Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

"despair!"

At the same time as the gun rang, the orange light beam had already traveled a short distance of a few meters, directly melting through Elena's left hand.

? ? ! !

The sudden reversal made Elena's mind completely blank for a while.

"Forehead!!"

After she gradually felt the excruciating pain, cold sweat broke out all over her body, her right hand clenched her left wrist tightly, and she gritted her teeth and moaned in unbearable pain.

Afterwards, Elena questioned Lin in disbelief: "Sir...why did you do this..."

As he spoke, he showed a rather innocent and aggrieved expression.

"Don't worry, you won't be alone on the road to Huangquan."

However, Lin had no remorse or sympathy at all, let alone an explanation, and was ready to continue pulling the trigger immediately.

"Do not!!"

Seeing Lin's determined appearance, Elena yelled and rushed towards Lin, and a lot of bloody tentacles gushed out from the wound on her left hand.

But how could "she" be faster than a gun?

Seeing the result of thorough testing, Lin moved his right index finger...

"Tat-tat-tat!"

"Poof! Poof!"

Beams shot out from the muzzle of the gun one after another, continuously melting through Elena's body.

"call!"

The dense beams ignited "her" overalls.

The ignited fire, as "indifferent" and "unsatisfactory" as Lin, quickly wrapped and swallowed Elena.

finally…

"Ah...! Ah... hoo...!"

Yi Lianna collapsed on the ground and struggled, her painful roar gradually changed from that of a human woman to that of a beast.

After a few seconds, "she" remained completely motionless, allowing the flames to continue burning.

See here.

Lin showed a little unbearable, and after saying "rest in peace" in a very low voice, he gathered up his mind and set off again.

Run around the corner.

Pass by the bar.

Lin noticed the five people hiding inside, but he chose to ignore it and proceeded alone. After all, bringing along untrained civilians would only slow down his pace.

And Lin's destination is the main control room in charge of the entire Assis.

If you want to restore communication, pass information to the outside world, or perform critical operations, you need the absolute authority of the central control room to assist.

As for how to guess that Elena is that "something"...

Lin likes to repeatedly read materials, files and various data. It is not so much a habit as an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it is his subjective consciousness that forces him to engrave the habit of "repetition" in his bones.

Because of a small negligence fifteen years ago, two colleagues died unexpectedly.

Although the emergency team arrived in time to assist him in eliminating the ghost-faced beasts and gnolls who tried to secretly plant bombs and prepare for the cholera colony, they could never get back the lives of his colleagues.

After that, Lin forced himself to develop the habit of "repetition" to ensure that he would never miss a single detail.

And Elena, in fact, was dead before he sneaked into Assis secretly.

The time of death was exactly the five minutes when the nanorobot lost its signal, and the intelligence department could not get in touch with her immediately.

According to the information obtained after coming here, he witnessed all kinds of bloody and disgusting scenes, plus various details and his own speculation...

Lin can preliminarily confirm that the "thing" that ravaged Assis is an abnormal creature that can completely "replace" and "imitate".

Judging from the way and tone of conversations between Todd, his wife and daughter, and the neighbors, it is known that this "thing" can inherit all the memory of the host.

It understands human relationships and uses them to its advantage, and even imitates emotions so vividly that they are no different from the real Todd.

But there is only one thing, and that is the eyes.

"The eyes are the windows to the soul" has become a famous saying, and there is indeed some truth to it.

Lin repeatedly watched the quarrel scenes filmed by "Elena" many times, and found that Todd's eyes did not show concern for his family at all.

Outsiders may not be able to notice this detail, but Carrie, as Todd's wife, and Neil, as his son, have clearly captured it.

So he said "he's not Todd".

Therefore, Lin chose to sneak into Todd and Carrie's bedroom.

After finding a few shards of dentures in the dormitory, he reported the information and asked the command center to help inquire about the file of the short-haired female husband.

It didn't take long for the reply from the Ministry of Intelligence to say that the short-haired female husband's molars on both sides had been replaced with full-ceramic dentures six years ago because he didn't pay attention to cleaning and maintenance.

No matter how advanced the technology is, dentistry is still a "problem" that plagues mankind.

Seeing this reply, Lin can confirm that it was the quarrel last night that gave Todd the opportunity to be alone with the short-haired female husband, thus taking the opportunity to transform into the same kind.

