Neo wasn't lying when he said that this was a workplace for him.
Neo was a Black Viper. In his own words, he was born and raised in Black Viper. He had been in Black Viper for as long as he could remember, but he didn't know what kind of organization Black Viper was and how many important figures of the empire were in it. The only thing he cared about was his own research.
Neo didn't have a fixed research project. He acted completely on his own interest. Whenever he was interested in a certain problem, he would dive into it wholeheartedly. For example, this time. He wanted to find a drug that could deal with cyborgs. After trying many different drugs, Neo finally set his sights on a certain plant. This plant was a type of mutated plant that couldn't be found on many planets. There were no records of it either. Neo found it by chance.
In fact, Neo had used both plant toxins to deal with the cyborgs before, but they didn't fit his ideal target. The plant he was looking for bore fruit all year round, and its fruits were a mix of red, black, and yellow. It was incredibly colorful, and it gave off an intoxicating sweet scent that attracted the attention of nearby birds and beasts.
When the birds and beasts ate the fruit, they would immediately go limp and die quickly. The dead animals would become fertilizer for the plant. The plant's roots would secrete some special substances that changed the composition of the soil and allowed microorganisms to live in the surroundings. The existence of these microorganisms would make the dead animals rot faster. It was a mutually beneficial relationship. For other animals, it was a double kill.
"I named this plant Tri-Colored Bean. However, Tri-Colored Beans are very difficult to find. I've only found two of them so far. One of them has been used up, and the other one was discovered by the bioweapons before I could pluck it." Neo was a little depressed when he mentioned this. He was so close. His hand was less than ten centimeters away from the Tri-Colored Bean at the time. What a pity.
Since he attributed the whole thing to a low probability event, Neo didn't feel that he had made a mistake.
As for the so-called low probability event, it was actually a pile of bird poop that fell from the sky at a critical moment. It hit the leaves around Neo and attracted the attention of the bioweapons nearby.
That was why there were no absolutes in this world. Even if Neo had planned everything out perfectly, he wouldn't have expected a pile of bird shit to fall on him at a critical moment. For the Bio-soldiers whose vision and hearing were more developed, the "pa" sound was already loud enough.
Silin thinks for a moment. The fruit Neo mentioned contained poison that was similar to the two he had, but it was obvious that the Tricolored Bean was much more potent.
"Where is the fruit you were talking about?" Silin asked. If he could get his hands on the Tri-Colored Beans, he would be able to easily deal with a squad of bio-soldiers.
Neo thought for a moment before replying, "It's a bit far. I ran for 1.13 hours before I met you."
In that case, if they walked on foot, they might not be able to reach the other side in half a day. Silin looked at the sky. It was almost nighttime, and it was not advisable to move around at night. The temperature outside was relatively low at night, and when the ambient temperature was low, the human body's heat source would be more obvious. For the beasts, this was like a red hot target swaying around.
Silin and Huimao could adjust their body temperatures, but Neo couldn't.
"Growl — —"
Neo rubbed his stomach and said, "My poor stomach is starting to complain. Do you have any food?"
Silin took out a fruit from a corner and tossed it to Neo. "Eat it first."
"Oh, this is disgusting!" Neo looked at the fruit in his hand and said disdainfully. He hated sweet food.
"You're going to starve if you don't eat it."
"... Fine, replenishing energy is the most important thing. In fact, this fruit is very nutritious and contains a lot of sugar." Neo seemed to be saying this to himself so that he could better accept the fruit in front of him.
Neo's face contorted as he took small bites of the fruit like it was poison. He would take a bite to calm himself down before continuing. Silin put a hand to his forehead. Why is there someone like this here? Are Black Viper's only freaks other than robots?
Not long after.
"Aiya!" Neo suddenly cried out.
"What's wrong?" Silin and Huimao turned to look at him.
Neo rolled around on a pile of hay while clutching his stomach. Then, he said with difficulty, "I … don't feel good. My heart rate is abnormal, my stomach hurts, and … I have a strong urge to defecate!"
In other words, he had diarrhea.
Silin covered his face with his hands. I'd be a fool to believe you!
