In Ganges Vault 11, Level 18, out of sight of Alejandro and the Cowboy Team.【??????.??????5?2?0?.???
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The monster that chased them all the way from the 4th floor to the 18th floor turned around after being unable to rush into the safe passage and headed directly towards the Brood type aberration entrenched on this floor.
The only reason why the Cowboys had time to rest before was that the monster cleared every layer of its original overlords wherever it passed.
Looking at the entire Ganges Shelter No. 11, it is like a pot of boiling water. Every cell is surging with joy. The already violent aberrations have become even more violent, constantly devouring each other.
They seem to be selecting the strongest within a few hours and using more efficient protein conversion efficiency to shape a common future.
It only took twenty minutes for the squid-form aberration to devour the brood-form aberration. Those mosquito-form symbionts were just like real mosquitoes in front of this monster, helpless against it.
The sharp needles that can pierce body armor cannot even find a point of contact on the opponent's thick and slippery skin, and are easily eaten by those tentacles.
Then comes the mother nest itself. The giant squid is like a scavenger, devouring large pieces of the remains of the mother nest along the wall, absorbing and transforming everything it has into a part of itself.
When all this was over, the body length of the squid-shaped aberration had exceeded sixty meters. It was almost growing as it ate, and its protein conversion rate was terrifyingly high.
What's even more terrifying is that after it devoured the entire mother nest, countless holes the size of a human head suddenly opened in the back half of its body. The densely packed holes looked like a honeycomb, but they were arranged in a disorderly manner.
Just one look can make all trypophobia patients sick on the spot, not to mention the new generation of 'mosquitoes' that are smaller, faster and have a longer battery life crawling out of these holes, or now they should
Call them 'bees'.
As the giant squid itself emits bursts of low-frequency sound waves that are indistinguishable to human ears, the bees immediately eject from these holes, shake off the mucus on their bodies in the air, and scatter away with a buzzing sound of flapping wings, exploring.
All paths leading to the next level.
At this time, Alejandro and his cowboy team had just entered the 19th floor, which was the agricultural planting layer of Ganges Shelter No. 11. In the original plan, the entire shelter was supposed to have ten agricultural layers.
Used to supply the consumption of survivors in the shelter.
However, during the actual construction, due to the deteriorating war situation in the Ganges War Zone, the design of the entire shelter was changed again and again. When it was finally completed, only half of the agricultural layer was left, and correspondingly, the dormant warehouse storage center
The number has doubled.
When the shelter actually began to take in, due to the influx of a large number of refugees, the dormant cabin storage center was eventually not full, and the number of survivors in the awake state far exceeded the original plan of the shelter.
This also led to the first major famine in Vault 11 soon. The hungry refugees ate all the food available in the agricultural layer on the 19th floor, including those used for food.
Plant seeds for a new round of crops.
So as early as the year of the Apocalypse, the 19th agricultural layer had been abandoned and replaced by the refugee layer.
At the same time, the 19th floor was also one of the first floors to fall. At one time, more than 3,000 infected people were entrenched on this floor, which also made it the first floor to be abandoned by the survivors.
Before the complete fall of Vault 11, the acting supervisor tried to completely seal the 19th floor. Unfortunately, those smart infected people blocked the door with various debris before they completely lost their minds, causing the closure.
fail.
In the end, the infected people poured out from the 19th floor and swept the entire shelter, causing today's tragedy.
But the irony is that the current 19th floor has consumed all the supplies on this floor, so there are no aberrants active here.
When Alejandro and his team of cowboys entered, there was almost no danger here, yes, almost, because there were still some lucky primary infected who had not been eaten up by other similar people.
Just like the living corpse that Rudolf met in the corridor just now, they basically failed to take in enough nutrients for various reasons, which resulted in their failure to survive the first stage of the transformation of the body by the rheumatism virus.
The 'weak ones' who went into hibernation and were forgotten here.
However, because there is almost no lighting on the 19th floor, the only meaningful thing these living corpses provide to the Cowboys may be emotional value. They can always suddenly wake up from every corner, and then use their last enthusiasm to give this group of living people
A bit of a scare from the dead.
"Tmd! I would rather go back to the upper floor to face that big squid!" Gremory was frightened by a living corpse jumping out of the corner and screamed. Although he is a well-trained warrior, and
We have faced many similar situations, but human beings' fear of this kind of fright comes from physiological instinct.
Some people can overcome it through willpower, and some people can't. This is not because they are not brave enough, but because they are more sensitive.
"It's not too late to go up now." Rudolph joked, causing others to burst into laughter.
Only Alejandro didn't laugh. He really couldn't laugh, because if what happened here was similar to what he guessed, then they might have to witness a miracle here.
Of course, all this is based on the premise that they can survive until that time
Their current target is the communication room on the 24th floor of the shelter. The structures of these shelters are basically the same, except that some shelters have made some frugal cuts due to the shortened construction progress, so they are actually considered
It’s a home battle.
But after more than twenty years, Alejandro was not sure whether the communication room in Vault 11 could still be used normally, but that was their only hope. He had to spread the word about what was happening here.
Whether it is passed to Mikkelsen or Tanguy, it doesn't matter to Alejandro, he just needs to make sure that someone outside knows that Gluttony is reborn here. It is enough.
But what Alejandro didn't know was that he was already being targeted by all the aberrants in the entire sanctuary.
Before the Apocalypse, this generation of gluttony had been ended by Tang Ji. He was forced to give up his level in the biological chain, voluntarily fell to the bottom of the biological chain, and acted as an Amir protozoa on the surface.
Personally speaking, the gluttony of the past has fallen, and those who will grow up in the wasteland of the new era will be a new generation of gluttony.
