Sword and Magic and Taxi

Where is this place? Another monster guard field? After passing through the portal, everyone seemed to be back in the circular passage. There are still those pipes, valves and strange instruments, but the ceiling here is much lower, and the diameter is less than half of the previous one.

No, those hanging on those pipes are not living things, just corpses. Zhao Mai sniffed the smell, and then said with certainty: Telling it may make you feel stomach discomfort, those things...

Stop talking! Susan was already using the actual action of retching to prove her stomach discomfort. This can't be blamed on her. After all, looking around, there are all kinds of dried corpses hanging on the ceiling and walls of the entire circular passage. Most of them are disemboweled, and some only have a piece of skin left. It's a dazzling array of things. , like... forget it, I won’t describe it anymore, what if the reader happens to be eating bacon rice when reading this paragraph? .

The pipes are filled with steam, and all the devices here are in operation. The valves made creaking sounds, the levers and pistons clicked, smoke and water vapor filled the air everywhere, and the sharp friction sounds were endless, making your teeth ache. Compared with the previous empty passage, this place finally became alive, like an old old car, stirring the power of water and fire, mixed with the smell of steel and rust, exerting the last remaining heat.

The steam brought up the wind, causing the corpses of various creatures that were hanging, entangled, or stuffed between the pipes to sway slightly. There must be some kind of antiseptic magic here, otherwise the smell in such a humid and hot place would be devastating. It's okay now. Everything around me only causes visual and psychological damage to people, and my nose is temporarily spared.

Zhao Mai was the first person in the team. He stood still and kept looking up at the corpses in the air with a solemn expression. Diana walked around to the side of Zhao Mai, looked at him, and asked, What's wrong with you? Did you find any shortcuts again?

No, I'm wondering where these corpses came from. Zhao Mai's words almost caused Susan to vomit. Her legs were weak, so she hurriedly lay on Colossus' shoulders. Brother-in-law, I study physics and astronomy, not pathobiology or criminal investigation. Please spare me.

I'm talking about astronomy. Zhao Mai said: Let me tell you this, these corpses look very much like the bionic beasts we saw before, but none of them are. If you look carefully... forget it. , let me tell you the result directly: these are aliens.

Diana knew that Zhao Mai's space fleet traveled across various galaxies on missions to find and spread life, so she was convinced of his judgment. Colossus and Invisible Woman didn't know Zhao Mai, but they had seen him paralyze a living asteroid with just one move before, which proved his strength from the side. If he says these are aliens, let's just think so for now. But Susan was right: It's a corpse anyway, so it won't hinder us. We'd better find a way through this morgue quickly.

That's fine. Zhao Mai said as he walked: I sent a spacecraft deep into the star sea, to millions of star systems, and across the Milky Way. There are thousands of colonial planets left behind, but not a single one. No trace of alien creatures was found. Not to mention corpses, just a radio wave, a ruins, not even fragments of man-made objects were found. If it weren't for the Death Star and Superman, I would have thought there were no aliens in this universe. Humans. I didn’t expect to see so many kinds of alien creatures here, which makes me wonder: How did they die here?”

In fact, the answer lies in these corpses. Zhao Mai used his professional vision to find the surgical traces left by various biological experiments. Although the same type of aliens are scattered throughout the circular passage, as long as you pay attention to your memory, you can find that they can gather the size of several groups. The differences in body size, classification of physical characteristics, and differences in the aging of skin and muscles prove that they were captured in groups and specifically used for study.

You can imagine a picture: the Death Star descends on a certain planet, suppresses the power of the entire planet with weakening light, and then begins to plunder and learn. After everything is completed, all traces are erased, leaving only some souvenirs. Zhao Mai weighed the difficulty of doing this and found that in addition to perfectly erasing traces, he could also do other things. This model is absolutely feasible if the relevant capabilities are specifically developed.

As Zhao Mai walked, he used his psychic powers to move away the corpses blocking the road so that everyone could pass more smoothly. Walking here is a very unpleasant experience for others, but for Zhao Mai, it is a journey of discovery. For these aliens in front of us, it is a waste to only study their organs and abilities. Only by deeply investigating their evolutionary journey and studying living creatures like history can we learn the secrets they accumulated over time and remain in their corpses. The most important thing to know: how to adapt to the environment. So Zhao Mai released a part of the source material, which was enough to support the establishment of a small research base here, and also made the psychic power space surplus. He secretly took out some samples, avoiding everyone's attention, and stuffed them in.

Following the increasingly clear space energy signals, they walked forward for about a kilometer. There is a signal of a creature ahead, and it is alive. Zhao Mai's words made everyone alert, and they all took a defensive posture. Unexpectedly, Zhao Mai smiled bitterly: Don't be nervous, it's just some eggs.

Sure enough, after turning an angle in the circular passage, everyone saw the egg farm in front of them. The thick, milky-white gelatin covered the floor, walls and ceiling, forming a thick incubation bed. Thousands of oval, off-white biological eggs the size of watermelons sit vertically on the incubation bed, one egg in a hole. Each egg has a cross-shaped opening at the top, and a few have a straight opening.

The four-person team are not ordinary people. They either use special eyesight to see directly, or use their ability to sense energy and particles to detect. Even if they have iron heads, they will not lose the intelligence and caution of normal people, and they can naturally discover it. These eggs are viable. The eggs appearing in the pile of corpses would not give people a sense of reassurance, so Diana directly said: Destroy them all!

Don't rush to do it. They are indeed very fragile now. The eggshells can be broken with a single shot. However, I smell that there are extremely corrosive substances in those living creatures and inside the eggshells. These things in front of me are both Hatchery is also a minefield. It’s easy to smash them, but with those corrosive liquids flowing everywhere, this ring pipe will definitely be doomed. If there is turbulence in space outside, how can we go to the other side?

You are an expert in biology. We should follow your advice and we will listen to you. If you can paralyze all these eggs, that would be the best. We can pass through safely.

Give me a few minutes and let me see if I can imitate their shells and learn the key genes that can resist strong corrosive body fluids. Zhao Mai motioned for everyone to retreat and moved forward alone. He adjusted his natural force to blend in with the surrounding environment as much as possible to avoid being detected by the egg.

This reminded Susan, and she immediately said: Brother-in-law, I can make everyone invisible, so they can't see us, let alone attack. How about this method?

The sound wave passed through, and an egg slowly opened the opening at the top, slowly rotating the eggshell, like a cannon adjusting its firing angle, and aimed at Susan.