Therefore, to prevent Neo from polluting the cave by defecating, Silin quickly dragged him to a relatively safe place further away from the cave.
Fifteen minutes later. Cillin dragged the exhausted Neo back into the cave after he had solved his problem.
"Based on the thinness, shape, color, and smell of the excrement, I eliminated parasites, indigestion, bile duct obstruction, intestinal infection, and other causes. There is a 72.42% chance that the excrement was caused by a disrupted digestive system. In other words, the culprit is that fruit of yours."
Silin: "..." He really wanted to kick this guy out of the cave.
Before the sky turned dark, Silin went to look for some nuts so that he could smoothly carry out his plan the next day. While searching for nuts, Silin and Huimao both solved their own food problems. Silin ate a small wild beast raw. He wasn't going to bring this raw food back to the cave for that idiot with a weak stomach. That would be asking for trouble.
That being said, Neo knew this area very well. Moreover, he had a foothold somewhere in the area. Black Viper's footholds were all very safe, and they were well-fortified enough to keep out the wild beasts and bio-soldiers. Moreover, Cillin was hoping to obtain some equipment from Neo. If it wasn't for that, Silin would've knocked that guy out a long time ago and left him there.
This planet's magnetic field was a little strange, and Black Viper had covered this area with an interference field that increased the instability of subspace items. Therefore, even though the Gen Family's identity ring was a little special, Silin didn't use it as much as possible. He always carried his crossbow and gun with him. He didn't store his food in the ring either.
After all, Neo's ability to adapt to nuts was pretty good. After eating the nuts Cillin brought back, his stamina and mental state were much better than before. He no longer spouted infuriating words in a half-dead tone like he had just had diarrhea.
Night had fallen. Silin blocked the cave entrance, camouflaged the cave entrance, and laid down to rest.
He looked out from the small crack in the cave. His surroundings were pitch black, and the sky was bright with starlight. However, the land under the starlight was filled with murderous intent. Pairs of bloodthirsty eyes were waiting for prey to appear in the darkness. After resting during the day, the nocturnal animals were now full of energy. They bared their fangs and claws and fought in the dark. He could hear heavy footsteps and strange beast roars from time to time.
Silin withdrew his gaze. Using the faint starlight that shone through the cave ceiling, Silin saw Neo sleeping on a pile of grass and Huimao curled up in a circle. The two had one thing in common, and that was that their ears were moving.
Neo said that his ears could detect danger, but the danger he was referring to was limited to strangers, wild beasts, bio-soldiers and so on. Back when Cillin had pressed a knife against his neck while he was asleep, the guy didn't react at all. It was probably because he had categorized Cillin as someone he knew, and he deemed Cillin to be harmless. As for how he thought that, Silin didn't know.
The next day, Neo was full of energy after a good night's sleep. He actually started doing aerobics in the cave.
"Save your stamina. I won't help you if you get chased by bio-soldiers or wild beasts again," Silin said.
"Don't worry, I understand."
Silin looked at him suspiciously. He didn't know if this guy meant the same thing when he said he "understood".
They cleaned up the cave and concealed themselves well. Although they didn't know if they would come back after circling around, they absolutely had to keep this place a secret. They couldn't let others discover it and occupy it.
Neo might be a bit of an idiot sometimes, but he was a pretty experienced man when it came to surviving in this place. Both Cillin and Neo avoided the bio-soldiers and wild beasts on their way to the place Neo told them about. However, Cillin suddenly saw three dead bio-soldiers when they passed through a certain area.
These three bio-soldiers hadn't been dead for long, so when Silin discovered them, there were only a few small beasts chewing on their prey. When they saw Silin and Neo, the small beasts let out a few threatening roars and scattered. They probably knew that the people in front of them weren't to be trifled with.
The three bio-soldiers had been shot in the head, and all of them had been shot in the same place. There was a bullet hole between their eyebrows. However, it was obvious that this bullet hole wasn't the direct cause of death. There were more bullet holes in other places, and they were visible from the back of the bio-soldiers' bodies. These bullet holes should be the real cause of their death. After they died, they were dissected. The person who dissected them was very skillful. He must have been an experienced veteran.
"Hua Li?" Neo said.
