Chapter 436 "Infectious Diseases" (7)

Chapter 436 "Infectious Diseases" (7)

"The sound disappeared?"

The strange sound quickly approached the location where everyone was and then suddenly disappeared. If it weren't for the lighting facilities that were still damaged and everyone heard the strange sound, those sounds might even have been regarded as hallucinations.

"No, I sense some abnormal energy flows appearing around us. Don't let your guard down. Also, stay away from the walls."

Han Zu held back Xinle's gun as he was about to lower it, and made him keep aiming forward. Then he raised his hand to signal everyone to follow him and move forward cautiously. At the same time, he moved closer to the wall. Because of his abnormal liquid state, although his perception ability had recovered to a certain extent, if he wanted to perceive the danger in detail, he had to use some medium. The interconnected energy pipelines behind the frigate's bulkhead were a good medium.

However, Han Zu's perception ability is still not perfect. Although he can sense some abnormal energy flows near the team, he cannot observe whether these energies are emitted from any creatures. What happened in the No. 4 star area is very strange, and Han Zu does not want this Tig team to die here, so their movement speed is very slow.

"Why do I feel like it's getting darker? The emergency light cord in the hallway is also out."

"We must have encountered some kind of unknown energy flow erosion. The energy in our armor is constantly being consumed. Although the speed is not fast, the energy consumption rate is still increasing. We need to find a way to solve this problem."

"The biological signals on the upper floor have dispersed, and there is also an abnormal energy flow. Maybe something happened on the upper floor. I think we should go there immediately to investigate. Maybe we can find out why our armor's energy source is being consumed."

At this moment, Han Zu, who was walking in the front, suddenly raised his arm and made a gesture of alert. The team members immediately stopped, changed their formation, and made an all-round defensive posture. The energy shields on their armor were turned on at full power and entered a ready state. As long as they were attacked, these energy shields would appear immediately. The team members also raised their weapons, and the locking sequence in the helmet visors also began to operate with high authority. As long as a target appeared, they could lock onto the opponent in the first time and attack or counter-defend.

However, after waiting there for a minute, nothing happened. Because of the change in formation, Xinle, who was now closest to Han Zu, looked at Han Zu puzzledly. The latter's expression was also different from usual. Han Zu was also very confused now, and began to doubt whether there was something wrong with his perception ability.

"Hu~~"

However, just as Han Zu was about to lift his guard, he suddenly heard a sound similar to the sound of wind, rushing from the side of his body. He immediately swung his hand back towards the location where the sound came from. Although it seemed that his liquid arm did not hit anything, his liquid body was suddenly broken apart by an abnormal energy flow. Something was indeed attacking him.

At the same time, from the team members' point of view, they did not observe any enemies, and the locking sequence or the auxiliary scanning module of the equipment did not locate any targets, but the energy shields on the team members' armor all lit up, and the sudden consumption of large amounts of energy proved that they had been attacked, but they had no idea what was attacking them.

"Hold steady! Don't fire randomly! Everyone, move closer together and stay away from the wall! Link the shield sequence and balance the consumption!"

After confirming that everyone was in similar conditions, Xin immediately gave the order, and the team members immediately executed it, further shrinking the size of the defensive formation. Everyone stood back to back, and the energy shield sequences on their armor were linked together to form a hemispherical energy shield. The increase in the number of people balanced the energy consumption and also increased the defense, but even so, the people who had been under attack could not locate what was attacking them.

"Gloria! Pulse!"

Due to Han Zu's current special situation, the thing that attacked him went straight through after breaking parts of his body apart, so Han Zu was unable to capture the true face of the attacker. After thinking quickly, he remembered Gloria's special radiation pulse, so he shouted to Gloria while reorganizing his broken body.

“Woo hum~~~!!!”

