Chapter 250

"Muke, you and Liu Jiayi go to the infirmary on the second floor to look for any relevant medical records, and find out why this group of people took such large amounts of drugs."

Bai Liu's eyes were deep: "Some people should be mentally healthy when they arrived at the Antarctic. We need to find out what made them mentally disturbed."

Mu Ke led Liu Jiayi down, and before leaving, Bai Liu threw them two guns and three cartridges: "Be careful."

Mu Ke took the gun and bullets steadily, loaded it skillfully and stuck it to his side.

Liu Jiayi is reluctant to use it, because although it has been improved, it is still too long, and you have to raise your arm to hold it, but the posture is still bad.

After going through so many dungeons, they almost know how to use guns now. Although the accuracy is not as good as that of Tang Er playing a god/gun/hand, at least it can reach the level of a gun/shooting game master. to the point.

Even Liu Jiayi can use automatic or semi-automatic guns proficiently, but because of the height limit and strong recoil, she uses it less, but it is not impossible to use it.

But there is no choice now. In this kind of icy and snowy environment, it is definitely better to use the dungeon materials first than to use up your physical strength to use skills.

Bai Liu led Mu Chengcheng and Tang Er to fight, grabbed their guns, and followed Mu Ke and Liu Jiayi downstairs. They were going to check the basement under the helicopter hangar outside the observation station.

The two teams separated on the second floor.

When Bai Liu walked to the main entrance, he saw that the inside of the door was covered with snow and frost again in just one hour, and there was a fluffy white condensation like foam hanging on the lock handle, but it was cold and hard after shaking hands. .

It's too cold here, the extremely low temperature and the hurricane make the formed snow blocks solidify quickly, and it's not too much different from ice blocks.

Bai Liu shifted his gaze to the anemometer hanging next to the door, which fed back the air temperature and wind speed outside the window:

[-55.8c, wind speed 119 km/h, wind force 12, level 1 hurricane, no going out]

Mu Meicheng grew up in the south, and he has never experienced such a severe cold. Realizing that he was in a low-temperature environment of minus 50 degrees made him feel even colder, and he felt uncomfortable all over his body, as if his bones had been drilled Into the cold wind, whizzing chills.

However, although he has no concept of low temperatures, he is still familiar with typhoons. Mu Chengcheng looked at the first-level hurricane and said, "Damn?! Is it such a strong wind?! It's on the coast, weighing ten kilograms." The trees can be blown up..."

Tang Erda also raised his eyebrows: "Under such extreme weather, you can't fly a helicopter, and you will be forced to land in an accident by the wind. If you want to go out to find other observation stations, you have to drive a snowmobile."

Bai Liu didn't comment on the weather, he calmly opened the door.

The gust of wind whizzed in, and you couldn't see a single light outside the door. You could only see the thick snow covering the glimmer of light far away in the sky, making the place as far as your vision dark.

The door was shaken by the wind, a thick layer of snow had already piled up at the door, reaching the height of a person's knees, and the wind blowing in was so strong that Tang Erda couldn't help but raise his hand to cover his eyes , was blown by the wind and shifted a certain distance.

"Put on goggles and sled shoes!" In the strong wind, Tang Erda had to raise his voice to let others hear his voice, "Take the safety rope around your waist, don't be blown Run away! Also pay attention to the ice cracks under your feet! Don't fall into it!"

The wind speed in Antarctica can reach 35 meters per second at the fastest, which is enough to blow away ten objects as heavy as Tang Er, but it is not the scariest thing here.

Here, the most terrifying thing is the ice crevasse, no one who has lived in Antarctica will not be afraid of this.

The ice surface of Antarctica is not completely flat. As the weather and temperature change, the ice surface melts and remodels. Many cracks with a depth of more than 100 meters will appear between the ice surface and the ice surface. , and snowfall will cover some cracks, making some cracks visually invisible and difficult to be found.

‌Naturally, it also means that it is easy for people to walk on ice or snow, and if they are not careful, they will step on the air and fall.

Tang Erda remembers a story he told before he came here. It said that a Japanese observation station team member went out to overhaul the equipment. When he came back, there was a strong gust of wind and he disappeared.

One day later, the station staff of the observation station found a team member in a shallow ice crevasse less than three meters away from the door.

