soul bondage

There are no illusions in this silent ruin, only a silver dome dotted with white gleams to illuminate a black arch bridge connecting the two banks.The deck is so wide, I bet it could be used as a runway for silver ray transport planes if it was long enough.I walked up to the bridge and raised my head. There are tall stone statues standing on both sides of the bridge. There are Tuoan people holding guns, Rui beasts holding high hammers, and Norui people who are bowing their bodies and roaring, staring at them with a pair of compound eyes. In front, the Kocht man holding a planetary observer scratched his chin with great interest, the strong Caron man raised his arms with thick limbs in the sky, and Lofis squatted on the ground with double blades, ready to go , there are dozens of stone statues representing various races on the bridge, and around these nearly ten-meter-high stone statues, there are countless small stone statues ranging from three to five meters around them, which is similar to the construction of this alien civilization. Buildings are as small as gravel compared to me.

I went to the bridge and knelt on my hands and looked down from the bridge. Countless black figures were swimming in the purple liquid below the bridge.

"What's that?" I asked curiously.

"The creature in the water is called the ghost crocodile. It is a group of corpse slaves that live in the water. If you meet a ghost crocodile in the water, you may not even be able to keep a whole corpse. The view here is not good. You should really look at it. Look at their teeth, they are like a meat shredder." After listening to his words, I silently stood up and retreated to a safe place.

"There are quite a lot of corpse slaves here." I teased.

"Except for the underground palace, you have almost wiped out the corpse slaves on the land except for the four fortresses, but don't be too happy, there is also a flying corpse slave besides the ghost shark—the poisonous moth wandering around the mind-controlled world day and night. Around the instrument, the poisonous needles in their mouths and the teeth of the crocodile and the weapons of the poachers are all made of the same nanomaterial, so they are more difficult to deal with than the enemies you have encountered before. But there is a good News." He had no idea how depressed I was right now.

"What?" I asked nonchalantly.

"In addition to these corpse slaves, there is also the hallucination of the mind control device! Am I humorous?" Jing Mo chuckled.

I feel that today is more ominous than good.

"Be careful, there are no organs on this bridge, right?"

"No, it's not, but those four big guys seem to be quite hospitable." As soon as he finished speaking, four laser beams shot at me, and I dodged sideways behind a stone statue to pass by the oncoming laser beams , one of the laser beams hit a smaller stone statue, and the upper body of the stone statue fell into the purple lake under the bridge with a roar. Swimming to the position of the stone statue as if to chew quickly, the stone statue disappeared in the lake a few seconds later, and the gathered ghost crocodiles also slowly dispersed and continued to swim leisurely at the bottom of the water, and the lake surface returned to calm.

After I successfully marked the four enemies, I used the stone statue as a cover to approach them. The four fortresses looked more cautious than before. The four of them moved forward slowly back to back, and the transmitters in their hands were aimed at four different directions. , but keeping a certain distance between these enemies prevents me from using microwaves to deal with them all at once.If I use □□ or □□ to kill two at most, but then I will be sieved by the other two, it seems that it is not wise for me to entangle with these guys now.

"What are you doing?" I asked silently as I slung the carbine on my back.

I didn't answer his question, but crawled to the bottom of the bridge like a gecko on the ground. If I can't beat them, I can avoid them and sneak into the underground palace on the opposite side. Anyway, once the brain control device destroys these guys, they won't live long. up.

"I'm running for my life, don't you see it?" I crawled on the other side of the bridge while avoiding the sight of the enemies on the bridge.Although the fortress has strong firepower and extremely high defense, it is far less flexible than me. They would never think that I would retreat without a fight. Even if they found my trace, their weapons would not be able to penetrate the bridge in a short time.Now I just need to make sure that I don't accidentally slip my hand and fall, then there shouldn't be anything...

Just when I was halfway up, I suddenly felt something sticky on my hand. I raised my hand and saw that the palm was covered with red liquid.

"Xiao Yu!" A resentful voice came from the front, I raised my head to look at the woman floating in mid-air in front of me, and saw a line of blood and tears in the corner of her eyes slowly running across her pale face.The wound on his body had been infected by bacteria, and pus and blood flowed from the blackened and rotten wound.The bloodshot eyes that were originally covered with blood are now only two scary blood holes, looking at me empty.

"The brain controller seems to have found us."