But obviously the intervention of players and the occurrence of the Apocalypse Day broke the inherent cycle of this world.
In the new era, there is not yet fertile enough soil to produce carriers that meet the requirements of gluttony. Under the precise control of the shelter, most survivors consume nutrients in a very healthy way.
Even if someone feels hungry because of this, it is difficult for them to have much desire for the products of the Gray Field Project that they eat every day. A conclusive fact is that human beings' desire to eat has been greatly weakened by the Gray Field Project.
In addition, the previous generation of Gluttony has not yet completely died, and the Amir protozoa active on the surface is more like a protein collector for Gluttony. The Ganges virus created by humans is one of the surprises that Gluttony can truly resurrect.
happiness.
It's hard to say whether all of this was planned by fate for Gluttony, or whether it was just a coincidence. After all, Gluttony has not yet formed a complete main consciousness.
Those aberrations that are active in the shelter have not developed enough intelligence to realize their own behavior and what the end point of their evolution is.
They just keep eating driven by instinct, and continue to obtain more biomass containing gluttony gene components.
Relying on instinctive activities is his strength for Gluttony. Even before the Apocalypse, he was the first to give up his personality and actively return to the Seven Deadly Sins of desire instinct.
But Alejandro's appearance broke the fragile balance in the shelter, originating from the fear of the [Flame of Hatred] at the bottom of the sea of consciousness, and 'awakened' Gluttony's consciousness fragments hidden in many aberrations in advance.
Among those aberrations that were large enough and strong enough, the part that belonged to Gluttony, after overcoming the initial fear, instinctively realized that the master who used this flame was not as strong as he remembered.
Then, the instinct derived from gluttony began this hunting journey, they thirsted for Alejandro's flesh and blood and the power he used.
Not only was the big squid chasing Alejandro and his team of cowboys from above, there were also several overlord-level aberrations that looked strange but had their own terrifying features sweeping across the area where they were.
, all the way up trying to block their way.
As long as these aberrations meet each other on the road, they will immediately start a life-and-death fight.
In this war dominated by gluttony, the winner takes everything, while the loser is reduced to food, just like what happened before on the 18th floor.
In fact, not only Gluttony is active, Greedy-Wolfgang is also acting.
As one of the "Upper Three Original Sins" among the Seven Deadly Sins, Wolfgang is undoubtedly the most powerful one among the Seven Deadly Sins at this stage.
He is not like Tang Ji, who spent most of his strength in the big storm, nor is he like Mikkelsen, who was disturbed by the big storm, like a dog that was cut into more than 4,000 pieces and thrown all over the world.
Like earthworms, they linger on.
Not only is his strength intact, but he is also keenly aware of the existence of Gaia's consciousness hidden behind the world, which was originally only touched by the prophet and Mr. Good Luck.
It was also based on the observation of player dungeons. Wang Zhengdao almost found the passage to the home world from these dungeons, and Wolfgang has been active near the ring defense zone dungeons, and this period of time was not without any gains.
It was difficult for Wolfgang to explain exactly what he was aware of, but it was obvious that he was very disgusted with this existence called a copy. That kind of disgust came from instinct and could not be eliminated or shielded.
What's worse is that Wolfgang looked into his own heart and traced back to the source, and finally discovered that this disgust had nothing to do with his personality as Wolfgang, but stemmed from greed.
Or we should go one step further. This disgust comes from the world itself. To this world, copies are like a bamboo stick inserted between fingernails, making the entire planet scream.
Wolfgang, who has mastered the power of activation, has activated the entire Sherwood copy and a large area of land around it, so he can hear this sound better. He can hear the wailing of the earth and the sound of the night wind almost every night.
cry.
However, for a long period of time in the beginning, Wolfgang was completely unaware of what he was hearing. His main consciousness still came from a human named Wolfgang, and his perception was also biased towards human habits.
But at the level 3 stage, the Seven Deadly Sins have begun to gradually become inhuman, especially in terms of perception. They are in the middle stage between humans and inhumans, so Wolfgang can listen to the sounds of the earth and space.
Everything around him is sending a signal to Wolfgang that they don't like that thing called a copy, and at the same time, the greedy part of him as the Seven Deadly Sins is driving him to remove the 'spiky'.
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This once frightened Wolfgang very much. He lived long enough to understand the relationship between his personal incarnation and original sin consciousness. He now faced a choice, whether to maintain himself and maintain his independent personality, or to choose
The other way, towards purer desires, like gluttony
It can be said that Wolfgang is now the one who has gone furthest among the Seven Deadly Sins. He is rarely disturbed by external objects, and he also lives long enough. He is vaguely aware that this is the threshold for him to advance to level 4.
"Sam, I don't need you to follow me today. I'm just going to pretend. There's really nothing else to do." Quan Zhe politely greeted the puppet controlled by Wolfgang and turned towards the copy of the ring defense zone.
Go.
They have been working together for a while, and Quan Zhe likes this cheerful but honest tour guide very much. Compared to the players he has worked with, Sam is the kind of person you can rest assured if you leave things to him.
As for players, in order to do this, they must first publish a task, and there will be generous rewards.
"Mr. Quan Zhe, this is my job." Sam smiled honestly and said: "I just rely on this job to make a living. If others see me doing nothing, I will have nothing to eat."
"Okay, then you can follow me, anyway." Quan Zhe opened his mouth, but suddenly remembered that this was a secret, so he swallowed the words again.
Wolfgang naturally saw Quan Zhe's hesitation, but he just waited quietly for the opportunity. During this period of contact, he had already determined one thing, that is, Quan Zhe was a 'big mouth' who could not hide his secrets.
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Even if he didn't ask, he could only endure it for two hours at most.