A missing team member had been frozen to death. His face was covered with frost, and he looked up at the exit of the ice crevasse with his eyes full of resentment. His ten fingers were fractured and turned out, and the nails were frozen. The blood and wounds came out, the front teeth were half broken due to biting, there was blood in the mouth, and some blood foam stuck to the ice surface.

The snow covering the cracks in the ice is not thick, so it is reasonable to say that a team member can break it open and climb out, and the other team member also realized that this is not the case, and he desperately grabbed it with his hands. , Cracked open the deep snow cover with his teeth.

He could have escaped successfully.

But in those two days, in order to find the missing team member, the team members of the observation station went out a lot, and even used snowmobiles to run over a crack several times. The snow on the crevasses in the ice was soon compacted.

And this team member watched some people, under the banner of saving him, turn his only door of survival into a cold door of death, and then trapped to death, freezing to death in the cage.

Since then, the equipment at the Japanese observation station often broke down at night when the snowstorm came, and a team member who went out for maintenance said that on the way back, when they passed the ice crevasse, they could fix it. Down below, people were begging for help and laughing viciously and resentfully.

The team members with lingering fears said that they could hear the frenzied scratching of nails and the gnawing sound of teeth under the snow layer, and felt that the things inside would scratch through the ice in the next second, and they felt resentful. Laughing and grabbing him in.

After missing another inspection team member, Japan chose to change to another observation station as its base camp.

Tang Erda has doubts about the authenticity of this story, because the observation station will check daily whether there are any ice crevasses around, but it is also through this story that the ice crevasses are remembered.

So when Bai Liu said that he was going out, in order to remind the group of people to pay attention, Tang Erda also told a story with Mu Chengcheng and Bai Liu.

After Mu Cheng finished, he said: Grass, or I won’t go, you two can go.

It was calmly refuted by Bai Liu.

The three of them stepped forward, pulling the safety ropes around their waists, and staggered towards the helicopter hangar in the hurricane. Fortunately, the helicopter hangar was not far away, and they arrived soon. Tang Erda pulled out the loose leaf. door, the three of them entered the basement one by one.

Mu Chengcheng frantically shook the snow off his body, his teeth chattering: "Damn it, the weather has changed too fast, it wasn't so windy when I came here before!"

"If you stay a little longer, when the wind blows, you don't have anything on you, not even a satellite phone tether." Bai Liu glanced at Mu Chengcheng lightly, "...say Maybe it was blown away by the wind and trapped in a crack in the ice somewhere..."

Mu Chengcheng: "..."

Grass.

"But here is the game pool, and I can still quit the game!" Madam Mu said harshly.

"That's not necessarily the case. It's absolutely impossible for you to go out rashly like that before in this dungeon." Tang Erda followed Bai Liu's eyes and followed the strong (frightening) tone (scare), "in this dungeon The deepest ice crevasse is 100 meters, and the lowest temperature can reach -89 degrees. Fifteen seconds can make you unconscious. You may not wait until you can quit the game, and you will be frozen to death. .”

Mu Chengcheng: "..."

Grass! ! ! !

‌What the hell game! !

The basement that Bai Liu and the others entered had two floors.

The upper layer is for some light experiments, not too many things are placed, and it does not need to be too clean. Some transmitters, hydraulic hammers, etc. are stacked on the lower layer, and there are still Two big vats of pickled cabbage and radish.

Tang Erda lifted the cover and took a look, and a sour stench rose into the sky.

Mu Chengcheng's nose moved uncomfortably - the extremely low smell is very pure, and everything is frozen, so he still came to buy a copy of this pungent smell to smell it once. .

"It smells like the smell of my grandma's failure to make sauerkraut." Mu Meicheng retched and slapped his nose fiercely with his hands.

Tang Erda put down the cloth, and he looked at Bai Liu with a complicated expression: "It's a traditional way to make a sauerkraut, and the people at the Edmund Observation Station probably don't know how to do it, so it failed, and it stinks."

"But they should have someone's guidance to figure out how to store food." Bai Liuruo thought, "—it seems that the relationship between Taishan Station and Edmond Observation Station is not bad." We're as stiff as we thought."