"Obviously." Looking at the ghost in front of me, I felt that the brain-control device was really exhausted, and it seemed that its only method was to use these things to scare me, even if it was an illusion created by the brain-control device. Respect the laws of science, this planet has gravity!She was suspended in the mid-air with her head upside down and her blood was flowing upwards. No matter how realistic and frightening she was, in my opinion, it could only be a trick of mystery.

"You can't beat me." I whispered, staring at "her" face.

The female corpse smiled at me strangely and then disappeared into the shadows under the bridge.At this time, all the ghost crocodiles in the lake gathered towards my location as if they smelled blood, scrambling to jump out of the churning lake surface in an attempt to pull me into the bottom of the lake.What Jing Mo said is right, the silver teeth in the ghost crocodile's everted mouth are already scary just by looking at them, but the jumping ability of these guys really needs to be improved.

The bridge deck swayed slightly under the heavy steps of the four fortresses. Just as I was about to reach out and continue to climb forward, a beam of green laser shot through the bridge body on my left, leaving a white smoke on the black rock. hole.There was only a scream in the water, and several ghost crocodiles injured by the laser beam instantly became the same kind of food.

I use the Tactical Assist to dodge the beams from the fort on the other side of the bridge, and the fort keeps shooting at me through its own tactical goggles.The four fortresses shot at me as if they had lost their minds, and I was like a black spider swimming among the green rays of light. Behind me, the purple lake was already swollen with the blood left by the dead ghost crocodile. It became muddy, and the ridiculous thing is that most of the dead ghost crocodiles were killed by their own companions.

When the fortresses were showing signs of fatigue, I saw the opportunity to throw the last booby trap upwards from a hole, and then pushed off the wall with both arms.

The ghost crocodiles in the lake opened their mouths wide when they saw this scene, waiting to eat the canned human meat specially provided by the Star Alliance, but as soon as the electromagnetic pulse current disappeared, the injectors on my legs and back turned on at full power, and my arms bent Protect your head and neck and crash into the already riddled bridge deck.When I rushed up from the bottom of the dark bridge, I happened to encounter the only fortress that was not affected by the electromagnetic pulse booby trap. The enemy who was aiming at the ground just turned his head, and I flipped forward and kicked him with both feet. Facing the door, the opponent's center of gravity was unstable and fell from the bridge.I picked up the launcher he dropped and aimed it at the other three enemies and pulled the handle back. Although this alien weapon is operated in the same way as the Charon's hand-held machine gun, the recoil force is so strong that I didn't expect it. While being shaken back again and again, he kept firing at the enemy. The green light beam directly melted the enemy's gold armor and beat the flesh and blood inside into a paste. Unfortunately, the spread of this weapon is too large. When the mouth was aimed at the last enemy, the built-in battery was full of energy. I accelerated the run-up while he was still awake, and used the inertia to throw the launcher directly towards the body wrapped in golden armor. Then I rushed forward and pulled out the claw knife and stabbed it fiercely into the gap of his neck armor. Along the finger-wide gap, I grabbed the handle of the knife and pulled it hard, dark blood sprayed onto my filter took away my vision.

I wiped the blood stains on the filter with my hands, and looked at the three corpses on the ground, panting heavily, still in shock.The move just now was too dangerous when I think about it now. The reason why I didn’t attack at first was because I was hanging upside down on the back of the bridge and could only use throwing weapons and guns, and the distance between the four opponents was too far. I can't bet on the last microwave in this situation.On the bridge is a fully armed fortress, and under the bridge is a hungry ghost crocodile. After being discovered by the brain control device, I can only avoid the enemy's firepower and wait patiently for the opportunity.But fortunately, the intelligence of the corpse slave really didn't disappoint me. On the one hand, there was a fortress that chased me no matter what. On the other hand, there was a ghost crocodile that put everything in its mouth.Although the weapons of the fortress hit me by chance a few times, under the protection of the bridge body and the shield, I just felt that I was stung and did not cause any substantial damage, but the most serious casualties were those on the lake. Any corpse slave protected by a shield, in fact, if it is not cannibalized by the same kind, maybe only the ghost crocodile that is hit in the head will die, but now I look down at the lake. The unrecognizable wreckage of the fortress that has been bitten.

I raised the weapon left behind by the enemy whose throat I had cut just now, aimed at the ghost crocodile that had regained its calm in the lake, and held it steady with slightly trembling hands. A green light shot out from the launcher gun and dived into the lake water. But at the moment of contact with the water surface, its flight trajectory deviated, and the energy of the last green light was also swallowed by the purple lake water.

