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"I really wish I didn't know what it was. I have always liked flowers with simple colors. The color of the stamens is extremely bright, which makes the white of the petals more pure." The regretful Defoni looked disappointed and walked over a few steps and squatted there. Next to a flower that was no bigger than an adult's fist, he put down the first-generation holy sword in his right hand and poked the thick petals with his index finger. "I don't know what it is, but you will become a big cluster and be placed on it." In the vase on the corner of the desk in the office.”

A petal was torn off, and slightly pink juice flowed out from the torn wound, which was clear and translucent in color and slightly viscous.

Putting it to his nose and smelling it, Defoni couldn't smell anything. There was no pollen or other substances on the petals. The texture when held in the hand was more like a sponge-like plastic material, with a lot of internal space used to store juice. , the thick texture is only visual, and you can’t feel the weight directly related to the “thickness” in your hand.

It is lighter than expected, and the surface is not slippery. It is a shoddy product mass-produced by a cheap factory. This description would be very appropriate.

Defoni lost interest in it, and he threw the torn petals next to the white flowers. He stood up and stepped on it, pink juice splashed around the sole of the shoe, spreading like water splashes.

"Could I have these things in my body?" The juice spreading around his feet made Defoni think. Unable to get an answer, he turned towards the management floor at the bottom of the tarmac.

In a wide field of view, the hard floors that have withstood the treads of various heavy goods, handling machines, and surgeons are poured with special concrete and supplemented with a large amount of steel materials. In the past, even cracks were difficult to appear, and there were only inconspicuous scratches. mark. But at this time, they had been broken through by the powerful corrosive force, and dozens more white flowers grew and bloomed. It's obviously bigger, this time, it's about the size of three or four adults' fists.

Beside the blooming flowers, the power of pollution is spreading, and several times the number of flower bones are growing. They became even bigger again, and before they bloomed, they were as big as an adult's head.

The flower bones were slowly rotating, and Defoni found that he had become something like the sun, a locked center, because when the flower unfolded its petals, the brightly wrapped stamens all faced him. Once again, more and larger flower bones began to grow around the blooming flowers. Perhaps because of the change in size again, their growth rate was much slower at this time.

And around the first dozen flowers, the white flowers in full bloom have become one. On the wide apron, and even on the giant steel supports used for airship shock absorption, there are white flowers growing in a few places.

I wanted to go to the nearest white lace and turn them all into splashing juice one by one. But after walking less than two hundred meters, the growth and blooming speed of the white flowers completely made Defoni give up the idea of ​​crushing them.

"Everyone must be exposed to pollution and deal with the subsequent environment. This is why." Defoni sighed and walked straight to the management building. "The strong corrosiveness determines what the subsequent environment will be like. We can only adapt first." , and then changed again.”

Defoni shook his head and quickened his pace.

"Bang!" A slight sound spread, and Defoni, who looked over for a moment, only saw the bright stamens exploded on a piece of white flower. Squinting his eyes slightly, he could detect the transparent pollen from the canopy going into the air. Drawn by some kind of force, it is surrounding itself.

A small explosion followed.

"Zizzizi" The next moment, the sound of electric current came from the large lamps installed around the apron, and the stable light source began to dim and flicker as if it was malfunctioning. As the light flickered on and off, some pollen entered the lamps, and with a harsh explosion, the lamp tubes of some large lamps exploded.

Defoni just glanced over and didn't care. The surgeon does not rely on light.

The crisp crackling sounds continued, and each sound represented the extinguishing of a large lamp, casting a shadow over the entire apron. After walking another hundred meters and less than four hundred meters away from the management building, the air around Defoni suddenly distorted, and large sparks flickered like fireflies appeared.

The twinkling Mars formed a hemisphere with Defoni at its center, moving as he moved. At the same time, a bit of fluorescent green flashed on his waist. Defoni looked down and took it out - it was a sealed glass test tube containing an unusually heavy amount of light green blood.

"Can we still give an early warning?" Defoni was a little surprised, but he was in a good mood. Although the sparks flickering around him were still increasing, the transparent pollen was ignited by the unfolding bioelectric induction field, and there was no chance of getting close to him. " Although this early warning has no effect and I won’t be able to detect it, thank you anyway.”

"But, is it biological toxicity? Or biological bacteria?" When Defoni put the tube of blood back to his waist, he could clearly see a metal container about the thickness of his thumb next to it, "It looks like He is a member of the Natural Association. But what is the purpose of doing this, is it simply to test, or to disrupt perception and hearing?"