But this transformation method is not 100% perfect, they cannot "replicate" inorganic objects, such as dentures.

Next, the communication was blocked, and they exchanged fire with the "security guards", which made Lin discover their more frightening side.

That is, not only can they share information and memories in real time, and cooperate tacitly when they are in human form, but also when they suffer a certain degree of damage, or when they judge the situation is critical, they can be divided into individuals of different shapes to escape.

Of course, these individuals can also stick to each other and combine to gain advantages in size and strength.

The most refreshing Lin's cognition is that their blood also has self-awareness, can move, and will try to invade nearby human bodies.

Observing the phenomenon of autonomous blood flow, and based on the characteristics of limbs that can be "separated" and "joined" at will, Lin realized that it is possible that their single cells are complete and independent individuals?

If this is the case, then their infection routes will be various, and inadvertent handshakes and hugs may be invaded by them to complete assimilation.

But why did he "dodge a bullet"?

After asking himself this question, Lin put together all the details, intelligence, and clues, and came up with the answer that they were avoiding it.

The reason seems to be simple and clear, it is because of the nano-robots in him and all the intelligence agents.

This "thing" can be assimilated quickly, but in the process, the nanorobots are bound to be destroyed and then excreted.

Because of this, Elena, who was disguised as an ordinary maintenance worker, was taken as a target for assimilation by them, causing a loss of contact for nearly five minutes and attracting the attention of the intelligence department.

After reading the relevant information about Umbrella and knowing Umbrella's abilities, the "things" that inherited all of Elena's memories realized that they had chosen the wrong target.

In order to prevent the Ministry of Intelligence from dispatching an emergency team to take coercive measures, they kept their human appearance and injected spare nanorobots. At the same time, they also actively contacted the command center to try to dispel the doubts of the Ministry of Intelligence.

However, Joel Miller, as the supervisor, still sent Lin to investigate.

As one of the most experienced intelligence agents, Lin lived up to expectations and indeed found effective information.

If this trend is followed, Lin will discover their existence in a short time.

As a result, these "things" no longer adopted safe solutions, but instead used radical methods, blocking communications, actively exposing, and attracting Umbrella to conduct a comprehensive investigation.

From the time the miners unintentionally excavated the spaceships and were infected by them, their original intention has not changed, that is to wait for four days, and then use the transport fleet sent by the company to spread silently to the outside world, and even the entire human territory.

Unexpectedly, they infected an Umbrella agent, which eventually led to the current situation.

The most important thing is that shortly after Lin finished his conversation with "Elena" and indicated that he was going to go deep into the mining area to investigate, Assis broke out into total chaos.

And in the chaos, "Irina" could find him by chance...

How could there be so many "accidents"?

It is only possible that the same kind shared memory, revealed his location to "Irina", and then facilitated "Irina" to assimilate him by using her identity as a colleague and comrade-in-arms, taking advantage of the signal being blocked.

In this way, after the emergency team arrived at Assis, he was assimilated and injected with spare nanorobots, and he and "Irina" could leave Assis unimpeded and go to the human world.

In fact, with or without him, the human world is doomed to be eroded by them as long as the emergency team does not arrive at Assis with detailed characterizations of them.

The "stuff" wanted to assimilate him, just to avoid another unexpected safety measure.

Thinking room.

Lin has come to the only way to the main control room, the most spacious corridor.

There is a wide field of vision here, there are no shelters for shelter, and there are more than a dozen security guards with guns scattered at intervals.

Lin stood at the corner and observed.

Seeing the situation in the corridor, he temporarily hung the laser micro-shooter with the gun strap on his chest, freed his hands, and took out a small syringe from the tactical bag on his side waist.

"Disposable Potion", "Caution" and other words are printed on its metal exterior.

Open the protective cover to expose the needle-free injection port, and then make contact with the skin of the left forearm to inject the "drug" into the body.

Then, he put the syringe back in the tactical bag and checked what little equipment was left.

At this time, Lin's breathing rhythm gradually accelerated, and even his pupils dilated a little.

Check it out.

He held the laser micro punch again, his eyes were no longer lifeless, but revealed fearlessness and firmness, and whispered to himself:

"How could it be possible for you group of soulless things to run outside, how could it be possible for you to threaten humans and them..."

talking.

Lin took out the only remaining acid bomb with his left hand, buckled the pull ring with one hand, flicked off the safety, and threw it out for a silent count of two seconds.

