Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

near the mining area.

Irina, who had just checked the power distribution, took advantage of the rest and relaxation to come to the public restroom.

Push open the single rooms one by one to view.

After confirming that no one was there, she walked into the innermost one, locked the door, took out her exclusive mobile phone, and then used the in-ear miniature earphones to contact Lin:

"Sir, did you find anything?"

The communication was silent for a while, but soon, Lin's brief reply came: "There are some clues, and then prepare to sneak into the mining area."

Hearing this, Elena lowered her voice and said in surprise, "Are you going to sneak into the mining area now?"

"No." Lin denied: "This time is not suitable for sneaking in, and I still need your help, and I will start the operation later."

"Well, I see, right sir..." Elena reported her findings:

"This morning, many miners followed the instructions of the security guards and went to the No. 09 mining area in the deepest part of Assis. It is a bit strange. If we want to sneak into the mining area to investigate, the No. 09 mining area is the best choice."

"Okay, you can continue with your daily work first, and discuss the more detailed steps after the work is over. Don't arouse suspicion from others. It is your top priority to ensure that your identity will not be exposed." Lin urged.

"Okay sir, don't worry."

End the communication.

Elena put away her phone, pressed the flush button and walked out of the single room, not forgetting to wash her hands before leaving.

Leaving the public restroom, Elena prepared to check the power distribution room outside the next mining area as requested by the neighboring class. .

However, she didn't go far, and the lights in the corridor quickly went out, and the dark red emergency lights came on immediately, providing a little light for her and the people who were clueless.

Later.

An emergency reminder came out of the broadcast: "The mining area has lost pressure, please evacuate the mining area immediately! All personnel please evacuate the mining area immediately!"

Lost pressure? ?

Irina, who heard the reminder, looked confused, but she was still preparing to withdraw from the mining area with the people.

And at the same time in the sleeping area…

"Di! Di!"

There was also a piercing alarm, the lights in the passages and corridors were dim, and only the emergency lights emitting red light were on.

"How is this going?"

"I don't know, even the network and communication are gone."

"Could it be caused by the Hengxin storm?"

The bewildered family members of the employees left the dormitory and talked to each other about what happened to Assis. Among them were Carrie and the short-haired girl holding Neil.

at this time.

The hatches of all the sleeping cabins opened automatically, and there were more than a dozen fully armed security guards equipped with mechanical skeletons, armed with loaded civilian pulse guns, and ran to this area.

Arriving here, the security guards quickly dispersed, breaking into the dorms one by one, and another security guard rushed straight to Carrie, the short-haired woman, and the others.

! !

Seeing this situation...

run!

Although they didn't understand why the security guard was mad, the human fear instinct made them turn around and run away. Carrie even picked up Neil and ran away.

But no matter how fast the legs run, it can't run past the security guard with the blessing of the mechanical skeleton, not to mention the security guard has a gun in his hand, just listen...

"Da da!"

The crisp bursts of the pulse guns resounded throughout the area.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

"mother!"

"no, do not want!"

"Help me!!"

The gunshots were mixed with the human body being blasted and torn apart by shellless pulse bombs, and people screaming and calling for help in extreme despair.

At this moment, in Elena's sleeping cabin.

Even Lin, who had just changed into his casual clothes and had dealt with many incidents, did not expect the situation to change suddenly.

But he did not panic, but immediately took out the armed belt from the equipment box, fastened it, and quickly put various tools, grenades and battery magazines into different pockets and tactical bags, and then put on a pair of holographic glasses.

Finally, take the compact laser micro-punch, adjust the breathing, and aim the muzzle at the open hatch.

Soon, the security guard who had brutally murdered women and girls before appeared in the field of vision.

Lin immediately pulled the trigger.

"Ta! Tat!"

The laser micro-punching also made a crisp gunshot, and two orange "high-energy beams" emitted one after the other, hitting and melting through the security guard's helmet and left chest armor.

The two beams caused fatal damage to the security guard, and their strength was not reduced until they shot into the corridor wall and then stopped completely.

However, the security guard who was attacked...

"Roar...Ow!!"

Not only did he not die instantly as expected, but instead let out a roar like a beast and struggled in pain.

Listen carefully to this roar, as if different species are mixed together, and you can even vaguely hear the screams of humans.

