wu was a little terrified.

This unknown creature was only the size of a fist at first.

With the super earthquake more than ten days ago, it appeared in the cracked outer wall of the shelter.

Later, after the owner of the shelter found it and put it in the material warehouse.

It slowly devoured the nearby organic matter.

In ten days or so, it expanded to the size of a basketball.

At this stage.

It has obviously undergone a cross-generational evolution.

It has evolved from plants to animals.

It has a strong active predation ability.

It can emit a fine red silk thread like a blood vessel, actively entangle the human who approaches.

Then it releases a strong anesthetic substance.

It makes it unconscious and decomposed and devoured by the red silk thread bit by bit.