"Ding Meng, Ding Meng?
Did you hear me?
Please answer immediately, please answer immediately. "Ji Ming's voice sounded anxiously in the public channel.
However, the main control panel showed that Ding Meng's communication thread had been completely cut off. Instead, Cheng Da answered him, "Lan Qiu and I are already approaching the accident site. Everyone, hold on."
Qu Xiaoqing and the others were fine, but Silman and the other bounty hunters could not hold on any longer. Everyone could see that this was a gas chamber. Without any protective equipment, they could not stay here any longer. They could only retreat to the tunnel one level above.
"I'll go take a look." Qu Xiaoqing stood up decisively.
"Miss Qu, let me go." Long Ming pulled her back. "I'm also a Thermodynamics user. It'll be easier to work with Ding Meng."
"Take good care of Randy. My Tempered System is better able to deal with all kinds of dangers."
Qu Xiaoqing knew that something was wrong. She definitely would not give this opportunity to Long Ming. She was most curious about the secrets hidden on this battleship. The military seemed to be lying, and it even attracted the bounty hunters. However, in this situation, it was better to find Ding Meng first.
At this moment, Ding Meng had already emerged from the water through the tunnel. He was floating in the middle of a larger pool. When he looked up, he could see that this was a huge natural cave. It was big enough to accommodate several Songqing spaceships. However, there were numerous holes of various sizes among the rugged rocks. There were too many to count.
Now, two things could be confirmed. One was that the creatures in the tunnel that were scared away by the heat had definitely entered these branching caves. The other was that their current location was no longer inside the battleship.
"I didn't expect there to be such a large space underground." Ding Meng could not help but sigh.
Little Rascal said, "The energy fluctuation is getting stronger."
"Yeah."
Ding Meng nodded. The frequency of the halo spreading in his psychic vision was indeed getting higher and denser. "I think the thing they're looking for is the source of this fluctuation."
That being said, Ding Meng suddenly had a very unique feeling. Just like when he first discovered the experiment hall, this place felt familiar, as if he had been here before, but he could not remember when. But this time, the feeling was particularly strong.
However, it was different this time. His Telekinesis vision had improved by leaps and bounds. The fluctuating halo was like a feedback signal, guiding Ding Meng forward. He could not even remember how many caves and tunnels he had passed through. Finally, he entered a giant semicircular tunnel.
"It's here," Little Rascal suddenly said. "The fluctuations are coming from here."
Ding Meng also stopped in his tracks. This tunnel was obviously not naturally formed, but man-made. The walls were made of granite, smooth and smooth, and the rocks were almost seamless. The most surprising thing was that the walls were faintly emitting a green luster, which made the entire tunnel emit a pale green light. It looked strange and mysterious, and people who were in it felt like they were in a ghostly world.
"But I can't see anything?"
Ding Meng asked. The halo fluctuation in his psychic vision was indeed here, but there was nothing in the empty tunnel. It was so empty that it was scary.
Little Rascal said in a low voice, "This is an unknown energy source. Its fluctuations and composition are beyond my knowledge. Ding Meng, this place is very strange. You have to be careful."
At this moment, the symptoms from back in Black Gold Base flared up again. Ding Meng felt his vision blur, and his vision became slightly blurry. It was as if an electric current had passed through his eyes, tearing his vision apart. This was the same for his psychic vision.
"What's going on?"
Ding Meng was clearly frightened. Logically speaking, after Little Rascal fused with him, this symptom should have been completely eradicated by the K virus, so why was it reappearing now?
"Watch out for the middle!" Little Rascal suddenly shouted.
At the very center of the tunnel, a green dot of light appeared out of thin air, drifting toward him like a ghost fire from the underworld.
What the hell is this?
Ding Meng dodged to the side like a carp, and the ghost fire instantly shot dozens of meters away. Its speed could be said to be quite astonishing.
The ghost fire seemed to be psychic, and after making a big turn, it suddenly turned around and shot back.
Ding Meng naturally did not dare to get close to such an unknown thing. He casually pulled out the SWAT particle machine gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation. The sharp muzzle of the gun shot out a large number of bright electric particles, illuminating the tunnel as bright as day.
Unfortunately, the electric particles passed through the green dot, and the green dot was not damaged at all. Instead, the tunnel entrance collapsed. The SWAT particle machine gun was not weak, and the entrance seemed to have been blocked.
Little Rascal said, "Energy weapons are useless. Try something else."
Seeing the green dot fly over again, Ding Meng threw the gun to the ground and dodged to the side.
The green dot's reaction speed was not inferior to a human's, and it followed his trajectory and made a sharp turn. At this time, Ding Meng still had not gotten up, and in this critical situation, he could not care less. He quickly activated the Origin and used the Diamond Star Technique. The Origin Energy immediately formed a golden diamond that wrapped around his body.
