Chapter 442 "Infectious Diseases" (13)

Chapter 442 "Infectious Diseases" (13)

"boom!"

The huge sound appeared after the impact warning inside the escape capsule, which meant that Sinler and Gloria had left space and entered the space station. Because the escape capsule on the team's spacecraft was not specially used for boarding, the automatic opening system inside was directly damaged after the impact. Fortunately, the two were lucky that the armor they were wearing was not damaged by the deformed escape capsule. After finding the right angle, the two worked together to kick open the deformed and stuck hatch of the escape capsule.

"boom!"

Because Han Zu's life or death was unknown, Gloria couldn't help punching the wall next to her after leaving the escape pod. Although she was in a bad mood, she still forced herself to calm down. Since she didn't know what would happen next, Gloria could only hope for Han Zu's strong physical fitness. But even if he didn't die in the explosion, being left in space would not be a good result.

"Dong dong dong..."

But before Gloria had time to feel sad, there were some dense footsteps nearby. She and Sinler immediately picked up their weapons and prepared to respond. However, those sounds did not seem to be coming towards them and soon disappeared in the distance.

"I know...but it's best for us now..."

"I understand. It's more reliable to look for the remaining team members."

Singler had prepared for the worst. He thought Gloria would try to find Han Zu, but to his surprise, even though Gloria was in a bad mood, she was still able to correctly judge the situation. Looking for a target who was missing, probably dead, or lost in space was indeed not as effective as looking for other team members on the space station.

Sinler's armor is indeed very advanced. Although compared with the ordinary Tig soldiers, Sinler's combat ability is also quite impressive, he is not an engineer specializing in combat after all. With Gloria's military help, he is definitely much stronger than if he acts alone. Sinler immediately began to use the equipment to detect the surrounding area. After testing, they are currently on the outskirts of the engineering area of ​​the space station, close to the outermost layer.

"The space station also had energy problems. The defense field and the internal energy shield were both turned off. Because of this, we were able to successfully use the escape pod to crash into the interior of the space station. The situation was urgent at the time and no one thought about this. Thinking about it now, I'm quite scared. If the defense field and the energy shield were both turned on, we might have been burned into cosmic dust."

Gloria took a few deep breaths and calmed down. She temporarily put aside her sadness and returned to normal.

"Can you locate the other team members?"

"Yes, but..."

Although Sinler's expression could not be seen through his helmet, one could tell from his tone that things seemed to be heading in a bad direction.

"what happens?"

"I located several escape pods not far from us, but... I didn't locate the life signals of the team members inside, and I received Protocol Zero from their equipment..."

"Protocol Zero is..?"

"... We agreed that a special device that I debugged would automatically send a message one minute after a team member...lost their heartbeat and brainwave activity. It would be a will... They have already..."

The situation eventually developed towards the worst outcome.

"Let's go and take a look at their location. Maybe there's something wrong with the equipment."

"Thanks.."

Sinler nodded to Gloria. Even though Gloria was in a bad mood herself, she still chose to comfort Sinler. However, Sinler also understood that it would be difficult for the equipment he had debugged to go wrong.

However, he still had to go. First, he wanted to confirm their situation with his own eyes, and second, he wanted to recover the equipment on them. It would take several days to completely shut down the equipment after the death of the people. If these devices fell into the hands of other people, the consequences would undoubtedly be serious.

They first located the nearest escape pod and prepared to head there. Since they were close to a shut-down energy shield, there was no proper road to take, so they could only rely on the armor's propulsion device and some damaged building debris to move.

About ten minutes later, they found the escape pod closest to them. A piece of metal fragment pierced the entire escape pod. From the gap in the open hatch, they could see a team member who was also pierced by metal fragments and had died inside.

"Rest in peace bro..."