"Who are you talking about?" Silin looked at Neo.
"Judging from the situation, there's a 98.68% chance that Hua Li is the culprit. However, she normally doesn't kill bio-soldiers herself. She prefers to analyze the cause of death more than anything else. She probably dissected these three bio-soldiers after they were killed by someone," Neo said.
"Is this Hua Li of Black Viper too?"
"Of course. We grew up together, but I didn't know that she was here. I wasn't with her when I arrived." Neo seemed to be used to this situation by now. "Hua Li's dissection skills are top-notch. She can dissect a person in less than a minute with a tiny scalpel. Not only that, she can dissect every muscle and meridian in one piece …"
While Neo was talking about the strange woman who had a fetish for dissecting people, a strange thought suddenly rose in Silin's mind. Could Black Viper really have an endless supply of freaks other than the robots?
"Let's get out of here. A large scavenging beast is coming our way very soon." Silin grabbed Neo who was still observing the bioweapon's meridians.
Today's operation was relatively smooth. They didn't run into a lot of bioweapons or beasts, at least not along the path Neo pointed out. This made Silin suspect that someone had taken care of part of the problem. That was why they were able to move so easily. Also, who was the culprit who killed the three bio-soldiers? Did they work for Black Viper, or were they sent here to be tested like Silin and White Night?
Half a day later, Silin finally arrived at the place where Neo said the Tri-Colored Bean was growing.
The Tricolor Bean was a little different from what Cillin had imagined. There was only one Tricolor Bean, and it wasn't tall at all. It was about the same height as the shrubs not far away from him, but there was a circular empty space with a radius of around ten meters around the plant. There was no grass or other small plants in the area, only this one Tricolor Bean.
Silin also noticed that the ground around the plant was soft and loose. It looked like a layer of fine sand, but this "fine sand" was a little sticky and moist. These were the microorganisms that lived in a symbiotic relationship with the Tri-Colored Bean. They formed a colony of bacteria that squeezed together to form this scene.
Silin was about to test the microorganisms with his finger when Neo slapped his hand away in shock. "Are you looking to die? These microorganisms are poisonous! "
Silin thought: Of course I know they're poisonous. But because of his unique constitution, Silin wasn't afraid of them at all.
Seeing that Neo was about to preach and analyze again, Silin straightened the colorful Tri-Colored Bean and said, "Let's get down to business. Otherwise, we won't have a chance to deal with the bio-soldiers and the wild beasts."
After weighing the pros and cons, Neo decisively gave up on preaching and went to deal with the Tri-Colored Bean.
Huimao was lying on a tree branch as a lookout. A wild beast passed by in the distance, but it wouldn't pass by here. This place was relatively safe.
Neo took out a pair of gloves from the inside pocket of his tattered clothes, then took out a plastic bag and put the Tri-Colored Beans inside. There were a total of twelve Tri-Colored Beans, and Neo put them away like they were treasures.
While Neo was dealing with the Tri-Colored Beans, Silin used his finger to touch the bacterial colony on the ground and the Tri-Colored Bean plant when Neo wasn't paying attention. The moment his finger touched the plant, Silin learned a lot of information about the plant and the bacterial colony on the ground.
The poison contained inside the plant was far more potent than the two poisons Cillin had obtained earlier. Most of the toxins that worked against the bio-soldiers were concentrated inside the fruit, so the poison extracted from the fruit should be very effective against the bio-soldiers.
According to the plan, the duo would go to Neo's temporary "workplace" after finding the Tri-Colored Beans. Half a day later, Silin finally arrived at Neo's place.
This place looked like a tree growing on a cliff.
A tree?
Yes.
However, this tree was only a "door". Neo opened a certain part of the tree and checked his identity. The tree's trunk opened up to form a 1.8 meter tall door.
"Someone was here," Neo said with a frown.
After entering the tree, the door closed again. However, sunlight could still shine in from the outside. It was just that the people outside couldn't see what was inside. There was also an emergency light source here, and the walls were made of special materials. No one outside could detect the heat signature of this place, so it was possible to use thermal weapons or electrical equipment here.
The elevator inside the tree sent Silin, Huimao, and Neo underground. To be more precise, this was the inside of the cliff. Black Viper's people had built a workshop inside the cliff.