Otherwise, the people at Taishan Station would not be so friendly instructing each other how to make sauerkraut, and such short communication between parents is obviously the sustenance of intimacy.

Bai Liu walked around the tank for a while, his expression pensive, as if he was looking for something.

Mu Chengcheng couldn't hold back his mouth, "It's just two jars of sauerkraut, what are you looking at?"

"I'm looking for the production date." Bai Liu replied lightly.

"?" Mu Cheng was stunned, "Who makes sauerkraut and writes the date of production? Isn't everything made casually..."

His words stopped abruptly when Bai Liu crouched by the tank and wiped a black mud spot in the lower left corner with his hand.

In the lower left corner of a kimchi jar, there is a label of a laboratory, which reads neatly: [10/8, 12.14kg radish (radish)]

It's like marking some upcoming experiment.

Mu Jie was shocked: "How do you know they posted the production date?!"

Bai Liu got up slowly: "It's a laboratory, Edmund is a scientist, he doesn't know how to make sauerkraut, so he put the two jars of sauerkraut in there for only one purpose - that is to make Experiment, record a process of sauerkraut fermentation."

"And according to Dr. Edmund's rigorous attitude towards experiments, he will definitely make some basic records on this kind of thing."

He raised his eyes and smiled: "For example, the date."

Tang Erda had already squatted under another sauerkraut jar. He carefully wiped the old sauerkraut jar with his fingertips, and found another label at the same position.

"The date of placing it here is also August 10th." Tang Erda looked up at Bai Liu, but he quickly felt that something was wrong, and frowned, "The date the plane crashed on the side is August 7th. The fax from Tarzan Station implying that Edmund Station stole the body parts was sent on August 8th, but this Edmund—”

"—Don't you think it's strange to toss two tanks of sauerkraut on August 10th?" Bai Liu retorted softly.

Tang Er frowned, he couldn't understand why.

But Bai Liu didn't fully answer his doubts, but continued to walk forward, towards the pull button door leading to the second basement floor.

There is also a pull button door between the first basement and the second basement. The door was obviously frozen, but Mu Meicheng had already dug it open when he came down before, and Bai Liu stroked the ice chips off it with his hands. , pull away and go down.

The moment he opened it, Bai Liu understood why Mu Meicheng took the documents and ran away.

A strong, strange stench that almost overturned the spirit of the human world rushed out, accompanied by the real dust and light smoke, which spread in the air.

As the heating resumed, the ice edge on the top of the second basement floor melted, and the turbid liquid dripped down like stalactites. Some of the liquid flooded the ground, submerging the ground in a layer of dark gray muddy water. The surface of the muddy water still remained. There are many glass slides of unknown organisms and some plastic sealing materials floating around.

All in all, it doesn't look like a pleasant scene.

Mu Chengcheng saw that Bai Liu was about to go down without saying anything, and hurriedly reminded: "There is water below! There are rubber boots and gloves next to the stairs! You change them before going down!"

Bai Liu changed into the rubber boots, pulled down to fix the rubber gloves, took a plastic file bag to cover his head, and walked deep into the second basement.

After coming down, the weird stench became stronger, like the fishy smell from some fish in the depths of the ocean that was just salvaged, it was greasy and sticky, like a sea snake, in the dark and dusty air. Walk around the white willow.

The water on the ground covered the soles of his shoes shallowly, and Bai Liu moved with swaying water waves. He bent down to pick up the glass slides and some materials floating on the water.

The names of the biological sections were recorded on the slides, and Bai Liu vaguely recognized that one was a killer whale, a small warm whale, and a penguin of a different species.

The glass slides floating on the water surface are basically the fat and skin compressions of some polar animals, and most of the floating materials also record the research results of these animals.

In the center of the basement is a large and heavy writing desk, on which there are several microscopes, an overturned glass slide box in the middle, and two small test tube racks.

Rows of small test tubes are neatly stacked in the test tube rack. The surface of the cell fixation solution inside is slightly frozen, and now it is slowly melting as the temperature returns.

During the heating process, the edges of the meat tissue began to turn black and grow strangely, and even the tissues in some small test tubes began to wriggle slightly, as if they were about to come alive.

Bai Liu glanced at the labels on the lids of some test tubes, all of which read: [Penguin (killer whale, etc.) + unknown organism x free cell mixed culture].