Upon hearing Han Zu's order, Gloria immediately rushed out of the spherical shield and released a radiation pulse with maximum power. Gloria's energy concentration was second only to Han Zu's, and because of the abnormal energy flow concentration around her, the movement trajectory of the pulse ring temporarily became visible to the naked eye. Before the pulse ring disappeared, the energy consumption of everyone's shield stopped immediately. However, although everyone's eyes were following the movement trajectory of the pulse ring, no matter whether it was observed with the naked eye or the locking sequence, they could not observe the thing that was temporarily pushed away by the pulse ring and was previously attacking the team.

However, the energy detection device on Sinler's body kept beeping, but the situation was urgent and Gloria had just used a radiation pulse with extremely high energy, so Sinler thought that what the energy detection device detected was a pulse and did not pay attention to it.

But Han Zu, who had the ability to perceive, caught something before the pulse ring was about to disappear. He sensed an irregular energy body that had a trajectory of impacting the pulse ring that was spreading outward, but was quickly pushed out by the pulse ring. However, after that, the pulse ring reached the farthest distance and disappeared, and the trace of the irregular energy body also disappeared.

"Pulse! Once again! Xinle, pay attention to the abnormal energy flow outside the pulse ring!"

"it is good!"

Before the second radiation pulse was released, the energy shield maintained by the team members consumed energy again. Although this consumption was small, because of Han Zu's reminder to Xinle, the team members naturally paid attention to part of the shield energy and happened to discover this consumption.

"Buzz~~~!!!" Soon, the second radiation pulse appeared. This time, Xinler followed the movement trajectory of the pulse ring closely through the energy detection device. Sure enough, on the outside of the huge pulse ring, he detected the same thing as Han Zu sensed, but he detected several irregular energy bodies. But this time, those irregular energy bodies seemed to suddenly merge into one, and they just held up the pulse ring and rushed in.

"Fire!!!"

A gap suddenly appeared in one of the positions of the pulse ring that was visible to the naked eye. The experienced team members immediately understood what had happened, and immediately poured fire towards the gap. Two particle beams as thick as bowls blasted over fiercely.

"Boom."

Before the particle beams reached the gap, they were suddenly blocked by something for a moment, and then, as the first salvo ended, an energy bubble suddenly appeared at the end of the particle beam. The energy bubble burst due to overload, but it seemed that something else absorbed the energy of the explosion, so there was no loud noise, only a faint sound similar to that of a soap bubble bursting.

"It's an energy body! Everyone else continue to defend! Xinle, find out what this thing is!"

“It’s already moving!”

It seemed that the successful interception by the two team members "enraged" the thing attacking them, and the frequency of subsequent attacks became higher. Soon, as there were more and more gaps on the outside of the pulse ring, everyone started shooting. For a moment, the buzzing sound of the pulse ring, the firing sound of energy weapons, and the sound of energy bubbles bursting made the dark and silent corridor noisy.

"Strange, why haven't I been attacked since the first time?"

Han Zu, who originally stood in the front of the team but now stood at the end of the team due to the change in formation, suddenly realized a problem. That is, although the fighting in front was lively and felt like the climax of a movie, everything here was normal, just like a tourist standing next to the filming site and watching the excitement.

The liquid body that was broken into pieces was quickly repaired. Han Zu stepped over the others and stood directly in the middle of the hail of bullets and the attack position of the irregular energy bodies. The team members and Gloria who were unable to stop attacking, the energy shot out from their weapons immediately blasted Han Zu's liquid body apart again. But before the body was blasted apart, Han Zu finally confirmed that those irregular energy bodies not only did not attack him, but also avoided his position to a certain extent.

"You idiot! Why are you standing in the crossfire? Get out of the way!"

Gloria fired a long burst of shots, which just happened to smash the head of Han Zu who suddenly blocked her way. The situation was very critical now. Coupled with Han Zu's inappropriate behavior, Gloria naturally thought that he was up to something again, and she couldn't help but scold him.

"he..!"

"Don't stop firing! He can't die! Just shoot him!"

However, the team members at the back quickly stopped firing. After all, they didn't know Han Zu as well as Gloria did. However, at Gloria's request, they reopened their firepower network and temporarily withstood the invisible attack.