I dropped the launcher and touched my chin. Although this launcher is powerful, it will be refracted or even completely deviate from the original trajectory after entering the water like other laser weapons. Moreover, due to the high density of the lake here, it is difficult to enter the water. Tens of meters away, its own energy is absorbed by the lake water, so if the group of ghost crocodiles didn't obey the attack command of the brain controller, they rushed out of the water, bared their teeth and claws at me, but stayed quietly in the water now. It's not that the casualties are so heavy.

In the same way, if the fortress hadn't hit me indiscriminately after discovering me, the bridge deck structure would not be damaged to the point where I could knock it open, but this is still secondary, if it wasn't for the one who was attacked by me all the time. The flying fortress was too eager to kill me. I did not hesitate to leave the team to avoid the attack range of the electromagnetic pulse. It is impossible for me to get a weapon that is not disturbed by the electromagnetic pulse after using the electromagnetic pulse booby trap.Just like how I dealt with corpse slaves with a spike in my hand, it seems that no matter how terrifying these corpse slaves are in appearance or how powerful they are in number, they are still biological weapons with low intelligence and no opinion in essence. To complete one's mission according to the instructions of the brain-control device defense system, it is really sad to be so meaningless as a flesh and blood life!

"Why are you in a daze, there are more enemies waiting for us ahead. Go ahead, Archangel." The silent urging voice brought me back to reality, and I took the carbine off the magnetic ring on my back and raised the weapon Walking towards the black gate of the underground palace, at the same time, I recited the activation code of the anti-matter bomb in my heart, hoping that this ruin does not have much archaeological value.

The black door engraved with dark golden characters slowly opened to the outside, a group of black shadows flew out from the crack of the door, and hundreds of venomous moths fluttered out with colorful wings, emitting a blue glow around their bodies. Shimmer, like an elf in the night.

"It's so beautiful!" I admired sincerely.

"Don't take it lightly. The shimmering lights surrounding them are actually nanobots. If they entangle you, they will absorb energy from your body. Not only shields but also optical camouflage will be destroyed by them, but unlike electromagnetic pulses, as long as these The little guy keeps pestering you, and your electronic devices are permanently disabled. Also, see that half-meter-long spine on their mouth, if the nano-microbes in it enter your body, Your heart will go into shock within half a minute, and you will die within 5 minutes if there is no inhibitor." Jing Mo reminded.

"I see, wait a little longer." I hung on the door and waited patiently for the last big moth to slowly fly out of the door. Climbed sideways into the underground palace along the wall.

"Fortunately, they couldn't see through the optical camouflage camouflage. I came in."

"Very good, now there are only a few lone poisonous moths still patrolling around the central circular roof. Although these poisonous moths are extremely fragile compared to other types of corpse slaves, even if you kill more than half of the other poisonous moths Will tear you to pieces too. Keep a low profile and use the darkness to infiltrate the inner chambers of the dungeon."

"Understood." I adjusted the field of view of the filter to observe the structure of the underground palace.The underground palace is about 15 meters high. The six tall stone tablets in the underground palace are respectively located at the hexagons of the underground palace. The flickering light from the base of the stone tablet made the empty space look a little depressing. I endured the pain in my muscles and proceeded cautiously Climb down while still looking up to see if the enemies hovering overhead are aware of it.

"Since the brain control device wanted to use the hands of the corpse slave to get rid of me before, why did he choose to remain silent now?" I gently landed on the ground and hid in the shadows against the wall.

"Don't forget, I am also a part of the brain control device. Although he sensed you when you met the brain control device on the Bridge of All Beings before, but after I found out that I slightly modified the Beru suit, it could no longer respond to the brain control device. You have too strong mental interference, so the mind control device has to manipulate the corpse slave to try to defeat you. I have connected your brain nerves to the induction system of Beru's suit, if he wants to attack you like before Then you will expose yourself instead. The security system of the brain controller can only interfere with carbon-based life forms, but it cannot prevent artificial intelligence from invading its own system. When it interferes with you, I can pass the Beru service. counterattack with the ICT." I lie on the ground, my body clinging to the ground and crawling forward.

Why didn't you do it before I was disturbed?Why wait until this time?I don't trust him a little bit, after all, what this guy said is too unrealistic.