After completing the throwing action, he quickly rushed into the corridor, one after another with Acid Lei, and completely appeared in the field of vision of the group of "things".

see.

The security guard immediately raised the pulse gun, intending to point the muzzle at Lin's legs.

However, after injecting the "medicine", Lin's strength seemed to be much stronger than before, so the acid mine "flyed" to several security guards standing in the front at an extremely fast speed, and then...

"Boom~!"

"Hey... Hey..."

"Ah... ho!!"

The sounds of detonation, corrosion, and screams intertwined with each other, instantly paralyzing the actions and attack capabilities of many security guards.

"Da da!"

"Tack!"

Immediately afterwards, the corridor was filled with bursts of pulse and laser firearms.

The dazzling orange light continued to flash, which meant that Lin, who was fighting against those "things" alone, hadn't fallen yet.

After the gunshots and orange lights subside...

"Step, step..."

In the corridor, only the sound of unsteady and staggering footsteps remained.

"Beep, beep..."

There is also the movement of "drops" falling to the floor.

"Shua~--!"

But soon, the sound of the main control room gate opening to both sides covered up the footsteps and "water droplets".

It turned out that Lin Zhen managed to reach the main control room by himself.

Behind Lin, there is a messy corridor, a lot of limbs and flesh are still wriggling, and even blood is flowing towards his position.

"Shua~--!"

However, as the gate closed, the connection between the main control room and the corridor was temporarily blocked.

And at this moment he...

The right arm exploded, and a lot of tissue was "shaved off" from the right calf, exposing the bones, and there were tiny shrapnel holes all over the body, and even the right eye could not escape the shrapnel attack.

It can be said that there is almost no intact part of Lin's right half of his body.

Even though there are nano-robots in the body to help stop bleeding, blood still seeps out from various wounds, which is also the origin of the "water drop" sound before.

This kind of injury is enough to make Lin in a normal state fall into a coma until he dies.

There are many reasons for being able to persist until now, to protect human beings...

In other words, in order to protect his colleagues who were rushing to Assis without knowing it, and to protect his family members, it is one aspect to burst out a firm will not to fear death.

And the most important point is that the "drug" injected before forced his broken body to continue moving.

The "medicine" number is Te-036, and it is specially provided for the field staff of the Supervision Department and the Intelligence Department. It is used to temporarily mask the pain sensation, compulsively stimulate adrenaline, and improve reaction speed and strength when life and death. Serum potion.

After the effect of the medicine wears off, it will cause permanent damage to the user.

So while the effect of the medicine was still there and he was still conscious, Lin dragged his right leg, which could not be bent back, and walked to the console with a large number of physical screens.

subsequently.

He stretched out his movable left hand, fumbled out his exclusive mobile phone from the tool bag on his side waist, and placed it on the console for sensing biological information and the sensing area of ​​the magnetic card, trying to obtain some permissions.

While waiting, Lin only felt that his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.

"Beep!" A reminder made him regain consciousness in an instant.

Turning his head to look at the content displayed on the phone screen, he couldn't help but smile helplessly, and said to himself: "Sure enough, everything is not as smooth as expected...

Although I can't spread the news, I can't say goodbye...well, it's a pity, but it's enough to protect them silently..."

As he spoke, Lin stretched out his left hand again, and tapped "OK" on the screen with his index finger.

After completing this move, the broadcast placed inside Assis sent out an emotionless reminder:

"The fusion reactor has been manually overloaded and is expected to reach criticality in five seconds.

I repeat, the fusion reactor..."

However, five seconds have elapsed before the second repeated reminder has finished playing.

And Lin...

Before he completely lost consciousness, he "saw" his wife sitting on the lawn in the park, looking at the children with a smile on her face, playing with each other carefree.

Suddenly, he "sees" the scene when he met his wife for the first time ten years ago...

He was seriously injured during the mission. After regaining consciousness, he was found lying in the ward of the company hospital, and his wife, who was the attending physician, asked with a soft smile:

"Mr. Lin, do you feel uncomfortable?"

finally……

A "warm" white light floods everything.

The 'thing' that's wreaking havoc on Assis is The Thing

Recommended for book lovers who haven’t read it, you can take a look at the 1982 edition, the picture is not too outdated until now, and it is real and warm, and the plot is also very touching