Indescribable cyberpunk

If Thousand Sails City is compared to a flower.

Then the lower city is the roots and branches.

Qianfan City is a delicate flower that absorbs all the nutrients and blooms.

Even on this cold winter night, the gorgeous neon lights still make this "City in the Sky" splendid.

At this moment.

Under the city's ring track, thousands of meters above the sky, Qianfan Races across a tree-lined avenue somewhere in the city.

The two of them were strolling. The one on the left was a tall and handsome young man, and the one on the right was an old man with gray temples and a rather strong physique.

However, the young man was in front while the old man was half a body behind.

Two pairs of black boots kept falling into the pure white snow, leaving a series of deep black marks.

"Did you watch the video?"

He raised his hand to pick a dead leaf that had fallen in the wind, placed it in the street light, and asked softly while admiring its veins.

"I just watched it, and I can confirm that he is the star of Weird Studio five years ago. I didn't expect that he is not only alive, but also participated in our actions in the underlying community. The last scene of the video has a provocative meaning, hiding XZ's mouse, In this season when food is scarce, they will eventually come out to look for food.”

"The stronghold of Community No. 39 was taken over by him. Nesta sent the message not long ago. Nohara, the rat you mentioned is much stronger than imagined."

The young man suddenly stopped and turned to look at the old man next to him with a smile on his face. However, the dead leaves in his hands turned into powder and returned to the wind.

"Sorry, it was my negligence!"

The expression froze on his face, and the old man took a step back, bowed at ninety degrees, and apologized.

"It seems that you just know about this, which makes me sad. I came to help you realize your dream, but you are less interested than me. Nohara Isshin, I know that you have been busy with the Wu family recently, but the bottom community It is also a key part of the plan. You are my ears and eyes. If I can't know these things from you but have to be informed by others, then what's the point of your existence?"

"I promise you this is the last time!"

Kneel down on your knees, put your palms in front of your forehead and kowtow.

"Get up, I'm not a mean person. If you apologize to me, then I will forgive you. As for the rat in the Weird Studio, I will find someone to deal with it. All you have to do is to identify him in the shortest possible time. In addition, I don’t want any mistakes to occur before the plan to send additional manpower to lower-income communities is fully launched.”

Turning around and continuing to move forward, Nohara Isshin hurriedly followed, not even daring to brush the snow off his knees and cuffs, letting them gradually melt away.

After walking forward for a while, when the atmosphere calmed down slightly, Nohara thought about what he wanted to say, but the situation just now made him shrink a little, for fear that what he said would make the other party unhappy, and the other party would say that he was not mean. He believed in people, but it was enough to forgive this kind of thing once. He couldn't bear it if it happened again!

"Don't have any scruples. I said you are my eyes and ears. You should come in handy."

The young man didn't look back, but said as if he saw Nohara Isshin's expression.

"Sir, there are already signs of loosening on the Wu side. They agreed to send someone to try to accept our ceremony."

"It's done well. It has opened a hole. The other parts will one day be unable to hold up."

Unknowingly, the two of them stepped onto a staircase. The young man looked back as he spoke. The snow on the long street looked a little dazzling in the light.

But those two sets of footprints completely destroyed this supposedly perfect artistic sense.

"I like this place. No matter how many times I see this scene, I will never get tired of it."

Withdrew his gaze, turned and left.

But when he finished speaking, the footprints in Nohara Isshin's eyes suddenly seemed like ink scattered into the water, and the dark things crazily devoured the pure white on the long street.

Blinking in a daze.

Everything on the street is back to normal.

The snow is still there, and so is the darkness.

The place where the summoning ceremony is performed is still the previous indoor billiards hall.

Zhu Jue made a special observation when he entered the door. It seemed that no one had come in since the last time he came in. There was already some dust on the ground.

After all, it was the first attempt. This time, both the outline of the magic circle and the steps of casting the spell went smoothly. The only change was that Zhu Jue chanted an extra mantra during the last step.

In the dim light of the magic circle, the familiar ancient figure appeared again!

"Did you find the Gadamon sub-body?"

Compared with the alienation when they first met, this time the ancient one appeared directly in front of Zhu Jue, with his curled tentacles floating in front of the latter.

"Of course, I killed an infected body and cut open its head according to the method you mentioned before. In fact, it was originally going to turn into a large puddle of weird black-purple colloid. Its properties are close to those of Shoggoths, but there are more I built a bone tree that can produce fruits by absorbing the energy of infected bodies. I saw with my own eyes that it attracted the infected bodies under its control, and then sucked their energy through the tentacles on the bone branches. You know this technique ?"

Taking two steps back without leaving a trace, Zhu Jue described the situation at that time, hoping to learn more information through it.

"It's low-level technology. The Shoggoths are different from them. This is a way of energy collection. The infected body is just one part of it. Give me the Gadamon sub-body."

Several tentacles stopped in front of Zhu Jue, constantly twisting at various angles. It seemed that the things mentioned by Zhu Jue were far less interesting than Gadamon's child.