"I have been modifying the program of Beru's server since you separated from your teammates, and I have been supporting you by improving its operational efficiency when you are fighting corpse slaves. Do you think that invading the Beru's server system is not Is it easy to update its system and then synchronize its system with your brain waves? If your hackers do it manually, you may not be able to complete it even if you turn into ashes. Be satisfied, Archangel! At least I completed it You're still alive."

I was speechless.Forget it, he can always have his own reasons, the most urgent task now is to enter the underground palace as soon as possible.

"Stop, there's movement above you." I lie on the ground motionless, the whistling sound of wings beating the air above my head is getting closer and closer, and I look at a half-human, half-moth creature all white from the corner of my eye Approaching me from a height, this monster is so ugly!I licked my chapped lips, trying to figure out how to distribute the 41 rounds in the carbine in a crossfire.

"If it's really a last resort, don't be seen by other enemies when you do it. Use the surrounding areas that are not illuminated by light to shoot from the dark. Don't let the nanobots on their bodies interfere with your combat uniform."

I turned over and raised the carbine to aim at the target. Although the opponent didn't notice me, the blue light curtain around his body fluctuated, and the nanobots rushed towards my position emitting a blue halo.

"Fire, fire!" Jing Mo urged anxiously, I aimed the diamond-shaped crosshair at the head of the poisonous moth and shot a wave of bursts. When the bullet hit the poisonous moth, the oncoming light curtain disappeared in less than a second. The poisonous moth The brown body rolled and fell quickly, I rolled to the right for a few meters, my limbs turned upwards, and at the last moment I caught the corpse that was dripping with green liquid. This monster, which looked like a large mosquito, happened to face downwards with a pair of red compound eyes. stare at me.

"This guy is so ugly!" I gently put the body on the ground and said, wiping the green liquid off my body.

"Don't take it lightly, do you see that blue organ in the center of his back?"

I turned it over on the ground, and there was a blue pustule wriggling near the head.

"It's disgusting!" I complained.

"Cut it open, and open the external hardware compatible."

"Give me a convincing reason." I pestered the limp thing, imagining the way thick pus would flow out.Oh my God!I reject.

"Trust me, Archangel, do as I say." Jing Mo's confident tone made me even more worried.

I took out the claw knife and used the blade to cut open the pustules from top to bottom. Unexpectedly, what gushed out of the pustules was not disgusting liquid but fine particles, like blue sand.

I wiped my palms and turned on the ICT on my arm to search for external hardware. Unexpectedly, there was an unknown hardware waiting for compatibility. I selected it and adjusted to the connection state.

At this moment, the blue grains of sand on my palm suddenly flew up by themselves, emitting a bright blue light.

"What the hell is this?" The particles in the pustule seemed to come alive and all gathered around me. Surrounded by blue light, my body became a veritable light target, and all the poisonous moths rushed in from the direction of the gate and rushed towards me. over here.

"Damn! What the hell did you do?" I yelled, not expecting to end up at the hands of an AI.

"Calm down, stay still!"

"You bastard!" I raised my carbine and shot down the few moths closest to me.I'm so stupid!How easy it is to trust others.

"Trust me, don't waste bullets." Silence appeared beside me trying to stop me, but when his arm touched me it went straight through without touching my body.

Just when I was about to be covered by the enemy, all the poisonous moths stopped in mid-air, and I stared at what happened in front of me in amazement.The blue light curtains around them slowly gathered together. When the light curtains on each poisonous moth completely disappeared, they fell to the ground and curled up into a ball. Soon, pieces of poisonous moths fell down one after another. Not only was I stunned, but these The monster was also at a loss as he watched his companions fall in groups.

"What did you do to them?" I asked, staring at a moth on the ground whose tentacles were still twitching.

Jing silently waved his hand to signal me to wait a moment, then he closed his eyes and frowned, the image of his body became flickering.Accompanied by the explosion of the organs storing the blue nanorobots on the corpse of the crackling moth, more and more rays of light merged into the dazzling blue river, like the flying in the fields on a midsummer night in the population of the older generation. Fireflies are average.At this time, the light curtain slowly gathered together, compressed and deformed, and finally the azure light disappeared, replaced by a huge dark aircraft that appeared in midair, exuding a splendor that cannot be described in color.

"What the hell did you do?" I looked around, but the silent image had disappeared.

"I found a new body for myself." The dark aircraft flew towards me.No, it should be said that he teleported over, I didn't see his movement track at all.