And in a pile of blackened and writhing pieces of meat, there is a piece of quietly suspended tissue that does not move. Before thawing, it is the bright red color of the freshly cut surface of that creature.

Bai Liu felt that he could even see blood oozing from the capillaries on the slice and dissipating in the fixative.

He walked over and used two fingers to clamp a small test tube out of the test tube rack. There was a label on the top cover of the test tube rack that was completely different from the other test tubes, and it said - [Unknown Creature: x].

The moment the first small test tube was taken out, the tissues in the other small test tubes seemed to be violated, sharp steam erupted from the mouth of the test tube, and the formaldehyde liquid inside was evaporated completely in an instant.

Some small pieces of meat began to rapidly differentiate and grow in some unknown direction, crawling out of the test tube and sticking to each other, but in the blink of an eye, they grew into a sticky black meat ball the size of a basketball, covered in tentacles.

A meat ball covers the smooth skin of penguins and killer whales, a mouthful of sharp teeth of carnivorous animals, and newborn tentacles tumbling on both sides of the meat wings, growing vigorously like a pulse.

These tentacles seemed to unite with each other, entangled with each other, and fell into the body of the meat ball, and quickly differentiated into a new tissue - a pair of fish-tail-like webbed feet.

The meat ball screamed ferociously, swaying its tentacles, and rushed to the side of the white willow. Tang Er, who was standing at the stairway, leaned back on the stairs with quick eyes and hands, leaned on the steps to borrow strength, and shook his hands to lift the steps at his waist. Gun raised to shoulder, to face, aim, fire.

"Bang bang!"

With two sharp shots, the meat ball lay motionless in the muddy water.

Tang Erda put down his rifle/gun, breathed slightly, and solemnly reminded: "I triggered a monster. It should be one of the monsters in the first copy. It's called unknown creature x polluting body. It's probably a monster. Copy of biochemical pollution, be careful not to touch the source of pollution."

"Okay." Bai Liu nodded meekly, and hid the small test tube in his pocket behind his back.

He straddled the corpses of pollutants, squatted down and continued to search for information in the laboratories. Finally, Bai Liu found what he wanted in a locked safe—he let him Tang Er directly broke the lock of the box with a gun.

Inside is an experiment diary sorted by time.

After getting it, Bai Liu came out from the underground laboratory door, closed the door, and went up with Mu Maocheng who was unwilling to go down even if he died.

Behind them, the pile of creatures that were beaten to death by Tang Er began to deform and merge like asphalt. From a pile of inhuman-looking things, they were quickly divided and reorganized, and slowly became more like a person, with a face , five sense organs, body and limbs all appear on its body.

It seems to be adjusting its appearance and body, and it keeps repeating three appearances, a slightly stronger human body for a while, an elegant and clean appearance for a while, monkey earphones appear on its head for a while, and occasionally The eyes emerging from "Pitch" are pure curiosity.

In the end, it seemed to have decided what it wanted to be. In the muddy water, it gradually shed its snake-like black shell, and its thin white hands and feet came out of the shell roughly.

A naked/naked white willow staggered and knelt in the muddy water, "he" opened a pair of pure eyes, and issued a high-frequency call from his throat like a whale calling for his companions.

Scattered on the surface of the water, the photocopied materials that were not taken away by Bai Liu read messily:

[——The whale tissue of the unknown organism x cell suspension culture shows plant-like recombination and regeneration, and the degree of differentiation is regressed to the lowest level, which can be induced to redifferentiate...]

[Cells have the high intelligence of individual species, and the differentiated "basketball tentacle-like lower organisms" (referred to as basketball) show the differentiation of biological categories, including humans, birds, fish, and even ferns and ancient microbes...]

[Whale cells begin to play a leading role, producing cetacean habits, growing a layer of smooth epidermal tissue that wraps "basketballs", cell differentiation gradually tends to normal, and after a week of differentiation, the cells gradually die...]

[Whale habits appeared before death, began to molt, molt... My God! It is reborn! It shows learning! It's starting to control its own differentiation direction... God! It began to differentiate in the direction of humans after molting many times! ! 】

[——No, I have to terminate the experiment, it is a filthy creation that cannot be ethically tolerated, it will pollute the basic group of human beings! 】