With a crisp "ding", the green dot hit the mirror like a bullet hitting a steel plate and was immediately deflected.
"That was close!" Ding Meng let out a long sigh.
Little Rascal's tone was still serious. "It hasn't been destroyed. The composition of this energy is too complicated. Even I can't analyze its proton composition."
The green dot was indeed still there, but it no longer attacked. Instead, it slowly flew around the golden diamond, as if it was observing and analyzing the powerful defensive composition of the Origin Energy mirror image.
After flying a few circles, the green dot suddenly retreated, and then charged forward like a bolt of lightning.
The inconceivable finally happened. The golden diamond, which could withstand Salazar's powerful attacks, could not withstand this small dot of light.
"Whoosh!"
This time, the light spot crashed into the mirror like an extremely hot melting point crashing into a layer of ice. A large piece of the mirror actually melted. However, the light spot did not crash into Ding Meng's true body. Instead, it stayed on the mirror and sizzled. The overall color of the golden diamond quickly faded and dimmed.
Ding Meng and Little Rascal did not have time to be surprised, because the Origin in their bodies was like a dam that had collapsed. Abundant Origin Energy poured out like a flood. Ding Meng felt his body weaken like a sack that had been emptied.
"Hurry up and stop it! This thing is absorbing our Origin Energy!" Little Rascal exclaimed. "It's also invading my control system. Hurry..."
Every time this happened, Ding Meng would be more alert and aggressive. Ignoring his weakened body, he quickly drew his sword, swung his hand, and slashed forward.
He had practiced this move thousands of times when he was at the Liszt Academy. He was confident that the dot of light would not be able to dodge this fierce attack, not to mention that he had injected Origin Energy into the ancient sword in an instant.
The dot of light did not dodge this attack, but the sword did not hit it either. This was because the dot of light absorbed the sword in the blink of an eye, turned into a flash of light, and shot up Ding Meng's wrist, along his arm, shoulder, and neck. Finally, it flashed into his eye socket.
At this moment, Ding Meng's vision completely changed. Many images flashed before his eyes. There were all kinds of images, some he had seen before, some he had not seen before, some he had experienced before, some he had not experienced before, people, scenes, events, planets, galaxies, outer space...
A huge cluster of information was actually injected into his eye socket. This was even more exaggerated than the information that was injected into his armor. In just a few seconds, Ding Meng's vision turned black, and he did not know anything.
However, the scene in the tunnel was particularly frightening. The green dot merged into Ding Meng's body, and Ding Meng's entire body was quickly covered in a green light. Just like when he was transformed by the K virus, his entire body had turned into a human-shaped pupil of light, but this time, it was a green pupil of light...
At the same time, Qu Xiaoqing emerged from the water. She also curiously sized up this huge and strange natural cave. There were thousands of branching caves scattered everywhere. Only now did she understand why Randy was indispensable for this mission. In this situation, without Randy's detection dog and data calculation, she would not be able to determine which path Ding Meng had taken.
In fact, Randy's current situation was not looking good. He was still lying on the steps of the warehouse, and several Hunters from the Green Arrow Corps were lying next to him. The young man was jumping up and down anxiously. "Why isn't it working? Why isn't it working?"
"You also know that it's not working?" Long Ming looked at him coldly.
In fact, the young man now knew that this was not an ordinary neuron toxin, but a very powerful toxic gas. His Kaleidoscope Oil antidote was completely useless.
Cheng Da and Xiao Qiu also rushed over. Cheng Da asked anxiously, "Where's Miss Qu?"
Long Ming said, "Miss Qu went to look for Ding Meng. She hasn't returned yet."
"How could you let her take the risk alone?" Cheng Da's tone was a little reproachful. "She should have waited for us."
Xiao Qiu was silent. He squatted down and pressed his hand on Randy's shoulder. Not long after, a thin layer of light blue mist came out of Randy's shoulder.
"Are you feeling better?" Xiao Qiu asked with concern.
Randy panted and said, "Much better. I feel very cool. Thank you, Xiao Qiu."
When Silman saw that Randy could actually sit up, he quickly ran over and lowered his head. "Miss, please be magnanimous and help my brothers. We will definitely thank you after this."
Xiao Qiu also seemed to sigh slightly. "I only used ice energy to freeze the wound and temporarily relieve the pain. If you want to completely heal him, you probably have to return to the surface."
She was not good with words, but everyone could still hear that if they wanted to heal him, they would have to send him back to the surface and rely on the advanced medical equipment on the spaceship.
The problem was that Randy's shoulder was injured, and the wound could still be seen. However, the Green Arrow Corps had directly inhaled the toxic gas. Where was the wound?
Was it possible to directly freeze the whole person?
Sileman's expression was as if he had made a great decision. "If they freeze, then so be it. My brothers are all origin ability users, so their lives won't be in danger. This young lady, I've really troubled you. I'll thank you on their behalf."