While they were inside the elevator, Neo brought up the image and displayed the people who had entered during the time Neo was gone.
There was a man and a woman. The man looked about the same age as Silin. His skin was dark, and his hair was tied into a ponytail. He was muscular and looked like a fierce beast. However, the image showed that he wasn't in good condition. He swayed uncontrollably when he stood up.
The woman looked like she was about thirteen or fourteen years old. She was pretty and cute, but the image showed that she was crying all the time. She was crying so much that she was hiccupping. Her crying seemed to annoy the man. He yelled at her several times, but she didn't stop crying.
"Your friend?" Silin pointed at the woman and asked Neo.
"You can say that. What a pain in the ass. Wasn't she a fast runner? How did she get caught? Her intelligence is pitiful. "
Silin thought that it was better not to dwell on the issue of "intelligence".
Neo jumped behind Cillin when the elevator was about to reach their destination. According to his calculations, hiding behind Cillin was 5.13 times safer than hiding behind Cillin.
Silin took out his dagger and readied his gun. He didn't know why the other party was here, so it was better to be careful.
The elevator door opened, and a hall appeared in front of them. There was no one inside the hall, but there was an empty cup inside. Silin also smelled an unfamiliar scent.
Silin nudged Neo and looked at a tightly shut room at the back of the hall.
"Over there?" Neo said soundlessly.
Silin nodded.
Now that he knew that the stranger was inside the room, Neo wasn't afraid at all. This was his territory after all. He set the settings on the light screen on the wall and locked the door.
Neo entered his lab and carefully put away the Tri-Colored Beans. Then, he jumped out and rolled around on the sofa in the hall. "I'm finally back! Ahahahaha! "
Silin: "..." Did you forget that there's someone in the room, and the hostage is someone you know?
Neo happily introduced the place to Silin with obvious pride. He even took out some of the food he made. Although Silin didn't think the food tasted good, both Neo and Huimao ate it with relish.
Maybe it was because the people in the living room were too reckless, but the person hiding in the room finally couldn't hold back anymore.
There were communication devices installed in the living room and the room. While Silin and the other two were eating, the communication device rang, and a broken, hiccuping voice said, "Neo, ugh … there's … ugh … there's a bad guy … ugh."
Even Silin was tired of hearing the person burping three times with every sentence. Neo was obviously not a compassionate person. He wiped his mouth and pulled up the surveillance footage of the room. When he saw the man pointing a gun at the little girl who was crying and burping non-stop, he said, "Who told you to bring him in?"
"Ugh — he said he'd kill me if I didn't bring him in … ugh …"
Neo stared at the person on the screen. "Nausea, elevated body temperature, irregular heart rate, muscle spasms, and retinal bleeding. Are you poisoned? Actually, I suggest that if you want to eat those wild beasts, it's best to roast them before eating them, and they have to be well-done too. Most of the wild beasts living here contain toxins in their bodies, and high temperature will break them down. This is common sense. "
Common sense my ass!
Silin and everyone else in the room had the same thought at the same time: I really want to strangle this bastard who doesn't even know how to speak!
Of course, you don't have to worry about heat and energy when you live here, but it's very easy to get yourself killed outside.
It was obvious that the person inside the room knew that he was poisoned, but he couldn't find any medicine at all. He couldn't enter the rooms where the medicine was stored or Neo's lab, so this bedroom was the only place he could enter.
Although this person appeared to be a bit fierce, he did not really have the intention to kill the little girl. If he really had evil intentions, would he give the little girl a pillow so that she could comfortably lean on it and not have a backache? It looked like the man was annoyed by the little girl's incessant crying, and he was even feeling a little guilty.
Logically speaking, the man wouldn't be so obvious under normal circumstances, but he wasn't in a good state right now. Even though he tried his best to control his emotions, a few of his thoughts were still exposed.
When Silin saw that the man didn't have any killing intent and only wanted to use the little girl to threaten Neo, he said, "You're here to take the test too, aren't you? Come out, we're all the same. You don't want to hurt the little girl, and if you don't get treatment soon, you'll die in half an hour at most. "
"It's 27 minutes and 46 seconds," Neo corrected him.
