After a while, an armed robot emerged from under the sand, carrying two boxes in its hand. It said to Xu Huo in a high tone: "We found Dr. Joyce."
Everyone present was slightly stunned, all looking at the box in its hand.
Living up to expectations, the robot squatted down, opened the two boxes, and poured out the bones packed inside. "This is Dr. Joyce No. 1, and this is Dr. Joyce No. 2."
"My companion also brought back numbers three and four."
While he was talking, another robot also came out, holding not only a box but also packed tattered clothes.
"We picked up a lot of cloth torn by wild beasts around Dr. Joyce No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, as well as this Dr. Joyce's identity certificate. Through data analysis, we cannot accurately determine which one is the real one.
Joyce’s body, so we can only bring them all back.”
"You can take your pick."
Dr. Joyce's identification card is actually a work badge with a sensor chip inside. It should be his work badge when he worked in the CK12 security zone. It has a bust photo on it.
From this bust photo and the physical characteristics of Dr. Joyce provided by Chang Shoujie, Xu Huo and others selected two people from it, but it was unclear which one they were.
"Is there anything else?" Xu Huo asked the robot.
The robot replied that the place where they found the bones was a laboratory, which was mostly flooded by sand. The remaining space was mostly filled with experimental equipment, and the terminal equipment had been taken away in advance, so there was no ready-made data.
After a while, Brother Wu and his machine also came back. They did not bring back anything, but recorded a video. Judging from the traces left in places in the city that were not completely filled with sand, many people did not have time to escape at that time.
, most people were buried alive or suffocated to death, the bodies were relatively well preserved, and there were very few traces of alien species.
As for why Dr. Joyce No. 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the laboratory was eaten so cleanly, it was most likely caused by the alien species raised in the laboratory at that time escaping.
However, there was only one alien skeleton next to the corpse. Judging from the shape, it belonged to a mutated animal, not a mutated human.
"Is there a way to clean up the laboratory?" Xu Huo asked the others.
"I do have a container that can hold sand, but it's not very big." He said under the lamp: "I guess I have to run back and forth."
"As long as you can pretend." Xu Huo put on protective clothing.
In order to ensure safety, Chang Shoujie still entered the picture frame and followed him into the safe area. In addition to the darkness under the lamp, Curly Er also wanted to go. Brother Wu and his companions, plus Pink Hair, stayed outside.
Because most of the city is filled with sand, it is not easy to move around, and the sand is not as hard as soil and stones. Any space that is opened will soon be filled with sand flowing down.
So Xu Huo pulled up a space barrier where he walked, so that the black man under the lamp could use his hands to seal the excess gap.
After working in the laboratory for a long time, they cleared out two rooms.
They had previously known that important information from the laboratory had been taken away, and some experimental equipment had been shattered where it had been buried in the sand. It was impossible to restore it to its original state, but some dried experimental materials were left behind.
Under the lamp, Hei picked up a piece of glassware and turned it over to look at the label attached to it.
"Embryos?" He stared at the few shriveled pieces of dried meat that he had cleaned up. "Are these embryos? They don't look like humans."
"These are the embryos of mutant animals." Curly Er pointed at one of them, "These prematurely developed canine teeth are similar to a type of mutant animals I have seen before. Their teeth are still a kind of currency in Area 010."
"The monetary system in Area 010 has not collapsed." Xu Huo said.
Judging from the safe zones he passed through, normal buying and selling activities are still going on, and the common currency is still white money, but ordinary people tend to barter more. In other words, ordinary people do not need currency, and the currency system
Maintenance is just to serve the players.
Since you are a player, you don't need alien teeth as currency, and ordinary people lack the channels to obtain alien teeth, so it is completely unnecessary.
"I'm not sure why," Juan Er spread his hands, "I can't pass customs, why do I care about the local currency in Area 010?"
"Is this currency circulating in the Sand Sea Safety Zone?" Xu Huo asked again.
"How do you know?" Juan Er was a little surprised.
"I guess it's those cannibal players who want to use the currency they invented to replace white money." The gangster under the lamp said: "They control the entire Sand Sea safe zone. If there are dungeon players who stay for a long time, they will inevitably spend money in the safe zone. They
You can exchange water and food for newly arrived players at a high price or with dungeon information, and then resell it to stranded players, letting these people spend free money to buy it, and then force the animal teeth to be circulated as currency, so that you can gather them at almost no cost.
White money.”
Juan Er didn't know much about this aspect, "They said they wanted to change. Do those players from outside areas have to change? If you can't stay in the Sand Sea Safe Area any longer, you can go to other safe areas."
"It's probably resources." Lengxiahei glanced at Xu Huo, "Most of the players' props cannot carry water and food. Props in places like hotels are very rare and cannot be bought with money. Maybe sand
People in the Sea Safety Zone have similar props. If there are people outside to help and continuously bring resources in, the Sand Sea Safety Zone is the place with the richest resources, and stranded players will definitely be willing to stay."
"What's more, new dungeon players will more or less go to the Sand Sea Safe Zone to inquire about information. Whether they want to pass the level or not, it is very convenient for players to stay in the dungeon there."
"No wonder those cannibal players refuse to find a way to leave. Apart from the harsh environment, it's more comfortable to be a local emperor here than outside." Juan Er clicked his tongue.
Getting back to the topic, Hei took a look at the embryos of the ungrown mutated animals under the lamp and said, "Is CK12 experimenting with which mutated animal has a stronger reproductive ability?"
Xu Huo and Juan Er looked at him in unison.
"Your statement is too scary, isn't it? Humans and degenerates are already appalling, but you also add real animals into the mix?" Juan Er said speechlessly: "It's OK to draw inferences from one instance, but it's not necessary to draw inferences from one instance. I didn't listen to reproductive isolation."
Did you say that?”
Deng Xiahei didn't think there was anything wrong with his idea, "The world has become like this, what else is impossible?"
"This possibility is very small," Xu Huo said: "If it can succeed, then the game should be full of half-human, half-animal monsters."
Xu Huo looked at the embryos all over the floor and said thoughtfully: "Maybe they are doing other experiments."