"How do I look now?" A blue-green luminous body in the center of the aircraft stared straight at me like big eyes.

I carefully looked at the big guy in front of me. The orange lines on the navy blue shell were shining regularly, and the circular hollow area in the center of the two wings of the aircraft was shining with current. The streamlined shape was similar to the drones I had seen. There is a big difference between the angular image.

"You look so handsome! But what's the use?" I asked, tilting my head.

"Please, I can go anywhere freely now! Do you know how boring I can only stay in the brain control device and the system of Beru's suit? In this underground ruins, there are only a group of funny people with infinitely close to zero IQ. A brain control device that has been sleeping soundly, every time I finally see the living people die before they talk to each other, or they are assimilated into corpse slaves by the brain control device, you know when I see you How exciting it was to beat those monsters to pieces! Do you know how it feels to finally have someone to talk to me! Are you listening?"

"Funny? Don't want it? The technology of the Star Alliance is really advanced!" I whispered. "So the reason why you helped me was just to chat with me." I looked at this flying machine with its light emitter chattering around in confusion. Could the machine be lonely?

"Of course not!" The aircraft's light emitter glanced unconsciously. "Okay, not all. Pipfeno, stop this crazy person! If you don't say that I have forgotten about it, let's go." Silence teleported to the top of a stone tablet for a while, and after a few seconds The ancient inscriptions on the stele lost their luster, followed by the second and third ones, until only a transparent disk in the center of the underground palace was left with some faint light.

"Where does this gravity ladder lead to?" I said looking at the ruins complex underground outside the energy shield.If it were normal, the sight here would be enough to make me amazed, but now the questions in my mind have prevented me from paying attention to other things.

"The main control room of the brain control device, the end of our journey." Jing Mo hovered above my head, the fuselage kept shaking, and he was still humming in interest.

"Why wasn't Pippeno affected by the brain control device? Could it be that his brain has a special structure?"

"No, he has already been affected. When his companions were dead, he was actually controlled by the illusion created by the mind control device, but he didn't know it yet."

"Then why is he still alive?"

"Because the subconscious mind of the brain control device hopes that it can wake itself up."

"What would happen if Pippeno really activated the brain control device?"

"No one knows what the brain control device will do to carbon-based life. The original intention of the Yakang people to create brain control was to achieve the goal of eliminating war by intervening in the brain waves of carbon-based life forms, but they did not Individual differences are not understood.

When the brain control device is activated, everyone's reaction to the brain control device is different. Some people are completely insane; some people are always wandering in the corridor of memory, unable to find the exit; After connecting with the brain control device, he died of brain death within a short period of time for unknown reasons.It was a dark time, and the brain control device was the end of a golden dynasty for both Yakang people and carbon-based life forms.

You should also have a general understanding of what happened after that. The Yakon people died out, and the whole world fell in the worst direction. After a long interstellar melee, I don’t know how much life and resources were consumed in vain.However, although it is not as good as the most prosperous era now, at least the civilizations in the stars have survived the post-Yakon war era and are still intact.Because of this, we must not let the tragedy happen again, use the antimatter bomb on your body to completely smash the brain control device! "

I finally understood the seriousness of the matter after listening to Silence. It seems that this is no longer a search and rescue mission. If that idiot Pippeno really wakes up that machine, then we may have to go back to that haunted by nightmares. It's time.

"How much ammunition do you have?" Jing Mo asked me suddenly.

"Not much, but I don't intend to blow up the brain controller with a gun. When the time comes, as soon as I have a chance, I will directly activate the antimatter bomb. Now I have unlocked the bomb."

"I don't know what you will encounter, these are for you, just in case." As I spoke, a group of robotic nanites flew out of the aircraft above my head and got into the empty magazine hanging on the tactical vest inside.

"Wow!" I unloaded the magazine on the carbine and stared wide-eyed at these firefly-like little guys fused and converted into new ammunition, which is much more convenient than relying on special magazines to automatically fill.

"And this, I scanned all your weapons and equipment while you were fighting, now you don't have to worry about ammunition."

The nanomechanical bug got into the pocket of the tactical vest, and fused into new grenades and guns.

"It's coming soon! Although I can support you, you are too close to the brain control device. Even if the defense system of the brain control device will not interfere with you, it is difficult for me to guarantee that you can Stay awake. But I've made some improvements to your Beru suit just in case."

"I hope I can make it to the end," I said to myself.