Zhu Jue didn't hesitate and took out the Gadamon sub-body directly from the space ring. Compared with the spinous flesh ball he got before and the dark red fruit from the bone tree he saw in Community No. 37, this ball was suspended in front of him. The black substance that is constantly squirming on the palm and exudes an extremely foul smell is undoubtedly more uncomfortable.

The ancient one immediately began the test after taking over Gadamon's child body. Several tentacles were constantly hovering around it, and some light spots could be vaguely seen pouring into it.

After about 10 minutes, the ancient man's movements gradually stopped.

"It's not enough. These sub-bodies are not enough to transform your body. You have to adapt to them. There are no materials or equipment in this world."

The ancient man seemed to be thinking while speaking intermittently.

"The number of Gadamon sub-bodies is not enough?"

Zhu, who barely understood part of the content, frowned and asked,

"If you want more, you have to find the same infected body. Although we have a target now, how can we destroy this infected body that has spread completely? This time I was lucky enough to encounter one that was in a different state. If the transforming infected body arrives a few minutes late, I'm afraid we'll be in trouble."

Solving the contaminated area is a very urgent matter. Both the Qianfan City government and Zhu Jue want to know a clear method, not to mention that now that it involves the issue of breaking through his own strength, Zhu Jue can't help but feel a little anxious.

"Destroy the core. It absorbs energy through the bone tree and transforms it. As long as the bone tree is attacked, it will react immediately."

"That's a pretty straightforward answer."

The answer of the ancient one cannot be wrong, but it always sounds a little weird.

It is not easy to cross hundreds of meters of infection layer to attack the bone tree. Before approaching the bone tree, you have to resist the crazy attack of the tentacles formed of black and purple colloid, and you will probably be attacked by the infected bodies surrounding it. Take care, and in the end, if nothing else goes wrong, you will have to fight the infected layer that has returned to its monster form.

Thinking about it this way, even Zhu Jue felt a little troubled.

Not to mention the Qianfan City government.

Ordinary troops certainly can't do it, and long-range bombing doesn't seem to be possible because the network in the underlying communities is cut off. Rocket launchers are not powerful enough, unless long-range missiles are used.

Blow yourself up?

As long as the top officials of the Qianfan City government are still in good spirits, they will not do such a thing.

Don't look at the generals in American blockbusters who clamor all day long to use nuclear bombs and atomic bombs to blow up monsters, which sounds quite enjoyable.

In fact, if this is done, no matter what the original intention is, the person who issued this order and its executor will undoubtedly be nailed to the pillar of shame in history by the surviving people.

Of course, under special circumstances, no matter whether the atomic bomb blows up monsters or accelerates monster mutation, someone has to sacrifice, right?

But the problem is that the current low-level communities are still not strong enough to allow the Qianfan City government to use missiles to bomb them at all costs.

"In the spirit form, it cannot carry equipment and materials, and the Gadamon sub-body cannot be transformed."

The Ancient One repeated what he had just said again, this time in more detail.

Zhu Jue froze in place after hearing this, and immediately realized an important issue that he had ignored before.

The ancient one said that he would use the Gadamon sub-body to transform him, but the ancient one summoned by the contact technique told it that he didn't even have an entity, let alone use the Gadamon sub-body.

However, the effect of the Pluto medicine in his hand was similar to that of the communication technique, which allowed the soul to travel through time and space. Zhu Jue did not remember that there was a record in the ancient text of the ruins about bringing things back from the "fairy world".

"what is it now?"

After a long silence, Zhu Jue could only spread his hands and look at the ancient man and asked.

"We have a special technology that has not disappeared from our civilization. It can transport materials through different dimensions. The premise is that you must master the ability to establish coordinates. I cannot establish coordinates in this world in this form."

"Wait a minute, if my soul goes to you and you are in the physical state, can you let me return with the coordinates?"

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Perhaps it was the first time he met a human who proposed such an idea. Even the ancient man fell silent for a while, and after a while he said with his mind,

"We have not made any similar attempts. We may be able to succeed. Traveling through time and space is not easy. Even if you barely make it, you will be chased as prey by monsters that live in the perspective of time. Even we cannot guarantee that we can expel them. Those monsters, you have to fight them alone and drive them out in order to survive."

"Compared with this monster, I actually want to know another thing. Why are you willing to help me?"

Compared to discussing those unknown monsters, Zhu Jue was more worried about the attitude shown by the ancient ones.

You must know that in order to liberate the soul, Zhu Jue used the ancient crystal to make a deal with the great race, but the ancient summoned by the contact technique never mentioned the price Zhu Jue had to pay.

Not only did this not make Zhu Jue feel happy, but it made him even more uneasy.

Will ancient intelligent races help humans for no reason?

Zhu Jue does not think that he is the type of person who is favored by the ancient one in the "Nakter Manuscript"!

"This is an experiment. You volunteered to be our experimental subject to study Mi-Go technology. If it fails, you will completely turn into a monster. Do you think this is help?"

"Pretend I didn't ask!"

Facts have proved that Zhu Jue thinks too much to expect these rational guys.

Sorry, Kavin, the third update should be too late, so it will be postponed to tomorrow!