The Death Knell

There is hot and humid air in the rainforest, and water droplets drip from the broad leaves to the ground. When you look up, you can't see the sky. There is only depth and darkness around you, and the sound of Harley humming happily while digging in the soil.

Silence clearly amplifies some people's fears.

The breathing mask Aphra was wearing seemed to be buckled off the helmet of a certain white soldier. Her head turned around, looking suspicious, and she came over and whispered to the death knell:

"The grass around me seemed to be talking just now."

"Hmm, Vietnamese, right?"

Su Ming muttered while smoking a cigarette, completely ignoring her suspicions.

Maybe the jungle is a green hell for others, but it is not a big problem for Su Ming. Strangler can smell possible hostile hosts, and the cloak can sense Bezen's spiritual energy body in a non-parasitic state.

Apart from plants, there are only some small animals or insects around, and they are all 'clean'.

"I'm so nervous, Deathstroke, what if you are parasitized and want to kill us?" Aphra's eyes widened, and she did not forget to look around even when she spoke: "I'm not afraid of those bugs, but you still They didn’t pay me the bill.”

So, she was worried about her money. Obviously, if her employer was taken over by the Betzen bug, there would be no credit.

"So you're worried about this?" Su Ming let the strangled head appear on his shoulder, and the little bean sprout grinned, revealing a mouth full of fangs: "Have you ever seen anyone possessed by two symbiotes at the same time? I have a symbiote. , Betzen cannot parasitize me."

Generally speaking, there is only one symbiote in a person's body at the same time, except for Wade.

In the comic "Deadpool vs. Carnage," Deadpool of Earth-616 had five symbiotes at the same time because he wanted to imitate Power Rangers or the Six Gods Fusion.

But he is the only exception, and everything that happens to him is very reasonable.

Aphra breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at Harley who was digging in the mud not far away. The strange tree wanted to bite her, but she hit it hard with a small shovel.

"What about her?"

"Me? Neither I nor the Anti-Life Equation can control my thoughts, let alone these bugs." Harley turned her head and joined the conversation with a smile, then stood up and started kicking the big tree with her feet. When there was no movement, she took out another The power hammer came and smashed it until it was knocked down: "Honey, I can pack it up here."

Deathstroke snapped his fingers, and the strange fallen plant was entangled in spider webs and disappeared into the wormhole: "Okay, Aphra, where is the cave you mentioned? Let's get the things and leave."

"The coordinates should be right here." The girl stamped her foot and then fiddled with her watch terminal.

However, everyone has seen the surrounding situation. There is not even a hillside, let alone a cave.

The bugs had disappeared together with the cave, and there was no problem with her terminal. Now she was a little confused.

"Could it be that the Bezens ran out, occupied the host, and used their power to level the ground?" San0 raised a metal finger and raised a possibility.

Su Ming, who was smoking, was calm. He raised his head and looked at a small lizard-like thing lying on a branch not far away.

"No, pay attention to the layer of humus beneath our feet."

This is a rain forest planet, and at the same time it is an uninhabited planet. With a few random pulls with his toes, he dug out the black slag-like leaf residue under his feet:

"Do you see this thickness? There are also layers of humus caused by different decomposition rates. This is a masterpiece of nature. It is impossible for humans to accumulate such thick leaves and have each fallen leaf decay so naturally. of."

The humus layer under your feet is about half a meter thick, and below that is the moist soil. This is caused by the cycle of nature.

"Then the cave ran away." Harley swung her small shovel and walked back with satisfaction, hugging one of Deathstroke's arms closely: "If none of us are wrong, then the world is wrong, hehe."

The archaeologist was stunned for a moment, then nodded slowly:

"Hey, that means there's something wrong with the treasure spot I picked? Isn't this planet as simple as it seems?"

Why is it another kind of planet? Aphra felt so tired.

"You can probably guess it if you think about it, right? Look at this, and this."

As she spoke, Harley picked something like a mango from a nearby tree, took a big bite of it, and then tore off a vine blocking the road, letting everyone see the clear juice flowing out of it. She and Xiao Hong They are good best friends and quite close to plants:

"There is food, water, and oxygen on this planet. Although it smells like a sewer, it almost meets all the conditions for the birth of intelligent creatures. Even if there was a lack of opportunities in ancient times that did not allow it to give birth to indigenous creatures, at least it can It should have been discovered during the interstellar colonization period, right? But, there wasn’t even a baby gorilla.”

"Beep beep beep." The mechanical Phoenix also made a cheering sound.

"He said this is indeed very strange, there must be something fishy, ​​and asked us what we think." San0 first translated the teammate's question, and then asked and answered the question himself: "But the information about Haiwen IV only has its star map coordinates. When it comes to the fact that this place is not suitable for biological survival, all the information is almost blank."

Wearing a breathing mask, Aphra scratched her head and said, "I just wanted to randomly pick a deserted place to hide things, but I didn't know it would be like this. Besides, I was fine when I came here last time... .... Deathstroke, what should I do?”

After all, she is the employer. Now that the goods are gone, she doesn't know where else she can safely buy the Bezen Symbiote, so she wants to leave this weird place.

"Don't worry, the weirder this planet is, the more I like it." Su Ming took out a handful of miniature Doom robots from his pocket, there were about one or two hundred of them, and threw them into the sky like spreading salt. : "I don't know what the problem is, so let's investigate. This is called vacation. Also, since you are an archaeologist, you should at least show some curiosity, right?"

After throwing away the micro-robots, he asked them to split up to build a monitoring network and prepare to collect parameter information on the surface first. Deathstroke looked at the girl with a cigarette in his mouth a little speechlessly, and shook his head as if he hated iron.

"That's because I know how much I weigh, and excessive curiosity will only kill me." The shameless Aphra did not feel ashamed, but said smugly: "So I am still alive now, and those who are always curious They are all dead, and even their bodies can’t be found.”

Why seek death if you can live? Can you become famous just for archaeological discoveries? But without a life, this is obviously putting the cart before the horse.