Player Reload-Chapter 675 - 583: Live Brain Cells (4)
Without the lights, the spacious round hall was left with only the faint blue glow emanating from the pool.
"Hey? Hey!"
Midnight Dad hurriedly tapped his smart watch, but Troublemaker had already gone offline, leaving only the 3D projection map, along with the explanatory text floating beside the map via guiding lines.
"Fuck." He cursed, took a deep breath, and went to the explosion-proof door to continue wrestling with the door handle.
"You can’t open the hatch just with the handle. Didn’t you see the text? You have to touch the door lock with the watch and swipe to open..."
In the cyan-colored spacesuit, Hydra couldn’t bear it any longer and stepped forward to help,
but Midnight Dad suddenly turned around, raised his left arm with the functional hand, and shouted, "Don’t come near me!"
According to the instructions, the five types of functional hands are bound to life sign detectors, personal genes, and fingerprints.
Among them, the armed hand can fire ferromagnetic bullets driven by electromagnetics, capable of easily penetrating the homogeneous steel plate of a main battle tank, let alone a mere spacesuit.
Hydra dared not gamble whether Midnight Dad was equipped with an armed hand, so he immediately raised both arms to show he had no hostility.
"Everyone calm down."
Out of Control stepped in to mediate and said in a deep voice, "You all heard what Troublemaker said, right? We’re in this together,
Suspicion and internal strife will make us easy targets for the space alien species, picked off one by one.
Being transparent and working unitedly is our only slim chance."
Leaning against the railing, Laughing God tilted his head slightly and chuckled, "The best outcome of that chance you speak of is after we complete all the repair work, Troublemaker executes our bodies, leaving only our consciousness uploaded to a hard drive?"
"That would still be better than being killed by space alien species. At least you’re still alive and can reunite with family."
Out of Control countered coldly, "Troublemaker went offline too quickly; there’s a lot of critical information left unsaid.
I propose that everyone now reveal the type of tool hand they have. If two or more have an armed hand or a life-monitoring hand, our advantage as humans would be significant."
Previously, without knowing whether Troublemaker was friend or foe, Out of Control first took the risk and pressed the watch button, theoretically giving his words more weight than the others.
But at the scene, no one responded to Out of Control’s proposal.
’Yo, it seems there are no fools among us,’
Li Cheng thought to himself. Of the five auxiliary hands—reconnaissance, armed, life-monitoring, engineering, and warning—only the armed hand has offensive capabilities that could counter potential space alien species.
The auxiliary hands cannot be repeated, and revealing one’s auxiliary hand type now would easily make you a target deemed incapable of resistance by space alien species, essentially becoming a lamb for the slaughter.
It’s better to keep the information hidden, leaving the space alien species uncertain and hesitant to act first for fear of a counterattack.
Unfortunately, all he had was an engineering hand, capable of using magnetic pulleys to move swiftly through pipes, but lacking any offensive capabilities...
"The worst-case scenario is that a space alien species is hiding among us, equipped with an armed hand,"
Out of Control was calm and said, "But since no one wants to reveal themselves, let’s drop it. According to the map, we’re near the lower-level reactor; how about we head out first?
The map’s notes indicate the electrical room’s switch can reboot the lights in the base."
No one opposed this suggestion, and Hydra bypassed Midnight Dad and approached the lock with the watch to swipe it.
The watch’s edges emitted beams of light forming a keycard-style pattern that swiped across the card reader.
Click, click, click—
The rotary door handle automatically turned, and the explosion-proof door opened, revealing a dimly lit corridor with just the green fluorescent escape route signs.
Hydra led the way, with Midnight Dad following closely behind.
The corridor was hexagonal and wider than expected, allowing four astronauts with equipment to walk side by side.
Worried about the space alien species mentioned by Troublemaker, everyone kept a cautious distance from one another,
The metal floor was smooth and clean, with boots producing a clanking tread and squeaky friction sounds with each step.