Sinler opened his mask and stretched his arm toward his body. Some probe-like devices extended from the wrist of Sinler's armor and pierced the neck of the dead team member, starting to recover the equipment in his blood. After completing the recovery, Sinler took his undamaged gun and started the self-destruct countdown inside his escape pod. After saluting, he and Gloria quickly went to the next location.

At the same time, near the top of the space station.

The forced landing positions of Hai and Wu were very close, so they quickly gathered together, but at the same time, they were the farthest away from the others, so they did not find anyone, and both of them were not in good condition. Although they were not injured in the collision, part of the energy device of their armor was damaged, and the full function of the armor could not be fully exerted. Hai, who was wearing heavy armor, was better off, but Wu was not so lucky. His armor was a speed-type armor, and without energy, the defense was greatly reduced.

"How about it?"

"It's OK, but the propulsion device is not working. How about you?"

"The energy shield is broken. Looks like I have to hide behind you, Hai."

"No problem, leave it to me."

“Buzz~~!!”

The two were at the observation deck of the space station, which was originally used for sightseeing. The top of the deck was made of a special artificial alloy, which could be changed to a transparent state by supplying energy, allowing tourists to easily see the outside scene. However, the energy source had been lost and it was completely dark.

At the end of the sky corridor on the other side of the observation deck, the two heard some mechanical movement sounds. They were very familiar with this sound. This was the mechanical sentinel of the space station. Almost every large space station would have this kind of security robot. These guys had strong firepower and moved quickly. They could also connect to the energy supply node to gain the ability to fly. These guys were not easy to deal with, and they never appeared alone. They usually came in groups of ten. What was even more unfortunate was that the armor of the two men was now damaged to a certain extent. If they hit them, they would not have a good harvest.

Hai and Wu immediately thought of the most appropriate countermeasure. They decided to bypass these troublesome guys, so they first turned off the power of the armor and moved away from the sky corridor. After the footsteps of the mechanical sentinels had decreased, they restarted the power of the armor and quickly left the observation deck.

A few minutes later, at the bottom of the space station, in the middle layer of the energy system.

“Buzz! Buzz!”

"The gun is overheated and cannot be used."

"Damn it!"

Xin, the team leader, could be said to be the most unlucky person. Her escape capsule suffered a severe impact when it crashed into the space station. Although the first impact only jammed the hatch and damaged the shield generating device on her armor, the structure of the location where she fell was unstable, causing the escape capsule to fall down and a second impact. The second impact knocked the hatch away, causing Xin to suffer secondary damage.

A metal tube pierced her armor, passed through her side abdomen, and nailed her inside the escape pod. The severe pain almost made her faint, but fortunately, the first aid module inside the armor saved her life. The powerful analgesics and repair potions saved her life, but they could only allow her to live a little longer. After all, the metal tube pierced her side abdomen, and the repair potion could not completely stop her bleeding. The repair potion was constantly being consumed and would soon run out. The effect of the powerful analgesic would not last long because the penetrating wound could not be repaired.

The situation was not only bad, right in front of Xin, some space station personnel with mutated bodies seemed to be attracted by the smell of blood on her body. This group of monsters, which had almost no human form, were constantly rushing towards her. Xin's main weapon was thrown out along with the hatch of the escape pod during the second fall, and she could only fight back with the pistol on her leg holster. Due to the effect of the powerful analgesic, her arm was numb, causing her shooting accuracy to be poor. Although she successfully stopped the mutant crew from approaching for a period of time, because the plasma pistol, which could only hit once after multiple shots, had reached the overheating threshold, it could only be used after cooling down. However, according to the current situation, cooling down could not be completed before the next wave of mutant crew members rushed over.

"Ah~~!!"

The repair potion finally ran out. Without it, blood began to flow out. The blood loss also caused the painkillers to lose their effect. The intense pain instantly hit Xin's brain like a hammer. Multiple negative effects caused her arm to shake uncontrollably. The overheated plasma pistol in her hand also fell to the ground and rolled to the side. Looking at the monster that was mutated from the original space station personnel, Xin endured the pain and wanted to pull out the power sword on the other side of her waist. However, due to the heavy blood loss, the arm on the side of the power sword was numb and she couldn't pull out the power sword smoothly.