Roar at the same time.

The security guard's body was also undergoing uncontrollable mutations, with countless slender and blood-colored tentacles breaking through the uniform and armor from the inside out.

Its head also split to the left and right from the gap melted by the beam, "gushing" out more tentacles that twitched back and forth, and jagged bone tissue grew on the edge of the gap.

Seeing such a change, Lin had no time to be surprised and think.

"Tattoo!"

His right thumb flicked upward to switch the shooting mode, while his index finger squeezed the trigger, shooting a dense beam of light at the inhuman security guard.

In an instant.

The high-energy beam ignited the clothes, and the flames wrapped them. Finally, the security guards were stopped from continuing to mutate and struggle. They fell backwards, and "Plop!" collapsed on the corridor floor and stopped moving.

Complete the immediate threat.

Lin quickly stepped forward, came to the left side of the door, and leaned against the wall with his back.

He then changed to holding the gun in his left hand, took out a flash bomb from his armed belt with his right hand, hooked the tab with his thumb, and flipped the insurance with his index finger. He counted in his heart for three seconds.

After three seconds passed, he threw it hard at the door, and then...

"Boom~!"

The flash bomb was successfully detonated, emitting a dazzling white light, and caused Lin Du to have a slight tinnitus.

"Da da da!"

It was also the detonation of the flash bomb that affected the security guards gathered in the corridor, which led to blind fire.

Of course, this also exposes "them" in advance.

So Lin continued to follow the steps just now, throwing another flash bomb in turn, and a strong acid bomb containing both concentrated alien blood and thinner.

Wait outside the door after the second flashbang detonates.

Seeing that they were covering each other, the security guards who formed the formation fired a salvo of gunfire again, and the strong light and loud noise from the detonation also made these security guards not notice the strong acid bombs...

"Bang~!" There was a muffled sound.

The explosion of the acid bomb did not make much noise.

However, after Lin released the insurance, the concentrated blood and the thinner began to react, and at the moment of the explosion, a thick light green mist was quickly thrown around.

Gu Yan

"Buzz...buzz..."

After that, the indiscriminate corrosion of the strong acid fog covered everything, the metal hollow floor, the extinguished lights, the walls on both sides, and the security guards who were somehow infected or "replaced".

"Hoo... ow...!"

Corroded by strong acid, they instantly lost their ability to attack and move, and their bodies could not be restrained from being distorted and distorted.

One of the security guard's head even voluntarily detaches from the body, and grows arthropod-like legs on both sides, like a "human-headed spider" trying to escape from the strong acid fog.

But this "human-headed spider" still couldn't escape the fate of being corroded. It didn't run far before it "sticked" to the metal floor.

Lin, who left the dormitory at this time, will inevitably feel nauseated after seeing such a scene that challenges the limit of endurance, no matter how experienced he is.

After only a short pause, he relied on the architectural blueprint provided by the holographic glasses, turned and ran away from here.

Pass by, and then bypass the square planted with green quilts, and come to the main corridor outside.

In the corridor, Lin saw a more **** and nauseating scene.

Not only the "infected" and "replaced" security guards, but also a large number of expressionless miners and maintenance personnel are working together to arrest people who are confused about the situation and flee in panic.

The people who have been arrested and concentrated in one place are guarded by several security guards, and then "contacted" by a boy who is only eight years old at most...

It was a boy with blood-colored tentacles in the palm of his left hand. He used the tentacles to drill into people's bodies one by one to complete a certain "infection" contact method.

If there is a tendency to resist and flee, the security guards will not hesitate, not even warn, and shoot directly in the leg, causing people to completely lose their ability to move.

"..." Lin observed secretly, and his mood was quite complicated.

There is both the urge to fight the "things" desperately to rescue normal human beings, and the reason not to act recklessly.

At the moment when the lights were turned off and the alarm sounded, Assis was "artificially" shielded from the signal, which made him lose contact with the outside world.

Although this shielding is ineffective for quantum communication base stations and warships equipped with quantum communication repeaters, the exclusive mobile phone of the intelligence officer...

No matter how advanced it is, it cannot fit a quantum communication repeater that is twenty meters long, ten meters high and ten meters wide.

