novelden Chapter 146: Deep in the Hollow
Chapter 146: Deep in the Hollow
"Ah, huh." Bai Zhi shuddered and touched his nose through his mask. Confused, he looked down at the advance team's isolation clothing he was wearing and muttered to himself, "...Is it because I changed clothes? Why do I suddenly feel an inexplicable chill?"
"Mr. Captain, are you okay? I noticed you've been sneezing. Are you feeling unwell? Do you really not need another dose of [Anti-Corrosion Agent]?" The researcher following Bai Zhi asked worriedly.
"I'm fine.
Although the re-deployment of information posts and the collection of void data went smoothly and a safe evacuation route could be recalculated quickly, as long as we hadn't actually escaped, we couldn't let our guard down.
So don't waste your precious medicine on me.
How is everyone doing?
"After being unexpectedly delayed for so long in an environment with a relatively high ether concentration, can the team members still hold on? How much food and water are left?" Bai Zhi shook his head, rejecting the concern of the researcher who called him captain.
"Everyone is doing fine. Those members less adaptable to the ether have also used the [Anti-Corrosion Agent] you, Captain, brought. Although everyone has been infected by those strange red threads of etheric matter, no one has shown any obvious corrosion reactions so far.
There's also enough food and water to ensure everyone has enough energy to leave. Don't worry.
Only Elowin...
Alas, although she used the [Anti-Corrosion Agent] continuously and put on your special protective suit and protective mask, which effectively prevented the ether from continuing to erode her body.
But the erosion she suffered before that had already left her in a coma.
All we can do is continue to inject her with medicine to maintain the effectiveness of the [Anti-Corrosion Medicine] in her body, and pray that she can hold on until we leave the cave and get rescued.
So Mr. Captain, are you really okay?
At that time, you were closer to the corpse than to Elowin. After bringing Elowin back, you were unconscious for a while.
"But please don't try to be stubborn at a time like this, okay?" The researcher asked again, worriedly, holding the tablet.
Although this "captain" of the rescue team who suddenly appeared and claimed to be looking for the missing agent but accidentally got separated from his teammates was very suspicious.
But he did successfully evacuate everyone to a safe area and brought precious relief supplies to the advance team.
In this emergency situation, no matter how suspicious the timing and reason of this person's appearance are, it must be "real" now.
Not to mention that if the "Captain" hadn't appeared at the beginning and fought against the "High-Risk Corpse" similar to "Nineveh", buying time for everyone to retreat, they wouldn't have known how many teammates would have been sacrificed due to being caught off guard.
Moreover, this "Captain" not only rescued Elowin, but also generously shared the [Anti-Corrosion Agent], special protective clothing and protective mask he carried with him, and gave them to them to use to treat the corroded Elowin, successfully suppressing the corrosion of Elowin.
Such a gentleman who is willing to stand up and do his best to help others even in a dangerous situation, no matter why he comes, does not affect everyone in the advance team, including herself, and they respect and are grateful to this "captain".
Besides, there's more than just Mr. "Captain" among these unidentified people...
Elowin...
The researcher sighed deeply when he thought of Elowin, who had been corroded by active ether while manipulating a large number of military mechas of unknown origin to blast Yihai at close range in order to destroy him.
In any case, to these people, Ellowin and Mr. "Captain" are heroes who saved them.
After they get out, they are all willing to speak up for these two "heroes".
"Didn't you check it for me?
My etheric adaptability is already very high, and my protective suit is also the latest developed, so there is no problem at all.
In the current situation, we can only do our best. As soon as we find a safe route, we will evacuate immediately.
Now that the spatial fluctuations caused by the violent explosion caused by the elimination of the "High-risk Skeleton" have subsided, data collection will proceed more smoothly.
Team member Elowin is a strong girl, she will definitely be able to persevere." Bai Zhi frowned and gently comforted the researcher in front of him.
Not far from Bai Zhi and his group's temporary camp, a large amount of broken building debris floated in the air, ignoring gravity, forming an area like a meteorite streamer.
If you use a drone to look down from the air, you can see that these building fragments form a faint vortex.
Bai Zhi looked into the distance at the chaotic place, and his thoughts went back to two days ago.
In order to buy time for Fu Fu to dig out the enemy's lair, this trip to the void is imperative regardless of whether Bai Zhi is willing or not.
Before setting off, Fu Fu had already packed up all the useful information and sent it to Bai Zhi's subsystem, and she almost packed herself in as well.
Just because she had to take care of and disguise herself as [Bai Yu], Fu Fu could only strengthen the subsystem several times with resentment, and by the way, she gave half of the stored energy to Bai Zhi to deal with emergencies.
Bai Zhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry because of his overly nervous look.
But it's no wonder Fu Fu was overly worried. Honestly, this was probably Bai Zhi's first time entering such a dangerous large cave. And he was all alone, with a subsystem that only operated according to the program.
In this situation, Fu Fu began to feel that her upgrade speed was both too fast and not fast enough.
If it hadn't been upgraded so quickly, and if it had remained the same as it was at the beginning, then [Bai Zhi] wouldn't have been able to leave the system's sensing range at all. Exceeding a distance would have caused instability in his body's data, much like the cause of the "Barracks Strange Stories."
Unlike now, she and Bai Zhi couldn't sense each other and couldn't communicate in time through the hollow barrier. Apart from being able to sense the stability of the host's consciousness and check the values of the constructed body, she couldn't do anything else.
Normally, Bai Zhi's activities in a small cavity alone are enough to cause separation anxiety in the system that should be integrated with the host, not to mention the larger and more complex cavities that are more dangerous.
When Fu Fu was preparing for Bai Zhi, she kept pulling Bai Zhi's hair anxiously, and more than once she rolled on the ground and said that she wanted to go with him.
Bai Zhi took great pains and vowed to protect himself. He only circled in the shallows to buy time for Fu Fu and would never take risks in the deep water. He also said he would only be there for a day and would be out soon. Only then did he persuade Fu Fu to stay.
result……
Bai Zhi pulled the mask guiltily and pulled it up a little.
His current location is only a short distance away from the deepest target location.
The accident happened so suddenly that plans couldn't keep up with the changes. Every time a plan was made, there would be complications, and Bai Zhi was almost used to it.
So, Fu Fu should be able to forgive him... right?
Small Theater
Bai Yu: I knew it! Whenever I make a plan, weird things will happen! Damn it!
Fufu: ...Why don't you reflect on yourself for always being nosy! We agreed to explore the shallow holes! How did you end up in the deep end?!
Bai Yu: This... cough cough. (He looks away with a guilty conscience)