[Infinite Horror] Xiao Ran

? Pacific Rim is a newer movie, unlike Resident Evil, which is already very old and classic.However, its theme is not unfamiliar to everyone.

In the movie, human beings are attacked by monsters from the cracks on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. These monsters were sent to the earth through wormholes on the bottom of the sea by another colonial planet. They can often reach tens of meters in length, and their bodies/fluids are all strongly alkaline. liquid.In order to destroy the giant beasts, human beings have created mecha hunters with a height of tens of meters and hundreds of meters to fight against them.Fortunately, monsters do not appear frequently, and the war situation lasted from 2013 to 2025, when the main line of the movie is located.

However, a few years later, due to the continuous upgrade of the monster's capabilities, the Mecha Hunter suffered repeated failures in combat. The heads of state decided to build a thick steel wall on the seashore to defend against the monsters, and terminated the financial assistance to the Mecha Hunter project.In 2025, it turns out that steel walls cannot resist the attack of monsters at all. The leader of the Mecha Hunter Project, a black general, made a desperate move and gathered the few remaining mechas in service to the base in Hong Kong, and decided to detonate a nuclear bomb. Send it into the wormhole and completely destroy the passage from the universe of monsters to the earth.

"Sure enough, it seems that there is not a big gap between our entry time and the start time of the plot."

When Chu Xiaoran and the others woke up again, they were already lying on the cold and windy street.Since the beginning of the film was in winter, everyone brought down jackets, long windbreakers and other clothes. Although everyone has been strengthened and is no longer afraid of the cold, in order not to cause trouble, everyone quickly put on their coats.

"This...is probably Hong Kong." Zheng Zha looked around and murmured.

They are located next to the outer wall of a large shopping mall. The signs around the shopping mall are all printed in Chinese, and the passers-by are all Asian. It should be Hong Kong, where the only remaining Mecha Hunter base is located.

"Destroy the wormhole at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and ensure that the hero and heroine are not dead, and reward the whole team with a D-level side mission. At the end of the horror movie, each additional surviving plot character will be rewarded with a D-level side mission, 500 reward points, if the mecha If all the drivers survive, each person will be rewarded with a B-level side mission and 5000 reward points. 5000 reward points will be deducted for each person who causes additional deaths of plot characters.”

Chu Xiaoran raised her wrist to read the words on the watch, paused and continued: "There are small words on the back, which are reward points for killing monsters... The list is very detailed, you can read it yourself."

"Speaking of which, there are only four newcomers in this horror film." Xiao Honglu said while pinching his hair, "According to what you said, four people survived from seven people in Resident Evil, and the next one is 18 people difficulty." Alien, and in the last horror movie, eight people survived and five people survived, and the following horror movie is a horror movie with 13 people?"

"It seems that the main god adjusted the difficulty at the beginning is really abnormal..." Zheng Zha sighed, "However, you want to say that the difficulty of this horror film is likely to be reflected in other aspects, just like the time in Resident Evil [-]. Same?"

"Maybe, I'm just speculating." Xiao Honglu said, and looked at the four people lying on the ground with others.

I don't know if it's because the quality of the newcomers who came in last time was too good, but this time the newcomers don't seem to be of high quality. Several people chatted until now, but none of them woke up.Among the four people, one was a middle-aged woman with disheveled and greasy hair. Although her clothes were neat and tidy, it could be found that she had not been well taken care of in many details.The other three were all punks with dyed yellow hair and sleek clothes - there had never been any potential rookies in this type, of course, Cheng Xiao, who also had colorful hair, was not counted.

Sure enough, after a while, the three punks who woke up yelled again indistinguishable from the situation. Chu Xiaoran and Zheng Zha were already familiar with threats, and after easily scaring them to shut up, everyone Only then did they realize that the middle-aged woman had been sitting on the ground, dumbfounded, with blank eyes, only smiling silly at them.She is actually... a fool, or a lunatic.

This time the explaining task was carried out by Chu Xuan. Anyway, no one had any hope for them. Chu Xuan pointed out a few key points very briefly, and stopped explaining after getting 100 reward points. It only took 1 minute a bit more.In this way, the four newcomers naturally did not get any valuable information, but they easily judged that even if they explained it carefully, they would not believe it, so they simply let it go.

"Since it's not far from the start of the plot, let's go to an Internet cafe first, get our identity information, and then go to the Hong Kong base. Since other bases have been gradually closed at this time, the general should stay in the Hong Kong base most of the time , even if he goes out to contact the mecha pilot, we should be able to find him through the base." Chu Xuan said, "Just use the set of identities we set up before - we are like the black market that appeared in the movie Members of the underground forces have a very deep obsession with destroying monsters. Xiao Ran and I have used modified equipment to link, Xiao Honglu, you have linked with the brains of monsters. This force has also funded other bases and the entire project before. After the project was stopped, we came to contact the general, hoping to continue funding him to complete the plan. Are there any questions?"

The rest of the people nodded. This set of settings was sent to them by Chu Xuan when he was in the main god space, and even some details were designed. Everyone has read it before, and Chu Xuan and Chu Xiaoran said What they said was to imply that they should not continue to use this fabricated identity, and it was also agreed in advance.

There is no more information yet, many things have already been discussed in the main god space, and there is nothing new to say now, so Zheng Zha gave each of the four people a gold bar and a dagger, and everyone stayed in place. Waited silently.