While thinking, Defoni stood there, put down the sledgehammer, and used the first-generation holy sword to cut a gash on the back of his left hand. Light emerged from all the blood vessels in this body, lasting only a second or two, and a pool of viscous gray-black liquid flowed from the wound.

"Did it happen during the break, or just now, did I enter the body when I smelled the petals?" Looking at the back of his left hand, Defoni turned his head and looked into the distance, thinking to himself. With a flick of his left hand, the gray-black liquid flew out and penetrated the unfolded bioelectric induction field.

Amidst the "buzzing" sound, the gray-black liquid instantly burst out with a large amount of light when it came into contact with the transparent pollen. In the blink of an eye, it expanded and exploded with a strange micro-buzzing sound. The induction force field blocked the impact, and some smoke was fanned away by Defoni's hand. Below the center of the explosion, a glass-shaped pit with a diameter of several meters had appeared on the special concrete floor, and all the exposed steel structures were corroded and fractured.

The transparent pollen was all ignited by the light at the same time, and burning sparks spread over the entire tarmac in an instant. A rootless flame suddenly heated the air, and all the large lamps exploded. The scattered white flowers also withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving only circles of flower bones, which continued to grow as if they were dehydrated.

Defoni turned back at this time and did not continue to observe the distance. The enemy is still far away from here, and the white flowers around are more like a sign that they are coming, to create some pressure on themselves.

However, will you feel any pressure? Defoni thought for a while and laughed: "Mr. Grote is by my side, so I don't seem to be under any pressure."

Meanwhile, the ground is covered in mold-like pollution, like a grove of rotting swamps.

Compared to the surroundings, the fungus-like pollution spread out on the trunk of a tree that was thicker and thicker, revealing a tree hole. A man who was so skinny that only his skeleton and human-shaped skin remained emerged from it. His face and eye sockets were deeply sunken, and his skin and hair were all white and white with water. A beating heart is beating, and the chest with protruding ribs is only a piece of skin that can be broken at any time. It swells and contracts.

The man reached into the tree hole and took out the communication device, and spoke with a touch of regret: "The intelligence has said that he is not an ordinary surgeon and should be respected. I don't want to receive similar test orders again. This kind of test It will make the other person confused.”

"Everything is an order, Kratos." The other side replied, "There will be orders later, and I will contact you again."

The contact was disconnected the next moment, Kratos stared at the communicator, and then threw it into the tree hole without expression. He patted his face, which had only bones, and made a "clucking" sound of bones colliding.

As if he had a sense of intuition, he suddenly turned his head. He originally wanted to look around, but the twisted head was already stiff, or the bones in his neck were stuck there and could no longer turn.

He saw a person wearing a tight-fitting field combat suit a hundred meters away. From the curves of his body, he was obviously a woman. When looking at the woman, the other person looked at him and nodded.

Kratos also nodded subconsciously, and then asked with confusion, "Who are you? The new person sent to assist? Didn't you say you won't arrive until close to eight?"

"Ah?" The other party was obviously stunned for a moment and also confused, "Are you talking about me?"

"Who are you? There are only two of us here!" Kratos looked impatient. "Didn't you know to contact us before coming? Are you from the Theocracy? The Nature Association doesn't do this."

"Don't you know who is assisting? Shouldn't there be..." the other party asked, but before he could finish speaking, the entire ground around him erupted in dazzling light and suddenly melted away with a strange micro-chirp. The expanding air created an impact, but it disappeared silently before it got close to Kratos.

",,," the silence seemed short, "I thought you really didn't know, it turned out that it was all acting, and you had time to surround yourself with something..."

"You mean I'm acting?" Kratos' laughter was hoarse with his vocal cords severely atrophied. He stared ahead, where the ground was forcibly melted down one layer, revealing a glass-like crystal. But in the center of the melted ground, there is a place with a diameter of only two or three meters that remains unchanged. However, the pollution on it disappeared, and a thick layer of frost powder replaced it. "Then what's the reason for the freezing energy of the giant whale group around you? They are all preparing it secretly."

",,," the other party was speechless, "I really thought you didn't know. These freezing energy are just my instinctive reaction, not preparation in advance. I have no interest in you at all. I just want to rush over there as soon as possible so that I can have more information." Take more time to rest. Well... you don't need me to prepare anything specially. You didn't run away when you met me, which should mean that you haven't come into contact with some information?"