So she made up her mind and prepared to start the escape pod's self-destruction countdown, but the control panel was on the side of the escape pod, and Xin, who was nailed in place by a metal pipe, couldn't touch the control panel at all.

“Uooa ...

One of the fastest mutant monsters rushed towards Xin. Xin could only raise his arms to resist, but one arm was numb and unable to move, and the other hand was very close to the wound. Because of the severe pain caused by the tearing of the wound, Xin could not complete the action of raising his arm.

"What a pathetic way to die..."

Xin gradually became unable to move and gave up resistance. Due to the negative state caused by heavy bleeding, she had tinnitus, her vision was gradually becoming dim and blurry, the severe pain in her body was gradually disappearing, and she began to become numb. Xin felt her body suddenly become hot, and then it seemed as if she was thrown into an ice cave. She could see that the mutant monster was about to pounce on her, but she had lost the ability to resist and could only let it happen.

“Buzz!!!!!!”

Suddenly, a sharp buzzing sound of energy came into Xin's ears, and the mutated monster that became blurred in front of her eyes seemed to be hit by something. Although Xin's vision was blurred and she couldn't see clearly what happened, she felt warm liquid splashed on her face, as if it was the monster's blood or something.

However, due to excessive blood loss, Xin gradually lost consciousness, went into hemorrhagic shock, and fainted.

After an unknown amount of time, Xin slowly woke up. She felt as if her arms and calves were suspended in midair, and something was holding her back and thighs. It was very hard, but very hot, as if someone was holding her and moving her. However, she did not seem to hear any footsteps.

Her limbs were still numb and it was difficult to move them, but her vision seemed to be returning to normal from the blurriness, and the cold feeling of metal on her body was gone, and the armor seemed to have disappeared.

The wound on her side of the abdomen no longer hurt, nor did she feel a foreign object piercing through her body. However, there was something slowly moving on her body, and it seemed to be emerging from inside the wound. However, Xin's body remained numb, and she could not raise her head to observe what was happening.

She instinctively wanted to speak, but then she felt something reaching into her throat. This thing felt very strange, like soft metal, but with some small movements, it gave people the feeling of being a living thing, and this thing was still constantly injecting something into her body.

"Am I being parasitized?" This was the first thought that came to Xin's mind.

After about a few minutes, Xin's body regained some consciousness. Her body was now able to move slowly in small movements. She turned her head with difficulty, as if it was leaning on something, to check on herself. As a result, she found several things that looked like modified hoses piercing her body. The source of these things seemed to be right next to her.

This kind of scene that made people's SAN value drop wildly made Xin, who was already unconscious, start to have wild thoughts. An inexplicable feeling of uneasiness made her faint again.

"Crack!!"

“Ha~~~!!!”

After a long time, Xin was awakened by a strange noise. She took a deep breath of air and regained consciousness. She instinctively moved her body and fell from somewhere. The height was very low, so she was not hurt.

Looking up, I saw that this seemed to be a storage room for maintenance equipment, and I should have been lying next to the empty middle shelf. The strange noises were coming from the corridor outside.

When he looked down, he found that he was only wearing a tight combat suit. The original wound on his side abdomen had healed, but there were several holes in his clothes. He had been rescued from the escape pod.

“Uooa ...

“Crack~~!!”

"Om!!"

Strange noises continued to be heard, mixed with the roars of some monsters. Xin shook his slightly numb wrist, picked up a cutter from the ground next to him, opened it and tried it. Fortunately, there was enough energy inside, and the light of energy blades lit up around the generator.

Xin crawled to the door, hid behind the door frame, and tightly grasped the cutter in his hand, ready to find an opportunity to open the hatch and see what was going on outside.