However, if the mobile phone is blocked, then the same is true for the nanobots in his body, and the intelligence command center will know immediately.

According to the normal process, once the command center cannot restore contact with the intelligence officer, the emergency team will rush to the last location before the intelligence officer lost contact.

This process is applicable to the current situation.

Lin estimated that it would take 25 to 30 minutes to coordinate and arrange the ship after seeing the abnormality from Director Miller, and then dispatch the emergency team to Assis.

only…

Those "things" that suddenly caused riots were really just for the superficial purpose of speeding up the infection and assimilating all Assis?

It doesn't feel right.

They definitely want something else.

After thinking about this, Lin stopped observing secretly, and changed his route to go deeper inside.

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…

Not long ago.

Outskirts of the mining area.

Elena and a group of people obeying emergency reminders gathered in the lobby surrounded by armed security guards.

Obviously to prevent someone from leaving here.

Seeing this, Irina had a solemn expression, and put her right hand into the inner pocket of her work clothes, waiting for the best time.

On the other hand, other people still have lingering fears about the situation of "loss of pressure", completely unaware of the seriousness of the situation.

Sudden!

Including Todd and the short-haired female husband, all the miners in charge of the 09 mining area, and even many miners in other mining areas have mutated and attacked the workers who belonged to normal human beings.

Someone asked the security guard for help, but in exchange they just stood by, or were shot with a shellless pulse and broke their leg.

!

Despite being prepared, Elena did not expect it to be so violent.

Fortunately, as an intelligence officer, the psychological quality is the basic, so she immediately took out the laser pistol and ran towards the nearest entrance and exit.

There are many normal humans on the way, with the same goal as her.

Seeing that Irina and her party wanted to "rush into the formation", the two security guards guarding the entrance and exit raised the pulse gun and wanted to shoot.

"Ta! Tat!"

On the contrary, Elena, who was already prepared, pulled the trigger first.

Two high-energy beams burst out, instantly melting through the heads of the two security guards.

Immediately afterwards, she was faced with the scene that Lin encountered...

The burns caused the two security guards to roar like a beast, and their heads were also deformed, but Yelena didn't have time to be surprised and continued to aim for the gun.

In the end, she successfully broke through the "level" with everyone and left the hall that had been reduced to a slaughterhouse.

But outside the hall, the same scene was staged, and sometimes it was impossible to tell whether it was an enemy or a friend.

They know how to use memory, and use their "friends", "relatives" and other identities to deceive the trust of people hiding in corners. Once they succeed, they will reveal their nature and attack without any hesitation.

Elena chose to run in the direction of her dorm.

During this period, there were fewer and fewer people around, until there were only a few people left, including herself, there were only six.

The reason why the other five chose to follow Elena is also very simple, that is, she has a gun and has military qualities far beyond ordinary people, and her actions against those "things" indicate that she is likely to be a human being.

So running with Irina is the best choice.

Just run away, where can you run away?

Just as Elena and her party arrived at the entertainment area like a small commercial street...

"Tattoo!"

They heard the unique burst sound of the laser gun system, and the continuous orange light flashing around the corner ahead.

!

This made Elena instantly lift her spirits, pointed her left hand to the already empty bar, and whispered to the five people beside her:

"Hide inside first."

After speaking, she grabbed the pistol and walked quickly to the corner to investigate.

I saw that on the right side of the corner, it belongs to the food court area, and Lin, who has just solved the two distortion "things", is replacing the battery magazine for the laser micro-punch.

After changing the magazine, Lin aimed the muzzle at the corner, and it seemed that Lin noticed the moment Elena made the scout action.

! !

"Sir! It's me! Charles De! Don't shoot!" Elena quickly stated her identity.

"I know." Lin replied, and the muzzle of the gun was lowered slightly, as if he was no longer too alert.

"Huh..." Elena breathed a sigh of relief.

She left the corner and hurriedly walked towards Lin, showing the excitement of finding the backbone, and said as she walked:

"Great! Sir, you didn't turn into those monsters."

"Charles..." Ke Lin didn't show any joy, instead he showed a pity and said:

"This kind of work as an intelligence officer is not suitable for you. If you are reincarnated, you should be an ordinary person for the rest of your life."

"Sir?" Irina was puzzled.

Then…

"Ta!" A gunshot resounded all around.