Silin shot him a sideways glance. Neo curled his lips. He wasn't the slightest bit self-conscious about his stubbornness.
In the end, the man agreed to Silin's suggestion. He moved the gun away from the girl and tossed it to the side. His breathing was starting to become labored, his brain was running out of blood, his vision was starting to blur, and his muscles were twitching so much that he could only lean against the wall like the little girl. Just pointing the gun at the girl took a lot of energy out of him.
Silin motioned for Neo to remove the lock on the room.
After removing the lock on the room, Neo carefully opened the door and hid to the side the moment he opened it. He didn't want to accidentally injure himself during the fight. The man didn't look like he was in a good condition, but Neo had a feeling that he still had the strength to fight for his life.
After opening the door, the little girl was still sitting there crying. She kept burping and burping.
Seeing that there wasn't any fighting going on outside, Neo poked his head out and said to the girl, "Ah Shou, come here quickly!"
"Ugh … my legs, ugh, my legs are numb … ugh."
Neo: "..."
Silin glanced at the unconscious man on the ground and yelled at Neo, "Give me the medicine!"
Neo disappeared for a while. When he reappeared, he was already tossing the medicine at Qin Lie.
"I don't know if it's effective. After all, I don't know what kind of vicious beast meat he ate to be poisoned. However, this medicine has a wide range of effects. Let's give it a try. If it doesn't work, we'll just toss him out."
Silin and the person on the ground: "..."
Silin let out a sigh. "You're on your own now."
Silin opened the bottle of medicine and revealed the syringe inside. He injected the medicine into the man.
The man didn't resist or refuse, but Silin knew that if Silin had tried to kill him just now, the man would've fought with his life on the line. It was a kind of conditioned reflex. If Silin's guess was correct, this man was from the military.
After the medicine was injected, the man closed his eyes and his body temperature was still rising. Outside the door, Neo had already started recording the man's data and testing the medicine's effects from time to time.
"Eh?" Neo looked at the display on the device in his hand. "It's working. Although his body temperature is still a bit high, his heart rate is gradually stabilizing, and his physiological indicators are recovering quickly."
Half an hour later.
The little girl named Ah Shou was drinking fruit juice on the living room sofa with red and swollen eyes. Although she had stopped crying, the hiccups didn't stop. She would hiccup every once in a while, but they were gradually calming down.
The man who had recovered was wolfing down the food on his plate. There was an agreement next to his hand. It was the agreement Neo had asked him to sign.
The man's name was Gu Xin. He didn't know if he was one of the people Silin had told him to take the test. He had returned to his dorm room to rest after completing his mission, but when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in this damned place. He had nothing on him except a gun and a dagger. Even now, Gu Xin was still clueless about what had happened.
Neo had asked Gu Xin to help him search for some research plants under the guise of his savior, and Gu Xin had agreed. He was relatively safe here anyway, so he might as well help this psychopath find some plants before he figured out what had happened.
Silin drew a map of the surroundings and pointed at a place they had passed before. He asked Gu Xin, "You killed these three beginner bio-soldiers, didn't you?"
Gu Xin nodded. "Yes, I did."
"You killed each of them with two shots. One to the head, and the other to their vitals. What I want to ask is, how did you know where their vitals were? " Silin was very confused about this. Gu Xin clearly didn't use the same method as Silin. Silin always killed the beginner bio-soldiers in one shot.
Gu Xin thought for a moment and decided to tell the truth. "At first, I shot them in the head, but I discovered that it didn't have much of an effect. Only one out of ten of them died immediately after being shot in the head. Later, I noticed that the core of the bio-soldiers' vitals would issue a survival command after being shot in the head. It would allow them to continue moving, and this core is their vitals."
So that's how it is. Silin nodded.
"Oh right, what is this place?" Gu Xin asked. Neo had talked too much earlier, and he didn't mention anything he wanted to know when he signed the agreement. Ah Shou was crying and hiccupping, so Gu Xin decided to ask Silin in the end.
"This is Black Viper's territory." After saying this, Silin left a shocked Gu Xin behind and went to the lab to extract the toxin.
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