The Collection of The End

"Collect Doomsday ()"

——AD.2160.3.15——

Planet Philos, headquarters of Exgeno Corporation.

“[I am ‘Solian’, and you mortals should kneel down and worship me.]”

"..."

After hearing the speech of the "plant", the members of the Normandy ground team uniformly lowered their heads to look at their multi-purpose tools, and looked at each other when they found that there was no problem.

"I?" This was Ashley with an inexplicable look on her face.

"Mortal?" Liara was a little dissatisfied.

"Kneel down?" Grant looked like he wanted to take action.

"Offer?" Tully... couldn't see her expression.

"That makes sense, Shepard." Galax turned around and said, "If I were the Geth, I would kill the guy who talks like that."

"No, for Geth, using ancient language and rigid grammar is not a reason to attack," Thanos looked at Siana: "You can tell the whole story now."

"Wait a minute, I have to prepare the 'offering' first." Siana nodded, raised the intercom in her hand and said something, and then several staff members came over pushing a flatbed truck equipped with a vibrator cage.

As the distance approached, Wei Ren in the cage became more and more irritable and restless, banging against the cage. Finally, after the car stopped and the cage door opened, it shot out like a sharp arrow, turned around and ran away.

Swish--

Several vines protruded from the "green spider webs" all over the hall at lightning speed, accurately caught the wei blade, ignored its frightened and threatening roar, and rolled it into the green sphere in the middle of the hall. in.

When Wei Ren was wrapped by the sphere, the roar stopped instantly, replaced by a few slight "clicks", and then no more movement was heard.

Ashley raised her gun and aimed at the sphere: "Have you been living in the same room with this dangerous creature?"

"Don't worry, he doesn't eat intelligent creatures. That's why Fontaine's gang hasn't woken him up even after living here for so long." Siana said.

"Who sent you here?" Liara asked.

"A senior executive of the company, but I don't know exactly who it is. Maybe it's your mother?" Siana replied.

"Impossible, she is only interested in the application of supernatural powers and knows nothing about biology. How much do you know about this 'Solian'?" Liara asked.

"Other than the fact that He has existed for tens or even millions of years, we don't know much, because He doesn't like to communicate with us. The sentence just now is actually similar to the response of an automatic answering machine, collecting 'offerings' I only said this before." Siana replied.

"[Oh, there is a new visitor here, let me take a look.]" At this moment, the huge green sphere seemed to "digest" the Weiliblade and spoke again.

"How does He view...well?"

In the middle of Liara's words, she saw an eye suddenly appear on the green sphere.

It's not an eye in the conventional sense, but an eye-shaped figure that is completely composed of vines that are intertwined with each other and looks a bit distorted.

Although it was just a prosthetic eye, it could rotate and look at the elite team present one by one, even blinking twice during the process.

"[Mantis, Agumon, Pangolin...there are so many beasts that have opened their minds,]" Finally, "Thorian" stopped his "eyes" on Thanos: "[You can ask, mortal." "

"So..." Thanos paused: "Have you ever met [Lin Hao]?"

Thorian ignored the question.

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A moment later, underneath the Exgeno Company building.

Different from the skyscrapers that have been modified in many places to suit "modern people", the underground facilities are basically still in the Prothean style of "ancient people". All buildings are basically composed of large rectangular modules, roughly spliced ​​together into a wide waterway and What the maintenance lanes on both sides look like.

At this time, the team led by Thanos was moving forward on one side, but due to the age, many sections had collapsed.

It takes many detours to move forward.

"It's a shame that you were able to chat with that ancient-speaking 'Plant Ball' for so long, Commander," Ashley said while clearing the way: "I'm going crazy just hearing those weird pronouns, and they're so inexplicable. inversions and modal particles.”

"Only a brief understanding." Thanos replied while observing the surrounding environment.

"So what are we doing in the Prothean sewers?" Grant followed behind with a shotgun raised: "I didn't hear a word of the conversation you just had."

"This is not a 'sewer', it is an underground irrigation canal built by Prothean to provide irrigation for greenhouses or farmland all over the planet." Liara corrected.

"This humid environment is bad for quarian health!" Tully complained.

"You don't have to come."

"I have to come!"

"The Reapers have installed a transmitter underneath this ruins," Thanos explained to Grant, ignoring the quarrel between the two alien girls: "When the reappearance of the 'ancient civilization' is detected, the Reapers will be notified." In the galaxy, the mechanical race that obeys the orders of the Reapers gives the order to attack. "

"Geth." Gallas sneered.

"No, this is still strange, why would a...'vine ball' be regarded as an 'ancient civilization'?" Ashley asked.

"Because 'Solian' is not the 'vine ball' we saw, but a collection of vines from the entire planet - at least according to what he said, and as time goes by, the vines controlled by him will become more and more More, but the current scale has obviously reached the alarm standard left by the Reapers," Thanos explained.

"Well... this is too complicated. You just need to tell where to go and what to kill." Grant looked around.

"To put it simply," Thanos looked at the confused expressions of the krogan: "We follow the maintenance channel of the underground canal, find the transmitter, destroy it, and -"

Boom!

Thanos suddenly raised his hand and knocked down a Geth that suddenly appeared from behind the ruins bunker in front and tried to shoot: "Clear the Geth guards along the way."

The next moment, the geth, numbering about twenty or thirty, who had been ambushing in the ruins of the passage ahead, emerged one after another and opened fire on this side.

Thanos quickly dragged Liara and Tali behind the bunker, but Ashley had already started to exchange fire with the geth.

"Huh..." Gallas skillfully found another bunker nearby and set up his gun: "It seems that they are not confident in capturing Exgeno and that weird plant with their current strength. They also need a transmitter. Open, call for more reinforcements.”

"What the Geth wants to do is what we want to stop." Thanos probed his head and shot down another Geth that was approaching quickly and seemed to be planning to engage in close combat.

"I like this!" Grant's body flashed with blue light, his body turned into a shadow, and he rushed out: "Kill them!"