After a while, the people around them suddenly became noisy, and the people who were originally still also suddenly started to move.When the nine people walked out, Zheng Zha, Wang Xia and Zhu Wen all slowed down slightly, but the four newcomers stayed in place, showing no intention of following.

"It is now 2024:11 am on November 25, 10." Chu Xiaoran used her mental power to connect to a nearby computer while walking, and whispered to her companions, "Most of the bases have been shut down. , the official continues to promote the 'Wall of Life' project, and the Mech Hunter has cut off funding... The internal records of the Broken Dome and the general's itinerary are all encrypted information, and I have not been able to decipher it for the time being, and I will make plans when I find the hotel."

In the movie, everyone only knows that the plot officially starts at the beginning of 2025, and the specific time is rarely mentioned.But in any case, it is still the end of November 2024, which gives them nearly a month more time.

"It seems that this month's time is the opportunity left by the Lord God. If we can successfully persuade and help the general repair more mechas within this month, it should also be of great help to us in fighting monsters in the future." Chu Xuan said in a low voice, "Don't expect monsters to be as difficult as in the movie. Since we have the opportunity to increase the mechs, the difficulty of monsters will increase accordingly..."

"Wait, but piloting a mecha requires special training, right?" Zhu Wen whispered, "In the movie, the pilots are in teams of two, and they operate the left and right halves of the mecha through the synaesthesia system...Who are we? Haven't you been trained?"

"Operating the mecha is mainly due to the strength of mental power." Chu Xiaoran replied, "The mental power of each of us is enough to meet the pilot standard. I guess me, Chu Xuan, Zheng Zha, including your own mental power You can drive the mecha alone for a long time without sequelae. Once the driving system is connected, the driver's actions will be synchronized with the mech's movements, that is to say, as long as you have a certain fighting level, there will be basically no problem Except for you and Xiao Honglu, we can also achieve this point. Therefore, most people can theoretically drive mechs."

While talking, they had already walked to an Internet cafe next to the shopping mall.At first, the boss stopped everyone from asking for their ID cards, but at zero o'clock, he silently handed in two banknotes, and he waved his hand to let them go.

"How do you have currency here?" Zhu Wen asked in a low voice in surprise.

"It's not difficult for any of us to steal a few random ones." It was Chu Xiaoran who answered her, "You have to get used to it."

Zhu Wen kept silent.The nine people found an empty private room in the Internet cafe and sat down. Chu Xiaoran, Chu Xuan and Zero started to operate the computer. information, and continue to go deeper into the network system of the Broken Dome.

"General Stark Pentecost, the general manager of the Mech Hunter Project." After a while, Chu Xiaoran spoke first, "He should be at the Shattered Dome base in Hong Kong at the moment. Judging from his past trips, he His outings are not always scheduled in advance, so if we need to contact him, it is better to do so as soon as possible."

While speaking, she pushed the laptop computer on the table over. Zheng Zha and others took it over, and saw a pile of documents and materials sorted out on the computer screen. After a while, the data The growth stopped suddenly, and then began to decrease slowly. Finally, after 10 minutes, the hundreds of documents were reduced to three.

"The development overview of the Mecha Hunter Project and the list of in-service and retired mechas." Zheng Zha looked at the screen and read out the name of the file. "The second part is the brief information of the characters. The third part...introduction to synaesthesia technology and training steps."

"You guys pass on these three documents for a look." Chu Xiaoran said.Her ability seems to have been greatly improved after Biochemical II. After doing all this, her face is not tired, and she still looks very relaxed, "I will take over the work of identity verification. At zero, you go to apply for a bank card and buy a few by the way." Get your phone back."

Zero nodded, got up and left the private room.Cheng Xiao got up with a smile and said, "Then sister Zhu Wen and I will go out and buy some food? It's almost time for lunch."

The time in the world of horror movies is not fixed, sometimes it will enter in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, or even midnight.This time is a very rare situation where the time of entry is about the same as the time of the main god's space, and it is indeed time for lunch.As Cheng Xiao said, he dragged Zhu Wen out of the house. In the short distance, it was inevitable that Zhu Wen would throw off his hand and be stalked by him in a stern manner.The rest of the people had nothing to do, Zheng Zha, Bawang and Wang Xia got together and chatted together, while Chu Xiaoran and Chu Xuan sat silently in front of the computer and edited the files.

Not long after, the two finished one after another and turned off the computer in front of them.Soon, Cheng Xiao, Zhu Wen and Zero also returned one after another.After lunch, Chu Xiaoran picked up the mobile phone she bought at zero o'clock and dialed the black general's private number.

She pressed the speakerphone, and a clear "di—" sound echoed in the private room. Everyone else stopped talking and looked at the phone in unison. After a while, the other party picked it up.

"General Stark Pentecost?" Chu Xiaoran said clearly, "We plan to continue funding the Mech Hunter project. Do you have time to meet with us?"

"Who are you?" asked the other end of the phone, "and why are you funding this project?"

"It's very simple. We are not as stupid as the government. Monsters are constantly evolving, and their strength will become stronger and stronger. It is obviously not feasible to hope for a wall." Chu Xiaoran said, "If the earth is really destroyed by monsters, who will There is no way to escape, of course we have sufficient reasons to support mech hunters. As for who we are——I’m afraid I’ll tell you our names, but you may not know them. It’s better to meet up?”

The opposite side paused for a moment, the general was obviously thinking about it.After a while, his voice sounded again.

"You can video—"

"We are in Hong Kong." Chu Xiaoran said, "We are willing to go directly to the base to find you."

"When?"

"How about now?"