In the middle of the line, Li Cheng turned to look at the round hall, and as the last person, Su Nisheng, exited the hall, the explosion-proof door automatically closed and locked.
"Speaking of which, don’t you think these spacesuits we’re wearing seem a bit odd?"
Li Cheng didn’t turn around. Instead, using a dance technique known as "Space Step," he walked backward, casually saying, "The ’common sense’ in my head tells me an average adult male human height is 1.72 meters, and an adult female is 1.59 meters.
But currently, all of us are wearing spacesuits that are 1.9 meters tall.
For men, the adjustability of joint sizes could be an explanation.
But Edith, Dir, Valkyrie, Su Nisheng, do all four of you fit this 1.9-meter frame so well? Not feeling like you’re standing on extra padding?"
As they turned a corner, Valkyrie said in a muffled tone, "If you’re implying something, sorry, I don’t feel like I’m wearing stilts, high heels, or inserts."
"Nor do I."
Su Nisheng paused and said calmly, "There are two possibilities. One, the thousands of adult colonists at Xinxiang Base were meticulously selected, meeting age, height, and other criteria for equipment universality.
Two, this spacesuit is more advanced than I recall, with internal movable joints that perfectly fit wearers of different heights, leaving them feeling like they’re wearing nothing."
"I lean towards the latter."
Walking behind Su Nisheng, Zhongli Mieing paused and said, "Haven’t you noticed? At least when I swing my arms and legs while walking, I feel no friction against the fabric on the skin throughout the process,
nor any impact against the inner wall of the exoskeleton. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
It’s like... the whole spacesuit is part of my body."
Blood Lion Roar nodded, "Same feeling."
Dir mused, "Same here."
"Perhaps it’s some kind of very advanced ultra-fabric bodysuit."
Li Cheng said, "Just like the Confucian school in history, advocating cultivating oneself, managing the family, governing the country, and pacifying the world. Pacifying the world starts with cultivating the self,
so scholars traditionally wore yoga pants and sports vests to highlight their figures when going out."
"??? Which dimension’s scholars are you talking about,"
Zhongli Mieing instinctively retorted, "Selling without seducing, huh."
Laughing God clapped his hands and laughed, "Actually, some do sell. Didn’t they say, ’Learn the martial arts and sell them to the royal family’,
Also, ’In the warm bed tonight, I shed the war robe with the general’,
’The beauty helps me up, and I shed the war robe with the general’,
’In a dying shock I spring up, shedding the war robe with the general’."
"BYD, that dog emperor, doing nothing right, shedding the war robe with the general all day long; this is clearly a ruler doomed to fail."
Zhongli Mieing sighed, feeling no decrease in his wariness.
Troublemaker had mentioned that space alien species have transformation abilities, able to perfectly mimic voices and seize the host’s memories.
A carefree personality with flippant language, spurting things out,
Doesn’t prove he isn’t a space alien; it might actually be a disguise to win the trust of normal humans.
"We’ve arrived."
Just then, everyone came to the electrical room, where rows of metal cabinets connected to the ceiling regulated voltage, distributed power, and transferred energy.
Troublemaker had mentioned that Xinxiang Base had a reactor, and the voltage in the electrical room was naturally frighteningly high.
Fortunately, the watch provided detailed guidance, and as the group approached, the watch automatically generated light arrows, indicating which switch to pull.
Bam!
A dazzling light suddenly lit up, and those who had grown accustomed to the dim corridor instinctively squinted their eyes, raising their hands before their helmets, inadvertently breathing a sigh of relief.
The fear of darkness is a primordial instinct engraved in ancient human genes.
Although the spacesuit’s protective power seemed slightly stronger than ordinary explosion-proof armor, light was still better than no light...
Bam!
A loud noise echoed in the electrical room,
And Li Cheng, struggling to keep his eyes open against the strong light, but saw Blood Lion Roar, once six meters away from him, disappear from his spot,
The upper part of the body was embedded into the tiles of the electrical room wall, the upper and lower body folded at a bizarre angle, clearly lifeless.
Blood—Lion—Roar—