Although Han Zu had been swept into droplets at this moment, he felt that he had never been in such a state of full energy. This reminded him of the time when he stopped the obelisk from exploding, and a long time ago, when he was blown into a skull by the energy core of that spaceship.

He suddenly felt that he had never had such a tight control over his body, or his other "droplets", and he suddenly had an idea. He felt as if he could turn into a liquid wave. This feeling was so strong that it seemed that as long as he wanted, he could make it come true.

So he did just that, and sure enough, his body, which was blasted into liquid droplets, suddenly gathered again, and he really turned into a huge silver wave, which was just enough to block the entire corridor. So he controlled his liquid body and suddenly rushed towards the direction of the team's firing. Han Zu could feel that many irregular energy bodies were captured by his huge wave and trapped in the waves.

"Pfft!!!"

The huge wave that engulfed those irregular energy bodies suddenly hit the ground after traveling for more than ten meters. The team members who were temporarily freed saw that in the "huge wave" that was above their waists, there were some transparent irregular energy bodies trying to break free from the "huge wave", but soon they were swept into the "huge wave" that swept up again and became silent.

"Don't be distracted! There's someone behind you!!"

Some of the team members who witnessed the situation were stunned for a moment, but were quickly called back by Hai and Gloria who reacted quickly and began to defend against the attacks from behind. During the continuous firing, everyone heard the sound of liquid surging rapidly. Looking back, they found that the "huge wave" was sweeping towards the corridor in the other direction, but unfortunately, the team members were blocking the middle of the corridor.

"Fuck! Our own people! Our own people!!!"

"Boom boom boom~~~~"

Faced with such a huge wave that could just block the entire corridor, it would be nonsense to say that they were not panicking at all. Naturally, the team members instinctively wanted to move forward, but at this moment, everyone who was connected to the energy shield had to defend against attacks. So when the huge wave swept in front of them, they had no chance to dodge and were directly hit by it. The energy consumption of the combined shield suddenly increased a lot, and one-fifth of it was directly lost. Fortunately, the huge wave did not sweep them away, but left them there. Gloria ran back to the shield when the huge wave began to move again, so she was not swept away either.

The huge wave rushed through the crowd and continued to move on the other side of the corridor for more than ten meters before slamming down to the ground again. The same transparent object appeared and tried to break free from its restraints, but after failing, the huge wave quickly shrank. It didn't take long before it returned to Han Zu's liquid appearance. However, some transparent things could be seen trying to break free from his body.

"The energy reaction in the corridor has disappeared. Those energy bodies... uh..."

Xinle re-scanned the corridor and found that the irregular energy reactions had indeed disappeared. However, he felt something was a bit weird when he saw that the liquid Han Zu was constantly trying to rush out of his body.

"Do you know what attacked us?"

"Almost. Although I also think it's unlikely, the universe is so big that the probability of anything appearing is not zero. I think this should be, oh no, these should be a kind of pure energy body... Uh... can it be counted as living things?"

"Yes, we can find research on energy creatures in the control network, but it is definitely not this kind. Moreover, the energy creatures we know about will not actively attack other creatures."

"Do you think the strange state of the crew on the High Wall is related to this irregular energy creature?"

"Are you saying that those zombie-like states are caused by these things?"

"Maybe not, but based on our current clues, this possibility is indeed very high. This can also explain why the conditions of those crew members have nothing to do with viral or biological infection. But..."

"If it was really caused by these energy bodies, then what on earth did they do to make those crew members become like that?"

The energy life they had just encountered made them start to discuss, but they didn't come up with anything. Gloria seemed to have an idea, and gave Han Zu a look. The two walked to a farther place and chatted in a low voice.

"The state of those crew members, do they look like they have lost their souls?"

"Do you still believe in this stuff?"

"That's not the case, but..."

"That's exactly what it seems."

Although Han Zu didn't believe in gods and ghosts at all, a long time ago, when he was playing a copy of the Infinite City, he did briefly possess some soul-related abilities. Among the players of the Infinite City, many people also had abilities related to the soul. The most important thing was that the zombie-like crew members on the "High Wall" frigate were in a state that really looked like that.